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Robug/Langley - he/it - adult

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My commissions are open but I'm reworking the site with all the information on it. Will update this once that's complete. Also, my username used to be tvbug and a lot of my art is still tagged with that handle. Asks are pretty much always open! Tagging guide under cut

#robug talks #intro post #pinned intro #pinned post

lunnefisk

harry dubois would end death note in one episode. he'd be unkillable bc he has no fucking idea what his name is and then he'd go drink driving and accidentally run light over and the killings would mysteriously stop

sylvansylvain

Harry: Kim, what's following that kid?

Kim: ...

Harry: What?

Kim: What are you talking about?

Inland Empire [80%]

Looks like you're the only one who can see it.

Harry: The... bone monster?

Kim: The bone monster.

Harry: Yes. The bone monster.

rockergiirl

THE BONE MONSTER - As you approach it grins, watching you watching it.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - "Good morning officers."

YOU - Continue looking at the bone monster.

THE BONE MONSTER - It tilts its head to the side quizzically at you.

YOU - Tilt your head in response.

THE BONE MONSTER - It begins leering over you, grinning even harder.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - The kid turns towards you.

PERCEPTION [LEGENDARY: SUCCESS] - For a moment he looked at the bone monster, and then to you.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - "Is there a problem, officers?"

KIM - "You will have to forgive my partner, he has quite an active imagination."

THE BONE MONSTER - "You hear that? I'm just a part of your imagination."

INLAND EMPIRE - I don't think he's a part of your imagination.

meow-moment

This man... He can see Ryuk? But how? The only explanation is that he touched my Death Note, but I've had it with me all day! Did he sneak into my room last night while I was asleep? But, all my security measures were intact... And he seems confused, is he putting on an act? Let me see if I can...

"Pardon me officer, I don't think I caught your name?"

"Uh, well that's the thing, I, uh, don't actually remember it at the moment."

Damn him! He knows I need a name to kill, and now he's taunting me! He can see Ryuk, too, so one wrong move could end me! I might have to make the eye deal at this point...

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LOGIC [Medium, failure]: This bone monster is obviously Kira. You are fucked.

Try to make Kim see the bone monster. [Suggestion, Legendary]

Attempt to arrest the bone monster.

Put yourself between the bone monster and Light.

Ask Light for some money.

Try to play it off as a joke and leave quickly. [Composure, Formidable]

transcyberism

> Attempt to arrest the bone monster

PERCEPTION [EASY: FAILURE] - You can't tell what gender it is.

YOU - "Excuse me, sir-- or, uh, madam?-- Bone... person..."

THE BONE MONSTER - It laughs, a deep, gutteral sound, like air escaping from the lungs of a corpse. As its jaw moves, you can see rows upon rows of sharp teeth inside its gaping maw.

COMPOSURE [CHALLENGING: SUCCESS] - You stand your ground and manage not to freak out.

YOU - "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come down to the police station. You... uh, match the description of a suspect... I think."

THE BONE MONSTER - It lets out a loud, phlegmatic belly laugh. "What are you going to do, arrest me?"

AUTHORITY - Damn right you are. Cuff him.

YOU - "Yes, as a matter of fact, I will. You are under arrest on suspicion of being Kira. Put your hands forward, wrists together."

KIM - "How exactly are you going to handcuff a hallucination, Detective?"

THE BONE MONSTER - It laughs again, like this is the funniest thing in the world, before obediently sticking out its arms.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - His eyes go wide and his face goes pale as you place the cuffs on the monster's wrists, before his gaze darts to Kim.

KIM - He is staring at the cuffs. He looks bewildered. "Are those handcuffs... floating?"

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Shit! Ryuk, why did you have to comply?! Is this a game to you? No matter... They still don't realize that I'm Kira, not Ryuk. All I have to do is stay calm and act surprised. I'm sure Ryuk can just escape later, once he gets bored. And this other cop obviously can't see him, so it seems it's only the first one who has touched a Death Note... I just need to make it seem that he's the only one who can see Shinigami. Then I'll seem innocent, and he'll be the suspicious one!

"How did you do that? Is it some kind of magic trick?"

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SHIVERS [Heroic, Success]: As intimidating as it looks, the bone monster isn't the real threat.

Deduce who the real Kira is [Logic, Godly]

Ask Light what he knows about the bone monster.

Tell Kim I-told-you-so.

Convince Light you are a sorcerer [Drama, Impossible]

Ask Light if he has any cigarettes.

behindnightmaresanddreams

I don't know shit about Harry's universe but I wanna see where this is gonna go. I vote cigarettes next.

optimisticlucio

ospreyonthemoon

Someone wrote a fic where he hit light with his car. It is a brilliant piece of coding and fiction.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I'd HIGHLY reccomend it- there's only one chapter, really (the second one exists purely as a workaround to make something that would otherwise be a popup into a link because its way too long to be a popup) and its 32,000ish words.

Its fun you should check it out

#reblog #robugs vault #disco elysium #death note #friend: merlin #friend tag

ascendent

affirmations

I DON'T WANT THIS

I DON'T NEED THIS

I WILL RISE TO THIS OCCASION

THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE WILL BE SWEET

SOON ALL OF THIS WILL BE A MEMORY

SHIRTLESS BEFORE GOD, YELL ABOUT COCAINE

#the mountain goats #reblog

ranticore

first calmdown time after work with some special guest creatures @spookygibberish @the1andonlyvoid

#inspo #reblog #taur #robugs vault

saszor

[ID in alt text]

"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

If (when) you repost this on pinterest at least put a link to the original post somewhere..

#reblog #robugs vault #reference #inspo

swagophile

downloaded an evil pirated rom of a classic video game off the dark web and the malevolent spirit inside it was fully intending to kill me until it hicjacked my webcam and saw my room and now it just feels sorry for me. yeah. it's helping me fill out job applications now. it saw me take down some empty bottles and it was genuinely really.proud of me. i think it sees itself as like a mother figure. when i do really good it lets me play my favorite levels but it changes things around a little so it feels new again because it knows i appreciate that and i deserve to be rewarded for beingnthe good girl i am. yeah. i dont even think its evil anymore i think its just really personally invested in me

#reblog

dmnitcernos

BLELLOW PORTRAITS

Redrew my Blellow portraits with more details. How are we feeling about these designs guys?

#deltarune #blue deltarune #yellow deltarune #reblog

64mpg

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

#reblog #robugs vault

headspace-hotel

Foraging for Music is a method my brother and I developed where we find music at random on bandcamp, either by looking at the scrolling list of albums that are selling or by using the "surprise me" search feature. We add it to a youtube playlist if it initially sounds good. Then we listen to the song in full and decide if we like it or not.

We started writing down ratings for each song on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being completely without anything redeeming and 7 being the best song possible

Songs rated with a 1 are rare, because those are mostly eliminated in the process of seeing if the song sounds good enough to add to the playlist. But songs rated above a 5 are also very rare

Since the last thing I posted about it, I listened to over 100 more songs found by Foraging for Music, and I haven't found a single other song that I rated higher than a 5

But I doubt myself on my ratings.

If I find a song that is my first experience with a certain genre, it seems I would rate it higher than normal because I am unfamiliar with it.

On the other hand, if I listen to too much of the same genre, probably my ratings would start to drop.

Maybe if I am getting tired of listening to music in general, the ratings will drop.

Hard to say.

headspace-hotel

Songs with a 7 rating

Butcher Brown- No Way Around It

Thrailkill- Cattywampus

Songs with a 6 rating

Death Threat Cassette- Use Your Delusion

Benny Bleu- Five Miles from Town

SPILLINGS - Terminal Agitation

Gábor Szabó - Some Velvet Morning

I haven't counted all the songs we've rated, but it's probably a couple hundred since we started the rating system (out of thousands we screened for inclusion in the playlist by listening to 10 or 20 seconds of them) and these are the only ones that rate above a 5.

Why so few? Am I getting pickier as I listen to more music?

The past several days I listened to songs on my own instead of with my brother. We want to see how different our ratings are when we rate them separately instead of coming to a consensus.

So far the major differences in our music preferences seem to be: I like techno, industrial, ambient, and music with droning as a major component more than my brother does, whereas my brother likes r&b a lot more than I do and is more favorable toward songs that emulate 1960s and 1970s sounds.

On principle, we are openminded in terms of genre (which the above list indicates very well). But how can you judge how "good" a song is separately from personal preferences about genre?

On top of that, how can you judge how "good" a song is separately from how many similar songs you've been exposed to, the mood you're in, and the activity you're doing as you listen?

On this kind of scale, (screening thousands of songs, listening to hundreds) judgments about a song's "goodness" start to revolve a lot around whether it's putting together unique elements in a distinct, artistically-driven way, rather than the technical excellence of the execution.

Or is it? We don't come across technical excellence very often. (these are chosen from random samples of human musical expression after all...at least random samples of what exists on Bandcamp.) But I'm very surprised to learn from this exercise how much music is extremely similar to other music.

I feel certain that this has a lot to do with the social environment of music, where artists create and collaborate, and fans listen, in environments (festivals, shows, etc) dedicated to particular genres or subgenres.

Environments for music to grow seem vital for the development and cultivation of a genre, but they also seem to be very stifling and limiting as they promote tight clustering of music with shared elements and characteristics. Genres and subgenres evolve and cross pollinate within those tight clusters, but there is minimal outcrossing, and when outcrossing occurs it happens along certain social and political strata.

Music, as an art form, is virtually infinite in possibility: every distinct cultural group on Earth, no matter what distinguishes them, seems to have its own form of music, and those forms can be freely hybridized with all other forms of music, usually creating something even cooler than its parents.

Music genres are so closely connected to social interconnection of people, it makes sense why music genres exist, but listening to Too Much Music makes you desperate for more people to get silly with it. Just doing something weird is enough for you to think the song is good. After so much guitar, synthesizer, and drum machines, you become a cut above the rest just by having the guts to throw in a church organ.

A good song displays excellence in mastering all the intricacies of distortion and vibration possible using the strings of an electric guitar. A great song has a saxophone. An excellent song has a nailgun.

headspace-hotel

On the last post, I shared the link to a song that I didn't like, but had a hard time rating, Ivy Staircase in Ruin by Burial Etiquette. I don't like it but a lot of people on the post posted their analysis of why they liked it and it was really fascinating.

It goes to show that music requires the right listener to fully understand why it is good.

headspace-hotel

Here are some more songs that were really difficult to rate

Sugar Horse- Fire Graphics I have listened to several songs by this artist, and they have a very striking energy and sound. This one has a very strong feeling of something escalating and getting closer. Also try "Terrible Things are Happening As We Speak"

Buke & Gase - Wrong Side I don't like it, but I want to keep listening to it. Like, I don't like it while i'm listening to it, but I keep thinking of it unprompted and being like "huh I should listen to that again"

Bjørn Lynne - Kyrania I hated this one because it "makes me feel like I'm on a screensaver or in a funeral home." I think it's trying to go for a kind of mythical fairytale feeling but it somehow feels like the menu screen of a computer program from 1999

All Men Unto Me - Sanctus I rated this one a 5/7 but it does have an extra special something to it. The desperate screaming at the end really pushed it into a higher realm of coolness for me.

Under a Quilted Sky- The Animals have Left This Place This one really grows on me. It becomes very engrossing as it continues.

Decommissioned Forests- Black River Falls Okay I rated this one 5/7 so it's still solidly a Good Song but it's 100% my favorite song from the past couple days so maybe it needs to be higher. Part of what's tripping me up is I can't explain why I love it so much.

Toneaffair - Sonnet I have no idea what to make of this one. It's weird. I rated it 4/7 but I'm listening to it again and I think that's too low. This is a banger. But how on earth is this supposed to make me feel?

The Sugarcubes - A Leash Called Love I struggled majorly with this one because I didn't like it for reasons that felt like purely personal preference, but I wasn't sure if it was a good example of the thing it's trying to be. It seemed unique and interesting, but maybe it's not?!

Maybe some of you can appreciate them better than I can.

#music #reblog #save for later