#Sparkthief

[kytherion]

I do not adopt everyone I care for that I am not romantically or sexually involved with.

I am allowed to have platonic feelings about people without thinking of them as my creations.

The fact that I normally don't is not relevant.

I can recognise that a rare individual of an alien species is developing outlier abilities much in the same way that I would have done if I had been allowed to do so naturally, without Jhiaxus' involvement, and freely decide that even if this individual is doing their level best to oppose me and the group with which I am aligned, they are too valuable not to protect, because people with these inclinations and persuasions are rare.

(Ravage. Stop laughing. The fact that I have fallen for almost every single one of your lovers is not relevant. You just have excellent taste. How could my spark-mate not? And why wouldn't I love someone Jazz also loves? Or care for a fellow non-afthelm Prime?)

I am also capable of discovering unattended, unsupervised and unhomed sparklings without deciding that they are my children.

It hasn't happened yet, and the Newsparks' Welfare Committee has pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that there are people in Sanctuary who would like to raise offspring who don't already have four of their own biological children and one adoptee, and that at least some of them could do so as well as I and my family can, so Sparkthief had better be the last.

Can I help it if he managed to become attached to me before I had finished combing through the newsfeeds to see if someone was missing a baby?

I do recognise patterns of relationship other than "lover," "mate" and "parent".

(If you don't believe me, ask Cosmos, but please be nice to him about it. I care for him but he doesn't trust me and we are romantically incompatible. I also have platonic relationships with all of Ravage's siblings and their offspring. Howlback has helped me in Ravage's absence but we are absolutely not 'lovers'.)

Anyhow, while Rafael had loving parents, they do not understand them, and while Charlie is Bumblebee's conjunx, she is not a datapath.

Humans normally only live for a vorn. Rafael has already lived 25% of that time period and they will require protection and mentorship to reach their full capability within the limited time they are allotted to spend with us. It's only absolutely natural that I should ensure this.

And sometimes very annoying to Rafael, but until their power is further developed they will have to accept that sometimes I sense dangers that they cannot.

So. Don't be one of those dangers. That's all.

I'm sure my bubbe gets it.

[viridiansilverwing]

pounces (-Sparkthief)

Viridian allows herself to be pounced, then picks up the bitlet and holds him over her head, laughing and letting go for half a sparkbeat only to catch him immediately. Silverwing taught her to do it, though both of their mothers informed her that you have to be a lot more careful with bitlets who aren't jetlings. But here he can only fall onto the couch, and she doesn't let him fall.

Viridian can put words in Sparkthief's mind, just like MamaWave does.

{I love you sillysillybit}

{I love you sillysillybit}

{I love you sillysillybit}

She doesn't talk out loud much and when she does her voice sounds like it's hurting, even if she's happy.

But she plays music, and after she's caught him a few times, she dances around on the floor to it. His feet don't touch the floor, but that means he can do anything he wants with his feet and not have to worry about falling so long as he doesn't kick her by accident.

After a little while she will have to do some of the same things with Catfish so Catfish doesn't feel left out. But not until Catfish wakes up from her nap.

"Viridian: is going out with Silverwing tonight?" Soundwave inquires. "You do not have to watch sparklings all day, though help when I cook is appreciated."

Viridian laughs.

{We're all going out, don't worry!)

She can also play other people's words with her speakers or even make words with her hands, and sometimes she does that too, but Soundwave is totally fine with her doing exactly what he can do.

[doctor-glitterbomb]

Oh my god he is actually cleaning and he still hasn't asked where I am.

I haven't moved out. All my stuff is still there. I don't want to break up. I just want him to acknowledge that he actually needs me.

(Howlback says it will be a long wait. She has outstubborned Grimlock so I know she probably knows what she's talking about. :( )

But I'm curious to see how long it takes for him to connect the need for cleaning with my temporary absence.

Meanwhile I'm having SPARKLING TIME with Catfish and Sparkthief and Predaking.

[dontpetmeibite]

If anyone out there is really doing research on the "art" of gutting pumpkins, I have two sparklings who have in fact mastered that art.

If you're talking about carving pumpkins--which is actually an art--I got nothing.

But gutting them?

Here. Soundwave pulled this off the security feed.

[Included: a video of Sparkthief and Catfish in the RavWave family kitchen, discovering that someone has piled pumpkins up in there. The two bitlets, who were already pounce-chasing each other, immediately decide to jump into a pile of pumpkins, breaking several of them open. They then start rolling around in the mess they have made, and start throwing handfuls of pumpkin guts and seeds at one another. Sparkthief then eats an entire pumpkin, and Catfish shoves part of a pumpkin into her mouth, but she spits most of it out because she thinks it's gross.]

And yes. They threw up spectacularly shortly thereafter, because we didn't know think to look at the security cam until they got sick, and we therefore did not realise that they had actually eaten pumpkins.

[cleverthylacine]

so, y'all

@miner16 took a Tumblr break but will be back. You should check them out.

If you've been reading my RPs, they're @risenwings (Starscream, TC and Skywarp, with a side of Rattrap), @dancerhythm (Sparkthief), @silverxwords (Megatron through the multiverses including D-16), @maxfortress (the Fort Max who is in love with Glit), and so many others.

@destinyrem has Remix of Praxus, the Jazzwave adult daughter that the RavWaves adopted in one of those AUs. You should check them out.

@aelfheimerandrobots is a fantastic artist (and the player of Redstrike). You should totally check out their robots in corsets series.

[kytherion]

This one: is sure this would be easy

with sleep

but no sleep

how to reprogram bitlet monitors

to recognise only actual bitlet screams

ravage: is hiding under the bed

can't fault her for that

{{Catfish, Sparkthief: desist.}}

{{Catfish, Sparkthief: come sleep.}}

{{rubber-bird-thing: not invited.}}

{{Ravage: come sleep?}}

[dontpetmeibite]

Magic Anon

Pumpkins, you have all the pumpkins.

Pumpkins everywhere

"Viridian!"

Ravage knows who to blame when anything involving Halloween stuff gets out of hand, and that is a fact. A short while after the war ended and communications between Earth and Sanctuary didn't have to be monitored, ordinary Earthlings and Sanctuarians found themselves on an interconnected dataweb courtesy of Soundwave (and Jazz and Ravage both helped).

Immediately thereafter, her subadult daugther and her best friend got Tumblr accounts and learned about "spoopy season".

Every year since then, the sparklings of Sanctuary have enjoyed trick-or-treating in the residential torus--participation by residents is optional, but those who are willing to participate put pumpkin decals on their doors. Ravage did not actually know--until now--that a pumpkin was an actual Earth fruit.

Apparently, someone has decided to turn it up this year, because someone has delivered enough pumpkins to the Ravwaves' family habsuite that they are everywhere, She even found one in the washracks... after she took Catfish and Sparkthief in there because she had found them covered in pumpkin...guts. Which they had been throwing at one another gleefully after breaking one open.

(She really needs to learn that when they're quiet it's not always good, and that there are two of them, meaning they can do the amount of mischief Improv used to do squared.)

Viridian appears in very short order and completely forgets that she's supposed to be getting yelled at because she starts to jump up and down with joy.

Silverwing, though, is more cautious.

"Lady Ravage," she says, "Viridian thinks you ordered them for us. Because we didn't order them. And you're the one who does gardens--?"

Ravage swallows whatever she was about to say. She's got two wet bitlets anyway, one under each arm.

"No. I thought one of you did it, and I was going to ask what the Pit you thought you were doing by having them dropped off here instead of the storeroom we gave you on the rec deck."

Viridian laughs. {{Come on, Mama, we're not idiots.}}

Then she steps into pumpkin guts and slides across the floor. Ravage can't drop the bitties, so she's reiieved when Silverwing catches her.

"We'll take them," Silverwing offers. "We can let people who are giving out treats put candles in them! When the Aerialbots get here...we'll make them help us carve them all."

Ravage stares at them for a moment, before she remembers that the decal participants put on their doors looks like a pumpkin with a face on it. Then she shrugs. "Sparkthief and Catfish found the ones in the kitchen. Some of those won't do you much good, but I'm absolutely fine with your taking the rest of the pumpkins elsewhere."

"We'll get Dedication and Soundblaster to help. And Wallop and Clobber and Suckerpunch probably, too," Silverwing says; Viridian's already sending comms.

"You could make Vortex help, since he always insists on trick-or-treating even though he isn't a sparkling..." Ravage suggests.

"...no," says Silverwing. "Vortex doesn't need to know about the pumpkins! If he finds out they can be smashed, we will have a mess exponentially worse than the one the babies made. Viridian! Tell Laserbeak not to tell Wildrider either!"

{{Cut that one kinda close there, girlfriend, but OK. Not telling Wildrider.}}

Silverwing grins. "You could've just let them keep playing, Tante Ravi."

Ravage sighs. "They were tracking the mess through the house. Viridian just almost fell--!" Then she scowls. "Rumble and Frenzy--"

"Rumble's not here," Frenzy says as she opens the door. "He's with Miko on Earth. Wow, pumpkins!"

"I give up," Ravage says quietly. She lies down on the couch with the bitlets, who immediately run back into the kitchen. "Just keep them in the kitchen, all right? We can just hose the floor down in there. If I find pumpkin guts on the floor of my dance practice room..."

Viridian to Family: I wonder where we can get enough candles, though....

"I'll ask the Aerialbots," says Silverwing cheerfully. "After we know how many pumpkins there are, and we've cleaned up the kitchen, or your mother will have a migraine."

[viridiansilverwing]

{{You know Sparkthief. He got his head stuck in the pumpkin!}}

Viridian comes down the stairs two or three at a time.

@dancerhythm @remixofpraxus