#open road adventure

[theknitpotato]

Glacier National Park in Montana , USA!

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[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[insomniattic]

after burn.

[opendirectories]

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[asphaltdesign-blog]

Riding till dusk.

Credit: Glen Alejandro

[welcometomybraincomics]

Explicitly for human-cybertronain angst/panic potential, I've got this idea where a cybertronian who goes down due to a lack of recharge stays down for a while.

When they recharge regularly, a recharge cycle can be shorter than a human sleep cycle, but when they don't (like with humans), they pass out for significantly longer than that. Current estimates range from a week to nearly a month.

0 visible activity, 0 reaction to external stimuli, the only way a human can tell they're alive is that their spark is still humming and maybe the low-level buzz of internal mechanisms working.

Due to their long lifespans, this isn't really seen as much of an issue. They try not to do it while the war is going on (for obvious reasons), but it does happen in times of stress and busyness. When this happens and a mech feels the lack of recharge start to hit them, they'll generally hole up in a safe place to disappear for a while

Back to the human bit!

This was dreamed up for Frostbite and Whiplash who are traveling alone (aside from the kids) on a small spaceship. Simultaneously a great and terrible situation for this to happen in!

Whiplash, who is shit at self maintenance, passes the fuck out due to inattention, and Frostbite freaks. He thinks Whip is dead or dying or ill in some way

Whiplash, like the Decepticon he is, doesn't tell Frostbite, Rita, or Carlo shit about what's happening with him. He's not going to let them in on one of his weaknesses! He just passes out on his berth and leaves them to run around like headless chickens.

It isn't an issue initially, cybertronians can stay up significantly longer than humans (several days in a row), but things start getting concerning when Whiplash doesn't come out to refuel.

Knowing that Whip has a track record of forgetting to eat, Frostbite goes and knocks on Whip's door to remind him. One round of knocking. No answer. Two rounds of knocking. No answer. An entire symphony of knocks played to the tune of 5 random songs that floated through Frostbite's mind. No answer. That one should have really done the trick, Whiplash thinks it's annoying as hell when Frostbite does that.

Having done his due diligence, Frostbite recruits Rita to hack their way into Whiplash's room. Rita trips the lock, opens the door and - Ohmygod,he'sdead.

They find him unconscious on his berth and try to wake him to little success. They can just barely tell he's alive due to the whirr of internal his mechanisms (this takes a bit for them to notice bc they're on a small ship which means the sound of the engine drums through everything) and the occasional puff of his vents. He's just sitting there, unconscious, maybe in a comma? and if he dies like this they are soooooooo fucked bc no one but Whip can drive the ship (controls too large and also he refuses to teach them) and neither Frostbite or Rita are very good at Common yet (Carlo isn't factored into this equation bc he refuses to speak anything but his preferred chirp language unless it's an emergency)

There isn't even anywhere for them to do research about what's happening bc they're on Whiplash's personal ship and why the fuck would he store medical research in there? He's a fucking grunt soldier!

So Frostbite and co. panic search for the nearest space hospital and then the nearest space hospital that takes cybertronians which Frostbite fucking crash lands in front of bc Whiplash still hasn't taught Frosty how to pilot the ship (this happens several months into their space adventure and Frostbite has been nagging Whip to teach him that whole time) bc he treats it the way humans do their favored cars (Which fucking backfires on him, lmaooo) only for the doctors to tell them that Whiplash is perfectly fine, he's just catching up on sleep

The entire Rain family fucking wrings his neck for it when he wakes up. He gets an individual lecture from all of them. Rita's is angry, Frostbite's is concerned-angry, and Carlo's is just sad and worried (it's possibly the most effective. He cries and Whiplash has to deal with the fact that he made Carlo cry (or at least the closest he can get to it. He does this kicked puppy act every time Whiplash tries to defend himself))

[williammarksommer]

Vastness

California 

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[jmpphoto]

Open Road by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Open Road Mouse’s Tank Road Valley of Fire State Park Nevada February 2024

[faaun]

anyway this upcoming trip w my gf. will decide a lot i think

[insomniattic]

“Everything was quiet but the music”

-MM

[ghoulgogis]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The great home of the soul is the open road.

D.H. Lawrence

Françoise Hardy with Georges Moustaki, 1970.

[openroadmoto]

Should have video content coming soon.

[thecuddlymuffintop]

Tonight, at 7 pm CDT, I will be streaming Open Roads for Short Game Fridays over on YouTube.

You're always welcome to join me when I'm live with the above link.