funny title

you can call me [redacted]. it/its, active when the stars spell hyperfixation. current hyperfixation: outer wilds (sorry tmbd)

[miscellaneouswordstoread]

[whomeidontknowthem]

Okay but an AU where Hal is the one getting trapped in a time loop with Calcite as the hatchling would be So Interesting. Calcite is the kind of person who is both really good at thinking on their feet and really likes acting instead of letting things happen, *and* they would believe Hal really easily. Even outside the loop, they would be a genuine help all throughout Hal's journey--and there is no way they'd not try to get into the loop.

Which is to say, this AU would quickly transform into both Calcite and Hal are in the loop situation. And they would be great together, and cope with everything so much better

[whomeidontknowthem]

my nature is overscoping everything including a teeny tiny dip my toes into modding just some dialogue nothing complex mod btw. scratching my head at all the different cases i could consider and try to make work. Like would I want to have the answers differ based on whether youve got to space this loop yet or not. do i want to keep track of whether youve told them about the time loop so they can respond differently. do i want to track their level of convinced by your story?? lmao

Before I got Very Distracted with outer wilds i was working on a text game and that included writing a lot of nice functionality for making tiny changes to the dialogue, and none of it exist in outer wilds. I am thoroughly missing my self made toolbox, but well oh well, working with the tools i have it is. so probably nothing too complex.

...we'll see how my writing goes with wanting to keep track of how insane they think we are. maybe it wouldn't be necessary, but maybe there'd be some cool use for it or smth. definitely tracking space for some of it, the game already has a variable for it and stuff

[fcloudg]

!!!OuterWilds base game/DLC major spoilers ALERT!!!

This was started no long after my first play-through, I was trying to finish it before the 5th anniversary of ow and didn't make it, maybe next one.

now, to be honest, I don't know if I still got the passion and patience to finish hundreds of colored scenes......but every time I look at it, dude, I can't just leave it unfinished like this. But I'm struggling trying to make it good enough to match the feelings that the game given to me, and that's so damn hard not to mention I'm a really impatient at detailing and repeating works. sometimes a bit too perfectionist ( I literally redraw the whole opening eyes part in the beginnings like 7 or 8 times wtf was I doing )

sigh. but I guess it wasn't a good idea to just let it rot in my save files. so I just put it here now if anyone need some more ow food

[fcloudg]

I m kind of in a shock to wake up and find that so many people liked my arts ::O

Thank u all for liking them!! I got a bundle of doodles that haven't post yet I ll have to reorganize my files to find out how many pics I forgot

meanwhile have some old unfinished sketches

[getfeldsparred]

It's amusingly heartbreaking that Hornfels insists they "didn't work as closely" with Feldspar as the others because Feldspar talks about Hornfels ALL THE TIME

Feldspar's recording on Giant's Deep mentions their eagerness to report back to Hornfels, their note on Brittle Hollow addresses Hornfels, affectionately calling them a burnt marshmallow, and some of their dialogue in the Bramble acknowledges Hornfels' concern for them and their ship, and involves them doing an impression of Hornfels' voice.

[daftpatience]

finished reading Exit Strategy : ) murderbot you are the most touch starved touch averse aroace ever and i love you

[jammy-badger]

I finally read the new Murderbot and there's a lot to talk about but all I want to say is I love that MB was mad at Three for disrupting the escape plan but when Three explained that it didn't know why it did the things it did and just started a SecUnit uprising because it could, MB was just like. Yeah actually I would also do this if I were still in my first week of free will. Understandable

[percytheperidot]

Stupid dumb blurb I wrote about Slate and their relationship with the other founders except it's from the perspective of. somebody. younger who knows them. Maybe Mica.

Idk I didn't plan I'm just better at writing in first person pov*

Slate was never really social. At least, that's what Gneiss told me. Apparently even when they were an eft they weren't that friendly. They made a few close friends as a hatchling and decided that was enough, I guess. I don't think that strategy worked too well, though.

I don't really see them talking to any of their friends anymore. Then again, they also don't play with me much anymore. They always say they're busy when I ask, so maybe they're just too busy to talk to their friends.

To be fair, Gossan doesn't talk to them much, either. I don't think they like each other. Everybody says they used to be friends, but they won't tell me why they aren't now. I think it's something to do with Gossan's scar? I just know they don't get along. I think Slate's sad about that. They act like they don't care and they told me they don't need Gossan "breathing down their neck" anyway, but when I ask they act the same way they do when somebody brings up Feldspar. Like they feel bad about it, but they don't know how to say sorry.

I think Hornfels still likes Slate? I feel kinda bad saying this, but it's hard to tell. They still talk sometimes and they don't seem angry with each other like Gossan and Slate, but it feels.. bad being around both of them at the same time. Like they both feel guilty about something, but they're also blaming each other for it, and they do it all just by looking at each other. I don't get it, but it makes me feel bad, so I don't ask about it. Something tells me they'd just say it's a grown-up thing, anyway.

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

inspired by @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[ghostofmads]

rb to bonk prev with an empty paper towel roll

[cryptids-and-muses]

I'm saying this with full seriousness.

I think engaging in fandom and fan culture would be genuinely extremely constructive for secunit

Like yes it would get insanely frustrated over bad takes and fanon it disagrees with (to the point of hacking to find out the sci fi equivelent of peoples email addresses and signing them up for spam messages if it REALLY hates their take) but consider:

communication and engagement over the feed, no eye contact or stress about being discovered

shared topic of interest so it doesn't have to stress to find what to say nearly as much

Its feelings of media making it feel more like a person, of how its easier to care about fictional humans than real ones, and learning so much from its favorite media would not be alone, there would be connection and understanding with others, and maybe even learn other reasons the media it loves means a lot to people. Both validation and gaining new perspectives in a safe way

What I'm saying is get that construct on a discord server

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

My favorite emoji expression me and my friends came up with is "throwing rocks at it"

Basically if you ever see or hear something that displeases you, You go like this:

🫳🪨

🫳🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

☺️🫳🪨🪨🪨

So on and so forth. But also if something is beautiful or true you throw lotus.

🫳🪷🪷🪷

[phineastratchet-deactivated2025]

I have one that;s called "picking grapes off the vine"

🍇🤏

🤌🟣

this method could also be used to pick other things, if you'd like...

🎂🤏🤌🕯️

🐒🤏🤌🦟

[slightlydraconic]

⛰️🤏🤌🪨

🫳🪨

[thelongestway]

@whomeidontknowthem

[whomeidontknowthem]

Where do you think we got the initial idea. I sent this post to my sister and then it escalated from there lol

[securityunit-ese]

“I’ve fucked everything up,” I’d told ART. This was when I was in Medical after my “incident.” Mensah and I had called Amena so she wouldn’t worry (or at least so she would know that I was still alive, even I know that’s important for human children). I told Mensah I wanted to watch media and she had left, and I’d blocked the humans’ comm and feed access to the room.

ART had said, That’s nothing new.

I ignored that because it was just trying to reassure me. If it started being sympathetic it would be terrifying. “Your crew isn’t going to want me to do their security anymore.”

Why is that?

That question was obviously a trap and I should ignore it. It wasn’t as if I could put the answer into words. I was different. It wasn’t just the alien contamination.

What came out was, “Something in me broke.”

System Collapse, Martha Wells

[paperplateprose]

writing challenge!

open up your document and put words in it

[straweepy]

collapses i finally finished it R A A AAH My part of the art trade for the lovely @stardusttshowers!! Went a little, overboard with this trade but as soon as i heard the song I had to draw something for it- and here it is!!

Song lyrics from: Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawks

jumping for joy now I have to figure out what else to draw as I stare at my ever growing list of things to do

[treasuredplanet]

in hindsight sending the number one digit at a time created the funniest half second of either of our lives