#small carriers

[artisticdivasworld]

Preventing Distracted Driving for Truckers

Let’s talk about something serious today—distracted driving. We all know the roads can be unpredictable, and when you’re hauling 80,000 pounds of freight, every second counts. So let’s get real about the hidden dangers out there and how distracted driving could be putting you, and everyone else, at risk. What Is Distracted Driving, Really? You’ve probably heard this term a million times, but…

[archiepelago]

would you kiss a hagfish on it’s whimsical little forehead.

[demi-pixellated]

Elves of Nalur

[system-architect]

other ppl making gw2 oc writing/fan lore: this is what my cast of characters did during the events of soto :D

me doing this shit: ive put a fair amount of thought into asuran vehicles and city infrastructure for the explicit purpose of inventing the equivalent of a trailer park in metrica province so that some of my ocs can be neighbors in it

[witchofthesouls]

Could you give us a guide on how bots reproduce with each other? And how things would vary with a human partner?

A variety of ways, but this will focus on sexual reproduction specifically, so:

Cybertronian-Cybertronian

The most common method is the sparklet transfer. This happens when two or more mecha consistently share sparks to splinter off an orb that will eventually form a stable sparklet.

A popular method as there's no mess associated with sticky reproduction.

Doesn't require the carrier to have a gestational chamber or reproductive hardware.

If the carrier lacks a dense spark, then they'll need other mecha's spark energy to ensure the orb will remain stable and their own spark doesn't gutter trying to feed it.

This requires the carrier to have medical intervention as the sparklet will need to be 'snipped' off to transfer to lab-derived sentio metallico to build their frame or in the Newspark Intensive Care and Recovery Unit (NICRU) to keep a close observation for any rejection between a sparklet and a chosen proto-frame.

If the sparklet isn't taken away, the draw would overwhelm the carrier as the sparklet wouldn't receive the code to descend down to build their frame. Instead, keep drawing on more energy until death from spark burnout and chamber calcification occurs.

This is the stage where other mechs that aren't the ignitor can influence the upcoming sparkling and pass on their own code. Enough effort and a third party can completely overwrite the ignitor.

Carriage (or in some circles, true or full carriage) is the specific method where a gestational chamber is used to bring a newspark to term.

The first phase is the same as the sparklet method, and should the carrier have a functional gestational chamber and reproductive hardware, then a matured sparklet will receive a code to immediately snap away from the carrier's spark to descend down through a specialized funnel to stay in the gestational chamber.

With carriage, the carrier uses their valve to take in transfluid to provide construction materials and nanites for the sparklet to use.

Once the sparklet descends, the outside party influence is minimal. Donors can give transfluid without passing direct code to the sparkling.

Heats can occur as a latch-ditch attempt for the carrier to call for donors as their frame can't sufficiently support the carriage.

An active gestational chamber will expand over the course of the newspark's development.

Emergence is similar to a human. Chamber will shift downward, and newspark is born head-first via contractions through the valve (or the primary valve should the carrier have two valves).

Cybertronian-Human

It's all carriage method. However, a very specific kind:

A very rare phenomenon where all stages of sparklet formation takes place in the gestional chamber.

Highly dangerous as the orb still requires energy to feed itself, so it pulls on the peripheral tendrils on their carrier and feeds on the residual energy from transfluid.

An incredibly high-risk carriage in Cybertronians as the danger lurks where the sparklet doesn't receive the code to detach itself from the carrier's spark.

Plus coding and priority tree complications in the carrier as their frame doesn't realize they're carrying.

Human pregnancy doesn't run that risk since they don't have sparks.

In a human carrier, the orb forms in the uterus and nourishes itself via transfluid and the ambient energy from the carrier's bioelectricity.

When the orb matures to a sparklet, it deploys connective tendrils to funnel nutrition to it. The tendrils attach to the womb and cause nanites to create zones of platelets in the organ to efficiently gather materials from their carrier's body and sire(s)' transfluid.

Cybertronian sires will be more defensive over a human carrier since donors can influence the carriage. However, it's a short-lived state as a human carriage happens at an accelerated pace compared in a Cybertronian carrier.

Far more common for a human female to be a carrier than a human male to sire, but should a human male manage the far-fetched odds on siring upon a Cybertronian with a functional gestational chamber, then the couple would require a third to act as a donor to keep up with the development as the Cybertronian carrier can not rely on supplemental infusions in this kind of carriage.

[chaotic-ace-arts]

🦇🖤Time to sew it all down now ^-^🖤🦇

💀We're on day 7 of this project...my fingers hurt. Might make a Pomni or Kinger sweater for vinted💀

[tadc-funfair-au]

GUMMY REF SHEET

{🎭Side character sheet and sprite🎭}

[numberonetribble]

Stuck at my mom's house until the 27th, can't finish the comic I was working on until then :( here's a rough Cowboy!pinup sketch of Bumblebee and some Breakbee + Piston angst:

[blackbeardsheartbreak]

My Actual Career:

Reclaiming The Words That Were Taken By Colonizers

for fun:

“You wrote me a lovely letter”

is the exact same word as

“you tattooed something on me”

because our language is event-based (verb-based to you). we say “you wrote a lovely something to me”; we would only add that it was a letter for clarification.

word structure:

you-lovely-writing-for/to/at/on-me

my very favorite tidbit:

the root word for tattoo always contains the adjective lovely - a tattoo is always a lovely writing because language is where ancestral knowledge hides to survive

[artisticdivasworld]

How to Earn Trust and Get Better Loads: Tips for New Truckers

Here is the sixth part in our series to help new truckers start off on a positive footing. We hope you are finding the information in these posts useful and that we are enabling our newest truckers to be successful in their businesses. When you’re new to trucking, one of the most important—and sometimes most challenging—parts of the job is building strong relationships with brokers and shippers.…

[existentialcutiepatootie]

The longest drawing without breaks I’ve been able to do so far. My hand stamina is healing!

Is it 2 cocky pigeons? Yes

Did I add the rainbow filter because I didn’t feel like actually lightening the original picture or turning on a light? Also yes

Do I care? No

But I have now caught a cold. Winter is rough so far

[werebutch]

Lynx’s sore hocks are starting so i have to soak his paws again NOOOOOOOO it makes him very sad

[akatix]

Ahn The Messenger

If you recognize this kiddo of mine you qualify for a seniors discount!  A friend of mine challenged me to write a short story for an anthology thing, and this kid popped in my brain as a potential subject. Naturally instead of writing, I sketched up an update for her design (original was from 2015! can be seen in her TH still lol https://toyhou.se/10068193.ahnah) Ahnah the messenger 💌 Now maybe my brain will let me attempt to write the thing. 

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[seth-the-giggle-fish]

Trying to knit through the ghost section on my haunted house cowl tonight, I need to finish it soon so I have the needles free for a hat commission later this month.

Tomorrow I work again, but before that I want to make sure that I have time to plot out my work time for making a thermal casserole dish carrier as a gift for a friend.

one of these days I should post my full list of cosplays I want to make so you can all see how out of control I am over wanting to make things lol

[spacenintendogs]

CRICKET JS GOING TO BE OKAY!!!

[enraged-honey-badger-77]

some Cherik fanart, oh my!