#telerans

[transingthoseformers]

Continuity soup Gladiator AU

Miner to gladiators backstory but less bugnuts Megatron and which ever version of Optimus who was a dockworker that the Matrix fell on being forced to fight against each other as gladiators.

The two got captured because they were brawling buying time for their respective factions.

They're literally the only two cybertronians in the pits and they aren't alowed to kill each other in and out of the ring. They're a big money making draw. Damn inhibition chips. They're cooped up togeather and they're just floundering because they're only alowed to damage eachother in the ring duringbtheir fights. Sometimes they're sent out as a tag team.

Megatron grumpily teaching OP how to make a fight look good. Or how to fix a fight. Convincingly pretend an opponent has you on the ropes to give the audience their money's worth. Cause if his partner frags up he's in the same soup. And more importantly on the same quarter rations. You have plenty of other gladiators watching the lessons and practically taking notes. It's a gods damned master class.

OP's finding this helish and Megatron's finding this much less shitty that the Pits of Koan. Like a gladiatorial equivalent of a vacation if it wasn't for the forced proximity with Optimus.

Optimus finaly loses it at Megatron because how can he stand the inhibition chips. Megatron just matter-of-factly tells him compared to the slave coding he onlined with in the mines this is nothing. It's not in his processor. Just an inconvenient tazer. Optimus is so confused. This not the data he had on the Teleran. Finding out that the "drones" were 'Cons hacked to fight early in the war were actually sentients given antivirus to root out malicious code has OP in a tailspin. Megatron going from taunting and cynical to being generally shocked OP didn't actually know. Optimus is practically blue screened, while Megatron is laughing hystericaly that Optimus is a true believer in the "Freedom is the Right of All Sentient Beings," shtick. And Optimus dose have a patern that's been consistant since the begining: crackdown hard on corruption as soon as he realizes it's there. This is the point where Megatron decides to seduce Optimus to the Deceptacons and Optimus's "I Can Fix Him"-itis kicks in. It starts platonic but soon their fights have even more weird sexual tension. And philosophical debates instead of weird taunts.

The bookies are taking bets on whether or not cybertronians can bump uglies to make babies.

Meanwhile both factions are trying to get their leaders back. By the time they work out where they are they show up to discover OP and Megatron have secussfuly lead a slave revolt, escaped the planet and are co-captians of a ship full crewed by gladiators and their dependents.

Ooooo on the backstories and them being got because they were so focused on each other and ended up playing the distraction

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING, in this case they're worth too much to have one of them die during a fight or otherwise.

I've been thinking a lot about gladiators teaching each other how to rig some fights, owo yes???

Interesting dichotomy for Optimus and Megatron, Megs is not only used to this sort of rhythm but finds it easier than the first time, while Optimus feels like he's being pulled under the waves by it

The shock Optimus got is a-m-a-z-i-n-g, oh dude have you been living in blissful ignorance to the horrors of Cybertron

Because yeah

Optimus here is 100% here for freedom of all sentient beings, and this most certainly includes decepticons

SEDUCTION 100 AND OPTIMUS FALLING FOR IT HOOK LINE AND SINKER

See you get the vibe of this style of Megop!!!!

sdghjds oh the bets, hmmmm I wonder which way we're more inclined towards🤔

I feel like this was a situation where Prowl, Jazz, and Ultra Magnus were somewhat forced to work with Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave to track them down because yes please the respective high commands working together without their leaders

Of all the things that could've happened at least some mecha anticipated that those two would figure their way out of it

They just didn't anticipate the tagalongs

[shrikeseams]

You brought it upon yourself: best and worst dressed Finweans. You can rank them all or just tell me the very best and the very worst or anything in between, I just need to know more forbidden fashion facts from the mind that's brought us basketball jersey surcoat Fingon --tolkien-feels

Oh no! 😂 I feel very ill-equipped for this ask, and I do need to point out that this art is the reason I always think of modern!Fingon in basketball jersies and deeply janky diy tank tops. He's just the kind of guy who should wear his armscyes down to his hips.

Now, the thing is, 'best dressed' depends on social context! For example, what works well in Tirion may not work in Alqualonde or Beleriand at large. What works in Noldoran Court would be cumbersome and awkward meeting with Iathrim ambassadors. So:

Fingolfin, Maedhros, Turgon, and probably Caranthir qnd Curufin are always well-dressed. But in slightly staid, respectably Noldoran ways. Maedhros and Caranthir and Curufin tend to be flashier, but they all go for conventional fashion focused on showing off the craftsmanship of their outfits.

Celegorm, Aredhel, Fingon, Amrod, Amras, and I think Aegnor tend towards jock chic, with varying degrees of perpetual dishevelment. They all can clean up well enough, and they all do typical Noldor flashiest well enough. But if nobody reminds them about an event, they'll tend to be at least a little under-dressed. Fingon falls into that trap less, if only because a hairdo full of gold compensates for a certain about of sartorial laziness among the Noldor. And this general approach becomes much more acceptable in Beleriand than in was in Tirion.

Finarfin, Orodreth and Galadriel all tend towards classy simplicity. It's a more Teleran/Sindaran approach, though, so while they always look good (and often more comfortable than their heavily bejeweled family members) they loose points in the gossip columns. This group does better at mixed culture events generally, but gets more snippy remarks from the Noldor in Beleriand I bet.

if you want fashion that is avante garde, cutting edge, and sometimes Does Not Work, you have to go to Finrod and soooometimes Feanor. Feanor drops out of this as political tensions rise and he has more kids to dress, but he's always quietly disappointed that his sons aren't more daring in their fashion.

So: at any given Finwion party, the worst dressed could be from The Jocks (underdressed and slightly messy), the ones who Snub Noldoran Fashion (solely on grounds of not playing to social expectations) or Finrod or Feanor or Maglor (a wild idea that didn't play out right; a wardrobe malfunction is a clear possibility).

[almaperales]

Obregonia denigrii especie nativa de tamaulipas, de lento crecimiento y popular entre los coleccionistas de cactus.

Florece durante el verano, floración blanca

Prefieren suelos calcáreos y bien drenados ya que no teleran el exceso de riego.

NO PUEDE FALTAR EN TU COLECCIÓN.

[ediantik]

1970LER ELEKTRONİK HESAP MAKİNESİ, TELERANS EC12 RETRO DÖNEM BİLGİSAYAR HESAP MAKİNESİ. Elektrik geliyor, ekranda görünüyor ancak rakamlar yansımıyor. Tuṣlar eksiksiz ve temiz. Koleksiyonluk. Dönemin ilk mini bilgisayarlarından. #bilgisayar #minipc #hesap #hesapmakinesi #retro #vintage #elektronik #teletrans #ec12 #elektronal #elektronikhesap #antika #mezat #dönem #pc #calculator #1980s #1970s https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHsYSLqeM8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lesbiansforboromir]

Anyone know Quenya well enough to tell me what the equivolent for Finwe’s  ‘Ñoldóran’ would be in Ingwe and Olwe’s case? I assume it’s just... Vanyaran and Teleran or something but there must be accents and bullshit in there somewhere.

[gkl-1701]

Aragosis Teleran- Fallen Aasimar Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer/ Oath of the Ancients Paladin

To the earliest days of my house, we have always valued two things, Knowledge and steel. The first one of my line to speak these words was Captain Nicholas Teleran notorious pirate and scoundrel.He sailed the high seas raiding merchant ships for gold and exploration vessels for maps and books. Most people took notice to him simply because no one had heard of a pirate who stole books and scrolls. One day he raided an explorer’s ship and found a scroll which belonged to turtuga, a golden dragon in exchange for retrieving her prized scroll she granted this mortal one wish and that wish was an heir worthy of his name as he was not able to produce one. And thus, my ancestor Draginus Teleran was born with fire coursing through his veins and scales covering his skin. The first true Teleran. Skip four generations and you get to me Aragosis Teleran, but due to my bastard nature not the heir to the Teleran Hall of Knowledge and Hall of Steel. But my bastard status is the reason I'm special, I have something extra coursing through my veins, a small amount of divinity. My father had the dragon blood, while my mother an angel. My childhood was a simple one but living in the lap of luxury was a tad boring so I entertained myself by making trouble and playing with the multitude of weapons in the castle with my best friend Venjania, whom I called Venjin, who was the daughter of lord my family was fostering. It wasn't until my fifth year of schooling did, I find her and my sister Thalia in a relationship, let's just say that I reacted badly at first, the scorch marks are still in the wall, but I warmed up to the relationship. I was trained to be a paladin at a young age to serve the… however my arcane powers started to emerge when I was eleven and I was immediately sent to a school on the other side of the continent to hone my skills, there I learnt something more powerful than a spell ‘those with must protect those without’. After I finished my studies and graduated, I made my way home but when I returned to my ancestral home, I found not a warm welcome but warm, freshly spilled blood. I made my way to my sister’s room; my father was dead I prayed to the gods that Thalia wasn't. When I reached her room, I found her being drained by a vampire, Venjin lying on the floor almost gutted. The last I saw of Thalia was that her flying off with her new master. I will never forget that vampire’s stark white hair or his scar that ran down his whole face. I buried everyone in the castle that day, the only servant who survived was the cook; the only way she did was due to a ring of garlic. I cursed my mother that day and that was when I vowed to get my sister and slay every single last one of those blood sucking pale skinned monsters. I vow this on my draconian blood!

[laryna6]

I was typing a long post re. the clusterfuck that is Ieonar gender... Well, the progressives would say it’s about gender identity, the traditionalists say that they make it not about gender by appropriating rank suffixes as gender pronouns. Which happened because the Mylar (multicultural alliance of formerly persecuted ethnicities) mistook the Ieonar adopting the Teleran common tongue for being victims of cultural imperialism and like. Deciding to politely ignore the Ieonar caste system in hopes it would go away rather than understanding why it exists in a people who will absolutely give you cancer by accident if not properly trained. Even once removed from the context of the Teleran Anarchy Period.

Complicated by the fact that Ieonar are genderfluid normative, and even the people with strong male or female identities never really realize they have them because the norm is just being in whatever body you feel like at the time, so unless one stopped to think about it they wouldn’t regard staying in one kind of body most of the time as more than habit? There’s also no performative gender since gender isn’t a thing, so no one would feel like ‘these coded behaviors feel more or less like who I am.’ 

The tradition-keepers among the Ieonar were aware that gender was a thing among non-Ieonar Telerans, so they weren’t surprised to see it in Mylar cultures. It’s someone appropriating a rank suffix, when those used to be used to determine who lived and who died, that’s You Did Not Just Go There.

The Progressives... there’s a stage in Ieonar child-rearing, from age 10 to 60ish, where children are abandoned in the woods because they need to start learning how to constantly use their powers if they want to become immortal but if they do that among other people they WILL cause cancers and people will die. Obviously because humans don’t want to be alone these ‘children’ normally create their own society and raise each other despite the risk of death, and actually constantly fending off death helps them hone their powers. These found families are important Ieonar social units, ties that persist over centuries. 

Unfortunately a lot of Mylar started adopting these kids, despite Ieonar warnings that ‘you’re probably going to die’ which is okay if the adopted parents make that choice. But like. What if there are any existing children in the household? Are they in a position to give consent to losing their parents/siblings? Without instruction, most of these Ieonar children would die of old age by fifty, with their powers making changes to their body but not being able to do anything to keep these healthy changes. Even once a system was set up for these children to receive instruction, they still reached Ieonar adulthood having experienced one traumatic parental abandonment and then a second loss of an entire family as the Mylar household died, even if whatever Ieonar instructed the child was able to make sure they all died of natural causes. Then entering into a society with no structure for handling their emotional needs because they were supposed to have already developed a support structure during their fifty years of living as a Found Family unit, both receiving emotional support and giving it to younger members. And a reluctance to develop new emotional ties due to two sets of losses. 

Traditional Ieonar society is absolutely screwed up, since it was formed as a coping/survival mechanism for the Teleran Anarchy Period, but the Progressives don’t offer a sane alternative because most Progressives are emotionally fucked up and want to destroy the system that traumatized them without any schema for giving immortals a system that doesn’t just cause them to go insane over centuries from isolation instead of childhood trauma. 

Progressives who attempt to raise their own children tend to do a terrible job no matter how good the Mylar family was, because they weren’t with the Mylar family for the early years that are important to bonding and there’s a very strong social pressure against forming an attachment with your biological child among Ieonar because of the aforementioned Anarchy Period, when a parent’s duty to a child was to get them to a point where they could be handed over to one of the Safe Zones and then contribute to society in keeping that safe zone safe, because if outsiders broke in the children would be slaughtered. They were aware that this was traumatic as hell for the kid, so the idea was to minimize the trauma by minimizing the attachment, fostering emotional connections to children of the same age as a substitute, hopefully causing a natural transition to the found family group. So Progressive parents’ example for how to parent small children is a parenting style based around ensuring the children get their emotional needs met elsewhere, without doing the ‘ensure the child gets their emotional needs met elsewhere’ part because they’re supposed to be meeting their child’s emotional needs. The only preexisting emotional bond between Ieonar blood family in the book is two adepts, one of whom is the other’s granddaughter, and they’re Platonic Life Partners who call each other grandfather/granddaughter because haha funny coincidence that two adepts are that closely related rather than the blood connection or small percentage age difference mattering at all. Jiva being related to Jaret is more a reason for her not to take him in rather than a reason to do so.

The main character’s mother had a traditionalist upbringing with found family group, and while Jiva(properly Jiv) got the same, Jaret was raised by his Mylar father and without that emotional support because she wanted him to feel an emotional connection to family and therefore an obligation to carry on her ideals. Even though the reason she wanted him to oppose the Progressives was that she’d observed how that fucked people up. Jaret has grown up knowing that basically everyone who gives a damn about him does so because of his mother, and that their support of him is because it’s what she wanted/contingent on him being what she wanted. 

One of the bits of feedback I got for the novel was that a reader didn’t find Jaret sympathetic, and that having an ensemble is a way people get around readers maybe not understanding what one kind of character is going through, but Jaret’s isolation is kind of important, since isolation is. A big problem. If he wasn’t so completely bereft of a support network that actually supported HIM he would have someone to go to when he discovered what one of his mother’s found family members had done with forbidden magibiotech instead of questing after a vanished adept. I should probably harken back to the original dream this is all based on and have Larynky be a party member. Replace the undercover Mylar plot tumor I wrote because NaNo and I needed wordcount with an experience of easy comraderie not contingent on meeting expectations with Jiv’s found family?

Or maybe I should just. Make Jiva the main character. 

Actually, that’s a fantastic idea. Jaret comes to understand on an intellectual level that that he’s being raised to be this Great King and now has to do a Hero’s Journey is pretty fucked up, but that’s hard since it has to overcome his lived experience that his life is, well, how his life works. Jiva has her own issues of being the failed/discarded rough draft child supposed to be evidence of her mother’s perfection even though Ieonar traditions actually support her owing her mother absolutely nothing, but her going ‘holy shit what is being done to this kid is wrong’ would help her with ‘what was done to me was also wrong.’ 

Jaret going to Jiva because despite the fact he’s been told he needs to grow up a leader he’s never really been allowed to act on his own and she. Has no reason to help him but like. There is no one that is any better to go to. And her just listening and eventually okay. First thing is, we fake your death by killing your manservant. And it’s half actual plan and half sisterly ‘this one I can kill now, need backup for the others that are going to die.’ But it’s not that he’s her brother that makes her help, but she remembers being a kid who got dropped off in the woods. Not even with parents sticking around to make sure she was handed off to a friend of hers who was her bff until they got brought to the woods, one of her mother’s people did it. And just wandering around and. Eventually making a bed out of leaves because. That’s what you’re supposed to do, right? And wandering around until someone sensed another Ieonar and went to say hi and was like ‘are you camping??? Where are your friends?’ and she was ‘huh?’ 

Jaret going ‘the admiral will let you just take off with your ship? He won’t demand you even provide an explanation for not sticking to the plan?’ because an adult who is both ‘will help’ and ‘does not run his life’ is a new concept. And Jiva is *internal screaming* because dammit this kid is supposedly being raised as a king but the idea that someone would like. Trust his judgment and assume he knows what he’s doing is totally foreign to him. 

And ‘WTF of course you can’t perform master level magic, you’re goddamn thirty, the only thing you’re supposed to be training in right now is Trying Not To Die.’

Now I want a(nother) Mylar-raised character that Jiva is like ‘crap, I can’t ditch them, they will absolutely take it the wrong way.’ ‘Sister Dammit why do I have to handle these balls of issues’ but like. There is no one else. 

Ieonar do have therapy! Traditionally it’s a religious/holy thing and very good at PTSD and grief counseling bc anarchy period. However over the child rearing issue the Necromantic War never ended in that profession - people are legitimately killing each other to this day. 

[nationalcybersecurity-blog1]

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