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it's amazing that I got to see him on his first day of being alive. and now he's in my home, biting my foot!
he was also fuzzy! here he is at 4 week old, fully furred:
then at 6 weeks, you can see his fur is thinning:
by 8 weeks, nudity had set in:
and by the time I brought him home, he was entirely a pink raw chicken:
after they lose the kitten coat, the adult coat starts growing in, but it can take up to 1.5 years! eventually, he will be as fluffy as his mom
and then he stayed bald
You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.
You fool, I am the one who endlessly scrolls through the skies on my mere screen, and you dare tell me that I haven't seen the sky, that it's magical, fantastic colors that represent themselves to me. I've seen them all, for I am a Tumblr user. Don't preach to me about what I already know all along.
... that took a 90° that I did not expect at all.
What About Decepticons?
“Might have been better than accepting a burden you know you can’t carry,” Jazz says. “I can carry it.” Optimus Prime says.
Jazz nods. “I believe you can. But not unless you stop grieving over every soldier who is going to die in this war. You’ll never survive that.”
“Jazz.” Optimus Prime turns on his friend, a fierce light on his face. His passion is awakening, his consciousness developing to encompass the enormity and importance of his role. “I will grieve every Autobot and every innocent who dies. That is what separates me from Megatron.” (Exodus)
Before I begin: I’m not interested in making moral judgements here or debating whether Optimus was wrong or right. I’m merely making observations and exploring Optimus’ struggle with the loss and taking of lives.
“Every Autobot and every innocent”
The conversation above happened after the first battle of the war during which Optimus had to make the strategic decision to not answer the call for help from the outnumbered Autobot forces who were blindsided by the surprise Decepticon attack. It’s reasonable to think that Optimus was angry at this point and felt little-to-no pity for Decepticons this early in the war. Either that or he was lying to Jazz by omitting Decepticon lives so as not to appear “weak.”
First Kill
Optimus Prime looks up from a battle chart he has just received from Jazz, who immediately rejoined the battle, holding back a Decepticon advance over a ridge at the southwestern hook of the Hydrax Plateau. Streaking energy discharges crisscross the skies overhead. The Autobot position is precarious. Drixco vaults the dying body of an Autobot—who before the war was a maintenance worker at Six Lasers, and joined the Autobots because of the Decepticon attack on the park—and Optimus Prime sees him coming. He levels his ion cannon and blows Drixco apart, never knowing his name. Never knowing his reasons for pledging himself to the Decepticon insurgency. Never knowing Drixco’s origin because all that mattered in the moment was his end.
After killing this anonymous Decepticon, Optimus Prime will realize that once and for all he has committed himself to the course of war.
He would have preferred—he always said this to me, and I believe it—he would have preferred to reason with the opposition, but that was never possible. And having killed once, he nearly felt that the killing was itself evidence that he was on the wrong side. For what right side in this conflict could demand the killing of fellow Cybertronians?I do not think Optimus Prime has yet found that answer, or ever will. (Exodus)
One of Optimus’ gifts is taking time to think to grasp the bigger picture. It weighed heavily on him that he had been required to snuff an enemy’s spark without ever knowing him, his origins, or his motives for fighting.
When under attack from an assailant, there is no time to reason with them—to think things through. Optimus had to learn to suppress the curious, investigative part of himself that wondered about the lives he took every time he went into battle.
Didn’t You See the Flowers?
Megatron, thought Optimus Prime, probably would have killed Ransack where he stood. But that was one of the many differences between him and Megatron. Every death Optimus Prime had ever caused still weighed on his conscience; Megatron had become so identified with killing that it was the only way he understood power. (Exiles)
I know the spark flower concept is an IDW thing, but I believe it can apply here too:
Optimus never lost sight of the flowers that sprang up around him while Megatron chose to ignore them.
I also find it interesting that this isn’t the first time Optimus compared himself to Megatron, almost as if he had been trying to reassure himself that he was not like Megatron. That he was better somehow.
The Thrill of the Fight; The Pain of the Kill
Optimus Prime, if he was honest with himself, had to acknowledge that he thrilled to the moment of combat, but he regretted every death he had caused, and every one who had died in the long war, and every one who would die. (Exiles)
By this point, it’s well-established that Optimus grieved every life lost, regardless of faction or lack thereof.
However, when I first read this in Exiles, I admit I was slightly taken aback.
Optimus Prime? Enjoying combat?
Megatron and Optimus are vastly different, but they’re also similar in subtle ways. Their reasons for fighting were different, and Optimus detested death while Megatron didn’t care, but one thing they did have in common was enjoying the adrenaline rush of running into a battle with purpose and resolve.
I think of IDW Perceptor—another passive, “nerdy” character who shocked his comrades by taking up arms and taking part in the fighting. Neither he nor Optimus were considered warlike in any way and hated the idea of taking lives, but that didn’t mean they were unwilling to fight. After all, even a worm will turn.
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some of my works related to tf: exodus!
a small comic on the events of transformers exodus: chapter 15! this is mainly on the focus of orion's pov at his realization that megatron is no longer on his side.
this follow up comic is now from megatronus' pov; explains more his thought process leading up to the conclusion that orion had betrayed him. the lines from the first page are lines from chapter 10. the passage describes his tone as "contemplative" and to me that speaks of him indirectly voicing out his doubts of orion and suspecting that there is something more to orion than his desire to help megatron and bring change to cybertron. more to orion than the cause they both fight for. there isn't. he is wrong in his assumptions of orion and i try to show that in the second page with orion's awaiting look at megatronus. he wants approbation and he thought that he did what he could to help the cause by trying to appease the council. but megatronus' thoughts have swerved over to the conclusion that orion has betrayed him and he had always planned for this to happen. of course other factors do come into play with this (i.e. the high council themselves adding fuel to megatronus' rage and their overall dismissal of him during the trial + orion's speech being. mm. very appeasing to the council despite his anger, but that is a discussion for another day.) but i wanted to really bring focus to that underlying sense of doubt between the two of them that really become the root cause for their fallout; showing the real reason for their connection inevitably breaking despite sharing the same cause.
For a little while I was making these dudes (I called them sneefters), but they kept breaking or falling over in the kiln. Maybe sometime I'll try some more that are sitting like the strawberry & crying ones.
A collab done with @thejunkyardscrap :D
Really really fun stuff, can't wait to do more!
fun drawing w you like always!
ill sneak this unused bit in
That fucking Trine leader they hate 😭🙏
Too many family vibes
Whitehead’s Broadbill (Calyptomena whiteheadi), family Calyptomenidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Borneo
photograph by Therese Ong
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bunch of random older stuff..
a design for knight!optimus in by blade and steel tehehe
anybody else notice how bumblebee can be interpreted as having devil horns while starscream can be interpreted as having angel wings. bumblebee being very loyal yes to the autobots but usually earth and humans too, worldly and "grounded". his name even being a creature originating from earth, a creature often regarded as being very nesecary to the longevity of earth's biosphere, it [and thus he] promotes a sense of peace, abundance and life. starscream on the other hand is literally heavenly, as in from the heavens/sky. stars have been used as representations of divinity for centuries, whether it be the "fixed stars" or a halo of stars or using a ball of light/the sun to represent god/heaven. and it makes sense, the biggest source of light and warmth carrying the ultimate sense of totality & domination, watching over us, unchanging, for all this time. and yet we can never touch it, we cant even look at it for more than a few seconds, it alludes us. its an unattainable form. theyre so narrative foils, literally perfect for each other.
acutally now that im thinkin about it its getting to a point where theres a suspicious amount of angel motifs with starscream with stuff like angelscream and the rid2015 final form he had. takes a long drag of a cigerette
