#mixed elements

[justvea18]

I will fall in love with you over and over again, I don't care how, when or when

[bastardlybonkers]

Would the headlights on Bee's wings count as biolights? And if so, would that make his wings anymore attractive? I'd assume they work like birds, the prettier and brighter they are the more attractive. Considering Bee is bright yellow and has lights on his wings would he be considered attractive to other fliers? Thank you

ooh alright so this ask gives me an opportunity to do another little analysis/hc dump, this time on cybertronian beauty standards! lemme start with the basics first

-personally, i dont think of fliers like birds, though ik bird behaviors is a pretty popular hc for fliers lol. i think a lot of them like wings because that means they can fly (cool flying alt, can fly together) and because theyre nice to touch and be touched!

-i think cybertronians find faces attractive due to the increase in expressiveness, so theres a cultural bias towards finding faces attractive. however, faceplates are still appreciated, and as james roberts has confirmed, those without lip mouths have the most erotic mouth build 😏 so that lends a huge bonus to faceplates, evening them out a bit in terms of beauty standards

-lights and bright plating colors are probably attractive, but id say really anything that isnt grey and lightless is probably handsome (grey looks like dead bodies to them)

-some helm shapes are just not very flattering, at least to cybertronians. pre-ghost, bumblebee's helm was probably considered extremely average looking, but post-ghost whoever built his body decided to upgrade his helm a bit lol

now for starbee specifically...

-starscream and bee are both obviously affected by the beauty standards of their culture, so theres definitely some aspects that carry over. however, theres things that they dont really care about either (for example, bumblebee doesnt really care how shiny starscreams plating is)

-i couldnt for the life of me find the lights on bees wings youre referring to in the ask 😭 i looked at all my refs but i dont see them 😔 he does have lights on his legs, which starscream probably does like, as he likes bright and pretty things in general (both on others and himself)

-starscream has never particularly cared about wheels, hes far more interested in bees doorwings. personally bumblebee would like a little more wheel attention 😂

-bumblebee finds stars wings cute, which is different from most people who like wings, who like them for the power they represent (he also likes the powerful jet alt mode but he likes getting a rise out of starscream even more)

-heel thrusters are a unique thing to cybertronians, and are probably considered a more niche attraction

[sweetlullabyebye]

Charles Rowland being so chill about Edwin's fanboys

[yhwcomeback]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road! bonus:

[olessan]

☼ The Sun Rises ☼

[sunlit-mess]

I came here for the Hazbin, and now I'm here for murder drones as well lol (Also, fucking love your art, you're my fav artist <3)

dragging yall with me...

[tsururoach]

V. Flower (roach ver)

[vohtaro]

more achilles

[justvea18]

Old art because my artstyle peaked here

[melchizedek-chrysaetos]

"I can be a creator, the creator. It has happened before, and it will happen again, many times."

— Notes on poem 16, This House of Dreams

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[vaguely-concerned]

obsessed with the fact that if you choose the last purple option in lucanis' romance chat before going off to tearstone island ("they MOVED the MOON!!!" still in the running for the best delivery in the whole game btw it's so ineffably hilarious to me), it's rook who flinches away just a little bit (if still warmly <3) and tries to change the topic and lucanis who's steady even though he's clearly still so afraid. 'don't tempt fate'/'*the softest fucking voice you've ever heard in your entire life* I don't intend to'. pain and suffering

lucanis looking at rook and helplessly, with a wonder that verges on despair, saying 'what would I do without you?' is soooo. especially at that point in the relationship and with what's about to happen. and for whatever reason rook can't quite stay with the fact that they do mean that much to someone, that they are so reverently and so groundingly 'I want to know what your favourite food is so I can make it for you any time you want it' everyday loved, it's too much and they have to deflect from it or the fear of losing it. can say some very interesting things about them, too.

(there is also a Pattern in that in my estimation lucanis frequently responds better to inviting humour than to earnest shows of concern -- it seems to help him be more engaged/online to be offered that more neutral space to meet you in and uh 'build' the conversation around something funny together than to be confronted with compassion head-on because that clearly mostly deer-in-the-headlights him, as we also see with some of the early flirt options haha. contrast this especially with bellara, who repeatedly gets genuinely upset if you try to make light of some pressing and painful situation she's dealing with (girl I'm so sorry I'm so jestercore and I canot change this but I'll try :'( for you). I think the times lucanis reacts negatively to the purple options are much more about you siding with other (frequently more charismatic lol) people against him or throwing him under the bus interpersonally -- like seeming to go along with illario's charm offensives, or telling teia lucanis didn't want to come help out with caterina's funeral and he'd just sit alone and brood about it if you didn't force him (???!!! hello??? unprovoked and deeply unkind out of left field???? this option is so fucking MEAN and for what fhdaskjfa you're telling me there's no way for rook to be a bit of a dick in this game?)

when it's one on one conversation he consistently seems to find it quite comforting, though... which makes a lot of sense because in many ways it's how he interacts with illario, just shorn of the resentments and hidden daggers and things they Do Not Talk About but really should beneath the levity that makes it sharp. it's gone ugly between them, but I think the affectionate instinct beneath is real and goes back a long way before all of that festered -- it's a form of play he does with people he loves. and uh. not really caterina huh. notably.)

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

if Hayao Miyazaki wants to come back out of retirement one more time Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett is right there

[itsalmostavengers]

Not to get on my soapbox about a 17 year old film but the thing about iron man 1 is that it wasn’t a superhero film. It wasn’t an mcu film. It was not a shoot-em-up or a cash grab for a sect of people who the execs knew were willing to consume whatever was pumped out of a franchise. Iron Man 1 was, and remains, in a league of its own because everything about it was steeped in could-be-real. Cinematically, thematically, tonally it is a completely different movie to every other marvel film that came after it, even the other IM’s. The shots are slow and there are minimal cutscenes. The actors essentially ad-libbed the entire script (in stark ((haha)) contrast to endgame when actors weren’t even given the respect of knowing which scripts were real and which were fake). The characters have genuine, wrought, complex discussions and the betrayal, when it comes, is harrowing because these people could so easily be real. I mean bear in mind this was a universe of superheroes in its infancy, it was contextless, and everything had to be made from scratch. It had to MAKE you compelled, it was unable to borrow characters or subplots or references. And so it created a story that was less about a superhero and more about how a bad man can become good, And how a good man can change the world.

And as soon as marvel realised how much people enjoyed that kind of film they immediately had to cannibalise it for its parts and then turn those parts into an algorithmic money-making machine, slowly and methodically stripping away any real creativity in order to maximise profit. But Iron Man 1 (2007) you will ALWAYS be famous to me.

[vseahn]

Chain!

[yurislavlcathedral]

Stay strapped!