#x. *forces u all to be a fan* / danny stuff.

[novastrae]

*despite everything, you're still you.

so that oc art trend on twitter, huh.

[goodbye-susan]

A, B, L, U, Z

Fair warning a lot of this is Transformers stuff because when am I ever not talking about TF these days

A - Your current OTP

Hmmmm I think I’m still dangling off my Windblade x Starscream train, even though it’s not a canon ship and I could just as easily settle for platonic (they’d make good enemies turned friends BUT WHY SETTLE FOR THAT WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ENEMIES TURNED FRIENDS TURNED LOVERS).

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind

Ratchet and Drift from IDW Transformes. Not official either and I could also go for platonic friends. But oh man, all the good fics out there brought me along for the Dratchet ride.

L - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for 

Just last night I was wishing for some fan art of Danny Rand and Ward Meachum *spoiler zone* dressed with a sort of Indiana Jones vibe after that BRILLIANT ending to Iron Fist S2 (Danny was already rocking that awesome brown trench coat with the two revolvers). These adventurers trekking across Asia together, I live for the bromance.

On a completely different field, I’d love to request a BDSM smut fic featuring Getaway from a TF writer because he’s an ESCAPE ARTIST…hello???

U - If you mostly have heteroships, do you have any homoships

Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones from Torchwood (although Jack and John Hart is kind of addictive too), Chromedome and Rewind from IDW TF, Delphine and Cosima from Orphan Black and a few months back I was going die hard for Shades and Comanche from Luke Cage.

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go 

Don’t I already do this enough! Alright, I’m going to piggy-back off some rumblings I’ve been seeing in the IDW TF fandom lately about characterisation in the Unicron / OP comic titles. I’m not up to the part where *spoiler zone* Bumblebee returns to the realm of the living in the recent OP issues but I have been looking ahead at posts, skim-reading later issues and such and apparently there’s like…absolutely minimal interaction between him and Starscream? These two guys who have been like 🤞for most of RiD, Till All Are One and whatever other titles for however many years or months (I only started reading the IDW comics in July and raced through them up to now so the publication time span is foggy) and they’re limiting dialogue to the bare minimum - hello…goodbye…shut up starscream…etc. GIVE ME SCENES OF ACTUAL CONVERSATION. I can’t stand it when characters build up great relationships, then something in the plot happens…attention gets redirected…continuity goes out the window and we’re left hanging with no acknowledgement or closure. I know they’re stretched for time as the current continuity is at a forced ending for IDW but man! Let Starscream and Bumblebee have some sort of meaningful talk perhaps. Debrief and acknowledge the character growth they’ve made. Maybe I am overreacting and I haven’t finished the comics yet but it sure seems to turn out this way, which just feels like a lot of good writing beats from past issues discarded and readers are left without a rewarding confrontation between the two now that Starscream knows the Bumblebee he befriended in his ‘head’ was the real Bumblebee.

I feel like I ended on a negative rant so let me just say Senator Shockwave is a snack and his Shadowplay storyline leaves me in emotional tatters. There. Some gushing over transformer booty. Is this not why you are here, are you not entertained

[itsworn]

Want to Go Fast? Jerry Link’s Twin-Turbo, Big-Block Ranchero Has the Formula

Though we all get itchy reading about diesel-locomotive-like torque, high-rate handling, and how one person achieved that with their own car, we are probably more disposed to hear how it all really turned out. It’s stuff you can’t make up; it actually happened, right? Jerry Link is an old-car hand who’s tended creatures like a 1957 Stude Silver Hawk with a 394-inch Olds motor and a 1947 Jeep CJ-2A powered by a nailhead Buick. As for modern history, he recently completed a twin-turbo Viper conversion and then bestowed the same largesse on a Trail Blazer. Say that Jerry’s become intimate with snails.

Then he was driving the same stretch of road he had for three years and something hooked, a change in the landscape. “There was my dream car, a pickup with a Torino front end,” he said. “It was a one-owner, 64,000-mile car from North Dakota. I begged and pleaded with my wife, Lori, to get the new project. We discussed it at length.” The deal was on.

He pulled in the owner’s driveway and there it was shiny, black—and with a huge dent in the right front fender. Ah, jeez. What the hell happened? The night before, the owner’s brother had a few too many and backed into it on his way out.

“I was disappointed, but the guy made me a deal—he’d knock $200 off the price and get me a new rust-free fender. It had a 302 two-barrel, C-4 transmission, and an 8-inch one-wheel wonder. Man, this thing was the coolest ride I ever had.”

When he brought it home, Lori looked at it, then looked him in eye and said “nice car.” Ahem. Then she asked him why it was dented. “Within the week, I had it apart to replace the fender and cure a small spot of surface rust. I sold the motor to a friend.”

Thus began a torrent of ideas and changes and of engines, each one larger and nastier than the previous motor. At one point, he painted the Ranchero a House of Kolor translucent red. Jerry tired of 900-pound valvesprings and decimated camshafts and decided on a gentler method—gobs of forced induction. And the engines grew proportionally. In 2003, he began building the mountain with an M-6010-460A siamese-bore race block. Over the seasons, it hosted increased displacement as well as superchargers and turbochargers, sometimes combined with nitrous oxide. The bullet bloomed big—but didn’t blow.

He painted the Rancho black again. In 2009, he ripped it all apart again for major reconstruction in the key areas. He replaced the original rails, the front and rear suspension, adapted some motor plates, stretched the wheel openings, and screwed the biggest DOT slicks in the world on the back of it.

Throughout, Jerry did his due diligence and enlisted several specialists in his area to help with the chore. He credits Steve Morris Racing in Muskegon, Michigan, for engine development and Link-Tech in Waukesha for the tune-up. The Waukesha hop-up community offered chassis and welding development from X-Treme Fabrication, drivetrain assistance from All-World Transmission, and custom welding by Brandenburg Electric. Jerry relied on Fuel Systems in Milwaukee for turbo design/development.

“I really enjoy showing my car and doing dyno shootouts and being able to explain every facet of the car. In the early building of this car, it was drag-raced for fun. Although the track is cool and the guys who spend their time and money to race make it well worth watching. But I have spent thousands of hours putting time and effort into the vehicle that can’t compare to a timeslip justification or what could go wrong trying to get one. One day it will run down the quarter again,” Jerry promised.

TECH NOTES

Who: Jerry Link What: 1970 Ranchero Where: Waukesha, WI

Engine: The original 460 currently measures 598 ci. The machine work to get it that way was the province of C&S Performance Engines in Butler, WI, which fitted the block with bronze lifter bores, finessed the oil galleries, and balanced the rotating assembly. Jerry had specified premier internals: a Crower crankshaft, Oliver billet rods, and Diamond pistons (custom conical dish/hard anodizing) with an 8.6:1 compression ratio, Pro Select ring packs, and Clevite inserts. At the bottom of it all, a Kaase pump circulates the lubrication. The valvetrain includes Crane 904 roller lifters and a Bullet hydraulic cam (0.640-inch lift/264 degrees duration at 0.050 inch) that is connected it to the crank with a Danny Bee 2521 timing belt. Those hot tuna Blue Thunder aluminum cylinder heads were prepped with 110cc combustion chambers and cast with ported and raised exhaust ports. The heads host 2.25/1.88-inch stainless valves, Manley titanium retainers, and Crane 1.73:1 roller rockers. Smith Brothers pushrods follow. Cometic gaskets and ARP studs hold the Blue Thunders true to the block. Induction begins with twin Garrett 2-GT4202-R turbochargers pushing through a water-to-air intercooler, which returns the denser charge to a brace of 75mm Accufab throttle-bodies. The intake manifold is composed of a single-plane intake manifold bottom and a fabricated aluminum airbox. An Aeromotive A1000 pump draws from a “hand-engineered” 22-gallon tank that feeds Injector Dynamics injectors 211-lb/hr (at 43.5 psi) with E85/E98 moonshine. A Zietronix ethanol content analyzer and flex-fuel sensor (wideband A/F ratio) monitor the process. Jerry modernized and digitized the big-block. He incorporated a FAST XIM and XFI 2.0 controller in league with an MSD 8644 crank trigger firing LS truck coils, an MSD Cam Sync distributor, Taylor 8.8mm primary wires and Autolite 32 sparkers. Unburned slurry is sucked from the cylinders by custom stainless steel header/turbo stanchions featuring 2-1/8-inch primaries going into 3-inch collectors that expand to a 4-inch stainless steel system and Dynomax mufflers. The March accessory drive obscures the Meziere electric water pump. The fan is a Flex-A-Lite 295. Link-Tech in Waukesha tuned the 598. Output at the pavement is a smoky 1,225 hp at 6,500 rpm and 985 lb-ft of torque at 5,700 rpm.

Transmission/Drivetrain: Jerry liked the Turbo 400 built by Automatic Transmission Design in Germantown, WI. ATD preceded the install with a JW flexplate and ProTorque custom converter (2,750 rpm stall) and hooked it to the engine block with a JW Ultra Bell bellhousing. ATD included its Hipster valvebody, shift kit, and finished off the conversion with a transbrake. A Hayden transmission fluid cooler and auxiliary fan lends longevity under stress. The long link is a 3.5-inch diameter steel shaft sporting 1350 U-joints. The 9-inch housing was fabricated by Hepfner Race Products in Hartford, WI, and is fitted with 3.5-inch axletubes, a Detroit Locker differential, a Motive Gear 3.91 ratio and 35-spline Strange Engineering axles.

Chassis/Suspension: Just prior to the 1,200hp motor, Jerry judiciously constructed chrome-moly 2×3 square-tube rails to replace the original linguine. He strengthened the construction with a front engine plate and then mid-mount. To enhance safety and lend rigidity, he put up a 10-point chrome-moly rollcage. He based the front suspension on Wilwood/Mustang spindles. He built tubular control arms around them, inserting QA1 eight-way-adjustable dampers and a 550-lb/in spring rate. Then he took up the rear with a four-link suspension system secured by 1-inch Heim joints, QA1 eight-way adjustables, 350-lb/in coilover springs, and a 1-1/2-inch antisway bar.

Body: Considering the mondo dimensions of the rear tires, the all-steel envelope was treated to 35-inch Chassis Engineering wheeltubs beneath fender openings that Jerry stretched 4 inches. He spent time preparing the shell for paint as well. From there it went to Nagel Auto Body in Waukesha for the inky single-stage Imron Black.

Interior: After he rewired the body with an Infinitybox Multiplex system (Elk Grove Village, WI) loom, Jerry installed the Alpine/tuner/CD and MTX speakers. He fashioned a custom dash insert and filled it with big Stewart-Warner Performance Silver gauges. He put up a new headliner and upholstered the Olds Achieva seats in cloth. Ancillaries include a Grant wheel on the stock steering column and Simpson four-point harnesses.

Brakes/Wheels/Tires: Since Jerry’s life ride is more about moving quickly in a straight line rather than tapping fenders, he was confident with Wilwood 11.75-inch discs and four-piston calipers in front and 11.44-inch discs with four-piston calipers in the rear. A Hydratech booster augments the system. Forged Weld V Series rims are 3.5 and 15 inches wide and attached to Moroso 29.5-inch-tall front tires and mammoth 17-inch-wide Hoosier Quick Time 33×22.5 DOT radials.

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[novastrae]

finally edited this touka panel into decie like i said i would :3

[novastrae]

my soil is spread before your eyes // look at me - don't you see? your dahlia has flowered.

[novastrae]

if you affirm your shallowness, then where's my ground to stand on?

alt title: decima absolutely melting seeing [redacted] for the first time

decided to redraw a screenshot from shama w decima bc it's cute out of context of the song.

[novastrae]

just once more || one of the undying saintesses of khaenri'ah, ■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■

pre-cataclysm decima drives me fucking NUTS

[novastrae]

im never shutting up about this drawing. the insanity of a famous bard, witch, and scribe kissing

lines/sketch by me, colors by @entwinedreams

[novastrae]

saw a dress on twitter and felt legally compelled to draw decie in it smiles

[novastrae]

[novastrae]

new decie ref incoming

[novastrae]

halloween decima 2023!

alt title: a certain person told them they should dress up as a catgirl for halloween and bc theyre wrapped around their finger, they did

alt alt title; meows in 10mb

[novastrae]

decie ms paint doodle

[novastrae]

sweats as i post smth relating to canon and trips on my own two feet as i run off the dash

[novastrae]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DECIMA. 10/31

The Eb and Flow of Time...

Traveller,

Days turn to months, months to years. Time carries the memories of a lifetime before, and sometimes, you can only sit back and see where time takes you. I've come to accept my role in this life, in all my years of living.

It was only recently I've started to come out of my shell and rediscover myself. I've come to make many friends these past few years, many of whom you've come acquainted with, some of whom have their own... peculiar ways of sharing their appreciation for your friendship.

I still find it hard to truly appreciate those around me, and I still have days where I struggle to accept the love of those around me, it helps remind me that I am, in fact, still me. That it's okay to be... Just Decima.

It's okay.

this letter contains: One (1) Fallen Stars, Ten (10) Mourning Flowers.

[novastrae]

pray all you want, but god will not save you now

so. the sword made out of [redacted]'s bones, huh?