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GOD i love the stupid april fools themes on tumblr

update:

everyone, immeidately after i posted this: get booped. idiot.

#citrus rambles #help girl. im being booped. /j #still trying to figure out how to do super boops. it will happen. [shakes my fist]

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no context right now but..................

primus as venus and unicron as mars.................?

#the god of procreation and the god of war.... #im going somewhere with this but i dont quite know where yet #[frothing at the mouth] im normal about primus and unicron being dual gods of war and destruction #but then having everyone assume that primus is the peaceful one #you can go quietly into death - but the process of life is often one you have to bite scratch and claw to overcome #also... why would the matrix turn so many primes into weapons of war unless thats what primus wanted them to be...? #again. going somewhere with this - but i dont know where just yet. #maybe an au for optimus relinquishing his quote unquote divine rights and preaching sacrilage because he deserves to be a mech. not a weapo #which would be juxtaposed by megatron's exact sentiments on the subject but in FURTHERANCE of his own power #optimus voice: please take this fucking thing. get it off me!!!! #megatron: im trying but your tits are in the way and also count as weapons of mass destruction

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Highly marketable tv announcer voice: Have you recently suffered from an injury sustained in a motor vehicle accident?

... Would you like to?

#citrus rambles #swindlecore #delete

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hey speaking about megatron's relationships with people: tfes megatron unofficially considering dot his amica.

like, he never admits to it, and its never really vocally explained, but when mechs get too close to her, he wraps her in his field as if she's bonded to him, and he treats her children as if they were his own (including the terrans! yay, free children!)

mechs will actively avoid getting on dot's bad side SPECIFICALLY because they can feel the remnants of megatron's spark field on her and her family

also, if there ever comes a point where everyone thinks dot's dead, megatron's spark would probably contract with phantom pains of a bond that was never there - he would howl like his limbs were just cut off, and he'd go into a rampage until someone could calm him down - possibly one of the kids, but also possibly alex, because of course megatron would find solace in dot's conjunx.... alex would be the only person in the universe who could possibly understand megatron's agony.

also, megatron gifting dot his innermost energon in a teeny tiny vial, just for her delicate human hands. she has no clue what it is, but she knows its significant because of the way that megatron gives it to her, and she keeps it tucked away on her nightstand next to a picture of her, alex and the kids, and sometimes when megatron peaks his big ol head up to greet her in the morning, he looks into the window and sees it and his spark pulses warmly...

#YUP still thinking about them!!! #megatron #dot malto #storytime #hmmmm im considering whether or not i shold tag this with their ship tag.... i consider platonic... #...relationships JUST as important as romantic ones.... but i dont know if i would technically be... #...overflowing a SHIP tag with something that i know many people only consider FRIENDship. #lmk yalls opinions if you happen to be reading this - very curious about the consensus on that.

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currently thinking about tfp kobd.......... with megatron....?

knockout being this promiscuous AND presumptuous force on the nemesis really does just make me 👀👀👀

like, after a while of being just a LITTLE too overfamiliar and poking megatron's buttons too hard, knockout just realizes that, other than kind of growling about it, megatron doesn't really.... DO anything to punish him for being flirty - so he keeps sort of testing the boundaries, over and over again, just to see where the line is.... and he eventually comes to the realization that there really ISNT a line so long as hes not doing anything in front of other decepticons - megatron only really lashes out when theres an audience.... which gets knockout thinking...

after months of sort of dancing in and out of growls and admonishing swipes, knockout brings in breakdown to help him acclimate megatron into their "partnership" - both breakdown AND megatron are just sort of following knockout's lead in this case, allowing the mech to sort of move them around and mechhandle them into sitting near (or on!) each other, sharing cubes, the works.

breakdown is kind of nervous about it at first, but he sees what knockout sees: that megatron isn't really pushing back from their version of affection, and for megatron, the lack of violence is like a glowing invitation to keep it coming - theres no way megatron would just lay back and take whats doled to him if he didn't actively want it in some way. and it made sense. megatron wasn't a mech that could just ASK for soft things, like casual touches or flirty remarks, but he COULD deign to "ignore" them and allow them to keep happening... right?

also, breakdown is a very down-to-earth mech (if youll excuse the pun). he's not really one for being starstruck, so him behaving casually isnt just some shallow attempt at getting close to megatron for the sake of his own rank/safety, so megatron probably isn't very threatened by knockout constantly pairing them together on things, especially when cuddlepuddles start to happen around their shared spaces 😳

megatron isn't used to being touched with care, and probably doesn't much care for it, except that when knockout does it, its not because he thinks megatron is fragile, its because he knows the worth of megatron's bodily autonomy. in the same way that breakdown is a delicate touch for knockout, knockout is for megatron.

and when breakdown touches with a firmer, more steady hand, its not becuse he wants to bruise or command, its because he's used to holding strong weapons, and while megatron isn't one of his tools, he's certainly dangerous enough to be one, and its not like megatron is going to break just by moving him to a better spot on the couch to relax on...

anyways. tsundere megatron being flitted around by the very annoying but unbearably sexy doctor, knockout and his handsome, annoyingly strong nurse, breakdown aklsjdklajdska

#megkobd #storytime #knock out #breakdown #megatron #ask for tags ig asdkljaksdj #if this vaguely based on the scene redraw i did years ago? yes. AND WHAT.

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okay ive been having some thoughts about drift's endura situation and im developing plans for what his polycule actually looks like, but mostly im imagining him having all these conjunx and amica that are like, just absolute GOATed mechs - the prime, the greatest medic on cybertron, the two most powerful scientists on cybertron, and then.... just... pipes.

im OBSESSED with relationships that are about one guy whos extremely dangerous and important, and another guy whos just like. a dude. doesn't do anything amazing or unthinkable in his spare time. maybe has a couple of dying plants, fostered a kitten as a young adult, goes skiiing (badly) once or twice a year. nothing at all special or overall gasp-worthy.

drift is just SURROUNDED by powerful people, and is a very powerful person himself, but i just imagine him looking at pipes and going "you were the only one who was normal to me when everyone else was scared that i was going to turn. i will give my life for you." and pipes is just like "sounds great. wanna beat my ass at jenga?" and he Does.

ANYWAYS.

drift and pipes amica endura 4eva pls and thank you <3

#citrus rambles #ALSO. drift thirdy wheeling all of pipes dates and just silently waiting for them to fuck up so he can drag them to the bad and threaten... #...them aslkdjakljsda - mechs just going #Is That Fucking DEADLOCK???? #and pipes being like #his name is drift and hes my amica. :) #while drift sits next to him and polishes his swords while yautja-staring. like. try me bitch. make him sad and we'll see if anyone can fin #... your body. #drift #pipes #story time #fr though im hopefully going to be making SOMETHING EVENTUALLY for drift's cuddlegang. #after my insecticon phase anyways [eyes emojis]

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i know that im also a contributor in fanon of the moe-y, twinkification of tfa optimus, but now im imagining a more beastwars-esque tfa optimus who is burnt out - not in a college ex-fratboy way, but in a "everything was too expensive they fucked me for someone elses mistake and now i work at the space equivilent of a gas station and i fucking hate it" - with all the usual dangers of gas stations as well, by the way.

i think the autobots have kept optimus so long in this rag tag team of screw-up space bridge repairmechs because he's the only mech so far who hasn't LOST a crew. there are SO many dangerous things out there in the general universe - space barnicles, space pirates, roving bands of disgraced, pissed off decepticons... the list is possibly endless - not to mention entire crews that have just. slowly lost members, one by one, into space, or even inside a space bridge while it malfunctioned.

optimus is like, HYPERCOMPETENT. he doesn't get distracted enough to let one of his crew fly off into space. he has grapplers to bring them back. he has the load capacity to move all their cargo. his tactics and reflexes reflect a keen and opportunistic mind, which is only tempered by a kind and compassionate nature that keeps popping up, no matter how hard he tries to push it down.

he's also super charismatic. there are FEW mechs that actively dislike him, the two most prominent being SENTINEL and ULTRA MAGNUS. like. cmon.

so optimus is literally a natural leader. he's nearly maxed out on every attribute except wisdom, and even then, he's got this hidden luck stat that kicks in whenever he really needs it. he's optimus fucking prime, and he can reroll those bad encounters into something truely amazing because the universe will NOT allow him to DIE.

with all that in mind, it's really no WONDER why optimus never left earth. yeah they were KIND OF stuck there, but it was also nice to be appreciated for his work. his crew were all misfits who, while they appreciated him, didn't know how to express themselves or were actively trying NOT to get attached to him, or they saw him as a nagging mother hen. and he was kicked off of cybertron and put indefinitely onto one of the most crap jobs a cybertronian could be on - its like being told by upper management that your position is "just temporary" until they can "hire someone to take your place" and then theyll DEFINITELY "promote you" and give you a higher salary [hiding crossed fingers behind their back]. at least on earth people acknowledge him as someone worth looking up to. he may not be a hero, but he's at least good at what he does

and when the worst really did come to happen, what did he do? he slammed a fucking electrified hammer into megatron's face while juking seekers on a homebrew jetpack and also getting blown up by the child-television version of an atomic bomb. and fucking survived. my GOD. the bearings on this mech. and after that, what did he do? did he do the EASY thing and just kill megatron there, ensuring the safety of himself and the rest of his crew? no. he did the RIGHTEOUS thing and brought megatron back to cybertron to stand TRIAL. motherfucker was like "even YOU have rights" (while of course knowing that megatron would also be facing justice for all the shit he perpetrated with the decepticons, but hot damn!)

anyways.

more chainsmoking, 2 cent hotdog eating, hidden intellectual optimus prime PLEASE [holding out my hands while on my knees]

#citrus rambles #storytime #optimus prime #hes so badass.... i need to stop turning him into a little china doll just because i like having a weak autobot flirting with a powerful... #...decepticon. need to make more tfa megop where the relationship is more equal in power - which to be frank... i DO think... #... megatron would find more sexy - imagine having a sparkmate who couldn't FIGHT... EW. aklsdjaklsdj

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caption translation: "just looking at this building can make you spontaneously combust"

(based on this pic vvv)

#brainstorm #sketch #meme #in a brainstorm mood rn.... hrmmmmm

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the full story of Optronix' transition journey alskdjkalsdj

orion pax, designing her own body after seeing ariel/elita one’s amazing transformation: estrogen time babey! :)

optimus prime, in a body designed to house the matrix by some dusty old senator: yo where tf did my tiddies go

#citrus rambles #optimus prime #her her her her her her her her her #i may be obsessed with transfem optimus uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hee hee hee.... #also: ough. constantly fighting with myself about drawing femms. i want it to be clear that theyre more femm... #...but also.... #... i think the idea of cybertronians having gender that doesnt conform to human norms is so sick #just imagine a transformer. a quote unquote mech. like prowl. now imagine that prowl just... #...LOOKS like that... but is actually a femm #like that is so awesome to me #might draw more quote unquote normal looking optimi in the future and just note in the tags that shes femm but who knows #maybe ill just make her a little curvier more often #aksljdlkasjd #srb

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cheese! [ca-chich]

#hashtag #tfes #very rough but i needed SOMETHING for femfeb #just been sitting on the sketch and hemming and hawing about things #in better news i do have plans to draw more but im going to be proactive in my likely uh #procrastination of said art #and say that i have no IDEA when its going to be done. not a clue. gonna just. see where my brain #and my time #take me and just go from there

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quick mockup of the main cast from the security breach au that i never posted - figured i would toss this out into the general stream and just do sketches for the rest at a later date asdfghj

#transformers #optimus prime #jazz #prowl #ratchet #security breach au #this is so old its not even funny

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okay im still thinking about this. dreadnought-class titans who keep passing shuttles between each other like carriers passing symbionts.

fleetmates using groundbridges to send supplies and paperwork and personel back and forth, like when you drive a couple hours to bring a gift to a friend who lives a couple hours away from you

titan class mechs staying in orbit because there's literally just too many to touch down on the planet theyre visiting, and very carefully modulating their stationary flight path so after a day, the planet does a full 360 and the patrons that left the fleet can go right back to where their ships were when they first came to the planet

fleets of ships using synchronisity to scare away would-be threats, like when schools of small fish bunch up to look like a larger fish - only instead of small fish its like an entire continent's worth of titans all turning to look at a single pirate freighter and watching as it attempts to backtrack and haul ass away

fleetmates who "playrough" by getting VERY close to each other during flight, like they're playing chicken. or aiming their missiles at each other jokingly - organics on nearby ships get as far away as they can but never realize that theres no animosity between the actions - the cain instinct exists even in giant robots

ships that become as attached to their passangers as cityformers are - often keenly missing passengers who only come on board to be ferried to colonies, and even trying to "steal" potential passengers from colony worlds by offering "great board and services" for mechs that want to live their lives doing space travel (which the cityformers HATE and rage about internally but what 'cha gonna do?)

new idea: battleships need trinemates. well, maybe not really trinemates so much as fleetmates. large, titan-class voyagers are perfectly content just to have crew, but they also should have more titans in their vacinity to keep them stable, so its often considered a kindness and also good luck to have at least two ships go on a voyage together, even if the other ship isn't really needed for crew, it can easily carry all the cargo and just toddle behind its other fleetmate(s).

a lot of organic races that get visited by these large fleets just put up the fucking white flag until they get a comm from the captain of the voyage who's all like "hey, we're all here on vacation!.... by the way "all of us" also means our ships! please put down your turrets, we can see them shaking from here lol" and the organics are like "oh fuck right they can transform and shit thank fuck" and let them all in

of course, then theres just dozens of giant, warframe ships just chilling in the ports, every so often wriggling their winglets with strong enough gusts of wind to knock over passing pedestrians and firing up their engines and blasting dust into the viewports of their fleetmates like rowdy children, but as long as no one starts pointing missles, everything turns out just fine!

#citrus rambles #transformers #storytime #srb

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okay so this is kind of pathetic but i have basically tricked myself into self-care tasks by imagining my blorbo (shockwave, of course) doing and excelling at the same basic, everyday stuff that i didn't want to bother doing. and uh. its actually working???? i have brushed my teeth, gone to sleep early, taken my vitamins, and had a shower every day (barring a couple of late work days) for the last like month. its honestly SHOCKING (no pun intended).

so if you, yourself, have a sort of strict, pragmatic blorbo who you can rotate around in your mind for all hours of the day, then please, i beg of you, imagine them brushing their teeth. and flossing. and taking care to scrub with a body towel while showering. you might just find yourself inspired to replicate them aklsdjklasdj

#citrus rambles #yeah no clue how to tag this otherwise... #my thought process of course started out innocently enough #i thought to myself - out of the blue - that shockwave would probably just DO all the things that i usually dont feel... #...like i have energy for. brushing his teeth and seeing a doctor and trimming his nails... #...all basic things that people NEED to do. he would just . DO IT. because for shockwave... #...having a poorly run body would probalby be bad for his work. he needs to be at peak performance... #...to make sure he gets his tasks done while ensuring that his body will last longer and stronger than... #...if he WASNT doing those things. #so yeah. ive tricked myself into the most mundane of self-care activities because my favorite character is a pragmatism machine aklsdjaksdj #also ive been drinking MILK at least once every day #and its not like i dislike milk - i just dont like thick liquid in general - water is my prefered drink.... #...but im drinking milk every day because calcium is a vitamin i know i need more of. so here i am. doing my silly little selfcare tasks... #...and frollicing around just imagining shockwave (humanformer of course) brushing his teeth and doing his laundry and folding his clothes.

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hey, speaking of gijinkas and holoform avatars, i think tfes megatron would initially just make an exact replica of dot because of how much he likes her, and then would have had to sit through a long and slightly awkward but flattered conversation about why it was Not a Good Idea for his holoform to look EXACTLY like her she didnt mention how weird it would be if her husband accidentally flirted with megatron while dressed in a dot hologram but she would think about it a LOT so now megatron's holoform looks like an uncanny valley version of dot instead, but of course he's dressed in full grey camo military garb instead of dot's ranger uniform so when regular humans see them together they just assume that dot and "megan" are sisters who went into different branches of the government/military askldjaksldj

#tfes #storytime #megatron #dot mention #im not drawing humans for femfeb but this IS giving me ideas alskdjalksdj #speaking of which i'll probably start posting sketches on the weekends - dont know if i'll have time to actually polish them up but we'll.. #...see how i feel on the weekend! #also not to get too real in a post about tfes - but i think maybe megatron would feel an even STRONGER kinship with dot after walking in... #...her shoes - so to speak - especially when dealing with sexism - cause even though he LOOKS like a fairly thin human woman - he KNOWS... #...how STRONG both he and dot are - and it will come from a place of just not having the right cybertronian correlation but also from... #...technically being a genderless being - just how DUMB and irrational it is for some humans to think like an entire half of their own... #...population is weaker or less deserving of respect etc #anyways - megatron keeping his holoform presenting more feminine on purpose to oppose the idea that a feminine appearance... #..equals a weak one #or maybe thats just my excuse to make all the holoforms in tfes feminine because megatron would argue in favor of them aslkdaskdj

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assorted shockcliffblurr cause im in a mood askljdalksdjas

#shockwave #longarm #blurr #cliffjumper #shockblurr #shockcliffblurr #tfa #sketch #finished #warning for longarm ass i did NOT mean to give him so much cake in the sketch sorry #made these designs cause imma be honest..... i HATE drawing their tfa designs #very fun to look at - but i just cant figure them out #meanwhile - i both made the redesign and then sketched a bunch of shit with the new designs REALLY quick and easy #so expect to get more of these guys in this design #thank god im an artist tbh asldkjaskdj

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i am once more thinking about jazz...

i feel like. it would really just be so funny, if all the autobots were just like. Extremely Uncomfortably Aware that jazz is a special ops mech.

like, theyre all walking on eggshells around him. they jump at the sound of his voice. they get quiet when they see him in the area, but he's literally just.

vibing.

which, doesn't help things. cause he legitimately JUST talks like that, or laughs like that.

He chuckles slowly while emphasizing words, as if implying something. Mechs try to figure out if he's threatening them or warning them, but he's literally just conversing.

He's vaguely aware that people think he's scary but he thinks its kind of funny. Like being scared that theres a boogeyman in the closet or under the bed. like YEAH... there IS one there.... but he's never hurt them, ha ha... No.... He would never hurt them... [stares with an empty smile and hidden behind a sparkling visor]

prowl thinks he's doing it on purpose but just rolls his eyes and goes with it.

other autobots begin to sweat and shake when they watch as jazz slowly gets up from his seat after watching prowl drink his energon in the mess hall and then slowly walk after him, out of the room, and wonder if this is the last time they'll ever see their second in command alive. meanwhile, prowl opens his office door, waits just inside, and smacks jazz over the helm with a datapad because hes moving Too Damn Slow, and jazz just does one of his chuckles and slithers into prowl's chair, earning himself ANOTHER swipe from an irate and thoroughly unimpressed prowl

#citrus rambles #jazz #prowl mention #storytime

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looking through my old art while decluttering and found this 👀👀👀from an unposted idea i had about the elite trine finding a seekerling and the newbuild seeker drawing them and singing for them 😲🥺😭

#citrus rambles #storytime #starscream #thundercracker #skywarp #i was thinking the seekerling could be named starlight - or shine-on... maybe even Luminimbus (mini for short)