my module feedsonas deserve some FT content so i thought I’d make a lil something for AUpril
(spoiler alert there will be more i just dont wanna post em on the same day)
[ID: A four-panel comic drawn digitally in blue, featuring humanoid feedsonas for Murderbot and its Threat Assessment module (TA). Murderbot is visible from the waist up, and wears a oversized hoodie. TA is a lot smaller, hovering just next to Murderbot’s left shoulder, and is holding a clipboard. In the first panel, they are both looking over to the left, concerned. Above them reads “Watching Aylen and Gamila enter the Lalow alone”. In the second panel, TA looks down at its clipboard and says “Threat assessment is up to 89%.” Murderbot glances over at it and asks “Is it Mensah?”. In the third panel, TA is checking a holoscreen next to it and replies “Negative. No change in Dr. Mensah’s status.” In the fourth panel, it gestures to the left and says “Those two, however-”. Murderbot is rolling up its sleeve to show its gunport, and says “Fuck’s sake.” /end ID]
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Do you create? What? Why?
mmmmm uh haha um. Sort of, sometimes.. I like drawing and stuff but I've been taking this course that has eaten up a lot of my free time so i haven't done any art stuff in a while. Should be all done with it really soon though so hopefully it won't be long before i can get back to it/a good routine. I had this whole art renaissance at the end of 2023/beg. 2024 where I just had this like epiphany re art and was super motivated and enjoying it, so hopefully i can back to that. But yeah I like the process of drawing. I mostly draw from observation, and i love how it gets me to really look at what I'm seeing and appreciate all the details. And i enjoy the puzzle of it, of figuring out how to represent the subject on the page. The epiphany i had was literally just basic art advice you hear everywhere lol but i had spent months in this rut of focusing on the outcome/end product of a drawing and getting really frustrated and upset with what i was doing. Eventually i like clawed myself to the realization that that was the problem and I need to make art solely for the love of the process. It's hard bc it's so easy to want to chase the feeling you get when you make something you're happy with, but I found i would start a drawing and want every line I put down to be immediately gorgeous, and i just a) don't have the skill for that and b) was putting so much energy into wanting it look good that I wasn't focusing on any of the principles or techniques that actually help build a drawing that looks good. Bad all around lol. But also, I can flip through that sketchbook and see evidence that i was learning things, even despite all that. So yeah. Generated a lot of motivation and good feelings.
Thank you for the qs! I wasn't expecting to actually receive any let alone so quickly haha but i love the opportunity to ramble :)
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i promised context for this post, so here it is!!
major tws today folks: hard vore mention, unnamed character death, vore, digestion, in that order. Don’t read if you aren’t ok with these things!!
Y’know how there are animals that are genetically modified to help get rid of another overpopulated animal?
In this au there’s an overpopulation of borrowers, so scientists genetically engineer the first predatory borrower. They bred and raised borrowers in their labs, and began experimenting on them to make them look like normal borrowers, but have the capacity to grow bigger, stronger, all around more animalistic and predatory, though no two borrowers were experimented on exactly the same. They were tortured in the labs to make them as strong as possible, and forcibly modified when they messed up (think Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy but less tech fuckery and more genetic fuckery). They then raised these special borrowers with the mentality that they were the superior species, and that borrowers were nothing more than pests, and they were fed live borrowers for years. And then, after all that, the scientists tested their effectiveness.
One borrower-creature was far more effective than the others. So effective, in fact, that it managed to break out of the facility, killing and eating most of the other creatures (and a few scientists’ fingers) before leaving. The experiment all around was deemed a failure and there have been no further attempts to make more borrower-creatures.
Meanwhile Tommy has no idea what he’s doing now that he’s broken out. He’d always had food handed to him, he doesn’t know how to hunt. He spends a bit of time in the woods alone failing to find food before he stumbles upon a human walking through a trail. He quickly latches onto this human and plays victim, and the human, Wilbur, one of the few who think of borrowers as people, takes pity on him and takes him home.
Once home, Tommy somewhat drops the act, still pretending he’s innocent but now telling Wil that he’s a bit different from other borrowers, and is fully carnivorous. Wilbur agrees to help feed him, but it doesn’t take long for the gaslighting to start.
After a few months, Tommy begins guilting Wilbur into believing that he’s not getting him enough food, and Wil, who’s very attached to Tommy at this point and who views him as a little brother, does his best to get Tommy what he needs. It starts with raw meats from the stores but quickly turns to buying insects and then small rodents and lizards, and Wilbur never watches him eat (Tommy had made it very clear that he never wanted Wilbur to see him eat for whatever reason), but nothing was enough for him. Tommy always says that he needs something more, something better.
It all just gets worse and worse until a borrower finds its way into Wilbur’s house, and Wil takes pity on him, too. He tries to introduce him to Tommy, who’s friendly at first, but the second Wilbur turns his back, the other borrower is trapped in Tommy’s stomach, nothing but a panicked, wriggling lump under his skin. This is the first time Wilbur has ever seen Tom’s creature form. He is scared, betrayed, appalled, but above all else, furious. He demands Tommy spit them out, but he refuses. Tommy laments how he’s glad that after all this time, he finally got a fulfilling meal, and that maybe if Wilbur continued to get him meals like this, meals that he was made to eat instead of measly animals or bugs, they could get along like brothers, like Wilbur wants. Wilbur eventually realizes how he’s been manipulated by the very person he adopted and treated like family, and he breaks. He notices the thrashing bulge in Tom’s stomach getting slower and slower and eventually, when he sees it stop moving, he grabs Tommy by the throat and holds a knife up to him, saying that if he doesn’t spit the borrower out he’d cut him out.
Tommy, who’s not stupid and who was also physically tormented by the scientists who created him, leaving a bit of fear for humans left in his instincts, finally spits the borrower out. He’s still breathing, barely, and is heavily burned. Wil sticks Tommy in a jar for the time being and begins to help the mangled borrower as much as he can.
Wilbur calls up one of his friends who agrees with his beliefs on borrowers, and they agree to take the borrower and help him. The borrower soon wakes up, and Wilbur apologizes profusely, and says that he has a place for him to stay where he’s safe and away from Tommy.
Wilbur’s friend gets there to take the borrower and the two hit it off right away, the human introducing himself as Ranboo and the borrower introducing himself as Tubbo.
Once they’re all sorted out and on their way back to Ranboo’s house, Wilbur deals with Tommy. And as upset as Wilbur is at him, and as much as the murder threat scared Tommy, Tommy has no remorse, and is frankly pissed that Wilbur took away the only decent meal he’d had in forever. Turns out that the reason Tommy had been dissatisfied with his meals was that he wanted to hunt things with intelligence, like he’d been taught to. Like he been made to do. When he explains that to Wilbur, he’s actually slightly heartbroken. Someone at a lab had taken a baby borrower, fucked him up, and told him that he only had one purpose in life. And whether Tommy realizes is or not, and no matter how much he hates the scientists who did this to him, he’s been trying to do exactly what they wanted. He’s never tried to be anything other than the monster they told him to be.
Wil decides then and there that it’s gonna be his mission to fix Tommy. To unteach all of the bullshit that he learned at the lab, and make him realize that borrowers are people, too. But with a while childhood of corruption and a society where borrowers really are seen as pests, he’s got a long way to go before Tommy sees differently.
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