#collapsing order

[softcryz]

RAIN WORLD ART MONTH ;; LEVIATHAN

So remember when I said I should draw all of The Detorrents for Leviathan day? Well. I DID

...I DREW THEM REALLY SCRUNCHED AND SMALL BUT I STILL DID IT!! Depending on your time zone this is probably late (I also got these done a while ago-- Tumblr is just being weird?) but surely you can understand . I had to draw eight of these fuckers

Obligatory @zarithial tag since these are OUR dogs

I HOPE THESE ARE ALRIGHT!! Hope y'all enjoy seeing all eight big guys

#zoc scrambled #zoc artwork #zoc shack #LANDS_EDGE #rain world #rw oc #rw leviathan #RAIN WORLD LEVIATHAN #rw art month #eh fuck it I'm putting their names in the tags for the people who are interested (in order) #Clad in Gold; Turned to the Sky #Bristled Over Many Moons #Moss Grown Tall #Sun Speckled Guardians #Depths Of an Inky Black Abyss #Ashes Turned Over; Bright Hot Again #Hunts Without Remorse #Lies In Deep Fog #-- THERE #collapses #I'm sorry

[coquelicoq]

i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

#theoretically. if it is in fact putting them in people's faces those times when it doesn't specify #rather than just sort of hovering them several feet away pointed somewhat subtly in the person's direction or whatever #also it probably is not putting a drone in tarik's face to show him it cares. but it *is* showing tarik it's paying attention #whether or not it's doing that consciously or on purpose in order to send that message #(it just wants to study tarik and that's how it can do that. especially in the restricted space of the shuttle) #but the point could hold for people other than tarik. and wilken lol #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #mb gaze #mb asr #mb ac #mb rp #mb es #mb sc #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #i guess?? by implication lol #my posts #f #disclaimer that i don't actually have a searchable version of these books so i'm relying on my notes and could be missing something #but i'm fairly confident about those bullet points

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[lunarharp]

into the deep end - 30k T orufrey fic, focusing on memory trauma, disability, and romance.

the sweet oblivion of the victim, the poisoned freedom of the other.

for one moment - it had felt like two parts returned - the needed reunion of two disparate halves. no more secrets, no more pain.

the moment you get to give back what you never wanted to take. that moment, under the night-blooming flowers, when they had both let out the same single broken sigh of relief.

but they were never whole to begin with, were they?

qifrey swore he wouldn't say 'sorry' to this man any more if he could help it - sorry is cheap now. he didn't want to be in a position ever again where you only have 'sorry' left. so he just looks down into the threads of his blanket, strains his eye until it hurts, feeling his insides - his throat, heart and head - burn with pain. he expects more, but olly says nothing.

olly says nothing.

#witch hat tag #orufrey #sorry i wanted to make a new post for my fic since the first illustration is new. #*stands in the middle of a desolate field in the pouring rain* Please Read My Tale...Blease..Oh god please..*collapses to the ground* #someone asked if there's spoilers in it. Um...yes. Sorry...it's about everything #maybe i should describe it more? it's about qifrey becoming more and more disabled - as i feel is his canon trajectory #and both of them processing the choices that have been made. it was necessary for me to explore this in order to fully understand orufrey #and for them to have the cathartic conclusion-that's why this is important to me for my witch hat fanwork making life. this connects it all #and having dived into qifrey's mind and lived through oru's feelings i was able to get to a place that is possible for them. #the hit/kudos ratio is so pathetic idek what happened. ppl opening it realising its long and saving it for later or just bailing lmfao #idek any more i hate advertising my writing i hate trying to get more ppl to read my long fics it's so hard 🥲 #i'm so much prouder of this than my art...i was able to sink deeply into the orufrey feelings i had always wanted to fully explore #so. it's there lol.........i reread the date/kiss segment today after trying to forget about it thinking maybe the fic is just BAD lol #and like.....nope! i like it very much and this is what i was trying to get across. and it's always there to be read by anyone who wants to #and i will always remember the bliss i felt while writing when i was just lost in their world and living as them. dear GOD i love them. #i'm grateful to myself that i put in the work and love to make this so that i can always come back to it. i wanna illustrate scenes properly #but i'm never satisfied with drawing things i've written because i just can't capture the vivid experience in my mind. maybe one day.

[ilynpilled]

i think the thing with me and how i see jc is that i think it is a brilliant dynamic for not what it “is”, or what a lot of people think it is bc of the show’s version, but what it “isn’t.” like it is a deconstruction of the tragic forbidden lovers destined to be together for eternity, from birth to death, with love and devotion that cannot be ended despite society’s taboos. nothing else matters, only them. they were born entangled!!! jaime was born holding her foot!!(rip to that hand 🫡)but then like. u see the actual relationship. and it is so… cringe. it is so not this. so many other things matter to them both. so many personal desires that are incompatible with the desires of the other. in some ways they are the same, in others they are polar opposites. and they both end up choosing those other desires in the end. it is all based on lies and illusions and a desperate need for self affirmation from a broken and distorted mirror. it is a need to be able to love yourself in some form despite how broken you are. but it is false as fool’s gold. and that is so rich

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #i really do think it is about the collapse of romanticization #like for cersei its about realizing that jaime is not the golden knight her sword that will come and massacre all her enemies #like what she desperately clings to during the walk #that extension of the self. the power robbed from her from birth bc of her gender #and for jaime cersei is not an unconditional source of love or the ‘maiden’ that he can escape into #to try to keep his dreams of chivalry alive #and keep meaning to his existence alive #jaime will have to find new meaning and cersei will have to find a new weapon #in order for the both of them to even keep going atp #thats why they both have their own flames and separate in the prophetic weirwood dream

[okayto]

Happy System Collapse release day to everyone suffering The Agonies*

*of being unable to obtain book on release day

#Murderbot #Murderbot Diaries #System Collapse #more fool I am for ordering Well’s updated City of Bones in the same order and now can’t get SC until CoB arrives from special ordering

[bleue-flora]

Ok sooo, I can’t stop thinking about the line from this post [here] by @swordfright , “Sam is a builder and dream is the ultimate engineering project: challenging (psychologically taxing to guard), important (to the stability of the server), rewarding (on those sporadic occasions when dream obeys him without question), and ceaseless (because the ideal prisoner always needs a warden to keep them in line.)” Because the idea that Dream is Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” really got me thinking about the definition of the duties of an engineer as per the Code of Ethics, which I studied in college.

As an engineer it is basically our responsibility to maintain sustainable development, which The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) defines [here] in the Code of Ethics as, “meeting human needs for natural resources, industrial products, energy, food, transportation, shelter, and effective waste management while conserving and protecting environmental quality and the natural resource base essential for future development.” Even further, as a civil engineer (which I am and Sam is as a primary builder) it is our job to help provide the infrastructure and necessities to life, (shelter, water and by extension food +) with civil engineering encompassing the engineering fields of Structural (bridges, buildings, dams… etc), Utilities (power, gas, water, waste water… etc), Geotechnical (analyze and maintain that the ground can support projects), Environmental (protecting the stability of the environment like for example protecting the habitat of an endangered species), Transportation (roads for cars, train tracks, airplane runways… etc). Pretty much the necessities of civilization (lol hence civil). And I found this interesting because it is Sam’s job as the warden to provide the fundamental and basic necessities of Dream’s life in every way. So, in this way Dream would actually be the society Sam’s engineering is meant to benefit from and depends on (which he obviously denies and uses to abuse.)

But on the other side, interestingly a 2004 definition, [found here] of civil engineering based on Thomas Tredgold’s 1828 original is, “the art of working with the great sources of power in nature for the use and benefit of society”. And oh, the use of power here could very well be a good representation of Dream, making him actually the engineering project. Further, The NSPE Code of Ethics states, “Engineering has a direct and vital impact on the quality of life for all people. Accordingly, the services provided by engineers require honesty, impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare.” In this sense, Sam’s position as the warden was dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare, which by keeping Dream locked up, weakening him physically and mentally he was in essence trying to protect the server as well as working to strip the sources of power Dream had over everyone. And when his methods didn’t work, he let Quackity in, which funnily enough goes along with one of the The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISS)’s summarizing stated [here] fundamental canons, “Engineers shall perform services only in the areas of their competence.” And clearly Sam was not competent in getting the book from Dream, so he teams up with Quackity, his contractor, to finish the project as is typical in the engineering industry.

All this to say, that Sam as an engineer, while not sworn to follow a defined of code ethics still followed the general defined duties of engineering and strived to work for the betterment of the server. A personality and behavior, that Dream saw in him as they grew as friends and worked to build the prison - Sam’s passion for helping, to provide for and develop the necessities of society. His passion for wanting to use his skills to improve the world and help people. His strong principles of dependability, efficiency, justice, work ethic. If Sam was given a job to help people he was going to see it through to the best of his ability. He would not abandon his post, he would protect and serve the common good. - His strong engineering attitude made him a good choice in Dream’s mind for the warden, because of these qualities, which makes sense. What Dream did not realize is that he was not included in the society and all people Sam felt obligated to serve and provide for.

Instead, Dream was but a resource of power - the revival book - needing to be made efficient and accessible, so that everyone could benefit and share that power. Dream thought he’d be provided for and taken care of, but he was the project instead. Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” he deemed too damaged like a bumpy road or crumbling building that wasn’t worthy of patching and filling in the cracks or reinforcing, that’s too eroded to be fixed and preserved. So, Sam strived to tear him down to the bedrock so he could remake, remold, and reengineer Dream according to his design for the common safety, public health and well-fair. He was such a good engineer just like Dream knew he would be, he just forgot the whole teeny weeny ethics part of being an engineer that kind of comes with the job description… Oh well. ;)

#poor dream depending on his engineer to keep him safe and being let down in the biggest of ways #he ran from a war to a building and trusted it to keep him safe but it collapsed instead destroying him….. #did I make sense…. I’m not sure I got my thoughts across.. #hmm oh well words are hard sometimes… #c!dream #dsmp #dreblr #dream smp #pandora's vault #dsmp analysis #c!sam #c!sam and c!dream #this is fine #did someone order an essay? #welll… blame swordfright for giving me brain rot… lol XD #pandora’s vault has a singular purpose #probably gave you way more engineering info than you wanted but… of well lol <3 :) #oh sam… never ceases to break my heart… #sam the most unethical engineer and he didn’t even steal more from the government #or bribe or cut corners he just straight up neglected the fact that all people includes all people…

[incorrect-splatoon]

The only thing that could make me break my switch, is not a splatfest.

It is an off the hook divorce.

#if they divorce in the dlc #I will loose it #I will break #and this blog will collapse with me #has it was a Pearlina blog at the start #splatoon #side order #off the hook #dlc #pearl #pearlina #marina

[mokadevs]

You’re getting messier each loop. You’re impatient and this stuff doesn’t have a convenient ‘pick up from this checkpoint’, doesn’t have a ‘skip through read text’. Every life spared, every breakthrough in speech, every triumph is reset more easily than it was achieved. And they’re all becoming less frequent anyhow. To be honest, it’s starting to blur together. - Ritsuka is stuck in a time loop.

#fgo #lb6 spoilers #castoria #oberon #ritsuka fujimaru #fujimaru ritsuka #oberon vortigern #artoria caster #fate grand order #collapses. chapter 2 is finally out yay!! ^_^ #hope everyone enjoys! yippee!!!

[spectros]

I really like how MB has shifted from "i don't care about words" to "I care but not enough to do it myself, so I appreciate assistance"

#from your local mutual administrative assistant #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #these are all queued so the order of these posts will make no sense lol #queue

[guardian-angle22]

TK/Carlos + Touch

↳ 3.04 Push -> The Reunion Scene

#911 lone star #tk strand #carlos reyes #tarlos #tk/carlos + touch #the way tk clutches at carlos' shirt in this scene is so important to me i cant even explain it #I'm posting these in absolutely no discernible order lol #i went from 3.18 to 3.04 what am i doing #I also decided I liked the black and white so its sticking around #my chaos gif making strikes again #but no for real the tenderness in how carlos touches tk's face #the way carlos practically puts tk in a stranglehold while collapsing onto him #the way tk is barely conscious but clutching desperately to carlos anyway #send help #my gifs #episode: s03e04 push #tw: hospital

[aceofwhump]

Law & Order 22x21

#whumpedit #whump #law and order #jeffrey donovan #frank cosgrove #my gifs #mod post #shot #gunshot #guns #blood #bleeding #adrenaline #adrenaline crash #collapsing #stay with me #passing out

[ecoamerica]

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[savrr]

it's been so hot lately!

#moctezuma ii #izcalli #fgo #lb7 #lostbelt7 #fate grand order #izcalli fgo #argentina is so hot im going to collapse AUGHA! #my art

[rowanthestrange]

yo look at her that’s an actual house

#energy bills would be redonkulous #the size of those roooms #and no double glazing #nor would there ever be #cus bitch’ll be a listed building #our man on the inside #says it’s been put up every few months for over a year #when people buy and try to sell it again #which apparently is hard to do #cus in most of the property surveys #it’s found ‘structurally unsound’ #and he reckons cash is exchanging hands #in order to successfully get it put on the market again #but freezing to death come winter if the thing doesn’t collapse first #surely small price to pay #for getting to be #the freaks who live in the clocktower #the freaks who live in the castle #the freaks who live in the combination clocktower and castle

[macaroonkitti]

No because there is so much missed potential with not having a totk DLC. I want to explore a new Hyrule as much as anyone but there are still so many questions about this one.

What happened to the rest of the Zonai? Did they leave and Mineru and Rauru just decided to stay? How far back did Zelda go? Because I don't believe it's like post-Skyward Sword (I would if it wasn't for the fact the Rito are there it's the only thing throwing me off oh my godddd) and it couldn't have been 10,000 years since 10,000 years ago was the first Calamity, and this whole thing with the Imprisoning War was a different event (although it would be super fucking interesting if totk Ganondorf was the last Gerudo male born before the first Calamity and was also the source for Calamity Ganon. The history of Hyrule's royal family is also the history of Calamity Ganon and all that).

Speaking of the Imprisoning War and Ganondorf, what about Twinrova?? Those two Gerudo in golden masks in the 4th and 5th memories have Koume and Kotake written on their shoulders, we could've done something with that?? And speaking of the first Calamity seriously could there be more of an explanation on the Ancient Hero's Aspect?? Please?? What is up with him??? They just dropped that and left???

And also there's still stuff going on with the current Hyrule. Where did all the Sheikah tech go? I can understand dismantling the Divine Beasts and guardians and the shrines and towers could have gone back underground but what about all the ancient gear and stuff?? Where'd that go?? Can it at least be mentioned??

Plus there's stuff with Penn, his story feels kind of unresolved. He left to Washa's Bluff but then just. Didn't do anything. No new story, he just kinda was There. And speaking of him and Washa's Bluff, where's Kass???? He's mentioned at least once by Genli but nothing about where he is. Maybe he's getting new songs but it would've been nice to know where he is. Plus he could've come back with some new songs about new stuff (especially since the Zonai language in the shrines kind of sounds like singing)

I'd also just kinda like more stuff on the sky islands or the depths. I don't go there much because I don't see as much of a reason to, I would have liked the sky to at least be more developed :(

I dunno I'm just spitballing stuff while I'm replaying the game because man. I'd like a dlc a lot. I'm excited for a new Zelda game whenever it comes around but there's still some stuff I wanna see with this one that I don't have to come up with myself.

#totk #I really love this game I want more with it :( #I am rewriting the order of events as we speak tho Zelda is not in the era of hyrules founding in my mind #HER hyrules founding maybe. but not founding the kingdom as a whole #maybe there are old legends about the kingdom that ended up on the brink of collapse before the zonai showed up idk #honestly doesnt change the game much to me just makes things make more sense #sorry im rambling #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom

[acorviart]

ginkgo wibbly beanies will be available this saturday 👀

unfortunately, the manufacturer I used for this went under (and was refusing to refund customers for the longest time so it's a miracle I actually got my order lol) so I have limited stock! I'll look for a new beanie manu in the future, but it'll probably look a little different

shop update - Oct 29, 2PM CST

#beanie #serpent #ginkgo #hat #merch #store promo #the manu was awesome merch btw I have absolutely no qualms warning people away from them #bc their website is actually still active and taking orders #but the actual company like kinda #collapsed a few months ago #you can probably google the drama

[revenantghost]

*bangs fists on table* I SOLD MY FIRST ORDER ON ETSY LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

#GOTTA USE ALL MY BRAINCELLS GOTTA GO FAST #I feel bad because it's all so pricey on my other storefronts #For the fees and... I underprice my crafts lbr #BUT IMMA HAVE AN ORDER!!! I WILL NO LONGER POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE A SCAM ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!! #MAYBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #*froths at the mouth before collapsing* #Yadda yadda