OTW Candidate Audrey Richards
Alright, it looks like the shit’s about to hit the fan. The full names for OTW Board Candidates have been released, and it looks like Audrey Richards recently ran for political office as a Republican. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Audrey_Richards
Based on what happened last year with Tiffany G, I want to make something clear: This is not a plot by the Republican party to destroy AO3.
Audrey Richards is an OTW volunteer in good standing. She wouldn’t be able to run if she wasn’t.
Also, if the Republican Party wanted to destroy AO3, they’d have Tucker Carlson or whoever put the site on blast and whip up the Conservative hate machine against the site. That hasn’t happened because I don’t believe that the drivers of the Republican Party are aware that the site exists.
What’s happening here is that in the Republican Party, Audrey is small fry enough that affiliation with AO3 hasn’t become a career liability for her. But, seriously, given how fascist the Republican Party is these days, I would not advise anyone who loves the site to be affiliated with the U.S.’s Republican Party. That’s peak Voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party behavior!
Okay, with all that said, even before this came out, Audrey Richards wasn’t impressing me as a candidate. You can read her Q&As here: https://elections.transformativeworks.org/category/2023-en/2023-candidates/2023-audrey-r/
She answers variations of I Don’t Know to a LOT of questions (which none of the other candidates do) and has some definite clunkers of answers. I won’t be voting for her, but that was already the case based upon her answers.
Rereading All Systems Red, I noticed the part at the end when Mensah is talking about Preservation, she brings up educational opportunities as something it can do. And I’m just like, was she planning on sending Murderbot to COLLEGE?
So I immediately amused myself by imagining an crack AU where it didn’t leave, and ended up going to college, but like, in a stereotypical non-futurey, sitcom-like “college experience” kind of way. With a roommate and everything. And the image was so amusing to me that I had to share.
Like,
MB’s roommate: yeah, my roommate is kind of weird. It doesn’t eat and just watches TV all night. (Cut to the roommate waking up in the middle of the night and getting something out of the mini fridge, they turn around and jump, because Murderbot is just sitting up on its bed, eyes open and staring at nothing as it watches media.) But it’s great because it makes going to parties feel much safer. (Cut to Murderbot, going full Threat Assessment at a stereotypical frat party. A guy is harassing one of its friends and it throws him out the window.) Although, I thought when I got someone with that much processing power as a roommate, they might be able to tutor me, but it turns out it’s the other way around. (Cut to Roommate and Murderbot studying at their desks. “What do you mean you deleted the recording you made of the lecture?” “There was a new serial I wanted to watch!”)
Additionally: the professor taking roll call, reaches “SecUnit” on the page, frowns as he scans the class and yells out. “Mx SecUnit, how many times do I have to tell you? If you just send your drone to class, you will be marked absent. You need to actually come to class so you can participate in class discussions!”
I find this very dumb and amusing. It is up to you to imagine if it is in full armor or not.
Six seasons and a movie, please.
i wonder if it’s time for a cultural reappraisal of rob liefeld’s art. maybe we were all just too quick to judge a guy for daring to have a unique stylized take that focused on exaggeration and action. *actually looks at some of his art again* jesus CHRIST never mind
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a little experiment with monochrome! I’ve been doing design work lately rather than illustration but OFMD keeps calling so I gave this a try. I think it worked out OK, maybe?
Anyway please view it full size if you can! Yes, that’s Stede in the boat. No, I don’t know anything about rowing, haha.
style inspired by artist Nikki McClure, who does *astonishing* papercut (PAPER! CUT!) work: https://instagram.com/nikkimcclure/ – much of it with a nautical theme. I first saw her work at Mystic Seaport and was totally blown away. Mine is just digital illustration in Procreate though.
Act of Grace.
Taika Waititi (as Edward ‘’Blackbeard’’ Teach) literally being the most beautiful man alive
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