Welcome, Laddies, Lasses, And Las, To The First Episode Of Im Kind Of Bad At Art But I Needed To Get

Welcome, laddies, lasses, and las, to the first episode of “I’m kind of bad at art but I needed to get this done!” Today’s piece of work?

This solid 6/10 reference of what a mimic in the Hail, True Body Robotic!AU might look like!

(I’m a beginner artist, if you couldn’t tell.)

Keep in mind, this is not what ALL robotic mimics look like. This is just an example. If you want to know more about the mimics, there’s information in the masterpost for this AU. The original series that this is an AU of is Hail, True Body by mustangs-flames. :]

Text, in order from top to bottom:

Hail, True Body

Robotic!AU

Mimics

This is an example of what a robotic mimic might look like.

Feel free to ask questions! :)

HHHHHHOLY FUCK

I CHOKED ON AIR, THREW MY PHONE DOWN AND THEN THREW MYSELF ONTO MY BED

THIS MANAGED TO FIRE OFF EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF SEROTONIN MY BRAIN HAD

GOLLY GEE, BRO

Friendly reminder to do your Duolingo lessons! :] (i haven’t seen my family in days and I have a ten day streak, but I remain optimistic!)

First of all, boycott eurovision. However, I AM loving all the various stories of pro-palestinian rebellion that are coming out surrounding eurovision.

Apparently security surrounding the event is through the roof, and the Eurovision team literally frisk searched all the contestants to make sure they didn't smuggle any palestinian scarves or flags in, but despite this:

there was the guy who wore his father's kufiya as a wristband during his performance

there was a performer who painted "CEASEFIRE" and "FREEDOM" on their face using ogham script, and who then did a post on social media talking about it and how EV officials (who had found out the meaning of the facepaint by then) refused to allow them to do it again for a later round.

there was the indigenous Australian who used his body paint to paint a watermelon on his chest and later made a statement drawing attention to it and stating that he stands with the Palestinians

there's the 10,000-strong pro-Palestine protest that happened in Malmö, the city hosting the ESC this year

there's the crowd, who booed Israel during their dress rehearsal and shouted Free Palestine so loudly that the performance itself was nearly drowned out and the broadcaster (clumsily) tried to alter the audio so that the audience couldn't be heard

It's great, I love it. They can try all they like to block every mention of Palestine, but they haven't been succeeding and they'll continue to fail.

Fuck Israel, fuck Eurovision, and Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

A question about your AU for Htb! When disguising as people do they use holograms? Do their robotic parts rearrange to make that appearance? Do they need other robotic parts in order to build a kind of robotic shell?

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED

So, in order for the mimics to assimilate, they do a few things:

Adjust their bodies to fit the shape and size of whoever/whatever their disguising themselves as

Get the finer features down, along with closing any “gaps” that might exist in their robotic forms

Use camouflaging technology to get the colors and textures down

Personality aspects added; assimilation finished.

That’s my take on it! :]

Today is Nakba day, please take the time to educate yourself - 

The Nakba, meaning catastrophe in arabic, is the event marking the mass murder and expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 during Israel’s creation as a deliberate and systemic act to create Jewish Majority state. 

By the numbers: between 750,000 and one million Palestinians were expelled and made refugees in 1948 by Zionist militias, more than 530 Palestinian villages and towns were destroyed or repopulated by settlers, over 15,000 dead Palestinians, and 70 massacres committed against Palestinians, and approximately 4,244,776 acres of stolen land - when Palestinians say this state is built on our graves - we mean it in the most literal sense. 

On top of all of this, there are over 7 million Palestinian refugees today, which includes Nakba survivors, their descendants, and Palestinians who were expelled in events after the Nakba - who are denied their legal right of return (which is internationally recognized).

It is critical to understand the Nakba if you want to support Palestine, and how Palestinians, 74 years later, cannot reclaim their stolen land, homes, and belongings.  And not only that, but to many, the Nakba never ended. Palestinians are still having their homes stolen or demolished, still in refugee camps, still having to deal with settlers encroaching on their land and committing acts of violence against them, Palestinians are still being murdered and left under brutal settler military occupation. 

If you want to read and learn more about Palestinians from Palestinian voices please check out Decolonize Palestine. Al Jazeera has a database here on destroyed Palestinian villages as well you can look at. 

And I will leave my friend’s post here about more ways to amplify Palestinian voices. From river to sea, Palestine will be free, we will return.