Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider has basis in western magic
Jupiter is correspondent with lead, which can decrease mental acuity.
Jupiter is the planet of expansion, the boys are getting more stupider, expanding their stupidity.
Historically speaking the boys did not literally travel to Jupiter. They engaged in a form of fasting and sleep deprivation to trigger an altered state of consciousness, at which point the would experience a descent to an "inner" Jupiter.
The choice of Jupiter is also meaningful. The celestial spirit of Jupiter is equated with both cronos and Demeter, and thus functions as a negative spirit, a being of unraveling and unmaking. This stripping away of smartness in the pursuit of getting more stupider is likely influenced by late Platonist philosophy. Plotinus places particular emphasis on the stripping away of misconceptions which in turn allows for proper cultivation of noesis; a process equated with rising back up to the sublunary realm. This is likely the context in which "going to Jupiter to get more stupider" was devised.
In the interest of maintaining karmic balance, as the Catholics go into lent, I will be hitting full throttle on the hedonism. Gonna incorporate new and exciting vices for the next 40 days.
A tribute to our favorite war criminal in all his many iterations across the transformers canon; and to all us fans out here playing with these stupid little toys. I hope you enjoy this tribute I put together to kick off 2026 with.
Credit to each fan artist for their respective designs, projects, and AUs, loved getting to draw them for this ^^
Reference to the amazing fan ova by 87render
Beautiful atmospheric art by @01107aeon
My favorite art style by @arckalia
Adorable StarBee by @bastardlybonkers
Like Father Like Son AU by @melissarthomson
Heathers the musical but Seekers by @eatherstar
Falling Star AU by @local-seeker-shit
Megs + High Guard shenanigans by @soapbbox
Target practice with Starscream by @shandsformation
My favorite Starscream artist @toricoriot
Science Continuity by @mechncheese
Yummy art style by @sjincer
The legendary @zorangezest
Stop Me by @megadoomingir
Party with Meikun
Adorable snaggletooth Starscream from @joking-hazard
SEEKERS! New vocal stim unlocked by Blunt Brothers Productions
Young Seekers brought to life by @thecocodrille
More than just beans on @beanformers
Lost Light Cat Shelter by @madamadamiu
Fun unique art style from @supermetalneo
Squint and you'll see Starscream Shimeji by @birdsandcake
Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World
areudirty
baratheonpilled
yousharknotpass
annaxmalina
tangentwithtanner
origamiaround
