#lightrambles

[thatonelightyear]

awakening (briefly) from the void to lament the fact that my ao3 search function is not. working. is anyone else having this problem or is it just a skill issue on my end :skull:

[thatonelightyear]

This is GOLD

So I found this like- yesterday and good gosh I had a kick out of watching these XD they are so funny! Also I love how it shows the Mater-Finn-Holley friendship dynamics and how they can be a pretty funny trio!

[thatonelightyear]

Hi! I saw the news about Lewis Hamilton planning to move from Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025. I was wondering if you have any thoughts/opinions on this! I don’t have any grand stake in it, I suppose, except that even though I don’t follow F1 I’m still a Hamilton fan, haha. But hearing the news I was still like WHAAAAT

OH MY GOD yes. I thought it was a prank at first until i realised the OFFICIAL F1 account also confirmed it and like?!!?

Anyway… I don’t really understand why he would want to join Ferrari, considering their current situation and their strategy calls though, to be fair, the Mercedes strategy and car hasn’t been much better either. I mean it’s been 12 years, and I guess Lewis just wants a bit of a change? Idk I’m still in shock, but I am… interested in how this would pan out, with Charles and Lewis in Ferrari… maybe they’d get a better strategy somehow. It is a pity though, never imagined Lewis would leave Merc…

[thatonelightyear]

I read through your built headcanon stuff and genuinely that is well thought out and pretty cool to read about too. Curious thooo- - When it comes to manufacturers, who runs the whole show there lol? Like who heads the company. Is it a certain car which represents the whole company (like maybe an really important car for the company orr).

- What happens when a vehicle retires and don't really have nothing else to do? Maybe like bigger vehicles where they mainly have one purpose only??

- Do manufacturers stop making a certain kind of model when they get make better ones? If so, does that mean a family wouldn't be able to get such a model or smth?

wwoowowow another ask!!! and from the one and only beoingboingboing too hehehe :D alr let's get on to this..

When it comes to manufacturers, who runs the whole show there lol? Like who heads the company. Is it a certain car which represents the whole company (like maybe an really important car for the company orr).

ANS: You should REALLY read this fic by the-king's-tail-fin here but in short, I'd like to believe that the manufactureres just *are*, and there would be one car that oversees the process of releasing newly built cars to the world, and how the factories function etc. Is it a lot of work? yes. Therefore it most likely is a family thing- to better facilitate the teaching and everything... or like a mentor-apprentice thing where the current head of the manufacturer passes on all they know to their successor

What happens when a vehicle retires and don't really have nothing else to do? Maybe like bigger vehicles where they mainly have one purpose only??

ANS: Well this might get a little dark but uh. It depends because if they really don't have a job then ig its just normal retirement? Living out your years in your home, using the funds you've saved up over the course of the years- for smaller vehicles, sure. But for the larger ones with only one purpose, then... old hangars or docks, and they just. wait. wait and waste away. (I hc most of these larger vehicles opt to simply be scrapped at the end of service life - sitting and wasting away seems more painful...)

Do manufacturers stop making a certain kind of model when they get make better ones? If so, does that mean a family wouldn't be able to get such a model or smth?

ANS: Yeah, I mean manufacturers will constantly test and design newer, better models, that's just how it goes. Then when they decide to phase out the older models at their own discretion they just. stop making them. Families would therefore be unable to get such a model, obviously. So they'd go for the newer models - but the model doesn't really *matter* does it? The point is that you want a child for their character, for their precociousness and why does looks have to be a factor?

(had fun with this TYSM for the askkkk :DDD)

[thatonelightyear]

HI, YOU ARE 'BUILT' THEORY PERSON, YES? SIT. HAVE TEA. i HAVE MANY QUESTION...

Mkay but no seriously, some genuinely curious questions:

-When built, are the vehicles small/-er versions of themselves that grow into adults, or are they grown adults from the getgo?

-Are built vehicles' ages based off of the date they were manufactured? (I ask this in tandem with the above because I'm curious about how they would treat such things as childhood, ageing, and coming *of* age)

-Are there any parts of the built machines that are organic/semi-organic as to do stuff (ie eating/drinking)?

-What causes a vehicle to end up being built? Is it relative to two parents deciding "hey let's get a kid" and then their respective company creating one, or is it a more company, or god forbid government controlled "we make X amount of vehicles and they just go to homes and go out in the world".

-If they are already adults from the date of manufacture, do they just...instantly move into a garage somewhere? What constitutes as family to them, if they have any? Model similarities, company relations? Found family exclusively?

This list could probably be WAY bigger but I don't want to totally overload you any more lol. This is just a really interesting concept and perspective I've almost never dabbled in and I'm genuinely curious how these things might work through the built theory's lens.

I appreciate you reading this text wall btw :')

OMG ive never had such a long ask before aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa tysm :DDDD ahem now down to business

When built, are the vehicles small/-er versions of themselves that grow into adults, or are they grown adults from the getgo?

Ans: I personally headcanon that both versions would exist - that there are smaller versions that grow into adult frames, and that there are adult cars that roll straight off the production line (i hc that lightning is one of these cars, just manufactured then put on the track) but by and large cars manufactured at adult age tend to be a lot fewer than having children?? baby?? cars that grow up

Are built vehicles' ages based off of the date they were manufactured?

Yes I suppose so - but it really depends because from what I've seen in the Carsverse age seems to be a more fluid matter that doesn't nearly have as much impact on their lives? Case in point Lizzie who is literally a hundred years old and still kicking. Coming of age, ageing and childhood really depends from a car to car basis, maybe the families they were raised in, their personal preferences etc - tho obviously those cars who are small would *have* a childhood I'm more inclined to believe that adult cars - from the earlier point - don't nearly get this privillege

Are there any parts of the built machines that are organic/semi-organic as to do stuff

Nope. I believe in this world everything is just like the cars and vehicles in our world, and therefore the stuff they consume would probably depend on what kind of vehicle they are and therefore what fuel they will need. The 'food' is all fuel that has a changed appearance. Race cars don't normally ingest these foods because, well, their prime function is to race and the foods, however much they may be fuel-based, will never be the premium stuff needed to run a high performance engine smoothly

What causes a vehicle to end up being built? Is it relative to two parents deciding "hey let's get a kid" and then their respective company creating one, or is it a more company, or god forbid government controlled "we make X amount of vehicles and they just go to homes and go out in the world".

In Cars 1 Mack has a line that says 'thank the manufacturer you're alive' when he finds Lightning in RS, and so based off this- the Cars world has manufacturers and factories that manufacture the sentient cars, the nitty gritty details aren't known to the general population which is why they never really question it, it's just that they have manufacturers, and the sentient cars roll off the production line and thats that. Of course couples can opt to adopt one of these cars from any manufacturer (this would probably explain the differences in make and model in Carsverse families better imo)

If they are already adults from the date of manufacture, do they just...instantly move into a garage somewhere? What constitutes as family to them, if they have any? Model similarities, company relations? Found family exclusively?

Yep. I'd think that the companies settle them with a place somewhere and then good luck to you way out there!! They'll have no family, sad to say, and the first few years will get preetty lonely. Found family only ftw (might explain Lightning's whole... personality from this headcanon above lol)

Wow thats done :D was fun answering YIPEE feel free to send more anytime!!! (hopefully all my ramblings made sense. uh.) also would like to credit @whipplefilter and @the-kings-tail-fin since its from their stories that I literally got the basis of all this and like yeah :)

[thatonelightyear]

Leland, lying upside down off the couch : Do you ever just contemplate the various ways to just. Kill someone.

Finn, depending on his mood : ….of all the things I expected you to say, I can’t say I saw that one coming OR Yeah.

[thatonelightyear]

saw that someone’s been sending death threats, hate and the such around the cars fandom… luckily I haven’t been affected yet but please- please stay safe guys.. literally this is so undeserved, this fandom is easily the most wholesome one I’ve ever seen man- hope this all blows over soon

[thatonelightyear]

So I found more- XD

This I found when digging through Youtube... again. I have no life I swear. But yeah our fav spy trio in training! More like Finn and Holley being professionals, and Mater has his Mater-esque genius too... (side note i need to write a fic about Finn being a trainer someday...)