Doug and Hera from the Wolf 359 podcast for @commsroom 🩵

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happy birthday, eiffel! 🎶 beautiful art for the occasion by @hehearse

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Illustration commission for @commsroom 💥

gay ppl when two characters play chess together

happy april fools day folks! wolf pack visits disneyland

inspired by this post :)

Disneyland is probably Eiffel’s ideal habitat. Pop culture, junk food, roller coasters, etc

Hera could talk for hours with the park animatronics

Minkowski seems like the kind of person to have an annual pass

Lovelace loves big fast roller coasters but the rocket ship ride has a special place in her heart <3

The only ride that Kepler likes is Space Mountain. You ever ride Space Mountain? Big roller coaster!

Maxwell (ipad kid) and Jacobi (has games on his phone) VS Kepler (has several long stories queued up)

Hilbert refuses to participate in anything fun, so he ends up carrying everyone’s stuff

Cutter convinces Pryce that the best way to see the park is through the eyes of a mascot costume. Rachel is their chaperone.

another commission of eiffel and hera for the wonderful @commsroom <3

i can never get enough of drawing little moments of intimacy and i'm so lucky to be sponsored to draw it more!!!!!

it’s 3am and i currently wholeheartedly believe that eiffel intended to say “i love you”. not as a declaration, but as a star wars reference. he wanted to go out on an “i love you” / “i know”. he wanted to go out on a joke, and he trusted hera— who’s probably heard him recap this scene dozens of times— to finish it. he wanted to go out on a bit, and he wanted her in on it, and honestly i think that’s the purest form of love there is.

Throwing them at each other like dolls of sorts. Tbh Hera ideally works best as a character without a body but. I want to draw her with a silly design sometimes. As a treat.

Hera’s pose and design based on Alt Cunningham from Cyberpunk 2077

I’m so insane about beautiful ai women and the pathetic little man that is in love with them

eiffera... save me... eiffera. save me eiffera...

(eiffel as the astronaut picture is originally from this post by @/onemorehotpotato)

[ID: Two spreads of digital art showing the characters Hera and Doug Eiffel from Wolf 359. Eiffel is depicted as a man with brown skin, curly dark brown hair in a ponytail and some chin hair. He mostly wears a "Star Wars" print t-shirt, an orange jumpsuit tied around his waist and a headset around his neck. The drawings on his spread mostly feature him emoting in bust, but there's also a cartoony and a chibi full-body.

Hera is depicted as an android with Black features. Her design is a monochrome blue, with circuit board patterns on her chest and face and futuristic looking clothes. Her hair looks like dreads and the ends have a pixel dithering effect. Her spread is mostly her emoting, but there's also a chibi and bigger drawing of her where she has two additional digital arms and is managing multiple blue program windows. End ID.]

[ID: a digital sketch of Hera and Eiffel. Eiffel looks indignant, he crosses his arms and says: "You are killing my tough guy personality 👿". Hera smiles sweetly and asks: "Who's a Good kitty". Eiffel smiles, points to himself and answers: "Meeeee:3". End ID.]

i dont know where i am but anyways

as an extension of how hera reads as trans to me, hera/eiffel resonates with me specifically as a relationship between a trans woman and a cis man. loving hera requires eiffel to decentralize his own perspective in a way that ties into both his overall character arc and the themes of the show.

pop culture is baked into the dna of wolf 359, into eiffel’s worldview, and in how it builds off of a sci-fi savvy audience’s assumptions: common character types, plot beats, or dynamics, why would a real person behave this way? how would a real person react to that? eiffel is the “everyman” who assumes himself to be the default. hera is the “AI who is more human than a lot of humans,” but it doesn’t feel patronizing because it isn’t a learned or moral quality; she is a fundamentally human person who is routinely dehumanized and internalizes that.

eiffel/hera as a romance is compelling to me because there is a narrative precedent for some guy/AI or robot woman relationships in a way i think mirrors some attitudes about trans women: it’s a male power fantasy about a subclass of women, or it’s a cautionary tale, or it’s a deconstruction of a power fantasy that criticizes the way men treat women as subservient, as property. but what does that pop culture landscape mean in the context of desire? If you are a regular person, attracted to a regular person, who really does care for you and wants to do right by you, but is deeply saturated in these expectations? how do you navigate that?

I think that, in itself, is an aspect of communication worth exploring. sometimes you won’t get it. sometimes you can’t. and that’s not irreconcilable, either. it’s something wolf 359 is keenly aware of, and, crucially, always sides with hera on. eiffel screws up. he says insensitive things without meaning to. often, hera will call him out on it, and he will defer to her. in the one case where he notably doesn’t, the show calls attention to it and makes him reflect. it’s not a coincidence that the opening of shut up and listen has eiffel being particularly dismissive of hera - the microaggression of separating her from “men and women” and the insistence on using his preferred title over hers. there are things eiffel has just never considered before, and caring for hera the way he does means he has to consider them. he's never met someone like hera, but media has given him a lot of preconceptions about what people like her might be like.

there’s a whole other discussion to be had about the gender dynamics of wolf 359, even in the ways the show tries to avoid directly addressing them, and how sexual autonomy in particular can’t fully be disentangled from explorations of AI women. i don’t think eiffel fully recognizes what comments like “wind-up girl” imply, and the show is not prepared to reconcile with it, but it’s interesting to me. in the context of transness (and also considering hera’s disability, two things i think need to be discussed together), i think it’s worth discussing how hera’s self image is at odds with the way people perceive her, her disconnect from physicality, how she can’t be touched by conventional means, and the ways in which eiffel and hera manage to bridge that gap.

even the desire for embodiment, and the autonomy and type of intimacy that comes with it, means something different when it’s something she has to fight for, to acquire, to become accustomed to, rather than a circumstance of her birth. i suppose the reason i don’t care for half measures in discussions re: hera and embodiment is also because, to me, it is in many ways symbolically a discussion about medical transition, and the social fear of what’s “lost” in transition, whether or not those things were even desired in the first place.

hera’s relationship with eiffel is unquestionably the most supportive and equal one she has, but there are still privileges, freedoms, and abilities he has that she doesn’t, and he forgets that sometimes. he will never share her experiences, but he can choose to defer to her, to unlearn his pop culture biases and instead recognize the real person in front of him, and to use his own privilege as a shield to advocate for her. the point, to me - what’s meaningful about it - is that love isn’t about inherent understanding, it’s about willingness to listen, and to communicate. and that’s very much at the heart of the show.

Cozy times ✨

For @commsroom

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wolf 359 episode 17: bach to the future

a low-gravity kiss.

(commission for the wonderful @commsroom of doug eiffel and hera 💙✨)