A head filled with cats

I‘m a writer and artist, and I have no idea what I‘m doing. I go where the hyperfixations take me. I‘m also on Ao3.

[catbrain42]

Episode 30. …huh. No text at all today. That’s a first.

I. I don’t know how to handle this. I feel lost.

Airachnid‘s cool though. My brain hates the way she moves in alt but that’s just the arachnophobia speaking, so... Other than that she’s very cool.

[nondelphic]

opened my draft, saw one sentence i wrote three weeks ago, closed the draft. healing is not linear

[catbrain42]

Episode 29!

Not that much text. It‘s just this.

…I suppose for a species made of metal an electromagnet would be pretty dangerous.

[songbirdo]

HKAM day 8- Vessel

Cup runneth over.

[catbrain42]

The writing process in 10 steps:

Tell yourself that you should write and then don’t do anything for two to three weeks.

Finally open the document, stare at it for ten minutes in silence, then close it again.

Force yourself to sit down and actually write, write two whole sentences, leave.

The next time you force yourself to write, delete those two sentences you wrote last time.

Fall into a trance at one in the morning and write for two hours.

Read over what you wrote the next morning, realise it’s good but also not readable in the state it’s in, procrastinate on editing for another week.

Convince yourself to write the next part, but only ever write a paragraph or two before going to tumblr or youtube or anywhere else you can scroll, spend a few minutes doing that, remember you were writing, go back to the document, repeat.

Finally finish the chapter, then agonise over a title for at least one day.

Promise yourself you’ll get a proper schedule and tell yourself you’ll do better next time.

Return to step one.

[hisuianserperior]

11. Rawdog it

(It probably helps that I'm insane and write directly on AO3 and only don't finish a chapter in one sitting if I'm dead tired or it's too long)

[catbrain42]

You write directly on AO3?! …I commend your bravery and pray for your internet connection.

[catbrain42]

The writing process in 10 steps:

Tell yourself that you should write and then don’t do anything for two to three weeks.

Finally open the document, stare at it for ten minutes in silence, then close it again.

Force yourself to sit down and actually write, write two whole sentences, leave.

The next time you force yourself to write, delete those two sentences you wrote last time.

Fall into a trance at one in the morning and write for two hours.

Read over what you wrote the next morning, realise it’s good but also not readable in the state it’s in, procrastinate on editing for another week.

Convince yourself to write the next part, but only ever write a paragraph or two before going to tumblr or youtube or anywhere else you can scroll, spend a few minutes doing that, remember you were writing, go back to the document, repeat.

Finally finish the chapter, then agonise over a title for at least one day.

Promise yourself you’ll get a proper schedule and tell yourself you’ll do better next time.

Return to step one.

[catbrain42]

Drawing on blackboard is surprisingly fun.

[catbrain42]

Do you have any good resources for translating Cybertronian text? I would like to attempt some translating for war for cybertron trilogy but I have no idea where to start :>

Sure!

First, there’s this site on the tfwiki that has the code for the 'Ancient Autobot' that’s most commonly used (at least as far as I‘m aware) and a few others too.

Alphabet - Transformers Wiki

They don’t have special characters there though.

Tumblr isn’t letting me put up the actual picture for some reason, but you should be able to find a table containing those just by searching 'ancient autobot font' on whatever search engine you’re using. (Sorry.)

Good luck and have fun translating!

[zizotheraccoon]

the line where Elita is all like “where did you learn to dance like that OP” and he just replies “we’ll dance is the main form of communication on several planets”

like does this imply that he’s self taught or that he’s classically trained in dance?!?? Did he get lessons as Orion pax cause he’s a little nerd or did he do it when he got the matrix be aside a prime needs to be able to communicate with every species they come across? I NEED TO KNOW!

also what other dances does he know cause it seems that he know the tango so in theory he should know most classic ballroom dances. Does he know ballet too?!??!? Tap?!?! Break dancing?!?!? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND MUST BE ANSWERD IMMEDIATELY!

[catbrain42]

E28! Not much text, but I liked the episode! Very colourful!

The "Ready?" was mirrored, which makes sense, since the text is facing the challengers.

The scoreboard pops up a few times throughout the episode, here’s a selection. I‘m not screenshotting all of them.

[nerves-nebula]

oh ok glad we figured that one out

[catbrain42]

Sentinel Protocol... Does that mean Sentinel was a part of the Primes in the Cyberworld timeline?

Possibly! Considering this thing also has the word "Prime" on it, I‘d even say it’s very likely!

Also oh my gosh I am so sorry about the late reply I don’t check my inbox very often

[catbrain42]

E27 came out yesterday and I totally missed it.

Didn’t have much text though, so…

[catbrain42]

Tfw you write five chapters of a fic in a single day, except it’s not the fic you’re supposed to be working on.

[karen-writes]

Things that give writers anxiety

- When they write

- When they don't write

- Being asked what their book is about

- not saving before closing a word doc

- Life in general

[brainstreams]

You’re a writer So of course you have…

• a notes app graveyard

• at least one document named “final_final_REAL.docx”

• bookmarks you swear you’ll read after this chapter

• a research spiral that started normal and ended completely and utterly unhinged

• multiple projects you love equally and neglect equally

• ideas that disappear the moment you open a Google Doc

[catbrain42]

E26 had more text!

There‘s a spelling mistake on the drone’s feed, and the number pad has numbers from 1 to 12 for some reason.

Hey, it‘s that thing from episode 13! And the resolution is finally high enough to read it! (Red letters are the ones I guessed based on context because they are not readable.)

The lines on the left likely say 'Sentinel Protocol' (even though it seems to spell 'Protocal' but that could just be an error or the bad resolution) and 'Abscond Sequence'.

The picture on the right cuts off in the middle of the second letter of the second word, but based on the shape of the top half of that second letter and the context the only word I can think of that would make sense here is something like 'Prime System'.

Here we a beautiful description for a hunk of ice (I‘m sorry but Dihydrogen Monoxide is the best science joke ever and you can’t change my mind) and one for the special rock.

And finally, the power cables.