#Rinpin

[tfrinpin]

Someone. Anyone. Help this poor old man and his gremlin husband.

Optimus reverted back to Orion after passing on the Matrix.

Good news: he still has his memories.

Bad news: he’s VERY short. And grumpy.

[rinpin]

Thank you Akira Toriyama. Your work was one of the few that sparked my interest into drawing, anime, and the beyond.

Rip a legend.

[6lilith6]

Go hug some skeletons.

[mastermegatron]

@rinpin:

BALLS

Not the balls.

[spymeister]

ʘ‿ʘ

That's completely mutual, Ami. We both know we're a pair of good lookin' bots.

Optimus dancing.

[msfcatlover]

Moonbeam Dick

I probably had too much fun with this one, but Dick's had so many iterations & costumes over the years, so much cool lore, and is one of the heroes we can actually track real-world influence on his designs! (Whoever came up with the idea to take the Doyalist reasoning of superhero costumes being based on circus performers & wrestlers, and retconning it into Dick's backstory to make the Robin costume based on the Flying Graysons' performance outfits: I see you, and I love you.) So this has been a wild, whirlwind trip through the real-world evolution of gymnastics outfits, acrobatic costuming, and comic history (paying special attention to the different costumes we've actually seen in the various flashbacks/retellings of Dick's origin over the years,) while getting way too many design ideas along the way.)

Now here's a hurdle, because Dick's not going to start with a past Moonbeam costume as his base and alter it to reflect himself. Dick Grayson is going to start with his acrobat costume, and alter it to become Moonbeam. So we're starting with a bodysuit. Skin-tight, full-sleeve, the type that loops around your middle finger to stay in place. Neckline like this fucking fantastic redesign by mabychan.

(Gods, every time I see this picture, I need to stop & stare for like... at least 3min.)

Next: the colors. Dick likes bright colors & high contrast; you barely need to glance at even one of his costumes to realize that. I, personally, really love the version where the Robin suit was a tribute to his family, but red & green really aren't "Moonbeam" colors. Fortunately, the Flying Grayson's costumes have also been shown as potential inspiration for Dick's Nightwing suit, which seems to me like a great way to keep that tidbit in without defaulting to the Robin colors! So the new color scheme is sky blue, dark blue, and white-gold (which would probably be either more silver or gold, depending on the artist.)

So the suit is predominantly light blue, with a larger the dark blue triangle like his Lost Carnival costume on the upper chest, the shoulder-points of which partially run down his upper arms. While some artists might have them go all the way to his elbows or even the finger-loops on his hands personally I don't see them going further than about halfway down Dick's biceps (at first), where the very tips of them disappear behind golden arm-bands which can be used to store gadgets. Matching bands around his thighs, too, though those are larger, for bigger pockets.

(While I am trying to evoke how some people draw the 90s Nightwing gold stripe as separate bands lower down the arm, it's probably easiest to imagine Steph's leg-bands to explain this. Also, the bands on this absolutely delightful bedazzled Nightwing by rinpin that I cannot get out of my head are a good reference for placement.)

The triangle also does a great job of framing Dick's Moonbeam symbol: a crescent moon that covers most of his upper chest, filling the triangle from side to side.

(It's another subtle tribute to his parents. Also, the green & gold "All-Star Batman and Robin" costumes are the best look the Flying Graysons have ever worn, don't @ me.)

Like with Cass, I actually found my inspiration for this when I realized what Dick would use to hide his identity: a "colombina" masquerade mask.

(These two specifically inspired me while I was doing research.)

The legs are dark blue, cut at an angle where they meet Dick's torso to evoke Tim's original Robin costume (and, to a lesser extent, the Earth 2 grown-up Robin costume) and make the bodysuit look even more like a classic leotard. Dark blue or black gloves underneath the finger-loops to protect Dick's hands & keep his fingerprints off of things. Black boots with a lighter hem on top (either the light blue or white-gold, I don't really care which) with the V top we see on the Earth-2 Robin's boots, echoing the triangle on his chest. The soles of the boot are light blue.

(The boots will, almost certainly, end up being drawn as just part of the leg, colored the same dark blue as the legs and just having a lighter stripe around his shins as well as the band around his thighs. This is not at all the intended design, but I've been looking at comic costumes for months now, and I know how details get fudged.)

So. That's the acrobat angle with enough details to make it at least passable as Moonbeam. I feel like it needs some more armor. Looking at what I've got so far, how about something like these gauntlets I used as a reference for Shadow!Steph and some simple pauldrons, both in white-gold?

Finally, while Dick's "utility belt" is more of a waist sash with hidden pockets inside, I keep going back & forth on whether or not to give him a scale-mail skirt for the extra protection & flair. It makes sense, but I worry it might be a bit much...

(Styled much like the one on the left, but closer in length to the one on the right. Color could be either light blue to extend the line of his torso & keep the colors balanced or white-gold to keep all the metallic bits consistent.)

This one has been, despite how much fun I had brainstorming, the biggest pain pinning anything down on. I'm so glad I'm done with it now.

[voxune]

Hooray! Pre-orders for my enamel pin are open! And as a bonus you get a sticker sheet for free!! ✨

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[emsiecat]

Battle Ready Baggins

This one may take a little explaining.

Some time ago the wonderful @rinpin created a very interesting AU on tumblr which she named 'Battle Ready Baggins'. The basic gist of it being: “At the end of the Battle of the Five Armies, everyone lives, nobody dies, but Bilbo was still banished from Erebor for stealing the Arkenstone and went back to the Shire. Or so that’s what everyone thought. Five years later, Thorin - has broken free from his gold sickness and has been sitting on his throne thinking of nothing else but of Bilbo. So he - and a few of the Company - go out to find the Hobbit, hoping to ask for forgiveness. When they arrive to the Shire, they find a certain meddlesome wizard who is also searching for the hobbit. But when they come upon Bag End - Bilbo is gone. And he doesn’t want to be found.” So this is the idea that Bilbo may have found out what that little gold ring in his pocket really is and went to go take care of it himself! This is just one scene that was first illustrated by rinpin

here (x)

(the second set of pictures) and that I then decided to write a ficlet for. It was originally included in a tumblr post, but decided I wanted to share it with you all on AO3 as well. And if you would like to know more about the particulars of @rinpin‘s 'Battle Ready Baggins' AU further artwork, headcanons, and drabbles can be found here (x)

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The dagger had been meant for him, because of course it had. Every moment from leaving the Shire until now had been one attempt on his life following another.

All for a ring.

A tawdry, tempting, trinket, that was far more trouble than it was worth.

A trinket that Bilbo had sworn to destroy. A trinket that would likely lead to his destruction and, demonstratively, quite possibly the destruction of his friends as well.

For Thorin had been injured.

Bilbo still remembered that long ago teasing Fíli and Kíli had subjected him to regarding night raids by orcs. Thorin, it transpired, had been right to chastise them over their lighthearted manner regarding such a fate befalling travellers.

The real thing had been quite terrifying.

It had been dark. Almost too dark to see save for the light from the moon and stars. And all Bilbo could recall were the shrieks and battle cries, the chaos of desperate fighting, and then a solid body pushing between him and his far bigger and stronger assailant. A grunt of surprise, a stifled shout of pain, and then a feral cry, a dying gurgle, and the thud of a body as an orc apparently met its demise.

Thorin had been injured.

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[tfrinpin]

Hullo. I am amongst the living.

This little idea kept nagging at me, so here we are: TFP where Op goes ✨FERAL✨

So y’know that whole shtick about “they had a secret relationship all along?” Well this is sort of like that, basically— yes, Megs and Op have had a secret relationship ever since the Orion arc. Megs kept in contact because he missed Optimus SO MUCH. And the war has been going on for so long. Also they can fix Cybertron together. But MOSTLY Megs missed Optimus.

Things go along, now they’re definitely considering peace time and even drafting a treaty to share with their respective factions.

But a little bump in the road comes in the form of someone that Megs DID NOT expect to see— MegaZarak. And instead of Zarak heavily injures Optimus or tortures him, like a previous idea I’ve had before— I’ve thought of something a little more heart wrenching. Shit goes down right when Prime and Megs are about to establish peace: Zarak beats out Megs from the title as leader of the Decepticons. He retreats, and escapes via ground ridge thanks to Optimus and the crew. Knockout, BreakDown, SW, and DreadWing follow after him, ever the loyal soldiers (and they also dont want to deal with Zarak). But Optimus gets nabbed just before he jumps through the ground bridge, and he’s now a prisoner to Zarak. So to fuck with Megs even more, Zarak uses the Botched Synthetic Energon to make Op go FERAL.

Like he’s a literal beast on a leash, fangs and all— and Megs, when staging a rescue operation, is torn because he doesnt want to hurt Op, but he has no choice because OP IS FERAL AND HE WILL LITERALLY GET HIS FACE RIPPED OFF. Optimus’ optics are the striking green just like when Ratchet messed around with it earlier on in the series. (Don’t do drugs kids)

He’s got Optimus pinned and he’s trying disparately to pierce through the feral veil that’s blinding the Prime. And there’s a small, tiny moment where Optimus calms down, and his optics flash blue. He tries to speak but his words are staticky and jumbled. Megs reaches out a soothing hand over Op’s face, but unfortunately the touching moment is short lived when Optimus’ optics flash green again, and he goes back to fighting like a rabid animal.

Megs has no choice to knock Optimus out and take him to the wreckage of the Harbinger where both bots and cons have established a new base since the one is Jasper got blown to bits. So Megs is looking through the cell door of the brig, watching as a feral Op is chained to a wall, snarling, growling, and trying to rid himself of his bindings. Ratchet establishes that it’ll probably take days, maybe WEEKS to flush the botched synthetic energon from Prime’s frame. Megs, ever the stubborn mech, refuses to give up on his Prime— so he sits, and waits, and assists where he can in order to bring his Prime back to himself.

So yeah, an idea where Optimus is pretty much having to be treated like a wild beast the whole time until they can get the botched synth energon out of him.

You’re welcome.

[rinpin]

Bitch, I’ve been busy.

Anywho, here are some doodles of Feral Gohan Au and a Jurassic Park AU. Cause why not. Yes, I think Gohan would have a motorcycle to keep anyone from sensing his ki, dude has to get around somehow.

[6lilith6]

Commander Faye of Babylon and her assistant, Abigale. They don’t trust Lilith. Never have, never will.

[mastermegatron]

@rinpin replied to your post:

*pat pat* good little baby

​Your pats will always mean the most.

[thenightmaregrrl]

Middle Fingers- A Short Story by Nightmare

Bored. That was the feeling Optimus Prime had during this “meeting” he was forced to attend with Sentinel and Megatron. Why he was invited he’ll never know, all he wants right now is to curl up under a large blanket (preferably extra fuzzy) and take a nice long nap. But noooo, Sentinel had to call them up so he can host a meeting for some Allspark forsaken reason. He tried to listen to what was being said but it was getting harder to.

“They only need to take this much of the territory.” Megatron said simply, but his body language said he was raring to whack the big chinned blue mech upside his helm. Sentinel wasn’t listening or was only picking words that suited his agenda.

“Clearly giving up that much would cause the Elite Guard to lose some ground!”

“Replacing them with Decepticon warframes would be better suited, my men can take a hit better than you… Elite Guard.” Megatron said simply.

Sentinel scoffed, “As if! Last time I checked, it was we Autobots who kicked your sorry skidplates!”

Megatron was about to say a retort when they were interrupted by Optimus clearing his vocal processor, “Actually Sentinel, Megatron has the right idea, his army can handle the Quintessons’ weapons fire. We can’t.”

“Of course you would take his side, in fact I think you prefer sitting on his lap.” Sentinel quipped.

‘Oh my God that was one time!’ Optimus thought to himself while rolling his optics. Of course Sentinel would resort to pot shots like that.

“My point being, his mechs have experience in combat against other life forms. We don’t.”

Sentinel gave him a glare, “Are you saying that to sway me, or to puff up his ego?”

Optimus felt like smashing his face into the table right now. This is like… what did Sari say one time? Oh yeah, ‘like talking to a brick wall’.

“No, I’m trying to be logical. You and I have never faced Quintessons, only read about them. Megatron faced them before when he was still second in command of the Decepticon Rebellion under Megazarak. He knows what to do, we should at least listen to his advice. As much as it pains us to do so.” He added that last part to drive in the point that Megatron was still a lesser of two evils. The Decepticon merely gave a look of indifference.

Sentinel crossed his arms, “Whatever, it’s still too vital of a territory.”

Optimus reached his breaking point, “I know it is! Do you have any idea that it’s vital for both us and the Decepticons to keep it under Cybertronian control! You called this meeting! What is this supposed to be? The ‘Let’s have Sentinel Play Magnus for 3 Hours Show’?! We’ve been trying to convince you to take this more strategically sound plan! GOD!” He sat down in a huff.

The room was now a tense cage of silence, only the pants of the exhausted blue and red mech were heard.

Megatron saw the atmosphere in the room change, so he decided to remedy that.

By lighting a simple cy-garette, he picked up Optimus like he was a youngling, “We’ll take a recess, meeting is adjourned, come along little Prime.” Optimus responded by merely wrapping his legs around Megatron’s waist as if he was a youngling cyberkanga trying to cling to its mama-bot.

Megatron didn’t see Optimus give Sentinel the double middle fingers over his shoulder on the way out with the most venomous death glare.

@tfrinpin @rinpin

[shapeofmetal]

So let me explain-

@rinpin did this super cute art of Optimus based off a convo they had with @pastelpaperplanes and I saw it and got brainworms and now I'm preparing the sculpture to be cast in resin and I may make this into a model kit.

I have watched so many delightful videos of older men making and pouring resin molds and I want to adopt all of them as my grandpas. Why do they all sound like they are narrating a Huck Finn novel?

Anyway I'm gonna go whack off his arms so I can cast those separately. WISH ME LUCK

[kyrinthewarrior]

Why sit on the throne when you can sit on your husband whose is sitting on the throne? I was inspired by this piece by @Rinpin and having been meaning to draw my Spider!OP again.

[pastelpaperplanes]

why can’t you just let optimus and megatron be happy

I want them to be but I crave drama I CRAVE it