axolartandfics
She/they | Artist & Writer | Multishipper | I like transformers a whole lot
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~ Fine Dining
wanted to draw Tarn with Pharma as his waiter
favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)
daily koss #29: if we only have one shot… better make it count, right?
Since I started on the 18th of February, today marks the one month anniversary of me drawing these wretched old men every day!!! I wanted to make something special for it, so I tried my hand at a comic (even though I am NOT good at comics—dear god, paneling is so unintuitive for me that I ended up wrangling this into a webtoon format just to avoid it).
Despite the increasing level of render and polish on my dailies over the past two weeks, this is the first time I’ve really, actually tried to flex my art muscles and apply my braincells to a piece 😂 Here’s to hoping my work paid off! I have now, officially, moved from low-effort shitposts to real-effort seriousposts 😔
(Also, if you’ve never read a webtoon before, hopefully the long-scroll format wasn’t too jarring! >_<)
A meta aspect I love about KOSS is that Transformers is a multi-timeline franchise: Knock Out and Starscream exist across multiple different continuities, sometimes alongside each other, sometimes not. But they only really ‘work’ in TFP, despite them both having other characters as constants (Breakdown, Megatron). If this were any other world, and they were any other versions of themselves, they might not even have been coworkers—just ships passing in the night.
And yet, the perfect storm of random events led to them being in one thing together, with a compelling dynamic at that (even an entire episode that puts it on blast!!!). Sometimes I think about how, according to the TFP artbook, Knock Out was originally conceived as something of a counterpart to Bumblebee—another fast, pretty car, except a villain this time—but the writers ended up fleshing out his relationship with Starscream the most. I wonder what the thought process behind that was—did the devs find their dynamic fun to play with as well?—and whether the two would get more moments together if Prime wasn’t cancelled…
But I digress! The fact I discovered TFP in the first place is the cherry on top of the serendipity-cake; I never imagined I’d ever get into Transformers, but one impulsive ‘hey, what if we watched the new Transformers movie’ from Lacuna at 3AM in the dead of January changed the trajectory of my life.
I’ve always been really bad at committing to projects for over a month at a time—I often find myself burnt out and restless after only a few days, even. So to still have so much drive and inspiration to create fanworks—for KOSS, of course, but an assortment of other pairings and properties too—is such a novel and exciting experience. My tune may change at a moment’s notice (I can be very fickle), but for now I’m eager to keep scribbling on 🥰I already have something planned for the next week of Daily KOSS hehehe~
Anyway, things referenced in the comic!
G1 cartoon s01e13 “Fire in the Sky”
2019 IDW continuity Tread & Circuits issues 2, 3, and 4
Armada episode 48
TFA s02e03 “Mission Accomplished” and s03e13 “Endgame II”
2005 IDW continuity “Choose Me,” Spotlight: Megatron, and Annual 2017 “Chosen One”
And it’s probably obvious from the art, but I love the juxtaposition of Starscream being tortured by god in every other universe while Knock Out is either happily married or doesn’t exist.
NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
tired: making 'haha mpreg' jokes about the Weird Pregnancy Stuff in mtmte/idw, betraying the fact you think 'robots undergoing objectively insane levels of Weird Pregnancy Body Horror Metaphor despite being literally inorganic' is less worthy of mention than 'and some of them use he/him! freak shit!'
wired: hey so when are we gonna use the existence of functionism as a metaphor for labour and class to discuss that rung being literally built to Make People in a way that the comic presents as frightening and confusing is a way to talk about how we can bring the concept of reproductive labour into the fold eh
Oh my word the amount of times I’ve gotten “are you available for commission?” commented on art that I posted 2 seconds ago. Instant red flag for such a quick reply.
Also check out the pages of anyone who tries to commission you through tumblr! If they have 0 posts or reblogs that’s an instant sign it’s an empty bot acc
Stay safe from scammers!
Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams
I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.
About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.
My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)
And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.
This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.
I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.
And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.
It’s lesbian visibility day so you know what that means, I’m about to make some lesbians very visible! Have Arcee and Aileron in the colors of the lesbian flag because I love them a lot
In my heart I think tfp would fold under a single genuine compliment, and I feel like D-16 was always liberal with complements sooo
AO3 has been scraped, once again.
As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.
I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.
I adore @bastardlybonkers Starbee I had to draw them
Starscream from Transformers: G1 is autistic!
ACE PRIDE
Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals
It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals
I love drawing on paper it’s good for the soul
a couple issues later
might be top 3 starbee interactions of all time
I’ve seen a couple people say Mr Ring a Ding is a rip-off Bill Cipher, and like? They don’t even have anything in common? They’re just both chaotic cartoon god characters. They have different designs and motivations and styles and don’t actually seem remotely similar. I’m sooo tired of ppl saying “it’s Bill!” to every chaotic evil character. I like Bill as much as the next guy but a Disney villain from 2012 cannot have a monopoly on a very broad genre of villains for all of time I swear
working on starscream’s backstory for To Earth and Back Again, my poor guy 🙏😔 In my fic he used to be the literal Decepticon poster boy and was very idealistic and eager to be involved in the cause, before he and Megatron began to develop their whole situation and Starscream’s life took a turn for the worse
(BUT IT’S OK IT’S GONNA GET BETTER)
i think people get so used to their own creative work that they forget how amazing it is so i’m making this post as a reminder You are the only person capable of making art the exact way you make it. nobody else on earth can do that. there are always going to be those little habits and intricacies and details that simply cannot be replicated whether it’s in writing or painting or textiles and you make life all the better for it i love my friends’ art i love art from strangers im trying to love my own art I LOVE YOU!!! THE PERSON READING THIS!!!!!!! YOU ARE A PART OF THIS WORLD NEVER EVER STOP MAKING THINGS THAT CAN IMPACT IT
tfp autobutts gain a new recruit...
part 2
I mean... he is so... unnoticable that it is highly possible that he will be able to free Megatron from imprisonment... Next
posting this without context-
(okay maybe you can have a little bit of context....remember the bayverse rewrite i talked about once...been thinking about it again)
IM SORRY BUT THIS DIVA!?
The poses. The style. The heels. The nails. The snatched waist. The bird that keeps mimicking them. Michael Kovack’s voice?!
Doctor who episode was rlly good Lux is best boy
Lord Megatron has stepped on a Lego block, now I , Starscream, am the new leader of the Decepticons!