#spark failure

[krussyarts]

No context for this one lmao

Just kidding, tfa Ratchet is so homophobic dad coded in that he'd fall over dead if one of his sons/coworkers brought home a decepticon (just something my girlfriend and I talked about.. technically this is set in her au but we don't have time for that rn)

Blitzwing is trying to make a decent impression and try his hand at this "apologizing" thing hence the twigs (same thing to him as flowers tbh)

[keferon]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN "THE SPARK IS GIVING THE BOYFRIEND CANCER"??????

I'm rolling with the idea from idw about "Cybertronian energy being radioactive to humans"

In the Sins of the wreckers it revealed that Verity(human) is dying because Cybertronian energy gave her cancer. It wasn't only spark energy though, it was also Aequitas. But still. Hanging out with the Wreckers was slowly damaging her health.

[compaculaaa]

When you want to get rid of your Ex (again) and the Sparkings you don’t want but your sire coding says “ABSOLUTELY FRAGGING NOT”

literally this au in a nutshell lol

[kaurwreck]

idk I don't think it was love and trust that created the current calamity, and I don't think anything they've done in meursault or at the airport has been futile. I don't think the themes fall apart when they're challenged, I think they're reinforced, which is as evidenced by Fukuzawa cradling Aya as it is by Akutagawa asking Atsushi if they need anyone else.

[spark-circuit]

thinking about V1 having that fear of death. thinking of how they're like most of the other robots in Hell that are out after blood for survival.

thinking about how the Style system might not just be a way to get new weapons and upgrades but also to train their survival skills and even as a coping mechanism to make the whole experience of Fucking Dying be Fun and Bearable.

thinking about how while Prime Levels are fun extra challenges for us as players, that it might be required and canon for V1. are they scared? are they also fearful of how challenging they are, of seeing enemies turn Sanded because that's now less grains of sand in their shrinking hourglass? do they feel sorry, for the robots they kill that are just like them, just as desperate and scared? for the Prime Souls, who seemed just as trapped as they do in their fates?

does V1 fear the end of their journey? who created them, really? humans? humans they could've cared about before the need for blood and life outweighed the need for companionship? god? god, who could be guiding V1 as a true weapon to fix Their mistake then kill Them? Hell? does Hell just want to watch V1 suffer, in exchange for endless blood? does V1 care anymore about suffering - theirs, others, it doesn't matter - if it means they can live?

did they ever care? do they, still? even if they don't want to? even if they can't afford to?

[beastking-golion]

Saw a fic about vastaya Viktor and if you ask me he’s definitely a bird (or salamander if you wanna super angstify him- cough cough Rio cough).

[averlym]

"now, doesn't that look nice?" [insp]

[br1ghtestlight]

in the basebulb trenches since DAY ONE btw. i always had a vision and them interacting so much in episodes 15 & 16 <3 MWAH mwah theyre friends forever and ever

[conherofrost]

Do you ever get the weird suspicion that someone, somewhere, perhaps even in another universe, is talking shit about you behind your back right this very second?

[peony-pearl]

24 and 30 for Hollander for the headcanon ask game :)

WHEEE thank you so much!!

best memory - Aside from Angeal's birth, Hollander's best memory is probably his early graduation from both high school and university (eventually leading to his acceptance into Shinra and then the Jenova Project). Hollander was an intelligent young man, and his parents saw fit to ensure good tutelage from his youth. I headcanon he was probably from a privileged family, and did not want for much. He remembers being the youngest graduate, full of excitement and eagerness to make his name known - the only problem is that he passed by on booksmarts rather than ingenuity, which is evidenced in his contributions to Project G.

personality - I'm basing this on the fact that he probably cannot leave Shinra due to his work on the Jenova Project (lest his retirement be short once a Turk finds him), he is stuck in a place where he will forever be marked as a failure for as long as he works there. Shinra is his end of the line.

We know from canon he's made outspoken remarks about his feelings towards Shinra. He doesn't make his thoughts secret. Hollander can be abrasive, and can absolutely be a toxic coworker. He has a history of being snappy, rude and dismissive. On good days he's... somewhat better, it's just a matter of if he's feeling civil; but oftentimes he's not in the mix with others. He does his job, gets paid, goes home. After some two decades of being miserable, he's learned how to deal with it. Those who have worked with him since Hojo was named head of the science department will say he's improved, but probably because he hates Shinra so much he doesn't want to expend more energy than he needs to in order to hate them.

Instead, in the few years leading up to Crisis Core, Hollander sort of started to mellow out (as much as he could). He's still outspoken about how he wants the Shinra building to collapse, but he's starting to work better with others, if only mildly. If he goes out on missions with infantrymen and soldiers, he's started actually engaging in conversations. Mostly because he's started accepting that... this is his life. He's actually told a number of young soldiers to leave Shinra, and he's been reprimanded for it every time, but he won't stop.

But maybe if he's nice and agreeable, Shinra will let him take on a mission where he's escorted by Angeal so he can get to know his son.

Regardless, Hollander is still no one's first choice to work with, but outside of Shinra, he maintains a couple of acquaintances. However, he's prone to bouts of isolation and struggles to keep any kind of meaningful relationship. The brightest light he sees in escaping this life is when he finds out Genesis and Angeal can create copies and suddenly Hollander has the power of an army at his disposal. It's the first chance he has at destroying Shinra and looking at a world where he's no longer stuck rotting alive.

And he has no problem using Genesis to achieve his goals.

[sfarxuri]

their counter parts were ready that time, have to plan something else to catch them off guard doofus!

[tryingthoughts]

i have been feeling this tiny fire in my heart for creativity, just a tiny flame of hope for a dream of a future. it feels so precious that i'm scared to tell anyone. i don't want people to put it out. i don't want people to see it and then disappoint them in the future.

but between me and you, i've got a small inkling of desire again, dreaming again. i've been knitting more - im making a sweater for the first time ever in all my 12 years of knitting. ive been watching mathy sciencey documentaries and "labour movement" type documentaries I guess. things that evoke some emotion. i've felt anger at the life in these documentaries, and i've felt kind of inspired. just a bit, a small lick of a flame for math and science again, a small bit for building something. and gosh i feel dangerous, i don't want to rush into this because im really scared. i made a little lobster that i started 10 months ago, and i made a few stitches on a project of mine for my sibling.

so don't tell anyone, but i've got a little spark again and it terrifies me.

[theperplexedpoet]

the middle men (deny, defend, depose)

sparks of the revolution this keg of powder blows within the institution deny, defend, depose here we condemn the middle men this brittle win answers to sin so here begins the fiddled hymn for middle men that we condemn sparks of the revolution this keg of powder blows within the institution deny, defend, depose mercy suspends with middle men their little wins for chaos sends the means and ends through riddled lens for middle men mercy suspends sparks of the revolution this keg of powder blows within the institution deny, defend, depose they left us no solution such cruelty imposed sparks of the revolution deny, defend, depose here we condemn those little men brittle system's profit margins and so begins those fiddled hymns for little men that we condemn sparks of the revolution this keg of powder blows within the institution deny, defend, depose with such greed and pollution this battle cry echoes sparks of the revolution deny, defend, depose here we condemn this whole system (1/04/25)

[alwritey-aphrodite]

Remember when I used to write regularly?? Yeah me either

[impossible-rat-babies]

azem………………

[spark-circuit]

first time actually playing rain world instead of watching highlights. who the fuck designed shaded citadel.