machinelights
system sideblog - bodily 18 - picking up scraps aw yeah (wip)
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Slide to the left! *scraping metal noise*
Slide to the right! *scraping metal noice*
Criss cross? *THUNCK THUNK*
people tend to forget we're real beings too. just because our stories are out for anyone to see doesn't mean you know us personally. keep your thoughts to yourself and treat us humanely. 💢
Coining post? Just checking if anyone else says it too? Is this a Common Thing but I’ve just never seen it? Anyway-
(Jazz hands) “Canonself”
Idk, I came up with it bc I always struggled to differentiate “me who’s a fictive sourced from VotV” and “the videogame model used in VotV” or, more generally, “this world’s characterization and usage of that character” versus “me the actual living/thinking person” yk?
It’s almost functioned for me like how “theriform” works for nonhumans, the distinction being made without getting into dysphoric “the ‘real’ you” terms or, just always having to explain it so exhaustingly bc “the one from the game” could be either of us
Also bc I don’t wanna keep calling my canonself “the human one” granted I’m an android bc that feels,, demeaning, somehow
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i made some transformers pixels, if anyone wants to use them.
i tried to make them their Actual Size and not blown up but. we'll see what tumblr does to this post.
i also have a megop one but the designs are personalized so it's a little less.... universal. but if u wanna use it, go ahead.
no credit necessary or anything. maybe link back to this post so ppl can find them/use them Too, but like. i don't care.
if there's interest, i might open requests (or make a blog For pixel art requests) and do other people' s blorbos....
RANDOM AND SLIGHTLY UNHINGED- ANOTHER ROUND OF MY ENDLESS FAVICON COLLECTION (this is a sign to req a themed icon post in my asks)
(ko-fi)
being a system and also being autistic is super funny because like you can so clearly tell what a system's special interest is by looking at how many fictives from that source they have
being fictive-heavy like 11% of the time: wow blorbo from My Mind say hi to blorbo my best friend blorbo
being fictive heavy the other 89% of the time: everyone promise to be normal. can i talk about my alter blorbo will you all be nice to blorbo or do they need to hide from you. can we engage in fandom at all. can we talk to anyone who knows about blorbos source. blorbo are you okay
Mantra.
knockout themed graphics from my old account except i added a few more
(f2u - credit when reposting onto resource sites/blogs)
i hate when front changes are so strong as to make us/whoever feel like they need to change our profile themes, usernames, and leave a bunch of servers. bro get a grip. but also im staring this guy in the face and i can feel him getting squicked at wh1nvy being our main username and i jsut. cant not see it from his side bECASUE HES THE MOST IN FRONT GRAAAH. holding on by a thread here. he already made an entire strawpage for himself im losing it when did that happen
OH he also added another room to the spot Starscream claimed, and like, i feel like Star deserves to post that himself it was so chaotic 😭
-⭐(i think, i dont feel like me),⬜, and the fuckin other guy
i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.
the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.
you guys ever have a rough day and suddenly there's 20 more lil silly guys in here ?
blurry ( they / them ) , n / a ,
Organics
Cybertron has a very mixed opinion on organics as a whole. Due to their mechanical nature they are adverse to much of organic culture, but have a surprising amount of similarities to some organic species. They tend to adopt organic culture, which will spread and adapt to a mechanical lifestyle.
Organics themselves aren’t received very well the general public, and any ambassadors, traders, or visitors tend to stick to the respective areas that house them.
Well of Sparks
The well of sparks is a central religious hub in Iacon, contained in the Primal Basilica, which also doubles as a religious artefact museum. The section of the building itself is open roofed, exposing the well to the elements. Pre-war, the well is where the all spark was located, which got ejected to optimus in an effort to preserve the planet. From that point on, no more forged sparks emerged, and the chance to kindle a newspark dropped, making it near impossible during the wartime.
Conjunx Endura
While Conjunx Endurae aren’t rare by Cybertronian standards, a lot of bots in most cultures find the level of commitment that comes with being conjunxes too much to consider for a lot of their relationships where they aren’t sure. However, a bot having multiple conjunxes is pretty rare, although not particularly frowned upon when appropriate medical measures are in place, due to the strain on the spark.
Sparklings
Sparklings and bots who were sparklings on cybertron make up roughly a quarter of the population. Under functionism, sparklings are seen as a waste of resources and time, when there are more efficient ways to create a bot. In more senate populous cities, less sparklings will be seen about due to public ridicule or fear of functionists toward the sparkling.
hey bud, would you mind pinning me to something and letting me struggle against your weight for a while? it’s good for my mental health
Can I have some sentient ai/robot graphics?
Sentient ai, robot, and other adjacent graphics 🤖
And a couple other posts I found with cool related stuff:
post 1 post 2
we see ourselves as different neural pathways related to identity, emotion, and memory... which leads us to basically be a bunch of people in one brain. but we're all not quite a person individually.
it's like.. twilight. is it day? is it night? nope. it's neither. it's twilight. which. i guess is part of how we got our system name, huh. The Twilight System. wow. god damnit lol
fr though. it's like. i'm ambiguously a person- an ambiperson.
...
hey you could coin a term out of that
Making a post like this since I wasn’t able to find one but-
introjects are allowed to be upset when something bad happens to their source, actually!
introjects are also allowed to be upset if you’re rude about their source. I think they’re allowed to be upset at you for being a dick about the very thing that inspired their existence. (within reason)
introjects do not have to source-separate! A certain degree of separation is necessary to function, but asking an introject to just force source separation when they do not want it is not only rude, but also incredibly harmful! It can be really damaging.
source separation is a personal choice! Not a requirement. Hell, some introjects have the emotions and complexities surrounding their source baked into them as a part of how they function and who they are. It’s not possible for every introject to source-separate.
Introjects are allowed to feel strongly about the things that have influenced their existence, whether it be simple loose inspiration or being the exact body and life they lived in. End of discussion.
Cybertronian Units of Time: a Guide
…concocted by me, via:
Canon Definitions
Most Common Terms Used in Fandom (that I have seen)
Most Common Interpretations of Aforementioned Terms
Math That Makes Those Terms Make Sense Together
Filling in the Blanks With What Sounded Good (to me)
So essentially I began with Cybertronian units with explicit definitions in canon that are also widely used in fandom (ie. Vorn = 83 years, Joor = 6 hours, Groon = 1 hour). I then worked my way out from those and tried to keep to rough factors of 6/8/10.
Some terms that did have explicit canon definitions had to be slightly skewed from their value (ie. Breem: 8 → 6 minutes, Klik: 8 → 6 seconds) if their definition contradicted another definition that made more sense/fit better.
At any rate, obviously no one is obligated to use this standard, but canon Transformers content has been unfortunately… awful at establishing any universal units of time, their relationship to each other, or their equivalents to human units of time.
So this occasionally makes fanfiction an absolute nightmare for people like me with a crap memory who don’t want to constantly have to scroll through a thousand pages of the wiki to remind themselves what the hell a groon is.
So, naturally, I simply spent far too long whipping up this at-a-glance guide to keep track of it & on the off chance that the fandom might adopt it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(PLEASE REBLOG THIS IF YOU LIKE IT SO THAT MORE FANS CAN SEE IT!)
we're learning more about our headspace! or er, forming more of it. I get the feeling that the 'den' im remembering has been around for a while though. it's down the hall and down a set of stairs on the left from Wheeljack's lab. the light is always off, Prowl seems to live there/j. there's a crybertronian-sized(like everything else) couch n tv and stuff. Bee plays games there, there's Star's uhh,, homebrew things around and taking up a desk. all n all, very homey. it's a cooler living room
anyway happy to have a more grounded headspace again 💥
-🌌,⭐
