#The Glass Ark

[ihrttherain]

I'm re reading iwbft and

"it's always been sort of Rowan and Jimmy, plus Lister. We still love him of course. But that's just the way it is."

OUFHHHH OH GOF AUGHHHHJ

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

Sideswipe, who was supposed to have died in the battle on Earth in IDWSG, has come back to life as new body with partner. Could you tell us what happened to him?

Dear Sideswipe Searcher,

Fresh from their victory over Megatron, the maniacal Optimus Prime and his army of Autobots rampaged across the planet, looting whatever resources they could find and funneling them into the construction of an Ark II that would take them home to Cybertron. Their rampage was thorough; within a matter of months, the victorious Autobots had obliterated most major population centers and crushed the remnants of the world’s various armed forces—as they launched the Ark, Prime gave the order to salt the earth by having Blaster hack into the planet’s various defense systems and authorize the indiscriminate launch of hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Many weeks later, Megatron awoke, seemingly the last sentient being on Earth. As the critically damaged Decepticon limped through the graveyard that had once been Los Angeles, he discovered that the Autobots had simply left their dead and dying to rust where’d they’d fallen. Megatron was instinctually repulsed by the notion of desecrating the dead, but realized that he needed repairs—and that the bodies of his former friends and enemies might be the only way to source Cybertronian parts until he could make it offworld. As Megatron lifted the body of one such downed Autobot, whispering a brief apology for what he was about to do, he suddenly found a pair of hands wrapped around his neck! As it turned out, Sideswipe had also survived the battle of Los Angeles, but had been abandoned by his comrades and left to die—even his spark-brother Sunstreaker had turned his back on his critically wounded sibling, with a parting sneer that Sideswipe had always been the ugly one.

Initially, Sideswipe wanted nothing more than to return to Cybertron and exact brutal revenge on everyone who’d abandoned him; in his current condition he could barely stand, let alone fight his way across millions of miles of interplanetary space back to Cybertron. After salvaging whatever they could from the battlefield to patch themselves up, the pair decamped to the nearby city of San Francisco, where they established a base camp on the burned out remains of the Golden Gate Bridge. Not long after, they discovered a Cybertronian Decepticon warship and the prone body of a tiny stasis-locked Decepticon named Whisper. It didn’t take much energon to jump-start Whisper’s systems, and the three set about slowly repairing the downed warship over a period of many months. As they worked, Megatron and Sideswipe had a long time to reflect on their past mistakes and come to some kind of understanding—in time, even Sideswipe’s once-legendary bloodlust faded into a resolute determination to atone for his past misdeeds.

However, when the time came to finally launch the ship, Sideswipe made a shocking discovery—a small group of human survivors had established a small village on the outskirts of the city. It quickly became clear that they would not survive on their own—they would need access to Cybertronian technology and someone with the knowledge of how to properly use it. That night, by the feeble light of the human’s campfire, Sideswipe told Megatron that he should go on without them, and wished him luck in his mission to rebuild the Decepticons.  Touched by the gesture, Megatron bade his new friend farewell—but not without first declaring him an honorary Decepticon. 

The next morning, as Sideswipe leaned back on the cracked asphalt of the Golden Gate Bridge and watched as Megatron’s jury-rigged vessel lifted into the air, he took a moment to carve a new insignia on his chest, beneath the ugly gash that now ran through his old Autobot symbol… then turned back to the pale, haggard humans who looked to him as their new leader and protector, and set to work.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"The pressure from the boosters is ripping up the structural integrity."

The Ark S02E05 The Museum of Death.

[yoan-le-grall]

[criticalbeauregard]

one thing about laura bailey is she will make a sci-fi oneshot character that is such a huge lesbian

[mateuscosme]

[a-joan-a-day]

Jeanne d'Arc - Located in the St Leonard Church, Apethorpe - Stain Glass Window by Christopher Whall - 1922

June 3

[aviandistressmachine]

I'm fucking OBSESSED with these expressions Indiana makes when he's on the precipice of discovering something mystical or groundbreaking. He looks like a fucking animal. One that's fixated on a shiny object or a toy that's being jerked around at the end of a string. Like he's a fox or a cat that's gonna pounce. Laser-focused with anticipation that just might kill him. Please stick your fingers in between the bars of his cage, of course he won't bite-

[brandwhorestarscream]

I stg I am thiiiiis close to making an ARK au because the new animated series makes me angy

[medieval-elephants]

Pink elephants

Two elephants, alongside lions, birds, foxes, and other animals head for the ark in Chartres Cathedral's window devoted to Noah's ark. In other windows, you'll see horses, pink camels, boars, and others, too.

(Image source: Lawrence OP)

(Image source: x)

Chartres claims to have one of the largest collections of medieval stained glass: almost 2.5 square km (or about 1.5 square miles), only counting those made between 1205 and 1225 (source). I was lucky enough to get to visit Chartres yesterday, and photographs cannot really capture the experience of the rows and rows of colorful windows. Still, you can see interactive animations of all the windows in Chartres Cathedral via the cathedral's website. Charters was a major center of learning during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and the 13th-century windows (installed after an 1194 fire) show a remarkable coherence in artistic style and theological meaning. The inclusion of elephants, camels, and other touches might also reflect the wider learning of the community (although some art historians see mythical griffons sliding into the window frames, too).

Materials: glass, metal, pigments, stone Origin: Chartres, France Date: c. 1205-1225 Still in Chartres Cathedral

[sinsofsinister]

wearing glasses removes her ears which im mad about but i cope by thinking that smilegate did it only bc if she was allowed to look like this all the time she would be too powerful

[oscartheghost]

one thing Raiders of the Lost Ark really nails is the groady little incel henchman character arnold toht

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"I'm amazed at how you've held this Ark together."

The Ark S01E09 The Painful Way.

[mycreatures]

Mine - Liuna Tinerfe

She was my mane character long ago and I had left it a little aside, I thought the design and story (the originals) were ... Not as good as I would liked. But I decided to give her a second change with a new style, new back story, even a new name!

Now I so proud of her, the design and the full reference I'm showing you.

Hope you like her as much as I do.

[mina-star]

Whoaaa what's this a sneak peak into a featured character in the new chapter of comfort house??

Goddess of Glass

[major-wren]

yk how when a dog is raised in a really small space, it'll pace in endless circles even after years have passed and even when there's enough space? Yeah, that but with Shadow. I imagine the Lab section of the ARK wasn't very huge, or was full of fragile glass and tech anyway.

Bonus: