#as i'm high risk

[unicornlovers10]

A few hours ago I tested positive for Covid, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to work on anything. I haven't really been able to work on much since last Thursday. I've basically had it for over a week. I'll let you peeps know if anything else changes.

[peace-hunter]

tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

[bdoubleowo]

inspired by the tags on this post

[canisalbus]

You mentioned before that the people who would have access to Machete's bedchamber would likely already know about Vasco. How did that come up in your mind? Did they get caught in the act or was the subject broached with enough trust? How did those people handle it? Sorry if this is a bit vague but I thought about it today and I'm very interested. :)

I think it just has to be the case, I can't imagine how they could manage to hide the fact Vasco is bunking with him from everyone, for years and years. Machete doesn't live alone, he has staff and servants who do his housekeeping and run his errands. Even if Vasco didn't stay there for any extended periods of time and snuck out the back door to avoid attention, I'm assuming at least the people who do his laundry and change his sheets would eventually detect that some sort of funny business had happened. But the number of people who are in on it is still very very small and tightly controlled. His assistant Vittorio definitely knows and helps to manage this situation, so does his personal doctor, and on top of that maybe a handful of most trusted high-ranking emplyees, which he has vetted extremely carefully and pays handsomely for their discreetness and prudence.

[whywoulditho]

my hottest take is that if ever after high had a male majority cast it would become a huge hit and everyone would be talking about how amazing all the characters are written etc.

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

it also once again makes me painfully aware of the woes of being a dragon age dwarf enjoyer (<- being starved for proper lore) 😔

[jabeur]

"nobody cares about asia" is such a novel and brave and revolutionary opinion, wow thank you random white person on instagram

[elizabeth-mitchells]

me, 5 seconds into every Lost episode that isn't centered around one of the women: ... okay enough of that where are the women

[nightmaretour]

Why did they have to name a big, dangerous storm Bert. You could have named it so many other things that people would actually take seriously but you called it Bert

[mieczyhale]

"the lesser of two evils party is still evil so i'm not gonna back anyone" is dumb as fuck

the "lesser of two evils" IS STILL THE LESSER

if you don't back harris, if you have the ability to participate in november and don't, and trump gets elected whatever happens in the u.s is partially on you

trump wants to take away voting altogether and you think that guy and harris are ~ both bad boo hoo : ( ~

man, shut the fuck up

we will NEVER have a chance to make anything better if we get a guy who likes hitler and wants to be a dictator elected. it takes TIME to fix shit, especially in this country, and no candidate is EVER going to be perfect so stop waiting for one that will be.

"it's just democratic propaganda" okay, secret agent maga man. all the ways democrats have said they want to help people and all the ways conservatives have said they want to hurt people are just propaganda. they're really just both bad /sarcasm

(these are not all direct c.r quotes, but they're from people who have shared the same mindset and i've had it with the whole group)

[allegedly-human]

The urologist's secretary handing me my appointment paper: I love [my first name] that's a very pretty name. I would've chosen it if I had a boy. But I only had two daughters... 😔

Me just trying to know whether I'll need to get my left ball cut off or not:

[cedarspiced]

guess who was just diagnosed with polycythemia (too much blood)

this thanggggg 🤟😎

[proteusolm]

The funnest part of our fires is that the boxes seedlings come in are thick and wax coated, so they burn shockingly high and hot. Every time we add more everyone has to scramble to get away from the heat, or shield any exposed part of their body. Good entertainment.

Before every fire we're told not to get crazy with the boxes, but it always ends up being the staff who get silly with it and toss on a bunch at once.

[hollenka99]

Hope the non-existent Dashcon baby, who supposedly entered the world via the ball pit, enjoys their 10th birthday this weekend.

[ritzy-biscuit]

💀WHAT IS WITH THIS WEATHER??💀

[tj-crochets]

Crafting/vaccine side effects update: I am still not up for crafting but oh my gosh I feel so much better than I expected to! I did have a POTS flareup but my blood pressure never got below 100/60, so like it barely counts. I mean, the tachycardia was worse, but even that was nowhere near what it's been previous times I got the booster shots, and it's mostly resolved itself within like 24 hours of getting the shot instead of like three days. I'm still operating at a deficit of water and salt but I'm working on it bit by bit, and I was skeptical when my doc said I wouldn't need an extra dose of my salt-go-up pills* but he was right! Anyway point is no crafting updates today but there might actually be crafting updates tomorrow, which I did not expect to be saying *fludrocortisone! It helps me retain salt in a way almost approaching the normal human way of processing salt