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in reality he woulda shot thundercracker a few times but i didn't feel like drawing that

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Do you think OP would have dad sneezes?

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what if transformers like only partically transformed to escape a conversation

like

just bear with me for a moment

imagine Ultra Magnus telling Rodimus off for something and Rodimus’ head just slowly descends into his chest cavity 

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Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies

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I finally have this done! It's not as polished as it could be, but unfortunately I have so much uni stuff I need to start working on that I just had to get this ready asap. Hope you enjoy!✌️

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Stop feeding them!

Thinking about an au where humans introduce transformers to the concept of cooking. Yes the bots do use shavings of various metals in different ways for energon taste but that's it. They don't cook it, use other ingredients for components, or explore flavors. So when a human chef decides to give a gift to their Cybertronian for protecting them and just being nice they decide to cook something for them. The human always felt a little sad because their friend was essentially constricted to one food. So they decided to try to make a Cybertronian equivalent of pancakes. The autobot has always looked on in want when they made them. So they researched and learned all they could: what's considered “sweet” to bots, can any metals that can be used as binding agents, how hot must something be for energon to ignite? It took quite a few tries and energon but they did eventually manage to make “Energon pancakes.”

The human presented the gift to their friend and while the transformer was sceptical at first they did try some. At the first bite the autobot was astounded at the flavors they were experiencing. They wolfed down the entire plate and (politely) demanded more.

The news of this spread fast as the autobot wouldn't shut up about the experience. Other humans hearing about this got inspired and made food for their own transformer companion to great success.

When bots try to do cooking themselves 99.9% of the time it's a complete utter failure. No one's why this and shockwave is furiously trying to figure it out. He just locks humans in rooms with ingredients and equipment demands them to cook something and just observe. It's utterly baffling how creative and amazing the dishes that come out of these. It was really nice at first however it quickly became a problem.

Humans were overindulging their cybertronians and some were starting to get a little fat. They're not fat but big boned the humans would cry and how perfect they were in any form! Ratchet trying to stop an obesity crisis would constantly have to reprimand the humans. They just couldn't resist the big ol puppy bot eyes. So yeah until everyone could learn self control humans were banned from cooking for transformers. Nobody was happy about this, especially the humans. They could finally give back more to their bots!

An underground cooking ring was founded, decepticons were kidnapping chefs, humans were sneaking the bots treats, all kinds of chaos. Eventually Ratchet just kinda gives up and shoves it on to Optimus to deal with. Being the responsible prime he is Optimus just ends up bringing everyone with a super food so they indulge less.

Idk what it would be but I feel like it would have to be made by Cade.

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Struggling with CSP again

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Just messing about quickly this evening with this scene from MTMTE #35.

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He was a scientist before the war…

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Something I found so interesting in Heavenly Tyrant is how ALL of the changes to women's rights are made or suggested by Zetian, not Qin Zheng.

Women serving as Iron Widows? That's Zetian's idea to give women opportunities into power, and Qin Zheng puts it forward because they need more pilots. Zetian using male concubines to pilot on the battle field? That's her trying to prove that women can fight equal to men, and Qin Zheng allows it because he needs Zetian to keep the imperial presence on the border. Flowerpot feet being banned? Qin Zheng bans it but Zetian is the one who actually enforces it. Women being educated? Qin Zheng allows it but it's Zetian who makes him get women into his court, into positions as advisors.

And despite it all, Qin Zheng forces Zetians ideas to be softened so that they more acceptable to him. The Iron Widows are conscripted so that it's military duty, not independent free will of the women. He only allows Zetian to pilot with another man if he's castrated. The moment Zetian runs away, he says he "understands" why people flowerpot feet exist and says that he wants to break her legs. The moment Zetian runs he refers to the women in his court as "her precious lady friends" and plans to hold them hostage.

Qin Zheng's perception of women is crazy! Their union is symbolised by the hammer and scythe, the communist union of workers and farmers joining forces for freedom, and Zetian is supposedly his equal. She's his equal, but she must cover her face. She's his equal, but she must sit behind a curtain of beads. She's his equal, but she's not allowed to talk to other men. She's his equal but he doesnt say her name until about 450 pages in. She's his equal but by the epilogue of the book when she escapes he wants to disable and abuse her.

The fact that Qin Zheng goes through all this effort to say that a woman is his equal and that women are equals, yet immediately assumes that his and Zetian's baby is a son, because how could their child be the weaker gender?

Oh Xiran Jay Zhao the gigabrained mastermind you are, the fucking layers to this guy. A character like Qin Zheng's is so difficult to pull off and they fucking nailed it.

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THIS POST CONTAINS MEMES WITH SPOILERS FOR THE HEAVENLY TYRANT, BE WARY. VIVA LA REVOLUTION, FRIENDS AND SUCKERS. Also Xiran Jay Zhao, if you see this, just know that my brain is rotting from wait for book 3 but I am willing to wait for 10 years cus we need it to be good and I believe in you

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

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"A society that takes care of its own does not produce children who dream of burning it down."

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant, page 208

(Not saying who says that line to avoid spoilers)

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A Quintesson attack leaves Megatron in need of repairs.

Let’s pretend this takes place early where Megatron isn’t incredibly paranoid about back stabbing (Starscream) yet

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