the paper-hearted ghost

my name's ace, i'm not | they/them | 30+ | comic and ink artist | writer | general mess This is my main/writing/fandom blog! You'll find lots of writing thoughts and posts here, the obsession currently on the menu is Fullmetal Alchemist. I follow from nihidea-art. about me. AO3 ART BLOG ETSY Buy me a coffee? ❤

[canon-autopsy]

*platform decay spoilers*

When they're waiting to board the boat and the crowd is all listening in on Murderbot telling the humans its going back to help the militia hold off the corporates

The crowd all parting to let it through and Mb thinks it must be its angry face and not the fact that everyone just heard its going off to protect them

When passengers spot it in the water and work together to pull it aboard

Random humans recognizing its heroism and working to help it

[wolvesandcomputers]

They hear its kid? say "They will kill you" they hear its wife? ask if it's "going to do the thing." It has a past the kids don't know about. It's going to protect everyone or die trying. Its going to buy its family time to get away. You know every human on that boat was relieved when it made it back aboard.

[akaanir-of-starfleet]

#😭😭😭😭 #murderbot #god yeah they probably DO think that's its family!!!! #and it is. to be clear. farai is about to report back to tano like 'bad news :/ i'm on ayda's side about the secunit now.' #[communist bugs bunny meme] OUR secunit #but my point is that a bystander probably sees what they think is a heavily augmented human person #someone so augmented that it MUST have been some kind of lifesaving measure rather than a choice (per artificial condition) #who has their wife(?) and their mother(?) and their THREE children(?) with them #and THAT is the person who says with total authority that it's going to protect them or die trying #of course they step aside to let it through #that's some entertainment feed quality heroism right there! (via @words-writ-in-starlight)

[security-unit]

I'm imagining like. space-youtube video essays but about various Incidents. murderbot is mostly pretty good at avoiding being clocked as a secunit (like. most of the time. when shit hits the fan it's not really... well. it's pretty hard to keep people safe AND keep pretending to be a human)

but would its deception hold up against the sci-fi equivalent of hbomberguy who initially was making a much smaller scale video but then kept piecing things together.....

can you imagine how much stir a video pointing out "hey I think all of these incidents are the same construct. y'know. the rogue one" would get if it was mysteriously deleted. the drama. someone would obviously point out that the guy who made the video could have deleted it himself to make it look legitimate and that would just make it worse. it's awesome

[shuppy-time]

SpaceBomberGuy, clearly 25% of the way though the video: But of course, this is all meaningless speculation. Obviously, Secunits are not sentient, and even if they were, any rogue secunit would obviously immediately go on a killer rampage. So...I guess that's the end of the video. That is, UNLESS- [insert 60 minute extremelywell cited rant showing constructs are in fact sentient and deserving of autonomy and human rights.]

[karpachev]

nightly kimblee sketches

I'm proud of this one. hes a bug.

[geneticdriftwood]

honestly? abandoned/on indefinite hiatus/very slow to update fics, even and especially AUs and longfics, are often some of my absolute favorites. and people who refuse to read them are missing out!

for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.

so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)

i don’t normally ask this, but if this resonates with you please reblog it, so it can reach the authors who need to hear it <3

[mylifewasamazinguntiliwasborn]

i’m still not over the linguistic miracle that is the Finnish expression “noni” and its variations

NOni (emphasis on the first syllable): “well now you’ve done it, good job” meaning you’ve majorly fucked up

noNI (emphasis on the last syllable): “I TOLD YOU DIDN’T I” meaning I totally was right and this argument is over

noni (literally no emphasis): “Anyway” or “I need to rearrange my thoughts, give me a sec”

NOniin (emphasis on the first syllable): “i admit my defeat you were right” meaning it definitely answers the noni above

noNIIN (emphasis on the last syllable): “let’s get started” or “okay anyway let’s continue”

NONni (emphasis on the first syllable): “aw, that sucks”

nonNI (emphasis on the last syllable): “without further ado, let’s get started”, usually after a long wait before a lengthy speech/presentation

nonni (again no emphasis): “you’re such a disappointment”

nonnnnnni (the length of the -nn- defines the meaning): “that’s too bad” or “i told you so” or “why would you drop the family heirloom vase it was literally worth 500k euros”

No. Nii. (the pause between no and nii defines the meaning): “yea, just like I was saying” or “and that’s about all I know about this issue” or “okay you’re right” or “hold on i need a moment to figure what to say next”

noniii (the length of the -ii defines the meaning): “ah, it’s finally working” or “I’m not so sure about that one”, or “well I guess you’re right but consider the following:” or “ah, buckle your seat belts, the ride’s about to begin”

no NIIN (sometimes no is almost swallowed and it sounds like “nNNII”): “finally finished”, usually after a lengthy speech/presentation

no nii-IH (if you forget the singsong tone this won’t work): “that’s what i’ve literally been trying to say for the past three hours” or “i know right ugh”

no niiii-i (the last -i is really short and sort of fades into the void of eternity, probably the most passive-aggressive word in the entire Finnish language): “i fucking agree” or “yeah tell me about it” after a very negative discussion, in which you usually complain about someone or something

NONIH (only mothers know how to say this one): “do this or so god help me” or “it’s six am on a Saturday morning and you’re about to clean up the entire house and the neighbour’s house too”

NOHNI (everyone driving a car naturally aces this one): “fucking. drive. you. slow. ass. slug” or “it’s fucking green it’s been green for 84 years” or “please don’t fucking hit me please” or “how the hell did that one even get a licence”

[heavvymetalqueen-deactivated202]

the truly terrifying thing is that this made perfect sense to me.

[mabeltanaka]

The Good Place Chapter 26: Somewhere Else

[tosharchives]

i have the kind of melancholy that attracts me to large bodies of water.

[phantomrose96]

Fun FMA manga fact:

This isn’t mentioned in Brotherhood, but the reason Roy and Riza came to Resembool scouting out the Elrics is because someone fucked up the ages on Ed and Al’s file.

Literally Roy and Riza are riding in the back of some horse-drawn carriage into Resembool chatting with the driver like “yes we’ve heard rumors of two alchemist brothers here, Ed and Al Elric ages 31 and 30 respectively. Do you know where they live?” And the driver pretty much answers with “lol what? Those kids are like 10.”

Except now Roy and Riza are already THERE so they decide “Fuck it. Let’s pay a visit anyway.”

So everything that went down in the series is thanks to some mysterious fuck up in the Amestrian Intelligence Department and I salute that person.

[phantomrose96]

Bonus: He buries his goddamn face in the document at the end, like staring at it closer might make it less wrong.

[puppetmaster55]

roy’s reaction is literally

[phantomrose96]

Spot the difference

[localpubliclibrary]

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

[theliteraryluggage]

for those waiting for the next chapter of you will hear my voice: I meant to have it up by now, it's been pretty impossible to write in the heat of the last week.

I'm travelling until Sunday, and I'm sure I will be writing throughout the week but I won't be able to post, so you'll have to wait until I'm back. Sorry!

[mongeese]

The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[daftpatience]

noticed the two types of people in the tags

[foxes-in-love]

[nihidea-art]

Updated my Murderbot ref sheet to go with the one I made for BLUE the other day!

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[dragongirlknot]

this is one of those videos I decided to download and save so I can find it again in case this post ever disappears

[dragoness-witch]

this guy is straight up one of the reasons i started believing i would live beyond my 20s

[ohcorny]

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

You can read the interview here, you can buy my graphic novel featuring a gay vampire here, and you can call your congressmen about rejecting HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661 using 5calls.org (they don't have these specific bills listed as things to call about, but luckily you can talk about whatever you want on the phone)

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)