Nightsongwave - A Place.....for My ✨️tRiNkEtS✨️

dont let people tell u ur attraction to fire is "abnormal" or "hazardous" prometheus doesnt have his liver eaten every day for u to ignore the allure of arson

I think what I love about Vontra is that you immediately pick up that she's an antagonist.

Spoilery bits below, mostly I'm rambling.

We spent this whole movie with characters being introduced as threats, they attack Roz, break her, steal peices of her, insult her. Roz is subjected to the brutality of the food chain every scene of the movie, but for the animals this is natural, this is normal. You eat others, others eat you, you fight to stay alive every day.

Roz's compassion in encoded into her, it's the human pack bonding that makes everyone in the film think she's weird, and she never loses this most human part of herself. Proof that she was made by human hands, it saves her and everyone else.

Except that it's a part of human kind that humans in power don't like.

The place that made Roz wants everything to be perfect, it's a city of the future, an oasis for select humans to escape what is slowly revealed to be a world in ruins from climate change, but we never see more of that except the passing scenery of destroyed cities.

Life is still growing, still thriving, and corporations are still building walled cities and promising the ultra wealthy a completely subservient servant class.

When the ship arrives to collect Roz, the ship she's been trying to signal half the movie, we don't know what to expect. Are they friendly? Are they here to fix her? She's been slowly breaking down the final half of the movie, leaking fluid, losing peices, shutting down as her battery depletes faster and faster. She gets fatigued, she uses a prosthetic, she goes days without moving.

She is disabled.

And down from this ship that is supposed to rescue her drops a peppy sounding companion who promises to 'fix' her.

Even though she is programmed to sound happy to put others at ease, as she states, you know immediately that she is Bad News.

The way she talks down to Roz, her manner of speech, her constant invasion of personal space, her pointed questions that are obviously accusations.

Yeah we all went "ooh toxic yuri >3" because we love queer coded villains getting flirty.

But it was also very obviously meant to feel violating, specifically similar to medical violation.

Roz was on display as a disabled robot, something in need of repair, in need of help, but Vontra saw her as something needing to be Corrected, not simply fixed but full factory reset, all the bits of her that are unique sent away to be studied.

Roz wanted help, she wanted to belong, she wanted to be repaired, but she also still wanted to be HER. However it's her disability that influenced her changes in coding, she needed to create her own updates to get around issues she faced, and it created a personality she enjoyed being.

She wanted a choice, but Vontra was programmed to see all deviation from the norm as something in need of repair. Roz wasn't a person in need of help, she was a defect to be collected, studied, adjusted, and put back out into production.

Respecting Roz, her boundaries, her thought process, even her willingness to be touched, it didn't even occur to Vontra. Because Vontra is a robot programmed to collect broken robots, and Roz is a broken robot.

I'm still working on a new Avatar painting… In the meantime, here's another one from not long ago!

And love just took me by surprise

Looking through your eyes

Quest for Camelot (1998)

This scene rewrote my brain chemistry

it was never about confirming a label. we know they love each other. it’s about the video game plushies and joining in on silly games together and hyping up each other’s dailybooths and inviting dan to Florida and indulging each other’s every whim and Japan and sunsets and ice cream and fucking FaceTiming for hours while Dan yaps about elden ring and being in each other’s every anecdote and Phil staying in the closet for a decade and buffy marathons and Anne Robinson themed New Year’s Eve party games and publicly not standing for each other’s low self esteem slander and the one nice smelling tiled candle for Dan’s birthday and remote crisis manager Phil and creative director Phil and you’re next to me in my life and

it’s not just that they love each other. it’s that they love each other so well

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

I'm literally ✨️obsessed✨️

The Final Steps

Rating: Teen | Pairings: M/F | Post-cannon fix-it

In the aftermath of the Final Order's collapse, Rey experiences a disturbance in the Force--her Dyad bond with Ben Solo has tethered him to a realm between life and death, leaving open a pathway to an ancient evil that threatens the entire galaxy. Finn joins Lando and Jannah on their quest to find long-lost family and discovers that his Force sensitivity is growing far faster than he realized. Meanwhile, Poe accidentally gets himself involved in Zorii's personal mission of revenge and Rose deals with the tremendous weight of filling Leia's shoes.

The Final Steps is back - in fanfic form and with a shiny new cover! Art by @jenniferbrincho. Edited and beta read by @theunforgivenscone! Updates will be sporadic for my sanity, lol. But there will be updates.

Highly recommend starting from the beginning if you can--there's new character insight and some plot fixes that bring a lot more to the story. But you can also start right where the comic left off and follow along from there!

Start at the beginning | Start where the comic left off

DAN AND PHIL TOUR??????