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@living-cybertronian
Hello! We're Ambulon/Getaway (it/its).
This is our blog for discussing our experiences with being collectively Cybertronian or having Transformers affect any aspect of our identity in general. Or just for fictionfolk members posting in general.
It's a sibling blog to @mogaiformers, our TF labels/flags archive.
We're plural, alterhuman, queer, disabled & an adult.
we want to post here more but we never know where to start with sharing our experiences or even just daily snippets as fictionfolk without some sort of nudge... augh,,,
nor do we know how to quite strike up a conversation with other fictionfolk. being neurodivergent is really weird and difficult when you do want community
-unknown (it/its)
kinda. funny. we have 3. collective. "M" aspects of ourselves. MTO. Medbot. Mini-con. both. relatedly to character identities. and seprate. might be 4 depending on how. dense. the mnemosurgeon thing ends up being. and whether or not. you count it as distinct from medbot.
-Trinity/Tailgate (idk prns)
we need to. talk about the mini-con thing more. it is why we coin so many mini-con related terms. on the archive blog.
-Trinity/Tailgate (idk prns)
When I was first forming, I kept worrying about roles, since I want to busy myself in our life. I would ask management about vacancies, but the gatekeepers keep making me do our external job... Suppose I'm set...?
-Arcee (he/him)
Alledgedly, I'm extra endurant in a way that makes me a a good primary candidate for our employment. Which means I'll have to handle the 17h shift day... Stares off into the distance. I mean, I'll do it, but woof.
-Arcee (he/him)
so. we didn't have a 17h shift day. but we did. have a surprise trainee. we're doing ok. at teaching though.
-Trinity/Tailgate (idk prns)
kinda. funny. we have 3. collective. "M" aspects of ourselves. MTO. Medbot. Mini-con. both. relatedly to character identities. and seprate. might be 4 depending on how. dense. the mnemosurgeon thing ends up being. and whether or not. you count it as distinct from medbot.
-Trinity/Tailgate (idk prns)
When I was first forming, I kept worrying about roles, since I want to busy myself in our life. I would ask management about vacancies, but the gatekeepers keep making me do our external job... Suppose I'm set...?
-Arcee (he/him)
Alledgedly, I'm extra endurant in a way that makes me a a good primary candidate for our employment. Which means I'll have to handle the 17h shift day... Stares off into the distance. I mean, I'll do it, but woof.
-Arcee (he/him)
When I was first forming, I kept worrying about roles, since I want to busy myself in our life. I would ask management about vacancies, but the gatekeepers keep making me do our external job... Suppose I'm set...?
-Arcee (he/him)
we want to interact w/ more Cybertronians, but we never know where exactly to start... if you're Cybertronian in any way, feel free to interact! tell us about your experiences in this life, your past in source, any little thing, anything. we want to know.
you can also send us asks inquiring about our own experiences. actually, very please do. we want to get started on talking more on this blog but our brain is bad at starting to conjure thoughts
-unknown headmate
One day I'm going to allow myself to not be a car. Until then it's 1000 years torture labyrinth. Ohwell. Such a shame that nothing can be done about this (Lying).
-Apex/Mydoom/Getaway (any)
Getaway and Ambulon are our collective identities, but most of our host & co-host rotation are actually Tailgate fictives. It's kinda funny.
-Apex/Mydoom/Getaway (any)
This is a submission for day ten, J with the suggested prompt of "Joy" for @dragonpride17's MOGAI ABCs event!
It's no secret that it makes us happy to be Cybertronian and to have other aspects of identity affected by it. We like to think it shows nearly every time we post about being such in any way, every time we coin a new term or make a new flag, every time we reblog something to the Transformers terms/flags/etc archive, even every time we talk about it more passingly off of Tumblr.
Because it's an identity we feel very positive about! Even if there's drawbacks like bad source memories or dysphoria involved at times, especially for our fictives. This identity has been with us for so long even if we didn't realize it, and the franchise itself is our special interest by now. If you know us at all personally, you know about Transformers. Sometimes we worry it's just the high of finally realizing this is what that itching sense of being mechanical we've had all our life was, but we want to hope we're always gonna be genuinely this happy to be a Cybertronian alterhuman.
It feels literally so stupid, but crying does help you. I'm new to allowing myself to cry, so I still feel veeery weird and stupid about it. I have atleast a few decades of getting used to crying ahead of me though, so maybe it'll stop being humiliating eventually. Not sure. And also getting used to actually venting. Grieving. Looking back and thinking. Perhaps even regretting. Starting over. Falling back. Starting over again. I'm still just as overwhelmed as I was in my earlier days of being alive (in source, to clarify- although the first few hours of being in the system were confusing in their own way).
-Apex/Mydoom/Getaway (any)
Culture: twofold.
Plain text: Culture: twofold. PT ends.
A (extremely late at time of publishing) discussion submission for @dragonpride17's MOGAI ABCs event for day three, C/suggested prompt of "culture"!
Oh man, we were excited about this suggested prompt ever since we saw the event organization post. This is a topic that is close to our spark! Once again, this springboards in a way off of our previous first post on being collectively Cybertronian, so it is recommended you read it if you haven't already! (link)
We briefly touched on this already, but just the (techno)biology and abilities of our species isn't all there is to us being Cybertronian- We are an intelligent species from our own planet with it's own histories and intricacies! While understanding the more physical/adjacent to such aspect of our identity was a great relief, what was truly exciting was immersing ourselves in familiarizing ourselves with the many takes on Cybertronian culture across multiple canons, as well as starting to tinker with a fan-continuity with at least partial focus on further speculation on Cybertronian culture. We're developing a few conlangs passionate about it, haha.
The more we know and the longer we've known it, the more attached to it we grow. The histories and traditions become ones of our own, and what isn't completely explored in canon is something we often take to interpreting and pondering as much as we can. This especially applies to faith! Many of us have alignment to some form of Cybertronian faith. The variation gets interesting because what/who anyone believes in alone depends, and that's not even factoring in any particular gravitations towards something specific, like a member of The Thirteen one connects to more than the others, for example.
We also have an strong attachment to Cybertronian perceptions of relationships: many are Conjunx Endura or Amica Endura with eachother, mini-cons and any "bulk" they're linked to, cassettes and their holders as well as combiners all tend to see it as it's own type of bond, and so many other things we just don't have the words for! At least, not at this time.
But that's not the only culture we're attached to! The one our vessel is a part of matters just as much to us- We're Latvian as much as we are Cybertronian. With having lived all of our "current" life on Earth so long, we cannot be fully separated from this part of our identity either. Both perceptions of cultural belonging interacting closely and influencing each other. At the time of posting, we've even coined a term specifically for this, Cyecul and it's respective sub-term that pertains to our own culture (link)! We really hope it catches on, because we surely can't be the only Cybertronian who's this entangled in Earth cultures. We connect to Latvian mythos, symbols, language and art, and to being here overall.
A sort-of Cybertronian body: being holothere.
Plain text: A sort-of Cybertronian body: being holothere. PT ends.
This is a (late again) discussion submission for day two, B; suggested prompt "body" for @dragonpride17's MOGAI ABCs event!
In our previous experience submission (link), we wrote about our collective Cybertronian identity and our journey to realizing it. But how does it affect our perception of our shared body (which we often refer to as a vessel)?
Well... For the most part, we consider ourselves holothere, physically nonhuman. The reasoning depends: it is a nonhuman vessel because we are, we have phantom shifts, or perhaps most oddly to the average person, it is an glorified holomatter avatar, taken to the technology's most advanced. The members who don't perceive our vessel in any such ways tend to just see it as well... Our human vessel trough which we interact with Earth.
There is more we could ramble about the topic of a body, like alt-modes in headspace, but we're still gathering our thoughts on that, and also want to run collecting some statistics.
do you think it's maybe a bit over when two different MTOs make it to being collective identities... (lighthearted joke-y tone)
The missing component: On being collectively Cybertronian.
Plain text: The missing component: on being collectively Cybertronian. PT ends.
This is a discussion submission for day one, A/suggested prompt; "alterhuman" for @dragonpride17's MOGAI ABCs event! Apologies if some wording is awkward, we have autism and only a handful of us are even adjacent to full verbality and thus capable of writing this.
We're collectively Cybertronian- Have been so for all of our life. It affects how we perceive the world, how we interact with it, how we understand ourselves. To be Cybertronian is a beautiful, beautiful thing to us. It's one of the most important aspects of our entire collective, influencing the other parts that make us the exact being we are strongly.
However, until this last we've not called ourselves such.
Simply, we just did not know. We were missing ourselves. In part, because we just were not into our "source" so to say yet- some side-systems were, but for survival we were made to forget. But being Cybertronian pre-dated even that.
All our life, alongside the other main collective identities, which are that of "organics", we've always been mechanical too. These things have existed both in contrast and compliment. A complex technorganic existence. But one of these things we understood, and the other was never clear- No matter what robots, androids, mechas, so on we looked at, nothing felt like it was a reflection of who we were. We hadn't crossed paths with what we consider now our second main culture yet. So we ignored it. We showed it aside time and time again, childhood trough teenagehood trough even earlier years of our adulthood.
An vague understanding of our true shape, but never quite full. There was a metaphorical missing component (although some interpret it more literally- of having been formerly cogless), and it ached, and ached, and ached.
Then, by wonderful coincidence when Transformers One first came out, fan-art would crop up on our radar, with us ending up getting curious about it for once- We watched the movie. And then again when a new co-host cropped up, and he, later all of us ended up watching and reading more and more Transformers media, and it all just started to slowly click as we got more and more familiar with what it means to be Cybertronian.
It all clicked and the dysphoria we've felt all our life began fading. The missing component was transformation- We weren't *just* a bot. We have the ability to morph our form. It made immediate sense in comparison to the organic parts of our identity too: Even as a fleshy creature, we are often shapeshifters.
Of course, that's not all that comes with being from Cybertron, and getting familiar with the lives and cultures of Cybertronians in the franchise has reshaped our own experiences. It does feel like rediscovering a culture that is our own. We are a part of this. It's a type of experience we'd not trade for anything else.
All of this is also why we made our TF terms/flags archive, @mogaiformers! Initially started as a personal collection of everything we could find, we'd quickly re-vamp it into an actual archive as we realized we might not be the only Cybertronian who seeks out labels and art to represent various aspects of their identities. Or just the only person in general, as some might not actually be a Cybertronian in any way. Or atleast yet. It is our hope that we can make more people realize they might be.