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I like the Constructicons for many reasons. Mostly two are the main, which are: they are NOT special snowflakes and they are not meant, theoretically, to be part of an army. They are workers, creators in some cases. They can be easy fuel for AUs and personal crafts, considering the shows and the biographies casted here and there.

I just know they are six people, six individuals with their own personal backgrounds and history if you want to forget for a moment that they are gestalt.

This is way I like to think that Scrapper is not just a commader/leader who bends everytime Megatron says something, but is in fact an engineer who finds his time to cultivate his passion for precision and, of course, art. Troublesome art, dreamy and dark and so very unsettling. He is stern and confident but he is also made of the stuff of a brother to the others. He has to see, to know, to understand.

Hook is not just some perfectionist who likes to straighten words or paths because he can, everytime he is putting a cutting remark or a judgement on someone shoulder he is not just humiliating someone, he is also reaching to himself. There's no perfectionist that doesn't know the fault of his own design. And he is always looking out, because there's nothing he could do or say that would ever reach his standards.

Long Haul doesn't whine just because he wants to, but because other people have to. He is the answer to every unbalanced consideration and situation, he makes things even where he can and he does that tiredly or aggresively. He has the tools to be charismatic and not just because he is a big guy. He understands every weight and every measure. And answer accordinlgy.

Scavenger is not just a scared soul. He is a competent soldier, a competent geologist and a competent scout. And in all of this, he has to find the means to make it all work with everything that wronged him in the past, which is a lot. He is born kind, and thoughtful, and an easy target to more dominant personalities, but never a prey.

Mixmaster is insecure. Of course he is in some measure, but never enough to question himself. He stutters because his mind, his ideas and his emotions are faster that his tongue and his personality his just as scattered as his speech. He can have no filters if not the ones needed to respect those who understand his core.

Bonecrusher comes from a dark place and he fights it every single day of his life, disguising and hiding behind a sneer because that way nobody would ever question his vulnerability. And his vulnerability is that his emotional sphere his bigger than his competence, than his constructed character and every gesture he could ever throw anybody's way.

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whenever people talk about working in an office i never even consider what their office does. they work at Business doing Business Things. have Meetings and Drink Coffee. you are a cartoon character to me

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I just signed up for a shit job, time for a glass of wine.

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by alaiganuza

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using tumblr as an excuse to repost bc i finally fixed bonecrusher’s typo … it was pissing me off

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Evgeny Sedukhin - “Symphony of the sixth blast furnace” (1979)

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Let's kidnap him 👀

They all have something to say.

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They all have something to say.

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a bad dream?

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A week or so and I'll start at a new working place and I'll have to get up before the sun even thinks to rise.

And I'm usually awake at night wondering where the jumping spider I've seen earlier has gone and if I'll eat it in my sleep.

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Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

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I've been listening to Pink Floyd for two days and now I don't think I can feel my body anymore.

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Monitor duty?