#spark the brain

[aphel1on]

AuDHD is so funny sometimes like what do you mean my hyperfixations/special interests will last for years on end or possibly forever but they will cycle out every month or two with absolutely no transitional period or warning. like i will think about the same topic every day obsessively for 46 days in a row and on the 47th day with no visible cause adhd brain goes "ok! bored of that now" and autism brain goes "dw i got something queued up for ya" and i blast into full blown obsession on some other topic whose mental file folders haven't opened in 9 months. brain's out here treating hyperfixations like a crop rotation. once the dopamine runs out it cycles in another one but once something's in the rotation it never ever leaves. last summer we brought in one from when i was 11. it's so funny to me but frustrating too bc like. i cannot stress enough my inability to predict or control this. or how completely abrupt and random it can be

EDIT: seems this is more common among ND people than i thought, and probably not limited to AuDHD specifically :] i was just describing my own experiences and didn't expect this post to blow up, so don't take me for an authority, but i'm glad it resonated with so many of y'all

[feluka]

"why do girls always go to the bathroom in groups" oh my god how many times must we go through this. for the last fucking time: only groups of no less than three and no more than five may enter; all those who enter must leave, and all those who enter must contribute. the door remains opens for nine seconds,

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[blackseafoam]

The OG rebel ✨

(Besides Padme ofc)

[spacedace]

Yall someone on reddit made a list of reverse writing tropes as prompts and I'm losing my damn mind over them:

I want to write something for each and every one of these. I already have ideas for some of them holy shit I love these 🤣

[themintman]

I was in the middle of drawing shuttah and my brain started associating it with those stupid snails from miitopia 😭 do y'all see my vision...

[cait-sith]

Hey what if Starscream repainted himself post-canon

Unnecessarily long thoughts and ramblings (mostly about Starscream) under the cut.

This was originally in the tags but then it became an actual wall of text so. Keep Reading be upon ye.

So in IDW Till All Are One 12 Windblade shows Starscream his “true” form quote unquote and it's like this blue-white-and-red colour scheme. And while I don't really know how to feel about that; got some implications vis-a-vis transgender stuff, Starscream clearly took it as something that was taken from him, something that defined him, something that would have made him different (more likeable, more successful, unclear). On the other hand, I also think that Starscream sort of clings to that idea, because it's more painful to believe that he couldn't have changed anything, that it might just be a flaw in him. Something external to blame, y'know.

Windblade kinda points that out, it wasn't really the point of showing him that, but maybe that's just my personal interpretation. “I could have been so much more had I just been allowed to be born as I was meant”. Missing Windblade's point that he is still the same person in his spark, regardless of frame, it is ultimately up to him who he is. His actions define him, not his appearance. BUT. I feel like that kinda misinterpretation would be in-character for him, and so maybe in post-canon he'd... well really I think he'd reframe but maybe as like an attempt to reclaim what he thinks he should have been (even if he doesn't need to, even if he was perfectly capable of changing who he was without that). He frequently sabotages himself, because he doesn't believe in trust and he's so used to being in adverse relationships where he cannot rely on anyone being on his side. So then he gets everything he ever wanted, and it's.. not really what he wanted. Metalhawk, Wheeljack, Windblade and Bumblebee all sorta get under his plating, in different ways, and he admits to liking them, but can't bring himself to trust them. He's constantly at loggerheads with Metalhawk and Bee at the start, but Metalhawk tries and gets murdered for his troubles.

Wheeljack, well, he's just kinda mostly nice and willing to forgive and help, even while he's wary. In a way, I think Starscream gets attached to him because he's safe to get attached to, because Wheeljack doesn't take the shot when he's vulnerable, offers to help, to be on his side. From a distance. He doesn't really... actually initiate much of a friendship, but he talks about the idea.

Windblade, I think that relationship is a bit more fraught. They end up working together a lot by necessity, given their positions, and Windblade frequently has to fix or contend with Starscream's messes, and she has none of the prejudices of the others, but again, she's a threat to his power, to what he wants, can't really look past that. She tries, though, and I think he does sort of like her as time goes on. It just doesn't stop him from doing what he always does. No trust and all that. As for Bee. Bee. While he's alive, he's much like Metalhawk and Windblade: A threat to Starscream's power, with the added issues of being a major enemy and an autobot, with all the prejudices that brings. They don't make friends. Only Bee "dying" changes that, and only because Starscream is utterly convinced he is a ghost. In his own mind, he's *almost* okay with admitting to his flaws, his worries. Bee's ghost becomes his conscience, his confidante and companion, and because he's fictional, a fragment of Starscream's mind (or so he thinks), he's safe. Safe in ways none of the others are. And Bee tries, he has nothing really left to gain, no power to hold onto. For all intents and purposes, he *is* a ghost.

That was probably terrifying when Bee turned out to not be dead. Someone who saw all of Starscream's vulnerabilities, with so much power to hurt him. He can't help himself. He does have moments, though. Rare choices where he does trust, sometimes for lack of better options but still. And by the Unicron-finale, he's, well, still not friends, but he admits to everything, he comes clean, kind of.

So. We're going to ignore that he dies for the sake of this. <3 Just temporarily. In a hypothetical post-canon, I think he'd try to get a bit of agency back, try and follow that dream of his better self. And I think Windblade, Wheeljack and Bumblebee are the closest thing to friends he's had since his trine. And Metalhawk, technically, but he's kinda dead and also with the dead universe revival wasn't too happy with Starscream lmao. Perhaps Bee's the most comfortable, after that, if he ever gets over himself, because he's already spilled his guts to him, if accidentally. I don't think Starscream would ever be *easy* to get along with, and Bumblebee doesn't really take shit, but I'd like them to be friends. Squabbly-bantery friends, but still. Wheeljack seems a bit gentler, while Windblade's a bit more professional, she's kind but responsible.

Point being: this is Bee helping him repaint himself to leave the past behind.

Thanks for listening lmao

[gillmossyagate]

Was talking with a mutual about this earlier but like, if someone somehow managed to get Cale to laugh hard enough, I feel like he would have one of those midwestern dad cackles. Normally he'll have a quiet laugh, snort/smile if he finds something mildly amusing or wheeze silently if something catches him off-guard. But a full belly-laugh? That man CACKLES.

Like imagine:

It's fully silent in the Super Rock Villa because everyone is busy doin their own thing, and then all of a sudden this loud laugh starts echoing through the place, and everyone has a moment of pause when they realize.

Something made Cale fucking Henituse cackle.

This has never happened before, but the same thought crosses everyone's mind:

"We need to hear him laugh like that again."

Suddenly, it becomes a challenge with money on the line. Whoever can get Cale to cackle again will get 100 galleons from everyone participating as well as bragging rights at having made Cale laugh.

Alberu gets involved, and adds the condition that if someone manages to get him to slap his knee while he's laughing, he will give them a golden plaque.

The Henituse Family gets involved.

Duke Fredo von Ejellan gets involved.

Eruhaben gets involved.

Ron motherfucking Molan even joins in.

Everyone is so incredibly invested in this, so much so that Cale has started picking up on a shift in something. He isn't sure what changed, but he starts gaining a 6th sense for dad jokes thanks to all the attempts made by Deruth and Duke Fredo. They were all so bad that they almost looped around to being funny again. The moment Cale feels a dad joke coming, he goes stone-faced in preparation for one of the worst puns known to any race.

At most, if they're bad enough, it makes him crack a smile or snort. But none have managed to make him belly-laugh yet.

Eruhaben and Rosalyn are almost tempted to magic their way through and use a harmless laughing gas, but both agree that it would probably be cheating and also very unethical.

Raon, Ohn, and Hong are in it too. So far, Ohn has come the closest. No one knows how she did it, but she got a laugh out of him. But it wasn't quite THE laugh.

Eventually, when Sui Khan comes around, he catches wind of this alleged cackle-laugh and gets involved too. He doesn't fully join into the challenge. That would be unfair after all, as he's known Cale the longest. But he does help the others out with their ideas or jokes to get Cale to laugh.

A lethal duo begins to form, as Ohn has decided to request Sui Khan's help. No one knows what to expect, but everyone is absolutely in this to win the money and, most importantly, the bragging rights.

[italyveneziano]

"... There's something I want to try. I don't know if it'll work, but will you help me?" "If there is anything this decrepit old man can do, I would be happy to."

@aphnichepairweek Day 4: Islands | Magic! Once I realized these prompts perfectly fit England and Japan fighting together in HetaOni, I just had to do something with it ✨️✨️

[gomzdrawfr]

Do you think Price and Nik would fall low enough to make out on the floor of a random toilet

[streetchicken]

Little black box

Minicomic, as promised to @on-a-lucky-tide , inspired by THIS POST ;3 This is also an event that happens after THIS badly written, summer heat induced minifc of mine which happened completely by accident ngl

[tcfactory]

Think fast, Sentinel. That is what you are for, after all.

Today on "this is not what I planned to draw, but I think it turned out Neat": a nightmare.

Sentinel from my ongoing fanfic verse, Crossed Sparks.

This won't make much sense without the context of the fic, but I'm basically playing around with the idea of a Sentinel who was custom made for his position of the Principal Aide.

Bonus closeup because this thing is huge:

[canisalbus]

Alright.

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[ananinidraws]

Based on that one meme

He's fine guys, don't worry

More doodles under the cut

A bunch of kissing sketches (that got... a bit more heated than intended. listen i promised it started out wholesome with the bottom ones, but then i blacked out and whoops /silly)

I do not know how to draw kisses 😔

[aworldofendlesswonder]

finally figured out what this image of data reminds me of it's the Scrungy Cat face

[smashwolfen]

Got my hands on the blorbo plushiesssss XD

Been waiting for a good chance to get them all at the same time and it worked out finally! Right before a postal strike too here, I would have been so upset if they got lost in the system because of the strike skcjrbelzh

Now that I got him tho, I can do this to Volo XD

DESERVED

Some extra things to show too! Saved the tags with the other ones I got of the Submas blorbos, a Bonus Cynthia plush from the Masters EX line because she was very afforable!

And finally the different levels of containment, simple plastic for Irida, ziploc'd Adaman and absolutely sealed shut, taped and bubble wrapped Volo for his crimes, thats literally how they were when they came outta the package they were sent in XD