#warmasterseerus

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I'm not sure if scrolling through your blog on the mobile app is somehow teleporting me back ten million years into the archives or if you've spontaneously started greeting followers again.

I most definitely haven’t started greeting followers again. So either your Earth technology is faulty or you’ve somehow entered a time warp.

Either way, I recommended smacking the thing.

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Do you enjoy overcast days or the feel of rain against your face at all?

They’ve grown on me over time.

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Anyone irritated by musical customs must be an incorrigible stick in the mud, then.

That or from Iacon. 

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Harmonex sounds like my version of robot heaven. I am all about music. Just... yes /please./

Harmonex was such a divisive city among Cybertronians. Either you were irritated by its many musical customs and wished it would simply shut up, or it was heaven. Very little middle ground.

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Hey Doc, dropping by again after a while, and while I know your inbox is probably cluttered... I've been skimming through the 'Cybertronian Art' tag and I can't help but wonder what all kinds of instruments you guys had? I can play percussion and an Earth wind instrument called a clarinet, but that's it, and needless to say learning about new stuff related to music is something I live for. If need be you can only focus on a select few that were particularly common/popular/strange. Or pretty.

If you’ve been skimming the art tag, I’m going to assume you’re familiar with the symphonic matrix and the cyber-orphica.

So let’s take this opportunity to touch on a few new instruments.

The trimella, as I’ve briefly mentioned before, is considered our sultriest instrument. That’s because it was a firm favorite of Luminaire, our planet’s most notorious lover. He frequently played it while entertaining “guests,” and before you know it, it had become synonymous with dimmed lights, perfumed air, and deactivated commlink channels.

(For the record, it looks somewhat like a clarinet covered with iridescent accents, has a small set of strings down beneath the staple, and sounds like an oboe, flute, and harp all spent a weekend conspiring together.)

Similarly famous is the cyber-harp. Composition aside, it’s not all that different from the harps you know, but its place in Cybertronian society is nothing short of iconic. Bots have serenaded partners on these things, mourned beside battlefields, rode out prison sentences playing them, passed them on through generations of Quintesson slavery. They’ve come to be associated with all the highs and lows of our planet’s history…a celebration of the triumphs and a glimmer of beauty during the tragedies.

The caestulodia gets relatively little attention outside of Harmonex, but it’s a lovely, versatile instrument all the same. It’s a set of gloves that monitor the position of the hands (sometimes going as far as reading the actual nerve circuitry) and hook up to an external device, usually a synthesizer. How difficult it is to play depends on how intricate a model you’re using.

Lastly, there’s the sonic hammer. It’s been refined and re-refined throughout the ages, but at the end of the day, it’s just a set of drums inside an echo chamber.

Devilishly fun to play, though.

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What even goes well with fuckass bright cyan? In small amounts I can see it working with some color schemes, but when it's the main focus there's really not much you can do about it.

Cyan can be accented with darker colors. It can be managed, coped with, even made to look decent.

The only way to improve upon “puke yellow” (as you’ve so poetically put it) is to remove it completely and forget that it was ever there.

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Doc, if you had absolutely no say or other choice on the matter, would you change your paint job to baby puke yellow, or eye-burning cyan?

Eye-burning cyan.

It won’t be easy, but I can at least work with cyan.