General Wellesley sent word that the Army was pulling their contract for the Securitrons, effective immediately. The words on the terminal were like kerosene, and Klein, an open flame. The head scientist was ablaze with a rage so hot that Mobius had to retreat to the refuge of his own home, counting down the hours until Klein would finally simmer down. Until then, Mobius kept himself occupied with stamping out the fires that 0 started, one by one.
There was the fate of Model One. He fought back the temptation to scrap the giant robot all together. What engineer would want to work on something that killed half a dozen colleagues? Had Mobius been superstitious, he would’ve considered One cursed.
But One was just a defective machine, created by a man whose ego and incompetence led to disastrous results. And now with the contract gone, the robot was simply too expensive to scrap. The decision among the executives was unanimous. One was to be sent back to the Securitron Plant in order to run offline diagnostics by what was left of 0’s engineering team. As for the Plant itself, they had voted to shelve the Securitron project all together, ignoring 0’s meek protests, in hopes of salvaging the mess and repurposing the Plant in the future.
And then there was that other fire Mobius had insisted that he put out himself. His wrist ached from the blocky signatures added to each condolence letter, to be delivered to the mailboxes of their dead employees’ families. He had dragged on the process for far too long, avoiding giving the final stamp of approval as he sent back his secretaries’ drafts for a number of nitpicky revisions. The words never seemed to convey the right meaning, and felt dry and superficial on his tongue when he spoke them aloud in the quiet of his office.
Our deepest condolences? Our apologies barely scratch the surface. Shallow platitudes in a place where Death holds no meaning.
We are truly sorry for your loss. A bald-faced lie if there ever was one.
We regret- What regret? Work continues on, same as it always has and always will. That their employees died for absolutely nothing. No amount of regret could ever change that.
And with the classified nature of their research, their families will never know the reason why, their deaths a mystery beneath the mountain. Lifetimes of memories, reduced to a letter and a box of cremated remains.
Fun fact, I was accompanying my brother to class, while I was drawing this and a kid came over and asked a lot of questions on this picture. I was like they wanted to live forever so they put the brain in a jar. She said that’s terrible, they want to live forever and now they’re dead. I explained that no they’re not quite dead, their mind lived but their body died and they’re unhappy, that’s the moral of the story. She said aha, so the hugging of these two must symbolize death, I said yes yes you got the gist.
Presenting sex/intimacy headcanons for the lovely Dala!
One of Dala’s major kinks is sensation play. It ranges from vanilla (like blindfolding, massages, blowing/whispering on the skin) to using ice or hot wax on the body in temperature play, bondage, up to more sadomasochistic activities like knife play (with a scalpel), erotic electrostimulation, and erotic asphyxiation. For Dala, the most erotic feeling in the world is being able to feel all these different sensations. Whether its soft or hard, gentle or sharp, it all feels good to Dala.
Enjoying different sensations is also why Dala is a sadomasochist. Pain, in the right context, is a wonderful feeling for her. Dala’s flavor of sadism is a loving kind, dispensing punishments while calling their partner “teddy bear” and giving words of encouragement. On the masochistic side, Dala has less restraint and can get into such a deep headspace that a partner would have to be careful not to take things too far.
Does value consent. Dala is well aware that her kinks can be on the extreme side, so she doesn’t spring them on unsuspecting partners. Does like to keep her kinky side a secret, so usually she figures partners out to see if they might be open to the idea before bringing it up. And after talking about it, if a partner isn’t into it, Dala is also fine to leave the extreme stuff out (though she does prefer some of the mild sensation stuff at the very least. You can pry her silks from her cold, dead fingers).
Dala's love language is physical touch but unlike Mobius, she's more private about it. For example instead of a hug in public, Dala will opt for something like handholding or a peck on the cheek, leaving more overt forms of affection for someplace more private.
Curious about physical differences in her partners. If say a partner has a prominent burn or scar for example, she'll want to know all about it. Not to the level of fetishization, but she's not put off by physical imperfections and is instead intrigued by them.
Another one of Dala's major kinks is voyeurism. Loves to watch a partner masturbate, shower, undress, or do anything even remotely sexual. You'd think that Dala would be into taping partners but no, she finds watching in real time to be much more titillating. Will usually sit or stand nearby to watch but also gets a kick from watching in a hiding spot, like from behind a curtain, door, or window.
Enjoys mutual masturbation with a partner as well as using sex toys with a partner or solo. Especially likes vibrators. Ties with 8 with being the biggest proponent of “self-pleasure”.
Also Dala does, from time to time, like looking through dirty magazines and reading erotic stories. Her favorites tend to be Bettie Page-eque BDSM modeling.
Loves a nice sensual massage.
Probably has some kind of blackmail humiliation kink, since she's seems to be into it when you chose that as an option to win her over during the final confrontation.
Has a medical kink, but is very secretive about it due to her involvement in the medical field. Though she has never admitted it to anyone, Dala does get a sexual thrill while performing surgeries. Even Dala isn't entirely sure why it excites her; is it the thrill of "playing god"? The sight of blood and organs? Regardless of the answer, Dala is ashamed of that particular kink as a human. However she did shed that taboo when she became a tank.
Dala loves fashion and dressing up in her regular, everyday life, but it also extends to her private life as well. Has a number of negligees, corsets, stockings, and lingerie in silk, lace, and sheer fabric. Enjoys dressing up in intimate wear for “fashion shows” for her partners as well as dressing up and watching her partners model for her. Also enjoys going lingerie shopping with partners and buying lingerie for them, so long as they promise that she can watch them wear it later.
In a similar vein, Dala likes strip teases. Usually they're pretty serious when she's performing them or when a partner is doing a strip tease for her, but on rare occasion, she might request her partner do a humorous one, like dressing up as giant teddy bear.
If there's one pet name Dala has always been consistent with for all her partners, it's "teddy bear". Also has a collection of teddy bears that were given to her on Valentine's day or won for her as carnival prizes. For Dala, the teddy bear is a symbol of love and affection.
Loves to be being romanced and wooed. Likes when a potential partner puts an effort in courtship, like giving flowers, going out to nice dinners, and dressing up. Also a sucker for compliments, especially when she made an effort to dress up.
Turn ons: Enthusiasm, having an open mind, thoughtfulness.
Turn offs: Being cheap, lack of enthusiasm or effort, being called “mommy”.
People talk about the Lucky 38 being creepy in fallout new vegas but it's genuinely one of my favourite places in the game. The idea of it being kept in the exact same state as it was before the bombs dropped is awesome, as well as how desolate it is. It's so liminal, I love it. Now I think about it, it could probably count as one of those places in a liminal spaces video.
Oh and you can live in there too!! What's not to love?
Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards
Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress
This has been a common method for a long time in some states
The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh
An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually
"#i think i have more followers now so if anybody wants to shout out a character i'll consider"
Might'nhaps Emily Ortal, perchance? No idea why I love her so much, but I do.
poor emily... she gave us yes man and no one talks about her...
how much banger fanwork has been killed in its infancy due to the 40-hour workweek. Do you know how many absolutely rockin comics live only in my head because I don't have time or arm ability left to draw them. As well as weird original comics
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