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An Opinionated Guide to Cybertronian Sweets (commonly found in vending machines)

This was written from the POV of a pre-war mech, who’s really into sweets, has both the mouth and proboscis to experience them with, and the strength of opinion to write this guide.

The guide itself was distributed by them to little public sharing libraries, or other nooks and crannies where one might find politically-unpopular writing.

Cybertronian sweets are honestly such a fun concept to explore. The idea of having a mouth and/or proboscis (from battle mask or empurata or other), and how that affects one’s enjoyment of different sweets in regards to taste and texture, or if it’s even consumable by one’s method of consumption. And then the politics and history of certain sweets! Ahh! It’s all so much fun :D

This was originally created for the August 2022 #TFZineJam You can see the full pdf on my itchio page here.

All the ideas and headcanons here are free-to-use. Actually, please do use them - it'd be an honor to see them in other people's art and fic! (if you do, link it here - I’d love to see!)

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🧿 to keep you safe from people who want to do you harm.<3 🧿

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Mombird

#not my art #insp #soundwave #laserbeak

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horrible human eyed dragonfly whirl suffering from flesh empurata

#Whirl #tf fan continuity #transformers fan continuity #Rogue seeker Canon #Autobot lore #My art #Macadamia

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Fanfic asks - for the askers

Basically, it's a fanfic asks with a twist - because now it's the askers who answer the questions and send them to YOU! Mostly to give you some love about your writing! Giving you some well deserved ego boost! <3

So, askers - pick a number, or several numbers, to answer in ask boxes that you send to your fic author!

My favorite fic of yours

My favorite chapter in my favorite fic of yours

The best character you've written for

The best ship you've written for

A fic I haven't read yet from you, but I want to

Something I remember vividly from reading one of your fics

What made me the most emotional after reading

What I like the most about your writing

A fic i'm excited for you updating/posting

A character/ship I didn't enjoy/think about as much before you wrote about them

Something I wish/hope you write

A fic of yours that i've re-read

If i've ever shared/talked about your fic to someone else

A fic I didn't expect to like so much

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Megatronus’ art as though ey is on a body pillow!

Commission for @rogue-seeker / @voidwingsprime ! <3

I'm open for commissions. If you're interested, DM me here, or send an email to eldritcharaneaeart @ protonmail.com ~

#megatronus #iscas art #not my art #kaonite ram

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Sparkling Announcement

If there’s one thing Skywarp is, sha is a size monarch. Literally.

On camera, sha is being petted like cat, as Thundercracker, Winglord of Flock Aegis, sploots out on yre “throne” with yre centauroid frame.

TC stares straight into the livestream, crimson gaze bale and in thought. Skywarp’s cradled in yre upper arms, all 51 feet of shi in length, as the kaiju size mech tends to yre Second Wing. Yre massive front leg-wings sprawl out onto the pile of soft pillows as yre hind-legs stretch out beneath yre upper half.

Thundercracker clears out yre vents, dust spoofing out as the air is blasted.

“As the humans say…”

“WE’RE PREGNANT!” Skywarp’s face screen flashes with \(@^0^@)/.

TC looks fondly down on yre second wing as yre sensor crest rises up in amusement. Skywarp warbles as large clawed hands scritch at yre neck-cables.

“TC, what’s the english translation?”

“Gestating, I believe.”

“Here’s the gestating photos!”

“…Our equivalent of it anyway, since the sparklings hasn’t been built, yet.”

“Yeah, Scree has to incubate the newsparks for what?”

“Twenty-five Earth years.”

Out of the wall printer in the throne room, spurts out reams and reams of blueprints. So many blueprints.  Schematics for sparkling frame-parts and how to build them.

“I’m designing their sparkling frame, sub-adult frame, and fullframes like a model-kit!” Skywarp wriggles happily.

Thundercracker squishes yre Amica Endura.

“My data-dreams have been full of code for the little ones with Chainblades.”

More printer whirring.

Piles and piles of code gets printed out as well.

“We’re making honkbiners!”

“They’re like Earth Geese. “

“Except they transform and turn into an even bigger goose!”

“But with chainsaw wings!’

Skywarp holds up a very long blueprint ream, of winged appendages of doom, with very long chainsaw teeth.

TC’s sensor crest fans out and yre looks very amused.

“So yes, I’m carrying the code and photonic crystals, Warp is gestating the schematics, and sha’ll eventually grow and print out the parts. And assemble them. Scree’s got the sparks, and Chainblades has donated the nanites and schematic info to Warp.”

#manufacturing roles #manufacturing #honkbiners #thundercracker #skywarp #rogue seeker canon #arc: the revival

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“Does anyone ever wonder what things were like, before the war?”

#rs bonus material #the lore is rs canon

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re: Rung and the Guiding Hand, I really love the history and consequences of the reinterpretations of Primus as almighty powerful being but also sometimes I just want to see a world where all the Cybertronians remember who their gods are and just treat it as a fact of life.

by this i mean sometimes when a cohort from this species of jocks is doing interplanetary negotiations they see a tiny nerd going by and immediately go ‘HI RUNG ARE YOU PROUD OF US’ and inform the aliens ‘this is our DAD we love him he has eyebrows’ and sometimes the alien species look at the cybertronians and go ‘?? shouldn’t he be…big?’ and the cybertronians go ‘no that’s what he has US for’

#fic insp #rung #yes #this is how the arknaughts should be treated #rs religion

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🖌 Skywarp!

#spymeisters art #skywarp #not my art #aaaaaa i love gift art

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Seeker 101

What is a Seeker?

Apex predator flightframes, the term is from “seek and destroy.” Before, it was “Seeker of Knowledge, of Experience, of New Homes.

 During the Paradise Era, Seekers were originally guardian frametypes that guarded Cybertron from extraterrestrial threats. Occasionally picking off mecha that threatened Cybertron’s peace. 

During the Quintesson Invasions, Seekers and other mecha had to become vicious and weaponized to fend off the colonizing invaders. Many frame-types got hit with quintesson-viruses, making them happy to produce sapient products.

Insecticon hives were the hardest hit.

With energon being harvested by the Quintessons and hotspots turned into product factories, Seekers turned to predation and recycling of the infected individuals to fuel their flights, growth, and manufacturing.

Religion

https://rogue-seeker.tumblr.com/post/645124239808167936/rs-lore-religion

Codelines

Kaonite Ram - Burrowing owlbearlike mecha that live underground and feast on radiaoactive ore to fuel their fusion cannons. Their religion is on digging through the corpse of Primus, and praising Unicron on killing him. Death feeds life. They host their sparklings on their backs as pods.

Voidwing - Ambush hunters from the Sonic Canyons, they are noted for their processors capable of crunching complex equations for warping and bridging.

Rainmaker - Spark-gifted Seekers that cause acidic rain and thunderstorms around Vos. In eons past, this helped save Cybertron from the Quintessons.

Spire Dancer - Noted for their complex aerial displays and holographic feathers, Spire Dancers hunt with null rays and impale prey on the spires of Vos.

Cone Cuckoo - Seekers who stash their sparklings with other codelines to be raised. Have a complex shifting ability that lets them easily copy other seeker codelines.

Honkbiner - Geeselike mecha with chainsaw wings that combine with other Honkbiners to create a giant kaiju-sized uber goose.

Sonic Storm - Seekers of gas giant planets, they are absolutely gigantic in order to brave the planet-sized storms of their homes. Often large enough to house other Seekers in their shuttle-maw space.

Starcrest - Great shuttles capable of producing any Seekerline, usually accompanies titan ships.

Each codeline has its own unique spark gift, that can be passed down from creator to creation, however hybridization can weaken spark-gifts and even cause it to be lost within family sparklines. Hybrid sparklings have to be design carefully to make sure nothing is lost.

Durability/Physical Notes

All seeker codelines are fairly tanky. Wings aren’t fragile at all, compared to fanon seekers. Like irl jets, they can be shot full of holes and still be able to fly home even if only one engine is intact. If all engines are damaged, they are still capable of gliding.

No landing gear, Seekers will transform in mid-air and land on their pedes.

Non bipedal body-types are common, its easier to support large frames that way. Thundercracker has a winged centauroid body type, while Skywarp is quadrupedal.

RS Mecha will often have built-in antigrav to lighten their weight and increase agility, and Seekers are no exception.

Sensors

No noses. Noses are for humans. Chemoreceptors are located in the vents. While insecticons have a higher sense of taste/smell, Seeker chemoreceptors are still more sensitive then the average humans. Seekers will often taste things with their hands/paws/manipulating appendages.

No pain receptors. Damage and sensory information is given via list of notifications.

Thickly armored areas can feel pressure, and only places like hands and other manipulating appendages like data-cables have high amounts of tactile sensors.

Glossa tendrils and brushes is mainly used for grooming. Chemoreceptors there will take note of any contaminants found while grooming and doing other maintenance upkeep of flock members.

Front-facing facial optics are the main set of cameras, but its common to have cameras in other places.

Proximity, wind/air pressure/weather/em sensors are usually located on wings and fins.

Social

Seekers will usually place mecha into several categories, depending on frame-type and size.

These categories range from flock member, to allied outsider, to prey, to baby. Smaller mecha interacting with a brooding Seeker might be placed in the baby/sub-adult box. Especially if certain behaviors are shown. (magnetic clamping, climbing on the bigger mech, predatory grooming/removal of wire mites, wi-fi limpets, plate mites, etc)

Being treated as baby might be embarassing, but its better then being fed on.

Seeker flocks are communal when raising offspring and sharing partners. Coteries (polyamorous seeker groups above the number of three) will often get quite large as they absorb a partner’s partners,and their partners, etc.

Depending on codelines, flocks will usually reside in nesting spires, canyons and burrows on planets. Or on great Titan ships. Multi-codeline flocks are more common out on colony titan ships.

Flocks have a hierarchy usually based off skills, age, and dueling prowess. Being combat-ready is important. If physically disabled, duels are done in VR instead.

Courting flights are common.

And when greeting another friendly Seeker, they’ll usually sniff and inspect each other’s frame to ensure good health and allogrooming to ensure they smell of “Ally” and not “stranger.”

Manufacturing

Unlike Velocitronian forges and Insecticon hive factories, Seekers usually design, spark, and build their own offspring in trines.

One parent to code the personality, one parent to build/spawn the frame, one parent to incubate the spark.

Post-war, its become common for another parent, the largest one to produce photonic crystals for back-up sparks.

Manufacturing techniques can become complicated, this will be its own post.

3D birth-printers are common, and found in nursery-forges and nesting grounds. They’ll usually be covered up due to its sacred status, and gifting of 3d printers is a common thing when wanting to produce a sparkling.

Those who are not mid-wife engineers, will often scrape nanites from under their plating, and mix the samples into a gestation pod. A newspark will be inserted and the third parent or more will often insert a datadrive with their little ones’ personality coding in there.

This produces sparklings that are more “randomized.” Since building little ones requires more intensive skill. And often requires a larger parent  or fabrication shop in a titan ship to grow/shape the parts required.

Depending on codeline, seeker sparklings will come out as either grubs or deployers.

#transformers #maccadam #rogue seeker canon #seeker behavior #seekers #rain makers #kaonite ram #spire dancers #sonic storm #rs lore

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RS Gender system is loosely based off this, but it has grown far more complex/I put my own spin on it

I Have 9 Grandparents : Transformers and Trinal Gender

I have been keeping this raging headcanon of mine under wraps for too long because I thought other people would judge me for giving intense thought to Transformers gender politics that don’t have to do with strong female characters.  But really, this headcanon has grown so strong inside of me, stronger even than Flier Knock Out (which I also orginated!) that I felt it was time to share it with the world.  This is the shameful reality of how Obfuscobble sees Transformers : In Three Genders.

Note: This post does NOT apply to Rescue Bots. Because Rescue Bots is aimed at young children, let’s just assume that those bots are just genderless robots, k?

Keep reading

#rs lore #manufacturing roles

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“grrr” Sputter tossed on the Aegis trying to look bigger at. Everyone.

Soundwave just scoops her up into the laundry basket. Small aggressive aphid. Most likely hungry.

Time to throw her into a ballpit full of raw energon crystals and radioactive waste.

#sputter #jens art #rogue seeker canon #aphid #the preypit #not my art

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Sketch of an RS Sputter design I’m pretty happy with- I just need to remember to ink and color her! I think this has a better balance between “bug alien” and “robot alien” than the first pass. Her optics also fit the style of other RS mecha now.

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#sputter #jens art #rogue seeker canon #aphid #Not my art

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Fireside Chats with TC Episode ???

“Oh yes, this is what a photonic crystal looks like. Give me a minute…”

On livestream, Thundercracker unhinges yres lower jaw, and yres maw grinders, shredders, and denta all relax and widen, yres throat cables expand and there’s a deep rattling noise. Maw lubricant drips out.

*Shlooorrrp*

HOoooorK.

TC slides out a lavender-tinged crystal out of yres maw. Yre maw parts all fold back and contract back into yre face-plates into yre usual socializing form.

The palm sized crystal is held by TC to the light, it shines like an amethyst lit by starlight. Yre optics are zoomed out, as though yres is examining it like a jeweler with a loupe.

“Lighter grade of dark energon, also known as purple or the blood of Unicron. Symbolizes the hunger of the spark that created it.  Only grade of energon that can store spark energy or awaken one of the Undying. Rare, and only gifted to flock members. Found only in the energon circulatory system that coils around the spark chamber.”

Thundercracker pops open yres grubpit and stashes the crystal in there.

There’s dog barking and yre massive hand, holds up a very excited and wriggly dogmech.

“And of course, here’s Buster! She’s very excited to see all of you!”

Her tail lashes excitedly against TC’s wrist and embedded in her forehead is a small dark purple gem.

“So Buster here, doesn’t have a spark.

 But! She’s  still part of the flock.”

Thundercracker pets her right on the helm.

 “And every day right when she goes off to recharge, her consciousness gets sent to the soul-cloud for backup! If something happened to this frame, I can still bring her back.”

Thundercracker holds up Buster to yre face-plates, for a good nuzzle.

#buster #thundercracker #rogue seeker canon #my writing #photonic crystals #innermost energon #manufacturing #the undying

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Soundwave is suffering. All of zir brood have decided, that burying zir in dirty body pillow cases was a great idea.

After several hours of doom, and a good defrag nap, waking up to stale musty anime body pillows was not ideal.

Ze huffs.

It is time to do laundry. Zir claws shove the musty pillows aside and they all slide to the floor.

Zir data cable reaches out for the folding basket. It's a flat metal slab. Soundwave snaps it and it tch tch tch transforms into a sturdy laundry basket.

Tch

(@hyratel

#My writing #Soundwave #Rogue seeker canon

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“Unicron-rust.” Orange is considered part of the rust chroma spectrum.

Question for anyone with Transformers fan continuity:

If there are no oranges on Cybertron, then by what name is the color orange called by cybertronians?

In your continuity, what is the name of color 'orange' when it's directly translated from Cybertronian language?

#cybertronian colors