#those are the two i really remember

[mellohiizz]

@saiintvalentiine hello. the npc fic left me absolutely in shambles i needed to draw them.

[blueskittlesart]

is detcon actually good

no <3 hope this helps

[nocofamilyau]

you see, if I didn't see this image right, this fucking image right here when I was like 11 or 12,, my life would have been normal and not have had any demons

[candyheartedchy]

They share one brain cell and only use it to love their friends.

[off-mozzarella]

Considering I deleted the original, thought I'd bring back home this drawing from 2019 xD it's the least I can do for my younger artist self

[mariesbee]

why can't i enjoy things like a normal person? casually, just a few episodes/chapters here and there, then move on with my life. but no, whatever it is, it worms its way into my brain, consumes my thoughts and it slowly drives me insane. i am unable to think about anything else but the Thing of the week, or month, sometimes year(s) if it gets that bad.

[mbat]

and thinking about the difference between bill and fiddleford when it comes to fords hands and fords 'genius'

bill makes fords polydactyly a focal point, something impossible to ignore. he tells ford that he'll fit right in with bills band of "freaks" all because his hands are a little different than other humans. he never lets him forget it, even if he says it as something to be proud of, but he and everyone else knows that ford kinda never stopped holding onto the insecurity that was associated with this trait. bill also never let ford forget his smarts, he played into the what ford always wanted to hear about his smarts, but fords brain was only ever a tool to bill. fords hands were (part of) a reason bill wanted to bring him along in his crew, and fords mind was simply a means to an end

and then we have fiddleford who, upon meeting ford for the first time, immediately saw ford as this genius who cared about what he had to say and they connected over their shared love for all that nerd stuff, and it was something that was important to them both and brought them together, and kept them together

and fiddleford says he didnt even notice, after hours and hours of sitting in a room with ford and them focused on eachother (and math)... he didnt even notice that fords hands were different until afterward, when he was looking at a photo of them both. this thing ford had been forced to worry about his whole life, and it wasnt even a thing to fiddleford.

ford wanted to be known, to be loved, for his brain and what he could do. and, in my opinion, it sometimes feels like he almost wanted to make up for the fact he was different, to prove he wasnt 'less than' because of some difference he was born with, this thing that everyone made such a big deal out of

and between the two biggest people in his life (aside from his brother of course lmao), one focused on and made a big deal out of his difference, and the other didnt even notice it. one saw his genius as a tool, and the other saw it as something amazing and admirable.

hell, if the bit of their conversation in the book of bill when they meet is, well, when they meet and is their first words to eachother... the first name or nickname that bill calls ford is, of course, sixer. and one of the first things fiddleford calls ford... is friend.

and i just feel like it says a lot about those two relationships and him.

[wispforever]

Crucify Him

[wurrrmlyy]

Solitary Bee!Autobot High Command

vague as hell descriptions for these guys. Sorry! The specifics are subject to change but it's okay. Earthspark is the background of this AU but I make up my own designs... I'm so cool like that. Also deepest apologies to any screen readers I'm not sure how legible the alt description is!!!

i am essentially playing toys here. i have taken earthspark apart at the seams and then remade it. S1 is mostly canon compliant though. probably

Information dump under the cut ↓

Pre VS Post-Earth AB High Command

The Autobot High Command was once much, much larger. At its peak, it consisted of:

Optimus Prime

Elita One

Ironhide

Prowl

Jazz

Ratchet

Red Alert

and more!! I havent figured everyone out yet

Currently, it's just Prowl, Elita, Megatron and Optimus. The Earth mecha previously hypothesized that Cybertron is dead and any mecha inhabiting it is also dead, but then Prowl showed up!

ELITA ONE

Elita is a very capable SIC, but has a sharp attitude and while alluring in general, is not exactly charismatic. She has fantastic war stories and took part in the original rebellion against the senate before the factional split.

She is a highly decorated general with several monstrosities under her belt.

With the limbo that came from Megatron joining and then immediately getting unofficially integrated into the HC, Elita has become a little bit pissed off. Optimus, you can't just do that! That's stupid!

General snippets:

Elita was handmade by a blacksmith during an economic lapse. She originally was a dual-wheel model with heavy armor and strength. In Functionist Cybertron she tested, ran and operated heavy equipment. In wartime models like hers would probably be enlisted as multi-use canon fodder because theyre just so durable

She has a vague moral backbone... her strongsuit was doing all the things that made Optimus queasy. This was a lot of things in the early days of the war.

Elita was the one that found Bumblebee when she popped out of the hotspot

Very angry. Elita crashed out several times during the war. Jazz so eloquently put it; "when she was mad, the world around shrunk away in fear!"

Earth needs has led her to adopting a somewhat sillier behavior. Frankly, it has not mellowed her intense personality out in the slightest. Bumblebee remains terrified of her to this day, but that might be a Bumblebee thing. It does make children more receptive of her, though.

Jawbreaker thinks Elita is SOOO cool. Elita has tried her hand at being some kind of mentor to him. Unfortunately, Elita is no exception to the 'terrible with children' rule of HC. As evident by Bumblebee.

She is a TANK. She is the heavy hitter and the hit taker!! She has a big heart but its also full of nails and ash

OP has probably destroyed his friendship with Elita. Communication faltered on Earth. Is Megatron in the HC? Is he a co-leader? Is he the new SIC? Elita doesn't think he should have the power he has at all!! Not this early, at least.

Probably the most 'on task' out of the Big 3 (OP, Megs & Elita). She doesn't think Optimus is taking this seriously, and is also convinced that Megatron is still malicious even if she respects his attempts at 'doing better'

elita should also probably be trying to 'do better' though... looking at that war criminal resume

PROWL

Prowl is the Autobot paperwork guy. He makes everyone's life easier, and is also the Chief Tactical Officer. He's polite to a fault, and somehow comes off as a prick all the same, which probably has to do with his unnerving gaze. Those eyes pin you to an operating table, it's extremely unpleasant. Nobody has ever told him this.

He's level-headed and neutral toned, and most of his emotions have to be picked apart through knowing him for a long time and being receptive to micro-movements.

When he showed up to Earth, he immediately crashed upon seeing Optimus and Megatron in tandem with each other. He does not trust Megs at all.

General snippets:

The reason nobody has told Prowl he has a clinical stare is probably Jazz's fault. Jazz wholeheartedly believed that Prowl would tear his own face off if it came to it.

i drew his lineart with the wrong brush

Has an unspecified history with Tarantulas as a reference to IDW. Uhhh he hates the guy and does not trust him anywhere near the Terrans. He's definitely scared of him but the whole thing is in the background

Prowl's extreme caution was given to Bumblebee. There is a running gag in my head about Bumblebee's hab on the Ark being in multiple places at once. Prowl approved of this. HC rule of 'being atrocious with kids'

Prowl is disabled. He has 'crashes' pretty infrequently, but they build up and can be perpetuated by stress. Lengthy crashes can cause processor damage through heat so he has several cooling mods. Crashes make him extremely disoriented.

His existence as a tactical officer was top secret for a very long portion of the war. this made him very isolated

i have genuinely no idea where i got the 'polite, terrifying, comes off as a prick' interpretation of prowl but its there and its not leaving

okay thats it i dont have anymore energy left to pump into this thing

[taddymason]

So, on the subject of Arin looking for Jay because he thinks he has information on where his parents are, I don't know if it's just me, but EVEN if Jay was a good manager who pays attention to where they send people, he's just- the manager. He doesn't do the relocations in person and since everyone is unconscious they probably don't even have a record with people's names. And it's been years since the merge so imagine how many people his department has relocated during that time.

So it's impossible in any way for him to be important in knowing where Arin's parents are and I think it'll be more of Arin clinging to this piece of information that won't get him anywhere because it's very likely that they weren't even in the Admnistration in the first place.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[nei-ning]

Some Genshin Impact wallpapers from their Facebook. Ah, Wriothesley, Kinich and Kaeya! <3

[kameyyy]

jeans guy can see himself out

[meanderfall]

I noticed there’s a lot of parallels between Raph and Leo they act like each other sometimes but I don’t know if there’s any parallels between Raph and Mikey or Raph and Donnie.

Hi! ^w^

agreed 100%, Raph and Leo have a ton of parallels, but I'm not sure about the other two. Been honestly wracking my brain trying to think if I noticed anything in particular.

For Raph and Donnie, the first thing that came to mind is that, if Raph isn't around for it, Donnie will pinch-hit for him to smack Mikey upside the head for a dumb joke.

Beyond that hmm.... would Raph taking control of that vehicle when they were storming the Shredder's tower count? Or Don ripping off the fugitoid's head off in a moment of panic?

Oh, maybe the fact that the two of them are the most likely to make friends! Like, April is friends with all four of them, but she's clearly closest with Don, just like how Casey is besties with Raph but friends with all of them. Also, I kind of feel like if I try to remember subplots allies, my mind will associate them with either Don or Raph. Like, Raph has all those one-offs where he made friends with people (the little kid, the granny, the racing crew) and even Traximus, and then with Don I think of The Professor, Honeycutt, Leatherhead. Mikey makes friends with the superheroes, but that's about it, and loner Leo is just friends with Usagi. (Hold on, sidebar, totally irrelevant, but I can't have been the only one low-key annoyed that they used Gennosuke as the extra character in Raph's section of the intro for the later seasons. Like, im assuming they had to bc they used Usagi for Leo's but come on!!!!)

As for Raph and Mikey, potentially a controversial opinion, but I feel like Raph also has a tendency to make ill-timed jokes like Mikey does. I wish I was keeping track of what I meant so I could give you actual examples, but I wasn't thinking about it that hard, I just know it happened often enough that I was like "wild that Raph gives Mikey such a hard time when he does the same thing" in the back of my mind while watching. but who knows, maybe my brain is making that up.

I'm not sure if anything else comes to mind. You'd think there'd be more considering how often Raph and Mikey butt heads but nah, I can't think anything.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Rummaging around my house and i got jumpscared

[tenebrous-dream]

the npcs in 3ot are so dramatic . calm down andrew