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koigikibble

He can't keep getting away with this

katzske

ok but soundwave can design the decepticon logo and no one bats an eye

bew444r

anarchism

disgust000

Heh, hi. *pisses itself*

shokveyv

TFA:Transcend ch3:pp3-4 sentinel's loud musings :p

transformers-and-taxa

I need a bot in stasis on earth to just like…die. I don’t mean this maliciously or anything, but I think going into stasis surrounded by organics should come with consequences, like how you’ll see abandoned buildings get reclaimed by plants or even have termites eat through actively lived in homes.

I need the Autobots or Decepticons to track down someone, who went into stasis on earth for the war, only to find fungi mycorrhiza clogging their Energon lines having consumed every drop. I need lichens, mosses, and ferns sprouting from their frame, slowly absorbing the micronutrients that leech off of them as bacteria and protists excrete acid to dissolve them microscopically. I need small detritivores like snails, isopods, and insects eating those plants and bacteria. I need a nest of mice hidden under their armour. I need a clutch of mysterious eggs safely nestled away in a burrow under their arm. I need the earth to completely and entirely reclaim them.

And the worst part, the worst part is that I need them to see that this was inevitable. I need them to see that they can clean them up, remove all the plants and debris, provide them with fresh Energon, and see how their very processor has been rusted and corroded

Everything but their spark is dead and consumed, and even that is barely holding on by a thread. They’re functionally a living corpse. At what point do you just let the wildlife take the rest of them? At what point do you wonder if their spark will even return to the allspark?

I need them to see that this will happen in every habitat across earth. Maybe not as fast. A rainforest is hungrier than a desert: but they’ll both eat you.

I need them to see that: even with Unicron locked away, asleep for millennia more, he will still consume them if they stay.

Everytime they see an organic from here on out, I need them to shiver

[Fungal metal corrosion| Radiotrophic fungi| Plants that absorb heavy metals ]

@the-eater-of-the-snacks thanks for letting me ramble at you!

#yes good

sunderwight

I wonder if Cybertronians who befriend humans (or other biological alien species) ever experience existential religious dread because humans don't have sparks, as well as living such short lives?

Like, one of the fascinating aspects of TF lore is that Cybertronians pretty much have tangible immortal souls. They rejoin the allspark (except Starscream) but they can absolutely confirm the existence of sparks, and as we know from like, numerous failed attempts to permanently kill Starscream, sparks are pretty much impossible to destroy in and of themselves. So basically every Cybertronian has rock-solid certainty of their own soul's existence and some kind of continuance of their being even after death.

But humans don't.

So now I'm just imagining Bumblebee or Mirage or both of them going to Optimus about this, with a tone hilariously similar to when little kids from religious families want to know if their dog or cat can go to heaven with them. What happens to humans when their squishy bodies expire, Optimus? Clock's a-ticking and they need to know for Reasons.

Except that Optimus doesn't have an answer? He doesn't know either. And it's not like his religion actually is terribly faith-based, like it relies heavily on intuition but also, tangible glowing "you can open up a guy's chest and look at his soul" levels of verification for a lot of stuff. Their god is literally their planet. So he'd probably start off by going with them to Ratchet to find out where humans keep their sparks (some organ in their rib cage, presumably...?) and then also get thrown for a loop when Ratchet's like, ah. Shit. I was hoping you guys wouldn't ask about that.

But then also, what do the Decepticons make of this? Does it factor into their propaganda? Are they like, yeah the biological organisms are neat and all but they're not really people, so it isn't actually a big deal if we reduce their planet to a wasteland in order to plunder its resources? Is Starscream occasionally dusting off his xenobiology degree to write horrible but technically accurate manifestos about why humans don't have souls?

leafussss

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zompasta

day 3 (comes late bc anim assignments are kicking my ass): it's all beast wars from here

Bw Megatron is my favorite version of Megatron ever

Also ty all for the very kind and funny comments in the tags/reblogs they make me kick my feet and giggle :]

drunkenmantis

doodle before bed

daisyfairy1

Ok, so I now want to read fics in all the fandoms based on this.

(Found on twitter https://twitter.com/WholesomeMeme/status/1632788134856474624?s=19)

deehellcat

omg, yes please. this would translate so well into so many fandoms :D

copperbadge

What impresses me most is the attention to design. There's formatting and layout involved.

Did this bouncer like, bring this person home, put them to bed, start the laundry, and then sit down to make a little Drunk Guest zine? Does he do this regularly so he had a template ready? Is that cool or a little weird? Was he attracted to his guest and hoping to make a great first impression? Was he just super anxious that they weren't waking up before he'd have to leave for presumably his day job, so he poured it all into this little gem the following morning? Is his day job in typesetting?

It manages to inspire even more questions than it answers, which is quite the feat.