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I just learned that there's a Detroit Become Human artbook👀

Drew my first DBH fanart

finished the game for the first time on Sunday and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since 👀 The way Markus was introduced with his cosy first chapter, especially in contrast to Kara’s introduction, instantly had me sold on him, he’s certainly one of my favorites🦫

also got a version without the statue from the pacifist route (which I loved to have as an option)🫡 love this guy

I’m still confused about where these rendering skills randomly showed up from specifically for this drawing lol😭

I got excited about getting to yap about Sherlock & Co., Granada Holmes and the Sherlock Holmes theatre play I saw recently in my dream today🥸🦫

I also mentioned a different play that I was excited to see it seems?? I talked about how it's "a mix of Sherlock & Co. and Granada Holmes and it's so awesome" (I'm not seeing any Holmes plays anytime soon though and as far as I'm aware, I don't think that play actually exists😔)

If I may offer some of my own interpretation for why this is supposed to be degrading:

First of all, it makes it harder for the guards to sympathize/empathize with them, which leaves them with even less hope to get out and leads to them being treated harshly consequently, which is degrading. And the android looks play their part in that even if it wasn't something that they'd personally see as degradation. (Of course the guards would be doing their jobs anyway but it leaves no room for tricks, no room to even try to pretend to be a human, no room for one of the guards to show weakness and question what they're doing.)

Most obviously: they're being forced to do something. They didn't just go "ah wait actually let me remove my skin rq it was getting kinda uncomfortable anyway", the guards ordered them (mind you, the androids they caught that *were* deviants had been trying to *escape* getting ordered around and now they'd be ordered to do something (something that would lead to their doom too) again, except this time it's not even just "in their program" to blindly follow orders. This time they're being threatened and forced to do something against their will.) It wouldn't even matter if they wouldn't usually mind doing this, being forced to do something and remain in that state in order to not be killed is degrading.

Another aspect is that androids live with their skins being turned on. At least so far I have seen no instance of them turning it off just for the sake or "looking their true self" or anything like that, Markus did it in the tower for the sake of not being recognized as easily and yes, probably also to represent androids, but I've seen no other android do that voluntarily. Of course one could argue that that's because they need to fit into the human society, but even in their safe haven they remained with their skins turned on. Noone in Jericho seemed to think "Ah finally, I'm away from the humans and amongst other androids now, let me show my true form in peace", of course that can all just be because they're in the middle of a revolution, but saying that "they're like that", without acknowledging that they in fact do not spend most of their time "like that" doesn't really seem like a strong argument to me. I understand what you mean and I agree that under different circumstances their non-human designs wouldn't be degradation, but these circumstances make all the difference here.

Furthermore, it creates uniformity. All of the androids in the camps look exactly the same, except for male and female body shapes and the one kid, Alice, maybe their eye color and facial shape if we're looking into details up-close. But if we're just seeing the camps as they are, it's just a bunch of androids that can be lumped up and killed row by row. Even if they weren't as connected to their human looks, their identity still gets stripped away by making them look uniform. Yes, that is what they look like, but no, I do not mean their "humanity" when I'm referring to their "identity". I mean their individual looks that keep them from just becoming one big mass to the humans.

Additionally to that: Androids seem to have a certain connection to their skin. Think about North and the android that was the same model as her, they have been living their lifes with these skins and I honestly find it hard to imagine them not having built any kind of connection to the looks they'd gotten used to at all. And then having that be taken from them forcibly and having to see no mercy in the way the guards perceived them... That is degradation.

And last but not least: these camps are supposed to mimick concentration camps. So they did the equivalent of shaving their hair off and taking their autonomy, individuality and hope. Taking the last bit of similarity to humanity (of course not actual humanity in the case of the androids, but similarity, which is the only way these humans would've understood and not been able to ignore that they are alive too, by seeing their resemblance) any human could see in them and sending them to die. The most important part of this degradation is their death becoming inevitable and looming over them as the humans give them orders they can't fight against and the panic about the upcoming destruction rising as they're forced to do something themselves that'll move them one step closer to their death.

I've got no intention of arguing much further here though, just thought I'd share my thoughts on this too, hope you have a nice day

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it

incoming !DBH SPOILERS! TW: concentration camp

I mostly want to mention that 1. I’m glad I managed to play Markus in a consequently pacifist way, love that guy 2. I’m glad I managed to have Connor become deviant while having a stable friendship with Hank and 3. Kara wasn’t as lucky in my playthrough. She ended up in a camp with Alice, while Luther had died at Rose’s house. The camps and their obvious references to world war 2 were devastating to see them go through, as someone who has learned about these events multiple times throughout my school life and who has visited two of the camps that still stand as memorials, reminders and informative sites due to the fact that I’m German, seeing Kara and Alice be stripped of their identity and forced to look less/not human to be degraded and most likely easier to kill, seeing the lifeless bodies being loaded onto trucks, seeing the two of them stand in these lines without any clothes despite Alice already freezing during winter, Kara trying desperately to get back to Alice while having to obey the guards enough to not get killed on-sight before they’d both be forced to walk into the machine and end up dead anyway together. It was a cruel thing to watch and a tragic way to end their story. I’m very happy with my first endings though, because this may be one of the most intriguing ways this game could end for me, I’m definitely gonna replay some of it to see some alternative endings though, for example RK-900 didn’t appear at all in my game, didn’t even know that was possible and Kara, Alice and Luther deserve their happy ending in Canada being a family of three, I really hope that’ll be possible on my next attempt

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it

Sketched some characters/scenes from the play “Sherlock Holmes: Der Fall Moriarty” (The Case Moriarty) that I got to watch live today on my way home from there, Toby was a balloon dog, it was brilliant😭

I want everyone here to know that Boimler referenced Moriarty in the Lower Decks mobile game🧍

I missed my chance to take a screenshot though because I tried to hold the screen since I forgot that I just don't have to touch the screen at all for this part of the dialogue to stay, so the dialogue went on and I didn't take a screenshot now😔

I appreciate the tag :D

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I think I just forgot every single blog I come across regularly lol there are a LOT more of you that I appreciate so if I didn’t tag you I probably can’t remember your username rn y‘all are awesome though 🧍

positivity train!

if you see this or are tagged in it, tag a couple of your favorite mutuals/blogs and let them know you appreciate seeing them on your dash!

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thank you for the tag! :]

1. Last song: & by Tally Hall

2. Favorite color: light blue, but any color can look nice

3. Last movie: Carry-On (2024 I think?)

4. Last book: I‘m reading through the texts of Star Trek Adventures rn🥸 If we‘re talking about novels though: A Good Girl‘s Guide To Murder is the one I last read

5. Sweet, spicy or savory: I suppose spicy?

6. Last thing i googled: „sweet spice or savory“ to figure out if it was a metaphor/code or just genuinely related to food cause I wasn’t sure lmao🧍 (it isn’t a metaphor! At least from what I’ve found lol)

7. Current obsession: Star Trek (specifically the Aenar rn), Sherlock Holmes and Detroit Become Human :]

8. Looking forward to: seeing a Sherlock Holmes theatre play live soon 👀

Tagging 5 more people: (feel free to just not do this if you don’t want to)

@lindin-doodles @zeroxerrz @mouse-of-mischief @holmosexualitea @susieredfish

Ten people I'd like to know better

1. Last song: Royal Pain by The Eels

2. Favorite color: I like all colors but generally prefer shades of purple

3. Last movie: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

4. Last book: Young Men In Love: A Queer Romance anthology (a series of beautiful comics, recommended!)

5. Sweet, spicy or savory: Savory

6. Last thing i googled: phenakistoscope (blame exams lol)

7. Current obsession: switching between Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, Stardew Valley and "now how do I get back into reading"

8. Looking forward to: well I was looking forward to the end of my exams and it is here 😌

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!!!! 🥳

SHERLOCK HOLMES 171 YEARS !!!

We've been designing fonts in art class and the words we'd write with 6 of our letters didn't have to make any sense so I used my chance to make a Sherlock & Co. reference🫡

does anyone know any Detroit Become Human fanfictions where all the different endings of the characters meet eachother?

Cause I need to read that sort of thing

I just found out that Spock and Sherlock Holmes share a birthday today 🧍🧍

More of my Andorian OC :] He's got a name now! (And so does my MC hehe they're Atoss and Thesith now)

My first time trying a turnaround, might color in the last sketch with his actual colors later, we'll see :]

If you've got any tips on how to improve the 3/4 view please do let me know cause I'm still kinda struggling with that here

Rewatching The Sign Of Three after having listened to Sherlock & Co.'s 10-parter is funny because now I'm recognizing names

Like OHH THAT'S their Sholto! Interesting!

AND JONATHAN SMALL AHHHHHHH

I find the concept behind the Aenar and the Andorians really interesting,

So I made some Andorian OCs from the time before the Aenar evolved into who they are today, I mean come on! What was the origin behind a pacifist society forming from a militaristic society, but in a way where it came to the point of them becoming a myth, living so far offsite?? Who were those Andorians that left to build their own society instead of triggering a revolution? How was the basis for the Aenar layed out? Those are the kind of thoughts that have been feeding this particular OC (bottom left of the sketches and the one I practiced animating expressions with :]) and I figured I could use my interest in them to practice some shape-focused character design with Andorians :) I actually can’t answer any of those questions accurately of course lol but I think it’s fun to fantasize about them anyway (finally got some more stuff done for my portfolio through that) The Andorian on the bottom right (and well upper right too lol) has been growing on me too tbh I might look for ways to include him in my speculation/thoughts about Aenar history 👀🦫

Will forever love their choice of animating the SNW intro for the crossover episode, I got so psyched about it when I first saw it and I’m still so happy about it :]

Obligatory SNW x Lower Decks crossover rewatch after having finished Lower Decks :D

Let me offer you:

Hemmer sketches :] Wanted to practice drawing Aenar/Andorians, so who would be better for that than the man with the facial features ever

One T'Lyn sketch @lindin-doodles suggested :))

Shoutout to Starfleet's unnecessarily cool jackets

I have officially finished Lower Decks 8 days after everyone else now (I‘ve been bingewatching it for a few weeks and man these guys have grown on me, I‘m missing them already :,) I‘m planning to rewatch the SNW crossover soon, cause I bet that‘s gonna be even more fun after having watched all of Lower Decks and not just the first two episodes hehe)

Cerritos strong🫡

While I'm waiting for Detroit: Become Human to be ready for me to play:

Could you guys please give me some specifically Lower Decks drawing requests in my ask box? I've been binging that show and am one episode away from finishing it just a few days after everyone else, but haven't really gotten around to drawing fanart for it yet so I wanna sketch these guys :]

I’ve finally found the magical formula to actually find the Star Trek animations on YT that I wanted, because apparently “fan animation Star Trek” wasn’t cutting it and I could have spent years searching for proper animatics there when all I needed to add to the equation was the little word “music”, because for some reason the algorithm was like “nope, that’s not a fan animation, it’s a music fan animation, of course you’re gonna get completely different Star Trek videos after the few other animations we can offer instead of something with a very similar name to what you’ve been searching for” lol I’m glad I’ve got that sorted out now/lh

The Lower Decks behind the scenes video on Paramount's YT with Mariner's and Boimler's VAs and Mike McMahan is hilarious wth😭 This is a bts video and they pull out COMEDY GOLD

mild lower decks spoilers since they only mentioned these things on the side lines too

What do you mean "that time we met ourselves in a cave and we thought they were us from the future and then it turned out they were aliens and then it turned out they were actually us"?? I wanna WATCH that kind of episode

it's similar to them going "Oh yeah, remember when we swapped bodies? That was total chaos" WHAT DO YOU MEAN; THAT'S EXACTLY THE KIND OF STUFF I WANNA WATCH AND YOU'RE JUST MENTIONING IT ON THE SIDELINES??😭/lh

I'm too sick to go to school even though today would have been such a fun day because it's the last day before the holidays and I would've brought my Community DVDs to watch them with my English class

So I made various versions of the same Spock meme to cope/lh

TW: mentions of throwing up

(cause I did)

What a collection huh

I just learned that people use the word doylist to describe an out-of-universe perspective for fiction and watsonian for an in-universe perspective and this is my favorite thing I’ve learned today, how great is that, I may just start using this as a fun-fact from now on, apologies to anyone who is going to have a conversation with me within the next few days because I WILL mention it🧍

I was just trying to watch the episode "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" during my break at school today and uhhh let's just say I had to turn it off at some point because why would those scenes appear when I'm at school man💀