Music rules my mind

happy bunny day . unfortunately they dont make bunny suits in "weird robot bug thing" size

I know we're the piss on the poor website but I trust our increasing levels of love for complex characters, female characters, and maybe someday, both at once. Besides, I think I successfully wrote her as a difficult to love person but an easy to love character. The only person I've shown her to be an ass to is a guy twice her age with the upper hand in the power dynamic. She's also literally so endearing (this is very deliberate)

Robert now regularly receives twinkies from random civilians after this

Something something “which Mecha Man are you even talking about?!”

“The one who likes Twinkies!”

And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.

And frankly, it’s starting to really get on my nerves when people read “I think this thing is good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it and frankly I don’t even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanart” and then completely misunderstand and respond with “yes I agree—I like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.”

compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)

interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)

shipping bait (duh)

original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)

compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)

basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:

Ableist reasons. The particular mix of issues he has and values he internalizes means that he's highly individualistic to the point of self-isolating (this is after all the kid that will go off to Mt Silver alone), danger-seeking, graceless, pissed off at the world and will let you know it

And like

One day, this glamorous lady shows up on the Vatt. Everyone thinks she’s just a new scientist, they even direct her to the room Stratt’s in because they assume she wants to introduce herself

And then she walks into the room, slams the door and is like EVA ELIZABETH STRATT WHY DID I HAVE TO HEAR FROM CARL THAT YOU HAVEN’T BEEN EATING OR SLEEPING I AM YOUR WIFE

And everyone just staring like O_O

ENOUGH with the "power = smirking because i think im better than everyone and wearing sharp suits and being cold to everyone and drinking stoically when i'm upset". she is not one of the guys. she is not a deadbeat dad. give her some emotional depth. give her some softness. give her her autism back (wants to connect very badly but is unfortunately very bad at it)

give her her love for humanity back, honestly. one thing in the book that i was ?? at was "stratt didn't want to give them a break room" are you kidding? why wouldn't she? she loves humanity enough to sacrifice her life, why wouldn't she have a little care for the people helping her save the world?

on the flip side i think she's at her best in the book when we see her wrap her arms around herself and talk at grace trying to justify her decisions because it shows us that she has fear and has emotional responses that aren't "brooding man from movie where his wife and daughter are dead" yknow

but honestly like, sandra hüller already answered this question. eva stratt is great in the movie. i wish we got to see hüller's stratt do the hard things that book stratt did, and make those difficult decisions with no right answers

I really like the ideas I’ve seen about Jax’s abstraction hair showing her emotions—especially ones that she might be trying to hide :)

envisioning the gameplay as divided in stages, the first one being just 'get rid of all the cancer cells before the patient dies', where you have to balance aggressive expansion to improve your capabilties with not throwing the patient's vitals too out of whack, researching better 'weapons' that kill cancer cells faster or with fewer deleterious health effects, etc,

then a 'solidifying' phase where the cancer is gone, but the patient might be in poor health and you start building systems to catch opportunistic infections, automated systems that respond when something about the patient is off (fever, low blood pressure, broken arm, whatever), and some rudimentary communications capability. not enough of whatever mineral in your resources? you could communicate with the little wearable medical device the patient has on their wrist to tell them to change their diet! or, y'know, you could give them a craving for a specific kind of food. either works

and then in the third stage, you really go deep into host manipulation and host cooperation mechanics. you can make your host superhuman, get messages from them about what changes they want to their body and implement them, and in return they do things for you. change their diet, buy a better communications interface, tell all their friends that medical nanonbots are great. or you can effectively turn them into a zombie, just a vessel for the bots. or split the difference, and make the patient want specific things that the swarm can easily provide to build 'trust'.