Running on mob mentality

Multifandom side-blog. Mob Psycho 100, Fullmetal Alchemist, BNHA, TAZ, Critical Role, ATLA, ttrpgs, etc. In love with the found-family trope and a sucker for adoptive-parent relationships. See the 'my fics' tag for my fanfiction. Header art by the wonderful Misty/the-elf-draws!

[reigenhusband]

i kept seeing reigen edits with meme-y songs so i tried my hand at it 

[anxietyproblem]

[lazyleafeon]

[image description: a comic starring mob and reigen from mob psycho 100 and danny from danny phantom. Mob says “Shishou, I wanted to introduce you to someone. Danny waves and says “hi!” Reigen is watering plants, and tells mob “not now mob I’m a little busy-“ then sees danny and yells “ghost!”

Reigen says “salt splash” and throws salt at danny, who says “oh no.” To mob’s horror danny falls to the floor while saying “augh the salt. my…one weakness…” Reigen looks at danny, whose ghost tail is curled around him, and thinks, “snail…” mob and Reigen looks at danny with concern.

danny pops up in the next panel and says “kidding! I’m okay! That didn’t affect me at all haha.” Mob holds a hand to his chest and says “please never do that again.” Reigen looks at Danny and asks, “Mob, who is this guy.” End ID]

introductions

[penbattles]

Happy pride month from my favorite TAZ couple!!

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

[transformersweatpants]

if you’re up for some sad boys... the first time Taako dies. (your art style is incredible by the way I love how you draw faces)

[taz-ids]

[ID] Three water color drawings, featuring Magnus, Merle, and Lup. The first shows Magnus in a dark room, sitting curled up in a chair. He is a muscular human man with pale skin and brown hair. His knees are pulled up to his chest and he’s staring sadly at a large purple hat. The second drawing shows Merle, watering flowers at a grave with a large T on it. He is a dwarf with medium complexion skin and long white hair with a thick beard. He’s wearing an IPRE cloak and glasses. The last image is a two panel comic of Lup. She is an elf with medium complexion skin and short blonde hair. She’s stirring a pot on a stove and calling ‘Yo dingus! Come taste thi-’ before stopping and slumping forward, muttering ‘shit.’ [end ID]

[lewyn-martell]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

[comradekatara]

I always wonder about how yue occupies her time in the spirit world. I bet she’d enjoy the library :)

[girlcaligula]

Very controlled, put-together, cold characters losing it™️ is one of thee sexiest things in fiction

[hlebopecc]

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[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Caleb Widogast from Critical Role. He is visible from the shoulders up, looking to the right with a neutral expression. The illustration is coloured in various warm shades of red, orange, and yellow. End description.]

Every time idk how I want to colour a Caleb sketch I just slap on some warm colours and call it a day

[qvert]

‚Nav, show them what the Ninth House does.‘

‚WE DO BONES MOTHERFUCKER!‘

[coehellacanth]

@alchemiccolored asked:

do taako adventurezone in A3!

well this composition got completely away from me but i was really channeling the energy of that one pikachu meme. you know the one

[watermelon--felon]

They're going to McDonalds because one of them (Mob) wanted the BTS meal but they've been stuck in the driveway for the past 10 minutes because Reigen won't move the car unless they all have their seatbelts on but no one is listening to him cause he's old

[coquelicoq]

what really strikes me in rereading artificial condition is that once murderbot gets past its initial "oh my god this evil genius research transport could squash me like a bug, i'm so fucked" reaction to ART threatening it, it is WAY more chill about being vulnerable to ART than it is about being vulnerable to humans. MB is stressed out if a human so much as looks at it, but it lets ART hitch a ride in its brain and observe everything it's doing the whole time it's on RaviHyral, not to mention the two times it lets down its wall (!!) or the time it allows ART to modify its physical body while it's unconscious (!!!!). that's about as vulnerable as it's possible for MB to be, and it consents to it. so what's the deal with that?

not only is ART more of a direct threat to MB than any human is ("I had never directly interacted with anything this powerful before"), but also MB is more emotionally vulnerable (i.e., more exposed) to ART than it is to humans just in the sense that ART is privy to more of MB's perceptions/reactions/experience/feelings (its interiority) than humans are. with humans, MB is constantly checking its expression in the security cameras, trying to figure out if it's giving anything away. ART can't read MB's mind, but it can, e.g., perceive MB's emotions while watching Worldhoppers in a way that a human would not be able to. it's afraid of humans recognizing and reacting to the fact that it is sentient and has an inner life, but not of ART doing the same thing.

ultimately the root of this discrepancy is that MB is terrified of its own ability to hurt others. in artificial condition, the thing it's most immediately afraid of is being recognized as a rogue SecUnit. this would threaten its autonomy, and losing its autonomy would mean it could be used to hurt people against its will. (there's a ton more to say about this, and about the other things MB is afraid of, but i will save it for another day.)

but crucially, MB can't really hurt ART. it could do some damage if it really tried, but the power imbalance is in ART's favor. it doesn't need to worry about losing control/being controlled and hurting ART, because ART can defend itself from rogue SecUnits. and it doesn't need to worry about ART controlling it in order to hurt humans, because ART sobs into its figurative ice cream any time a fictional human bites it on a TV show.

with humans, MB is in the weird position of fearing their power over it (both their structural power as entities that are legally considered people where it is considered a thing, and their more immediate power to force it to carry out their commands) and also fearing its ability to harm them (humans are so squishy, guys). ART doesn't have structural power over MB - there is the potential for bot/construct solidarity there - and it wouldn't use its other power to wield MB as a tool to harm humans because it doesn't want to harm humans either (remember that at this point MB doesn't know about ART's trigger-happy colony-exploding proclivities). and MB isn't even the slightest bit of afraid of hurting ART, because MB is but a tiny bug in comparison.

ART is a safe entity for MB to be friends with, not in spite of the power imbalance in ART's favor but precisely because of it. MB can only have a relationship that's not overshadowed by fear when it is freed from its fear of its own potential to harm.

[grammarpedant]

you know, I was thinking the other day about the moment when ART threatens Eletra, and how Murderbot’s emotional reaction to that is a surge of adrenaline despite it not feeling attached to Eletra, who is exemplary of typical CR clients, and its thought that it doesn’t like the idea of any humans dying near its clients.

now obviously this is a moment that we can point to when we talk about MB’s instinctive empathy, but it occurs to me that this is also one of the first moments MB witnesses ART threaten a human directly, in plain language.

and in light of your analysis of the foundation of their relationship- that it is friends with ART because it can’t hurt ART and because ART has no desire to hurt humans- this is so interesting!!

because it’s not that NE reveals ART’s trigger-happy colony-exploding proclivities, exactly, right? ART doesn’t really have any interest in hurting humans, as a general rule- that’s why MB trusts/trusted it, was dare I say fond of it, that’s part of why their relationship could develop, and I think that’s also part of why MB reacted strongly to ART’s threat against Eletra despite her not being a client or likable, because it is such a serious thing coming from ART. but the exception to that general rule is when its crew is threatened, because ART’s not a media serial AI, and real AIs (in the MBDverse) prioritize their humans- their people- above humans as a class. (I’ve said this before but idk where the post is oops).

So in other words, the arc of MB & ART’s relationship in NE is MB learning again that no, ART doesn’t want to kill humans and wouldn’t do so lightly- that MB can in fact still trust it. And that, in fact, if ART goes so far as to threaten to bomb a colony full of humans? It’s because ART values Murderbot as highly, as worthy of protection and extreme lengths, as its crew.

And so the end of Network Effect is Murderbot confronting the fact that ART considers it crew, babeyyy

[mired-in-halloween]

Over the Garden Wall Tarot Sheets by Holly Heller

[najsigt]

I really miss my TAZ phase every now and then, and since Ive had a really stressful week I thought I’d treat myself to drawing some old comfort characters!

[spiralofdragon]

Our favorite friendly/cranky android stopping in to wish you happy Pride Month and showing off its asexual, aromantic, and agender pride! This was done as part of a series on the Murderbot Discord, so there’s probably a flood of Murderbot-in-a-AAA-shirt arts by different fan artists floating around now! Looking to compile them soon.