steve ‘floor time’ harrington and eddie ‘no one touch or perceive me’ munson. they flinch at every noise even though they expected a good night, a stable night, but something changed and they’re in sensory overload. steve tries to take eddie’s hand but he pulls away immediately, shrinking in on himself. steve hums and cocks his head, signalling eddie to follow him.
they leave the loud and lively living room, the kids yelling all over each other, and find a dark and empty room and just lie on the floor for a while before they’re ready to come back. they don’t talk, don’t touch, just lie there next to each other. eddie takes steve’s hand when he’s ready for touch again. they start talking in hushed voices, bringing noise back, rebooting their senses, slowly and gently easing each other in again.
when they come back, hand in hand, mike turns down the music and lucas makes sure to remind people not to talk too loudly. the boys are drained, but the kids try their best. they’re all trying their best.
"Even without full scan function, I still had my dark vision filters and my own mapping data, so with the fixed point of the corridor hatch, I could retrace my steps to the ramp. It just looked awkward and stupid because for the first part I had to navigate like a floor-cleaning bot." - Martha Wells, System Collapse
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An animated video of Murderbot, in a full environmental suit (featuring a little 'Perihelion' logo on its chest and an opaque helmet).
Murderbot is wandering around a dark space, the sound of its footsteps on the stone floor are audible. It walks in a straight line to the right until it hits a pillar with an audible 'thunk' noise and stops. A grumpy smiley face appears next to it.
It recalibrates, making little chirping calibrating sounds, then turns and moves towards the viewer until it seems to hit the camera (again with a 'thunk' noise and a little frowny smiley face next to it) and recalibrates again.
It turns its back to the viewer and starts walking again, this time seemingly hitting the wall in the back. It recalibrates again, then turns to the right and starts walking again. After a few seconds it stops briefly, two exclamation marks appear next to it along with a beeping noise, then it quickly walks out of frame.
ngl i feel like people get too cutesy about laios sometimes. at the start of the series sure he has maricelle and chilchuk but maricelle is mostly there for his sister and chilchuk is on his payroll. which doesnt discount that they definitely have a bond but its a bond that likely would not have been forged if both of them hadnt been attenuated to laios over time working with him. the only people who like laios for laios with no “in spite of”s, no need for him to overcome that impression of incompetence, are his sister and senshi, and he only met senshi when he stopped masking his special interest AFTER BEING DISCOURAGED TO by maricelle and chilchuk. he outsmarts the giant evil demon and people still think it mustve been a bumbling accident. kabru resents his abilities and fucks him over for the crime of forgetting his name. (SO REAL) living life as an autistic and being constantly misunderstood or underestimated even by your friends and knowing youre labelled as the weird struggle friend isnt a tee hee cute experience really.
another day another inescapable spate of zadr brainrot but I think Dib should kiss the blank patch of skin where Zim's nose isn't.
Experimentally, as a rare moment of compromise, because rubbing faces is an Irken gesture of affection and Zim has strong feelings regarding the germiness of mouth-to-mouth contact. Softly, in public, as an expression of intimacy and a power play, because it singles out one of Zim's most obvious alien features. Aggressively, with teeth and heat, because there's a billion nerve endings there and it's so much more fun than just making out with someone could ever be.
Just. Dib kissing Zim's dumb alien face, y'all. Imagine it.
rise donnie is more confused by the donatello touch than he is by 87 donnie making a trans-dimesnional portal out of things he found in 1980s dumpsters
I always picture names as graphic shapes depending on their sound and how people say it. I very rarely hear the name Evan, so my most recent reference is how Lou says it as Tommy, and it has such a beautiful flowing shape, like a soft rolling wave. I absolutely love the way it sounds.
we always have harry who is a friend to the danger noodles but what if harry who is a friend of the creepy crawlies who were his constant companions in the dark of his cupboard and it carries over to the magical world and certain tiny spiders love him bc their normal cousins talked abt him and how he cld need some new friends