#sum total

[thoughtfulravenart]

Human!AU Ships

October 12th, 2025

[thewerebunny]

Machine Intelligences

[thoughtfulraven]

Holism time! And its supporting ships. I decided arbitrarily that they are a stable polycule and purposely made their logos match. In my mind Holism is truly massive, like a "that is no moon, that is Holism" kind of way. This is based on the fact it dropped a module that could act as a mobile station, and that implies to me that multiple ships of Perihelion's size can dock to it.

TRIVIA:

I made up DSACMS which stands for Deep Space Automated Carrier and Mobile Station. It gets its own special label because it's a Big Big Ship. I imagine it's the lead of its class, so all ships built in this variation would be called Holism Class. I bet it's very proud of that.

DSASV is Deep Space Automated Support Vessel because I feel Sum Total and Autopoiesis both serve some specific function, but I didn't want to decide exactly what so that its left up to imagination. If Perihelion can be a cargo/research/teaching/secret espionage vessel I guess these guys can too.

Autopoiesis I picked as a name for the unnamed ship, I tried to keep with the theme established with Holism and Sum Total. It refers to a system that can produce and maintain itself by creating its own parts. Low key I feel like it may be a sort of mobile hospital facility.

I WAS going to make Holism a very dark green (#098328) which is the average perihelion of Earth in astronomic units but I had trouble making it look good with two other colors without it looking vaguely like really weird camouflage. So the hate-ship is there in spirit but not in actuality. Pretend Peri hates its logo anyway because they're both petty bitches.

Notes: You are allowed to use this as you please, but not for commercial works and you must credit me. Don't sell this on stuff, I will find you and I will bite you. Also pictures. I wanna see what you do, so pay picture tax.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Nothingness! To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of living. All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!

from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

[thoughtfulraven]

Okay just....just hear me out alright?

[ID: A human version of Holism leans against a doorframe with one arm upraised and the other holding the opposite side of the doorframe, it is wearing a tshirt that is riding up where its arm is upraised, exposing some of its hip. It is wearing jeans with tears and patches with band logos on them and has a belt chain. It has swept back fluffy hair and long eyelashes, its eyes are hooded and its smirking at the viewer flirtatiously. It has circuitry tattooed on its left arm and a geometric pattern on its right. /END ID]

Human!Holism is now chewing on my brain stem and I'm mad as shit about it. Headcanons under the cut.

It's a professor (has a doctorate but will not use the title Doctor) at the same college Peri teaches night classes at, its classroom is across the hall. It teaches various humanities and intro to economics and is generally considered a highly desirable professor because it's very enthusiastic about its subjects and also very invested in making sure you pass. Its the kind of teacher that checks up on you and maybe brings you a snack by way of treating the whole class if it notices you're hungry all the time. Just generally an actually good person. It is also arrogant and pushy and makes itself seem incredibly self centered while being honestly very occupied with everyone around it. It flirts with almost everyone, just an all around charming person.

It's openly poly and in a relationship with Professor Sum Total (Creative writing/English) and a semi-QPR situation-ship with Doctor Autopoiesis (biology/botany).

It has been hitting on Peri for like three years and Peri thinks it's just an insufferable flirt, but it honestly thinks Peri is cute. Sometimes they get into arguments right in the hallway. Holi thinks this is just another way to flirt but Peri actually gets deeply flustered and annoyed with it. Aphelion watched this happen a couple of times when it was in town picking Peri up for dinner and thinks it's the funniest shit it's ever seen.

I'm torn on if I want Sum Total to be an author/creative writing professor or if I want it to be an engineer

I want Holi to restore classic cars, but it doesn't actually keep or drive them it just restores them and sells it to but it's next project car

But it owns a 1969 Chevy Chevelle because it can't sell it. It bought it illegally modified for street racing and learned a valuable lesson about inspecting project cars before purchase. It keeps thinking it will rip out the nitro injector and actually restore it but then it moves on to another project. Peri is unfathomably jealous and Wants It So Bad, I Can Safely Drift a Schoolbus Can You Imagine What I Could Do With That. Based on a car my dad had for a while, hated that Chevelle it was a miserable ride.

Its daily driver is probably like a Honda Civic or something Auto has a Prius and is a certified plant parent, it's house is full of plant varieties and its yard is full of fruiting trees and edible plants. It pretends to find the neighborhood kids eating off the trees annoying but everyone knows that's just to save face Sum Total has the most tricked out house for Halloween. Like it's won awards.

I have more art but I'm still cooking it and lots of other ideas but I'm also trying to work on my actual fic and sobbing into my hands please someone send help I don't need this in my life right now

[thoughtfulraven]

Just some human!ships thoughts.

Additional notes: Aphelion and Perihelion are fraternal twins, Aphe is tall and muscular with dark hair and eyes, Peri is short and built solid, albino. They're transmasc and transfemme and I'll leave it up to you to guess which is which. Autopoiesis' hairstyle is based on a teacher I had in community college who had the most beautiful silver streaked locs I've ever seen. Its a very stoic Black person who is 90% done with everyone else's bullshit. Auto is allo-aro, Aphe is just its one romantic exception because they intrigue each other. Holism looks a lot like a cross between Jo Calderone (Lady Gaga) and James Dean and I love that for it. It has beautiful eyelashes and hair and it is very aware of this. Holi's got that fucking Charm though, it's arrogant and bossy and somehow that works for it in a magnetic way most of the time. It fights with Peri frequently over every petty little thing. Sum Total is friend shaped, it's the shortest of all of them and literally any one of its polycule would kill for it without prompting. It dyes its hair golden blonde but it would be naturally very dark brunette. It's shy and soft spoken. ID under cut

IMAGE ID Five human figures Upper left corner: A person with an undercut grips the shoulders of a short person with tufty short hair and glasses pushed up into its hair. The taller person grins wickedly while the shorter person grimaces. Handwritten text identifies the shorter person as Peri: short, albino and the taller person as Aphe: It has an undercut, tall, muscular. The upper right corner: A stoic Black person with glasses and long locs tied back stares at the viewer, unimpressed. It is wearing a button up shirt, a tie, and a button up waistcoat. Handwritten text: Autooooooooooo. Rectangular shaped, it's tall and imposing but thin, reedy Bottom left: A person with a very long face smirks at the camera with a sly look, it has wavy hair slicked back in a Greaser style, gauged ears, and long eyelashes. Handwritten text: Holism, it looks like a greaser and I love that.

Bottom left: A fat person with an unsure look, it has bobbed hair with bangs and is lifting a finger to their mouth. Handwritten text: Sum Total, round shape language, it's friend shaped! Signed Roki! 2025

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April 26th, 2025

[poetassignment]

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Maya Angelou