#GUESS NOT
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Geez, you'd think it'd be more obvious...
just cast the fire spell. dip shit
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"There's a power in seeing yourself in another, in resemblance..."
#THE EYEBROWWSSSS#the mentally ill part of me was like oh they HAVE to show pietro and or wanda here right#alas#wish they had built up erik's relationships with everyone and not just rogue LOL#the camaraderie with erik and scott was nice for the one episode they had it in#like they coulda had a whole thing with erik splitting the team#i swear hank was gonna be team mags cause of what he said to trish#guess not#they needed to split the team twice so#97 is a speedrun unfortunately#dadneto#x men 97#x men 97 spoilers#magneto#quicksilver#erik lehnsherr#max eisenhardt#pietro maximoff#screenshots#dee screams#marvel
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Disowned
#I was going to draw something angsty but Uhm#guess not#so have them being silly instead#dhurke sahdmadhi#apollo justice#really coming to love Apollo more and more#procreate#doodle#ace attorney#gyakuten saiban#spirit of justice
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Oh well hello sir
#we love shirtless Colin#are we even to breathe today??#guess not#polin#bridgerton#bridgerton season 3
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Ah, Greek mythology. The only place where I'll ship an adulterous relationship either between two siblings or a great-aunt and great-nephew because at least unlike so many of the other pairings, no rape is involved. yay
#greek mythology#greek goddess#greek myths#greek gods#ancient greek#ares#ares god of war#aphrodite#aphrodite x ares#aphres#I do actually think they're cute#The idea of them being siblings in some versions is just weird though#The alternative is hardly better#Ares is really out here with his great-aunt#Bringing her flowers and everything#Nobody thought this was weird?#Guess not#Every non virgin in that family has done worse and with less consent involved
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Heya! Hope you're doing well <3
So I have a world building question that I've been curious about for a while now, and I hope you're interested in answering; what would Cybertronian literature be like? Would they have fictional stories, or would it mostly be history texts and such?
If they did have fictional stories, I doubt they would have many, if any, romance books since they're obviously not a romantic species like humans. Would superhero stories with outliers be a thing? (Can't remember if outliers are viewed as bad or not). Would fantasy stories with like, Predacons be popular or would they be frowned upon with some mechs because of their history with them? (Looking at you, Kup and Autoway)
Hm, I wonder if stories with organic aliens would be a hit or not...
Considering how well Cybertron was doing before the war, I'd imagine their fiction stories weren't at the level and/or had the amount that are on Earth. Or would it have nothing to do with the state of Cybertron and more with that it was scoffed at?
My brain is just going wild with all the ways that this could turn out, but what I really, really want to know if they have fanfiction. Wait, would Orion write fanfiction??!! Dammit, Orion fangirling over a character has taken root in my brain
That wraps that whirlwind of an ask. Don't forget to not overwork yourself and stay hydrated! ❤️
Lore time?!?! Fantastic. So sorry its been *counts fingers* three to four months??? The writing vibe has been very picky as of late. Doing my best over here to answer asks from months back o( ̄┰ ̄*)ゞ
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Literature on Cybertron is a curious thing. Culture varies wildly from city to city, but due to governmental influence everywhere, a large portion of the consumable literature on the datanet follows a certain structure. Information is highly controlled, and thus, only literature that supports or otherwise agrees with the government is allowed to exist on any public platform. Things that do not conform with the regulations put down are deleted immediately. Thus the literature that is deemed "safe" is often bland, preachy, or straight up propaganda. While Cybertron's population may have tolerated the Council due to a lack of fighting capability at the time, they also weren't fools. Not a spark enjoyed the aft kissing works produced by those who couldn't be bothered to be original.
Thus the underbelly of literature came into being, a hidden series of trade networks and secret websites created to keep the quality writing safe from the Council. Most of the hidden works consisted of data from all over the planet, the things that the Council kept hidden. Police reports, body cam videos, documents, records, trade reports, incident reports, historical documents struck from the records, information on mecha who "vanished", and so much more. Everything one could ever want information was was down there in the dark parts of the datanet. Such things always came with a price attached.
If one wanted data, it needed to be paid for. Shanix was too easy to track, and so instead information was traded. Data for data, knowledge for knowledge. It was in the darker parts of the datanet that the Archives collected much of their... more confidential information. Alpha Trion never tolerated the loss of critical information and there were whole groups under his control dedicated to collecting what he wanted from those who possessed the knowledge. There were entire wars online when it came to data, some that even resulted in doxing and death. The world was dangerous, and with the Council hunting for any and all information, literature was a prized resource reserved for those with the ability to trade for it. Orion and Soundwave both were very well oriented with the trading performed on the datanet. They were well known under their online tags and both maintained very active information broking circles up until the war began. Even then, both managed to keep weaseling data out of their sources up until Cybertron went dark.
Then of course there was the less professional corners of the darker parts of the datanet. Works of fiction were by no means unusual, but they were only produced by mecha with certain... tastes. Most were not lacking in imagination, but rather the ability to make their visions legible. The ability to properly produce a work of fiction was, more often than not, difficult for the average mech to do. Most works of fiction came from the middle castes or the upper lower castes. Higher caste bots were not allowed to write anything serious for fear of backlash, and the lower castes simply did not have the time more often than not. As such, only the highly biased middle castes had any ability to produce fiction at all.
Sci-fi did not exist as a genre, for quite obvious reasons. More often than not, what fiction came into being tended to fall into several categories which matched the desires of the middle castes. Courtly drama was a world renown and beloved genre. Every mech ran into a work in the genre at least once, and the themes usually revolved around the main character either climbing the social ladder to get into the higher castes or somehow evading their hold to achieve something. It was wish fulfillment at its finest, but the middle castes adored the genre as it satisfied the desires they had. Ratchet wrote one surprisingly well performing novel about climbing the ladder to become CMO. It was based off his own experiences, and while not exactly popular, medics everywhere all universally knew of his novel, although not a spark knew he wrote it.
The second biggest genre was rather specific, and it happened to be the caste change genre. Every bot wished they were something else for the most part. As such, there was a plethora of documents that focused around a mech from one caste either moving up or down the chain and having to adapt to the new way of life. The cultural differences around Cybertron played their part in the caste change genre as mecha from all over the planet learned from and wrote their novels. Many serious misconceptions came from the novels of that type, but it tended to create a sense of tolerance amongst the population more often than not. Even still, there were more than a few crimes committed due to rather ridiculous misunderstandings regarding local culture from individuals who only learned from novels. While not common knowledge, Starscream wrote an incredibly well received novel with completely made up cultural norms for Vos that were so widely accepted that grounders everywhere got arrested en mass until the government stepped in. Starscream has yet to stop finding it amusing.
The third most popular genre was the only one the lower castes could feasibly relate to, and it happened to be about police and murder mystery. The stories had no set formula, unlike the prior two popular genres. However they almost always involved the main character eliminating some scum of the Earth, uncovering a deep dark secret, or putting an end to a horrific criminal underworld. It was pure wish fulfillment from middle caste mecha who knew just enough to want to change things, but didn't have the guts to actually go out and take a stand. Jazz wrote his fair share of novels relating to the subject, one of which became so popular that he ended up changing his identity twice and faked his death once in order to escape any connection to it. He didn't learn until vorns later that his novel, which was based on a real mystery, had actually solved a well covered Council kept secret.
Lastly there was the religiously oriented works of fiction. The genre itself was incredibly niche due to the differing beliefs and delicate nature of faith on Cybertron. But the few who wrote for the subject were masters of their craft. Usually they were artist renditions of old tales, retellings of myth and legend, or even fictional takes on the lives of old Primes. Highly heretical in nature, very few stepped into the genre of Primacy related anything. The Council was always on the lookout for such novels, and thus those who wrote them were far more likely to vanish under mysterious circumstances. What novels were written often didn't last long. The only three novels that made it out alive amidst the harsh censoring happened to be a set of novels written by Orion Pax in collaboration with Senator Shockwave and a novel done by none other than D-16 himself. The three novels all showed urban legends and tales from all three castes and were beloved globally, even if every physical copy was destroyed on sight.
Orion, and later Optimus Prime largely forgot about his written work. Unbeknownst to him, Megatron has kept a copy of his work and the two other novels. He has no clue Optimus and Shockwave wrote them, but he adores them and have lovingly gone into English teacher mode more times than one could count to find the deeper meaning behind everything. Humanity's love for 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Dante's Inferno is the level of adoration Megatron holds for the three novels on his shelf.
There were other stories of course. Fantasy novels set far into Cybertron's distant past made purely off imagination and globally mocked by those who lived long enough to see the early days of Cybertron. A genre akin to Romance that focused on companionship and starcrossed designs put in place by Primus. Strange tales made by those on Colony worlds going into depth on organics and their cultures. Heroic stories focusing around Primus's chosen and champions of the people. Underdog tales with Outliers coming out of hiding or breaking their bonds to be free and express themselves as they saw fit...
The stories were diverse, but all were hidden. Every mech read them, but none spoke of them aloud. Literature was the quiet universal culture of Cybertron prior to the war.
#transformers#maccadam#cybertronian worldbuilding#cybertronian culture#pre war cybertron#megatron#ratchet#jazz#optimus prime#orion pax#soundwave#shockwave#worldbuilding#this was fun to write#took forever to get to because I thought it would be hard#guess not
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Brocedes really have me in a choke hold, cuz why have i resorted to reading unfinished and mtl fics of them 😞
#i really2x hate sad fics#angst/no comfort#nuh uh#i just finished a chinese mtl fic#and now i am reading an unfinished fic that last updated in 2016#honestly though pov dog fic was my last straw#guess not#pls the hyperfixation needs to stop#its been 4 months 😞#brocedes#ao3
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i mean i know they wanna get there on their own merit but if they really wanna ensure cobra kai doesn't win the sekai taikai resulting in cobra kai karate going international, all daniel, johnny and co. have to is turn ck's ESCAPED CONVICT sensai into the authorities like?!?
#cobra kai#daniel larusso#johnny lawrence#john kreese#kim da eun#still so funny to me that he was able to get into both korea and barcelona undetected#like he killed prison staff and escaped and went on the run like he should have interpol on his ass#guess not#having a convicted criminal running the winning dojo in such a massive competition wouldn't be a good look for the competition#there has to be rules around that right#his plot armour is insane
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Ajax: "I finally have Enid to myself"
Bianca: *look of what the fuckery*
Enid: *screams at him* "ARE YOU SERIOUS?? YOU THINK I WOULD WANT TO EVEN BE NEAR YOU AFTER THIS??!?"
*Enid gets up and rushes over to Ajax angrily*
#OH SHIT#AND I THOUGHT#BIANCA#WAS GOING TO BE THE ONE#TO FIGHT#AJAX#guess not#guess#enid#is gonna be the one#to beat the shit out of him#and i think#that is wonderful#dont worry#thing#will help#wenclair#wenclair cult
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realized i never posted this other zhou keke drawing on here!
#illustration#digital art#zhou shen#zhou keke#ok when i drew this zs announced 2nd album the next day so i was lowkey hoping that we would have a release date when i drew the other one#guess not
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watching downfall without having seen exu calamity or campaign one and two feels like i skipped like 4 grades and now i'm way in over my head
#critical role#cr downfall#exu downfall#cr spoilers#not really but im tagging it anyway#am i stupid for not understanding who most of them are😭#i think i just don't know enough lore#you would think that more stuff would stick from watching campaign 3 but#guess not#WELL time to watch calamity then! i always meant to but you know how it be
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hope the Arata haters are fucking happy now
#their pleas for him and Souma to go away are probably going to come true#i'm quite sad :((#his VA did his job SO well. he put so much emotion into the important scenes#i hope he has a good time with other projects#i was looking him up after i found out the news and he seems to be in this rock band anime too. seems interesting#REALLY going to miss his character though. was really looking forward to Arata being in future events again since he JUST now returned#guess not#Arata's one of my favourite characters in the game even more so than a few MCs#ace's rants :(
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That hit hard
#a bit TOO hard#for my liking#i thought they were just gonna go on some silly adventures#GUESS NOT#uwo#charlie in underworld#hayden uwo
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taking AP european history and discovering that like none of the city/country names from castlevania were made up like i thought- wallachia was once indeed a real country and târgoviste is indeed a real city
#this may have been obvious already#but because it was a fantasy anime#i thought that the names were made up too lmao#guess not#castlevania#târgoviște#wallachia#styria#trevor belmont#alucard#adrian tepes#sypha belnades
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#sabrina spellman#kiernan shipka#the chilling adventures of sabrina#riverdale#riverdale cast#her story#tv shows#so true#for real#honestly#she's awesome#i thought she was dead#guess not#teehee 🤭#😉#relatable#introverts#joke#true story#actress#celebrity#celebs#celebrities#arts and entertainment
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