#race planet

[skyfireflight-writes]

Find the Word

Tagged by @new-royston-cursebreakers

My words are eat, water, fun, pop, create, and thank.

From Letters from the Forest:

Eat

We trekked quite a bit further into this forest. We started not long after the sun rose, and didn’t even stop while we ate lunch. Adiel nearly forgot about eating altogether, so engrossed he was with sketching nearly every new thing he saw.

Water

I know you’re curious as to what we’ve found. Adiel and I have recorded various types of plants. The most notable one is a type of medicinal plant that we have used so often at home. What appeared to be that same plant in multiple locations on our journey turned out to be plants that were nearly identical, with only slight variations. The leaves – their shape and their pattern, were the same, yet on one, the leaves were waxy and shiny, while on another, though growing just a few feet away, had a flow of water coming up from the stem and over the leaves, dripping down from each leaf like an array of fountains arranged like a star. It was beautiful! The water, when it dripped from the pointed edge of the leaf, fell like a spherical gemstone, clear and glistening in the sun. You would have loved to see it. It was fascinating!

Thank

We’ve discovered and recorded a few new incredible plant species: one whose leaves rose from its stem to spiral around each other, taller than Adiel and me stacked atop each other. Adiel wanted to stand on my shoulders to see how tall it truly was and whether or not the top was sharp. I had to disagree to that; I am not a strong man, and my clothes are dirty enough without having muddy boot prints on my shoulders, thank you very much. Not to mention that if we had to run from a predator of some sort, having to get him down off my shoulders would just delay our escape.

From Race Planet:

Fun

“Arlan said that the city has tall buildings,” she said, raising her hand up, palm down, to indicate how tall, before dropping it against her thigh, “and that thousands of people live there.”

Nattil furrowed his eyebrows. “Thousands?” None of the known communities reached even a population of one thousand people.

“Yeah. Crazy, right? And how do they build all those tall buildings?” Talin had her knees up again, and was leaning back with her arms wrapped around her knees for support. “We have one. But that would take a lot of wood, to have so many, and to shelter so many people.”

Nattil hummed in agreement. “And how tall do you think those buildings are?” Honestly, Talin herself could not imagine any building being taller than the community’s storehouse; it was five floors high, and wider than it was tall. How wide would a taller building have to be? she wondered. But it was fun to let her imagination go wild.

Pop

The food was served – the usual rationed amounts that Talin knew was not enough to fill Nattil’s stomach. She scooted the full meat container closer to Nattil, and tensed when she opened it, the lid coming undone with a sharp pop!, wondering how her father would react.

It wasn’t the first time Talin had brought something home from Suzayne’s, but, as she scooped some of the meat insistently into Nattil’s bowl despite his protests, this was the first time she had made it so obvious.

“Where did that come from?” her father asked. His voice was not accusatory, just curious.

Create

Her thoughts turn as she gazed at the building, and she imagined forge workers manipulating metal, gathered from the caves to the west and beyond the storehouse, shaping and hammering it with their tools to create other tools and parts, including the motorcycle parts that Nattil liked to work with.

[cocoabell]

The snail in my ear whispered something to me and I listened

Just started watching fma:b and I'm having the best and worst time simultaneously

[neon-catarina]

ive had thoughts about this episode

[feketeribizli]

the type of vibes retired monty brings to the paddock

based on this pic of nico rosberg... continue pushing my lightning mcqueen is nico coded agenda 😁

my beautiful post here i just needed to have these side by side. by nico coded i firstly mean looks but i have a long list... dont ask tho i wouldnt be able to elaborate

[loverglittergift]

The Hobbit - Kili gives Tauriel his stone

Kotpota - Noa gives Mae his necklace

[thatneoncrisis]

crazy how barbie was simultaneously a really thoughtful and reflective movie about her legacy and how she can grow past it, a mid movie that just kind of parrots the most inoffensive introduction to feminism ass points about how its really hard to be a woman and all women on the planet have Definitely felt this specific emotion before, and a fun but brainless movie about the kens seizing power in barbieland bc they recognized their status as secondclass citizens and accessories which is resolved by placating them with a single seat in congress because women are obviously better equipped to lead. 6/10 movie

[ghastigiggles]

what if you were an alien princess and the sole survivor of your planet's ruthless destruction and in your loneliness you were slowly going insane so you build a robot wife and try to persist in denial but its ok because your robot wife is silly and cute dont think about it dont think ab

[starscream-is-my-wife]

In your nature documentary AU, just how wildly would Soundwave make the humans speculate on what is going On there? Depending on which cassette is seen first, several misunderstandings could arise.

Laserbeak gets seen first and it’s assumed that him and Soundwave are symbiotic because the bird can nest in that chest compartment and probably provides something they need to study further to find. Sure, but is that a CAT? Was it waiting to lure the bird? No, they seem to be getting along! Are those- are those straight up children? Between these two and Lil’ Yellow, are THEIR babies also smaller? Also if those two are being carried because they’re the big guy’s kids, then what’s the deal with the bird and cat?

But if they see the twins first then the animals and all of them “hunting” together, there’s the question of how animalistic the species is.

Haha I love those ideas! I'd like to think that Soundwave would probably be forced to be more diplomatic because of how much he and his cassettes are outnumbered with no backup, so while the cassettes won't harm the humans, Ravage and Laserbeak seem to be more competent at hiding themselves and following soundwaves orders of keeping peace then Frenzy and Rumble, who can't help themselves from messing with humans and getting caught first

Personally how I would have them appear is that strange fissures have been spotted in the forests even though these weren't the signs of a normal earthquake, the mystery was solved when Rumble got careless and was rumbling too close to the roads and the two of them got spotted.

They were so much smaller then Bee and must be younger so they didn't want to hurt them, alot were thinking 'damn these kids are causing alot of damage but they are kids' and 'if these kids also have giant robot parents who found out we hurt them we are dead'

Humans set a trap for them using energon borrowed from the 'good' bots and the twins got caught in a drop down cage, when the humans returned with Ratchet to show him, Laserbeak and Ravage had activated the back up traps trying to free them. Not only were there kids there were pets too?? This is when they hear footsteps and Soundwave appears from the forests. The humans take note on how Ratchet is very obviously on edge and putting himself in between them and the other robo family (?) when Soundwave recalls all of the cassettes into his chest. They transform through the bars and fly into his chest??

Z: 'They transform into cassettes??? I thought they can only transform into vehicles'

P: 'That means that the big one must be something that can play them... how strange, maybe its a different species that comes from the same family as our bots'

Ratchet talks to the other Robot the humans can only hear his Siren tuned rant about keeping his cassettes under control, the other bot speaks, it's the popular hit song barbie girl.

To Ratchet, Soundwave says that he will keep an closer eye on them and that they should work together to get off this planet. Ratchet says that they can talk about it later, Soundwave nods and walks off. The humans are like ??? Are you guys both moms???

Soundwave does have a more boxy figure then Ratchet but he's around the same size if not a little taller (Their only reference to a "male" is Orion who is just larger then average) so now they're theorizing if this new species reproduces asexually or doesn't have a family structure, the resemblance the twin cassettes have is way more noticeable then Bee and Angel, also the animals.. are they children? If they can transform into not just vehicles can they transform into other things? What if that tree is a robot? A small group of people are now paranoid of any technology. The main two humans want to see if the animals have a human form too and just choose to be animals. Are they pets? Are they also intelligent? How old are they? Can they speak? Is the dad an animal bot? Are they just a part of the bigger bot he's controlling wirelessly?? Is Bluebie (Blue Barbie) even female??

Soundwave does bring a wave of uncertainty about the all of bots to some the humans... like yeah they could be animalistic and dangerous! Where's the line! And if those things can cause THAT much damage to the town when they're that young, how much damage can a robot like Truck King do? Is their backup plan of using another truck to defeat him not enough? (It definitely isn't even the main two know that before but now the rest of the town does)

[shannonsketches]

I'm sure it's been discussed at length already but I think it's easy to assume saiyans are strong so their genes are dominant but I (like to) think it's the opposite. It's interesting to think that the ecological nature of a saiyan is stealthy and invasive, and according to Jaco a saiyan invasion was going to be extra dangerous to earth because they look like earthlings (and a lot of other human-like races in the db universe) and one baby saiyan will easily go completely undetected until it starts the extermination process.

so it actually makes a lot of sense to me that a saiyan hybrid would take more physical traits from a local species, while maintaining the potential to house a saiyan's strength and inborn power over ki (which I think due to the story following a group of people who use it is a thing we often forgotten is a super rare and dangerous ability in that universe, and inborn/instinctive to a select few very powerful races). Could also be a fun way to explain why their tails can detach and grow back, since that may be the only real Tell.

because like yeah gohan and goten look like goku but they also look like chichi ykwim? trunks and bulla look like bulma. pan looks like videl. thoughts i chew on.

I also just find parasitism a real good meaty horror concept to put in my little 'this is why everyone's afraid of saiyans' headcanon file along with 'can see in the dark, biologically strategic energy consumption, can go long periods without food or rest' and of course the canonical 'surprise monkey werewolf kaiju'

[sunnibits]

man I wish evolution wasn’t such a slow process over millions of years… like I wish that every 10 years or so every single species on planet earth would just get a huge patch notes update and scientists would publish about it so we could all get caught up on the new stuff. I wanna see the monkeys discover farming in my lifetime.

[mintytealfox]

Did she find a way to join Norton and his people cause of the horrid experiments done on her and she is the only success story (and had no memory of any of this till near the climax of this story) when she was young, or did he choose to join Alice and the humans, take a guess heh (I will give you a hint, there aint no way Norton would choose to live with the humans, they suck LOL)

from THAT au (peeps that don't know what THAT au is I am so sorry if you are confused lol) I am trying to explain in the tags pff

[nemhaine42]

07.03.25 | one of the little thoughtworms that wiggled its way into my brain was the fact that the only pto characters that visibly age from the way they lookin flashbacks are the saiyans - frieza, dodoria and zarbon don't change at all. there are no wrinkles, no scars or injuries, zarbon has the same clothing, jewellery and hair even in scenes that are twenty-five years before the plot.

what that tells us, of course, is that nobody is thinking about it that hard but me.

but that's boring, so i choose to think that it means on whatever space!australia zarbon is from, the life cycle is longer. they're all aliens, so there's no requirement for them to adhere to any human standard of anything. so to me it's totally reasonable that the quarter century it takes vegeta to go from tiny baby rage monster to tiny adult rage monster isn't even time enough for zarbon to consider buying new socks.

this was just a kind of haha silly thing in my head but then i was like 'oh. oh. this is part of what made saiyans so scary'. not just the zenkai boosts, the fact that any form of injury (including corporal punishment) that does not outright kill them makes them many times more powerful. but because they're already an adult and may have had time to have children or even grandchildren by the time you've worked out that any one individual may pose a threat. in the blink of an eye they go from babies to hyper effective predators.

[polls-everyday]

Pick a show I love!

Dragons: Race To The Edge 🐉

The Good Place 👼

Death Note 🍎

She-Ra 2018 👑

Our Planet 🌍

Cunk On Earth ❓️

One Day At A Time 🇨🇺

Never seen any of these

[boarfeathers]

Apetober day 14!

MagicalPouch’s 100 faces meme, 10H

Bonobos.

[lost-time-716]

Little sketch dump.

[gutterclan]

🌙 Heavy or light sleeper, what are their dreams like? and 🙀What do they fear the most? for Gutterrat and Longpaw please?

ty for the ask anon! someone get gutterrat a redbull.