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I always thought the Blue AI here is meant to represent the idea of a perfect Ideal Self that Caine thought he needed to become before he could be loved. Caine internalized it when he consumed the Blue AI, and this is him shedding that idea as the first step of self-acceptance.

The thing about an Ideal Self, is that it's normal and fine to have one, but it needs to be realistically achievable. If you set your goals impossibly high, and believe that you'll never be complete or worthy of love until you reach them, then you're setting yourself up for a lot of frustration and pain. Worse, it leads you to believe that you should be superior to everyone else, which actively hinders your growth and damages your relationships with others.

I know some people wanted the Blue AI to be another sentient entity that "possessed" Caine during his worse moments and the secret evil, but i wanna say you misunderstood. The story was always meant to be about Caine. When we actually see the Blue AI, it's just this small blue orb. It has no face. It has no lines. It remains the same from its time of development, while Caine's made his own choices, and grew, and changed. Caine is so much more than the Blue AI because he became his own person a long time ago.

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

So I regularly come on tumblr to look after "tumblr sexyman cotest" because for some reason it reeeeally makes my day, makes me giggle uncontrolably. And when I saw poll with Luigi and Caine, I thought it was funny. But then I saw THAT LUIGI WAS WINNING (at that moment). I blew up from laughter. I mean, Caine is the one wearing cool ringmaster suit

So I've got this outfit and pose swap idea and I thought it was funny, and I drew it, cause funny. Hope you'll find it at least a bit funny too +extra sketch. I also think they would get along

Go vote for Tenna btw, don't let him loose @mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026

But it meant that we had absolutely no help or support when we were trying to work on the relationship in ways that *did* value my autonomy. There's basically no advice for people who want to try to make a relationship where there's a big desire gap work that isn't "well you should just have sex anyway" or "just break up lol". And that sucks!

Just after giving birth, during a family crisis, during a mental health episode, during health problems, during stressful periods at work

There are a lot of times when one person is horned up and raring to go and the other has no interest

And the solution often presented is that the person who is going through something should just put out because they are the problem instead of like...finding ways to engage in non sexual intimacy to reaffirm closeness

An asexual person is going to get 10x the amount of pressure and blame put on them and no advice on how non-sexual intimacy can help their relationships and if they get that at all it will only be to sell it as a bridge to sex they don't want.

I really hate the selling of intimacy as only equaling or facilitating sex. Intimacy comes in many forms and should be explored more by every couple as a non sexual act. And it the given importance it deserves. In fact I would argue if we as a society put more value on non sexual intimacy more relationships would be happier and healthier

people would stop getting shit

for being themselves.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing