#Matrix Post

[zeruuparasite]

{ here’s a failed Siffrin doodle (I messed up his blinding hat.. }

{ here’s a doodle of a Siffrin hat design idea we had because . Yeah, stars.. we like stars }

{ -Matrix / Cyberfrin (it/byte/he) }

[dotty-literati]

"Dodge this."

[ugly-bug-starscream]

the miners visiting skyfire's home to hopefully convince him to join them on their quest

(TFONE AU - Sky loving the Stars)

[coffee-and-cake]

Just imagining Megatron pinning Optimus down punching him in chest repeatedly trying to break the glass. There are tears in his eyes as another punch finally cracks it.

“Give him back,” Megatron cries out in anger.

Optimus doesn’t move to stop him only looking up at his old friend with concern and pity. Megatron bangs both his servos on top of the cracking glass and lets out a broken cry.

“Give me Orion back, give him back.”

Optimus knows he should throw Megatron off but he can’t bring himself to stop him. He wants to reach out, hold him, and reassure him that he never left but…

The punches turn in desperate clawing as Megatron tries to force Optimus’s plating off. Trying to get to the Matrix of leadership nestled inside.

“Once I rip this damn thing out I can finally see you again,” Megatron rambled.

Optimus didn’t respond he knew what would happen if he spoke. Megatron would scream at him to shut up. Go on about how he didn’t want him using Orion’s voice. So he just let Megatron continue to bang at the glass.

[bugeyedfreaks]

[keferon]

On my way of tracing every tiniest appearance of Senator Shockwave👍

Which…there wasn’t a lot. But there was more than I remembered and expected

[iamthetruestrepairman]

I love you stories driven by fear for change. Stories where someone doesn’t want to take that leap, can’t take that chance. Stories where the risk is just too high, and you suffer for it. Stories where there was a person you were supposed to be, but you never gave yourself the chance. Stories where you know there’s something wrong with the way you’re living, but admitting that would mean you had to do something about it. Characters who lose your shot because you never let yourself take it, you’ll always be my favourite

[yippee-optimistically]

ok i havent watched the next episode yet but these doodles from the season premiere have been sitting around for like a week so. BLAM

[tracklessreason]

Hi. It's me again.

WHERE THE FRICK IS BUMBLEBEE?! Sorry, let me calm down and retry.

Thank you for answering my last ask, I can't help but notice how no one knows where Bee's ghost is. And Megatron is the one looking into the Matrix... Is he haunting Megatron? Trying to stop him from doing it? Helping him?

Is Optimus's ghost following Ratchet around like a sad puppy?

Also just the pairings- Jazz with Megatronus? THat sounds... like fun.

Do the primes miss the other Primes and ask their host if they can check on the other bots that got shrapeneled? Maybe one of them asks if they can find a way to talk with the others... or maybe they can talk trough the hosts... maybe... (ah ah possessed arc)

(PS I really vibe with Hive's whole deal, he is very cool :D and I'm devastated that I'm the one that discovered how he explodes)

Hug hug!

Hi again!!! Don't worry, Bee is still here!

His spirit is just...struggling. He's weak at first, flickering like a dying light bulb. He hasn't left the fractured core of the Matrix still in his corpse, but his soul signature is so weak no one can find him. He's just sort of trapped there for a while, in the burnt out room he died in. Until Megatron of course.

Megatron breaks into the autobot base, walks past every sleeping mech he could easily have snuffed, and steals the Matrix core, and by unintentional extension, steals Bumblebee. Now at first, Bee is rightfully upset. He hates being at the gloomy decepticon base, he hates Megatron for taking his voice, he's just mad. Time passes as Megatron tinkers with the core, and Bee regains strength enough to....throw things???

It shouldn't be possible. Somehow this unstable remnant of the Matrix doesn't contain him, but merely houses him, and as he grows stronger, he can appear as an apparition to Megatron. He uses it almost solely to hinder him. With no voice (even ghost Bee gets no respite) all he can really do is mess up Megatron's workspace and insult him through pantomime. Really he doesn't understand why Megatron puts up with it, but aside from the occasional fit of rage at his antics, the decepticon leader ignores him as much as possible and puts his all into trying to restore the Matrix.

Before long he starts having one sided conversations with Bumblebee. Its mostly complaints at first, and insults towards him and the autobots and whatever else goes wrong in his life outside of this little workshop Bee cant leave. It soon gives way to more private matters; intentionally or not, Megatron is revealing his very convoluted, very mixed feelings about Optimus Prime.

The war has gone on too long, why couldn't that idiot just see things from his perspective, he deserved to die, he will be brought back, how could his oldest friend just leave him like this...

To Bee it sounds...exactly like how Optimus felt about Megatron, just drowned in molten anger issues. Against his self preservation instinct, Bee decides to work towards putting this whole mess to bed. Nothing better to do.

With what limited knowledge and communication he has, he does his best to try and help Megatron fix the Matrix. They have spats still, and plenty of set backs, but things smooth over when Megatron (begrudgingly) admits to feelings of regret over taking Bee's voice. As an olive branch, Bee explains something to Megatron that he's been dying to know: how Optimus died.

Things sour fast. Megatron is determined to murder Starscream, Bee is frustratedly trying to explain that if he does so, this little partnership of convenience is over, and he will ensure that the Matrix is never restored. The end of the war relies almost solely on Megatron reeling in his damn anger, and Bee doesnt intend to allow any slip ups. He has no idea how this will end when Megatron leaves the workshop that night.

On the other side of things, the Primes are having a real...weird time?? The ones without hosts can communicate with each other, but the other four are basically cut off from all but their hosts. They don't have the ability to take control anymore, and even if they did, their hosts are nowhere near as easy to possess, nor as willing, as Hive Prime was. Ratchet especially has threatened to tear the Matrix metal from his frame and grind it to dust if Prima so much as thinks about trying it. The other three hosts are similarly put off.

Once again the Primes are relegated to giving advice, but it's not advice anyone seems to want, and yeah, it's mostly because of the wild pairings. Megatronus is constantly clutching his pearls over Jazz's laid-back attitude and deliberate ignorance of his wishes. Prima's calm rationality does little to temper Ratchet's snappy demeanor and only really gets on his nerves (how can you be so calm after what you all did?). Ironhide straight up refuses to acknowledge Quintus. Drift is probably the only one feeling alright with all this. Alpha Trion is generally reasonable, and isn't interested in having control over Drift's form, nor was he interested in it with Hive, so they just vibe like college roommates.

It's uncomfortable, but the Primes are used to sharing space. The worst part is actually sharing it with fewer mechs than usual. The Primes all miss each other to varying degrees, but for the most part are either too egotistical to admit it, or think it improper to mention.

Of course, grand prize for worst ghost time currently goes to Optimus. Dying, watching Bee suffer, feeling his friend's life force extinguish...

He might as well be a husk right now, full on silent treatment is all he's capable of at the moment. The other Primes know better than to try and speak with him. This is their doing to begin with, the channeling of their energy that strained Bee so heavily. Optimus follows the elected council around during the days, but at night he sits outside the room where Hive's body rests. He was there the night that Megatron broke in.

It takes immense effort to travel far enough out from the base to go see Megatron, and he needs several cycles to recover after every attempt, but he keeps doing it, knowing he could fade away permanently. When he gets there, he's too weak for Bee or Megatron to detect him. But he can hear their talks. He misses them both more than words can say.

(Sorry the response is so long, lol. This ask really got the gears turning in my head. I hope at least that makes up for being the one to find out that Ending 3 Hive dies bloody. I'm really flattered to hear you like him! For me that's quite high praise coming from you. Hug hug!)

[iridescent-serpent]

Been in a bayverse mood lately (if yall couldn’t Tell), and ended up thinking about how sparklings/baby mechs would work! (Unfortunately I could Not find any online IDW bayverse comics so this is all very speculative/theory for now)

Also shoutout to @orion-archives and their “sentinel is Oppy and megs dad” as I Did feature that here :)!

Plus some of this text post bc it’s canon to me forever and ever

Just some simple doodles, nothing more

[mae-kent]

a little explanation of mae kent’s powers & biology

mae kent, the second main supergirl (1988-1996) is a humanoid being made of ‘protoplasm’, a fictional substance created by an alternate universe lex luthor. she was then mentally and physically designed by him based on the alternate universe’s late lana lang. after his death, she regained her memories of her time in his lab.

she is able to shapeshift and turn invisible due to her ability to modify her own molecular structure. she is capable of mimicking a human perfectly, with internal organs included, as she passes as a healthy human to the eyes of a trained doctor. she struggles to increase her mass, however, and it causes her great pain.

she has telekinetic powers, and maintains a telekinetic field around herself that protects her from extreme temperatures and projectiles, as well as most attacks. she is able to use ‘psychokinetic blasts’. presumably her telekinesis/psychokinesis is what gives her her enhanced strength and flight ability. she is vulnerable to fatigue.

she was psychically connected to clark kent / superman in 1989. a 1993 promo card claims she still has this connection to him, but the link itself is never mentioned again within the comics. she is vulnerable to mind control and telepathic attack, as is shown here, and in panic in the sky with brainiac, and in the new titans arc with raven.

in action comics #706 it’s shown that she can alter the molecular structure of other materials outside of her own body as well. this is never mentioned again, but perhaps is a combination of her unique biology and telekinesis powers.

[zeruuparasite]

{ Uhh intro post or something!! }

{ we are a system! We collectively do art n a bunch of other things and have a Lot of hyperfixations.. the two Alters who will mainly post; }

{ Matrix / Cyberfrin (it/byte/he), I am a cyberpunk AU Siffrin }

} Siffrin / Cupid / CHOMPER (xe/xim / mutt/mutts / love/loves / they/them / it/its), Siffrin ISAT ! Just . Normal Siffrin . Mutt is also that Chomper plant from Plants VS Zombies . Xe does prefer all loves other pronouns over they/it but wouldn’t get mad at them being used!

{ OTHER ALTERS MAY OCCASIONALLY POST THINGS! }

{ some of our current hyperfixations; Dead Plate, In Stars And Time, Hollow Knight, Mario, PAC-Man, Dragon Adventures(Roblox), Plants VS Zombies, Rain World, BUGS!!! BUGS BUGS BUGS!!!(Moths, Wasps, Spiders) }

{ we also collectively really really like music and at some point plan to make some., some music artists we like; Baby Bugs, STOMACH BOOK, Kairikibear, CALYPSO, Ghost and Pals, CORPSE, and Jack Stauber(‘s Micropop) , wonder what this says about us }

{ DNI: basic DNI stuff., also just don’t say sexual stuff around us, we are Bodily A Minor and will get very uncomfortable }

{ FEEL FREE TO DM US! WE LOVE TALKING TO PEOPLE!!! }

( -Matrix / Cyberfrin }

[internetgreatesthits]

Good Question

[parallelkozak]

i ran out of space to draw ages ago

[telffiin]

linda & mae!!!

[lizardsfromspace]

So one fact from my investigation of the Matrix plagiarism case that drove me absolutely insane but I'm not sure I ever made a post about was her explanation for why the press didn't cover her "victory"

So for people who weren't around for that, look up "Sophia Stewart" on my blog, but long story short: there's a viral story claiming that the premise for The Matrix & The Terminator were stolen from a writer named Sophia Stewart, and that she won a billion dollars in a lawsuit. She actually lost her case, but a mistaken article from a Utah community college magazine spread online, and she still regularly does media appearances based on the idea she won. That's what fascinates me about the case: unfounded plagiarism accusations are a dime a dozen, but the bizarre fluke of a community college sophomore's journalism project making a mistake & that mistaken article going viral has elevated this one to being the most famous one

A major element of this is a narrative relating to race and gender, but that's a narrative she denies in that very Utah community college article. In her view, Hollywood isn't oppressing her for being black. They're oppressing her for being Christian.

Because I got my hands on a copy of her treatment (no, she never wrote an actual script) & I discovered that even most people who've debunked the story never read her pitch because it has nothing in common with The Matrix or The Terminator besides vague plot beats (a chosen one, robots used to rule over a society but not ruling the society themselves). It is, in fact, a new age-y evangelical Christian planet-hopping space opera filled with rants about the powers of the pyramids and the like. The treatment spends like seven pages raving about banks and the media before it introduces the hero, who is a literal, not figurative, Space Jesus. It ends with a mass sacrifice of his cultists followers to grant him power, an epic and stirring Jonestown moment, at which point the final battle happens over the course of a couple lines bc when writing a pitch for a movie five gazillion pages of lore is more important than detailing the climax of the film. There's a lot more to it than that (and tons of wild parts I never posted) but that's the gist

But every now and then in an interview, someone asks, "hey, why can't we find a story saying you won besides this dubious one?" And here is her explanation:

'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.'"

So: Warner Bros owns the media. 95% of it. This explanation is wrong. But also it's...really funny.

The AOL-Time Warner merger had happened a few years before this, and it was already regarded as the worst merger in corporate history. Like. Historically bad. Far from ruling the world with corporate synergy up the wazoo, AOL-Time Warner was horribly disorganized, with most companies operating independently from one another and all of them at odds. There's a concentrated plan to destroy her from the dogshit company that couldn't do anything!

But it was never the case that they owned 95 percent of the media. They don't even own a lot of this list. Let's go one by one

New York Times: owned by the same family since forever

Los Angeles Times: owned at the time by Tribune Media, who owned several TV stations affiliated with The WB. Owning The WB affiliates never counted as "controlling the media" at any point, I think, but you know the old adage: "whoever controls the airing of One Tree Hill in the Los Angeles metro market controls the power........"

People Magazine: owned by Time, she's got this one

CNN: owned by Warner, she's got this one. Why MSNBC (owned by Microsoft and NBC at the time, though Microsoft was an absentee father already trying to sell it off) or Fox News (a network that spent like 25% of its time attacking Hollywood, often with claims that they target Christians!) never covered her story is left curiously unexplained. I don't know how far back Fox News' archives go, but I did search since I thought they'd be the most likely to cover this, and: no results

Extra: a celebrity gossip show owned by Warner Bros, she's got this one

Entertainment Tonight: owned by Paramount, a rival studio with every reason to report bad legal news for Warner Bros, and yet near as I can tell, they never covered this case. I'm starting to think it may not be true

Celebrity Justice: what the fuck is Celebrity Justice? It was...a short-lived & obscure celebrity gossip show that indirectly lead to TMZ?

HBO: owned by Warner Bros, she's got this one

New Line Cinema: so she's saying this one bc it had just produced Lord of the Rings. But while they're known for that now, we really should put it into context how much of an anomaly LotR was. New Line Cinema spent most of its history producing low-budget horror & comedy films, made Lord of the Rings, never produced another film with a similar scale, and were shut down a few years later. Actually, there's a whole story about how another film they released the same year as Fellowship of the Ring flopped so hard it effectively cancelled out its success & got the head of the company fired, but that's for another time. They were not so much Hollywood power players as a studio that accidentally lucked into the biggest film trilogy of all time in between Friday the 13th sequels, but they were owned by Warners, so

Dreamworks: never owned by Warner Bros at any point, it was straight up an independent studio at the time whose distribution deal was with Universal. It looks like they co-produced some films with Warner Bros, but they were never owned by them.

Newsweek: at the time owned by the Washington Post

Village Roadshow: they had a co-production and distribution deal with Warner Bros, but were an independent Australian company that made movies and theme parks. Again, a company collaborating with Warner Bros doesn't mean it owns them

"and many, many more!" She claimed the company owns 95% OF ALL MEDIA and she just gave up listing who they own after a dozen. And she was wrong about half of them! She had to resort to listing "Celebrity Justice" as a platform on par with the New York Times and just kind of shrugged at all the others. Clearly, you can't trust any press, besides Utah community college magazines