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[ogditdoodles]

Cybertronian reproduction

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I am having Ideas

So in my headcanon, there are 4 ways of reproduction.

Forged, cold constructed, emerged and spark constructed.

the rest under the read more

So forged and cold constructed are the same as they are in canon.

Emerged

Emerged Cybertronians are ones that are a result of interface and spark merge and incubated in a carrier.

Basically, a couple(or more) interfaces and spark merges and they wait for the spark of the receiving person to split off. These new sparks are so so small, you have to look really closely to notice if there is even a spark there, most bots don't notice until they start feeling spark pains.

The spark can be under a lot of strain and pain because 1- it just split off into 1 or more tiny sparks and 2- its supporting 1 or more growing new sparks.

Sparked mecha can have a normal diet for their frame type for most of the time that the new spark(s) are orbiting around their own spark. But once the spark(s) descend from their spark chamber to the gestation chamber... Well, lets say that a sparked minibot would be drinking their weight in energon once that happens.

The descent is also very painful. For those of you who experience periods, imagine your worst day of cramps, its like that. Reason is because the new sparks are separating from the main spark. The spark is sensitive, so both the process of forming and separating are painful.

Now we all know it. Transfluid. Sparklings, once descended, need transfluid to develop. Now, carriers don't necessarily need the transfluid, a carrier can go the whole pregnancy without getting transfluid from another bot. BUT there are consequences. If the carrier doesn't get sufficient energon, the baby could pretty much suck up all their energy. Any excess energy goes to the baby, and if there isn't any excess... the baby just starts eating you. You can either stop this by drinking lots and lots of energon, or getting transfluid from a willing mech. Or Both. Pre-war, most mecha that could afford it did both, to make sure the baby was healthy.

Also, the transfluid doesn't have to be from the same mech that sparked them up. This is great! Because there are many poly relationships where they want all the members to contribute. One mech can spark you up, the other gives you transfluid, or multiples can give you transfluid. the result is a sparkling that looks like a mix of many mecha.

Emergence is painful, again, BUT its not as painful as human birth. Because, thanks to my friend @messyspacespades, i have learned about blob babies, so babies come out not exactly painlessly, but its quick. Unless there's triplets. Or your a minibot and one of your partners is a shuttle. Then it takes a while.

NOW! Lets talk about when the baby is out. Ive talked about these headcanons with my friend Messy, and they introduced me to the idea of kneading the baby. Basically, sparklings fresh out, are like. Pliable. Dough. Squishy. And kneading them like bread dough feels really nice for them.

I'm not going to talk too much about sparkling stages, just know, for the next bit, that the stages i work with are -Bitlet(new born, 0-300 years old, no armor) -Sparkling(toddler developmentally, 400-1,000, no armor) -Early Younglinghood(think 1st-3rd grade, 2,000-5,000, little to no armor) -Mid Younglinghood(4th-6th grade, 6,000-10,000, growing armor, kids complain about pain, like growth spurts) -Late Younglinghood(basically middle to high school, 12,000-100,000, heavier armor, still a bit of protoform showing(think baby fat))

More detail in another post, coming soon

Spark Constructed

Spark constructed, i think there are a few people that have something similar to this, just not this exact name. Basically, starts the same as an emerged Cybertronian, BUT the body is cold constructed.

The thing is, the bot has to wait for the spark to be strong enough to survive for a little while outside of their sparkchamber, BUT before the spark(s) descend. This is a more planned out thing, you can't do this accidentally. You need to plan this way in advance.

Typically this is for partners with huge size differences. Like a minibot with a shuttle and for some reason the bigger partner can't carry.

These frames are typically early youngling size, depending on the frame type, and take a few weeks to wake up. Since the frame is literally just that, just a frame and buildable organs, so the spark, while being fed a consistent line of energon, fills out the body.

And bam. Toddler.

There isn't too much of a difference between an emerged youngling and a spark constructed youngling, mostly just spark constructed younglings learning things later than their emerged counterparts.

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

big bro jazz

[mrtequilasunset]

Listen man, you guys can't be like "you guys need to be normal about asexuality" and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn't have sex by choice. Like that's weird that some of you do that.

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Today in vc we discussed the concept of a gmod funeral so I drew my interpretation.

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[officialspec]

can i say something. for years i thought the joke of the song short skirt/long jacket by cake was that he wanted a woman who was hung like a horse. like i thought when he says jacket it was a last-second fakeout because he very obviously meant to say cock. and the rest of the things in the song were just her personality and interests. which were secondary to her awesome penis

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[wojtekaneko]

That's how it went

[science-lings]

my dad saw ao3 open on my computer and asked if that was like my writing club and just so you know that's what fanfic writers are now, we're all in the same writing club where we all write about the same media and show each other our little stories and that's kind of cool actually

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[cloudcastor]

icarus

this’ll be a print for upcoming cons >:)

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[emiko-matsui]

Here's what you missed from the ScreenRant+ interviews with the Fantasy High: Junior Year cast

The reason Gorgug and Zelda broke up was a natural drifting apart. There were no animosity or harsh feelings, but Zac felt it unnatural for them to stay together for such a long time and still be true to the characters

The reason Cassandra's name is found in ancient stones and writings even though Ally was asked to make it up in Sophomore Year is because it wasn't Kristen choosing a name, it was Ally choosing the name that came to Kristen in a holy revelation of remembering a forgotten name

Ayda Aguefort wasn't removed from the season because she was too powerful to have around, but rather that Brennan genuinely felt a natural follow to her arc was to spend time creating a family bond with Arthur

All of the cast are clear with the fact that Senior Year is not being discussed at the current moment and is something that would be far in the future, but all of the cast are also excited to return to Senior Year and Brennan has plans for what he wants to expand on and plot threads in Senior Year. Additionally, Brennan said he left Sandra Lynn and her relationship to Bobby Dawn unresolved because he rather wanted to leave that storyline for a Senior Year.

Ally considers Gertie's action of immediately declaring Kristen as her nemesis after realising Kristen didn't want to be with her forever after kissing her once was Kristen "getting a taste of her own medicine" and finally being on the end of the insane chaos she's been dealing out to NPCs for years.

Emily was the one who came up with Fig taking on Gilear's bad luck/curse and she was inspired to do it by Fabian's delevelling in Sophomore Year.

After being pitched the headcanon that the adventuring party Goldenhoard was talking to in the first freshman year episodes was The Rat Grinders Brennan liked it so much he, on the spot, retconned it into canon

The cast thinks the four dogs joke is even funnier because they know Ally's mom is a dog breeder