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[ID: Soundwave’s human holoform from the fan continuity Stuck in Slow Motion. Vi has light brown skin and neon green eyes that glow slightly with thick eyeliner. The rest of veis face is covered with a black cybergoth-inspired mask with neon green accents. Vi is wearing a holographic shirt with a visible zipper down one side under a black cropped jacket with large shoulder pads and glowing green accents. Vi has three necklaces, one has a large radioactivity symbol, the second is just a green glowing necklace, and the third has a vial of tritium, a green glowing radioactive gas (safe for wearing) on it. end ID.]

FINALLY, I’ve been able to design again. Presenting, the ultimate character: GOTH RAVE SOUNDWAVE.

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So I suddenly felt the urge to design a character from SISM, and who else to design but the WALKING SPOILER.

I am hiding their design under a cut because 1. a walking spoiler, and 2. kinda body horror. My initial design idea for them was “robot made of meat”, after all.

[ID: an unknown character from Stuck in Slow Motion. a young-looking robot with some parts appearing to be flesh and/or bone, needles stuck in some places, some robotic parts eaten through and revealing flesh underneath, and a single antenna on the left side of the robot’s head. it looks in distress. end ID.]

Robot made of meat, my beloved. Who could this be?

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have you posted about megaempress yet?

I have, but now I also have an excuse to show off her human holoform!

This is a desaturated version, original colors under the cut later in this post!

I[ID: art of Megaempress's human holoform from Stuck in Slow Motion. the original colors are desaturated. she is a Black woman with a bright magenta mullet and brown eyes, with long black eyeliner and black lipstick. she is wearing a long-sleeved black shirt, a white belt with a heart-shaped buckle, and pants that are checkered with black and bright pink. the pants are torn in one place with a pale blue patch underneath it, visibly sewn on. her right hand is a visibly metal-looking prosthetic. there is a black spider charm hanging down from her belt, zipper earrings on her ears, and a simple black choker around her neck. end ID.]

I designed her and then I realized that I wanted to wear all the clothes I designed for her. You all do not realize just how much I adore SISM Megaempress, I based her in multiple ways off of my own queerplatonic partner, I love Meggie so much. What could you possibly want more than an epic trans guitarist who also happens to be leading a giant revolution against the government?

Almost everyone in SISM has their own gender, which means that technically they are all nonbinary, but I explicitly made Megaempress to be a trans woman, because trans people on the binary are just as important and cool as those not on the binary, and Transformers already has canon trans women, so why not.

Original colors of her below!

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Brainstorm ❓

Brainstorm's... a bit of a famous missing-persons case. Once a member of one of the smaller counterculture groups that would eventually make up the Decepticons, but left them before the Decepticons were officially formed. He managed to gain an internship at an Autobot laboratory, but mysteriously vanished - along with millions of shanix in laboratory supplies - years later. Neither Autobot nor Decepticons know of his whereabouts...

...but don't tell Misfire that sivs pen pal is a famous missing-persons case under a cheeky pseudonym.

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Apologies for my long absence, but something happened that is very funny and I must share with you all.

SISM Ops has now been divorced like three times. He’s famous for not only never becoming Prime, but for never keeping a marriage.

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hey Moonracer, MOUTH: If you could say whatever you wanted to whoever you wanted with no punishment whatsoever, what would you say?

Lun suddenly looks frustrated, throwing lunas arms in the air, exasperated.

“Oh, so many things. I’d tell Ratchet decs teal paintjob looks terrible, I’d tell Optronix pak’s a suckup who will never make Prime, I’d tell Perceptor mik better stop being all weirdy-lovey to Optronix just to keep miks position, and most of all, I’d tell Megaempress she can shove her Decepticon rebellion right up her-”

“Moony!“ Wheeljack shouted from another room - nits laboratory, presumably. “For the love of the galaxy, would you chill out for a second?”

Lun huffs. “Fine. I was only answering a question.”

She storms out of view of the askpad.

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❓ for Arcee

Ding-ding-ding, you’ve found not only a member of the main cast, but a character I’ve drawn! Arcee is the primary powerhouse of the Autobots, serving as the personal guard to Elita One!

When you first meet zir, though, it seems like a bit of a shock ze’s actually serving such a threatening position! Ze’s a sweetheart and would do absolutely ANYTHING for zir longtime wife Ratchet. Ze isn’t the most book-smart, but ze more than makes up for that in street smarts, and besides, well, ze has Ratchet. Really, even if ze isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, ze’s a great fighter, a lovely neighbor, and ze kills it on karaoke nights.

That is, until you make zir mad.

Ze may still not be the brightest, but ze’s cold and manipulative, using zir sweet front against people with frightening skill, catching them off guard when they least expect it. Anyone who knows Arcee well doesn’t know zir for zir saccharine sweetness. And when ze drops the front, ze’s a menace to fight. Ze live and die for the Autobot cause, and with how ze wields blasters with frightening skill, it shows.

Down below is an image of zir, and zir sick-sweet Karen smile.

[ID: a digital headshot of SISM Arcee. Ze is a pale seafoam green mech, with large bunlike structures on each side of her head. There is a ring of teal on the bunlike structures, separating a dull fuschia-pink from a much darker maroon pink. Zir eyes are mint green, and ze have a tight-lipped Karen smile. end ID.]

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Send me an ask with❓+ a character(s) name and I'll tell you what's the status of that character is within Transformers Original Continuity.

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So Tumblr is eating the entire first paragraph of all of my asks and I am mad. If you notice an ask seems to start in the middle of something, or is completely empty, please tell me, because I need to keep this shit afloat on the Rube-Goldberg machine that is Tumblr.

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8. Who in your cont would want to kiss IDW Overlord?

Oh, man... Absolute Zero and Moonracer are the two most likely contenders out of the main robot cast. Out of the main humans? Probably Keebler, followed in a close second by Zacharie, but Zacharie would only do it ironically.

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Cont Questions that Precisely Nobody asked for: Cursed Edition

For all your extremely cursed ask needs!

Special thanks to @sleeveev and @voidwingsprime or some of the questions here! This ask meme is for particularly cursed asks, either to the characters or creator of an original continuity, or AU. This is designed for Transformers continuities, but can be used for any project really.

1. Who in your cont has the worst taste in men?

2. Who in your cont would have been a member of the Superwholock fandom

3. Who in your cont would have simped for the Onceler?

4. Best guess for who’d be a tumblr sexyman in your cont

5. What bizarre fandom discourse would spawn as a result of your cont

6. Kiss, marry, kill for X, Y, Z

7. Who in your cont is most likely to own a body pillow and of whom

8. Who in your cont would want to kiss IDW Overlord

9. Who in your cont genuinely thinks TFP Starscream is attractive

10. Who is most likely to commit adultery

11. Who would send the Navy Seal copypasta in ironically

12. Who in your cont would write RPF

13. Who can quote the entire Bee Movie script with no hesitation

14. Who in-universe is considered to have the best thighs

15. Who Naruto runs

16. Who genuinely ships Reylo

17. Who has the biggest lips

18. Who simps for celebrities

19. Who thirsts for the most unattractive jerks for the most incomprehensible reasons

20. Who doesn’t chug their respect women juice and instead dumps it down the drain

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I'm interested in the history of cassettes too if you want to share?

Lovely Nonnie and @hashkivenu , here is your long-awaited cassette lore. Apologies for not getting to this post sooner, as I have Neurodivergence and that means when I update things it is in large but sporadic bursts.

Cassette history!

...well, it should be referred to as “cassettes”, as the cassette as we know it... never was an altmode. If it were, it would not serve the purpose that your usual cassettes serve in Transformers.

What are cassettes then, you might wonder?

Data slugs!

Ever since Cybertron began erasing history, Cybertronian evolution began to favor the data slug as an altmode. Now that information was being taken away so easily, the Cybertronian form naturally needed some way to better retain it, and increasing the likelihood of the offspring of a data slug being another data slug was evolution’s best bet. Data slugs are now the #1 must common altmode on Cybertron because of this.

The “deployer” part came about in a much stranger way. A Cybertronian inventor had a conjunx whose altmode was a data slug, and said data slug had a physical disability in which not enough fluid was ever able to reach their walking joints, making it very difficult for them to move around in root mode no matter how many limb replacements they received. This inventor designed a sort of plug that could be attached to their wrist, a plug that a data slug could plug into to easily be carried around in. This was known as a “data plug”. Keep that term in mind, it becomes very important.

Data plugs went through refinement and were eventually used for all sorts of Cybertronians, with the added convenience that it did not matter what your altmode was, anyone could wear a data plug as long as they were large enough. However, their method of releasing the slug was clunky and required multiple steps, being inconveniently time-consuming.

A Cybertronian weapons scientist sought to create a data plug with a simple, one-step ejection method. Unfortunately, their first prototype of ejection resulted in the data slug model being fired across the room, embedding itself into a wall. The scientific community got a bit of a laugh out of that one, and the ejection process was eventually refined to a simple button press that quickly and safely released the slug, but some began using this much more forceful method of ejection. One particular data-slug-and-data-plug duo used this to fire the slug at a target, a giant, living projectile attack.

More data plug advancements developed from here. An attachment that allowed someone with a data plug to recall a data slug in alt mode like a boomerang could clip to a data slug’s wrist. Data plugs could now plug directly into the processors of the plug wearer, able to easily send information to the processor of the data plug wearer. This information was no longer permanent, and would fade like a memory of watching a video, but it was still a useful addition to the data plug arsenal.

Nowadays, due to the sheer amount of data slugs in the world, many data slug Cybertronians have a data plug companion. Some data-slug-and-data-plug partnerships include Soundwave and veis four slugs, whom vi calls “cassettes” (Rumble, Frenzy, Ratbat and Ravage), Swindle and aurus two slugs (Laserbeak and Buzzsaw), and Chromedome with surs only slug and conjunx, Rewind.

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you're walking in downtown kaon. there's no one around and your comms are dead. out of the corner of your eye you spot him... ruthenus prime

Ruthenus Prime.

He’s supposed to be dead.

No. This was a trick of the light, for sure. There was rain on the ground - probably just a reflection of something, like how you see cars ahead on the road that aren’t there. This is normal, perfectly normal, nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong-

He begins to creep closer. Closer to you, but seemingly unable to see you.

You freeze. This is Ruthenus Prime, and he is alive. Three Primes have lived and died without knowing that the Prime before them was still alive.

You had to tell someone. You couldn’t leave something as important as a Prime being alive a secret.

But... what the hell was he doing here?

He was silent. He didn’t speak.

Was this an illusion?

He looks at you.

In an instant, he’s surprised, almost ashamed of himself. “Oh- I didn’t know anyone would be around here at this time of night!”

That doesn’t sound good. That sounds like it’s going to follow up with a question that gets you killed.

You keep silent, completely still. Don’t move, don’t look away, don’t look like you know what he’s up to.

In the corner of your vision, you notice something moving on... Ruthenus’s stomach?

You risk looking at it, looking away from Ruthenus’s face.

He notices you look away, and lunges.

You shriek.

His life-force for the day has been obtained.

Ruthenus - Rung, as he is now called in this second life - lets his optics fall out of his head, taking a closer look at his latest catch. They’re dangling from his optic sockets by a few wires, those few wires preventing them from falling straight off of his head and rolling around on the street.

He carves into the victim’s chest with a knife kept in his forearm compartment, searching for the most nutritious, life-giving energon - that which resides directly around the spark.

He didn’t expect to feed today, but it was much appreciated, he thinks, slicing up your spark casing as if it’s an orange and eating it slice by slice.

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Archive: what’s the history or worldbuilding behind x thing or event?

for the cassettes meeting Soundwave?

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I went WAY into worldbuilding for cassettes and how they work in SISM, but I’ll keep this answer to the worldbuilding behind Soundwave and veis specific cassettes - Rumble, Frenzy, Ratbat, and Ravage.

To summarize the entire paragraphs I wrote on the history of cassettes and how they’re deployed: cassettes are now data slugs, data slugs are one of the most common altmodes on Cybertron, and they’re ejected using extensions, with some of these extensions able to shoot them out at full force.

Rumble and Frenzy were orphaned due to both their parents perishing in a “factory accident”, and turned to street fighting to keep themselves somewhere in the realm of actually having money. Both of them found Soundwave through the Decepticons, choosing to join the rebellion once it was gaining traction and with Soundwave growing attached to both of them, viewing both of them as veis children of sorts despite not being all that much older than them (the Frumbles are the Cyb equivalent of about 16, and Soundwave is the Cyb equivalent of 24).

Ravage, on the other hand, was found by Soundwave. In this cont, Ravage isn’t necessarily a cat, more of... the best term I can use is ‘catboy’, DAMMIT I’ve put a catboy in my cont. Catboy crimes aside, it is part of a subspecies of data slugs that took on slightly more animalistic appearances. Ravage has never said a word about how it found Soundwave, and Soundwave has never said a word about how vi found it, but they’re very closely intertwined - some suspect the two are siblings, others that Ravage has been a spy working for Soundwave for many many years.

Ratbat is the oldest of the cassettes, much older than Soundwave, too. Originally the owner of a small but successful TV company, after fli allowed some very anti-government productions on fligs channels, fli was (nearly) government blackbagged and had fligs company dismantled due to some “infighting” that “grew too wild to control”. Left destitute and angry at government censorship, fli was left with a common choice of those left destitute in this world - join a gang or survive alone. In fligs case, fli knew fli couldn’t possibly hold fligs own, and joined a gang, in this case, a gang that soon osmosis’d into the Decepticons. Fli becomes an unwilling uncle of sorts to Rumble and Frenzy, who eventually drag him into the weird little family that is the cassettes.

If you want to learn about the history of cassettes, please ask, I wrote so much on it before realizing it didn’t relate to the question. But here’s your cassette lore.

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Frenzy and Rumble, who is Soundwave's favorite cassette?

Frenzy and Rumble look at each other.

They look back at Soundwave.

Vi’s asleep, Ravage resting on veis stomach.

“Well... it isn’t us, and it isn’t Ratbat.”

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do you want to explain how you get pronouns for everyone? I'm trying to figure out additional pronoun options for an au, so I'm curious how other people go about it

Oh, lovely Nonnie... I don’t know how to tell you that most of the time I just make shit up.   

In some cases, I use my own neopronouns. - Sey/sem/seir/seirself will be used for Wavecrash, an OC of mine who appears later - Tor/tors/torself I have tacked onto Pharma because unwilling hyperfixiation my abhorred   

In others, I’ll take the neopronouns I see other people use, like - treb/treble/trebles/trebleself for Rumble - thon/thons/thonself for Absolute Zero   

in others I’ll snatch some from other original continuities, mostly @rogue-seeker​ , who gave me - kha/khy/khyr/khyrself for Blackarachnia - sha/shi/shis/shiself for Starscream   

Most of the rest of the time, though, I just think of shit, which comes in three categories. There's "using the name", examples including - mu/mus/muself for Transmutate - wav/wavs/wavself (pronounced ‘wave, waves, waveself’) for Shockwave   

There’s “based on something that relates to the character”, things like - aur/aurum/aurus/auruself for Swindle (based on the Latin word for ‘gold’ because of course) - cam/cams/camself for Rewind (from ‘camera’) - lun/luna/lunaself for Moonracer (moon-themed neopronouns)   

And then there’s “Veev just thought of shit”, which include - tep/teps/tepself for Knockout - siv/sivs/sivself for Misfire - em/emer/emers/emerself for Chromia   

Hopefully that gives you insight into my general process - I use quite a few sources, even as a nonbinary person myself I have nowhere near the neopronoun smarts to know one to give to every character.

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for Windblade, RANK: How did you get to where you are? What were you before?

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“I come from Caminus.” Windblade is making kats way through a small stack of data pads as ka answers the question. “I was a natural leader, even back then. And when I saw that something needed to be done, I saw to doing it as quickly as I could. Caminus managed to nominate me for Prime.” Ka smiles just a bit as ka continues. “Apparently my youth appealed to over three-quarters of the entire population of Cybertron, and I was named Windblade Prime. As for what I was before... well, I wasn’t much. I was charismatic, but I was mostly just another citizen of Caminus, really.”

Chromia swept away a stack of data pads on Windblade’s desk, letting them fall to the ground, and splayed emers hands out on the desk. “Wind, please, you don’t need to be all humble.” Em turned to the askpad which was floating in front of Windblade, speaking to it. “Ka was never just another citizen of Caminus. The biolights of the Titan holding up Caminus glow when ka walks on them!”

“Chromia-”

“Ka’s ridiculously charismatic, ka won the position of Prime with the largest percentage of votes in Cybertronian history!”

“Chromia, please-”

“And now that ka’s Prime, ka’s come the closest to convincing the public to relax the bans on spirituality since the ban was enstated! And it’s been enstated since the day the Quints left Cybertron!”

Windblade laughed, “You don’t need to hype me up this much. Really, I don’t really come from much. Some say I was ‘born nowhere’.”

“And yet you are somehow the most perfect Cybertronian there is, Wind. You can hype yourself up if you want. Show a little pride in yourself!”

“Well, help me reorganize those datapads first, and then I can work on that.”

Chromia looked down at the datapads em had scattered on the floor. “Whoops.”