#wheeled-jack

[markscherz]

Trick or treat?

Behold! A Bufo bufo froglet dressed as a flower!

[onenicebugperday]

The other night I had a dream where I tried to start an old tower PC but it didn't work and I heard a crackle from the power strip. I got down to check and the power plug had a hollow part that a hermit crab had moved into...

I would let a hermit crab live in any of my electronics they chose :')

[creative-jackalope]

4, 24, 40!

[Writing ask game]

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4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

Oh there are a lot, I like words,,, but the moment I read this all of them flew out of my head because of course they did JGKFDGD.

I can say that I tend to like words that are very visceral ("visceral" is kind of one of them actually, on that note). I want words that I can taste, words that sound like they feel.

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Alright I sat on this question a bit and 30 minutes later finally remembered something. The word "despite" is one that I just. Adore. I have to fight not to overuse it. It is so versatile and it can swing from being incredibly tragic to overwhelmingly hopeful; the constant is that it always implies a similar sense of struggle in my mind. I have a lot of emotions about this word. More emotions than I thought I did, actually.

Related: I love swear words. There's a certain oomph that can be carried by a well-placed "fuck".

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24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

I tend to get very bogged down in making sure I know exactly what is going on and what I want to do. This usually take the form of very scattered notes of plot points I need to hit or events that need to happen, or at least mapping out in my mind what will happen and when. I don't always know how things will end exactly but because I work very sequentially with my plots, lots of A happened which lead to B which created C, I usually want to make that very solid foundation first.

... However. I will often find that I end up with exactly how I want a scene to go before I've worked out any of the connecting elements, and then desperately want to go write that right now out of fear I will either forget or lose the fire. And then suddenly there is a massive amount of text in front of me that was entirely unplanned and I am not fully certain of how it even got there.

So! I suppose overall it's kind of situational whether I say "if I don't pre-plan exactly how many hairs are in this background character's beard then I'll die" or "hold my flower I'm going to black out for three hours while I slam out 4k words of action off the dome". But it does tend to be either all or nothing when it happens lmao. Most of the things I do are like that to be quite honest.

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40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

Here and Away by Neil Hilborn [discusses mental health and self-isolation]

I like a lot of poetry, but I especially have a soft spot for spoken word and slam poetry. Neil Hilborn is one of my favorite poets in that area and I own exactly one physical poetry book and it is Our Numbered Days, which I purchased several years ago while travelling to attend my uncle's funeral.

Oh boy, was it a time to get that book in particular!

Many of the poems have a focus on Neil grappling with grief and the inevitability of death, as well as general mental health struggles. But this one in particular, Here and Away, hit me like a freight train because I related to it immensely.

Some lines I would very much like to highlight in particular:

"It takes so much less energy to not exist than it does to exist and get burned. I've been burned so much I'm not me anymore."

"Whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact same thing. This is not to say you aren't special. This is to say thank god you aren't special."

"Build a house, even if every wall leans to the left. [...] Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because goddamn, at least there's still something to hate."

"But I hear the world is ending soon. When we go, and we're all going to go, I will be part of it."

[robot-reference]

runner ups :) if you would like me to post any of these sketches by themselves let me know! (i will on my art side blog and tag you, don’t want to flood this one with not reference)

apologies if i didn’t get to your request u.u

1)

@ark081

tfp soundwave in the snow

(laserbeak is making snow angels... snow moths? she is trying her best)

@hashkivenu wanted

TFP Soundwave and Laserbeak, cuddling

2)

@crisis-aversion

IDW Megatron IDW Ultra Magnus If together reading a data pad?

(you probably wanted something cute but ..... they are trying to make heads or tails of rodimus report)

3)

@megatronismegagone @the-named-anon @wheeled-jack

all wanted wheeljack g1, tfp and unspecified :) (after drawing him i think i understand....)

4)

@star-damage

wanted

G1 Jazz and Prowl softly smiling at each other  

and @princewarmachine wanted

id love a g1 jazz :)

(hope you don’t mind prowl tagging along... you can always crop it ....)

[bombcollar]

Only Gay Muppets Sit In This Box

only gay muppets sit in this box

[thisissnakcountry]

Chandlo?

How I feel about this character: LOVE THIS BRO. 10/10 WOULD IMMEDIATELY START A CONSISTENT WORKOUT SCHEDULE TO HEAR HIM ENCOURAGE ME WHILE I LIFT WEIGHTS.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Is it legally allowed to ship him with anyone besides Snorpy? Is there a lawbook I can check somewhere?

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Chandlo and Eggabell are SO GOOD as friends, I really love how supportive his is of her but also how they have a quietly shared worry about being Enough for their partners. Also if you chat with Chandlo after the interlude where snaxsquatch shows up he’ll say he admires Beffica’s ability to use how people underestimate her to her advantage (i.e. recognizes her as a fellow member of team “people make shitty assumptions about my intelligence”) and I think there’s some really interesting friendship potential there? I think he’d be a really good influence on her in general.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Imho I get the vibe that his protectiveness of Snorpy has probably shielded Snorpy from the consequences of his own actions enough to prevent him from getting the experience of learning from his mistakes, an example being that it’d definitely be a contributing factor to Snorpy's casual disregard of other people’s boundaries (the journalist isn’t the only person he’s slapped a tracker on, after all) and while there’s no cruelty intended in that whatsoever it’s still ultimately an unkindness he’s doing to Snorpy.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I get the vibe that Snorpy probably isn’t as aware of Chandlo’s need for emotional support from him the same way he knows he needs it from Chandlo and while I think things are handled in a way that fits the characters I would have liked a scene of Chandlo having to talk to him about that. Chandlo can’t ALWAYS be The Support Guy, after all.

My OTP: see above

My OT3: AGAIN IS THIS LEGAL

[onenicebugperday]

Larvae are nature's gachapons. You can never be totally sure what you're getting.

This made me laugh, but also there are sooooo many larvae that are very distinct and easily identifiable to a species. ;)

[fungusry]

Listen, would you ship off to an uninhabited island in the middle of nowhere, where people basically go to die, for FREE since there's no mention of anyone getting paid, if you WEREN'T on the run from the law? Aside from Filbo who follows Lizbert around like a puppy and Gramble who had nothing to lose, no grumpus is without sin. Triffany got caught literally graverobbing and Wambus ran away with her. Wiggle is like a million grollars (grump dollars) in debt from keeping up her superstar lifestyle after going broke. Shellsy got hit with a massive lawsuit after someone had a violent allergic reaction to some essential oils she sold them. Cromdo is Cromdo.