#outlierroddy

[soundwavereporting]

Fanfic meme: "Oh, come on, don't try to fool us with that slag."

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

“I never joke,” Soundwave said, so seriously, that Hot Rod almost believed him. The almost turned to very nearly certain when he stepped forward to rest a hand on his shoulder. “Not about things like this.”

Hot Rod drank in the sharp angles of Soundwave’s frame, trying to memorize the way the light reflected off his (nearly pristine) armor, and wondered how long Soundwave would keep the streaks of red paint that marred his plating.

“Well, alright then--let’s try this. Together.”

#outlierroddy #asks #transformers cyberverse #soundrod #some soundrod as thanks for that sweet sweet deadceptor

[mrdraws]

Fanfic meme: "No, please, please don't!"

Miraak retracted her hand as Maren flinched away, covering the wound in her side with a cupped palm. Her face was wan and drawn, slick with sweat.

“I can do it myself,” she said tightly.

“You can’t do anything yourself right now,” Miraak scoffed. “Look at you. Cleaved down to the bone. You simply do not pay attention. Let me–”

“Save it,” Maren snapped, fumbling for her medicine bag. Miraak trapped her wrist in her hand, her eyes hard.

“Let me.”

#couldnt keep it down to five lines SO have five paragraphs #skyrim #miraak #maren #the elder scrolls #ocs #skyrim oc #writing #outlierroddy #maren/miraak

[auri3]

Roddy  ♥  ♥  ♥ Look at how happy he is asdfghjkl my baby 

Lets imagine his spoiler is fluttering in excitement because it would be so cute 

#rodimus #hot rod #mtmte rodimus #mtmte #transformers #lost light #maccadam #Roddy #more than meets the eye #I LOVE THIS BOT #HE SO CUTE #*high pitched scream* #also #unrelated but i read somewhere that Roddy is canonically not an outlier and #pffff i refuse to believe this #outlierRoddy #4 lyfe #idw #IDW Publishing

[honestlyvan]

bloop!! :D

AJ has magic computer breaking powers, not just in the sense that her electroconductive abilities can fire at peak frustration, but also because she’s just magically able to invite every bug in a software to happen at once. It’s like a magic trick. She doesn’t really take it too personally, but it’s one of the reasons Lucy and her aren’t as close as they could be, because Lucy takes it to mean she’s one of those people who mistreats their phones/computers and then complains about them not working.

#van's answers #variantverse #oc: lucy #oc: aj #outlierroddy

[mrdraws]

🖍 I hope you will have RED this ask correctly 👀

I think I did :3c

#asks #sci fi #red #art #outlierroddy

[mrdraws]

8, 9, 11 for crispy josh and lucy

8. What would they consider the most romantic thing that happened between them? Falling asleep under the stars in the same sleeping bag–right up until they got attacked by a ghoul and had to disentangle themselves before they got their faces chewed off

9. What was their worst fight about? Who apologized first & how? Killing. Lucy has blood on her hands like just about everyone else in the Mojave, but she doesn’t approve of Joshua’s uhhhh,,,, excessive aggression. Joshua apologized using her words (because she’s an erudite type of bitch) and actively tries not to be as ruthless from then on out.

11. What do they admire the most about the other? Joshua: Lucy is a good person, a real good person, and there are SO few of those in the Mojave. She does her best to avoid killing and always gives everyone a fair shake even if it means getting hurt in the end, and Joshua--someone who has difficulty doing that--admires about her.

Lucy: There are a lot of things she admires about Crispy Josh, but overall her resilience is probably at the top of the list. It takes a LOT of grit to survive being set on fire and kicked off the side of a fucking cliff–and she keeps going after that through like. All of the crazy bullshit they get up to. She’s pretty impressed and wants to be that tough herself

#asks #joshua graham #lucy reyes #lucy/joshua #ocs #fallout #outlierroddy #headcanons #i made joshua a lady cuz!! i can do whatever i want

[mrdraws]

why is the arishok so dummy thicc 😩💯👌

Hrrgmn... I’m trying to get the Tome of Koslun back but the clap of my ass cheeks keeps destroying Kirkwall...............

#asks #outlierroddy

[honestlyvan]

Tagged by: @thatswhyhesprime

Nickname: Van

Height: 162cm/5'4

Time: 0910 (yeah I'm doing this during a meeting at work lol)

Favorite band/artist: Poets of the Fall, Dolcenera. S/O also to Hiroyuki Sawano and Pentatonix

Song stuck in my head: "Perverso" by Tiziano Ferro i.e. "oh no You're So Hot" the song

The last movie I watched: Transformers: The Movie. Yeah, really

Last thing I Googled: Uhhhhh I don't keep a search history but I prolly used the search as a shortcut to TF wiki when I was talking about Alpha Trion and had to check a thing.

Other blogs: "yvannairie" but it's only got private posts atm

Do I get asks: Not really. I wish I got more, I'd get SO much more written.

Why I chose this username: I needed something different from YvannaIrie and I am a known Annoying Horn Of Truth

Following: Like 45 ppl. The past year has made me unfollow a lot of people

What im wearing: Work clothes i.e. tee, trousers with thigh pockets, a vest with more pockets and hardpoint shoes

Dream job: Animation director or animation producer

Dream trip: I don't like travelling, so prolly like. Taking my friends to Crete or smth

Fav food: Lasagna probably

Play any instruments? Flute

Hair color: I keep it dyed red

Languages you speak: Finnish/English bilingual, passable Italian and a bit of German

Most iconic song: Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi. I mean c'mon.

Random fact about yourself: I have spatial-systematic synaesthesia. Concepts exist at particular coordinates, sort of floating around my head and connected to each other along threads.

Tagging @kermakastikeritari and @void-fluff.

#get to know van #outlierroddy #void fluff #kermakastikeritari #this meeting is so boring pls spare me

[honestlyvan]

WIP meme

I got tagged by @thatswhyhesprime :D

Go to your current work in progress, share the following, then tag at least 3 people. I’m tagging @angel-ascending and @megatronwasright and... no third one, b/c I don’t know who else is actively working on writing atm. I’m also cheating and giving a bit more context than just a single line, b/c the style of this thing is so clipped I feel like any individual line would not be very representative.

- The first line of the work:

”Mr Valentine, we’re five minutes out from Trost.”

The driver’s voice, coming through the speakers at the back of the Shadowfox, sounded tinny and muted. The ride from Junon had been uneventful and, after listening to the commercial radio news twice in a row, Vincent had asked the young sergeant to turn the radio off, spending most of the drive sitting in silence. His driver had probably forgotten to turn the volume back up, thinking Vincent had been sleeping.

- The first line of your current chapter.

Vincent caught up to Reeve at the double-doors. They moved inside, Reeve’s annoyed stride unbroken, setting a brisk pace through the crowd while Vincent trailed behind him, watching the mass of people for potential threats – but mostly watching Reeve.

He was looking deceptively at-ease, returning the occasional greeting and briefly engaging in question-dodging with a few of the more curious guests, but by the time they reached the back of the room, Reeve was frowning. It wasn’t hard to guess why – they’d been getting enough meaningful looks to show that their rushing had not gone unnoticed.  - The last line you wrote.

The minister rolled his eyes while speaking, and when he’d finished, his gaze landed on Vincent. He opened his mouth as if to address him, before closing it again, and turning back to Reeve.

“May I speak freely around him?”

“Go ahead”, Reeve said, nodding in affirmation. “Vincent is my shadow.”

“Yes”, Leman said, giving Vincent a sweeping glance, “and a rather striking shadow he is.”

- A line for a chapter/part you haven’t written yet.

I’m actually writing this thing in order so I don’t have anything for the future chapters, and I’m not quite out of the Six Year Cocktail Party yet. The last line is where the thing ends.

#van writes stuff #all in all i'm still really satisfied with this thing! #it needs a bit of buffing stylistically -- so much of it has been exposition so far that the style is very stiff #but the content is good #and i really like the mood of it #outlierroddy #i'm sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting me to quote half a mind #i'm so close to being done with it it felt redundant #and this thing isn't as readily quotable as that one #but i love it a lot :d i've given this au a truly embarrassing amount of thought #angel ascending #rhpurasu #quote your things at me #i like your writing

[honestlyvan]

I was tagged by @thatswhyhesprime​

Coffee or tea

Early bird or night owl

Chocolate or vanilla

Spring or fall

Silver or gold

Pop or alternative (more like. Electronica and dance but....)

Freckles or dimples

Snakes or sharks

Mountains or fields (forests)

Thunderstorm or lightning (neither, I’m afraid of storms)

Egyptian or Greek mythology

Ivory or scarlet

Flute or lyre

Eyes or lips

Witch or fairy

Opal or diamond 

Butterflies or honeybees

Macarons or eclairs

Typewritten or handwritten letters

Secret garden or secret library

Rooftop or balcony

Spicy or mild

Opera or ballet

London or Paris

Vincent van Gogh or Claude Monet

Denim or leather

Potions or spells

Ocean or desert

Mermaid or siren

Masquerade ball or cocktail party

Gonna tag @rrosyan @kermakastikeritari and .... shit. *leans offcamera* HEY MEZZO, WHAT’S YOUR MAIN AGAIN?

#get to know van #outlierroddy #these were pretty fun!

[honestlyvan]

@thatswhyhesprime​ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ✧

I’m just gonna warn you this is gonna be like three solid paragraphs of gushing before I get to the point. Might as well tip my hand early, I mean, this is my favourite TFP character we’re talking about.

Everything in how I write Wheeljack flows from him being brilliant -- however, it’s not necessarily b/c he’s the smartest one in the room. Cognitively, Wheeljack has all the complexity of a bar of ore, he just thinks very fast, making quantitative judgements and iterating his thinking at a rate that usually puts him at about two thirds of a plan of action where most people around him are still working out what’s going on.

At the root of his intuition and ability to cut halfway through a problem in a single cognitive leap is his excellent situational awareness. His tendencies towards risk-taking are less an expression of his personality and more just a direct consequence of being able to quickly and accurately assess situations. Even when he’s off-base, he’s still fast enough to just make up a new plan as the initial one is failing.

Although that being said, his risk-taking is also informed by him having an actively pleasure-seeking personality. He gets bored if he’s not meaningfully occupied, and doing things that aren’t enriching is just huge fucking hassle he doesn’t want to deal with. This is what causes a lot of his issues with authority -- he doesn’t mind being told what to do as much as he minds people depriving him of the chance to figure out how to do it.

Oriented towards goals, plans and action as he is, he deals very badly with uncertainty. Even when there’s not enough information to make an intuitive leap, there’s always enough to go on for him to jump into a conclusion. That’s where his brilliance turns into his biggest weakness -- what he doesn’t notice or think of might as well not exist as far as he’s concerned, which is a bit of a disaster for him b/c despite being an obligate Firm Believer In Himself, that reliance on his own viewpoint doesn’t always translate to meaningful self-confidence. Being decisive is easy. Being sure of yourself isn’t.

My original phrasing of this last point was that as a consequence he’s absolute garbage at emotions, but... Honestly, not really. Like with his arrogance, there’s an element of truth to his immaturity, but mostly it’s just an affect, and he has no difficulties with his own emotional truths. The core issue is that he’s uncomfortable with emotions, and pretty damn bad at communicating about them, because with emotions, he’s never quite on as strong a footing as he’d hope, and can’t make the kind of quick, accurate judgements about them that he can make about other things.

#van's answers #transformers prime #maccadam #tfp wheeljack #outlierroddy #there's a couple of phrases that come to mind #any time i'm trying to explain to myself why exactly i love this idiot so much #one is 'jumping from a high place and growing wings on the way down' #b/c that's what a lot of his problem solving amounts to #his confidence is not an affect -- he really is that good and he knows it #another one is a quote from the comics that's something along the lines of #'usually this takes about three days so give me ten minutes' #which :'dd #:'ddddd #but it's also true though like #that's very much what wheeljack does #he specialises in knot-cutting and taking on impossible odds and making beating them look easy #he has a drive to excel but it's excellence in the very narrow category of things he considers his domain #having such a precise definition of success also means he's more flexible than your average perfectionist #(even though he does have all the hallmarks and weaknesses of a visionary -- just saying he and optimus have a lot in common) #so he's able to rapidly recover from failure and turn it into a learning opportunity #really the shit he gets snarled up in the worst is the cause of plain old lack of perspective #getting him to admit to a fuck-up is much harder than getting him to apologise for one #in summary: i'd die for this fool

[honestlyvan]

I got tagged by @thatswhyhesprime and figured that what with all the new followers (seriously, where are y’all coming from???) I should probably introduce myself

Rules: answer 20 questions so your followers can get to know you better, and tag 20 other people you’d like to know better.

name: Yvanna Benjamin. No, I’m serious about that :’D

nickname: Van

zodiac sign: It’s a secret.

height: 162cm so juuuust under 5′4

languages spoken: English, Finnish, some Italian. 

nationality: Tavastian Finnish

favourite fruit: Pineapple, watermelon, cherries

favourite season: Autumn

favourite scent: Ozone, even if it gives me a headache :’DD

favourite colour: Purple, orange

favourite animal: Foxes

favourite fictional character: Just to name a few recent ones, Frye Christoph from Xenoblade Chronicles X, Ashikaga Yoshiteru from Sengoku Basara, Wheeljack and Ratchet from Transformers Prime and Mythra and Malos from Xenoblade Chronicles 2

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Coooooooffeeeeeeeee

number of blankets you sleep with: One or two. My second one is an old military wool blanket that I bought b/c it’s Heavy

when was your blog created: This blog? 2012. I started using this site 2010′ish

favourite subject: Physics, Alt-Religion (we didn’t have to take religion if we didn’t belong to the church), like two or three spesific courses of maths in upper secondary, editing in art school

currently watching: Rewatching Transformers Prime, rewatching Leverage, rewatching Once Upon A Time, watching Ms. Fisher’s Detective Agency

favourite band: Poets of the Fall

instruments played: Soprano flute. I quit b/c I formed a preference for alto flute but couldn’t afford one, and going back to soprano felt really clunky.

favourite book: Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, Runemarks, So You Want To Be A Wizard, several of the “Chronicles of Redwall” books, and “The Tao of Pooh”

I’m not gonna tag anyone, but if you do this, @ me so I see it, yeah?

#get to know van #outlierroddy #*fingerguns and walks backwards out of the room*

[honestlyvan]

thatswhyhesprime replied to your post: All my TFP stories are about people bullying,...

Can we… read any of these stories?? I’m so interested now…

That is, eventually, the plan. The ongoing writing project is my first crack at writing TF things.

It’s just Bulk and Jackie, tho, and Bulkhead loves him too much to be that mean to him.

#van's answers #outlierroddy #don't get your hopes up tho i'm a) very slow b) prone to having strange & out there readings of characters

[mrdraws]

Oh hey!! I guess if you want questions I can ask how you came up with the design for your human roddy, aka the best human roddy ever (cuz i've already screamed too much about how much I love him lolol)

Thanks so much!

My memory’s a bit spotty and I don’t actually remember how I came up with him. I think he was probably just one of those designs that just pops into your head. Megs was the same way. Some of the others I really had to work at and am still working at (like TG, Cyclonus, Nautica, etc.)

#asks #outlierroddy

[honestlyvan]

Hmm.... this does look cool! What about 19 for tfp Arcee?

People they’ve hurt or indirectly killed, and how it affected them 

You know, she was a scout – well, actually, she was probably more like a commando than a scout, but still a deep frontliner used to working ways away from any backup, and whenever she lost someone, we saw her take that to herself so strong that I feel like if sometime in the war, she would have provided bad intel, she would have taken the ensuing losses to be her fault. That just seems to be how she works – if she was involved, it was on her.

Maybe it wasn’t just Tailgate who died because she let herself be captured.

#van's answers #outlierroddy #really whoever it was #arcee would remember #she takes her responsibilities towards other people seriously #despite being kinda emotionally distant with them #one might think those two things are.... r e l a t e d......