i know i have banged pots and pans about this MULTIPLE times but! i shall bang them once more!

if you would like a gift fic from me for the holiday season, please send me an ask before the end of this upcoming week! i only ask so that i have time to write them all before the season gets in full swing and i am making an Attempt to organize myself :-)

So, this post is different from my normal ones. Because I’m making an announcement! And not just any announcement, but one about my own original novel!

To make a long story short, there’s this really big school project and for that I’ll be writing a novel! Once that project is done, I will work o it a lot until it’s actually done. So, it’s going to take a while.

As of now, I’m in the plotting phase, but I’ll begin writing soon. And for that, I’ve made a blog, DetectivesForHire (which is the very temporary title)

But you may wonder what’s the book about. To put it simply, it’s about a group of four teenager who are basically just mini detectives. They go to this school which is where they live and they get paid to solve little mysteries around the town the school is in.

But then they find the body of one of their classmates in a forest... And the police asks them to help solve this murder, which leads to many more mysteries being discovered...

If you find it interesting, feel free to check out the blog! As of now, it only has some info about the characters, but the more I write and develop, the more I will post on there hehe

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

it's new legacy time babyyyy 🤭@buttertrait and I are starting the spice of life challenge together! we'll be posting mostly at our own pace but maybe you'll see cross-over action at some point 👀 spoiler alert: yes, yes you will and of course, elowen and them are not going anywhere, I'm not stopping tjol and in fact, keep an eye out for some new posts soon! this legacy will be much less story-based (hopefully) and more just me playing the game! NOW it's introduction time:

meet Petal Springwood (she/her), a monster girl living her best life in San Myshuno! and her dogs Blossom and Fox!

next

*Slithers to see crumbs of our favorite witch.*

ay yo a snake is watching me type

Dragon Age Girlies ❤️

how my bracelets for 2ourdust are coming along so far :-3

You don’t get to pick your own nickname, Spamton, that’s like the whole point (Patreon)

happy wip wednesday, this time a sneak into an au i've had since july and that i've been thinking about more lately. for reasons

Happy New Year, and Year of the Dragon !

my dream..... the trial 3 character sprites were leaked, they all had 3 different ones. But obviously i didn't care about anyone other than Kazui's so he's the only one i saw n remember. The first one he had grown his hair out and it was SO fluffy and it made him look like he had cat ears... second one he was just straight up kissing a man 👍 while making direct eye contact with the camera. His hair was normal tho. Third one he was wearing fake bunny ears and was holding rope that wrapped around his arm... so ig he's a rope bunny lol. He looked genuinely happy n a lil cat like in all of them and i was excited i woke myself up TT

To the people that liked That Really Wasn't Supposed To Happen... Something short (that will turn into something longer) but special will be coming out today 👀

ALL MOVED IN TO MY NEW PLACE!!! took us six hours to drive all my shit to the new place, and about three hours to get the rats settled, play furniture tetris, sit on the ground waiting for pizza, sit on the ground eating pizza, put my bed together, play more furniture tetris, and get the bunnies settled, but now I am cozy wozy in my bed hehe :3c unpacking and decorating will commense tomorrow but for now. rest

Doodle of one of my partner’s sonas sleeping in her hand :3

OLGA + logans girl lilith (tlou) ⚕️ | IRYNA + vasil (tlou) 🐈‍⬛

IOVANNA (hotd) 🔮 | UNA (hotd) 🐍

MARTA + the special directive (fhr) 🧬 | MARTA (fhr) 🔪

MARTA in book 2 (fhr) 💀 | VASHA + arkay (eso) 🌊

TAGGED BY the dears @noonfaerie, @leviiackrman, @marivenah, @corvosattano and @shadowglens to make the dears in this picrew! ty ty so much! <3

TAGGING: @feystepped, @risingsh0t, @griffin-wood, @jendoe, @kingsroad, @phillipsgraves, @chuckhansen, @queennymeria, @denerims, @morvaris, @girlbosselrond, @detectivelokis, @jacobseed, @jackiesarch, @unholymilf, @nightbloodraelle, @florbelles, @confidentandgood, @adelaidedrubman, @gwynbleidd and you!