ID: Photo of a white woman with red, painted on "tattoos" on her arms, neck and face, and a black tank top with futuristic silver patterns, reaching for a fry with one hand and holding a bright pink umbrella with the other

For the first time visiting Fedcon, it was not just boiling hot, but then also pouring down, which lead to this photo. Cyborg super soldier with a pink umbrella (and fries). I just find this hilarious
#cosplay #Fedcon33 #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #SciFi #Dystopia

ID: Photo of a somewhat tall, thin white woman with short hair, yellow eyes, red, futuristic "tattoos" all over her face, neck and both arms, showing her slightly from the side. She is wearing a black tank top with futuristic silver patterns and cargo pants. Background is a retrofuturistic stairway.

ID: Now she was photographed slightly from behind, in a movement reaching to her back. This makes the futuristic, almost spine-like pattern of silver there visible. In the background several people walk up the stairs, including one in Starfleet uniform.

Finally had time to update the Special cosplay with the adaptation sneak suit (well, parts) @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social

#cosplay #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #SciFi #Dystopia #Fedcon33

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Maddy and Dr. Cable open-mouthed kissing. Dr. Cable, a curvy, rather wiry black woman, is chained to the wall and floor of a cave, dress blood stained and half off. Maddy, also a black woman, thinner but also rather athletic looking, shirtless, sitting on her lap, her hand between her thighs. For her, the kiss looks just as much like a power play as desire. Dr. Cable doesn't seem to mind the situation at all.

Context: That unhinged Maddy/Dr. Cable pre-canon fic I wrote a few months ago. Just had to attempt to draw that
#EroticFanart #nsfw #femslash #ToxicYuri #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #MaddyUglies

ID: Tally and Shay hoverboarding, digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally is smiling boisterously as Shay is half pulling her and half holding her hand. Shay looks back to her and smiles too.

Realized I apparently had never drawn them on their movie design hoverboards and had to change that
#Shally #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Femslash

ID: Three digitally colorized pencil drawings without background. First shows General Clayton, a rather muscular white woman with an angular face and chin-length red hair, sharpening her axe. Second is her, younger now, in a futuristic firefighter uniform. Third shows her up to to the waist, wearing a futuristic grey and white uniform.

ID: Meme redrawing, digitally colorized pencil drawing again. Dr. Cable leaned on her arm on a futuristic seat, one ankle rested on her other leg, Clayton stands beside her, wearing her sneak suit. "Cunning, manipulative, always one step ahead" is written in a bubble over Dr. Cable, and over Clayton "sexy doberman"

General Jory Clayton aka that total background character who is named for some inexplicable reason. Writing her as Dr. Cables comrade with benefits. At this point she is basically my OC
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #OC

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay, both having short hair, rather muscular, tattooed all over and scarred, but Tally is white and Shay East Asian, having sex on a hotel bed. Shay is wearing a strap-on and on top, and holding Tallys arms down. Both are gasping

Little headcanon that for them, since they wouldn't want to waste backpack space by carrying around a strap-on, that is a luxury thing they do whenever they are in one of the cities. Of course Shay would top
#nsfw #EroticFanart #Femslash #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Shally

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Dr. Cable, a curvy middle aged black woman with wavy blonde dyed hair and unnaturally grey eyes, leaning back as Maddy, also a middle aged black woman with a sharp face, her locks braided up, leans forward and cups her chin

What if Maddy had been recruited into Special Circumstances too?
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #MaddyUglies #femslash

ID: Costume concept art, showing Tally as a Pretty wearing a sleeveless top with open skirt and trousers underneath and very deep clevage, full body front and back

Just noticed that Pretty Tally has a tattoo on the back of her right arm, which is an interesting addition, given that in the book Tally starts of with no tattoos, later adds a small one and only escalates as a Special.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #TallyYoungblood #SciFi #Dystopia

ID: Digital drawing. First row shows Dr. Cable in three different uniforms, the first is light grey and white, with the white parts being textured and on neck, shoulders, flanks and in narrower lines down her legs. Second is white and light grey too, but now plated, futuristic looking armor with visible straps. Third is a tight-fit black overall with futuristic silver patterns over it. Second row shows Shay as a Special, wearing a sleveless black top with silver straps over the shoulder and a large part of the front being silver too, cargo pants and futuristic combat boots. The second beside this shows the same outfit, but now with a wide black coat with silver line details worn over it.

Some headcanons for Special Circumstances uniforms, since in the movie we only saw the sneak suits - at least they look the closest to what the books described the sneak suits even if they didn't ever change colors to blend in anywhere.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #ShayUglies #Dystopia

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally, a heavily tattooed, muscular, sharp faced white woman, wearing a futuristic dress along with combat boots on the left and a suit on the right

Saw someone do a drawing meme with Harrow both in a dress and a suit and had to do the same with post-canon Tally
#TallyYoungblood #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #butch

ID: Screencaps from Netflix Uglies adaptation with added captions: 1. Dr. Cable giving Tally advice: "People believe what they want to believe" 2.Dr. Cable standing in front of Maddy and the rest of the rebels, with a cold, angry expression: "You only want there to be one choice. Yours"

Talked about how I am not a fan of the movie simplifying things down and making them more obvious, but in case of the sheer amount of cognitive dissonance Dr. Cable shows it is a delight to see it pointed out so blatantly.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #ScottWesterfeld #SciFi #YADystopia

ID: Slightly pixelated photo of some multiple choice labeled: "Gender", then below that listed: "Unisex, women, girls, boys, men, stainless steel"

Specials when trying to describe their gender:
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #Cyborg #meme

ID: Digital drawing of Dr. Cable as a Special; a middle aged black woman with a rather angular face and too intense grey eyes, wearing her blonde dyed straight hair long. Her robe somewhat resembles a lab coat.

[1/4] Would you sacrifice your humanity for an (un)just system?
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #Dystopia #YoungAdult #SciFi

ID: Digital drawing of Shay as an Ugly; she is an east asian girl with a crooked nose and a square but slightly rounded off jaw, her hair a messy, short bowl cut. She wears a futuristic school uniform

True friends stab you in the front

(didn't manage to get the glitch GIF to work for the Tally version, so I just post the three pictures first)
#ShayUglies #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #SciFi #YADystopia

ID: GIF glitching between three portraits of Tally (Uglies), more detailed description in added posts. The glitch effects look like signal interference and so evoke a science fiction or cyberpunk feeling

flashing

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Human ship of Theseus
#TallyYoungblood #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #SciFi #YADystopia #JoeyKing

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing showing Dr. Cable (tall, wiry black women wearing sports bra and short leggins) trying to push Clayton (muscular white woman wearing a tank top and cargo pants) to the floor, their legs interlocked. Clayton seems to be quite into it while Cable stares at her intensely, almost hungrily. It is colorized in red and black tones, giving it a hot atmosphere

Homoerotic fight training the second.

And I hate to admit that, but Dr. Cable (at least her movie version) would absolutely be the kind of person to go to material arts training wearing just a sport bra and short leggins
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #ScottWesterfeld #femslash #scifi #YADystopia

ID: Screencap from Netflix "Uglies", showing Shay and Tally closely beside each other, Shay is looking at Tally, while Tally has her head turned to her but her eyes closed. A tweet by tackyandwilson is pasted into the picture, saying: "actually so many of my problems can be traced back to my toxic codependent homoerotic teenage friendship"

ID: Dr. Cable walking menacingly towards the viewer. winduppup: "girl who develops a god complex and changes her pronouns from she/her to She/Her"

ID: Tally staring bleakly past the viewer, standing in her room. thiscantbecured: "do you ever just remember that you're gonna be you for the rest of your life and think "ah shit"

ID: Tally and Shay both on one hoverboard fleeing from the Special Circumstances headquarter, over the river, in the background the "the smoke lives" sign glows. "fun first date ideas: overthrow ur government w/ the bae"

[1/2] Uglies (2024) + tumblr text posts (and one tweet)

Also have quite a few that only work for the other two books, but since we don't have adaptions for them...
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #TumblrTextpost #SciFi #YADystopia

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing comic, with one big panel on top and two smaller ones seeming to hover over it. 1. David and Tally looking out of a house ruin on broken cars, David says: "Oil infected by this bacterium was just as unstable as phosphorus. It exploded on contact with oxygen. And as it burned, the spores were released on the smoke, and spread with the wind. Until the spores got to the next car, or air craft, or oil well, and started growing again." 2. David and Tally from the side, a back and forth started by Tally: "Wow, and they used oil for everything right?" "Like those cars down there. They must have been infected as they tried to get out of town." "Why didn't they just walk?" "Stupid, I guess" 3. Closeup on Tally, looking thoughtful: "I wonder why they don't tell us that in history class. They usually love any story that makes the Rusties look pathetic"

ID: Same drawing style, again a big panel on top and two smaller hovering over it, but the third one seems to dissolve into the background. 1. David looking outside on one of the car ruins, Tally stands behind him and reluctantly looks as well. He says: "Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class" 2. Closeup on Tally, looking somewhat stubborn: "Not us. Renewable energy, sustainable resources, a fixed population." 3. Closeup on a battered magazine to Davids feet, showing a model posing: "It doesn't have to be about economics. The weakness could be an idea."

Got so pissed about the movie leaving out most of the best scenes, so I drew a comic of one of them
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #DavidUglies #SciFi #Dystopia #YADystopia

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally, a sharp faced white girl with wavy shoulder length hair, wearing a futuristic school uniform, and Shay, a sharp faced East Asian girl with short hair, also wearing a school uniform, closely embracing each other and kissing. Lighting and background makes this look like at night

#FemslashFebruary prompt "Be Mine"

God, they should have kissed...
#FemslashFebruary2025 #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Shally #ScottWesterfeld

ID: Digital drawing showing Dr. Cable in some kind of futuristic plate armor, resting her head on another womans, Claytons (also wearing this armor) knee, who also holds her and looks at her worried. Dr. Cable has scrape wounds on her face and looks disoriented, and the armor is damaged, showing cuts in her skin underneath, too.

#FemslashFebruary prompt "Be Here for Me"

I mean she is a super soldier...
#FemslashFebruary2025 #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #ScottWesterfeld #yuri #BattleCouple

ID: Digital drawing showing Dr. Cable, a tall, curvy while thin, middle aged black woman with long straight hair, wearing a light, futuristic dress, and Maddy, a thin, wiry, sharp faced black woman with greying locks, wearing lots of scarfs and fabric belts and used looking clothes, standing in front of each other, staring hostile. It is colorized in a pallet from cream white to dark, dulled pink.

Femslash February prompt "Lie To Me"

Fun fact I colorized this in the train on my way to England
#FemslashFebruary2025 #ToxicYuri #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #MaddyUglies #YADystopia #SciFi

ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Shay (short but muscular East Asian girl with undercut, lots of tattoos, and self-harm scars on her arms) and Tally (similarly short and muscular white girl with short hair, tattoos and scars too) wrestling on the floor, with Shay on top, their faces close, and both looking deep into each others eyes. It is colorized in a pallet reaching from aubergine to dirty rose to pink, creating a warm atmosphere.

#FemslashFebruary prompt "Fight Me"

They're super soldiers, you know what that means? Homoerotic fight training.
#FemslashFebruary2025 #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #SciFi

Wondering if Special Circumstances, since they are basically a hybrid between a secret service and a military, have call signs too.

Bonus if like in real military, the cooler they sound, the more embarrassing the story leading to that is.

Headcanons for all:
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #SciFi

ID: Stilled frame from a video, showing her up to the hip, gesticulating as she is talking. She wears a sleveless top, and it shows up her muscular arms again

ID: Photo of Charmin Lee, a thin but quite muscular black woman with short blonde hair, wearing a tank top and lots of necklaces, standing with one hand to her hip

One delightful thing I found out googeling for reference photos is that Charmin Lee, Maddys actress, who looks rather lanky in the movie, is actually quite buff.

So yeah now my headcanon is that Maddy is buff.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #MaddyUglies #CharminLee

ID: Greyscale photo of a womans hands and lower arms, with ropes bound around her hands and wrists. She has painted nails and presumably dark skin, though it is hard to say thanks to the greyscale

Maddy tries to find out as much as possible about Dr. Cables cybernetic modifications. It escalates to bring up their shared past and old attraction

Under Your Skin - Uglies Series - Scott Westerfeld archiveofourown.org/works/63002104 #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ToxicYuri #hatesex #DrCable #MaddyUglies

ID: Screencap from Netflix "Uglies", showing Shay and Tally walking beside each other, their hands locked. Both are looking in front of them

Went through some scenes for the AMV, and noticed that they're actually holding hands in the scene right before flying with the helicopter. Very briefly, but still.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #femslash #yuri #SciFi #SciFiYuri

Had this tender music play in my mind while imagining soft, romantic Tally/Shay scenes. Couldn't place where it was from for months. Thought either Hunger Games or She-Ra

Then I rewatched the scene where Shay leaves and Tally stays behind... and it featured this exact music!
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix

There is one single thing I give the Uglies hatedom credit for. Shitton of media illiterate takes, their conspiracy theory about Dr. Cable being intended for transphobia that is insulting to both Laverne Cox and Scott Westerfeld... but they havent called her a fascist
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #fandumb

ID: Screencap from Netflix "Uglies", showing Tally, looking sad and worried, standing close to Shay. In the background there are the Rusty Ruins at night

Tally thought saying goodbye forever would not exist in this society, so she doesn't know how to process Shay leaving for Smoke

be my man and show me what it feels like by TallysGreatestFan - Uglies (2024), Uglies Series... archiveofourown.org/works/62449732
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #femslash #yuri

Already before the movie came out I thought this song just fits Shays perspective on everything happening in the first book aka the movie, and the Tally/Shay friendship slash romance so well
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #yuri #YADystopia

youtu.be/WmUrssyTVbo