#bit matrix

[mysterysimblr]

Justin and Bit's date was eh, but on the plus side, we got to see Andy and JoAnn dancing together <3

[peace-hunter]

one (1) time right after optimus obliges one of the primes' sillier requests he teases them, asking what they would've done if he hadn't become prime, if they'd gotten someone less willing to go along with their shenanigans. he says something along the lines of "aren't you happy i'm the one that got the matrix?"

and the primes don't know how to tell him that... no. they're really not. that if they'd had a say on it, he would've never been anywhere near the matrix.

not because they don't think he's not worthy of being a prime, not at all, but because they don't believe he deserves what it'll mean to be one. they cannot in good faith be happy orion became optimus because they know what it cost him and they know the pain it will bring him.

someone had to be chosen and they truly believe there was no better bot than optimus but they wish with all their sparks he hadn't had to. they wish he could've remained free from the burden he will carry for the rest of his life. that he could've remained just orion pax. even if it meant not getting to know him. they love him enough to wish they had never met him.

but they don't know how to say any of this in a way that won't hurt optimus. so they simply smile and tell him they can't think of anyone who would do a better job than him.

it's simply the truth. as much as they wish it wasn't.

[lmorgart]

a sketch comm of neotrin swapping sweaters! ✨️

[ender--slime]

SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY

[r-aindr0p]

Other batch of art I have yet to ad color to, and I have only tomorrow left kinda to do it all, previous arts included :))) Still keeping my Ib propaganda up even if two people recognizes the game every year at the con + yuppie psycho propaganda too because I have encountered literally no one yet that has played and loved this game but it's like ??? it's such a good horror rpg ??? hgrdjhesfhhgjfksd (and the next game from YuppieP devs are working on a horror rpg around cults ?? I'm so ready)

And everything else has it's reputation already, cookies, more popular horror rpgs that I love as well (even if yume nikki is more ?? experimental than horror tbh) And Caldarus from fields of mistria :)) soon dateable dragon

[garblegarden]

I like these two little dudes...

[transingthoseformers]

Decepticon!Orion Pax to autobot!Optimus Prime redemption arc hurt/comfort 50k words (author: Primus)

[fear-no-mort]

the way even when hes literally going crazy with grief and stress and breaking shit and hurting people morty is so particularly delicate and calculated with anything having to do with rick

[vaguely-concerned]

the sheer number of funerals, memorials and general scenes to do with mourning rook comes along to does start to take on a faintly darkly comedic edge the second time around. the universe is trying to tell them something and oh my maker they've got air pods in they can't hear us

[mysterysimblr]

Coral gifted Bit a bonsai—in a pot that matched the color of her top.

[intuitive-revelations]

As I've mentioned in a previous post, I've been thinking a lot about the exact chronology of ancient Gallifrey, and specifically I've put a lot of attention on the Caldera and the Citadel, plus related things like the Eye of Harmony, the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be, the Untempered Schism etc.

All these things seem to be located in the same place on Gallifrey, albeit some at different times, and often overlap in nature. After some thinking, I think I've worked how everything goes together, as well as the order of events. At some point I want to create a fully history, but for the sake of this we'll focus primarily on the subjects above, with some other major events sprinkled in for context.

A Very Brief History of the Capitol

[ID: Surviving parts of the old Capitol, in an illustration from Lungbarrow. Crystal-like towers and walkways stand over a waterfall. The TARDIS, in pyramid form, dematerialises.]

Pythian Era - The capital city is built near the Mountains of Solace and Solitude (likely, in antiquity, a stronghold against the Gin-Seng cats to the south). Beneath the Pythia's temple, in the centre of the city, is the Cavern of Prophecy. Within the cave is a deep, deep opening known as the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be, which holds, in the astral plane, something known as the Gate of the Future, a tear into the time vortex far greater than the similar natural rifts that occur elsewhere on Gallifrey. Time flows out from it, from the future, to the past Gallifrey. In times of meditation, the Pythia sits in a hanging cage above the Crevasse, breathing in the rising vapours, which aid her in her clairvoyance.

[ID: Gif edit made by me, featuring the last Pythia sat in a small cage slowly swinging in a chasm as a mist slowly rises around her.]

The Intuitive Revelation - The Neotechnologists, led by Rassilon, bring a revolution. The Pythia curses Gallifrey with sterility and cuts the ropes holding her cage, falling into the abyss. The Gate of the Future inverts, forming the Gate of the Past. Visibly, the Doppler-effect like colouring of the vortex changes - no longer red, flowing towards the viewer, but blue and flowing away (ironically directionally the reverse of the real Doppler effect). Time from the new future flowing into the chaotic past.

The new government take control of the Capitol. A new age of space exploration arises, with the Shobogans taking on the name, for now, of "Space Lords". One of these first individual explorers, semi-authorised predecessors to future Time Lord renegades, is a woman named Tecteun.

The First Attempt - The stellar engineers, including Rassilon and Omega, make their first attempt at capturing the energy of a collapsing star, recieving the energy on Gallifrey using an obelisk, like that later used to channel energy from the Eye of Harmony, in the middle of the city, using the nature of the Crevasse.

The experiment is a catastrophic failure. A hole is punctured into the Spiral Yssgaroth, unleashing Vampires through openings throughout the universe, fracturing out from the experiment.

[ID: From The Book of the War, an illustration of the "Eyes of the Yssgaroth", human-like eyeballs looking through holes punctured into spacetime.]

Part of the Old Capitol is destroyed in a great blast, destroying the Cavern of Prophecy and opening up the Crevasse, leaving a giant crater: the Caldera. It is likely that many are killed. Left behind in the middle of the crater, is the Gate of the Past, now manifest in the physical world: an open gap in reality. In this form, it becomes known as the Untempered Schism.

(I also suspect this is when Rassilon is forced to regenerate for the first time, to the shock of on-lookers, having secretly previously recieved Tecteun's genetic modifications - I plan to expand on this theory in a future post.)

The Vampire War / Rebuilding of the Capitol - The exact circumstances of the experiment are covered up. Rassilon, leaving to fight the Vampire hoard, swears Omega to secrecy regarding the project during the Arcalian High Council's investigation.

[ID: A gif, rotating around the Citadel is constructed over the Caldera, from part of the (likely partially-symbolic) time-lapse in The Timeless Children.]

Though some of the city survives, including parts of the Pythian temple, a new colossal city-complex begins construction in the place of the old one, suspended over the Caldera, the centrepiece of the new Capitol: the Citadel. It is built as a defensive structure, both for the war, and to protect the new, growing elite, surrounded by a great circular wall named "Rassilon's Rampart". The "core" of the structure, on which the towers rest, reaches down deep into Caldera and the deeper Crevasse.

Meanwhile the Untempered Schism is taken out of the city by those fearing further destruction, to a place in the nearby hills that will one day be known as the Weeping Field, where prospective Time Academy students are initiated.

[ID: The Untempered Schism in the Doctor's time, as seen in The Sound of Drums. It sits in a stone frame on red grass, with the Seal of Rassilon in front of it, and flames on either side. Within it, the blue "past" variant of the RTD1-era time vortex flows away from the viewer. The Citadel's lights are visible in the background.]

(Side note: it's possible the Untempered Schism's 'ring' is deliberately designed to evoke the Caldera. Note how it's lined with pieces sticking out. Look a bit like the battlements on Rassilon's Rampart, don't they? Surrounding the hole into the vortex just as they surround the crater.)

The Anchoring of the Thread - Several centuries later, once the Vampires are more or less defeated, Rassilon returns home. He coups Pandak I, forcing him to resign, and takes the Presidency.

By now the Citadel is more or less completed, though for the next few centuries it still lacks its characteristic dome, likely added during a later founding conflict.

[ID: Gallifrey, around the time the first TARDISes are grown, from The Lost Dimension. In the background past a small outsider village is the Citadel, new and gleaming, but undomed.]

The Triumvirate retry their experiment at Qqaba / Polyphilos, attempting to capture the collapsed star. When the experiment goes wrong once more, Omega's ship falls inside, as spacetime threatens to crack open again. With temporal energy flowing though him (a la the Bad Wolf), Rassilon reshapes the laws of physics, forming an event horizon, and black holes as we know them.

The black hole is dimensionally captured and suspended in the moment it collapses and the event horizon is formed, creating the Eye of Harmony, controlled using the Obelisk of Rassilon storied in the Panopticon Vaults. Meanwhile, the black hole itself is suspended within the temporal singularity of the Caldera, deep below the Citadel.

Harnessing the power of the Eye and the Caldera rift, Rassilon "anchors" chronology around Gallifrey, creating the Web of Time and placing it under the control of the Gallifreyans, now Time Lords.

Future Developments - Over the years, many changes come to Rassilon's Gallifrey.

Over the years, the more and more of the old city is replaced with new towers, forming the new Capitol around a now domed Citadel. Interweaved with these buildings over 28 square miles is much of the new Time Academy, such that the Academy is sometimes considered a whole city itself annexed to the Citadel.

While the remnants of the Pythian Temple are eventually torched by Rassilon, hunting down dissenters, many old buildings remain intact. These continue to be inhabited far into the future, in a community known as "Low Town" or the "Lower Len", as opposed to the "upper" city above. Shanties surround the surviving buildings, some climbing up Rassilon's Rampart.

Another such community is based around the "Old Harbour", whcih once sat on the coast of the now recessed Sea of Time. Nowadays, it likely sits on the shore of the small (possibly designed) lakes near the Capitol, where streams from the mountains presumably once drained directly into the sea.

[ID: From Hell Bent: a screencap as Rassilon turns from looking out the window from an Inner Council chamber high above the Capitol. In the background can be seen some lakes between the mountains, with some signs of what might be buildings on their shores.]

(Side note: I reckon this shot above might actually give us a glimpse of Old Harbour. I might just be imagining things, but there's some small features around and on the lakes I reckon could be docks or buildings? Interestingly, this also comes as Rassilon asks about the Cloister Bells ringing, and Old Habour is well known for the bells in its clocktower, which might explain why Rassilon was looking out at it from the window.)

In the space around the Eye in the Caldera, the Cloisters, the core of the APC net and later the Matrix, are constructed. The structure itself is, externally at least, relatively small, but it generates an entire 'micro-universe' on the Astral plane once accessed by the Pythia. Indeed, just as the Crevasse once allowed the meditating Pythia to see the future, so does the Matrix create its own prophecies.

[ID: From Hell Bent, the Doctor and Ohila converse in the entranceway to the Cloisters, a dark space with glowing optic fibres running across cobwebbed columns.]

In the Matrix is a "womb-like" null-space is where most TARDISes are grown, taking advantages of the Caldera's spatio-temporal properties. Budding within the Citadel Cloisters, a TARDIS's "Cloister Room" is one of the first parts to grow.

By the time of the Time War, though possibly earlier, the sealed Caldera also forms the resting site for many dying Battle TARDISes, the Under Croft, where they presumably decay and fertilise the growth of new time ships.

[nixotinix]

hiiii!! i see u have dc requests open. perhaps you may like to draw my fave, mae kent / matrix supergirl!! refs of her can be found at @supergirls-s-curl :333

- @mae-kent

i'm not as familiar with the supes as i am the bats, but I really liked drawing Mae :D

thank u for the request and i do hope you like her!! she's very cute, maybe i'll have to read some of her comics <3

[holybagelsstuff]

How y'all see Smith vs how I see him.

[quibbs126]

So today at work, I decided to try redesigning my X AU Optimus, since I had been thinking about it yesterday and needed something to do during my shift

The design is almost entirely inspired by this one concept design for him from Transformers Hero, aka prototype Animated from what I understand

I just really like it and it also gave me vibes yesterday, so I wanted to use it

There’s also my initial sketches on my cardboard sheet before transferring it over, since I feel it’s a bit needed

I was trying to incorporate a circle into his design, to sort of be like the Matrix, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work with the windows, and eventually I remembered I was missing the grill too, so it had to go

But also overall, I’m not too sure how I feel about this design? Like there are aspects I like about it, yeah, but I think it’s weird in some places. The shoulder tires for one thing, I think they look a bit weird and I’m not really sure they belong, especially as Optimus didn’t have black in his design prior, but I feel like they work with the shoulders I did, so I have to figure out what to do with those. And there’s also the grill, I’m not sure I like it in the final, but I’m still unsure how to incorporate it

But I do like the head and windows though, there’s at least that. I mean maybe the eyes need more work, but aside from that

I don’t know, I think it needs more work before I settle on it. I also feel like maybe I’ve gone too far from the original Mega Man inspiration? Because this didn’t really come from that

Like I said, more work is needed

But anyways, since we’re talking about Optimus, I’ve tweaked his backstory somewhat, so I’ll tell you about it here

So he’s still the second creation of Alpha Trion with Elita-1 as the first. But now, he was created specifically to combat the Destron Virus that had broken out and was causing chaos on Cybertron. Alpha Trion wanted to create a warrior, one that would be immune to the virus, and so he decided to go back to the Matrix project he had abandoned after the issues with Elita, this time getting it right and creating the Matrix of Leadership, which he gave to this new creation, named Optimus Prime

Now Optimus’ purpose was to combat the Decepticons, and he is very capable of doing so. However, he is a deeply compassionate and empathetic soul, and does not enjoy the fighting necessary to do so. He still chooses to fight, because he knows that far more innocent bots will be harmed by his inaction, but it’s not something he desires, and he almost never goes all out on his enemies, outside of very rare circumstances

Now his empathy is considered a flaw to the Autobot higher-ups, as it holds him back from full effectiveness. However, Alpha Trion, seeing how the fighting affects Optimus and how he had little choice in fighting anyways, being built for this purpose, decided that he would not create another combat bot with a Matrix, throwing them into a fight they may not want. Not only that, but Alpha Trion is the only one with the knowledge to create another Matrix like Optimus’, and this is something he withholds from others, as he does not want this power to be abused by those who do not care for the bots created, or to be used to create armies

So attempts were made to create their own Matrix and Prime that lacked Optimus’ flaw, which led to the creation of Sentinel Prime. I’m thinking Sentinel was probably not their first attempt to recreate Optimus, but he was at least their first successful one, with the failed attempts being swept under the rug most likely. I’m not sure why Sentinel is the only other Prime, but maybe making him was too resource intensive, I don’t know

But yes, Sentinel was created, and while he didn’t have the overwhelming empathy they felt held Optimus Prime back, and his Matrix is perfectly stable, unlike Elita’s, his Matrix is lacking in something compared to Optimus’, he’s not on the same level as Optimus. He’s not too far off, but he’s not as good

Now as for what the Matrix actually does for Optimus other than make him immune to the virus? I don’t really know honestly, haven’t figured that one out

But basically, Optimus only exists because of the war, and to fight the Decepticons. He’s a person outside of that, but this is why he was created

I’m considering the idea of a potential plot line (I mean it’d be a small one but still something) where basically someone overrides Optimus’ personality to make him only focus on his purpose of eradicating infected bots, basically making him a mindless machine, and in doing so attacking Megatron, though at this point he doesn’t know about Megatron’s infection, at least not consciously. In this state he does, but by the time he gets reverted out of this state, the information’s conveniently lost, maybe because he can’t remember, or it’s jumbled and he doesn’t fully make sense of it until the reveal when it all clicks into place

But I think that’s about it on the new stuff with Optimus. I mean it’s mostly about the Matrix, but you know, it still involves him

Now the question is, do I redesign the other characters (mostly Megatron), and if so, how?

[leek-e]

My drawing of Carson and his dog from PIBE Heebie Jeebies <3

When he says he was gonna use his wish to make his dog "even bigger" I immediately assumed that he’s been making this same wish every time they go to the lake. A golden retriever is not big enough to warrant the description "the dog’s so big you’ll be like ‘who got a dog that big?’ and the answer, girl, is me." Unless it is a particularly huge golden retriever, or, my theory, one that has been magically enlarged by Windella the lady of the lake.

[elmonstro]

This is my gift for @hysterical-random-things for this year’s secret solenoid! Happy holidays and I hope you like it <3