#robot enthusiast

[hyprmobile]

— BLINKIE SET #6 . . . ENTHUSIASTS !

I've been looking for a new font to use for blinkies with longer text, and I'm really happy with how they've been coming out using the impostor! super excited to make more of these & improve their look over time! :o)

[beepboopappreciation]

I have such a weakness for fictional robots/ai, it's not even funny. It could be the single worst and most problematic piece of media imaginable but if you tell me there's a funky ROBOT in it--

[hopelessly-politeroad55]

[auveiss]

"Can she run Doom?"

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[emilostingender]

[quesadilla-day]

delicious jade 😋yummy yummy 😍

[therealstaceyfakename]

last post of the night. merry christmas folks from myself and yes man 🎄

[canineaffections]

I'm so nervous to post this because it's my first "fandom" post here uhm. Do you guys like spider cats based on rollercoasters

[lambda-core]

I am way too tired/jetlagged to make this post right now, but the reason Armada Starscream is so specifically well done to me actually isn't just the way he's got more depth than just wanting to take over Megatron. It's the way he falls back on this image he has of himself as someone who is solely focused on Megatron. And he is obsessed with Megatron, but the disconnect between Starscream and his image of himself is what gives him actual depth.

The reason this is so cool to me is like, that self-image--that he is single-mindedly obsessed with Megatron and will sacrifice everything else for that goal, no matter who gets hurt--is pretty close to what every other Starscream is. (The selfishness you associate with Starscream is a little more subtle, but it's there in the "no matter who gets hurt" clause imo.)

So if you go into this as a Transformers fan, you're already expecting Starscream to betray Megatron and try to best him and rule the Decepticons. But so does Starscream, even when he's demonstrably proven to both his peers and the audience that he's more than that. It's almost like his past incarnations--or the audience's expectation of him--haunt him. It turns his own internal man-versus-self conflict into this really cool man-versus-narrative conflict.

And what's crazy about this is, through the last moments of this arc, Starscream does grow beyond the narrative we'd expect from other Starscreams! But he never admits that to himself, because it's easier for him to cling to the idea that he's laser-focused on his hatred of Megatron. Every time he helps the minicons--every time he helps the humans--even in his last words, he LIES to himself and everyone around him that everything he did was always about Megatron. Because it's easier to simplify himself than to grasp that he might be a complex character. Because he's a person and he has all the messy conflicts that come with that. He falls back on the same ideas every single other Starscream did, and THAT is his undoing. Not that he is self-centered because he's Starscream. Not that he is obsessed with Megatron because he's Starscream. That he THINKS he is all of those things and he will not LET himself be anything else.

I would argue that that's a bigger theme in Armada, as well. Optimus and Megatron more or less spend their final fight coming to terms with their story roles in Transformers. I really feel like if you sneezed on them, they would realize they do this in every universe and in every timeline. Starscream's is the most interesting example to me, though, because he's such a departure from other versions of Starscream; hell, he acts (and looks, lol) a lot more like some incarnations of Thundercracker. But he's still got classic Starscream in him in this roundabout meta reference. He's like an homage to his namesake. It's so cool! And it works perfectly with the story he's a part of.

[kastalani123]

Consider:

Leo Valdez was not born. Instead, two pairs of hands form him from bronze and steel and gold. His hair is copper wires so thin they bounce like natural curls, and his eyes glimmer with silver flakes. The joints of his body are plated so delicately, so perfectly, the segments are near indiscernible, smoothly gliding over each other. Faint traces of fingerprints and flecks of impurity are deliberately left behind for their uniqueness, a form of impossible signature of his creators.

Most importantly, gilded bars curl around each other in his chest, protecting the red-red-red flame that pushes his eyes open everyday, that beats in tune with his thoughts, that heats his body to expand and grow.

A metal child is not so different from a human one, and yet is so far from it at the same time. He is curious, about the world, about himself, and he picks apart toys and TV remotes and his arms, spilling their secrets before his constantly shifting eyes. He does not cry from fatigue or thirst or hunger, but a bump, a dent, a scratch never fail to draw tears. He splashes in the rain and snow, carefully bundled in waterproof coats and jackets, and runs from baths like he's possessed, fire flickering in fear.

The first time he meets someone like him, an endeavour he had long thought hopeless, it is a malfunctioning dragon others call for the death of; he is too unpredictable, too dangerous, too broken. Leo looks him in ever-shifting eyes glimmering with silver and sees himself if the cage in his chest ever bends, cracks, shatters, if the gears beneath his skin ever jam and stick and wear down irreversibly.

It is not golden flowers and godly aid that preserve him; just as he'd done for his twin-in-all-but-appearance, he creates a new body, with new fingerprints and impurities mapping his design. His hair is more bronze than copper, now, and his eyes more gold than brass. The plates of his joints scrape against each other faintly, and the gears of his bones grind together uncomfortably — he only had so much time, so much material to use, he could not polish every element of himself in the way he wished, but it holds together.

Most importantly, he reinforces the cage in his chest, coats it in layers upon layers of metal, to ensure his flame will not go out in the explosion, that Festus will be able to salvage it and lay it gently in the chest cavity carefully carved in his new body, bringing it to life.

He returns to Camp, movements more clunky and mechanical than should be, and his siblings finally pin down his segmented limbs, his shifting eyes, his clicking fidgeting. They are ecstatic, just as fascinated with him as they had been with Festus, and he lets them. He lets them take him apart, piece by piece, clean out the sand of Ogygia from his organs, polish and oil his gears until they glide against each other, press new fingerprints, new signatures of belonging, against his skin.

Most importantly, they craft him a secure, intricate cage, with golden flames licking up the bars, with delicate chains shielding it from the elements, and his flame settles inside it, flickering happily, finally truly, truly comfortable in the cage of his body.

Leo Valdez may not have been born, but he was crafted with the most loving hands imaginable, and is that not so much better, for a son of the Craftsman?

[mail-me-a-snail]

sometimes i look at the line of characters that people on here have famously infantalized (characters that are also, "coincidentally", widely headcanoned as neurodivergent in some way) and i gotta wonder.

how do you get so far removed from canon that you forget that, considering the themes of their stories, these characters would ABSOLUTELY know what sex is.

[wolvzephyr]

Maybe it’s just buried and I haven’t found it, but have you ever made art of an EULR and ARA unit? I just think the relationship between the two units is neat. Love your art style btw.

they're next on the list to get doodle sheets! (once i'm done with a commission batch)

i think i've never drawn an ARAR in detail even though i have a soft spot for them LOL - and an EULR only recently (EULR-S2311 "November")

as for pictures of them together... maybe i'll think about it...? it IS pretty under-represented! but my favorite units are kolibri, storch, and falke in that order so i always draw them the most LOL

[juraima]

Tender is the flesh

Blog:

Since my last post I haven’t done much lol! Decided to update yall on what i’ve been doing. Recently I began reading again and picked out “Tender is the flesh”— super interesting book and easy to get into, 10/10 recommend. I’ve gotten back into my music so if you wanna add me on airbuds (@euusouju) go ahead! Other than that school has been a top priority for me, just this friday i took my AP U.S History exam— light work, not hard at all. Our robotics season ended in january but then i went on to do several other engineering competitions and events. I’m a nerd and absolutely love watching documentaries soooo if you have any recommendations please share them.

Now for the juicy stuff…

I have two concert coming up in June!!

First Panchiko and then Pierce the Veil…ugh i’m so hyped grrr

[dynafire]

gabv1el to me

only ever ‪submissive twink bottom gabe and emotionless top v1 just doesn’t do it for me sorry yall there’s no clear way to sum up their dynamic they’re insane. they’re switching every ten seconds. they’re not even sure what’s going on. there’s so much blood.

[bayporwave]

I'm glad people love the rakii so far! Developing them is great and since I've been fixated on them. Me and the bf have been brainstorming a lot in the background as I want to fill their universe well enough for others to explore. But I at least wanna let y'all know, I'm not soley a spec-evo artist (Let's be real, I understand only the basics), but I draw many of other things such as, 80s-90s retro shiz, robots (which i really get back into that groove) n, other stuff...

I am more than one flavor baby. I'm just hyperfixating right now haha

[screebyy]

The joys of having cayde back are not worth me having to draw exos