#SUBJECT: impulse

[wireman-au]

Your name is Impulse. You are currently standing outside the seemingly-abandoned split-level family home that belongs to your good friend Tango. You have the keys to the house; Tango gave them to you years ago. He said that in emergencies, you are allowed to go into his house whenever you want. You think it's an emergency. Skizzleman thinks you need some sleep. You think you need the police to listen to you, first.

Here are some other facts you know:

The first seventy-two hours of a missing persons case are the most important.

You haven't slept for nearly thirty of those hours.

Tango wouldn't just skip out on one of your board game nights, not even for something important at work.

The police say Tango often goes out of town without telling anyone for long stretches of a time; it comes with his classified job.

He's always told you, though.

"I really don't think this is a good idea, buddy," Skizz says, nervously looking around the front yard as you jiggle the key in the lock. He's come with you, because he's a good friend, and also a bit of a pushover. Because you're also a good friend, you have not told him that it's a pushover thing to do, coming with you to break into Tango's house if he thinks it's a bad idea, but hey, you aren't going to stop him, now are you?

"Relax. He said we could come in for emergencies," you say, jiggling the key again with annoyance. If Tango's changed his locks, you're going to be tempted to break a window.

"I mean, you think Tango's missing, right?" Skizz says.

"Know," you correct.

"Know," agrees Skizz, although you're pretty sure he's just humoring you. It's hard to tell, on account of having not slept in the past day. "It's just, you know, if he's missing, and the police investigate, if we've broken in recently it won't look good."

"I mean, I wouldn't have to do this if they'd just listen to me!" you say. The door finally opens. You stumble inside. Oh, Tango just hadn't fixed the pin in the lock that liked to get stuck. No changed locks. Good.

"Dude, you know I'm with you, one hundred percent, but I think if you just sleep for a moment--"

"I don't have time to take a nap right now!" you say, maybe a bit meaner than you meant to. In your defense, you haven't slept.

You walk into Tango's house. It largely looks normal. Suspicious; Tango's house never looks normal. As you look around for things that might be hidden, you consider additional facts you know:

Tango missed board game night yesterday, but you haven't seen him for at least two days before that.

You live two neighborhoods over; the number of times you run into each other at the grocery store is immense.

You've never liked his job.

The police said not to worry; Tango is an adult.

The first seventy-two hours of a missing persons case are the most important.

"I know, I know," Skizz says, before pausing. "Huh. Where's all his gizmos?"

"Right?" you say. "He normally has so much weird stuff--ow!"

Skizz rushes over to you. "You good?"

"Yeah just--my head hurts."

"Migraines are a symptom of--"

"I know!"

You stand in Tango's weirdly empty living room. You breathe. You try to deal with the sudden wave of dizziness that's overcome you. You breathe. It starts to fade. Your head still hurts.

"Anyway," you say. "We don't have infinite time. Now, if I were Tango, where would I hide proof I'd been kidnapped or murdered or something?"

"Dude. Don't suggest murder already," mutters Skizz, but, loyally, he starts to look around with you. You're really lucky, having good friends like that who can actually sleep.

Another spike of pain runs through your head.

[CONNECTION GRANTED.]

The sooner you can figure this all out, the better.

[theredtrails]

How many Jackanda pieces can I finish this year and do you think they will become hornier and hornier

If you're in the mood for something spicier, you can find a topless version on Bluesky here 👀

[mezzmerizd]

I MADE A TINY THINGGG YAAY :D

[taraxippos]

I will say I think at least 75% of the time someone describes art as having 'a human soul' its shorthand for 'a positive quality of sincerity/passion/human imperfection etc that makes art engaging' (which is a sentiment you can by all means disagree with and is not a good argument for why a technology shouldn't be allowed to exist, but is generally not being used as a Spiritual argument), rather than 'I believe in an immortal soul which is metaphysically imparted into artwork created by human hands and imbibes it with Good qualities, and therefore art made otherwise is a Evil'.

Getting focused on that wording as the sole basis to make snide jabs about spirituality is only a little less silly than seeing someone go "god forbid xyz" and responding "Ummm actually god isn't real and thus can't forbid anything☝️🤓"

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

[ID: The Toy Story "I don't want to play with you anymore" meme where Andy is throwing the Woody doll on the ground, with Woody labelled to read, "Subject I've been literally obsessed with for years," and Andy labelled, "Me getting a new hyperfixation over the course of a day." End ID]

[angeart]

Boatem Circus.... Thoughts cycling through my head about your Wonderful au. These thoughts might not make sense but. You're cool!

I think what breaks me the most (at this moment) /pos is that Scar, when he built up the circus with his own two hands, after coming from wherever he had come from, had to teach himself how to bring salvation to others. How to show others safety and warmth and show them that things would be okay. He had to teach himself first how to take care of others. And then after elegy he realizes that everything he taught himself can be like- applied to him, too, because he's not alone anymore and the others are gonna show him and teach him and save him and it's so 🥹 love. Found family. Yummy.

(Also while I'm here 👉👈, am I allowed to ask who the very first person to join Scar's circus was or is that like spoilers-?) hope you have a lovely night and day

boatem circus!! 💕

you are so very right about scar. he didn't have other people show him kindness, but he still decided to extend it to others. he had to learn, and by doing so, he wasn't even aware he's teaching the others too!

and gosh when they turn it around on him 🥺 my heart.

found family!!! i love boatem circus crew found family so so so much.

you are allowed to ask! it's not a secret or a spoiler or anything! it just genuinely wasn't something i had figured out, but your question prompted me to go bug stiff and i think we got it now :3c ...

the order in which people joined the circus*:

scar > impulse > gem > jimmy > ren > pearl > cleo & doc (separately but at around the same time) > mumbo > joel > grian > [events of elegy] > skizz > tango > ???

... so. impulse. our beloved impulse was first.

he was running away from some people and he hid at where scar was building stuff. and scar came across him, with his typical "well hello there :J"

and impulse was scared! and he could've lashed out with fire in his fear. but— he didn't. (he is a teddy bear and genuinely doesn't want to hurt anyone, ever.) (there might be a backstory buried there that makes elegy so much worse :3c just saying)

he wasn't used to people regarding him without fear. he wasn't used to being just... accepted. or to be allowed to stay anywhere. he actually fully expected that's what the rest of his life will be: endless wandering, being chased off, forever running away. and yet.

and yet.

scar offers him a place to stay. so easily. as if it didn't cost him anything.

[wireman-au]

Etho can make pancakes for Skizz! It's all coming together.

You take a deep breath. Okay. Etho might be a good option. If all else fails, you can use your powers of sleep deprivation to turn into a ninja again. Maybe. You don't know how you did that the first time. The likelihood of it being replicable doesn't seem high. Still, it might be, and that could be enough to protect you.

"Etho could make you pancakes if he's in town," you say.

"Could he?" Skizz says.

"What do you mean, could he? It's pancakes. You just buy a bottle of Bisquick and pour it on a pan, Skizz. I can make pancakes. I think you could train a dog to make pancakes if you tried hard enough."

"Yeah, but... it's Etho," Skizz says.

You both consider this for a moment. Etho is a mysterious guy with a mysterious job who is absolutely the most likely one of your friends to know how to hide from the cops. However, he is also Etho. You're pretty sure you caught him quietly crying once because he wasn't sure how to fold a towel. Whether or not Etho possesses a given skill, no matter how common or esoteric, is a coin flip on a good day.

"It's pancakes," you say again after a moment.

"If you say so," Skizz says. "I still think the Waffle House is better odds, dude."

[viciousbite]

Shard (OC) Headcanons, Transformers Version.

(Inspired by an old oc; Sha El Dur)

Shard is a nickname. Real designation; Charoite

Height; 40'' / 12 meters

Shard is the bastard from Darkfang's backstory that experimented on him and kept him locked in a facility from pre-war times to mid-war.

Shard is an arrogant Scientist. Who dwells into the more inhumane ways of experimentation. He rarely ponders how his subjects feels, seeing them as no more than subjects to gain new knowledge or to sell them out to the highest bidders.

He never works alone, and has employed many smaller scientists or medics into his crew. Those that will not question his ways, nor his subjects. Plus he has a few close ones that he tends to keep at his sides due to the enemies he has gained.

In Shard's eyes, what he's doing is making his subjects stronger, exchanging their abilities or frames. To make progress. Failures are only a part of the process.

Shard has experienced multiple fake 'deaths'. These deaths are upon fake, cloned frames of himself. Clones that share intel and appear as near perfect replicas of the real one. When a clone is offlined, it will signal him, and share its details with him, of how it died and why. This does cause pain to his real frame. His clone is why he survived the attack at his main facility, where Darkfang resided and escaped from in the middle of the war.

Shard prefers himself as a 'neutral', but has had clones that carry the decepticon symbol. He is in no means outside of the war, he has supplied 'weapons' and boosters and drugs for war efforts. And shared his skills in multiple occasions.

Shard refuses to scan earth vehicles, and prefers a cybertronian flying type.

He has big pockets, aka shanix is never an issue to him.

His outlier ability consists of storing elements and objects into smaller crystal like shaped mechanical 'boxes'. Store -> Release. Plus with additional mods, he's able to float said crystal boxes to use as weapons to throw or pierce through metal. With object storing, it's limited and he has bought himself plenty of mass displacement mods to shrink them. (unable to store other lifeforms, due to the high potential of death and it uses way too much energy to be worth it.)

Rarely prone to anger, Shard carries himself with a calm and patient demeanor. He's well aware his actions are morally wrong, but someone has to do it, to evolve science and knowledge.

He has gained a big fascination with beastial frames. Why Darkfang and many others ended up as his experimentation subjects. He saw potential in them and wanted to enhance their abilities. He originally found a full patch of new born beastformers, and took them in. Only a rare few remained by his side, the rest offlined or escaped.

[sheephoof]

I really like your art do you do comms or requests?

thank you ^_^ i want to get back to commissions but fulltime retail is absolutely killing me- though ill do requests ! they may take a bit of time but i WILL get to them

[whumpy-wyrms]

just spent 4 hours building Anton’s lab in minecraft and i’m done and it’s soooo cool you guys it’s just like how i imagined (obviously as close as i could get cuz it’s minecraft). gonna build Anton’s cabin above it next but i’ll probably post screenshots of the lab tomorrow so you guys can actually see how i imagine it (cuz it’s hard for me to draw it). if anyone wants to join my world and explore it (bedrock edition only, sorry) feel free to message me!!! like seriously i don’t bite!!!! i love playing minecraft with people :DDD

[mycenaae]

santos is 100% morally right for threatening this man especially when robby refused to do anything and lashed out at her for being clearly upset about it and his inaction (the second potentially dangerous man he's refused to do anything about this season!) but i do NOT necessarily think on a pragmatic level that it's ultimately going to make things better at home for his daughter or his wife because abusers will abuse no matter what. :( and also robby is pissing me off sooooo bad with his refusal to acknowledge the threats that several men he's let off the hook today are posing

[imtrashraccoon]

That moment when you get an idea for a drawing and fall down a rabbit hole for 2 hours on Victorian fashion - specifically what working class women wore - and then can't draw because you need to go to sleep. (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠)

[single-malt-scotch]

thinking abt that moment on impulse's stream where bdubs was just like "am i white?". genuinely questioning himself. while impulse, white man, has no clue what to say to that

[wireman-au]

make a decision. now. before you dont have time to make one.

You're dizzy. You're holding a coathanger, hidden in a closet. There's something that isn't you in the back of your head. You haven't slept in over a day. There are strangers in your friends' house, and someone has staged it to make it look like he'd left voluntarily, even if no one who knew him would believe it. There is a redacted document in your pocket. Irrationally, you keep on thinking about picking up the safe.

Downstairs, Skizz screams.

Someone is walking up the stairs.

[do-you-like-kirby-music]

I love observing the responses and such of the songs here. Studying you guys like ants

[kissingwookiees]

solas is the elven god of saying he has a plan and then not elaborating actually