#cidertalk84

[cidandy]

i can't STAND this guy !!!!!

pose under the cut

#this took me like 3 days purely because i have so much shit going on #i have no time to draw!!!!!!!! #i have so many ideas but they just never turn out right #whateveeerrrr #chipspeech #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #for the record i don't hate cider.....if it wasn't obvious...............he is my favorite chip #need to psychoanalyze him #what do you tihnk he's yammering about !?!?! who is on the other line !!?!?!? tell me your thoughts in the comments below or somethig #these tags are unhinged i'm sorry #tommy tries to draw

[trilobi-te]

Cider expressions without the visor (in practice he'd still be wearing it in these situations so pretend it's invisible here or something idk). Why did I decide to draw a Cider conglomeration including several accursed Dandies? I was bored I guess. I don't even know what this is lmao

Also I named the expressions plus an update on archiving the Chipspeeech twitter content (below the cut)

I like how half the Chipspeech artists out there decided that Dandy has Phoenix Wright hair

That "Something went wrong. Try reloading." message is the bane of my existence right now. I am so close to being done with copying down everything from the chip twitters but I have to stop every few minutes due to the site continuously freaking out. Also why do Dee, Bert, and Dandy have so many tweets ffs.

On the topic of the archive thing I'm still deciding whether to make a website for it or just an extremely long PDF. For the sake of readability, navigation, etc. a site would obviously be better but all of the free hosting services seem to be either limited in size or when it's online. Maybe I can just make a bunch of little sites and link them to each other. I can use CSS but I am severely lacking in the graphic design department so a potential site would probably be.. less than beautiful. In order to avoid ugliness and save space things usually end up rather sparse. At least I could set up navigation though.

Also none of my ideas on how to make threads (and the standalone tweets that were made chronologically in the middle of them) readable are so great but I think that has more to do with the fact that they weren't readable on twitter in the first place. Twitter is a mess.

The main argument for just making a PDF is that it'd be so much faster, though the fact that it'd be several hundred pages long without any navigation other than ctrl+f is a giant drawback. All of the time I've had to spend on Twitter for this has made me very passionate about navigation. Have I mentioned how much I hate twitter navigation. I'm a n g y

#their relationship is like that meme where the :| character has the >:) character on a leash and I enjoy that about them #I took this picture in a sunnier spot and I can't tell if it's better or worse than usual (my cat is in my normal photo spot) #Also I cannot keep the nose consistent between drawings to save my life but we're just going to ignore that hhhhhhhh #chipspeech #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #dandy 704 #posts by the bug

[leevil77]

I drew it based on this twitt:

#digital art #my art #CiderTalk'84 #Cidertalk #dandy704 #Dandy 704 #cidandy #cidertalk84 x dandy704 #chipspeech

[cidandy]

woohoo recent doodles

#chipspeech #cidandy #cidertalk84 #dandy 704 #sam chipspeech #...not gonna tag bert bc he's barely there #sorry bert #tommy tries to draw

[trilobi-te]

I come bearing more furry art. I think this is the first time I've actually colored a picture of Dandy. He's a ferret because Cider said he reminded him of one and I drew this in class so I wasn't thinking about any other animals that might potentially fit him better.

Also I realized I said Cider kind of looks like a serval but never showed any proof of my claim, so I have placed a bunch under the cut.

Okay so most of these are Sogga memes I screenshotted from around the internet. But look at the kity. Same goofy smile lmao. Yes I went up to the image limit I have almost 6000 random cat images on my phone it is a problem. There are of course even more that I didn't attach. Kity :3

#My geology lecture is 3 hours long and I already know most of the content because I'm autistic about rocks so I have a lot of time to fill #Thus I draw furries so I am not just sitting there doing nothing #Though I haven't been posting what I draw in that time because it's kind of just. characters standing around. Not super interesting oughh #chipspeech #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #dandy 704 #cidandy #furry #furry art #posts by the bug

[cidandy]

homogenous (pronounce like homo genius)

i finally have a drawing of cider that's finished & doesn't suck!! :^)

i also partly made this for that playlist i was talking about

#feel free to make fun of my music taste (actually don't i will be very sad) #chipspeech #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #tommy tries to draw #Spotify

[cidandy]

VERY QUICK thing i did after realizing that every line in this song applies perfectly to him. interests are so special somtimes.

i might do art for this at some point i dunno. i probably won't post it on youtube because i feel like it's not good enough/not enough of my original work (i used this midi, though heavily edited parts of the vocals)

#chipspeech #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #tommy tells tales #vsynth

[trilobi-te]

Otto (pre-orb) and Cider circa the late 80s/early 90s? I haven't put together a timeline. Someone get this man a hairbrush please. Mm I am annoyed because Otto is my favorite character (along with Cider) and I cannot draw him in orb form to save my life. Why is he so difficult to draw. This whole concept was funnier in my head.. oh well

Transcriptions below the cut. Also I must infodump about Chipspeech characters' MBTI so that too.

Otto: This human form is limiting Cider: Otto please calm tf down

Okay it's MBTI time. I go from fandom to fandom finding the weird scientist characters and then I observe them with my little autistic eyeballs. The fact that both Cider (ESTJ) and Otto (INTJ) are high Te makes me (also high Te) very happi because usually scientist characters end up being high Ti. Cider especially because I often find xSTJ science-related characters to be unlikeable and he is decidedly not. I am an ESTJ-adjacent creature and I must scream

My opinions on Chipspeech characters' types: Cider: ESTJ (TeSiNeFi) Otto: INTJ (NiTeFiSe) Dandy: ESTP (SeTiFeNi) Dee: ISFJ (SiFeTiNe) Vosim: xxFJ (high Fe) Bert: ExTP (aux Ti, tert Fe) Rotten: ENFJ (FeNiSeTi) Spencer: ESFP (SeFiTeNi) Lady Parsec: ENTJ (TeNiSeFi) Sam: idk man, probably on the Ni-Se axis Pedro: ESFP (SeFiTeNi) Voder: ISTJ? Maybe? Definitely somewhere on Te-Fi and I think Si-Ne but I'm open to being wrong. Terminal: ESTJ? He's said his personality is low priority in his system and it's not always running, so idk if he's even really typeable.

One day I might make a post with an in-depth analysis of each character's cognitive functions because every fandom needs a typology nerd that everyone else politely ignores but that'll have to wait until I can actually figure out everyone's stacks in full.

Also obligatory PSA: if you want to take an MBTI test that has a pretty good likelihood of typing you correctly, the best one out there imo is Mistype Investigator, or Jung's Igloo if you want results that are easier to read. 16Personalities is not actually MBTI (Neris is closer to Big 5), and Sakinorva and Keys2Cognition both tend to overestimate Ne so probably avoid them. MBTI is not real science but it's fun to apply to fictional characters, just don't take it too seriously. I feel the need to say all of this because I've had problems in the past where this information would have been useful to have, maybe it'll help someone else. Idk

#Otto's kind of a menace but I respect that about him #Please pay no mind to Cider's box of miscellaneous geometric shapes #I know there are at least three other people out there who like Chipspeech and MBTI because of PDB votes.. are they on Tumblr...... #also who put that ENTP vote on Cider's profile >:( #anyways can I just say that Otto is a comedically stereotypical INTJ to the point that it's honestly extremely funny to me #he'd be right at home on r/INTJ (hellhole do not go there) down to the heavy usage of low Fi which he insists he does not have at all #“I have no feelings” no what you have is blindspot Fe. I can see your Fi and I would like to study it #sorry Otto for comparing you to r/INTJ but it had to be said #chipspeech #otto mozer #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #posts by the bug

[trilobi-te]

I gave them legs. Also no shading because why shade when you could simply not.

Uhh Chipspeech-related rambling under the cut because no one irl wants to listen to me talk about it but I feel the need to anyway

So I'm new to Chipspeech (finally read it after knowing about it for 2ish years).. and unfortunately most of the lore/plot seems to be on Twitter? I mean I still read through it but it was unpleasant because I do not like Twitter. Afaik there's no archive/way to read all of the tweets from all of the accounts in chronological order together anywhere else, so I'm making my own (on a Google doc lmao), which has been kind of time-consuming but I'm almost finished. Also it's around 200 pages long at size 6 font. And I still have all of the formatting to do. Someone please tell me if something like this already exists because this has been a lot, and I'm still missing the earlier stuff from Dandy/Bert/Dee that I'm assuming was deleted. I just want to read about the funni robots hhhhhhhh why is it like that

Anyways on the topic of deleted material, I know next to nothing about Daisy because her entire account was deleted. The Chipspeech wiki says she's been retconned, but I haven't found any other source that says that, just that the voice/character was retired? So like. Does that make the plot points she was involved in entirely non-canon? Because she continued to be occasionally referenced in passing way after 2016. What is going on there lmao. I am so many years late to this piece of media. At least the fandom here seems to be more active than the one on Reddit? Okay I'm going to shut up now bye

#I tried to scan this but the only scanner I have access to (on my printer) made it look ugly so behold the low quality of my phone camera #chipspeech #dandy 704 #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #which tag am I supposed to use for Cider #I have a huge backlog of art I'd like to post because I want to yell about fictional characters but I don't want to spam so uh. later #If this in any way goes against Tumblr/fandom etiquette in some way I am sorry. I am trying my best but also I am very stupid #posts by the bug

[trilobi-te]

Serval Cider. Cider being more or less canonically a furry is my favorite unnecessary plot detail in Chipspeech. I am a furry and I like to think about what different characters' fursonas might be and now I have been given an actual reason to do so.. yippee. I've been looking around to see if other people have made potential Cider fursonas and I found one on twitter from almost four years ago (it is a mouse/rat). Someone tell me if there are any others (or even any ideas floating around) because I am curious.

Furry time below the cut :3

Interestingly enough I had a decently hard time trying to figure out what Cider's fursona might be. This is probably because of my affinity for anthropomorphizations of weird creatures, which don't tend to frequently show up as fursonas (arise my Cambrian brethren). I have not ruled out the possibility of Cider being a weird creature but I could not think of one that fit him well enough. I went with a serval because he honestly kind of looks like one? I do not mean this in a bad way, I really like servals (same kind of cat as Sogga). He just has that vibe. Also he canonically likes cats so I don't think he'd object to it.

Now it's time for me to be boring. The reason I am such a fan of Cider being a furry is (predictably) the whole idea that furries run the tech industry. Afaik the evidence to back up this claim is almost entirely anecdotal, though that one survey from Furscience in 2011 said that around a quarter of all furries surveyed have a degree in tech (plus another ~quarter in other STEM fields) so there's at least one statistic out there. (Generally speaking the Furscience survey is pretty interesting to read through if you're interested in both statistics and anthro animals.) Honestly though the anecdotes seem to be enough to prove that, at the very least, a sizeable percentage of important individuals in tech that are furries given how prevalent they are. In short out of all of the fictional characters I know of the funniest one to make a furry is Cider. A fair amount of furry fandom history is also pretty Cider-adjacent. The way everything lines up is so nice. Fiction does not have to adhere to real world logic but I find it so much more fun when it does. My mind looks like one of those conspiracy boards with all the string connecting different scientific studies and Wikipedia articles I've read to the funni little blorbos. This is definitely normal I promise.

Behold some furry Cider tweets because they are funni (plus him saying he likes cats, that clyp was deleted but it can be inferred). "I was a scientist, last I checked ;)" lmao

Oughh I cannot draw in That Furry Style so I have broken out the chibi(?) style I rarely use because it fits the subject material (furries) better than my normal one? I'm so glad his eyes aren't visible because I can't draw eyes that match this style. The only character I regularly draw in this style is my own fursona but they don't count because their eyes are oversimplified to make up for all of the cephalon details that need outlines. I say this as if anyone knows what I'm talking about. Things I should practice but never do. Oh well. Also the headphones are placed relative to the ear canal at the base of the outer ear. I put them as high up as seemed realistically wearable. And look at the little apple it has ears. Kitty apple :3

Is this entire post going to read like word salad to everyone except me. Hopefully not. I really hope.

#TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK CIDER'S FURSONA IS >:3 #bonus points if it's a weird creature hehehehehe #the idea of a character that is canonically a furry (without any plot relevance) is just so funny to me in general #anyways imagine part of the reason Otto dislikes cats is because he somehow found out about Cider's feline fursona.. would be funni #canonically it's because cats are hard to control but I'm just thinking about him finding Cider in a fursuit and going “oh wtf” #chipspeech #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #furry #furry art #posts by the bug

[trilobi-te]

Release him. (May I offer you a quick CiDandy doodle in these trying times?)

Some yelling and handwriting transcription below the cut.

In case you can't read my handwriting: Cider: DANDY PLS PUT ME DOWN

Every single goddamn time I try to draw ship art it ends up with one person being mildly annoyed by the other because I have zero grasp on good interpersonal relationships so this is the best I can do lmao. I also used to write fanfiction and you can guess about how well that turned out lmao. Saying lmao hides the utter frustration I am feeling right now trust me lmao. What being terminally introverted does to a person I guess lmao. (a giant /lh for all of this)

#cidandy #chipspeech #dandy 704 #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #I guess there are just two tags for Cider #I remembered to put my handle/url/name/whatever on the paper this time yippee [insert Autism Creature here] #fun fact I only know how to draw more or less one style of shoe so that's what everyone gets #posts by the bug

[cidandy]

so glad it's pride month so i can finally have an excuse for drawing nothing but cidandy

living up to the new url

#chipspeech #cidandy #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #dandy 704 #tommy tries to draw

[cidandy]

i like that guy

#chipspeech #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #tommy tries to draw

[trilobi-te]

Cider and a theremin! I headcanon that he's able to play it because he just seems like that type of person.. he has those vibes......

Plus some extra doodles

Chip/Theremin rambling and doodle transcriptions below the cut. I included some explanations for the instruments pictured because I'm worried the drawings would otherwise be incomprehensible lmao

In case you can't read my handwriting: Doodle 1: Cider is saying "DANDY NO" and underneath it says *horrible theremin screaming* Doodle 2: the title says THORamin aka singing Tesla coil, and Otto is saying "Okay Cider please step a little closer to the instrument"

I like weird instruments so I assign them to fictional characters whenever it feels realistic to do so. The theremin is one of the world's first electric instruments (patented in 1928) and is played by moving one's hands around the two antennas, which are proximity sensors - vertical controls pitch and horizontal controls volume. Sound-wise, it's kind of like playing a synthesizer by hand? Also the hand gestures that are made when controlling pitch are.. interesting. (That's more or less what Cider is doing, it took an embarrassing amount of attempts to get that hand to look good enough so I just left it hhh)

Re: extra doodle 1 Touching the vertical antenna makes an unpleasant high-pitched noise (you're not meant to touch it at all while playing, just move your hands around like an electric wizard or something)

Re: extra doodle 2 "Thoramin" is another name for the singing Tesla coil, and a play on theremin and Thor (hence why it's here). It's a Tesla coil that's been modified to be a plasma speaker. I find these funny because people on YouTube always seem to be playing them in random suburbs. Just imagine looking out the window at your neighbor's yard and seeing a lightning storm set to Megalovania. Realistically Otto probably wouldn't have one (too loud, draws attention to the player) but for the purposes of The Funny™ he does now.

Something small I don't have anywhere else to bring up so I shall talk about it here: I started my Chipspeech Twitter archive project by just going through the tab on each account that says "Tweets" but it turns out that there are more tweets under the "Replies" tab that actually contain lore. So I am actually nowhere near done with this hhhhh I hate Twitter. I mean I'm still going to document everything because I want the story to be as intact as possible (including the small bits of character trivia that often show up in the replies tweets) but I am. not happy about it. I do not entirely understand the decision to put character information in the replies to fan tweets.. I mean things shared there are never really all that important, but I like weird small story details so I don't want to lose them if Twitter ever actually fully goes down. Also I am going to have to go back and put everything in chronological order (in terms of hours/minutes, everything currently is just organized by date) which means more time on Twitter. I traded efficiency for simplicity of each step in this process, which I guess was good for not becoming overwhelmed by the scale of things but it's dragging out a lot longer than I had initially anticipated. I start college in late August so ideally that's my hard deadline for this, which should absolutely be reachable but I'm still annoyed that it's taking this long in the first place hhhhhhh

#I am directing my autism energy towards the characters I like hehehehehe #I really want to try to play a theremin one day but unfortunately they are like 400+ dollars #afaik the only other way to get one is to rent it or borrow it from a library and all of the libraries in my area are small #there's no way they'd have a theremin.. sad bug hours #also I actually colored/shaded this time.. with office supplies because thin paper and also I like office supplies :) #chipspeech #cidertalk'84 #cidertalk84 #dandy 704 #otto mozer #theremin #posts by the bug

[cidandy]

recent chip art :^)

#i really like all of these tbh #cept for the last one. dandy's proportions are kinda weird #but yeah :^) look at my sillies :^) #dandy 704 #bert gotrax #spencer al2 #rotten st #chipspeech #cidertalk #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #tommy tells tales #tommy tries to draw

[cidandy]

BASHES MY HEAD INTO THE WALL yeah ok here's more of them

#I SWEAR I DRAW THE OTHER CHIPS SOMETIMES I PROOOMIISSEE #i really like these actually i feel like i've been getting better at drawing them #the 1st one especially. i spent a lot of time on it #i love giving dandy white hair despite the fact that he's a robot #chipspeech #cidertalk84 #cidertalk'84 #cidandy #dandy 704