Spoiler "How dare you try to stomp on these people with like a bajillion undead titan monstrosities, they are MINE!" "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY CITYSPEAKER HOW DARE"
Hey I hope it's okay to put cosplay stuff in here but Spoiler: trashy traffic light I had a like a ton of help from KaidaShade and I'm still working on some bits... It's like... I've never made anything like this before even though I've been cosplaying for years so I don't know if it looks quite right but hey it's a first attempt (I'm also working on his gun/arm, but for the rest of the body I'm just gonna ~gijinka it~ because con is this weekend and I work 12 to 8 OTL It's also kinda simplified because first time but hey I just love my horrid son
concept: thundercracker custom designs his holoavatar to look just like Marissa, the way Ultra Magnus did with Verity. Because Thundercracker thinks the world of her, and if he's going to look like a human, why would he want to look like anyone ELSE?
Even better: He doesn't actually TELL her he's done this until they're going out on a stealth-mission/date/whatever together and it's too late to change it. He spends the rest of the night telling everyone that they're twins. Marissa is D O N E. ("MARISSA QUICK LETS SWITCH CLOTHES AND SEE IF THEY NOTICE!" "THUNDERCRACKER ISTG THIS IS THE LAST TIME I EVER DO ANYTHING WITH YOU.") (((secretly she's flattered)))
@spockandawe First I want to say that the song you dropped two pages ago is SUCH a Terminus song, thank you for introducing it it to me, and also have you heard Blue Sky Mine, by Midnight Oil? Because that is also a Terminus song, I think. 8D Spoiler: lyrics Hey, hey-hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Hey, hey, hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken A life that is led is no more than a token Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why If I yell out at night there's a reply of bruised silence The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why But if I work all day at the blue sky mine (There'll be food on the table tonight) Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine (There'll be pay in your pocket tonight) The candy store paupers lie to the share holders They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers The balance sheet is breaking up the sky So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue If the sugar refining company won't save me Who's gonna save me? But if I work all day... And some have sailed from a distant shore And the company takes what the company wants And nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground Who's gonna save me? I pray that sense and reason brings us in Who's gonna save me? We've got nothing to fear In the end the rain comes down Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town
nsfw dratchet pseudo-medical bondage adventures! For yet another strangely specific combination of my favorite kink things and usually-useless trivia knowledge (though still not as strangely specific as the jade/equius (not-kink) fic that was pinned on my knowledge of soft robotics manufacturing. What other niche is my next playground? IT IS A MYSTERY) (I kid, I actually know exactly what my next niche is. it's soundwave and reliability and maintenance engineering, maybe with a sprinkling of RCM if I ever dig up that old coursebook I need to dig up anyways)
so I was looking through MTME again today and I noticed Spoiler Red Alert HEY GUYS WHAT'S GOING ON GUYS????? someone save him
It is time... to reread exrid with my fancy new robot identification skillz. And not at all because I'm salty this is where they're putting all the mythbuilding. Shhhhh (Also, if anyone has a reading order for the branches after DC, would be appreciated.) Spoiler: exrid 1 ohhh my god Metalhawk My salty son. Is so salty. But pls to stop throwing bee under the bus, my son doesn't deserve this. (Let's see if my tfp-induced love of bee survives this readthrough, I remember I hated his narration last time.) ...bee, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but no, civvies don't automatically distrust military. They distrust both sides because you murdered Cybertron and half the fucking galaxy because yall were too prideful for a lasting ceasefire until a literal threat to all of existence. Also, retroactively, I spy jazz in the crowdshot :D My Boy Oh my goddddd it's the horrible pining couple No, boys, beating up civilians is not a good not-date Mhhhhhrrrrrrrr I still hate the ID chips What the fuck yall Bless Blurr Beeeeee don't trust Prowl, Prowl is made of bad decisions ...Ratbat still uses the title of "senator". Hmmmmmmm. Prowl Prowl you're saying this right in front of Soundwave (And because I had to go back up and make sure Soundwave actually is present: Starscream, at least two constructicons, both bird cassettes, Skywarp! Maaaaybe TC on an upper tier? Or just another blue seeker, aaand I'm like 80% sure that's Shockwave's tiddy.) Bee really shouldn't be in command, bit also neither should Prowl Man whoever's drawing this should not be allowed to I could do better with Bee's face and I can't even draw robots Oh my god wheeljack's fins glow??? I Love Metalhawk just casually doing a split mid-transformation nbd ~Assassination~ Man it's a good thing the Cons are playing the same game, woulda been hella awk to find out the ID chips don't work just then Spoiler: exrid 2 Man, I still can't recall who the dude with the back-rifle is. His face looks kinda like Bob's, is he one of the "sentient" insecticons? Bombshell? Was it Bombshell who did the mind control stuff? Also, the positioning of Soundwave's face is the same "sad (lack of) face" they use for Chromedome over in mtmte and now I'm sad Let the good boy have peace God I I wish I didn't know what's gonna happen to warp later It makes him being competent and deadly now hurt "Events will play out as they will" FUCK OFF WITH YOUR SINGULARITY FORESHADOWING SHOCKWAVE BLESS STARSCREAM Goooood I love all the neutral designs Both individually and as a less rigid, bulky counterpart to the warbuilds Bless Metalhawk Sides no WHAT THE FUCK BEE stop making me like you Prowl Bless Starscream I mean at least revenge is a better reason than cos you feel like it Prowl stop making me like you ARCEEEEE scream <3 Spoiler: exrid 3 WHEELJACK WHEELJACK WHEELJACK (Goddammit some of that is old Cybertronian why can I not translate it) Awwww cone trine Awwww barrel roll is a good egg WHAT YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LIKE HIM JUST TO KILL HIM HOW DARE THIS IS PIPES ALL OVER AGAIN Intergalactic currencies!! Bless wheeljack "No radiation" "Still hot" Writers. Writers please Thanks Metalhawk. Wheeeeeeljaaaaack :< Wheeljack and Scream getting along within ten minutes Bless Man fuck you Prowl "Down, Prowl" bEE <3 I accidentally deleted my liveblog of 4 instead of copying it to edit in, but rest assured it was mostly varying tones of "proooowwwwlll" and yelling about Insecticons Spoiler: exrid 5 Beeeeee scream SKY-BYTE Beeeeee Prooooooowwwwwl I know it's the mind control but I wanna punch him in the dick Bless ironhide I love Blurr Ironhide that might not be the best thing to say to prowl Spoiler: exrid 6 Uuuuuuugh I don't care about Optimus Shockwave no This is nice setup but no Yooooo what the shit Oh this is all setup for DC Awkward exposition is Awkward Also wow this is really bad even for ramondelli, the textures can't save those faces well maybe monstructor would like you better if you didn't keep calling himthem "it" NO I mean I'm p sure wheelie comes back but N O Spoiler: exrid 7 bless wheeljack Man someone hug Metalhawk, he deserves better than babysitting these disasters Okay but pitch screambee OH MY FUCKING GOD HAVE THEY BEEN SETTING THE BRAINSTORM ARC UP FOR THIS FUCKING LONG Bless wheeljack Spoiler: exrid 8 Beeeeee "I like this! I like listening to you two! You guys have issues!" me too swoop Man I'm gonna miss these guys Spoiler: exrid 9 bless wheeljack and his sass natural combiners natural combiners natural combiners yall Bee :c Spoiler: exrid 10 time for more shenanigans! I do enjoy the rhyme phrasing-- rhythm must be important with the whole time thing-- but that's all this issue really has going for it. And reminding me who the hell Bludgeon is, but. Spoiler: exrid 11 Prowl has like. Overlord-tier luscious lips in this chapter and it's kinda freaking me out On the other hand, Metalhawk is now so pretty I didn't recognize him. ARCEE HOW DARE YOU KICK HER ASS RUMBLE Oh no Oh no frenzy's face oh no starscream's face Spoiler: exrid 12 god, watch Starscream desperately try to get megatron dead Heeeere comes the riot! Literally tearing up here over wheeljack and Screamer Stop!! Hurting!! Wheeljack!!
one of the terrible things i would do is commit theft under $5000* *(obligatory I Am Joking And Have No Intention To Commit A Crime disclaimer)
Still no desktop, so still time to bingeread exrid. Spoiler: 2012 annual? Compilation of annuals? What even is viewcomic Scream, Prowl, and... Yet Another Big Blue Dude. Welp. Until proven otherwise I'm reading these classic-styled bits as post-Nova propaganda, because dude didn't unite jack shit, he just picked up the pieces after everyone else died or left. Scream are you just monologuing for the fun of it or Me too scream but also: Metalhawk deserves better than playing babysitter Bless Cyclonus Oh my god That's a beautiful joke but also what the fuck sides Blurr is the saltiest fuck and I love him Oh booooooy here comes nova's descent into megalomania The Evil Communism parallels are strong Just once can we have a hivemind that's a positive entity/society? "0.6 Brainstorms" bless Between Miko and this I'm starting to think Wheeljack is just bad at keeping people out of places Goddammit why do we have to lose you soon :< Spoiler: exrid 13 okay so the annual really was That Long, let's go screeeeeaaaam :c Me too wheeljack Prooooooowwwwwwl "I know it's the mind control but I want to kick you in the dick" should probably just be my user title at this point I'm upset with arcee for threatening my boy but also: hot damn SHUT UP MEGATRON GO BACK TO YOUR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT HOLE AND LEAVE SCREAMER ALONE :c Spoiler: exrid 14 when megatron and Prowl don't look out of place on the same side you know something's up "It's not a trap if we know it's a trap" bEE I like trains ouo iiiiiii forgot that happened Bee's face D: shut up megatron also, Screamer :C stop killing my boys [Bangs hands on table, chanting] DINOBOTS DINOBOTS DINOBOTS Spoiler: exrid 15 Jazz!! stop!!! Making me!! Like!! And sympathize with!! Prowl!!!!! God, just. "I am Prowl. I am." I needed that heart give me jazz/skybyte in some flavor of redrom omg Bless arcee I love the Cons I'm sorry Frenzy and Skywarp are both A++ awwwww lookit the mind link setting in "You had me at 'shoot hundreds of Decepticons'." Sides :DDDD Spoiler: exrid 16 scream :C Bless rumble arcee bee :c MY BOY KICK HIS ASS SCREAMER I GOT YO FLOWER Today on "things we're only allowed to print because they're robots": there's no other way I'm just gonna have to decapitate me there it is There goes my heart Goddammit scream
Back from the convention and oh my GOD there was like a full suit KO cosplayer and they looked hella great. I've never seen a TF cosplayer at this con until yesterday where there also happened to be a TFP cosplayer afdfijdsfafdfdafdf Also finished (?) SW cosplay below, though now I've worn it once I'm going to see if I can modify a ton of things and maybe try to make an actual full suit in future. It was pretty comfortable though there's a bunch of things I can improve on I think ? Spoiler: photos both taken by kaidashade, wwww the second one was her idea OTL asdfasdfafddf my apologies for clogging the thread, I don't have anywhere else to post this
