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transingthoseformers · 7 months

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Valveplug thought.

Thunderclash has an adjustable valve that fits his partners, and he can "save" settings. He finally gets Rodimus to frag him and dazed saves the setting for Rodimus and never resets it.

Rodimus has a thing about this once he realizes, and Thunderclash is living his best life because he likes Rodimus being a little mean and pushy with him, and Rodimus likes how much Thunderclash likes it and praises him.

Rodimus, of course, can't let this go and has to be the absolute best at this because Thunderclash can not win at sex too. So he mods his spike to make it feel better for Thunderclash, gets Thunderclash's schematics to make sure he knows everything about him, and puts an intense amount of planning and prepping to make sure Thunderclash's "impossible fantasy" actually happens researching so much and kink and new sex stuff he voluntarily goes to Rung to make sure he doesn't suck.

He's got this.

Thunderclash is suddenly walking around on cloud nine and slightly wobbly and Rodimus is strutting constantly in an absolutely suspicious happy mood that always turns weirdly intense and smug when Thunderclash is in the room.

Only a few people immediately clock what happened because they are not making the connection. Ratchet, who is ignoring it and hoping it goes away; Whirl; and MiniMegs though Minimus is being willfully onlivious refusing to acknowledge it and Megs is hating the sexual tension.

Okay yes that's so interesting

Also more valve mods ftw

Just. Imagine accidentally hitting reset on your pussy and having to go to settings to fix it. Imagine someone who still isn't over their ex keeping their ex's favorite specs because they know. They know they'll come back (and they do). I am not taking this seriously.

Thunderclash is in pure fucking (pun was initially unintented but now it's intentional) heaven, and Rodimus is Having A Thing About This All. Because as he's seeing this, this is the one thing he is determined to be Better Than Thunderclash at.

Thunderclash cannot win at sex too

Exactly Rodimus exactly sfghl.

Rodimus: how do i win at sex

Rung: well there is a lot to unpack in that question but at this point I'm just glad you're finally coming to therapy

Rodimus:

Rung: even Megatron and Whirl have been coming more often than you do, and Whirl only comes to threaten my model ships.

I may distrust therapy but Rung is the second best therapist I've ever heard of and Roddie boy do you have issues to work through

But also cool that Rodimus might learn some unexpected things about himself in his research and stuff he might be able to bring up with Thunderclash (my mind first went to robots in clothes and temperature play sue me)

Slightly wobbly

Ratchet looks like Thunderclash and feels like it's med school all over again.

This is why i love the idea of em fields being able to convey emotion because I'm imagining that when Thunders enters the room Roddie's field just whooshes like a fire flaring brighter (if that's any explanation)

Minimus playing purposefully dense has gotta be funny

Megatron has opinions about this and Minimus is metaphorically (if not literally) holding his arm like "don't, not our business"

#valveplug #mtmte rodimus #mtmte thunderclash #rodiclash #mtmte whirl #mtmte rung #who sees the opportunity to finally bring up Rodimus's imposter syndrome and hiding of emotions under an illusion of grandeur #mtmte ratchet #who mildly disapproves of his former tutor's choice in men #we've also gotta remember Rodimus modded his spike. like. he had to have asked one of the medics to actually do the mod #i like to think he asked ratchet first who declined_ thought about it_ then ratchet said ''i am only doing this so you don't try yourself''#''i've seen enough dumb younglings try to mod their own array without any medical training and it rarely goes well''

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camp-mithril-lake · 6 months

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One day, I will write that massive I love Rodimus IDW fic and no one will be able to stop me.

One day.

God, the relationships will be so messy. Optimus, Drift, Ratchet, Hot Rod's original squad, Doubledealer, Swindle and therefore the Combaticons, Prowl because he chose Rodimus over Bumblebee at least once before when choosing who to follow, and so many others.

Optimus is going to be SUCH a thing. They have to have at least one ill-advised sexual encounter. I am requiring it.

Gonna address so much of my favorite off the wall things about his backstory and stuff about him:

Was an Alyon Spark saved by Optimus and the Outlaws.

One of the leaders of Nyon Rebels

High enough in Autobot High Command when breaking it down it looks like he and Bumblebee shared the position of 2IC because a.) He out ranks Prowl, b.) He runs his own independent squads multiple times, c.) He is one of the people who outwardly and loudly disagrees with Optimus on the regular, d.) Twice–twice–he said "actually this is a shit plan who is coming with me?" and a bunch of people–including people like Prowl–peaced out to go join him even if it meant working with Decepticons, and e.) Him being one of the ones Optimus selects to lead in his absence was not surprising and people like Ultra Magnus and Xaaron went with him as subordinates. Most of his leadership roles and this occurs BEFORE he is given the Matrix.

He is one of the last survivorrs of Nyon.

The trauma of blowing up his home to stop Zeta.

How fucking young he must have been when this all went down.

Both sides wanted him.

He actually has a personal relationship with Swindle based off him selling him weaponry in Nyon.

He decided to go 1v1 the Decepticons by jacking Magnus's car.

The Matrix kept him alive and brought him back after getting shot through the Spark.

He GAVE the Matrix up.

He keeps being betrayed by people he thinks are friends. Fucking Doubledealer.

The Matrix felt good to him.

Several times he is intrinsic to Optimus Prime's character development or giving him a wake up call or pick me up.

Decides he is going to be BFFs with Drift.

I need to get into when and how he started hating Thunderclash.

He is definitely smarter than he portrays himself or later volumes give him credit for.

I call it the Rodimus Fic, but it is really just taking IDW1 throwing it in a blender and doing what I want with it to suit my specific interests. Not a fix-it but a re-write. It is an absolutely massive project, though.

And eliminates most of the crossover stuff, not gonna lie. So.e things unchanged, though.

#idw rodimus #idw hot rod #the rodimus fic

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soundwavemain · 3 years

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Am I thinking about my "Cyberverse Soundwave is blind" post on this fine Saturday night? Yes.

For the most part, I watched how Soundwave reacted while interacting with other people and compared it to Perceptor. Perceptor uses his telescope to investigate his surroundings and, while he is able to walk around and communicate, there are certain details unknown to him during any number of situations.

That being said, Soundwave’s body language while speaking with another person is particularly intriguing to me considering there’s already a blind transformer in Cyberverse. I already know that blindness in Cybertronians means their optics go grey like in Perceptor’s case.

If anything, Soundwave might have some visual impairment and isn’t “completely” blind like Perceptor. But this isn’t a serious post. This is just for funsies.

Despite how battle-ready Soundwave is, there are multiple times throughout the series where he’s being spoken to where his body language remains lax. This could be attributed to his calmer personality in this continuity. However, I find it much more interesting to consider this a consequence of him not being able to visually interpret what is happening around him.

Since he is a major character in the Quintesson invasion arc, the way Soundwave responded to his environment and peers during these episodes were my main source of intrigue. One scene in particular comes to mind: the Scientist’s introduction.

When the Scientist shows up, Hot Rod immediately draws his gun and takes on a defensive stance. Hilariously enough (at least to me it was), Soundwave keeps his arms down and only tilts his head around as noises occur. Even when the Scientist reveals his collection of Soundwaves, he remains unperturbed despite looking at it. It’s almost as if he can’t process what he’s looking at. We don’t get to witness his reaction until Hot Rod comments on what the collection is. Only then does Soundwave react, asking “What... is this?”

Now, his lack of reaction and defensive stance could all be chalked up to the fact that he was malfunctioning due to his improper ejection from the Scientist’s parade. For the sake of argument, I want to remind everyone that Soundwave was able to take down a Prosecutor with his bare hands and, on multiple occasions, fought without his special abilities. Soundwave could have tried to take down the Scientist just as he had done with the Prosecutor... had he known that he was in danger. Which he would have if he could see Hot Rod’s reaction.

Also, I want to mention the secondary loop Soundwave and Hot Rod were put in. He is able to identify the plague of rust, even going so far as to tell Hot Rod to look at it. If Soundwave is visually impaired or blind, I believe that, like Perceptor, he would have a way to identify dangers in his vicinity. Sort of like a radar or a sensory coding in his system. Just a thought!

Anyways. I’ve written a whole lot for absolutely nothing. This is all hypothetical but I do find it nice and immersive when there are transformers who are disabled such as Cyberverse Perceptor, IDW Thunderclash, TFP Ultra Magnus, etc. Just to name a few. Soundwave has always been a favorite of mine so I thought it would be fun if he was disabled too and I find that Cyberverse is a strong candidate. My personal belief is that Cyberverse Soundwave is visually impaired in some way and that he uses sound as well as some kind of extra sensory coding to continue as he is comparable to Cyberverse Perceptor and his telescope.

I’d love to hear any takes on this! I’m just out here having fun observing Soundwave. :) Thanks for reading.

#ty to one person for expressing interest in my 10 note post 😭 validating my rambling session #@polygonal-trees ty #soundwave cyberverse #soundwave #cyberverse #transformers cyberverse #maccadam #transformers

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straycatstalking · 3 years

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SOME LINKS/MANUFACTURERS TO IDW/MTMTE FIGURES:

Note: This list is for self reference and I am not endorsed by any of these companies. It’s also for shits and giggles because many of the manufacturers are Third Party (aka not officially licensed) and as I mentioned in my previous post…. I love the terrible names the figures get in a bid to escape trademark infringement. My brief descriptions probably doesn’t do the manufacturers/companies justice, so if you come across this post in search of figures, please check them out!

It’s a very long post, so I’m going to be cutting this post past the first manufacturer.

A small disclaimer that I am also kind of a newbie to Transformers and my research may be limited, so do forgive any factual inaccuracies and such. This is also an IDW/MTMTE specific list and THERE MAY BE SPOILERS. Additionally, I’m exclusively using promotional images from the companies (aside from my own pictures).

FLAME TOYS

http://www.flametoy.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=22

https://www.facebook.com/flametoyshk/

Their products can be viewed on TFSource and BigBadToyStore too among a few other sites! They’re also officially licensed by Hasbro.

They carry a wide range of figures including a few really nice model kits that are based off the IDW designs. From what I understand, they have two (?) prominent types of toys for Transformers, the first being Kuro Kara Kuri (High-end, Preassembled figures, usually on the pricier end) and Furai Model (Model Kits which you have to assemble yourself).

They’ve released IDW figures such as (and not limited to):

Kuro Kara Kuri Tarn (I really love this one, it’s REALLY pretty)

Furai Model Megatrons (Both the Decepticon and Autobot versions)

Here’s my Autobot version Model kit that I lined! It was my first kit so I’m very happy with it :^) Feat. McDonald’s Cyberverse Starscream

Kuro Kara Kuri Megatron

Furai Model Drifts (ClassicTM Drift doesn’t seem to be sold anymore, but they’re recently released a Shattered Glass Drift!)

Furai Model Coptimus

Furai Model Ultra Magnus (I’m very confused about this one, and I’m not even sure if it’s because I haven’t finished the entirety of the IDW comics. Magnus, why do you look like that…? Nonetheless, it specifies that it’s an IDW ver. figure. It’s this guy below. WHO ARE YOU??)

Furai Model Starscream (It’s not explicitly stated to be IDW and I could be wrong, but his proportions suggest IDW rather than G1? Many of his features seems in line with his IDW self compare to his other continuity counterparts, so I’m putting him here just in case. I don’t think he is officially sold anymore as he and Drift are older figures)

They also have some very exciting IDW stuff announced (There’s a Furai Model Rodimus Kit that is supposed to be released in July 2021 and I’m writing this at the end of July haha… so I don’t know when it’ll be out. I’m very hyped for him and he’ll probably be shipped out sometime this year probably-):

Kuro Kara Kuri Cyclonus (The concept art is ✨gorgeous✨, no sculpt released yet though)

Kuro Kara Kuri Rodimus (They are spoiling IDW Rodimus fans, he is also✨ gorgeous✨)

MASTERMIND CREATIONS

https://www.mastermind-creations.com/collection.html

https://www.facebook.com/CreationsMastermind/

Their products can be viewed on TFSource and BigBadToyStore too among a few other sites, and I’d recommend it as it seems hard to see their whole collection on mobile. They’re a third party manufacturer.

✨Here’s where the fun begins!✨

They have a surprisingly huge (and niche..?) range of IDW figures and they all have wAcKy names.

Some of their IDW stuff includes:

THE WHOLE DECEPTION JUSTICE DIVISION?? (Yes, even Nickel and Dominus Freaking Ambus/The Pet. This whole concept is so wild to me and I’m still staring in awe that Kaon (Dubbed Anarchus, by the way) turns into his chair alt-mode. How cool is that?! I’ve mentioned it in my last post, but Tarn is called “Kultur” and I wheeze at his stupid name)

LOOK AT IT!!! Anyway, back to the list (including their knockoff names)

Chromedome and Rewind (Mnemo and Motif)

Three Rodimus Figures, Classic, Lost Light and Shattered Glass with a Moustache (Calidus, Calidus Asterisk Mode and Calidus Shadow Ghost. Amen.)

Wing (Aero Alpha)

Getaway (Exitus. I will never get over his name.)

Megatron (Tyrantron)

Drift (Stray)/Deadlock (Ater Beta)

Thunderclash (Collisus)

Ravage (Jaguar) (Completely unrelated but I should mention that they sell a cage specifically for Ravage)

LET HIM OUT

Impactor (Spartan)

Mentis (Rung)

Rung appears to an upcoming release and I’ve rebooted the promotional pictures from another blog awhile ago (it probably contributed to this downward spiral into looking at third party figures) but here’s one that I found! Everything about it seems wonderful. LOOK AT THE SCOOTER!! HE IS ROLLING

And these are just the people I recognise off the bat! They have many other transformers figures too and it’s a gold mine of pretty figures that are quite accurate to the source material (I really like their face sculpt for Rodimus). The names to make fun of are really just an added plus.

GCREATIONS

https://www.facebook.com/gcreationchina/

I didn’t link their “official” page mentioned on Facebook as it’s a link to Weibo (Chinese social media site) and it leads to a staff members account rather than an official company account cataloging their products. Feel free to take a look at it though! I’m not sure if they’re still active as their last post on Facebook is from years ago. Their products can be viewed on TFSource and BigBadToyStore too among a few other sites, and once again they’re a third party site.

Their range of toys are pretty small for IDW but I thought they were absolutely worth a mention because the figures are great.

The two IDW figures (along with their pseudo names) they have are:

Prowl (Rebel)

I’m inserting a picture of him because man I love this figure. He looks like an asshole. I want it.

Drift (Ronin)

I don’t have much to say other than that their fake names are well done and so are their figures. I mainly know about this company as I was looking for an IDW Prowl figure and they delivered so excellently. Let me simp in peace.

MAKE TOYS

http://www.maketoys.jp

https://www.facebook.com/Maketoys/

The link to their official page seems to be broken for me, but I put it here in case. Their products can be viewed on TFSource, third party site, you know the drill.

They have a small range of IDW/MTMTE Toys but boy are they absolute madlads in naming their figures.

Here’s the line up:

Swerve (TRASH-TALK. HIS NAME IS ACTUALLY TRASH-TALK HAHAHDJWJSHS)

He doesn’t come with it, but they’ve got a My First Blaster TM add-on for him and that’s pretty neat.

Tailgate and Cyclonus (Rear End and Hurricane. How does one top REAR END?)

It comes with a cute panicking expression too úwù I’m actually tempted now. The reviews on TFSource also decided to use their fake names to refer to them and I can’t get through reading them with a straight face.

AND SO WE’VE COME TO THE END OF THE LIST. PHEW. If you made it to the end, thanks for reading!! I had a blast making it despite it taking so long to compile and research and I hope it was enjoyable despite the chaos of it all :^)

ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR READING

TILL ALL ARE ONE!

#transformers #transformers idw #mtmte #transformers mtmte #Perhaps there may be a part two someday as I haven’t covered the MTMTE/IDW Hasbro toys since they sounded like a pain in the ass to find-#I don’t even know what to call this anymore because this seems to be too much effort for a shitpost #then again I think I have the wrong idea about what shitposts are #I should end off all my posts with till all are one for the fun of it #real talk though: the creativity of these people astound me #Tyrantron is a little on the nose however #haha rear end and trash talk #where is the rodimus Model kit I want answers #leave it to me to make gigantic posts about something I like #my brain goes brrrr

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notwhelmedyet · 5 years

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Dratchtember Day 5

Prompt: In the Circle Ratchet decides to make a demon-summoning circle to prove to his roommate that demons don’t exist.

(also on ao3 here)

The door slammed and Ratchet resisted the urge to yell something after Trefacto. That was one way to get out of a losing argument; wait till you were losing then announce you had to go to class. Honestly Trefacto wasn't a bad roommate. He was no Thunderclash, but nobody was, except Thunders himself. So it was probably better to not dig any deeper in this argument and escalate it from a serious philosophical difference into some sort of feud. But seriously. Demons? Ratchet was willing to tolerate people who believed in Primus or the Guiding Hand - there was at least cultural conditioning to dig them into those beliefs. Demons were like weird fringe conspiracy stuff. And Trefacto's argument that the only reason there hadn't been a verified demon summoning yet was that nobody had perfectly duplicated the required summoning circles out of his demonology book was beyond absurd. Ratchet picked up the book and flipped to a random page. It didn't even look that difficult. He skimmed the list of required materials, a plan forming in his mind. If he made an indisputably incorrect circle he could use that as proof that this was all bogus. He got up and checked Trefacto's schedule to make sure he had time, then got to work. The wire was laid out in a spiraling circle that looked three times before being knotted along the outer ring into he curves demonstrated in the diagrams. Easier than knotting up a sensornet tear. Next there were the mirrors, which Ratchet did have to run out to the store to get, and the laser that was wired into the electrical circuit and pointed at the inner circle of mirrors. It looked like an electrical engineer's first circuitry project gone wrong, but with more elegant symmetry. It certainly wouldn't do anything except very inefficiently power a laser pointer. The book didn't require he say any magic words or light any candles or other gobbledygook, thankfully. Ratchet considered waiting till Trefacto was back to do his demonstration. But it'd be embarrassing if there was something wrong with his wiring and it lit on fire or something. Better to test it. Ratchet went to his room first to get a snack, then a fire extinguisher. He powered on his contraption and sat down on the one of the chairs, fire extinguisher at the ready. The light bouncing between the mirrors did look cool, Ratchet decided, but there wasn't otherwise much of a show. He checked the book and it said that a demon was supposed to be summoned "once the light of the wires sinks down into their lower dimension and drags them up into Being Once More." Ratchet wasn't sure how long that was going to take, but after ten minutes he was going to - There was a thumping sound from inside the circle. Ratchet jumped. The circle was empty. Ratchet extended his wrist light and climbed to his feet, sweeping the light over that empty space. Nothing. "Would you put that down," a voice spoke. Ratchet jumped, then swept the light over the space again. Still nothing there. If this was an elaborate prank, he had really underestimated Trefacto's ingenuity... "Are you doing a summoning in your living room?" the voice continued. "Are you eating...are those energon crisps? I don't feel like you're taking this very seriously." "Where are you?" Ratchet asked, walking closer. "Don't step on the - be careful!" they hissed. "If you break the circle I get to come out, do you know anything about summoning." Ratchet took a step back from the circle. "Are you a demon, then?" They snorted. "Is that what they're calling it these days? Last I heard I was called a Sliver. Equal and opposite to the Silvers. They get to be dappled light and ethereal grace, we get to be...this." "So you're invisible?" Ratchet asked. "Walk around the circle." Frowning, Ratchet did so. As he walked there was a blip in his vision. Ratchet paused and slowly moved backwards again, nothingness transforming into a silhouette that appeared to be made of pure shadow, except for two golden optics. The demon - sliver, whatever - waved. "Hello there." "I'm pretty sure demons aren't supposed to say 'hello there'," Ratchet said. "I'm pretty sure you have no idea what you're doing," they shot back. "You haven't even asked my name." "What's your name?" Ratchet asked. They laughed. "What's yours?" He didn't get the joke. "Ratchet." They didn't need to know the rest. "Ratchet, tell me, why did you decide to summon yourself a sliver? Do you have enemies that need dispatching? Scores to be settled? Do you wish for power and wealth?" "I was trying to prove you don't exist," Ratchet said with a shrug. "My roommate is obnoxiously credulous, I was getting sick of him blabbing on about magic and demons and Primus and healing crystals." They cocked their head at him curiously. "That sounds...just stupid enough to be true. So you have no idea what I am or what you could have me do?" "I don't believe in the divine," Ratchet said. "I don't want you to do anything." They laughed again, the sound making a shiver run down his spine. "Ratchet. Ratchet. I think I like you." Delicately, they settled down to sit on the ground within the circle, propping their chin on their hands. It was eerie - they weren't like a shadow across the ground. They were like a complete absense of light, a visual void. "Do you have any questions?" They asked. "What's your name?" Ratchet asked again. "Or what can I call you?" "Drift," they said. "Call me Drift." "Okay, Drift. Cool. So, uh, how are you...like this? Were you always a sliver? Or is this some sort of, I don't know, divine punishment." "You don't ask easy questions, do you?" Drift said softly. Ratchet hadn't expected soft. "I don't remember. According to the mythology I must have been a mech who, upon death, had committed such great evil that I was forbidden entrance to the Afterspark. But I don't remember that. I was not, and then I was." Ratchet nodded. "That sounds unpleasant. Wait, so do you actually have to do anything I say? Like, if I asked you to embarrass my faculty mentor would you have to do it? Or do people make bargains with you?" "There's very little one could offer a sliver - I'm either between spaces or I'm bound into service. Most people that have summoned me have either given me orders or died in the attempt. It's possible to give me an order I cannot refuse. But the inexperienced summoner tends to release the circle without having done so." "You've killed people who've summoned you?" Ratchet asked, sitting down on the ground so he would feel less anxious about tripping over thin air and ending up in the summoning circle. "I've killed for my summoners. I've stolen sparks and poisoned conjunxes. I've slaughtered newframes in the dead of the night during a supposed armistice. People who summon slivers are not nice people. Yourself excluded, I suppose. If I see a chance to get out of unpleasant work, I take it. And I'm bound until my summoner releases me or they die." "Wait, so just powering off the circle won't send you back?" Ratchet asked, glancing over at Trefacto's book. "I can't leave the circle with it powered on and I am generally called upon for tasks that can't be carried out inside of one. No, powering off the circle doesn't de-materialize me. The circle holds me, the binding keeps me in this dimension." "Okay, well how do I send you back? My roommate is going to be out of class soon and I need to get this whole set-up gone before he gets back or he's going to know he was right about demons. And he'll be insufferable if he knows he's right." "You want me to go?" Drift asked, voice full of mock-offense. "I didn't actually want you to show up in the first place," Ratchet pointed out. "Yeah, you probably have things to do, I've got a presentation to prepare before tomorrow. It was fascinating meeting you but I don't have any interest in being a professional demon summoner. So how do I send you back?" Drift folded his arms across his chest. "I'm not telling you." "What?" "This is fine, I like it here," Drift said. "I appreciate the...attempts? At interior decorating. It's very homey. I've never been to university - so far as I know - it'd be nice to soak in the ambiance." "I'm actually in residency to become a doctor," Ratchet said. "My roommate's a student. But - more importantly - you can't stay here! I need to clean all this up so he doesn't realize I made a working summoning circle." "I can't believe your university student roommate has a book with working summoning diagrams," Drift said, shaking his head. "If you want to break the circle, be my guest. But you clearly don't know how to dismiss me or order me, so that'd be rather..." Ratchet would have swore Drift smiled, "...daring." "What, you're just going to live in a circle in my living room?" "I don't think what I do counts as 'living'," Drift said. "Oh fine, be a smartass," Ratchet said. He got up to grab Trefacto's book and flopped onto the chair to read. Most of the book was taken up by the summoning circles...and now that he looked a little closer there were captions. "Oh hey, the book has a little caption for you. Want to hear it?" "I would love to." "Bet you would," Ratchet said, flipping back to the opening section. What kind of instruction book would tell you how to invite a super-powered serial killer into your house but not how to get rid of them? Ratchet had gotten damned good at speedreading in medical school, but he had *not** practiced reading this kind of nonsense. "So do most folks who summon you dismiss you?" Ratchet asked, casually. "Not many," Drift said. "And certainly none of them without requesting a single thing. No, most summoners have no interest in making me go away when they could leave me bound to their will. I drift back between when they die and the binding releases." This fragging useless book. Did nobody who summoned demons get buyer's remorse? Of course, it was the first book that Trefacto had managed to find in the throes of his new occultist passion, they might have just gotten lucky with Drift's summoning circle. Maybe everything else in it was rubbish. Maybe you weren't supposed to follow the instructions until you knew what to do with a demon after it materialized... He was running out of time. Ratchet flipped to the end, in hopes of an index, and then flipped back to the front of the book to skim from the beginning again. ‘Once you have bound the sliver to your word as well as your being by use of their Name, be careful in your commands. They may interpret your words to allow more freedoms than you had intended, sometimes to fatal consequence.’ "Is your name actually Drift, Drift?" Ratchet asked. "No," Drift said, delighted. "Can you lie to me?" Ratchet asked. "Why wouldn't I be able to?" From here the circle looked entirely empty but Ratchet could imagine the obnoxious faux-innocence of Drift's posture. He wondered what determined the angle from which Drift was visible - was it a factor of the environment or of Drift himself? He didn't have time to mess with this, Trefacto would be back soon. "Hey Drift, if I opened the circle, would you kill me?" Ratchet asked. "I might," Drift said. Ratchet observed, "You don't seem very excited about the proposition." "I might be leading you on so that you open the circle. No way to know," Drift said. "You're not going to kill me," Ratchet announced. He put down the book and went to the power supply for his experiment. "Really, Ratchet - " Ratchet turned it off. There was a rush of air that made him stagger backwards and Drift appeared again, his optics inches away from Ratchet's face. Now that he was closer, Ratchet could see that it wasn't just his optics that were visible through the inky darkness. There were also fangs. "You're an idiot," Drift hissed. Ratchet smiled. "I want to make a deal. It's going to take me awhile to figure out how to release you and I don't particularly want to learn how to order you around. Which I can't do anyway, because I don't know your name. But I really really need my roommate to not find out you're here. So what would I have to offer for you to promise to make that happen? I know you said there's not much people can offer you, but is there something?" "I cannot believe that I am right here and you still care more about what your roommate is going to think." "You haven't met him. He's insufferable. Really." "You should have a better roommate," Drift said suddenly. "A bargain....a bargain...I'm willing to accept your bargain, Ratchet, if in exchange you will hold me." "Like, lift you?" "No! Like - " Drift fluttered his arms helplessly and then wrapped them around his chest and squeezed. "Like that." "You want me to hug you?" "Yesss," Drift hissed. Hesitantly, Ratchet reached out touched Drift's shoulder. It felt cold, like the frame of an empty who'd been outside during an ice storm, but solid. Real. Ratchet had been thinking of Drift as some sort of spectre, but he definitely had substance. "It's a deal," Ratchet said. That settled, Ratchet shuttered his optics for a moment and put his arms around Drift, hands seeing out the middle of his back where the hug could seem comforting, but not too intimate. Drift shuddered, then looped his arms around Ratchet's waist and pulled him close. ...to be continued?

#dratchtember #dratchet #ficlets #my fics #oh god this is too long #wht have i done

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verdigrisprowl · 6 years

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☏✎ Fill in the questions as if you are being interviewed for an article and you were your muse.

This is the worst interview Prowl’s ever had. It’s not even an interview, it’s just a poorly constructed questionnaire.

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1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? «Prowl of Petrex.»

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME? «Why did the writer of this questionnaire assume by default that the respondent would not answer the “name” question with their real name? Furthermore, if they answered the “name” question without their real name, why does the writer assume that they would then immediately be willing to divulge their real name—much less that it’s the writer’s business to know?»

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLED THAT? «Yes.»

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN? «I am neither single nor taken.»

5. WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS AND ABILITIES? «I possess the ability to calculate the trajectories of over eight hundred moving objects at once.»

6. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES? «Blue. Why is this necessary for an interview? Won’t you be including a picture? Can’t you describe what I look like without my having to do it for you?»

7. HAVE YOU EVER REPAINTED YOUR PLATING? «I’m going to assume this question means “have you ever changed your paint color” because interpreting it literally is stupid for anyone who’s lived longer than ten years or so. On occasion to facilitate going undercover I have changed my paint job to fit in better on the planet to which I was currently stationed.»

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS? «I’m cold constructed.» In his universe, that means no.

9. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? «No, nor do I want any.»

10. TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE. «There’s an ad on the way to work that misuses statistics so egregiously I can recognize the flaw just from the ad without even having to look at the raw data.»

11. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES OR ACTIVITIES YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME? «Yes.»

12. HAVE YOU EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE? «I was in a war. As a soldier. Yes.»

13. HAVE YOU EVER… KILLED ANYONE? «No.»

14. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? «I answered “no” to the previous question to highlight another glaring flaw in this questionnaire: one, that it’s written with the presupposition that the respondent has definitely killed and will admit so, as the writer would have no reason to accuse someone who didn’t kill of being some kind of animal; and two, it immediately censures the hypothetical respondent for their actions, without knowing the reasons or the context, and forces the respondent to answer to this insult as a part of the questionnaire. Without a real person to reply to, any answer they give to being called an animal will fall upon deaf audials; the respondent has no real way to defend themself or their actions, and furthermore isn’t given a question such as “why did you kill someone” to explain.»

15. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS. «Pointing out the pathetic emotionally manipulative behavior writers pull on questionnaire respondents like I think highlighting it will make people more aware of what a farce it is.»

16. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE? «Yes.»

17. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL? «... Hold on.» He’s got to go look these terms up. «... How does one determine whether one has been attracted to an “opposite” or “same” gender if one doesn’t have a personal gender to use as a reference point? Why am I asking. This is a questionnaire, not a person.»

18. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? «All my education has been on-the-job—but I was allowed to audit a course at the Thunderclash School of Heroic Arts.»

19. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY? «Is that both together? No.»

20. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANS? «Unfortunately.»

21. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF? «Questions about what I’m most afraid of.»

22. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR? «Who wrote this? I’m naked. We’re all naked.»

23. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE? «No,» he lied, like a liar who wants to protect those he loves.

24. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU? «Are classes still a thing? Or—a thing again, I suppose? I don’t know what the current categories are.»

25. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE? «I don’t know. I wouldn’t want to inadvertently include anyone who doesn’t want to be included. At least three.» AND THEY’RE LEGALLY BINDING.

26. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE? «While its value in calculations involving circles is immeasurable, I consider it to be unnecessarily aggrandized over other, similarly important irregular numbers, such as e, or, my favorite, √2.»

27. FAVORITE DRINK? «I primarily drink regular midgrade.» That’s not his favorite drink but he’s not about to give aspiring poisoners a shot at him.

29. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE? «Hm. All the places I used to like are gone now.»

30. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE? «Yes.»

31. WHAT’S YOUR DICK SIZE? «5.54 and 5.62 feet, coiled; 33.25 feet each, when stretched to full length. Do not try to stretch them to full length. Raveled length is variable.» It probably would help to know that Prowl’s “dicks” look like this.

32. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN? «If I have to choose one or the other, a lake. Smaller and easier to get out of.»

33. WHAT’S YOUR ‘TYPE’? «Painfully brilliant.»

34. ANY FETISHES? «Yes.»

35. TOP OR BOTTOM? DOMINANT OR SUBMISSIVE? «Switch—although I most frequently end up service topping.»

36. CAMPING, OR INDOORS? «Indoors.»

37. ARE YOU WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW TO BE OVER? «This “interview” is a questionnaire which I can stop and start at will, or, if I so desire, simply put down and refuse to answer. Nobody who receives this questionnaire is compulsorily bound to complete it before they can do anything else. You are not an interviewer, you are a question prompt for me to answer at my own leisure, and the questionnaire writer’s attempt to inject levity and personality into this questionnaire process by self-deprecatingly suggesting that it’s a trial to get through it is more tiresome than the length of the completely voluntary questionnaire itself was. Either send a real person to conduct a real interview, or write your questionnaire like a questionnaire rather than try to force an artificial sense of conversation.»

The Iacon Communication Service isn’t terribly pleased when they receive their “interview” answers. At least they can use some of the material...

#meme #araneamechanica

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spockandawe · 7 years

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So… things sure do keep happening in LL, don’t they.

I mean, on the one hand, I’m distraught, because everything is a disaster. But I am also super stoked, because everything is a disaster.

Going back to the older seasons, I mean, season one started with the ship engines exploding, them losing contact with Cybertron, miscellaneous crewmembers dying, and a sparkeater getting loose. Season two started with Optimus wedging Megatron onto the crew, they find Rodimus’s quantum duplicate corpse, the ship and crew start evaporating, and the remaining crewmembers wind up on a ship full of their friends’ corpses.

It makes good sense to start things off with a shitshow, that’s how you lay the groundwork for exciting future developments, and pack as much as you can into a script. And given that, so… for the run of MTMTE, despite all the disasters they were dealing with, there was a lot of positive character growth happening, and a lot of developing bonds between characters. That is good! But not a good dynamic for the shape of this story, in the direction the plot has gone. If the Dying of the Light crew was all together, all getting on well, then all the tension comes from the outside. It’s… a balance that can work, but it would be really unbalanced in comparison to the previous arcs in this series.

One of the things I’ve tried to do and stalled out on is circular plotting (usually just almost circular, with a twist to make it deliberately distinct). Like, Tailgate being trapped underground, but being trapped awake and with full knowledge of what’s happening to him. Cyclonus is free-floating and dangerously unattached and mourning a massive loss, but this time it’s all about personal connections, and Whirl has flipped from being a casually homicidal enemy into a supportive friend. But with a possible extra angle on the parallel of feeling betrayed and angry over how Galvatron used him, and how he’ll feel when he finds out Whirl was the one initiated Tailgate’s breakup. There are… haha, wow, so many characters and so many angles that I think I stall out from just the sheer scale of it all.

Anyways, maybe if I just write about deteriorating bonds, that’s manageable in terms of parameters. Most of the series was about building bonds, and messing with those is that almost-circular plotting thing that steals their progress away and hurts the characters and makes me upset because I’m emotionally invested and want everyone to be happy. And I can write it as a list. I sure like lists.

This isn’t meant to be making a grand point or anything. Sorting information just brings me great pleasure, and sorting comic analysis data points means I have to hunt my information prey down in the wild before I can pin it to a board.

(behind a cut)

General

Everybody from the marooned crew and everybody on the Lost Light. Plus presumably the mutineers and the group arriving with First Aid. That’s going to be… interesting :P

Special shout out to Thunderclash. I have Thoughts about the image of perfection and being cornered into maintaining that image at all costs, and further thoughts about the strain of maintaining that kind of performance for so long. Even if many/most of the aspects of it come naturally, that’s a hard standard to live up to. But he was THE model autobot, he made friendly noises at Ratchet, Drift, and Ultra Magnus… and he was a prominent member of the mutineers. I’m curious as to how this affects people’s image of him.

Tailgate

Well, the breakup is the biggest, most obvious thing, both in terms of the character, and in terms of overall broken bonds. The development of the relationship between him and Cyclonus has been building for so long, and now… this.

Cyclonus

Same thing, but with more!

Cyclonus and Whirl started from attempted murder, wandered over to the land of ‘I trust you to be brutally honest with me’, and accidentally drifted into bff waters, which was amazing and I loved it. And right now, Whirl is Cyclonus’s main support structure and oh wow that is an amazing sentence that I never properly thought through before. I am SO EXCITED for the cyclonus and whirl show. But… Whirl told Tailgate some information Cyclonus especially, especially told him not to, and it initiated Tailgate dumping him hard. I believe 0% that this information is going to stay secret forever, and it’s going to be rough.

Additionally, while the actual commanders were on their alternate universe teleportation field trip, Cyclonus was in charge on Necroworld. And he did SO GOOD with people! He was good with Brainstorm, with Ten, with Swerve, all while juggling more overt friendship things with Whirl and while being sweet with Tailgate. He shuts down when he’s struggling. And he sure has started struggling. Those were more casual connections, but I’m feeling like he’s lost his ability to feed them, and I don’t know how many will stand on their own. Whirl, yes, but everyone else is in question.

Whirl

Mostly the cyclonus thing

Swerve

Is struggling. Swerve is really struggling. Skids noticed before, when he almost died… and Skids is dead.

Cyclonus has tried to help out here and there, including after the Killmaster incident… And Cyclonus is having a rough, rough time and is probably not in any position to help anyone.

Tailgate was one of his closer friends. Tailgate is gone.

That’s three of his biggest support structures gone in a very, very short time span. How much does he even have left? He’s not in a great place, and almost everyone around him is preoccupied with their own problems. I am worried.

Nautica

Aww, honey :( This one hurts me extra, because she spent her time on the Lost Light building bonds to the extent that she amica-married five people at once, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised she’s having an extra rough time.

The Skids thing, that’s the biggest one. And especially with the way she fought to find a miracle solution, and the way that worked out… yeah, that’s rough.

But then the Velocity business, with blaming her over Skids, and being willing to sacrifice her friendship over it. Even if she didn’t follow through, she agreed to it in the first place. Even with Velocity saying she didn’t want to become friends again with someone who would do that to their relationship. And she took a cheap shot at how hard Velocity had to work to pass the medical exam. Yeah, the issue “worked out”, but even if it got resolved in the moment, that is some heavy stuff to lay on what had been an incredibly sweet, supportive relationship.

Now, Rung is also struggling bad over the Skids thing. He’s grieving pretty hard, and was doing it all alone, until Nightbeat came swooping in. And he’s also aware that he wanted to fight on Necroworld, and it was being Nightbeat who wound up preventing him from doing that, so he wasn’t even around or helping when Skids died. Now… how is he going to feel about Nautica selling off her grief like that? From a professional or personal perspective?

Velocity

Mostly just the Nautica business

Rung

There’s Skids, for one, and the way Nautica plays into that.

But also recall MTMTE 40, where Ratchet sent Skids to go make conversation with Rung, because Ratchet didn’t think Rung was really getting to talk to anyone outside of his work. And then the Froid mess happened, and Rung stepped down from his position. So he’s not getting to talk to Skids anymore. He’s not even getting to talk to people for work anymore. Nightbeat has stepped up to the plate, but if he gets pulled away, Rung is very alone, and not doing that great.

Megatron

Oh boy, this gets messy and complicated. For a start, Megatron, and… everyone. Not intentionally. But nobody from the original crew knows about Terminus being a lying, manipulative jackass. As far as everyone else knows, he bailed. To a whoooole new wide world for him to do his Megatron thing. And a group of mainly autobots who lived through the war, that probably isn’t going to set people at ease. And in Megatron’s words, he thinks the others abandoned him.

There’s also something to be said about him wanting to start over with Optimus, and ignoring all the disparities in experience and history that mean that if he wants the fairytale bff relationship to happen, he’s going to have to be hella dishonest or hella manipulative.

But a special mention to Ultra Magnus and Rodimus, who will get more detail in their respective sections

And a special shout-out to reviving an old bond……… just an incredibly toxic, unhealthy one. Terminus spends virtually all his screen time trying to steer Megatron, and oh my god, I am Upset that Terminus has gotten him alone like this when he was already in a bad spot.

Ultra Magnus

The conversation with Rodimus about how Megatron read all of his reports and thanked him for writing them, it breaks my heart. Because when Ultra Magnus disappeared in season one, Rodimus’s inbox was full of unread messages from him, including one just titled ‘struggling’. Rodimus tries, but he’s not naturally suited to the same kind of meticulous minutia as Ultra Magnus is, and Ultra Magnus has already struggled hard with feeling isolated and lost. Megatron openly appreciated and respected him. I’m worried.

But the bond between Rodimus and Ultra Magnus was strengthened, you say? When they had that conversation about Megatron? Oh, the conversation where Rodimus said things he didn’t believe so he could manipulate Ultra Magnus into finding his motivation again. Yeahhhh… That was a good idea from Rodimus, and probably a good thing to do in the short term, but I don’t think it adds up to a healthy direction for them to go.

Rodimus

Rodimus has Issue with regards to being a leader, some relating back to spotlight: hot rod, some relating back to Optimus (in general). The Magnificence just came back into play, and as recently as season two, Optimus was not only failing to give Rodimus positive attention, but he was running roughshod over his autonomy. So…. This Megatron thing.

Megatron started out very antagonistic with Rodimus, but their command styles are very complementary when they work as a team, and he came to openly respect Rodimus, and defer to his judgment when he thought it appropriate. Good! All good, especially in contrast to neglectful dad Optimus Prime! And then… Rodimus was suspicious Megatron was going to bail on them. Megatron gave Rodimus his word. And as far as Rodimus knows, Megatron turned right around and broke that promise.

And Drift. Complicated, because most of that happened pre-LL, and they’ve been pretty chill in LL. But Rodimus let Drift take the fall when Overlord happened… and didn’t come to get him even after Drift didn’t have to stay away any longer. Rodimus already apologized, but kind of like the business with Nautica and Velocity, that’s one hell of a strain to have weighing on a relationship.

Drift

Is mostly that Rodimus thing

But it’s also interesting that he’s got one of the few clearly shown BUILT relationships that doesn’t fall the heck apart. He and Ratchet started off very ill at ease, where sometimes they were in tune, but sometimes they clashed in ugly ways. But they’re very much trusting each other right now, and there have been zero (0) fresh wedges driven between them since the new series started. Them and chromedome and rewind, those are the only people allowed to have positive relationships in peace :P

Ratchet

But, go back to that Drift thing. Ratchet already said some harsh things over Rodimus’s treatment of Drift, back in MTMTE 40. And he was also the person who went out and found Drift later, and saw the state he was in with refusing to maintain himself and all. I’m not surprised Drift forgave Rodimus, because he is a total sweetheart. But I’m very curious to see how Ratchet feels about the situation

And this isn’t anything definite, but… it’s really weird how there were like many big medical Things going on before people left Necroworld, and nobody went to Ratchet. What does that mean?? I’ve got no idea. None. But there were three doctors. The ex-LL crew mostly knew Ratchet personally, and mostly knew Velocity personally. And… Everyone went to Kaput. The best doctor, the best best doctor was right there, and they all took their issues to the new stranger. Why? I have no idea what it could even mean, but… WHY?

Anode (and Lug)

Yeah, that lying to your wife for a very long time about why you quit your old job, and her thinking that it’s her fault you gave up on this illustrious career, that’s…… uncomfortable. Cool, but uncomfortable. And then your wife is actually a ghost, but you revived her, but she doesn’t have all her post-death memories, which I think was implied to cover a good amount of history. They might have made up, and I’m positive they still adore each other, but that is some heavy shit, and I don’t have any confidence that everything is all worked out.

Ten

Starting from a nearly nonverbal position, has been treated as an unperson before, got the shaft three times in a row when it came to DOTL, and now one of the only people who was treating him as a PERSON is in a post-being-dumped shutdown.

Tailgate got left behind.

And Ultra Magnus is not doing so hot either.

I think Swerve might be the next closest friend he’s got, and Swerve kind of led the charge on the whole unperson thing. Swerve might be sorry, but the fact that each of them is may be the best emotionally available friend the other one has left, that is CONCERNING

Chromedome (and Rewind)

You guys are good. Much love. Maybe some conversation about the Dominus Ambus thing would be good, but you’re adorable and treating each other well. (edit: ooh, but I have been reminded about prowl's blackmail attempt that provoked chromedome to mneme on him. and prowl is inching closer back to the plot. popcorn dot gif, oh my goodness)

Brainstorm and Nightbeat

????? There’s the grief suppressants for Skids, which raise some Nautica-esque questions about coping with the grief and sacrificing the bond in favor of a release from grief (also very chromedome of them), but it’s not clear how permanent this is or how much they’re taking.

Is that everyone? I don’t even know anymore. I was wrong. All the scope is too much scope. I cut this short and my brain is still fizzing with trying to juggle all the pieces. The tl;dr version of this is that the majority of characters have been reduced to a state of alone (or nearly-alone) that’s pretty severe and pretty worrying. I mean, everybody is fucked in the head in some way in this series, whether it’s from the war or from other things. But it seemed like there had consistently been positive growth, especially in an interpersonal direction, until DOTL ended, and the stress and changes came crashing down on everyone.

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