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Megatron and Dinobot sharing a kiss

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Transmetal 2 Megatron :3

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All megatrons ever do is fumble bad bitches

Probably never gonna finish this. Context is that thats my transformer oc Framerate and also I am madly in love with dinobot

If I found out Megatron just let dinobot go like that I’d be on the news

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and this

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Temperatures have been rising, and the pond has been extra busy. Here is a little compilation of recent visitors. Keeping the lens clean and the water level high is my hourly break from the desk.

You see Grackles, RWBB, Starlings, Orioles, Robins, a Bluebird, Cedar Waxwings and a MoDo. There are more visiting, you can always check in on the pond livestream on my Youtube channel.

(Music is: "Exciting but somehow goofy BGM(1468967".)

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St. Charles Pride was today and I brought my chalk after getting to show my niblings around their first pride. It was hot and I only had, like, two hours, so I did another Optimus Pride. I couldn’t drive my car up to it this time so I did the best I could with the pictures because he once again got very large. Happy Pride everyone! Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

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doop things that would probably never see the light of day. Had I not posted this

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After a small series of very minor health issues (I'm fine, don't worry, just stuff like colds) I'm finally back to working on the art for my Beast Machines visual novel! Rattrap's Transmetal sprites are all done, so I've started on Rhinox. He has far fewer sprites needed for this section of the game, so I plan to have all of his done by the end of the weekend. I'll probably work on Cheetor, Blackarachnia, or Silverbolt next because I absolutely am not avoiding Optimal Optimus, dunno why you'd even think that hahaha!

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First of all I definitely have to thank @elfdragon12 for selling me on the G1 humans and the potential they have for good storytelling!

So here are Spartacus 'Spike' Witwicki, Carlita 'Carly' Castellano and Charles 'Chip' Chase as they appear in TTB! Spike mainly works off-base with his father Stanislaw 'Sparkplug' Witwicki as mechanics on Autobot missions, while Carly and Chip are mainly on-base working in R&D and tech respectively. Witwicky is a name that exists IRL, and it's specifically an Americanised version of Witwicki, which is Polish, so Spike is a second-generation immigrant to the US with Polish---specifically as a member of the Lipka Tatar minority---ties through Stanislaw, and Turkish ties through his mother. Lipka Tatars are predominantly also Muslims who usually keep to a Polish naming convention/don't usually sport Arabic names, so Spike here also joins the the rising ranks of Muslims on the Autobot side!

Mexican-Italian Carly is a bottle blond who goes back to her original brown tresses near the end of the war. She runs on coffee and Monster Energy, and is what one might call a Type A personality. And for good reason—she’s a scholarship kid from an impoverished barrio, the first to ever get into MIT, and she’s determined to make a name for herself to bring back support and funding for her community so other kids like her have that opportunity too. She was a student in Dr. Harding’s lecture classes, and interned under Harding before graduation—the two still keep in contact with each other across the Atlantic. And Chip. We gotta talk about Chip (and the other two) under the cut.

Chip got the bad end of the deal here and his background is as messed up as his general health is on any given day. Energon hotspots exist in TTB and they’re still being studied and often irradiate local wildlife and extremely unlucky scientists conducting field research; one of them was Chip’s mother, while she was very early into her pregnancy (she believed she was properly kitted out, but this hotspot was more potent than the others).

He grew up sickly, but still relatively active and as Spike’s childhood friend, would still be able to play football with Spike. Spike and Chip’s relationship was extremely tight when they were children (Spike protected Chip from bullies and played with him since other boys avoided involving him in their games as he had problems keeping up due to his health issues, while Chip would help Spike with schoolwork and stood up for him if someone decided it’s pick-on-the-immigrant-kid day). It was to the point that, when Sparkplug was imprisoned for a short stint after being charged with inciting a riot (he was spearheading a workers' protest), Chip's residence was a second home to Spike, while his mother picked up extra shifts to make ends meet. However, when Chip was around 10, the radiation flared up/became aggressive in both him and his mother, and while his mother's condition deteriorated faster than his, it still wreaked havoc on his body and caused paraplegia through spinal metastasis. When his mother died, he had no blood family willing to take him in (as a child born out of wedlock who was piling up medical bills and was not expected to see his 18th birthday). The Witwickis, who saw him as family now, wanted to adopt him but could not pay for the care he needed as lower class blue collar immigrants.... at which point Zeta Prime stepped in as a benefactor who wanted to sponsor the child prodigy. This however, meant Chip had to be moved to New York, ostensibly for better treatment, and he and Spike last saw each other as children when they were 12.

They’d promise to write to each other, but Spike never received anything from Chip no matter how many letters he sent (Zeta had been intercepting them since he wanted Chip to be fully dependent on him/cut all ties to his past, and to focus on his tutelage under Dr Alcazar) The two reunited as adults when Spike and Sparkplug were enlisted as part of the team working on a top secret government project (Metroplex) on which Chip was the lead programmer and Carly was head of the R&D division. Chip however, started having doubts about Zeta Prime's motives for Metroplex's creation, and feeling both helpless and terrified for what he'd gotten himself into, confided his concerns to Spike that what they were building was not a space research titan, but a weapon and the US' largest mobile base capable of levelling small countries--which is exactly what Zeta plans to do with it. Carly eavesdrops, and is drawn into the situation.

All three of them struggled with breaking off their relationship with Zeta Prime, whose project brought the, together:

Chip knows that going against Zeta means he likely loses all access to the medical aid and experimental treatments keeping him alive. (He is lucky that he kept notes and an extensive medical record of himself, and that them fleeing across the Atlantic brought them right to Ratchet and Co.),

Spike knows going against Zeta means burning the olive branch of government acceptance Zeta held out to his father and their diaspora after their lifelong struggle to get the same compensation for their work as native-born workers, and better/safer projects.,

Carly knows going against Zeta means a stain on her record as a ‘model minority’ , and it will destroy Zeta’s promise of a scholarship fund for her community as well as government goodwill for them.

All three decide that they have to take a stand against him regardless, and they managed to sabotage Zeta’s control over Metroplex and allowed Metro to escape into the Pacific. Fleeing Zeta’s wrath across the Atlantic put them on the collision course with the Autobots via an SOS signal from Prowl which Chip decoded and answered, and this set have been stalwart allies since Chip still has a close relationship with Prowl here over many similar aspects of their life, quiet companionship and a love for strategy games. He is also rebuilding the relationship he had with Spike and Sparkplug, and Spike and Chip see each other more as brothers than friends these days.

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Transmetal 1 Megatron :3

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🏳️‍🌈✨FREEDOM IS THE RIGHT OF ALL SENTIENT BEINGS✨🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride Month!!! This year’s monthly MegOp doodle turned into a full blown piece! Been having fun trying out a different rendering style! I may try making this into some prints so be on the look out 👀

Textless version below the cut vvv

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My fav shakespearean chicken

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Elita and her girls

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Hey folks, if you want to fight back against the twitterfication of tumblr USE IT LIKE IT'S TUMBLR!!!!!! REBLOG THINGS!!!!!! USE THE TAGS TO SCREAM AT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

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Cr: OpviElm

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Doop version

Jazzprowl version

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Come snag these limited MegOp Pride prints while you can! The submission form is linked below vvv

Prints are available until the 30th of June! Prints are planned to ship out on the 1st of July!

This is a bit of a new venture for me as this is the first time I’m making and shipping prints myself (which will hopefully be higher quality than RedBubble lol)! So please bare with me in case there are any hiccups along the way!