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[ruibits]

drop this sunflower🌻 into the inboxes of the blogs that make you happy ! lets spread a little sunshine☀️ In case you forgot—you're awesome! :D And I adore your Claude icon, makes me laugh every time I see it!

aawww reading your kind words made me happy 🥹🤍

Hope you have a wonderful new year! 🤍✨

[thinkingheron]

Kaleidoscope Prequel jumped out to me 👀 What's this about?

Soooooooo... Kaleidoscope is actually just what I ended up calling the massive massive mess of headcanon notes of the Cybertron War timeline in Transformers, loosely based around the book Exodus. The initial idea was to follow Bumblebee through the war, as in, "the Cybertron war, as seen through Bumblebee’s kaleidoscope", but the colors and shapes keep changing until nothing makes sense anymore. The working title came from DJ Okawari's music Kaleidoscope.

I never released any of those notes as a fic as my writing skills are just not up for an epic like that. However, these notes are what I consult when writing Aligned/TFP fics and figuring out why a character, well mostly Bumblebee, is the way he is. Or if I need random throw away lines to vaguely reference about the Autobots life on Cybertron.

Now Kaleidoscope Prequel, is called that because it's a "Prequel" to the Kaleidoscope main storyline notes and actually follows Orion Pax before the war, up to the point where Megatron declares war. (So another retelling of Exodus) For this I have most major events outlined, even chapter titles set, even have the first chapter posted (under the final title "Our Last Sunset"), hoping that will make me focus. However it's been hibernating because I couldn't figure out the details of other minor plot points, continuity, character interactions, sprinkled with that thought that maybe I'm pouring too much headcanon into minor things nobody cares about.

Here's a short scene in that wip that I think you might find interesting, since it has Ratchet:

"We sentence you innocent." The Quintesson cackled.

Before the defendant even had the chance to let out a sigh of relief, the floor promptly opened below him, revealing a large pit full of Sharkticons in their primal forms.

The poor Cybertronian did not even have time to scream as he fell into the pit to be torn into pieces by dozens of snapping jaws.

Orion winced, though he managed not to look away. Quintesson trials against Cybertronians were probably the only trials where being pronounced guilty was preferable to innocent.

The footage finally ended with the Quintessons congratulating each other. Feeling vaguely disgusted and wondering if the footage was a genuine recording from the Invasion or just a vid, Orion logged the feed with 'Quintesson', 'Trial', and 'Scary Monsters'.

He paused, replaced the last tag with 'Sharkticon' before submitting.

The next file in the que was all text, which would thankfully take less time to curate. As Orion loaded the file up in his terminal to process it, a message flashed to alert him of an incoming call from Ratchet. Leaving the file to process on its own, Orion took the call.

"Ratchet? What can I do for you?"

Ratchet's voice was dry. "What you can do for me, Orion Pax, is fix up a time for that maintenance you missed so I don't have to worry about you dropping in while I am away from the clinic."

"Do you not have someone to cover for you?"

"You're not trying to avoid me, are you?"

If he had to curate Ratchet’s voice just now, Orion thought he would tag it as “Scary medic” and stand by his decision no matter what Alpha Trion said.

"Of course not, all I meant is that you need not worry."

"Well, you can help me stop worrying by setting up that appointment. Are you free this afternoon?"

Orion glanced at his desk. Judging by the number of datapads, he did not think he would be exactly free this afternoon, but that was the only time he could spare in a while.

[en-busca-de-mi-ikigai-blog]

Tag game!

I was tagged by @onewingedsparrow Thank you!

I was supposed to put the first songs I had in shuffle mode in Spotify but they weren't true to the songs I have listened the most to. So I cheated, using the whole list and choosing from there.

1. Ano yume wo nazotte - Yoasobi (Dorothea to her audience)

"Pretty flowers decorate the night sky and their light snugly envelops the voices of the town"

2. Sad song - We the kings ft. Elena Coats (Hubert to Edelgard)

"Without you, I feel broke like I'm half of a whole; without you, I've got no hand to hold"

3. The hell song - SUM 41 (Rhea to Seteth)

"Everybody's got their problems, everybody says the same thing to you. It's just a matter how you solve them, but what else are we supposed to do?"

4. No longer you - Jorge Rivera Herrans, Mason Olshavsky (Edelgard to Silver Snow Byleth)

"I see you on the brink of death, I see you draw your final breath, I see a man who gets to make it home alive, but it's no longer you"

5. Take it out on me - Thousand Foot Krutch (Azure Moon Byleth to Dimitri)

"So scream if you wanna, shout if you need, just let it go, fight if you need to, smash if you have to, get control"

Yes I've been listening to your Beautiful Mistery playlist lately, so much so that many of the first songs were from it! So I figured I'll add more variety, if only a little XD

[aurathian]

Three sentence fic about Riju and Patricia? :D

“Learning to ride a sand seal is a rite of passage for all young Gerudo,” Buliara said, a stern voice with gentle intent as she was keenly aware of the fear Riju was feeling; certainly she remembered her own anxieties about taming and riding her first seal.

“What if she doesn’t like me?”

Riju’s voice was so small, so tiny, so scared, and Buliara knew that having the responsibilities of a chief at a young age was unfair, a factor of Riju’s anxieties; but as the sand seal before them (which Riju would later name Patricia) zoomed up to the little Gerudo and nuzzled her before rolling over, eliciting laughter and shrieks of joy, Buliara figured it may all be okay in the end.

[i-personally-need-assistance]

Happy Halloween! Trick or treat!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! ^^

(Just take a handful of candy 😭)

[linklethehistorian]

TRICK OR TREAT! :D

Or, if you aren’t a fan of candy corn 🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫 🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫💕💕💕💕💕

[srah-the-violist]

Do you have any favorite songs to play on viola?

Gerudo Valley for sure 😁

As far as classical music goes specifically, I like the second movement of the Telemann Viola Concerto. I learned it as a kid and I have a funny story related to it, so it's really nostalgic to play

[skyward-floored]

Watch, for the ask game?

“I think something is watching us,” Hyrule whispered, and Time gave a slight nod, twitching an ear.

“One is rarely alone in the Lost Woods,” he murmured in reply.

Distant laughter ran throug the trees, and Hyrule swallowed, the hair on the back of his neck prickling.