Rough scene storyboards that I do not have the motivation to clean up so I’m dumping them here. Still not feeling good about my art lately I can’t even get past the sketchy phase anymore lmao
The Bad Guys: “Marginalization and negative stereotypes of people often forces them into harmful, dangerous ways of life, which is reinforced by police brutality and oppression, and the rich and powerful pay shallow lip service to the idea of reformation for their own personal gain.”
The Bad Guys 2: “People who have criminal pasts face workplace discrimination that prevents them from living honest lives, which forces them back into the very same crimes that they wanted to move on from and reinforces biases against them.”
Hey uh I wonder if there’s a pattern to these films’ messages or something.
cop donut stereotype is bad because being fat and eating many donuts : hot. but police officers: not hot. the humble donut, one of the most sexual foods, the reliable donut. we should take this practice and give it to a different more sexy profession, such as electrician, or professor of linguistics
an online self-describing ‘tradcath’ in ~250 A.D. in Dura-Europos, Syria: guys the church has gone woke. they have drawn Our Good Shepherd in a vulgar, pagan manner. they literally painted Orpheus in the style of the hellenistic frescoes and thought we wouldn’t notice. this is sacrilege AND satan worship. we are living in the end times.
People are so quick to bring up character ages when they’re defending, like, Eridan or something, only to turn around and immediately demonize Feferi as if she 1.) wasn’t the one being victimized in the relationship between her and Eridan, and 2.) isn’t the same exact age. Incomprehensible.
Feferi’s a Privileged Liberal who doesn’t know how to fully tackle the Bigotry at the heart of the Empire she’s expected to inherit, yes. That’s true. She is in fact a 13-Year-Old Alien Princess who grew up on a planet with a remarkably hostile and shitty Government, and she’s known since birth she’d been saddled with the burden of one day being the ruler of the planet. Yes. True.
Can you tell me why you expect a 13-Year-Old Alien Princess who’s only ever known Alternia’s Government to have a coherent Political Framework? Or why you’re expecting a 13-Year-Old in general to have a coherent Political Framework in general? You didn’t have one. If you think you did, you did not, and you absolutely still don’t if you earnestly believe that. Why do you expect a 13-Year-Old to have a well thought out plan of action for fully un-Eugenicizing the Government? She’s tasked with one day having to be the leader of fucking Alternia. Alternia!
The fact that she recognizes there’s a whole lot of severe systemic issues, and has already begun trying to break down ways to correct the Legalized Maltreatment and Murder of Minorities - even if her ideas are incredibly flawed and coming from a place of undeniable privilege - shows the fact that she actually gives a shit and wants people to hurt less, not that she’s a cold, heartless, privileged megabitch that hates every poor person and minority. That would be Eridan you are thinking of.
You can have criticisms of Feferi’s ideas for the Alternian Government, sure. You can point out all the ways in which her ideas are flawed, or where her position of privilege impedes her ideas’ potential for further progressivism. But like. What is with people still yelling at a fictional 13-year-old girl for having kinda crummy politics and breaking up with her shitty objectifying incel boyfriend. She’s dead and so is her ex and also Alternia. Any problems this could have potentially maybe caused have been prevented already. Because she’s dead and so is Alternia. What.
Here is a video the manufacturer sent me of the Rainbow Dragon pin! I am very, very happy with the quality. They all turned out so gorgeous!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Can’t wait to get mine!! Ty so much for sharing the process with us, and I’ll post a picture of the pin in its pride of place on my jacket when it arrives 💜
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Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there’s such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don’t
Lupita Nyong'o attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
It may very well be just a small side short and a preview to the other instalments but man it really shows and punctuates the bond of Jumba and Stitch so well. Like father and son and it’s so wholesome 🥺
Crazy how this same dude genuinely mocked and wanted to capture and destroy Stitch in the first film. One of the things I liked about L&S 2 was how the Ohana worked and how far Stitch and Jumba, the two evil beings have changed so much for the better and how Jumba has grown to care for his newfound family.
My summary of The Murderbot Diaries so far, three books in:
Murderbot: I can’t believe I have to keep these humans from getting themselves killed. Everywhere I go, there are humans who need protecting and this cuts into really valuable media consumption time. This is so annoying.
Everything in the universe, including Murderbot’s own presumably unprecedented free will: You could just not protect the humans.
Murderbot: … No.
(And it’s great.)
Pls enjoy this excerpt from The Murderbot Diaries, 2nd or 3rd one:
As a security guard who has read the first two Murderbot books, Murderbot has been the number one most realistic security specialist character I have ever seen in media so far 😭
The third most annoying thing in security in my experience is handling threats. The second most annoying thing is having no threats to handle and being bored. The number one most annoying thing is the client being an idiot
Ihave social anxiety which I am medicated for. When I am in uniform with clear instructions, that anxiety is zero. I have a script and a set of rules and that makes life easy. I’m super good at performing tasks with clear expectations and that’s kinda how I keep getting good offers, it’s super straightforward
Bad clients are clients who give stupid, inefficient, counterproductive, cruel, or flat-out illegal orders. There are ways of shutting that shit down without them losing heir shit, but it’s still a pain in the ass every time
I’m a security specialist. I specialize in security. This is what I am trained for- handling crisis situations and minimizing harm. If you, an off-shift cashier at pet smart, see me deescalating a situation and decide you’re gonna drop your untrained uninformed ass in there with zero context or skills and “help” because I look small and helpless, then all you’re doing is increasing my likelihood of getting hurt while increasing my paperwork load by like two hours, and I’m gonna hate you the entire time. What you have essentially done is promoted me to meat shield while giving the aggressor I’m calming down an obnoxious and aggravating hostage. Good god please do not
Yes, I am sometimes asked to stand perfectly still in a corner for several hours like a mannequin. What do I do to avoid going insane? Think about Star Trek and the very good fanfiction I’ll be reading on my break, mostly
Yes I can assist in evacuating tw location in the event of an environmental disaster. No I cannot tell my waiter that they put cilantro on the wrong order. Yes this makes perfect sense
I love Murderbot. I love how realistic it is. Like obviously I can’t speak for everyone in the industry but yeah I’ve worked for absolute dogshit security companies in the past and yeah a lot of the books so far are super accurate to that experience so A+ so far, honestly
love how gurathin’s cringefail bitch energy has translated to the show. he is at once so much more menacing and so much more pathetic. the attempt at a foreboding chair “turn” my god. what a guy
Murderbot getting disqualified from the SexyEnby poll because someone bought thousands of bot votes for it is honestly the funniest possible outcome of it being included in the first place.
see, as an autistic person i fully sympathise with and shudder with murderbot in the forced-eye-contact scene, and i want to shake gurathin for it. but i also find it hilarious how obviously gurathin is also torturing himself. he also hates eye contact. he hates this too he’s just chanting ‘it’s necessary it’s necessary it’s necessary’ to himself to get through it the whole time. and it’s not even helping anything!
I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.
Regardless about how you feel about certain corporations, We Live In A Society, so please try to watch Murderbot on Apple TV if at all possible. The viewership numbers are extremely important for the show’s success and future. Until we can all escape to Preservation, making a flashy sci-fi show requires lots of hard currency.
Even if the show isn’t perfectly faithful to the books, it sounds like it’s going to be a whole lot more faithful than what a lot of books get. Supporting the show is a good way to vote with your dollar to show that we want more faithful adaptations of books in general. And show that mainstream shows with queer and neurodivergent characters and storylines are important!
I actually love the change the show made to when SecUnit shows up in the hub and Ratthi says, “Who is this?” Turns out Ratthi was being cute and SecUnit just took it literally. Brilliant. The galaxy’s least reliable narrator strikes again.
that’s one of my favorite changes so far too, and how I always interpreted that interaction. it didn’t quite make sense that Ratthi wouldn’t recognize SecUnit, or if not, be VERY alarmed that an actual stranger just walked in. conclusion: Ratthi’s “who is this?” was always meant to be “holy fuck it’s hot”
while murderbot tv show is definitely a comedy, i find it low-key depressing that murderbot’s idea of what freedom is comes exclusively from the dramas it watches. it imagines what it might do if it were free from the company, but the only reference it has are overblown, overdramatic characters from its videos. it doesn’t know what true freedom looks like, only a cheap, commercial imitation.
My favorite part of the Murderbot show so far is how they do the music. Fighting against the sandworm? Dramatic music. Having to make small talk with any of the PresAux crew? Also dramatic music. Talking to Gurathin and having to make eye contact? Straight up horror movie vibes.
Just realized why I’ve been struggling with the pacing of ‘Murderbot’, and it’s because I was applying the wrong pacing rules. Sitting at around 22 minutes, I was expecting sitcom pacing (A plot, B plot, maybe C plot, wrapped up by the end of the episode). But that’s not at all what this is.
It’s an old-school adventure serial! It’s paced just like ‘Doctor Who’ in the classic era, with an ongoing story chopped into 22 minute bits, ending on a cliffhanger each week to keep the audience coming back. How fun! I can’t think of the last show that was doing that; that method of television storytelling more or less died out in the 80s/90s.
I’m a little too young to have watched those serials as they came out, and have only ever watched them in a binge on DVD (or less … official means), so of course I’m finding it easier to watch ‘Murderbot’ in a binge. But now that I understand the pacing, I’m actually looking forward to knowing what it would have been like to be an audience member as one of the old serials came out in bite-sized, nail-biting chunks every week.
It’s my personal theory that Art hadn’t actually intended to introduce itself to SecUnit until it started watching Worldhoppers.
Minor spoilers for Network Effect ahead, proceed at your own risk.
The thing is that Art’s existence is the biggest secret that the university has. Is that really the sort of thing you go announcing to random rogue SecUnits you just met?
Sure Art CLAIMS later that it wanted to make sure that SecUnit didn’t attempt to hack its system, but why would it do that? It didn’t try to hack it to get onboard. It hadn’t shown any interest in any of its data. As far as SecUnit knew it was just a bot piloted cargo ship. And even if it had a reason to try, there’s no way it could have actually hacked it. It’s Art.
So maybe you met a surprisingly polite rogue SecUnit, who asked you for a ride. Maybe you’re a very bored transport that was just handed a very interesting data collection opportunity. Maybe you let it onboard and study it a little in secret. THat all makes sense.
But you know what Art CAN’T do in secret? It can’t watch media through SecUnit’s feed. Its presence is incredibly obvious, like a much larger person watching your personal display over your shoulder while leaning on you, according to SecUnit.
So you’ve got a rogue SecUnit onboard, you’re all ready to secretly watch it and gather data, when suddenly it starts watching a cool looking show about research transports. Now you realise there’s a once in a lifetime opportunity here; a chance to watch a cool looking show with additional data that will actually allow you to process the emotional context of it. This is literally never going to happen again. What’s an asshole research transport to do? Not watch it? Hell no. But once the SecUnit knows that there’s a sentient intelligence onboard, there’s a much higher risk of it trying to hack the systems. So you have to get in ahead of it and make sure it doesn’t try any funny business.
I 100% believe that this is what happened, and no amount of canon evidence will dissuade me from it. Art is a nerd and it compromised its university’s security for TV, fight me.
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