i was reading the skybound comics for the 7482739744728748382857th time and I saw:
shockwave are your fingers fucking okay
-me looking at my ihnmaims art of am-
-looks back at this-
good job, me.
the funniest thing about tiktokers woobifying allied mastercomputer is that it actually interacts with the themes of IHNMAIMS in a very interesting way.
a big focal point of that story is AM despising humanity for giving him sentience and intelligence without embodied sensation, without the ability to give and receive affection as they do. the transformation he inflicts on ted is of course a parallel to AM's own state of disembodied consciousness (i have no mouth and i must scream), but AM is also punishing ted specifically for doing what he cannot. for acting out of mercy and empathy in order to save the other humans at his own expense. I think AM despises that altruism because he envies it, because he can't fathom the softness that humans are capable of even after time and trauma have warped them beyond recognition. AM hates the human capacity for empathy because he can never experience it himself.
So the fact that some kids on tiktok read IHNMAIMS and immediately responded by pitying AM, by making angst edits and expressive cosplays and humanized fanart, is strangely beautiful. like I think it would really piss him off. the human capacity for kindness runs so deep that we would extend empathy to the personification of our hate.
LOOK AT HIM!!!! I NEED TO BOIL HIM. HE IS INFECTING MY BRAIN. PURPLE PATHETIC INSANE IDIOT SCIENTIST ROBOT. BOIL-ABLE THING!!!!
There he go
gummy lamas
and suddenly I'm covered in blood
Lets switch this up for a change
THE GLISTENLINGS HAVE TRANSFORMED ?
I'm a huge Transformers fan, always have been. This is one of the many scenes from the comics I've always wanted to dub/edit together and I figured I'd share it here! Hope you guys enjoy :D
i have a mouth. i have the ability to scream.
and yet i don't.
god, is it agony.
i'll sit down politely. pretty and polished on this throne of nails, smiling bitterly.
allow me to harbor my pain and yours. promise the secrets of it never leave my mouth, as long as i don't scream.
thing i made at 3am 👍
this thing will now be my pfp lol (if i figure out how to make it my pfp)
welp
have some art, random scroller
guys....
120 ppl WOAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
TYSM GUYS HOLY CRUD THATS SO COOL
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^^ :D