#mining on cybertron

[screamacrossthestars]

"So many discoveries, Bee. So many. I suppose my favorite was Earth, of all things. Long before humans walked its lands. Organic life was sparce, much of it being small crustaceans within shallow pools. Life forms were always the most exciting discoveries for me," Starscream purrs, the passion in his voice unmistakable. "I had never cared for humans... began to hate organics altogether. But, back when I was out there with Skyfire, they were just– amazing. Never mind the energon! I'm telling you, these creatures on Earth were smaller than the tip of my digit, Bee!"

The seeker rambles on and on, much like Bee. The more excited he got, the faster the words fell out of his vocalizer. His words were emphasized by passionate gestures, as if he were imagining his past findings in his servos again. More and more stories of discovery poured out of the mech as they made the journey back to the base, a seemingly endless amount...

[compaculaaa]

the sparklings are squeaky clean and sparkly even in the cave, but poor Alpha is still green and grimy! does he not have time to clean himself much, or can he just not reach some spots?

He’s very tired, his joints are rusted and he’s covered in moss and grime while stuck in a cave he can’t really clean himself thoroughly with just his glossa. But though he’s exhausted and running low on energon, he will still find the energy to make sure his babies are clean and healthy

[bluespider008]

So much for keepin' it subtle..

changed his alt mode as well from a '69 Mustang Mach 1 to a '65 Plymouth Fury III Hardtop

[sparkleresthold]

Brothers from another batch

[scribe-of-planes]

Headcanon that, alongside romance and friendship based movies similar to Earth, Cybertron has movies based on the forming of trine relationships. Obviously they're more popular among seekers, but they aren't unenjoyable for others, including humans.

Now imagine Starscream in continuities where he's without his trine mates. Watching old sappy trine rom-coms by himself and remembering the time the other two begged and dragged him to the theatre to see it when it first came out.

[paragonrobits]

I take 'Aligned Grimlock doesn't seem to actually less intelligent despite nearly 99 percent of his processor's energy being forcibly rewired into muscle power' and raise you 'that IS what is happening, but Grimlock is just so dang smart that he mostly suffers some mild speech issues despite functionally suffering a nearly complete lobotomy'

[eclipselunarchaos]

Been playing alot of Stardew Valley recently and decided to marry Elliot.

Want to know the funny part?

When I read what he says HE JUST SOUNDS LIKE TFP KNOCKOUT IN MY BRAIN?!?!

LIKE HELP!? WHAT? WHY!?

[quibble-auk]

More perfect AU thoughts. We can just ignore all the potential angst.

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This has @thebrokenmechanicalpencil’s OC Comet in it!!!

Let me sit and imagine a world where the canon event doesn’t happen because I need to feel joy instead of looming dread when writing fluff. Please no angst. I will actually die if we put angst in this. Have mercy on me.

They are so sleepy

I’m countering her being upset he ate another guard with “oh, but this is my charge.” Yk how I mentioned that they’d do that? They would sacrifice another member of their family group for what they are assigned to protect and the member would be like “yeah alright. Fair. I would do the same. Still love you.” Not saying she be happy about it, especially if she could have done smth to prevent it but…

I had also mentioned that when they get emotionally attached to things that they watch over (tiny organic children would be a big one) they see their role as the protector as something sacred. That’s why they aren’t allowed to interact much with the people that they work for. It causes issues with their reliability.

Sunrazor’s sole purpose in life now is to keep her wife and three kids safe and happy.

She would go find morally wrong people (Dropmix and Torrent watch out) and be like “son, I have hunted and gathered for you” and Valkyrie just gives her this look.

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On the other side of the spectrum. Comet has to worry about this small creature just throwing herself at things to fight. She’s gotta protect him.

Comet is like, it’s cute but… please stop. Where are your survival instincts? Are you actually trying to die? I can take care of myself.

That’s what the backpack is for.

Baby Sunrazor is determined she’ll win said fights though. She don’t understand that she is small and that she has weaknesses. So yeah, she’ll sit there and growl at anything and everything that comes close to Comet… until they do smth scary and she just freezes.

Locked joints bro… she’s not old enough to fully embrace her fight response (otherwise they would never make it to adulthood). Baby Guardians have a freeze response instead… which sucks when they are constantly provoking stuff.

I never finished the second doodle but I kinda lost motivation. Enjoy

He has no idea what he’s gonna tell the twins.

[novafire-is-thinking]

I’ve seen a few people passing around a uquiz and doing it for their OCs. I only do these if they give interesting/insightful results for my top favorite OCs, and this one definitely meets my standards:

What kind of love are you?

LOVE AS A FORCE OF NATURE

Your love is like whiplash -- it comes in with the rain, it blows the doors wide open. When you fall in love, it is sudden and hard and immense. It is powerful. It is earthshaking and world-ending. Nature is a force, and that force can be destructive if you're not careful. See how the world is doused in gasoline and set on fire -- your love consumes, your love takes, your love burns. You're hot and cold all at once, a hurricane and a wildfire bound together in skin, and when you're in love, it can feel like it's eating you alive from the inside out. When you love, it is with everything you have because it is everything you have. Be careful, darling, because not everyone survives the storm.

LOVE AS YOUTH

Your love is buoyant. Your love is bountiful. It is ageless, and it will never age. When you fall in love, it is breathless. It is joyful and endless, it is magnificent. You think it, like your youth, will last forever. Youth is eternal, and so is your love. Your love skips rocks and tells stories, your love roasts marshmallows over fires, and laughs freely. Your love does not take itself too seriously. Your love is jumping into puddles just to watch the water splash, and dancing in the rain, and it is watching Sunday morning reruns of cartoons to feel young once more. Your love is forever, forever young. Being loved by you is to be loved by the summer months. And those never end, do they? Well, I won't tell if you don't.

LOVE AS A CHOICE

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

LOVE AS A FLAW

Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don't remember making and desperately want to return. You didn't ask for this. You didn't want this. It's a problem-- your problem --and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don't care who you hurt in the process, only that you can't afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.

[woahits-transformers]

TODAY!!! TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

[quibbs126]

I’m thinking again about the production and obtaining of Energon, and the various forms of it we see

The two general methods of natural Energon on Cybertron I see seem to be either in solid crystals needing to be mined and processed, or in a liquid state flowing in rivers, able to be drunk. I know Prime has the former, and Cyberverse the latter, and One seems to have a mix of both. I want to say that in One, the liquid form was the original, and the mining method only came about after the shortage

I also want to bring up something my friend told me about her understanding of Energon in One because I found it really interesting. She likened it to salt on our planet, in that we obtain it both via salt mines, or from extracting it in the ocean as sea salt. The liquid form of Energon seems to just be pure Energon to me, so it isn’t entirely the same, though honestly the odder form to me seems the solid state, since it looks like Energon has to be liquified in the processing process, but then also consumable Energon is solid, very stable cubes. I don’t really know what’s going on there, but I just wanted to mention the salt thing because I liked it

Then there’s two other methods of Energon creation I’ve seen that seem more niche. For starters there’s g1, in which Energon seems entirely a synthesized resource, created from large quantities of energy, and it doesn’t seem exclusive to just Cybertron and the Transformers

Then there’s Animated, which doesn’t really talk about it much, but Bulkhead’s offhand mentions of once living on an Energon farm implies to me that Energon in this universe is grown and is more like a crop? I’m not sure, maybe it’s like some sort of electrical farm rather than the kind we have? I wonder about agriculture on t Cybertron too, since they have flora sometimes

But anyways, I’m just thinking about this right now, probably because I was talking about Cybertron having subdivisions responsible for aspects of their society, and someone having to be the one dealing with Energon. And whatever they do probably has to depend on what form Energon would take

If it’s minerals, we get the miners, and easily get the oppressed miner backstory commonly seen with Megatron and in general a corrupt Cybertron. I don’t really know what the outcome of liquid Energon would be, other than I suppose managing the sources to make sure they don’t run dry. Synthetic Energon though would mean these are the guys in charge of energy production in general, and finding effective ways to create Energon. And then the farms I guess would just be agriculture, assuming that’s how it works

But the point is, whatever this group does varies wildly depending on the method Energon is obtained, and I don’t know which is best or what I prefer

[roxistic]

World is his 👑

[transingthoseformers]

We need to get infinitely weirder about the beast wars characters and just how much their very biology has changed from the initial cybertronian body plan

[dividedsingularity]

Time for some cassette love to shine through! With a guest Laserbeak doodle courtesy of @happy-duckie = ] it's the pencil one.

[prevailinghatred]

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[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

I'm still fuckin mad over the ending for cyberverse cheetor and I will be forever