#Zeta Rambles

[olive-riggzey]

I made this to combat my current issue:

#Zeta Rambles #Meme #Writing #Writeblr #Writing memes #Writer problems #Writer things #Shoutout to my friend Marc for providing me with the templete #Anyways off to go try and draw some boards

[the-down-upside-finch]

Hey you! Can I doodle your OC?

Writeblrs!!! (And also non-Writeblrs!) If you see this, I would love it if you reblog this with a reference/description of one of your OCs so I can sketch them! I want to put them on my doodle board as today's warm-up. >:}

#Zeta Rambles

[the-olive-finch-da-riggz]

Hello everyone!

Yes, I made another sideblog. (My main blog is @olive-riggzey, and my art/writing blog is @the-down-upside-finch.)

This blog is specifically for reblogging tag games that I get tagged in, things I'm on tag lists for, and the responses to the Worldbuilding Wednesday and Storyteller Saturday asks I send out! (This will also help me keep track of who wants to be on the list for the asks.)

Please let me know if you would like to be added or removed from any of the lists! :}

#Zeta Rambles #Hooray! A pinned post

[zetavendetta]

Genuinely confused as to why nobody judges anyone for the subject matter of the music they listen to no matter how nefarious, but people will harass and sui bait others over the subject matter of the fanfiction they read... Idk just a thought.

#og post #zeta rambles #im going to get crucified for this one arent i

[maxicaiman]

Im gonna be a brave little goblin and ask about Zeta Draven cut that design is really neat and I like hearing people info dump.

TEEHEE GRINS AT YOU MISCHEVIOUSLY

Firstly his full ref sheet- (yes he's based off Baron Draxum LMFAO)

He's a TFA OC designed for my story with my brother Donnie! Humvee, Noxious, Maximus Prime and Draven are all involved in some way with his OC Tactic, and Draven's role is... interesting

He's a Decepitcon scientist, very similar to Shockwave in some ways, especially with his loyalty to Megatron. He treats Megs like a god of sorts, kind of like Lugnut, but he's not a mindless follower. He doesn't wait to be told what to do. He knows what Megatron would want and is capable of carrying out these decisions on his own

He is my OC Khaos's mentor, and the largest reason the mech is such a sadistic fuck. Draven is the same way himself. Much like Khaos, he doubles as an interrogator for more extreme cases, using his scientific knowledge to effectively torture information out of bots. He's unique in the way that hes very sympathetic to the pain of these bots and soothes them even as he's hurting them

He's driven by the promise of a wonderful life when he joins the Well of Allsparks, believing that if he follows Megatron's instruction that he will bring himself and others to a beautiful afterlife. He believes everything he does is for the Decepticon cause, and holds himself to a high standard because of it

#maxicaiman #max answers #maxicaiman rambles #transformers #transformers animated #tfa #transformers oc #zeta draven transformers

[gremoria411]

How to get into Gundam

Because fuck it, I was gonna do one of these sooner or later anyway.

So you want to know what this Gundam thing’s about, maybe you like the mecha design, maybe you caught part of an episode one time and want to catch up, or maybe you saw a nice piece of Chamuro fanart and want to go to the source.

But there’s so many shows and timelines that it can be quite daunting on first look, so this guide is intended to give a rough overview.

I would however like to stress two four things beforehand however:

This guide is not intended as “The One True Way” or anything. There’s no harm it coming into it a different way, and these are only my own opinions.

There’s nothing stopping you from just watching one show and leaving it there. You don’t have to watch every single show going, even I’ve only seen most of these, not all. Gundam typically has variations on similar themes - it’s very nice watching multiple shows because they complement one another, but it’s not necessarily required.

I am very much an insider looking out here, so let me know if there’s any details I’ve missed.

I’m not gonna recommend these on a “if you like X, then watch Y basis”, mostly because I don’t personally find genre recommendations helpful, so I’d recommend picking based on promotional material (vibes, if you will).

I’ll be using this chart, supplied by the excellent@l-crimson-l, to illustrate everything.

Gundam as a whole can principally be divided into three sections: Universal Century (or UC), the Alternate Universes (AU’s) and the Build Series.

The AU’s are below the light blue line, near the bottom of the Chart, the Build Series is within the bright green line at the top-right corner of the chart and UC is the big line in the middle. We’ll talk about each of them individually.

The AU’s

The Alternate Universes were conceived as a way to get away from the continuity-heavy nature of Universal Century and provide an easy jumping-on point for new fans. The AU’s are standalone and require no prior knowledge, and are thus an excellent place to start. Honestly, I’d recommend quickly searching some promotional materials (like posters) and just going with the one you find most appealing based on that. They are (in production order):

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994)

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995)

After War Gundam X (1996)

Turn A Gundam (1999)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)

Gundam: Reconguista in G (2014)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (2015)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2022)

There’s side series and movies and other things besides, but these are the mainline shows, if you will. I have specific notes on a few of them:

Witch From Mercury - It’s of a shorter length than is usual for mainline shows, so consequently it’s a much smaller time investment than the others.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam - While undeniably rad as hell, I would recommend watching another AU first. G Gundam differs from its stablemates in a few key areas, and I find it helps to have a contrast to fully appreciate those differences.

Gundam AGE - is probably the only one I wouldn’t recommend. I didn’t like the art style and the technical explanations just got on my nerves, so I stopped watching.

Turn A and G-Reconguista are technically part of UC as well, but it’s not really crucial information so don’t feel like you have to watch UC first (I’m only including this detail for completionism).

I’ve found all the AU’s I’ve seen to be pretty good, so I’d say that which one you start with really just comes down to personal taste.

The Build Series

Is just kind of doing its own thing. The Build series is basically Buy Our Toys: the series. It’s got a far lighter tone, and I’ve had cause to compare it to pokemon prior. It’s also chock full of references and in-jokes to the other series.

Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try are the ones I’d recommend - they’ve got actual stakes and the fight scenes are really good.

Build Divers and Build Divers Re:rise I can’t recommend - I just find Build Divers aggressively boring. Build Divers Re:Rise is just okay - neither standout good or particularly bad. Its main flaw is that it’s a sequel to Build Divers.

The OVA’s are pretty much bad across the board - I’d particularly recommend avoiding Gundam Build Metaverse.

Universal Century

Universal Century is the big main timeline of Gundam, and is the timeline the original Mobile Suit Gundam from 1979 takes place in. There’s a tendency among certain fans to place UC as the one-above-all of Gundam, but I wouldn’t really go that far. It’s all pretty good, but I wouldnt really say one timeline is better than another (save personal preference, anyway).

Because UC is so big, it can be subdivided a couple times. The primary division is “Mainline” UC versus everything else. Basically there’s four-five shows in Universal Century from which everything else flows. As long as you know roughly what happens in these shows, then you can watch basically anything else in UC and have a good idea of what’s going on. These are (in order):

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) - sometimes called Mobile Suit Gundam 0079.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)

With Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) as a nominal fifth (honestly I feel like you could argue either way).

The rest of the shows are:

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989 Three-Episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991 Movie)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991 Thirteen-episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1999 Twelve-episode OVA)

G-Saviour (2000 Live Action Movie) - nobody ever talks about or acknowledges this one, it’s just here for completionism.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS Igloo (2004-2009 Three OVA’s with three Episodes each)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015 Six-Episode OVA, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015 Eight-Episode Series, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis (2017 episode, adapted from a light novel of the same name. Later rereleased as Gundam Twilight Axis Red Trace, with additional footage)

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018 sequel movie to Gundam Unicorn)

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021 ongoing movie series, very much adapted from the novel Hathaway’s Flash)

Most of the other series relate to events in the aforementioned “mainline” shows in some way, but a lot of the sidestories set during the One Year War require very little introduction (Thunderbolt, 0080 and 08th MS Team). Similarly, works set in “Late UC” (F91 and Victory Gundam) carry on from the other series thematically but don’t have any plot connections, so they can all be watched without any background knowledge of the rest of the Universal Century.

Compilation Movies

Just a quick note here - many of the Gundam series have compilation movies, where either a whole series or part of one are compressed down into a movie. While each movie compares differently, they usually boil down to this: Compilation Movies usually have worse pacing, but really nice animation.

One of the great things about Gundam is that different shows offer variations on themes, so seeing how different characters react to similar situations, or how different settings change their approaches can make it incredibly rewarding.

I haven’t seen enough of SD Gundam to make any sort of recommendations there, and Manga is something I might touch on another day.

EDIT: Oh hey also: You can watch a good chunk of these on YouTube, for free, officially. The Official Gundam.Info YouTube channel rotates the series shown on its channel periodically. I think it’s got F91 and SEED on there currently? But it’s had Wing, 00 and Witch From Mercury before. Also all of the Build Fighters series are there.

So yeah, that’s a thing.

#gundam #ramblings #mobile suit Gundam #Gundam 0079 #char aznable #amuro ray #mobile suit zeta Gundam #mobile suit Gundam ZZ #char’s counterattack #Gundam unicorn #mobile fighter g Gundam #Gundam wing #Gundam seed #Gundam seed destiny #after war gundam x #turn a Gundam #Gundam ZZ #zeta Gundam #Gundam narrative #Gundam igloo #Gundam 0080 #Gundam the 08th ms team #Gundam origin #g Gundam #Gundam F91 #Gundam g-witch #Gundam iron blooded orphans #the witch from mercury #Gundam reconguista in G #that’s all the tags I can fit

[quetzalpapalotl]

I've seen people wondering whether Mesothulas studied under Shockwave before or after the shadowplay, which okay there is that line where Overlord says Shockwave would be ashamed that a student of his became so sentimental, but it could just be that Overlord is not very familiar with pre-Shadowplay Shockwave.

I had always seen their relationship as a pre-shadowplay thing, because there's only a small window of time where they could have met before Shockwave joined Megatron where it would have been very unlikely for a neutral to have access to him.

It makes sense for Shockwave's character, I think, since he's willing to overlook certain aspects of people if their output is worth it. Like how he names his academy after Jhiaxus because he thinks they should focus on the progress he made as a scientist. And Shockwave is himself a very dubious guy.

Mesothulas was such an amazing scientist, Shockwave probably thought it was worth investing in him, besides, even if he is completely amoral Mesothulas never had any active interest in hurting people until after he became Tarantulas. Shockwave seemed to have an interest in figuring how new Cybertronians can be made, he voted to have the split spark program back despite a future lack of resources being his main concern (this could have been an attempt to figure out if they even really can make new sparks) and discovered the secret of the Matrix, which he probably shared with Mesothulas. And Mesothulas was eventually capable of replicating Matrix energy to create a new, indestructible spark. I can’t stress enough how that big of a deal that is.

All of this to say, that not only did Senator Shockwave trusted Mesothulas with this. He also trusted freaking Zeta with his brightest hope, Orion, and probably to be a Prime himself. Which like… Shockwave, darling…………………………

#he is a disaster i love him #on hia defense zeta was trying to look like he is not the worst person ever #quetzal rambles tf

[plagues01]

So a freelancer Donut au,,,

He wasn't always the fun, quirky sexual innuendo saying sim troop we know him as today. Actually, he was very serious as a freelancer(Missouri), and they were never part of the top of the top. They still went on a lot of important missions. However, stealth and undercover missions were their specialties.

Then the fragments are started to be given out. And to everyone's surprise, Agent Missouri is called back and offered an ai. And how was he to say no to an AI when the Director was offering to them himself.

He gets the fragment Zeta, the Alpha's desires. Life went on as normal for a while. Missouri was still the serious Freelancer he once was and was even growing higher and higher in ranks to where he was starting to show up on the leaderboards

But, Zeta was given to Missouri for a reason. The Director wanted to see what would happen if he gave the ai of desire to someone who refused everything for the work, for his mission. How would a voice in your head constantly telling you to give into your desires change a man?

However, the desire Zeta was telling Missouri to give into was something he suppressed growing up on a small farm in Iowa. He started becoming comfortable with his sexuality. To the point, he would start making sexual innuendo, while rare, he'd make them.

Then the attack happened and the Mother of Invention crashed. Agent Missouri made a decision that day, and they left Project Freelancer. At first, they didn't know what to do. Then realized they could pull a Carolina and forge documents to join under a new name.

And that was how Franklin Delano Donut was created.

#yes I believe in he/they donut supremacy #freelancer donut #franklin delano donut #rvb donut #red vs blue donut #oc: zeta #plagues rambles #rvb #rvb au #red vs blue au #red vs blue #project freelancer #rvb freelancers #red vs blue freelancer

[anthurak]

Having recently gotten a bit back in Zeta Gundam via Super Robot Wars, a thought occurs to me:

Kamille Biden is a character who isn’t so much asking for trans headcanons so much as VIOLENTLY DEMANDING them.

#gundam #zeta gundam #kamille bidan #gundam ramblings #god HELP you if you misgender this boy #just look at what happened to jerid

[no1ryomafan]

We’d need less mecha discourse that’s centered around gatekeeping and more mecha discourse that’s centered around something as stupid as how the fuck you pronounce something because I’ve seen two different ways to say Mazinger along with how to say SKL in Mazinkaiser SKL title and I’m shocked there isn’t more wars over that and I’m only half joking about that.

#meg text #mazinger z #mecha rambles #I could post this on my twit but people have less sense of understanding a mostly joking post #but also I find it so funny how mazinger specifically I’ve seen said like multiple ways #i had a irl who I’m not fond of say it the weirdest fucking way possible that I can’t remember how they said it #other then it was so wrong and that during that interaction they tried to argue “the z could be said like zeta” #Need someone to put “dni if you say maZINGer and not maZINger” in their bio /j

[paperchasms]

half a teaspoon of olive oil

#this one holds a real special place in my heart <3 #kinda just rambling here but #i first wrote this in a dusty old notebook in my grandmothers house in zeta palestine #and its one of my first real completed attempts at poetry #and its not like a masterpiece or anything but ohh it brings me a lot of memories and a lot of comfort #okay done with my spiel #poetry #lazim writing #my poem #original poem

[olive-riggzey]

What if I made a Writeblr tag game where we turn lines of dialogue from our own stories into an incorrect quote for the next person to insert their characters into. Is that anything

#Zeta Rambles #I dunno I think it would be very funny

[the-down-upside-finch]

Badly Summarized WIP Poll

Thank you for the tag, @autumnalwalker! (In this post!)

Rules: Pick a bunch of WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they'd be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

Sorry guys; I'm making you choose.

Gently tagging @my-cursed-prince, @basalamander-corner, @aziz-reads, @harleyacoincidence, @k-v-briarwood, @amaiguri, @lexiklecksi, and @dyrewrites! For fun I'll leave an open tag because this game is silly and anyone that sees this can consider themselves tagged >:}

Also tagging @blind-the-winds because they started the game and asked to be tagged by those who do it!

#Zeta Rambles #About the OCs #I'm not going to tag the WIPs because I think it's funnier if you don't know for sure which ones I'm referring to #Writeblr #Writeblr Tag Game #Badly Summarized WIP Tag Game #Tag Game #Badly Summarized WIP

[buggernaut-kal]

My attempt at an Advance of Zeta primer chart! At a glance it’s super intimidating to track all of the suits it presents, and the charts I’ve seen floating around get really complicated, so I tried to make a simplified guide.

The main goal was to find the AoZ MS that have a direct link between anime MS (thank you Gundam Wiki!) and have those be the representative samples. Once you learn all AoZ designs have some relationship to one or more of a TR series design it gets a lot easier to check what variants exist. The only reason I have a variant on here (the Hazel Custom + Icarus Unit) is because it’s a direct predecessor to the Byarlant. I hope this makes it easier for folks to digest some Advance of Zeta designs, because they really are cool to look at, but they can be heard to research!

#buggernaut rambles #gundam #mobile suit gundam #advance of zeta #aoz

[zetavendetta]

If you have nothing better to do than shit on and make fun of people who don't align with your moral compass then what good is that moral compass? Bffr.

#og post #zeta rambles #vague post

[tearsoftime0086]

Random thoughts of the night go to best girl Fa Yuiry! (endgame Zeta spoiler warning again)

I always find her ep 48 speech with Rosammy/Rosamia to be an interesting juxtaposition with Kamille. She's quite the literalist in the midst of all these newtype shenanigans going down. Probably stretching it a little, but the setting design with the mannequins sorta alludes to this too. Fa's standing next to a clown mannequin - it's dressed and human-like (can I say realistic haha). At least an attempt at being real and material. Fa's conversation points are all material too, like when she starts flinging her yo-yo, or talks about how the mere concept of newtypes has left very real death in its wake.

Rosamia's next to a purely metallic cashier-esque robot. Inhuman, functional, its visual moldable (like how Kamille keeps mistaking her for Four). Rosamia shoots the clown, breaking Fa's desperate desires for some return to normalcy as the doll laughs with a bleeding eye. This episode is also the one where Kamille realizes things won't ever really go back to the way they were, and later on, that all he's good for as a newtype is to kill. The pitiful attempt at normalcy is crushed - the earlier embrace and intimacy of Fa and Kamille ruined by the ever nebulous responsibility of newtypes in this war.

Fa's clinging to real, manifest things as Kamille slips the opposite way and it makes ep 48 a really sad one to rewatch

#gundam #zeta gundam #fa yuiry #kamille bidan #rosamia badam #random musings #anyway I apologize to anyone who's not here for my random ramblings lol #i like thinking about stuff like this #and I DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT THE LOOK CHAR GIVES KAMILLE AT THE END OF THIS EPISODE #i love ep 48 so much man #it hurts in a good way