#monty-glasses-roxy

[ntls-24722]

What if Jurassic Park was Music Man park

~@monty-glasses-roxy

jurassic park if it was actually Worth A Damn

(/J. /J. /J . DONT FUCKING KILL ME CULTURED PEOPLE)

all the music man aus i have appear in the jurassic world movies as the hybrids/bioengineered dinos. indominous rex is just comet valero

[cripplecharacters]

Hey your recent post about not using sign names and no longer answering those asks reminded me of something!

I have a story where robots who aren't wanted by the company that made them, for whatever reason, 'scraps' them by just ditching them in an underground warehouse

The robots are fully sentient and sapient, and are still active after being sent to this warehouse

They have no outside support or healthcare, with limited ability to self-repair

This basically means as time goes on, disabilities become more and more common and are usually very well accepted

I've had them develop a sort of culture of their own down there

All robots have pre-programmed sign language capabilities (I try to describe or draw specifically BSL to the best of my abilities for this)

Signing would first be used by a robot with speech problems, and then tinnitus/moderate deafness in one ear

Other robots would also naturally develop hearing loss and speech issues too

Being isolated from the outside world, their culture and language would develop independently from it

So that would most likely include new sign words for things they didn't have words for, or didn't know before

Do you have any advice on how I could represent this difference in writing?

I have ideas for this, but as I'm not deaf/Deaf or hard of hearing, this isn't something I have experience with

I was thinking the character could just ask what the word meant and repeat the sign, and the other person fingerspelling the word for them

I would love some advice on it!

And also any ideas or suggestions for things to include in the Deaf culture of this place? Or any disability culture aspects that might be cool to have?

(Not all the disabled characters are in this warehouse, it just happens to be where a lot of them are given the whole thing where they have very little access to repairs)

Thank you for any time you give this in advance!!!

~@monty-glasses-roxy (I can't send asks from a sideblog :()

Hi!

This sounds like how sign languages naturally develop. Sign languages have regional variation, so it's possible your non-robot signing characters will regard the robots' unfamiliar signs as regional variations they haven't seen before.

The robots may also start inventing new methods of sign language or communication if other disabilities that may impact signing ability (e.g., limb loss, loss of dexterity/hand function, etc.) are also common.

In terms of representing the difference, I'm not a huge fan of describing or drawing signs since they're often wrong. I think it's easiest for your BSL users to simply note that the robots use an unfamiliar sign and then ask them what it means.

Mod Rock

[the-moon-pal]

Trick or treat!

~@monty-glasses-roxy (Halloween game OP sorry for any duplicates!)

now i must warn my treats or tricks are a bit .. unusual! :]c @monty-glasses-roxy

[mayoiayasep]

Trick or treat!

~@monty-glasses-roxy (Halloween game OP sorry for any duplicates!)

low quality bakuten beam‼️‼️

[ntls-24722]

Hey I saw a post of yours (something about birds always being portrayed as dumb??) and it reminded me that I wanted to ask a while back if you'd read the webcomic Golden Shrike. It's not about birds specifically, but the birds are the messengers that carry the voice of deer (the species the comic is about) up to the skies so their god can hear them. I thought that was pretty neat and also it somewhat recently showed us what the god of life looks like and I thought you might like her design :)

~@monty-glasses-roxy

Actually this comic is beautiful and i can still appreciate a focus on non-carnivorans, thank you for showing me this.

I like how subversive the god of life's design is... this is so traditionally "evil" looking but this is indeed the god of life. I love designs that switch it up!!

[ntls-24722]

Hey I remembered Debus also have Adobe in their world again. Pouring one out for those poor unfortunate souls </3

~@monty-glasses-roxy

Mistranslation occurred here, i think. They're pissed because they think you called their species stupid and underdeveloped for not having better building material.

Adobe, the company and its products, only comes to Bolur ~whenever~ humans discover the planet and its inhabitants. adobe, no capitalization, exists far before that on both Earth and Bolur as the mud-and-dried-plant-matter building material. I brought it up in the last homo mousike post as another material that often needs maintenance, as heavy rains can erode the surface the same way heat can erode a snow structure - But adobe has historically been used for far longer than snow in the dry, arid planet of homo mousike than the equally high-maintenance but elusive building material of snow, and therefore snow is seen as more ridiculous.

Bonus Fritz appearance as sort of a reference to an old ask I got about aliens from Drohnen meeting the aliens from Bolur. I wanted to post a comic for it but I never ended up doing so...

Comet meets Lepit, Sindeer, and Rinkalla first and goes through the painstaking process of learning Lewes' written language in order to speak with them (as Comet lacks the vocal capabilities to do so in their language). However the moment she tries to hand over a slab of their written language to Sindeer she just scratches her head and hands it back to her and Comet realizes she doesn't know how to read. Even though Lewes, due to its litigious nature and cultural ideals on history keeping, does indeed have the highest literacy rate on Bolur... Bolur has just moved out of its prehistoric era and that high literacy rate is 5%.

Fritz meets the Zebraman Fish first and after a tense first meeting, he is shown off to Unamed as a mean joke as Fish is freaked out by Fritz's lack of fur and compares him to Unamed, his hairless partner.

[ntls-24722]

Actually, thoughts on Big Top? I saw him a day or two ago and oh my god he's so cool

~@monty-glasses-roxy

I think he's SO cool I'm genuinely so flabbergasted how incorrect i was in his reconstruction BECAUSE OF HOW WEIRD HE IS. I barely knew what was going on with his arms but TICKET BOOTH LOWER HALF????

I love his powdered wig and blinds for eyes, and while he looks kind of garishly top heavy (i guess he lives up to his name) he is... delightfully weird. I'm also very very pleasantly surprised on his voice, I thought he was going to sound unpleasantly raspy and hissy, like if Funtime Dreddy and Moondrop had a horrible laryngitis baby. He cleared that low bar with flying colors, Tickets Please my good man. The only issue I have with him is how hard his arms are to draw accurately 💔

As for. Sort of an interpretation on how he is?

I think he's the most... apathetic one out of all of the music men. I think he's surprisingly NOT existential about his existance being a ticket booth and the fact he is a machine and is the most chill about the thought of being obsolete. He's extraordinarily patient and accepts all that happens to him.

The thought of never being used or loved again isn't something to get upset over, in his eyes. His mortality hangs over his head and it scares him but he knows there's no use in getting worked up about it.

He's very content with his mundane job - it was what he was made for, and he feels fulfilled by it. He's also extremely easily entertained. He's surprisingly hard to annoy or piss off - anything new is a delight to him, after all. He can sometimes be morally questionable because I think he'd like to be a bystander in horrible situations just to be able to watch what would happen, though that's also because he's never gotten emotionally attached to anyone or anything.

[ntls-24722]

Remember a while back when I asked what you could do if you could redo the Pizzaplex however you like and you made it all for the various Music Men in the series? How would you add Big Top to that?

~@monty-glasses-roxy

He's a prize counter so he recieves all the tickets he could possibly desire :)

He has been removed from the basement.