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There are many species of Soundwave that have a big range of sizes of their ear finial things… from big ol’ hunkin thangs to. Bald. Or maybe it’s like birds where they have ears holes but the feathers cover them n all that. ES’s ears broke thru the box that I’ve contained him in as you can see btw. They’re just too big 💔

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grey wagtail

character from The Wildercourt, the graphic novel I'm very slowly but very persistently working on

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otw to save metroplex from exploding for the fifth time that week

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This is without a doubt her favorite time of year

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subways of your mind

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How's it feel knows jazz is literally the smallest of the music poly? (｀；ω；´)

not all the time >:)

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camera 🐶☀️ art 🥀🚬

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Curious, what's your thoughts on IDW1 Prowl?

My thoughts on IDW!1 Prowl as a character completely separated from whatever goes in the fandom is that he is fascinating and bring a lot to the story.

He is very flexible in that you can make him do virtually anything as long as you manage to justify it by his neuroses so he's always tethering the line between being a support or an antagonist. Also, you can really tell from the comics that Barber was having a lot of fun writing him being an asshole, which is always a bonus. It's interesting how narratively he occupies a similar role to Starscream despite being in opposition. Starscream is also an asshole that Barber loves writing that causes a lot of problem for the main heroes but can also be allied with them.

I also think that is fucking hilarious how Costa completely retconned his original personality, wrote a mediocre comic to justify that, then Barber came and used the weird tension with Spike to justify going back to something more like how he was at the start of IDW1, and then Roche came and was like "actually Prowl gets crisis of conscience and tries to change his ways only to backtrack and go back to the horrendous ethics violations all the time, it's just a thing with him". I love it.

As funny as it is, it actually makes sense. Prowl doesn't actually like what he does, he just sees himself and the only one willing to make the hard choices because he's so up in his head he doesn't trust anyone else's input. So even when he tries to change, he ultimately fails because refuses to see outside himself or accept that he is as petty and emotional as the people around him.

But as interesting as he is, I think I'm more invested in the relationships he has with other people and what it says about them. Like, everything with Tarantulas is so fucking juicy and his relationship with Optimus, my beloved, is fascinating because I'm convinced neither ever genuinely liked the other.

Of course, the most important thing is that he was dismissive of my precious most beloved babygirl Arcee and made her feel bad when they could have been besties, and for that, I wil never forgive him.

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Whirlybird

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I love you Acele: the organized crime refugee, survivor of violence, always on party drugs, the teenage girl hanging out with adult men because there's no better option, who makes weird conceptual sound art even after her boyfriend sells most of her equipment, who gets screamed at by a cop and decides to give him therapy, who somehow still thinks people are sweet.

I love you Cindy: the homeless artist squatting in the coalroom, who does massive street art challenging the occupation, belongs to a famously violent gang but likes people too much to go around stabbing most of them, and terrorizes the rich lady into leaving her block.

I love you Soona: the antisocial programmer, who loses her job and her dream and dedicates herself to finding out why, worries about the unemployed writers, moves her professional-grade computer into a busted-up old church to run science experiments, who lets the homeless ravers move into the church with her so she can use their sound equipment, who makes the ravers listen to her thoughts about elves.

I love you Billie: the working-class woman with an alcoholic husband, who shrugs off intrusive questions and accepts a hug for the sake of the working class, who tells the weird intrusive cop that he isn't a fuckupatoo after all, who sewed a blue lining into her husband's ratty old jacket to keep him warm.

I love you Lilienne: the single mom who survives selling fish to rich people she'll never see, who carries a sword around, who sees a cop that reminds her of her dead alcoholic husband and takes the time to be kind to him when she doesn't have to be.

I love you Isobel: the old washerwoman who has stayed when all her children and neighbors have left, who takes in the drifters and strays who pass through the village, who won't give them up to the cops even when they find a bullet in her spare room, who calls the cop a dark omen but also lets him stay for free.

I love you Elizabeth: the local girl who went off the law school and came back a firebreathing socialist, who can stop the head of the local gang in his tracks just by saying his name, who never concedes an inch to the cops, who will try to reason with armed mercenaries and put her life on the line to protect her people. Who will run the union one day if she lives.

I love you Neha: the dicemaker who bounced back from the death of her first dream, who makes dice into art objects (the cursed die!!!), who remembers all the failed businesses and weirdos, who knows how precarious the world can be, but moved into the most cursed building in Martenaise and made a corner of it into somewhere cozy, sunlight, and safe.

I love you women of Martenaise: you live in the ruins, one of the worst neighborhoods in an occupied city, the beachhead that no one ever bothered to rebuild. You live in grinding poverty, where every government and school of thought has failed even more than they have in the rest of the city. You refuse to let Harry intimidate you, but (some of) you help him anyway—not because he's a cop, but because he's a man who has hit rock bottom, and you all know what that's like. Some of you fight for causes and some of you make art and some of you care for your families, and all of you give what little you can spare to make your community just a little bit better.

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holoforms, starbee edition

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tired: making 'haha mpreg' jokes about the Weird Pregnancy Stuff in mtmte/idw, betraying the fact you think 'robots undergoing objectively insane levels of Weird Pregnancy Body Horror Metaphor despite being literally inorganic' is less worthy of mention than 'and some of them use he/him! freak shit!'

wired: hey so when are we gonna use the existence of functionism as a metaphor for labour and class to discuss that rung being literally built to Make People in a way that the comic presents as frightening and confusing is a way to talk about how we can bring the concept of reproductive labour into the fold eh

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Soundwave: superior

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december: finish nona january-april: very intentionally Not think about it lest I break irreparably forever now: being soooo brave about it

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is it normal for a plane stewardess to wish everyone a “safe, sane, and comfortable flight” or have I just been living under a rock

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201 souls worth of survivor’s guilt