#but also cute and friendly

[chloesimaginationthings]

I ADORE your design for Charlie. It’s so adorable!!!!!!

I’m so glad y’all loved her design!!

#ask reply #genuinely I was pretty proud of Charlie’s look #so the fact so many folks liked her made me so happy #I really wanted her to stand out even against other ghost kids #so she got this monochromatic look to her #like she’s been a ghost so long she’s lost her colours #along with that she resembles the puppet more #almost like they fused into one by this point #I really tried to make her both ghostly and eerie #but also cute and friendly #so I think I found that perfect balance #I’m glad one of yall took note of her oversized sleeves #I thought it was a cute design and kept that ghost vibe to her #I gotta draw her again soon!! #we all love Charlie Emily here 🖤🤍

[pokimoko]

People seemed to really like last year's critters, so I'm back to celebrate Ace Week again with some more simple little artworks of silly little creatures. ✨Keep being amazing, fellow aces.✨

#ace week #ace week 2022 #asexual week #asexual #asexual artist #ace #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq+ #asexuality #my art #ace flag #rat #bat #(...just now realising those rhyme) #(realising if I include the cat from last year that's three that rhyme; the magpie is now the odd one out huh) #minimal art #digital art #art #cute art #ace community #aspec #aspec friendly #vector art #love how ace weeks happens around halloween #let's me get a bit spooky with it #also blanket permission to use these as icons if you want to #critter series

[ineed-to-sleep]

Blacked out in front of my tablet and woke up with sketches of my Touchstarved mc + Kuras my beloved. woops

#I found out dr. kuras is 6'6 I said hold on lemme get a stool so I can climb this man #touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved kuras #kuras #sleepyscribble #oc.emma #my mc is meant to be a self insert but also like. I wanted to come up w a design and character arc and everything jkvkvk #so I ended up basing her on my personality/looks but taking her into a direction that would fit the game #she's like. me but 'characterized' and a bit exaggerated for the sake of being a character yk #the way she turned out is that she's basically a friendly happy go lucky mage who laughs at her own misery but hides #a deep layer of self loathing underneath all that bc of her curse #having been cursed all her life she believes she's a monster and the sunny personality is a way for her to 'make up for it' #but at the same time she feels like a farse. like she's only luring ppl in to an inevitable demise #and she thinks she's selfish bc despite knowing the danger she poses she still goes out there and puts herself among ppl #bc she craves human connection. even tho she feels guilty for 'indulging' in it #anyway I love the cursed mc concept in this game <3 it's been really interesting to think abt how that would affect someone #also I kept her physical features looking pretty much like mine #bc I wanted to draw myself in a cute way. teehee #but the clothing I was basically thinking like. early game simple clothing that she didn't rlly pick for herself #and maybe later I can have an updated design w something she would actually pick for herself

[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

[softerhaze]

couldn’t figure out why there are only like 2 rec centers on the gallery until i started building one for my save 😔💭

#it's hard!!!! #wanting layouts to make sense + be gameplay friendly + be cute enough for me to actually want to visit the lot......thats a tall order #also on this 64 x 64 lot??? sheesh #dl

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

wondering about Frank and insects but specifically about how it looks like the WH insects are highly stylized, so does Frank even know anything about real butteflies/insects?

& if he saw a real one, would he recognize it? are all of the species names he applies to the WH bugs real, or are they all made up like "Vibrant Eyespot" or "Fluttering Heartwing"?

and then there's the question - does the neighborhood have some of the more 'undesirable' bugs like moths, worms, roaches, spiders? does it have bugs outside of the generic groups of beetles and butterflies? like are there mantids? leafbugs? dragonflies? weevils? or are those too specific/complex/not-cute for the Playfellow Workshop to have included?

and then there's the question of what are the bugs? props? puppets? are they alive or do the neighbors just perceive them as such? Do they even exist outside of art, storybooks, and animated segments? I highly doubt they're alive like the neighbors are, since in the gif of Frank's head spinning, the framed butterflies' wings are moving. which is kind of horrifying if you think about it for more than a second.

just... the critters Frank loves so so so much being a complete fabrication... every piece of knowledge he prides himself on / delights in knowing being utterly Untrue... oof

#by not-cute i mean that most bugs dont sell well as marketable plushies #cute butterflies? round adorable beetles? those fit right in with a vibrant puppet-y world #so it'd make sense if those are the only two bug groups that exist #along with like. caterpillars of course. i can also see bees being a probable candidate for Existing In The World #AGHHHHH THIS HAS BEEN EATING AT ME FOR DAYS NOW #been questioning how the neighbors' consciousness and awareness manifests as well #might make a different post on that since this one has a Topic and id like to Stay On It for once #well. its related. but that deserves its own Pondering #welcome home speculation #i dont know what else to tag this as! #absolutely unprompted #ALSO ALSO are there any animals outside of insects? #does the neighborhood have birdsong but no birds? if one listens real hard to it will they notice it looping? #do they have squirrels? critters in general? is that why wally doesnt know what a rat is? he'd have no reason to. #in his world they simply don't exist. #anyway but i wonder how frank would react to seeing a real butterfly (& insects in general) #the WH ones are gigantic in comparison and overly-colorful and friendly & cutesy #wouldnt it be painful if he was scared of them. if they look too alien. would it be the spongebob butterfly episode all over again #many many thoughts tonight.... #but also.... #what if he tried to frame a real one. expecting it to be Fine and Alive when he pins it bc they always have been #theyve always been perfectly happy fluttering in their frames #but a real one would fucking die. so. yikes #traumatic core memory unlocked! frank frankly has discovered Death

[portraitdelajeunefilleenfeu]

So, Alba hasn’t liked a single tweet or browsed anything on twitter in TWO YEARS AND OVER FOUR MONTHS.. NOT A SINGLE TWEET.. and she comes on and

THIS IS THE TWEET SHE CHOOSES TO LIKE??? THIS ONE. .. a video her co-worker and friend made about what it was like to kiss her… i-

@Mawica78 How the kissing scene was made. They didn't even prepared much 🫠🫠

#SaveWarriorNun #WarriorNun HYMM FOR HER

#alba baptista #kristina tonteri young #warrior nun #avatrice #sorry i know it’s been days but i am still very much HERE #i love alba so much #i know they are always in touch and all but #i hope it made her smile #and it was so cute how kristina qrt’ed that spoiler tv thing they both won just to tag her #also i need to see the other take #i wish i could’ve been meena that day lol #and kristina looks so friggin good in all of these cameos damn #alba and kristina #twitter #if you love avatrice come to twitter y’all #the fandom is really nice and friendly and we’re having a great time trying to save the show #it’s keeping the fandom so much more alive over there #1013

[rainymoodlet]

Kiss Me in Komorebi+ 🌸

[ Second Vacation: Keaton! ]

What better way to end the night than with your mom’s special recipe for asado and testing the waters of what cuddling on the couch might feel like? 👀 These two are very flirtatious, and maintained a steady Flirty moodlet almost the entire night.

There’s a subtle ease in their interactions, a comfortability in their joking, flirtatious vibe: maybe it’s being outside of the pressure of the house and it’s gaggle of contestants, but Keaton’s had no problem letting Daniel know just how interested in him he is!

Part 3 of 6 🌹

@duusheen

#ts4 #ts4 screenshots #ts4 challenge #ts4 gameplay #ts4 bachelor challenge #;kmik #sim: daniel #keaton stratton by duusheen #|| #i will say… they look so very good together fhdhhf #i am so constantly torn bc taking pics of all these pairs have me in love with all of them #daniel boutta leave this show with a harem fr #they are both constantly stunned by flirty moodlets thanks to the attractiveness system #keaton favors daniel’s butt and dan can’t get enough of keaton’s muscles fhfhf #but it’s interesting how they interact outside of flirting #they could flirt as long as the day goes by #but friendly conversations quickly turn to flirting or to small talk #and i’m just BWUH so fascinated #i was so eager to see how dan would behave w keaton and its so cute watching him have such a lil first-glimpse crush on someone ok 🥺 #also thank u to the one and only becca rebouks for that final shot head turn 🙏 #dan’s love language: is cooking food #dan desperately trying to impress someone: hERE’S MY MOM’S FAVORITE IDK—

[olessan]

witness my fresh-out-of-the-egg baby hatzegopteryx getting randomly yoinked and going "🧍"

#path of titans #pathoftitans #pterosaur #pterosaurs #azhdarchid #dinosaur game #hatzegopteryx #I was idling looking at a resource map #I also aggressive called by accident when trying to go for a friendly one lol #after this they told me to be careful of big hatzes and called me lil hatz it was very cute and wholesome

[samarecharm]

Endlessly tickled by the idea of Akira being a good shot but a shit gamer. I like to think its cause hes got incredible hand eye coordination and super steady ‘surgeon’ hands; hes very good with precise movements, but panics when he has to do brain melting inputs. His brain can keep up but its hard to make his hands follow suit. Its why u can have him be dogshit at arcade cabinets; panicking with the little joystick and button mashing like mad, while having him be a beast at things like darts and billiards.

The only arcade games he can play is house of the dead-esque shooting games (hes literally at the top of the leaderboards for MILES and he draws crowds whenever he plays) and DDR cabinets (hes just very light on his feet)(NOT to be confused with stepmania; he would die if he had to do arrow inputs with his HAND). Its kinda fun to watch him fumble with the other silly gimmick cabinets, but its more entertaining to watch him do what hes good at. If u take him to play darts, and if the darts are super cheap, he will absolutely try his best to split them down the middle each time. Doesnt always work, but its insane to know that he lands the bullseye literally 100% of the time.

#chattin #akira #i just think. having him play games like how my uncle plays games is a silly visual #hes also Tall #so hes like as tall as the fucking machine and shaking it like crazy. hes dying. help him. #but hes never like. hmm #i guess self conscious about looking silly? it doesnt even occur to him bc hes so focused on smashing inputs #so ryuji can take him to the arcade all the time and never get a sore loser for a teammate or rival #on the flipside. he is so good w knives its scary #and like. anything sharp. and anything thats a projectile tbh #if u took him to do archery i think he would love it. #but for now hes got Baseball and Darts. and hes good at Both. #i know royal has him playing darts or something w goro?? #i think its cute. also funny. goro would lose miserably and get so fucking tight. like alright. im not taking u here anymore. #akira opts to just watch bc he didnt think he was going to hang out w a sore loser #and goro HAS to challenge that. obviously. #like *clenched fist* ‘no. i insist. were here for a. good time. friendly competition is. healthy.’ #*clenches jaw so tightly u can hear it pop* ‘another round? ‘ #thinking about it; turnbased rpgs would be perfect for him. hes very bad at action games and fighting games #so playing games that dont demand that from u would be nice for him. #rhythm games would be easy too; the focus isnt on the hands but the beat #he doesnt have to THINK about hand inputs #MAYBE racing games would work too? but high speed racing games like burnout would be too much for him i think #and depending on the TYPE of shooter; fps games would be bad; third person shooters even more so

[paulodybaeeela]

Yet another example of how celebrities have ZERO critical thinking skills.

#every time I see this it just makes me angrier because to say this is tone deaf is beyond exception #our of the millions of costumes in this world these are the ones she goes with? #also friendly reminder Kim kardashian along with most of her family is pro israel #so this is definitely something that people should not be going oh that’s so cute! #it is not cute at all it’s disgusting and inhumane #children are dying like this in real life not to be used as a costume #Neymar has zero brain cells so him liking it doesn’t surprise me one bit #but please remember what type of celebrities you support #especially their stance in a GENOCIDE #anyways free palestine #palestine

[druidonity2]

Death Blossom

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #arthas menethil #honestly mostly this piece was just idunno like an idea without much thought behind it #it had a cute sketch so i continued adding to it #i think i was mostly still thinking about anduins mental state in shadowlands and how arthas had a part in that #blizz is very vague about how arthas is used to corrupt him so i mostly just do whatever i want with fanart #i mean i do that anyway but #Anduin is depicted as a child wearing the maw armor and chains holding a flower to arthas #and like i think a part of hte idea was anduin depicted as younger to more represent his innocence #but also that younger anduin carries more bravery and here he's unafraid to face arthas #he hands a flower not as a friendly jesture but more of a 'im better then you' but i struggle to explain that #Anduin trying to convince himself #even in hell #even in chains just like you #im still better #depicts how arthas's curse is still hurting the younger generations of azeroth even after his death (chains) #chose the death flower cuz its like ya know the shadowlands flower found in all zones #but that there is still beauty in death #aiofhafiaohad this piece is just alot of different vague ideas that come together to make no damn sense #Honestly nonsensical art is fun would love more nonsensical fanart #just fanart where its like...you vaugely get what they were going for but otherwise doesnt really make much sense #its fun to draw first and make shit up later #I learned how to 'think critically' about the imagery of art in art school and now i can just spew bullshit about my fanart its great #you should try it #I mean its not like im realllly making things up #is just that the art came first and then i used what i drew to put together my thoughts and thats completely valid for artist to do #somethings you better understand your feelings and ideas after you've let yourself create #thats why art is so cool

[silver-ace-of-spades]

Picrew chain!

Make your favorite Pokémon as people!

@brodiedoesthings @jevilowo @singsongraptor @acedragonphilosopher @goldenhydreigon47 @dorkeyedjunco @the-knowable-entity @amazingmsme @tematomo2 @nothing-but-void-and-blood @pyromaniac-fairy-of-water @horrorsbeyondthycomprehension @dragonsrepic1 @birdy-bird27 @crocutacanidae @friend-of-axolotls @yenosiria @ssskeletonsoffun @badluck990 @unionize-aromantically @antirizz @microwavethemicrowave @there-are-45-chameleons @criminal-activityinthefrogswamp

and everyone I missed

#spade yells into the void #picrew chain #i love love love how human armarouge came out she looks so friendly #i also love how human ceruledge came out but look at how cute armarouge looks

[mitamicah]

Maybe some of you lovely peeps from Finland/Helsinki can help me with this one :3?

I'll be travelling to Helsinki twice this year and the second time (for käärijä's Böle concert) I will be arriving at 9 am friday and only be allowed into my hotel room at 3 so my plan is to get a tattoo in the mean time.

Do you guys have any recommendations for good tattoo studios/artists in or around Helsinki I could visit :3? I am especially interested in tattoo artists who:

Are queer friendly (maybe even queer themselves)

Are okay with me speaking english (since my finnish is nonexistent)

Feel free to send me your recommendations and their socials so I can stalk them >:3 xD

Otherwise I hope to see some of you in Helsinki either for the Joker Out show next month (I'll be attending the second/sunday show) or the Käärijä Böle gig in may :3

#tattoo artist recommendations #now I have the time I want a memory of the amazing spring gigs (this one ends the little nordic tour I'll be doing #with jo twice in march blind channel in april and then käärijä in may ) #and also a memory from helsinki/finland #I have no clue what to get tattooed yet #so I was hoping to find a tattoo artist with some cute or cool looking flash/want to dos #but every artist you can think of is welcome #as long as they are queer friendly #given I myself am very queer :'D #and i'd like to be comfortable around the artist #micahs foolery

[aroaceleovaldez]

okay so the other notes from re-reading parts of Sea of Monsters (and also part of The Lost Hero) - so there’s this one part where Percy is noting some random things about other cabins at lunch. Interesting notes within that:

A.) Beckendorf is 15 in SoM, which does track for him having been supposed to go to college following TLO because that would make him 17 then, but also that implies he has a like late summer birthday. So do with that information what you will.

B.) the Hephaestus cabin is described as 6-7 (unclear if Beckendorf was being included in the group) brothers. Given what we know about the Hephaestus cabin later on, particularly that Jake Mason and Nyssa are implied to be the oldest in the cabin in HoO, this implies that Nyssa probably either joined immediately following SoM or is trans. Also, in The Lost Hero, Will mentions that Jake Mason became cabin counselor at the same time as him, which implies there was at least one unknown Hephaestus cabin counselor between Beckendorf and Jake Mason who died in the Battle for Manhattan.

C.) In Sea of Monsters, the Athena cabin is described as a dozen kids led by Annabeth, which confirms that Annabeth is cabin counselor by age 13 and also gives us a rough estimate of how large cabins were before campers began defecting in large numbers to the Titan Army (leaving about 50-60 total mortal forces for the Olympians/CHB, the discrepancy being an unknown amount of Ares kids joining the battle later). After TLO, CHB’s numbers rise again due to taking in ex-Titan Army kids and all the newly claimed demigods, and we know there’s about like 150 campers in CHB by HoO. Second discrepancy though, in The Lost Hero, Leo describes the Hephaestus cabin being also about a dozen kids. However, we only ever know the names of six of them (Leo, Jake, Nyssa, Harley, Shane, Christopher) and outside of Leo’s first introduction to his siblings we never see the rest of the alleged other half-dozen Hephaestus kids again. If there were a dozen Hephaestus kids in HoO, that would also completely mess up the total number of campers, because Hephaestus cabin is historically one of the smaller cabins and post-TLO the largest cabins would be Aphrodite and Ares (since Hermes cabin had all the previously cabinless kids redistributed and besides them the largest cabin was cabin 7 but all the Apollo kids died save for Will, Austin, and Kayla). Though given TLO casualties as we know them, Aphrodite cabin is probably the largest and Ares second-largest. Either way, if one of the smaller cabins has a dozen kids, then that would mean the larger cabins are probably close to like 20 kids, which completely ruins the math for what we know about CHB’s size at this point in the books. It makes sense for the Athena cabin to have a dozen kids in SoM because it’s implied to be a medium to large sized cabin comparatively to the Hephaestus kids, and this would mean the Apollo and Hermes cabins at that point would have closer to like 15-20 kids which makes sense for how crowded the Hermes cabin is described to be. But then CHB loses the majority of campers to either early war losses or campers defecting to the Titan Army, and even after regaining numbers in HoO no cabins are described as crowded. So no cabin should be having 15-20 kids at this point. If we weight the redistribution appropriately based on the estimated total population of camp, then there should be like at most like 8-10 kids in the most populous cabins.

#pjo #riordanverse #chb #camp halfblood #camp half-blood #charles beckendorf #cabin 9 #cabin nine #re: Beckendorf's birthday personally i think he'd have like a late August birthday #i dont know much about astrology but i feel like he could have Virgo vibes #what are virgo vibes. i've been told they're like. chill and friendly. Beckendorf is chill and friendly #i dont feel like he's a leo though #also then him and Percy both have August birthdays relatively close together which is fun and cute for them being close friends #Percy and Beckendorf birthday buddies <3 #but also Kinda Tragic when you consider if his birthday is late august then Beckendorf died like right before his bday </3

[yardsards]

s1 luz was at least a little bit gay for willow i will not be told otherwise

idk if it was a full on crush but it was at least one of those types of nebulous not-quite-romantic not-quite-platonic "hahaha, unless..." type friendships that a lot of queer teens have, u know the ones

#girl was just walkin around sayin shit like ''you're right! my friend IS very cute!'' #which can be just regular platonic bc luz is friendly like that but in this case i feel like it's A Little Bit Gay #eliot posts #toh #the owl house #luz noceda #willow park #just. remembering why i liked willuz/willumity so much. #i kinda headcanon willow as grey-aro and polyam (this literally came to me in a dream) #and i feel like her ideal relationship IS a kind of ambiguous sorta-but-not-quite-romantic sort of dealio #tho i also like the headcanons that she's just plain bi or pan or lesbian in this context too #bc again that sort of ambiguous friendship seems to be VERY common among queer teen friend groups (and not just aspec queers) #like it was A Thing between some of my high school friends and many other queer ppl i've talked to have said similar lmao #tho i also find the headcanon that she's 100% aroace and also uninterested in any relationships outside if friendship to be v fun #just like. basically everyone falling in love w her but her being totally uninterested #but being her friend is so Delightful that none of em rlly have any complaints there #like that scene in carmilla where dani turns down kirsch and says she just sees him as a friend and he gets really excited like #''yes! i am in the friend zone! she sees me as a friend!!! she's so cool i am excited to be her friend!'' #willow taking after canon aroace icon lilith ''constantly turning down suitors but keeping their gifts'' clawthorne #my sister is just straight but this one time when she was in hs a guy asked her out w a massive tub of cheese puff balls #(she was obsessed w those things) #and she turned him down but kept the cheese puffs and ate them for like a solid month