Telex Corporation C1 // Audio Book Player with variable pitch and speed options (US, 1980s)
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Prompt 101
The Fentons have created a machine! A wonderful machine that will reveal a ghost’s true form! So that everyone will see their trickery! They’ll see that the monsters they really are!
Now, to know what all went wrong, one would have to know some things about the ghost zone, and more specifically the area the Fentons had managed to punch through to.
For one, ghosts do not age like humans. Oh they might take a form similar to that of their death, which may appear as an adult or teen or something similar, but with how they can only die by the complete destruction of their core, theoretically a ghost could live forever once formed.
In fact, the equivalent of eighteen years for a ghost was one-hundred realms-years dead. And those years don’t always sync up with the years of the living world that one might open a door into. Thankfully, the Fenton’s world, being one of those synced closer to the Realms, only had a time dilation of a few seconds.
That being said, the area their portal had ripped into was incredibly rich in ectoplasm. And areas like that, were where newborn ghosts were formed and arrived. A ghost daycare of sorts, almost akin to a toddler area of the zone.
Which meant that when they shoot the Phantom-menace and other pesky ghosts to revert them into their true form, it isn’t exactly monsters that appear. Instead, there are now several ghost toddlers- or in the phantom-trio’s case literal babies- flying around. Very unhappy ghost toddlers.
What a horrible time for the Justice League to arrive. Though perhaps some would say it was actually perfect timing.
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Clones x Reader Fic Recs (Tech Edition Pt. 2)
Tech Projects by @moodymisty (GN!Reader, SFW)
Not Qualified by @ghostofskywalker (GN!Reader, SFW, Smidge of Angst)
Looking at Their Lips when they Talk by @sev-on-kamino (AFAB!Reader, SFW)
Unreasonably in Love by @interstellarwraith (GN!Reader, SFW)
Alone Together by @jedipoodoo (GN!Reader, SFW)
Did You Know? by @vodika-vibes (F!Reader, SFW)
Rambling by @momojedi (GN!Reader, SFW)
Comfort by @queenariesofnarnia (F!Reader, SFW)
Finally Found You by @queenariesofnarnia (F!Reader, SFW, Faked Death, Hidden Pregnancy, Mom!Reader, Dad!Tech, Ex-Jedi!Reader)
Pretty Boy by @manofworm (GN!Reader, SFW)
If I Had Known by @techtalksfics (F!Reader, SFW, Reader is jealous of Phee and kind of a mess, Some drinking, Anxiety)
To The Point of Invention by @hesthermay (GN!Reader, SFW, Happily ever after on Pabu AU)
Late Nights in Hyperspace by @like-a-bantha (GN!Reader, SFW)
Tech enjoys messaging you throughout the day by @sinfulsalutations (GN!Reader, SFW)
Eyes On Me by @mandos-mind-trick (F!Reader, NSFW, Smut, Exhibitionism, Kinda poly-bad batch-ish but not really?)
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Little headcanon I've been brewing for like over a year is that Claudia Henderson was a tech/computer programmer for the legitimate side of Hawkins Lab prior to season one, so after everything goes down Dustin is very obviously not really happy with his mom working at an evil government lab that uses the legit energy side to cover up the evil child experimentation side. He begs her to find a different job because he hates the lab, tries to reason with her that it's farther out of town than other places she could work at, and Dustin is wary of the woods after Will. She obviously doesn't want to distress her kid, and dotes on him, so looks into other jobs despite the lab being reliable and government funded. If nothing shakes out it's fine but if it does Dustin will be happy.
Turns out a few places like the mayor's office and the police station and the library are all considering beginning digitization, and maybe the hours are worse and it's at three different locations, but it's a city job and she's still doing what she loves and is good at. Dustin is incredibly relieved she stopped working at the lab, even if he could never fully articulate why he suddenly hated her working there so much, but she's glad her Dusty is more comfortable now, possibly because he knows he'll be able to bike to her more easily now if something happens?
And THEN the demodog infestation and S2 lab scandal breaks and Claudia is watching the news thanking God she got the hell out of there a year prior, well clear of the blast radius and saving her life, wondering what the hell Dustin knew that made him so insistent she leave...
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My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:
(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.
It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.
(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)
In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.
The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.
The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.
The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)
Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.
Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.
The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)
Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.
It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.
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So... Just theoretically.
Now we saw Crosshair and Omega escape, and in the trailer we saw Crosshair along with Hunter and Wrecker. I'm still convinced it was him. Apparently, the Empire has captured Omega again. And apparently Crosshair still doesn't know they lost Tech.
And if this is actually the case, just one phrase from him during the reunion would be enough for me to die immediately.
– Where is Tech?
That's it. I hear it and I'm deceased right away my heart won't be able to handle that.
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The Bad Batch Things That Live Rent Free in my Head: A Series.
Part Twenty-One
Tech: “There’s no room on board for that.”
Wrecker: “Yeah? Well I’ll make room! A new mission and unlimited explosives. Things are back to normal.”
Tech: “That’s not going near my rack. I refuse to sleep by a projectile again...”
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