#It's cute in its own way

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The indescribable tension between an overworked and underpaid smut writer, and his biggest fan hater.

(for @frummpets)

#SVSSS #Shen yuan #shang qinghua #cumplane #Normally I don't tag with ship names but this one is a special case. #Confession time: When I first had SVSSS described to me I 100% thought the main pairing was between these two. #The dynamic is impeccable! Even if its 'just a fan ship' I stand by it. #Sorry to the people who like to think of them as handsome pretty boys. I don't. #These guys sit in their rooms and use the computer for 90% of waking hours. They are not looking after themselves well enough for good skin #They can be cute in their own way. People with acne and missed shaving spots deserve to have their romances too. #And sloppy hate makeouts <3 #Hi Sol! I truly did whoop and holler when drawing your name for the raffle! #You've been so kind and generous towards me and I'd happy to finally have the opportunity to give back some of that joy! #Thank you so much for all your support and the incredible fanart <3 You've made my day so many times! #I hope this silly mini comic is to your liking! #Playing around with colours for this one was a blast!

[fumifooms]

his flower...

Aww, from the signing doodle board and the Adventurer’s Bible long illustration… He likes flowers he likes shells, just a guy and his flower he picked from the side of the road, what’s not to love. Nature lover boy…

#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #Toshiro nakamoto #Shuro #he’s so cute he looks so genuinely happy what… #It really doesn’t look storebought which is insane to me. He went and picked a flower with his noble hands from the dirt somewhere #In both of these it can be assumed it’s for Falin/he’s thinking about her which. I’m sobbing #He knows she wouldn’t want a neat trimmed bouquet bc she loves raw nature stuff. His love for her frees him a lil in its own way…. #Gives him a motivation to reconnect with his interest in bugs and stuff like when he was a kid… #This is the man who got his wedding proposal rejected bc she wants to travel and went “good for her good for her” #SNAIL TOSHIRO FOR THE WINNNNN #There’s stuff to analyze here but ik toshiro positivity gets some ppl aggressive I’mma stop here pls no hate on this post <3 #Answering this ask at the speed of light. Gonna answer some others tonight #Nature lover toshiro

[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

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

when you mentioned in your tags that there was hardly any laughingstock i didn't believe you at first, but holy shit ur right. YOU AND @krasytoonz MADE ME INTO A LAUGHINGSTOCK BELIEVER. I WILL PAY TRIBUTE TO THESE SKRUNGLY FUCKERS SOON, MARK MY WORDS *shakes fist into the void*

no yeah Seriously though its just us out here, fighting for our lives in the fucking Trenches. in ten years someone is gonna use the word 'laughingstock' casually in conversation and im gonna have War Flashbacks

#no please get out while you still can #once you let them in all the way They Will Not Fucking Leave they are There Forever #the inside of my brain is just me huddled in a corner while they make out in the middle of my skull #BUT YEAH THERES BARELY ANYTHING #trust me whenever krasytoonz posts them i am instantly there to ravenously devour the crumbs like a rabid pigeon #they are my only outside source of barnaby/howdy #them and the side plot in Stamps by Indigopoptart on ao3 #oh the side plot my beloved.... im still starving but sometimes they trick me into feeling like im Feasting.... #and that one tidbit in Beautiful Boy Its Only Love by ImaginatorOf Things - also on ao3 ofc #and thats IT thats ALL I HAVE. all We have #shoving my entire fist into my mouth and biting it off while sobbing. screaming. etc. #oh the pain and joy of rarepairs... its been a while since ive been so taken with one... #who knows? with the power of friendship and this gun i found maybe one day it wont just be viewed as a crackship by the masses #rambles from the bog #gotta be honest. krasytoonz also converted me all the way #like i was tenuous about it at first... #it was just a Thought yk yk #i was like 'oh thats cute but like. as a side thing. a background thing. they dont have much going for them' #i think that was because i had nothing to enjoy outside of my own brain #i liked the very rare very jokey crumbs from a couple of clownsuu's posts #but it wasnt enough to make me go Theyre Mine Now #then i stumbled upon krasytoonz and one scrolling session later! i was fully hooked! just like that! #laughingstock went from a nebulous interest to a Permanent Fixture In My Braincase! #but yeah uhhhhh glad i could contribute to passing on the Illness #if you ever get free i will envy you #and to future me: if youre free i envy you as well. but i also pity you bc theyre so so good theyre so cute whats wrong with you- #i hate them & i love them & theyre nothing & theyre everything & they wont leave & ive locked the door

[ashipiko]

<3 happy v-day from ashace

I LIKE TO THINK THAT TYE ONOY TIME ASHI CAN REALLY DRESS UP IS WHENEVER ACE INVS HER TO TEND TO THE HEDGEHOGS W HIM…… so she slays because RARE OCCASION TO DRESS UP and Ace is whatever about it 🫶 till he realizes that the v-day date he’s got planned starts off w hedgehog duty and he’s don’t got any slay pink clothes and so <3 cay-kun comes to the rescue

#acey’s fit is hideous but I think it slays in its own way <3 #I THINK THEYRE SO CUTE THO…… #he thinks it can’t be THAT bad but ashi laughs WAY too much at his getup and suddenly he feels a little embarrassed #it’s okie tho cuz she loves fedoras and leopard print #ashipiko draws ♪ #ashace #ashi tamadai #ace trappola #twst #twst oc x canon #twst oc #twisted wonderland #twst wonderland #disney twst #twst yuu #twst fanart #twst ace #twst yume #cater diamond

[lanshappycorner]

Never getting over how Idia actually brought his childhood plushies up to college what a skrunkly little meow meow

#at some point in his life this boy looked at his plushies and was like Its Essential and packed it up with him to NRC😭 hes so cute #me when i dont think about how the plushies were implied to be originally owned by ortho before U Know What #and the way idia said he actually only liked playing w robot toys as a kid but it probably became comfort plushies to him after the...sobs #head in hands #twisted wonderland #idia shroud

[creaturefeaster]

I have never seen or used a pottery wheel in my life and i didn't take the time to look one up 🤘

#been wanting to draw a cute little scene for a bit #like on its own canvas not part of a sheet #still just a splotchy doodle but whatevs #this just sort of came out like i didnt envision anything before i sat down #thought of them today so maybe it was judt manifesting #Harley and Clover left to right by the way for those who don't know them #mine and friend's ocs

[spatialwave]

jordan taking care of a sick marie. (can supes get a cold?? idk… anyways 🩵) word count: 819

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autumn had hit godolkin with a vengeance, the trees were pretty and the air left a chill on exposed skin. it was beautiful. what wasn’t beautiful was a cold going around that was hitting some of the students.

they weren’t sure why it was hitting some and not others, but jordan didn’t really care about that. they managed to dodge and weave the bug going around — they were much too busy to get sick.

that wasn’t the case for marie though.

jordan had sent a text to marie earlier that morning, asking where she was. it was unlike her to not meet in the common area of the crimefighting building, it was jordan’s turn to buy them a morning coffee that saturday before they had to do some work as a t.a.

frustrated after a third missed text, jordan held onto the two coffees with a tight grip and began walking out into the open space of the campus with an intense demeanour. you would think that someone pissed them off.

that’s when they saw emma, their brown eyes widening as they called out, “emma! where the hell is marie?” they asked, lowering their voice in the last sentence as they hustled in her direction.

the blonde looked over at them, having been fully absorbed in the comment section of her most recent upload. she blinked a few times as she watched jordan walking towards her with ferocity, needing to look up just the slightest due to jordan’s height in their male form.

“hey, hey,” she raised her hands, “just because i’m her roommate doesn’t mean i have to be her messenger,” she teased, but jordan’s face reminded her that they weren’t one to mess with, “jesus, dude. she’s got that cold going around. be careful in there, it’s hazardous!” she had to call the last part out because jordan had already started walking away.

with a racing heart and clammy hands, jordan pushed their way past students until they reached the dormitories. the path to marie’s dorm room was one they memorized, taking less then a couple minutes before they were using their foot to kick a few thumps against the door.

“marie?” they called out, putting their ear to the door and giving awkward, tight lipped smiles to students walking by and looking with interest.

“it’s open.” spoke a weak voice from the other side of the door, muffled and cracking. oh god.

jordan had to handle the two coffees in one hand as they opened the door, eyes widening when they saw marie in her bed. she was laying on her side, brown eyes glazed over and a bit red. she coughed, cringing at the pain.

“fuck, marie, why didn’t you text me?” jordan asked her, using their foot to shut the door behind them. as they walked closer to her, their form switched into their female body, expression softening.

“too tired to look at my phone.” she croaked, trying to sit up, but jordan quickly shook their head.

“don’t move. just rest,” they assured her, placing the coffees on the table between the two beds. they turned their attention to her, sitting on the edge of the bed and reaching out with a gentle hand so they could press the back of it to her cheeks, then her forehead, “you’re burning up.” they murmured, frowning.

"is that bad?" she asked, having grown up in a facility, she wasn't used to being sick. maybe once or twice as a teenager. she'd forgotten how awful it felt, how it made your bones ache and your throat feel like it was coated in needles.

"you'll be okay." jordan's voice was full of care as they smiled, wiping some budding sweat off of marie's forehead, "might feel like shit for a couple days, but you'll be okay. i promise." marie gave a weak smile up to jordan, already feeling better in their presence. "i don't want to get you sick."

"who cares?" they quipped back,” let me take care of you." marie didn't answer back, she only nodded.

jordan did exactly what they said they would. they took the day off from their t.a. work and ran around grabbing everything they could find after googling 'cold remedies': chicken noodle soup, orange juice, cold and flu medicine, lozenges, hot tea and a fuck ton of water bottles.

it wasn't until sunday night that marie began feeling better, able to sit up in her bed with jordan as they watched some stupid vought romcom. their hands were intertwined, jordan's hand a bit larger than her own as they held her against their side close to keep her warm.

"thank you." marie whispered, tilting her head back to look up at jordan with a tiny smile. jordan's lips cracked into a smile as they met her gaze, answering with a kiss to her forehead and a gentle squeeze of her hand.

#limoreau #jordan li x marie moreau #jordan li #marie moreau #gen v #idk why i get the ick sometimes when i clarify which form they’re in??? #i find it nice leaving it up to y’all to imagine them in your own way #but idk... i think its cute that jordan would start to be more comfortable around marie in their female form.... im crying #this may be my last post today i am actually very sick skfkdkdk #wordsbyspatial

[oceanwithouthermoon]

oh my god i just. remembered this. sorry. one of the things people do in the saiki k fandom (cough cough specifically tiktok cough cough) is that people call every terusai moment "fanservice.." FANSERVICE..? WHATTTTT ?

as if you guys get to make the choices in what the anime SHOULD be like, and which duos get better moments.. thats so funny oh my GOD.

and im saying the anime specifically because none of these people read the manga.. there was this one pretty fucking viral tiktok i saw a few months ago where this person was talking about this and saying that the anime "tried to set up teruhashi and saiki as a couple" when it "wasnt like that in the manga" and then proceeded to talk about scenes that WERE in the manga and did NOT get changed for the anime.. mf why are you just LYING. AND WHY ARE THE MASSES BELIEVING YOU. THATS CRAZY.

#its weird cuz like. nobody is genuinely saying terusai is canon or u HAVE to ship it (its an obvious joke when we that abt any ship) #but these people for some reason act like we're the devil for interpreting their cute scenes as romantic #MY BROTHER IN CHRIST JUST LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE. INTERPRET THE WAY YOU WANT WHILE ILL DO IT HOW I WANT. #youre allowed to see them as just friends just like im allowed to see them as a couple!! #their friendship is lovely!! it's beautiful!! appreciate it instead of trying to ruin all those moments and boil them doen to 'fanservice-' #JUST because a lot of people see it as romantic!! #i swear these people are just women haters #they see her getting cute moments with saiki and jump on the bandwagon of hating her and their whole relationship #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #teruhashi kokomi #terusai #saiteru

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Mission Failed

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#Poorly Drawn MDZS #MDZS #season 1 #wei wuxian #lan wangji #to wwx’s credit the plan wasn’t a *bad* one #he just had to stop and ogle a man's back for like...2 min too long #mind you he is looking at all those scars and rightfully going 'yo what the HELL did they do?" #the fact wwx breaks character to say he wasn't peeping to lwj is really cute to me #even though he doubles down with the juniors later #to me at least its a way of showing that he respects lwj quite a bit and feels bad to have intruded #I'm a demi wwx truther and it is way too early into the journey for any of *those* feelings yet #I'm aware that's not a popular interpretation and I'm certainly not claiming its the only interpretation; just my own B*) #anyways sorry for the literal cock-blocking fish #I'm trying to keep it sfw for now

[nolassolace]

✨Fiiine boy Friday ✨

Hey Nicky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Nicky hey hey Nicky🎶💕

Anywhore he's bbygrls design (of course I'm biased)

Here's your reminder that Nick was the star player in both timelines💕

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #nick close #nicolas foster #nicky freeman #the man of a thousand names #and i love him more with each one #this finally got ne to draft up some more of nicks tattoos which was fun #cant wait to see if people make any of their own headcanons based off ny design #esp about the tattoos #also yes i always give young nick and morgan matching dyed streaks #its cute #and it hurts #what are you gonna do about it #also yes this shirt exsists #star player nick #shouting NICK is way easier #i dunno darryl i could see #NI #CO #LAS #see exactly #thats what henry said last time we had this conversation #trans nick close #come on fuck me emo boy #slutty waist #TM #noah does art #its always nick guys im sorry #character design

[outerspacedunce]

my new stickers from @kirkhasakink !!!

they went straight into my sticker book 🥰

ugh i could just stare at these pages all day long

#yes im a child at heart and i own a sticker book #its my favorite way of collecting my favorite art on a budget #look how cute!!!!! #the tribbles!!! #ahhh 🥰 #.personal #star trek tos #spirk #star trek fanart

[not-the-littlest-pet-shop]

I am so excited to show you guys a very very exciting purchase I made recently!! Included in the lot was #272 and his tubemates, #273 and #274! 😵 💖 I love them all sm!!!

#just looking at them makes me so nostalgic omg they are all such early numbers and the carry case is so cute!!!! #and the yellow collie omg i never thought id own him!!! #ive spent way too much money on lps recently sjsjd but its fine its fine #littlest pet shop #lps

[biscuitbox23]

Me going into the Jake sully x reader tag and seeing Neteyam and Lo’ak fanfictions:

#his sons are cute tho ngl #Its just that if there is no jake sully and reader dynamics dont put the hashtag #avatar 2 #jake sully #thats like putting bucky barnes x reader to a steve rogers fanfic #let the boys have their own hashtag #avatar way of water #way of water #neteyam #lo’ak sully

[liquidstar]

crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.

#this doesnt mean i think all ''cute girls doing cute things'' anime is feminist btw #thats not my take. the test itself isnt a metric for feminism #im just saying if you take the rules purely at face value. that type of show kills it #but also no the genre isnt for the male gaze! everyone go watch 'a place further than the universe' and develop some emotions #even k on which i joked abt in the post- its actually a bit complicated bc of the way the anime deviates from the manga #but the short of it is the further it gets away from its source and becomes its own thing the more it becomes abt the girls #s2 being all original was the strongest. its a great story about the fleeting nature of youth and lasting friendships actually #ppl dont give it enough credit. yes its slice of life ofc but its really good #also not to mention bocchi. everyone loved bocchi. in that show they literally have a joke where they dont show the dads face #bc no male characters LOL #the acceptation being that one club owner who is meant to be more feminine? manga readers know more abt that tho

[stardotnet]

been thinking about fruit as of late

#i found the first one looking for references for an art project and i thought it was pretty #anyway. its my birthday im 17 now this blog is fun to play around on #i like the way i romanticize daily things now after starting it #and i like reading the tags people leave about their own experiences #so wonderful that everyone is connected. even if its just through a passing comment #stardotnet #webweaving #web weaving #aesthetic #corecore #webweave #fruit #the dog one is very cute #mold