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“Reckless. Idiotic. Insubordinate.” RK900′s LED flickers red until he finally spits out, “Stupid!”

Gavin has other shit to deal with. Like staying conscious and also ignoring how, up to thirty seconds ago, he thought he was going to bleed to death alone in this shitty alley–without even catching the fucking perp who fucking shot him.

Fuck.

“If you had waited for me to arrive as your backup, I would have–”

Blah blah blah. Of course his partner would have caught the perp, because he’s sooo much better than him.

And he is. Nines really is better than him in every way: as a detective, as a partner, hell even as a person, and he’s still just a machine! God. At least a minute ago he could have just had his existential crisis and died about it, but now he has to live with the knowledge all he wanted in his presumably-dying moments was–

Wait.

“Ss’this real?” Gavin slurs, weakly slapping at Nines.

Or, trying to. His depth perception isn’t so good right now. Probably because he’s been shot. Like, a lot. Good luck with that tourniquet, buddy, for the shit all that will do.

“Yes, detective,” RK900 snaps back, actually sounding annoyed enough to be real. “You really did chase after an armed suspect without backup and get shot multiple times in an alleyway.”

If this was just a dying fantasy, wouldn’t he imagine Nines being all sappy and nice to him? Gavin tries to picture that.

Nahhhh. He’d go out fantasizing about his mean ass bitch of a partner verbally stepping on him like always.

“Not real,” he insists.

“Yes, real.”

“Nuh uh.”

“I am only entertaining this asinine argument so that you will stay conscious.”

“You–your ass,” Gavin retorts.

RK900 displays the one single facial expression he’s managed to master without a social module and rolls his eyes. Too bad he isn’t real. The real Nines wouldn’t have let the perp get away.

“Nuhh. Not … real.”

“Are you dissociating?” Nines asks. “Are you traumatized? Detective? Detective, ARE YOU TRAUMATIZED?”

This is like a super shitty sitcom. One of those buddy cop shows, where everyone laughs at the android without a social module who doesn’t realize that yelling directly in Gavin’s face is pretty fucking traumatizing all by itself you big blue-eyed bitch.

“Real-Nines, woulda–” Gavin stops to cough. “Wuhh. Woulda. Caught him.”

“Stop speaking, detective. You are aggravating your–”

“Not real!”

“So I should have let you die?!” Nines shouts with the most emotion Gavin’s ever heard from him. “Fuck that. Fuck you. You are my partner, and I would not let some irrelevant red wall prevent me from saving your–saving–your st-stupid fucking life!”

Oh. His LED is still red. Has been? The whole time, red. Machine-RK900 would’ve given like, one red swirl, maybe two. Assessing the situation. He wouldn’t be stuck on it. He wouldn’t stay in this shitty gross alleyway keeping pressure on gunshot wound to his stomach while the perp got away.

He wouldn’t cry.

Gavin kisses him. Sort of. He can’t really sit up much on his own, and Nines is so much fucking taller than him, that it’s more like he just slobbers on the android’s chin, except then Nines actually kisses him back holy fuck but he is so, so bad at it. It feels like the dipshit is just headbutting his lips against Gavin’s lips and that’s what he thinks kissing is, so he’s definitely got to stay alive to show this genius moron how to actually get some.

“My very first emotion,” Nines says when he pulls back. “Is how goddamn furious I am with you. So shut up and stay still until the ambulance arrives.”

“Yessssir,” Gavin mumbles. “Kiss more?”

Nines blushes, a feature Gavin didn’t even know he had. “Only if you survive. Detective.”

He says the title in that special way only he can, which sounds exactly like “you fucking moron.”

Gavin lays in his arms, waiting for the ambulance, and wonders if he’ll say “boyfriend” the same way.

rylandbuckleys

Peter holding Tony’s hands during their final scene together

eilishcompany

like if you save ♡

healthydiscourse

people who flaunt their “gayness” or “trans identity” like its some kind of god given gift genuinely scare me

pisscourse

yeah god like. pride is great and all but being lgbt is actual hell. going through daily discrimination is actual hell. it’s awesome to be proud of who you are but when people are being murdered and massacred and raped, and every day you walk out knowing you could be the next, that doesn’t make you Cool and Special.

officialunitedstates

reblog if you’re tired of fake sesame street fans

cemeterydxive

zikuooh

I want it, I draw it.

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starfire003

If this isn’t the biggest mood

galaxywalker63

Pepper Potts: exists

Tony Stark:

celexdraw

had a little extra time today (I’m lying, I just got really into this drawing and I didn’t stop when I should have lol) and drew this as part of my Pacific Rim AU fic update announcement! I know it has nothing to do with the fic, but who cares, right?

chicago-reeed

joshdunisadom-deactivated202302

Me, after coming home from my first Tøp concert still a virgin.

dannysexbangs

me too

joshdunisadom-deactivated202302

We all wish wattpad stories could come to life 🙏😔

dannysexbangs

especially those ones of the boys bumping into you after the show and then rawing you in their hotel room 🙊😖

joshdunisadom-deactivated202302

Me, in my hotel room waiting for josh to show up and raw me

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

captainmarvelstan

Captain America is a war criminal, Winter soldier is an assassin and Hawkeye murdered people in endgame.

Men™️ on Twitter: How can Captain Marvel, a woman, twist a man’s hand who verbally abused her. She should be put in jail.

kesteral

this feels appropriate

tiredherethicc

my favorite addition to the post

ihazenough

THIS IS SOOOO PURE!!!!

v9z-deactivated20201221

rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:

inkwingart

This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.

TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)

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what

achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily

pococurantina

shaaknaa

Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue

pyrrhiccomedy

Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.

The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.

Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.

You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.

“Sorry, what the fuck?”

What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.

Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:

We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.

Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”

That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.

So how does magenta factor into this?

Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.

What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?

Fucking green.

Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.

So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.

And so it made up magenta.

So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”

No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:

Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.

Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?

Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.

The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.