#yes i want to fuck a robot

[ninjakitty6252]

I cant wait to see my baby girl Pixal again 😍

only a few days till official set images... Zarkt... Pixal... Morro... Big Zane... Evil Arin... Jay... Big Riyu...

[starset-sarsaparilla]

fun fact: when i first went to the fort to kill caesar i completely forgot about the bunker. it was a stressful return trip

[bassboosted-moon-chao]

Unlimited connections when you're digital.

(lyrics are from Prototype VIP, by WoodenToaster)

what started as a silly idea evolved so hard it became THIS

[ninjakitty6252]

Pixal Borg, my first fictional crush, my gay awakening, one of my comfort characters alongside Mangle, Eevee, and Mettaton, Pixal my beloved you are returning to me!!!!

[chibiveneficus]

went ahead and ripped all the sprites from the Shippu! Iron Leaguer 1994 gameboy game because.

[genocat]

this one iterator OC i never post because his trauma is too fucking severe for anyone to even be able to comprehend in one sitting

[vally-vall-vall]

Hello, Forgive me for spamming your blog. I saw your pfp was tfp megatron and then realized your blog was as high quality as the pfp. 👌

My ask is whats your fave transformer and from what universe?

Ah, no worries! I'm glad to hear my blog is filled with scrumptious content! About who is my favourite tansformer. Well, it would be easier to answer who isn't my favourite ifbvkdjfv

I'm a TFP girlie through and through. Prime has been my comfort show since like 2011 and I continue to rewatch it year after year even now. I have indulged in other Transformers media, too, most notably the Bay movies, War for Cybertron, Robots in Disguise and the OG series, tho nothing would come even close to my love for TFP. I truly do think this is the best Transformers incarnation in franchise ever created.

About the fav character (aside from the obvious picks like Optimus and Megatron), this is mega hard for me because all of them are so good dfhvbihvfb. I think I could narrow it down to a few, neither is placed higher or lower than the other because I love them all for different reasons.

Ratchet. Absolutely love this grumpy old fart. He's what started my love for the "grumpy character who pretends they don't care but actually care A LOT" character archetype. He's everything I love and nothing I don't, plus I do think that Jeffrey Combs was made to be his VA in a similar way Robert Downey jr. was born to play Iron Man

Starscream. I will be honest, it actually took me some time before I started to like his character instead of just seeing him as an annoying bootlicker. I mean, he's still an annoying bootlicker, but I came to enjoy him! OG Starscream walked so TFP Starscream could run. He's all of his old traits but amplified and made better. His scheeming, cunning nature, inability to shut up to the point the show itself calls him out for it (Operation Bumblebee) but at the same time, he's a pathetic coward. A wet cat of a man, soggy af. I do think if the show came out in recent years that tumblr would have a field day with him. 10/10 I miss Starscreams like him

Smokescreen. This may or may not be a hot take because he's apparently pretty unpopular with the fandom?? At least he was in like 2012-2015 when I was most active in the fandom. I actually really do enjoy his recklessness and immaturity, it makes him feel more like a youngster that's yet to see the horrors of war. I love how quickly he grows throughout the episodes when he comes to realise their fight isn't about personal glory, it's about survival and about doing what is right. 9/10 because I hate the updated painjob he got in season 3

Miko. Also kind of a hot take, since she seems to be the least favourite among the kid trio. I gotta be honest, TFP is the only Transformers incarnation where I actually like the human companions, and Miko I love the most. She's reckless and bold and immature, like any "punk" teenager of her age would be, and I also absolutely adore the bond she has with Bulkhead.

KnockOut. My first ever experience with a character that was so violently queer-coded it rearanged by neural pathways. Loved him since his very first scene. The sass, the execution, his mad doctor persona, obsession with looks, surprisingly scheeming nature, he's just so full of personality. I also love how he's actually canonically married to BreakDown. My only gripe with the character is that I wished he was depicted to mourn BreakDown more instead of, like, just mentioning he's annoyed that he now has nobody to buff him. But also this was a pre-Steven Universe show back when queer characters weren't as prominent in kids media, so I get why it wasn't implimented. I'm still salty about it though

Arcee. Arcee I had to grow to love, and it didn't happen until several years after the show has ended. At the start, I found her to be a deeply unenjoyable character, grumpy and cold and dismissive towards everyone (and especially Jack) and not in the fun way Ratchet was. However, as I aged, I came to realise that she's not just being an asshole, she's grieving. This is one of the key reasons why I love TFP. It tackles serious topics like death and grief very well for an animated kids show that was mostly made to promote a toy brand, and Arcee's character really shines here. I deeply enjoy seeing her come out of her shell after Cliffjumper's death and slowly form a deep loving bond not only with Jack, but with everyone else too. Also how she helps Miko out with her own grief after Bulkhead gets seriously injured. You know what that is? Growth. Nothing but growth and healing for my sassy two-wheeler.

"Funny. At first I never thought I'd get used to Cliff's constant chatter. But now? Now there's nothing louder to me than the silence."

Bro, this sentence is burned into my memory. Forever. It altered my brain chemisty, I swear. Arcee and her grief over Cliff and Tailgate are so well portrayed and it makes one of the best written characters on the show and I will die on this hill!!

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Gambling Apocalypse Tenma AU

As I rewatch Kaiji I inevitably end up wanting to combine show I like with other show I like and stuffing fav characters into show. So here we are.

This was uh going to be a short summary type thing but I accidentally wrote a novella about it sorry

This AU starts off with a much more depressive Tenma. After Tobio's death, rather than immediately pour his grief into developing a robot version of his son, he recedes into himself, psychologically paralyzed, likely turning to alcohol to drown out his anguish.

His mental state is taken as an opportunity within the Ministry of Science to have him ejected from his position; Tenma was never the most well-liked director, and there were those with ambition to usurp him that would jump at the chance. Not that he especially cares in his state.

He's eventually dragged out of his stagnation by Ochanomizu - who, inadvertently, becomes the very catalyst pushing Tenma to develop a robot replacement to his child. This was not what he meant by encouraging Tenma to fill the void left by his son.

...But, well, he is no longer the director of the Ministry of Science. His access to limitless government funds and resources for "scientific research" has been cut off, and this is a project he cannot finance on his own. He can't ask Ochanomizu for help, but...interestingly...a representative of a certain shady organization known as the Teiai Corporation reaches out to him, offering to finance and support his project. A sane and well-minded Tenma might think better of it, but grieving and desperate, Tenma accepts their offer and is able to create a robot in the image of his beloved Tobio. For a while, there's joy in his life.

But the bill, as ever, comes due: Tenma must pay up, and the very resources that had been at his disposal will certainly ensure that he will, or else. Of course, he doesn't have the money; instead, he is given a choice. He can relinquish the robot Tobio in order to wipe out his debt - the child is a sophisticated and powerful robot, after all - or he can participate in a certain illicit event hosted by the Teiai Corporation.

It's nothing major...just a four-hour gambling cruise with a collection of desperate, damned souls that were also swept into debt with Teiai. The conditions are simple: Those who choose to participate are given a chance to clear their debts wholesale should they win. And should they lose...?

Well...no one really knows what happens to the losers seized by Teiai. It's said that they labour away their debts under Teiai's watchful eye and are freed once their work has covered their debts, though it's rumoured that most perish before they reclaim freedom.

There's only one answer Tenma can give, of course; he's not willing to lose Tobio again.

Thus is Tenma's debut into the Gambling Apocalypse, where he must become cutthroat in order to survive; if he wants to see his son again, he must make choices that will doom the hapless to miserable servitude, with a nonzero chance it ends in their death.

He survives the cruise, but of course, it was hardly enough to clear his debt; the cruise was never going to be the end of it. Teiai doesn't let go of its victims that easily. He will be called on again: this is a weight that hangs over him, all while he returns to his son Tobio. The same hands that have pushed innocents into hell must now be the hands that can embrace his child.

He wants to protect Tobio from the truth and enjoy what peaceful moments he's allowed with his son, but it's difficult. It's difficult to be the parent of a child who cannot understand the danger that looms ahead; this "happy" home is not to last. Tenma angers quickly and easily. He turns that anger onto Tobio.

As Teiai's games become more and more vicious and unrelenting, as his conscience holds onto the last vestiges of thread that remain, Tenma even threatens, once, to give the boy in: it would all end, then; the debt would be clear and no longer would he have to endure Tobio's childish annoyances, his ungratefulness.

The next time that Tenma is beckoned, Tobio takes matters into his own hands. He does understand, now; and he would have, if only Tenma had bothered to explain sooner. If it's a debt that needs clearing, he will work. He will help his father clear his debts however he can. Of course, it's difficult to find work as a child; but a circus troupe finds amusement in the idea of a child robot, and takes him in. He is whisked into a certainly unpleasant working situation, but he remembers his father, and what he must be enduring. Tobio, also, will endure.

When Tenma returns, Tobio is gone.

All that held Tenma back from becoming something monstrous has disappeared. All that kept him going has disappeared. When he is called upon by Teiai, there is no knowing what sort of person might come out the other end; whether a monster clawing his way to freedom regardless of what actions he must take, or a desolate husk surrendering defeat.

There is still a light, however dim: Found by Professor Ochanomizu and rescued from the circus, Tobio - now Atom - is able to shed light on the situation which Tenma took great pains to keep hidden from his old friend. With time running out, Ochanomizu and Atom must do what they can to save Tenma - from Teiai, and from himself.

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UHHH and that's a wrap!!!! I couldn't quite decide which way Tenma would go after hitting Rock Bottom in this AU, and tbh it would really depend on the kind of mental state he's in at the time. On the one hand I like the narrative of Ochanomizu and Tobio racing to prevent Tenma from crossing a line (actual outright murder probably) - or having to pull him back into humanity (and yknow, his ensuing penance)

But on the other hand having him get sent to Teiai Evil Hell Prison would be interesting because a) there's a lot of narrative potential having Tenma faced with what Teiai is doing with the people that lose the games and b) need him to decimate the foreman at chinchirorin Kaiji style

Tenma's whole character is definitely a much different guy in this AU, he starts off pretty sympathetic, the guy you wanna root for, he just ends up having an inverse character arc where he gets worse instead of better. His conflict with "Tobio" is also kind of reversed, less about being unsatisfied with Tobio as a son and more not being able to handle the fact that he probably has intense PTSD now and isnt capable of coping with it in a way conducive to being a parent (or like, coping at all)

Anyway that's gambling apocalypse tenma!!!

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

qsmp pacrim au.

compiling some Thoughts:

mariana and slime are drift compatible. they both fucking Hate each other. yes they get along great yes they get actually married and yes they are the worst thing to ever happen to each other. as pilots they have a specific region assigned to them that they need to protect when the Code sends out smaller kaiju swarms. mariana has slipped and sent the whole ass jaeger falling onto the town and there was a whole ass horrific court case about it, but they pulled through. then slime slipped they fell on a neighbouring town while helping out quackity. and on the way back mariana again made them eat shit in their own area again. They Are Not Allowed In Jaegers Anymore

roier and jaiden are drift compatible! they dont know each other at all when they get into the program but the first time they had to face down a kaiju they fucking Kicked Its Ass. their jaeger has so Many latency issues but they work together so well it almost never matters... up until it does. something goes wrong and it just stops registering roier's input at all and they both start screaming into the drift so loudly everything just freezes up. they wouldn't have survived if their jaeger wasn't so broken. it shut down entirely, the image of an ocean sunset frozen onto their internal screen, and everything else Completely silent. the kaiju ignored them to destroy the city after that. the mission to rescue them took Several other jaegers and a full day. a lot of lives were lost. they're trying to get back into piloting but it's hard. they both watch sunsets whenever they can

roier is doing pretty well with getting back into the program- jaiden has been busy with other matters in the thunderdome (the federation has her doing some... weird tasks to research the drift/the jaegers), so they haven't been able to pilot one together again. but he and a pilot from the Favela Five really hit it off and despite some Horrors things are looking up for them !

bad is a solo pilot. his jaeger is incredibly automated and honestly does most of the work for him, which means the mental strain is FAR less severe, but people can Always count on him to be reinforcement.

quackity wants to be a pilot SO BAD. okay SO SO SO FUCKING BAD. he got a solo jaeger like bad out of pure nepotism (he is the federation's meow meow and/or spy) and he leveraged that shit to get in the Game. he managed to drift with luzu, who left. then he managed to drift with wilbur, who left. and then his zone got fucking wrecked (thanks slime) and he hasn't been allowed in a jaeger since. He was super resentful of slime for it but now he's focused his efforts on trying to somehow sneak into other jaegers and get other pilots to drift with him. it's going as well as you can imagine. no one knows how he hasn't been murdered/kicked out/thrown into the ocean yet.

philza is a retired pilot! he and his partner missa know a lot about drifitng/jaegers so missa will go on business trips to be teacher for student pilots and philza sticks around the thunderdome to make sure all the jaegers are taken care of.

the french are a specialized team that share a singular jaeger, trading off and training and testing. While the other teams were designed to take down kaiju, their jaeger is smaller, faster, and designed to kill the code's Swarm. Etoiles is the most eager for battle, but Baghera probably spends the most time on the field patrolling for attacks. She's good friends with Bad and Forever, who agree that it's really weird that the Federation's instruments can predict a kaiju attack but can never predict the code.

people keep disappearing. people keep questioning it. if they question too much then they disappear.

the federation is in charge of jaeger program. They keep bringing in new pilots and trying to take care of them! cucurucho is in charge of this specific thunderdome and there is nothing going wrong ever! :D (the kaiju are somehow the federation's fault- that's why there's so many living pilots. there's only so many attacks as to keep everyone on their toes, but not enough to overwhelm. not yet. no one knows for sure what's going on. they just know it's bad.)

The Swarm are smaller kaiju (an oxymoron) sent by something that the pilots privately refer to as the Code. the federation doesn't acknowledge the swarm beyond being an additional threat to whatever area is currently under attack, but the pilots fuckign know- the swarm targets jaegers exclusively. they're fast, they can fly, and they can hit hard. they're unpredictable and they're scary, and all current pilots can tell you a bad story about them. the french and bad are the primary reinforcements when the swarm comes about. so far they've always been quick enough, but one day... one day, maybe, they won't be.

(foolish and vegetta are Not pilots they're bastard scientists. foolish is technically in charge of living specimens but mostly he just builds them super sickass terrarium/aquariums and fudges a little on the reports when they die. vegetta does a lot of mad science that tangentially relates to all the kaiju bullshit but he's so advanced that everyone just assumes it's on the level. foolish and vegetta have to share a lab but they sleep at different times so it works out. in the centre of the lab is a secondary kaiju brain that they both refer to as their daughter and, because they're Genius idiots, they've figured out a way to use it to send each other memory messages via a partial drift. when the kaiju brain starts using these memories to interact with them and name itself leo foolish starts letting it name all his specimens (and telling it when those specimens die) and vegetta starts telling it all about his big adventures and cool science. they both love their hell daughter and tell Not A Single Soul about their weird ass evil science. (foolish tells bad. bad thinks he's joking. foolish thinks that letting this go on like it is is the funniest thing he's ever done and he is Correct))

[biddy-biddy-biddy]

maybe i should talk/show more about my oc now that i’m thinking… idk! everyone is doing something for their ocs/self inserts idfkkkk…

like i just made her for funsies like haha what if i’m eltingville also everyone is eltingville/northwest why not do it…

[sgkjd]

i think too much about that scene in evangelion where rei II dies by exploding herself. from the angel's attack to the very end. just so many fucking emotions all at once....and they all merge into this one particular emotion that doesn't have a name in my vocabulary yet.....

[thevelominati]

[tachyon-omlette]

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had a very unfortunate day so to make myself feel better I went ham digitally penning my thoughts about how Eda would exist in @cuppajj​‘s tf mech pilot au. quintesson kaiju designs forthcoming

[lilac-5ky]

Nothing will ever be sexier than Shinsuke's entrance in SS arc.

ISTG THIS ENTIRE FIRST PART ALL HAPPENED JUST SO HE COULD MAKE ONE HELL OF AN ENTRANCE. EVEN THE OPENING WAS ABOUT HIM. SHINSUKE WILL FOREVER BE THE SEXIEST MAN IN THE ENTIRETY OF BOTH ANIME AND HUMAN HISTORY AND I'LL NEVER CHANGE MY MIND

[blue-jester]

not to sound old or anything but it is so fucking concerning to me that for the last 2 years of my highschool BOTH English teachers I've had openly endorsed using ai to do your work. The one from this year even taught us how to make it more passable. OKAY, ENCOURAGE YOUR STUDENTS TO LITERALLY CHEAT AND PLAGIARIZE. OK. IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S YOUR JOB TO TEACH US NOT TO DO THAT OR ANYTHING

[rambunctioustoons]

I'm not saying I was going through tftbl brainrot around the time I got back into security breach but... But. 👀 ... Literally named my sona Rhys so. askflakfkak.