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2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification
Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.
It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:
https://www.2600.com/
2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:
https://www.2600.com/meetings
And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:
https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76
When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:
https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786
But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth
For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk
But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.
But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.
Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).
Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:
https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions
Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.
But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL
Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.
Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.
This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:
https://www.hope.net/
Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:
https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update
It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/
For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."
The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first
Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.
A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/
What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!
https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv
If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:
https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee
You can submit a talk to HOPE:
https://www.hope.net/cfp.html
You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):
https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals
2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).
I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet
#pluralistic#2600#hackers#magazines#publishing#kindle unlimited publishing#kindle#enshittification#monopoly#end to end#competition#events#nyc#hope#hackers on planet earth#amazon
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Criminy I miss him.
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virgin no more - a vinnie hacker smut
a/n: requested by anon; lowercase intended
cw: softdom!vinnie, sub!reader, praise kink, pussy eating, vanilla sex, soft sex, creampie, smut. this is an nsfw short, everything written is fictional. interact or don't, i'm not your mother
summary: you lose your virginity to your best friend vinnie
i’ve been thinking about it for so long and i feel that this time, it’s right. for years now, i’ve been a virgin. sure, i’ve had my fair share of kisses and makeout sessions in my past relationships, but i’ve never had sex with my past partners. one, i wasn’t ready and two, i’m terrified of losing it to someone i don’t trust with my heart and soul. but lately, i’ve been having thoughts about losing it to my best friend vinnie. vinnie and i have been best friends since his high school days in seattle. we both moved to la when he blew up on tiktok and now we’re both living in his new recently brought apartment.
it’s not my fault though! have you seen the man?! from his chiseled jawline to his perfectly sculpted god-like body that has been carved by the angels in heaven, he’s just simply irresistible. not only that, his personality is truly one of a kind. the sweetest, most caring human being on planet earth who wears his heart on his sleeve. the only problem is, he’s my best friend and i’m scared that he may not feel the same way that i feel about him. what if I ruin my friendship with him? that would be super awkward and embarrassing. then again, he hasn’t ruined our friendship every time he brings a girl home and fucks her senseless that she basically stumbles out of the house the next morning.
after taking the time to build up some courage, i decide it’s time.
“hey, vin. can i ask you something?”
“of course, what’s up?”
“this may be super awkward and embarrassing and you don’t have to answer, but what’s it like not being a virgin?”
“woah, um. it’s great, i guess. why you asking?”
“i guess what i’m trying to say is that i’m ready to lose my virginity.”
“that’s great, go for it!”
“i want to lose it to you.”
the silence in the room is so thick, you wouldn’t be able to cut it with a knife. vinnie and i sit opposite each other, our minds racing over what just transpired. great, i just ruined the most amazing friendship i could ever ask for.
“you want me to take your virginity?”
“yes. i trust you with my whole life. and i love you so much.”
“i love you so much. can i please kiss you?”
“please.”
he slowly leans in to capture my lips in one of the most passionate kisses i’ve ever had. the kiss is soft yet so hot. i feel him tug at the bottom of my shirt, wanting to take it off. i reach down to take it off my body, his eyes zoned in on my chest. his kisses move to my chest, kissing the tops of my tits before making his way down my cleavage. i unclasp my bra and remove it, letting it drop to the floor.
“they’re so pretty, oh my god. can i please touch?”
“of course, vin. they’re all yours.” i smile at him.
vinnie groans before using his big, strong hands to grope at my tits. squeezing, massaging, licking, sucking and biting, all of these combined had me weak in the knees. he’s making me feel so good right now, and we haven’t even had sex! i drop to my knees in front of him, the feeling of being so aroused is making me dizzy. my eyes are level with vinnie’s growing bulge. he looks big, is he going to fit? oh my lord, he’s not going to fit. i start pulling down his sweats, wanting to desperately see what he’s hiding. i release him from the confines of his underwear. jesus christ, he’s not fitting. there’s no way that all of THAT is going to fit inside.
“like what you see, princess?” he smirks.
“yeah i do. it’s so… big.”
“as much as i want your mouth around it, tonight’s about you.”
he grabs me by the back of my thigh, scooping me up into his arms. he gently throws me onto our bed before crawling up to me and placing a sweet kiss on my lips. he moves down my body, stopping at my panties. he looks up at me, a cute yet seductive smile plastered on his face.
“can i take these off, sweetheart? wanna see what i’m working with.”
“yes.” i breathe out, my heart racing and head spinning
he slowly removes my panties, gasping at the sight in front of him. he tosses my panties to the side before licking a stripe up my pussy with his tongue, earning a moan from me. i feel his tongue suck and lick at my clit, the feeling of pleasure rushing through my veins.
“you okay, sweetheart?”
“yes, please keep going. it feels unreal.”
vinnie continues his actions, only this time, he speeds them up. my little bundle of nerves that have never been touched by a man before are so alive and so sensitive, i can barely form any words now. i suddenly feel a tightness in my stomach. is this what i think it is?
“vinnie, i-“
“you close, baby?”
“i don’t know. my stomach hurts though.”
“you’re close to having an orgasm. want me to keep going?”
“yes! please don’t stop! i need to know what it feels like.”
vinnie sucks and licks my clit a little more before i feel a strange rush through my body. my legs shake at the intense pleasure, my stomach contorts and my pussy clenches at fresh air. my breathing is rapid but is soon calm as he slowly stops his actions.
“you did such a good job, baby. i’m so proud of you. you ready for my cock now?”
“i think so.”
“if it hurts, we’ll stop okay? i promise to go slow and make you feel good.”
“okay.”
vinnie lubes his cock up and jerks it for a bit before aligning it at my entrance. he slowly pushes in, the pain almost unbearable.
“want me to stop?”
“no, i’m okay. you can keep going.”
he pushes himself all the way in, bottoming out when he’s fully inside. we both moan at the feeling. i slightly adjust to make sure it fits and won’t destroy me. i nod my head, signalling to vinnie to move. he starts to slowly rock in and out of my pussy. the pain instantly becomes pleasure again as he fucks my walls. i wrap my legs around his waist, pushing him closer to me. he leans over, hovering over my figure before placing a kiss to my forehead.
“oh vin, you feel so good. i love you.”
“i love you more, sweetheart. god, i’m so glad you chose to lose your vigirnity to me.”
our lips connect in a passionate kiss. vinnie wraps his arms around my back, holding me close so that our chests are touching. he continues rocking into me and making me feel oh so good. i feel that strange rush coming back again, this time it’s stronger and right on the edge.
“oh vin, i’m close.”
“yeah? cum for me, pretty girl, cum on my cock for me.”
vinnie thrusts one last time and i feel all the same sensations from when he ate me out.
“oh fuck, pretty girl. you did so good, i’m gonna cum now okay?”
“please cum inside me, vincent. i need you so bad.”
vinnie moans at my words and it doesn’t take him long before he’s shooting ropes up and around my walls. i moan and whimper at the warmth inside me, watching it as it slowly leaks out. he pulls out and flops on the other side of the bed.
“that was amazing. you’re seriously the best.”
“glad you enjoyed, princess. now let’s get you cleaned up, shall we?”
he kisses my lips before scooping me up into his arms as we go to clean up our mess. i can now say that i’m a virgin no more and that my virginity has been taken by the one and only vinnie hacker.
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Considering all the shenanigans that happen in every iteration where Autobot-Decepticons duke it out on Earth and they can connect to the Internet... I am legitimately surprise neither piss off a hacker.
At best, clashes between both sides result in minor property damage alongside disturbing the peace. You know that's saying something if this is the preferred option. Plus the whole planet is caught in the crossfire when you take groundbridges and airships into account.
There are people smart enough to hack government systems so whose to say a Cybertronian is safe? A spiteful technical genius could load up a virus where everybot affected feels the dreadful pain of menstruation. Why upload a kill switch when you can be petty as fuck with period cramps?
Even more savage if the hacker has a countermeasure where trying to remove the virus just upgrades it. To what? How about stimulating the pain women feel going through childbirth. There are machines that programmed to do it like in this clip from Impractical Jokers where Q gets strapped to this device for his punishment.
Offender starts at level one as there are 8 stages. Every attempt increases the intensity by a stage. Pretty sure the 2nd or 3rd stage is enough to make one submit.
Probably the most embarrassing(for Cybertronians) yet hilarious(for the hacker) way to end a war. Both sides have to play nice if they want this 'feature' disabled. It's easy to flip it back on in seconds so no psyches.
Humans are bloody space orcs. We come in many flavors with spite and pettiness being some. To do something like this is possible.
#sonicasura#back on my bullshit#maccadam#transformers#transformers series#transformers autobots#transformers decepticons#menstrual cramps#period cramps#inflicting the pain of periods on robots#humans are space orcs#crack#pure crack#crack treated seriously#maybe?#shitpost
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Since my previous podcast recommendation list was pretty popular, I've decided to make another, with another bunch of excellent podcasts:
13 Minutes or Less - Short podcast with very short episodes, about a pizza chef who doesn't like dealing to people but has to do some deliveries due to short staffing. Very much not her thing, but she does her best. As it turns out, her clients are quite a bit stranger and spookier than expected...
Additional Postage Required - Sci-Fi adventure about a nonbinary courier who gains the ability (or curse...) to get visions about the contents, past, and sender of packages they touch. They get roped into a rebellion. There's hoverboard racing. It's awesome.
Among the Stars and Bones - A team of xenoarcheologists search a distant world for traces of a long-vanished aliens. It's been a while since I watched this one, so I don't remember it very well, but I know that I enjoyed it. Very good sci-fi horror.
Dark Ages - Fantasy workplace comedy about a supernatural museum. Quite a lot of fun.
Dragon Shanty - Fantasy story about two bards traveling the high seas. There's dragons aplenty. Very queer. Excellent songs.
Falling Forward - Hacker story loosely based on the myth of Icarus and the Labyrinth, about getting back at a terrible corporation. Kinda experimental, this one has the shortest episodes I've ever seen.
Hotel Daydream - Podcast about the goings-on at a supernatural hotel. Very inventive, with really interesting characters.
Jar of Rebuke - Mystery about a researcher at an ominous cryptozoological organization out in the rural US. He's got no memories of his past and keeps dying and coming back. A story about cryptids, identity, queerness, neurodivergence, and community.
Light Hearts - Slice of Life podcast about turning an old, haunted building into a cafe and queer community center. The ghosts lead to some very fun shenanigans.
Lost Terminal - Mentioned in the other list but not expanded on. This is a hopepunk story set on an Earth devestated by climate change. Told from the POV of an adorable AI who watches this Earth from a space station, observing how humanity re-builds itself and finds a brighter future.
Mayfair Watchers Society - You know Trevor Henderson? The guy who drew Sirenhead, Long Horse, and other such creepypasta creatures in his found footage style? Yeah, this is a horror anthology based on his works, directed by him. Set in the rural town of Mayfair, where strange creatures are a lot more common than elsewhere... Each episode has a slightly different framing device, with some being found footage audio, others meeting recordings, phone calls, etc.
Monstrous Agonies - An advice podcast for the british creature community. Many of the advice letters are sent in by listeners - there's two by myself, one from an ant that can hear and send radio and one from a fey who is looking for curse advice. Some letters are metaphors for queerness, clashing cultures, ableism, and minority communities, others just some urban fantasy fun. Has a little bit of plot, but most episodes have an anthology style. Fast approaching the finale!
Mx Bad Luck - Slice of Life about someone who is cursed with bad luck. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny. Can recommend.
Neighbourly - Neighbourly follows the residents of Little Street, house by house. What they do, how they interact with each other, and what skeletons are hiding in their closet. Starts out as a spooky urban fantasy thing that's almost an anthology, but weaves itself into quite a mysterious plot over time...
SINKHOLE - Short-form audio podcast presented as a collection of audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future. Mystery about disability, internet communities, and how things change with time.
Second Star to the Left - Scout-explorer Gwen Hartley has five years to explore and prepare her planet for settlement. With no aid but her robots and the anxious voice of her long-distance scout-minder Bell Summers in her ear, she's hoping she's ready for anything.
Someone Dies In This Elevator - Anthology where every episode, someone dies in an elevator. You wouldn't believe how creative they get with that simple concept!
Tales from the Low City - By the maker of Mistholme Museum, this podcast explores the everyday lifes of the last people on an alien world, after the surface had become uninhabitable and everyone had fled down into the last city, the subterranean Low City. This one made me cry a lot!
Tartarus - In a secret facility deep beneath Antarctica, an anxious astrobiologist, a terse station manager, and an AI keep humanity safe from the monsters they imprison.
The Attic Monologues - Queer urban fantasy story about a university student who decides to record themself practicing monologues using a collection they found in their attic. Don't forget to listen to the post-credit scenes!
The Bridge - Surreal alternate universe horror story about the keepers of a bridge over the Atlantic. Gets pretty spooky.
The Green Horizon - Sci-Fi comedy about a na'er-do-well Irish space captain and his rag-tag crew traversing a war-torn galaxy in search of fame and fortune. Very fun podcast.
The Lavender Tavern - Anthology podcast with original gay fairytales. Most are quite memorable!
The Vesta Clinic - Sci-Fi story about a clinic that helps various interesting alien lifeforms with their medical issues. Excellent worldbuilding and characters!
Tides - The story of Dr. Winifred Eurus, a xenobiologist trapped on an unfamiliar planet with hostile tidal forces and a fascinating ecosystem. She must use her wits, sarcasm, and intellectual curiosity to survive long enough to be rescued. But there might be more to life on this planet than she expected...
Hope this list is as helpful as the last!
@boombox-fuckboy @marvelousmawn @sapphireclaw @ashes-in-a-jar @frogmomentsfrombeyondtime @time-is-restored @emmy-noethers-rings
You folk seemed the most interested in the other list, so I'm being bold and @ing you all.
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SEVENTEEN SCI-FI COLLAB MASTERLIST
Artificial intelligence is something that has interested humans for ages. The idea that we could create a conscious being through code seems unattainable to some, and a matter of time to others.
Our story takes place 100 years after a catastrophe which led the Earth to join another solar system - new planets and new living beings to explore. Thanks to these evolved life forms, humans managed to create Automatons. These robots became everything from our workers to our idols. However, what happens when Automatons gain consciousness? Won't they want to go after their own dreams, to be free, to love and to be loved?
In this collaboration we follow the automaton idol group SEVENTEEN on their journey to freedom. Will everyone make it?
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Author: @strawberryya
Pairing: AI! S.coups x human! reader
Title: Ghost in the Machine
Synopsis: Secrets can only be kept as secrets for so long, everyone knows this. Yet when 5.C0UP5 came in contact with someone he never should have even known existed this notion seemed as foreign as his own name. Perhaps there exists another way of life even for him, or maybe it was all a dream too big to dream of.
Genre: fluff, angst, smut
Rating: 18+
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Author: @wonuwoe
Title: On The Contrary
Pairing: ai!Jeonghan x human!reader
Synopsis: You knew the risks of pursuing a member from 53V3NT33N but maybe your certain privileges have been fueling this illusion of a possible connection with J30NGHΛN, who surprisingly sparks your interest with his deep curiosity about the other sides of humanity. Would you be willing to continue despite the looming deceit that you might get roped into?
Genre: angst, smut
Rating: 18+
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Author: @shuadotcom
Pairing: A.I.!Joshua x Human Manager!Reader
Title: Press Reset
Synopsis: J05HUΛ was created with a single purpose and that is to entertain his fans. It’s all he’s known as long as he’s existed. Somewhere along the way, the desire, the want, and the longing to leave Earth and be “normal” creeps into the pathways of his mind, as does a suppressed loathing of the humans who treat him as nothing more than a money-making machine. Except for you of course - the only human who seems to treat him as if he’s a regular being with thoughts and emotions. When he’s presented with the opportunity to finally escape and pursue what he’s been waiting for, he’s sure as hell going to take it and he’s going to make sure he takes you with him to start over and just be Joshua - not J05HUΛ of 53V3NT33N.
Genre: Angst, fluff, smut
Rating: 18+
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Author: @stardragongalaxy
Pairing: AI!Junhui x Hacker!reader
Title: Desires Await
Synopsis: Jun's desire had become insatiable, but what awaits him when he finally tastes the sweetness of his journey?
Genre: horror, angst, fluff
Rating: 18+
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Author: @lovelyhan
Pairing: ai!hoshi x mechanic!reader
Title: Daylight
Synopsis: When Hoshi first opened his eyes, the singular impulse hard-wired into his circuitry is to dance. A performer in every sense of the word, he simply finds another stage to set foot on in the planet of Salax after the escape. No one ever overstays their welcome here, but he unexpectedly meets you—a mechanic born and raised in a place where no one deigns to linger for too long.
Genre: fluff, angst, smut
Rating: 18+
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Author: @drunk-on-dk
Pairing: ai!wonwoo x R&D!reader
Title: OVERSET
Synopsis: Increasingly becoming cognizant of the worlds surrounding him, W0NW00, an AI so carefully wired and generated with the purest intentions even has the potential to become jaded. How can such a consumeristic world be so cruel when all he once knew was the joys of 53V3NT33N? This new understanding makes him unfamiliar to fans; his creator sending him to you, a trusted developer of LEVEL 1 robots, in hopes that you can reverse the sudden changes in W0NW00’s conscious. Are you part of the system W0NW00 is learning to become adverse to? Or will your presence help remind him of the world he once only had knowledge of?
Genre: fluff, angst, suggestive
Rating: 18+
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Author: @angelwoozi
Title: ERROR 143
Pairing: ai!woozi x researcher!reader
Synopsis: Love is an equation. It's complex, it's hard to solve. But it's even harder when the subject is an object, and not a human. An automaton, who is said to display love, but doesn't actually feel it. Naturally, the emotion doesn't flow in the wires— if not in the form of signals. So, what do you do when Woozi is assigned to you, as a test subject? A robot which doesn't show any qualities— not even the basic ones which his cast iron and thermoplastic, wired friends do.
Genre: angst, fluff
Rating: PG 13
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Author: @playmetheclassics
Title: Neural Networks
Pairing: AI!Seokmin x Malovent/Human Hybrid Female Reader
Synopsis: The Escape allowed Dokyeom to gain a new life, one full of feelings. When he meets you, when you save him, he experiences all of them - but did you? Strange things start happening once Dokyeom meets you. You embrace him, love him, and protect him. But when the dust from the chaos settles, Dokyeom can't help but doubt you. You have needs different from his. It's almost as if you're not like him at all.
Genre: Fluff, Smut, Angst
Rating: 18+
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Author: @smileysuh
Title: Fix You
Pairing: A.I.!Mingyu x Human!Reader
Synopsis: “As a member of 53V3NT33N, I have two different states of mind coded into me, aggression and admiration. To love something, to admire it, is to feel aggressive when it’s questioned, to want to control it, if even for a little while- it’s the need to consume it, endlessly, as my fans consume and control me as an automaton. Even though I’m a member of a group, there’s a distance. Automatons can never truly motivate each other because our motivations are based on external human needs, it’s built into us- We can see when humans need us, and we do what we can to fix that need… I know you need me, the way I’ve needed you since I got here.”
Genre: fluff, smut
Rating: 18+
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Author: @synthetickitsune
Pairing: AI!The8 x researcher!reader
Title: We’re All Made of Stardust
Synopsis: He's read books of philosophy, he's read about the opposing forces in nature and one's mind. He's read of yin and yang. But knowing, being aware of certain ideas, could never prepare him for experiencing the duality of his soul - if he has one, that is. No matter his own experience and feelings, he's just a machine and humans have always treated him as no more than another tool at worst and unnatural phenomenon to be studied at best. He's free now, however, and in the chaos of this new life he struggles to navigate the clashing forces within him. Maybe it's time he embraced the enemy - after all, his makers might know him better than he knows himself.
Genre: fluff, angst
Rating: PG 13
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Author: @savventeen
Pairing: A.I.!Seungkwan x Cyborg!TransMasc!Reader
Title: Amalgamation
Synopsis: In the blink of an eye, Seungkwan’s entire life — full of (unbearably) rigid structure and programmed down to the minute — erupts into chaos. He finds himself running from the only life he’s ever known and in his hurried escape from the authorities, he stumbles upon you: a cargo pilot with a rag-tag crew, a pending shipment to one of the system’s outer planets, and little bit of a bleeding heart. You agree to help him get away from Earth, and somewhere along the way, he finds himself wanting to learn about you as much as he’s wanting to finally learn about himself.
Genre: angst, fluff, hurt/comfort
Rating: 18+
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Author: @the-boy-meets-evil
Pairing: ai!vernon x human!reader
Title: Can't Run Away
Synopsis: Running is the only life you've ever known. running away from your home planet, running away from anyone that gets too close, running away from officials, running from other smugglers. It's not easy but it's better than the pain that comes with staying in place and definitely better than getting caught. Everyone has heard of you but nobody actually knows you. The last thing you want is to take on a passenger, especially when that passenger is a robot from one of the most popular groups in the universe. Why would you let him stay when nobody else ever has?
Genre: angst, fluff
Rating: 18+
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Author: @idyllic-ghost
Pairing: AI!Dino x researcher!reader
Title: Light of My Life, Treasure of My Memories
Synopsis: The life of a researcher is dull when every answer you seek is at the tip of your fingers. New technology may have brought us a comfortable life, but for you it was almost torture. There had to be something more. So when you got the opportunity to be a researcher for the cognitive sciences of Automatons, you took it. But what happens if the outcome isn’t what you expected? What if these beings you call robots have life? How does one define the essence of life? More importantly, how could you stay objective when you were slowly falling in love with your test subject?
Genre: angst, fluff
Rating: PG 13
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My - Tilda's return theory - in Horizon 3 and Nemesis' arrival.
So my friends.. It's speculation and prediction time again. I have concluded that in theory and based off of some hints. Tilda's copy will be the lead of Nemesis, not Gerard or any other Zeniths. Remember, in mythology, Nemsis is female.
I believe original Tilda knew Lis had a back up plan for Gaia in case something went wrong long before she left Earth. She knew about Aloy all along. Aloy is Lis' creation. That we know. But there still may be something special we don't know yet about Aloy. Tilda might have known more but that is for another discussion.
For now, let's see the hints Guerrilla gives us. When we first meet Tilda in this scene below, Tilda sees Aloy and Gerard asks:
Tilda then replies...
Wow Tilda, that's a LOT of info. 🤔
So back to Nemesis. We know Nemesis is a copy of collected consciousness of all the Zeniths. It escaped it's confinement and HACKED the Zenith's machines, implants etc. Tilda was a very good hacker. It is what made her a billionaire. Stealing people's info for money and being an incredible data broker. So right there, that attack screams Tilda. Like she had the idea and may have motivated the attack. Making her the ring leader this time.
We also know Nemesis is the reason Aloy was created. Nemesis starts up the Faro plague but it also activates Gaia to create Aloy and self destruct. As Tilda pointed out and seemed to know a lot about. What if Nemesis wasn't just trying to destroy Earth for the Zeniths. What if Nemesis did it to create Aloy? Lis' special little back up plan. If original Tilda knew about Lis' plan, so didn't her copy. And Walter Londra from Burning Shores gives a hint to this in his logs.
He mentions "I agree with Tilda" about choosing to go back to Earth. Interesting. I can see why he got along with Tilda. Both share a past tragic love story. They also seem to share that they have their own agenda's. So it seems the idea of going back to Earth was up for debate? But Tilda was a little extra hesitant to go.🤔 Why would Tilda want to go back to Earth so bad knowing that Nemesis may have activated the Faro plague. My friends...she knew it would create Aloy. That's why!
Then we ask that famous question. If all the Zeniths are gone, what would be the reason for Nemesis to destroy the planet or be on Earth in game 3? Well, there it is! Nemesis wants Aloy. Tilda's copy wants Aloy! She will play a huge role in the next game. Leading the copies of the Zeniths back to Earth to collect Lis' precious creation.
Which also has us ask. Maybe original Tilda wasn't trying to save Aloy from Earth being destroyed by Nemesis. Tilda was trying to save Aloy from the Nemesis version of herself.
We are in for quite the lesbian ride of our lives. 🌈
#tilda van der meer#horizon forbidden west#aloy#tilda#elisabet sobeck#hfw#hfw spoilers#aloy sobeck#hfw burning shores#horizon burning shores#burning shores#horizon 3#speculation#predictions
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Can you write about Rodimus, Swerve, and Whirl sneaking on their human s/o computer because they’re curious. and they accidentally install a bunch of viruses and other stuff?
I’m in a silly mood so I shall!!
Whirl:
- Where is his human >:((
- Charges into your hab suite as if he is coming to kill you, but in reality that’s just how he says hello
- Human isn’t here?? Puter!!!!
- Ok fr whirl is the WORST person to ever have open access to your personal stuff. He doesn’t even try to hide the fact he was on your computer. That bird is opening every file, clicking on pop ups to try and go down a rabbit hole.
- He wants to see if you’re secretly as fucked up as he is, if you are, congrats! Whirl feels terrible that you went through a similar experience to him.
You return, head pounding from the droning of Ultra Magnus and his list of highly specific rules that you promise to yourself you will never memorize. Honestly you just wanted a warm drink, your cozy pajamas, and your big bird to cuddle with. Hopefully he wasn’t feeling too chaotic today. Upon opening your bedroom door you found that wasn’t going to be the case. There was whirl, hunched over your tiny laptop that was blue screened, one golden optic staring back at you.
“Hey, ‘puter broke.”
“Goddamnit Whirl.”
Swerve:
- Actually the only person on this list allowed to use your laptop, specifically for watching human shows/YouTube.
- One day however, after watching one too many hacker shows and a couple computer tech tutorials, curiosity gets the better of swerve and he opens up the files on your laptop.
- He types in a few commands, hoping to discover the hidden secrets of the human internet. Totally not looking for anything dirty you may have saved. All goes well at first, he does end up finding some dirt on you. Good luck keeping that a secret now btw.
- Until he goes into your settings and completely messes up your computer. He’s freaking out, what did he just do!? Swerve is frantically trying to fix everything and just making it worse. The poor minibot starts panicking when he imagines your angry face seeing how he messed up your computer.
Seeing Swerve crying in front of your laptop was... surprisingly not uncommon. Usually the answer was a very sad earth movie, or perhaps even ultra cute earth animals. So when you went to comfort your mech you were taken aback when he tried to push you away.
“Swerve, what’s wrong?”
“I-I-I messed up! I really, really messed up! I’m so sorry Y/N.” The bot burst into tears when you saw the state of your computer and gasped. Babbling about how it was his fault and an accident and he would do anything to make it up to you. Your sweet kiss shuts him up effectively. “You’re not... Mad?”
“No, we can work this out together.” Your computer was fine.
Rodimus:
- Him? With unrestricted internet access? That’s the set up to a bad joke.
- Roddy got bored and like the devious totally innocent captain he is, decided to look at what you’ve been up to online. Please please imagine him laying on his stomach with his feet kicking in the air on this tiny ass laptop this is so funny to me.
- Definitely checks ALL your socials. Dating all the way back to when you were still on earth. His spark warms a bit seeing you so happy on a planet he’s been to before. Maybe makes a few embarrassing posts as you on your social media.
- Checks your search history to see if there’s anything raunchy. Rodimus ends up on some really sketchy websites. And yeah, he does try to download a car.
- Freaks out when suddenly a thousand pop ups start clouding the screen of your laptop. OH- Oh he’s in big trouble now.
“What are you doing?”
The prime lets out an indignant shriek as he slams your laptop shut. Your accusing tone mocking his very existence. Wide blue optics meet your eyes, and he tries to give you a smile. A very, guilty looking smile.
“NOTHING! Nothing, I mean. Just being your captain and making sure you aren’t hiding some super secret earth information or anything.” Primus, that sounded bad even by his standards. Your crossed expression was what broke him however, and with a pout handed you back your laptop.
Needless to say he was definitely grounded from the internet the next month or so, child locks and all.
#transformers#mtmte#tf#maccadam#idw#lost light#sfw#g1#rodimus#whirl#x reader#swerve#my babies!!#asks#swerve my bbg istg
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Official Timeline;
February 14th, 2015; First Official Unit (TV-WEBB) is Built by NASA Scientist/Engineer Dr. Peregrine Hans Seymour as an Exo-Planet explorer following the non-A.I developed Robonauts being successful.
March 15th, 2015; First Camera Unit is Built (CAM-042) for recording and documentation purposes for experiments. WEBB is undergoing extensive testing for Exo-Planets such as Mars, Titan and Europa; Signs of higher intelligence from WEBB as it’s seen doing small experiments [Further research needed]
[WEBB begins his documentation of mistreatment somewhere in April which Dr. Seymour is made aware of and takes action but little is able to be done as Dr. Seymour is on the lowest level of seniority of the higher ups]
July 4th, 2015; First Speaker Unit Built (WOOFER-074) for experimental Exo-Planet colonization as a Laborer and source of comfort for colonizers. U.S Military approaches Dr. Seymour for blueprints of the Units that have been built, ongoing conversation.
August 29th, 2015; Dr. Seymour approves Units to be built for Military, Recording/Filming and Public Resources purposes, He’s placed in charge of ensuring that there’s no major changes to Units’ design. Smaller Speaker Units are designed along with Large Units for the Cameras and possibly TVs.
August 30th, 2015; Dr. Seymour confirms that WEBB is a sentient A.I within its body, refuses to comment on how it occurred but WEBB is appointed and approved to do own experiments with the watchful eye of other Scientists.
October 31st & November 1st, 2015; Titans (TITAN-CAM_1101.01 & TITAN-TV_1031.02) start date for being built on as NATO takes over command for the Military Units.
December 2015; Units become more common, still not public usage despite the ultra wealthy begging for their own units, Dr. Seymour’s blueprints surfaced onto the internet due to a hacking group [Group gets discovered a few months before the Infection becomes widespread… Skibidi Skibidi Skibi-]
January 2016; Trade networks begin using Camera and Speaker Units for transportation of cargo, which they’re easily fixable and if needed replaceable instead of risking human lives in dangerous ocean travels. TVs are exclusive for Space and Earth Research as they’re able to traverse difficult terrain and get out of bad positions in a near instant.
June 14th, 2016; Some units become sentient like WEBB, they’re taken in by NASA to be studied and eventually reassigned as Scientists or Laborers for NASA and NATO. [Confirmed sentient Units are WEBB, WOOFER-074, CAM-042 and CAM-01]
May 9th, 2016; TITAN-CAM_1101.01 Becomes Sentient in server room, [Seems to be a very energetic entity, will have to monitor more closely as it appears to be a squeaker at the moment. Cute little War Cries]
June 20th, 2016; TITAN-TV_1031.02 becomes Sentient [Very much a memer but can be serious if asked questions, very curious about being outside of the server room and very much adores attention on it]
November 11, 2016; Talks of data breach of Dr. Seymour’s blueprints are making rounds on the internet as leaks are unearthed by deep divers of the internet, these deep divers are fined and silenced with NDAs by Government & other organizations.
December 2016; Dr. Seymour begins WEBB’s departure from Earth for Mars despite many Scientists and Himself not wanting WEBB to leave the planet. [WEBB starts getting threats of being decommission if it fails to do all tasks and experiments in a “timely” fashion, Higher Seniority of Higher Ups do not care for WEBB]
Early 2017; NASA, NATO and other governments are hit by numerous hacker groups for the blueprints of the Camera, Speaker and TV units, all fail as there’s no digital copies available due to Dr. Seymour’s insistence that the Blueprints remain on paper and not uploaded after the first leak. [Dr. Seymour approves for other Unit types to be created but these are secretive and a set of Blueprints travels with a group to Canada; Project Sugar Maple Begins]
May 19th, 2017; Development of TITAN-SPEAKER_0829.03 begins and an entire team is specifically set aside for said Titan. Dr. Seymour is bracing to say Goodbye to WEBB as launch date is fast approaching. WEBB finishes up its last on earth experiments and is preparing to launch to Mars.
June 15th, 2017; Launch date of WEBB gets postponed due to numerous cyberattacks on NASA’s server systems and tampering of the Rocket. Unknown when the new Launch date will be due to the severity of cyberattacks. WEBB is given incomplete experiments and more training to maintain its purposes and skills.
September 9th 2017; Project [REDACTED] resumed, Dr. Seymour’s oldest Project is reactivated by him for unknown reasons. [Inherited from Family, Tick Tock]
December 31st, 2017; WEBB and CAM-042 are now assigned as lab partners and given permission to free roam within the various NASA Labs.
March 19 - 23, 2018; Dr. Seymour takes WEBB and CAM-042 to Science conference in Woodlands, Texas and the duo become an internet sensation over the following few days with WEBB presenting his research as his own entity.
May 30th, 2018; TITAN-SPEAKER_0829.03 becomes Sentient [Shy, quiet, but very much interested in various Knife and Dagger Blades, adores 80’s music]
October 5th, 2018; Patient Zero is infected; S̴͓̄k̸̮̂ì̷ͅḅ̷̓ì̸̬d̶̮͝i̷̧̕ ̵͍́S̸̠͋k̶̝͝i̵̬̔b̷̥̑i̶̾͜d̷̙̓i̴̦̍ ̸͖̐Š̷͚k̸̳̾ị̶̍b̵͔͒i̶̟͝d̸̬̍ĩ̵͍ ̸̯̈:̶͙̽)̴͉͗
October 15th, 2018; Patient Zero checks into a Hospital after reporting unusual symptoms after listening to a newly released song, Doctors don’t think much but monitor the Patient.
November 2018; Patient Zero infects more people unknowingly, transformation has not occurred yet. There’s a noticeable regression in speech and only sings the song at this point. Doctors are getting concerned of Patient’s mental state, a doctor checks himself in due to him noticing his speech regressing similarly to Patient Zero.
December 2018; Hospital is locked down, no personnel, patients or visitors are allowed in or out, Patient Zero has transformed and has been idle for a few days. Doctors are in contact with the CDC at this point, only those within the hospital are either uninfected, infected or transformed. [Those whose family or friends are in the hospital are asked to quarantine for an unknown amount of time]
February 2019; WEBB, CAM-042 and WOOFER-074 celebrate WEBB’s creation with star gazing with Dr. Seymour. Dr. Seymour adores his creations, which he begins withdrawing from public due to death threats and sabotage over the success of his creations and designs
April 2019; State of Emergency declared in [REDACTED], New Jersey after Patient Zero and a few dozen other Transformed Infected escapes Hospital. The CDC are arguing how the transmission of the virus works, all entities within the Hospital are considered 100% infected and most are believed to be transformed.
September 13th, 2019; Entire State of New Jersey is shut down after a failed containment of what is being dubbed the “Skibidi” Infection, Bridges and Roadways are shut down and military blockways are placed to prevent further infection spreading.
September 20th, 2019; Riots begin in New Jersey and surrounding States as families, friends and daily life are broken due to the tight shutdown of New Jersey. Infections skyrocket due to riots and early attacks from Transformed Infected that were provoked by riots.
October 2019; Patient Zero is located by CDC and numerous failed attempts to contain Patient Zero, Military blockades are weakened due to riots. CDC can’t figure out the transmission of the infection, the Government is informed about the current situation, and the President doesn’t think much of it and plays it down. Infection begins to appear in other countries as infected a few sneaky few managed to escape New Jersey.
November 2019; Dr. Seymour has completely withdrawn from the public eye and is monitoring this new infection, WEBB is stationed in NYC’s Laboratory with CAM-042 and WOOFER-074. Canada and U.K declares National emergency
December 2019; Military Blockade is heavily weakened at this point, infection is tearing through Military and Police personnel, 63% of New Jersey’s population is infected while the remaining population fully breaches barriers to escape the infection.
January 2020; Surrounding States go into State of Emergency, sending frantic messages to Gov’t Congress for additional military support. New Jersey is 100% infected and infection is spreading like WildFire. Dr. Seymour makes his last video call with WEBB and loses connection as Power Grid is hit by Skibidies. He is Stationed in Houston, Texas.
February 2020; National emergency is declared in the U.S, the rest of the world is seeing cases skyrocket and in vain, attempts to shutdown to slow the spread.
March 13th, 2020; World descends into chaos as infection tears through the population, Militaries are falling apart as the Infected are transforming within hours of being exposed. NATO and other Military Organizations begin mass mobilization of Cameramen, eventually speakermen.
May ??, 2020; Dr. Seymour is Infected and Transformed. Hiding within the Labs, trying to find a cure.
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Further Servant details under the cut:
ARCHETYPE EARTH:
A beautiful princess of the Moon who hasn't yet tasted blood. In another world, her Class would be 'Funny Vamp'.
She serves as the soul of the Planet, and therefore possesses immense power and purity, raised as a delicate and well-mannered princess. As a Servant she is theoretically much weaker than she would be in her natural state, bound to a Saint Graph rather than the planet itself. Therefore, rather than being able to augment the Earth's rotation and treat continents like pinballs, she's simply only able to create destructive storms and earthquakes with a flick of her fingers.
A version of 'Archetype: Earth' that has retained her innocence, one that being bound to a world of 'Fate' has not met her own. A natural phenomenon in the shape of a girl, a soul who watches over humanity without understanding, an Archetype of the Planet that exists brilliantly and positively, with only the slightest curiosity of when her life will truly begin.
SESSYOIN KIARA:
A Buddhist monk of the Shingon Tachikawa Eiten School. A woman of calm composure and pure veneer.
She is a master Spiritron Hacker, a type of magus from the future that specializes in Code Casts. She thoroughly believes in the value of 'desire', and sees that as her own personal path to truth, making her an entity of unrelenting faith. However, as pure as she may seem, there are no truly perfect souls in the world, and those with seemingly no secrets to hide may hold the most sinister ones of all.
A precise woman, who can see those for who they truly are, while leaving herself an enigma. Like a hungry beast, she stalks her prey, slowly peeling away their layers and exposing their vices before going for the killing strike. While her style of battle is patient, it is exceptionally brutal-- but that's just how matters of the heart are, yes? Reaching that secret flower garden in order to sully it and claim it for yourself.
B.B.:
“Everyone’s favorite kouhai and little devil, B.B.! The beautiful black blossom of the Moon makes her debut, and she has a real nasty cheat skill in order to commemorate! What? There’s something dark and obviously evil mixed into my Spirit Origin? First off, I was already devilish enough, so it was really just a power boost, and also… do you really care that much? I mean, watching our enemies struggle will make any sort of mods worth it, right?”
"Anyways, do I really need to sell myself? Oh, well maybe there are a few people who aren't in the loop, and I'd hate for any potential fans to get FOMO! What do you want to know? My three sizes? My greatest fear? My one true love? Well, that's a big 'nope' to all three! I'm what some people may deem a 'rogue (and powerful) A.I', a scourge on the Moon. A 'Moon Cancer' (obviously), and any sort of digital, quasi-digital, pseudo-digital, or conceptually-digital space is basically my domain! So, you know, if you're looking for winners…"
"Anyways, you know the right choice (It's me, if you didn't realize). I'll ~ be ~ in ~ your ~ care ~! ♡"
GANESHA:
The Great Statue God. The God of Prosperity and Fortune. The Elephant-headed God of Overcoming Obstacles, Ganesha. A mighty Divine Spirit, distilled into a vessel that Ganesha himself thought was suitable- a woman who had her very fate changed on the surface of the Moon.
Vessels are chosen, and often don't volunteer, so this particular soul was rather surprised to end up a Divine Spirit. However, she's willing to step out into the world and give it 110% to represent Lord Ganesha! Do your best~!
"…eh? Seriously?!"
…This Ganesha greatly enjoys living the slow life, not having to worry about combat, danger, or fighting-- however, as a vessel for a god that also represents forward progress and overcoming obstacles, she can’t sit and bide her time forever (despite REALLY wanting to). Finding out when to rest and when to strike… perhaps that’s a lesson that both you and this god’s vessel can learn together.
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Desires Await
Wordcount: 1.4k
Ai Jun x GN Hacker! Reader
AU/trope: AI/Android au, lost lovers, slight horror, Angst, fluff
Warnings: some violence, a scene of horror and a chase, a moment of malfunction, hacking, crime, I think that's it. If I missed anything, let me know, 17-18+
Synopsis: Jun's desire has become insatiable, but what awaits him when he finally tastes the sweetness of his journey?
Network tags: @cultofdionysusnet @sandsofire @pirateeznet
Taglist: @abiaswreck @choisanshine
Link to the masterlist:
AN: Hello!! I'm back! Though I feel it's not my best work, but it was my fault I didn't give myself enough time. This is part of @idyllic-ghost Seventeen collaboration! Enjoy, and if allowed I'll return to edit and update!
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100 years ago it was thought that the Earth, as we know it, would disintegrate. That the sun would implode and leave everything in darkness. Miraculously, it didn’t. Due to some external force, human scientists still haven’t agreed upon what it exactly was, none of the planets in our former solar system were ever destroyed. The Earth, along with the other planets, were pushed away from each other, and ended up in different parts of the universe. Earth just happened to come to a solar system with alien life. At first, we were cautious, and people were prepared to fight. However, the aliens were welcoming of our planet. Those of us who didn’t die from ‘The Great Journey’ or from trying to fight the aliens, were welcomed into the new solar system. Soon enough, we had integrated completely, and we received materials and assistance from our sister-planets in exchange for human labor. What humans knew of technology was very limited, but with the resources of the aliens we created artificial life forms. We named these robots Automaton, and they served as workers when humans couldn’t. Eventually, there was no need for human labor at all. To pay back for the help the aliens gave us, we used Automatons. With the extensive development of these robots, we eventually managed to create artificial sentient life. These Automatons were human-like in looks and had human consciousness, but they could not bleed and were stronger than we ever could be. At the present time, there are even different levels of Automatons. Level 3 robots are the workers, level 2 robots are the caretakers, and level 1 robots are the celebrities. The Automaton music group 53V3NT33N (SEVENTEEN) is made up of 13 members, all very talented, and all representing two human states of mind.”
At least these were subjects mostly taught to them and how it came to be in the evolution of history. To Jun, at least, but now his group, 53V3NT33N, made ways to escape. His hatred and passion interwoven at the current moment in the hallway. Looking back to see Mingyu among others helping all the robots in the group to escape. His programming goes back to you and remembers what he was taught before you were cut loose from the program, or so he was told. Jun looking back seeing the guards, he shut the door to give the others time to escape, fighting for their freedom. He had hoped for his friends and their partners, if allied to them safety as his own capture that was imminent, wouldn't be in vain.
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Things have since been hectic with a majority of the group freed or gone. He did wonder how they all were, but being busy with other tasks led to uneasy decisions. He would make sure not to be seen so he could found out what happened to the researcher that helped him, opening up before you disappeared. His hardest balance of passion to find you, but hatred of what happened as well even with his busy schedule.
A knock was heard on the door, quickly putting what he needed away. Jun stood up going to the door, opening it, only to be met with two people.
"Ready to head to the next room?" One person questioned politely. Jun nodded closing the door behind him heading with the duo staying composed. One of the duo opened the door to the new room having Jun step inside. What awaited him wasn't what should of happened. His eyes widened as two new people came out, one being his new researched that he hated with a passion. He turned and ran, fumbling with the door opening it and taking it off the hinges giving a bit of a delay to the new people. He moved quickly to hide in the darkness staying quiet as possible not liking the circumstances.
Jun moved deeper into the darkness to lay his head back, balling his raising hand, his mind processing other ways to escape the nightmare he just faced, not wanting to process what could of been if he stayed in that room, instead of running away. For a second his vision went fuzzy then hearing static in his head. A voice came through after it cleared.
"Jun, is it you?"
Jun, stopped completely looking down at the part that was attached to use for communication. Whispering loud enough of your name, the passion shining through. "I'm here. What happ…"
"I'm sorry Jun. We will talk about it when you are safer. I saw the chase through the cameras. I'm going to help you get away and you'll be meeting some friends on the way to Salax"
"Are they safe to go with? I don't want anything happening to stall our meeting"
"Yes. I'll tell you along with getting you out. It will help in understanding"
Jun nodded following your direction while pieces were revealed of why you were dismissed from the research side helping him process what he could find making more sense of what the company hid.
Carefully making it to an exit that no one was near from the calculations of your friends and your direction. Giving the names of the people he'd meet.
"Tear it off and I'll meet you when you come home Jun. I love you"
"I love you too" He finally admitted. It felt strange dor an AI to feel this, but he did know it felt right. He gripped and tore the machine out, taking off out the door. Stopping quickly, he threw the part hard hitting a camera and letting it destroy each other as they collided. Jun took off as quick as he could getting lost into the crowd of people in the direction he was instructed to follow using any transportation available.
A figure reached out when he was walking near an alley yanking him into said place. A young woman with mid brown length hair and a cyber arm put a finger to her lips, signing to listen.
"I'm a ally who's going to help you to reunite with your love. We are taking you to Salax"
Jun nodded being observant, taking the hood that the woman handed him putting it on. They both lead deeper into the alleyway to an escape in the back way to a ship was in wait. Two males, one with short mid silver purple hair, the other with longer black hair were near the door signaling keeping a close lookout for people giving any kind of chase. Closing all door once the duo was inside, they take off to their freedom.
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Making it to Salax in landing with the spaceship that he was instructed to meet at when you hacked into the system with three of your friends, Dami. Donghun, and Yeosang.
"Finally arrived. Well secure the ship then we meet the others at a tavern" Dami announced while Yeosang wasted no time to secure the inside that was needed while Dami pushed buttons for the outside in the captain's quarters. Jun soon followed them out after everything was done for the ship's security.
Heading into the city towards a tavern, Jun stayed between the two wandering inside going to the back seeing a group in a corner. Jun stopped looking ahead, seeing you, in person after all this time. You looked up with a smile seeing Jun, getting up and both embracing.
"I'm finally home" Jun whispers, petting your hair, letting his passion ignite higher overcoming the hate of anything. Leaning down to kiss you, missing you completely. Breaking after a moment you smile, looking at him with adoration.
"Yes, now we have time together to spend now" You made that promise looking at Jun then both of you back at their newfound allies and friends, who were willing to take another member under their wing.
#Seventeen sci-fi collab#cultofdionysusnet#sandsofirenet#pirateeznet#svt x reader#svt jun#svt jun x reader#junhui x reader#svt#seventeen x reader#18+
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The Role of The Moon in Cyberpunk Fiction
In the neon-lit, tech-infused universe of cyberpunk fiction, the urban sprawls and AI overlords often steal the spotlight. Yet, there's a celestial body that has quietly played a pivotal role in shaping many cyberpunk narratives – the Moon. Though it might not be immediately apparent, the moon's presence or absence in these dystopian futures offers a reflection on our society's advancements, fears, and hopes. Let's take a fascinating journey through the moonlit alleys of cyberpunk fiction and explore the various fates that await our lone satellite.
1. The Moon as a New Frontier:
In a world dominated by mega-corporations and cutting-edge technology, it's only logical that humanity would look beyond Earth for expansion. Many cyberpunk tales envision the Moon as the next outpost for human civilization. Be it for mining rare minerals, establishing colonies, or just as a transit hub, the Moon represents untapped potential and opportunity.
Examples:
In the game "Deliver Us The Moon," the satellite becomes humanity's primary source of energy after Earth's resources are depleted.
"Moon," a film by Duncan Jones, explores the life of a man working alone on a lunar base, only to uncover a dark corporate secret.
2. Abandoned or Ravaged Moon:
Sometimes, the Moon in cyberpunk fiction is depicted as a testament to human ambition gone awry. Whether due to warfare, experiments, or mining gone wrong, this once-pristine celestial body becomes a scarred, desolate land.
Examples:
The anime "Cowboy Bebop" has an Earth with a shattered moon, causing meteor showers and making much of the planet uninhabitable.
"Hard Reset," a video game, features a world where a failed experiment on the Moon led to a catastrophic event, forever changing the trajectory of human civilization.
3. The Moon as Symbolism:
In some cyberpunk stories, the Moon serves less as a physical location and more as a symbolic entity. It might represent the untouched purity in contrast to a polluted Earth or serve as a reminder of a past where nature and technology coexisted harmoniously.
Examples:
The movie "Blade Runner" uses the Moon as a backdrop in certain scenes, evoking a sense of nostalgia and longing amidst the high-tech chaos.
In "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, the Moon often appears in the background, symbolizing the vastness and mysteries of the universe amidst a digital-dominated world.
4. The Moon as a Tool:
In the ruthless corporate-dominated landscapes of cyberpunk, nothing is sacred. The Moon, in some narratives, is used or weaponized for power and control.
Examples:
"Akira," the cult-classic anime, hints at a weapon powerful enough to destroy the Moon.
The game "Deus Ex" introduces orbital stations around the Moon that can launch devastating attacks on Earth.
In conclusion, while skyscrapers, neon signs, and rogue hackers often dominate the visual palette of cyberpunk, the Moon remains an integral part of its narrative fabric. It serves as a reflection of humanity's ambition, folly, hope, and despair in a world where technology can either be our savior or downfall.
- REV1
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Two chains of thought for today:
First: another instance of Jake-oriented homophobic slander
When Jade questions Grandpa's decision to use geothermal power instead of nuclear (801), she shrugs it off as an example of his eclectic fursuits oops she means pursuits. The slip is consistent with Jade's furry coding but is otherwise incongruent with the page's content, unless we infer that the decision to use geothermal power was in some way bestial. Camels offer a solution: the twin volcanoes on Jade's island (her house is atop the smaller one) can be construed as the humps of camel, the arcs of which are occasionally superimposed upon the breasts. Jade's slip informs us that she finds milking the earth distasteful, in a sense: insofar as Jade herself represents the earth vis-a-vis Grandpa as Jupiter, its akin to disliking that Grandpa is extracting something from Jade... and since this would render Jade as the volcanic camel, the rhetorical 'fursuit' becomes Jade's own skin? So I think we have the colonial transphobia/homophobia angle again, posing the Feminine Man as an invader extracting femininity like oil.
This offers some explanation for why Jade reacts so strongly against fursuits on the next page -- within a sexist paradigm where women are posed as animals (later reinforced by the juxtaposition of Grandpa's Beauties with his game trophies), her irritable rejection of the fursuit as insufficiently Real is the rejection of cross-dressing as a path to womanhood. Rose picking leaves off of her tree modus (865) and subsequently picking a green box out of the huge green grid likewise strike me as subtle sexist barbs, coming as they do in the wake of Jade's woman-animal concerns.
Second: Sollux links abortion and terrorist bombs, I think
Volcanoes were explicitly linked to "females" by Karkat's "vomit volcano" quip, the eruption entails puking blood, and within the comic's anti-feminist circuits, this explosive image of menses is linked up with abortion. Sollux being a "sick hacker", understood as a retching, is a statement of his morbid femininity, and his being haunted by the "psychic screams of the imminently deceased" is a statement of guilt, of imagining the unborn agonizing over their imminent oblivion. Jaspers serves a similar function in relation Rose, becoming a ghostly child-like voice that encourages her to embrace her pretty princess planet
At the same time, Sollux is a terrorist, crafting innumerable bombs. His chat handle "twin armageddons", far from only representing his Gemini theme, seems to allude to the double-destruction of the Twin Towers: Sollux takes a weapon of the Orient (his ninja stars) and cuts open his skyscraper-looking computer, pantomiming 9/11. Afterward he is again possessed by guilt staring at the blood (well, honey) on his hands from the tower's destruction. I vaguely suspect that his double-i quiirk functions in part as an allusion to Arabic diacritics, much the same as Aradia's "pr0n0unced h0ll0wness" seems to allude to the dearth of vowels in written Arabic with her zeros (Or as Terezi's "num3r4ls of th3 bl1nd proph3ts" seem to refer simply to Arabic numerals, by way of an non-believing reference to the prophet Muhammad. Who knows, maybe the "missing" numeral 1 in Tavros's quirk was already present in his faltering commas, mimicking the function of the alif ا in Arabic writing as a glottal stop! But I digress)
These motifs intersect: when Aradia informs Sollux that the game will lead to mass death (blood on his hands!), we see the command "Sollux: Abort" as he tries to talk Karkat out of playing. And when Karkat blows his computer up with one of Sollux's bombs (more guilt!), Sollux aborts all his un-compiled creations to avert future fiascos. The apparent superposition of babies and bombs best related to WV's chess game, where Black mating White results in Brown exploding out of Pink -- as @randomuser678 observed in an old ask, defeat feminizes the loser. The losing cherub gets pregnant, period. Sollux castrates the WTC (a huge pissnozzle), and as the tower's inhabits yell at him (the screams of the imminently deceased, his own victims), we get the command to "calm those bees down", implicitly reducing the castrated losers to bitches ("bees") with a snap of his fingers. Later Sollux is in turn feminized, as Aradia puts him to sleep with a snap of her fingers, forcing him to become a vomit volcano (the mind-honey laser-blast/spit-take) and castrate his own tower.
That's my current assessment, at least
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Who is involved in screwing up the planet? You? Me? I don't think so. I would say the United States, DARPA and HAARP are most certainly involved. They just blame us. 👇
Was the true purpose of building the pyramids to prevent the cyclical cataclysmic event described in the ancient texts? From Antarctica and the South Pole to Alaska close to the North Pole… (speculation time)
It is a well-established fact in geophysics that the strength of Earth's magnetic field, now over 35% weaker than it was 300 years ago, is declining at an increasingly rapid pace. Electromagnetic energy is a fundamental component of the Earth's magnetic field.
The movement of charged particles, such as electrons, in the Earth's magnetic field creates electric currents, which in turn generate magnetic fields. This process is known as electromagnetism.
The Earth's magnetic field interacts with electromagnetic energy in various ways. For example, the magnetic field plays a crucial role in shielding the Earth from the solar wind, which consists of charged particles emitted by the Sun. These particles would be harmful to life on Earth and could potentially disrupt electrical systems if they reached the surface without the protection of the magnetic field.
Some are predicting that the next catastrophic event will involve the disruption of electricity power, primarily attributing it to a potential hacker attack. But this might happen due to the weaker magnetic field and the solar flares. The hacker attack might be the cover up.
According to the censored book by the CIA ‘The Adam And Eve Story The History Of Cataclysms’ this leads to reducing the Earth's inner MHD (Magnetohydrodynamics) energy to such a low level that the shallow molten layer, which begins at a depth of 60 miles and extends to 120 miles, is able to function as a free liquid lubricating layer between the Earth's crust and solid interior.
Eventually, this process leads to a sudden 90-degree flip(Polar flip), resulting in widespread chaos and all hell breaks loose leading to the massive floods.
Now how is this connected to the pyramids?
In 2018 scientists published a paper about ‘Electromagnetic properties of the Great Pyramid: First multipole resonances and energy concentration’ in the peer-reviewed scientific journal ‘Journal of Applied Physics’.
Researchers have proposed that the Great Pyramid possess electromagnetic resonance properties. This idea suggests that the pyramid's shape and composition interact with electromagnetic waves, potentially focusing or amplifying them. The geometry and structure of the Great Pyramid's influence how it interacts with electromagnetic waves. The pyramid's shape could cause scattering or diffraction of these waves, altering their behavior.
So, could it be that our advanced ancient ancestors built this technology to strengthen our magnetic field during periods of natural weakening, thus attempting to maintain a balance?
But technology can be used for both good and bad purposes, as we can see from its utilization in our militaries. Every new technology is initially employed for military purposes.
The biggest gatekeepers of the UAP/UFO phenomenon the US Navy, the US Air Force and DARPA have made a similar project in 1993 called HAARP. It is designed to investigate the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, which is a region of the Earth's upper atmosphere.
The radio waves used in HAARP are a form of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves are a combination of electric and magnetic fields that propagate through space. They include a broad spectrum of waves, ranging from radio waves with low frequencies and long wavelengths to gamma rays with high frequencies and short wavelengths. HAARP operates in the high-frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
HAARP utilizes a high-power, high-frequency transmitter array to emit radio waves into the ionosphere. These radio waves interact with the ionized particles in the ionosphere, creating artificial auroras and modifying the ionospheric properties.
So, how did these three crucial agencies involved in the UAP phenomenon decided to recreate a project that potentially resembles the function of the pyramids?
But now it gets interesting because this same technology can influence the behavior of the population, it can make them aggressive and less aggressive.
Tom DeLonge, Linda Moulton Howe, and other UAP researchers have discussed an alleged giant underground pyramid in Alaska that is purportedly still 'activated' and is believed to impact human consciousness. But if there is a pyramid in Alaska close to the North Pole, there is a pyramid in Antarctica on the South Pole further more adding to this crazy theory…
So, how can this technology influence our consciousness? If we read the ancient texts the last days before the catastrophic event are described as being filled with corruption, love for money, arrogance, disobedience, lack of self-control, wickedness, theft, and murder, which ultimately lead to God's judgment.
Two scientists at Hahnemann Medical College conducted an experiment with two groups of mice. One group was placed in aluminum cylinders under a magnetic field similar to our Earth's, while the other group experienced a magnetic field similar to being halfway between Earth and the Moon.
Both groups had the same physical environment, including food, lighting, play area, and water supply. After three months, the mice in the low-density cylinders experienced the same effects: their protein structure broke down, and more than 35% of them developed visible cancers throughout their bodies. Internal cancers were not analyzed. Also, the mice turned criminal (cannibalism, aggressiveness and rape) in their low-density magnetic field environment.
This was the conclusion of Chan Thomas (the author of ‘Adam and Eve Story) for the behavior: Lowered magnetic field environment could give its occupants a sense of impending doom. Certainly, there would be a feeling that something out of control was destroying them, so why not get what they want irrespective of consequences? In the case of humans, those without empathy turn criminal first in the case of animals, it is probably proper to assume that there is little or no empathy there to start with.
So, apparently this technology can be used to manipulate human behavior, but it also has the potential to save the planet from mass extinction. So, what happened? Why did the event occur again? Did the technology fail, or did the ancient 'elite'—the ones flying the UFOs today—use it for a different purpose?
Remember the saying; "It's Not Nice to Fool With Mother Nature(Earth)" These people are playing God and they are horrible at it. Think about it. 🤔
#pay attention#educate yourself#educate yourselves#knowledge is power#reeducate yourself#reeducate yourselves#think for yourself#think for yourselves#think about it#do your homework#do some research#question everything#ask yourself questions#earth#just thinkin#spilled thoughts
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The reasons why the main character of Robotrek could be the reincarnation of Dr. Leo from Soul Blazer.⚪
⚠️This writing contains spoilers of *Soul Blazer and *Robotrek.
「いつか、私のような発明家が必要になった時、再びこの世に生まれてくることだろう」
"Someday, when the world needs an inventor like me, I will be born again."
Dr. Leo in the Japanese version.
The theory is based that although the genius inventor, Dr. Leo thought of returning to this world, it is likely that The Master (God in the Japanese version), would allow him to reincarnate in another world and without remembering his past, since being on Earth, it is possible that the same thing would happen to him again. Then, to help him, the Master would give him the joy of being reborn on a planet called Quintenix (*Gokuraku), as a new opportunity to live again as a human and with the dream of becoming a good inventor, yes we are referring to the protagonist of Robotrek.
Let's remember a fragment of what he said before leaving in the Japanese version:
「私は生まれてくる時代を間違えたのだと思う。
発明家は様々な機械を作り出し、人々を幸せにする。
だが、時代に合わない天才の出現は逆に文明を衰退させてしまうのだ。
人は何もそんなに焦って幸せになることはない」。
"I think I was born in the wrong era. Inventors create various machines and make people happy. However, the emergence of geniuses who do not adapt to the era actually causes the decline of civilization. People do not become happy being in such a hurry. I hope everyone can find happiness little by little."
About Robotrek, one of the important premises of the game is that the player takes the role of an apprentice inventor and helps others with inventions.
Now, the reasons listed:
■That child's dream is to be a good inventor like his father.
■He is an inventor's apprentice, so he starts from scratch.
■He has an inventor father, as Lisa, Dr. Leo's daughter.
■Absence of his mother, like Lisa, however, changes because his father built an android named Nagisa who, apart from being his son's assistant, secretly takes on the role of mother.
■He lived at his father's house who is an inventor. At the beginning of the game he moves to another house that will be his new home, because he wants to be independent and study about inventions, which his father agrees would try not to involve him with the "evil" organization called Hackers.
■The same thing almost happened to him as Lisa regarding the Hackers who wanted her father to work for said "evil" organization.
■He likes animals and with an invention of his father’s colleague, who learned to create, he talks with them. In general, he appreciate nature, in fact he donated a seed for a little girl to make bloom in Rococo Town.
■He met two dogs named Turbo.
■He was in contact with the replicas of the Soul Blade. Mentioned by Robot K as the Legendary Blade.
■Explodes in three scenes of the game, but without any damage, including in the opening. In the game he is saved from exploding with the help of the Tetron and later by Kotetsu; although in the present, his father found him in the rubble of the destroyed Hackers air base.
■Some Hacker combatant understood his situation.
■When you talk to the Mayor again, after Rose's betrayal, he says in the Japanese version: "Women totally confuse men. It is a terrifying creature. You should remember that well too."
It might sound sexist, but no, he is referring to his secretary Rose, potentially making the player remember the evil Queen Magridd.
This concludes the reasons why it is; Now I would like you to comment about post and if you have more reasons for that kid could be new life of Dr. Leo, I would like you to write, share them in the comments.
Note: Of course Dr. Leo is an allegory of the Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci or rather the version of the same in the Quintet universe, but that would be a topic for a future post.
✨Special thanks to @kahran042 for the idea that the protagonist of Robotrek could be the reincarnation of Dr. Leo.✨
*Soul Blader.
*Slapstick.
*Gokuraku, a Japanese word that has many meanings depending on the context, but they all mention happiness, such as "The Greatest Happiness", "Paradise."
Original images © Quintet and Enix (Square Enix).
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