do you ever do something so great and know no one will be able to appreciate it like you do?

🥼+glados?

my first biggest bonding moment with her was when i finished p.ortal 2. spoilers ahead!

after she "deleted" caroline i was... a little shocked. but after everything i thought about it and... it makes. so much sense. she's not caroline anymore. she's glados.

i'm of the opinion that she didn't actually delete caroline though. if caroline doesn't exist, glados doesn't exist. it'd be like deleting system32 from your computer, y'know? except you can't redownload the OS, because caroline is what made it. Go. she "deleted" carlin more to 1: make chell angry one last time let's be real lmfao, and 2: it was her own way of healing, to say "that's not me anymore. and i want it that way"

Random Portal Writing Prompts (or Art, if you prefer!)

Hello! I wanted to share some story ideas/prompts that I have had floating around for a while. I originally had these posted on my AO3 account, but I felt it might be more appropriate for these to be posted here.

I may or may not get around to writing these (most likely not), but if anyone is interested in writing them, I would LOVE to see these! Some maybe M-rated, maybe not, depends on how it's portrayed. Most are Chelley and Chelley babies (I need more fics with Chelley babies!), but there are some others as well. I may add more from time to time. Anyway, please feel free to use, comment, ignore, etc. And, of course, if you have tag suggestions, please do suggest them. Thank you for looking! :3

- Chell and Wheatley are friends/roommates. Chell wants to have a baby, but she has no partner nor does she desire to have one, so she is looking to accomplish this via sperm donor and insemination. Wheatley finds out about this somehow (maybe he sees a consent form on her table that she has signed or he hears about it from a mutual acquaintance, etc.) and becomes highly jealous and offended (for reasons beyond either of their understanding) that she didn't consider him. Chell is reluctant at first, but Wheatley manages to convince her to let him be the father of her child. This could also be portrayed in other ways - such as, if you would want this to be ChellDOS instead of Chelley, they could be looking to have a child and Wheatley volunteers to be the father, but of course GLaDOS/Caroline might have something to say about that. Could lead to some fun arguments. :P

- I may be missing some bit of knowledge on this, so please excuse me if this theory doesn’t hold out - but I noticed while playing the Portal games that you never see any remains of the people who were killed by GLaDOS with the neurotoxin. I would think there would be skeletons or something, some small bit of remains. This made me wonder what happened to them. Did GLaDOS have them cleaned up? What about the offices and parts where She can't reach? What if there was someone on the loose in the facility, someone in hiding, someone who might be in a desperate enough situation to view these bodies as a food source? What if this someone’s situation was exacerbated by both desperation and a mental condition, so they maybe didn't realize they were eating the corpses of their colleagues? What if this person was... Doug Rattman? GLaDOS would be taunting him the whole time, while his companion cube would be countering her remarks, making Doug question exactly what it is he’s eating. Would love to see this portrayed as a horror/psychological thriller.

- A fic where Chell and a humanized Wheatley (either he was that way to begin with, or he was put into a body, however you’d want to portray it) make it out to the surface. The betrayal and everything still happened, but Wheatley was never thrown out into space. The basic idea is that he and Chell end up sleeping together, Chell ends up pregnant, and Wheatley ends up having to take care of Chell during her late pregnancy and help with the delivery. Chell can either be verbal or non-verbal.

Here is a basic run-down of what I came up with, but you wouldn’t have to use this, of course (this would get an M rating, including dubious consent):

Wheatley is put into a human body and thrown out onto the surface with Chell. Wheatley is completely helpless. Chell waits around a while, watching him, and eventually feels guilty enough that she allows him to tag along, but though she allows this, she keeps him at an arm's length and only helps him with the bare minimum. Somewhere along the way, Chell goes through a level of frustration, one thing leads to another, and they end up sleeping together. Wheatley is very confused at first, like WTF are you doing?, although he finds himself enjoying what she is doing. Chell is satisfied, he feels somewhat satisfied, but he is left to wonder what exactly happened and how to approach her after that. Over time, Chell's feelings for Wheatley begin to soften more, Wheatley grows more bold, and before either of them can really gain an understanding on what exactly is taking place between them, Chell ends up pregnant. She does not know how to explain this to him. She doesn't feel well, is achy and whatnot, and Wheatley of course doesn't quite understand why she isn't wanting to "do it" with him anymore, so he feels hurt. Wheatley ends up being forced to be the one to take care of both of them in this post-apocalyptic world, seeking food, shelter, taking care of Chell when she is sick, and finally, helping with the delivery of the baby. I didn't have much going on after this, that's all I got.

- Something based off this Minecraft build video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q11J9ibl7zs . Could be a comic, a short fic, anything. The whole time watching this video I was laughing so hard, because all I could hear was Wheatley trying to fix the lift to get Chell out of Aperture. Instead of him going all evil, he decides to stay plugged in but still help Chell get out. An oversight on his part - he still punched potato GLaDOS down the elevator shaft, obliterating the elevator in the process. Determined to help Chell, he keeps trying to fix the lift, or build a new one, and it keeps breaking and failing in new and extraordinary ways. Chell is sitting there the whole time thinking maybe she will just stay - that seems a whole lot safer than using Wheatley's "fixed" lift, anyway.

- This was a crack fic idea I had, half inspired by a joke going around in a Discord group I used to be in, half inspired by a quote from George Carlin: "Somewhere out there is the world's worst doctor. The scariest part is that someone has an appointment with him tomorrow." Wheatley works at Aperture as one of their on-site doctors. He may have graduated at the bottom of his class, but hey, he DID graduate, after all, and Aperture really needed more doctors!

RUFUS CARLIN / @zkljns

“You want to talk trash on my weird GLaDOS looking time travel orb when you work for a magical library? Nothing is real.”