#out of context this makes zero sense

[i-am-trying-my-best-okay]

The way this format can apply to the villains in each trilogy means a lot to me:

[sightseertrespasser]

I keep meaning to ask and keep forgetting to. What exactly is a crash? The way I have it figured is that it’s somewhere between passing out and a seizure, though it’s kinda hard to tell when everyone treats it a little differently

So I’ve seen crashes written with varying levels of severity depending on what the writer needs it to be.

For my setting, I treat crashes as something that could technically affect any cybertronian but is very rare outside of individuals with certain conditions.

In human terms, crashes can be as be as mild as a Petit Mal (or absence) seizure, with brief lapses in attention and confusion. All the way up to a massive stroke requiring immediate hospitalization. That’s just to compare how serious they are to a bunch of alien computer people.

Since crashes are their own thing, I have my own guide to how they work. Also, I encourage everyone to play with the concept themselves.

Crashes! What are they?

Causes: Cybertronians basically have computers for brains, so the things that make actual computers crash are what you’d expect to cause a Cybertronian to crash.

Most commonly,

- Overheating (#1 cause, similar to heatstroke)

- Hardware issues (I.e. something got physically damaged in there)

- Malware/viruses (akin to getting poisoned or on brain damaging drugs)

Those are what the average cybertronian has to watch out for. For most people, these are all external factors that can simply be avoided or are caused by someone’s deliberate actions (I.e. getting kicked in the head real hard).

Now, Prowl has a Tacnet. As do his brothers, which I’ll get into later. Tacnet is essentially a super computer jammed into a regular processor. It’s primary function is to crunch numbers and it is very good at that. Tacnet also opens up its mechs to an additional way to experience Crashes:

- Logic cascades.

In which Tacnet gets stuck on a problem, pulling in more and more resources to try and solve it until either it does the job, or some load bearing element is compromised resulting in a crash.

Usually, logic cascades simply result in crash via overheating, which is normally very treatable. The difference with a logic cascade, is that Tacnet does not stop trying to solve the problem. A doctor can bring a mechs temperature down, but the second their processor isn’t literally physically melting, Tacnet goes right back into using all of the resources available to it to solve the problem.

Symptoms: Crashes can be very dangerous because it is effectively a form of brain damage.

Overheating can cause wires and delicate components to melt and fail.

Hardware issues can mean much of the same, but pieces are already explicitly broken and elements that are absolutely not supposed to touch are crunched together.

Malware might be designed to cause overheating as well, or maybe reroute power inside to blow fuses and cripple other components.

Regardless of the cause, someone who’s crashing is going to be severely struggling to think clearly and maybe loose control of body functions if the parts related to motor control are affected. Sudden changes in mood, lapses in memory, difficulty communicating, difficulty concentrating, paralysis, failure to regulate bodily functions such as venting and fuel pumps etc, etc.

Basically everything that could go wrong from having your brain messed up.

Tacnet crashes specifically don’t usually effect the life support systems until it’s already at catastrophic levels. The primary symptom of a Tacnet crash is a complete and total mental arrest of the subject at its final stages before the aforementioned “catastrophic level”.

Treatment: For the first three causes, the treatment is fairly straightforward.

- Cool down the processor.

- Repair the damage.

- Purge the malware.

Of course, Tacnet has to be a special case. To fully undo a Tacnet crash, a doctor has to essentially get into the mechs processor and manually find and delete the rapidly multiplying and branching logic branches until they get back to the source code of the issue and remove that too. This requires speed, precision and endurance on part of the doctor. The affected individual can eventually start to fight back against the logic cascade themselves once they have some control of their processor back. Manually deleting splitting logic branches themselves.

Prowl has gotten very good at this! Which is kind of a bad thing, since that means he only gets help when it’s already gotten extremely bad.

So why don’t Bluestreak and Smokescreen regularly crash if they are also susceptible to logic cascades?

It’s because they essentially only use their Tacnets for “solvable” equations. They can still be overwhelmed, or get stuck on impossible, incompatible data. But usually it’s just a brief freezing up before going back to normal.

Smokescreen regularly uses his for calculating the outcomes of fights, races, dice and card games etc. All things with clear boundaries of relevant data and simple end points “Who will win? Who will loose? The most likely card to be drawn next.” You get the picture.

Likewise, Bluestreak is using his Tacnet to calculate speed, velocity, air resistance, gravity, flight paths and so on. All concrete data points with a distinct solvable condition: Hit thing with other thing.

So what’s Prowl trying to calculate? War.

A million moving pieces, a billion interchangeable factors, and there is never truly a “solved” state since conflict never truly ends, just changes shape.

Prowl, being Prowl, has decided that “Solved states” are bullshit and every time Tacnet tells him the solved state of what he’s asking is “Everyone dies” he says do it again. Add more information. Find every possible angle until something works.

Basically, Prowl finds a wall and then bashes his head against that wall until he gets a hole.

Tacnet reacts by going “Give me solvable equations or so help me I’m smothering us in your sleep.”

“Is the solved state to loose?”

“Yes.”

“Then do it again until it’s not.”

“Fuck you. Hospital.”

Long Term Management: The easiest way to prevent future crashes is to not try and fist fight the laws of physics.

However, taking on extremely taxing calculations can be done safely (ish) if Prowl slows down and takes his time. Basically letting stuff sit on the back burner while he does things like eat and sleep regularly.

Talking out a problem is a manual way of slowing Tacnet down, as processing power is diverted towards simplifying complex equations into coherent spoken statements. Some margin of error is lost this way, (rounding 7.83620563 up to 8 for example) making the calculations slightly less accurate. But in return, Tacnet can then use those rounded numbers to more efficiently do the required math.

I hope that answered your question!

It’s always a lot of fun fleshing out the details for stuff like this. I have a whole other tangent I could elaborate on about Tacnet specifically, but this post is long enough on its own.

[skrunksthatwunk]

Not Only is he a bisexual icon but he also Cannot stop framing his demonic encounters as dubiously romantic without anyone or anything prompting him to

[overly-verbose]

(Here's a crack/ship fic I wrote! Have fun reading XD ps. Please ignore the first one I saw a typo and wanted to add moreee)

Sukuna ate a burger and blamed it on Sukuna who another Sukuna believed was telling the truth, so he felt unsure around the other Sukuna’s presence.

So another time when the same thing happened again that Sukuna took no time at all to put it on the same Sukuna.

That Sukuna is sad, upset that the other Sukuna wouldn't believe him.

When there came a time where the Yuujis met, Sukuna wanted another Yuuji for himself, but Sukuna won't let him. Threatens to paint his guts to the walls and the ground red.

The Sukuna relented and pulled back, afraid. Then he left to sit on his own. Another Sukuna watches from the sideline, shaking his head from the scene.

Sukuna, realizes this then goes to talk to the Sukuna and starts to talk about how he doesn't hate him and even appreciates his company. He's different from other Sukunas, more innocent than others. He may be clumsy, but he's also trying his best and that's such a beautiful and heartwarming l thing.

Sukuna, surprised and even a bit touched, starts to blurt out what he thought the other Sukuna was great at and that he wanted to be like him. To be strong, to be able to protect his Yuuji as he does with his and when he's with him, he felt a blanket of safety around him even with his demonic aura.

The two said their pieces and sat there in a comfortable silence and after a moment the other Sukuna reached out his hand, a start to friendship.

The expression on the other Sukuna looks a bit torn and stricken with some kind of grief, but he continues to smile before grasping the waiting hand. Then there's a tug and he was pulled into a tight embrace. His eyes widened, unsure of what to do before he slowly started to wrap his hands around the other's back.

Then the other older Sukuna spoke.

“I hope we can be friends.”

Yea 👍

[mistressemmedi]

I can't believe FIA wants to investigate and penalize Charles. Man's only crime was to be the meat in the worst sandwich of the world

[elibean]

WAIT DOES THAT MEAN THE PV WE GOT LIKE A YEAR AGO WAS ACTUALLY AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE!???

[midnight-mourning]

Out of Context Ch. 34 Spoilers to tide you over as I finish it:

I can sense this chapter is going to be on the longer side, and if I had to guess I am AT MOST halfway done with it

Last week was out to get me I swear 😔 but we'll be aight

[clowningcrows]

lol i pregamed a tiny bit for agatha but now after finishing im just taking shots for coping reasons

[repressedqueen]

I'm GAGGED

He looks so soft 🥹🥹

I am vibrating !! I want to watch NOW!!! I wish I wasn't such a good best friend 😭

[silverasks]

[ragnarockz]

I think it's funny when people reblog asks of mine that are obviously an inside joke or bit with someone like excuse me? You were not invited to make this into a threesome

[myplushheart]

SAILING, SAILING, JUMPING OFF THE RAILING!!!

[zorilleerrant]

Chance Encounters

@flashfictionfridayofficial

So, Chance was aware that, if he fell, he was going to end up falling in front of a bunch of tourists. (This was why he tried not to fall.) This, in itself, was only mildly scandalous and probably wouldn’t even have made the front page, although the kids were obviously going to tell tales, ah, out of school, as it were. That was all planned for.

The problem was that he hadn’t accounted for thin spaces being likelier above workshops. Or, well, he’d thought about that, that was why he was wearing safety equipment and all, it’s just that current workshops and historical workshops didn’t always line up and, actually, given how many more regulations there were these days, the current workshops were probably less likely to have thin spaces above them.

Chance didn’t tend to think of this one as a workshop. It had been mostly a display room for a few hundred years now, and a popular one, and he avoided it even when he was traveling the normal way, most days. The tourists didn’t even change that part.

(It wasn’t like he was avoiding a meeting or anything this time, so he wouldn’t even get into trouble, it just took some explanation. He’d had a story prepared and everything.)

But as it turned out, Chance falling out of the sky wasn’t even what anyone was concentrating on. They were all agog at the shower of glitter that rained down over not only Chance but the crowd as a whole, sparkling and fizzing out as it hit the ground. Chance froze, of course, but it was too late. Everyone had seen him.

And he couldn’t even sneak away, either, because at that point the skull boomed – he’d forgotten how loud this particular skull was, given that it basically never talked – out into the hallway, declaring him Royal Archmage, King Harrington I.

Honestly, even the first part he probably could’ve explained away. Chance had gotten good at dodging questions, and also giving responses that weren’t really, and if it came down to it, blaming things on the curator, who knew exactly what he was going through anyway. It probably would’ve been that one. Claiming private study or who knows what.

(He probably would’ve gotten in trouble for messing with the tomes, at that point, as if they couldn’t choose whether they wanted to be messed with. And anyway, Chance knew far and away enough to keep the books safe.)

If he’d been smart, he would’ve cast an invisibility spell, and hid until everyone got bored and went away. If he’d been smart, he would’ve teleported somewhere, even somewhere random, and figured it out from the privacy of some dusty abandoned room. If he’d been smart, he would’ve smiled and bowed like he meant to do all of that, or even like he’d set the whole thing up as a prank or a brag. If he’d been smart, he would’ve texted the PR team.

But what actually happened was Chance’s luck turned yet again, and he yelled fuck in front of a bunch of primary schoolers and a news crew. Which was not the most auspicious way to introduce the whole magical quest thing to his family, let alone the part where they had to go back through every official document referring to him and cross out the whole ‘heir to the throne’ part of it. So, yeah, he did get in a little bit of trouble.

[idl3dr3ams]

one side done

Now onto the other

[feddy-34]

Andrei is to his left, Tee to his right, arguing yet again about who would have to set up the clackers for the night. Sixteen miles from base camp and they have to sleep out in the bushes.  “Will you two shut the fuck up?” Ja’marr’s had it with their bickering. It’s too hot and too humid to listen to the constant bitching of grunts. He’s answered with a twin set of glares, which doesn’t bother Ja’marr nearly as much as Andrei’s whispered threats. He’ll have to check his helmet for spiders again.

[hum--hallelujah]

the THING about Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes is that, #1, it is one of the most melodically satisfying songs I've ever heard and that's why it was one of the first FOB songs I actually listened to of my own free choice, and #2, it makes people crazy insane bc so many of the lyrics simply make zero sense on a surface level EXCEPT "I'm half doomed and you're semi sweet" which IMMEDIATELY gets across its point and acts as a thesis statement to the song, thus allowing an understanding of the rest of the lyrics to fall into place