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🎁The Gyftmas Event returns!🎁

🎄 The Gyftmas 2024 event is a Secret Santa event, in which a participant is matched up with another participant to make them a gift. We call them a Santa and an Imp, where the Santa makes a gift for their Imp. Each participant will be someone’s Santa and someone’s Imp at the same time, meaning that you will receive a gift from your Santa and make a gift for your Imp. You will not know who your Santa is (thus making them a Secret Santa), but you will know who your Imp is and what they’d like as a gift. Make sure to keep your identity a secret from your Imp, so as not to spoil the surprise!!

🎄 As a Santa, you will receive your assignment with your Imp’s name, social media account (we encourage you to scroll through their blog/account to get a better grasp at what they like), pronouns and requests, as well as their dislikes/triggers if they have any so you can avoid them. There will be at least 3 different requests so if you’re not comfortable with one, you can choose another. Only 1 request is required, but you can make more if you want to and have the time.

🎄 This event is strictly 18+, meaning that we do not allow minors to participate. Any content is allowed in this event (SFW, suggestive, NSFW, dark), and you can request any ship you want (fontcest, frans, aged-up ships, etc…). You can go as wild as you want as long as you are respectful of each other.

🎄 If you have any question about the event, don’t hesitate to check out the FAQ, send us an ask (on or off anon), or send us an email at gyftmas2024@gmail.com!

🎄 Make sure to read our RULES before signing up to the event.

🎄 Check out our schedule.

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🥺🥺🥺<3

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

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We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

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Join ProDecepticons! A Transformers Discord Server!

Hey there! Are you an artist? A writer? A Roleplayer? A fan of Transformers media in general? Please, lend me your attention for just a moment!

Have you ever felt like the current community around the Transformers fandom has been hostile at worst, missing something at best? Sure, there are a few small spaces spread across to internet where you don’t have to fear being judged for your interests or called a slur in the same sentence. I know they’re out there, but personally, I’ve had significant trouble actually finding them! More times then not what I do find is a long dead archive of other’s abandoned interactions…

If you relate to any of what I’ve just described, then I invite *YOU* to join us in the Discord Creation Hub for ALL Transformers Fans! It’s a brand new server, made on a whim, now completely set up for a full interactive community experience! Artwork, FanFiction, Roleplay Rooms, Forum Prompts, Movies Nights, Drawpile/Magma Sessions, and SO MUCH MORE is in store! All we need now is amazing people like you, to share your work and love!!

ProDecepticons aims to be a truly judgment free zone to connect and empower all creatives who choose to be here! The name may seem deceiving, but we love Autobots too! The idea behind the name is that everybot deserves love, not just the ‘good’ ones. In that spirit, we accept everyone! We plan on using this tumblr page to foster positive engagement as well as to promote the beautiful works of those who join our server.  If this sounds like a place you’d find happiness, then please;

Join us now! Invite Link: https://discord.gg/Rm8SZHnZvN We hope to see you soon! 🥰🥰🥰

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Adventures of Nightshade page 2

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Things are getting silly at the autobot's HQ.

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PSA from Blobby. Something we should talk about more ❤️

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hear me out: Megatron in human form would absolutely be fat

as someone whose family is from the upper Appalachian region, I know a lot of rural workers and farmers/railworkers/miners/labourers, several of which are actual family members of mine or have been adopted as such 

and I’m just saying 

approaching things realistically and according to his background as a miner in MTMTE/Lost Light 

Megatron’s human form/holoform would absolutely be fat

I mean tall, fat, and Kentucky coal miner level strong, for real  

there’s a huge difference between bodybuilder aesthetic muscle and actual worker muscle; there’s no strictly controlled, carefully even with counted repetitions style working out, there’s no carefully monitored diet and hydration, it’s just muscle from doing ore cart loading and several different types of drilling and gear (equipment) hauling and vehicle prep and maintenance and so on 

rural Appalachian manual labour working life is like: You eat what you can get in the food desert you live in because there’s no time or energy or gas money to drive three hours away and then back again to get to the one good grocery store in the area, you don’t get time to make good meals so you snack constantly to keep your energy level high to focus just enough to avoid getting killed by large scale industrial machinery, and you end up with enough accumulated minor and/or major injuries over time that you ache too much to do “formal” working out even if you had the energy and time after hours of trying not to die on the job all day

all the miners I know are either rail thin or pretty fat, and it’s 99% because of shitty working conditions, poverty wages and/or no time or resources for good food with all cooked meals being massively heavy in fat/protein/carbs and nothing else because this is about keeping up energy levels so you don’t get killed at work, and various injuries including chemical exposures and so on = pretty much everyone is either sickly thin or intensely maximum power mode levels of fat 

the thin miners tend to be fast as hell, and the fat miners tend to have strength that rivals actual Hercules of Grecian lore

real world example story time: fat miner power, or how Davis the Miner demolished our bathroom entirely by accident 

I knew a miner, let’s call him Davis, who was a family friend when I was a kid

this guy was six foot four inches tall, weighed three times what my father weighed even though my dad was six foot two inches tall himself, and let me tell you…

once when Davis stayed over at our house for a week, he bumped into the bathroom sink after taking a shower and accidentally knocked the ENTIRE SINK OUT OF THE FIXTURE ON THE WALL 

when I say he took it out, I mean he butt bumped the edge of the sink when turning around to put his towel back on the rack to dry, and the momentum of this action was enough to straight up demolish the sink (part of the sink bowl actually broke) and actually pulled the entire sink fixture out of the actual wall itself 

this, naturally, bent one of the pipes to the sink, which started to leak, and his solution to this was to GRAB THE PIPE AND BEND IT BY HAND TO STOP THE WATER FLOW 

if you have never worked on house utility piping, I can confirm for you that it is extremely hard if not borderline impossible to do this even with tools, but not for our dude Davis, who has Hercules Grip 

he was super apologetic about it and we weren’t mad at all, we all helped fix it up with a quick trip to Home Depot later lmao

it was just so impressive that legit he just bumped it a little when drying off and it was enough to take the entire fucking sink off the wall, pipes sticking out and everything 

and 100% it was totally an accident, it really was just a little butt bump into the sink when turning around, and it ripped the sink straight up out of the wall!!! he demolished that shit!!! lmao 

never underestimate Fat Miner Strength. what they lack in speed, they have more than quadrupled in Fat Miner Power. 

his butt alone essentially took out that entire wall in our bathroom, given the damage, and it was honestly pretty awesome 

making my case: canon observations��

this is the kind of intense fat miner strength Megatron would absolutely have in human form, and I am convinced of this 

especially because we see him drilling with what is basically a jackhammer: 

now, Davis once explained to me: “I’m so fat because it helps cut down on the vibration!” 

and he’s actually right; bodybuilder (leaner) type muscular physiques would struggle with managing the actual return vibration of this kind of drilling– it’s not the force itself, or the weight of the drill, or even the strength required to hold the drill in position if drilling manually. it’s not even 100% about the vibration of a drill like a jackhammer in the above image itself, either. 

it’s about the return vibration you get when chiselling or drilling into a solid material like rock/minerals, which is 90% of what you’re doing when drilling in a mine if you’re still cutting out the ore/material!

this return vibration is such an intense effect that even on automated large scale unmanned drilling equipment, there is vibration protection and a huge amount of work and monitoring that goes into making sure the return vibration doesn’t literally shake the machinery apart. 

but our dude Megatron seems to be handling the vibration incredibly well, he doesn’t appear to be shaking at all in the panel above, not to mention the underhand grip he has on an otherwise unsupported jackhammer in the panel above, meaning his upper arm strength, glutes/thigh strength, back strength, and core strength are taking the majority of the force here 

now, Davis said his fat helped him deal with the vibration, and that’s because being so fat gives him more mass/weight overall, and adipose tissue is a pretty good shock absorber of sorts! 

so more weight = more stability when doing this kind of stuff (although nobody would ever hold a jackhammer like Megatron is here lmao) 

and it also does somewhat minimise some of the acute/short term physical damage of vibration (although it does not eliminate problems like joint stress or over time problems like various well known vibration induced syndromes, it’s just that fat people are gonna statistically do a little bit better with this kind of stuff than skinny people generally speaking) 

conclusion: Megatron would totally be a tall fat dude and it’s good 

considering that canonically all the frame types as per Functionist social/class stratification are literally put to the work deemed most “suitable”, and Megatron is doing manual labour here that would be better suited to larger/stronger humans, I feel like he’d be like “ok well I guess if I were a human I would be this” 

I also can’t imagine Megatron choosing a holoform/human form that would shy away from his origins as a miner; it’s a core part of his identity and ideology, and I feel like once he got a little more comfortable with generating a holoform, maybe a little more familiar with human body types via movie night at Swerve’s or something, he’d probably want to represent himself as accurately as objectively possible within human cultural-social context if he had to generate a holoform for that purpose 

I also imagine Megatron showing up at a local worker’s union in his holoform and writing some AMAZING shit to leave behind for them, have a little revolt, go get your wages, you’re organics but you’re working class and the solidarity is undeniable 

meanwhile Rodimus takes Drift to New York and Minimus gets lost somewhere (re: ditched by Rodimus) on the Amtrak network and ends up in Canada and it’s a mess, they realise Megatron went the other direction on the rail once they see a Times Square news scrawl about a union riot somewhere in Tennessee and they immediately go OH SHIT IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN

anyway 

I just sort of always imagine IDW 1 Megatron having a holoform of like, a fat version of old Arnold Schwarzenegger: way less actual muscle definition (no or very little clearly visible muscle), a lot more fat, but equally if not more strong overall due to the different muscle groups developed by hard manual work vs. bodybuilding 

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please reblog! 😳👉👈

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new hyperfix lets go !!

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Ight time for bed- 🏃‍♂️💨

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So it has been a while since I drew this but I thought let's post it anyway, since I am very, very proud of how it turned out. This was also a gift for a secret Understale Santa @gyftmas2021 for the lovely @fightdinoking (on Twitter, idk if they have a tumblr.)

It's the main three Sanses and the persons Oc ❤❤❤ having a movie night, y'know, being comfy.

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When having someone who listens is the only thing we need: