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)_/¯
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 💥
-🌌,⭐
Slide to the left! *scraping metal noise*
Slide to the right! *scraping metal noice*
Criss cross? *THUNCK THUNK*
Machinelights system!
sideblog for our plural stuff, main is @wh1nvy
bodily 18 - fictive heavy - endo friendly - we dont engage in discourse, please respect that! - we block freely
a lot of us are very social, feel free to bother us! also very socially anxious and kind of shy so,, keep that in mind. we swear and are not safe for littles! mature things about
intros and some other stuff! 🠇
a lot of this stuff will be updated kind of frequently
Nonexhaustive Intros!
Mega (host & heart)(she/any) -⭐
Starscream (co-host)(he/any) -🌌
Blitzwing (he/him) -🎭 (🔥,🧊,🎈)
Bumblebee (he/it) -🎮
Wheeljack (he/him) -🛠
Q (she/he/they) -⬜
Mutt (he/it/they) - 🦴
Unnamed! 🌑,🧨, + many more lol
We'll have proper intros linked eventually, but im thinkin they'll be on another site where theres more customization.
Tags!
#-(emoji) - signoffs :)
#for (emoji) - i wanna show this guy!!! but they're not in front </3 tag
#hoard - terms/flags that apply to us, blinkies, userboxes, that kinda stuff
#system->home - general system tag
#system->salty - complaining
#system->sweet - probably lovey stuff but i think we are too shy 💥
more to be added lol
Collectively very gay, take this as a promise and a warning. ,,,in sys relationships galore,,/silly. we have a sys wide appreciation for deep conversation and exploring identity/oft/gen. we're very nice as well, *slaps roof of system* this babey's chock full of so much love u dont even know
This is where my USERBOXES and BLINKIES would go,,, IF I HAD ANY!!
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
shout out to plurals who’s frequent fronters change all the time.
shout out to alters who are afraid of not fronting all the time, either because theyre so use to it or they’re afraid they wont get to front again.
shout out to systems who wish they had a more consistent rotation of fronters and wish it wasn’t so come and go with system members.
shout out to alters who like fronting.
shout out to members who get frontstuck regularly.
and shout out to systems trying to find a middle ground between being front stuck and having completely inconsistent fronters.
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
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
—🔌
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.
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....