Bad ideas I get when I'm sleepy - Undertale/Transformers crossover where Mettaton is a cassette player/radio model like Blaster and Soundwave. Napstablook and Mad Dummy Ghost are his symbiotes. Napstablook rarely comes out from docking and Mad Dummy just. Attacks everything. It is very hard to live the life of a superstar with those two, but family is family!
It's good that I can fall back on these silly things when I feel too jittery to create properly, because it seems like 'too jittery to create properly' is like 99% of my life these days Spoiler: one with suicidal ideation, barely any robogore
the problem with having mechanically-inclined siblings is that I can't trust "look at this ratchet!" to mean Grumpy Robot Doctor Dad. save me.
so i actually came around and actually made a reference picture for Tempest Dive AKA Ilma Nordwind the Transformers version. @Arxon knows what I'm talking about, this is partially their fault ETA: dang you still cant read my text Name: Tempest Dive Alt Form: Jet Job: Storm Chaser. Aka: flies into storms and takes readings Very stable flier with propellers, because turbines tend to die in environments like that. Can vary her wing angle. Less slant means higher stability, higher slant is higher speed & maneuverability for overland flight towards and from storms. Cockpit tiddy. Has soil patches in her head, from which roses grow. Character: Loves flying, and loves taking nosedives down eyes of the storm. Loves speed and aerial views. Who even knows where the roses come from. A bit strange, at times. Probably has an actual garden. Colour scheme: Mid-blue basecoat, with grey cloud decals. White eyes.
I was trying to figure out how to implement Ilma's hair in her robot form, and her flower crown, and this ended up being a way to implement it ::D That is also kinda wtf-y. My first thought was a lot of cables with different jacks looking like hair, but depending on your headcanons, @IvyLB correctly remarked that that might be seen as hella lewd.
So uh, I'm up to chapter 40 in TGWP and wow. Wow. This is... basically everything I've ever wanted in a slave kink fic fill turned political thriller. Have I mentioned how much I love this fandom. (Incidentally, 683 pages, on the smallest text setting, in my nook. Nothing makes a happier PR than a fic well over 400 pages.)
I'M RE-READING IT AGAIN........ Spoiler: gushing about tgwp it's just. everything i didn't know i needed in my life.... the relationships, the tension, all the different expressions of affection, the twistedness, the mystery, the way that the reader is encouraged to fall into the 'well this slavery is ok because he loves him' trap and then jazz (or silverbolt) drops an anvil on them (and also on soundwave).... the symbiotes.... everything about the symbiotes.... everyone is so tactile..... i love... tactility..... aaauuuughhh will i ever be free??? hopefully not
Spoiler: me talking about tempest dive so going down the rose hair line, and the thing where if she's caminusian she's gotta do some sort of art, which would be photography and modeling (covered in rose "hair")... tempest dive's holomatter avatar looks like a turkish girl, and she has a variety of outfits, because yolo, and because model. all somehow connected to roses. sleeping beauty/auroras dresses (and maleficents outfit, just in blue), a rose bride dress, rose lalondes outfits, probably rose quartz dress, mystery skulls lewis' suit... most of those in a blue versions tho (or blue accents instead of, say, purple) and im taking suggestions
YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS i just discovered something wonderful "hey apple is that what i think it is?" why YES, my hypothetical friend, it IS what you think it is!! it IS a commissioned illustration of TGWP soundwave and jazz playing hax, ft. the cassettes, by MTMTE's very own alex milne!!!!!!!!
aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Oh my god, how did you find that? It's more perfect than I ever could have imagined ;_;
I wish that I could say my discovery was the product of a clever investigation but NO i literally just googled "jazz soundwave these games" cause i figured SOMEONE had to have done fanart..... LITTLE DID I KNOW.....
After some digging, I can't for the life of me find the silly thing on tumblr, so I can't even properly rebagel it :C I went through Alex Milne's entire transformers tag. So I guess I'll just leave it in a tab in firefox for the rest of forever, gazing at it longingly and whispering 'art goals' (it's next in my art queue, but gahhhh, why does cross-stitch take so much time? fanfic is so much faster to turn around when a giant chunk of every day is getting sacrificed to the embroidery gods, but it doesn't scratch the same itch. and the logical answer would be to put cross-stitch on hold, but... i can't. it takes all my self-control not to spend all my hours on that thing until suddenly it's three in the morning and i can't feel my fingers anymore)
