#robots in heat

[valve3nthusiast]

*starts making up wild bullshit* What if... Soundwave is captured by the autobots, but physically being around someone the same frametype (Blaster) for the first time in millennia sends him into heat

Now he & Blaster are doing the world's most awkward metaphorical mating dance of "I really don't want to fuck that guy bc we're rivals" "...but the babies would be so cute though" while the rest of the autobots either watch on in horror, because the morals of fucking a prisoner are sketchy, or fascination, because this is like a nature documentary to them

[mothcpu]

entry for a halloween zine with friends!

[coastalmangoes]

that one gq heat stroke image

[nuefass]

Do you have more decepticons or autobots requests?

I’m drawing art requests if that’s what you’re asking. 🤭

here’s starscream in heat to keep you occupied, who would you like drawn?

[koodless]

Holiday/ winter themed scribbles (mostly fire/ fire types keeping everyone warm and Christmas) (late Christmas post sorry)

Happy holidays everyone!

[baconmayoman]

eaating bombds

[isfjmel-phleg]

January 2025 Books

Work by Louisa May Alcott

The first part of the book, which explores the protagonist's efforts to get by in various lines of work, caught my interest. But I was less invested in the second half, which was mostly a lot of pining and hero-worship. Alcott has interesting things to say, but the ending with its emphasis on the sisterhood/partnership of many different women doesn't feel as earned as it could be after chapters and chapters of swooning over Mr. Totally Not Thoreau.

Wormwood Abbey and Drake Hall by Christina Baehr

The premise of these is striking and I feel there's a middle-grade adventure novel in here about the protagonist's brother and younger cousins that is just dying to emerge.

A Clearer Sky by Krystal Bailey

A sequel to The Secret Garden ostensibly about the effects of WWI on the now grown-up Mary, Dickon, and Colin, but mostly concerned with a love triangle between them. It seems to be more influenced by the 1993 film than the original book; multiple features specific to the film come up, and the narrative contradicts the book multiple times and ignores or misinterprets important characters and relationships.

(For instance: Colin's obnoxiousness is exaggerated and made defining in order to emphasize Dickon's preferability as a romantic prospect, and the boys are not friends but openly hostile romantic rivals until Colin is safely interested in a woman who isn't Mary. Mrs. Sowerby is just an obstacle to Mary and Dickon's romance rather than a beloved mother figure, and she dies off-screen in passing, barely mourned. Martha and Dickon are the only Sowerby siblings. Dr. Craven is never mentioned and seems not to exist, since the long-tenured local doctor whom Mary goes to work for is an OC. Mrs. Medlock retires to spend time with her grandchildren, although it's implicit in the book that she is not a mother. Mary brushes off her parents' neglect by acknowledging to herself that it must be hard to have to deal with a child, especially one as "introspective" [???] as she was. Etc.)

There was potential in subplots like Mary's working for the local clinic and eventually going to London to work as a postal carrier, but ultimately the book's point is all the romance. I did not care for how this was portrayed--yes, I am very picky about this sort of thing, but I felt that the relationships between Mary / Dickon and Colin / Female OC were shallow, increasingly so as the book ended.

This was made more difficult because, despite the presence of an editor, this text badly needed editing for wordiness, excessive and poorly-used dialogue tags, injudicious overuse of adverbs, "off" word choices, preoccupation with facial tics, etc. Lack of historical research also stood out; although the author states in her note that she did research certain aspects of WWI but did not want this story to be a work of academic research, attention to basic details of daily life and social customs in England at this time would have better grounded the narrative in the setting it was attempting to portray without getting too "academic" about it.

For a novel that presented itself as a homage to the original story, it showed a lot less interest in interacting with and drawing from the story than it did in how soon the ship will kiss. And as someone who loves The Secret Garden for its friendships and themes and who has never particularly cared whom any of these kids got together with, I was disappointed.

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

A few interesting characters, but so much digression into social issues and satire and so. much. pining. for an incredibly mediocre man. The friendship between Caroline and Shirley felt more real, probably because Shirley apparently was inspired by Emily Bronte, who passed away before this book was completed.

Cousin Phillis and Other Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell

These are uneven for me. Some of them I liked well enough, others dragged, and others puzzled me more than anything. Whatever the case, though, Gaskell is always fantastic at characterization.

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Once again, I don't get why any of these people are romantically interested in the people they're interested in (which is a major part of everyone's motivations here). I see what Hawthorne is doing thematically, I think, and I respect it, but this isn't one I'll pick up again in a hurry. I'm still interested in trying some of his other works, though.

Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker (reread)

There's a whole middle-grade subgenre about young people finding some kind of healing or personal growth through engaging with a private place in nature, and maybe someday I'll hunt more down. This story was still good on the second read, although I wanted very badly to step in and help the kids with the religious misconceptions that follow them throughout the narrative. (They're planting a garden in the ruins of a demolished church. One of the kids knows practically nothing about Christianity; the other knows just enough to completely misunderstand it, and they never get to a point of deeper understanding but are left to arrive at their own disjointed conclusions.)

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (reread)

Still enjoying the reread of this series.

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

I expected to like this one, but not as much as I actually did! It reads like a screwball comedy crossed with scifi, westerns, and road trip comedies. It's so much fun. I never expected to find an alien that resembles a tumbleweed to be so ultimately endearing, the adventure and plot twists kept things interesting, and I actually liked this romance because it wasn't all-consuming, the characters developed an actual relationship over the course of the story, and it made sense for the genre(s). Definitely the best story I could have started the year off with.

Comics

Space Boy by Stephen McCranie (reread)

I need to reread this sometimes. This month was one of those times.

JSA Omnibus Vol. 1-2

Like a lot of team books, JSA 1999 tends to be more about action than character development, and a lot of the storylines didn't do much for me. But some of them did, like the time travel arc in which various JSA legacies have to go back in time to convince their predecessors not to give up on heroics. And Albert's rather heart-breaking descent into darkness and desire for redemption. And Rick's storyline about the one last hour he gets to spend with his dad and how that resolves. I need to finish the last twenty or so issues for completeness.

DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour Part One

Nice to have some context for this event that's so pivotal to the era of comics that I tend to read from! Not all of these issues made sense to me, since I'm not familiar with all these characters, but the ones that I have enough background for were interesting. I will definitely be getting Part Two when it's released (in part because it collects some issues featuring some of my particular people).

[valve3nthusiast]

Why can't I find any ratchlock heatfics where Deadlock is the one in heat 🤨

Guess I just have to use my imagination...

Starts as your standard "oh no! it looks like we're stranded on this ship together" sort of thing, but then Deadlock disappears into his room and Ratchet starts getting worried when he doesn't come out. Like yes, maaaaybe it's a little stupid for him to wonder why a dangerous decepticon isn't pestering him anymore but. It's concerning...

The minute he gets that locked door open, he's immediately hit by the EMF field of a mech already days into their heat. Deadlock is sitting on the berth, leaning against the wall, legs spread and trembling, with one hand shoved as far up his own valve as it can go

Thank Primus for medical overrides, Ratchet thinks when his spike doesn't pressurize. He's immediately trying to do doctor shit, making sure Deadlock isnt overheating and has enough fluids (and keeping a stranglehold on his professionality. this is a patient, and he is a medic. any feelings he has about this are irrelevant to the situation)

Deadlock is. too busy trying to grind his valve against Ratchets leg to refuse the energon he's being fed. But once he's not running nearly empty, he suddenly finds his vocalizer again... Ratchet almost wishes he hadn't

He makes it known that he would be perfectly happy if Ratchet were to help him through his heat. Loudly. With physical demonstrations for Ratchet's benefit. Ratchet is running through the numerous reasons he shouldn't fuck Deadlock, but they're getting less and less convincing...

Especially when he does things like guiding Ratchet's sensitive medic hands to his mouth and licking them sensually, or desperately fingering himself open and presenting his dripping valve to Ratchet, begging to be claimed... that's the one that finally gets Ratchet to break, grabbing Deadlock by the hips and sinking his spike into that beautiful, needy slit

Deadlock would be so pretty, whining and moaning under Ratchet, finally filled after days of being empty; his heat protocols go nuts, sending him into overload after overload. On his hands and knees, desperately begging for harder! harder! as Ratchet pounds into him and fills his tank with transfluid

Ratchet using his unreal medic stamina to tenderly fuck Deadlock for a week straight, until he's a happy, strutless puddle. Once Deadlock has had that thick spike, it would never leave his valve. Ratchet probably wakes up every morning to a purring Deadlock's legs wrapped around him, arrays still joined together and messy with transfluid from the previous night...

[xitsensunmoon]

I think the only thing that annoys me about dca's youtooz plushies is their bells.

Not the sound tho! But when cuddling them. If they're not under the blanket before you cuddle them the metal of the bells gets cold and unpleasant to touch when you're all cozy. It's so uncool and not romantic at all bitch take them off >:'(

[cr0ws-cha0t1c-c0llect10n]

wondering if i should liveblog my robo-baby experience for child dev……. it’s so so inchresting but i doubt i’ll even go online that much cause i just wanna hold the baby

[moonstonecanyon]

(August 2024.)

Hello fruity men <3

[mychlapci]

ratchet has really tame heats in his old age to the point where they barely register as anything more than a sudden yet manageable rise in libido. he doesn't really worry about it but once he and drift get together his system decides that it's time to fire on all cylinders and ratchet is a mess. he's drooling and crying and clinging to drift. he's never had a heat so strong before. his spark feels like it's about to give out, unable to handle all the overloads his body demands... he feels hot and wet and exhausted. drift finds it both cute and worrying.

[32bitterra]

i've noticed that the psychonauts fandom is so small, and more specifically so tight knit, that everybody kind of knows everybody. It's like we all live in a big cul-de-sac. I've even started compiling what seem to be household names in the fandom world.

People, usually artists, that are just there. In every mini-circle, in every server, in every "OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS/pos" convo.

all this to say: me and my friends love your art. it's amazing and you've had a very positive impact on the fandom (or at least a fandom server, which has enough people and inside jokes to be its own fandom at this point lmao)

I want to deeply thank you, your friends, and everyone who leaves very kind words on my artwork and in my inbox. I want you all to know that I keep those kind words rotating in my head like a rotisserie chicken, and that I go back to read them again and again. I am deeply grateful and very happy that my drawings are so well-liked. I often underestimate myself and the impact I have on others, and to read that I have had a great positive impact on something is mind-boggling (in a good way. It's a little hard to describe the feeling.)

It makes me very happy that I've brought joy just as other artists have brought joy to me with their drawings and writings. It's a great feeling, and I am very thankful. I like our little fandom. We're all holding hands and spinning around like that monkey gif.

[amayradraws]

Happy holidays, people of Tumblr!

May I present to you some goofy yet festive Megaman doodles

[myorinn]

Some Heatcrash? Crasheat? Fire crazy boys

[valve3nthusiast]

Imagine Soundwave entering heat and accidentally triggering every seeker rut cycle

Just Soundwave getting filled to the brim with transfluid over and over again. Reduced to a moaning mess, maybe the Seekers get competitive on who can fill him up the most. 🤭

In the end he ends up carrying triplets and the seekers take bets on whose it’s gonna be.

Soundwave getting dicked down by the entire air force 🥵

Trines in rut, violently fighting each other for the right to mount him next, while the current group passes him around like a cheap fragtoy. They couldn't find a way to get his mask off, so instead he's pinned between two seekers and taking both their spikes at once...

Depending on how long heats are, someone better have the mind to grab energon for poor Soundwave. He might spend days getting his valve filled with seeker spike, even long after his forge is completely stuffed with transfluid

Of course he gets heavy with seekerlets... and every potential sire is very happy to continue donating transfluid for the sparklings. After all, they say you can't really tell who's coding is dominant until the bitlets emerge :3c