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I'M BITING THE BULLET AND RUNNING A THREE DAY PREORDER!

All I need are 50 sales total to get these first three designs made, and if they go well I may be able to make more characters in the future! Gotta move fast to get these made and shipped within the 3 month low tariff window so this preorder is gonna be quick!

GET BUMBLEBEE HERE

GET BLURR HERE

GET RODIMUS HERE

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it may have taken me two months but the giveaway art is finally here 🥳

i wanted to do as many of these as i could, a lot of people asked for TFA characters that i am not familiar with so i didn't draw them, i should just crack and watch it to avoid this problem in the future

as usual if you want any of the pictures separately you can request them and i will post them on my art blog @pervertedkitty

without further ado runners up:

there was a lot of requests for rodimus this time around so i even gave the sketch a quick colour ( @silver-tounges-and-golden-lies @gravedwe11er @robotforest @brilliantyears )

@spiderh0rse wanted tfp Soundwave

i swear someone wanted Windblade but they must have deleted the post or something 😥

@heartsinclaire wanted soundwae hanging out with his cassettes

@mikawwolf wanted something cute with optimus and megatron i hope this suffices lol

(if you can't make it out m: what's this? o: my speech, can you proof read it? m: "mention some accomplishment" did you even try? o: it's just a rough draft )

@cherrybombs-and-screamingstars wanted knock out and starscream karaoke ( @daddymus-mamatron also wanted knock out @cankoking wanted tfp starscream )

@razzberrypoprocks wanted riptide and seaspray being boat friends

@disassemblyfactory wanted trepan or sunder both designs are really cool so i did both;;;

@braveseeker3 wanted brawl

@ladyzerodark wanted jazz

it might look romantic but if you step up close enough you will hear the sort of puns that make you want to leave the room in rage

@zarnitza wanted misfire or swerve but they are some of my favourite guys so i drew both

@sixthmagic and @thisisfrenchhouse wanted pharma

@alruin wanted sixshot he might be smiling behind the mask

@thrones-of-buer wanted predaking, i got tired of drawing guys so i drew a beast (tfp version)

@deviousmiracle88 wanted tfp ratchet

@tigirl-and-co wanted a g1 starscream (redraw of one of my favourite g1 screenshots form memory)

@a-bright-comet wanted elita one

if anyone wants more art of Rodimus, Starscream, Soundwave or Jazz check out my art blog it's basically all i draw 😂

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and the winner is ....!!!! @kingiceburg whom i actually do remember seeing in my notifications often so it's cool that they won :D

they wanted whirl or cosmos but i love whirlybird so here he is :)

(acrylic marker)

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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soundwave superior ai artists inferior

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To Know You Is To Love You

"Astonishing! Where you come from, they really let humans pilot your own mechs? Just, what, with your hands? Operating buttons and levers like a carnival ride?"

They crowd me, far more curious than I ever expected a bunch of human-shaped machines could be.

"Yeah?" I answer, confusion apparent in my voice. "Why? What do you do, just plug a cable in?"

As one, the mechanisms in their faces shift and slide into configurations I'm learning to associate with amusement. They suddenly seem eager to show me every port on their bodies in a way that feels uncomfortably voyeuristic to watch. They may be machines, but…

It's hard for a pilot to not see the life in a machine when our lives depend on being completely in tune with our own.

I don't know whether to envy Nixie or feel sorry for it that it doesn't get to have its own version of this conversation with the other mechs resting on standby. It can only communicate externally in bursts of radio waves, and I'm not authorized to share its decryption key.

One of the pilot units speaking to me demonstrates how it slots neatly into its counterpart's docking cradle. It rattles off a litany of specs on data throughput, latency, handshaking protocols. My familiarity with Nixie's specs helps me translate the numbers effortlessly. It's an astonishing rate of data, capable of bidirectional real-time exchange of sensor readings and near-zero delay between decision and action. No wonder they're so much faster than us on the battlefield.

I have instrument panels and HUD messages from Nixie to read. I've got controls to manipulate, external video feeds to scan, and mental calculations to perform—it's all instinct now, drilled into me—and I can acknowledge how clumsy that makes us compared to them.

"Together we act as one" the pilot says, "with negligible barrier between our sensory and computational arrays."

I put a hand on my partner's armored leg, and for the first time I feel our acute separation, a gulf as wide as any between steel and flesh. I came here full of pride in what we could do together, with my skills and Nixie's state-of-the-art amphibious design and our ability to work as a unit, but now… It's nothing on what these machines have together, isn't it?

I grimace. "It's a shame I'll don't know what it's like to connect like that." So intimate. My heart aches for it. "I envy you," I admit aloud.

The room is silent. The others go still, perhaps communicating via silent side-channels.

"Would you like to?"

How could I refuse?

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The first surgery is the most delicate. Their tech is incredibly advanced in some ways compared to ours, but even so, brain implants always carry some risk.

A modest computer and a radio, plugged right into my head. It feels frightening and alien at first. Metal at the base of my skull and a gaping hole in the back of my mind. I worry about what kind of mistake I made, letting them operate on me.

Then I recite my memorized key into the void in my mind, and it unfurls its petals. It blossoms into language. An impossible torrent of language that overwhelms me at first until, seemingly in response to my distress, it slows to a manageable trickle.

> NXE-110001 attempting send rate negotiation↵ > establishing link↵ > attempt: 2↵ █

I think an acknowledgement back into that link. Then, after a moment's consideration, I follow it up with a few repetitions of the test pattern described in our manual so that Nixie can calibrate itself with my own send speed.

> NXE-110001 link established↵ > hello pilot↵ █

We spend some time experimenting with the limitations of the link. As much as we're both used to communicating with each other using language, it rapidly becomes clear that it is the slowest information protocol we have.

It takes time for my mind and Nixie's algorithms to learn how to parse each other's nonverbal signals, but every day we get a little bit better—and a little faster—sending thought-fragments, images, and sensory data over the link until it's unconscious instinct for me. The more in-tune with each other that we get, the more effective we are, cooperating on a deeper level than I've ever dreamed before. The mechanical pilots encourage me as if taking personal pride in our ability to catch up with them in speed.

But I'm still not fast enough. Nixie is still throttling its communication speed for me to keep up. While I don't think "frustration" is an emotion it experiences, I know its algorithms are designed to optimize, and right now, it's my hardware that's the bottleneck.

Maybe my new friends can cure that too.

With their support, we plan several more surgeries: hardware upgrade for my skull integration point to add a physical port for higher data throughput, additional ports in my spine to parallelize transfer, a secondary computer in my lower back to offload additional processing.

The physical recovery for each surgery is tedious and exhausting, but in contrast I feel only exhilaration during the time spent learning our new capabilities after each upgrade.

The presence of the secondary computer is the strangest sensation of all, by far. There is the initial novelty of sending it commands to perform calculations I could never have done on my own. (The cube root of 110001? Approximately 47.9143438.) But with time and familiarity it loses that feeling of otherness, becoming just my "other brain."

And then with more time, it loses even that feeling of otherness. My mind just has two halves, each more suited to some subset of the mental processing I must do.

My friends and I design and fit a custom docking cradle for me into Nixie, and the day it no longer has to throttle its communications with me is the happiest of my life.

The term "pilot" feels ill-fitting now. Plugging into Nixie is just joining with my other half. When we connect, we become one in almost the same way as the flesh and machine halves of my brain do. Dives that once felt like operating a submarine now feel like swimming in the waters of our own home, no different than operating my own body.

I considered us a team before, but we're so much more now, easily on par with my friends and their partners.

Well, now they're showing off all the fascinating weaponry and sensor arrays built in to their own bodies, and I find I still have room for envy.

I wonder how many more upgrades they might be willing to offer?

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Big fan of a specific kind of image

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my phone isn’t charging even though i plugged her innnnn dramatic ass bitch. YOUR PUSSY IS FILLED! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT

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Will You be my Valentine Plane Identifier?

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

Concorde

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Blinked for a second and now he’s tall, slender, and goth… Skywarp must’ve been tired being the only goth around 😒 in fact, while he was at it he made Laserbeak goth too, kinda considerate of him for making them match 😌 and a flight mode so Soundwave can actually get places instead of sitting around as a cassette player?? He was cooking

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(618): Why is it that the asexual in our group is the one that gets laid the most often??

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A single father