Ooooooh, so, Ten got painted up all pretty with flowers. That was Grotusque who did that for him. And when I was a thinking of that, it brought me around to how we've seen very few people ever do a KIND thing for Ten. And Grotusque was one of the mutineers who ditched them on the planet. And Ten knows that Grotusque did that. But hey, Ten has other friends here. And.... it looks like those friends are completely ignoring him as he tries to tell them an important, helpful thing. When Ten goes out to follow/help Ravage, he is aware that he has been rejected by just about EVERYBODY he could have expected to treat him decently. And... then Ravage shamelessly sets him up to draw all of the DJD's fire. Everybody in the stranded group is having a really rough time of it in their own ways, but godDAMN, Ten is making me sad.
Arcee. This is a whisper into your satellite dish This is a death threat in cross stitch and I demand a hostage And then I want a motor boat And then I'll let your hostage go It's like life is a death bound train And every day is just a stop along the way And every era is the modern age for the people in it Every prayer is paramount for the owner of the steepled fingers I knew better but I'd hope for better boy Boy, I'd hope for better than this A veteran never forgets no matter what she forgives No matter what she forgives
Dust Up/Jumpstream, roughly 2k, nsfwishhh And it is a tragedy that I haven't gotten around to playing with these guys before now, because oh my god, I LOVE THEM. This worked out so nice and natural that I'd really, really better play with them again soon. My archives do not have nearly enough f/f in them, but these two are a delight just on their own merits.
I have had A Terrible Thot Spoiler: recent Lost Light things which are true: 1) we don't know yet how bringing someone back to life with the Mystery Hand Artifact works 2) Anode has only successfully a blacksmithing with Kaput involved 3) Kaput is a sneaky suspicious little unicycle and most if not all of his plans are Very Sus consider: if the Mystery Revivification Object only brings back the spark, and Skids needs a new body... cue things going wrong when Anode tries to go it alone? Or things going right and Lug's force-growth being called into question I am excited
Spoiler There are suspicious fake brittle/old/WRONG bodies lying around for some reason. And presumably the materials to make these bodies. Anode doesn't have another crystalized snowflake doodad like she did for Lug, but... what if she could use some of these other body ingredients instead! She totally blacksmithed right once, so she can definitely do it again! Right? Basically, the freaky young-but-old mechs she ran into... imagine Skids coming back as something like that. Where there's something intrinsically wrong in how his body was made, a la how @coldstars wrote about Rung and the crystals for cold constructed mechs, and being able to tell that they weren't strong/stable. Also, from a meta perspective, I'm pretty sure that JRO said a thing a while back about how he regretting having Red Alert survive the self-decapitation suicide attempt, because it made it feel like death didn't count. I'm..... feeling very very nervous about how Skids is going to come back, because unless something EPIC happens, a no-strings resurrection is going to feel way more forced than 'we found red alert right afterwards and managed to stabilize his spark'. The best doctor on cybertron was standing over Skids with equipment to monitor his spark, and pronounced him dead, and then he sat around being dead for at the very least a day or two until Kaput got situated. Honestly right now the most likely best case scenario I'm seeing is mmmaybe a very temporary resurrection thing where his body is not sustainable but he can say goodbye? But I'm really kind of doubting they'll even make it that far. There are soooo so many things that have been glossed over by the characters that are primed to go wrong at any moment.
Uuugh I want it to be on viewcomic! I should definitely be getting Lost Light from Comixology at this rate.
Spoiler: LL 9 So Nautica ends up worse off than when she came for nothing, imo. Her grief was destroying her, but... to remove her feelings for Skids is only slightly healthier than what Chromedome does to herself. This is gonna have echoes.
Spoiler: LL9 Holy shit man. Wonder how it wound up in Mengel's possession...Roddy, where'd you leave it that you thought it was safe? And I'm glad Velocity called out how implausible some of Kaput's stuff sounds, even if I'm so fucking sad that Nautica doesn't have any feeling left in her memories of Skids. To the point where she doesn't even understand why she'd do any of this, up to the point of selling her grief and friendship, to save him
Spoiler: LL09 Super glad she finally decided she wasn't going to lose Lottie and hurt Lottie just to maybe get Skids back.
Spoiler Her timing could have been better and there's a definite implication that she could only think through that clearly once she no longer loved Skids, yes. Which is why I am saying that Nautica gained nothing from this attempt and lost a lot. Not just Skid's brain, which I'm guessing is going to come back later to bite them, but her love for Skids. And also now she's got scary people who saw her and Lottie and are going to want to take care of witnesses, even if Anode and Lug kind of already drew the attention of that group.
Spoiler I mean I don't even think it counts as thinking clearly - she didn't realize why her reason was bad or what the consequences would be - she had her reason for wanting to do taken away. She can't even figure out why she felt so strongly about it at all.
Spoiler If I were wordsing better today, I would love to draw parallels between this and what was done to Shockwave. When Nautica loses the feelings (or maybe just loses access to the feelings...) that were a vital part of her grief and her memories of Skids, she loses that whole entire perspective on her own decision making process. It's not quite the same, because Shockwave got all his emotions scooped out like ice cream, but you can see how Nautica's sudden lack of grief impacts her logic
Spoiler Although it's definitely good she stopped the process, right? Unless... oh god is this going to cause neurological damage beyond what it'd normally do? Oh man this is going to CRUSH Rung.
bingeing comics is totally what people do with their sick days right Spoiler: TAAO 5 Shut uuuuuup sentinel staaarscreeeeeeeam you self-sabotaging trash fire "pursuant to blah blah blah" starscream starscream hot damn lead baby lead Razorbeast looks rad as fuck, I wanna see their alt starscream (I feel like half this liveblog is just "starscream" in varying tones of voice) dramaaaaaa god that would be beautiful animated awwwwwwwwwww breakdown oh my god those puppy eyes starscream baby fuck I forgot ll9 came out last night okay revolution readthrough temporarily on hold Spoiler: ll9 I like this dude correction: I like this chick nautica no goooooood Lost Light really is "grief fucks everyone up" bitch don't you even "I'm more offended by that than how you say it" bless you anode anode and roddy should have a sass-off anode is just anode what I don't think anyone expected that alt 8C flame needs to stop looking like roddy cmon roddy come back and punch this rip-off lotty deserves better uM oh my god what [chanting:] SHIFTERS SHIFTERS SHIFTERS GIVE! ME! ADAPTUS! CULT! GIVE! ME! AMALGAMOUS! CULT! "how are we going to get past the guards?" [nautica SMASHES THROUGH A WALL] bl e s s 8C I wanted creepy revivified skids... "first self-repairing cybertronian" well there goes fanon ...huh. Well. I'm still gunning for an artifact of Mortilus, but I think I'll be happy with whatever is goin on with this ball. okay back to my regularly scheduled crossover leadup Spoiler: TAAO 6 well that doesn't bode well lovely detailing on the broken optic band, but uh ...god it just hit me that this is gonna be one more 'proof' for starscream that he can't ask anyone for help, they'll just leave him to die knock out murdering a fucking zombie titan for messing up his paint job is so fucking him I just love my boy genuine admiration Starscream<3<Windblade is canon yall power pitch couple here to wreck your shit "15 minutes and one harebrained scheme later" the narrator continues to be a snarky shit god I know red guy isn't swerve but he looks so much like swerve "I think you underestimate the depth of my pettiness" bless u starscream
OH BOY LL9 IS OUT ON VIEWCOMICS FINALLY Spoiler: LL09 Well that cover is doing me a worry Nautica- Nautica no holy shit don't sell your arm off secondhand grief discreetly imported oh my god. I love that kind of weird shit Yep here's the pay-off for that seeded bit about brain/spark cross contamination we got from Kaput. NAUTICA NO THAT'S A LOW BLOW Poor lotty :c UM??? NO???? WHAT THE FUCK? Nauts don't do something stupid D: .... i love you anode. asdfghjk honey no you're pissing him off. BLESS YOU ANODE The good old 'Look what I found in my pocket, oops it's a fist to punch you with' trick Nautica what the actual fuck How can anyone be mean like this to poor sweet lotty??????ß Nautica no. JRO how dare you break up my beautiful adorable girls :C "The infinite" huh >:CCCCC Mengel is a really really weird name tbh But I like that she's a she despite not looking a tiny bit feminine. WHAT You fucking douchewalnut Poor Lotty I hope she will fix things somehow "I'm saying he turned into everything" Shiftersshiftersshiftersshifters!!!!!!!!!!! "This is where you stand aside." "This is where you make me!!" Oh my god I love you Velocity. You go honey! Knock 'em dead! Awww NAUTICA! Bless them all Awww Nautica!!! God Velocity is extra pretty this issue. The look is good on her. .... oh that's.... that's sad :c (Probably a plothook to go back into CDs issues tho i'm betting) WELL THEN SELF REPAIRING HUH THAT'S THE CRADLE OH BOY """"The magnificience"""" dude that's even worse than resus cradle (also the framing suggests I should know who this is. I do not know who this is. Who is this?) MYSTERY DUDE TOTALLY HAS SKIDS' BRAIN THO THAT'S NOT GOOD
