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cover + first page of a short dratchrod comic i've been planning :D

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I always headcanon Drift to be bitey. Nom nom on his partners. Ratchet grumbles but is secretly on board. Roddy doesn’t even try to hide that he likes it and WILL bite back. Ratchet and his two feral turbofox boyfriends.

Bitey man

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The Buried and the The Dark having a bloody, screaming, drag out fight over Megatron before The Dark wins out is honestly a oretty funny image.

Oh yes they both reaaaaally wanted that cookie, but Megatron wanted absolutely nothing to do with the Buried, so it ended up munching on Minimus

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for your TMA AU what entity is megatron? and mostly why ofcrs I wanna know the reasoning! gimme the deets!

Hiii sorry for the 40000 years late answer I wanted to answer this with an artwork but lost love for it, so you only get text lols

Megatron is an Avatar of the Dark, for two main reasons. The first one is that hés the biggest, baddest, most terrifying foe in most continuities. He's the monster under the bed, something from stories, much like the Dark, he's old and omnipresent, his very existence is a horror story.

But I feel like part of the fear he inspires comes from how he presents himself ! In mtmte, which is the main inspiration for this AU, he's a much more vicious, manipulative, secretive person than, say, in G1. He leads from the Dark. He's always in the shadows.

And then, he was a miner, so of course he has a special relationship with the Dark. And also the whole dark matter thing which would be dope af for a Dark Avatar imo.

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Random doodles for a fic I might write. Premise is Rodimus suffers

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The dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn't

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If one were to write a fic based on your AU, what would be your thoughts?

Also who on the Lost Light would be infected by what entitie? I guess technically almost everyone on the LL hung around with Rung (Primus) so he'd probably have dealt with most of the infection, but maybe there is a resurgence in the other universe as the infection desperately tries to keep itself alive and becomes active before being wiped out? Due to no longer having a connection to the original entities.

You infected ME, curse you TT^TT

What would be my thoughts ? I WOULD HAVE NO THOUGHTS ONLY HAPPINESS i would looove to see this au as a fanfic!!!

As for who's infected by what, I'm still working on the AU so I don’t have everyone down. The ones I do have are : Rodimus (The Desolation), Megatron (The Dark), Minimus (The Buried), Drift (The Slaugher) and Ratchet (also the Slaughter but a different flavour). I'm working on illustrations for each of them :)

As for how the infection survives in a new universe, I had pretty much the same thought as you. A virus has to survive somehow...

Anyway, thank you for your ask 🥹

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i love your art (especially spiral jazz he is so special and the coloring looks great!) and i love your ideas thanks for sharing :]

thank youuuuuu!! I'm glad you like spiral jazz, as he lives in my brain and does not pay rent. Here, have some more :

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...with how much the LL crew enjoys human media and culture (Mainly thanks to Swerve), would the Quantum Lost Light who keep travelling post issue 25 basically carry their connection to the Fears into the next universe? Could the Fear Entities become a problem for them that they have to adress there?

For example with the crew having to save Rodimus from the Desolation? Do you have any lore ideas for that in your AU?

Very interesting ask ! In response, I present to you, the Lost Light :

Seriously though,

I've always conceptualized the tma entities as a mix between god and disease, so that's how they are in this AU. That is to say, Rodimus is infected with the desolation. To continue with the disease analogy, that infection can, and will spread.

There are also aggravating factors that make the Lost Light an absolute clusterfuck of Fear activity : as you said, proximity and familiarity with human media, but also confinement within a small community, crazy shit happening all the time, and the fact that Rodimus is not the only one on the ship dealing with an Entity. Ratchet, Megatron, Drift, and Blaster to only name a few, also came on board being actively consumed by their respective patrons.

The only way to liberate themselves would be to go back to Cybertron (no) or- idk. find another way. maybe travel to another universe and hope to god your immune system carries you.

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rodimus of nyon, you burnt everything you ever touched

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Your works are such a delight <3 thank you for the food!

Anyway I think Rodimus deserves to experience the bot equivalent of emergence delirium. I can totally picture him complimenting Ratchet’s shoulders and proposing to Drift. Before they are even together. Teehee.

You have a big brain

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Hi. I bring some dratchrod questions.

Who do you think is the most touch-starved out of the three?

How did the throuple courting process happen (if there was one to begin with)?

Rodimus is clingy as all hell. He didn't pay much mind to physical contact before but then he got with them and it changed his brain chemistry (processor chemistry ?). He quite literally doesn't sleep, sit or rest on inanimate surfaces anymore, Drift and Ratchet have become living pillows. Drift is also very physically affectionate (also bity), but his behavior oscillates between Roddy level and normal level. Ratchet isn't really in search of physical touch most time but he surrenders to his fate as the object of his conjunxes affections.

As for how they get together, my usual favourite flavor is Dratchet being conjunxed post Lost Light 25 and Rodimus being like : "so awesome guys! I'm so happy for you!".

But internally he's like :

he's sincerely happy for them but at the same time he has a nasty crush that he believes he can will away. He cannot, but it turns out that's okay because Drift and Ratchet snatch him up soon enough.

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He do be clinging

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Strascream comes across a strange object while hiding out injured in a cave. Surely this won’t have any consequences :)

Click on the image for better quality idk why tumblr did that to him but revenge will be mine

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I just think the world needs more Party Ambulance Ratchet at his finest. I want him to French kiss Rodimus til that speedster’s on shaking knees then proceeds to just walk away like nothing happened. Or like get Drift to be all blushy and giggly from some easy flirting.

You're absolutely right, big brain on you over here. Ratchet is a menace. Nobody escapes the party ambulance.

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The last ask summoned me XD,

May I suggest Dratchrod and its Rodimus and Drift trying to seduce Ratchet together? Bringing gifts? Posing sexy? Acts if service? (Like a massage?) The old man needs to he romanced!

Oh yeah very good flavor of dratchrod. They work hard to sweep him off his feet, mostly by bringing him gifts and being super shameless around him and hoping their natural charms do the trick. Ratchet feels like he's being courted by two overgrown criters because they start gifting him lots of weird shit, and sometimes just. Rock. Not even cristals, just rocks.

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I'm curious about your TMA and TF crossover art. Do you have any AU lore?

1) Are the Fear Entities for example currently bound to Earth and do Prowl and Jazz come into contact with their respective fears only there?

2) Or does it start long before then on Cybertron?

3) Do they get any fear powers?

4) Is Primus grumpy about these fear entities trying to snatch his children?

HEY, good questions! Originally the tma x transformers crossover was mostly humanformers because i love women, but yeah I do have lore for the poor unfortunate mechs. Rambling below :

1. The fear entities are still based in a parallel/other place and do shit on Earth from there. However! An important nuance to that is that they’re a 100% humanity created, evolving with us through the ages. As such, they’re specific to human sensibilities, for instance, I don’t think Cybertronians evolved in a predator/prey dynamic with the rest of Cybertron’s fauna, so it would suck to be the Hunt there. The entities could theoretically infest Cybertron, but it would be like hitting a wall. Visiting Cybertronians however...

2. Prowl gets targeted by The Hunt because he's an obsessive, deadly ex-enforcer who literally chases people, what’s not to love. Meanwhile Jazz is dealing with a lot of mental issues with all the spying he does (identity fragmentation and whatnot). They’re both strong but they’ve been at war for too long.

3. YEs yes YES cool fear powers of doom and self destruction yummm. I don’t have the specifics down yet but they definitely start using their respective alignments for warfare, though by curtesy of their alienness this comes through as a bit less efficient and even more parasitic than when a human gets them.

4. Oh he's definitely mad. But what can he do, really ? Primus is the manifestation of Cybertron itself, and by that time, Cybertron’s dying, and far, far away from Earth. The Entities are in their home, and strong as hell from preying on everyone and everything. Cybertronians are both easy prey and really difficult to sway though. Because they’re grossed out by organic stuff and on a planet full of phenomena they don’t really know, yum! But because they don’t have a grasp of what normalcy looks like down there and could just not be fazed by something super freaky, not so yum. Their link to Primus does also act as a repellent, especially when there's a group of them (which is how Skyfire was pulled out from the Vast). But yeah unfortunately most of them end up getting snatched, especially decepticons.

Thank you for asking! I'm always happy to talk about my two fighting brainworms being together 👁