beetle bees

she/her, just vibing

[tetheredtoamast]

Got a half baked unrendered sketchy something here. I'm always preoccupied by 1) Harry (and Kim) growing up in the ashes of the crushing of the revolution, and, for whatever reason, 2) the evidence on the Terminal B wall by Rene's watchman booth where it seems Harry spent a long time hanging out on his own sometime between Friday night and Monday morning. Just him and La Revacholiere up there in the fog.

Melodramatic headcanony stuff:

Harry's mom is half Mesque and herself a young war orphan. His father, in my mind, was a mercenary type from Graad who was in Revachol working with Coalition forces against the communists. He was a deeply unpleasant, violent alcoholic and she got away from him before the baby was born. I think she invented the ordinary Suresne last name Du Bois for Harry because she didn't want to give him his father's name and didn't want him to have the social burden of her foreign name in the cultural climate of the time (I named my imaginary Harry Mom "Paloma"). (You can see he got his dimples, eyelashes, cleft chin etc. from her)

I try to draw my Harrys consistently maintaining a little slackness on the left side of his mouth due to the Law Jaw (polio)

[constantinnen]

happy birthday to all queer people.

[the-cryptographer]

i ran low motorics for my first pt of de and imbetween all my save spamming i came to a really weird place coming into the tribunal. like, i really wanted titus and as many of his friends as possible to survive, and i was looking at a near impossible hand/eye coordination skill-check. and up until that point i had been super careful to avoid having harry do drugs anywhere where kim could see him and judge him for it, but i was falling far short of the save and the obvious thing was to snort up some speed to give myself the edge, so i did. and i felt like that was in a way the truest moment of the game.

like, i’m playing an addict. i’m going through withdrawal. my hand is shaking. my hand is shaking and i need it steady. ruining my physical and metal health in the longterm don’t matter rn, bc it’s my job to run into an impossible and impossibly violent situation and save as many people as i can, and if i can’t do that, what am i here for at all? more people are going to die unless i make this shot, and i can’t if my hand is shaking, and it’s not going to stop shaking until i get my drugs, and so the only reasonable choice to make is to take the drugs, and oh- that’s why he can’t quit! beyond all the difficulties and pain and emotional trauma of the withdrawal itself, there’s no way to keep doing this job (with an abnormally large case load according to kim) and to walk into life and death situations and not botch them, while under the strain of trying to quit. and, sure, because you won’t quit you’ll have breakdowns and go on benders and give yourself brain damage and crash your car, and they’ll dress you down and publicly humiliate you for it. but no matter how much they humiliate you, they’re also not going to give you proper medical care or lessen your case load or stop throwing you in life or death situations that require you keep using, so you can’t quit.

idk, just like… it’s very strange to me bc i keep seeing people throw out the idea that it’s a moral responsibility that Harry go sober (and beyond that a moral responsibility as the player to keep him sober) but this was honestly probably the best and most thought provoking moment in the game for me, and i feel like people are really cheating themselves out of it by getting so caught up in their personal feelings about addiction that they refuse to engage it.

[beetlebees]

if I had a coin for every guy who's been explicitly and numerously told by my aroace friend to not expect any romantic or sexual relationship with her because she is aroace but stayed in touch with her anyway, regularly performing some sort of courtership to "win her over" I would have 2 coins which isn't many but next time I'm gonna start hitting people with a bat

[beetlebees]

I love doing this in the saloon I know he is sweating in fear rn

[midnightella-mass]

Stardew Valley lore is so crazy bc on the surface it’s marketed as a cozy farming game where you get to romance the townsfolk and become a beloved member of your community, but then you get about 10 hours into the game and suddenly it’s

- you’re magical, oh yeah also magic is real, a wizard told you to go learn all types of magic and you did

- there are ancient entities living in the mines and sewers beneath your feet, and they ARE fighting, just fyi

- there’s an ongoing war happening, that is probably why the economy is the way that it is btw

- animals can talk…just occasionally

- you’re haunted by the ghost of your grandfather, but rarely

- there are tiny creatures that will fix things for you in the night but only if you meet their hyper specific demands. also they’re scared of you

- Yoba is an alien (?)

- also the local shopkeeper’s daughter isn’t his she’s the wizard’s and a townswoman named Emily is a psychic, in case you were curious

- oh and there’s an omnipotent magic man who’s blue and committing a PLETHORA of crimes at any given moment. he’s scary

[beetlebees]

this IS crazy I wish we could get a more in depth exploration of all this and a full ass rpg game not a farm sim with rpg crumbs

[vilochkaaa]

no identity🗑️🪪

[beetlebees]

working at jojo will do that to you yeah

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

shout out to project hail mary for being a platonic romantic movie. like. Like. every other scene with eva or rocky harks deeply on romantic tropes. rocky and grace pressing their faces together through the xenonite. grace going to find eva on the deck of the ship, being the only one who looked for her. the dance between the blip-a and the hail mary when they first connect tunnels. eva telling grace she believes in him like a prayer. rocky being bossy and impassioned and grace being exasperated but also adoring it. the entire karaoke scene, the cuts to graces smile while she sings. rocky screaming at grace to Get The Fuck Inside during the taumeoba mission. and its a lovestory abt platonic love. at no point does the movie imply either of these relationships should be or are romantic. but they are love stories. Lowers my body into the marsh.

[yargoelster]

| Her Innocence |

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[tartrazeen]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[beetlebees]

this is poetic, I love torrent

[spacebrick3]

couples outfit idea

[jamfish]

What the fuck is ts. Robert Kurvitz come back we need you

[beetlebees]

WHAT

I thought it was some meme whaaaat do you mean it's from that game 😭😭😭

[nora-yoko]

[beetlebees]

memes I made while working in the botanic garden :P

[arasaka-android]

interfacing once again being the prime skill for bonding with kim 🤣

[beetlebees]

love love love this interaction

[beetlebees]

okay so jax is THE most popular character in the fandom, or at least as popular as pomni and kaine are, we all know this and we all know there is a ton of fanart and various comics of him right yes okay

so tell me why whyyyyyyy haven't I seen a single one of him ACTUALLY APOLOGIZING FOR HIS ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR whyyyyyyyy

all the "redemption" comics of him I'm seeing is jax/pomni stuff where he is just decent with her because he likes her hmmmmm okay now what about ragatha and gangle huh? why isn't there at least a confrontation from pomni about his awful treatment of the girls around them??? I'm loosing my mind here