1) The Nucleon Incident (Includes The Cocaine Arc)
2) The Easter Sunday Tragedy
3) The Day After Easter
4) Congrats on the Transition, Optima Prime!
5) Bombs Are a Recurring Theme (Compendium Pt. I)
6) Yaoi (and Yuri) of the Morally-Questionable Variety
7) Tax-Evading Magical Girls?!
[ Note :
This blog will not be actively used to roleplay; only when prompted with asks, and there is no guarantee they will be answered. A3's covenant notes will be in character unless they are in parentheses.
ok so he Might randomly pop into askboxes and jumpscare people then drop off the face of the earth but that's just normal grandpa behavior
The secondary purpose of this blog is to summarize events in the standing community, which are linked above. This is to allow those who have missed out on major events to catch up. ]
At times i do wonder what the cybertronians are up to.
Each and every single one of them with their own different lives.
A particular, if a little selfish, wish of mine is that i may one day observe a cycle through their optics. Perhaps even my own should i magically shrink down to one sevenmillionth of my size, but i cant think of anyone capable of playing the substitute planet in the meantime
History has proven, time and time again, that there is no such thing as impossible. I would not lose hope quite yet!
I am no scientist nor engineer myself, but perhaps Solus could find a solution to your dilemma that allows you to both remain as you are and give you the ability to walk among us as you please? It would be a welcome challenge, I'm sure!
Indeed I am. Unless someone deliberately attempts to track me down to my secret base on Cybertron in order to infect me, I will be safe, so do not worry.
I just hope that all hope is truly not lost for the situation on Earth.
Though I have grown familiar with the masculine ones assigned to me by humanity, you may refer to me as you please! I have no true preference either way.
I'm sorry but on the subject of your recent post, what kind of gender neutral language would you prefer be used for Shredhead?
I know it varies person to person so I wanted to kind of know what would be best
to be honest, I'm unsure how else to say it other than. Not gendered language. I.E., "dude, bro, girliepop," etc are a no. Same with "mech" in place of man. (See: the countless transneutral, transfem, and transmasc people expressing how those terms are not as gender neutral as one might think, even if the person saying it "does it for everyone, even cis people").
I have it in my pinned post, shredhead is canonically nonbinary and uses they/them. And, as longarm mod pointed out in their addition to the previous post about it, it's not hard to look up gender neutral language, and it's not hard to find gender neutral language that fits each character. That, in my eyes, is enough point of reference.
If you want to know what I, Mod Sol, prefer for myself: I would say neutral or masculine language; and for pronouns the only ones I don't like are she/her. Other than that I use anything so long as it's not, like, a slur or something. Get creative.
and finally, and this isn't just directed at you, nonbinary people aren't this nebulous concept where you need to tiptoe around us for fear of misgendering. If you say something they don't like being called, reflect, apologize, respond accordingly and respectfully, and do better in the future. Do not, and I mean this, self flaggulate and make the apology about your guilt. You're putting the person you hurt in the position of needing to comfort you, instead of respecting them and their wishes, and ensuring that they can still be comfortable as themselves around you.
and for the love of GOD, PRIMUS, AND ANYTHING THAT YOU LOVE IN THIS WORLD, STOP APOLOGIZING ON ANON INSTEAD OF DIRECTLY.
Due to the sheer size of this particular chapter, the following content will be hidden below a Read More line as to not take up too much space. Enjoy!
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04/26
10AM [ Rung stands.]
9PM [ An anonymous user gives Kitty-Cosmos some catnip. They get the zoomies and fly off! ]
10PM [ Shredhead checks in on Kitty-Cosmos after seeing zem fly off. Kitty-Cosmos explains to them that ze weren't flying anywhere in particular and that zey were just hyper. Shredhead asks what zey did, and zey admit that an anon gave zem catnip. ]
04/27
1PM [ Sideways' Mini-Cons have been stolen by an anonymous user. ]
1:30PM [ Sideways puts up missing posters for its Mini-Cons. ]
4PM [ Hound greets Sideways, then offers to help find Sideways' Mini-Cons when he finds out why Sideways is out of sorts. Beachcomber offers to chip in with the search, feeling a bit devastated that someone would kidnap Sideways' Mini-Cons after he had promised they would be safe here. Sideways says something very suspicious at the end. ]
4PM [ Wheeljack stands. ]
5PM [ Kitty-Cosmos finally crashes off the catnip and passes out in the middle of the Ark. Acid Storm places GL manga alongside a bomb of an unknown nature right next to them. ]
5:30PM [ Tailgate stands. ]
6PM [ An anonymous asker inquires about the nature of the bomb. Acid Storm says to detonate it and find out. ]
6:30PM [ An anonymous user volunteers Prowl to test the bomb. Acid Storm admits she has no idea what the bomb does due to having made it in a "GL fueled fugue state" and tells them that Prowl is her friend. ]
6:30PM (ART!!!) [ An anonymous user going only by the initial of "N" expresses their disgust at the thought of anyone willingly be Prowl's friend. Acid Storm defends that everyone needs a friend and threatens to incinerate "N" with her null rays. Prowl is touched that she's willing to be his friend, but would rather not have her incinerate others for his sake. ]
7PM [ Meteorfire stands. https://www.tumblr.com/meteorfire-standing/815101167274262528 (forgot the link until I checked the chapter over, I'm now 4 links over the 100 hyperlink limit) ]
04/28
7AM [ More bomb speculation. ]
8AM [ Prowl asks Acid Storm if the bomb is safe. Acid Storm doesn't know if it's safe but says it won't go off unintentionally. Acid Storm shows Prowl the workspace where she made the bomb and they try to figure out what it does from the materials left. ]
4PM [ Hound sees Beachcomber's mention of Atlantis and expresses interest in going. Beachcomber offers to allow Longarm to go along as well. They head out the next day after the final post in the thread. ]
5PM (ART!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGNS!!) [ Acid Storm accidentally drops the detonator for the bomb. It goes off. The blast renders them both magical girls, though Acid Storm was made a human while Prowl remains a Cybertronian. ]
6:30PM (FULLY RENDERED ARTWORK!) [ Inferno is hit by the Magical Girl Blast. Rather than turning into a magical girl, he becomes kawaii. ]
6:30PM (VIDEO EDIT ANIMATION!!) [ Blurr is hit by the Magical Girl Blast and becomes Kamen Rider Kabuto. ]
11PM (ART!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ Red Alert is hit by the Magical Girl Blast and becomes a magical girl Cybertronian. ]
04/29
9AM (EDIT/ART!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ The Allspark is hit by the Magical Girl Blast. ]
10AM (ANIMATION!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ As a consequence of the Magical Girl Blast, when Sideways wears one of his Mini-Cons, instead of changing his faction alignment he experiences a transformation into a magical girl Cybertronian. Possibly non-canon, but included anyways. ]
10AM (ART!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ Wreck-Gar is hit by the Magical Girl Blast and becomes a magical girl Cybertronian. ]
1:30PM (ART!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ Wheeljack is hit by the Magical Girl Blast and is turned into a magical girl Cybertronian. ]
7PM (ART!!! MAGICAL GIRL DESIGN) [ Hot Rod is hit by the Magical Girl Blast and becomes a magical girl Cybertronian. ]
6PM (ART!!!) [ Inferno is asked if he has a brother called waterous-laying. The Horrors await. ]
04/30
3PM (ANIMATED EDIT!!!) [ Blurr appears, wearing one of Sideways' missing Mini-Cons (Crosswise?). Sideways "liberates" its Mini-Con. ]
7PM [ Soundwave requests a status report from Knock Out. Knock Out complains about the Autobot who keeps thwarting him in races. Knock Out practically begs to get intel from Soundwave's cassettes for his murder plot. ]
7PM (ART!!!) [ An anonymous user asks Inferno if he can kill waterous-laying. ]
05/01
10AM [ Beachcomber, Hound, and Longarm begin their trip to Atlantis, passing through reefs along the way. They discuss sea life, then Hound contacts Optima about helping with pollution. She expresses her approval of the idea and says she will encourage all Autobots aid in plastic clean-up and she begins working on a plan to help humanity develop green energy generation. ]
05/02
9AM [ The Cybertronian IRS stands. ]
9AM [ A Cybertronian IRS agent contacts Hound about Blurr's serial tax-evasion, wondering The agent then tells Hound that he owes 60k shanix in back-taxes. ] (Faces such as Jazz, Shredhead, Mutagenic Skywarp, and Blurr appear in the branching reblog threads under this post.)
9:30AM [ Shadowstriker contacts the Cybertronian IRS wondering if she can file for unemployment. The Cybertronian IRS agent provides an extremely legitimate form. ]
10AM [ An anonymous user contacts Kup and warns him how everyone is being audited by the Cybertronian IRS. Kup claims to have a clean record, so he has no concern for it, himself. He is, however, surprised that the youth did not know they were employed. ]
11AM [ Beachcomber, Longarm, and Hound arrive at what they assume to be the ruins of Atlantis, with Mutagenic Skywarp close behind. They encounter a monstrous leviathan lobster of Cybertronian-adjacent build, befriend it, and then head through caverns of ruined buildings and through rocky tunnels before approaching a lake. ]
12:30PM [ Hot Rod discovers taxes are real the hard way. He is informed by the Cybertronian IRS agent that he owes 70k by the end of the week and runs. ]
1PM [ Alpha Trion confesses to having committed tax evasion himself. The Cybertronian IRS agent asks about what he just said, and Alpha Trion (presumably successfully) distracts them with his sick kickflips. There is an in-character exchange in the comments of this post between Alpha Trion and Sideways, where Sideways calls Alpha Trion's behavior "deviant," and in response Alpha Trion threatens to kick his aft. ]
4:30PM [ The Cybertronian IRS confronts Optima about how she apparently hadn't been paying her employees, but she claims that she has in fact been paying each 25 shanix an hour. It is discovered most Autobots were simply not aware they were being paid. ]
6PM [ The Cybertronian IRS contacts Kup about Hot Rod's situation. Kup goes to contact Hot Rod about it. ]
7:30PM [ Drift is contacted by an anonymous asker about his taxes. He plays the oblivious card, consecutively and successfully deflecting from the topic (*squints*) a total of fifteen times, all in one long thread. ]
10PM, though chronologically takes place in the previous chapter (WRITING!!! GO LOOK) [ Mirage's Introspection: Mirage reflects on his racing interaction with Knock Out (who he does not know the identity of, but wants to know). ]
05/03
8AM [ Longarm complains about the fuss around taxes. The Cybertronian IRS cannot find him in their systems, so he confesses to his former identity. ]
12PM [ The Cybertronian IRS agent confuses Acid Storm for Starscream, and she is understandably offended by it. She says she wants a lawyer, which will be relevant in the future of this chapter. ]
3PM [ The Cybertronian IRS agent mistakes Nacelle for Starscream. Nacelle is understandably annoyed at this mistake and talks about destroying the IRS. The IRS agent tells Nacelle that he owes 20k. Nacelle expresses how he doesn't care, and the Cybertronian IRS agent says they will send bots to repossess his assets. ]
3:30PM [ An anonymous asker asks Mutagenic Skywarp if he has paid his taxes ("texts") yet. Skywarp, who has been separated from Cybertronian society for a substantial amount of time, is confused about it, thinking he shouldn't have to pay it off. Skywarp runs when told otherwise. The IRS tells Skywarp that they were going to contact his caretaker, who is apparently Beachcomber, but it is unknown who filed them as such. ]
5PM [ The Cybertronian IRS agent checks in on Cosmos, who has apparently kept up with his taxes. ]
11PM [ The Cybertronian IRS contacts Beachcomber about Mutagenic Skywarp, referring to the seeker as his "pet." Beachcomber defends Skywarp's situation and asks if he could be applicable for some sort of tax penalty abatement, then expresses distaste towards the IRS agent's use of the term "pet" as Skywarp is an independent mech. He is also confused about the "caretaker" situation, as he never filled out any forms to establish such. The IRS gives Skywarp a month to pay off what he owes. ]
05/04
8AM [ An anonymous asker asks Outback about what he thinks of Mirage's dress. He, in a very awkward and tsundere manner, says he guesses it looks nice. Mirage thanks him and asks about his hobbies (which in response Outback says shooting and drunk driving). Mirage laments on not being on Cybertron to take Outback turbofox hunting, and Outback suggests they could go on a mountain road drive, to which Mirage agrees to do so sometime. ]
1:30PM [ The Cybertronian IRS now knows of Sideways' existence. He runs. ]
2:30PM [ The Cybertronian IRS is contacted about being put on trial for their crimes of misconduct. The agent in charge of the account forwards it through the proper channels. ]
10PM - 05/05 9:30PM [ Prowl is blasted by a shrink ray. Soundwave checks in on him and asks for his status. Prowl then is put on Soundwave's shoulder for a higher vantage point. They move along, with Soundwave occasionally checking in on Prowl's condition, having a sweet conversation along the way. ]
05/05
11AM [ Ready for his court appointment, Unicron is revealed to be the head of the Cybertronian IRS. ]
7:30PM [ An anonymous asker asks Hot Rod how the IRS situation is going. Hot Rod is currently using a cardboard box as a disguise and heading towards the Nemesis. ]
8PM [ Hot Rod enters the Nemesis and expresses his displeasure at how purple it is. ]
9:30PM [ Hot Rod's adventures in the Nemesis continue. He wonders why it's so big. ]
10PM [ Hot Rod runs across Soundwave and tiny Prowl while in the Nemesis. ]
10PM [ Hot Rod is interrogated by Soundwave and Prowl. He makes some very poor decisions in how he defends himself, and then Soundwave sics his cassettes on him. ]
05/06
10AM - 05/15, 5AM [ The trial of Unicron vs. The People begins. The judge, Prowl of Praxis, reads out the charges against the Cybertronian IRS. Prosecutor Red Alert starts out by presenting the evidence towards the first charge: breaches of civilian privacy. Unicron objects, then starts debating Red Alert out of turn while failing to provide evidence, which has Judge Prowl calling order and threatening to hold contempt against Unicron. Red Alert then presents the evidence for the second charge: corruption, as they do not have a third-party inspector. Unicron refutes this with a succint "Nuh-uh," and then Grimlock appears, who is apparently the third-party inspector. They are called out for not waiting their turn again and, after acknowledging this as true and Grimlock returns to the stands, the case is ready to continue. This matter is currently ongoing and will be updated as it develops. ]
05/07
7AM [ Armada Tidal Wave stands. ]
2PM [ RBA Whirl Jr. stands. ]
05/09
10PM [ Hot Rod wakes up in a cell with Soundwave's cassettes guarding him. They absolutely verbally destroy him. ]
05/10
6PM [ RB Salvage stands. ]
8PM [ Bluestreak stands. ]
05/11
11AM [ An anonymous user says Mirage is still pretty to them (presumably related to his mullet situation). Mutagenic Skywarp agrees. Mirage is surprised to see Skywarp, as he assumed Skywarp had died. Skywarp, not remembering, is confused about the whole thing. Out of frustration, he picks up Mirage in his mouth like a kitten and runs. ]
2PM [ After receiving an ask about Soundwave dating Prowl, Bluestreak checks in on his adoptive brother, worried that Prowl has been kidnapped by Decepticons. Prowl informs him otherwise, and then repeatedly fails to reassure Bluestreak who has deep-rooted trauma regarding Decepticons and the fall of Praxus, sending Bluestreak into a panic spiral. Bluestreak has lost trust in his brother. ]
6PM [ Smokescreen stands and immediately answers an ask from Prowl. ]
7:30PM (ART!!! GO LOOK, THE SHREDHEAD MOD SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON IT) [ Shredhead is struck by the Magical Girl Blast. ]
10PM [ Sunstreaker checks in on Bluestreak. ]
05/12
10:30AM [ Smokescreen checks in on Bluestreak. They discuss the Prowl situation, and though Bluestreak does cry, he seems to come out of it a bit more level-headed. ]
4PM [ Moonracer stands. ]
5PM [ Mirage greets Moonracer, and the two have a pleasant conversation. ]
5:30 [ Cheetor stands. ]
6PM [ Terrorsaur stands... or flies? ]
6PM [ An anonymous asker asks Moonracer to tell Mirage to get better taste in mechs. The asker clarifies the mech in particular as Outback and calls him crusty. ]
7PM [ Sideswipe stands. ]
9PM (ART!!!) [ An anonymous asker asks how Inferno feels about polyamory. He says he's open to it. ]
05/13
3PM [ Sideswipe says hello to Sunstreaker, and Sunstreaker catches him up on the current situation. ]
3PM [ Smokescreen contacts Prowl, noting the lack of destroyed stuff around. Prowl asks what he means, and Smokescreen says that Prowl broke three table the last time he broke down. Smokescreen has a heart-to-heart with Prowl about Bluestreak, and then calls Prowl "Pudpud" in a teasing brotherly manner, which Prowl is embarassed by. ]
5PM [ Sideswipe offers to get Prowl back for Bluestreak after their fight. Bluestreak refuses. ]
9PM (ART!!!) [ An anonymous asker wonders if Tesarus puts random things through his shredder for fun. He, in fact, does. ]
05/14
10AM [ Acid Storm and Prowl have constructed a device intended to cure the side effects of the Magical Girl Blast. They set it off, and it works as intended. ]
6PM [ Blackarachnia, Airazor, and Terrorsaur all smoke weed. ]
6:30PM [ Mindwipe stands. ]
7PM [ Sideswipe confronts Prowl about his relationship with Soundwave, calling him a defector. Prowl denies any form of defection and Sideswipe deflects the source of it to rumors. Prowl tells him to leave it. ]
8PM [ Red Alert confronts his older brother, Sideswipe, about conspiring against a superior officer. Sideswipe denies his very real intent to do that, saying he was just fact-checking. ]
05/15
7AM [ Sideswipe loses his pistol. Mindwipe finds it, then hypnotizes Sideswipe into stealing energon for him. ]
9AM [ Moonracer greets Elita-1. Elita-1 shows off the beetle someone gave her, calling it a butterfly, then offering Moonracer the opportunity to name it. This thread was that last one of Elita-1's that was not deleted with her account. o7 https://www.tumblr.com/moonracer-standing/816703847516012544/oh-elita-1-its-me-moonracer-i-cant-believe?source=share (I hit the 100 link limit but we make do) ]
11:30AM [ BW Inferno stands. ]
12PM [ Chromia stands. ]
12PM [ Cheetor is given catnip. Blackarachnia warns him about the consequences of it. ]
12PM [ Airazor, still high, wakes up in the Standingverse Ark. Longarm finds her, both of them confused, and they come to the conclusion that she must have time traveled. ]
12:30PM [ Airazor contacts Cheetor in a panic, telling him that they're in the past. Airazor assumes that Longarm is the Prime. The two assume that they are trapped and plan to befriend the locals while they are stuck. ]
3PM [ Upon hearing Mirage has been kidnapped by Mutagenic Skywarp, Outback contacts Mirage. Mirage gives him a run-down of the situation and suggests he should get Beachcomber to help (he does not), then Outback says he'll work something out. ]
[ Off the same thread, Mirage is spat out by Mutagenic Skywarp. Skywarp asks if Mirage can eat fish, which Mirage seems a little appalled by and says he only needs energon. Skywarp wonders why Mirage isn't resisting, and Mirage says he's terrified of Skywarp gnawing on him again and that he doesn't want to create conflict for Beachcomber. Mirage confirms Beachcomber is his friend (YAYYY 🥹). ]
05/17
7:30AM [ Outback confronts Mutagenic Skywarp through an ask, demanding the location of Mirage and him. Skywarp doesn't know. After being pressed by Outback, Skywarp says he just wants answers to his questions. Without tact, Outback blurts out the details of Skywarp's death, leaving Skywarp in shock. ]
8AM [ Sideswipe brings a massive stack of energon to Mindwipe. Mindwipe then easily weasels information about Sideswipe and his brother out of his hypnotized victim. ]
11AM [ Sunstreaker confronts Sideswipe about his energon stealing, but Sideswipe finds no alarm in it in his hypnotized state. ]
I have found myself to be well, as well; thank you. There has been quite a lot happening here, but I am handling my work chronicling it as well as I am able.
I have found myself to be well, as well; thank you. There has been quite a lot happening here, but I am handling my work chronicling it as well as I am able.
Shredhead is not a fucking boy nor girl they're non-binary they've only ever been referred to with they/them pronouns by other characters AND by the writers.
They're non-binary. Yes I drew them in a dress/more femininely because it was a fucking magical girl bit and non canonical. If I have more opportunities to draw them I might make them more masculine. But at the end of the day they don't have a canonical holoform design. And as IDW showcases a character's holoform can present differently than their normal appearance.
I've never used anything except for they/them for shredhead. I've said it in the intro post they're canonically non-binary. I don't know how people keep missing that. I'm not answering nor replying to asks or threads that use anything other than they/them for them, nor with any gendered terminology such as "boy" or "girl" even if it's in a joking capacity.
I'm sick of this. They are one of the only two nonbinary characters in this entire fucking franchise and still they get misgendered so heavily by the community.
call me a buzzkill for "overreacting" on a tumblr roleplay blog but if this behavior keeps up then I'm not using this character in any capacity other than their gimmick of standing.
I'd appreciate it if other standers reblogged this. Yes it's negative but genuinely the exprsexism Needs to be address. Thanks.
[ ok guys i cannot fully loop my adhd brain back into working on the next post so it's going to take even longer, bad day for it today (cannot produce the 1 coherent thought needed to write summaries) ]
Many thanks, Tumblr user s█████████-████████! I do not know how you managed to deliver these to my hidden location, but I appreciate these gifts of the fishy variety!
