#Because. Cold and LOL

[eddiediaaz]

i'm nosey okay

#tumblr poll #tumblr polls #poll #polls #for me it's usually naked unless it's cold then i'll put on a shirt #i live alone tho #if i sleep somewhere else i don't sleep naked lol #i just find clothes restrictive when i sleep because i move a lot so it just gets all tangled and ugh idk

[larvamars]

I think I'll take my whiskey neat

#warmup because im fighting a cold rn lol #play hozier too sweet #leon kennedy #leon scott kennedy #leon s kennedy #resident evil vendetta #resident evil #fan art #art #fanart #digital art

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #the doctor: I WAS RIGHT!!!! we may die but I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! #i've been meaning to gif this all week but then other gifsets got in the way lol #HELLO FRIENDS IT IS VERY COLD #yesterday it took me 3 hours to drive home from work #it was an absolutely terrible experience. do not recommend #so then i took the day off today because i didn't want to go back out there #but it seems to be a lot better.... just very cold.... #i should add it took me 3 hours because of a tiny amount of snow that turned the roads to ice #fun times!!! #edit: oh no... not showing in the tags #i hope it magically fixes itself later :(

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[viviski]

Shiver because they're cold cool

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #shiver splatoon #splatoon fanart #fanart #I'm pretty satisfied with this one because when I showed my mom she said it felt cold lol #she didn't know that her name is literally shiver she had never seen her before #I don't even have splatoon 3 but I love her #viviski's art

[nottspocket]

Mermaid AUs are so lovely to see. Are they childhood friends in yours, too?

Maybe, i imagine Katsuki has kept gifts Izuku might have brought to him. Seashells, or nice looking rocks, probably with a few fossils inside them?

Ohoho I’m so glad you see my vision (prev here)

Ramblings in the tags

#i didn’t plan for this to be a full au but #I daydreamed about this a lot today actually lol #i always automatically go with them being childhood friends because it’s an important part of their dynamic I really enjoy #i thought their falling out could be that katsuki was playing out on some oceanside rock formations #then he fell and izuku saved him from drowning #katsuki hated the idea of needing to be saved so izuku gets the cold shoulder #izuku spends a bit of time talking to an older sailor (AM) who helps him try to save shipwreck victims from dangerous waters #cut to izuku finding his ship some years later lmaoooo #anchored right at the edge of extremely dangerous waters #(katsuki wanted to fight a kraken or smth idk) #nottsketches #mha #my hero academia #bnha #boku no hero academia #izuku midoriya #mha deku #deku #katsuki bakugo #mha bakugo #bkdk #bakudeku #mermay #I have no idea what possessed me to make a goddamn 3 page comic for this but here we are

[dragonknightofsummerset]

The new scene has me in a chokehold

Thank you @andengeu for perfectly capturing the momentary shock of Nayeli and Blade being close to each other, and being aware of each other.

#shepherds of haven #shoh spoilers #blade bronwyn #blade x mc #shoh mc: nayeli valendil #i feel i should clarify: ik blade is shirtless in the scene & mc can be too (optionally) #but i didnt have a clear reference for all of blade's scars (or at least the big one across his ribcage) or of his tattoo. so yea #also its supposed to be cold where the 4th day off takes place (for me) so i was like why not give him a shirt #its probably why he gets sick by the time we reach the hunters. hes training without a shirt in the cold like come on blade #lol anyway. i still love this piece and their expressions!! its like an almost 'oh' moment #but instead they panic at how close they are to each other #i like this outcome the most because of the surprise blade must feel when mc manages to pin him down (aka beating him)

[koumori-1999]

christmas shopping

#optimus prime #megatron #transformers animated #humanformers #my art #fanart #megop #<- i guess? #since megatron doesnt have a human error design (as far as i know) i used my gijinka design. or rather a more simplified version #the way i differentiate them is that human error meg wears glasses and regular gijinka meg doesnt #i refer to my designs as gijinka because to me they arent exactly humans with normal human lives #my gijinka designs still have the autobots vs decepticons plot. so yeah theyre aliens as well #except that instead of giant robots theyre... my obnoxiously anime designs lol #also thats why my gijinka designs always have widgets on their ears that look like headphones. #uh. sorry for rambling #btw OP's face is red cuz this is set in winter so it was cold outside #i drew human error OP specifically cuz i associate him with christmas because. yknow. the episode he's from. #tfa

[sergle]

Hopping on the color temperature discourse train to say that I love the mental image of like— reversing the association of red and blue and having blue represent summer temps— thinking of summer blue skies and the ocean. Red for winter temps bringing to mind cheeks red with cold and holly berries and cardinal feathers. Idk I just think that’s neat!

i, too, think it's neat!!! I also just like the idea of-- specifically on the topic planning of Temperature Blanket™ palettes-- not being so literal with "cold" colors and "hot" colors. if you CAN get creative with it, I think it's boring NOT to. It's a year long project, so it needs to be interesting. as an aside, I also like the idea of leaving color palettes behind entirely, and doing a very straightforward gradient scheme as your temperature gauge. Like buying yarns like this that are already dyed into a gradient, and just being like "ok. done."

just pick which end of the spectrum is High temps and which one is Low temps, and get cracking. It doesn't have to be symbolic of the Season the temperatures would occur in at all.

#I pivoted back to the og topic which was crochet lol because I'm. still. just thinking in terms of temperature blankets #but in a broad sense I still don't particularly enjoy red=hot blue=cold #I would like to do a gradient type theme next year I think #SOME BITCH #I lost the ask. SOME FUCK sent me a recommendation for 'a hundred ravens' yarn. and I'm SICK. because that pic is from them #and I'm pissed that I saw this After already supplying myself with the yarn I need + being Set on my plan. #because I think these dye jobs are so beautiful and would be so stunning as a temperature project. #sick and twisted. #sergle answers #crochetposting

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

#personally i've pictured him and his dad both looking just like saaski from eloise mcgraw's ''moorchild'' since my first read of the hobbit #(and it'll take a lot more than his silhouette against the stars to pry that image from my cold dead and re-embodied hands lol) #that's just too good a visual to give up ESPECIALLY with all the gimli ''hands shall flow with gold'' stuff that comes in later #but i was around in the 2000s for when the fandom divided into two very distinct and passionate camps on this question #with the fact that he'd been often illustrated with blonde hair and occasionally with dark getting subsumed by Movie vs Book Snobbery wars #where everybody had to be Very Certain And Concrete In Their Canon Arguments about which was his One True Haircolor #so i'm curious what the general consensus (or if there even is one) is now #but i don't expect an actual answer from the ten people following my blog who will see this poll so instead let's do something silly with i #because what else are tumblr polls for? #polls #legolas #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr polls #fandom polls

[citrlet]

petrichor farm → year 1, fall 10

#stardew valley #sdv #my farmers name is max a la miss max mayfield because i was in my st era when i made this save lol #i was having so much fun with all the new expansions and mods i installed back then #but for some reason i just dont like to play in summer i prefer to play on cold stormy days #so this save might not see the light of day until like mid october agdskls

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

The King and The Hand

two charming old men

it was really fun to draw mance

and i made qhorin's long heavy braid a VERY LONG heavy braid

#because it's cold out there and talking from my experience long hair can be used as a scarf #my hair is knee length and it becomes thigh length when i braid it #so i sometimes use it as a scarf in winters lol #asoiaf #fan art #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #mance rayder #qhorin halfhand #night's watch #i love qhorin's respect for wildlings #my art.

[boyguk]

oh this line's got a little kick to it when you know this boy is just a bundle of mommy issues

#one of my fav scenes of YR is that heartbreaking scene in season 1 when he's standing in the cold all alone and he's calling his mom #he's freaking out because he finally figured out who leaked the video but all his mom says is like 'yeah I already knew it was August lol' #like MA'AM YOU'RE HIS MOTHER ????? can you for once say something nice to him or actually listen to him #young royals

[earlgodwin]

"He's spent the entire time being picked upon and bullied by the family. I think personally from where Juan stands he sees the hypocrisy in the family, how they can do one thing and say another. As far as Juan is concerned he's always had the best interests of the family at heart, however misguided that might be and doesn't quite comprehend why nobody understands that. Nobody seems to understand that what he does, he does for the betterment of the Borgia clan and never waivers from that. He does that in ways that perhaps aren't sanctioned by the church or sanctioned by family law."

#oh spill the tea!! he truly believed he was doing something right. an impulsive sad lonely dude who doesn't think through #he was bestowed a position he never gave a fuck about in the first place because being a soldier is NOT what he wanted #he just wanted his family's love and affection. a simple i love you would've gone a long way #the way he teases cesare about being a cardinal because that's the only way to get his attention it's just a little brother thingie #and yet cesare took it way too personal lol crazy to me how cesare was the one who slowly destroyed juan before killing him #like how he forced his hand to murder djem and then slowly sabotaging him by mocking him constantly then setting him up to die at forli #by not informing him that ludovico's army was coming for his neck like even from a military stand point cesare ruined the forli mission fr #because he decided to prioritize his own jealousy of juan; humiliating him and hoping him to die so he can take his position as a soldier #the hypocrisy part is sooo tea because cesare killed juan in cold blood telling him that they're borgias and they never forgive #5 mins later he's begging rodrigo to forgive him for killing juan like bro was just saying that to dying juan to destroy him mentally first #i'm screaming he singlehandedly caused juan's spiraling into darkness. how are you gonna fuck up your brother that hard helpppp ?!!?!?! #fucked up dysfunctional family that i love #david oakes #juan borgia #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #televisiongifs #tvedit #by jen

[surlynotaperson]

My interpretations of CAM and RAM’s logos, the fact that both RAM and AM were both mainly blue associated pissed me off so RAM is red now :D

(Also I couldn’t figure out how to mash the word am into the letter R without it making it look weird so that’s why they look different-)

#ihnmaims #allied mastercomputer #the sillies #i have no mouth and i must scream #am ihnmaims #RAM and CAM #RAM ihnmaims #CAM ihnmaims #I headcanon that they all once just had the default AM logo just in diff colours #but AM made them change theirs lol #sorry #I also redrew AM’s logo because the first google searched one is weird #why is it RAM in Russia was the USSR during the Cold War- #headcanons

[salty-an-disco]

I did it

The whole squad is here. Do I earn my Voice Enjoyer Badge now? /lhj

whole line-up and transparent version under the cut

#slay the princess #voice of the hero #voice of the contrarian #voice of the broken #voice of the cold #voice of the paranoid #voice of the smitten #voice of the opportunist #voice of the skeptic #voice of the stubborn #voice of the hunted #voice of the cheated #Heathens AU #< because of Hero’s big axe. and also. that’s my main AU I’m using these designs on lol #stp voices #voices design #character design #sal draws #finished drawing