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[poetrex]

Littoral Combat Song (One Piece At A Time)

Well, I left Kentucky back in 2006, And moved to Mobile to work on ships— First year, they had me weldin' plates on LCS-2. Every day I'd see her high and dry, And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and blue. So one day I devised myself a scheme, an' It's the envy of most any seaman— I'd sneak it out there in whatever I could fit it in. Now gettin' caught meant goin' to prison, But if a diesel engine or two went missin' I'd have me a boat worth at least a half a billion. I'd get it one piece at a time, And it wouldn't cost me a dime. You'll know it's me when I come through your sound. I'm gonna sail around Austal style, Gonna drive Lockheed Martin wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. So the very next day when I punched in To distribute lethality with some help from a friend, I left that day with a lunchbox full of gears. I've never considered myself a thief, But GD wouldn't miss just one little piece, Especially if I strung it out over several years. The first day I got me a stator vane; The next day I got me a whole A-frame, Then the turbochargers, compressor, and that alternator. Little things I could fit in my hands Like nuts an' bolts, and most of the cams, But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's flatbed trailer. Now, my plan was workin' out just fine Til' at last that trimaran was mine, But during sea trials, we faced significant hurdles. See, one crankshaft was from LCS-3, And the shaft seal was a bit leaky— She made over fifty knots, but only in circles. So we upgraded her Mission Module, And with a little bit of help from a Youtube video, We fixed her waterjets and that helped a lot. Now the weapons was another sight— Gold Crew removed the 57 one night 'Cause they found that it interfered with their wifi hotspot. The superstructure looked funny too, But we put it together and when we got through, Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one bridge wing. Then we had a small explosion; Some minor issues with aggressive corrosion, But other than that, she'll take you for a helluva spin. But when we took her out for a shakedown cruise To show the flag and spread the news, I could hear everybody laughin' up in OPNAV. Now, CNO didn't find it amusing 'Cause when they showed up, I expected a bruisin' But they promoted me to NAVSEA, even let me pick my own staff. I got it one piece at a time, And it didn't cost me a dime! You'll know it's me when I come through your sound. I'm gonna sail around Austal style, Gonna drive Lockheed Martin wild 'Cause I got the only one there is around.

HOOYAH! Red Ryder this is the USS Dale Earnhardt saying Bravo Zulu to all our Navy team, and She's not a corvette, do not call it a corvette.

And negatory on the cost of this here mow-chine Red Ryder, You might say I won it in a no-bid contract. It's cheaper that way.

Uh, what Mission Package is it? Well, it's a Surface Warfare SSM Counter Unmanned Aircraft System Anti-Air, Counter-Mine, Counter-Anti-Submar-ine High-Energy Laser Littoral Combat Ship.

Yeah, a VLS PDS Aviation Countermeasures, ALMDS UISS DEW and Knifefish operator, Agile and modular Littoral Combat Ship!

[varyathevillain]

Ancient Rome Sidequest Mapping

here's a post of something interesting I've found ages back, and posted on (X)Twitter, concerning the Ancient Rome Sidequest. needed to save this because I am nuking/closing my accounts there.

this is following Sasha and Grizzop's path step by step, and how, back then, the GM mastery made my jaw drop.

when describing the room (or more like a hall) in RQG126, it's mentioned being lit by braziers, and that Zop and Sasha fall down onto a mosaic floor, the same one which is broken in present time. the closest imagined restoration of the Ancient Rome including intricate mosaic? Domus Transitoria. It was Nero's first palace, which, according to Seutonius, spanned all the way from the Palatine to the Esquiline, and according to historians had floor and wall mosaics, and in these times mosaics were restricted to only being on walls and floors. when the palace was replaced by Domus Aurea, mosaics were instead placed onto the vaulted ceilings, changing the art of future and partially influencing future mosaic art. there is also a 'gardened avenue' towards temples, which fits the path Sasha and Grizzop take. not to mention that Templo di Apollo lies *very close* to Domus Transitoria (the previous statements are backed up by following articles, in Italian, because I couldn't find English ones that didn't butcher the things I wanted to show)

romanoimpero.com/2020/05/domus-transitoria-di-nerone.html https://romanoimpero.com/2010/09/tempio

they get into a temple district (temple of Diana and then down the Palatium towards Aventinus, with actual real life temples somewhat applicable to the ones we hear about in the podcast), and that's how they figure out that there are still corresponding gods in Rome. the distance between the temples described? that they 'don’t have any sort of distance between them, next to each other on the streets', unlike the modern ones; which makes sense as Palatine Hill is very... compact in the building placement, even in ancient times.

there isn't much left from the actual temples except from preserved ruins by Italian archelogists, but there are skilful, artful depictions of how temples could've looked like in ancient times, for example temples of Apollo and Cybele in Palatine:

then we get to see the untouched Servian wall, which is then magicked by whoever is in charge (I don't think we get to know if that's just the Mars people, or several sources, or something else) to protect the city.

(Servian wall is in black here)

Servian wall is the first defence of the city of Rome, constructed around it in the early 4th century BCE. later on it would be succeeded by superior Aurelian walls; but by that moment in history (late 3rd century AD) in RQG that city did NOT exist as a bastion anymore. then, after they visit the temples of 'Pluto' (meet Cicero) and Mars, all three of them through the districts with human population, which corresponds to the parts close to Forum Romanum, also where, coincidentally, real life Cicero resided for some time!

and then, Cicero takes Grizzop and Sasha down into the sewers, which makes perfect sense because that district is where the Cloaca Maxima goes through!! there are several historical suggestions about how the system was formed, from an open air canal into underground sewers. BUT! that isn't what is interesting to us! what is interesting is that the passage partially connects the temples, which makes sense, because in this case temples are also in need of water system for the non-godly treatment of their residents and patients.

and then the three of them move towards the underground part/inner workings of temple of Jupiter, which, in fact, completely corresponds with position of the temple of Jupiter Stator!

depicted here in yellow, information of it referenced per this article

per "Rambles in Rome", the temple of Jupiter Stator, vowed by Romulus when his army was fleeing before the Sabines, if Jupiter would stay their flight; hence the name. "Romulus built a temple to Jupiter near the Porta Mugonia" (Dionysius, ii. 30). It was restored by Scipio, A.U.C. 459 (Livy, x. 37). It was in this temple that Cicero made his first oration against Catiline (Plutarch). Cicero says that here the goods of Pompey were offered for sale.

Rambles in Rome, as referenced

and the temple of Jupiter Stator like a light walk away from where the Colosseum would stand. only there is no Colosseum. there is the domed hall in which the big Mars vs Jupiter battle happens, the other part of which they can't even see, being underground and so far away. then, as dragons escape and Sasha and Ciciero are free to go, they trace their steps back out the Cloaca Maxima until they reach dead end and have to reach outside to gatehouse near Pons Subilicus (the temporary bridge dated ~1AD), just outside Forum Boarium

and that's why when they get out of the sewers they can 1) see the destruction of the walls 2) see the destruction of the palace in which Grizzop and Sasha were dropped 3) be only steps away from going away from inner city, while also technically being on Rome territory.

they have also, in my opinion, crossed Tiber afterwards and started going Northwest, because after some time it's mentioned that people flocking to necropolis, which, at that point, were on Trans Tiberim/more North and closer to Vatican/Campus Vaticanus, ergo, on the other side of Tiber.

"The Vaticanum, or Campus Vaticanus was originally a level area between the Vaticanus Mons and the Tiber. During the Republican era, it was an unwholesome site frequented by the destitute. Caligula and Nero used the area for chariot exercises, and renewal was encouraged by the building of the Circus of Nero, also known as the Circus Vaticanus or simply the Vaticanum. The location of tombs near the Circus Vaticanus is mentioned in a few late sources."

I am not in any way shape or form the One and True source on this, and will gladly take critique from people more versed in the topic than I am; this was made originally for my personal use, and then I figured out hey, this is really interesting! and also I wanted to save this for everyone else who used this for their musings/fics.

[sweet7simple]

Terms and definitions that you can maybe apply to your fan works

I don't know anything about computer or mechanical engineering (it's very funny to me that I am in the Transformers fandom and I don't even care about cars), but I do care about improving my writing. I have gathered a list of terms that sound very sciencey and applicable to mechs, some from Martha Wells's "Murderbot Diaries," some from fanfiction/fandom (shout-out to the Crime in Crystals series by Aard_Rinn and Baebeyza, they wrote Transformers better than any Transformers comic/TV show did), and a lot from just surfing through Google and going, "well, what the hell is this? Okay, but what the hell is THAT?".

Also, as I was writing this post, I ended up getting sucked into this article:

And this really bloated my already long list of terms. Very easy to read if you want to glance it over yourself.

It's not an exhaustive list and who knows if it will be useful to you - but maybe you can reblog with your own add-ons of terms and definitions you think make a Transformers fan work just that much better.

The list is below the cut:

100% CPU Load - CPU is fully occupied with too many processors/applications/drivers/operations - not necessarily synonymous with an overload.

Actuators* - A device that causes a machine or other device to operate (Ex: a computerized unit instructs the actuator how to move the tires on a vehicle); create linear and rotary movement (Ex: A hydraulic actuator on a valve will move that valve in response to a sensor/signal); Linear actuators "move a piston back and forth inside a cylinder to build pressure and 'actuate', or complete an action".

* Think of actuators as devices that help produce linear motion and motors as devices that help produce rotational movement. Hence, some consider actuators as a type of motor. But a motor is not a type of actuator (jhfoster.com).

Alternator - Converts mechanical energy to electrical energy with an alternating current. The stator and rotor inside the alternator work as magnets and rotate to generate the alternating current. Then the alternating current (AC) is transformed into a direct current (DC) that charges the battery.

Archive (Archive files) - used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress files to use less storage space.

Arithmetic Log Unit (ALU) - the part of a central processing unit that carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in computer instruction words. In some processors, the ALU is divided into two units: an arithmetic unit (AU) and a logic unit (LU).

Augment - Make something greater; increase.

Auxiliary Battery - Designed to run as a backup to the starting battery and provide power to some essential equipment like engine start/stop and other systems that require power while the engine is off to put less strain on the main battery and alternator.

Bandwidth - A measurement indicating the maximum capacity of a wired or wireless communications link to transmit data over a network connection in a given amount of time.

Behavioral Coding - A term used in Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries; essential, code for behaviors.

Branch Instructions - Use programming elements like if-statements, for-loops, and return-statements; used to interrupt the program execution and switch to a different part of the code.

Branch Predictors - Track the status of previous branches to learn whether or not an upcoming branch is likely to be taken or not.

Buffer - A region of memory used to store data temporarily while it is being moved from one place to another.

Cathodes vs Anodes - Cathodes are the positive electrode while the anode is the negative electrode; electrons flow from the anode to the cathode and this creates the flow of electric charge in a battery or electrochemical cell.

Catastrophic Failure - Complete, sudden and unexpected breakdown in a machine, indicating improper maintenance.

Central Processing Unit (CPU) - Primary component of a computer that acts as its "control center"; complex set of circuitry that runs the machine's operating systems and apps; the brains of the computer. * Components: Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), Control Unit (CU), Datapath, Instruction Cycle, Registers, Combinational Logic, the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), etc...

Clock - Determines how many instructions a CPU can process per second; increasing its frequency through overclocking will make instructions run faster, but will increase power consumption and heat output.

Combustion Chambers - An enclosed space in which combustion takes place, such as an engine; jet engines also have combustion chambers.

Condition Codes - Extra bits kept by a processor that summarize the results of an operation and that affect the execution of later instructions.

Control Bus - Manages the communication between the computer's CPU and its other components.

Control Unit (CU) - Manages the execution of instructions and coordinates data flow within the CPU and between other computer components.

Cybermetal - Element native to Cybertron and Cybertron alone.

Datapath - The path where data flows as it is processed; receives input, processes it, and sends it out to the right place when done processing; datapaths are told how to operate by the CU; depending on instructions, a datapath can route signals to different components, turn on and off different parts of itself, and monitor the state of the CPU.

Diagnostic and Data Repair Sequence - Term used in Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries; exactly what it sounds like.

Diode - A semiconductor device with two terminals (a cathode and an anode), typically allowing the flow of current in one direction only.

Discrete Circuit vs Integrated Circuit- Single device with a single function (ex: Transistor, diode) vs Devices with multiple functional elements on one chip (ex: Memories, microprocessor IC and Logic IC).

Drivers - A set of files that help software (digital components, such as Microsoft Office) interface/work with hardware (physical components, such as a keyboard); allows an operating system and a device to communicate.

Electromagnetic (EM) Field - A combination of invisible electric and magnetic fields of force; used in fandom by mechs to broadcast emotions to others.

Flags - A value that acts as a signal for a function or process. The value of the flag is used to determine the next step of a program; flags are often binary flags which contain a boolean value (true or false).

Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) - Consists of an electronic control unit (ECU) and related accessors that control aircraft engine performances.

Gestation Tank - Used in mech pregnancies, you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Heads Up Display (HUD) - A part of the user interface that visually conveys information to the player during gameplay.

Heat Spreader - Often used in computer processors to prevent them from overheating during operation; transfers energy as heat from a hotter source to a colder heat sink or heat exchanger.

HUB - A device that connects multiple computers and devices to a local area network (LAN).

Inductive Charging - How I imagine berths work; wireless power transfer (ex: Wireless charger or charging pad used for phones).

Instruction Cycle - Also known as fetch-decode-execute cycle; basic operation performed by a CPU to execute an instruction; consists of several steps, each of which performs a specific function in the execution of the instruction.

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) - The figurative blueprint for how the CPU operates and how all the internal systems interact with each other (I think of it like a blueprint for the brain).

Irising - Term used in fanfiction (specifically the Crime in Crystals series) to describe the action of the of the spark chamber opening ("The Talk", chapter 6, my absolute favorite chapter out of the entire series). I just really liked how the word sounded in that context.

Life Codes - "For those of us who were forged, Primus, through Vector Sigma, generated a pulse wave. Each one a data-saturated life code faster than thought, brighter than light, racing across Cybertron, sowing sparks..." (~Tyrest/Solomus, Volume 5 of More Than Meets the Eye)

Memory Hierarchy - Represents the relationship between caches, RAM, and main storage; when a CPU receives a memory instruction for a piece of data that it doesn't yet have locally in its registers, it will go down the memory hierarchy until it finds it.

Levels: L1 cache (usually smallest and fastest), L2 cache, L3 cache, RAM, and then main storage (usually biggest and slowest); available space and latency (delay) increase from one level to the next

Depending on the multi-core (a core is usually synonymous with a CPU) system, each core will have its own private L1 cache, share an L2 with one other core, and share an L3 with more or more cores.

Motors* - Any power unit that generates motion; electric motors work by converting electrical energy into mechanical energy... when this happens within a magnetic field, a force is generated which causes shaft rotation.

Multitasking Operating System - Allows users to run multiple programs and tasks almost simultaneously without losing data; manage system resources (such as computer memory and input/output devices), allocate resources, enable multiple users, and eliminate long wait times for program execution.

Network - A set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other.

Network Feed - The continuously updating stream of content that users encounter on networking platforms.

Neural Network - A type of machine learning process that uses interconnected nodes (like neurons) to teach computers to process data in a way similar to the human brain; a form of deep learning that can help computers learn from their mistakes and improve their time.

Nimbus - A luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint; has been used in fanfiction synonymously or in junction with the corona of the spark.

Nodes - A connection point between devices that allows data to be sent and received between them.

Oil Sump/Oil Pan - Don't forget to change your mech's oil.

Out-Of-Order Execution - A paradigm used to minimize downtime while waiting for other instructions to finish; allows a CPU to choose the most timely instructions to execute out of an instruction queue.

Overload - Orgasm; an electrical overload occurs when too much electricity passes through a circuit, exceeding its capacity; an information overload is when a system receives more input than it can process, or a state of being overwhelmed by the amount of data presented for processing.

Pedes - Feet

Pipelining - A technique used in computer architecture that allows a processor to execute multiple instructions simultaneously, improving overall performance.

Processing Capacity - The ability and speed of a processor, and how many operations it can carry out in a given amount of time.

Program Counter - A special register in a computer processor that contains the memory address (location) of the next program instruction to be executed.

Programmable Nanobots/Nanites - Cybertronian microbots programmed to do work at the molecular level; used popularly for surface healing and pigment in mechs.

Protected Storage - Provides applications with an interface to store user data that must be kept secure or free from modification; a storage method; a function in mainframe hardware.

Protoform - Formed of an ultra-dense liquid metal and are extremely hard to damage; the most basic Cybertronian form of raw, free-flowing living metal; first stage of Cybertronian life cycle

To create a Cybertronian, you need the protoform, the life-giving spark, and alt-form information.

Register - A type of computer memory built directly into the processor or CPU that is used to store and manipulate data during the execution of instructions.

Ex: "When you run a .exe on Windows... the code for that program is moved into memory and the CPU is told what address the first instruction starts at. The CPU always maintains an internal register that holds the memory location of the next instruction to be executed [the Program Counter]"...

Resource Allocations - The process of identifying and assigning available resources to a task or project to support objectives.

Risk Assessment - Focus on identifying the threats facing your information systems, networks, and data and assessing the potential consequences should these adverse events occur.

Routine - A component of a software application that performs a specific task (ex: Saving a file).

Servomechanism - A powered mechanism producing motion or force at a higher level of energy than the input level (ex: In the brakes and steering of large motor vehicles) especially where feedback is employed to make the control automatic.

Servos - Hands

Shellcode - A small piece of executable code used as a payload, built to exploit vulnerabilities in a system or carry out malicious commands. The name comes from the fact that the shellcode usually starts a command shell which allows the attacker to control the compromised machine.

Semiconductor - A material used in electrical circuits and components that partially conduct electricity.

Semiconductor materials include silicon, germanium, and selenium.

Struts - Bones; A rod or bar forming part of a framework and designed to resist compression.

System/System Unit (in computers) - A setup that consists of both hardware and software components organized to perform complex operations/The core of your computer where all the processing happens.

Task Specific Accelerator - Circuits designed to perform one small task as fast as possible (ex: Encription, media encoding & machine learning).

Teek - Used in Transformers fandom in conjunction with EM Fields; when a mech "teeks" another mech's field, they are feeling the emotions that mech is broadcasting.

Transistor - Enables a computer to follow instructions to calculate, compare and copy data.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) - A standard plug-and-play interface that allows computers and peripheral devices to connect with each other, transfer data, and share a power source; allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics; plug-and-play interface is also a type of sexual activity used in fandom.

Warren - Used to refer to a group of minibots with their own social hierarchy and culture (Seriously, read the Crime in Crystals series, it's better than canon).

[audio-luddite]

Perfect Speakers

What do I know about the perfect speaker, lots actually.

You see I have built them 4 times. First task is perfect as a concept must be defined. Then a plan that embodies the idea is established. Then you build the sucker.

My first attempt was a big electrostatic. Electrostatic speakers are great everyone says so. Fast accurate and dynamic. Compared to "Statics" cone drivers are dull and slow. Ask anyone. As a first try it seems rather ambitious. Mechanically they are actually very simple. You need a couple of sheets of perforated steel, a mylar membrane, and some plastic strips. You build a layer cake of Steel, plastic strips, Mylar, more strips, and a final layer of steel.

Try making a cone loudspeaker driver in the basement without a lot of weird tools.

There are two tricky bits. One is you have to make the Mylar conductive. In my case I spread a layer of graphite I got from drafting pencil sharpeners. (I did drafting ). The other tricky bit is getting impedance matching transformers to make the hundreds of volts needed to drive the stators which is what the steel sheets are called.

For the actual speaker array I made three panels one foot wide four feet tall and mounted them side by side in a wooden frame. The two on each side were canted out a bit. One such array per channel.

I decided that rather that looking for just transformers I would buy a pair of Tube amplifiers. They had transformers that were audio grade already. Oh and then I could attach the stators directly to the primary windings of the amp for a direct coupled drive. If you know what that means you may even be impressed. I had two problems with that. first is that tube amps were going into the trash more often than the used market, (50 years ago) and I had to rejig the feedback in the amp which came off the secondary winding.

The most amazing thing was I got all this done and it worked. It worked really well. It was perfect and my friends were impressed. My future wife was impressed. (that early exposure to my hobby made her tolerant of my later adventures)

It was great, but.....

Even big electrostatics have funny Bass. Phase cancellation and sounds bouncing around the room were a problem. Not as perfect as legend has them. I added a subwoofer driven by a transistor amp (the HK 12 I still have) That helped, but satisfaction was not to be found. When you have doubts about perfection it is serious.

The experience of two moves with big awkward speaker things eventually to a too small apartment made the situation impossible. I disassembled them and put the parts in storage. (I still have most of them)

The idea of perfection changed. Easier to live with and must fit comfortably in a living room. Hmmmm. Next set was a small pair of boxes using a nice 4 inch woofer I found that was almost full range. It reproduced the human voice with uncanny realism. I put a pair in a tuned box with a tweeter and it worked fine. Small apartment problem solved. It had better bass than the "Statics."

Later we moved into a house. Small boxes are small. I like big music.

Hmmm....

How about taking the nice tiny woofers that sounded so good and using 4 per side, and add a 12" woofer underneath. Biamp the sucker yes that's the idea. I had a wood shop build me the boxes. Tall pyramidal obelisks with 6 divers, bi-amped. ( That Citation 12 was sure handy)

It sounded really good. It filled the room with big sound, yet the human voice was scary real and the timbre of woodwinds was to die for. It resembles a lot of high end beasts sold today. I still have them as the front end of my Video surround setup.

All this time my main amps were the same tube amps I bought years before. They were Dynaco Mk3s, 60 Watts per side, and really easy to upgrade and improve. We had little kids and hot high voltage devices on the floor were a bit scary.

I built a transistor amp from a kit of leftover parts when Dynaco shut down. That is the Franken amp. Less scary and pretty resistant to curious fingers of small kids.

We moved a couple more times, eventually to a nice small house. My wife was patient for a while with the obelisks in the living room but the size was almost oppressive. A couch a chair and a BIG stereo. It was a stereotypical setup and a problem even for me. The compromise was to put the stereo away and use the monster speakers in the AV system downstairs to watch videos with spectacular surround sound. No fragile turntable to damage with bigger kids and their friends. Video Tape, CDs and DVDs were the thing. "Why do you keep all those albums you haven't played them for years?"

The kids got bigger and more responsible and trustworthy. I wanted my old stereo back. I wanted to play my albums.

I had a new idea. There was an ad in craiglist for a strange speaker from Denmark I think. It did not look like a conventional speaker. I had heard a set decades ago. Damn, it sold fast, someone else recognized it. But I could build a set like that. Smallish, modest dimensions and designed to go hard against a wall. Take advantage of Bass reinforcement using a wall and the floor. Tune the box with those cool equations and design a cross-over with a computer program. I knew where to buy good components.

I could make a better version of that Scandinavian set.

So some nice birch plywood, some high end drivers, and some actually rather expensive inductors and capacitors were purchased. I had some decent carpentry skills by now and a few power tools. I ended up with some nice boxes with a natural blonde oil finish. They look good and actually they do not look at all like speakers unless you look hard. I call them stealth. Oh and they sound really good. The best yet.

Better than direct coupled large electrostatics. Better that small boxes. Better than big obelisks. Better than all those. The wife likes them. They are perfect.

[ningbomagnet]

What You Need to Know About Arc Segmentitle Magnets, Radial Axial Circle Magnets, Isotropic and Anisotropic Magnets

Magnets serve an important part in a variety of sectors today, including electric motors, generators, sensors, and magnetic assembly. Among the several varieties available, the Arc Segmentitle Magnet, Radial Axial Circle Magnet, and the distinction between Isotropic and Anisotropic Magnets stand out for their performance, shape, and magnetic qualities. But what do these phrases signify, and where do these magnets usually appear?

What is an Arc Segment Magnet?

An Arc Segment Magnet—an arc or segment magnet—is commonly employed in circular magnetic assemblies, notably brushless DC motors and permanent magnet motors. These magnets are shaped like a circle slice and are intended to be used around a rotor or stator.

Important characteristics:

Accurate curvature for a snug radial fit

Available in a variety of materials, such as ferrite, samarium cobalt, or neodymium (NdFeB).

Perfect for spinning systems with high speeds

High concentration of magnetic flux along the arc

Common Applications:

Drones and e-bikes with electric motors

Windmills

Couplings of magnets

Industrial robotics and servo motors

What Is a Radial Axial Circle Magnet?

A magnet with a circular or ring form with a magnetic direction that is either axial or radial is called a radial-axial circle magnet. The distribution of the magnetic field is determined by these orientations. In precision equipment, a radial-axial circle magnet is frequently specially made to meet certain torque or sensing requirements. Their specialized magnetic orientation and round shape guarantee little energy loss and excellent performance.

What Makes an Isotropic Magnet Different from an Anisotropic One?

Although materials like ferrite, neodymium, or rare earth compounds may be used to create both isotropic and anisotropic magnets, there are major differences in their production procedures and performance.

Conclusion

Knowing the differences between arc segmental magnets, radial axial circle magnets, and anisotropic / Isotropic Anisotropic Magnet magnets is essential for improving both your design and performance, whether you're an engineer creating the next high-efficiency motor or a manufacturer locating dependable magnetic components. Every magnet design and kind offers a unique set of benefits. Selecting the best one requires finding the ideal balance between cost-effectiveness, application fit, and magnetic strength.

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[rocketkart95]

Current Satisfactory Build!

Long post under construction

It's time for another build post! this one is still pretty early but I wanted to show it off anyway

Oil processing, plastic, rubber, and fuel production, as well as 7 generators producing 1750MW. Belt hallway still in progress, debating turning it into a railway after train unlock but still undecided. Will eventually be ths site of Bauxite processing because of the access to water. Bauxite miner is on the mountain just behind

Caterium and steel happened to be right next to eachother so I combined them in one facility. Quickwire at the bottom supplying high speed connectors above and eventually more processes

Steel production is right behind the quickwire. Steel currently maxed out at mk4 belts producing 480 steel ingots/min, 120 beams, and 40 pipes. I have 30/min iron being processed into plates and rods for local use, and I have an uploader on each

in front of, and underneath steel, coal power chuggs away producing 1350 MW supplementing the fuel generators. Coal and sulfur mix to produce compacted coal for better fuel efficency

And now my favorite part! My main facility where ALL the magic happens.

Floor 1 contains my main iron processing, churning out 600 ingots with plans to double.

The west end houses the copper plant making wire and cable throughout the rest of the facility, and also an uploader for each

Right next to copper is my backup biomass manifold. I have plans of installing priority power switches everywhere and using this as emergency power

Level 2 includes modular frames, rotors, smart plating, and reinforced plates, as well as

Copper sheets

Level 3 has circuit boards, versatile framework, automated wiring, stators, and motors

Level 4 houses almost exclusively manufacturers for: computers, heavy modular frames, adaptive control units, and modular engines. I may expand level 4 as necessary.

Belt spaghetti

Level 5 will make project parts for phase 4 though I may expand to level 6 as well. Not sure

Behind this megafactory is the space elevator. Its central location between the North and West wings make it easier move parts over

Not completely sold on this distribution system but I don't really have a better way at this particular point. Still serves the purpose but it is certainly spaghetti

Hopefully aluminum soon, trains soon, jetpack next

[marsnicolasliwiak]

Research: Spaceship models (part 2)

Spot robot

this is a video showcasing the Spot robot, with is essentially a robotic dog.

With an insane introduction of dropping this thing from 20 feet above, it is able to get back up without its head due to smart motor arrangements mechanisms. The legs are bent backwards to allow easier overcoming of obstacles. Each leg has 2 motors, with the planetary gases connected to the motor and stator. The knees are connected with the stator and rotor, allowing both the upper and bottom parts to support each other. The leg measurements should closely resemble that of an actual dog so the robot doesn't immobilise itself.

Battery can be an issue for this complex machine. To avoid battery drainage, the knee motor should be closer to the hip joint since they're closer in weight.

For dexterity, the legs are made of carbon fibre with extended hinges, and the upper parts contain a ball screw to rotate the motors. Carrier arrests are placed for less linear movement, allowing the bottom parts to move in sync.

The robot is able to get up easily due to a motor-tilt motor sign connected to the hip motor, with sensors to decode a fall. the robot can also crawl and have mounting rails for holding objects like cameras. To climb down from stairs, the robot faces backwards.

All motors should correspond with force and compression.

Scratch built ship

This is a video about ships built from the ground up, presented by model maker in Wonderfest. Staring BP Taylor, who made 2 models. One's a kit bash, the repurposed 3-We, and the other is a scratch build of a spherical ship.

For the sphere ship, the front was vacuum formed and then sanded out to get a clear appearance. For the ship's designs, Taylor selects his items for the ship's look and sketches them out and establishes shapes first and forms later, with focus on the amount of detailing the ship should have. He also has to establish scale but putting parts together. A other of the items Taylor uses are either from remains of broken electronics, items from model kits or toys or general scrap parts. He airbrushes his complete builds in grundy and dull colours.

Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières

Jean Giraud, also known as Moebius, was a French artist who is most well known for his sci-fi and comic work. He is renowned for his and abstract concepts and fantastical art direction, working on many projects from comics to concept art for films like the Fifth Element and Tron.

Jean-Claude Mézière was also a French artist who primarily worked in comics. Inspired by the works of Jack Davis and Andre Franklin, his work also leans into sci-fi surrealism and is well renowned for it's uniqueness, with his style going on to inspire works like Star Wars. He also worked on The Fifth Element.

Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out is a 1989 stop motion short by Aardman Animation and the first Wallace and Gromit cartoon ever made, with the plot focusing on Wallace and Gromit's plan to visit the moon to get cheese.

In terms if technicality, Wallace and Gromit's stop motion animation has always been a marvel, and even here that's no exception. While more rigid and imperfect, it still has a ton of charm and is impressive. As for the spaceship itself, it is a simple cartoonish rocket in a plain orange.

As for the robot, it's also charming and non-complex. Not much to dy on it besides that like the cartoony arms.

Apollo spacecraft recreation

Heres's a video explaining the structure of the Apollo ship.

The launch vehicle used to send the poll to space, the Saturn V, has three parts: S-1C, which was powered by F1 rocket engines, S-II, which was powered by J2 rocket engines, and the S-IVG and was powered by one J2 rocket jet. Saturn V also contains other components to ensure that the ship can travel and land safely. The tower that holds up the Saturn V is called the launch umbilical tower which has 9 retractable arms to have inner access to the rocket.

The Saturn V speeds up upon flight, and the engines start to shut off and separate the higher the rocket is.

The Apollo has 3 parts: The command module, service module and lunar model.

Maya

Here's a tutorial on how to sculpt a space jet in Maya.

Staring with a cube, select smooth mesh and set division level stop 3 for the body of the jet. After setting up the symmetry tool, a few faces are selected in a square formation to form the inside of the cockpit and be able to use the circularise tool. To maintain symmetry, click on the evenly distribute option to order the faces into place.

Now to extrude. the selected area is scaled and pulled inside.To form the cockpit, a cube is summoned and mesh smoothed and transformed, with some copy and pasting to keep all shaped on the same base. then select the back of the shape and use soft select to extend and flatten it.

After messing the shape, the wings can be formed. In a new layer summon a box and scale it to a flat rectangle. Then you can do whatever you want with it, whether out be extruding, adding edges or bending with soft select. After that, the ship can reappear and have the wings scaled to its size.

To sooth out the ship, go to the mesh option and select smooth. Then you can add a rocket. Select a cylinder and scale it so the ends are pointy and turn up subdivision to turn it into a pill, with extrude used to put into the inside. Then the object is duplicated an placed on top of the ship.

[ashyjingles]

Lupa and other Roman Founding Myths in the Riordanverse.

Including Romulus, Remus, and Lupa; Aeneas fleeing Troy; and archeological evidence on the founding of Rome. (And the Mist in the Riordanverse)

Chapter 2, In The Beginning, covers the founding myths of Rome.

The first is on Remus and Romulus, the twins that were born to virgin priestess Rhea Silvia who claimed Mars had raped her. Her uncle Amulius, who was the current king of Alba Longa after his brother was taken off the throne. Not wanting children with a more legitimate claim to the throne than him, he ordered his servants to drown the babies in the river Tiber. Before they were washed away to their death by an incoming flood, a wolf came to the rescue and nursed them. When they grew up, they then set out to establish their own city. They disagreed on where to build the foundations and chose different hills. When Remus later tried jumping over Romulus’ defenses, Romulus killed his brother.

After Remus’ death, the city needed more citizens. Romulus declared Rome an asylum for all runaway slaves, criminals, wanderers, and refugees. The problem was that all of their new citizens were men, and they lacked women. So, they stole young women from neighboring towns. Most fought back, and Rome defeated them, but the Sabines in particular did not stop fighting until the abducted women came out and put a stop to their fighting, claiming they had come to love their new husbands and couldn’t bear to see either side die.

In order to keep his new citizens from fleeing from these fights, however, Romulus had constructed a statue temple of Jupiter and prayed to it to give his men courage. It would later turn into the Temple of Jupiter Stator. Cicero later stood in front of said statue while dismantling Catiline’s plot.

Later Romans had different variations of this story. Some claimed the fight for the women was a ‘just war’ because the other sides had denied their request for intermarriage. Some claimed that Rhea Silvia’s claims were a cover for a mortal affair. Some avoided the point of Romulus killing Remus, usually by altering the story so Remus lived past Romulus or by fading him out of the story once they first established Rome’s foundations. 

Whatever the case, Beard points out that all of the different versions reflect the culture later Romans had at the time, especially after Catiline’s plot. There were themes in both their myths and culture at the time revolving around fratricide and the nature of Roman marriage, the former being an extreme source of discomfort for Roman citizens at the time.

Aeneas’ myth is also covered in this chapter. Aeneas, a Trojan hero, escaped Troy during the Trojan War with his son and father. He reached Italy, bringing with him some artifacts of his past life.

There are several other versions of his story, often intertwined with Greek literature, where Aeneas had visited Delos at one point or another. Some say his tomb was found in Lavinium, a town not far from Rome. Some versions said Aeneas brought the statue of the goddess Pallas Athena from Troy to be kept in the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum.

Considering the story of Aeneas was just as heavily a part of Roman culture as Romulus’, Some Romans attempted to validate both at once by saying Aeneas was Romulus’ grandfather. One version states that Aeneas founded Lavinium while his son, Ascanius, founded Alba Longa, the city that Remus and Romulus were later exiled from, and “a shadowy and, even by Roman standards, flagrantly fictional dynasty of Alban Kings was constructed to bridge the gap between Ascanius and the magic date of 753 BCE” (page 77).

In these founding myths, Beard points out that the Romans are always the foreigners whether it be riff-raff coming to Rome as an asylum or Aeneas fleeing Troy and either establishing Rome himself or finding settlers already there in exile from another land.

Archeology can provide other evidence as well. Romans had a tendency to hold onto articles of the past from physical items to rituals and politics. Some evidence suggested there had been two civilizations living in the hills of Rome because they called two of them colles instead of montes despite them effectively being synonyms in Latin. Beard points out how in the story of Romulus the Sabines and Romans lived in relative proximity, and questions if these differences in words reflect the myth based on who occupied what hills. 

Physical evidence, such as graves and excavation sites, leave other implications. Early burial sites and pottery evidence have been predicted to be from 1000 BCE, while radiocarbon dating suggests they're all too young by about a hundred years. There is also enough evidence from the Middle Bronze Age, between 1700 and 1300 BCE, that point to people having already settled down rather than passing through.

There is also more evidence that directly contradicts earlier myths. There are few archeological remains to suggest the Temple of Jupiter Stator had been built so early, “which must have in any case been rebuilt by Cicero’s time, especially if its roots really did go back to the beginning of Rome” (page 53). 

There was also a set of black stone slabs in the pavement of the Forum, making it distinct from the rest of the flooring in the area. When the stone below it was excavated, an early shrine, possibly to the god Vulcan was found, along with Athenian pottery, early Latin written in stone, and every day trinkets such as cups and jewelry. Some Romans at the time believed it to be an unlucky spot, others believed it to be Romulus’ grave.

In the Riordanverse, some of these myths have already been established as true, such as Romulus and Remus’ given by the presence of Lupa. Obviously, in fiction, some truth is going to be bent. But how much? I’m assuming that the rest of the world knows about as much about Rome as we do from archeological evidence to myths. 

However, in the Riordanverse mythological events witnessed by mortals are disguised as non-mythological thanks to the Mist. How much, in a fantastical setting like this, would be either hidden away from or shown to the rest of the world? When would these myths have transitioned from fact to fiction, and how much could we attribute to the Mist? Could different people believe in different stories thanks to the Mist? How do we establish which one is the ‘true’ myth in this setting?

It’s established that both Greek and Roman myths exist because of the belief put into them. It’s what causes two different pantheons entirely, with each Greek god having their very real Roman counterpart while still technically existing as one entity. How true does this make each of their myths? Based on chronology, Greek myths would have a certain superiority to the truth than Roman ones. 

But how do we know?

Much of history is written in the eyes of the victor which tends to distort it. Would New Rome, for the sake of their pride, hold on to the more appealing myths? If so, it further blurs the line of whether the Greek or the Roman version of a myth is the ‘right’ one. 

We don’t.

There are several versions of the Roman founding myths in Heroes of Olympus: Lupa, who raised Remus and Romulus, as previously mentioned and Aeneas.

“‘Romans.’ Clarisse tossed Seymour a Snausage. ‘You expect us to believe there’s another camp with demigods, but they follow the Roman forms of the gods. And we’ve never even heard of them.’ Piper sat forward. ‘The gods have kept the two groups apart, because every time they see each other, they try to kill each other.’ ‘I can respect that,’ Clarisse said. ‘Still, why haven’t we ever run across each other on quests?’  ‘Oh yes,’ Chiron said sadly, ‘You have, many times. It’s always a tragedy, and always the gods do their best to wipe clean the memories of those involved. The rivalry goes back to the Trojan War, Clarisse. The Greeks invaded Troy and burned it to the ground. The Trojan hero Aeneas escaped, and eventually made his way to Italy, where he founded a race that would someday become Rome. The Romans grew more and more powerful, worshipping the same gods but under different names, and with slightly different personalities.’” – Page 549, The Lost Hero 

And I can’t find the quote at the moment, but I believe Lupa talks about Remus and Romulus in the series. The fandom wiki says “She can also be a loving mother, as Percy claimed that she frequently tells her role in Remus and Romulus' fates, implying that she still is proud of them” under the personality tab.

To choose between them would be a relatively simple choice: while Chiron, as a normally reputable source, spoke of Aeneas’ tale, Lupa is a character we directly interact with in the text, having lines of her own. (Chiron even references her as his Roman counterpart a page or two later.) Of course, if you went with the theory Beard stated that Aeneas was actually the twins’ grandfather, both could be true. 

But only choosing one to be ‘right’ brings up the Mist: Could the story Chiron told them only be to disguise Lupa’s mythological role? 

Prior to Jason announcing the presence of Roman mythology, the demigods at Camp-Half blood genuinely did not know that there were Roman counterparts to their Greek gods, let alone Roman demigods. There has previously been divine interference to make sure the two groups don’t cross paths, as stated by Chiron. The mist could be one of the tools the gods used to be sure of this, which includes covering up evidence of Roman myths being not so… mythological. This could lead to several myths existing at once, each with their own evidence.

But does this make the story Chiron told of Aeneas false? I still think not. While not a thing found in traditional Greek mythology, a god can fade when people’s belief in them fades.

“‘But gods can’t die,’ Grover said. ‘They can fade,’ Pan said, ‘When everything they stood for is gone. When they cease to power, and their sacred places disappear.” – Page 314, The Battle of the Labyrinth.

I would have used a quote from Trials of Apollo because I’m sure there are quotes more explicitly on the rise to power thanks to Caligula, Commodus, and Nero, but I cannot find it for the life of me without rereading the series which I do not have time for at the moment.

But this shows how belief of a being can cause both the rise and fall to and from being a deity. Lupa is explicitly stated to be a wolf-goddess in the books (Despite not being one in the original myth, but once again Percy Jackson isn’t the most adherent to those. Perhaps she was made immortal to train all future demigods, like Chiron.) and while I’m pretty sure Aeneas would have to exist first in order to become immortalized, I’m sure enough people would have believed in his story and the spirit of Rome (his would-be sacred place, I imagine) that it could plausibly happen in that universe. 

Furthermore, there are 4 known and confirmed pantheons in the Riordanverse: Greek, Roman, Norse, and Egyptian. They are bound to have overlapping myths, from the soul of the sun to the creation of the world. And when you confirm that these pantheons exist, you are by extension confirming that their individual myths are true.

This is quite possibly the most long winded way I could have said that because the Riordanverse has weird laws of divinity and magic, multiple myths can exist at the same time even if they directly contradict each other. Did I take you for a ride? Because I took me for a ride too. My opinion changed several times on this matter as I was writing out my thoughts and looking for quotes. I think I’ve spent too long with my head buried in technical history books based in fact that I forgot I was working with a fantastical universe here where plenty of things defy laws of existence in general, let alone physics lmao.

Back to Jason, this time in relation to Lupa. (Because when I talk about Rome, chances are it’s because Jason is at the root of my thoughts.) In The Son of Neptune, she trains new Romans before they end up in Camp Jupiter. 

“Lupa had taught him about demigods, monsters, and gods. She explained that she was one of the guardian spirits of Ancient Rome. Demigods like Percy were still responsible for carrying out Roman traditions in modern time — fighting monsters, serving the gods, protecting mortals, and upholding the memory of the empire. She’d spent weeks training him, until he was as strong and tough and vicious as a wolf. When she was satisfied with his skills, she’d sent him south…” – Page 36, The Son of Neptune

But when Jason was 16, he had 12 lines on his arm, representing 12 years of service. We know one scenario where a year doesn’t quite represent a full year of service:

“Congratulations, Percy Jackson. You now stand on probatio. You will be given a tablet with your name and your cohort. In one year’s time, or as soon as you complete an act of valor, you will become a full member of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata. Serve Rome, obey the rules of the legion, and defend the camp with honour. Senatus Populusque Romanus!” – Reyna to Percy, Page 89, The Son of Neptune

Considering neither Frank nor Hazel received a line for the act of valor, it only counts as a qualification to become a full member as opposed to an act of valor being worth a year of service in general. To get his 12th mark by 16, even if he had managed to complete an act of valor on his very first day, he would have still been only 4 or 5. Somehow, I highly doubt a 5 year old would be capable of doing that and will be working off the assumption that he completed an entire year of probatio.

This means that Jason must have joined when he was 4 years old at the latest in order to get his 12th mark by 16. (And he would have been 16 at the max. He turned 17 in HoO, around 8 months after his disappearance from Camp Jupiter. He could have received his 12th mark at 15 and received his 13th sometime in that 8 month gap had he been there, meaning he could have been as young as 3 when he arrived on the younger side of things.) He would have spent a year or two with Lupa, having been abandoned by his mom at the Wolf House when he was 2. 

Jason is also a special case, though, being both a son of Jupiter (in a house with a daughter of Zeus; probably one of the reasons he was taken away so young, because Thalia knew their dad, and when a demigod knows about the mythological world, it’s harder to hide from it.) and champion of Juno. I highly doubt that Lupa receives anyone that young. Even if she did, would they have survived? 

“Assuming I passed all their tests—aka, didn’t die a horrible, wolf-inflicted death—I’d then trek southward through a monster infested wilderness (second-worst campout ever) to Camp Jupiter, where I’d present your letter of recommendation to whoever was in charge and hope I’d be accepted into the ranks of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata. Which brings me to this question: How much would it suck to go through all that and not get into a cohort? Answer: A lot. Not that new recruits need to worry about rejection these days. According to my centurion, Leila, the legion’s numbers were badly depleted last summer.” – Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio’s Journal

It’s heavily implied here that Lupa (or her wolves) kills whoever fails her tests. I’m assuming that Lupa was under orders to make sure Jason lived, because I’m pretty sure a 3 year old would not be able to pass her standard tests. That being said, most kids she trains are in fact kids, children by all definitions of the word. 

“At a certain age, one way or another, we find our way to the Wolf House. If Lupa thinks we’re worthy, she sends us south to join the legion… You’re old for a recruit. You’re what, sixteen?” – Reyna to Percy, Page 37, The Son of Neptune

This implies that legacies such as Octavian must go through Lupa to join the legion as well, even if they grew up in New Rome. They all spend an indeterminate time with her; Percy spent a vague ‘few weeks’ while Jason spent at least a year with her. While it’s hard to guess what the average age is, we can take a guess.

“Octavian stepped off the dais. He was probably about eighteen, but was so skinny and sickly pale he could’ve passed for younger.” – Page 55, The Son of Neptune

“Percy noticed seven lines on Octavian’s arm — Seven years of camp, Percy guessed.” – Page 58, The Son of Neptune

This would put Octavian at roughly 11 when he would have gone to the Wolf House. Frank was 16, but was most likely an odd case because he was part of the 7, and 16 was already previously stated to be rather old for a newcomer. I tried finding ages on other people like Dakota and Gwen but once again, I don’t have time to read the entire book at the moment. (Even then, from the pages I skimmed I don’t think they’re mentioned.) I’m treating Reyna as a special case as well, considering her history with Circe’s island.

So I would guess that most kids wind up at the Wolf House around 11 or 12, give or take a few years. 

Regardless, Lupa probably hasn’t had to deal with many other (if any) kids as young as Jason in a very long time. But she has dealt with young kids before: Remus and Romulus who she is quite fond of.

Despite her harsh nature, Percy allegedly described her as motherly when she wants to be. I think that when faced with baby Jason who was just two years old when he was left at her mercy, she would have a soft spot. In The Lost Hero when appearing in his dreams, she makes a joke about him being their ‘Saving Grace’ to make a pun out of his name. She’s clearly familiar with Jason, considering this is 12 years after he would have left the Wolf House. 

I personally think Lupa would have taken on a much more nurturing role for Jason than she does for other recruits. She’s clearly capable of it, given her founding myth and continued fondness of Remus and Romulus despite her repeated harshness toward most recruits. I think that in order for a two year old to survive at all, it would have been necessary. A two year old would not be capable of most things it takes to survive in the wild (with wolves no less), especially at the beginning when he had just arrived. A four year old, even, would not be capable of most things it takes to survive in the wild, let alone make the trek to Camp Jupiter when it took Percy 3 weeks. In order to survive, Jason would have had to have gotten special from Lupa.

Maybe it’s the wolf!Jason lover in me, whether it’s werewolf!Jason or just plain feral!Jason (oh Jason, you could never be plain to me. Not when one of my most used tags is literally “Jason Grace is not boring and in this essay I will” and damn do I essay about him.) but I firmly believe that Lupa plays favourites and that Jason is one of them. 

Also, I’d like to point out that the heavily militaristic legion that prides itself in its rules literally sends every single one of their recruits to learn the ways of the wolf before being authorized to actually join. Ironic, is all, especially when it would probably be a lot more effective to just… train the kids at Camp Jupiter from the get-go. 

New Rome, what are you doing?

I guess I’m going to have to figure that out for myself, aren’t I? It’s literally the entire reason I am reading this book and writing this post in the first place: for the sake of some fan fiction. (And self enjoyment because the history of Rome is insanely fascinating, but in the name of comedy go with me here.) I’ll get there in the end, but for now… One step at a time. 

For now, I’d like to go back to my summary on chapter 2 of SPQR. Beard mentions how all of these founding myths all end up back at the same square: Rome has always been a safe haven for outsiders. In Son of Neptune, we see how most of the cohorts look down upon newcomers and underdogs alike. It’s what makes the cohort Percy joins unique: They root for newcomers and underdogs, which are what Percy, Frank, and Hazel all are.

Jason is also mentioned to be a part of this cohort. In fact, he notes Dakota (and others) as a friend in his own PoV. I enjoy playing with having Jason adhere to the ‘true, traditional Roman way’ as part of his gig as ‘Perfect Son of Jupiter, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion.’ However, I also enjoy slipping in Jason having underlying doubts, which in the end lead to his eventual love for the culture Camp Half-Blood creates. 

I think that having Jason be welcoming to outsiders to morally elevate him in a way (and I mean this loosely: As a society as a whole we have descriptive and injunctive norms; The norms we should adhere to and the norms we do adhere to respectively. For example, people should avoid littering, but people tend to do it anyway. Being the one to break a norm and do what everyone should be doing gives a sense of having the moral high ground. In this case following the descriptive norm and going against the grain will morally elevate Jason as a protagonist to the reader — When I talk about morality when it comes to characters, it is not a commentary on my own moral beliefs, even when I do believe them to some extent. I could make a separate post entirely on the topic of Jason and descriptive vs injunctive norms if I’m being honest here.) from other cohorts. He could be the reason the fifth cohort is so welcoming: Because Jason would be one of the oldest, if not the the oldest, one there and he would set the precedent for that behaviour and attitude.

That would be one that adheres to more traditional Roman beliefs. New Rome could have other older traditions, but they contrast with a more modern, more objective moral norms such as the belief that everyone deserves some sense of creative liberation. (Think private school uniforms and the main debate against them being that sense of self is an important factor in expressing oneself and developing one’s identity. Not entirely the same, but it’s close to what I’m going for.) Because obviously ancient Rome would have some traditional takes that we as a society have aged out of for blatantly obvious moral reasons. For example, tying someone in a bag with weasels and throwing them in the Little Tiber would probably be considered cruel and unusual punishment in most cases. 

Posing Jason as someone who sticks to old Roman beliefs to support his rise to position of praetor, but also posing him as someone who cares about moral beliefs outside of a predetermined list in the name of tradition would juxtapose his own character against itself in a way that foreshadows his inner turmoil about not being able to choose between a Greek or Roman lifestyle is fascinating to me. And by every god to have ever existed I need to do it. Does this even make any sense?

Ugh. And here I thought this post was going to be a lot shorter because I took significantly less notes on it. Clearly I had more commentary on this than I realized.

Jason Grace & Cicero Parallels || Chapter 1 on Cicero (and Catiline) Lupa || Chapter 2 on Roman Founding Myths Kings Of Rome || Chapter 3 on the Regal Period

[synnthamonsugar]

*puts a water gun to your head and smiles sweetly* Crow/Amanda

It's my unwavering belief that proper Crow/Amanda MUST involve ship repair and maintenance. Do YOU want ME to write/draw something outside my usual body of work? Asks are open!

“It’s all ours,” Amanda Holliday beams, gloved hands on her hips, as she regards the abandoned jumpship. A true specimen of retro engineering locked in time by the desiccated atmosphere of 10 Pallas, they've been called out by its owner, who asks for nothing in payment except its removal. 

“If we can get it to move,” Crow reminds. “Do you really think we can?”

“No ship’s bested us yet.” A determined smile spreads across her face as she opens the hood. "I don't intend for her to be the first!"

Crow approaches, already assessing the motor. Everything he knows about ship repair he learned from Amanda — an impromptu boot camp she insisted on after he almost blew up the Accipiter bringing it to jump-speed without sufficient coolant. So too had he gotten all his gear from her: the toolbelt and safety goggles and mechanic's jumpsuit all rummaged from her workshop. The heavy canvas garment is a smidge short on him and bears Holliday in red embroidery across the breast pocket. Somehow, the signs it's hers makes him cherish it even more. 

"Looks pretty good, considering how long it's been here," he says, leaning into the engine bay. Amanda is already chest-deep into the compartment, fiddling around with … he can't see past the parts in front of him. "Maybe a little corrosion on the rotors."

"Stators," Amanda corrects.

"Stators, right." 

"Gimme the wrench, would'ya? Blue handle," she specifies, and Crow rummages through the toolbox to find it. Hands it to her, their gloved fingertips brushing as he passes it off. 

While she works on that, he tasks himself with cleaning rust, checking wiring against schematics sent to Glint, and sweeping out a long-abandoned bird's nest in the turbine. Hours of pleasantly monotonous work pass. Amanda eventually emerges, smudged in more grease than usual, and climbs into the cockpit to run system tests. Finds the power shot.

Crow rotates sternward, locating the fuel cell. Disengages the lock, and pulls the handle — nothing. He gives the block a second yank, two-handed this time, and still cannot move it.

"We might have a little problem," Crow hedges, and Amanda wanders out back. "The cell's stuck. Like, stuck-stuck."

"Ah, for the love of—" Amanda mumbles, bracing herself against the ship with one leg, and giving it a pull. She doesn't unseat it, but manages to budge it slightly. 

"Maybe if we both pull. . ." Crow approaches behind Amanda, "May I?"

Amanda nods. There's no way not to press against as he wraps his chest around shoulders, gripping the pull on either side of her hands. She counts down, three-two-one, and they heave together. The flex of her muscular triceps against his sinuous arms flusters him enough that he has to remind himself to hold on —

There's a heavy mechanical clack as it slides from the receptacle, both giving a long exhale of relief. 

When they finally replace it and finish diagnostics, the ship starts easily. Amanda excitedly springs from the cabin, practically jumping into Crow's arms with jubilation. "We did it!" She exclaims, as he swings her around in a hug. 

"I'm so happy I could –" she looks into his eyes, and flicks her gaze away with a rosy blush. "Well, I could kiss y–"

He presses his lips to her forehead in a quick, sweet kiss. "I could too."

[braveclementine]

Yes, Let's Fight on a Flying Ship. That's a Great Idea!

Warnings: None

Copyright: I do not own any Marvel characters or locations. However, I do own my OC Elizabeth Lightwood. I do not condone any copying of this.

They were chatting with each other, Steve and Tony still going at each others' throats. You, on the other hand, was starting to feel nervous as Bruce started to look at the computer. You scanned the room, looking for threats.

There was a vent in the middle of the floor and you crouched down. Was it your imagination, or was there a beeping noise? No, there was so much equipment in this lab, of course there were plenty of beeping noises.

You shook your head, feeling frustrated with yourself. There was no reason for anything bad to happen, considering Loki was contained and there was no Code Green.

"Oh my God." Bruce said, and suddenly, there was a sound like an eruption. Your head turned towards the noise, before a flame explosion came up out of the same vent that you had been kneeling before. If you hadn't moved, you'd be dead.

As it was, you went flying, crashing against the table that the scepter had been laying on, glass falling around you, and the scepter hit the floor next to you.

"Y/N!" Tony shouted.

Steve was the one that hauled you to your feet, pulling you along to hand over to Tony and the three of you ran out the door. You couldn't help but have a bad feeling about leaving the scepter behind.

"Get to safety." Tony commanded you.

"I'm not leaving you!" You shouted back. "You might need me."

I could hear Fury shouting in my coms, along with Hill, talking about outside repairs. Tony said he'd take it. Romanoff said they were okay and so that was good.

You and Steve split off from Tony, who went to go and get his suit. The two of you made it out to where the engine was destroyed, watching the agents that survived head back towards safety. The entire engine had been torn out, leaving a huge gaping hole.

Tony told Steve to get to the control panel and you watched with a gaping mouth as he just launched himself billions of feet over thin air to get to the other side.

"What does it look like in there?" You heard Tony asked.

Steve sighed. "It seems to run on some form of electricity."

"Well, you're not wrong." Tony muttered while you giggled against your better judgement.

"Okay the relays are intact! What's our next move?" Steve shouted after a few minutes.

"Even if I clear the rotos, this thing won't re-engage without a jump. I'm going to have to get in there and push."

"Is that safe?" You asked over the coms at the same time that Steve said, "Well if that thing gets up to speed, you'll get shredded."

There was an awkward silence for a moment before you asked shakily. "Tony?"

"Bunny, don't worry. That stator control unit can reverse the polarity long enough to disengage maglev and that could-"

"Speak English." Both Steve and yourself yelled at him.

"You see that red lever?" Tony finally asked. "It will slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out. Stand by it. Wait for my word."

You were standing by the lever and Steve leaped back over, grabbing the railing so that the both of you were by it. Your pistol was starting to become slippery in your grasp.

"Hold this." You said with a shaky breath, thrusting the pistol at him. He grabbed it. You wiped your hands along your black leggings, before pulling black fingerless leather gloves and then held your hand back out for the gun, which he quickly deposited in your hand.

"He'll be fine." Steve muttered.

You just hummed in response, not entirely sure you believed him.

"Grenade!" You heard Maria shout through the coms.

"We have Hulk and Thor on Research level 4!" The intercom said.

You heard Maria engage the pilots to get his attention and get him off the ship. You exchanged a nervous glance with Steve.

Steve suddenly leaped across the chasm, kicking a grenade out of the way. You immediately pointed your pistol downwards and shot at the helmet you saw. It cracked the screen, but didn't hurt him.

Steve knocked the two out, before rejoining you on the raised platform, grabbing one of the dropped guns and shooting back. But neither his bullets nor the enemies hit.

Steve suddenly slipped as the plane starting to fall into a descent. You nearly screamed as there didn't seem to be anything that he could use to get himself back, before catching a wire that was part of the broken part. You knelt, grabbing the other end, hooking your back leg under the railing to hold yourself steady and pulled with all your might.

"Cap hit the lever." Tony's rang in your ears and you met Steve's eyes, yours widening.

"Go!" Steve shouted, though you pulled harder, pulling him in as much as you could.

Once Steve was back on the metal, you let him grab on and start pulling himself back up as you grabbed the red lever. You yelled out, ducking, as gunshots pinged over your head.

"Uh-oh." You heard Tony muttered and then there was harsh metallic sounds that weren't the bullets pinging off around you as he shouted, "Help!"

Gritting your teeth, hearing him groaning, you grabbed the red lever and pulled. It swung downwards easily and you heard Tony yell out. You shot off your own pistol as the guy continued to shoot at you and Steve.

Tony came flying out of nowhere, grabbing the guy around the middle and the two of them went straight through the doorway.

You sighed, heading downwards with Steve following you. Everything had apparently calmed down, until you heard Fury in your earpiece. "Agent Coulson is down."

You didn't stop to hear anymore, rushing past Tony and heading for the main room, Tony shouting your name after you.

Agent Coulson had helped you and Tony through a lot. He was your mentor and your trainer. If he was dead. . .

You could never forgive Loki.

🎃 :::::  🧡  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  🧡  ::::: 🎃

You paced back and forth while Tony and Steve sat next to each other in the main room. Fury was there was well, standing in front of the two of them.

Thor was gone, Loki having sent him crashing to Earth. There was no read on whether or not he was still alive. Probably though, considering he could fly.

Bruce was gone too, no sign of him either.

Nat was with Clint, who had been taken captive and was locked up in one of the rooms. You guessed that she was probably going to be staying by his side until he woke up. They were soulmates after all, and the separation between the two had been painful.

Maria was standing in the background, her hands behind her back, shaking. She too, had been extremely close to Coulson. In fact, Coulson had been her soulmate, and you felt pity for her.

Surprisingly, Elizabeth was still on the ship. Loki had grazed her with his scepter, so there was a long bloody gash up her side that would probably scar. Fur had already been removed around the area and stitches had been done. Looking at the cameras, she had tried to stop Loki from killing Coulson.

You let out a shuddering breath, waiting for Fury to say something. You felt numb, knowing that your best friend and your mentor were both seriously hurt and dead. And you hadn't been there for either of them. You had gone with Steve and Tony, even though you had known both of them were capable enough to hold their own. Elizabeth and Coulson had needed you more.

"These were in Phil Coulson's jacket." Fury said and you finally looked over to see he was holding some sort of cards. They looked like baseball cards or Pokémon cards, something like that. "I guess he never did get you to sign them."

Fury tossed the cards out, and they scattered along the glass table in front of Steve. You could see now that they were comic book trading cards, all of them were for the Captain America set. You felt tears prick your eyes. Coulson had always been a Cap fan.

"We're dead in the air up here." Fury said as you watched Steve slowly reach forward and see what society had created out of him. "Our communications, the location of the Cube, Banner, Thor, I got nothing for you. I lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming."

Fury started to walk along the table as Steve finally dropped the bloody trading card. You knew, however, that Coulson had been stabbed through the back. Even if he had the cards in his front pocket, he would never have gotten them bloody. If they had, they would've been pierced as well.

"Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number, though because I was playing something even riskier." Fury was silent for a moment, sliding his hand on the back of one of the chairs. "There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could."

"Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea. In heroes."

Tony stood up very suddenly, saying nothing. He looked out at everything, looking at you very briefly, before he turned and walked out.

"Well," Fury sighed, "it's an old-fashioned notion."

He walked out then, with Maria following him. It was just you and Steve left.

You wiped your face of tears and approached the table, picking up the playing cards. You looked up at Steve, but he couldn't raise his face from the table. "Old-fashioned is good." You whispered, and then turned and walked out yourself. 

[p-artsypants]

Blurb #37

It kind of scares me that I think I'll be able to get to 70. Why do I have this many unfinished fics? And why are so many of them almost finished????

I'm going to try to share 70 blurbs from my WIPs and unfinished fics to celebrate reaching 70 posted fics! To help with this endeavor, please feel free to send me a word or a fandom you know I write for, and I'll share the blurb. IDK if I'll get 70 prompts, but let's try it! Send as many as you want!

Down on the path, Starfire was listening in curiosity as she walked. There was a string of words, seeming gritted out in pain, but in a language she'd never heard. It grew louder as a new emotion came into view.

"Rassenfussel bubblegum gordenyol frankincense farfetnuggen enchilada fretenhausstickle fifer!!" Seething, he took the wrench that he had been tightening a bolt with and repeatedly wailed on the machinery.

"Excuse me?" Starfire asked carefully.

"WAHYOUWANT?!?" The tone that he used reminded her of the owner of the Chinese restaurant they went to on occasion. He wore a white T-shirt stained with oil. His hair was gelled to spike, as usual, and he wore steel toed boots over his black skinny jeans. When the emotion saw who it was, his anger decreased. "Oh, it's you." He went back to work. "What are you doing here?"

His tone made her nervous. "Well, it began when I decided to take my morning routine shower. As I was lathering my hair for the first time, the water went off. This has happened many times before..."

"Wrap it up."

"...RobinletmeusehisshowerandIwentintohismirrortolookformoisturizerbecauseIforgotmyownbuttherewasaportalinthesurfaceofsaidmirrorcreatedbyRaven'srogueemotionanditlandedmehereinRobin'scranitumandnowImustmeetwithallofhisemotionsandrecievesomethingfromthembeforeIcouldleavethefirstwasknowledgeandnowIamtalkingtoyou..." She heaved as she made the story out in all one breath.

He looked slightly impressed. "Well, I'm Irritation and Frustration. Nice to meet you." He nodded.

"If you do not mind me asking, what are you doing?"

"Trying to fix this doggone piece of crap!" He kicked the metal and answered Star's internal question about his boots. "It's his rational thought processor, and it breaks down when ever he thinks of you!!"

She blushed. "Does it break down often?" She asked slyly.

"Oh no you don't! You're not gettin' anything out of me! Now scram! Go bother someone else!"

"Would you not like some help?"

"Help? Bah! I don't need any help!"

"Please, I am most helpful to Cyborg when repairing his 'baby', I am quite smart...as you very well should know." She said a bit firmly.

"I know! Gosh! I just don't want any help!"

"But maybe it will help your frustration..."

"Ya know what?! Fine! Here! Have at it!" He slapped the wrench into her hand and took a seat on a nearby rock.

The machine was huge, pretty intimidating as well. Floating a little, she examined the contraption as it coughed and sputtered. Looking at it, the thing looked like a giant generator. She smiled.

Now she knew what she was doing. She cracked her knuckles.

"Well, by the signs, I believe there is something wrong with the alternator. More specifically, the rotor."

"The rotor?" He asked surprised.

"Yes, The rotor generates a moving magnetic field around the stator, which induces a voltage difference between the windings of the stator. This produces the alternating current, or AC, output of the generator."

"Yes, I know what the rotor is!"

"Then why did you ask?"

He slapped himself. "What...is wrong...with the rotor?" He seethed.

Starfire seemed to get used to his temper. "First I need to know about the bearings in the alternator."

"He's a guy."

"So?"

"Ball bearings."

She gave a small smile, making it seem like it was obvious. "Oh, of course." She cleared her throat. "Let us figure out exactly needs to be fixed." She flipped the switch on the engine.

"What are you doing?! He's going to be completely brain-dead!"

"Only for a moment. Now, I need an eight bit and a welding torch."

On the outside world, Robin was in the middle of talking to Cyborg and jotting down a note. "And so, this new system I saw worked really well, and I think it would be bene-..." He stopped. Not a word, he was even halfway through a letter and just stopped.

"Robin? Rob? Bro?....buddy?" Cyborg snapped and waved his hand in front of his face. "Hello, the system was what?"

Robin simply stared at his pen. What was he doing anyway?

[teagrl]

Let's call it accountability. Trying to keep my productivity up. The post-Naberrie 'verse let's call it. Other snippers here and here.

Surprise, there’s Luke in front with Bird, the Chadra Fan, two Rodians, and a Duros, all preadolescents Mara thinks, though she's not completely certain. They’re clustered around what looks like swoop engine chassis. Luke’s forearms deep in it.

“I think it should work. The stator core is okay, but the boost might make it unstable once it goes past the higher gears,” Luke mutters in Basic-peppered Huttese without looking up. 

“Not unstable,” one of the Rodian replies in quickfire Huttese. “It’s made to link up with a boost. We got it from a model 5670.”

Luke raises his head to look at them, expression solemn. “Saw a crew try to do an emergency patch of a boost with the wrong stator core and the whole thing blew. You have to be sure.”

“I can grab the specs,” Bird says from where he sits on top of the swoop’s chair. “Over at Level 88.”

Luke goes back to the swoop’s guts with a resigned sigh. “You’re asking to be run out of this sector, Bird," he tells him in Basic.

The Duros, sniggers, having no problem understanding that. “He’s right. They almost caught you last time!”

“Not even close." The Chadra Fan makes a trilling sound that sounds rude. "Their sec is like a Hutt on ‘stim. They only think they’re fast.”

The younglings chortle.

“Do you think we need anything else? Gear box look all right?” the other Rodian asks Luke. “The Red Guard is getting hot over by the forty-third. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get anything big through once they start going at it.”

“Kriff the Red Guard ,” Bird hisses. “The Black Novas will karking rip their guts out. Kriffin' --

“Bird!” Luke snaps his head up to scold sharply.

[its-a-hil]

my favorite aerospace engineering words are just taking two relatively normal words and making a ship name out of them

oh your rotors are stationary? stators

oh your flaps act as ailerons? flaperons

oh your jet engine uses the force of movement to ram the air in? ramjet

[karanseraph]

Here's how *I* write the robot romance and sex in 2024 (many but not all of these may be pre-existing fandom or sci-fi terms):

"Choose Your Gear" is the (tentative) tag I use for the specific version of robot sex I am currently writing.

Frame/chassis - the bot's whole body and/or body-type

Hook(ing) up - slang-ish term for connecting via wires and/or cables. Not inherently romantic or sexual but can be used for such. The "plug n play"

SCREW, Standard Cybertronian Realtime Electronic Workspace, Cyber Space - the virtual 'space' which may be perceived by bots when they "hook-up" or "go virtual" or "space" together.

Spacing - hanging out together connected and in virtual reality; for many bots implied low situaltional awareness of material world.

Diving - a specific type of hooking up or spacing without rendered cyberspace in which the bot experiences the other's system on a data level.

Spark - the glowing cluster of positrons (in positive universes at least) that is functionally a bot's life(force).

Spark stuff - slang-ish term for romantic or recreational interfacing with sparks.

Attune, attunement, being attuned - when bots are accustomed to each other's presence, spark, or energy field and able to subconsciously recognize each other; not a permanent bond, but considered alike to a temporary bond.

Sparkbond - a (pretty much) permanent entanglement between two or more sparks. Not necessarily sexual or romantic, could be familial or friendship based, but is also typical of sparkmates or conjunxes.

Energy, energy field, EM signature - energies that radiate or spin off of a bot's spark which may be sensed by other bots or beings sensitive to such energies.

Field interaction - the sense of two or more fields colliding and interacting in a shared space. Bots may be more or less sensitive to this and have differing beliefs or abilities with "reading" EM emissions. Some may perceive colors or emotions, while others rarely sense anything.

Field expansion, field contraction - the expansion or contraction of a bot's field in spatial dimensions. Some bots have conscious control over this, while others may not. May also happen unintentionally due to changes in mood, injury, or power level.

Polite distance - the distance at which a bot determines their own field will not interact with that of another bot and thus they are not imposing their energy on another.

Gear or Equipment- slang-ish terms for robot genitalia-analogous parts in general

Form(s) - the specific genitalia-analogous part(s) selected

Interface array - the internal part of the robot body/frame/chassis that is typically covered by a retractable panel and which generates the "gear" of selected "forms" that bots choose to "interface" with. Standard, upgrade, modded, and custom versions can exist, depending somewhat on whether a bot was forged or constructed with one or later had one installed, or changed out their existing array for another model.

CySI, Cybertronian Standard Interface array - A specific and common model of interface array which typically has one convex slot above one concave slot and as many as three alignment nodes.

Interface - in this context, the recreational and non-reproductive interplay of parts

Concave slot(s) - the section(s) of an array capable of generating concave forms, like a stator (clinical), valve, port, slot etc. (confusingly there's "slot" in this sense of expansion slot, but also a specific concave form called a "slot" which bots may wish some other forms or part to enter.)

Calipers - some concave forms may include internal calipers that both sense and may contract against entering parts/forms.

Mesh, valve mesh - (not in this sense mech-flesh) internal woven wire mesh that functions as walls of some concave forms.

Flaps, lips - external parts generating around and with a form, most typical of, but not necessarily exclusive to, the area around concave forms. Available in various shapes and arrangements.

Rollers, wheels, casters, bearings - the tiny rolling parts inside some "analogue" types of concave forms (in place of or instead of a mesh) that mechanically move under traction from entering parts and help in building charge.

Convex slot(s) - the section(s) of an array capable of generating convex forms, like a rotor (clinical), spike, stick, button, etc.

Node, alignment node - part(s) of the array along with any of the concave or convex forms. typically they glow and may have haptic feedback of some sort. Where a bot has more than one, specific nodes may be designated as anterior/posterior, upper/mid/lower, etc.

Compatibility mode - software associated with the interface array hardware that enables a bot to run in an interface mode even more compatible with a specific known and/or scanned alien species, but which may have some minor side-effects as the bot's array attempts to emulate another species organs/parts and approximate their function

Dialing up, Dialing down - a bot changing the overall scale/size of their "gear" to obtain desired fit with a partner significantly larger or smaller. Though bots have a range of sizes proportionate to their frame, there can be physical limits to that range.

Scanning - in this context, scanning another's gear or other organs/parts to obtain measurements to inform fit and compatibility.

Charge - slang-ish for the energy generated through interfacing

Magnetic flux - the differential in magnetic fields that is caused by the movement of metal parts with or within magnetic fields during interfacing. Perceived as pleasurable and energetic.

Chasing the flux - slang-ish way to say working to build charge in order to overload

Overload - generating enough charge, in this context through interfacing, such that circuit capacity is over-loaded. Perceived as high-energy and/or fullness. A bot's systems may attempt to expel excess energy in their overload state, activating systems and abilities to put the energy to use.

Bare metal - 1. slang-ish term for a bot's thinner (non-armor) dermal plating which may or may not actually show their native alloys they were forged/constructed with, often in the sense of scraping or getting down to this layer. 2. A specific brief appearance of liquid metal during the process of generating a form from the interface array. Considered taboo to touch this.

Glossa, sensor nodule - a tongue-analagous part for licking, tasting, or chemically sampling.

Gloss - 1. to speak or understand a meaning 2. to lick in such a way as to shine with oral lubricants

Binomial Data Transfer - a method of transmitting short bursts of data from bot-to-bot via a dedicated port located beneath the base of the sensor nodule in the mouth. Often perceived as a means of transmitting end-of-life or emergency plans in a goodbye kiss.

There's probably more and I didn't cover general body parts or curses, but I need to go do my actual fic writing for the day.

Transformers Fanfic Terms 101

So @novelty-spark was asking about a masterpost for those sorts of things, I thought I’d throw down the terms i’ve used in my seasoned time as a TF fic writer. Shoutout to my bae @guttermech for helping with some of these tooooo

So for those who don’t know there’s actually a ton of strange inner-fandom terms and shorthand that’s used in fanfic/general discussions, and can also be used for tags on art. 

First off there’s the different types of TF porn/fic. 

Sticky and PnP/Wireplay are the most common, less common is Sparkplay/Sparkbonding There’s also a now-unheard of fourth type called Tactile/EM fieldplay.

Sticky: Sticky is organic-based sexual organs, with organic genitals. Usually it’s a set of a penis/vagina combo, but there’s lots of different versions. One thing is for sure; it’s messy, it’s slippery, and it’s the most common type of TF porn you’ll find. 

PnP: Short for Plug-N-Play, it’s also sometimes called wireplay, is the counter to Sticky. It’s more based on the passing of electrical currents and information between two cybertronians to bring pleasure to both parties. The fact that it’s also a common phrase for electronics is a hilarious bonus for when you find that shit in public and can laugh about it. 

Sparksex/Sparkplay/Sparkbonding: This is a fairly well recognized but not always utilized form of cybertronian coupling that involves direct interaction between two or more party’s sparks. It’s usually coupled with them becoming bondmates which is a term i’ll cover below in more detail. 

Tactile/EMfieldplay: This is from the olden days, I’ve not seen any content made of this forgotten type in years and years, but now’s a good a time as any for a resurgance. EMfield stands for Electromagnetic Field, which is the sensory net that surrounds a cybertronian. Long ago [before time began…] it was very common for fics to include the fields as a form of close-contact, a field that would become meshed with others when cybertronians were near each other. This type of porn was more closely related to foreplay, though climax could easily be reached by the two [or more!] fields interacting. This one’s pretty complex to explain here, but I think I’ve got the gist of it down. 

Here’s a list of some terms, not all are inherently sexual but are useful to know for the flow of things/knowing the name of some parts of the anatomy and terms: 

Interfacing is sex. It’s just what sex is called, pretty basic. 

cable/cord/plug are the words for a robot penis, however a lot of people call them ‘spikes’ too, which is uncomfortable sounding as hell! Let’s normalize cord/cable/plug =u= I’ve also seen 

Valve is the term used for a penetrable hole, a vagina or butthole or whateverthefuck, it’s also sometimes called a port. 

Anterior/Outer node is a term used for a clitoris, and 

Calipers are the internal structure of a valve/port, similar to the muscle structure inside organic holes to clench/cause a milking action. 

Overload is what an orgasm is called. 

Transfluid is cybertronian ejaculate/jizz. Most artistic renderings have it be glowing like Energon but it can be just about anything you want, I used to write it as silver or different colors, they’re robots, go wild. Glowy jizz or metallic jizz or black inky jizz or just white jizz, who cares! It’s jizz! Have fun! 

CNA  is sometimes used as a version of DNA, often used for when baby Cybertronians are talked about being made through sexual reproduction. On that note- 

Sparklings, are baby cybertronians. Sometimes they’re also called protoforms but more often than not Sparklings is the most accurate way to get it. Protoforms are also a canon material so I don’t know if anyone uses it anymore. I'm not going over different methods of sexual and asexual cybertronian reproduction because that honestly deserves a post all it’s own. 

Glossa is what tongues are called, while 

Coolant is often used as their version of saliva 

servo is used interchangeably for any moving part w/ a joint- legs, arms, fingers, etc [for fingers i would suggest ‘digits’ too ] 

Vents are used to describe air flow and to emulate panting/heavy breathing, often used for when a cybertronian starts to get heated and their vents will turn on, expelling hot air. 

Pedes are words used instead of 'feet’

Chevron is the shape that’s on many Cybertronian’s heads, [examples: prowl, ratchet] 

Headfins are another helmet shape, often described as sensitive or an erogenous zone. [examples: sunstreaker, fort max]

Kibble is the name of anything that is not a vital part of the cybertronian’s anatomy but is needed in order to form their alt mode. Examples include tires, headlights, car doors on arms/back. 

Door-wings are pretty self-explanatory, but they are a specific anatomy belonging to the likes of Prowl, Jazz, TFP/Bayverse/RID2015 Bumblebee; they are the doors for their car mode that are perched between the shoulders like wings. 

Audials are used instead of 'ears’, while 

Finials describe a more protruding shape of 'ears’, such as those on Shockwave, Drift, and Wing. 

And as a special added note, here are some Cybertronian curse words often used in fics:

Dross [Damn]

Frag [fuck] fragger, fragging, etc

Scrap [shit]

Slag[aggressive derogatory term, means to call someone scum or garbage]

Feel free to add things! I hope this helps! 8U 

[flowmorepump]

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Vertical turbine pump is all about

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The operating principle of vertical turbine pumps work Vertical turbine pumps move in a specific direction. It causes gas molecules to collide with moving solid surfaces. These pumps have a rapidly spinning fan. It happens to collide with the gas molecules. It blows them from the inlet to the outlet. This action creates a vacuum-like state inside the pump chamber. Most Vertical turbine Pumps India have multiple stages. Each stage has two blades. One is a rotor blade. It spins at high speeds. Another is a stator blade.