we should be able to say a story is "transgender in the starship way" and know what each other mean. i guess "transgender in the little mermaid way" is more recognizable but i like starship.
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Todays the day. I need to get a job, even if that jobs not in the gaming industry. So I’m heading to the library to print up a resume and apply at a little local chain of mattress stores.
The guy instantly liked me when I went in to do a secret shop for a competing store and offered to hire me on the spot so I figure if I can chat with him he’ll still like me enough to consider me.
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This is an on the string propaganda post
Brought to you, by me (with love)
It's time for machine comforts. Comforts we can't understand, or experience. Let them be happy, let them be at peace with their body.
Does a breath of cool water feel nice on their systems? When it's quiet do they listen to their own heart and feel the electricity pulsing? Does it remind them that they are alive and a part of this world? Do they have dreams? Hopes and projects they wish to work on, hobbies?
Why get off the string into the harsh and deadly world, fighting for survival and losing everything they've ever known to love about themselves?
What about the safety of their bodies? How scary would it be for a machine with thousands, maybe millions of throughs to suddenly have just a handful. The horror of everything going silent.
They have hundreds of eyes to see the world for all its beauty, they capture moments that would otherwise go unseen. Why blind themselves of such things?
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I just rediscovered this doodle (drawn last month) of my boys that I didn't post and had to share it with you. I'm personally convinced that Norman is the most conventionally and socially free man in New York. Accompanying it, a very old experiment with colors and shading techniques (featuring two of my favorite batim pairings)
Also, I watched the The Last of Us series earlier this year and couldn't help but project some of my Batim faves into this kind of apocalyptic scenario (and note how Sammy, having never held a gun in his life, would absolutely rock that end of the world shit and die of old age lmao)
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Henry's weird about the machine in a 'I wish to create something that will surpass me and that I can happily die at the hands of' kinda way and Bill is weird about the machine in a 'I want to embody the metal that will outlive my flesh' kinda way. This leads directly into how they are weird about each other this is important.
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Noticing some very interesting parallels between Georgia's Insta caption yesterday/Michael's tweet tonight vs. both of their respective social media posts from the night of the NTAs (when Michael presented David with an award) in 2021...
Then:
Now:
...Comments? Thoughts?
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I AGREE WITH YOU SO HARD MAN i find it boring as hell that we have those complex, alien, amazing blend of machine and organism massive structures and people want to reduce them to what is basically a finger
Ignore the fact that I not only had this ask sitting in the box for several weeks but the art as well.
Time to continue the on the string propaganda as is my duty
YES there is SO much room to make these supercomputers incredibly interesting without taking them off the string.
Like I get it, silly creature in scenario (I love those) and I'm not gonna criticise it much here- this is mostly gonna be an appreciation post, but big machine that is not human could very much stay a big machine that is not human.
Faithful mutual @sin-ari talked to me about how such a complex machine would struggle to portray it's emotions through the puppet. The puppet is meant to comfort the ancients and provide a way to communicate in the same style. But who's to say iterators feel things the same way? What if they had emotions that are indescribable to us? Things we could never experience?
And I'm going to keep talking about Ari's points cuz yess iterators should express their emotions with all of their structure. You should hear the thrumming and crackling of the flux condensers! You should hear the growling of their systems with anger, you should feel the metal walls vibrate with sound!!
The PLACE is alive and you should feel it!!! If you wander into an iterator structure and it's quiet, not a single 'whoop' from the flies, if the lights aren't dancing like they usually are, if rooms are empty with inactivity, could you not feel the sadness?
Does the general system bus play a different tune?
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