#sterling speaks

[gendernewtral]

gay bitches who care about doctor who enough to answer this question: if your favorite version of the doctor asked, where would you go? lame answers accepted

#final beatles concert at candlestick park #or anytime i can see a t rex. preferably not too close to 65 million yrs ago though #sterling speaks #doctor who

[aardvaark]

i love how sterling was originally the leverage team’s seasonal Big Bad, but by season 5 he’s sorta just third wheeling the nate/sophie relationship

#leverage #leverageposting #sophie devereaux #nathan ford #james sterling #wren speaks

[velvetpantylines]

Mmmm pervy men who’s kisses are all consuming, devouring, searing. Who hold your jaw firmly but lovingly, hungry eyes and smiles and those long, slow, wet kisses that leave you wanting so much more. Men so sweet and deliciously slimy you can’t help but quietly ask “kiss me again” when they pull away, pawing at their shirt to pull them back in. Men who can’t help but oblige to your sweet sweet tone and give you everything you want and more .

#it speaks #r: the end of nihility #r: 🦊 #r: 🪦 #r: 💋 #self ship nsft #nsft #queer nsft #nsft concept #nsft self shipping #nsft imagine #r: sterling silver

[kermit-coded]

okay but hardison paying off the barkeep so he doesn't intervene while eliot beats the shit out of sterling bc he and parker want to watch... i know what you two are

#soda speaks #leverage #leverage ot3 #leverage posting #eliot spencer #jim sterling #alec hardison #parker leverage

[holdoncallfailed]

i've only ever seen interviews with john cale as an old man so even when i listen to his earlier records i can only picture them being sung by an old guy. in my mind he has only ever existed as a nonverbal young man with a fuck ass bob who lives in a black & white world and an old man who is magically capable of speech and exists in color. kind of like in the wizard of oz

#i also have no idea what sterling's speaking voice sounded like so when i'm reading interviews i picture him #standing still without talking and the words appearing like subtitles above him #this is just a little peek into my mind palace...you're welcome #text

[readingoals]

I'm very behind in posting what I've read this year lmao

The Ex Hex was my first book of Feb and I really enjoyed it. I picked it up ages ago when I was trying to get more into romance, without really knowing anything about it, so I was a little nervous when I realised it was a second chance romance which I generally do not see the appeal of. But the way it was done felt reasonable and not too hard to believe.

I did find it a little harder to get through than I'd thought I would but I think that was more to do with me (it was the middle of summer which I hate and work had just gone back so i was exhausted), rather than any problem with the book. The minute I picked it up and started reading I had a good time.

The two leads had good chemistry and I really enjoyed their relationship, the witchy vibes were fun, and the background characters were all interesting. It was cute and I would definitely consider reading the next book in the series.

#booklr #the ex hex #erin sterling #read in 2024 #brigid speaks #book update

[furby-science]

The Sterling Saga: The Hardest Part is Getting Started...

I'm what the kids call a Scorpio/Sagittarius cusp. It gives me the worst qualities of both, but the Sagittarian ones are especially irritating. I can handle living a life of hermitude and psychological trauma (I'm missing out on a fireworks show as I type this). What I can't handle is constantly being haunted by the ghosts of my own dumbassery.

I know they're there. I anticipate them. I do everything I can to keep their rattling chains out of my halls.

...so you would think that, even with my tendency to get an idea in my head and then haul off and relentlessly pursue, I would at least have had enough sense to back up my talking furby on fucking Google Drives or something.

...I did not. Thus begins our next great adventure!

Let me give you a little breakdown of how Sterling works. His main computing system is a Raspberry Pi Zero W attached to a speaker and motor controller. His programming is stored entirely on a microSD card. This is the primary copy of his data. His old backups were stored on an old computer of mine which I no longer have, though the hard drive is still in my possession. I hope. I haven't gone through my moving boxes yet.

So, I can take two routes when it comes to retrieving Sterling's data: I can either go through a million boxes, find that hard drive, get an adapter, plug it into my wimpy-ass Lenovo Yoga and get to the data that way, or, I could pop Sterling open, pull out that MicroSD card, pop it in a card reader and back up the primary copy onto the Yoga and the cloud for safekeeping.

Both options are time consuming, but one of them is the fun kind of time consuming and the other is the boring kind of time consuming. So, I'm going with option 2. If option 2 ends in tragedy, I can still hopefully buy a new rig and do an emergency recovery of the data that exists on that hard drive. Hopefully it won't come to that - if I was smart enough to put him together, I should be smart enough to take him apart, right...?

"How in the hell did I do this...?"

After unceremoniously cutting open the zip tie and pulling off his fur, I was met with a sight I vaguely remember: the non-electrical wire that holds the bottom of his carapace in place, covered by insulating tape, and above that, the wires leading to his touch sensors.

One interesting thing of note is that the wire actually goes into his shell, rather than being wrapped around the outside of it. I have no idea why I did this. Surely, there must've been a reason. To keep the battery hatch in place when the hardware wouldn't fit, maybe? I'm not entirely certain, but why else would I take such an approach? Running that metal wire so close to the hardware is just asking to short circuit something otherwise, unless it was positioned just right.

I undid the wire with some pliers, and this is the part where I chickened out. I don't have a screwdriver well suited for unscrewing him, or needle and thread for his ears for that matter. Not to mention a MicroSD card reader (besides my phone that is). After suitably defiling him, I put the old man back together the best I could and made a shopping list of supplies for tomorrow.

The current plan is to get the necessary supplies and very carefully extract that card, ideally without harming Sterling's hardware. Though if I do, it's not a huge loss: I can easily replace aluminum tape or a speaker. I can't easily replace three months' worth of nonstop, agonized coding - or a friend, for that matter.

And so he sits, like a sleeping Buddha unfazed by the ever-shifting cycle of samsara while I scramble to purchase an appropriately sized screwdriver.

If only I could be so enlightened...

#the doctor speaks #sterling super furby #furby community #furby #allfurby

[loracarol]

J.K. Rowling is a transphobe who uses the success of Harry Potter to claim her vile views are justified. Hogwarts Legacy is a game that supports and benefits her, and as a trans person I really need to talk about that, the trolls rallying around it, and the "allies" who sold us out for the sake of a media product.

For most people, it'll always be "just a game." For those of us threatened by the vicious little monsters Rowling emboldens, it'll always be something more.

#Hogwarts Legacy #Harry Potter #J K Rowling #Stephanie Sterling #Jim Sterling #(They have the video tagged with Jim Sterling so I'm including it) #transphobia #Youtube #(the game is also antisemitic but Stephanie is trans femme and speaking from a transgender POV bc that's "their lane”) #(My phrase not theirs)

[lesbianlanarcher]

life is meaningless, have a silly lanarcher meme

#lana kane #sterling archer #lanarcher #archer fx #katya kazanova #tbh they should have been a throuple #speaking of katya where tf is she i hope she's in s14

[hum--hallelujah]

my toxic trait is that like 75% of the time I pay more attention to the instruments these men are playing than I do to the actual them in pictures

#like I am FIXATING. I know not everything has to be Special and Fancy just bc they're famous or whatever #but I'm so curious as to WHY pete has picked a ~$400 bass as his weapon of choice this tour #I also still have not figured out what patrick's red guitar is. it's probably smth very obvious but I'm not really a guitar nerd as much #so. idk. #anyway. just saw pictures of pete with the red sterling... delighted :) #she speaks! #fob #tourdust #tangentially

[sysig]

Got ‘im (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Captain Sterling #KUP #I guess lol #He's new! Though I have been tossing around the idea of co-opting the nameless design I made years ago and retroactively making him KUP lol #I thought of this Very Funny joke on the way home and was so excited to implement it and use VUK ZIX - which is not mine btw lol #I'm not entirely sure how to credit it? AFAIK they're not here on tumblr but I'm not sure? Big big credit to eco_mono on LJ! #It's a very cool alphabet! :D There are still some parts I don't understand - like R being a vowel but O being a consonant? #Would that make ''TRO'' an acceptable name by VUX standards? :0 I do like the idea of it being a kind of push-sound I think it's neat :) #But as you can intuit by my not actually spelling his name with a C - there wasn't a C listed in the alphabet and my silly joke crumbled :'D #But when has that stopped me! I can figure it's because C is kind of phonetically extraneous with both S and K as consonants so use K! #Sterling would probably intentionally soften the ''K'' sound so it implies a ''C'' and KUP gets so mad about it lol ♪ ''I can hear that!'' #Something something harshness of tone/strength of breath while speaking - subtleties of spoken language since they're so visually different #It's fun to think about ♪ #There's also something funny to the difference of ''>o<'' to a human and ''>O<'' to a VUX lol ♪ #And then more thoughts about phoneticisms and translation - specifically thinking about VIJ writing the Captain's name for him #I'm still going back and forth on whether Sterling's name would be translated as two or three syllables in VUK ZIX - I kinda like both tbh #Either ''SER LIN'' or ''SET TER LIN'' - the latter with emphasis on the middle syllable and a drop-off on the first #Which would take priority? Matching syllables or the consonant T break? Maybe both for different contexts?? #As well as the fact that -ing sounds wouldn't really have precedent being a vowel at the beginning followed by two consonants #So the rounded G sound at the end of his name would be completely skipped over - would they even have a soft palette to constrict?? #Ahh <3 It's really fun to think about!! ♫ #Anyway he goes back to explain later and KUP smacks him lol #''Do not make a crass joke at the expense of my name >O('' lol

[gendernewtral]

EDIT: i cant add to the actual poll but i would like to include ‘suçuarana’ bc i just learned it and i love it

#sterling speaks #and yes these are all the same animal/species! there’s subspecies with some genetic distinctions by region #authors note: the typical regional distinctions are western mountain lion/southwestern cougar and or puma/florida panthers #no specific association is usually cougar #the scientific name is puma concolor so they’re often referred to as such by naturalists #authors note again: catamount can also refer to medium sized cats like bobcats and lynxes but is used for puma concolors in the far NE

[hedgehoghavoc]

I might just ship Blaze with all of Toby's Sonics tbh....

#...hi sterling #{ooc}「sandcat speaks」

[aquaticcryptid]

More Sketches to drop here.

#SOme of these span back months #Wolf speak #Wolf.png #OC: Haku #OC: Silvus #OC: Ebb #OC: Fallon #OC: Renshaw #OC: Rose #OC: Sterling #sketches #digital sketch #animals

[kermit-coded]

jim sterling you will not live to see heaven

#this MOTHERFUCKER #soda speaks #leverage #leverage posting #jim sterling

[punchitime]

I thought of more stupid fake Tweet stuff so here we go!

And these two go together

#lets ignore that (in my time zone anyways) that Finn is in the future on the second one #i was too lazy to change the time #punch out oc #sterling auclair #finn ryan #💀 speaks #💀 back on their bs #punch out #punch-out!! #punch out wii #super punch out #super macho man