#scanvenger

[thenwothm]

REVIEW: SCAVENGER

Formed in 1984 in Belgium, the first chapter of SCAVENGER starts with their debut album “Battlefields” (1985) released by Mausoleum Records. Standing the test of time, the powerful debut has become a real cult classic of the ’80s underground heavy metal scene. Shortly after its release, Mausoleum ends its activities making it impossible for SCAVENGER to continue but no one expected what was yet…

[unreadpoppy]

For the writers' truth or dare: 🦴 and ☁️ !

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

I'm not gonna be able to tell you one especifically, but usually anything fantasy related inspires me a lot, weather it be a book or a movie. For certain things, I'll use like one specific piece of media as inspiration tho (like the damn ballroom scene from Labyrith)

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

So back in 2013/2014, I got an Xbox 360 so that I could play Assassin's Creed, but to play I had to make an account and microsoft gave it a random name which was Unreadpoppy followed by a bunch of numbers i'm not going to remember. When I created my (first) account back on 2016, I needed a name and i decided to go with that but without the numbers.

Thanks for the ask!

[roetrolls]

What could he possibly garden personally? Trees? His car sized meat lumps on the ends of his arms would crush anything smaller than that

> Oh, I wouldn't say that. He can have quite a delicate touch if the circumstances are right.

> Hey... Have you seen the first post ever tagged under 'Harlan Mahkir'? Man, we really don't keep our cards close to the vest at all over here, do we?

[revelboo]

Great, exalted Revel may we get a crumb of what happens next to the unclaimed humans 🥺🥺

I offer Tarn chilling in a napkin holder

How can I say no that? 🤣

What If Scenario Just Gone- Reunion Pt 2

• Staring at the group of extra displaced humans, Megatron swallows a growl. Fort Max had been contacted and is enroute. Delphi isn’t too far off from their current route to swing by and drop off First Aid and Pharma’s humans. Kup and the Wreckers are proving difficult to pin down. Leaving the Decepticon’s humans. Swindle he’s not worried about. The Scanvenger’s he’d been unfamiliar with, meaning they’re no threat. But Tarn? He’d been horrified when that human had actually started crying demanding the leader of the DJD. Saying they wanted to go home. To that psychopath.

• “So we find a world with breathable atmosphere. Or suit them up,” Rodimus says, hands gesturing as he talks. “And we drop them off and once we’re safely away, we message that maniac the coordinates.” Because just handing the human over? Letting him know their coordinates? Not happening.

• “And if something eats the human in the interim?” Ratchet growls, servos pressing against his helm. “They’re tiny and pretty much helpless,” he growls earning an indignant ‘hey’ from the human lounging in Drift’s hands and he frowns at them. “I can’t imagine Tarn would take it well.”

• “Stop sulking and go kill something. This is painful to watch,” Nickel groans and he glares. Because he’s not sulking. He’s furious. Someone, who he is going to execute slowly, painfully, stole from him. Somehow snatched you out of thin air. And for that? They’re going to bleed and suffer before he offlines them. Wet work not normally his style, but he’s willing to make an exception. And his console dings with an incoming message.

• Sliding down against the side of the big, clear box they’d stuck you in after poking air holes in the top and sealing shut the bottom, you’re not amused. At all. Acting like Tarn is the biggest, baddest monster around. At least they’d left you with water and snacks, though. You’d paced for hours before exhausting yourself. Head lifting to stare at the blinking transponder on top of your prison, you sigh. Sure, he’s scared you before, but this seems excessive. He’s not that bad.

• Landing the Peaceful Tyranny, he strides across the ground. Unable to look away from the little box as his temper flares out of control. Whoever had stolen you had abandoned you on this world? In a box? And your head lifts spotting him, standing to press tiny palms to the sides. He’s going to hunt them down for this, but right now he’s dropping to his knees and prying the lid off, reaching to lift you out and press you against the mesh of his neck. “Are you hurt?” Hears your shaky, little ‘no’ and vents. Can feel the others staring at his back. “Find out who sent that encoded message. I want to talk to them,” he growls as he stands, cupping you close.

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[planefood]

PIGEON DRAGONS

A silly thing I made based on how I draw dragons in my sketchbooks. Feel free to make your own Pigeon Dragon as long as I get to see it if you do!

Scientific Name: Draco livia domestica

Habitat: Wizard Cities, Forests, Fields

Diet: Omnivorous, Scanvengers

Temperament: Tame

Life Span (Captivity): >100 years

Life Span (Urban): 5-10 years

Once a respected group of familiars to Wizards; Pigeon Dragons are now seen as nothing more than pests in Wizard Cities. They were formally known as Dove Dragons or Domestic Feathered Dragons, now only smaller/lighter coloured dragons are referred to as Dove Dragons. 

Although they can't breathe fire, they will eat lit cigarette butts that cause them to breathe little sparks. These sparks are often enough to set fire to flammable things around Wizard Cities such as the rubbish bins they frequently pilferage. 

Pigeon Dragons reach sexual maturity around 1 year after they hatch, they build nests in the crevices of high buildings and in-between the leaves of giant palm trees in more tropical areas. Laying a clutch of light blue eggs about the size of duck eggs. Mature Dragons in urban areas are often the size of seagulls, sometimes the size of small dogs for older Dragons. While these dragons grow quickly, due to the harsh environment of Wizard Cities they often die before reaching their true size.   Pigeon Dragons are now becoming more popular as pets. Wizards going back to their roots and taking on these dragons as familiars once more. Because of this, huge varieties of breeds now exist for these Fancy Pigeon Dragons. These pet Dragons now live upwards of 100 years and can grow to the size of a bus if they have the space to. It is a badge of honour between Pigeon Dragon owners to own these large Dragons.

[milkyfederation]

Round two! (Name unpronounceable by humans) aka Mac Gregor.

Child: Grew up as an orphan in a very poor context inside the mazonian sector. Raised by a scanvenger community near a spaceship cemetary, where he was used to reach into small spaces.

Teen: As a preteen he lost an eye scavanging for parts. Despite the awful living conditions, he learned a lot about mechanics by pure exposure to so much technology, without even knowing how to read.

Young: Managed to jump on a ship and get out of that hellhole, ending up in the earthian sector, a relatively new place in the MF. Working for the huge amount of space travelers in dire need of a cheap mechanic, he met Néstor's band, and kind of accidentally homewrecked that whole situation.

Adult: Living as one of the original Space Freelancers, he finally managed to have a decent life, gaining the weight that is healthy for his species. In a life partnership with Néstor.

Old (current): A grumpy old man with the scars and experiences to justify his attitude. Loves his life and doesn't want to slow down, he and Néstor take in new mentees to form the new Space Freelancers.

Notes: Mazonians are hermaphrodites, their social genders are big (dominant) and small, kinda like top/bottom. Mac's on the smaller side, specially when he was so thin.

Mac uses he/him pronouns on the human sector because that's what humans generally call him, but he doesn't actually care.

His language is incompatible with human anatomy, his metal eye has a translator. Despite this he's learned to understand spanish for Néstor, and vice versa.

[enkisstories]

At this point of the new save everyone had rolled a bucketlist goal:

Ben was the first to roll a goal. He wants to have sex in a dumpster, what is probably an expression of wanting to learn more about Rey's life as a scanvenger before they met and of wanting to be close to her.

So far Ben has been supportive both towards Rey and the Resistance, but are they also romantically compatible?

Rose was the next to manifest a bucketlist goal: Befriend a horse.

Rose likes all animals, but the real horse enthusiast was her sister, so this wish is in part also related to Rose wanting to honor Paige's memory.

Next Hux stated not just that he wants to have a baby, but literally that he "always" wanted to have a child.

Now I generally play him as a doting father, but in the context of the current story this wish for a child can also mean that Hux realized the First Order is finished and wants to pass on the fight to the next generation.

Rey wasn't a surprise at all, she wants to use magic (the Force) thirty times.

Remember how Rey was concerned that she and her friends lost their humanity and became functions? This goal is another symptome of this and should have everyone worried.

Yes, Poe said that it would be better if the group avoided Black Spire for safety reasons, but he's also Poe Dameron. His goal is to have an adventure in Black Spire.

Poe knows full well that he shouldn't go there, but it would be so exciting!

And finally Finn rolled one of the "spend a day in [other sims world]" goals, in his case Willow Creek.

Whenever he closes his eyes, be that to sleep or just to rest them for a second, Finn sees a settlement - an outpost, or maybe just a mansion - surrounded by trees that's crowns hang over the ground like umbrellas. Other trees' roots reach deep into swampy water. The longer the visions continue, the more consistent everything gets and Finn realizes that this is a real place. What is its significance and what will he find there?

[zanypainterglitter]

A small critique from my perspective of Transformers Armada, it's not really a full critique, I'm just giving my opinion and I'll accept if someone points out that I was wrong.

All that talk about the minicons being beings with feelings and personality is a lie, both the Decepticons and Blurr were right in that they are just objects and tools of destruction, that is demonstrated with the simple design of their faces, all except Sparkplug do not have a mouth even their eyes are simple dots, besides that they do not speak, they only make noises like a machine, they do not even have their own voice, it could be justified why they make that noise by saying that it is another language but that is never said and even the characters sometimes have to guess what they say, and above all they have no personality, sometimes they follow the boys or try to escape from the Decepticons but beyond that they are just machines or Pokémon but even the Pokémon make decisions, they have expression, they have feelings, the Armada minicons do not, if it were not for the wiki I would not even know what kind of person they are, I understand that it can be difficult to demonstrate and deal with more than 4 characters on each side, but literally it is the theme of the series, the freedom of the minicons but in the end, at least I, see that the Decepticons are right that they are just objects, because we don't even know why they joined the Decepticons or the Autobots, why they do what they do, they just obey and play hard to get when the plot requires it.

Megatron is childish, although he could be surpassed by Rid2001's, but still this Megatron is so childish, he literally lets anyone insult him and his army, humiliate him and tell him what to do, it happened with Scanvenger, Sideways and Thrust, literally the latter only had to read his horoscope and Megatron licked his legs and he does the same with any mercenary that shows up at his door insulting his command.

The fat one and the tall one are totally unnecessary, with Alexis, Carlos and Ralph it was enough, they were more problematic and they weren't even useful as support.

In my opinion Armada's designs are horrible and very ugly, uglier than Animated's although in fact I also thought Animated looked horrible because it was very humanized and they seemed to wear underwear but I grew a little fond of it, on the other hand Armada we have Starscream whose waist is a rectangle, Hot Shot's body looks more like a human with fat thighs and a round head than something that transforms into a car, Blurr's entire upper part of his mode is literally on his loaded back, Red Alert doesn't even look like a car, it doesn't make sense for Demolisher to have his tracks as his feet because it wouldn't hold up maybe if it were the other way around it would look more or less better, basically Armada's transformers look like random objects from their respective vehicles or humans with square parts.

With this I'm not saying it's bad, it clearly has good and bad things but this is what I have in my head and I wanted to comment.

[noveldivergence]

Found as part of @writeblrsummerfest's scanvenger hunt! God I remember these. People *fought* over these. The church *banned* these because they believed the sex signaling rumors too lmao

[lunasmusemenagerie]

Name: Caed or Grim (he goes by either, caed was his given name)

Race: Fae / Cryptid (Ozark Howler)

Type: OC

FC: Maxence Danet-Fauvel

Background:

Caed was the son of one of the last known bastions of Howlers, almost hunted to extinction in the Ozark mountain range. for the first several years of his life, he was taught how to shift and blend into the world around them, as blending in was the best form of survival.

Since Caed was little, he's always been out in the wilds, finding it more tolerable than his homelife, a less than ideal adoption situation. He often ran away from home to spend days out deep in the woods, going between his beast from and human form, only to be returned by game wardens later. It became like a game to him, see how long he could stay out before they found him again.

when he was a teenager, he got stuck in a beartrap and couldnt swtich out of his form, being cornered by a bunch of extremely drunk hunters, boys not much older than himself. they baited him and after trying to get free one of them grabbed at his horn and he snapped at them. it then became a fight for his life, and he killed them all. being found later by the same game wardens the usually did, covered in blood and passed out, but not dead. questions were asked but nothing came of it as the others were mauled by a bear like creature and Caed's injuries came from gunshots.

however, hunters started coming out in number, looking for the Ozark Howler, as word began to spread and suspicion on him grew from his adoptive family. the believed he was possessed by some devil or demon, and began trying to remove it out of him.

he broke free after a few days and ran, not looking back or stopping to grab any resources existing out in the wilds in beast form until he felt it was safe to show his face out in the open once again. he's picked up work as a scanvenger, mechanic, whatever he can get more through cash as to not pop up on too many people's radar.

Other info:

Aged around 19-25, He is bisexual and panromantic. Caed has enhanced healing abilities, enhanced strength, sense of smell, and hearing. he can also elongate his canines into fangs.

Beast form:

It is typically described as being around the size of a bear, with a thick body, stocky legs, black shaggy hair, and having prominent horns. Most agree that it is either black or dark in color. Its cry is often described as being a combination of a wolf’s howl and an elk’s bugle, still half human like a cougars call would be.

[istharaix]

@99tech99 I LOVE THIS QUESTION

Yes it was mostly based on vibes and aesthetic, YET there are some of these bird's quirks that do fit the characters in my opinion. Sorry for the yapping ahead:

Darth Maul as a bearded vulture: Bearded vultures have red-orange coloration on their feathers, but it isn’t natural (they achieve this by rubbing themselves in iron-rich soil or mud). This behavior is believed to serve as a status symbol and so it made me think about the tattoos Maul has, given by Mother Talzin. They are also lonely vultures, and only associate with one companion or mate so, if we ignore the romance part, i was thinking about the sith rule of "there can only be two: master and apprentice", and so Sidious and Maul, and Savage and Maul. These birds aren't talkative, they communicate through whistles and such, which doesn't fit TCW Maul, but fits TPM Maul.

Asajj Ventress as a harpy eagle: these eagles are BIG, and they are able to capture preys their size or bigger (like monkeys), for me that's a Ventress trait, as she fights people twice her size like Savage. These eagles are great at stealth, as silent as owls, even. They are also extremely territorial (im thinking of the witches of Dathomir here) and mate for life (ehem, quinlan vos). They're named after the Greek harpies, half-women known for their ferocity.

Darth Sidious as a california condor: not only does it absolutely look like him (same profile and everything), condors are long-lived, living up to 60 years. Longevity itself is a word i associate with Sidious (the Darth Plagueis stuff, and his own life). But also i found out that while vultures and alike are popularly linked with death in multiple ways, this specific condor has two symbolic interpretations for native americans: one as who carries the sun in the sky each day, and the other associated with death and rebirth. This two different views of the condor made me think of the duality of Palpatine-Sidious during the Clone Wars, knowing also that this condor is know for its intelligence. And if we talk about sequel's lore, him cloning his body could be considered the "rebirth". Also they are bald to prevent the blood from sticking and staining them, aka, Sidious holding no responsability over his crimes during the clone wars, tho i might be stretching it here.

Savage Opress as a white-rumped vulture: so, unlike the bearded vulture, this one is social, seeking companionship in pairs and especially in big groups, and Savage, despite being pretty eager to kill the people he doesn't like, is seen establishing multiple conexions: his brother Feral (he was so protective of him before he got turned to the dark side), him and Ventress for a while, i could even say him and Dooku, him seeking comfort and help from Mother Talzin, and him searching for and teaming up with Maul.

Count Dooku as a cape vulture: this one is mainly bc of the looks, but, these vultures live on high grounds, on colonies located on cliffs, and Dooku's palace on Serenno is set on a cliff. They are also hierarchical. Overall, the traits of vultures (death, scanvenging... etc) fit the Sith quite well in my vision.

Sith as Birds

This is created with hours of research and autism

Darth Maul as a bearded vulture:

Asajj Ventress as a harpy eagle:

Palpatine/Darth Sidious as a california condor:

Savage Opress as a white-rumped vulture:

Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus as a cape vulture:

[wowieeitsisa]

AYY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

TYYY MAN!!!!!!!!!

[jjuuppiter]

ditto ditto

(because they'll ended up together again, again, again)

(and because newjeans ditto is fire)

tropes: possesive gremlin//smugler and scanvenger//classmate

[girlysword]

I'm currently watching Mallory Jensen's Hallmark Christmas movie and I'm really liking it so far. Also, being a newbie to Hallmark Christmas movies I think my favorite part of the movies I've seen so far are the careers of the heroines, I think that they're creative and unique.

[zanypainterglitter]

Una pequeña crítica desde mi perspectiva de Transformers Armada, realmente no es una critica completa, solamente lo hago con mi opinión y aceptare si alguien indica que me equivoqué.

Todo ese discurso de que los minicons son seres con sentimientos y personalidad es una mentira, tanto los decepticons como Blurr tenían razón en que son solo objetos y herramientas de destrucción, eso se demuestra con el simple diseño de sus rostros, todos excepto Sparkplug no tienen boca incluso sus ojos son simples puntitos, además de que no hablan, solo hacen ruiditos como una máquina, ni siquiera tienen voz propia, se podía justificar porque hacen ese ruido con que es otro idioma pero nunca se dice eso y hasta los personajes tienen que a veces adivinar que dicen, y por encima de todo no tienen personalidad, a veces siguen a los chicos o intentan huir de los decepticons pero más allá de eso son solo maquinitas o unos Pokémon pero hasta los Pokémon toman decisiones, tienen expresión, tienen sentimiento, los minicons de Armada no, si no fuera por la wiki ni sabría que clase de persona son, entiendo que pueda ser difícil demostrar y tratar con más de 4 personajes en cada bando, pero literalmente es el tema de la serie, la libertad de los minicons pero al final, al menos yo, veo que los decepticons tienen razón de que son solo objetos, porque ni siquiera sabemos porque se unieron a los decepticons o a los autobots, porque hacen lo que hacen, solamente obedecen y se hacen los difíciles cuando lo requiere la trama.

Megatron es infantil, aunque podía ser superado por el de Rid2001, pero aún así este Megatron es tan infantil, literalmente deja que cualquiera lo insulte junto a su ejercito, lo humille y le diga que hacer, paso con Scanvenger, Sideways y Thrust, literalmente este último solo tuvo que leerle el horóscopo y Megatron le chupo las patas y lo hace con cualquier mercenario que se aparece en su puerta poniéndose a insultar a su comando.

El gordo y el alto son totalmente innecesarios, con Alexis, Carlos y Ralph era suficiente, eran más problemáticos y ni siquiera servían de apoyo.

Bajo mi opinión los diseños de Armada son horribles y muy feos, más feos que los de Animated aunque de hecho yo también opinaba que Animated se veía horrible porque era muy humanizado y parecían llevar calzones pero me encariñé un poco, en cambio Armada tenemos a Starscream que su cintura es un rectángulo, el cuerpo de Hot Shot parece más un humano con muslos gordos y cabeza redonda antes que algo que se transforma en un carro, Blurr literalmente toda la parte de arriba de su modo suyo está en su espalda cargada, Red Alert ni siquiera se parece un auto, Demolisher no tiene sentido que sus orugas sean sus pies porque no soportaría tal vez si fuera al revés quedaría más o menos mejor, básicamente los transformers de Armada parecen objetos al azar de sus respectivos vehículos o humanos con partes de cuadrado.

Con esto no digo que sea malo, claramente tiene cosas buenas y malas pero esto es lo que llevo en mi cabeza y quería comentar.

[lgcxnoeul]

"Jino, I think we're screwed." He states with a deadpan expression, corner of his lips twitching into a faint smile. He reaches up to roughly pat the younger man on the shoulder, squeezing the ball of his friend's shoulder before dropping his arm back to his side. He saw himself a bit in Jino, but he had to admit that his personality had tone itself down after all these years. Would he even dare say that he had matured? At least, enough for others to note that he had become more serious these past few months. On the other hand, Jino was far more energetic, had that live-in-the-moment type of personality that he naturally gravitated towards. He was one of the few people that elevated a regular day to a memorable one.

"Are you a liar now, hm?" He questions, tilting his head to one side. He doesn't maintain eye-contact for long, mind already flooded with all the possibilities of snacks awaiting for him to purchase them and happily munch on them. "That's actually not a bad idea. Your final observation before you graduate?" He suggests, taking out his phone to grab his debit card from the inside of his case. "Yes, I think we only need a video of you pretending to be a professor..." His voice trails off, thinking back to the guidelines. He was certain the list had the rules for the scanvenger hunt. He would check them later. First, he wanted a granola bar and a drink with electrolytes. "Do you want anything, Jino?"

"Why would I go because you're going?" He finishes off his question with a bewildered expression, chuckling afterwards at the absurdity of his friend's statement. "I heard you have multiple dates lined up. Are you trying to add me to your list too?" He teases, fully knowing the man was only implying that he should participate in social activities that didn't involve partying, or his own cheerleading events. He couldn't pass up teasing the man about the several rumors he had heard of Jino. "I don't think I want to go... but, I might go with Eunwoo to keep him company. I'm waiting for him to tell me that he has found a date, honestly, so I don't have to go at all."

“hm …” jino hikes his glasses up by the bridge of the frames; his index finger drops from the metal specs to his chin in what was supposed to be a thinking pose. “you bring up a good question.” he says in what he thinks is a professional tone. he smiles right after, dropping his hand, “what do you think did that make me sound like a teacher?” 

he wonders if they could pull this off  —  

“nah, professor seo always comes into class like this.” a lie — jino has never seen professor seo in anything more than a pair of simple slacks and a t-shirt; especially when it came time to develop their own film. but he was going off confidence, surely if he was confident enough to act like a teacher, everyone else would just play along.

“yeah, just find a seat in the back, we could say it’s … my last evaluation before —“ jino was used to thinking on his toes but not when it came to professional shit like this, “i don’t know teacher graduation?” did they even need to come up with a backstory — was he thinking too much about this? 

“we just need a video of me trying to teach the class, right?”

jino was already half-sure that more than half the class wouldn’t believe them off the bat.

they pass a flyer on the way, and it has jino slowing his pace, backtracking before turning to noeul. “oh right, you’re going to prom, yeah? long story short, i am, so you should also go.”  

he checks the time on his phone  —  would the professor even be entertaining a class at this time?    —  while pulling up his notes app with the schedule he had nabbed from the administration office. damn, jino hadn’t really thought this through, but then again, he didn’t think too much when they had decided to leave this ’til the end. sure, he thought it’d be hard — commandeering a professor’s class all by himself, but now he had noeul, it couldn’t be that hard now that there was two against … a whole classroom. 

( hopefully no one had seen the latest scathing issue of their school’s newspaper with his face plastered all over with no raving reviews about his latest wrestling loss )