#mental static

[davidthephoneguy]

Taking a short break

i really need to get some things under control in regards to my mental health. my heads been extremely fuzzy and i can’t control my anger sometimes. Just under so much pressure right now…

i’m also just not good mentally at the moment with dealing with my issues in terms of unhealthy copping mechanisms (physical and mental harm) that have been highlighted recently.

(Also just generally really not doing good recently with my parents going through a divorce ontop of all this given I don’t have a good ability at dealing with this <:( )

i just need to get my head right and i am going to see a psychologist soon to help figure it all out.

i’ll be ok don’t worry

[giantsinthemist]

when you say you hate yourself, is it hate? or is it discomfort (words/feelings) and the desire to escape.

-GITM “Collection 1: Mental Static”

For those who think too much and decipher too little

[toomanywordsnllines]

Sometimes... the world can be a little too much.

[eristhenat]

遠近・Distance

[prince-liest]

Vox's priorities are SO intact.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

some Friendly Maintenance scribbles i forgot to post!

[everyonesadoptivedad]

sketch dump from one of my favorite moments :> ✨

((done listening to this ))

[belethlegwen]

hi hello. u got any recommendations of stories for the time being or original works? been reading ur stuff n like the vibes

Heyhey! Absolutely I have some recommendations!

So it goes without saying that I love @adjacentperception's writing as much as I love them. Their Rose & Laporte series is fantastic and I love those characters and the journey that Atticus is on especially. It's fun, it's silly, it's deep and it's got a realness to it that speaks to me as a person in ways I've been repeatedly surprised by. Link to the directory in bold.

@pocket-ozwynn has been a favourite of mine for a while, and the works he has posted are delightful. They're typically well outside of my preferred range for size-difference but the writing and characterization is so good I don't mind at all, and usually my brain can struggle with sticking with something if it's not exactly in my wheelhouse. Here's a link to his Masterlist for stories and characters!

Bite Me by @entomolog-t is more mature writing with sexual themes but I absolutely adore it. The prose is phenomenal, the emotions and sensations the writing evokes is a masterclass in tone setting and flow. Can't say enough good about it. Here's a link to the Masterpost for that story, but check out Ent's pinned post for other stories they've written!

One I've been very into lately and have been keeping up with as it gets posted is @fireflywritesgt's amazing (and Canadian-set! Woo!) work The Art Of Love And War, an extremely fun story that can bring excitement and tenderness and heavy themes equally well. Really been loving this one.

Hope these tickle your fancy! They're the first ones that jumped to my brain today while I'm precoffee. Thank you so much for the ask, have a great day please!

~ Belle

[punkpandapatrixk]

This dream world is a digital oyster of our making…

What are you making?

I’ve been asking;

what I’m doing

It doesn’t matter, I’ll sleep some more…

もっといい夢を観るつもり。

I’ll dream better dreams.

[lord-squiggletits]

Y'know the thing about writing feral/unhinged versions of Orion/Optimus, is that you can't go too far into the feral/unhinged direction to a point where OP's core character traits are lost or become too diminished. After all, in a multiple-continuity franchise like TF, part of what makes the stories make sense is that even if details change (sometimes major details), the characters are still recognizably themselves to one degree or another. (Although this isn't always the case due to executive meddling or some characters being such blank slates from their initial G1 appearances that there's basically nothing to model them off of, but I digress.)

It's pretty much another reason why I love IDW1 Optimus, bc he literally is a canonical feral/unhinged Optimus who's unhinged as a direct consequence of who he is as a person and what he's been through. Like, he still has those fundamental character traits of trying his best to be moral and make good choices, trying to be a role model, etc, except after 4 million years of war and untreated depression he's basically holding onto his sense of self by his fingertips. So when he "goes feral" e.g. losing his temper and beating up/killing people or saying hurtful things, he's feral in a way that's directly tied to his normal personality and not just as a random quirk he has.

IDW OP's feral moments arise from the gaps between "Optimus' attempts to be who he thinks he needs to be" and "the reality of the world that he can't fix/seems to only make worse" that cause him to lose hope, or become cynical, or lose his temper. But in this case, the unhinged-ness makes perfect sense because it arises out of Optimus trying and failing to be the best person or to make the most morally good choices he's trying to make. Basically, the "feral/unhinged" label is just another way of me trying to say that he's not just unhinged because he's weird or because he's a bad person, but because it's an emotional reaction (more like an emotional explosion due to pent-up emotions) to the context he exists in.

I'd also say that IDW OP's personality being generally reserved/stoic and (trying to be) noble works in tandem with those moments he has of going feral because it makes him more realistic. His psyche is treated in a way where the writers are like, "Hey what if the pressure of having to be everyone's idol and be the best person in the galaxy at all times actually broke Optimus down mentally and emotionally?" It makes IDW OP far more relatable. Instead of naturally being a perfect Christ-like figure who never wavers in his morals or convictions and is just naturally a nice person who always has the wisest and best answer, being a good person is something that IDW OP has to consciously strive to be. Even when he feels like it's useless, or the cycle of violence will never stop, or any attempts he makes to help only ends up with things becoming worse.

And I feel like this does a service not only to IDW Optimus as a character, but also as a sort of moral/philosophical perspective for the reader to ponder upon? I feel like culture at large (or at least my experience of it) tends to believe that "goodness" in a person is simply an innate feature that people are born/not born with, and that being "good" means that you must be good at all times, both in your actions as well as the way you feel emotionally about yourself and the world. Like, there's a tendency for our vision of "a good person" to be good in every aspect at all times without having to try to be a good person. So I think IDW Optimus' character stands as a good example of how someone can be good at heart but still struggle to maintain those feelings of optimism and hope and justice. It's a good idea to have such a paragon of a character (in-universe and out-of-universe) be so conflicted and to even be mistaken, misguided, or make things worse because it shows that goodness is as much about "trying to behave/act in a way that is good" and not just "existing as an innately good person."

It's way more realistic for a person to want to be good, try to be good, and sometimes/often fail than it is for them to just be a good person. I enjoy the fact that IDW Optimus is both a good person at heart, but also has to strive to be a good person and live up to other people's expectations of what they see in him. I like how he wants to be a good person and change society for the better, but he also spends a good amount of time either feeling hopeless and alone or being angry at/detached from other people because of how frustrated they make him. He's realistically portrayed as someone who wants to be good and hopeful and change things for the better, but is also mentally and emotionally broken by that burden because of how impossible it is for him to Fix Everything and be the Perfect Prime/Leader/Autobot that people see him as. It's this fascinating mixture of "yes, this is who he is as a person" but also "there are things he desires to be that he could never possibly become or live up to."

This got really far off based from feral/unhinged Optimus sdklfjaslkdlfkas. The TLDR is that if people want unhinged OP, I feel like they should give IDW OP a chance because he IS unhinged but he's unhinged in a way that's a realistic/thematic representation of how being an Absolute Good is impossible. And how being a good person isn't just about Existing And You Are A Good Person, but rather goodness is a constant state of flux in which you adjust, you make mistakes, you lose your temper and feel hopeless, but then you pick yourself up and try again.

Also IDW OP really likes climbing in dangerous wilderness and jumping out of flying vehicles which I think is very feral and sexy of him to do.

[neptunes-saddest-alien]

I can’t even describe how tired I am of being here

[i-eat-mold]

Oh, tv-static-brained-one, share with us, the povished poor, a grain, a morsel, a spec of dust of your static-y wisdom

sometimes you’re 17 eating salad off a huge bowl on your bedroom floor at 3:27AM, keeping a snail terrarium on your desk because you really just wanted a friend, then letting them back into the grass because you can’t stand the thought of staining them with the black sticky liquid in your palms. sometimes you’re 16 and taking a walk by yourself when spring finally comes around, and you notice that the flowers are really pretty even though you haven’t really felt like life is good in a long time. sometimes you’re 7 and you’re looking for Rollie pollies under the scorching summer sun and nothing bad has ever happened to you. sometimes you’re 13 and the loneliest you’ve ever been, and sometimes you’re 18 and you think that maybe loneliness isn’t that bad, but boy would it be nice to be held. Sometimes you are riding on the back of an ambulance under the strangely comforting Moroccan night sky and you feel empty, but emptiness is still time spent on this earth. not one state on your soul is the definition of your being, which is to say, i really haven’t been sleeping so well, which is to say that im sick of not wanting to live. which is to say, im gonna go out there and bake a cake and watch minecraft gameplays, and maybe you should too.

[lemongogo]

can i ask.how u guys practice ur creativity <3 how u practice ur imagination or like.. how u experiment with ur art, how u come to ideas and how u develop them.<3 pretty please <3

[phagodyke]

the masculine urge to take a saucepan off thr draining board and bash myself repeatedly over the head with it until I pass out and no longer have to experience feeling Bad 😍

[malwaresilly]

Im totally not plotting a gift drawing (sorta) for @static-x3

:3

:333

[emotionally-charged-arson]

Transitus Comic Studies

These were meant to be colored but alas. Faulty art supplies. Still like these sketches though! They’re lifted from the OG comic book. The idea was to only use direct poses and scenes from the source material and try to infuse some more productive character design into them.

Focus on status of a given character (and changes in it) and some stronger air of historical reference, kept as far away from my own personal head canons of the characters and their backstories as possible.

Really had fun with these. Great figure practice ✏️