• sent by Anonymous

    We seem to be on a mech au kick again and just I’m just Eternally having thoughts about texaid and the combaticons in this au. The idea of first aid starting to smoke or wearing vortex’s old jacket and swindle or someone SEEING THAT is one that never leaves me alone.

  • answered by keferon

    Hmmmmmmmm

    image
    image
Loading...
  • foxsnails

  • image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image

    Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!

    I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly

Loading...
  • coyotemaximal

  • i think it's lowkey a fascinating character design choice that all the combaticons have masks EXCEPT for swindle. subtle visual cue that this is the guy whose words you have to watch or something like that. idk.

  • st-peculiar

  • I’ve had a lot of thoughts on this myself…

    Like okay. This might not make any sense at all but I’ll give it a shot anyways. Swindle is their face guy. He’s always interacting with other characters on a much larger scale than the other combaticons because of his businessman-like personality and occupation. It’s kind of like “you can trust me because you can read my face and see my ‘honesty’” while the other combaticons’ expressions are completely concealed. Easier to lie when you aren’t giving any physical tells. But Swindle is just so fucking good sometimes that lying comes to him like second nature. He’s good at talking, communicating—negotiating. His design being different from his other teammates is both functional for them and a good cue in for the audience regarding Swindle as a character.

    Completely dismissing the fact that the mfs name is Swindle, you could catch on pretty easily what his whole deal and role is within the combaticon dynamic. The rest of them—they’re dangerous. They’re big, seemingly emotionless, obvious that they hold some kind of firepower. But Swindle is smaller, big eyes and a generally unassuming face. Kinda normal in a way. But you don’t realize until you’re completely fucked over that Swindle was the one you had to be looking out for the entire time.

Loading...
  • magicmooshka

  • recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

    It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

Loading...
  • sent by myoveractivewriterbrain

    Funny thought to consider. (ㆆ ᴗ ㆆ)

    From the prospective of Cybertronians, would Mecha Pilot Jazz now considered a cassette?

  • answered by keferon

    Dang. Maybe? Cassettes can’t control other people’s bodies but the concept of a tiny guy hiding in ones chest is definitely familiar to Cybertronians.

    Actually. I think humans would be a lot weirder about that stuff than Cybertronians. Human characters would be the ones who makes saucy jokes about “being inside each other” and these 😏 faces

    Cybertronians have a lot of similar concepts like cassettes and load bearers and titans and sentient spaceships and stuff. And you know. Yeah it would be really funny if they thought Jazz was a really weird cassette lmao Purely for comedic potential~

  • keferon

  • image

    WHEEEEEEZE

    Blaster: You don’t understand it’s your responsibility!

    Prowl: Listen if there was something wrong Jazz would simply tell me. And he is not a Cassette.

    Blaster: Oh Primus you just don’t see it because you don’t have the right programming. And if he never had a proper host before then he doesn’t know either! Cassettes have their needs and it’s important for their health! Look at him! Look how thin and wobbly he is. He is obviously in stress.

    *camera cuts to Jazz doing this*

    image
  • myoveractivewriterbrain

  • AGDHSKSG--LOL, YES!

    This is the kind of funny stuff I was thinking about.

    Later-

    Blaster: Where's Jazz?

    Prowl quickly gestures to his chest-plate before going back to whatever task he is doing: Recharging.

    Blaster holding back tears: I knew you would understand.

    Prowl: No. Wait. This isn't-- human's simply require significantly more regular intervals of--

    Blaster, pats Prowl on the shoulder: You're doing great.

    Prowl, regretting trying to use familiar terms to make things easier for the crew: He's SLEEPING.

Loading...
  • whattraintracks

  • Was someone going to tell me Love It or List It is a REAL SHOW on HGTV—not something made up for an au slash fic—or was I just supposed to find that out during a dentist appointment myself?

1 2 3 4 5