#armcontrolnerve

[marcheriest]

soundwave and tarn

for @armcontrolnerve and @ordinarylawnmower

TF pulp commissions still going here!

[garden-ghoul]

"put 5 songs you actually listen to" tagged (sorta lol) by @thoughtscontainer. it's a fun challenge trying to capture the range of music I listen to rather than just what I've been listening lately.

1. Karangailyg Kara Hovaa (Dyngyldai) by Yat-Kha: texture-saturated Tuvan uhh folk-punk?

2. Daphne's Last Waltz by Swan Meat: probably the artist's least sonically abrasive song; I like the others a lot but can't listen to them

3. This choral version of L'homme Armé, since I don't feel like hunting down ensemble songs from Peter Grimes lol.

4. Ba​ñ​ador by Goldilocks: lesbian fuckboy club music

5. Casket Pretty by Noname: chill boppy sound and modern mythologies of Blackness (this one is about police brutality)

tell me what you're listening to if u want @gnczhanna @ygnoge @leahsfiction @bamboocounting @armcontrolnerve @blotthis @unopenablebox

[gayrobos]

Thirteen Primes masterpost!

I’m posting designs for the Thirteen Primes as in-universe religious iconography, and this is where I’m collecting information on the project and links to all of the pictures.

The basic premise is that the Thirteen are not real people (or, you know, as confirmably real as religious/mythical figures on Earth), so their qualities come from religion and folklore rather than history. Lots of people swear by them, and governments pay a certain amount of ceremonial respect to them, but very few people are dedicated to them. Those who are are generally part of groups loosely based on ancient Greek mystery cults--closed societies with private rituals who may believe more strongly in the mystical powers of their deities. I didn’t do any research on this FYI. These mystery cults are also not limited to Primes; a few other mythological figures have dedicated cults as well.

Primus has a kind of super-prime status, in that people really really think it is real and beneath our feet and responsible for the creation of new life. Expeditions to investigate it never come back.

Religious iconography changes with the times, so I’m intending to take a snapshot of Cybertronian culture at a particular point in history (loosely based on the fic I’m writing with armcontrolnerve right now). The Autobot and Decepticon empires control nearly the entire planet since unification efforts started about four hundred years ago, holding roughly the north and south hemispheres respectively; neither the Prime in Iacon nor the Prime in Kaon possesses the Matrix of Leadership, which has been lost for several million years. Contact is just about to be reestablished with off-planet colonies, and space bridge technology will get big in a couple decades. Indentured servitude is the default for laborer-class Cybertronians, but functionism and ratioism have cultural rather than legal influence. It’s a bad time for the arts. Film and other narrative media are put through the censors to make sure they’re appropriately patriotic.

I’m writing in-character as a kind of clueless religious scholar who doesn’t quite get the extent to which peeling back the layers of historical revisionism on depictions of deities is a political act. In short, their book is deeeefinitely not getting past the censors.

Finished designs:

Solus Prime  -  Prima  -  Alpha Trion  -  Vector Prime  -  Onyx Prime  -  Alchemist Prime  -  Fallen Prime  -  Liege Maximo  -  Micronus Prime  -  Nexus Prime  -  Amalgamous Prime  -  Quintessa Prime  -  Logos Prime  -  Prime Regnant

[panicbones]

🤍💜 for the ask meme!

ohh man it shows blanks for the first emoji and theres 2 blanks on the ask meme so. ill answer at random

🤍 fav neutral/obscure character: i cant think of any neutrals im into but for obscure charas... does krok count cuz i adore him

💜fav decepticon: all of the scavengers

[ckret2]

oh shit i just realized the armada probably literally orbits the massive

God I didn't realize I forgot to mention that in the last ask I answered until I got your ask about it. Me sitting here like "yeah I just said that—oh wait"

The Armada 100% definitely orbits the Massive.

[simkjrs]

chapter 6 asks that are people in distress about shinsou

SPOILERS FOR THE FIC, so it’s all under the readmore 

** before i start, i just want to say, the sheer number of people who have guessed that it’s himiko impersonating shinsou is frankly alarming and equally hilarious. thanks yall 

Anonymous said: OH MY GOD SHINSOU MY SON, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM??? HE DOESNT DESERVE THIS????? (for real, tho, that chapter was?? So good??? I'm so happy to have read this)

you’re absolutely right he doesn’t deserve this and im doing it to him anyways, which objectively proves that as an author i am not and never have been trustworthy. im sorry if i ever tricked you into thinking otherwise. im crying as well

Anonymous said: holy crap that chapter. where do i even start. i knew the kidnapping was coming up but that scene still managed to punch me in the gut. shinsou doesn't deserve this he just wanted to be a hero you guys. also the scene where izuku brought mitoki flowers was really great and i'm so happy that conversation happened. and the paintball fight? best thing i've ever laid my eyes upon. sorry this wasn't very coherent, i'm gonna go fling myself into the sun. thank you for this amazing chapter.

thank YOU for the feedback, i’m really glad you enjoyed the mitoki conversation & the paintball fight because those two scenes were the ones i was most nervous about. as for shinsou, you are very right. he doesn’t deserve this and im sorry 

Anonymous said: WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! that was so intense!!!!!!!!!!!! that chapter was amazing you lied sorry ://// (izuku has a crush on shinsou and i couldnt be happier. sweethearts, the both of them.) SO MUCH HAPPENED AT ONCE IM FU KCIFNSICIAJX!!!! WHAT HAPPENED WITH SHINSOU??? MY BOY WHO THREATENED HIM. WHO HURT HIM??!?!?!!?!??!!??!?! i got so emotional all throughout this chapter i almost cried like 26 times that was wild af!!! NOW HOW DO I RECOVER FROM THIS!!!! (im so worried about shinsou. about everyone.)

hfjldksf thanks!! glad you enjoyed it!! im sorry for making you emotional. its the unintended side effects of tryin to convey izuku’s state of mind 

i know this won’t ease your suffering much but for a while i intended for chapter 7 to be from shinsou’s point of view, and it was quite literally just titled “what happened to shinsou.” this may still happen. im not sure yet. stay tuned next for,

Anonymous said: *twitch twitch twitchy twich* omg suddenly i understand those comments from your betas. like. i'm legit speechless???? why. why would you do this, you evil writer from awesome land. like i just. im in like. the all caps state of shock. that FREAKING LAST LINE AKDJKLADSLKAJDSKLJLKJ. like. *squeezes air* i dont even know where to begin???? I MEAN CLEARLY I STARTED AT THE END BUT LIKE. so much. to talk about. like. the smile bits of gaming and cats and pics then THAT KAST KUUSJDFHSKJDHFSKJDHSJDF

i bait in readers with cute fun shenanigans and then i go in for the kill 

(thank you for writing in, i’m glad you enjoyed the chapter <3 )

Anonymous said: no, but like, ur saying that chapter 6 is the worst one YET (which is a HORRIBLE LIE. this chapter was great. even if it let us all devastated afterwards. but whats a good fanfiction if it doesnt affect the reader tho heh(and your certainly is a great fanfiction. one of the greatest)) is it because of the giant clusterfuck that 7 and/or 8 is gonna be? (kamino ward, all might reveal, kidnappings+ SHINSOU) im legit worried haha ( btw "(accidental) dad might: Stealth Style" is my favorite tag now)

i cultivate my tags with pride. im glad you enjoyed that one in particular :3c and also... thank you... i was super insecure abt ch6 so it’s really nice hearing ppl liked it! i really appreciate it <3 

the next chapter(s?) are going to be a clusterfuck so you are probably wise to be legit worried. preemptive apologies. i don’t know why im doing this and im sorry also 

Anonymous said: I don't actually believe that Shinsou did it, naturally. Maybe the villains pin the blame on him cause it's easier to do it to someone that everyone is already wary about? I honestly have no idea, you're too unpredictable with some of these things

u have a good nose anon... but also when have i EVER been unpredictable about anything. my taste and storytelling is incredibly predictable in that it is always The Worst and Incredibly Self Indulgent. all you have to do to pick out the path im taking is think “what path allows simk to pander to their own interests the most?” and thats the path i’ll take. this is exactly what is happening with the entirety of this fic and especially with this next arc 

Anonymous said: is shinsou being blackmailed?? controlled by someone else?? someone stole his face?? was he used as a hostage bc he interacted with class I-A more? or is someone threatening izuku again or.. ahhh idk what it is but I really feel he is not a traitor so: my current theories about shinsou. am I close?? 

yes to all of the above 

Anonymous said: Pretty sure you didn't get many theories yet cause we are still in shock. Send help pls. (Loved the chapter btw that chapter was legit a roller-coaster of feels.)

theres no help to be found. i did this irrevocably and now theres nothing we can do about it 

(thank you! i’m really glad to hear that, and hope that you have recovered from your shock :p )

Anonymous said: thoughts on shinsou's reasons: bakugou is a abusive shit who is undeserving of being a hero and made him lose all faith in heroes, blackmail, threats, brainwashing, some other type of convincing, he has been the traitor the whole time and you just want to kill us with angst, the LoV is threatening deku and if he doesn't help them they kill him, rage against society has reached its peak (same tho), or he wants to get back at bakugou, or the Cat Cafe is being threatened. please stop killing me.

this is a really impressive laundry list of unconventional reasons for shinsou to join the villain alliance. i love it. i too would become a villain in order to save my favorite cat cafe and spite a person i don’t like 

@armcontrolnerve said: it was himiko in the study with the candlestick 

d...does this make shinsou the murder victim 

Anonymous said: I JUST READ THE NEW CHAPTER AND JUST WANTED TO DROP BY AND SAY YOU'VE UTTERLY WRECKED ME. I have tears in my eyes, I am currently flailing about like a fish while my brain goes into overdrive trying to dodge the reality of that ending. Shinsou was helping Izuku not two scenes ago, he was probably kidnapped and forced to do it against his will via torture or something. I refuse to believe that Shinsou is a villain and you cannot tell me oTHERWISE

good instincts. hold onto that feeling 

Anonymous said: My guess: shinsou was kidnapped by Villain Alliance. Himiko Toga is using her quirk to impersonate him. But...why

bad pr image for yuuei 

Anonymous said: all im thinking is that girl with the quirk that lets her shapeshift into people if she gets their blood and im just. oh no. shinsou. how could u do this to the poor sweet gay boy. meet me in the pit for a fight, and also a round of compliments for ur fucking writing skills. u made me cry. i love this fic so much but unfortunately i still have to challenge u to a duel, for the sake of these poor children, and their mental health,,, (ps i love ur writing and ur fantastic!! byeee)

if you kill me youll never get these children back alive

(thank u though... this made me laugh. rest assured that i will promptly apply all my writing skills to elucidating the mystery of what happened to shinsou) 

Anonymous said: Shinsou probably got his quirk stolen by Sensei or someone is impersonating him I guess. Or his classmates are jerks and framing him or something. Smh

his classmates threw him under the bus

@sunslammerdown​ said: hi i am a person who reads your very extremely good fanfiction... thanks very much and also Wow Rude How Dare You. you said you were surprised at not getting more shinsou theories so heres my two: 1) It Was Toga, shinsou is kidnapped its not good 2) It Was All For One who can take quirks and use them on people and shinsou has a mind control quirk, its very not good still

what if its... 3) both, for maximum suffering, and the ultimate very not good happenstance 

@viperofsand​ said: I am sure I had something in mind when giving my review while I was reading chap 6, but after the final part my mind was all 'WHAT THE HELLLLLL', so, there is that. Also, I am inaugurating #ShinsouIsNotAVillain2017 for this fic starting now.

this is a good hashtag. i’m behind it. i have no right to be but i am 

Anonymous said: ok i'm trying not to panic bc of the cliffhanger but just tell me, will we know /why/ shinso is doing what he's doing ?? i'm trying not to spoil for ppl 

no worries! we will find out exactly what happened to shinsou...

@auspiciouswhiskers​ said: How much do I have to pay for a Shinsou redemption and/or Shindeku endgame because pleeease you have responsibilities

you don’t even have to ask. its already under way...

(more specifically: you just don’t even need to ask. there just isnt a need. hold that thought for a shindeku endgame though bc who KNOWS where im headed with that) 

Anonymous said: Izuku's gonna lure Shinsou with cats and everything will be just fine. Izuku holding up fuku, taka and isao: you know u can't harm them Shinsou: defeated

this is the ultimate villain shinsou ask. nothing is ever going to top this. you dont even need to fight shinsou you just have to appeal to him with cats and he’ll crumble instantly 

Anonymous said: Eh, I don't know if I'm angry, but I am a tad disappointed if it actually is "what it looks like" with Shinsou. I mean his whole deal is that while his power seems like one that a villain would have, he doesn't actually want to use it that way. If he really is a villain in your story, that sorta defeats the purpose of his character, you know? But I guess I'll just wait and see what you plan to do with it.

that aspect of his character is probably what makes what im doing 100% more awful so i guess what im trying to say is: don’t worry it’s not what it seems, but also, i should not be allowed to touch a computer 

Anonymous said: ok ok i have an idea about why shinsou provided inside help(i hope im at least a little right or im going to cry): he was threatened by the league? they saw him hanging out with deku and probably knew that he didnt know he was Hella Strong or smth and were like "look, if u dont want ur friend to die ur gonna have to Cooperate" and shinsou being an amazing friend was like "U LEAVE HIM ALONE U COCKROACH" and he did That. it probably happened in That One Stupid Horrible Month (please. PLEASE)

shinsou became a villain for deku confirmed. be gay, turn to the dark side 

Anonymous said: honestly while i'm still Actually Dead over the latest chapter Izuku having his Gay Awakening over someone who stabs him in the back is Relatable lol

h...hold that thought... 

also. i’m really sorry to hear that, and i hope you’re in a better place now. may your future gay relationships be blessed

Anonymous said: It's Mamoru. The ending to your new chapter is definitely a twist that I didn't expect at all. But oddly I'm not angry. Is Shinsou really going to be a villain? Because it kinda goes against he is fighting for. Or is he threatened?

spoiler alert...

@chocowl said: holy fuck simk

A theory: was Shinsou kidnapped by the VA and Himiko used her Quirk to look like him? That would explain the silence towards Izuku and would heal our tormented souls Q-Q

the truth is, the entire villain alliance is conspiring to fuck over shinsou, specifically

[autisticthassarian]

@speedfreak01 @armcontrolnerve bug

i used to work at a used bookstore and there was an insect anatomy book for sale that was over $8000 im not even kidding. and i just found it at my school library. its mine for the month.

[roseinrapture]

metalmartian :I LOVE THEM!!!

bearicorn :I lov! Imma sucker 4 2 tone jacket and pants sets

armcontrolnerve :WOA.. THESE R SO COOL & STYLISH

Thank you! very much!! i was very nervous about revealing these but idk i guess i should have known that i might of ended along these lines cuz it always comes back to like style/fashion in my case. even in fandom stuff and commissions its so important for me to get personal style and sstuff so like . . . welp

[simanzi]

got tagged by @neoflect to post my top 5 from my ♾️ playlist and one of these is literally the opening from a transformers anime 😭😭 my taste in music is great i promise

i tag @armcontrolnerve @chemiosmotic and @syggy if you want

[garden-ghoul]

so blessed to have ellis thoughtscontainer to yell at me to go to the doctor and laurence leahsfiction to translate poetry with me and cousin vera to do chores with me over the phone and ray "the lizard" to help me send emails and arcee who comes to say hi even when I am bad company and my coworker y who tries to make my life a little easier and jane and lex who play games with me and lee armcontrolnerve who yell about beast wars with me and the other lizard who drives me places and tells me about songs and people who make podcasts so I won't die from trying to sleep and people who make air conditioning units and people who post about kalvin brnine and m who secretly tells people how cool I am when I go buy lamb from her and people who grow food and trees that give shade and air and beauty and spiders in my house and even if I die from trying to get a phd my corpse will become moist and tasty dirt and I can turn into singing bugs and little unfurling green leaves and mold spores and methane and concepts of deadness!!! ברך אתה '' בורא אהבההההההה

[autisticthassarian]

@armcontrolnerve

A video of the filetable salmon plushie being fileted. I managed to film this by holding my phone between my knees, so be proud and grateful for the effort exerted to bring you this magnificent example of how to clean a fish.

[gayrobos]

I’ve been obsessed with the way the old marvel comics are colored so I did a color test with a scene from the fic me and @armcontrolnerve are working on

[blackmoldmp3]

armcontrolnerve replied to your post: armcontrolnerve replied to your post “i havent...

ok i did it :3

NOICE

[unrealityshift]

Favourite Character Tag Meme

so!! woke up this morning to see that i got tagged to do this by @mzargentum and decided why the heck not!!

Rules: Name your top 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms, and then tag 10 people.

in no particular order—

1. Final Fantasy XV: Ignis Stupeo Scientia

2. Kingdom Hearts Series: Riku

3. Persona 5: Yusuke Kitagawa

4. NieR Series: Emil (i haven’t even played the original nier but god i love emil)

5. Undertale: Tie between Papyrus and Mettaton

6. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Kaworu Nagisa

7. Yu Yu Hakusho: Hiei (formative childhood anime......,,, babey’s first “i wanna be him!!!”)

8. Sailor Moon: Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter)

9. Legend of Korra: Tahno (he had so much potential SSSSH i’m still bitter. my character now)

10. Marvel Comics: Kid Loki from the Journey Into Mystery run, up until #645

and uhhh i usually don’t tag people but here y’all go if you wanna do this too @riatee @armcontrolnerve @vaativakulaya @challengers @fudouyuusei @gladiosgf @ignisonfire @president-of-different-sense @urka-bird @xuunies

[decepti-thots]

@armcontrolnerve: oh absolutely. or chirolinguistics, which is cool in concept but they play so fast and loose with it... and yeah i agree that the tardis translation is the right choice its just silly the whole way down lol

Hah, yeah, the thing about chirolinguistics is that there is a very obvious real-world parallel; my immediate thought upon its introduction was "ah, it's tactile signing, okay!" But then this really never gets elaborated on- its social position doesn't actually seem to be one related to disability (grumble grumble, still think an obvious thing to drop mention of was Minimus teaching Ten it or something), and instead it seems to occupy a space more like... I don't know, the vibe I always got was something more like a cant a la polari or something? Given that knowledge of it seems to be both acquired and rare, but we get no indication this is due to prestige or anything. (And this makes a degree of sense; silent communication that can't be "hacked" makes sense for robots, I can see it.) But that doesn't quite fit either, because noone reacts to it in a way really pointing at that. It's a bit of worldbuilding that sort of just floats there disconnected to any context, which like... okay, that's kind of a lot of IDW1 worldbuilding for various reasons, to be fair. It just sticks out to me because of my particular predilections lmao.

as someone who also Knows Things About Linguistics, imo the biggest hurdle to actually making language headcanons in this thing is the fact that first you have to go "this takes place in a world where cybertron has something resembling natural language variety instead of universal tardis translation" and then you go into a fugue state and try to invent cybertronian phonology from scratch

Well, and it doesn't help that in some continuities, e.g. IDW1, in addition to the "TARDIS translation convention" stuff (objectively the correct decision btw I don't take arguments), you do have SOME canon material you have to then work around, so it's not a full blank slate. Like, IDW1 phases two and three has Primal Vernacular, for example, so you have to try and make it work with what's already there in some cases. (My instinct would be, for example, to say perhaps they don't have natural language variation in the way we do; that the whole non-procedural learning thing we know exists for new mechs at least some of the time results in a level of standardisation for language, at least among people in contiguous contact with each other, that would be impossible in our world. But uh. Primal Vernacular is mutually unintelligible with later forms of language, and that sure seems incompatible with this idea!)

As always, the very silly timescales and how it overlaps with cybertronians Just Not Dying Much kinda fucks it a lot, lmao. wow, it's almost like the canon is very silly huh, wild

[tendervulture]

“Meowdy. The doctor is in.” The only good thing to come from Kiss Players was Glit. I finally caved and made a design for him in my Anthro!Dogformers/Catformers AU. Love this cowboy kitty doctor. Inspired by @armcontrolnerve and @leafinsects tags for this character. If I have to look at him so do you.