Ratchet’s Only Hands

Transformers side blog. Likes/Follows from @zenzenshima . On Twitter as @ratchsonlyhands Artist portfolio: https://lisadahl.co

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For @tfrarepairing 2023 Day 5 - Dancing - Spinister/Fulcrum

Perhaps Spinister's swift and talented fingers feel like they're dancing during a surgery or check-up!

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For @tfrarepairing 2023 Day 4 - Falling Away From Me : GrimFire

Misfire spent YEARS helping Grimlock through his aphasia recovery. There must have been so many restless nights together. I love that Misfire always focused on progress, counting Grimsy's words.

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For @tfrarepairing 2023 Day 3 - Trust: Pharma/Ambulon

A headcanon for when Pharma allowed Ambulon to defect and join his clinic at Delphi. He's probably bad at delegating, certainly controlling; he likely took on Ambulon's training and new bodywork himself.

I think the trust between them would have been so tenuous and complex. Ambulon really could have been a plant, but Pharma saw enough in him to make him ward manager with full access codes to the hospital. Ambulon talks back to Pharma and cares for lives, not Pharma, but his new life was still always in Pharma's hands.

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For @tfrarepairing #2023TFRarePairingFest Day 2: Nothing But Blue Skies Companion to @probablyrained's adorable Anode/Lug here!!! "You're blocking that beautiful blue sky, Anode! Let me enjoy finally being on-planet!"

"Tell me more how much you love my optics!"

"It's my optic color too you dork!"

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For @tfrarepairing Fest 2023 Day 1: Matrix

A glimpse into First Aid's wonderfully overactive imagination sometime during the Bullets story. Springer shows him just how thoroughly to check those autobot badges for Agent bullets!

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I thought the Cyclonus vs Starscream Robot Husband Poll War (October 13, 2023) was so funny and had to add my propaganda to it. We lost 😞 I love this event!

I wanted to draw Cyc’s holoform with her hair down. I thought of Whirl braiding his own hair in MTMTE and maybe he would teach Cyclonus at some point to kill time. Here he is practicing!

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Dratchet Party Day 7 - Free Day! I got into Transformers through the Star Trek DS9 to Jeffrey Combs to Ratchet Simp pipeline. Thought about DS9's medic & spy slowburn, then had to draw this scene as an AU :D Something LGBT just happened to Ratty....

I had so much fun drawing for the event. Thank you everyone who connected with me and thank you @DratchetParty for hosting!

I must share the scene this pic is referencing: DS9's Garak and Bashir's first meeting (but set to Wii music)

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Dratchet Party 2023 Day 5 - Rusted but Functional "You think'm all rusted & ineffectual? Well I'm functional enough to END YOU, you put Drift through that again!"

Drift pretended not to hear Roddy take the blame for their ill-advised side quest!

This was originally going to be the “extrasensory” prompt and was borne from thinking how Ratchet told Rodimus he’s “always been too hard on Drift.” The other theme ended up feeling stronger, but I still want to explore the ways Ratchet noticed those moments. My take is that before the shuttle retrieval, Ratchet would have been extremely bad at confronting Drift or Rodimus about it, but he’d still notice it and show love through actions as he does.

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Dratchet Party 2023 Day 6 - To the Ends of the Earth I drafted this with the "violet" prompt in mind - I'd thought about Ratchet's misplaced guilt if he saw Drift's spark casing marred from the Decepticon branding ritual. Then it went all romantic!

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Dratchet Party 2023 Day 4 - Journey through Darkness MTMTE Issue 9 reference. Drift in Ratchet's pre-war Dead End clinic telling Ratchet he'd go sell his alt mode to a relinquishment clinic, prior to his even darker path towards Deadlock.

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Dratchet Party 2023 Day 3 - Road Trip I've really wanted to do a zine comic on Ratchet and Drift's trip back to the LL crew. I drew these first four pages in July but now I want to do a different (more in-character....) direction after my 1st MTMTE/LL RE-read. SOON!

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Happy Dratchet Party 2023!

Day 2 - Delicate Fingers

Drift is trying to teach Ratchet how to speak Hand, but Ratchet's medic fingers are too sensitive. He keeps cracking up and not taking the lessons seriously!

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Happy Dratchet Party 2023!

Day 1 - The Kindness of Others

First Aid shared with Drift a video of a lunch he had with Ratchet. Ratchet had effervesced all about the adventure they had bringing Drift back. Drift watches it to remember he is home!

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I had to draw the meme. I headcanon that Grimlock and Misfire would unironically out-cheese the PDA tendencies of all the other couples on the fragmented Lost Light.

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Images and a ficlet spawned out of a discussion of whether Megatron ever sniffed his Rodimus Star 🤭 Explicit ficlet under cut.

Megatron was in his favorite spot on the entire fifteen miles of the Lost Light: sprawled on his front, in the Captain's Quarters berth, his helm crammed between the furnace of Rodimus' generous thighs. He nudged his Co-Captain’s valve with his nose and savored the pleasantly radiating heat.

“Megs, hurry up already!” Rodimus tried to squirm. He put up quite a good effort, but Megatron’s vast hands gripped both inner thighs to pin the smaller mech to their berth. He smirked as Rodimus impatiently grabbed the back of his helm to push his face into his dripping mess. Megatron couldn’t help the low growl erupting from his engines, but reserved his tongue.

“Megs!”

Megatron leaned just enough away such that Rodimus could still feel his ex-vents lap at him in the already heated space. Sliding his grip inward, he stroked one massive thumb at Rodimus’ trembling entrance, already stretching it. Rodimus moaned and Megatron hummed, ignoring his partner’s impatience with his teasing.

Megatron took in the brilliant sight of Rodimus’ throbbing node, the lubricated folds and dips of his valve. He couldn’t help himself. He in-vented heavily and relished the speedster’s wet heat.

“…. Did you just sniff me?”

Desperate to distract, Megatron slid his probing thumb deep into Rodimus.

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In this essay, I will

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