#tm waspy dude

[thenamesblurrito]

ask dump the fourth

what can i say, i guess i get a lot of asks!! thanks for the attention, have some miscellaneous info

answered asks are collide from this ask meme, tm waspy dude’s Sky Striker, how much a mech can eat, tar taffy, Springload, Springer the secret John Deere tractor, dandelions, Soundwave, and nonhumanoid root modes

@confusedcriminal this has been in my inbox forever and i forgot about it halfway thru compiling an answer oops! but inspiration for SNAP taken from outside of transformers canon would, most obviously, be the entirely of magical girl anime. i legit scrolled through TVTropes for a long time doing research on stereotypical episodes, character types, etc just so i could really capture the aesthetic. i’m not basing it on any anime in particular, although the classic Sailor Moon and PMMM and even some Pretty Cure had a lot of good tropes for me to steal.

another one is sort of the nature of ~political discourse i see between kids online these days. SNAP revolves around four groups of kids working to better the world but violently disagreeing on how that should be done. it’s not an inspiration i started out with (especially because i avoid all sorts of the disk horse like the plague) but it became an apt comparison as i kept working on the story.

a solid character! it sounds like Sky Raider is a lot like Sky Striker with the addition of some confidence and security

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it sort of depends on the person’s size, how worn/physically tired they are, and what materials their self repair is drawing from. a mech with a lot of dings and scrapes will have their self repair systems working harder and thus “run out” of what they’ve eaten quicker, whereas someone in perfect health who isn’t moving that much will only need general minor upkeep. as for how much they can eat at once, the fuel tanks and material stockpiles someone has will vary by their size and frame. a seeker, for instance, has large fuel reserves for their large energy demands because it’s stored in their wings, like real planes! their material stockpiles are smaller though because flightframes carrying around more weight in the form of eaten food is sort of counterintuitive. the average grounder and toolformer will have proportionally larger material stockpiles, flightframes and spacers and aquatics will have proportionally smaller, and beastformers will have somewhere in between, usually erring larger. eating too much for any one of them will result in lethargy and nausea, loss of appetite for a good while, perhaps physical pain from overstressed tanks, and if necessary purging/spitting up food. doing this over and over can damage their internal forges and repair systems, and lead to self repair tacking excess materials onto places that really don’t need them, like the flash of overmolded stuff, which can cause lumps, compromised welds, and even shrapnel knocking around in the internals. they don’t really have the equivalent of fat storage like organics, at best they get thick and malformed armor.

all that said, to answer your question! yes they could eat more to go longer between meals, as long as they don’t push it and eat more than they’re physically capable of holding. also, it’s pretty normal to get physical materials within liquid fuel. silted energon mentioned in the above link and “protein shakes” are a quick and easy way to get all their “food groups” in one form, and some mecha live exclusively off of these

lol that’s a great name already ghfofhjdfgs nice and simple, i can use that

oh this is really really good! backstory and everything! also gotta love a good FMAB reference *chefs kiss* i don’t know if i have a place for Springload in my current plotline, but this would fit perfectly as one of the accidental alternate timelines that Skywarp sometimes falls into, so i’m gonna tuck this in my back pocket for later. i am however hesitant to use Aboriginal culture as i am definitely not Aboriginal nor even Australian and don’t want to disrespect them. at the very least i’d have to ask some Aboriginal people, but i really don’t think it’s my place to use anything from the Dreamtime, especially without explicit permission

@oldboyjensenhinglemeier​ it took me so long to answer this because it’s so beautiful i wanted to save it forever. also no he’s not a tractor sadly but you’re right about the colors. the obvious solution is to make him a tractor in your own canon! (also what i’m hearing is Sputter’s new nickname for Springer is John Deere)

!!!! i never got part 1 to this but i already love this so much??? giant dandelions yes please. this is so good. sky weeds

yes he can, among a lot of other befuddling supersenses! the Lenses manifest mostly as augmented sight, which is already confusing enough to handle, but his powerset is more expansive. on his character sheet i describe it as “perception so acute he can predict what an opponent will do next”, and that bleeds into hearing as well, even hearing thoughts. he has a lot of work to do to figure out how to operate without a migraine, made more difficult by the way Rumble and Frenzy just refuse to cooperate

as for swimming aids, i think soundwave is one of the ones who can swim safely? i think? i talk about swimming in this dump here. most of the heroes can. his tentacles probably would make some decent swimming aids actually, although it’s unlikely to come up because there aren’t exactly many places to swim on Cybertron

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something like that ;)

there’s an in-universe answer and an out-of-universe answer, and the out-of-universe answer is that i wanted to keep a set style and visual language for each character design to lend a thread of coherency between all of them, so i made the difficult decision to sacrifice nonhumanoid root modes

[transformers-extrication]

“Ofcourseit’sSonicsbestestfriend!Can’tleavefriendsbehind!”

[riseoftheradiotrons]

good gamer af anon was me, TM Waspy! Turb you are scary but I'll respect you because you are capable of doing what you enjoy.

He looks quite prideful at receiving respect. Nothing can hurt him now. He enjoys this little human who respects him.

[galvatronsthighs]

TM Waspy. Starscream:*sees Waspy*: You're the only mother(fragger) in this city who can handle me.

[thenamesblurrito]

this is so funny to me. Thunderclash is the hero, Sureshot is the pacifist, and Pyro is the leech. Optimus gets to see how cringey his own propaganda-spewing Autobot idealism from early s1 is from an outside perspective. bonus if Pyro shoots flames instead of water. new definition of firetruck

Friendly reminder that @thenamesblurrito is a genius

[transformers-fan-continuities]

Does One Planet One People, by TM Waspy, count?

Well, since it’s an original continuity not based in an established canon, yes it does!

My only requirements for putting it on the masterlist is that it has to be hosted somewhere so I can add a source. Online, preferably, but hey, if you’ve got a handmade zine circling around that contains your continuity, props to you and I’d like a location to order said zine to put on the masterlist.

[chrometyranno]

Hey, I'm TM Waspy Dude, and I've been a fan of yours since I found your threads on TFW2005 back in like 2018. Would you recommend incomplete/second-hand figures as good bases for beginner customs?

For instance, using an inner robot G1 Bludgeon from eBay as the base of a Snake-Eyes crossover figure.

I think incomplete/junker bots are really good starter pieces for customs. And G1 Bludgeon into Snake-Eyes sounds like a great concept to go for.

[emperor-galvatron-sama]

Dear Galvatron, do you wish you had a combiner who was loyal to you on your side? The Seacons seem to mostly be interested in personal gain excluding Halfshell, who genuinely appreciates his crewmates. Sincerely, TM Waspy Dude

It would be advantageous yes, but my men are enough for me right now. Besides when seeing about creating a combiner between us, many of my team seemed too unsure about making the upgrade to a combiner form.

Starscream and BB do have a combination form but it is not a combiner in the sense you are talking about. It is more a... combination to merge powers to make an attack stronger than what either of them could’ve done individually.

Hmm, yes, Halfshell I can respect his care for his crewmates but I hold no fondness for pirates who regularly kill, steal and do dirty work for money.

[shapeofmetal]

CM Taran. He also revealed his very horny feelings for Spidertank in front of her. Also, tag my asks as "TM Waspy dude"?

What on earth are you talking about?

Broham you know you are on anon right?

is this an RP thing?

[thenamesblurrito]

❤️ from TM Waspy, at Deadlock: Rodimus, Airachnid, Thunderblast?

ahhhh the kiss/marry/kill thing

you’d have to kidnap Deadlock and force him to answer this, kicking and spitting the whole time, but eventually,

KILL Airachnid. no more toxin, no more haughty optics, no more smug superiority. no more getting tied up in webbing as Drift and being left for hours until he wiggles free or someone rescues him

KISS Thunderblast. she’s always clamoring for attention anyway, maybe giving her some will shut her up. (Drift tolerates her much better than Deadlock does, as is true of most things)

and uh. the last one is uh. hhh. it’s M...mmmm.... that one. with. that person. SHUT UP YOU KNOW WHICH ONE HE DOESN’T HAVE TO SAY IT OUT LOUD THIS IS STUPID LET HIM GO

congratulations, now you have an embarrassed, raging Deadlock convinced that you’ll extrapolate some vulnerability from his answers and use it against him somehow!

[starstardraws]

Truescream dude and First Aid/Whirl fusion dude. pls tag all my asks as TM Waspy dude for easy reblogging/tag browsing.

there you go my due

fix my tags

[riseoftheradiotrons]

Hey its me TM Waspy! Have some Mountain Dew-Dorito-5Hr Energy smoothie! I won't have any, for health reasons, but pace yourself and you might be able to get thru a 40 hr stream.

Turb chugs the whole fucking thing.

Cut to two hours later, he's shaking like a chihuahua with rabies.

"CRIM! IS THIS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK?!"

"...It's human energy food, I have no idea. Just try not to burn anything down."

"THAT LIGHTER IS LOOKING SUPER ENTICING!"

"TURBULENCE NO."

[galvatronsthighs]

TM Waspy. Siege Jetfire, Firestormers, and Pokemon Sword! XMas haul

Nice my dude! Hope you been having a good time!

And yeeeessss fellow Sword player haha

[suranet]

OpMax dude. Hey, I feel ya. I'm starting a new semester too. Good job with Bruticus bean though.

(｡≖﹏≖｡) thank you for being understanding! the start of the semester is always a rough time for me… best of luck w/ your own semester start.

(and aww, thank you! Bruticus was a fun tiny to doodle)

[thenamesblurrito]

Astrotrain/Spacewarp guy. Stinger to Waspinator with Chimera Stone?

Finally, after many months of trying to finish the main characters, I got to this one. Close, but not quite accurate!

Wasp: for as long as he can remember, Wasp has had a string of terrible luck. It almost prevented him from getting into the Academy, when he was misscheduled for the entrance exams and then his copy was lost after he turned it in. But now, he’s here, he’s made it. He’s doing well in his classes, he’s made some friends like Ironhide and Terrorsaur, he’s even taking advantage of the free counseling the school provides to work on his aggression and paranoia. The little orange therapist has recommended calm activities like walks in nature and quiet reflection. Usually he doesn’t need to, his roommates are tolerable enough to make his room a safe space, and simple things like class or study sessions with Blackarachnia don’t stress him out. But when Megatron curses him out for bumping into him in the halls, or Sentinel makes fun of his heavy alt mode, he likes to escape the school grounds for a bit and wander the trail his therapist told him about. It gets a little too close for comfort to the Forbidden Zone outside Iacon, but it’s okay, surely his luck will hold…

Waspinator: when a mishap on a long hike sends him accidentally careening into a long forgotten portion of Cybertron and into contact with a shard of the Allspark, Wasp is saddled with an unwanted power and upgrades into Waspinator, a big buzzing bugformer that just wants this whole nightmare to be over with. Fortunately, Hellscream found him through his own connection to the Allspark, and he’s branded himself a Decepticon in gratefulness to the hero’s reluctant guidance. Even with help, however, he still has no determination to forge his own identity, which means the relic’s raw power begins to overtake his mind and frame. The universe seems to hate Wazzzpinator, zzzurely thizzz will all be over zzzoon…

[galvatronsthighs]

Transmetal Waspinator dude again. Extriverse! Waspinator pls?

Can’t decide if he’d still transform into a wasp or if his robot mode would just look super wasp-y instead and he’s something else haha. Then again tbf I don’t have a plan for him to be in the Extriverse but how can I resist experiment with a quick doodle of how he’d probably look!