#tech tarantula

[spidey-bie]

General Information

There's more to come but here's some basic personal/physical information about my OC Ansi.

Full Name: Ansiniya Taratella

Pronounced On-zuh-niya Tear-Uh-Tell-Uh

Nickname: Ansi or Ni (Don't call her Niya)

Pronounced An-zee

Alter Ego: Tech Tarantula

Race: Black

Gender Expression: Gender Non-conforming

She refuses to let society ever dictate what she can and cannot do. He goes by all pronouns but prefers she/he and loves it when you switch it up.

Sexuality: Aspec, Genderqueer

Eye Color: Reddish Brown

Originally they were dark brown but changed due to mutation.

Hair: Black medium sized, mid length dreads, with bright orange tips.

Height: 5'4

He's often mistaken for a much younger age than what he is.

Likes: Hobie Brown, Music (preferably grunge, rock, and rap), Hobie Brown (yes again), apple cider, lighting things on fire, cooking, baking, singing

Dislikes: Her mother, her job at Alchemax, injustice, liars, people looking down on him

Distinguishing Marks: Because of her mutation she now has large freckles along her arms that are a bit darker than her actual skin tone that only appear after she uses a specific power

Her marks aren't noticeable under low light and she wears mostly long sleeves since she's so sensitive to the cold.

Piercings: Spider bite, helix, industrial, 3 lobe, jestrum, daith, septum, tongue tip, nose, conch, forward helix, and eyebrow. 15 total.

Body type: Short and fat

Random Pieces of Information: After being injected with the spider venom she has very hairy arms and a small set of fangs. (Most people assume that the fangs are a piercing)

Disability: She has fibromyalgia and mainly uses her forearm crutches to get around.

He prefers walking so he's never owned a wheelchair.

God I wanna go into their lore and so badly. It's too late and my brain is loopy so I'm gonna make another post later.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Nah cause you asking if Hobie can dance made me think about whether my OC can dance or not. So now I'm thinking Ansi goes to her first Spider Society party. She's sitting by the dance floor drink in hand, it's juice sadly she's not legal 😔, wondering if she should dance or not. She's so lost in her thoughts that she doesn't realize that Diane and Hobie have pulled her onto the dance floor.

At first she just stands there, paralyzed. She could get out of this, somehow. She could go and sit right back down and watch as all the other Spiders enjoy themselves. Once again not allowing herself to be a part of it. Slowly slipping into the background to remain unseen.

And then she sees Hobie dancing. His moves are wild and uncoordinated and yet there he is, having the time of his life. And then there's Diane. Her dancing is in a league of its own and yet she's hyping Hobie up and encouraging Ansi to show off some moves of her own. In that moment something clicks for Ansi and she remembers that right now she doesn't have to be perfect. Right now she's not Tech Tarantula and she's not her mother's ideal daughter. Right now she's Ansi Taratella and she wants to dance her heart out. And just like that, she's right there dancing with them. Her moves are definitely nowhere near as good as Diane's but at least she's on beat unlike Hobie.

The party lasts til dawn and Ansi sneaks back into her home exhausted. She knows she's gonna be in pain the next day. But she doesn't care. She looks through all the Polaroids that she was able to somehow sneak in throughout the night. Smiling at the memories that she made. She stops after she finds the photo that she was looking for and sets it on her nightstand to hang behind her bed later. It was a photo she had taken with Diane and Hobie right after they danced together. It had been so long since she had danced like that. So she wanted to have that moment of happiness frozen in time so she could treasure it for the rest of her life.

(I laughed so hard thinking about this at first. And I was near tears at the end.)

YEESSS YEESSSS THE FOUND FAMILY IS SOOO STRONG

Diane is usually so terrified of getting close to people in her world because it seems like everything is a canon event waiting to happen an everyone is either a Green Goblin or Glenn Stacy (her Gwen) in waiting

But then she joins the Spider Society and she doesn't have to be afraid anymore

And her and Ansi and Hobie spend dozens of nights going to shows and discotheques and record stores and For once FOR ONCE they don't have to worry about hiding their powers or avoiding canon events or going on missions and its a totally new type of freedom and theyre all the bestest of friends!!!

Like canon events aren't what unites them what unites them is music and hanging out and goofing off with their powers together and venting to each other and it's about their collective support rather than collective suffering

And at the very least they have the photos and the grainy camcorder VHS footage but it's proof that theres people like them and people who care

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

70-80s SPIDERS SUPERIORITY I HAVE SO MANY SCENARIOS FOR THIS I WISH I COULD DRAW DRAW

(ALSO THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL TO READ!!!!)

[techtainia-makes-things]

I present to you all the most obnoxiously detailed plush that I’ve made thus far: TFE Tarantulas. I love him so much, I just had to do him justice. I didn’t keep track of how much time he took, but each spider leg took about 40 minutes to and hour to stitch together, and the arms were almost an all evening endeavor.

@cyber-streak-2 Some content for my fellow TFE Tarantulas enjoyer

[modpoppy]

just realized 90% of my jojo oc world is populated with lebsians

[xtruss]

Scientists Find Origin-of-Life Molecule in Space for First Time

— By Jess Thomson | August 8, 2023

NASA image of the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera. A molecular cloud in interstellar space has been found to contain carbonic acid for the first time. NASA, ESA, CSA, AND STSCI

molecule common to Earth and usually associated with life has been detected in the depths of space by scientists.

Carbonic acid (HOCOOH), which you may know as the chemical that makes your soda fizzy, was discovered lurking near the center of our galaxy in a galactic center molecular cloud named G+0.693-0.027, a study published in The Astrophysical Journal revealed.

This marks the third time that carboxylic acids—this class of chemicals, often thought to be some of the building blocks of life—have been detected in space, after acetic acid and formic, and the first time that an interstellar molecule has been found to contain three or more oxygen atoms.

"Our observations have allowed us to know that carbonic acid, which until now had remained invisible to our eyes, is relatively abundant in space, which makes it an essential piece to understand the interstellar chemistry of carbon and oxygen, two of the fundamental chemical elements in any prebiotic process," Víctor M. Rivilla, a researcher at the Spanish Center for Astrobiology and co-author of the study, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).

"This result confirms that the path we have chosen is the right one to search for, and detect more molecules that we suspect were key to the appearance of life on our planet," he concluded.

Carboxylic acids are a type of organic compound characterized by a carbon (C) atom doubly bonded to an oxygen (O) atom and singly bonded to a hydroxyl group (―OH). Carbonic acid in particular is formed when CO2 is dissolved in water, meaning that it is present in increased concentrations in our seas due to CO2 in the atmosphere.

Many theories as to how life on Earth evolved suggest that primitive life may have emerged from a primordial soup of chemicals when our planet was very young. Some have suggested that these chemicals, including carboxylic acids, may have arrived on Earth from space, traveling via comets and meteorites to the forming planet.

Carbonic acid has been previously detected on other astronomical bodies, including the icy moons of Jupiter, in some meteorites and comets, and even on Mars and Mercury, but until now, has not been seen in interstellar space.

The authors explained that the discovery of these more complex molecules in the interstellar medium may reveal clues about the origins of our planet and the life upon it.

"The presence of prebiotic COMs within extraterrestrial material thus firmly suggests the existence of carboxylic acids of increasing complexity in the ISM (interstellar medium), including amino acid–related species. Within this context, considerable efforts have been devoted to hunting for other acids, such as propenoic or acrylic acid, propanoic acid, cyanoacetic acid, glycolic acid, hydantoic acid, and glycine, whose identification in the [interstellar medium] remains elusive."

[deadsetobsessions]

Okay, so maybe Tim has no business being in Bludhaven. Tim maintains that since his parents fail at parenting, he can do whatever he wants.

Besides, it's for a good cause. Like, not letting Tarantula get her dirty hands on his big brother in another time line. Tarantula had popped up in the Bludhaven servers - by that, Tim means the endless amounts of threads and underground fronts for criminal activity that he stalks on a regular basis- by being seen with Nightwing. Tim had immediately booked a ride to Bludhaven and bought another burner. He'd try to take care of her himself, but if worse comes to worse, he'd call Deathstroke. He's totally aware of the weird tension Deathstroke has with Nightwing and Tim's kind of banking on that.

Dick's been back in Blud for two months now, Jason having assuaged his mother hen tendencies enough for Dick to get sick of the Manor. Tim hadn't meant to follow since he had plenty of projects to work on now that "SAVE JASON" wasn't blaring at the top of his head.

But then Tarantula appeared and Tim saw red, remembering the way Dick spoke about her and what she did to him.

He bids the driver goodbye. The driver doesn't question his being on his lonesome mainly because 1) Gothamites mind their own busines, 2) Tim gave him a $500 tip to make sure he remains a "good" Gothamite cabbie, and 3) Tim made sure he was dropped off in the swankiest, most ostentatious hotel Bludhaven had to offer.

"Rich people," the cab driver had muttered as Tim closed the door. Perfect.

Tim got his keycard, having checked in under Alvin Draper over the phone. Normally, they'd require an in person visit, but money talks. And people listened when Tim had a lot of things to say.

Tim even feels like he's trained enough to go out! Lady Shiva's training was ingrained into his memory, and Tim's built enough muscle to make use of some of it. He is still nine, after all. He's so much stealthier this time around. Plus, he's got almost his full tool set back. Sure, some of the tech is ancient, but he managed to finagle it to make grappling guns and smoke pellets more along the quality that he's used to.

Tim waits until nightfall, looping the surveillance around his window to mask his exit. Tim adjusts his domino, eyes scanning the city skyline as his handheld computer (god, he can't believe he has to invent wrist computers) tracked reports of Nightwing through Tweetings.

Ah. He's around Seventh. Tim grimaces as his untested joints adjusts to the grappling guns. His dark clothes make him hard to spot, to his advantage as he tracks down Nightwing.

Tim watches, perched on an adjacent roof as Nightwing takes down a crowd of goons with the flips Tim remembered watching from afar and up close in another timeline.

"Blockbuster'll kill everyone you love, Nightwing!"

Tim winces at the rather brutal crunch that followed, Nightwing having punched the guy and knocked him out in one move. He watches Dick sigh, tugging at his hair in stress.

Tim could... no, no. He shouldn't think of murder as a first option. Well, no, he shouldn't think of Deathstroke as a first option. But he'll need to take Blockbuster out before anything happens. And he needs to threaten the new Tarantula before anything happens. He won't allow her to even get close to Dick.

Maybe it's unfair to punish her for a crime she hasn't done, but unlike murder, rape can never be defended. Catalina Flores is a dead woman walking.

Tim stalks his big brother back home and then broke off to begin his short reign of terror over Bludhaven's underground. If he can't get Dick to take a break (and Tim's tried, a lot, over the years) then he'll make sure that the next month is as gentle as possible on his older brother.

Step 1. Murder Take care of Blockbuster

Step 2. Threaten Catalina Flores and her brother.

No. Wait. Tim has a better idea. He's got dirt on them, on top of the murder thing. He'll fabricate Catalina's tax returns, embezzle a shit ton of money from the IRS, and get her and her corrupt brother (because getting your sister out from murder charges is considered corrupt) arrested and locked away. And he'll make sure they stay locked away with some good old blackmail on Amanda Waller.

Tim grins, tranquilizing the building with an ungodly amount of knock out gas pellets, to riffle through the police precinct's files.

Step 2. Threaten Catalina Flores and her brother.

Step 2. Cripple Catalina Flores and her brother with blackmail and the IRS.

In three hours, Tim has everything he needs to begin a temporary hostile takeover. He's got the names of local mob bosses, the big players, and the names of practically every police officer that takes bribes and their... sponsors.

He'll have to cut off Blockbuster's lines of supplies first. Then, blacklist him from local suppliers, mobilize the police precinct against him (by imitating his M.O. perfectly- Tim's not a fucking amateur- and pretending to rob the precinct blind), and then break his knees.

Step 3. Profit

Tim takes out his shiny new burner phone, enjoying the loud sounds of the police squawking through his planted bugs. He lounges on the building next to it, keeping an eye out for Nightwing just in case the man decides to respond to the crisis.

[Unknown: It's RR.]

[Deathstroke: New phone?]

[RR: Who dis?]

[Deathstroke: What?]

[RR: Nevermind. I'll give you forty thousand to shoot someone's knees out.]

[Deathstroke:... That's it? Who?]

[RR: Blockbuster. Bludhaven. Extra twenty thousand if you tell him he's got the spine of a sea slug, kick him in the balls, and post it on Tweeting.]

[Deathstroke: What did he do to you? Deal.]

Tim ignored Deathstroke's question.

[RR: Half sent. Confirm?]

[Deathstroke: Confirmed. Timeline?]

[RR: Three weeks. 21 days.]

[Deathstroke: Confirmed.]

----

Tim grins ferally, all teeth as Catalina Flores looked on in horror at her computer screen.

"Get out of Bludhaven, and don't come back. If you even think of going near Nightwing, I will rip what's left of your pathetic, sniveling swine of a brother apart. You will not enjoy the consequences."

Tim clicks off, watching Catalina and her brother launch themselves into mad packing. He tapped out a short message to Amanda Waller for her and her team to intercept them at the state lines. They'll never get away from Tim's fury. Never.

[Waller: It's done.]

[Waller: I will find you.]

[RR: You can definitely try, Waller. Good doing business with you.]

Tim can see the blood vessel the woman popped after he sent that last message. He laughs.

He saves Deathstroke's video from Tweeting onto his actual, spoofed phone. He destroys the burner phone, less shiny now that he's dragged it through two and a half weeks of breaking heads and terrorizing the Bludhaven Underground. Nightwing hadn't even gotten a whiff of his activities, this Dick being far less experienced and known in this version of Blud.

One more week and Tim can continue his other projects.

----

Nightwing, going about his vigilante business: wow it sure is peaceful

Feral Tim Drake, Nightwing's scary dog privilege: try me, bitch

[babyboywilson]

veterinarian house and wilson headcanons, requested by anon! -

- they work at a large emergency clinic that has numerous specialties within the practice. wilson is a veterinary oncologist and house is an internal medicine specialist who specializes in using different diagnostics to solve complicated diseases and unique presentations of clinical signs that general practitioners can’t solve

- their departments are right next to each other in the building. they often hide in the CT room in the internal med wing watching tv on house’s phone

- wilson prefers working with dogs because they’re so expressive and loyal, and house prefers working with weird exotic animals because they’re wacky and no one else wants to go near them or treat them

- house is particularly interested in working with reptiles. he claims he’s worked with animals like crocodiles at the zoo in the past. no one believes him except wilson who knows house really did do a stint working at the central park zoo before almost getting bitten by a lion. since then house prefers working with smaller exotic species, but he’ll work with fish from local aquariums sometimes just because no one else does and he finds them fascinating

- house often has numerous residents shadowing him because he’s the only exotic vet in the state who willingly sees all animals and treats all the weird diseases. house shunts all the paperwork and phone calls to the residents while he sneaks around playing pranks on wilson

- house and wilson met at the VMX conference in orlando and somehow at the end of the conference they find themselves at epcot drinking at each of the countries until wilson gets so drunk he attempts to flirt with house but ends up tripping into a fountain, which house found hysterical. they end up working in the same clinic a few months later

- wilson ends up with numerous pet dogs from owners who relinquished their pets because they couldn’t afford chemotherapy. house makes fun of wilson almost daily for being too soft and charitable because wilson has 3- now 4- dogs that all had cancer that are now in remission because wilson treated them with his own money because he couldn’t bear to euthanize them without giving them a chance

- house owns one cat that lives in his office. the cat hates everyone and hisses/bites at anyone who tries to pet her. except for wilson. the only person who can get anywhere near the damn cat is wilson

- house pretends he doesn’t really like animals but whenever the patients are in the treatment room, house is the one secretly petting them as he gets the team to come up with differentials for the clinical signs the pet presented with. wilson absolutely has an embarrassing picture of house cuddling with a puppy that he shows everyone all the time but house can never seem to find the picture to burn it

- wilson always stays late, working on paperwork and checking in on the pets staying in the ICU. wilson is known as the vet who gets down on the ground and sits with the nervous/anxious pets until they warm up to him. the vet techs all adore wilson’s soft way with animals and how he gets on their level to reassure them that he isn’t a scary vet. he’s the most requested vet in the clinic and clients often request him for vaccine appointments or regular check-ups just because wilson is so good with dogs and cats

- house knows that wilson isn’t particularly fond of the exotic species that house often treats. so house will place said exotic animals in wilson’s office just to freak him out. birds that are loudly shrieking so wilson can’t do his paperwork or a sugar glider that keeps gliding over wilson’s head and landing in his hair. once house treats a tarantula and he leaves it in a tank on wilson’s desk. wilson doesn’t talk to house for a week after that jump scare

- house often leaves his stethoscope at random places around the clinic because he’ll just walk away when he has a revelation. wilson always keeps an eye out for it and will pick it up and bring it back to house’s office every time he sees it abandoned on one of the treatment room tables or in the ultrasound room

- bonus: cuddy is the clinical director of the clinic and she’s always chasing after house who often interferes in the surgical department or the dermatology department annoying chase and cameron just because he can. foreman swears he’s going to leave internal med and go back to neurology because the staff are nicer, but house annoys him just enough so that he stays

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Below is why I think these bots would be fun to see;

-Knockout would become a famous model and Breakdown would be his bodyguard. I just think it would be funny to see Knockout caught up in a rogue attack and go absolutely apeshit on some poor goon that accidentally stained his 5 000 dollar designer jacket. Breakdown has to pull him of the poor man like "Babe, babe, it's ok, we'll get you a new jacket. How about a nice new suit too? That sound good?" Meanwhile the goon is fucking traumatized.

-Wreck Gar sees that Gotham is covered in trash and makes it his own personal mission to collect all of it and create his own trash kingdom. Gotham's streets have never been cleaner.

-I just want to see Kup train the batfam. And act old with Alfred. Perhaps save one of the vigilantes after they get captured, using nothing but his holoform, a bottle of liquor, a stun gun and guerilla tactics.

-You look me in the eyes and tell me Tarantulas wouldn't fit right in in Gotham. His freaky ass belongs there. He would sneak into Arkham to observe the patients, just for fun. Maybe terrorize them a little. "Doctor, the spider talks to me!" "Sure pal, of course it does. Did you take your medicine today?"

-Thundercracker becomes a best selling author in Gotham by writing about his experiences in the war (everyone thinks its just a very detailed fictional world). Jason gets absolutely hooked on the series and meets him one day while Thundercracker is out walking Buster. Jason promptly nerds out.

-Just full on pandemonium with the Scavengers. Krok tries to organize them so they can find a way back home but these idiots keep going on side quests. They were supposed to steal some Wayne tech? Sorry, Misfire got caught up in a riddle contest with the Riddler and Spinister is having a BBQ with Solomon Grundy.

-Airachnid becomes a serial killer/hitman in Gotham and quickly earns a reputation as a brutal and efficient killer. Not really that funny but a lot of potential for drama. She sets her eyes on her newest hit; Bruce Wayne.

-Swindle is fucking living life in Gotham, selling repurposed cybertronian tech to rogues. Not even necessarily weapons, just random pieces of regular cybertronian tools, like bottle cap openers that get repurposed into actual weapons by the criminals. Well, now he's on the batfam's watch list and has go into hiding.

-Ok, listen, First Aid is a freak. A well meaning freak but a freak nonetheless. So when he finds a vigilante bleeding out in an alleyway, of course he's gonna help them! But not before taking a picture of their wound and sampling their blood. Not for nefarious purposes! He just thinks it's interesting. But now the batfam tries he's going to try and clone them.

-All the rogues and vigilantes of Gotham band together to stop Shockwave. He's just trying to make his way home but his experiments and casual disregard for human life makes him such a threat that even sworn enemies have to put their differences aside if they want to survive.

-Predaking befriends Cass and she doesn't tell the batfam cause this is her alien friend and they've already got their own (Batman&Superman, Nightwing&Starfire, Red Hood&Bizarro, Red Robin&Super Boy, Robin&the other Super Boy etc.). Of course Robin eventually finds out and he's so mad cause that's a robot/alien/dragon! She can't just keep him to herself! That's so selfish of her! Meanwhile, Predaking is like "Where the fuck am I?"

[redwryvernwrites]

More fun facts please? 👉🥺👈

Certainly, my good anon!

Previous fun facts: Optimus Prime | Random 1 | Random 2 | Megatron

Thrash’s favourite secret thing is that he likes romcoms. Don’t tell Robby, he’ll never hear the end of it.

Seekers are naturally curious and have an innate urge to seek out knowledge and have an ambitious drive. They’re also very creative. The City of Vos was full of artisans, writers and musicians before being taken over by the functionists. Vos produced some of the best architects in all of Cybertron.

Kilotronyx’s original designation is D13. Terminus’s designation is D14. Termagax’s was D15. Scion’s designation is AD01 because his parentage (creatorage???) is a bit weird. 

Breakdown and Knockout conjunxed on Velocitron, the Speed Planet. Their ceremony was wild, and the after party was even wilder.

There was once a vicious mercenary that called themselves the 'Lord of Requiem' who wore blue flowers around the collar of his cape and terrorised the South of Cybertron for nearly a decade before he was defeated by Megatronus Prime. One of his friends was a mech named Deadlock.

Nightshade and Hashtag like to sneak out to Tarantulas' lair and hang out with him. He's still working on his hologram tech with their help and is close to a breakthrough.

When Alex first met Megatron, he unintentionally insulted him. Alex is horrified about it to this day. Megatron however finds it hysterical.

Ratchet never believed in Megatron's heel turn and is still sceptical even now. However, he would never deny Megatron the help he needed and fought hard to keep his patient safe, even when Starscream sent assassins to kill him, even risking his life. It was this that earned Megatron's respect and began his true turn towards redeeming himself.

Twitch loves playing Elden Ring and Dark Souls games. Thrash loves Zelda games, especially Skyward Sword.

Optimus Prime once waited in the rain, disguised as a lumber truck to try and pull a prank on Megatron and get him covered in mud after the ex-warlord got himself buffed. It didn't work because Bumblebee ratted him out due to being pissed off at not being invited to a fight and Megatron promptly threw him into an oily ditch. The scuffs did not disappear until months later.

[transformers-mosaic]

Beast Wars: Second Chances - The Covers

Originally posted on February 2nd, 2011

Cover A - Daniel Olsén Covers B & C - Seb Quickstrike - Ed Pirrie Depth Charge - Loke Mei Yin Snarl vs Terrorsaur - James Ferrand Waspinator - Jeremy Tiongson Dinobot sketch - Matt Frank

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wada sez: Okay, this one was as much a surprise to me as it is to you. Prolific Mosaic contributor Mike Priest asked me if I had any plans to archive Beast Wars: Second Chances, a full-length comic he originally pitched in a similar vein to War Journal and Spotlight: Stunticons. As nearly all the writers and artists who worked on this one were also Mosaic contributors, and I’ve always felt like there weren’t enough Beast Wars strips in Mosaic, and because Mike asked nicely, I couldn’t say no! Thanks to Mike’s involvement, I’ve got the original scripts and his original story treatment, titled Beast Wars: Beyond, which you can read below—although the final story ended up wildly different, if you want to read along without any spoilers whatsoever, I’d recommend coming back to this post later! It seems that Matt Frank was originally tapped for the project, as he produced a sketch of Dinobot which you can see below, but no further contributions from him ever surfaced.

Okay, this is my initial rough pitch for the story.

Again, anything and everything here is mutable and subject to tweaking and whatever, or downright ignoring and trashing.  I won’t cry.

We start roughly a month or two Earth-time after Primal’s crew left.  The first page should explain this and whatever, and then something akin to “BUT SOMETHING STILL STIRS on this planet!”  Cut to Depthcharge dragging himself out of the surf.

(I’m trying to work AROUND the Mosaic “Eternal”, making it more retroactively tied-in.)

We establish Waspinator as leader of the proto-human tribe, out on a hunt or something with some other humans.  Perhaps some brief proto-human comedy before we hit the nitty-gritty.

We establish Depthcharge wandering around, arguing with himself, totally nuts, screaming at no one in-particular (He’s arguing with Rampage, who only responds through text boxes, so to anyone else, DC looks like a nut).

Waspinator encounters Depthcharge, is initially scared and confused, but decides, what the hey, see what’s up with fishie-bot.  Waspinator honestly is curious/wants to help.

Depthcharge, in a confused, blind rage, grabs Waspinator and viciously beats him near to death.  And not in a funny, usual-Waspinator way.  He’s pleading, BEGGING for Depthcharge to stop.  I’m talking the reader needs to actually feel really bad for Waspinator; he is an endearing character and kind of our “hero” for this story.

Only when some of Waspinator’s human tribe start hitting Depthcharge with rocks and spears does he snap out of it, and is literally horrified at what’s he done to poor Waspinator. (Rampage is in ecstasy though; this is exactly what he wants to turn Depthcharge into; a killer like Rampage himself).

Depthcharge retreats, transforms to jet mode and flies off, horrified at what he’s become.

The proto-humans can’t do anything to help the dying, whimpering Waspinator.  So they make a stretcher and begin carrying him home.

Only they don’t make it.  Something attacks and kills them; Waspinator is too weak to help them.  And it takes Waspinator’s remains.  (Hints of a giant metal spider, perhaps in this sequence)

We establish Tarantulas.  Or rather an AI program that approximates Tarantulas’ personality and goals.  It is housed in a sub-level of Tarantulas’ former lair.  He “lives” through his Steel Tech proxy body, the (black and grey Transmetal Tarantulas), but he cannot particularly control it too well/or it really is just a poor substitute for a sparked body.

Tarantulas has a blank stasis pod that was affected by the Quantum Surge.  He plugs Waspinator’s spark into it.  And Transmetal Waspinator is born.  Waspinator comes back online strapped to a table, with the Steel Tech drone working on him (And Tarantulas’ face on a computer screen, establishing that he really is housed in his lair’s “hard drive”)

Tarantulas explains that he still has to accomplish the Tripredacus Council’s goals, even after death, and Waspinator is one of his new tools.

Faux-Tarantulas ALSO reveals that he has the bodies of Scorponok and Terrorsaur (both Transmetalized), which he recovered from the lava pit.  (TM Terrorsaur’s fine, but a new design for Transmetal Scorponok is essential.  NOT the McDonald’s toy design.  Make him larger and bulkier and his third mode should have flight capability- this is important for later)  

Fitting all three with “neural implants” that ensure obedience, Tarantulas explains he will use them to breach the Ark and carry out its destruction (His Steel Tech drone isn’t dexterous or durable enough to fight through the Ark’s automated defenses).

And Waspinator is a test subject.  Tarantulas releases him from his bonds and orders him to obey.  The neural implant holds, and Tarantulas decides to send Waspinator for a test-drive.  Waspinator speeds out of the lair in his new jet mode.

As he travels over the landscape, he is watched by someone new on the ground.  We don’t find out who it is YET.  Just a close up of a wide, toothy grin and an “Interesting”.

Meanwhile Depthcharge is having a nervous breakdown.  Rampage is slowly driving him insane, and Depthcharge starts repeatedly trying to kill himself.  It is MESSED UP, including Depthcharge throwing himself on his own sword, tearing bits off, and such.  But all the damage heals.  Exhausted and pained, Depthcharge suddenly becomes aware of a visitor watching him.

Cue DINOBOT II, standing arrogantly and grinning down on Depthcharge, telling him it won’t work.

Both Depthcharge and Rampage are surprised to see him.  Rampage particularly.

Meanwhile, Waspinator’s test-drive includes going back to his proto-human village and is ordered to raze it to the ground by Tarantulas.  But Waspy surprises Tarantulas (and the audience) by fighting the neural implant and eventually succeeding in burning it out, overcoming Tarantulas’ will by plumbing that can-do never-give-up Waspinator spirit and his genuine affection for the proto-humans.   Tarantulas is surprised by this, but notes he has back-ups anyway, activating Scorponok and Terrorsaur.

Back with Depthcharge and Dinobot, who, of note, acts somewhat uncharacteristically, giving half-answers and grinning a lot.  Rampage begins to suspect something is different or wrong with Dinobot.

Meanwhile, Scorponok and Terrorsaur are both activated and forced into line by the neural implants.  Terrorsaur is still his arrogant self, but Scorponok is more quiet and almost more professional (It’ll be seen/developed that he’s a bit disillusioned that Megatron never saw fit to recover him from the lava pit).  Anyway, as neither of them have any particular strong will to oppose the neural implant, they go to carry out Tarantulas’ orders to attack the Ark.

We establish the VOK, who realize the danger to the time stream is not yet over.  The two that “killed” Tarantulas decide to intervene.  They go to where Tigerhawk died and begin pulling his shattered pieces together with their powers.  (Tigerhawk would be dead, just a zombie shell animated by these Vok and while his body is whole, it is in horrendous shape, missing an optic, generally looking like a terrifying zombie).

Meanwhile Waspinator is speeding along, knowing somehow he has to go back and stop Tarantulas, when he sees Scorponok and Terrorsaur in their new Transmetal vehicle modes, headed in the Ark’s direction, along with Tarantulas‘ Steel Tech proxy body.  Waspinator isn’t particularly positive he can take both of them, even with his new body, so he decides to go look for “crazy fishie-bot” and hopes Depthcharge is somewhat more lucid now.

Back with Depthcharge and Dinobot, Rampage suddenly senses a familiarity between his own spark and Dinobot and realizes Dinobot’s shell is now possessed by STARSCREAM!

Guilty as charged, Dino-Scream shrugs.  He’s been stuck in this time zone for a while and returned to the planet, but everyone’s left now.  So he looked for the Nemesis (Hoping to find something there he can possess without damaging history) and found Dinobot II’s ravaged, sparkless shell.  Possessing that and healing its injuries, Starscream set out for the Ark next.

Before anything can be done, Waspinator finds them, telling them (as best as he can) about Tarantulas’ plan to destroy the Ark and what not.

Depthcharge and Starscream don’t want to be erased from history, so they agree to help (Rampage even finds it interesting).

Faux-Tarantulas, Scorponok and Terrorsaur arrive at the Ark, and the latter two fight their way through Teletraan-1’s automated defenses (which come out of “sleep mode”).  Faux-Tarantulas hangs back.

But by the time they make it through, Waspinator, Dino-Scream, and Depthcharge/Rampage arrive.

We have a three-on-three battle.  Scorponok fights Depthcharge/Rampage (Scorpy’s new Transmetal body is bigger than his old one and almost a match for Depthcharge, even with the new ferocity that Rampage’s presence in his mind gives him).  Scorponok angsts over his abandonment by Megatron while they fight.  Terrorsaur fights the groundbound Starscream/Dinobot II (Starscream grumbles that this body sucks cuz it can’t fly) and manages to actually hold it off, as Starscream is unaccustomed to fighting like this.

Waspinator faces off against the Steel Tech Drone, and despite some initial trepidation, realizes he’s far more powerful now than any drone and takes the faux-Tarantulas down easily once his confidence is up.

Meanwhile, the zombie Vok-possessed Tigerhawk arrives at Tarantulas’s lair, runs roughshod over the meager defenses, and destroys the Tarantulas’ hard drive/AI for good.

This causes the neural implants in Scorponok and Terrorsaur to fail, and they stop fighting now that they are no longer under Tarantulas’ will.

Confused at what is going on, everyone leaves the Ark.  The Vok-possessed zombie Tigerhawk arrives.

First order of business is noticing Dinobot II.  The Vok declare (The Transmetal II clone body) an “abomination” and perversion of their technology. (Starscream’s like “Whoa, wait a minute!”)

The Vok incinerate Dinobot II’s shell in a blast of lightning from Tigerhawk.  We don’t see what happens to Starscream’s spark.

The Vok explain that the constant interference with the timeline has TO STOP, and tells everyone to get the hell off the planet.

Of course, everyone is like “uh, HOW?”

The Vok tells everyone to go into Earth orbit.  They will self-destruct Tigerhawk’s remains, with the release of alien energies ripping a Transwarp wormhole that’ll send everyone back to the right era.

Everyone of course is like “But…how do we get home from the middle of space?”

And the Vok of course are like “We don’t care, you’re going back to your rightful place in history or we’ll just kill you here and dump you there”

So everyone engages flight modes and follows Zombie-Tigerhawk up into space.  They stand back and the Vok do as they promised, detonating Tigerhawk’s shell and making a wormhole.  Everyone flies through in a flash, the Vok take their leave with some end dialogue about cleaning up some more small glitches or whatever.

Everyone arrives in the middle of space, nowheresville.  Depthcharge isn’t hanging with these “Preds” anymore and “Besides, I’ve got enough company as it is”.  He flies off into the nothingness of space, deciding to either find a way to deal with living with Rampage…or destroying them both.

Waspinator and Scorponok get into an argument about which direction Cybertron is, which ends in Waspinator engaging his jet mode and flying off alone.  Scorponok sighs and goes in the opposite direction, asking if Terrorsaur is coming.

Terrorsaur (who hasn’t said a word since they left Earth) just widely grins and unseen to Scorponok, we see the ghost of Starscream possessing Terrorsaur’s frame.  “Sure thing, pal.”  He follows Scorponok.

END.

Notes-

*Inferno and Quickstrike…well, seeing as Quickstrike’s head was hollowed out and made into a mask, I think they’re a little harder to swallow as still alive.

*I kinda tried to do the exact opposite of what the Botcon comics did…bring Tigerhawk back (albeit a Vok-possessed zombie) instead of Tigatron and Airazor.

*When the zombie Tigerhawk destroys the Tarantulas AI core, depending on preference, we can have him say “You last bit of Unicron” or some such, depending if everyone agrees on Tarantulas’s origins.

*I have Starscream possessing Dinobot’s shell and later Terrorsaur, trying to avoid the clichéd possessing of Transmetal Waspinator.

[spidey-bie]

I just thought about one of the arachkids playing Ice Ice Baby in front in Ansi and she's immediately like wtf is this? She thought it might've been a remix of Under Pressure playing but upon hearing the lyrics she immediately smacks the phone out of whoever was playing the song and forces them to listen to Queen for the rest of the day.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Welcome to Spider Society!

*A wild Disco-Spider has crossed your path!*

She’s here to welcome you - Will you accept?

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Made in response to @brown-spider prompt 💕💜💙 shout-out to @spidey-bie’s Tech Tarantula as well!

Diane Pastors is Disco-Spider - a web-slinging, roller-skating, bass-playing, disco-diva! She catches you hanging around campus and is here to give your Spidersona a warm welcome!

Do you have a spidersona? Drop their info in my askbox! I’m neurodivergent and dying to hear (seriously!). Consider this a welcome to HQ! Pretend we’re all on campus and Diane is here to show you the ropes, dish the latest gossip, or whatever you want! As a member of the Welcome Committee and writer of the Society’s ‘Canon Event Advice Column’, her ears are open!

Plus she’s and Ansi are always recruiting for the Hobie Brown FanClub! For Spider-people who are not normal about Spider-punk. Wanna join?

I want to meet all the Spider-people, y’all I crave it! You all are so cool and creative lemme hear please!!! And make sure to check out all the other cool new recruits here!

[techtainia-makes-things]

I don’t even have the game yet, but I already love her. Genuinely a really interesting take on Persephone, and honestly the most stand out design for her. Props to the designer.

Also, I know that the vest probably would have shoulder straps. I have elected not to care because I’m very gay, and you don’t ever really see them anyway.

[churino]

Design for nightstick (g1 cyclonus' targetmaster real name terry masterson)

Headmaster's underappreciated cousin, terry got the short end of the stick genetically, and got bad eyesight, bad posture and ages really poorly but he's a complete genius when it comes to alien tech even accessing the extranet using earth tech and making a friend.

Terry masterson is the son of a previous relationship mega (of overlord fame) had with a full human before she met giga and is seen as something of a brown spot in his parent's history, inexperienced with raising children at the time, mega was unable to raise him properly even though she always wanted kids. So in addition to terry's own health issues he developed an inferiority complex and loose morals, which led him to fall in with his criminal uncle for support and cut his mother out of his life,

Under lord Zarak's roof he continued being neglected in favor of Zarak's own son henry until Henry's untimely death. Then the attention started going towards his step sister, making her sever whatever care she had for him before and leaving Terry to work on his projects alone in the dark, eventually he created a signal booster that gave him access to the greater internet-esque superstructure outside of earth that he called the extranet, using it to learn more about alien technology and communicate with other users, he eventually made a friend in the decepticon catfish cyberwarp, never one of her targets, just coincidentally frequenting the same online spaces she did outside of work the two became each other's closest friends (and maybe more) out of shared interests

With the information terry uncovered within the extranet he began developing weapons that greatly overpowered anything on earth, his most notable creation and the source of his nickname the nightstick was a gun that can snuff out light and radiation, mostly harmless for humans but deadly against transformers as their sparks are made out of light and radiation.

The nightstick can be inserted into a larger superstructure called the nebulon that not only empowers it's beam but also stores the stolen light and radiation within itself, functionally it is a crude spark extractor, and it's use in warfare for the transformers elicits the same reaction mustard gas would to a human which earns him if not direct enemies at least fear and distrust within the sixclan but unbeknownst to him Tarantulas, Ida, and Navi-ko have a certain fondness for him but because of their secretive ways he never benefits from it,

Terry has become a very depressive person, with cyberwarp and a few other online friends inadvertently being the only things keeping him in the path of vilany as his signal booster does take more energy than available on the electric grid, making him dependent on the six clan to be able to talk to his friends. If the autobots could provide him with enough power for his signal booster he'd hop ship immediately. As he doesn't really buy the six clan's mission or decepticon ideology, he just wants to survive

[elfdragon12]

Okay, so, like, it's common for fandom to squish complex/nuanced characters into flat molds, but it is so strange when professional writers are also guilty of doing the same thing.

Beast Wars, oh my wonderful Beast Wars, is such a perfect example of this within the Transformers franchise.

The number one reason no one has been able to replicate Dinobot's masterful character arc is that his well-written indepth character whose writing is inspired from multiple sources (Shakespeare is the obvious, but I feel there's some Tolkien and Norse mythology in there too) gets squashed down to an idealized version of that one fight he had with Optimus on the land bridge in episode 2/the moment just before he jumps into the canyon in "Code of Hero" or, I believe as is the case in IDW1, The Argumentative One™️. It's such a disservice to him and his fans! (The second reason is time, as seen in the WFC trilogy.)

For some reason, people just kinda frame Megatron as a silly fanboy, which diminishes how threatening he could be. The character, though caught up in sillier shenanigans due to being in a kids' show, is shown to be quite intelligent and incredibly watchful in how his more treacherous subordinates behave. He was constantly wary of Tarantulas, had very little patience for Blackarachnia, was content to leave Terrorsaur's poor leadership speak for itself, and Waspinator was too cowardly to ever challenge him. He got rid of Dinobot immediately when he challenged leadership. He also knew exactly how to change Ravage's mind on killing him. Also, his actual feelings about his namesake and their predecessors was more complex than that of a simple fanboy and copycat.

Optimus Primal with no sense of humor and being super serious started as early as Beast Machines (who knows what the 2021 comic was trying to go for by making him an immature gym bro). Primal having an inflexible personality ruins the team dynamic. The team is utterly miserable and have no camaraderie in Beast Machines. The team is nigh incompetent in the 2021 comic. Most other versions just make him a paler Optimus Prime whereas the original Primal is completely distinct from Prime.

Rhinox had a temper! He wasn't just some quiet and vaguely supportive presence lingering by Primal's side! He tossed multiple characters around and freely used his chain guns to shoot Waspinator to bits. The whole point of the episode where Megatron turns him into a Predacon is that being a chill dude who likes to smell flowers is an active choice. He's also not just The Tech Guy, but he is also the greatest believer in the spiritual amongst the group, reaching out to two different characters in the story through the "spirit" and is, I think, the first on air mention of an Allspark. But he just gets written as passive.

Rattrap is a SUPERB character with lots of nuance and is quite truly underrated! He's the MVP and Primal's second in command! He's not perfect as a commander, but he refuses to fall apart. He's incredibly loyal and has a strong sense of justice! Not to mention that he is very physically demonstrative when it comes to affection, kissing other characters at least 3 different times on screen... And he just gets written as a Dirty Rat Man (derogatory).

It's just so frustrating that Beast Wars has such great character writing that other writers who are supposed to be professionals don't handle them with any regard!

[starlightmoon96]

Yandere Earthspark Tarantulas x human female (aromantic) reader pt.1

I haven't really seen any Tarantulas yandere stories, even on tumblr I really only saw one post and I thought why now and write my own story series.

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Reader (which is you) is a conservative with a high intelligence in computers and a strong love for sifi anime even at thee age of 26, along with being aromantic. Which means no desire or having the emotion for romantic love, you disowned yourself from your parents after they tried to force you to marry not long after you turned graduated college with honors when you turned 20. Your parents wanted grandchildren and you don't like children and thought they where a waste of your anime money, they also didn't want to accept that you where aromantic. They where toxic people and you never really liked them even when you where a kid, the reason why the wanted you to marry was wasn't because they wanted to be grandparents but really they wanted a male heir for your father's company and more money in there accounts. Your refused to marry some business partners son despite his handsome looks and told your parents that they no longer had a daughter and left the town you grew up in.

You didn't need romance in your life as long as you get your close friends......and anime, along with having a very well paying job so you could afford more anime stuff and anime conventions that made your heart flutter.

Disowning yourself from you toxic parents was thee best thing in your life, your luck had changed for the better. Managing to find a very well paying job at a tech company and worked your way up with the management position with your side gig of building custom gaming computers and your client list was a decent amount.

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Being successful wasn't what you'd picture yourself in your late twenties, it had took you a bit in adjusting into your new life as a elite people. Despite your high pay you didn't really like normal things, though you did by a really nice and expensive condo with a view of the city and a really nice large balcony. You had your close friend circle that you choose as your own family so you didn't feel so lonely without company, now you want to know how Tarantulas came into your life?

Not long after your 26th birthday you decided to go hiking in enjoying the fresh air, you had accidentally stumbled upon him when you had lost your footing and fell down the trail and ended up at his hide out. You freaked out seeing him at first because well...hey he's a giant spider bot that would freak out a lot of people at first especially if you have a fear of spiders, since you had high intelligence you couldn't help but admire Tarantulas's make shift lab that he had.

It didn't take long for Tarantulas to warm up to you, he enjoyed your company. He liked that you where conservative and more so that you had a great knowledge of computers and that you where well educated. You consider a genuine friendship with Tarantulas the more you know had spent some time together whenever you had free time from work or your friend circle, however you didn't notice some red flags at first because you where aromantic. He seemed to enjoy your company a little too much after the two of you had formed your friendship just after three months, you wanted in introduce him to your friend circle since they where conservative as well but he refused and figured since he was still in hiding. When really he wanted you for himself

Being a scientist Tarantulas didn't understand thee emotion of love as much as he should since it didn't really apply to him and his nature, however the more time Tarantulas spent with you the more those new feelings grew. He wanted to know more about you and your life, to have a better understanding of you, he had been on earth long enough in understanding some of human customs but didn't really intact with humans until he met you.

"(Y/N) I'm curious you haven't once mentioned your family? Is there a reason?" You weren't the conformable with that question but since your friend circle already knew you thought it wouldn't hurt to tell Tarantulas since he was now your friend

" Well everyone in my friend circle knows guess you can too?" You continued speaking as you sat down on a large boulder since the two of you where outside in the woods, not that far from Tarantulas's hide out. You had planted your own privet secrete garden, as a type of other hobby.

"My parents are horrible/toxic people. Filled with there own greed, they never paid much attention to me when I was a child. But they kept up with thee appearance as good parents out in public, I was a very well behaved child with outstanding grades and a IQ that made me skip two grades. I had a strong lone with computers and got a college scholarship before I graduated High School." Before you continued Tarantulas questioned

"Did something happen to you?" You nod your head yes as you continued

"After I turned 20 and graduated college with honors by parents forced me to marry one of there business partner's son's, they didn't care about what I thought and assumed that I would go along with it."

"You didn't, did you? You left." You couldn't help but smile at his words and still spoke answering his question

"Yay, I did. I have no regrets. I disowned myself from my biological family the day they told me about the arranged marriage, I didn't want anyone controlling my life. It was hard at first but I build a fantastic life for myself, I haven't seen or spoken to my parents in five years. Don't know what there up too and I don't care. I didn't want to live in darkness, I wanted to be in my own light and now I have that."

Tarantulas couldn't believe of what he had heard, hearing of human crudity made him angry. How someone could just give away there child for there own selfish gain, he didn't think you had such a horrible life. He was happy that you had solved your own problem and what you had to do in order for your freedom. It also got him in asking another question that surprised even him

"What about your love life?" Even you where surprised by that question that made you look at him with a puzzled look on your face when you jumped off the bolder and stood in front of your garden, though you calmed down and didn't mind telling your option about the guys that had asked you out in the past

" Honestly I never had a love life I didn't need a man to be happy, all the guys that have asked me out where total losers." As you kept talking you didn't look at Tarantulas as you crouched down picking some of the weeds out of her garden

"Most where so full of themselves, especially that guy my parents tried to force me to marry. I could tell he only cared and loved himself. Just thinking about him makes my stomach turn." The next words you said, you really shouldn't have spoke as you picked a small waxflower bundle

"Then there's you by comparison Tarantulas, I've noticed you appreciate even the smallest flowers. Or just talking here, you actually listen. I feel like you know me in a way THEY never would." While talking you looked back at him still holding the smile with a calm and welcoming smile on your face

"And why I value our friendship."

At that moment Tarantulas realized that he was in love, he understood that you where a completely difference species. He didn't want to cross that line, especially to an organic. He was smart enough to know that nothing good would come to him in loving a human, though he didn't care. He had been alone for so long and to having like you in his life was a gift, in his darkness you where the light he didn't realize that he had been looking for and had no means in letting go.