citrus banger yo

call me kiwi or percy. mixed fandom blog/posts I like. I am 18 or older. he/she/they not in order of preference. Writing prompts open, i get to them eventually. i love my friends and i am a silly little pansexual.

[kiwilovescitrusfruit]

peak mental illness achieved. someone give me an award. or a ticket out.

[tobiasdrake]

A detail I find really interesting about Chell, GLaDOS, and Wheatley's first confrontation in Portal 2 is when Wheatley starts gloating about taking over the facility. "I did this! Tiny little Wheatley did this!"

And GLaDOS interjects like, "You didn't do this. She did all the work!"

I find that interjection fascinating because. Like.

GLaDOS doesn't actually know anything about what happened behind the scenes. She lost track of Chell and Wheatley after Wheatley opened up a wall panel and they bolted off together into the facility's inner workings. She doesn't see them again until Chell falls for her fake door trap, at which point GLaDOS is unpleasantly surprised to discover that Chell's disabled the turrets and neurotoxin in the meantime.

She has no evidentiary foundation to base that accusation on.

This is also before GLaDOS recognizes Wheatley as the Dumbass Core, so it's not based on an assessment of him.

The only explanation it leaves is that it's based on her assessment of Chell. Despite GLaDOS's enmity towards Chell, the one thing she rarely goes after Chell for is her intelligence.

When she does, it's an admission of her high standards for Chell; Like when the fake door trap works and GLaDOS concedes, "I didn't actually think that would work. I already built a much better, smarter trap up ahead for when this one fails." That's a backhanded insult. It's calling her dumb, but in a disappointed way rather than an affirming way.

Chell tests very well. Between the two games, GLaDOS has developed a strong understanding of Chell's aptitude for critical thinking and problem-solving in stressful situations.

And so she takes it on faith, just from what she knows of Chell, that Wheatley is stealing Chell's credit.

[voidpengin]

tags by @phidelta

[emocat4eva]

[goodman-grace]

Being a DC fan in actuality is really fucking funny because you’ll mostly stay in your own corner with passing knowledge on other characters and then sometimes discourse you’ve never heard of pops up on your dash about another subset of DC and when you click on it it’s apparently an argument that’s been going on for 20+ years and has divided the entire character tag, had 3 writers fired, forced DC editorial to step in only to get lashed off the internet, led to 7 fist fights and also Batman is There. And then you click out of it and Never Hear Of It Again.

[diseasedbreeze]

These two next to each other in the tags list is sending me

[byjove]

as a trans man, so many of the things cis men consider to be “emasculating” are so fucking funny. you are our gender’s weakest soldier. you would kill yourself if you were a trans man for a day. how are you going to tell me I’m ‘not a real man’ and then start cheating on your wife because she makes more money than you and it makes you feel ‘emasculated’? your masculinity is as fragile as a champagne glass and you’re throwing stones? lmfaoooo

[byjove]

God made me trans because he knew you couldn’t handle it

[quantummirage]

After a good 7 to 8 business weeks, the mail is here! This little snail mail man worked hard to bring you your letters I need to make more snails, this guy was so much fun

[algusunderdunk]

@bugthingsdaily

[gumi-megpoidd]

did you have to use that photo for that

[gumi-megpoidd]

i mean good on them...? still paired with that image thats uh. interesting

[gumi-megpoidd]

[laura-the-swarming]

I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.

The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.

OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).

[dingbatblr]

oh yeah i saw everyone on tiktok freaking out about "if it can't harm humans why does it come with instructions to kill it" it's a safety feature in case of an emergency or malfunction where it needs to be quickly deactivated. "why is it so big and demonic why does it look like that" it's a safety feature so it can do dangerous labor and so you don't feel bad about killing it. "it was designed not to be able to follow you through doors?? why the fuck would it do that that's scary" it's a safety feature so you can't get cornered or have the person piloting it misuse it. "it doesn't have hands but it can attach CHAINSAWS to its limbs???" it's MADE TO WITHSTAND WILDFIRES IT'S NOT GONNA USE IT ON YOU "this thing gives me such bad vibes i do not trust it" GOOD!!! IT'S A ROBOT!!! IT IS A TOOL!!! IT'S A REALLY BIG AND COMPLICATED MACHINE THAT IS DESIGNED TO GO IN DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS WHICH WOULD MEAN IT COULD POTENTIALLY MALFUNCTION! USE YOUR BRAIN!!!

admittedly i do think that picture of it standing in the doorway with glowing white eyes is like comically frightening but it's SUPPOSED to be so you don't feel bad for it or approach it

[ivipl1]

i love when women have a deeper or raspier voice. its very charming

[magicalwarriordiamondheart]

if you ever thought "wow i wish there was a game where you play as a cute black magical girl and everyone around her wants to kiss her so so so badly" then you should play Magical Warrior Diamond Heart

it;s about Valerie Amaranth who is the prettiest and cutest girl in the entire world. She turns into a magical girl and sometimes I throw her and her friends into the torment nexus but it's okay 🙏🏽

maybe wishlist it.. tell your friends… the 8 hour monstrosity im calling a demo is straight up just the first half of the story :o It's on steam, itch, and google play tgnak you 🙏🏽💕

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

[nakamorijuan]

[gayweeb]

this is wrong

[southerngamerguy-deactivated201]

Yeah, she could’ve done this in her standard Sailor Moon form. Super form is overkill, really.

[halfpastcaketime-deactivated201]

Sailor Moon is stronger than Goku. I don’t make the rules. Fight me about it.

[dragonxball]

What!? 👀

[seidmadr-secrets]

I’m on a still active forum, with a solid vs debate scene. Sailor Moon vs. the God-Emperor of Mankind from 40k is one of the most treasured threads there, as Sailor Moon trashed the guy.

[catbureau]

19 pages straight of debate over Sailor Moon vs. God-Emperor of Mankind, in which every time a 40k fan desperately brings up a new point, it immediately gets negated by another one of Sailor Moon’s powers

[kamari3]

[theunvanquishedzims]

She’s even got a motive: aliens destroyed the moon. Not THIS specific alien, but still. She will avenge it!

[dni-archive]

[abysslll]

[itsladykit]

Motion Picture Association of America.

[waywardworldhopper]

Entertainment Software Rating Board

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[oodlenoodleroodle]

"Every rose has its thorns" - wrong. Prickles

[mixelation]

remember like an actual decade ago, there was a post giving advice for what to do if The Heterosexuals asked for your celebrity crush, and the advice was to just say "chris" and let them guess which chris and then just agree

and as your local ace i understand why such advice is appealing because i have been 13 and feeling a rising panic that i would answer "wrong" and bad things would happen. however as an adult i now understand that most people asking this are just asking you a question on par with asking what movies/music/whatever you like. they're not testing you, and if you give a fake answer, you're going to end up fielding follow-up questions or being sent memes or whatever, because they're trying to engage with your answers. just say a celebrity that you actually like (regardless of if you find them attractive or have a "crush"), or if you don't have one, say you don't pay attention to celebrities

anyway, i went out to drinks with people i didn't know that well, got asked that question, and said i wanted to study robert pattinson like a bug. now i get sent weird photos of him

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[rainbrella]

how is the cat ‘No’ ?

he just Is