#Very uncanny valley feeling

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 166

So Danny is going to blame this on Vlad. Everything was going great, his parents had accepted him, Ellie is home for a while as was Jazz, Vlad was going to ghost-therapy along with Jordan to both get over apparently very bad obsession-sickness, and it was finally summer break! Which meant camping, and no ghost stuff for the first time in forever. 

He should have known everything was going too well, because that’s just the Fenton luck isn’t it? So he was going to blame this entire thing on Vlad, even if it might maybe be his own fault just a little bit. But how was he supposed to know the glowing rock formation that looked sort of like a portal was actually going to do something?! 

Urgh, he’s not going to deal with dimension travel, he already has to deal with time bullshit thanks to his peepaw! At least they’re all in this together and haven’t gotten separated? Ugh. This is going to be annoying. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dp x marvel #danny phantom crossover #prompts #They definitely get mistaken for some sort of elves fae or other supernatural creatures #The entire family is either halfas or liminal as hell #Very uncanny valley feeling #They’re also camping out over an old site of some sort #Behold! Thanks to Fenton Technology & Vladco Ghost Tech: Invisible tents & supplies! #Jordan is going overprotective guard dog mode on everyone #Ellie wants to go into the nearby (insert city here) to explore #Danny honestly just wants a burger & is preventing the hotdogs from escaping #Family bonding via trying to get back to their own dimension by summer end

[psychopacifist-rm]

I want to share something personal with you guys.

I don’t remember my childhood clearly, but what one thing I still have is a fear of human faces.

I don’t remember I was spending time in companies, and that was a torture to answer teacher’s question in front of all class (I didn’t know I have sensory problems on that moment). I still have a fear to look into the eyes of my interlocutor, surrounded by chaotically moving pieces of flesh, but… people require it. They think I don’t respect them if I look to the side or on the details of their clothing, like buttons, boots or pictures on their T-shirt. Family required my future wife, and 3 years in marriage was enough to understand that I can’t even look at her without fear.

But. The thing that still fascinates me is… uncanny valley. Faces, that don’t look completely human, or masks were catching my attention from my early ages, and I tried to hide my blush from mother’s eyes. They look so… calming… ordered… beautiful. Like I see the kind of creatures that have lost me here too many years ago.

(Pictures from Pinterest and YouTube)

#discussion #uncanny valley #mask #masks #beautiful #memories #anthropomorphic #phobia #society #trauma #face #i’m scared #just a flow of my thoughts because I feel very nervous

[cometrose]

replaying kh1 is really interesting just from the sora riku kairi dynamics to sora donald and goofy becoming friends to the fact there’s no fucking map and moogle is only in traverse town but reminds me that kh always fills you with such nostalgia like i really want to rewatch disney movies now

#i just did agrabah and damn i want to watch aladdin #kh #kingdom hearts #kh1 is super super unique like i’ll go into it in more detail #but you can see it has features that the rest of the game does not and how the tone shifts #but kh1 combat makes me feel like an idiot #really makes me appreciate 2 and 3 more i love sora’s flashiness in those games #but anyway 1 is very special #i’ll go into more detail later #also i didn’t realize how funny it is #like every time sora interacts with the ff cast i giggle a bit especially with cid #like you can talk to aerith after sealing traverse town and she’s like have you seen a spiky haired boy? he’s not very friendly but we care #sora is kind of a blanker slate and he’s more rough around the edges #like he’s moodier and GOD #KH1 has terrible uncanny valley moments THE AWKWARD PAUSES #LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO 100 ACRE WOODS AND YOU MEET POOH #sora just stares at him with those big blue eyes and it’s so unsettling BLINK #anyway more at 7

[beat-louder-heartbeat]

this post has been driving me insane. as an autistic, there is literally no way this is true. i don't buy it at all. if you were a marine biologist, you would know things about marine animals and be able to identify more marine animals than others, and there are DEFINITELY neurotypical marine biologists. as well as neurotypical inventors. i looked through the replies/tags/comments a bit, and i saw some comments saying that neurotypical people are just less likely to, and require more prodding to, discuss their interests in depth. i'm pretty sure this is due to a social rule that you just generally aren't supposed to infodump, except in certain environments (e.g scientist giving a presentation, especially to fellow scientists) or if pressed repeatedly to do so. i don't love neurotypical people any more than the next neurodivergent person does, but i also really feel like treating/viewing neurotypical people as "lesser" in this manner is counterproductive and damaging to ourselves too. when we validate the notion that neurotypicals are soulless and lacking, it's still promoting the idea that people whose brains are wired different are lesser, which is exactly the kind of mindset that gets us autistics thrown under the bus by neurotypical people. i know neurotypical people aren't systematically oppressed or stigmatized the way we are, but it kind of just feels nasty to unironically use the same kind of sentiment that is used to hurt and ostracize us. i really don't vibe with this kind of thinking

#🧣breeze #'neurotypicals are freaks because they treat us like shit' is very different from 'neurotypicals are freaks because their brains #work differently from ours and they're hard to understand' i feel. #the latter of which sounds exactly like what they say about us if you'll notice. #and i say all this as someone who is also baffled by neurotypical people #and who sometimes gets a harsh enough uncanny valley effect trying to understand them that it makes me dissociate.....

[20cm]

meg and i promise plave arent more aidols . theyre just vtuber avatars of real like. actual (anonymous) idols <3 they debuted w/ a song they wrote/produced and el capitxn worked on it with them :] big fan if u cant. tell

#biggest disclaimer that i hate the aidol shit so so badly. these guys are different!! #theyre not trying to pass as uncanny valley 'real people' like the avatars are cartoonish and fictional!! on purpose #they do motion capture (for streams and choreo) and twitch/youtube streams and sing and compose/produce their own music #its genuinely cool #they seem to have so much fun in their streams just fucking around with the avatars like it .... #feels very much like it gives them the freedom to be more . comfortable ''on camera'' #they also give meg and i distinct like. seasoned idol vibes. we are guessing theyre older or at least former idols #or trainees that missed the debut window #overall its very like.......... feels good honestly KGJKFGJGF like we have gotten 0 bad vibes

[thresholdbb]

It’s official: someone sent me a very cursed AI image of me in Starfleet

#it’s so creepy #it’s feeling very old in this uncanny valley #this is the problem with the apps where your face is on the internet because people can steal your face #he (I’m assuming) put me in a blue/green uniform #judging by my irl experience I’d probably be yellow? coms/language/education? #I’m unfortunately not a scientist unless you count pop science #like lighting hydrogen balloons on fire and explaining about hydrogen and slipping in a oh the humanity #unintentional pun but I’m rolling with it #boo I said I’d use my personal side blog for lore drops my bad #melts into oblivion

[chromatic-corrosion]

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#so i wake up and find out that Escaping Virtuality got chapter 4!!! #very good chapter! #and theres sooo much to enjoy and talk about! #1) everyone still has difficulty remembering their past despite the familiar environment- #-and it seems that from Jax's part of the chapter theyd feel more familiarity with their circus names than real ones #2) who is the man ragatha found? who knows? but itll probably be revealed next chapter! #3) Caine's movement being eerie in his human body!!!! AMAZING!!!!!! #stiff and robotic. with a grin that seems too wide for a human. his unblinking eyes which stare a little too intensely. #human physically but moves in way that triggers uncanny valley #4) Caine Desdemona #Desdemona means 'ill-fortuned' or 'unlucky' #if you were implying that Caine is human then he got the worse end of the stick #he keeps his first name. but forgot everything else. #And if Caine was human then itd explain where he got his human body from! #this is more explainable than '' caine has a human body because it was made from pieces of the others' '' #...i wonder how Caine would react to seeing that document. jax IS carrying them so hes probably gonna give them to the others. #and how would everyone react to that file? they believe hes an ai so him being human would be shocking #or was Caine based off of Caine Desdemona and thats why Caine has his name? #and if there was a Caine Desdemona then was there a Abel Desdemona? #and what does C&A mean? #also pomni needs a russian name because 'pomni' is a russian word! :-) #who knows? who knows? #all i know is that is an amazing story and i cant wait to see how it goes! no matter how long i need to wait i have the peace of knowing- #-that itd release anyways eventually! #and caine angst is going to come soon enough! #seasalt speaks #EscapingVirtuality

[llycaons]

whatever decision they made to make this dog look like a man, it was the wrong one

#im feeling very uncanny valley about this #cor.txt

[robyn-goodfellowe]

@howdyfriend i didn't feel likke finishing. the doodle unfortunately because i am tired and i have sososo many things to do today but here is a really quick sketch of ruby for your viewing pleasure :) i'll render her for realsies one day

ruby is a character from a story that i created for a writing contest in spring 2022 that i ultimately did not end up completing or entering due to a lack of time and confidence in both the story and my writing abilities. because this is a story that i do want to tell one day, i won't go super into the plot, but i will tell you some of the core information about my favorite character from it: ruby <3

ruby is a little girl who immigrated with her dads from cape verde to north carolina (SAD! 💔) when she was ~3 years old. she was by all means a normal child growing up! she was an absolute ray of sunshine and a huge source of joy to everyone who knew her- even as a child, she was always regarded as very charming! she knew how to wrap people around her little fingers and did it with ease. she was very in tune with her surroundings- nature and animals especially-, but her talent was always with reading others in her life. she had an affinity for befriending other kids that were normally bullied, teased, or just weren't very good at making friends, and because she was so well-liked, this friendship offered these other kids protection from bullying. the first friend she really latched onto was khalil (the protagonist of this story), but there were three others that joined her main circle of friends growing up: jordyn, and fraternal twins haadi and fatima. she was, really, the heart of a lot of things: the heart of her friendship, the heart of her family, so on and so forth. in a way, the world did revolve around her. people were always drawn to her and she knew it.

and then one day she went missing.

two weeks before school let out for summer and exactly five days after her thirteenth birthday, ruby started walking home from school and never came home. she was reported missing, but nothing ever came of it- there were no signs as to where she could've gone or anyone who could've taken her. some theorized that maybe she'd tried to take a shortcut through the woods near her home- something she was known to do often when she walked home alone (both out of a love for nature and because it was faster)- but extensive volunteer search and rescue results yielded no results. it was strange. she was there one moment and gone the next in the blink of an eye.

her disappearance absolutely tore her community apart- her fathers relationship suffered, her friend group fell apart, that sort of thing. there was nowhere to search and no one to question and ruby, beloved as she was by her community, was eventually just... accepted as gone and set aside. after all, what can you do when you've done everything you can and still yield no results? (... damn, sounds familiar...)

exactly two years later, two weeks before let out for the summer and five days after what would've been ruby's fifteenth birthday, khalil- ruby's oldest friend- walks home from school. he'd grown up in the same neighborhood as ruby did, but it never really felt like home after she'd left. her family had always been more of a family to him than his own had (his mother is a hoarder with deep, complex issues stemming from her own childhood, and while she loves him greatly she ultimately just was never meant to be a parent and it really shows) and he'd distanced himself through his own grief when he realized that ruby was gone for good. except... there she is, standing by the trail entrance to the woods so many people had meticulously combed through searching for her. wearing the same clothes, holding the same backpack, and waving brightly at him like she hasn't been missing for two years.

despite khalil's tears and ruby's confusion over said tears and seeing him (why does he look so much older?), it's a happy reunion between the two of them. its even happier when khalil practically sprints to ruby's dads' home and almost breaks down the door knocking on it. ruby's home, she's home, and everyone's happy! it's ruby! it's a miracle! most missing children never come home, but she did! she came home alive, whole and healthy... unnaturally so, it seems, because a medical examination that the local precinct insists on preforming on her reveals that she's... completely unchanged.

it's not just that she's still wearing the same clothes or carrying the same backpack (neither of which show any dna that isn't hers) from the day she went missing. it's not just that she's the same height and the same weight as she was when she was thirteen. it's not just that she's still wearing the exact same bandaid she'd put on at lunch the day she'd disappeared because she'd scraped her knee dicking around with her friends. it's not just that the food she didn't finish the day she disappeared left inside of her bag is still as fresh as it was that morning.

she's completely untouched by time. she's still thirteen, and whatever happened to her within the span of the two years she'd been missing, she claims that she doesn't remember any of it. in fact, it doesn't seem like anything happened to her at all. it's almost be tempting to pretend she'd never disappeared in the first place. ruby's fathers, her friends, khalil, they should all be thankful! not everyone gets to have their loved ones back in one piece- or at all.

after all, even if there's still a two year gap in her life where her memories should be, she's still home, and that's enough. sure, her eyes might be growing lighter by the day and there might be more sharp teeth in her mouth than any human normally has, but she's still the same old ruby everyone knows and loves.

it's just a shame there's something else underneath her skin now, too.

i think dwight and ruby would be friends because they both get to have fun body-related horrors :) but outside of that he just feels like one of those kids that ruby would be really quick to latch to and be protective of, even before she goes missing. he's a big sweetheart and ruby has a big, big soft spot for people like him. he's her friend now. they're having soft tacos later!

#ocs #delete later #as u can tell. i write a LOT of stories about people disappearing/leaving/going missing idk. its fun!!!! #north carolina in particular is bc this story is very vaguely tied to hillside (blossom hills is in nc) but by the time this story happens #blossom hills is not really a town anymore and hasnt been for years #but i really just like my human-passing creatures :) im a sucker for fucked up aliens and monsters but idk . i like when they look human #it makes it SO much funner to play into unnatural/uncanny valley type things #this story at the time was called drosera! after the carnivorous flower. feel free to make your own assumptions about what that implies. :)

[chaotic-solutions]

agent stone on the brain again. people truly do not write him as enough of a freak

#he is NOT nice he is NOT a remotely good person he is just as bad as robotnik and twice as much of an enabler #and i love him for it. he thinks hes smarter than everyone around him except robotnik. hes not really wrong. #this guy kills people and feels nothing about it he finds everything his boss does admirable hes fucking weird!!! #and yeah hes infatuated. but hes not sweet. stop making him sweet #robotnik wouldnt like him if he wasnt razor sharp at his core #everything about him is calculated and has been for a very long time. hes got an uncanny valley effect going on #i am. obsessed with this guy truly. but who isnt #anyway yeah half my experience w stone content is He Would Not Fucking Say That #and the other half is frantic applause for the people who get it #cannot WAIT for 3 i nedd to see him be worse #talk tag

[clamorybus]

i don't wanna gripe too hard on it because i'm only a few chapters into it, but so far im not really enjoying dominic's disappearance. but that just be because im a woz fan so it's just so underwhelming

#you're gonna have a protag who lives in* Gillikin Country and you name her SANDRA? #in a world of jellia jambs and elphabas and galindas and boqs you name your characters SANDRA. DOMINIQUE. and LEO??? #i know some ozians have human names like nick chopper and ambassador jose altuve #but so far they haven't really taken full advantage of having a story take place in oz #so far it feels like any generic fantasy backdrop #also i don't like the companion's designs they're VERY uncanny valley #esp standing right next to clement and tate #but again im not super far into the story so whatever #dress up time princess #the wizard of oz #mickey.txt

[rxttenfish]

aaravi my beautiful gongeous freakish little beast

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #i like making her. casually Very Uncanny Valley. #she's a human but to the left #not enough to immediately mark her as nonhuman but something that itches at the back of your hindbrain #naturally aaravi is very very very insecure about this #both in the sense of she is not immune to freaking herself out #but also because feels fucking BAD man #she is constantly stressing about being Human Enough and looking Human Enough and she overthinks her body a LOT #is she walking like a normal person. is she expressing like a normal person. she is stressed.

[perenlop]

oh my god the way that mega lucario is drawn to look more like a feral dog than like a dogman during its rage? chefs kiss

feel like its kinda goofy when its just screenshots but its really cool to see it in motion

#its almost uncanny valley bc lucario is a very humanoid pokemon #so seeing it shake pikachu like a dog realistically ripping up its prey? like it genuinely had me on edge #id post video snippets but i took a vid of the whole battle for reference and i dont know if posting the whole thing is cool bc its 4 min #and i dont feel like cutting it down sorry djfjfj #echoed voice #pokeani lb

[sydmarch]

can anyone who's like good with words explain why the cinematography in hocus pocus 2 felt like that like it was SO off and almost uncanny to me but despite my years studying photography my understanding of composition is mostly intuitive so I don't have the words for WHY it seemed so weird

#like it almost seemed filmed like. TOO well? like the walgreens scene was giving uncanny valley #& a lot of it just didnt feel very dynamic like the scene where they were on stage. very ununtersting compared to the scene on stage in #the original one #texticles

[svankmajerbaby]

im so curious about that m3gan movie. of course i love the inherent uncanniness of dolls used to maximum creepy effect and especially when it applies to some sort of commentary of the way we depict and conceptualize childhood and children themselves But. i also really do not enjoy when the line between doll and robot is blurred, for some reason?? they obviously have a lot of things in common, robots and toys, in a sense, but i also think that theyre fundamentally different in the way theyre used and the social functions they have...... and besides theres the fact that robots are just not something that kids really interact with, unless its a tamagotchi or one of those hopping doggies......

#i feel like the robot as a toy thing is meant to be a metaphor for phones and stuff and childrens overreliance on technology #when its just not applicable?? toys arent like that. the use of a toy is different than that of a game or a social network #and making a doll a robot feels lazy to me and i fucking love robots #maybe i just havent seen a good example yet. i just think its so easy to do wrong and so boring #im also very much disconnected from what the youth plays with but i really dont think theres a hot new robot doll really rocking the market #if there was one the amount of killer doll/killer toy movies would have a significant uptick #yeah i Do waste a lot of time thinking about this #then again despite how im not super into the idea of a killer doll being a robot the fact that this is a female doll intrigues me a lot #her design is also interesting shes very creepy in how realistic she looks. when dolls for kids are. obviously #designed to be a bit cartoony precisely bc of that uncanny valley #and the idea of her being so detailed makes me so curious from a design standpoint like. why would a little girl want her #and how does the way she looks and behaves be reflected in how the girl plays with her #girl toys have been at thecenter of a lot of discussions on sexism and gender roles for years #. 🦴

[cheese-rat29]

i have a very specific sense of horror that i only feel when faced with baby shower games

#text #text post #the rat speaks #they’re a very specific fear #they feel uncanny valley