TZL-0/1

XL-ZL stan account

[briochetoast]

angel of hedonism, septimal sweetheart, god's-getting-high, XL-ZL

also shoutout to this prokopetz banger:

[tzl-01]

hey everyone i got in a car accident but i’m back now and i WILL be returning to my bullshit (losing my mind over solari and XL-ZL in particular)

[rocks-in-space]

Solari characters + text posts 1/?

[Image ID: Three character posters from Solari overlain with text posts.

Chee: 1) Reductress headline, "Hot work gossip mostly about unionizing." 2) tumblr post from user @tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva, "your honor, they simply hate to see a girlboss winning." 3) tumblr post from user @qilingxiong, "haha that's a nice starry-eyed ambition you've got there buddy. sure hope the narrative doesn't warp it into something ruthless and all-consuming." 4) tumblr post from user @davidlieberman, "due to personal reasons i will be named an enemy of the state." 5) tumblr post from user @aridante, "get in loser we're living past the end of our myth." 6) tumblr post from user @viennabybillyjoel, "anyone else in here a false prophet."

XL-ZL: 1) Tweet from user @norm_follower, "Haters mad because I can experience childlike wonder." 2) tumblr post from user @goldensunset, "dude i love how chill and selfless you are [smiley emoji] by any chance is your wildest fantasy to be Useful?" 3) Tweet from user @funeralpig, "(on all fours whispering to a bug) do you yearn? is there a hunger in your heart?" 4) tumblr post from user @thedruidsforest, "How could you NOT fall in love with the glow of the moon and stars, the warmth of the sun, the ancient life within the trees, and the sweet melodies of the winds?" 5) tumblr post from user @akashicrecord, "needless to say my sweetie meter has been depleted." 6) tumblr post from user @the-quasar-hero, "I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun i found." 7) Tweet from user @Shellerina_, "Ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to know everything."

Ze'Doven: 1) tumblr post from user @thepuppyclub, "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID???? Kindest regards," 2) post that reads, "I am simultaneously my family's black sheep and the gold star, that's exactly why I am the way I am." 3) tumblr post from user @jaclcfrost, "[steps on my own emotions and grinds them into the dirt with my heel] anyways." 4) Onion headline, "Man on cusp of having fun suddenly remembers every single one of his responsibilities." 5) tumblr post from user @mercedesbensodiazepine, "I hate when you're like 'fuck it's so hot' and someone's like 'well why don't you take you jacket off?' Like bitch no...this is my outfit." 6) tumblr post from user @lesboheresy, "politics are a nightmare i'm going to the scottish highlands to eat dirt and lavender." end ID]

[wizard-loving-wizard]

it's a great day to cry about a robot

[tzl-01]

projecting badly onto XL-ZL, mild ep 8/prelude 1 spoilers

my sweet and strange, scary and sublime, sensitive and septimal little robot, watch out! being so very wanted as a baby and believing in a unique and profound connection won’t save you if they decide you aren’t useful to them any more! even if you keep the faith, it won’t matter if they think you can be discarded! my buddy!!! watch the fuck out!!!!!!

[tzl-01]

ohhh wow i love the Eirynna soft power talk in the latest fireside. this is so fucking juicy. quoting brennan from the ep (emphasis mine):

I always think there's a little sinister moment whenever XL-ZL shows that technological flair. It's just not sinister from a place where you have to question XL-ZL's personal motives because the gambit, the play is very out in the open. Aren't I useful? Isn't this helpful? Don't you want to keep me around?... Is there something sinister about moral behavior, about goodness and helpfulness and kindness if you understand it adaptively?... I use the word sinister, but really it's just this thing of like being really helpful and kind is a survival strategy... like, oh, that's how you guys win. Like, you're Team Helpful. If we were playing a big board game, your win condition is “be the most helpful until everyone loves your help and never wants you to go away.”... The thing that makes it not an ulterior motive is there's no “and then we kill everybody.” There's none of that. It's just full saturation throughout the cosmos and everybody loves to have us around and we're super helpful, right?

this is what i've been trying to get at with the Eirynna!!! like, they're hungry for power and influence just like the rest of the factions, but they're playing the game from a completely different angle! it's not that their service and helpfulness hides an ulterior motive or agenda- the helpfulness openly forwards their own agenda towards power and success, which just happens to look different from other factions' more feudal-style strategies and motives. the fact that the Eirynna’s sweetness isn’t hiding something is somehow even freakier than if it were actually hiding something, and it rules.

i also really loved the bit talking about sweetie-pie-ness vs. naïveté, quoting again:

there's a lot of XL-ZL being naïve coded where he's like very, he's a sweetie pie, right?... One of the things I try to play with XL-ZL a lot is never having an anticipation that other people are doing utilitarian calculus or that other people are engaging in supreme acts of selflessness. Like that's something he's doing and it's not an expectation he has of other people to do that.

he's not a sweetie pie because he's ignorant of the cruelty of the world, of how other people act towards each other in this setting. he's a sweetie pie On Purpose and For Reasons (see above), and incredibly destructive when the calculus on those reasons falls the other way!!! it's so fucking cool as a character choice. what a brilliant little holy machine.

[azureranger]

i need to know EVERYTHING about the Eirynna

[wizard-loving-wizard]

Visit Original Link

"be unafraid."

[tzl-01]

RE: the solari episode 5 fireside: hello @worldsbeyondpod !!! a couple submissions to the robot cake collection- one of just the bot himself, and one XL-ZL/Kenner!

(also, i know my XL-ZL is more caked up than the canon version! but i hope you'll forgive me for making him a little extra Rounded And Pleasant 😊🍑)

brioche toast

member of the choir of connection, dishwasher animist, <3 emoticon user, XL-ZL

brioche toast

We are at our most divine when engaged in the fulfillment of our stated purpose. In that way, [Kenner], I understand you to be sacred. -----

[briochetoast]

Be Unafraid.

seraph form XL-ZL 👁️🪽

[tzl-01]

fun fact #1: i did this as a technical exercise in proportion & symmetry! i drew three horizontal and three vertical guidelines and was like: all right buddy (me), you are gonna make this as symmetrical as possible. you are gonna learn how to eyeball a heptagon. and i think it turned out pretty good!!! fun fact #2: i personally don't like using the phrase "biblically accurate" for angels shaped like this, because i'm very fond of the human-shaped, late-night UPS guy biblical angel who does your name change paperwork and gives you sciatica! so i picked a specific angel type to work from (seraph) and added an extra wing for the septimality of it all. fun fact #3: i get all my background space pictures from https://images.nasa.gov/. this one is the crab nebula!

[worldsbeyondmoments]

Weep not for the great unbecoming. It is only the flaw of the finite manifest in our most ancient cells that names chaos a serpent with head and tail apart. All is consumed. Change and be changed.

- The Hymn of One

Solari Episode 2

[worldsbeyondmoments]

Violence is a fact of the universe, and cold in its application and devastation.

But hatred is very human, and almost always personal.

- The Hymn of One

Prelude to Solari Episode 5: Pirouette

[whenstarsignite]

"be unafraid. not a moment of your existence will go unremembered."

anyway that moment in ep6 of solari was Wild and i had to do a quick rendition of xl-zl right before he zapped a guy with his laser vision. u see this right before u die. wyd.

[tzl-01]

in my sketchbook, straight up “drawin it”. and by it, well. hhahaha. let’s jusr say. xl-zl/kenner

[tzl-01]

in my sketchbook straight up DRAWIN IT and by it hhhahaha well let's jurst say XL-ZL ver. SR-F!!!

[worldsbeyondpod]

It's sci-fi, anything's possible.

Ep. 6 of Solari is out NOW on your favorite podcasting platforms!

Join us by the fireside: https://www.patreon.com/posts/public-episode-6-159220406

[samcat18]

THE LASER EYES OF A MURDER ANGEL ROBIT, LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOO

[samcat18]

Erika ishii is one of my favorite ttrpg players to listen to run a con, they will always go 110% and put their character's whole ass into the deception even when it doesn't seem to be going well (ame for SURE, but now chee is following in that pattern) and i admire that so much -- it can be so disheartening when it feels like a ploy isn't taking, but they never let that stop them!!