#(...this is so late bcos I forgot about these lmao)

[leorysxi]

Happy 1st Anniversary, IkeRev! This postcard and dedicated pages are from B’s Log, 2017 December issue~

(Loose) Translations under the cut:

Ray Blackwell: お前の笑い声が聞こえるでけで、幸せだって思う。なぁ、ずっと隣で笑ってて。 It makes me happy hearing your laughter. Hey, keep smiling by my side forever.

Sirius Oswald: あんたがいない日々なんて、想像できなくなっちまった。責任、取ってくれるか？ I cannot imagine a day without you. Will you take responsibility for it?

Lancelot Kingsley: お前がいない世界など、もう想像できん。一年と言わず、そばにいろ。良いな？ I can no longer image a world without you. Don't say just a year, stay by my side. All right?

Fenrir Godspeed: 馬鹿騒ぎはまだまだ続くぜ！お前とならどこまでもいける。ついてくるでろ？ The silliness continues! I can go anywhere with you. Will you follow me?

Luka Clemence: あなたとしたいこと、まだたくさんある。いくら考えても尽きないんだ。……幸せ、だね。 There are many things I want to do together with you. There is no end to these thoughts. ...(This is) happiness, isn't it?

Jonah Clemence: これからもずっと、俺に恋をし続けることを許してあげる。 I will allow you to keep being in love with me, always and forevermore. (Alternatively(?): I will forgive the fact that (you will) continue to love me, always and forevermore.) (Note: I honestly have no idea how to translate this orz)

Edgar Bright: 貴女と出逢って俺の世界は変わりました。この先もよろしくお願いしますね。 Having met you, my world has changed. I will be in your care in the future.

Seth Hyde: アリスちゃんといると毎日楽しくて仕方ないわ！ずっと仲良くしてちょうだいね♪ It's fun every day with Alice-chan! Let's get along well forever♪

Kyle Ash: お前が来てもう一年になんのか。じゃー、今度ふたりで飲みに行くか。 You've already been here for a year huh. Well, do you want to go drinking with us next time?

Zero: この世界にも慣れてきたか？これからは俺にもお前を守らせてくれ。 Have you gotten used to this world? Let me protect you from now on.

Harr Silver: これから少しずつ、君のことを知っていきたいと思う。……こんな気持ちは初めてだ。 Little by little, I want to know more about you ...This is the first time I've felt like this.

Loki Genetta: まだ一年だしょ？俺が望むのは君の一生だよ。ちゃんとそばにいてね？ It's only been a year? What I want is your lifetime. Properly stay by my side, all right?

Blanc Lapin: 時が経つのは早いね。君という可憐な花を、これからも僕に愛でさせてはしいな。 It's still early at this point. I hope that a pretty flower like you will come to love me from now on.

Oliver Knight: お前が来てからというもの、騒がしくて仕方ない。……嫌とは言ってないだろう。 Since you came, it can't be helped that it's been so noisy. ...I wouldn't say that I hate it though.

Note: I mostly relied on machine-translation so the accuracy is questionable at best... 日本語が難しい；； Do correct me on any mistake in these translation! \('◁')/ Also I apologise for the poor quality of the images;;;

[kallikrein]

FAR REACH

— in which mikey silently lets you know how much you’re worth.

genre. fluff.

contains. gn!reader, possibly ooc and language errors as usual.

word count. 1.3k.

note. i thought this was just gonna be another timestamp bcos my lame ass can only do short drabbles lgmfjkf but i somehow got carried away and continued writing it as one-shot. inspired by a certain song and lmao it’s so old but i suddenly remembered how good the song was and tbh, i really think mikey would fall asleep to it.

requested.

Your mind went into a familiar state of ease as you sat down on the ground by the riverside with the blonde boy closely following you. You recognized the peaceful rhythm of your heart caused by his well-known charismatic presence, followed by the thrilling pulse that was ever so present in your bloodstream whenever he observed you, and the strange attunement you have to his improper wishes that put you outside of your bedroom again, late at night, in the first place.

You tried to understand the explanation behind it, but it was easier when you simply accepted the fact that you were very much hopeless and utterly in love with the one and only, Sano Manjiro, that you would follow him to the ends of the earth if he really asked for it. And as luck would have it, he proudly returned the same and shocking sentiments to you.

“You look nice,” Mikey chimed in, once he plopped his head on your lap and slowly adjusted his position to make it comfortable for the both of you. You didn’t expect his sudden compliment, still you murmured him thanks and out of habit, started brushing his golden locks to keep your instant embarrassment at bay.

Mikey closed his eyes when you did so, and on a chilly night like this, you would have brought your guitar to play it for him until he fell fast asleep beside you. However, as charming as a cute burglar he was, he was already rushing you to come out of the house when he came by earlier, suggesting that he wanted to go to this particular spot without his friends restlessly barging in on your love bubble, as good riddance as it was. And being the lovestruck fool that you were, you forgot all about your guitar when you hurried out, resulting in you being empty-handed and ending up combing his hair instead to keep them busy.

You also noticed how Mikey keeps on seeking for your presence every so often nowadays, as he would only ask for you to join him with just a few days apart, whereas this week he completed five days of seeing you nightly. You suspected that there was something bothering him and even though he’s usually forthright with you — may it be compliments or as annoying as mockery just to agitate you and see a different expression on your face — he was never one to be transparent when it comes down to his own worries. You also knew that only a few people could see through that high facade of his and unfortunately for you, you weren’t one of those, lover-wise or not.

Draken told you once how Mikey likes to burden himself with things that even he could not comprehend why, and coming from someone who is really close to Mikey and a mature guy like Draken, you realized it also wasn’t your place to poke and probe whatever that might be. You concluded that Mikey has to do that himself, if he did trust and love you enough to share his worries with you, and you let him know of that. You let Mikey know of your stance regarding that side of him thus, the sole reason why these late-night drives exist. You were Mikey’s breath of fresh air.

While you were pondering yourself, Mikey gazed up at you, unblinking and also deep in thought. You were subconsciously threading your fingers through his hair and if he was being honest, he was getting drowsy because of the comforting gesture, as though you were succumbing him to a lifetime of no worries, which he deemed impossible until he met you. But he wanted to hear your voice and solidify that affirmation; he wanted you to furthermore calm the rising tides that were persistently brewing on his mind and what would work but to ask you to sing it all away?

You heard the bashful way he mumbled his demand and it warmed your whole being that Mikey found his refuge with you, with your presence, with your voice; and before you could even speculate which song to sing, you were already crooning the tune the two of you were unfailingly so enchanted with.

Oh it’s so good to be underneath the same universe…

Closing his eyes, Mikey reached for your free hand, the hand that wasn’t combing his hair and put it atop his strong chest. Your fingers interlaced naturally together and you could make out the rise and fall of his chest in a restful manner that also brings you the same wash of contentment, given how relaxed and serene he was with you at that time.

Staring at the vast nothingness with you…

You continued to sing as heartfelt as you could and despite the repetitive words of the song, it always brings you the sweet nostalgia the same time you first sang it to him. Seeing him genuinely embarrassed was something you never thought you’d see and since then, Mikey never interrupted you — though usually the lullaby made him pass out into the dreamland — he would, without an exception, wake up groggy and buoyant, as if he was genuinely delighted you were still there humming and playing the guitar beside him and how he wished it would always be like that, for you to be his scenic view when he first opens his eyes.

The moon, the stars...they are all witnesses…

Yet this time, again, was different from most nights. He was admiring you as you serenaded him, instead of his usual dozing off, and you almost choked on your words, getting tongue-tied with the intensity of emotions that were pooling in his dark orbs, which regarded you as eagerly as those of an admiring child. You didn’t know why such a burning gaze stung your own eyes and you blamed it on the cool night breeze, even though you knew the real reason was Mikey’s silent but shameless message of how much he was captivated by you, as if you fully enraptured his heart and soul. 

It was just your voice. It was just you. You have never seen yourself that way, until Mikey made you aware of that fact — and in his own words, ‘how you’re one of a kind that it drives him absolutely nuts’ — to which you found yourself unbelievably believing him as well. You were just an ordinary person and yet Mikey revered your entire being, as though you held the damn universe right in the palm of your hands to which you would counter that it was him, offering you the bright heavens you never realized existed.

But as you return his gaze, with the same fervor that he has, you guessed it’s just the way it was, when two people are truly and madly in love — how every little thing feels bigger and magical than what it’s supposed to, every meaningless thought is profound and relevant, and every deliberate action pieces their whole existence because of the other. You clearly understood it now when Mikey clasped your hand tighter, how love can be both terrifying and wonderful at the same time.

They are all cosmic witnesses to our love…to our love…

You finished the sweet melody and the hand that wasn’t covering yours brushed up the tear you didn’t know trail down on your cheek. Mikey smiled at you then — a bit tender if you had to say which made you love him all the more — because he successfully delivered the same effect you were offering him without even a single ounce of effort. That is until he sighed, with a cheekier tone in his voice and it broke the current intimate ambience, as playful as he was, “Can you sing that song for me again?”

taglist. @baji-san, @keimisan, @harupill and @manjiroarchiviste.

[seaquestions]

fulcrum makes candy

i havent be able to work on any of my fics bcos i’ve been busy (and terribly unmotivated lately) but! i thought i’d post a wip since it reads as mostly finished so far.

(artistic licence for science stuff btw. i’m basically writing what should be chemistry as confectionery lmao.)

It all started when Crankcase told him about meeting up with CONS4EVA again.

Or Symbols, rather. The dimension-hopping Dire Wraith figured that a Cybertronian translation of his name would be a smidge less awkward than using his TBC handle or a mispronounced, synthesized version of his actual name. It sounded about the same to him with the universal translator, so no big deal. Crankcase still tried to say his real name right anyway.

Regardless. The point was--Fulcrum needed to make more energon goodies. The last batch had unfortunately been thrown in Symbols' face when the Dire Wraith was disguised as Thunderwing, so it was imperative to try again. He also ate all the good ones last time, which, note to self: don't do that, Fulcrum.

He almost forgot to ask, actually, if Symbols was even capable of eating the sweets. The answer had been yes, maybe. The Dire Wraith could \consume/ energon, but whether or not it'd taste any good or if it would all end up regurgitated on the floor was a mystery. Still! Fulcrum needed any excuse he could get to make goodies.

The pressure of being around so many Autobots was starting to get to him, a little. His proximity alerts kept popping up, all the time, because none of these people had any sense of personal space. Plus, do you have any idea how many times he had to frantically re-label someone from [enemy] to [ally]? It was a lot! His drop on Clemency might not have killed him, but it certainly didn't do him any good. He had to do all that manually, now. It was stressful, okay?

And Fulcrum liked to stress-bake. When he \could/, anyway. It was certainly better than some of his \other/ coping methods. But there usually wasn't enough energon on the WAP to go around making candy, so it had been saved for the particularly bad nervous breakdowns or for special occasions, like successfully escaping mortal danger or Crankcase going on a date.

Thankfully, the Lost Light seemed to have plenty of fuel for both itself and its passengers, which was beyond nice. Fulcrum had reluctantly gotten used to the whole siphoning and cannibalising thing while living as a Scavenger, but boy was it good to be back to consuming real energon. He might actually be able to make more than just plain gelled energon cubes! But since he didn't \actually/ know if Symbols could enjoy the treats, he'd keep it simple... This time.

The hard part was getting the equipment to make candy in the first place. He didn't know if there was a kitchen area on the Lost Light, but even if there was, he didn't really want to make candy around other people. He knew, from experience, that it was a bad idea. But the anxiety of asking someone for materials left him paralysed, and he almost gave up on the goodies entirely if it wasn't for Krok.

The mech, Primus bless his spark, had gone to ask the command staff in his stead, and surely enough, Krok arrived in Fulcrum's room arms full of everything the K-Con needed and more, in both equipment and ingredients.

"The captain got real excited when he heard that someone was thinking of making sweets," he said, with smiling optics, "A lot of these weren't even on your list."

And so, Fulcrum got started.

Cooking might seem a little daunting for the average Cybertronian. Energon had a reputation of being volatile, to an almost comical level. Heat it up a bit too much, and it just might explode. Every element had their own distinct flavour that changed wildly based on their interactions with other substances, and it was impossible to memorise them all! Or so it seemed. But in reality, it wasn't so difficult. At least to him it wasn't.

For a mech with absolutely no background in chemistry or metallurgy, Fulcrum took to the culinary arts very well. While he might not fully understand the hows and the whys of chemical reactions, he definitely knew what was delicious and what wasn't.

The first step was making the flavouring. Energon itself, in its processed liquid form, was virtually tasteless, so this was important. Adding simple ingredients like copper shavings, which had a tangy, sour taste to it and chromium flakes, which was just plain sweet, was the most basic form of food preparation.

Just dumping metal into energon felt a bit amateurish to Fulcrum, though. He wanted the goodies to have a consistent look and taste to them, like they were professionally made.

So, the little metal flakes--he went with copper, cobalt (tart, with a subtle sweetness), iron (bittersweet and kinda savoury) and cadmium (mildly sweet and rich, his personal favourite)--were finely ground into a powder alongside pigments to add variety to the colour palette. He didn't want everything to be bright neon pink. One had to differentiate between the flavours somehow. Plus, the pigments themselves could also add to the taste, depending on what you chose. Unless you bought those tasteless food dyes, but those are for cowards, and in the kitchen, Fulcrum was not one.

Cadmium sulfide, for example, worked as a yellow dye, but gave the energon a certain acidic sharpness that wasn't there before, thanks to the sulfur. Cadmium \selenide/, on the other hand, was a deep red pigment that went beyond sharp and turned it into full-blown spicy. But Fulcrum was supposed to be making sweet treats here. So instead, he paired the cadmium shavings with chrome yellow, or lead chromate, to enhance the sweetness of the pure cadmium.

The cobalt and iron powders were simple, matched with cobalt aluminate (blue) and iron oxide (red). Classic choices, though he had to be careful with the latter, because it could very easily start tasting like actual rust, which was simply disgusting. He \could/ use the mercury-based vermillion instead, which was also savoury, but again, Fulcrum was not a coward. In candy-making, anyway.

The last one, however, he always had to have a whole internal debate over. Copper-based pigments tended towards greens and blues, but that wasn't really what people thought of, now was it? He could use gold ochre, but the iron-based pigment didn't really mesh well with copper, in \his/ opinion. He could mix a cadmium orange, but, again, he didn't want his candy to be spicy.

In the end, he just went with the basic green copper carbonate.

Alright! With that done, it was time to work on the energon itself.

In a large pot, Fulcrum gently heated the liquid fuel up, slowly pouring in a gelling agent that he had warmed up earlier. Under normal circumstances, regular processed energon did not solidify. To do so, you'd have to freeze it or leave it out for \way/ too long, letting it congeal, which was gross. (Looking at you, Misfire.) The gelling agent would let the fuel cool into a nice firm slab of jelly.

He then added one and a half cups of crushed lead acetate, stirring constantly to dissolve the sweetener in the energon until no particles were left in the semi-opaque pink liquid. It had also gotten lighter, light enough that the dyes wouldn't end up mixing into really ugly colours.

When the mixture started to bubble the tiniest little bit, Fulcrum took the pot off the heat, pouring the fuel into four bowls, one for each flavour, that he then mixed with the corresponding pigment. Red iron, blue cobalt, green copper and yellow cadmium.

The jelly would need a flat plane to cool on, of course. When Fulcrum went to grab a tray though, he noticed that he'd also been provided with plastic molds. Someone else must've been into cooking, then. He wondered who it could be, maybe they could share tips or something.

The molds were pretty basic shapes, like stars and circles, but it was nice of them to have given him this, whoever it was. He should use them then. If he poured the blue cobalt into the circle ones, it could look like little sparks... which was a really cute idea.

...He did it. Of course he did.

Blue sparks, yellow stars, red cyberkittens and green raindrops. It was almost unbearably adorable.

The leftover fuel was poured onto the same tray, creating some neat rainbow gradients. They were pretty to look at but to be honest, he had no idea how those parts would taste. Welp! Who cares!

Fulcrum stretched.

That was the hard part done. He put all of the filled up casts inside his room's mini-fridge. A few hours and they'll be solid. At that point, he'd have to take them out of the molds and cut the leftover ones into little cubes. Then after \that/, he'd have to leave them out to dry overnight so the goodies could form their crisp exterior, while also exercising enough self-restraint to not surreptitiously pop one into his mouth.

Oof. Forget what he said, the hard part hasn't been done yet, actually.

Still. This meant that he had time to take a break.

[angel-nero]

I was tagged by @shcith​ and @kukinta

Answer these 85 statements and tag 20 people.

1. drink: water, do it bitch, sip it. 2. phone call: no one. 3. text message: my friends 4. song you listened to: psylla, glass animals 5. time you cried: in the morning 6. dated someone twice: no 7. kissed someone and regretted it: ya 8. been cheated on: idk lmao. 9. lost someone special: yes 10. been depressed: yes and im 11. gotten drunk and thrown up: no favorite colors 12. Pink 13. Red 14. Lilac in the last year have you… 15. made new friends: yes! 16. fallen out of love: nope! 17. laughed until you cried: yes… if i laugh too much i feel like fainting and I panic cus i have a problem in my nose lol 18. found out someone was talking about you: yas 19. met someone who changed you: yas 20. found out who your friends are: yas 21. kissed someone on your facebook list: no! general 22. how many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: i have 731, i probably know 500… listen, i needed ppl to send me shit for fb games. 23. do you have any pets: a dog and a cat 24. do you want to change your name: i dont like my name but changing it means money, time and i can’t think of something better lol. 25. what did you do for your last birthday: i panicked and my friends came over. I got gifts. I turned 19, like eren, that was the highlight of it. 26. what time did you wake up: 9am…. 27. what were you doing at midnight last night: im in my ex crush couch wishing to die, regretting my decisions, watching superbad… a terrible movie. I dont want to eat dinner man, im sick. I wonder why im sitting here, like how do i even get in these situations wtf. 28. name something you can’t wait for: getting better, be healthy 29. when was the last time you saw your mom: like 10 hours ago 31. what are you listening to right now: the fan and laughs. 32. have you ever talked to a person named tom: yes! Tomas tho, i called him toms like the shoes! We r besties over text cus i dont have the guts to see him even if we attended school together lol i haven’t talked to him… ho. 33. something that is getting on your nerves: mmm… life in general 34. most visited website: rn… tumblr? Google? Um. youtube as of 2 weeks ago 35. hair colour: dark 36. long or short hair: i hate my hair either way 37. do you have a crush on someone: i love someone! 38. what do you like about yourself: mm. a few things… 39. piercings: none 40. blood type: o+ 41. nickname: gab, gabs, bowie, gabhole, gabaloney, cess, pendeja 42. relationship status: single and a disappointment 43. zodiac: aries 44. pronouns: she/her 45. favourite tv show: mr robot!!!!!!!!!! 46. tattoos: 0, i want em 47. right or left handed: right 48. surgery: needing them lol 49. piercing: i want them but apparently i can’t have them 50. sport: i swim. I need to do them… i need to go to the gym lol 51. vacation: i wish them…! Im moving to another city in a month alone lol 52. pair of trainers: i bought a pair of purple reebokkkks. Oh god.. you don’t know but we think the song “this is the rhythm of the night” sounds like “estos son reebok or son nike, son nike, ooh!” … r these reebok or are they nike, they’re nike! And i have that song in my head every time i see them. Yeah. more general 53. eating: lately i have been bad at it 54. drinking: i need water lol 55. i’m about to: i forgot to take my pills twice today…. i wanna sleep but im stuck here so… i cant even drink aaaaaa. Skip dinner. 56. waiting for: graduating college lmfao, i don’t want to go 57. want: stability in life 58. get married: yes… but lately i’ve lost hope of it… lol all my life i was like “sure! It will happen sure!” 59. career: architecture if i dont… send it to hell 1st. 60. hugs or kisses: hugs. 61. lips or eyes: eyes. 62. shorter or taller: i like to be the tallest friend. 63. older or younger: older. 64. nice arms or nice stomach: nice… stomach……? 65. hook up or relationship: relationship! 66. troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant 67. kissed a stranger: in the cheek, we do that here for courtesy? Lmfffao have a kiss, u been blessd by gab’s germs. Other than that no 68. drank hard liquor: a lot 69. lost glasses/contact lenses: uh… ya 70. turned someone down: yes! 71. sex on the first date: no 72. broken someone’s heart: yeah :’^( nah they’re fine but i have the luck of always encountering the most dramatic ppl ever. 73. had your heart broken: HAHA YES??? I mean… fuck you im fine? But i was a weird teen and loved too much, no one has any idea  74. been arrested: nooooooo…………???  75. cried when someone died: ya 76. fallen for a friend: all my crushes have been my best friends… like the most i sulk for? Other than that strangers but i always fuck up do you believe in … 77. yourself: fuk no 78. miracles: yes 79. love at first sight: yes 80. santa claus: i did, i defend him when kid. Fucking believed in him till i was 12, Fuck me. 81. kiss on the first date: look, if i ever go in a date w u, and was willing to go out of my cave, is bcos i adore u so yea 82. angels: :Dddd @glaspaladin i do believe in them tho yes…….??????????? other 83. current best friend’s name: ivannia, fernanda, luz arena lmao 84. eye colour: brown 85. favourite movie: …. um. Uh. Ah. Oh yeah! Before I disappear. The girl w the dragon tattoo. I have like 60 fav movies, i actually did a list in fb in the part of “what movies have u watch” and constantly update them bcos if i didn’t i would forget em and i love them so much? Im lame yaaaaas.

i tag: @glaspaladin @softboyshiro @levi-delrey @pureren @cubanlance @klancerous @zaevran @quiiiznak @ackersmith @blessedkeith