Not Waving but Drowning
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Not Waving but Drowning
Soundwave has great legs the show even said so
last time he saw “Drift” he was called Deadlock and was twice as big
and a helicopter. he was a helicopter.
Curious pebble (3/?)
Part 1 / Part 2
A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!
Xenoethnography was so brilliant, I loved reading it just as much as your writing!! Do you know any other good tf fics you would recommend?
DO I?!?!?! (YES)
Therrae is royalty as far as I’m concerned, I will never be over it
Trying to keep these in the general sort of theme here because otherwise I’m gonna end up recommending about half of AO3. These aren’t all platonic in nature, so be sure and check the tags to make sure it’s something you’re interested in!
Linking authors rather than specific fics because a lot have written multiple works that are great. This is just a small sampling tbh.
•ShySpider
•ASimpleArchivist
•Sroloc Elbisivni
•Authorticity
•General gt
•devilangelsol
•cassette(CrescentBlues)
•MlleMusketeer
•CallsignRelic
•blurrito
•This fic by MonsterParade because it’s Whirl
•The mecha AU started by Keferon
Also, not a x reader fic at all, but for my Rung enjoyers, this is a fantastic story in the style of The Bright Sessions podcast.
Please add your own recommendations! 🌟
You’ve never been this sick before. You’ve had tonsillitis as a kid, typical flus and colds, a memorable bout or three with bronchitis and, of fucking course, came down with covid a couple times. None of those illnesses were like this. Something has gotten inside your head.
You make a quiet noise of complaint as what feels like cold metal surrounds you, painful against your hot skin, even through the blanket wrapped around you. You feel so cold, but you’re sweaty and dizzy. The world isn’t right. Everything’s too big and bright and moving wrong. Your head’s stuffed full of cotton and you’re not thinking right. And there’s a voice you don’t know, rich and deep, with a strange modulation to it you can’t place.
Sorry, little one, but your internal temperature is creeping past the danger zone for your species with no signs of stopping. Much higher and you’re risking processor damage. Don’t be afraid, we’re going to help you.
A machine sort of noise and rush of air, with a very quiet addition you don’t quite catch. I hope.
Oh, what a perfect fic to read on the last day of mermay!
I’ve been thinking about this all day
An au where the cybertronians aren’t the first extraterrestrial visitors. You can imagine it with any well known aliens, but I’m fixated on the idea of the autobots arriving on earth during A Quiet Place.
Like imagine some human survivors cautiously making their way to the ark crash site, seeing the dead death angels that attempted to attack the bots, and just breaking down crying because *the monsters can be killed*. Optimus would promptly adopt them.
Or maybe the death angels resist cybertronian weaponry the same way they do human’s, and now there’s another addition to the long list of things the bots need to worry about.
Idk I’ve just had this thought stuck in my brain and I needed to get it out
That is a KILLER premise. Seriously, one of my favorite tropes is that somebody came and fucked up Earth REAL bad and the arrival of the Cybertronians saves the day and gives the survivors another chance. Post-Apocalypse scenario where they come looking for energon and get a lot more than they expected.
Imagine getting saved from the monsters by this giant terrifying being who, you have no idea is friendly. Your life hasn’t had a lot of friendliness in it for a long while. And you’ve gotten used to running and hiding, perhaps haven’t even seen another human in so long. So when you realize you’re getting hunted by the huge metal being, you end up playing cat and mouse.
You have no idea what it wants with you. But you aren’t inclined to think it’s anything good! Because since when do you get a break?!
Meanwhile Optimus is pretty sure you’re the cutest and most pathetic thing he’s ever seen. And he needs your help to figure out what the hell happened here. (Maybe this is one planet where it’s not their fault, one planet where they can actually help.)
He is going to treat you like a feral kitten. You’re gonna get burrito’d and re-socialized against your will.
Pareidolia
Your skin is too small for how big you feel inside. The world is too loud. Every horn honk from the traffic going by your workplace, every shuffle of paper from your coworker is like sandpaper against your senses. The phone rings. Your email inbox dings. The caffeine isn't helping. You berate yourself for even drinking it today, when you knew you were already overwhelmed. You've been trying so hard not to snap at anyone. They don't deserve your short temper because you're fitting at odd angles to the rest of the world, again.
It gets like this sometimes. You feel as if you could walk out of the door and into the nearest ocean, and never come back. Grow gills. Make some remora friends up close and personal. It would be quiet, or at least quieter. The soft blue wobbles of ever-changing filtered light would embrace you the way LEDs never will, in their everlasting and un-relatable constancy.
Maybe the slamming of a drawer is the last straw, or maybe you have had a Gävle goat's worth of last straws and are ready to light a match. I'm going for a walk, you say in desperation, grabbing your bag and hurrying out the door before anyone can stop you.
Heyo! I just recently discovered your blog and I’m very much enjoying it ❤️
I was just thinking, it seems pretty obvious that some ‘bots have cuteness aggression for humans, right? How can they resist something so small, cute and squishy?
But imagine if like… interacting with humans was *good* for Cybertronians? In the same way that interactions with cats and dogs have mental and physical health benefits for us? But maybe better.
Take it a step further with your First Contact AU, where Bots and Cons come to realize this - that having a human companion has very real physiological benefits. Now those Cybertronians with cuteness aggression have an even more legit reason to find themselves a squishy …
Hi!! I’m happy to hear you enjoy my blog, thank you so much :D
To answer your question, that’s such an adorable concept!!! I could totally see that being a thing! That makes the friendships between bots and humans so much more wholesome, to think that just being near each other benefits the both of you :)
In terms of the First Contact AU though… oh man I could imagine the first way most bots find out about humans being that they’re told they’re “good for your health” HAHAHA. Some poor, confused human is snatched up from their home by the hands of an overeager mech, swept up in the idea that having a human will make their life suddenly so much better. Plus, these little fleshies are cute too, what’s the harm in keeping one? Meanwhile the human is just completely dumbfounded as they’re whisked away to a completely alien world HAHAHA
Inspired by @zenxenophilia , Swindle would actually make deal with cooperative humans, maybe people with actually therapist license, to make a human hosts club, like those japanese cat cafe, but this is a human cafe.
Swindle provides a boarding house, food, and salary for the humans, while the mechs rain him for humans that don't scream and run upon lying those organic optics at them for the first time, and they even cuddle and play! Maybe a little waxing service for extra payment of course.
This idea took hold of me and I had to write a dumb little thing....
“You’re a what now??”
Your best friend was looking at you like you had grown a second head or something. Honestly you couldn’t blame her for being so incredulous. You had been doing your new job for a while now and you still couldn’t believe it sometimes. “I’m a therapy human,” you repeated, “For ‘Bots.”
“’Bots’?? As in those huge robot alien things??”
Sightings and encounters with the ‘Transformers’ as people were starting to call them were not uncommon. Although public opinion was mixed on whether the massive extraterrestrials were benign or not, almost everyone agreed they were terrifying. And dangerous due to their sheer size.
You had been more curious than afraid during your first encounter though.
“Uh. Yeh. It’s like a cat café, except the Bots come to hang out with us humans.”
It's brilliant! lemme get some more out of my mind again
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The little creature has been filling up Bumblebee's processor for a while now.
Swerve had been talking non-stop about them, and he had seen the (sparkwrenchingly) adorable visuals about them, from the shy ones that wave tiny, itty-bitty organic servos to the mech that was recording them, to the boldest ones that managed to jump from mech to mech, putting their war-trained system into a tamer use.
Heyo! I just recently discovered your blog and I’m very much enjoying it ❤️
I was just thinking, it seems pretty obvious that some ‘bots have cuteness aggression for humans, right? How can they resist something so small, cute and squishy?
But imagine if like… interacting with humans was *good* for Cybertronians? In the same way that interactions with cats and dogs have mental and physical health benefits for us? But maybe better.
Take it a step further with your First Contact AU, where Bots and Cons come to realize this - that having a human companion has very real physiological benefits. Now those Cybertronians with cuteness aggression have an even more legit reason to find themselves a squishy …
Hi!! I’m happy to hear you enjoy my blog, thank you so much :D
To answer your question, that’s such an adorable concept!!! I could totally see that being a thing! That makes the friendships between bots and humans so much more wholesome, to think that just being near each other benefits the both of you :)
In terms of the First Contact AU though… oh man I could imagine the first way most bots find out about humans being that they’re told they’re “good for your health” HAHAHA. Some poor, confused human is snatched up from their home by the hands of an overeager mech, swept up in the idea that having a human will make their life suddenly so much better. Plus, these little fleshies are cute too, what’s the harm in keeping one? Meanwhile the human is just completely dumbfounded as they’re whisked away to a completely alien world HAHAHA
Inspired by @zenxenophilia , Swindle would actually make deal with cooperative humans, maybe people with actually therapist license, to make a human hosts club, like those japanese cat cafe, but this is a human cafe.
Swindle provides a boarding house, food, and salary for the humans, while the mechs rain him for humans that don't scream and run upon lying those organic optics at them for the first time, and they even cuddle and play! Maybe a little waxing service for extra payment of course.
This idea took hold of me and I had to write a dumb little thing....
“You’re a what now??”
Your best friend was looking at you like you had grown a second head or something. Honestly you couldn’t blame her for being so incredulous. You had been doing your new job for a while now and you still couldn’t believe it sometimes. “I’m a therapy human,” you repeated, “For ‘Bots.”
“’Bots’?? As in those huge robot alien things??”
Sightings and encounters with the ‘Transformers’ as people were starting to call them were not uncommon. Although public opinion was mixed on whether the massive extraterrestrials were benign or not, almost everyone agreed they were terrifying. And dangerous due to their sheer size.
You had been more curious than afraid during your first encounter though.
“Uh. Yeh. It’s like a cat café, except the Bots come to hang out with us humans.”
It's brilliant! lemme get some more out of my mind again
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The little creature has been filling up Bumblebee's processor for a while now.
Swerve had been talking non-stop about them, and he had seen the (sparkwrenchingly) adorable visuals about them, from the shy ones that wave tiny, itty-bitty organic servos to the mech that was recording them, to the boldest ones that managed to jump from mech to mech, putting their war-trained system into a tamer use.
Mech: I’ve noticed something about Earth
Mech 2: yeah? What?
Mech: a lot of the animals have this thing called a tapetum lucidum. It’s a a layer of tissue in their organic optics that gives off that reflective glow when light hits it just right. Works as a retroreflector, helps ‘em see in the dark.
Mech 2: uh, yeah? We’ve all seen those four-legged things crossing the road out on patrol. Hound gets real upset when he finds one dead.
Mech: …have you noticed the humans don’t have one?
Mech 2: course I did! Humans can’t see for scrap in the dark, it was in Ratchet’s briefing. One of ‘em, anyway.
Mech: so humans can’t really see in the dark because they don’t have a tapetum lucidum
Mech: …but without a tapetum lucidum, they don’t have that optic glow to give away their position. Not only do they still roam around in the dark mostly blind, but they don’t want anyone knowing they’re there while they do it.
Mech 2: …huh
Mech: they evolved to be like this on a planet full of things that could eat them. It makes you wonder
Mech 2:
Mech: what kind of creature evolves to prioritize stealth in darkness, over being able to see? what kind of creature evolves the ability to detect and hunt organics in the dark based on their optic glow, while not possessing that glow, themselves?
Mech 2: …our optics glow.
Mech: they do.
Mech 2:
Mech:
Mech: I’ve noticed something about Earth
Mech 2: yeah? What?
Mech: a lot of the animals have this thing called a tapetum lucidum. It’s a a layer of tissue in their organic optics that gives off that reflective glow when light hits it just right. Works as a retroreflector, helps ‘em see in the dark.
Mech 2: uh, yeah? We’ve all seen those four-legged things crossing the road out on patrol. Hound gets real upset when he finds one dead.
Mech: …have you noticed the humans don’t have one?
Mech 2: course I did! Humans can’t see for scrap in the dark, it was in Ratchet’s briefing. One of ‘em, anyway.
Mech: so humans can’t really see in the dark because they don’t have a tapetum lucidum
Mech: …but without a tapetum lucidum, they don’t have that optic glow to give away their position. Not only do they still roam around in the dark mostly blind, but they don’t want anyone knowing they’re there while they do it.
Mech 2: …huh
Mech: they evolved to be like this on a planet full of things that could eat them. It makes you wonder
Mech 2:
Mech: what kind of creature evolves to prioritize stealth in darkness, over being able to see? what kind of creature evolves the ability to detect and hunt organics in the dark based on their optic glow, while not possessing that glow, themselves?
Mech 2: …our optics glow.
Mech: they do.
Mech 2:
Mech:
Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb
My very first tiger drawing and my latest
B day treat to myself I probably won't finish it in time but it's a start to finally start working on this pretty bastard.
Seaslug boi, professional nanny of a hidden precursor seedbed hidden on a secluded waterborne planet somewhere. Some concepts below
“The Life and Times of Anastacha Mikaelys”
Entry #3
GRACE is an Eridian and IM an Eridian and YOUR AN ERIDIAN @norolantern !!!