#and that they're very alone

[zilabee]

Read an old post of yours about "what if the Beatles were androids built by Brian" and just wanted to share the thought that it sparked! Please consider:

First Brian builds John, not to revolutionize music but to be the perfect boy (by Brian's standards, you know, which is why John is rough and mean on the outside and soft and sensitive on the inside). The musical subroutine was an accident! Brian thought he deleted that chunk of code! And at first it's all fine, but soon John gets lonely being a musical android all by himself, so Brian builds him Paul, to be his ideal friend. (This time the musical programming isn't an accident. That's why Paul is Like That.) And of course android John and android Paul get on like a house on fire, as they were meant to, and get so into making music together that they decide they need to form a band…and every band needs a proper good lead guitarist, right, so they gang up on Brian to cajole him into building them George. Only it turns out that they're rather volatile as a trio, so by the time the three of them demand a drummer Brian can tell they need someone to provide stability! So finally he builds them Ringo, to be their Beatle glue.

(And of course as soon as the band is complete they go and get runaway famous, which Brian didn't code them to be able to cope with! Because he wasn't expecting it! He wasn't actually trying to make history's greatest band, you see, he just kept building more androids to make the ones he already had happy.)

Oh anon! Yes yes. Yes. Like maybe he initially made John to help out at NEMS, and he only gave him a basic musical subroutine so that he'd know what he was talking about enough to help people in the music section, but working there he absorbed everything he heard and fell in love with music and Brian was all soft on him and couldn't make him work when all John wanted to do was play music and paint and be Ridiculously Cool, but then he couldn't leave him home on his own all day either. So then you have Paul - and ksjdofiwjefsd I love that it makes sense for him to be the way he is, because the music had to be hard wired into him <333. (Also beautiful android John seeing the blue prints and being like '... maybe just a little bit like Elvis?' and Brian sighing but agreeing to try.) And then I love the idea that he makes them a George, who is absolutely 100% going to grow up feeling like 'so you made them to be soulmates basically and I was just an ADD ON AFTERTHOUGHT????' Like I can't even imagine the brilliance of the chip on his shoulder if he was literally built just to support them. I love it. And all that time, Brian's watching them with hearts in his eyes because they're his boys and they're so beautiful and young and bright... but he comes home from work and they've set fire to stuff, and stolen records, and reinvented rock and roll, and spearheaded a british invasion, and the neighbours are furious because they play nine hour sets in the backgarden, and crowds gather in the street to listen to them, and they're just playing until their chips overheat and they get louder and more obnoxious until eventually they start fighting and throwing things at the crowds. And at first he'd be like 'no the neighbours will kill me if I build you a drummer' but they threaten to kidnap a real live boy if he doesn't, so he's like 'fine just a little one then'. And you're so right because by then he's had lots of practise, so it makes sense that he could finally programme in things like calm and ease, but he can't offer the others any upgrades to their own emotional disaster areas because it sounds like criticism and obviously it's wrong to pretend any one of them isn't already PERFECT.

(Also love the idea that John at some point sort of realises he's an android, or more than that, suddenly understands that not everyone else is - maybe when he meets Stuart and realises how different they are and decides that he can never be as ~real as Stuart - and he'd get all angsty and melo about it, and probably blame Brian for making him, and then decide it means nobody could ever really love him. All while Paul is just watching him confused, because he knew he wasn't real from day one, so he doesn't know why it matters, because he's like John and John's like him, so that's the best way to be. And George feels like he can very easily be an android and still be real, so he's fine too. And Ringo's okay so long as he's drumming and doesn't have to think about any of it or what it means, so John is all hidden pain and lonely confusion while he pretends to be Just Fine. I love how much themselves they are no matter what you do to them.)

#asks #thank you for this #it's everything lovely #I love that when Brian eventually dies it absolutely would make them realise that everyone they love and need is going to die #and that they're very alone #and they would off to India to find a way to cope with it #only to find that they don't really have souls #which doesn't help at all #and then John would absolutely go all self destruct #and basically no matter what you do the beatles story plays out just the same #almost like it's integral to the universe or something #love #fic thoughts #the beatles

[ruporas]

can’t talk about it

[ID: Black and white comic of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The comic starts with the sounds "thud, thud, click". Vash, mid-action of peeling an apple, turns to the sound, noticing who it was that entered, and says, "Oh, Wolfwood, you're back." He resumes back to his apple in the next panel as he speaks, "Where'd you go? You snuck out of bed quickly this morning..." Wolfwood's hand then enters the panel, hovering over Vash's cheek and Vash looks up as Wolfwood asks, "Can I?" Vash responds, "Not going to talk about it?" while using a hand to gently hold Wolfwood's hovering hand and presses a kiss to his inner palm.

Vash then gets up fully, setting down the knife down on the table and the apple onto a plate, He leans into Wolfwood as Wolfwood explains, "Had to meet someone. Nothing interesting to talk about." Vash kisses Wolfwood's left cheek and a hand moves to cup his other cheek while muttering, "You're being vague." Wolfwood says neutrally, "If yer really that curious, keep askin'. We  can talk about that instead of doing this." Vash leans back and responds, "Let's talk after, since... You look so tired."

The panel pans to a close up of Wolfwood's downcast eyes, bags heavy underneath his eyes. He doesn't allow Vash to sit in that moment for long though, then saying, "Yer not helping, Spikey. Being all slow with it... I could fall asleep right now." He moves his hand to start unclasping Vash's coat, starting from his collar. Vash with red cheeks, responds briskly, "Oh, shut up. I'm worried about you. I can't be worried?"

The final shot shows Wolfwood's back to the viewer while Vash's softened expression can be seen as he holds gently onto the side of Wolfwood's face and a hand firm on his waist. Wolfwood responds, "I'm fine, seriously," pausing for a moment before continuing, "Is it okay to still..?" Vash responds, "Yeah, it's okay."

The next image is a shot from later that night after the previous comic. Vash and Wolfwood are now in bed, half naked. Wolfwood's buries his face into Vash's chest, his arms wrapped around him, while Vash is petting at his hair. Vash reminds him, "Hey. You said we'd talk about it." Wolfwood pauses for a moment before piping up, "In the morning? I'm sleepy." Vash says, "Okay..."

The next two pages start from the morning after. Wolfwood is already fully awake, pulling on his outer jacket as he says to Vash, whos' still bundled in his blankets, "Breakfast is on the table. Make sure to eat it. I'm going to grab some things in town and then we're leavin'. Got it?" Vash says, "Mh." Wolfwood responds, "Good. See ya in a bit." The dialogue starts to shift into Vash's inner thoughts now, as he gets up and eats toast, thinking, "Wait. Weren't we supposed to... talk about it?" The next shot then shows him fully up, meeting Wolfwood in town. He carries a half worried expression with him while Wolfwood slides on his glasses for him. A quick panel shows Wolfwood's tired expression from the night before and quickly juxtaposes with Wolfwood in front of him who's smiling gently, the shades covering his eye bags. Wolfwood asks him, "Still not awake yet?" Vash pauses, his thoughts stirring, thinking, "Oh. I guess I was getting ahead of myself... thinking you owe me that kind of honesty." He smiles at Wolfwood and responds, "I'm awake!" His thoughts continue, "Maybe one day, you'd trust me enough to share your burdens."

The final image shows Wolfwood pulling at Vash's cheek and Vash complains, "Owwwww why..." Wolfwood quickly says, "You were thinking something stupid, right? It's all over yer face." Vash mutters, "Nooo, I wasn't..." END ID]

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #Theyre both thoroughly exhausted tired individuals -- vash having to fight this lonely battle for over a hundred years and getting dragged #back into inevitable situation with knives after a 2 years hiatus of being a gunslinger. they both need so much Rest and comfort in this #department... .SIGHS. BUT I JUST THINK ABOUT WOLFWOOD . AND HOW... LITTLE He has existed on no man's land. how majority of his years being #alive is being used as a weapon and to kill when him at his very core is the most giving and selfless individual ever #badlands rumble inspired me a bit but i do think wolfwood gets dragged into occasional tasks from the eye of michael while on his duty of #guiding vash -- or i think that one chapter where we got to see other members of eom -- there's like a clear division within the eom too #i think.... so i figured similarly to vash but not to the same amount -- there are people that look for wolfwood too. but most of the time #it's probably wolfwood that has to look for someone else and take them out. i feel like it happens ever so occasionally. #evidentially these two don't talk enough canonically but they always know how to express things properly to affirm that they're okay #they have the worst time ever sharing burdens - can't willingly burden the other and has neeever asked for help or reprieve in their #desperate situations... vw is a huge case of right person wrong time syndrome so they just. in the time they get to spend together -- even #if romantically - they don't have enough time to heal to get over that kind of hurdle. They've just never asked for help in all the years #they've been alive -- they don't even know how to and its just aughhhsgskg #and well! they don't even need to ask! because they'll be there for each other anyway at the end of the day -- company and presence alone. #ruporas art

[mikkeneko]

Don't want to put this on the post itself for risk of derailing it, but that post the other day about Terry Pratchett's early work really stuck in my mind. OP had sent in an ask saying that they heard some of Pratchett's earlier works had problematic elements (not unusual for a male english writer in the 80s) and they weren't sure whether to go ahead with reading the work anyway.

What I really want to ask that person, or indeed all persons who are hesitating over whether or not to read problematic works or works by imperfect authors:

What are you worried about happening, if you read a work with problematic elements?

I'm worried that if I read this art, I will run across hateful images or words that will shock or upset me

I'm worried that I will spend money on a work of art that then financially supports a bad person, and that thought makes me uncomfortable or upset

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and comment or react on them, and other people will see what I am reading and will think less of me because of it, or will assume that I hold the same bad beliefs as the author

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and I will enjoy them, and the author will find out about my enjoyment and feel emboldened to do bad things because of it

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and their badness will contaminate my way of thinking and make me a worse person in turn

Because these are all different answers and some of them are more actionable than others

#salty sunday #for the first: it's up to you whether you want to take that risk but keep in mind you can always stop if you feel discomfort. #this isn't school and nobody is going to require a book report from you on it #for the second: whether the author is even still alive let alone receiving proceeds from the work is something you can check on #if they're a more classic author and their estate/family is still getting proceeds you can decide whether you feel the issues of the author #are something worth punishing their family over #for the third: you can't control what other people think. don't try. #for the fourth: the author is gonna think and do whatever they think and do entirely independent of the response of the audience #assuming they even found out what you think ever which is very unlikely. see above about not being able to control what other people think #for the fifth: moral contamination is not a thing. kick the little fascist voice out of your head. be free

[stealingpotatoes]

hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)

#cal kestis #bd 1 #jedi fallen order #jfo #star wars #my doods #anyway HOLY CRAP YOU MEAN STAR WARS WAS ALLOWED TO BE GOOD BEFORE ANDOR (2022-)??????????????? AND I DIDNT KNOW?? #i love cal i loved the story i love how cinematic and amazing it looked good lord #i don't think i've ever played a game which gets such an amazing sense of scale across #like all the great temples or fallen starships were just Wow #like bracca ALONE gobsmacked me. seeing all these things i grew up watching in tcw as wreckage was like Ough Wow and THEY FELT SO HUGE #im just. wow!! #and THAT FINAL MISSION HUH. MOST FEAR INSPIRING VIDEOGAME ENCOUNTER EVER #my only criticisms are the awkward navigation/ level design in some areas and maybe the ending felt a bit lackluster somehow #i say somehow bc i dont get how lol #the reason im making this post past midnight is bc i got off work at 10pm and then immediately had to finish it LOL #anyway big heart emojis im very happy i sat down and actually played it finally #i want jedi survivor now LOL unfortunately it costs money and i have a rule i never buy games in release year lol #tbh i never rlly buy games til they're £20 or less

[swamp-cats-den]

This is so funny.

When the westerners see a post complaining of russophobia they imagine a young queer intellectual stuck in russia, hating the regime to the core and being all bleeding heart for the suffering Ukrainians.

Meanwhile, the same very person complaining of russophobia in one post boasts about literal war trophies brought from the occupied Ukrainian territories by their war criminal father in another, fills their artworks with modern russian military symbols, and tags the posts about their relatives participating in invasion with 'lol memes'.

It is honestly funny how much goodwill russians are still given for absolutely nothing while Ukrainians have to constantly prove that we deserve, well, to at least not be massacred.

#the person I'm talking about literally came to one of the posts by a Ukrainian to whine about russophobia #and there was another post where smb very naive was talking with them at how unfairly the westerners treat russia #and saying that those people would probably hate Ukrainians too #like dude at least take a look at the blog of the person you're speaking to #they're literally cheering on the genocide of Ukrainians their family actively participates in #I doubt those who hate this user hate Ukrainians too lol #some of you have never been targeted by the artillery and drones and missiles for your nationality alone and it shows #Ukraine

[anglerflsh]

lonely games for lonely children

#[.art] #toh #the owl house #collector toh #the collector #they're a bit growing on me. Shared experience of being a young child and being very alone + the abandonment issues flaring up in ftf #this is a render of one of the last sketches i posted!

[samble]

"homura is an evil abuser who wants to control madoka and hates their friends" tired trope, canonically untrue, congrats on falling for the facade put up by a middle schooler.

"homura sees herself as inherently evil and abusive due to her upbringing, past actions, and status as a witch, which is still ongoing even at the end of rebellion" fresh, new, actually closer to canon, doesn't demonize a child for being mentally ill.

#pmmm #madoka magica #do you understand. do you see my vision #it is VERY VERY COMMON for people (esp kids) to see themselves as edgy and evil when they're 'normal' over minor things #eg kids who listen to metal and think they Cannot Be Understood..... #let alone literal child who has spent almost 1/2 her life in a time loop watching her friends die a dozen times #even nowadays due to Trauma Stuff and mental illness i deal w being like #'wow im an awful evil person for [minor offense] [intrusive thought] etc' #im not even a 14yo raised orphan catholic who lived over a decade in a loop failing to save my friends #and!! EVERYONE ignores that homucifer IS A WITCH. #witches canonically CANNOT CONTROL THEIR ACTIONS (oktavia attacking her friends etc etc etc) #even if she's 'not entirely a witch' or one w more control she's still canonically influenced by her despair and misery at the end of it #see: her familiars running around her soul gem 'whispering' to her etc #'homura is an evil abuser w no good qualities' posts (esp in 2024??) drive me up the wall ffs #sambling

[scintillyyy]

can you really talk about tim's tendency to idolize and place dick on a pedestal and his semi-entitlement to understanding dick without also talking about dick's tendency to project his own feelings and insecurities onto tim and also his semi-entitlement to his right to try and micromanage how tim should feel and react about things. i, personally, cannot.

#dick and tim #anyways trust me when i say that none of this is meant in a negative way because this is what i Like about them lmao #forever thinking of the M/F fight where dick expects that tim will go alone with his line of thinking just because he says so #and is shocked when tim doesn't and instead has his own thoughts and feelings abt the matter #and babs has to tell him that tim isn't him & had a fundamentally different experience to him #it's like hmmm very realistic to me #the way they do this to each other in a way that almost is depersonalizing but like isn't actually #it's more just that they understand each other so well most of the time that it's easy to forget that they're their own person #with their own thoughts and feelings #like hm. there is something very realistically siblings about it in that #older siblings do tend to try and dominate the relationship with their thoughts and feelings because #their first memories are of being expected to lead their sibling and the sibling usually comes at a time when the older sib is v possessive #so the older sibling conceives the younger sibling as belonging to them and being kind of a hm extension of them vs their own person #meanwhile the younger sibling has no knowledge of a life where the older sibling doesn't exist #and the younger sibling's experience is that of observation of the older sibling from basically the very first day of life #so the younger sibling will often see and perceive the older sibling in very interesting ways #they're always learning something with thay observation good or bad #and thus probably develop more instrinsic understanding than even the parents do #and conflict comes because each is their own person but it's hard to see them that way sometimes #anyways there's also another thread where for dick it's hard to conceptualize tim's family of origin as real compared to them #but that's like mainly headcanon just know i'm right and it's interesting

[murdermitties]

I remember the first time I read that Cinderpelt helped Littlecloud in the first arc, and though "aw they're friends :D"

I've been dying on this hill ever since

They are very important to me, they're buddies your honour!!

#kat murmur #warrior cats #wc #cinderpelt #littlecloud #YOU CANNOT TELL ME YOU WOULDNT PAY MONEY #TO SEE LITTLE SEEING CINDERHEART FOR TGE FIRST TIME AFTER CINDERPRLT DIED #imagine your friend died and you couldn't even come to the funeral #and next time you go to a business meeting #some child rocks up and looks like the spitting image of your dead friend #it'd be fucked Jim and I am HERE for it #they're friends #in my hea they're very good friends #they can sit in a room silently together for hours #they're that kinda friend #it's 2am help the fighting cats won't leave me alone

[thebroccolination]

because fistbumps make you gay

#promare #galolio #liogalo #and this is only from the last twenty minutes #the first hundred are also pretty gay they're just less visually homosexual than the big heart in the sky #or the literal vers ship names they made up themselves for their first date battle robot #i always slightly side-eye people who say promare isn't profoundly queer #the same way i side-eye the people who said viktuuri doesn't count as canon because viktor's arm blocked his mouth on yuuri's #thematically alone it's very queer-coded #but like #c'mon #and because fistbumps make you gay

[jordblod]

!! crucial !! piece of hilson lore confirmed - they're fucking LOSERS honestly? so affirming to me. this isn't news i know but to get this explicit piece of interaction about being a lonely child and now being weird adults who don't know how to make friends or have "normal" conversations or connections like this is the shit i eat for breakfast, especially accompanied with the complete and utter sense of surrender to this fact that wilson displays. there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for him to defend himself or act as if what house is saying isn't true bc it is and they both know it and knows the other knows it even if they've never actually talked about this once which is very likely but they know cause they're the same and they only have each other and and and

#they're so lame #hilson #hatecrimes md #to be clear i do think they had pretty different childhoods in many ways #but very early on feeling alone and different and/or misunderstood is the common thread running through both of their experiences #they almost definitely handled it very differently but just ended up on the same miserable bastard boat in the end #and no one can save them except each other. but they're actually unsaveable. and the only way for that to be okay is through each other #blahdi blahdi blah they're doomed either way but they need each other to cope blahdiblah fucked up losers solidarity #they're the worst<333 they would've bullied each other if they knew each other as kids. in fact the bully each other now aghjdfkdsfs #also honestly. wilsons response to house reading him to shreds being to play along and make a dry joke?? very cunty. love him to bits #house md #james wilson #gregory house #hmd #mypost

[dailyloopdeloop]

Sif and loop hanging out in a tree like that one time. Maybe isa if the branches wouldn’t break under him.

DAY 49: old times' sake

#codacheetah #isat #loop isat #siffrin isat #sifloop #twohat spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat spoilers #idk why i felt compelled 2 go hard on this one lol #nyways did you guys know that i like them a lot. did you all know this #i think it would be cute if loop got cloak privileges from time to time. siffy's freezing his ass off but its ok #(loop meanwhile has very little sense of external temperature and in fact runs rather warm) #(maybe you should. maybe you should get closer to them siffrin) #also i'm not the progenitor of the idea or anything but i like the idea that sif takes their eyepatch off when they're alone w loop #nothing 2 hide #ig this isn't really inherently sifloop but i had it in mind while drawing so. idk take that as u will

[majimasleftasscheek]

😳

#I think normally the two of them would be very cool and stoic respectively #but alone they're a mess and that's fun 😊 #unlike kazumaji who are always a mess but confidently so - pridefully moronic if you will #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #saejima taiga #nishikiyama akira #saejima yasuko #tigerfish #my art

[insomnya777]

do you guys know that youtube dating show called the button. because i was watching it with my friend the other day bc we were bored and we were like this seems funny and i somehow got a boat boys fic idea based off of it. so if i make a fic about the button dating show will people underdtand or is it too niche

#let me know guys #my idea is just like. they just broke up #jimmy n joel were watching the show #jimmys like i dare u to submit an application #joels like bitch don't tempt me and he does it #and he gets accepted or wtv thats not the important part #anyways he shows up and his turn comes around and after a couple rounds hes sitting in the chair alone waiting for the next person #and someone walks up #and hes like Fuck i know that insufferable swaggering and that grating voice #etho sits down in front of him n just kinda blinks twice like what the hell r u doing here #they both open their mouths to speak but joels talking before etho can even get a word in #crossing his arms saying what do you think you're doing #etho rolls his eyes and says i could ask you the same thing #they bicker for like two more seconds and they're both really annoyed bc their break up ended not very amicably #the button flashes red #joel glares at etho “don't you fucking dare press that i'm not done getting mad at you" #etho looks amused leans back in his seat and doesn't press the button #after a second the button is like “i'm sensing some tension here” #joel snorts #and stuff happens. i dont know #do i write it yes or no #boat boys #smalletho #trafficblr #hermitblr #nya talks

[redbean-nom]

fascinated by the implied fennec-ventress-phee friend group in tbb. even more interesting (funny) when you add boba in there during the tbobf era.

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbobf #tbb phee #fennec shand #boba fett #asajj ventress #bossk #black krrsantan #i think fennec is literally the only one of bobas friends shorter than him lol #phee is normal about it #ventress on the other hand #she is like 6 ft tall she is using everyone as an armrest #okay but. now that boba is at actual war with the pikes #ventress is probably the best possible ally for the situation #like one. LIGHTSABERS AND THE FORCE #two. shes already on the pikes bad side; she has no rep to lose with the pikes if she does help boba #three. nobody in bobas entire retinue knows how to command anything larger than a small strike team #between boba fennec and krrsantan they're a full team of lone wolf solo hunters #they can barely coordinate a four person team let alone an army big enough to fight the pikes #in that last battle in bobf iirc boba straight up disappeared and returend with a rancor kaijuing everything with 0 warning to his friends #and they just kind of lost track of the shiny vespa gang #anything larger than krayts claw and boba just. loses everybody #he's busy fighting not looking for people! #on the other hand theres ventress who has several years of commanding literal millions of droids in massive-scale battles #boba: listen ill forget about quarzite if you help. please. i have an army and no clue what to do with it #boba: my friends dont know either i already asked #phee is their resident smuggler (very very useful when dealing with pike spice trade) and probably knows all the tattooine pike routes #boba please. you need some diversity on your team. you can't fight a war with eight solo assassins smushed together.

[ride-a-dromedary]

I'm thinking about Wyll/Halsin rn…

Two men with endless patience and wells of kindness within them; who have been hurt time and time again but continue to be gentle and jovial. Who were forced to grow up before their time, and take care of themselves without that same expectation of others. Who hold levels of insecurity so deep within that it has taken root there. Who feel the need to protect, but who protected them?

If anyone could make Halsin see the beauty in Baldur's Gate, it's bright eyed Wyll. And when Halsin murmurs “My hero,” eyes wide and adoring, it is without a lick of insincerity. 

They both want to be dads - and they would be such sweet ones together! Gentle parenting squared. Wyll is the one I could see joining Halsin in Reithwin and rebuilding. There is a lot of potential!!

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Wyll Ravengard #what is the ship name? #wyllsin #I love me platonic wyll and halsin HOWEVER #Literally the only catch to Wyll/Halsin is their differing views on monogamy #otherwise??? those are the two dads - those are the one with the softest hearted children #the best behaved #the most loved #wyll soothing epilogue!halsin's concern of leaving the children alone #i actually need that #more thoughts on the reblog of this but gosh they're consuming me very suddenly #and i am not well about it