#realitysperception

[dimorphodon-x]

A few days ago I had a very vivid dream where I was a dragon like creature in a cave, watching myself talk to some farmers intruding on the cave like a third person video game cinematic where you can control the character.

Thing is, I don't who who or what it was trying to be, but it was definitely something of your design. In terms of colours and style the creature was like a mix of Studio Ghibli black body but with The Last Guardian grey/green scaled legs. Rough sketched it out in the morning in a cold sweat, can only remember the one voice line too.

Dunno, thought you might find it interesting.

Huh

[altraviolet]

Tick or treat!

And

Happy Halloween!

thank you!! Happy Halloween!!

treat: unexpected Spinister holoavatar

[heliopauseentertainments]

Heya, for the ask meme I was wondering about #25? Spector wants know about #24?

We both hope the migraine goes away soon!

Thank you both; you're very kind.

24. how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

I mentioned it somewhat in this ask, but sure I've got other outlets.

One of the other things I like to do when I'm not feeling creative is embroidery. I taught myself cross stitch (via kits but now I can work directly from patterns) and now I'm teaching myself more traditional embroidery (also via kits). Unfortunately, I don't know if the style has a name. It's the kind where you make satin stitches.

I'm working my way up so that I attempt other styles like blackwork and goldwork.

Embroidery is helping me develop fine motor skills, because, I have to be honest with you, I'm a clumsy bastard.

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

Excluding video games and embroidery, I quite like cooking.

Am I good at it? I don't think so but people love eating my food, so I clearly did something right.

I chiefly make American and Ashkenazi foods, but I like learning to make foods from other cuisines (especially anything spicy) so I know a smattering of other dishes as well along with experimenting with vegan/vegetarian alternative ingredients in addition to regular meat and dairy.

[bitegore]

Yo, last night I watched the g1(g2? idk) episode "The Burden Hardest to Bear" and in it Dead End and Wild Rider find the matrix and pick it up. I immediately thought of you and I really want to know your thoughts on one of the Stunticons becoming Sick-tricktimus Prime or something. The chaos

jaaHJFhsdfjdHFDHDSFHDHFDFDHFDHFDSHj okay im gonna have to put that episode on my docket I guess.

Anyway my #hot take or whatever is that none of the Stunticons are capable of being Sicktrickimus Prime because they'd be too busy sucking and being self-fulfilling prophecies of some sort or another. Breakdown would be a lot like Sentinel Prime IDW I think, he has the right issues for it. Motormaster is Motormaster and someone would have him assassinated within two weeks. Wildrider .... actually he'd be fine, he'd blow all of the Primacy's money on stupid shit and then vanish off on a weird random planet and be remembered as a folktale a la Robin Hood or something. Drag Strip also turns into a paranoid warlike asshole who gets himself killed as deserved but he's more pompous about it. And Dead End would lock himself up in a very tall tower somewhere and sigh longingly out the window constantly like the insufferable goth he is instead of, like, doing Prime shit. and then someone would come try to assassinate him but he'd make it so fucking weird that they would not succeed and they'd just take the matrix and run.

it'd suck. it'd be funny. it'd be a terrible downward spiral. i would love to see it.

[random-kido]

@realitysperception 👀

You don't sayyyyyyy

Any chance you might be able to send it my way? 👉👈

[dimorphodon-x]

Are we sharing jokes now? I have one from a fridge magnet that made an entire classroom yell at me.

I guess??? Not sure why, and I kinda feel like a jerk by not laughing at any of em so far💀

But that’s a pun I could see my dad make lol

Actually I think he did make that joke once

[heliopauseentertainments]

Oregano & Melted Lentils Incident that cost me my oregano privileges

Okay, I'm curious. What did you do? How does one lose a herb privilege?

Oh joy. I committed so many food crimes in the course of this Incident. Many lessons were learned and fucking up is how you learn to do it right.

About.... 5-6 years or so ago, I was first learning how to cook lentils (spoiler: I did not know how to do it right). I had a really delicious spicy lentil soup at a friend's place recently and I, in my youthful hubris, thought "Surely, I can replicate this tasty, tasty soup without a recipe."

So, instead cooking anything normally, I pulled out my giant crockpot and added two bags of dried lentils (green and red). I added my broth. I added some diced celery and potatoes. I added salt (thinking that lentils would absorb it like potatoes tend to so I would need more). I added dried pepper flakes. I added garlic and onion powder and a little onion oil. I probably also added other things but I don't remember anymore.

Then I remembered I had this giant bag of dried oregano I had been given by my mother-in-law in another, unrelated Oregano Incident, and decided to put some into my nascent soup.

I pulled out the baggie.

I stuck my hand in.

And put three palmfuls of oregano into the soup.

And then I let my unknowingly cursed soup sit for three-four hours until my better half came home from work.

It was a melted sludge of overcooked lentils....

So, it turns out... I can't taste oregano. I can smell it; I love the smell of it, but I can't actually taste it. I never noticed that it was supposed to, uh, have a taste and thought it was for smell only.

When I ate the sludge, I just went "aw, it's melted and too salty, damn" whereas my spouse was suffering under the overwhelming taste of pizza smell made manifest.

Now @tangentially-displaced won't let me add oregano to anything by hand when I'm cooking. I have to take the baggie of oregano (yes, it's the same baggie - MIL gave us a hilarious amount of oregano when we got married) to them and they portion it out for me, which I then add to the dish.

It's only fair after what I did.

I didn't even remotely replicate the original soup.

[huanted-dennys]

this has happened so many times

@realitysperception

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@realitysperception THANK YOU FOR THE HELP 

your lad was so fun to draw :D

[dimorphodon-x]

Trick or treat! And Happy Halloween!

[heliopauseentertainments]

Happy Halloween friend!

Thank you! 💜

[huanted-dennys]

Rule: Tag 10 people you want to get to know better

Tagged by @novafire-is-thinking yooooo hi :3

Relationship status: single (aroace)

Favourite colour: greeeeeeen

Something I want right now: moneY! i want to go to school for engineering but i don’t have the money for it + didn’t do too well in high school so i’m waiting out the college system >:3

Song stuck in my head: tek it by cafuné

Three favourite foods: pierogies (homemade & frozen fight me) grinders (italian, tuna legit anything) and hot cheetos

Last song I listened to: devil’s Advocate by the Neighbourhood 

Last thing I googled: “f1 schedule” sorry it’s not that interesting UnU

Dream trip: a road trip with friends, specifically too somewhere where there’s little to no light pollution so i can see the stars, i know it’s not the coolest but i like being able to see the night sky and i don’t get to do it as much, and i can camp there :)

If you had the opportunity to [safely] become a cyborg via body upgrades, would you take it? depends on why but in general yeah, i wish the leave the horrors of my meat suit behind

tags (sorry if u were already tagged or didn’t want to be): @realitysperception @kapuchino357 @uniquehoundzineoperator @whatudottu @noodleblade @wumboskywarp @cosmic0de @k4r4ss @yasbeych @glamatron3000

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[heliossecretdeskdrawer]

Heyo, for the plot summary thing Spector_author had this idea and she wanted me to share it with you:

For combiners, Gestalt coding is supposed to look out and protect the gestalt itself, going as far as to subconsciously influence members to get along or in the extreme cut out members who destabilize the bond.

The Stunticon coding starts realizing Motormaster is harming the gestalt and starts looking for possible new members in both factions. Shenanigans.

Sounds neat if you'd like to take a stab at it.

I wish you would write a fic where…

I dunno that this particular exploratory snippet ended up necessarily adult, but it was a fun idea to play with and since it was over on this particular sideblog, I figured why not go at least a bit dark. Tell Spector_author hi, btw!

I didn't get to the shenanigan-based searching part in this longish snippet, but that could be fun in a longer piece, especially with a different mood.

Content warning: implied murder

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Four pairs of red optics glowed in the dark room of the recharge quarters the Stunticons were assigned.

Menasor had been... troubled for some time now.

Most of his components knew that.

Except for one.

The one that sowed the bulk of the discord.

Motormaster, sleeping calmly on his preferred slab in their shared barracks, terrorized them all.

Menasor had always struggled to keep his emotions under control, but Motormaster was the worst contributor to the disharmony of the whole. The other components obeyed him only out of fear for violent cruelty. The fear that echoed through Menasor's combined processors whenever he was whole had become too much strain to bear.

The main obstacle to... solving the problem was that Menasor, as a cohesive thought, a complete being, only existed briefly, whenever all of his components were combined. When the pieces separated, he didn't exactly... cease to be, but he slept and dreamed.

Five separate dreams, in which he whispered to the shattered pieces of himself.

It was just that one of the pieces had stopped... belonging, like a familiar limb that no longer felt right, a necrotic limb ready for amputation.

The dreaming, however, was the only way he could isolate his components.

Drag Strip. Wildrider. Dead End. Breakdown.

All given the whispers of the gestalt, all pieces of Menasor acting at his behest to protect himself, to protect them all, knew exactly what had to be done. They would have been too afraid alone, separate, without Menasor to unite them and remind them of their strength in numbers.

Knives in hand, it would be a simple task between the four of them.

Menasor could find a new component. He and his pieces would grieve the loss of a portion of themselves and then crave the understanding of combining again. They would find someone who could fill the void and if they could not, perhaps, the void would be better than the terror.

[equivocaleternity]

Heya, my friend Spector_Author likes your works but she's a little shy. She was wondering about Deadlock/Mirage with "Hide and Seek"?

Mirage wasn’t just good at what he did, he was the best. He was untraceable, untrackable, a shadow, a ghost, and it wouldn’t matter if that Primus forsaken excuse of a sniper didn’t stop covering the entire fragging room with blaster fire, that was cheating. How in the name of the Guiding Hand had he not run out of ammo yet?

[dimorphodon-x]

Happy Halloween Friends! May your night be spooky!

Happy Halloween 🎃 :>

[novafire-is-thinking]

IT’S HAPPENING

Transformers Prime x Tron Legacy AU

World-building and General Plot

>Enter The Grid

The first server created was called ‘Cybertron’ it is where all programs where created. Specifics on creation varies based on who you ask, but usually follows the consensus that the spark for all programs originated from another being that came from ‘The Portal���. An ancient ruin standing at the very center of Cybertron.

Centuries of civil war between the factions ‘The Autobots’ and ‘The Decepticons’ has severely damaged and degraded the home server of ‘Cybertron’ forcing those that remain to find refugee in its sub servers, outskirts or other servers entirely.

>Programs

Programs are beings created in The Grid. It has been many centuries since a new program has been created, as the home server of ‘Cybertron’ is to damaged to produce new life. All programs have an identity disk which can display their very code and is the means for which a program can scan and transform into an alternative mode. A program is limited to two modes, their base mode and their alternative mode (although tales have been told about programs having more than two modes).

>Users

Tales have it that once beings from another world accessed through The Portal’ roamed The Grid. They were called ‘Users’ and they seemed to have the ability to alter The Grid. Belief in the existence of ‘Users’ ranges from Program to Program but all that might change when three humans children stumble upon an abandoned arcade. . .

Inspired by this post: https://www.tumblr.com/novafire-is-thinking/712357143215505408/cybertron-legacy-soundwave by @novafire-is-thinking