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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."

5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and i STILL CANNOT FIND THE TERM.

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...

[batty-ace]

Sprang! It’s sprang, I actually tried this in my teens, and failed, but that’s beside the point.

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I’ve been trying a few more variations of the sprang sock . Here’s a straight tube sock . It was made ...

I have a pdf on the leggings too, but I can’t post for some reason. It won’t let me link it from my files, but it’s still on google if you look for dagmar drinkler who recreated them.

[batty-ace]

This is the time lapse, the shorter one at least, for the art I did for my Fanfic, ShireSong. It is embedded into chapter 10 now, and I’m trying to do one illustration per chapter, but this was first. Enjoy!

Fic link:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[batty-ace]

A few progress sketches of an art for a new fic. Mainly references at the moment, and a link if anyone is interested. Final piece should be up soonish as I need to add a few characters in to the portrait, but time is currently not an issue since I damaged my knee and definitely have plenty of that resource for the moment.

It is a hobbit/Silm fic, rather than the transformers fics I had been working on, which are currently on hiatus for further outlining and development.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[batty-ace]

A breakdown of how I think of Praxian door wings. I just think, that if they're gonna be called sensor panels and be this big huge, special Praxian thing, then they should have some lore. I think every city framtype should have lore and unique anatomy (engineering? Mechanics? Robotical structure? I dunno.).

I might do seekers next, or like, spin the wheel of Cities or something. But I like Praxus so l started with them. My three models are probably obvious, but hey, for a lore drop, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I think they just kind fold up into each layer, and then again, like the cardboard finger extensions from grade school or whatever. It's transformers, their matter and structure doesn't make sense anyways. Where does any of them go when they transform?

I wish I had the skills or tools to animate the motions, but alas. Imagination shall have to suffice.

Besides, I'm a pretty big JazzProwl shipper, so I think it'd be funny to imagine him seeing Prowl's full wings and just going all simp for him. Just? Jaw dropped, staring or something.

[batty-ace]

Timelapse, the first one I e ever posted, full drawing, and cropped image of the characters closer up. References used included an image of a human vein, a photoshop of a mirrored forest, and a screen cap from a video game(I think).

If you’re following my (sporadic) updates on multiple fic “Trust Fall” from tumblr, then I’m sorry to disappoint you, but this is an art and lore dump not a chapter update. I drew this to go in either the next chapter, or one a couple up the line though, so it’ll be seen again.

I really wanted to have a lore post though, so we’re talking titans, Praxus, and Cybertron. In my fic the city of Praxus is built on top of a Titan. Not one like Metroplex, though he counts, an absolutely massive titan able to support a city the size of Beijing or New York. Praxus is big, old, and a political contention point in my fic.

She kinda has to be considering that the first big act of war in most continuities is the bombing of Praxus. Regardless, in my fic she’s also awake, and here’s where the spoilers end of the lore dump starts.

Coming up Prowl and Jazz follow Whirl into the sewers to meet with the Leakers, whose deal I will wait to spoil. In order to get there though they go significantly deeper than the sewers themselves and end up in the catacombs going deeper still. This is where the whole titans are big shebang gets messy.

What they’re walking through in the image is one of Praxus’ fuel lines, ie a vein or artery. Lore wise in my fic, the Titans live and sleep just below the surface of Cybertron making up a majority of the outer layer of the planet.

This means both that Primus, as a planet god, is smaller than most Cybertonians think he is, and that the Titans are the second biggest mechanic around. The purpose of the image is to illustrate both the size of the titans compared to “modern” cybertonians, and to show the difference in how they evolved since the first transformers around.

For another reference scale, the big green crystal in the background is Praxus’ spark crystal, but only the tip. The Titans are huge, but also a different species of mech as far as that term applies to mechanoids versus organics.

I dunno, enjoy a super sketchy little Jazz and Prowl, and a pre empurata Whirl who’s sketchier though.

[batty-ace]

Newest chapter of my fic, Trust Fall! Posted late here since mobile wasn’t letting me post for a while.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64276414/chapters/168755047#main

In addition, have a gremlin Dearcy sketch, and a redesign of a vaguely catboy Blaster sketch.

[batty-ace]

This goes with a fanfic I’ve been publishing for a while, but I wanted to really illustrate the differences in the twins I’ve been writing. I’m posting Chapter Thirteen today, lucky number!, so yay, art. Anywho, I’ll link the fic at the bottom, but it’s on Ao3, called Trust Fall otherwise.

First up is the center differences, and some background. In the fic the twins were separated, so stuff goes down generally, but in the center it shows when they’re separated. You can see that they’re just babies. Sunny’s helm fins are too big for him, like a puppy’s ears, Sideswipe has knobby knees, etc. I’m not the best artist at perspective specifically, so it didn’t come across great, but at this point Sideswipe is actually a little bigger. Slightly taller, even if Sunny is meaner even when they’re that young. But you can see the resemblance, the matching faces, similarity in frame at the time. They’re twins there, and babies.

Then you’ve got the adult frames and they look like they grew up, you can see how they got there from their sparkling frames, but they don’t look like twins anymore. Sideswipe, having been raised in Iacon, I’ve styled in a much more RiD fashion, he’s cocky, and bulky. He has more armor than flexibility, even if he can be flexible if needed. He’s a good fighter, but he’s focused on defensive strategems. Redirection and such.

Sunstreaker on the other hand is Praxian style, because as to my fic, once Praxus got him they weren’t actually planning to let him go. He’s also pretty, for reasons you can probably guess, but he’s much more flexible than Sideswipe is. He’s also taller, and broader in frame, which was part of the point of this illustration, because in this fic Sideswipe is confused by Sunstreaker, remembering his smaller twin, and he’s just not anymore.

Also, fun fact, Sunstreaker has what is called false doorwings, they’re a blade style for fighting and aesthetics primarily, but they do have some sensors in them. They are also used for communication in Praxus where he lives.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64276414/chapters/164985880

[clockwayswrites]

Okay, darlings. This fandom has managed to drive an author from it and they went out with a nuke. All of their work, gone. So it's time to have a talk. I'd love to think none of you were involved in it, so hopefully this is more a reminder to reblog than to have to apply, but it's time to have a talk.

First off, I'm not going to name the author. Their story is theirs. I'm just going to talk generally.

You DO NOT tell an author to kill themselves (kys) or threaten to harm them or that you'll find them or that they're writing their story wrong. YOU JUST DON'T.

"Well that's how I joke with my friends--" Stop. Authors are not your friends. They are at best acquaintances and more likely strangers. They might be friendly with you. I'm friendly with many of you because I see you often in comments/replies and such. And some of you have become friends. But the average author is not your friend, they are a stranger. And if you're the type of person who would tell a stranger to kill themselves, you need professional help in dealing with something deep inside you and I hope you find it.

Authors are out here writing entertainment and sharing it for free. You respect that and be kind. If you can't be kind, you leave. The back button is right there.

This is not an airport, you do not need to announce your departure. If a fic goes a way that you do not like, you unsubscribe and hit that back button. If it turns too angsty or sappy or violent, back button. If their characterization bothers you, back button. You do not need to tell as stranger providing free effort that you hate what they are producing. This fandom is so damn prolific, there's something out there for you, it doesn't have to be that fic.

Please just be kind. The world is horrible enough right now. And if you can't be kind, back button.

[batty-ace]

I’m going to add that op points out that a lot of the folks that do this use the defense of, “well that’s just how I joke with my friends,” that still isn’t a joke for a public forum even if they were your friend. You don’t know every person in a public space and in places such as Ao3 and Tumblr, where handles are used in place of names, that’s doubly true.

And coming from someone in the generation where those jokes have popped back up again, I gotta tell y’all. I understand dark humor, I do. That’s not dark humor. That’s bullying plain and simple. I’ve had to tell friends, my friends, to stop those jokes with me because I worked too hard in therapy to overcome my depression to have any level of comfort with those jokes.

Not everyone has been to therapy, knows they need it, can afford it, has finished it, et cetera, et Al. Just. Don’t. It’s not funny or cute on Ao3 and tumblr where it’s fully anonymous, it’s definitely not on TikTok and instagram where it’s definitely not, it will never be in real life.

People matter, lives matter, don’t ruin safe spaces. They exist to be safe spaces, they need to remain so.

[batty-ace]

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Pretty sure I found Gaud’s cake self by accident while I was doomscrolling…

[batty-ace]

Art from Chapter 6.

[im-ace-not-broken]

Trying to figure out if it’s “worth it” to come out as ace is such a mood.

Will they even recognize the term “asexual” or will I be starting at the ground level here?

How many ways are they likely to ask if I’m sure? (Have you tried…? Well how do you really know if…? Maybe you just haven’t met the right person yet.)

Are they the type of person to need me to explain why it doesn’t matter if I have or have not had sex before?

If it has no effect on my physical boundaries with this particular person, is it worth the energy spent?

Will it actually change anything about my interactions with this person for the better if they knew?

[hello-sweetie-bad-wolf]

Also having to explain that the “crush” you had a long time ago was when you didn’t know what asexuality was and thought you had to like somebody.

[im-ace-not-broken]

Ugh. Yessssssssssssss

[batty-ace]

Like, idk I liked hanging out with them.

Did you have sex?

No??? We talked?

???

[thesevenumbrellas]

Hi, uhh, how did you find out you were ace? Kinda questioning if I am or not and I'm trying to figure stuff out

There wasn’t really a “oh shit” moment like a lot of people have when they read it.

I knew I was different but I just figured I’d grow out of it… And then I didn’t… And I was reading about different sexualities and found asexual and was like maybe???

Thought about it for a while, took longer for me to say it out loud and tell my friends.

Even now there’s still moments of “am I though?”

I don’t think asexuality (or aromantic, since it’s a similar concept although I have no experience so correct me if I’m wrong) is like being “gay, lesbian, etc.” There’s never going to be an oh shit moment in terms of “I have a crush on that boy!”

In my head it’s just a lack of moments. I’ve never had a “oh shit I want to have sex with that person.” Never a “I just met this person and I want to kiss them.”

I guess it’s kind of a waiting game in the end? But that’s okay. We have time. We don’t need to seek out the labels that define us. Usually they arrive exactly when they’re supposed to.

[batty-ace]

Most of the sexualities in my experience have a click moment. A zing, if you will. But like with Hotel Transylvania's zing it is an active realization. I like boys, I like girls, I don't feel cis, etc. For me what lead to the asexual community was a lack of a zing. My little sister started getting crushes and acting accordingly, my friend got married, another had a kid, I woke up in the middle of the night and heard my parents having sex, that joke did NOT mean what I thought it did.

And all of these happening all the time kinda led me to the thought of I don't do this... and I honestly thought that I was broken. Which is a common first though, come to find out. It is a slow realization and a refusal to accept the label of broken.

[deamortis66]

IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE

[knightarcana]

This is pretty much the definition of being an ace person, tbh, and I’m so glad.

[old-songs]

#I thought it was an exaggeration for literal years (via sonickitty)

this is literally the #that sounds fake but okay meme im dying

[overlycaffeinateddreamer]

#ME#I THOUGHT SEXUAL ATTRACTION WAS RARE#AKA#HOW TO FIND OUT YOU’RE DEMI (via @miseryauthoress)

[kyogre-blue]

Honestly, every single cheating plotline never made sense because “but why do you have to have sex with them? just don’t??”

[skidar]

^^^^ Every single cheating plot line ever I was like: What is so hard about keeping your pants on what is your problem??

[callie-quite-contrary]

…do you have any idea how hard it is to do literary criticism that will get published when your reaction to at least 75% of character motivations is this makes no sense whatsoever why do they even care? 

[sazandorable]

When people ask you why you don’t date someone just to try, and when you answer that well you’re not interested in that person, they explain that usually you don’t like the person at first, but you might fall in love after having dated a little while

and you’re just?????? but what?????????? is the point of dating someone if you don’t like them?????????????? 

what do you mean the point is making out and sex????????? why would i want to do that with someone i don’t already like?????????

[trashbandikyut-deactivated20181]

I have literally experienced all of these.

[purrfecktlysinful]

my realizations laid out before me. xD;;;

[shiisiln]

this is adjacent to the Bi Realization of like “oh my god… there are people who… only like… ONE gender??? like, at all? Ever?!?!!?”

[kintatsujo]

Yeah like I know baby boomers who talk like this and you can kind of just tell they don’t have the words and the self acceptance to realize this sorta thing is what’s happening

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

The extra twist is growing up in evangelical purity culture, so everybody makes a big deal of abstinence and True Love Waits and everything, and you’re just kind of like “okay, sure, that’s easy, why is everyone acting like it’s hard? anyway abstinence, cool, I’m doing what I’m supposed to, no big.” (Kind of like how “just say NO to drugs” campaigns feel baffling when you’ve never been offered drugs and you’re not interested anyway.) And then you get to college and away from the purity culture echo chamber finally and you’re like “wait. wait. are you telling me sex IS a big deal for people?? it’s not just like…exaggeration in the media and kids rebelling for the sake of rebelling??? wtf???”

and that’s how purity culture can both prevent you from realizing asexuality is a thing AND insulate you from feeling broken about it for a long time, which means you get a whole series of super weird revelations as an adult when you’re finally less sheltered

[batty-ace]

I'm not quite sure what what purity culture is, but being raised Strictly Christian does exactly that. And then my hypersexual bi sister says sex jokes and you're confused. And they get to just awkwardly explain the sex joke... and you're still confused...