#hey an ask!

[i-mean-technically]

I like to imagine after the Earth is cyberformed and the war has ended, Optimus introducing humanity to the rest of the galactic counsel as Cybertronians' long lost sibling. Every other race is just stareing at an eldritch techno-organic species that is closely related to the immortal metal giants that have destroyed untold numbers of planets and races in a war that's lasted longer than most recorded history and getting really scared. Then they find out that Cybertronians came from the garden planet and humans come from the chaotic death world that drifts through space and consumes uninhabited planets (kinda like G1 unicron) and they want to cry. Imagine finding out that the worst person you know has an evil twin and the two of them get along great together. If its the kind of verse where Autobots and Decepticons made peace, then you better believe Megatron will be enjoying himself. The only things standing in the way of Cybertronian universal domination was their low numbers, lack of resources and division between their people, none of which can stop the joint Cybertron-Earth forces.

You. You get me.

It's years later and things are going great.

The Cybertronian Civil War is over, Cybertron is being slowly restored and the Cybertronian people have a place they can call home now. Optimus heads the cybertronian faction against his will (there was a vote and it was basically unanimous). Earth 2.0 is doing awesome, and the former squishy humans are now pretty robust techno organic horrors that now have access to SPACE and all the problems that come with it.

We're thrilled. Living the dream here.

Now, everyone is ready to rejoin the wider inter-galactic community bc the humans are getting twitchy and can only be gently directed for so long before Optimus has to take off the leash and let them go feral.

But Optimus is a Smart Cookie ok.

He's political about it. Especially bc he knows that us little assholes love a good fight, and some people literally live to argue.

So the joint forces of Cybertron and Earth present their case to the Intergalactic Congress of Species on why they should be a part of the wider community and get the benefits of that.

The Council takes one look at them and goes "FUCK no" and we all know that humans love being told that they can't do something. Such spiteful little creatures we are <3

So what do we do? We start our own intergalactic government. So far it has two species, maybe three.

But everyone is absolutely Terrified of these weird little monstrosities born from the Chaos Bringer and have the literal walking embodiment of their planet, another Chaos God but less "kill devour consume", walking around like a tourist.

Primus Lite enjoys caramel lattes with hot sauce and burnt marshmallows. He's an easy guy to get along with.

We're just Vibin' man

#transformers au #transformers #my au #tfp au #transformers prime #tfp #Primus Lite #Earth 2.0 #humans turned cybertronian #i guess also #humans are space orcs #my writing #humans turned into walking space horrors #hey an ask!

[techni-cal-writing]

If you are still doing fic titles: "ghostly premination", "Bulkhead the scraplet" and "silent pacts"

sure why not!

ghostly preminations

Jack sees dead people. No literally, Jack has always been able to see the dead. Just not... human dead people. And these alien ghosts have a lot to say.

bulkhead the scraplet

Miko is, once again, touching shit she shouldn't. Now she has to keep a hungry, and tiny, Bulkhead from eating his way through the base before anyone (Ratchet) finds out.

silent pacts

A dead god's dreams are potent things. And, if you're brave enough, desperate enough, you can make a deal with those living horrors. June Darby is willing to do anything to keep her son safe.

#hey an ask! #ask games #ask game #transformers #maccadam #tfp #bulkhead #jack darby #june darby #miko nakadai

[skythealmighty]

woe springy

SPRINGYYYYY

#rocket talk #hey an ask! #springy ii

[ot3]

i love the artistic stylings of studio ghibli as much as anyone else does but im kind of sick of anything with like vivid environments and big blue skies being branded as ghibliesque. because its like. you know where else you can hypothetically find some vivid environments with big blue skies? my friend the great and wonderful outdoors are here for you

#in general just assuming all media is drawing from The Most Popular Example Of A Thing #rather than being like hey maybe both these things took inspiration from the same parts of our world #just feels kind of unfair and reductive a lot of the time #not to say its bad when something IS inspired by ghibli but its kind of the professional version of being asked 'wow is that anime'

[chiricat]

me eat you whole

#makoto yuki #minato arisato #p3 #persona 3 #cat’s art #persona #MAKOTO NUIIIIII GRAAAAHHH #HE HAS A LITTLE SMILE TOO ON THE RELOAD ONE. SO CUTE #hey guys i’m back. i will try getting to those asks now #to the people that ask me how i do clean lineart: i genuinely do not know how. #ive been thinking of how to respond for a long time and i just do not know how to explain it

[fernsnailz]

my comic from the @neverturnbackzine! truly one of my favorite zines i've been a part of :]

some extra insight/fun facts about the process of this piece below the cut 💥💥💥

posting pieces from collaborative zines is always something i struggle with because i look back and think of how i would do things differently now, but i learned a lot working on this comic and even developed some style techniques that i still use!

Fun Fact 1: the panel where shadow Fucking Disintegrates That Guy is technically traditionally drawn! i couldn't get it right in clip studio so i just started frantically scribbling in a notebook and got it eventually lol

highly highly recommend scribbling stuff out in a notebook, scanning it on your phone, and then dropping it into a canvas to edit later if you ever have trouble sketching something.

Fun Fact 2: a lot of the overlay/background effects were made in Kid Pix Deluxe 3D. i created a whole collection of various textures/abstract effects for this comic that i've been using in my art since last year. you can even find them scattered through my team dark zine lol. here's a few of them:

similarly, the background at the bottom of page 2 is actually a warped photo i took of a bunch of headphone wires. this is the original:

Fun Fact 3: i made this comic during a very busy and wild period of time last year so this is what the final panel looked like for a while before i fully finished it LMAO

ok yay thanks for reading bye

#ah yes the comic that i kept showing to my friends for notes and asking “hey guys is this even REMOTELY comprehensible” #very fun to work on! learned a lot :] for context i finished this in july of last year #fern's sketchbook #eyestrain #sth #shadow the hedgehog

[inkskinned]

so while i was writing the book, i became violently suicidal.

this was mostly due to the fact that i had a very bad reaction to some meds and my brain stopped producing any serotonin. also i was in the last semester of grad school where it's actually illegal to feel anything but dread. so it wasn't going well.

somewhere in the fog of it i became aware i needed help. nobody was taking clients or my insurance. i didn't want to do inpatient care - it wasn't right for my needs. there's not really an "in between" stage between "inpatient" and "no care," but i was trying to do the right thing. i was trying to activate the chain of command that was my emergency plan. i knew i needed help now.

i used betterhelp.

i know, i know. i'm a straight-A student and so smart and so clever, how could i ever use something so blatantly bad. to be honest with you, i didn't feel particularly keen on it from the getgo - things that seem too good to be true usually are. also, if something online is free, the price is usually your privacy.

the thing is that there was kind of a global pandemic happening at the time and i worked 5 jobs alongside of being a fulltime student and also like writing a book on the side. it is a miracle that i even thought about getting help. i would love to tell you i had the mental wherewithal to like, process whether this was the right choice for me. mostly i was desperate. i was so suicidal that i was trying to find a reason to stay inside of fortune cookies. i was the kind of suicidal that looks like splatterpaint. i hadn't been that bad in an entire decade.

they took my data. i gave them it freely. somewhere out there, they have a dossier on me. on everything i survived. my story in little datapoints, scattergraphed beautifully.

the first woman told me that really i should be grateful, because (and this is a direct quote): "at least you're not anne frank." i said that i felt that statement was antisemitic, as anne frank's life and experience shouldn't be compared to like, a nonbinary lesbian in western massachusetts. the therapist said that i should try to use lucid dreaming to try to picture myself in an actually scary situation, like running from nazis.

i applied for another therapist. i was willing to accept the possibility that there was a bad apple in the bunch. the next therapist and i even laughed about how inappropriate that statement was. and then, in our next session: the new therapist said if i was struggling with body image issues, i should just work harder on my appearance. she spent 3 sessions in a row talking about how she was grieving, and made me memorize facts about her grandmother so "she can live on through my clients."

i am a three's-a-charm kind of person. okay, so what if the last person made me uncomfortable. i figured it was just a misunderstanding of priorities - she had felt she was sharing with me, i had felt like i had to take care of her. i applied for another therapist.

the last woman asked me to help her pray. she bowed her head. i stared at her, frozen, while she said: lord, i beg you: cure her. take the pain of being gay away from her.

i spent somewhere between 2.5 and 3 months on betterhelp. in that whole time, i was not getting the professional help i so desperately needed, even though i was fucking trying.

in the end, i survived this because i finally could get off the meds that were literally killing me. a request for a real therapist finally went through. i survived because my friends saved my life. because nick let me sob myself dry in his arms. because maddie took the razors out of my room when i asked them to. because grace slept over in my bed for like 3 weeks in a row since nobody trusted me not to hurt myself when i was alone. i survived because i got fucking lucky. because even when i was desperately suicidal, i was too old and too self-aware to take "you need to be prettier" as good advice.

the thing is that there's a 19 year old me who isn't like that. who would have heard "just think about how grateful you should be" and said - oh, i see. i would have assumed that is what it means to be in therapy: the same thing my abusers used to tell me. that i am just pretending and lazy. that i am ugly and unworthy.

betterhelp positioned itself to take advantage of an incredibly vulnerable community. it preys on desperation. it knows it is serving people who are not doing well mentally. it saw that there is a huge need for real, immediate, compassionate mental health care: and then it fucking takes your money and privacy.

i still get their ads on instagram. last night i watched as a woman in a pool pretends to talk to a different woman. they discuss her anxiety.

there's a 19 year old version of me, and she didn't survive this. she was too tired, and drowning. i almost fucking died. this thing almost fucking killed me.

in the ad, the woman playing the therapist takes a note on a clipboard and then nods once, sagely.

i have to admit it's a pretty scene. the steam and light coming off the pool water lands on the actresses. like this, it almost looks baptismal, holy.

#writeblr #the book.... #coming soon #hey so if ur someone who has ever said “you need to write a book” #i wrote the book #it's ... probably the best thing ive ever written #this is maybe too honest lol #okay to reblog thank you for asking i love u i am in love with u our wedding will be in may

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

world's longest staring contest GO-

#them. he??? wally plural <3 #how are they the same little man.... #looking between them in confusion so fast i get whiplash #one half of my brain: huh what huh what huh- #the other half: HOLY SHIT TWO WALLYS!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3 #wait would it be wallys or wallies #fr what Is wally plural #existential questions we should all ask ourselves #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #wally darling #i got a little lost in the Sauce making this & finished before realizing i didnt copy it over to a new larger canvas #& do the final layer/colors/bg there #so its a Little Bit Lower Resolution than id like #BUT HEY ITS NOT LIKE THATS EVER STOPPED ME BEFORE!!!! #whatever whatever doesnt matter its done and im satisfied with it #& i fuckin better be bc working on this killed my wrist lmfao #nearly dropped my stylus at one point from the sudden Oofie Ouchie #suffice to say i will be queuing this & then taking a day-long break from my hobbies #which are all hell on the wrist #which means i will probably leave the house out of sheer boredom #maybe ill watch spiderverse. go get a tasty Beverage. take a walk. summon the old gods if im in a silly goofy mood #just now realizing i probably drew wally too small #puppet wally. og wally light of my life. AHAHA OOPSIES TOO LATE TO FIX IT NOW 🥲👍

[squidwujun]

"Hey how is it going?"

#“Oh hey I'm alright. How are you?” #i was crazy once... #fives #star wars #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #the bad batch #tbb #ahhhjjhHhHHhHHH #i am unwell #thanks for asking! #meme

[batfamhyperfixation]

Pre-dating, Tim or Bernard not knowing the other isn’t straight

Tim, leaning over to look at Bernard’s phone as they chill in Tim’s bedroom: whatcha doing?

Bernard: imma send Red Robin subtle messages until I trick him into admitting he’s into guys so I can sleep with him

Tim, bi panic, blushing: you’re what?

Bernard, typing out a message on his phone: here how does this sound Tim, ‘gay af to be a detective, what are you inspecting, other men??’, sound subtle enough?

Tim, too dumbfounded to speak:

Bernard: yeah you’re right, it’s perfect, imma send it

*Tims phone goes off, and then both watch it light up, Bernard seeing the message he just sent*

Tim, picking up his phone, typing, and sending a message without saying anything, face nearly bright red as he glances over at Bernard, who is staring at him wide eyed not saying anything

Bernard, looking down at the text Tim sent him back as Red Robin that says, ‘I like you, let’s fuck’:

Bernard: hey Tim I have a couple of questions

#Bernard: first and foremost did you send this as Tim or Red Robin second most are you catfishing me or are you Red Robin #and third probably most important with or without the suit on? don’t get me wrong I’m down for either but like #Tim: woah slow down a minute #Bernard: sorry did you wanna ask something #Tim: yeah that’s how you rizz me up? coulda said something like take me to Arkham cause I’m about to steal your heart but no you sent this #Bernard: hey it worked! I still got you so you have no place to talk cause end of the day mine still enticed you enough #Tim: it definitely wasn’t your message that made me say yes Bernard #tim drake #bernard dowd #timbern #timber #bi tim drake

[i-mean-technically]

Im happy someone else is acknowledging that Earth=Unicron and Megatron shot it with a magic regen beam. Like, canonically, the first thing the beam made was a giant citadel of evil with its own laser turrent, completely unprompted. I dont see how that would end anyway other than Unicron back and badder than ever with a brand new army billions strong.

Alternatively if all life gets assimilated into the planet and Unicron remians mostly dormant then Earth becomes a semi sentient chaos world. The decpticons try to set up in Dark mount but the defenses automatically start firing on them. Team Prime can walk right in though and they find the castle full of rooms and furniture fit for bots as big as Optimus to as small as Arcee, a med center with every tool Ratchet ever 'needed' on earth, a rec room with cybertronian sized tv and game console etc. Cybertronians start colonising earth where if you're nice to it energon flows free and hot oil pools appear on command but if you do something it doesnt like the earth quakes and acid rains from the sky.

Yes this!

Unicron is the planet, everything living thing has pieces of him in them, one reason for the diversity of life and the pure chaos that is literally Everything on Earth.

We are little chaos beings wrapped up in a squishy little package.

And I like the idea of a cyberformed Earth being semi-aware and refusing to be used for evil purposes.

Like it exorcised Unicron and now the planet is like. A secondary Primus?

Primus Lite.

I am having so many ideas now

#transformers #transformers prime #maccadam #tfp #transformers prime au #transformers au #my au #my au ideas #hey an ask! #earth 2.0 #techno organic #humans turned cybertronian #Primus Lite

[techni-cal-writing]

Here is some Fic meme titles.

"Cybertronians vs Nature"

"Miko's very strange day"

"Laws of Paradox"

oh ho ho :3

Cybertronians vs Nature

-ok this one is going to be a bit silly

A new planet means new challenges. Usually those challenges are finding enough energon and a clear enough space to park a warship. The Decepticons didn't account for the fragging wildlife to be the biggest problem they'd have to face.

AKA Steve accidnetally infests the Nemesis with wasps, someone let a pregnant rat loose in the storage rooms, and Breakdown has a bird nesting in his cleavage. Soundwave would like to leave, please.

Miko's Very Strange Day

Miko led a strange life to begin with, especially after she met giant alien robots who regularly reenacted Rock 'Em-Sock 'Em toys. But today took the cake.

She was a cat. A robot cat, and someone who looked a lot like a a less traumatized (and so small what the hell) Optimus was making kissy noises at her in an attempt to lure her closer.

Well. Ratchet did tell her that the ground bridge modifications were acting a little strange lately.

Laws of Paradox

gotta be honest i am No Thots Brain Empty for this one lol

#hey an ask! #transformers #maccadam #fic ideas

[skythealmighty]

Who do Salt and Pepper swap with?

Salt swaps with OJ, and Pepper swaps with Paper!! This actually causes a name change with OJ to Lemonade instead. :]

Salt is plenty more reserved (and salty), while Pepper is soft-spoken and kind of the unofficial therapist. They've been in a relationship for years.

Lemonade is the one that pretty much everyone's clocked as gay, though he vehemently denies it due to internalized homophobia and has a pseudo-crush on Salt. Paper is a bit of a germaphobe and hates getting dirty, though he loves dirty gossip. He wishes Lemonade would understand that he loves him.

#inanimate insaniswap #inanimate insaniswap au #iiswap au #iiswap #hey an ask! #spiritguru-sloppypears #inanimate insanity

[corviiids]

cant shut up about this game for even one second

#bg3 #rookposting #astarion #wyll ravengard #karlach #shadowheart #gale dekarios #lae'zel #not as much lae'zel in this one :( sorry miss lae'zel i will make more stupid posts about you when im #done dressing astarion up like a poodle clown and parading him around town #what's a poodle clown you ask? his surname is ancunin #hey rook why do you sometimes leave the notes in and sometimes you dont #great question! it's my quirky little character trait and it points to the deeplore of im extremely inconsistent as a person

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

#solarpunk #anti pesticides #ani rambles #this is coming from personal opinion at 4am keep that in mind but like #I’m scared of roaches. i’m fine with them outside though #my parents dont like roaches and for good reason. they spray Ortho Home Defense along the veeery edge of the concrete by the doors to #keep roaches and shit from coming in because yknow. Florida. #if I tell them ‘hey actually we shouldn’t spray pesticides inside (ie raid spray) or outside (ie home defense) #theyre gonna ask wtf to do instead to prevent roaches #and if I tell them ‘nothing suck it up buttercup’ they’re gonna laugh and then double down on the sprays #we gotta have an alternative ready and honestly maybe I’m not looking in the right places but I genuinely don’t know of any #like one online friend told me leaving brush piles around the yard decreased the amount of bugs trying to come in but like #thats one person. anecdotal. and I haven’t seen anything online confirming that as a thing (yet) #idk man I’m going to bed. #might delete later #house pest saga

[sieluritari]

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

It's like time blindness but for all things measured in numbers

Not dyscalculia or caused by it

Pretty much never seen it talked about anywhere

Please tell me if it sounds familiar and/or you know something about it, thank

#adhd #time blindness #let me tell you it gets real fucking awkward every time someone asks for my estimate on anything numbers based #like 'hey kuura how far would you say the store is? like a km maybe one and a half?' #and i'm like buddy you'd get a better answer from a toddler than me #and even if i took a precisely 1km walk every day #it would feel like a different distance every fucking time #especially if the route was always different #nd things