[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[gilliagandy]

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

[physzoo]

angrylita

[kosmogrl]

remembering is the mind killer

[johnbleepingzoidberg]

uhh guys, you know the kids are supposed to be the ones doing the science projects, right?

(both of the volcanoes explode and the entire school has to evacuate)

(ratchet and soundwave cope by splitting a bottle of wine later that evening before going and paying their husbands’ bail)

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i had sm fun designing the waves for this au. i’ll probably do a little bit of tweaking but overall im happy with the designs. i tried to almost make them parallel wheeljack and ratchet in a way— shockwave’s lower arms/sleeves (?) are inverted from wheeljack’s and they both have a rounder upper torso, although shockwave’s is sharper. soundwave and ratchet have the same shape of upper torso, but like WJ’s and shockwave’s arms, the shapes are inverted from each other. then they both have the sharp chevron things and the armor on the sides of their helmet. a lot of this came from their original G1 designs of course, it’s not like im totally inventing their designs here, but i def tried to play into the whole “these are the evil versions of wheeljack and ratchet and grimlock in the neighborhood” concept while simplifying their designs for this au/style. also here’s the bg on its own—

thank you to everyone that’s been leaving nice comments in the tags/sending me asks about this au! and thank you @goose-theseeker for giving me ideas on how to incorporate wavewave and rumble and frenzy into this au as well!

[goose-theseeker]

The aftermath

The kids are out back eating dirt or something idk

Backgrounds under the cut

It was actually really fun getting to mimic the same sort of style! I've never really dont backgrounds but I had a bunch of fun coming up with things Ratchet and Wheeljack would have in their house. I think the little family pictures may be my favorite.

Hardest part for me was getting Ratchets face right 😭 Drawing soundwave was so fun and peaceful but ratchet was living HELL. Felt like I was crawling through the Pits but hey, I love the finished product so it was worth it 💔

It just felt right to give sounwave a bendy straw, hes just a silly.

[dozydawn]

[caitlikescoffee]

[the-acid-pear]

[jennserr]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[nolaplantdaddy]

I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.

[noegrets]

[firelyy-y]

🌠🌠🌠

[ibaibarriagando]

Revolutionary Girl Utena

[lightningcrashes]

I am sorry. I have done you evil, and I cannot undo it. No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy, save one. And I thank you for that part, too.

THE LAST UNICORN 1982・dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass

[catcrumb]

[whoreiorcats]

i think ao3 should have a feature like an anonymous kudos but instead of kudos its "i jorked it to completion" and you can leave as many of these as you want and obviously authors would opt-in to this feature on a per-fic basis but like. i want the stats, you know.

[whoreiorcats]

jerk it to fanfiction??? noooo bro i was just joshing ya. wouldnt that be crazy? haha. fucking got you bro i cant believe youre so gullible. what a far fetched notion. that people would do such a thing. cant believe you fell for it

[prinnay]

Beloved☆

[yesterdaysprint]

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916

[one-time-i-dreamt]

this is me actually

[dramatic-dolphin]

everyone give thanks to the middle eastern and north african people of over ten thousand years ago for domesticating the african wildcat and providing the entire world with some of the best pets ever 🙏🙏🙏 it was probably the best idea any human has ever had.

[dramatic-dolphin]

you can honestly tell that this is the ancestor of all domestic cats. look at it. just a lil tabby cat. with long long legs.

[loisreeds]

Her ancestors hunted for their prey in the wilderness just so she could beg for instant noodles and a bell pepper

[its-funnytwittertweets]