#overload

[meanslackofart]

i just want to shut down my brain for a few days.

[miamaimania]

✨ Burning News ✨ by Tim Parchikov, a mesmerizing illustration of chaos and communication overload.

[aunti-christ-ine]

[doruumon]

A piece I did about a year ago for a TF Zine called “Out of Spec”, focusing on Transformers with disabilities. I was very happy with it at the time, and glad I can finally share it. The whole team was a lot of fun to work with!

Rollout is a Minicon noted to have several (unnamed) medical ailments that leave him physically weaker than others of his kind. As such, Red Alert worked to craft an exosuit dubbed Overload for him to act as a mobility aid. Given he lost a servo in combat (thanks Starscream <3), the medic definitely understands the need for assistance.

[enrai999]

アインズ様。

[sarcosmiiic]

YO CALLING ALL GRUMBO BITCHES, BASTARDS AND BOOGEYMEN

YOUR GOD (not me, I'm just the messenger :3) CALLS YOU TO READ OVERLOAD BY DEPISTON/APOSURE ON AO3

HERE'S SOME REASONS WHY:

IT'S THE LONGEST FIC IN THE ENTIRE HERMITCRAFT FANDOM AND IS STILL GOING!!!

IT UPDATES DAILY SO THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AT THE END OF THE DAY

IT'S A COLLECTION OF TOTALLY DIFFERENT, VARIED YET STILL INTERCONNECTED STORIES THAT CAN APPEAL TO ANYONE SO YOU NEVER GET BORED! DON'T CARE FOR THE CURRENT STORY? WAIT A BIT AND BANG! NEW ONE!

IT'S REALLY GOOD!! (i personally recommend Tall Deep Dark And Handsome, a ghost AU, and The Prince And The Poacher, a medieval/royal AU!)

I T ' S F R E E ! ! !

WE'RE CURRENTLY AT 800+ THOUSAND WORDS AND COUNTING, AND I THINK WE'LL HIT ONE MIL THIS YEAR!

(I know that number sounds more than daunting, but the chapters are only about a thousand words each, so I'd recommend reading about 5-10 a day if you're like me and prefer short bursts of reading :)

Last of all, what do you have to lose?

(P.S: If you start reading Overload because of this post, tell Apo Sarc sent cha :D)

[transingthoseformers]

https://www.tumblr.com/transingthoseformers/779502304445464576/up-and-coming-gimmick-porn-star-overload-gets?source=share

But have you considered Overlord getting mistaken for Overload instead? People see those lips and they think 'yeah, this one's definitely the pornstar'

SSGGSSGGS

There are multiple ways this can go. Many rhyme with murder (as tends to happen with Overlord in the picture)

[hel7l7]

everything feels numb again

[miss-biophys]

Work on a scientific article

What it actuallly entails:

Come up with an idea, define an interesting problem

Do thorough literature research. Maybe similar stuff was already done. Define the knowledge gap well.

Plan in detail, how we can solve the problem, design experiments

Reach out to potential collaborators, agree with them on a plan

Buy necessary equipment, chemicals

Do pilot experiment, optimize the conditions to get reliable data

Perform experiments, calculations, make everything multiple times so it's reliable

Analyze the data

Urge collaborators to deliver their parts

Coordinate your progress with the collaborators

Manage the collaborations, organize meetings

Be diplomatic, you don't want to make enemies in academia

Agree with direct colleagues, who worked on it, what will be the message of the article. Will it be a long story and we need to add some more data? Or will it be short and right to the point and we write a short "letter"?

Do literature research again. Maybe new stuff appeared, and for sure your data must be confronted and discussed with already known facts.

Write the first draft of the article

Send it around for feedback, first only to direct colleagues from your lab

Incorporate the feedback, maybe do more experiments and more analysis

Rewrite the manuscript

Send it around the second, third, fourth, fifth... time

Incorporate the feedback

Send the manuscript to all collaborators.

Wait for the feedback, urge everyone to give it, maybe you don't have all data from all the collaborators yet

Incorporate feedback

Prepare the manuscript for journal submission

Get approval from all co-authors

Submit the manuscript

Wait for editor response, hopefully they send it to reviewers. If not, you need to rewrite a bit the article to adhere to the new journal's format and send somewhere else.

Get reviewers' reports, deal with them, reply truthfully, make effort to explain everything even if you know that the reviewer's suggestion is just impossible or irrelevant. Be diplomatic.

Maybe you need to do an additional experiment, analysis, or rewrite a major part fo the manuscript. This can take months.

Submit revised manuscript with all the changes

Wait for editor's nad reviewers' comments in the second round. You can get many rounds of review and still get rejected.

Finally get a "Congratulations, your manuscript has been accepted for publication"

Pop a shampagne! You deserve it!

What part of this do you usually do in different career stages:

BSc. and MSc. students: Perform experiments and analyze data

PhD students: Do all the experimental and analysis parts, write the manuscript, discuss with their supervisor and direct colleagues, incorporate feedback. But does not have to come up with their own idea and manage collaborations and diplomacy.

Postdocs: Do literally everything on the list

Group leader/Professor: Do the thinking and managing parts, help with writing and feedback, provide discussions and insight. Do not perform actual experiments and analysis.

Being a postdoc is the transformation between the student and the group leader.

As such, we just have to do all these tasks. It's stressful. It's challenging. It's definitely not boring. I am taking every opportunity to get a student, who can help with the experimental repetitions so I have time for all the other stuff.

[askvectorprime]

dear vector prime,

Are sideways and mirror the same entity? Or is there something weirder going on with those two

Dear Sideways Stumped,

Even all this time after having passed on from that reality… I’m sorry to say that Sideways confounds me still. In my attempts to disentangle the origins and nature of this particular foe of mine, I have sought guidance from my multiversal brother, Alchemist Prime. But when he turned the Lenses on that particular universal stream, and focused them on Sideways… he saw only static, like a television tuned to the wrong channel, the cosmic microwave background of the universe. Prior to Sideways’ first appearance before the Autobots and Decepticons, that fateful day on the interstate highway… we could find no trace of him.

However, Runway was convinced he had met Sideways long ago, back on Cybertron, during the war—or rather, Sideways’ rider, who Runway claimed was not one Mini-Con, but two combined, their names Rook and Crosswise. Many of the other Mini-Cons corroborated their existence, and I have seen these figures crop up in alternate realities elsewhere in the multiverse. What the Mini-Cons seem unable to agree on is who Rook and Crosswise were—how they acted, what they did. Were they class traitors, working to sabotage the Mini-Cons’ efforts to escape Cybertron? Were they reactionaries, sowing discontent towards the Autobots, or the opposite? Was it Rook who suggested surrendering to the Decepticons, or Crosswise? If even a small number of these conflicting accounts are accurate, then it seems that these Mini-Cons were capricious indeed. Runway would have it that the Sideways we knew was nothing but a drone, that it was these Mini-Con steering him all along. Runway can be narrow-minded—why, he made similar remarks about Overload, whose relationship with Rollout was, in truth, vastly more complex than that—but his theory has a ring of truth to it. For when Sideways’ rider spoke, it was with the same voice, as though it was only through some act of ventriloquism that the bike could speak at all.

In one of his final reports, Rhinox hypothesised that Sideways was the successor to the race of Mini-Cons created by Unicron: not one entity, but rather a cloud of Nano-Cons, capable of infecting all forms of computerized life, undergoing constant transformation at a near-molecular level. In a combined state, it would be able to change appearance entirely—which would certainly explain his radical makeover by the time of his reappearance during the search for the Cyber Planet Keys.

Still, this fails to explain where Sideways came from in the first place—not as a collection of matter, but as a set of ideas: a name, a voice, a vehicle, a personality. The Unicron I know is not possessed of the spark of creativity. There must have been someone, at some point in history, who looked like that, and behaved like that… On Earth, there must have been a purple motorcycle, but I have not been able to locate it. Who did it belong to? What happened to them?

If Sideways, Rook, and Crosswise truly did exist… then what became of them? Did Unicron destroy them, and fashion a mirror from their shattered remains, a figurehead for bad luck? Or did he keep them alive, enslaved, at times reduced to mere puppets? In those moments where that cool, aloof temperament yielded to a more sinister and chaotic demeanour… was this simply a mask being removed, or a hand slipping into a glove? I wonder if they gave themselves willingly, as Thrust later tried, in his folly.

The Sideways I knew seemed almost like a different person entirely, a brazen buffoon who delighted in stoking the mistrust of others, and whose final act seemed to serve no greater purpose than simple patriotism. Unicron, by that point, had already been all but defeated; whatever fragment of his essence remained in Megatron’s body, and in the black hole, was little more than an echo, a rerun. If Sideways was still a pawn of the chaos bringer, then he was removed from play before he could make his final move.

But I have walked the streets of Planet X. I have met the gaze of passers-by, so similar in their construction, and thought—“Are you him?” Later, when Alchemist Prime looked, he could only confirm what I already suspected. It’s just a maze of white noise.

That reminds me… did you know that one of the Galactic Guardians pilots a vehicle that looks almost identical to that alien alt-mode of his? I passed by the TV once, and saw it. Safeguard does not see the resemblance…

[indragonsaur]

Transformers: Cybertron chronicles: Tougher trio

[teentitansheadcanons]

6911. Larry was secretly behind the creation of some of the some of the Titans' foes so that Robin could have more enemies to fight. 

After learning Robin had left Batman to be his own hero and started his own superhero team, Larry decided to create some villains for Robin and his friends to battle upon seeing how few supervillains Jump City had compared to Gotham. He imbued some of his reality-warping magic into the hat and wand of a failing stage magician and the remote of an obsessive movie and TV fanatic, creating Mumbo and Control Freak. He brought to life a massive sculpture created by an eccentric sculptor in Jump City, creating Cinderblock. And by using his magic on a discarded A.I. chip from S.T.A.R. Labs to give it sentience and the power to manipulate electricity, he created Overload.

[arieefineart]

Audio of the world by Ariee

[rikavolt]

OC References pt 2

[avian-maple]

Older Hollyleaf sketchs while you wait for your regularly scheduled Mothwing posts ouo