#the jazz bastards

[normal-enderman]

OK GUYS LISTEN IM GOING FULLY MASK OFF ABOUT CHIP X JASMINE DRAKE I LOVE THIS SHIP AND HOW IT INFLUENCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF FISH AND CHIPS

LISTEN TO MY UNHINGED RANTINGS ABOUT WHY ITS GOOD AND MAKES SENSE

(THIS IS MOSTLY ANOTHER CHIP INTERNALISED HOMOPHOBIA CHARACTER ANALYSIS I'LL BE HONEST)

(ALSO I HAVENT FINISHED RIPTIDE YET SO IF JASMINE TURNS OUT TO BE EVIL WHOOPS I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I JUST SAID)

OK LISTEN so Chip has internalised homophobia, as I have previously established. I also, like many, ascribe to the popular interpretation that he has not-straight feelings towards Gillion. And it's really interesting how we can track how these feelings develop as the series progesses.

Chip starts off by freaking out the merest implication of something gay, but he gradually starts getting more comfortable around Gillion, and these reactions decrease. There starts to be more descriptions from Bizly of Chip being physically affectionate towards Gillion, putting his arm around him, leaning on him ect.

Which leads to their encounter with Jasmine... (from here on out we enter the realm of intense headcannoning and nebulous connection to canoncial events, just warning you)

What's SO AWESOME AND INTERESTING AND EXCITING about Chip's interactions with Jazz is that HE DOESNT FREAK OUT when Jazz flirts with him in an extremely forward way, and Chip almost seems surprised by how unbothered his own reactions are. It's like he's had all this time to gradually become accustomed to the potentiality of something gay possibly existing between him and Gillion. In a way, his relationship with Gillion was a safe avenue through which to explore his feelings, since Gillion never made any moves on him, and therefore, never made Chip feel threatened or under pressure to make a decision about how he felt. Chip had all that time to basically think "ok, OBVIOUSLY IM NOT GAY FOR GILLION THATS RIDICULOUS HAHA. what if I was though. What would happen. Would everyone hate me and i would die" and gradually explore the possibilty at his own pace.

Which leads to meeting Jazz, and suddenly being confronted with something extremely gay and explicitly directed at him, and.... he finds it's actually not that bad. It's ok. It’s not scary. He doesn’t feel threatened. What would have elicited a violent reaction from him before he met Gillion is no longer scary, because he's had time to think about it and come to terms with it before that point.

So I like to imagine that Chip ends up having a fling with Jazz, because he decides he's got to figure out how he really feels once and for all, one way or another. And unlike with Gillion, who he deeply cares about and loves as a friend and is terrified of misstepping with, Jazz is just some guy who thinks he's hot and is dtf, so Chip isn't as scared of experimenting with Jazz, since the worst outcome if things go catastrophically wrong is Chip has to jump out the nearest window and run away and just make sure to avoid the Jazz Pirates for the rest of his life.

After this fling, he pretty much is able to come to the decision that "ok. maybe i do like men. in which case oh my god these feelings for Gillion are actually a real thing that I have to deal with and can't just ignore" and he starts gradually, very slowly, expressing his feelings for Gillion more honestly, which leads to the iconic "babygirl/babyboy" moment in Zero, which was Chip extremely awkwardly trying to establish new ground in their relationship (though it's uncertain how effective it was considering Gillion's lack of understanding of Overseas culture. Oh well. Our boy tried.)

[rpfisfine]

drunk alex singing can't help falling in love

[flowersandbirdsflyingfree]

The Postal Dude would start a podcast called “Here’s What Busts My Balls” where he rants about all the things that piss him off for hours

[that-glitter-chick]

Day three of Autobot Jazz Week 2024!

Today’s prompts were Secrets/Street Urchin

The song I chose was ‘He gets that from me.’ By Reba McEntire.

I decided to set this piece in the Bayverse because I’ve never attempted drawing in that style before, I love how it came out but half way through I was mad at myself lol! So much details in hyperrealism! So here’s baby Bumblebee and his Uncle Jazz. If you want to know more than that, please feel free to read chapter three of the fanfiction linked below. 🩷

[the-bastards-of-forestland-comic]

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[linuxealcipher]

Heheheheh it’s time

Meet, Jazz Band Eclipse

More information about them under the cut!

This au is my new obsession

Here Eclipse is a professional musician more towards the beginning of the jazz era. He use to professionally perform in traditional orchestra but found far more love in jazz. He ended up joining and getting a gig due to Sun and moon inviting them. Sun and Moon at this point are already well known and loved jazz musicians, sun usually on trumpet and Moon on piano (they have their own art coming soon).

During the gig Eclipse absolutely falls in love with the vibe and feel of the music and the room, deciding that they would stay as a jazz musician. Slowly they gain fame, getting invited more and more. And they start to notice they are getting fans, constantly following and asking them questions. They didn’t like the constant questions and eyes, deciding to take a break.

For years they stayed under the radar before sun and moon begged them to do another gig with them. They agree, going to the gig. I have more written but I’ll share more of it later!

Here’s an edit without all the lighting!

They He has a Opal gem on their bow tie that Sun and Moon got them

[amuhav]

[  𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢  𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜  |  𝚓𝚊𝚍𝚎  ]

@lazysunjade

HAH! I finished this a whole day early, FITE ME ผ(•̀_•́ผ)

what can I say that I don’t say every birthday lmao. “this art is art”, “I don’t know how we’re friends cos you’re so cool”, “you’re an eternal source of inspiration”, “you make this place worthwhile”, yada yada yada, YOU KNOW THE DRILL. *robot emoting noises* *is totally not speed typing this 15 minutes before midnight*

ANYWAY. happy birthday Cool Friend™. now. POST MORE COTS :pepgun:

[mysticcomfort]

Welp

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

MiqoMarch'24, Day #7: - light -

A bit of a different take on this prompt, today is all about sin eater D'nyr from the point of view of an alternate timeline where he really did become a Lightwarden!

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀- observations log. 1/5/XX, day.?? - ……..thus the creature was bestowed the title of Forgiven Temperance by its former allies, following the meaning of self-sacrifice and asceticism; excessive restraint/repression of one’s self for others benefit. At his core, one can suppose that this was both his fatal flaw and driving virtue! The poor soul… To date, nobody knows for sure what the beast fully looks like, not even those who fled the site of its transformation at the depths of The Tempest! It has scarcely budged from its initial location a few moons ago… obvious logistical reasoning aside, only a scant few exploration teams have had the wherewithal to venture down there past the safety of the Ondo's dwellings. Reports have led us to believe that the creature is covered in sharp spines and has monstrously large "claw-hands" (as it was described), or possibly some sort of scorpion-like tail as well? Its profile is unclear and hard to make out in the murk from such a distance, but one thing is unanimously clear; all of our teams have fled after seeing what they claimed to be "horrifying gold eyes" staring back at them! Yet the beast has not once given chase upon sighting our researchers, which is just as unsettling as it is perplexing… Due to the unique constraints inherent to its location, we are at present unable to cull the Lightwarden and return the night to the region of Kholusia. Mercifully, its light has not pierced anywhere else due to the sheer distance from the water's surface acting as a convenient attenuating filter, but one could surmise that if the beast were to emerge then all of Norvrandt would be under light pall again… its effect on the populace is quite clear: residents have responded with equal levels of fear and also apathy to this situation, as while some are content to live their lives as they had been before (with the beast effectively "out of sight and out of mind" and therefore not a problem), others are starting to become fearful of the ocean entirely (a complicated notion, due to their relative proximity at all times to it)! Disquieting rumors have started to spread amongst fishermen and sailors alike, that if you venture too close to the ocean you'll be dragged under by the Lightwarden, never to be seen again… though one would hope most people would question how bogus this sounds-- if you'll excuse me interjecting my own personal opinion... at this juncture I simply cannot see the Lightwarden ascending from the briny deep just to prey on hapless passersby when it has showed absolutely no inclination towards moving from even just one single spot-- it has nonetheless had a noticeable impact on the region's imports and exports of fish, so now we must find an effective way to quell the people's terror to rectify the economic impacts alongside dealing with the creature too………..

------ (as a bonus, have the rough draft of his Lightwarden trial encounter under the cut! because I am sad it will never get to see the light of day otherwise and I was proud of the concept years ago lmao)

CONCEPT: . Overall theme is “the breaking down of appearances to reveal what was always there, but hidden away”-- stage and boss both change per phase to reflect this, going from a more idealistic “this is what the WoL as a sin-eater would look and fight like” to a “ohhh god what is that that’s not the WoL anymore” . Mechanics are based around D’nyr’s repressed feelings towards others (loneliness, anger/the need to lash out sometimes, not always saying how he feels, his dislike of others putting him on a pedestal, etc.) and the world at large (eg. the fragility of life, futility of some things, etc.) and his unfulfilled hopes and wants (to live unfettered by responsibility to the world, to settle down with a family of his own someday, etc.)

PHASE 1: . Certain mechanics grant a stacking buff to the boss (Fervent Denial), which is necessary to progress the fight! These mechanics have an interrupt bar and represent the feelings and things that D’nyr has repressed-- if the cast is interrupted, the buff will not be given, increasing the flat % of damage taken from the ultimate attack at the end of the next phase [it's calculated based on the damage dealt to the boss in the first phase (% thresholds that indicate how much it weakens the overall ult damage by), as well as the actual phase progress bar (below 80% is no extra damage, at 80-90% it is +3% extra damage, 90-99% an 5% extra damage, and 100% a flat wipe)] . In a meta sense, the only way to put him down for good is to damage him when he is at his most vulnerable (ie, his final form), and the only way to get him to show that is to let him go berserk and not deny him the things he’s been disallowing himself all this time-- as D’nyr at his core would never allow himself these actions, it causes a “breakdown” of the mask (literally, the bosses’ one too [he has a blank slate mask with a golden kintsugi X like D'nyr's scar, for context]) and internal walls holding him back, fracturing his perceived sense of self and causing him to shift into a form that represents all of these denied things, which is what truly needs to be destroyed/purified! . Normal mode has 7 chances to grant Fervent Denial giving some leeway for mistakes (the buff stacks cap at 5 however, so it is not possible to get 7 stacks despite there being opportunities to do so), but Extreme only has the exact 5 chances needed to progress! If players have not let the boss reach at least 5 stacks by the time the hard-enrage longcast goes out, the party will wipe. . Fervent Denial also slightly increases damage dealt by the boss, so he will gradually hit harder and harder over time, plateauing right before the phase change. . After the boss uses its phase-shift move (what would normally be the yet-unnamed hard-enrage longcast), the stacking buff will disappear and the boss will become untargetable, beginning the DPS check phase.

DPS CHECK: . Unfinished from here on out-- but basically beating up… some kind of add, and while you do that the boss' mask slowly cracks with bright light before shattering into his second form and unleashing his ultimate attack (he becomes more agitated and spiny-looking but I never finished designing any of his forms so just imagine the possibilitiiiiies)

PHASE 2 & 3: . To be continued……. or not! maybe someday :')

[pynkchampagne]

[kirby-toons]

bro my ears r ringing so bad someone take music away from me 😭

[transingthoseformers]

The final reunion between GetSent and the Lost Light crew though is going to be hilarious.

Atomizer is like half convinced his friend his dead and relieved to reunite with the boss and re-introduce him to Skids and the rescued Dominus only to find Getaway following behind Prowl with a (smaller than the last time they met) orange problem he embarrassingly introduces as his Conjunx. Rodimus, who is still kind of pissed, hears this and Sentinel wants to keep it quiet and immediately spreads around how Sentinel was redeemed through the power of love and the little orange minibot with Getaway is him.

Rodimus gleefully updates Optimus with wide eyed innocence, that is doe eyed and fake, about the healing powers of love and restorative justice and how it benefited Sentinel surely if Sentinel can be redeemed certain other people can to.

Needless tonsay GetSent accidentally help destroy Prowl’s case against Megatron as a case study and give Roddy an idea to argue for Megatron working off his damages like Sentinel is via the Lost Light as a rescue ship.

Prowl snaps the datapad he is holding in half, while Scavenger starts making soothing noises and Bonecrusher asks if they should cut the Lost Lights breaks.

Prowl appreciates hos gestalts support.

All the spies are now surroundibg Getaway and Sentinel though to give him "talk". Including Jazz who has finally started talking to Prowl again and met back up with Getaway.

Jazz is the one who helped train Getaway in hand-to-hand and is fond of him.

This is not a good thing for Sentinel.

Yesssss yes it is

"Orange problem"

Lmao yeaaaa

Roddie saw that opportunity and took it, you petty beautiful bastard ily.

Of course he runs to Optimus about this, yes yes, and pulls the most unconvincing act to ever work

The powers of #GetSent have foiled Prowl's plans, alas! Go fuck yourself Prowl, you are amazing but you lost this one girly

I mean Rodimus that is a good idea

Sdfgjkk. Ah yes, the constructicons arguing in favor of the Lost Light.

They're trying to comfort their failhusband, aww

Mmmhm time for the shovel talk yes yes, oh Sentinel if you fuck this one up you're ending up six feet under on seventeen different planets.

[youmagnificentbeast]

my top 9 characters of 2023

thank you so much for the tag @mandycantdecide <3

guillermo de la cruz - what we do in the shadows casper - relax, i'm from the future vladislav the poker - what we do in the shadows stede bonnet - our flag means death aziraphale - good omens murray hewitt - flight of the conchords jemaine clement - flight of the conchords steve rutherford - wrecked bret mckenzie - flight of the conchords

i tag everyone who wants to do this!

[majjiktricks]

i just slammed full speed into two guys with a jeep and they both had 30% chance to fulton, somehow they both made it WITHOUT a medical team.

[linuxealcipher]

Magma doodlessss

Including @certified-handler’s dealers choice Eclipse because the new chapter gave me brain rot. We also have my Jazz band au Eclipse next to my sea monster eclipse.

And the dragon Sun and Moon are from my scales on skulls au.

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

*knocks on the door and drops this off*

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HOLY FUCKIDNFG SHIT OH MYNGOD!!!!!!!

AAAAAHFGKJHDFH??????? /POS

The noise of sheer happiness that I made when I saw this was indescribable /lh

LOOK AT THEM OUGGHHHHHH I LOVE THEM!!!!!

THE WIND!!!!!! SUCH A GENTLE TENDER MOMENT IN THE MIDST OF THE WAVES AND THE WIND ARUHJFVDFJDHFKJS /POS

Thank you SO much for sending me this oh my god- This made my day <333