#memory prime

[tricorderreading]

#42: Memory Prime (1988)

Kirk and McCoy tell Spock exciting news to see if it'll provoke a reaction, with a twist

Spock is analyzing this like its one of their chess matches throughout the convo is delightful, and the author does a wonderful job matching the conversation to their play styles. Spock is a computer with his strategy, but kirk goes for unique strategies that catch Spock off guard

The last section is so sweet, with spock realizing both kirk and McCoy were very considerate of Spock's personal boundaries, with intentionally playing up the big news while in public so Spock brace himself and not feel ashamed that he exhibited his excitement so carelessly in front of others. They want him to be comfortable and happy and know how to do it

[ratchetsfataft]

Boy why you so mwah mwah mwahh muh muh mwahh

[divinemach1ne]

was thinking a lot about optimus and bumblebee, especially the hc of bumblebee bein really young at the start of the war and optimus being there for him ... they are big comforts for me so i really wanna draw them a lot! so many hcs i need to get out.. a little look into my mind heres the flat colours cus i really like them :]

i wasnt going to shade this or give it a background originally but... i got ... carried away .. . .

[gravelsong]

Sparkplug is pushing the dadimus agenda so hard

[molinaesque]

"What are you?" "Oh, I'm you, sweetie. You just... give it a little time."

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Y'know what, you can also have this

It was meant to go in tandem with my Prime bros fic but because since I drew this I rewrote the draft of the first chapter so many times it doesn't fit anymore

[weirdozjunkary]

@smallpwbbles you say that I can’t keep getting away with this, when YOU are the reason that I make this shit

[sonlc]

doodles which i may or may not finish later

[joycew-art]

Drew the finalists of the @ultimaterickshowdown! May the best Rick win!!!

[rickmurai]

i was gonna draw memory rick bc he won the poll but then I remembered I doodled rnm a week ago so

[hensel-x]

11yo me: did we marry him??? 22yo me: wh- THE CUNTY TRANSFORMER????????????????

[soothedcerberus]

Parents just can’t help putting their babies in pumpkin costumes 🎃

[signanothername]

They mean the world to me fr

[butterflydm]

I was skimming the books for fic-research reasons and just had to be baffled all over again at how the Seanchan invasion gets treated CoT-onward. The Kin were the spine of the Wise Women of Ebou Dar, who are, like THE people who are respected by everyone in the city. They all had to try to flee the area because of the Seanchan and any who didn't successfully flee but were Kin (and thus could channel) would have been instantly enslaved by the Seanchan. And yet we have that fucking weirdness in Mat's (fucking weird overall) first chapter in A Memory of Light where the Ebou Dari people are all "lol, why would a brutal invasion bother us in the slightest; we're too super-casual for an invasion to bother us".

I mean, that's all tied into the logistics problems that plagued all things Seanchan-related in the later books (they have infinite soldiers and infinite food & supplies and generally don't have to abide by the economics & logistics that Rand's side is required to follow) but it just really stood out to me because I was reading about how respected the Wise Women are (even in places like the Rahad) -- but the Seanchan's coming would have completely gutted them as a society and that should have an impact on how the Ebou Dari feel about the Seanchan. And it just ties into my overall feeling that Jordan stopped treating the Seanchan realistically starting in CoT and then Sanderson continued the trend when he took over the writing of the books.

But, yeah, one of the big things that I hope for from the prime show is that the Seanchan get treated with narrative consistency and we don't get an abrupt 180 on how the narrative treats them at the two-thirds point. Because what the Ebou Dari should be feeling (and what they were feeling in Winter's Heart!) is a lot of fear and paranoia and the desire to rebel, because the Seanchan are Always Watching and will Randomly Steal and Enslave People for reasons that the non-Seanchan people are not going to understand!

I am really curious about how much Seanchan Presence we're going to have in s3, because s2 made some bold choices in where it went with the Seanchan storyline and I am intensely curious about what kind of follow-up we'll have in s3. I've said a lot in the past that Tuon needs to be introduced sooner than she was in the books (Jordan waited way too late to introduce her! He should also have introduced her while she was still in Seanchan, imo, so that we actually could have seen her interacting with the rest of the Imperial family so that we would have a baseline of Seanchan Imperial Behavior to potentially contrast her against later -- but Tuon feels like another case where Jordan valued the surprise of the wham! line over giving a lot of detail and background) and I would absolutely be a fan of her being introduced in s3.

[staryxio]

felt like drawing ratchet

[mamawasatesttube]

not to be a bitch but like. i can never take "ohhhh kon is soOOoOoo sad about tim/ber uwaahhhh he's in love with tim but it's unrequited waaahhhh" angst seriously because like... i get it, the only thing you know about kon is that he's the other half of a popular m/m tim ship, but uh. rebirth kon is living an existential fucking nightmare. i think he's got way bigger fish to fry than whether the tim who only kind of remembers him at all is dating some other guy lmao