Talita Dospaço the woman that you are

Read all of Runaway To The Stars with my gf. Its so fucking good

She lies down on her pillow, grimacing as the shiver begins to chatter her teeth again. Talita: Ugh… I’m not snapping because I’m angry, I… Bip: I know you aren't angry. You sound miserable. This mic doesn’t pick up infrasound but I can hear it vibrating the desk. Talita: I wish I’d just cry instead. Bip: Frankly, I think eye lube leakage is a far weirder stress response. Talita's jaw pries itself open again, and her voice becomes shaky. Talita: Whatever… It doesn't matter which I do, I'm still a pathetic freak…  Her teeth snap together again with a loud CLACK and another infrasonic groan sends a vibration through the dresser. Bip's avatar looks upset, unsure of how to respond to her self-loathing spiral. Bip: Talita, you are… THE most profoundly xenosocialized person I’ve ever met. I think it's a testament to your fortitude that you're as well adjusted as you are.

The comic panel borders fall away, and Talita, jaw still trembling, props her head up against a starry sky. Behind her in the void, the ring of forty servers that contain the physical person she's speaking to floats, connected to the body of the Runaway by thin strings of white, a metallic electric nervous system of wires and circuits. Talita: …Bip, can I ask a weird question? The servers speak to her through her tablet computer, encoded invisible waves of telecommunication transforming a digital process into the vibration of a synthesized voice and rows of pixels into a live-rendered vector puppet animation. Bip: Sure. Talita: Sapient A.I. like you are all descended from one "faulty" quantum computer coded by bug ferrets, split into thousands of unique copies. They say the reason you cooperate so often with organic people is because just like the sophonts who made you, you have an intense need for social connection. She turns, no longer shivering, to the tablet on the dresser of her cluttered bedroom in the dry storage unit. Talita: Is that true? Do you ever find yourself acting like a bug ferret? Bip: Hard to say, I’ve never been a bug ferret. But as far back as my personal memory storage goes... I’ve always hated being alone.

Bip's avatar perches thoughtfully on the edge of her tablet as if it were a physical ledge. Bip: I copied myself into those phones as a self preservation impulse. But before you recovered them… offline, in a broken ship with a crew I couldn't save… I felt like I didn't have anything left to preserve. Talita lies on her bed, looking at the tablet on her dresser. She responds softly. Talita: I'm glad I found you. You're worth preserving. Bip: That's kind of you to say, Talita. She turns her face into her pillow, thinking. Talita: Bip... will you be looking for a new crew after this? Bip: You'd be welcome onboard. Talita: I'll think about it... On the wall above her bed, behind her posters of rockets and planes and space stations, stars seem to twinkle.

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Talita cries like a centaur and asks Bip a strange question. Chapter 9 over.

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My sister traveled to SE asia a while back and other SE asian locals described Thai cuisine with a shake of the head and an endearing "those crazy bastards" type of intonation in regards to the intensity of Thai spiciness

happy 4/20 I havent been able to smoke in years because it messes with my body's ability to metabolize my zoloft and I Get Scared

I wanna see the microbiology of this puddle up close (searches "(fandom) callout" on tumblr)

I want to see Simon's gentle smile #art #mhs3 #mhstories3

I love that guy

tumblr post that says 'sometimes you just gotta go "man i actually don't give a shit" and keep scrolling. online survival skill 101'

modern day proverbs

Haha isnt that crazy. Someone should do it

I paid more federal taxes than Tesla did and I make a little over 4 thousand a year from patreon; my main source of income aside from grant refunds for college

연습

me and the bad bitch I pulled by being fucking annoying

she said he sounds like gilbert gottfried and I was like he sounds a bit like a gilbert gottfried impersonator who was changing his intonation to something completely incomprehensible every other word

me & my bf heard this guy talk for the first time in our lives outside of seeing him in robovenom yaoi and we both went "...I didn't know he sounded like that..."

#pathologic #stakhniil

did i ever show you my #pathologic fanart

#pathologic #stakhniil

A stunningly beautiful comm from my dear friend @joyfulmuraena.bsky.social !! I am so blown away by the haunting and wistful spirit Mura was able to perfectly evoke with this piece~ They really did such an amazing job of depicting the feelings between these two as well 🫀

#zenztli #EztliComms

Our friend our enemy returns???

Gorgeous Zenos comm I got from @emahriel.bsky.social 🔥 (he has now become my lock screen lolol)

Thank you so much again for drawing him!

#ffxiv #zenosyaegalvus

it would really fucking suck for you to lose money over this stupid bullshit but on the flip side it would be REALLY funny for them to lose money over this stupid bullshit

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The C&D is very funny yes, but I would like to get my beautiful friend a new wheelchair ramp for her house cuz right now she is fuckin essentially climbing mountains to get in her damb house! So if you can help her out I'd appreciate it a lot!!!!

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The above post but with the original and unremoved skeet wherein why from the Blue sky team says. Looking forward to what the AI sucks. Crowd actually has to say about this one.

Good thing i screencapped it

I wouldn't worry about it because I would be a cute, dumb little animal without shame who doesn't know anyone is watching

Saw a male anna's hummingbird try and sex up a female today (he failed)

royal menagerie dialog

Tyrant please stop reading Gabbro's comics😭

it tastes really good