DOC - HE/IT/THIS ONE - 24 - Transformers enjoyer, Towers enjoyer, artist, jack of all trades. I'm neurodivergent and disabled so please bear with me. Profile banner drawn by me, of my oc Hedron! Message and ask box always open. https://cablestwisted.carrd.co/
I'm Doc - a jack-of-all-trades craftsperson, artist, costume maker, and occasionally writer from the UK. I'm a trans man and use he/him, it/its, and this one/that one pronouns.
My writing can be found on this blog @marmaliser and here. My art can be found here: @cabledcreature
Please read this post before following or messaging me!
My current and long-standing special interest is Transformers, and I post about that, Alton Towers, and my many other interests a lot. On here I'm most known for lore analysis and theory posts, but on other platforms I'm known mainly for my art, fashion, cosplays, and videos! Hoping to get more art up on here asap.
Please don't take heavy reference from, trace, or otherwise copy my artwork without permission!
Click "Keep Reading" for warnings, guidelines of interaction, information on asks, links, and my tagging system:
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Warnings:
Under 16s - be aware that I'm an adult. Please do not DM me, ask to be mutuals, tag me in things, etcetera, but you can send asks/interact with my blog with reblogs, likes, and comments. Please do not spam comments!
I write horror based and generally dark content thus if you're sensitive to that you may find that this is not the blog for you. My art can also focus on these topics!
I am disabled! Please be patient with me.
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Guidelines of interaction:
In this space we respect people of all ethnicities, spiritual beliefs, genders, & sexualities. We support low income & working class individuals, disabled people, queer people, immigrants, sex workers, neurodiversity, & abortion rights. We fight for equity, justice, an inclusive & accessible future - we prioritise consent, respect, community, & safety.
Discrimination and bullying will NOT be tolerated here.
ACAB. No Nazis, Tories, TERFs, or Exclusionists. No pedophiles or zoophiles. No anti-vaxers, no anti-maskers. Respect asexuals and polyamorous people or leave.
If you are anti kink, anti nsfw, or support bans on sexual/kink content, activity, and shops - even though this space is SFW I do ask that you leave. Remember - bans & restrictions on this kind of thing disproportionately affect marginalised individuals and censor queer voices, and infringe on everyone's autonomy. Discrimination against kinksters is very real, look into Operation Spanner and many other cases like it.
Also if you don't like furries, therians, & otherkin, you might be in the wrong place.
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Asks/Inbox and Lore Archiving:
My asks are ALWAYS open but be aware that it may take me a while to respond!
I used to write lore rambles off asks a lot, but rarely do now - I'm never sure what people want to know and asks show me what people are interested in knowing/give me a jump-off point for lore analysis. So if you're interested in anything to do with the lore of Transformers [Aligned Continuity novels especially], Alton Towers, or just anything about either, feel free to ask me questions via the ask box anytime.
Everything expressed in this regard is personal opinion based on my own investigations. I am not an authority on the backstories of anything I like unless its something I made myself. TL;DR - take what I say with a pinch of salt. Ideally a handful of salt.
Alton Towers lore posts are always archived at @marmaliser so if you want to just read through my ATR lore posts, give it a follow!
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Useful Links:
The Ministry of Joy/Alton Towers lore masterpost can be found here
My carrd with all my social links can be found here
My redbubble can be found here
Spotify playlists can be found here
CablesTwisted Youtube channel can be found here
Info abt how my “Ride Manifestation” characters work can be found here
Get Rickrolled here
Cheese
You. Are a freak
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Gift art and theory referencing:
Please please ask if it's ok before drawing my OCs or including my OCs in fanworks, and especially before drawing or writing about my OCs with other people/other people's OCs! I really appreciate and welcome people to draw my guys but they're all incredibly personal characters to me and in many ways are a part of my brain.
In a similar vein, please don't make characters with heavy inspiration from or based on my characters, it makes me highly uncomfortable! Please don't make OCs based on or heavily inspired by me at all - if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
If you reference my theories in your own theories/fanfics/etcetera, please tag me, I'd absolutely love to see what you come up with!
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Tagging System and Notification Disclaimer:
I try to tag interests and generic triggers but operate on an ask to tag basis, meaning that if you need something tagging, please just let me know via the ask box!
I'll try my best to remember to tag things but sometimes things slip through - just send me a gentle reminder through DM or my ask box so I can get back to you. I have memory problems, so sometimes things get missed.
Please remember that I have my tumblr notifications off, so sometimes I miss things even though tags and asks are meant to email me.
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[If you're reading this, comment or message me your favourite transformers character or rollercoaster!]
The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.
I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.
there is actually literally 0 reason you can justify for not having an epileptic safe version unless you are making a very specific kind of thing. epileptics deserve to enjoy the art you make
Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch
I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.
"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen
A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore
The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:
We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.
It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.
An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.
I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.
Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”
As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species
Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times.
Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses
Attended a rattlesnake conference yesterday and one of the presenters was talking about public attitudes towards snakes, specifically how showing them in a non-aggressive context helps to create more positive attitudes, and. Y'all. I NEED to show you the image he used as an example
Look at him. Look at this smiley newborn sidewinder sitting in a bottle cap. He is so small and so happy he is EXACTLY the right size to sit comfortably in a bottle cap
undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
updated the character limit on the blinkie maker! previously 15 characters, you can now attempt to cram a whopping 25 characters on your blinkies!! certain fonts and font sizes WILL cut off. use your best judgement ok?
