single-celled organism or perhaps a bug

Psamm the autism animalcule, 22, any pronouns. ESTJ. I came from r/196 and *still* don't know Tumblr etiquette.

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Chipspeech Twitter Archive Update

Hi I should have done this months ago.. I do not know when (or if) I am going to finish that website lmao. So I am just going to share my notes from Google Docs. Should be easier to read than the original posts and helpful as a starting point if anyone else decides to make a website :3

The documents are all on commenting mode so feel free to make comments to bookmark things for yourself or write your thoughts or whatever. Under the cut I have put some formatting notes.

It's a folder, each year of Twitter posts is its own document (I tried to compile them into one but it lagged too much). There is also a document with all of the original Tumblr posts (from the accounts I could find, no tags yet but I will go back and get them eventually, also no dates but they're all from 2015), and one with the bios from the official website for ease of access.

The formatting is a little (a lot) weird and there are probably pictures that need resizing/transcription but I figured it's better to give people access now. The text is small (to keep the page count as low as possible) so you will have to zoom in.

It goes by day, organized with a bulleted list. The top level bullets are each character that tweeted that day. The second level bullets are original tweets/retweets by that character. The third+ level bullets are comment threads under that tweet, the organization here is inconsistent but imo still readable (if you think something needs an edit for clarity let me know and I'll fix it).

For each character's section of the list, normal text is that character's tweets/comments. Italicized text is anyone who is not that character. If it is labeled with unitalicized text, it is that character/important account (e.g. the official Chipspeech account), otherwise it is a fan. I also included some labels and/or clarifying comments for Vocaloid producers I like, they're not central to the story though

I got rid of the line breaks within the tweets when copying them down because it was easier to format. Sorry about that. Idk how to fix it other than going through everything again but it doesn't take away from the story so I'm leaving it for now.

If something came from a website other than Twitter, I tried to provide the link (unless its content was deleted). I did my best to transcribe the Clyp posts that were not deleted.

If something is a text-only retweet, it is marked with [retweet]. If it includes an image, it's probably a screenshot of the whole thing. I only included retweets that felt story-relevant (so no miscellaneous cat pictures, Apple-related aesthetic images, etc.), but if people really want it I can go back and add the rest.

Deleted tweets are noted with [deleted tweet], with the characters they came from if applicable. Idk how Twitter works but it the person in the thread is replying to the username of a certain character, I assumed it was that character's tweet that had been deleted. If something says [deleted Dandy thread], assume there is a deleted Dandy tweet in between each of the listed tweets (or another character, but it's usually Dandy). That was meant to be a temporary time-saver and I've gone back and fixed the ones I've found, but there's probably more I accidentally skipped.

Anything not in English is translated in a comment. Except the X-Sampa (I will fix that sometime but there's not much of it). Also it was done with the built-in Google Translate feature so it may be a little incorrect. Unclear pictures and whatnot also have clarifying comments. I can add more clarifying comments (or image IDs) if anyone needs them.

I tried not to include any unattributed fanart but there are some that I forgot to copy the handle for (I am also fixing these when I find them).

As for any future updates to this folder as a whole, I kind of want to go back through each account's liked tweets to see if there's anything funny in there but idk when that will be. That would probably be its own document.

Honestly I should have given everyone access back in June.. oops. If you have any questions you can put them in a comment on this post (or reach out to me another way, idk). As I mentioned before, feel free to use all of this as a starting point if you're making your own website.

I'll pin this post so it's findable in the future. Also sorry for disappearing for several months (it will happen again).

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Mimi gets to be a cat too. They are both the silly. Like most of what I draw I don't really know what I was doing here. I continue to draw characters who I ship on some level just sort of.. standing next to each other.

Below the cut is some cursed stuff. Idk

Okay here it is. I wish I had not had this thought. I cannot stop thinking about it. Turner Grey x Redd White is MineyMay if it sucked. I don't ship this (Dr. Grey seems AroAce to me) and it is causing me psychic damage but for some reason I drew it. I say this as if they also aren't just standing next to each other. They are also cats.

Okay off topic on the MineyMay post but I feel like there's some potential for White and Grey to have met during the few months between the malpractice incident and White going to prison, given Grey absolutely seems like the type of guy to seek out a weird sketchy "detective agency" to get dirt on Mimi because he's too afraid a reputable one will come after him instead. And on top of that he's also the type of person to male Karen his way up the chain of command at Bluecorp so he's talking to White directly. I would write that fanfic (I love writing about stupid boring corporate stuff lmao) but unfortunately my writing sounds like if Miles Edgeworth was a redditor so I'm never confident enough to publish anything. Also I'm busy

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Uhh early 20th century drag queen Dandy? He has mentioned he looks good in a dress and also his vibes really fit Wiemar-style cabaret music (I was listening to a few Vagabond Opera songs on repeat while drawing this lmao.. Farewell Kabarista and Sing For Your Lives if anyone is familiar with them and curious). I think he always has on that hat no matter what else he's wearing.

I have a lot to say about Dandy in Wiemar Germany (that particular flavor of early 20th century queer culture and whatnot) but have not had ability to form coherent thoughts about it recently so I will possibly do that later, with a self-reblog I guess.

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f!ESTJ. I replaced her ruler with a sword because sword cool. Also gave her a fantasy military uniform based on random 19th century ones I found on Pinterest. f!ENTJ has one too lmao. There is more lore there. It doesn't seem like f!ESTJ x f!ENTJ is super popular on Tumblr, or any sensor x intuitive ships really. In general Tumblr seems to really be lacking in Si content. I mean every site is. But here especially. Agh

Brief insufficient backstory again: f!ESTJ is the president of a giant citystate that holds most of the population of the planet PanPersona. This is because it just has one big supercontinent where most of the land is more or less uninhabitable, and because it is centered around the rift, a tectonic boundary where the magic-adjacent energy from the core of the planet seeps up and gives the nearby population really mundane powers/non-human physical traits. f!ESTJ's is hemocyanin, i.e. her blood uses copper rather than iron, like an octopus. She was elected based on her role in fending off a raid from the orbital compound over the radioactive material both groups use in their power plants. The two have been in an ongoing cold war for a while. She specifically is an expert in the use of a non-lethal sniper-type weapon that grounds any sort of flying craft. Ngl this whole thing is a kind of weak part of the story but it's what I have right now.

She is married to f!ENTJ because the best 16P avatar ship is f!ESTJ x f!ENTJ and I will die on this hill :3

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m!ISTJ and n!ESTJ. So I have no idea if the whole community around redesigning the 16P avatars and giving them elaborate backstories and lore is as active on Tumblr as it is on Instagram but from what I've seen I'm guessing it's not. Unfortunate. I miss the Instagram MBTI community from 2021/early 2022.

Super brief backstory that in no way adequately explains anything time: both of them are residents of a giant space station-esque scientific compound, and were best friends and coworkers. n!ESTJ is the head of structural security for the entire compound, which involves managing a team of support/repair robots. m!ISTJ was a scientist who died in an explosion (not going into detail on that because there's a lot), but had a backup of his consciousness stored from a prior experiment. For several years, he was thought to be completely gone, until he was rediscovered when his son (m!INTP) accidentally transferred the backup from an old computer from his home into one of the robots that was undergoing repairs. Cue tearful reunion and shared existential crisis. Anyways now they are working together again and building m!ISTJ a better body so he doesn't have to stay in the tech support robot. (This is possible in this universe, n!ENTP is another character in this branch of the story that has a robot body but again I will not go into that here.)

I do not know why I decided to create a whole universe based around a set of polygons from a fake MBTI website. The lore goes much deeper (aside from the space scientific compound, there's the planet it orbits with multiple civilizations and magic-adjacent energy that comes from its core and also n!ENFJ is just straight up an alien). I envy the amount of free time 2022 me had.

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April May but more cat lmao. I feel like she's one of the most appropriate characters to draw with office supplies (aka what most of my art supplies are).

Whenever I get stressed I return to Ace Attorney and I just made it through midterms so I have in fact been looking at a bunch of Ace Attorney content. I feel like my favorite character changes every time I come back to this series. It is now April May. Yippee :3

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Uhh edgy. Once again I have no real explanation for what this drawing is, other than that I wanted to draw Otto and it kind of spiraled. I know edgy art in this vein is often considered "cringe" but also I do not care. Anyways he continues to be difficult to draw. I gave pre-orb Otto one of those stereotypical mad scientist lab coats because I have been having fun drawing them recently and he seems like the type to wear one.

Okay I'm trying to solve an Otto-related mystery and I must talk about it below the cut.

Alright so I saw one (1) Instagram post that said Otto's favorite animal is canonically an isopod and I cannot find any evidence to back this up. But I want to believe. I want this to be true so badly because,, isopod good. However I get the feeling that I'm taking a joke too seriously. If anyone knows anything about this please tell me. I love isopods. Convergent evolution with trilobites hehe.. I get the feeling that the logic behind it is that isopods can enroll into orbs. Trilobites could do that too. Otto Mozer trilobite real. Anyways I imagine the intended isopod in this character detail is one of those deep sea giant isopods and not like. a pillbug or whatever. Imagine him having an isopod tank next to his cactus. Give him more rotund bastards.

He is happy (for once) because he has the horrific (/pos) creature :3

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I have decided to redesign my periodic table OCs from when I was 11. This is Antimony (left) and Arsenic (right), they/any for both. Idrk why 11 year old me made them twins.

Under the cut is some rambling about the universe these characters belonged to as well as their 2015 designs

I was an edgy child in the lamest possible way (aka about atoms) so most of the developed characters are poisonous, explosive, etc. They were all evil because of this. And they were all around my age (I've aged them up for this drawing because I am now an adult). A common theme for the comics I made was their lab in the basement where they experimented with poisons. The elementary school poison factory is probably the funniest thing I will ever create. I wrote a super melodramatic story about them for creative writing in 6th grade and every day I shed a single tear because I don't have access to it anymore.

One of the more interesting things about looking back at myself pre-diagnosis is how many of the characters I created that were autistic. These two were very autistic. Can you guess what their special interest was. That's right it was poison. I was a very inspired child and not at all hung up on that one trait for them.

Some beautiful art from 2015. They are going on vacation with Chlorine. For your convenience I have transcribed the comic:

Cl: What are you bringing, Arsenic? As: This bottle. Cl: Painkiller? As: No, no, it's poison. Cl: *sigh* Cl: Is that all? As: No, I'm bringing more poison, books, paper, even more poison... As: *falls over* mmph Cl: Wow. Sb: I find it necessary to bring two suitcases. One for myself, and one to help Arsenic carry all of [their] stuff.

I thought I was very funny. Also I though this was peak comic art style and would ignore anyone telling me ways to improve it. The 2023 drawing is more or less how I imagined them back in 2015 and I might have been able to draw them more detailed had I not ignored any and all constructive criticism. Do not ignore that stuff (this has been a PSA).

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Sorry for disappearing for a month. I will now be posting seven things at once. Possibly more later.

Okay it is time

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I come bearing more furry art. I think this is the first time I've actually colored a picture of Dandy. He's a ferret because Cider said he reminded him of one and I drew this in class so I wasn't thinking about any other animals that might potentially fit him better.

Also I realized I said Cider kind of looks like a serval but never showed any proof of my claim, so I have placed a bunch under the cut.

Okay so most of these are Sogga memes I screenshotted from around the internet. But look at the kity. Same goofy smile lmao. Yes I went up to the image limit I have almost 6000 random cat images on my phone it is a problem. There are of course even more that I didn't attach. Kity :3

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When I don't know what to draw I just dress up characters I like in random outfits they might conceivably wear and then draw a bunch of them. I put little flower accessories on all three because it seemed like the right thing to do. Also the fact that I dress like this half the time irl means I could put together several good hypothetical Dandy closet cosplay looks but unfortunately I do not have a hat so it'd feel off. (The other half the time I'm wearing sweaters that are very Dee Klatt-core. This is just how I categorize my life now lmao)

Chipspeech archive project update under the cut.

Okay I lied when I said getting it done before classes started was doable because I'm not done yet. In fact I'm nowhere near done. All I really have to do is copy and paste everything from Google docs into VSCode but it turns out that going line by line through 300-ish pages of documents is not a fast process. (Also I have to make the style sheet but I am deliberately not thinking about that right now.)

I feel an obligation to get something out quickly but I have homework now and I'm a commuter student so between reading/writing and calculus and traveling to and from campus I don't have as much time for this project as I used to. Of course I'm still working on it though, just without any sort of expected date of completion.

On the note of styling I hate figuring out floats and padding and whatnot so much. The thought of going back several decades and just putting everything in a bunch of invisible tables is so tempting. I'm not going to because it feels like cheating but it is tempting. Occasionally I run into older websites that use tables but layout-wise they look fine. Aesthetically it's a whole different story though lmao. I mean I like the Web 1.0 aesthetic but it's definitely.. out there. Ugly repeating jpeg backgrounds and numerous random gifs my beloved. Me when I am scrolling through my favorite websites trilobites.info and prehistoric-wildlife.com. (That second one is from 2011 and at that point it was a conscious choice to look like that.. I respect it.)

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It begins...... (Chipspeech archive update)

Oughh web design is not my forte as you can probably tell. But hey I'm onto the HTML part at least. I copied everything from the social media sites onto a Google doc first (for ease of access) and it's 328 pages long at size 6 font.

I'm planning to include everything from characters' Twitter and Tumblr pages, is there any other site that I need to worry about? Besides the Discord. I doubt it's open for new members and even if it is I am not wading through years of random conversations for a few messages. I might include stuff from old screenshots posted in the Chipspeech tag but besides that no.

I wish I could give an estimated completion date but due to classes starting in roughly two weeks idk if I can. The ideal completion date is of course still before they start, which is probably doable (but no promises). Either way It'll be done as soon as possible.

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Cider expressions without the visor (in practice he'd still be wearing it in these situations so pretend it's invisible here or something idk). Why did I decide to draw a Cider conglomeration including several accursed Dandies? I was bored I guess. I don't even know what this is lmao

Also I named the expressions plus an update on archiving the Chipspeeech twitter content (below the cut)

I like how half the Chipspeech artists out there decided that Dandy has Phoenix Wright hair

That "Something went wrong. Try reloading." message is the bane of my existence right now. I am so close to being done with copying down everything from the chip twitters but I have to stop every few minutes due to the site continuously freaking out. Also why do Dee, Bert, and Dandy have so many tweets ffs.

On the topic of the archive thing I'm still deciding whether to make a website for it or just an extremely long PDF. For the sake of readability, navigation, etc. a site would obviously be better but all of the free hosting services seem to be either limited in size or when it's online. Maybe I can just make a bunch of little sites and link them to each other. I can use CSS but I am severely lacking in the graphic design department so a potential site would probably be.. less than beautiful. In order to avoid ugliness and save space things usually end up rather sparse. At least I could set up navigation though.

Also none of my ideas on how to make threads (and the standalone tweets that were made chronologically in the middle of them) readable are so great but I think that has more to do with the fact that they weren't readable on twitter in the first place. Twitter is a mess.

The main argument for just making a PDF is that it'd be so much faster, though the fact that it'd be several hundred pages long without any navigation other than ctrl+f is a giant drawback. All of the time I've had to spend on Twitter for this has made me very passionate about navigation. Have I mentioned how much I hate twitter navigation. I'm a n g y

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Serval Cider. Cider being more or less canonically a furry is my favorite unnecessary plot detail in Chipspeech. I am a furry and I like to think about what different characters' fursonas might be and now I have been given an actual reason to do so.. yippee. I've been looking around to see if other people have made potential Cider fursonas and I found one on twitter from almost four years ago (it is a mouse/rat). Someone tell me if there are any others (or even any ideas floating around) because I am curious.

Furry time below the cut :3

Interestingly enough I had a decently hard time trying to figure out what Cider's fursona might be. This is probably because of my affinity for anthropomorphizations of weird creatures, which don't tend to frequently show up as fursonas (arise my Cambrian brethren). I have not ruled out the possibility of Cider being a weird creature but I could not think of one that fit him well enough. I went with a serval because he honestly kind of looks like one? I do not mean this in a bad way, I really like servals (same kind of cat as Sogga). He just has that vibe. Also he canonically likes cats so I don't think he'd object to it.

Now it's time for me to be boring. The reason I am such a fan of Cider being a furry is (predictably) the whole idea that furries run the tech industry. Afaik the evidence to back up this claim is almost entirely anecdotal, though that one survey from Furscience in 2011 said that around a quarter of all furries surveyed have a degree in tech (plus another ~quarter in other STEM fields) so there's at least one statistic out there. (Generally speaking the Furscience survey is pretty interesting to read through if you're interested in both statistics and anthro animals.) Honestly though the anecdotes seem to be enough to prove that, at the very least, a sizeable percentage of important individuals in tech that are furries given how prevalent they are. In short out of all of the fictional characters I know of the funniest one to make a furry is Cider. A fair amount of furry fandom history is also pretty Cider-adjacent. The way everything lines up is so nice. Fiction does not have to adhere to real world logic but I find it so much more fun when it does. My mind looks like one of those conspiracy boards with all the string connecting different scientific studies and Wikipedia articles I've read to the funni little blorbos. This is definitely normal I promise.

Behold some furry Cider tweets because they are funni (plus him saying he likes cats, that clyp was deleted but it can be inferred). "I was a scientist, last I checked ;)" lmao

Oughh I cannot draw in That Furry Style so I have broken out the chibi(?) style I rarely use because it fits the subject material (furries) better than my normal one? I'm so glad his eyes aren't visible because I can't draw eyes that match this style. The only character I regularly draw in this style is my own fursona but they don't count because their eyes are oversimplified to make up for all of the cephalon details that need outlines. I say this as if anyone knows what I'm talking about. Things I should practice but never do. Oh well. Also the headphones are placed relative to the ear canal at the base of the outer ear. I put them as high up as seemed realistically wearable. And look at the little apple it has ears. Kitty apple :3

Is this entire post going to read like word salad to everyone except me. Hopefully not. I really hope.

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have I shared this before I have no memory of that but this is uhhh a few months old

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Otto (pre-orb) and Cider circa the late 80s/early 90s? I haven't put together a timeline. Someone get this man a hairbrush please. Mm I am annoyed because Otto is my favorite character (along with Cider) and I cannot draw him in orb form to save my life. Why is he so difficult to draw. This whole concept was funnier in my head.. oh well

Transcriptions below the cut. Also I must infodump about Chipspeech characters' MBTI so that too.

Otto: This human form is limiting Cider: Otto please calm tf down

Okay it's MBTI time. I go from fandom to fandom finding the weird scientist characters and then I observe them with my little autistic eyeballs. The fact that both Cider (ESTJ) and Otto (INTJ) are high Te makes me (also high Te) very happi because usually scientist characters end up being high Ti. Cider especially because I often find xSTJ science-related characters to be unlikeable and he is decidedly not. I am an ESTJ-adjacent creature and I must scream

My opinions on Chipspeech characters' types: Cider: ESTJ (TeSiNeFi) Otto: INTJ (NiTeFiSe) Dandy: ESTP (SeTiFeNi) Dee: ISFJ (SiFeTiNe) Vosim: xxFJ (high Fe) Bert: ExTP (aux Ti, tert Fe) Rotten: ENFJ (FeNiSeTi) Spencer: ESFP (SeFiTeNi) Lady Parsec: ENTJ (TeNiSeFi) Sam: idk man, probably on the Ni-Se axis Pedro: ESFP (SeFiTeNi) Voder: ISTJ? Maybe? Definitely somewhere on Te-Fi and I think Si-Ne but I'm open to being wrong. Terminal: ESTJ? He's said his personality is low priority in his system and it's not always running, so idk if he's even really typeable.

One day I might make a post with an in-depth analysis of each character's cognitive functions because every fandom needs a typology nerd that everyone else politely ignores but that'll have to wait until I can actually figure out everyone's stacks in full.

Also obligatory PSA: if you want to take an MBTI test that has a pretty good likelihood of typing you correctly, the best one out there imo is Mistype Investigator, or Jung's Igloo if you want results that are easier to read. 16Personalities is not actually MBTI (Neris is closer to Big 5), and Sakinorva and Keys2Cognition both tend to overestimate Ne so probably avoid them. MBTI is not real science but it's fun to apply to fictional characters, just don't take it too seriously. I feel the need to say all of this because I've had problems in the past where this information would have been useful to have, maybe it'll help someone else. Idk

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EAT, MY CHILDREN

I used this as reference 👇