Header and profile pic are from @notlocallyeducated
The reblog spam has been moved to my alt @infernogoddess-reblogs
Everything has been updated with #mine for collection purposes, the art tag is #moth draws. #moth rambles and #moth writes are my writing tags. Also if you see the rambling tag and a #not writing, that just means it's not part of a fic.
Ao3 fics. (Some crossposted)
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Some of time to torture jazz again is under the tag #tttj, will eventually crosspost it all but formatting has been weird.
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
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Jazz Prowl lemon is officially up! its 4k words of JazzProwl valveplug featuring the mecha pilot au here on tumblr. we've been having a blast messing around with the idea of giving the mechs mouths a lot in the discord, and i have decided to grace the world with my gratuitous enjoyment of eating out. have fun and mind the tags as always!
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This is a rather short comic, but it's been stuck in my head for quite some time.
Blackarachnia finds something she shouldn't have, and now it's Optimus's problem, yay!
In this AU, Orion was the one who taught D about the world and showed him that it was worth fighting for freedom. At the same time, Orion was the one who helped Megazarak create the Decepticon movement.
Orion wanted D to join the Decepticons, but D simply does not agree with everything Megazarak says. However, he will fight for Orion's vision because Orion means the world to him.
important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are
More mecha au, because i realize that ive only been posting in discord.
Jazz is smol, Jazz in an engineer, Jazz can fit inside of spaces that he logically should not.
The running gag we are going on is that Jazz still thinks that these are pilots, but alien pilots who spend most of their lives inside their mechs. And/or that they got wired in.
And so Prowl finds him being a ferret in his own armour, fixing a few wires and oiling small joints.
Prowl offers to let Jazz study his mechanics, with great curiosity on what Jazz will do. Jazz is ecstatic and near immediately climbs onto Prowl's offered hand.
Jazz spends the first 20 minutes just examining the way his fingers move and shift, slowly climbing up his arm to examine his shoulders, testing the wheels housed within. Prowl nudges him away from his doorwings and Jazz moves easily onto his neck, which feels a lot more sensitive than Prowl remembers.
An odd ticklish yet fluttering sensation, Jazz spends more time examining his helm, listening with his smaller audial intakes to the inner workings.
Jazz stays clear of his bumper once Prowl asks him to, the feeling of such light magnets travelling is very odd, but acceptable.
Idk might add more later, just Prowl letting Jazz be his ferret self.
