Sometimes, Soundwave can be too clever for his own good, getting himself into trouble nobody else is capable of digging up just because he found an interesting data trail.
Other times, all the information in the world isn’t enough to stop him making what is, in hindsight, an incredibly ill-advised decision.
Smarting off to Starscream on Aquatron, for example. Convincing Jazz to steal the phase shifter from Smokescreen. Or—and this one is a spectacular addition to his mental hall of bad decision fame—deciding to investigate Whirl’s Cybertron while channeling Allspark energy through his hands because it seems less likely to work somewhere so far from home.
In his defense, it’d made sense at the time. Junkion, Velocitron, and the other colony planets of his home dimension had constantly struggled to maintain their connections. Going into another branch altogether should’ve nullified the magic for the duration of his visit.
It did not, in fact, do that. It didn’t even dampen things a little.
No, it worked exactly as well as if he’d been on his own Cybertron the whole time. Better, even, for a specific and deeply dismaying definition of the word.
He happened to find this out, you see, when his walk through the land a little ways out past the fringes of Iacon led him to lose his footing in a patch of unstable ground. A panel of peeling, brittle metal had shifted and crumbled into scree beneath him, causing him to slide back with it. Without thinking, he’d bent forward to steady himself, one hand planted firmly on the ground—
And because the multiverse was merciful, saw no effect from the touch.
But!
But.
The multiverse is also a cruel, deceptive glitch with a razor sharp sense of humor, which means something ancient—and more importantly, borrowed from someone a hundred times more powerful than himself—stirred inside his chassis not a moment later, too warm and too loud and too bright as it reached out through his fingertips and connected with Cybertron’s freshly energized surface.
Every light on his frame flared painfully bright, stuttered, and then faded.
Naturally, it took him another few seconds to realize that they’d gone dim again. Confusion of that type is to be expected when one abruptly becomes surrounded by a field’s worth of little blue balls of sunlight.
It is here that Soundwave now stands, every last plate on his frame compressed in pure horror while his mind races down a thousand separate tracks, only to arrive at a single succinct (if inelegant) conclusion:
Frag.
Goals.
Inspired by this post: https://raionmimi.tumblr.com/post/630258720224559104
Part 1 // Part 2
The footsteps of the council thug faded to echoes as he retreated to tend to his wounds.
Whirl didn’t stick around to hear it.
As soon as the bot had turned, Whirl was on his pedes punching in the code to his habsuit. Once open he rushed inside, cradling Tailgate in his arms.
Gears and springs joined the shattered furniture strewn across the floor as they were swept off the bench to make room for Tailgate’s frame. Whirl was loath to let to minibot go, but he laid him down anyway. Cyclonus was still laying prone in the hall, he was still in danger.
Back in the hall Whirl heaved Cyclonus up, claws hooked carefully under his shoulders to avoid aggravating any wounds. Cyclonus was a big mech, but Whirl was able to drag him into the hab before he barricaded the door. As it stands, Whirl was more useful to the council if he could throw around his own weight and then some.
Whirl: does that mean you agree?
Red Alert: HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN HERE!?
Don’t mind him, it’s just you friendly neighborhood shipping cryptid
So um, yeah.
To all my good omens people. Go. read. this. fic. It is beautifully written, it will wrench your heart out of your chest, and it needs to be shared.
(as always, give the author some love. I will make something for this when I have recovered enough of my facilities to focus again[aka this fic has thrown me for a loop of which it will take a little while to get back from])
Just make sure you have a warm blanket and and a few good fluff fics lined up for afterwards 🧡
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23394718#bookmark-form
(P.S. for additional feels factor, listen to https://youtu.be/Uil0L-0F4no after.)
A few of the prompts from @mcnuggyy‘s sheet which ya can find here:
https://mcnuggyy.tumblr.com/post/633896358940688384/i-felt-like-there-wasnt-enough-polyam-trio-art
C2 for @citrus-art-and-life, F1 for @sporadichumanoidoperatortrash, and the rest for various folks. You know who you are
So–
One of the things I to do when encountering art block is to read a fortune from a fortune cookie and draw the absolute first thing that comes to mind(no matter how random!). This had lead to a wonderful variety of interesting little doodles in varying stages of completeness. But that’s the point when you’re struggling to draw; it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be.
With everything going on in the world atm, I figured I would share my little idea. Because, if it has helped me, it might help someone else as well, and who doesn’t need a little bright spot in their day!🧡
If you feel like giving this a try, go right ahead!! [Just add the tag #fortunate_inspirations so I can see your lovely doodles!]
(ALSO, If you don’t happen to work at a Chinese restaurant and have a bunch of cookies on hand, there are a bunch of online fortune generators available)
I was making this as part of a thank you to my instructors and at some point sat back and realized the picture looked oddly familiar.
Turns I out I drew something of similar form 4 years ago which is when I started at the school I’m currently graduating from.
It nice to see that while I have adapted, changed, and grown over the past years, I’m still essentially the same person I was then. 🧡
(If anyone wants to see the old drawing the link is below)
https://www.deviantart.com/farmgirl2012/art/Stargazing-589964737
Round-robin collab time!
Sketch by yours truly
Lines by @toontyrant
Colors by @sporadichumanoidoperatortrash
Go check out their blogs for the other parts of the collab!
Edit: Take 2
Sketch by mwah
Lines by @sporadichumanoidoperatortrash
Color by @toontyrant
This little scene is based off of a photo described in Lush_Specimen‘s fic “Thunderstuck” over on Ao3.
It is truly wonderful fluff, like, grade A fluffiness. The link is below if you feel like reading cute things atm.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22263769/chapters/53165068?fbclid=IwAR3SHubLszwEXNQU6dZhMwY67GHR6awJBv9d8TXZiciSTH2YEtKbosxF0Ow
Oh look, there’s cookies. Don’t worry, they’re chocolate chip.🍪
This is based on chapter 2 of @sleepymccoy’s story “Summoned.” (Link to the story is below 🧡)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20339347/chapters/48226441?utf8=%E2%9C%93&selected_id=48226390&commit=Go
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