Hana Bakemono

rubitrightintomyeyes:

So here’s the deal:

I have been frowning at my dashboard too much these last few days.  There is no question we dominate the fandom on tumblr, and that is what it is.  But a lot of cool people who are into Portal and not that big into Wheatley have felt left out.  It has led to a lot of bad feelings and tension and I’m sure everyone would like some relief from that.

I thought it would be a nice gesture of appreciation to the rest of the Portal fandom if we more Wheatley-centric fans make something (or some things!) for a character or pairing other you know who.

Drawings, ficlets, whatever you can offer.  Anyone who wants to contribute is welcome to provide fanworks for any character or pairing you like.  Post as many as you like; as much diversity in characters as possible is appreciated!  View it like a challenge!

Notes: Please don’t describe your work with phrases like “I’m not really into this but…” Let’s try to keep it positive.

Some other ships I’ve seen around tumblr (though no shipping is necessary):

Fact/Adventure
Atlas/Pbody
Cave/Caroline (or GLaDOS)
Chell/Caroline (or GLaDOS)
Chell/Rattmann
Rick/Caroline (or GLaDOS)
Rattmann/Caroline (or GLaDOS)

If there are any I’ve missed that you’d like to see, please let me know.

Let’s aim to have these done by next week, Monday the 18th—though if you feel inspired to continue making work for these characters and/or pairings past then, feel free!  Tag your posts “portal fandom appreciation challenge” in addition to their respective character tags.  I want to see a lot of Portal characters I don’t see enough of on my dash this week!

Please signal boost!

Personally, I ship Caroline in a crossover pairing with the Sniper from TF2, but I do agree with everything else! Let’s give these other guys some love, yeah?

Plus, Atlas/P-Body is so damn adorable, oh goodness gracious!

mistressofpie submitted:

“M-Mrs M-mundy” The Aperture employee’s knees buckled as he knocked on his higher up’s office door, struggling to keep a hold of what he had behind his back. He knew he shouldn’t bother her, but he was concerned after seeing her attitude was proving to be far less than cheerful for the past few days.
“Come in….” She answered from behind the door, her voice almost sounding tired from the emotional pain.
“H-hello M-mrs. Mundy! I-I know you are u-upset, w-well maybe I..maybe I shouldn’t as-assume that but I know what your d-doctor said a-and”
She slowly raised an eyebrow at him.
“Eh heh! S-sorry..well..I…I know what the doctor s-said about-“
“Please don’t even say it….” She almost looked ready to cry just thinking about what the expert had said to her and her husband.
“I-I know..b-but I-I got you a gift!” He grinned sheepishly and brought what was behind his back forward.
It was a tiny cube with a two rather pudgy looking turrets’ faces. Two talons flicked as its heads tilted and twittered, their lower “eyelids” raised in excitement.
“….w-what is that…?” Caroline said slowly, thinking it adorable though not fully understanding the gift.
“W-well I…I thought since…since you and your h-husband were h-having trouble h-having a b-baby, ER I k-know I’m not supposed to say it I’m sorry! B-but..I thought…I programed it to act like a regular child! S-sort of..it..I made it recognize y-yours and your husband’s d-d-dna a-and-“
Caroline cut him off as she took the tiny turret hybrid in her arms as it coo’d and squealed, instantly calling her “mama.”
She smiled. “Thank you Wheatley…..I’ll bring her home today to her papa…I’m sure he will be very happy.”
“y-you really like it?”
She nodded. “You can have the rest of the day off.” She tickled the new “baby” as her smile grew larger.
Wheatley beamed, proud of his good deed as he turned on a heel to leave, only to miscalculate his steps and slam straight into the door frame.

Oh my fuck, this is so fucking cute, ahhhhhhhhhhhh I fucking love you!

upper-stories:

ironychan:

So the other day, there was that picture of the Hammer Baffle with the robots as cores…

Work was kind of dull today.

I would stick him in my room and have a disco party every day and night.

Aww, he reminds me of Mike Wazowski from the new Monster’s Inc 2 trailer!

(via artisticallyinsaneblog)

littlekiwi37:

HEY, HERE’S SOME ART AND JUNK: Substance—Chapter 1

littlekiwi37:

thenoodledude:

Substance: Chapter 1

[It’s my first try guys, so please let me know if you like it or not! It’s a Portal fic, that begins in pre-GLaDOS Aperture. The first chapter is from Rattman’s point of view. Feedback would be loved and forever appreciated! …

I’m sorry if my straight up neutral honesty upset you. I thought giving you some some constructive criticism with comparative examples would be refreshing amongst all the very generic “OMG WONDERFUL” reviews I kept seeing for the story. If I knew it was going to leave you upset, I wouldn’t have left any kind of review at all.

Straight up neutral honestly?

Constructive criticism?

Uh sorry, that’s not what I saw in your critique.

Sorry to pop in unannounced, but there’s a difference between constrictive criticism and what you wrote.

Constructive: constructing or tending to construct; helping to improve;promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive)

Now let’s look at your “constructive critique.”

As much as I really wanna read some Dougline, I’m having the exact same problems with this fic as I did with Blue Sky. The sentences run along vividly for miles, but go absolutely nowhere and leave me completely lost and constantly re-reading to figure out where I am and where I’m going to. I honestly had to read this about three times to get what I was reading. But hey, Blue Sky’s a popular thing, so it must be me.

Where in this paragraph shows any signs of you trying to be constructive? You stated that you did not like how the sentences “run along vividly for miles” and how you need to reread things over and over. So how should she fix it? Can you give an example of what you’re trying to complain explain? At what points did you get lost at? Why were you getting lost? Was it because she should have used more periods than commas? Was it because she was giving lengthy descriptions? Was it the dialogue of someone talking? 

• “As much as I really wanna-.” 

Just stop right there. That sounds like the start of a complaint or a rant. You’re trying to give constructive critique and you start off by sounding like you’re nagging. You can almost feel the negativity starting to roll downhill to crash into the author’s face. 

• “So it must be me.” 

Uh no. It’s not just you. I don’t like lengthy sentences either, but by singling yourself out like that, you’re giving the author mixed signals. “Oh well, since all the other popular people are doing it and everyone likes it, then I must be wrong for not liking it.” 

• “If I knew it was going to leave you upset, I wouldn’t have left any kind of review at all.” 

Okay, your opinion does matter to the author, but you almost sound superior when you’re saying this. This is not a “if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen” sort of thing. This sounds horribly rude. How is anyone supposed to know if a critique will make someone upset? It sounds like you’re annoyed and upset that you wasted your time and effort on critiquing this petty little story.

And to compare this to a popular story isn’t helpful at all. What if she never read Blue Sky? I haven’t read it yet, so I don’t understand what you mean by how they have the same problem with lengthy sentences. They’re two different writers and these are two different stories with two different writing styles. 

You gave her no advise and you never explained your reasons for disliking it. How is that constructive? How is she supposed to learn from this? I understand that one cannot sugarcoat things forever and I know that critiques can be sharp. But this was NOT constructive. This did not help improve anything, ESPECIALLY your response to her apologizing to you for not liking it. This is not promoting further development or advancement. You left her hanging on the edge, clueless and helpless, after you just told her what you didn’t like and left without any more to say.

I’m not writing this just to defend my friend. I am writing this to tell you that what you call “constructive criticism” is bullshit.

thenoodledude:

littlekiwi37:

thenoodledude:

Substance: Chapter 1

[It’s my first try guys, so please let me know if you like it or not! It’s a Portal fic, that begins in pre-GLaDOS Aperture. The first chapter is from Rattman’s point of view. Feedback would be loved and forever appreciated! This is sort of a first draft, and I’m super nervous D:]

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As much as I really wanna read some Dougline, I’m having the exact same problems with this fic as I did with Blue Sky. The sentences run along vividly for miles, but go absolutely nowhere and leave me completely lost and constantly re-reading to figure out where I am and where I’m going to. I honestly had to read this about three times to get what I was reading. But hey, Blue Sky’s a popular thing, so it must be me.

oh…. I’m sorry….

Okay um, hi I’m just gonna pop in here and take a few moments to say that… I’m going to be critiquing the critique.

I’m sorry, but  critiques are meant to be helpful towards the writer. You stated that you did not like long sentences and having to reread to figure things out. Okay, so what should she do to fix this? What about the dialogue or the character development? Is the way the characters speak or move not working for you? What you stated as to why the sentences are wrong, that’s fine. But what else?

Look, critique is more than just stating the faults. This looks more like a mini rant than anything. The author asked for feedback, yet all you talked about were the things you disliked. Yes, a lot of people work with long, vivid sentences. I do that, Stephen King even does that. It’s not a ‘popular’ thing, it’s just an author’s writing style. It’s different for everyone. 

But when it comes to feedback, the author is asking for someone to find the faults in the story AND suggest ways to correct it. How is someone supposed to learn how to do something when all they are told is, “you’re doing that wrong and it’s just annoying to me.” Okay, so how do they fix it? It’s like telling someone who fell off a ship, “hey, how you’re treading water to stay afloat isn’t the right way to do it. Kicking your legs like that is going to tire you out, you should do something about it.” Then what? Are you going to tell them how to do it right, or leave them in the water to drown?

My point is that you’re not helping the writer. What you wrote is more of a whining complaint than a helpful critique. Choose your words wisely next time. You could be doing more harm than help without even knowing it.

My critique for the story:

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(via thenoodlebooty)

thenoodledude:

lukethreepwood:

So, I’m reading through The Final Hours of Portal 2

Wait

Is that

YES IT IS

CAVE JOHNSON

if you think that’s weird, Caroline’s face model is the creator of the Ballonicorn for Meet the Pyro.

So in a weird sense, Caroline created Balloonicorn?

God, why do I want this to be canon?

Well, her husband at least approves.

Oh my God why am I doing this? I’m bad at jokes.

(via thenoodlebooty)

I-I wanna see who ships this…

Yeah, it is actually really sad. But hey he can have her back in the form of GLaDOS, right? She is bigger and…meaner but deep inside it’s still Caroline…kinda.

Loco… you’re killing me… stop… my emotions…