#technically primal

[brustyventuring]

DISCLAIMER: I DID NOT DO THIS BACKGROUND. It's one of the Primal backgrounds I found online.

Anyways I just really wanted to draw them like this. Obvs Helper would be Rusty's dino instead of Brocks but I haven't seen enough of the show to know the nuances of fleshing that out.

Screenshot I based this on below

[akirakirxaa]

For absolutely no reason at all please reblog if you think grey or blue skinned Duskwight based characters can be Ishgardian.

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 12 - Companion

"The thing about adventuring is you never know what companions will come and go along the way, right? But I'm lucky, 'cause I'll always have Couscous to keep me company!"

[dailyoplita]

thinking about THIS rareship lately

[gravitybawls]

Not-quite-human Ford (be it the effects of his dimension-hopping or just a sort of creature-like, nonhuman mind) ferally raping his brother.

((The word "bitching" comes to mind, though it's not quite applicable))

Ford pinning his brother to the ground and forcing himself inside, growling and panting and promising to breed Stan. Using his body like animals do, like Stan is nothing but a warm, fertile hole.

[cybertron-after-dark]

Optimus Primes + how they would react to you telling them your preferred name and pronouns

G1: "hello (chosen name). I am Optimus." He is TAKING that chance for a "dad joke," as he hears Spike call it, but he'll make it clear right after that he'll be committing that information to his memory banks. He will offer to reintroduce you to the Autobots all at once with your "updated specs," as he calls it, but understand that meeting will be as painfully awkward as it is sweet.

Primal: He's honored you felt safe enough to come to him with this. Especially since renaming yourself after a new transformation and announcing it to those around you is a Maximal tradition. He's fascinated and ecstatic that there are humans with an experience so similar, and he'll start to wonder whether his kind picked it up from Earth after the Great War in the first place.

RiD01: Not above making a deadpan one-liner or a terrible pun about your name. Supportive, but very casual about the whole thing. It doesn't change a lot for him, you'll always be a trusted human ally.

TFA: He doesn't really register the significance of being let in on this information at first. He'll pick up if you're nervous about something but he won't really understand why it's eating at you. It's just a name, don't those change all the time? But still, he'll have the sense to try to ease your worry and tell you he's "glad to meet you- er, again."

TFP: He is so proud of you, and you'll get the warmest, softest smile you've seen in your life from him. If you allow for it, he'd like to hear about the significance of your new name. What it means, what drew you to it, what humans associate it with. And if your pronouns are less common and he hasn't heard of them before now, that'll spark his curiosity like nothing else, and he'll happily descend into the research rabbit hole.

Cyberverse: Will fumble a bit to try to read how you're feeling about all this so he'll know how to approach. Will be awkward no matter how he tries to play it, but very, very accepting. You're far from the first of his allies to go through such a change.

Bonus

Bayverse: do not approach. Unclear if he's transphobic, but he'll take your face off no matter what you identify as.

[kulvefaggoth]

Actually not only is Ravana cool as shit but he's the first original primal (aka not based on a previous Final Fantasy summoned creature) of XIV! They fully made up a 20 feet beetle sword saint and i'm very happy they did!

[kradogsrats]

inching toward the starting line for writing my planned "Primal Stones, Human Magic, and Aaravos" meta, so I went back to re-read my older posts on similar topics to make sure I don't repeat myself too much or wildly contradict a prior analysis without laying down reasoning for doing so and:

Apparently, the first primal source humans accessed was the Sun. It could just be that Anak Arao was a rules-obsessed hall monitor... but what if it wasn't Leola who gave humans that secret? We don't even see Leola doing any magic of the kind she's credited with giving humans—no runes, no spells of any specific primal. If someone did teach humans the runes and Draconic words for primal magic, it seems unlikely to have been her. But as heir to some kind of position of authority, could it have been partially Anak Arao's responsibility to keep his primal source out of human hands? Was it maybe stolen out from under his nose, and he sought to shift the punishment away from himself? (And boy, would it sure be a real uno-reverse to have this story loop all the way back around to a literal theft of fire for humanity.) Or could it have been lost/given to humans by someone he wanted to protect from the same cosmic justice?

I didn't forget that I wrote this, and it's actually more coherent than I remembered, but I'd largely discarded it as a possibility after s7, since Aaravos describes Leola as having been condemned for "an innocent mistake." If he found out in the intervening millennia that she'd actually been framed by an archdragon for a crime in which she was completely uninvolved, I feel like he'd probably have brought that up.

Anyway, in revisiting what literally every source I can recall has to say about primal stones, I (re-)stumbled upon Tales of Xadia's charming descriptions of primal stones for each primal source and the casual note that:

Some say the first primal stone of the Sun contained the fiery breath of Sol Regem himself.

Just chew on this with me for a second: given a particular constellation of interpretations regarding which things we've been told are true and to what degree, this could literally be a story of Sol Regem's personal primal fire stolen to uplift humanity. Mr. "You Cannot Fix What Is Broken In Xadia," heir to a world already doomed by his own essence being placed in human hands. Watching humanity grow and thrive on that taste of his power, and then—unsatisfied with what they were "given"—inevitably hunger for even more.

... idk man, I just find that absolutely delicious. Like twirling my hair and kicking my feet thinking about it.

[chopprface]

fellas i cant just ship dinobot with just one of the maximals at this point. its too fun to imagine the main maximals (aside from cheetor) just hanging out in a polycule for me to NOT ship all of them simultaneously. the protoforms have their own relationships separate from the maximals but are just like 'ok cool i guess'

the thing is about the maximal polycule is that it kind of falls apart without dinobot because hes got such strong relationships with the primary maximals. spoilers under the cut

post-code of hero their relationships get way more distant. theres still sparks of romance here and there (noticeable mainly with rhinox and rattrap) but the dynamics they have are pretty different without the glue of the group around. primal falls firmly into his role as the commander of the maximals around the time dinobot dies and is kind of too caught up with megatrons increasingly dangerous schemes to worry about his relationships. not that his relationships with the maximals break down at all, just that they shift back to how they were before dinobot joined the team, albeit with less skepticism towards optimus' ability to lead.

i could drop a whole extra paragraph about depth charge coming in and altering the dynamic of the group once more but that would mainly have to do with rattrap and primal's dynamics with him, since depth charge and rhinox don't get much screentime or interaction with eachother. its definitely a challenge to write speculative relationships about rhinox because he doesn't get a lot of deeper characterization in a lot of the episodes. jesus christ this was gonna be a shitpost about dinobot getting passed around like a blunt like how wolverine is in x men but i like these guys too much.

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Anyway after thorough research, I can confirm that I am, in fact, not a big fan of the snow ahsjakskla it was really cool for like an hour and I was having a fantastic time, but the novelty wore off quick when it melted into my clothes lmaoooo

[honey-hexes]

[I.D: the maximals all gathered around a glowing console port on the Axalon, Optimus Primal and Dinobot in bot mode, and the others in their beast modes, silhouetted. The title reads BEAST WARS: 1997 Hasbro LLC. Floating above the console is a menu with the options NEW GAME, CONTINUE, EXTRAS, DEMO]

Mods are asleep post full @primitivebeastszine piece

[beppuccino]

Duality of a moth

[onlyhurtforaminute]

ENTHEOS-SPECIFIC MEANING IN A GROUP OF DOTS

[noxious-fennec]

Doodles to wind down from finals crunch ft. Nuclear winter throuple

[littlebigmouse]

I saw Fight Club for the first time yesterday and to the best of my memory, this was the second time I consciously noticed Edward Norton in a movie (I have a bad memory for actor's names and faces, I may have seen him around but wouldn't know).

The first time was Primal Fear.

This makes Edward Norton the second most specific type cast in hollywood in my book (right after the actress who played cinderella's evil stepsister in like, three different adaptations).

[rotting-bones-will-sing]

getting salmon for dinner, which wolf brain is excited about!

... except we only like salmon in very specific ways. which is usually either smoked (and cold), glazed & barbequed, or in salmon dip. this is not the salmon we're having.

but wolf brain is still excited about it. even though we aren't going to like it.

(at least we can agree with wolf brain that the (fake, because of severe shellfish allergy) crab legs will be great lmao)