#bit of a shocker really

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

[teastarfall]

autism creatures from the nightmare realm

[ox1-lovesick]

hi

[daz4i]

let's goooooo i set up an appointment to legally change my name 🙌

[voltrixz]

Silver Sable and Shocker friendship real and true to me actually. Why? It's funny to think that Shocker is good friends with the ex of his boss's right hand man

[lilacautomatic]

The ironic part about tone indicator tags is that they completely fuckin suck to use as an autistic person actually

[whatudottu]

Because I've been steamrolled by another character to hyperfixate on completely out of the blue, I feel the need to talk about TFA Soundwave and his siphonophoric ass- yes, I said siphonophore, now read under the cut to find out more-!

Aside from me now suddenly getting attached to another minor character (not as fucked over as Skyke but an extra episode is STILL just 2 total episodes), I caught the curiosity bug and looked a little deeper into this bastard, and here I am sharing it.

As a refresh, Soundwave in TFA was a 'gift' for Sari with the actual motivation to be used as Megatron's new body; the method to do so being the Key and the Allspark energy it uses. Now, in terms of all the Earth sparked cybertronians (not to be confused with Earthspark), you can probably pit the two types of mecha into 'Key-born' and 'shard-born'. You get the Dinobots as the first Earth cybertronians firmly in the 'key-born' category and the Constructicons (+plus unrelated Wreck-Gar) in 'shard-born', and considering the methodology used to make Soundwave- well- SOUNDWAVE was the Key, you'd also think that he'd also be as such fitting in with 'robots Sari tampered with and Megan profited off of'.

Well- to say that Soundwave's transformation from simple Earth music bot to fully forged and sparked cybertronian was actually complete would be - perhaps - a lie.

Megatron had originally wanted Soundwave to at the very least stick around Sari long enough to fully upgrade into his new body, his cybertronian body fueled on by the Key and it's Allspark energy, and to probably remain under his command just long enough for a transfer of some sort. It is Soundwave's act of defiance, a shock to even Megan, that cut the ties between the full frame upgrade and the actual upgrading of his processor.

It was Soundwave's rebellion against the (presently) organic Sari that prevented him from being 'Key-born'.

That's not to say he isn't sapient, more that it is to say he's significantly more different in comparison to other Earth-born cybertronians.

Soundwave becomes the Soundwave Megatron designed him to be only after making the upgrade himself, with a lot of smaller Detroit robots serving as the materials to build up his frame, himself the personification of the Earth robot revolution. And when he is summarily defeated by Bulkhead (and later by Optimus in 'Human Error') all the parts that were his body shattered into the scrap parts of possessed robots passed their usefulness. All that remained of Soundwave was a little section of his original make that just so happened to be where the Key would be used.

Soundwave became a little cassette.

Bestie I swear to god-

Seeing as how his minicons Laserbeak and Ratbat don't transform into cassettes themselves (bass and keytar respectively), plus are probably part of the 'shard-born' half of Earth cybertronians, I think that it'd be a fucking hilarious reversal if the Cassetticon for the Soundwave fam was SOUNDWAVE HIMSELF! Like, if it ends up that Laserbeak and Ratbat have more cybertronian of a spark than this bitch then his siphonophoric ass has got to find that fucking shard-

And yes, back to siphonophores.

So, I love me some siphonophores, love the bitches that group together to form one being, love me that so much. I think if Soundwave were a siphonophore cybertronian frametype, it would certainly fit with the whole hypocrisy of his mentality, of unleashing a 'robot revolution' by uh... mind controlling robots to be free from their servitude by organic hands.

His spark's in the right place (buried deep within minibots or toy Soundwaves) but perhaps being like a day's worth of being vaguely sapient might kinda skew that revolution to be 'i want you to be free the way I define free' and boop I've made another mind controller a siphonophore eep-! (would be a great time to put in a link, were it not a link to a collab with a friend's deactivated blog and also not even transformers related 😔)

Considering the title of siphonophores in a more general sense are 'colonial species', a Soundwave built up as a colony of robots (so far only Detroit tech robots) and presents himself as this signal for a revolution, I think it's awfully fitting that the mentality of 'be free MY way' could be boiled down to 'be my body'. Because as a cassette - or perhaps more a cassette RECORDER or tape deck - Soundwave literally cannot move and has to rely on his music in order to get anything done, to get others to do the things he needs them to do FOR HIM. To escape from the Autobots a second time he needs Laserbeak - one of the instruments TO HIS VERY MIND CONTROLLING MUSIC - to snatch him out of there to rebuild another day, to gather enough stray robots to become a colonial system of machines in order to function as 'cybertronian'.

I just... think I really like siphonophores, man. I think they're real neat little cities, yeah? And I think Soundwave's network of robotics is just being head by someone who's like... idk give or take a few Earth months/years between Sari's season 1 birthday and Earth's season 3 Christmas old, significantly less than even the youngest of young bots (though Dirtboss and the Luna-born clones are like... the youngest newsparks) and most certainly an age that even humans would find young.

Idk, maybe Soundwave using all this Earth tech is not getting the parts that he actually needs to be actually officially a cybertronian, even if perhaps he remains a siphonophore type frame. Perhaps, with a special delivery from Megan himself all the way from Kaon, a colony of cybertronian made minicons could help connect the missing piece.

Eh, I'm just rambling at this point.

Anyway; *rotates TFA Soundwave in my head* *rotates TFA Soundwave in my head* *rotates TFA Soundw-

[princekirijo]

I wanna write something but idk what

[skygremlin]

Would you look at that this is probably the most I've posted in a few (almost) consecutive days here since ever

But Boy am I so excited with how this came out

LOOKIT IT!!

Ew don't look too close tho

The dark plant is magnetic!!! I can take it off and put it on my head!!!! Isn't that so cool?!

It's just a little thing and so easily done but I love it sm

[lovelaceisntdead]

My body is full of BEES

[byanyan]

as a rule, no one should trust byan. they are incredibly selfish & self-involved, they take no issue in using others or taking advantage of others for their own gain, and they even take a good amount of entertainment in messing with people. they are not trustworthy. even those that are close with them should not trust them with everything.

BUT. there are a few odd exceptions, a few very specific people, who can genuinely trust them implicitly. most of these are kids younger than them who they've taken upon themself, for whatever reason, to watch out for. and I just like to think about that sometimes.

[saccharine-seashells]

U RBED THATB POST SO MANY TIMES R U OK

yep! i was just feeling silly goofy and really wanted to “sell the illusion” yknow? :]

[starfacedstudio]

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recently had to sit down and actually make a demo reel for myself and figured itd be good to share! 

admittedly i really dislike making demo reels lmfao i always feel like i dont have enough to put in them, but this has some of my better, older animations in here that i have yet to show elsewhere! not the best reel ever but i hope its something i can look back on and compare at the least :]

[boosik]

Hair feels so soft,, maybe my younger sibling scolding me into using better conditioner was something i should’ve listened to earlier,, idk,, they’re the “face masks/skin care/makeup” one outta the two of us,, maybe i should put more effort into taking care if myself •~•”

[sadlazzle]

to be completely honest all the references to gwyn in the soul of cinder fight only served to remind me that i was fighting an incredibly inferior boss compared to gwyn

[imab4dbitchucantkillme]

You seem a little down 😓 Are you ok?

Ehhhh honestly? No lol

I dunno I’ll be ok soon there’s a lot goin on atm a lot of shitty feelins from my shitty brain u know.