#why was it all so robotic

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #i don't THINK this counts as face horror but just in case #face horror #for your daily dose of me losing my mind over anime characters #i don't know why the hair thing surprised me so much. i think because i thought it was funny that lilia named silver after his hair color. #like ha ha lilia is hilariously bad at names how cute and silly! #oh. oh it's kind of a Thing. #anyway i am excited to see where the heck all of this stuff with silver's various dads ends up! #we still don't actually know who killed meleanor! #we still don't know literally anything about dad draconia! (dadconia? dradconia?) #we don't know what happened to the macguffin gem with its magical dad-saving powers! #(surely this will not come back to save a certain dad at a later point. of course not.) #man i was not expecting episode 7 to be all dads all the time #i mean i'm here for it but #hey remember when the highest stakes were who was gonna win the big talent show #then robots started kidnapping people and now we've just escalated from there #episode 8 our cat is going to turn into a drippy ink kaiju and we're going to have to mecha battle him to save the world or something #each member of diasomnia pilots a limb and we gattai into a giant robot dragon and hold on i gotta submit this spec script to aniplex brb

[clouvu]

Offering to you all some sandy doodles in these trying times

#genshin impact #sandrone #Coming out to say that I think that sandrone genuinely has one of the prettiest designs in genshin #kinda makes me sad that no one really gives a shit about her except for like 5 other people #somewhat understandable though #cause she got like a total of one (1) line from the lazzo trailer and her big ass robot takes up 70% of the screen when she DOES appear #but anyways thats not deterring me from being deranged about her nowadays #She's smart. She's talented. She's mean. She commits atrocities against man on the regular. Shes French #She has it all #also i have no idea why it took me so long to actually draw her with ball joints bc she looks really neat with em imo

[hrokkall]

DIVINE LIGHT SEVERED

#Ultrakill #Gabriel Ultrakill #Taking a break from artfight by (squints at writing on hand) drawing? #I know the Act 2 ending cutscene is PHENOMENAL but the Act 1 cutscene gets overlooked. #The description of the light getting ripped from Gabriel >>>>>>>>>> #Unrelated but I've been seeing a LOT of bird Gabriel hcs lately? Which isn't unwelcome just have No Idea why there's so many all at once #Robots are kind of birds to me too tbh but yeah I definitely see the Angel = Bird type mentality #Going to draw Gabriel and V1 doing the eagle death spiral next. Half joke. #Open to interpretation whether it's a territorial fighting death spiral or a courtship one. Given the context of the game either is likely. #Hrokkall Art #eyestrain

[deoidesign]

I've been told my comic feels like it was written by AI.

I suppose I'm not trying to be groundbreaking. I'm not interested in pioneering genres. I'm not writing for the purpose of literary analysis.

But written by AI...?

I'm already someone who has my humanity questioned. My identity erased. My existence disrespected. It could be worse. Anything could be worse.

But AI?

I spend weeks writing single scenes, toiling over the implications of single lines. I have goals. My writing has intent.

If you cared to read deeper, perhaps you'd see the themes. Maybe then you'd see the value. If you tried to analyze it maybe you'd see something there.

Maybe you'd see me.

Someone told me my comic seemed like it was written by AI.

And my humanity was denied one step further in that my voice was not seen in the work I've poured years of my life into.

#this is a comment that has bothered me for... a long time. #it really sat with me. #its insulting of course... #but i get insults all the time #thats not what bothered me. #there was something more to it #something more to how this hurt my feelings and why it lingered so long in my mind #and i think its because of this. #it removes me. it removes my humanity. #in a world where i already feel so invisible and invalidated #where i express myself. my love. through my work #to be told it seems like something a literal robot coild make #a conglomeration of marketable ideas #god. jts so insulting on a completely other level. #its straight up dehumanizing #so. watch the things you say seem like ai #when its actually made by an artist #especially if you know that it was made bh someone #they have a heart an theyre trying to show it to you #i know its not that deep or whatever. #but isnt it? #isnt the point of our art to connect to others? to love them? to spend time with them?? #im being dramatic #but i also care #and sometimes a little extra drama is what gets my ideas across. #i would know #im a writer

[woah-i-am-here]

Role Swap!AU Doodles for a fanfic I want to write later. Basically World Tour but Alejandro and Noah have their roles and part of their upbringing swapped. Noah is the youngest of his siblings who are famous and recognized in areas and he's the ignored genius who's in the show for the first time trying to get recognition from his family, and Alejandro is a capable guy who got unfairly eliminated in season one and came back for another shot at the million.

Remind me to never pick up digital drawing again. It is p a i n f u l. I want to lie in the floor, ty very much.

#total drama #alenoah #td noah #td alejandro #alternate universe #role swap au #i legit have all the history thought out and let me tell you #it is gay #Swap alejandro being carried by swap noah in the robot is so fucking cursed LMAO #i love it #Bruh i love those dumbasses why can't they kiss UGGgGHHHHHh #noah is a fashion disaster even in this AU #He can't save himself the dummy Lmao #Noah is the 'he likes to be tall meme' #He's a shortie in this AU

[paradimeart]

prowl has 0 idea what goes on in protoform development these days

(V.S. = vector sigma)

#my art #transformers animated #tfa #optimus prime tfa #ratchet tfa #prowl tfa #sorry to any1 in the tags seeing this entirely out of context #divorce baby au #technically orbabies but there are no orbs or little guys here #i think a lot about how there could be different views on younger bots born from vs instead of the allspark...even outside of this au #like do older war and pre war bots see them as lesser. or no more than just drones. do the post war bots themselves feel lesser for not #being from the allspark? is there any like way to tell if someone is from the allspark or from vector sigma? its fun for me #i like this kind of thing i have going b/c its like #making normal irl adolescent development happen to alien robots who have no idea what the fuck is going on #sort of. the orb stage is more akin to a fetus than a baby its not a 1:1 but like #the idea of not being born 100% fully functional and mature and complete and being dependent on someone else is so bonkers for them #thats why they put ninjas in charge of all the infants

[storfulsten]

damn.

damn again.

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original

#draw the comfort characters meme #based on that one su comic #bc it looked amusing when other people were doing it idk ha #was only gonna do the bf and bonnie one but felt inspired and made their boyfriends aswell bc they too are of great comfort to me so ye #why not lol #ooc af all around but whatever am just vibin yeehaw #ye glam bonnie and freddy look wonky being non robotic but they're more au based than anything sooo #and ye bonnie looks kinda scrawny as heck and arms weird af but too lazy to do anything about it so take it or leave it lol #anyways enough rambling sorry #enjoy or don't #whatever floats your boat #fnf #fnf au #fnaf #fnaf au #boyfriend #whitty #bf #glamrock bonnie #glamrock freddy #mushy fluff au #drawing meme #I draw what I want

[luckyjorabbit]

Obsessed w T2 again so... have an Arnie-chan... 🤖🌹

#THE comfort movie of all time btw...... #I am making a silly robot yaoi zine rn so thats why. Plz look forward to it ajsjdjfkfkf #Terminator 2 #The Terminator #T-800 #My art #Fanart #Procreate #Digital

[qrowscant-art]

I know is-ot has a pretty rocky relationship on the whole being alive and sentient bit, but would he appreciate a birthday party for him, assuming it has the things he actually likes there?

this made me illustrate a tangent i wrote about ages ago, ahhhhhhh.

tl;dr: no probably not. the associated memories are too strong for IS-OT to really enjoy himself. just get him a random gift and he'll have a far better time

the discomfort is like. okay. so the thing with birthdays and being born is that when you're part artificial intelligence and part extradimensional Flesh Horror, you don't really get one of those? sure, you have a date where you started Being Sentient, but that's more of an excuse for your creators to pat themselves on the back.

yes, you are a feat of science and engineering, but you are also immediately stripped of all autonomy because the people who made you are afraid to treat you like a human. you are ignored at best, demeaned at worst, and you are confined within walls that you can never escape (because those walls ARE you)

so you get angry! because it makes them pay attention! it makes them silent! but anger also makes them more afraid, fear makes them treat you worse, and the worse you are treated the angrier you get. it's a shitty, shitty feedback loop. pretty soon the only people who come near you are the ones you eat.

so it's your 'birthday' again. they're drinking to your creation in some out-of-the-way break room. you, meanwhile, are alone and bitter and trapped. this is how it was every year before. it sucks, man.

#btw i am genuinely so sorry if you wanted something cute i am insane about my ocs #[grabbing your shoulders] do you understand the dehumanization and isolation of the sexy robot? do you see why he has a million complexes? #robot oc #supercomputer #artificial intelligence #inquiries #peppergoji #tthw #mal-art #he'd like the holidays tho. he'd celebrate all of them as a challenge

[cassiesfalloutpage]

Soon it will be his day.

Story about scanners under the cut

I cannot get over how much of a silly little guy by scanner is. Turn him on, can't find connection. Set him on a nice little flat surface, he hums. Cannot find connection. Cradle him in my lap, feel him rumble like a cat as he scans, action complete.

He has anxiety and wants to be held.

Then I had to adjust the colors for an hour cause my boy is color blind.

#nick valentine #fallout #fallout 4 #watercolor #traditional art #art #artists on tumblr #fallout fanart #fanart #robot #smoking #why are you smoking boy your lungs are mechanical #lighter #my art #i think this painting stole all my artistic ability cause everything ive tried to do since has been utter ass #so I'm posting it early #fun fact the background was made entirely by layering. no mixing used. just a shit ton of pink and a blue glaze #also that fucking hat #boy that fucking hat #i hate drawing hats and I KEEP DOING IT

[itzrafee]

A thing on Uran and Helena in Pluto

Okay a short little thing on Pluto. Uran and Helena are my absolute favourite characters in Pluto. Urasawa has always had amazing side characters, from Mr. Rosso in Monster to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jackie in Billy Bat to God in 20th Century Boys, but very few have tied off the emotional ends of the story like Uran and Helena.

Maybe I'm projecting here but much like myself I feel like Urasawa is absolutely obsessed with Frankenstein. And he recognizes the influence Frankenstein has on Dr. Umataro Tenma. Or at the very least, the similarities between the two. And so when he made the protagonist of one of his most popular works Monster, Dr Kenzo Tenma, he solidified that connection. Kenzo Tenma calls back to Victor Frankenstein needing to end his creation while also calling back to Japan's other famous Tenma, thus making the connection explicit. Another throughline between the three of them is that all three are father figures to their creations and have obligations to their children, though all three have varying levels of success with them.

I've only read what I like to call Urasawa's "Core Four", conspiracy minded thrillers that are essentially road trips featuring usually two main protagonists that we see the world through, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto and Billy Bat. Though I still haven't caught up to Asadora and that could still possibly fit this mold, Urasawa's Core Four share a lot of themes and ideas. One of the most important being the responsibility for one's creations, whether it was Kenji Endo and the Book of Prophecy or Kevin Yamagata and Billy Bat or Dr. Kenzo Tenma and Johan, all of his protagonists could arguably be seen as someone with the need to take up the responsibility of their creations. So where do the protagonists of Pluto fit in there? That's where Uran and Helena come in.

But first, we should take a look at Pluto's themes. While I could be wrong, at a cursory glance, I feel like the general consensus towards it's themes is that it's about hatred. I don't really think that's what it is as I feel like Urasawa is more trying to show us what it is to be human and what it is to be alive. And in that, he has a hidden protagonist in Pluto. Someone who's influence snakes through the plot and isn't seen much, but without who the story's themes would remain incomplete. Pluto tackles what it is to be alive through many things, such as memory, sadness, grief, hatred, love and parenthood. But none of that works without the realization by Tenma of his own mistakes. And Uran and Helena bookend these revelations and are absolutley key to understanding that.

In my favourite chapter of the series, Chapter 37, Uran goes from person to person as she finds a way to deal with her grief and eventually comes across Tobio's grave, Tenma having left recently. It's an absolutely beautiful chapter that shows Uran's humanity and Urasawa's love for sharing these kind and soft moments. But it also sheds a light on Tenma as Uran realizes someone who was grieving has just left. Without saying much at all we realize that Tenma has finally realized his mistakes. In the process of grieving one son, he lost the other. While remembering Tobio, he let Atom go. His grief towards Tobio is clear in the following chapter, Chapter 38. All of the things he wanted Atom to be; Tobio come back to life, Tobio's ghost punishing him, Atom rejected. And Tenma could only see that rejection, and not what he had, another son.

Uran shows us very clearly what Pluto, the story, is. It's a chapter in their lives. And we've come into a story nearing the end for Tenma. And it's through the humanity of two absolutely amazing characters in their own right, Uran and Helena, that we are able to so fully understand Tenma. Despite being robots, these two characters are the most alive of everyone. They love fully and freely and are catalysts of change. Uran's vibrant and full of life in a way that really sticks out. And Helena has such depth that it's evident in every scene she's in. She's not pointed out to be made by any famous scientist so all the life she has is her own. These two represent the life of robot's more than any other characters in the series.

So it's that much more poignant when Helena finally breaks down after putting on such a strong front of everybody. Grief intersects and she brings out Tenma's sadness as well. They've both been putting up such strong fronts that it's heartbreaking to see them collapse. It completes Tenma's growth and strikes a heartbreaking contrast between the two. Tenma became the way he is through the loss of his son whereas Helena doesn't even get to remember her own loss. It makes you wonder if the grief for her and Geischt's child compounds her sorrow too.

Without these two and their grief, a large part of Pluto becomes inaccessible. Pluto is largely about death so when two characters come in who've never had a hand in the grim work of taking life, you see the world through a lens that's absolutely crucial in order to fully connect with all of the character's and their situations. Death and Grief has scarred the characters in Pluto. Time and time again they've chosen the worst path. They've chosen revenge and hatred. But Uran and Helena are different. Without them, the story is incomplete. They provide an alternative. They provide the path towards healing.

im sorry for this one:

#naoki urasawa's pluto #helena #uran #pluto #pluto anime #umataro tenma #astro boy #this was supposed to be short #also its largely unreasearched #i would need to read the original atom and read all of urasawa's other works and read up on the gulf war before tackling a proper piece #random thoughts I didn't put in: #something i love about Pluto is how each robot is a reflection of their creators in some way or another with Uran being Ochanamizu's love #the combination of jackie and lee harvey oswald will probably throw off so many people who don't know(totally not why I did it) #also God #honestly though no side characters feel insignificant in Pluto #Some more shared ideas between the Core Four are the burdens we carry and share and the importance of stories in our lives

[kaiserouo]

headcanon warning

bonus

no he doesn't

#yay big robot omen #and piggyride kay/o/omen #yes that's the only reason i do valorant stuff now in the first place #if you know me you know those are the only 3 agents i will ever have any bit of interest in #i do think about them a lot... #but i'm still not gonna play valorant #otherwise i'm not gonna survive this semester #also i don't want to catch on like 3 more years of lore #for a game i KNOW i'm gonna get rekt so hard i fly into another parallel universe for the first 800 hours of gameplay #i already gave up on destiny's 10 years worth of lore already #also the rest like 8 ideas are all about kay/o/omen i don't really care about cypher lol #if i do actually draw them after this ofc #“gosh why do i spend so much time on them???” (slowly degrades quality over time) #valorant #omen #valorant omen #kay/o #valorant kay/o #cypher #valorant cypher #my art

[biblically-accurate-dca]

these are all kind of Bad but this was the best of the bunch so i am posting it :p

i've been trying to draw vanessa more... she is so important to me... sun is here too i guess

#my art #probably wont tag this until later i dont want this in the tags #im mainly posting this because i absolutely need to talk abt something its been bothering me for awhile #im gonna censor this stuff (i REALLY dont want this in the tags) so just bear with me #why doesnt the 🌞&🌜 fandom talk abt v/nessa more. why do we not do that #their entire character is meant to parallel her #there's like a million tiny parallels for them in the games. they were both teased in the hw1 dlc and are both associated with that #🐰 & 🌜's animations (and even their designs) have several similarities to each other #there's a lot of cutscenes and parts of sb where one shows up after the other does.. 🐰 going to the daycare after greggy leaves #🌜 dragging feddy away to parts and service and v/nessa immediately showing up there #the entire 6am ending sequence ??? #literally like the only reason v/nessa isnt more popular is bc like 90% of her character is hidden in unused content #and because 🌞&🌜 are the skinny handsome mysterious and tragic tumblr sexymen #and when they become so isolated from their source all of their parallels to her are used to instead repackage her character into a more #appealing design for everyone to fawn over and consume #.. im being dramatic but AuUGGHTHHF IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH PLEAAAE3 pleaseee please i love her. #its so hard being in the 'i want to kiss this robot' fandom when you dont actually want to kiss the robot #i just think theyre an interesting character 😭 and also my adhd brain obsesses over them endlessly so im just stuck here HFJSJGJD #anyway these tags got way too long dont read these. im going to bed now

[stuckinapril]

I’ve always loved medicine bc it’s the perfect intersection of science and humanity—the two things I value above all else in this world. Truly adored it since I was in the cradle. But now I’m thinking about how so much of my journey to neurosurgery will have to involve KILLING my feelings essentially bc how do you survive otherwise

#Not to mention the surprisingly high suicide rate of surgeons that’s been brought to my attention lately #Honestly I just started my neuro internship and just saw my first patient in clinic #And on the day I did I was critical of my neurologist for being so robotic about it #Now I can see why #I’m still at a point where I can’t even do a chart review for a patient without feeling so fucking sad #And I can see how that can get unsustainable after a while #But it’s like if I kill the feelings that drive my passion for medicine to begin with then what’s the point #It’s not like I’m in it for the money or prestige bc that’s so dumb considering how long the schooling is #But literally how to deal #My supervisors at the clinic very much all speak about the dementia patients w a learned impartialness #But I don’t wanna be that way one day :( but how to be anything else and still survive #I’m pre med so I still have time and maybe my opinion will change and I’ll wanna do another specialty #But when it comes to this every specialty will involve human lives and navigating that regardless #That said I can see why surgeons are at higher risk or depression suicide etc #The whole point of this internship is to teach myself how to navigate this stuff but. Hate it #p #med tag

[balaurbondoc316]

So I've Been Rotating Metal Sonic In My Head For Weeks

And I came up with something that's probably not the dumbest theory you've ever heard

So is this anything???????

#sonic the hedgehog #metal sonic #sonic theory #anyway this is stupid and took waaay to long for how low quality it is #so have this silly theory that I don’t know if it even works #but also like #Metal was totally made during the time Eggman was using animals in badniks #the ancients became chao right? And chao endlessly reincarnate right?? #so what if metal used to be an ancient but doesn't REALLY remember #but has just enough Awareness to “pilot” the suit effectively #and that's why Eggman didn't replace him when he failed like he did with all the other robot sonics #since no other chao were willing/ had the muscle memory #and a non- chao- powered mech simply didn't have the same level of in-battle decision making that Metal does #or something IDK it's like 3 AM here and I should go to bed #ALSO WHAT IS OMOCHAO?????

[jackoino]

been really into dead games lately

#p4au #persona 4 arena ultimax #persona 4 arena #persona 4 #sho minazuki #labrys #labrys persona #persona #fighting games #been playing someone and he keeps beating my fucking ass w sho. so this is also self indulgent #i wanted 2 do more w this but its just been sitting finished like this forweeks andim not gonna do anything else w it so. puts it here. #i went thru all the trouble of lining it anyways so why not sob emoji #but i actually love these characters so much #labrys worlds first robot from boston i love youuuuuuu #and sho and labby they. holds their dynamic up to the light and rotates it like we are the same and we shattered the same just glued oursel #selves back together differently... but traumabond of having been thru the same fucked up lab shit #sigh #care for eachother in some weird way they empathize..but also not gonna let either stop their goals. #epitome of i wish we could have met under different circumstances :(