#trying to figure out how to draw these guys

[soupdweller]

have more sillies in my autumn wear

[yuukirita]

Sorry to bother, I'm not good at English but hey. So...I have a question about how DeceptiBee's Megateon and Optimus would act if he met BabyBee I have that curiosity 👀

I love your stories and your drawings 🥰

I wanted to draw it out but the art is not arting today :1

So let me WRITE is out. eham:

Both of them stood, side by side but not together, watching the small yellow bot- smaller their their usual yellow bot. They looked similar- but surely it could not be...

"...You guys look stressed." the young one said, sounding older than he should- sounded like Bee.

Well frag.

Optimus Prime swooped up the sparkling the moment he saw Megatron try to do the same. Keeping him away for the other.

Megatron looked at him and snarled. Then looked at the sparkling, face softening lightly "I wouldn't hurt a sparkling, Prime."

Said sparkling, wide eyed, looked at them both. Tiny servo (How could it be so small???) tapping at something on his forearm.

"That is not what I worry you would do to the young one." he replied.

"Oh you're just afraid I'll take him away from you?" He rolls his optics "You are a fool. Bee chose to follow me of his own free will. You simply cannot deal with the possibility another one may do it if given the chance"

The tiny B-127 whispered into a comm on his wrist 'hot rod... I think the shenanigans have cough up to us now... Think you can bring me back?'

Optimus heard and gave him a curious look before speaking to Megatron again "This in neither the time or place for this, Megatron. We must help this one get home. Isn't that right, Little Bee?"

BabyBee hid his comm as an unknown voice came trough- muffling the answer as he looked up with wide nervous optics " What do you mean we broke the space bridge? Ahah, I'm not from another dimension you're crazy-" He wiggled out of his grip with practiced ease and plopped on the ground as Megatron walked closer.

"You broke a space bridge?" Megatron asked "Another dimension? How did this happen- you are far too young to be left unsurpevised near that kind of technology."

Babybee looked up at both of them and spoke into his comm again "I think they're onto me-"

Then a voice that sounded exacltly Like Optimus Prime came trough the comm "B-127, you're grounded."

Bee groaned as Megatron chuckled at Prime "Of course..."

Prime frowned "What?"

Megatron looked back to the young yellow bot arguing with his Optimus Prime over comms "Should have figured he was yours. Troublemakers make troublemakers. Mine wouldn't have been caught."

[makesyouevil]

bakusketching

[bomberqueen17]

how the writing is going

Ok so. LOL. About the only thing I am effectively achieving this week *is* writing, and even that is not really..... I don't have a draft. But I have a whole bunch of sample snippets I've written to try and feel my way through the worldbuilding and discover the sorts of things the characters are likely to be preoccupied with, which is often how I figure out what a plot should be.

The next thing I thought about after dolphins was modes of transport besides sailing ships.

So this is a fairly high-tech society, but they do not have fossil fuels, and they don't have a large-scale power grid. I decided that for aesthetics, but as I'm unpicking my plot, I'm realizing that it makes sense. See, the main driver for all my plot devices is that there's a lot of sun activity-- sunspots, coronal mass ejections, magnetic field anomalies, that sort of shit. A power grid could not survive on a large scale. So all power generation is done in small, local installations-- some very local indeed, panels on rooftops, little waterwheels, tiny wind turbines. Industrial-scale power is generated in hydro plants and used right at the site for hydro-powered manufacturing-- much of it direct hydro-power, not converted to electricity. Just direct drive waterwheel shit. Because the sun can throw whatever shit it wants at the planet and your waterwheel won't notice or care.

That said. Communication over long ranges does pose a significant challenge. You're going to need line-of-sight semaphores and shit, which I had not worldbuilt in the earlier versions but absolutely could add in.

There should be trains, and I haven't really pondered those yet because I need to know more about my geography. Please, god, don't make me draw a map, but I'm gonna have to. Oh well.

But the other thing I thought of and got really excited about was

DIRIGIBLES

It's feasible with technology we currently have, and this is a thing that some large companies are pursuing, to make very large, hydrogen-filled, entirely solar-powered dirigibles for long-distance cargo transportation, faster than ships, the same speed as trucks/trains but more direct, slower than airplanes but INFINITELY lower carbon footprint. And hydrogen is outlawed by the FAA as a lifting gas, not because of the Hindenberg (which had many contributing factors) but because of a Congressional hearing which was presented by the helium lobby in the 20s. Hmmmmm.

A fascinating detail is that you could make a solar-powered lighter-than-air craft operate day and night seamlessly by having a power generation process where some of the day's collected solar energy directly powers the thing, and some of it goes toward... I forget the details but it powers a chemical reaction that, come nightfall, is simply set to reverse itself, which will then release most of the energy that it took to power the reaction in the first place, which you can now use to power your aircraft. Which is not a thing I knew about and I now have to research how that would work because, fascinating.

Anyway. In Fantasy World, there are totally dirigibles, and they're also probably operated by the Navy, and the water-ship sailors fucking hate them, LOL. This will be a wildly entertaining dynamic and I am rubbing my little paws together.

Also.

While feeling sort of brain-dead and stupid, I got a sheet of paper, went through a bunch of lists of historic names and lists of like, suggested baby names from various ethnicities, and I just made lists on this sheet of paper of men's names, women's names, arguably gender-neutral names, and then a huge pile of surnames, and then I sat down with a bullet-pointed list cribbed from the website of the museum of the USS Constitution of all the personnel that would be on a 44-gun frigate ca. 1812, and I first pondered each of the jobs, added some, took some away, came up with my own numbers of how many guys I needed, and then I just sat there and combined the first and last names in aesthetically pleasing ways to generate characters, lightly crossing out ones I'd used. (and sometimes googling them to make sure they're not somebody famous or something, which i always recommend with fictional character creation, especially if you're as oblivious as I am.)

I was unable to resist also coming up with some backstories-- siblings, little work histories, criminal pasts, notable traits, that sort of thing-- for many of the characters.

I did not make up names for every individual person on this ship, which I decided should have a crew of about 150-180, but I made up some names for every position, and considered age and gender as well for all of them.

I will not use many of the characters I've created this way, I'm sure, but the ones with interrelationships will totally somehow get used, and this way as I'm writing if I need a character I can find them already made, and if that person has a defined role, I already know which one and won't lose track of them.

This also got me to consider why people wind up in the jobs they do in this society, what drives them to seek out certain things, and that gave me a lot of background as to what's going on onshore.

I should try to find a list of a dirigible's crew and think about them, too, and build out the train people and routes and whatnot.

I also bought a used older edition on Thriftbooks of The Annapolis Book Of Seamanship and have been reading that with... more interest than I expected actually. I have the 1983 edition and it has a really moving little plea to let the women on your ship also learn to sail because it is foolish to relegate them to the kitchen when if only they were taught how it works, they could save you all in an emergency. LOL I wonder if that's worded differently in the updated new version or not.

[fatherrussia-69]

「《Happy Birthday Father R and Updates!》」

Hey Hey! Sorry for the absences, if you've been keeping up with all the updates, you'll know that we've been pretty busy this year and haven't been able to write. o(*￣▽￣*)ブ Yeahhh, School's just been eating up me and Editor T's schedules. 😩🤧 We've tried finding a good schedule for Father R to write without him getting burnt out and for me and Henchman A to be available to edit, pre-read and add our authornotes, but it's been proving to be difficult. That's why we've just settled for the goal of getting at least 2-3 chapters posted per month. It's not as many as it used to be last year, but working on the weekends seem to be the only saving grace. (￣▽￣)" There's a break coming up for Thanksgiving, so we're going to double-timing that week to try and get things posted. I cannot assure anyone that we'll get a chapter posted, but we'll have definitely made progress. I've also made a bit of a routine when it comes to writing to avoid Writer's block, and I'm proud to say Chapter 61 of SSATW is about 78% ready for posting. RAD Chapter 4 is about 64% but that's only because I haven't figured out the skeletal structure of the chapter yet- ヾ(≧ ▽ ≦)ゝ Anyways, Now that Updates are out of the way, HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY BIG GUY!!! 🥳🎉🎊🎂 Happy Birthday Father R, and thank you @thegenderfluidace for surprising him with this drawing this morning. Hearing him screech in joy was one wake to wake up. Sorry about that- But truthfully, Thank you so much Ace for the drawing!!! Your art is amazing, and whether or not you were able to finish the drawing doesn't ruin the surprise in the slightest. q(≧▽≦q) As per tradition, we went bowling on his birthday and God Damn- 😀💀 I got first place, which isn't surprising. Gutter, after Gutter, After Gutter- ...( ＿ ＿)ノ｜

Ask me how this man got outdone by the NPC (accidentally added another slot so we all just randomly rolled balls down the lane). 🤧🤣 I had a rebirth on my skill tree okay? (┬┬﹏┬┬) You only had 23 points. Everyone else was above 50- Couldn't be me. 🤪😘 Just wait till next year. o(一︿一+)o Anyways, we'll see you guys pretty soon, we have some questions in our Inbox and although the Q&A has long since ended, we will answer a few of them when we can! If you guys have any questions or just want to chat with us, don't be afraid to drop by our inbox and say hello! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) ALSO WE REACHED 108 FOLLOWERS ON TUMBLR!! YOU GUYS ARE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING!!!! 😍🤩😖

[justdenys1]

thought of an ace attorney character. basically, he's a prosecutor that respects defense attorneys (which is actually surprisingly rare), and considers trials friendly debates. beforehand he prepares all sorts of variants of how the crime could have gone through, doing an extensive research and checking the areas several times and trying to guess the most logical conclusion, so as the defense tries to figure things out and give out objections, he already has explanations prepared as like "Good guess, I thought of that as well, however this piece of evidence contradicts your point". He apologizes for bringing out evidence that you didn't have beforehand as he understands that you wouldn't have the time to analyze it first. However, I'd say he's a bit too rational for Ace Attorney universe as well, being against any sorts of magatamas or emotional readings or "you touched the page a bit too hard that means you're hiding something"s, as he believes they don't make any sense whatsoever. He'd be the first one to point out that von karmas just should not be in the court at all. When you actually point out something that he didn't think of, he's like ".... Oh! I see, I see. Let me change this up for a second", his worried animation is attempting to basically start the whole board from scratch, and his breakdown animation would be him stepping back, accidentally hitting the board from below, then the board flipping to hit his head and he falls. if you say something so outlandish that could not make any sense, instead of being condescending n mocking n all, he's just like "... what are you even talking about?". so basically to sum it up, his whole thing is that he's really nice, but an actually decent opponent that you need to find extremely tiny holes to break, after which he just kinda crumbles. didn't think of a name, sorry sorry for a wall of text, i just thought of this guy last night in the shower and just wanted to draw em

[technocite]

It's Always Sunny In Höllvania

[marosii]

Can't stop thinking about the 1984 Sherlock Holmes

[flowersnax]

pizza guys

[boycritter]

911 doodles

[humming-fly]

The 2D vs 3D contrast of the sonic and shadow generation hubworlds cracks me up the more I think about it

Bonus:

[amoebeau]

doodle dump of unrelated things. rotating stupid animals in my mind

[saragrosie]

Discooooooooooooooooooo

[kingbeeleth]

i should be asleep rn but here’s a lazy gif i made

[bopx]

drawing with friends :^)

[ba1laur]

they didnt lie. whatever you fixated on when you were like 11 comes back to haunt forever