#i figured I'd make my own

[notthestarwar]

We're talking culinary vegetables here OK. I'm not interested in hearing about how somethings technically a fruit. So are a lot of things.

#as i can't find any vegetable positivity posts rn #i figured I'd make my own #edit #i can't believe i made a vegetable poll and didn't add it to the vegetable poll tag!!! #vegetable poll #i can do that now #because i know it exists

[alevens]

zolu is maybe one of the easiest ships i've ever liked. they're dating, except when they're not, they're best friends even when they're kissing and they're still captain and first mate when they aren't. they hold hands, they hug. they have sex. they don't.

Luffy can hold Zoro's katanas and Zoro can hold Luffy's strawhat and no one bats an eye. one says "You're so cool!" and the other says "You're strong" and it's just another way to say "I see you, this is why I follow you/this is why I trust you". it's not seeing each other for a long time and still knowing how the other's steps sound like against wood and sand. the captain runs and the first mate follows. it's always "Zoro and the others" and "Where's Luffy?"

if they're just friends, if they're something more, if they don't have a label for it, at its core, it's just about how they get each other. they understand how the other's mind works. however you view them, it doesn't erase they fact that they love each other in a way they don't love other people.

#zolu #on why i love zolu #seeing the hate its gotten on its own tag #i figured i'd put it on my two cents #i am aroace and i do hc Luffy as aroace #the same for Zoro if i'm honest #but the thing about this hc is that not only it isn't canon #but is an actual spectrum #what really made me pause was that the argument was that zolu was an “icky” ship bc of how they viewed Luffy as aroace #i would have prefered they just said they hate the ship #it makes sense as i do too hate ships without reason sometimes #but it was how they seemed to view aromatic/asexual people that fucked me up #both orientations are spectrums #the way i see it and experience it isn't the same other people do #giving this label and then saying it only woks on one way is disrespectful to the many people that fall under this umbrella #it isn't as simple as saying “aromantic folks can't experience love” and “yeah ace folks all find sex disgusting” #everyone is different everyone has different views and it's about finding what fits *you* personally! #sorry for the rant on tags i just wanted to get it off my chest #i've seen more people explain it better and break it down more coherently #and i'm so so glad to see so many big brained people ready to communicate on why that take just wasn't it #one piece

[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

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

I think people forgetting in the excitement of Help Wanted 2 content, is that Cassie is actually a Daycare kid, and Said that she had a lot of fun in the Daycare with Sun.

Meaning Sun can be Sassy and Soft.

He can have good days and bad days

That makes him more "human" ironically for me and I love that for me.

Listen… I work with kids. The kindergarden teachers, who are really GREAT at their jobs, and I know for a fact love children come to me after a kid pukes on the carpet and tells me they're going to quit or whisper a joke about punting them. I actually think Sun is being actually VERY... VERY NORMAL.

#fnaf #help wanted 2 #help wanted 2 spoilers #I reblogged two things and mentioned it here but i figure I'd make my own post

[sugar-bi-scuit]

Xie Lian: Guys it’s a shooting star, let’s make a wish!

Hua Cheng: I wish for all of Gege's wishes to come true.

Mu Qing: Simp.🙄

Hua Cheng: Never mind, I wish upon the shooting star to fall down at a 30° velocity aiming for Mu Qing. .)

Xie Lian: San Lang…🥲

#guess who's back for this month🙃 #i figured I'd just make my own sort-of-not-really-but-whatever adventkalender #by just posting daily for a while again until my exams come for me🥲 #anyway #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #incorrect quotes #incorrect tgcf quotes #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #mu qing

[thewuzard]

fuck it *posts*

#girl help it feels so wrong to make my own post lmao #anyway before anyone says this looks like shit #I'd like to offer the excuse that this was done with my FINGER in my NOTES APP. #I'm just lowkey obsessed with myself for finally being able to figure out colours #dazai osamu #bungou stray dogs #bsd #my art #<- bc I might end up drawing more idk we'll see if I ever get the confidence and motivation

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I will make your weird masochist friend call you a tsundere and beg for you to hit him

#read the tags #this is entirely my own fault #i am very aggressive and use threats in real life just like i do on here #and to be fair i kept doing it after i found out because i crave chaos #i mean the whole situation is objectively really fucking funny so here we are #tw kink mention #figured I'd better mention that just in case #adam if you did decide to make a tumblr and follow me then uhhhh #sorry lol #i'm threatening people with you now because that's just how it goes #mod lore #(i feel so weird typing that but also i think it's an objectively funny tag) #(haha. i have lore.) #lizzy is going to see this and laugh at me #my friends know about this blog if they ever check it I'm never gonna hear the end of this one #because of the tags not because of the post itself #like to be fair i did once choke him to make him shut up. in hindsight i have no idea why i thought that was a good idea

[canongf]

take this uquiz, then post your love type x your f/o 🖤

thank you for tagging me to do this, @me-myself-and-my-fos!!!

i tag: @futurewife, @mothlover69, @changeling-selfship, @circusgoth-dotcom, & @retrojem (only if they want to!!!)

#the og post was getting a little long so i figured i'd make my own post!!! #AND IF UR SEEING THIS AND U WANNA DO IT AND I DIDN'T TAG U #THIS IS ME TAGGING U!!! #DO IT DO IT DO IT!!! #community.txt #🦇

[mickules]

Not pictured here is the actual jerry-rigged lattice work of dinner mats and pillows with my laptop and tablet balanced on top Jenga-like, created in a codeine infused haze.

Just to keep yous in the loop since my surgery I'm actually doing much better, almost back to normal so I'm getting back into my art stride! and if tumble actually behaves itself for once, you should be seeing some things soon!

I'll admit I've not yet looked at any messages or asks for a long time I'm so sorry, I do very much appreciate them! I'm a lurker by nature, and usually by default logged into my reblog-blog so I can completely forget to check notifs, and then it becomes the existential dismay of 'How long ago was this sent??' (Bless all of my friends who let me get away without messaging them for literal months, I swear I don't mean to!!)

I do genuinely wanna get back into answering asks, I'm very aware I've had some floating in my askbox for way too long, and I've got answers in my drafts I've danced around posting so I can avoid the stress of fighting with tumblr bugs. But! Now's as good a time as any to tackle 'em! Why not!

I'm not 100% yet, but should be fighting fit soon! 🤞

#surgery tw #medical tw #illness tw #also not pictured is me figuring out theres a screentone tool in csp #after I'd spent hours making my own #also bless my brother - he legit is my no. 1 fan #I show him wips and he's always like 'so when are you posting on tumbl?' #he's not even SEEN dangan but he's right there with me- king shit honestly #he's also the one like 'so when you gonna answer those asks' #SOON VERY SOON #THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE #mickules #mick text

[asthewintersun]

day 01/100 | one hundred days of books

i've spent this week reading ninth house, after finally getting my hands on it last november. i recall there being controversy when it was first released, but honestly, i still don't understand why it provoked so much anger. the book comes with its own undercurrents of anger, and with so much still unresolved i don't expect that to end any time soon, but there's also something cathartic in it, every time a man gets brutalised for his misogyny, every time alex gets to truly show who she is. this was definitely not an easy read, but it was a powerful one.

#ninth house #booklr #idk when i'm gonna get the sequel since i have 20 other books already sitting around waiting to be read! #but i definitely want to get hell bent sometime this year #in the meantime i'm not productive enough for the 100 days challenge #so i figured i'd make my own one for books! #no they will not be a hundred consecutive days just 100 days over the course of a year #something fun to try and gets me talking more about the books i'm enjoying

[crazy-concubine]

WHY IS HE SO CUTE WHAT????

The tags I made

#house of wax #vincent sinclair #vincent #in love #gay #house of wax vincent #I'd help him feel good about his scars by showing him my own #we could draw and sculpt while lisening to cheesy love songs #I'd fix his hair #only when he needs it #steal his sweater and wear it #every wax figure he makes im gonna kiss his hands #he'd see all my drawings #i would kiss his scar gently #he could draw little hearts on mine #do his laundry and sit on the dryer as we just make little sounds at eachother #buy him candles that scents only remind me of him #mlm #love #is #cute

[chiropteracupola]

The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.

#em draws stuff #travel light #this image has been about a year in the making (I wanted to draw it when I first read it but I only got to it now) #my thoughts on travel light are. well they are this image primarily. #been a while and a while since I drew in this style and it feels GOOD to be doing it again!! #wish I'd figured out a way to fit steinvor into the composition but it was a hard squish even to include tarkan der (and he's very tiny) #the way I've done the mountains are purposefully referencing one of the earlier covers of the hobbit as I love jirt's painting style #and it seemed apt for various things about the way travel light exists and the kinds of things it has to say #it is right on the edge of where legend meets life when it comes to depicting early medieval europe and it's. well. read it actually. #book that makes you want to listen to 'to holmgard and beyond' by turisas except exactly backwards #(in the varangian way they are going the other direction and also they are much more (to put it as halla would) dragonish about it) #song I first heard in the context of an absolutely wild 8tracks playlist in 2015 which changed my music taste forever. anyway. #really I must read more naomi mitchison except that no library in the entire state of california appears to have a copy of the big house :/ #anyway anyway. if I ever get my own copy of this book I Will be rebinding it to have this for a cover I like it so very much

[puppyeared]

i am playing professor layton and the curious village on my ds. very fun!!!

I don't know if i'm very far in because most of the time spent in that game was me being confused and bad at puzzles. it's fun though.

!!! im glad to hear youre enjoying it!! its one of my fav titles and honestly such an underrated series, id love it if more ppl gave it a try!

the puzzles can be difficult but very rewarding!! i used to dread them as a kid but now i find them nice and challenging. the math ones are still hard, but if u speak to Flick at the cafe he'll give you chess puzzles which i think were my favorite ^_^

#its nice because its story driven but gives u enough room to do the puzzles on your own to make progress.. and the rewards like #the gizmos painting pieces and furniture for the minigames are also a nice bonus because it gives u a little extra incentive to solve as #many puzzles as possible!! ngl i didnt know how the hotel room minigame worked but i had fun completing the painting and robot dog #plus the variety and the fact that u dont know which puzzles youre gonna get makes it interesting. and theres no harm if u cant finish or #end up missing some because you can find them in the riddle shack or just do a different one instead and its fine. very cool #i have dyscalculia so the math ones have always been hard for me and id need my brothers help so we'd work on it together #or i'd just search up the answer as a last resort............ #actually im gonna save u the trouble. if u get the camera case puzzle the answer is 95. ITS FUCKED UP I KNOW BUT ITS 95 #it took me like 2 hours with my brother just to figure that out and i dont want anyone to get a headache from that one ITS FRUSTRATING #ive only played curious village and pandoras box bc its the only ones i had as a kid. replaying pandoras box rn actually!!! #i have cracked versions of unwound future and azran legacy which come after CV and PB BUT my version of unwound future is broken #it freezes on the opening cutscene every time i try to play it which SUCKS bc i really wanna play the games in order. maybe ill emulate it #professor layton #ask #answered #yapping #doodles

[laqueus]

Joy, textile craft be upon ye :)

#my ar7 #Biscuitbites #Nuzi #this was my first time making my own pattern #and then I realised that I'd accidentally scaled it too big and made a second version #(which had sections where I was like 'I'll figure that out when I get to it! LOL') #then I ended up making a third pattern consisting solely of the pieces that I was going to 'figure out when I [got] to it' #(because I had in fact gotten there and there was only so much that I could freehand my way out of) #and by the end it was freehand central #so in the end this was like #60% pattern 40% freehand #don't be like me LOL

[le-velo-pour-dru]

Happy birthday to the most important girl ever :] ❤️

#dru speaks #i'm haven't seen any posts about this yet so i figured i'd make my own ^^ ❤️ #HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIATT MV YOU ARE SO SNAZZY AND COOL AND YOU HAVE THE BEST AESTHETIC 🤩❤️ #WE LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😁🫶❤️ #idkhow #idkhbtfm #i dont know how but they found me #do it all the time

[dangoulains-devotion]

#arknights #i should probs make my own play tag for this instead of the main one but i'll figure that out if i make more posts like this. anyway #im finally reading the reunion arc of the main story thanks to the downtime between IC and typhon #(i cleared out all the stages first and now im going back to read cus my memory is so bad i'd forget what happened with how long it took) #poor hoshiguma i dont think she gets paid enough to stop these two from killing each other in cold blood #i find it funny tho that i decided to read lone trail before having read anything past episode 3 cus that one bit where rosmontis is like #'when's amiya coming back i miss her' #i was like (clueless) 'its ok rosmontis i think she just went out to get milk. she'll be back soon' #something tells me i'm due to find out she did not go out to get milk from the corner shop #voice of a guy trying to erase the memory of spending Six Hours trying to beat the last stage of episode 8 yesterday morning #i got distracted. anyway the women are fighting