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[lockbot]

thinking about the puppyfication of bumblebee. I think it's mainly a movie thing that started from bayformers

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

return to sub level 50

[hinamie]

*catboys ur shounen protag*

[ominouspuff]

Fwoom (intimidatingly)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

In the world of heavy metals, love is denser than hate!

[wilburewormarts]

KARA MONKEY WRENCHHH!!!

[closeups and bonus doodles under cut]

[alexxuun]

I made a spiderverse theme collage zine throughout the past few weeks‼️

It’s one of my first serious collage art I did and the difference between the first spread (1st) and the last (3rd and my fave) and the cover (left) compared to the back (right) is insane btw.

The only material I used are magazines, scraps and doodle from my zine club! No printing anything! (Yes, even comic spider-man. It was a lucky find)

What more Hobie Brown-style art than a collage zine?

[vivitalks]

i'm sure this post has been made before but the "the list of people i trust and things i believe is down to no one and nothing" to "i trust angus mcdonald entirely" journey that taako takes in the span of roughly one in-fiction hour during lunar interlude reunion tour is so important to me. adventuring partners and friends who have saved his bacon more times than he can count? nah fuck em. organization that has protected him and given him a purpose and fresh start? new stone of farspeech who dis. this nerdy ass boy detective? "angus i trust you implicitly and here's the 100% exact truth as we understand it"

[nocek]

I love this contrast (and the wonders of magical superpowered baby :D )

[mossyscavern]

Scary cave, reveal the truth

_____________________

“Do we have to go in?”

Bee asked, clutching d-16’s neck guard from behind, almost choking him. D then pluck the sparkling off his back. “Yes we do, don’t worry. Stick with me ok?” D-16 ask, holding bee protectively. “Ok! Still a bit uneasy…”

Bee admits, face buried in the grey minor’s chassis as the mech keeps walking forward.

Walking in the cave deeper they found themselves an opening, bee wonders to himself why everything’s quiet and what they’re staring at, the sparkling turned and optics widen at the scenery.

“I don’t believe it.”

“The primes.” Orion says, not believing it himself either.

“We’re here.” Elita-1 chimes, same boat as Orion.

Looking around, there is of course lots of foliage… even on the primes. Their bodies lying there, foliage growing on their damaged plating… their sparks extinguished.

The three walk onwards, looking around the area as much while the three split up. With bee in d-16’s arms, the sparkling has limited turning so d made sure bee is facing forward.

With that being said, bee turned his head after spotting something, tiny servo tapping on d-16’s upper arm before pointing.

D-16 raised an optic ridge before looking what the young spark points at, making the minor gasp silently.. peds walk over towards the helm, being brought to his knees.

Not believing it… but also believing it himself.

“Megatronus prime.”

D-16 says, his servo placed on the purple mask, staring at the head before scowling. While that’s happening, orion went towards a very familiar prime, one he’s associated with all the times he broke into the archives.

“… Zeta prime.” He says outloud, stood there for a couple of kliks before his optics land on the prime’s chassis. “The matrix…” he whispers, reaching out to the opened chest plate. “… it’s gone.”

‘So it’s for nothing?’ D thought, subconsciously bouncing the sparkling in his arms. “Let’s keep looking.” Elita-1 suggested. All splitting up again while D-16 placed said sparkling down.

Bee ran off when he was placed down, his peds still slowing the baby bot down. D-16 chuckled and followed behind. Bee picked up some wild flowers, and turned back to d-16 with a bunch in his servos.

“Thought it be best to.. give them proper respect. Here, for megatronus.”

He says, holding up the flowers towards d-16, making the mech smile at the gesture and place his servo on the sparkling’s helm. “That’s very thoughtful.” D-16 says, gladly took half of the handed flowers from bee’s servos.

D put them in front of the severed helm of the strongest prime, bee did the same, placing his tiny servos on megatronus’ mask and hug the severed helm. It would’ve made d’s spark melt if it was a different situation…

“Hey guys!” D-16 and bee heard, d picks bee up again and went to Orion’s side after he called them. When he saw the bot he gestured the rocks and the beating glow. “What about the other primes?”

Bee whispered, a sad pouting look on his faceplate. “We’ll give the rest a proper respect when we finish.” D says, held up his servo with the pinky finger out. “That’s a promise.”

D-16 says… and it’s a promise he’ll keep if he as to.

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*sighs* moments before disaster..

I wanted to write this mostly because well… thoughtful and pure moments with kids is heartwarming to me. That and I wanna try it with that scene from the movie.. like alpha trion said.

The primes deserve a better fate than what sentinal had done.

Before I go again just note: this babybee au belongs to @yuukirita … what? There’s other versions of babybee and I like all versions.

… Should I do a part two of this like I did with ‘not spies just a by incompetent’?

[pangirl-fangirl]

Calahan Skogman will never get to be in a scene with the rest of the Crows cast. We won’t get a scene onscreen with all six Crows. We won’t get the Ice Court Heist. We won’t get Inej’s backstory on screen. Amita won’t get to see her hard work finished, none of them will. We won’t get to see Wylan’s backstory on screen. We won’t get more of Inej and Nina’s friendship or Kaz and Jespers or Matthias interacting with the rest of the Crows.

These dedicated, phenomenal actors have been robbed. We’ve been robbed.

Netflix count your fucking days.

[spawnofbhaal]

I just remembered how excited I was about the Caretaker as a character . . . I thought they were going to slowly reveal their history as a spirit and bond with Solas over the course of the game, that they would have some piercing insight and tragic tale that would help us understand Solas better to save/defeat him. The fact that they only ended up being used to enchant stuff, drop hints, and open doors is a travesty.

[andhumanslovedstories]

chapter eleven of what feels like the most soap opera ass fic I've ever written and then just a bunch of thoughts about writing it, which contains vague spoilers for my plans:

The inception of the fic basically went like this:

haha lol i'd be fun if sqq got real mad at the state of education

what would need to happen in this fic that doesn't happen in canon to motivate him to do something about it

oh shit he didn't unlock OOC so he has to figure out how to be his coddling indulgent self (which he's in denial about) while also being shen jiu

But the thing that really made the story get so much bigger in scope was when I was reading a fic with yqy coming clean to sj, and sj being like, "GASP. I forgive you." And I was "I simply do not believe that this is how it would happen." And I would have moved on with my life, but then I thought, "but like how would it happen." And more importantly, how could this conversation happen within the canon timeline but still involve Shen Jiu, the person this information affects.

The OOC idea and the need for Shen Jiu to be present in this fight scene came together to be like "what if sqq got sj's memories so he could rules-lawyer his characterization more accurately, and ends up being furious on sj's behalf?"

(This, btw, is why I knew I had to get much fonder of YQY and get a much better understanding of his character. When a pillar of your fic idea is a character getting ripped into for his choices, it is sooooooo easy to for it to come off as the author yelling their personal opinions or for it to be completely flat character bashing. Neither are interesting to read or write! Hence the crash-course in YQY appreciation, so now he gets his own emotional arc too. Everyone gets a goddamn plotline.)

Meanwhile I was also thinking about the implications of downloading another person's life into your head. If you have their memories and their body, are you them? What makes you not them? I didn't know! I sort of just kept writing and posting with the assumption that I'd figure something out, which I've finally nailed down btw. That's a relief! Also kinda the fun of WIPs where you're building the railroad track as you're on the train. I end up fanficing my own fanfic. Once stuff is posted, that's the canon, and I look at it and think, "if this was a book I was reading, what is the way I would extrapolate what's there to make a new but coherent story?"

That's why my outline becomes pretty useless after a while. The big picture doesn't change too much--I know roughly where all the major characters are going to be emotionally by the end of the story--but I discover the path I'm going to take there. Which usually means adding stuff. Liu Qingge wasn't going to get a POV, and now every chapter I'm like "fuck am I building a throuple". Ming Fan will have waaaay more a story line than I originally conceived. Early on, I was like "eh I'm not going to go too far into the brothel stuff," and can you guess what is going to be coming up prominently in the next few chapters? God help me.

Actually, there's only one major part of the outline that I cut: Shang Qinghua. He was originally very prominent early on, but turns out having the literal Word of God in a story about slowly discovering backstory is difficult to reconcile. So sadly, he doesn't get a real role. If you're curious, the original plan for him was that SQQ would realize he's a transmigrator much earlier in the canon, but the System would be like [shen jiu would not tell shang qinghua he is a transmigrator. ooc] which would lead to this series of SQQ trying to figure out how he can communicate around this. SQQ at a peak meeting being like, "do you think these DEMONS are PROUD of having made their WAY to us IMMORTALS?" while SQH is like, "AM I HAVING A STROKE?"

What's some other stuff about this fic? I've got a lot of thoughts bottled up, in part because I'm kinda snobby tbh in how I post. I'm like "*pushes glasses up my nose* the author's takes on the story should not be unavoidably present when reading the text" so I don't like to use ao3's author's notes. It's ridiculous and not a standard I hold anyone else too, but whenever I find myself wanting to address something in the notes, I know I must feel insecure about that part of the story. So either fix it or don't draw attention to it. But this is fine, you have to come here for this. This is DVD commentary.

My favorite part of writing this fic has been balancing Shen Jiu's character. As I'm fleshing out his sad backstory, I've been wary of essentially woobifying him. Reducing him to just someone who greatly suffered is so boring and flat. He NEEDS to suck. Or more accurately, he needs to be a very imperfect victim. Exasperating at his mildest, despicable at his worst. (Truthfully, I do think I can and should make him worse. Luckily this story is nothing but flashbacks to him at his worst so there's plenty of opportunities.)

This whole mental breakdown section has been an interesting balancing act because it's explicitly about how bad Shen Jiu's life was and now how bad Shen Qingqiu's is. It's the point at which I had to decide how torturous his time at the Qiu manor had been (me and Shen Qingqiu really discovered that together). On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the absolute worst saddest brutalist ideas I had for this era in his life, I'd say I settled on about a 7. Most of it is backstage in my head, but once I locked that down, I could start figuring out how much was bleeding through.

Anyway, it's been fun writing the angstfest of the last few chapters, but oh my god am I ready for a tone shift. There's usually jokes in my works, even the saddest bits, but jokes relieve tension which is the opposite of what I was going for. I didn't want any humor in the YQY conversation, then you have to keep not joking for a while to get the point across. There's still a lot of planned emotional shit, but I'm happy to not be wallowing for a while.

AND GOD AS MY WITNESS THIS STORY WILL NOT BE LONGER THAN 20 CHAPTERS. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN BE LESS!! IT IS DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE A WHOLE CANON REWRITE. PROBABLY!! IF TIANLANG JUN HAS ANY SIGNIFICANT SCREEN TIME, PLEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE FAILED.

[hinamie]

new limited edition firefighter spacesuit hazmat itfs just dropped

[notmoreflippingelves]

Actually going insane over the implications of Jason asking Dick to be the Robin to his Batman in Battle for the Cowl.

Like I initially took it at the purely surface-level of Jason wanting a partner in the general sense. Which made sense, it's a huge responsibility and a lonely one so an assistant/sidekick/partner seems a no-brainer if you can get one.

But then I really thought about it, because Jason is not asking Dick to be his partner in the general sense; he's not even asking Dick to be his Nightwing. He's asking Dick to be his Robin.

And they both know exactly what Jason means: "Be the light to my darkness. Be the smile to my scowl. Be the hope to my fear. "

He's saying "Be 'Robin'; be the embodiment of Love and Justice and Goodness. Be the exceptional person that you have always been. Be the slightly-less exceptional person that I was when I wore your colors. Be the person that I was in the process of becoming and might have been (or might still be), if only Joker hadn't clipped my wings."

He's saying "I am prepared to become vengeance, become the Night. And I will go further than Bruce ever dared to, because it is what is needed. I will be the necessary evil. But you don't have to be. If Batman is Gotham's curse, Robin has always been its blessing. I will be the brutal punishment to our world, and I am asking you to be its incandescent gift."

He's saying, "Be for me, what we were for Him. Be my anchor, my comfort, my hope. Remind me what it's all for, why it's all worth it. And remind yourself as well."

He's saying "Be 'Robin' again--for both of our sakes."

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Year of the Dragon!