I’ve Said A Few Times How I Want Uzui To Have A Daughter Who Cries And Whines Like Daki Did, But I

saw this post the other day about reshiram emmet getting head pats and decided. I Need To Draw That with my own guy

Funny ideas for the Terrans

- Yknow how when little kids fall over they fill their lungs with enough air to wail like an air siren? Thrash does that sometimes.

- Nightshade - being a bird - can’t see glass after getting their alt mode. This means they have to be careful, and are always very cautious to make sure there’s some sort of a perch to land on beforehand.

this is 100% because while for a while Dot left the kitchen window open bc it was nice outside, one night she closed it, and they would normally swoop in using mass shifting and land on the counter to greet her and Alex in the morning before work, or help with the dishes. But it was closed, so they confidently swooped in, believing it was still open, and ramming straight into it head on, smashing their beak into the glass (the window cracked), then fell. It was quiet a moment before they started absolutely wailing hysterically on the ground, because that really hurt their fragile/sensitive beak. Dot, horrified and feeling terrible, immediately rushed out and whisked them up to comfort them. That is how it was discovered they’re blind to glass now, and ever since she has put stickers on the windows to help indicate if they’re open or closed for them.

- Twitch will sometimes get zoomies, except she’s zooming so fast and so completely ‘no thought head empty’/hyperfocused on zooming, she ends up stuck in the dirt, and has to be pulled out. Then she’s off and within the next two minutes she’s done it again.

- Hashtag lags sometimes. She’s an internet hotspot, basically, and those have their troubles, so sometimes she’ll lag like that after overuse or something. It leads to some silly things, and once she was stuck so long the others turned it into the mannequin challenge.

- Jawbreaker has turned really big tires into hamster wheels sometimes, and has even been caught sleeping in them. This has lead to him inadvertently winning hide and seek.

“It brings me no joy to say this to you, but I warned you…”

for the transformers sketch requests, how about nightshade from earthspark?

The lovely inventor and big eyed cinnamonroll!! 🦉💚

Some Emmies.

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 minutes) 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!)

cybertronian child care: "too many Terrans plz help", send text

there's no way the adult bots in Earthspark haven't magnetised their plating at least once in order to stick one of the Terrans on their frame like an electro-magnetic baby carrier while trying to address some shit the others are doing, lmao

like, I don't have enough arms to deal with this, I'll just stick this one to my chest while running to stop the others from accidentally dying

maybe Nightshade gets curious about how powerlines work, so they start flying up to check it out and Bumblebee just grabs them out of the air like "NOPE, THAT'S NOT HOW WE LEARN ABOUT ELECTRICITY"

meanwhile Thrash is about to slam himself in the helm with his wheel boomerang move during battle practice, gotta intercept that before anyone gets a processor injury

so Nightshade gets magnetised while Bee grabs the wheel before it can ricochet

Hashtag is about to share slightly too much information on social media, gotta grab their phone, go go go go

the sheer chaos, lmao

but also this could be very cute, like Megatron magnetising Twitch to his chest in order to teach her some combat moves or defensive melee forms without risking her getting hit or stepped on :')

bonus: similar to a Cone of Shame situation, Optimus might magnetise Bumblebee to his chest after Dorothy raises some concerns to Optimus about Bee's combat training with the Terrans.

it's nothing too serious but Optimus wants a captive audience to be sure his commentary is heard and noted, so Bee just sighs and accepts being magnetised while Optimus gives him some leaderly advice, lmao

this vaguely has the same vibe as cats carrying kittens around by the scruff, which is also fun

Thinking about how funny Missed Connections is from anyone’s perspective other than Nightshade’s

From Tarantulas’ perspective, this random excitable incredibly nerdy child wandered into his lab (which is in a graveyard), presumably either lost or trying to hide, and becomes his assistant out of sheer curiosity. When he asks them to run away with him in order to hide from the ambiguously evil agency trying to imprison and/or indenture bots (and put them in fighting rings but I’m presuming he doesn’t know about that) they respond by looking dramatically away and saying they have other …obligations here. And then you go to their house and find out that they’re living with a full on GHOST agent, who’s saying inexplicably threatening things, and misunderstandings ensue.

From the rest of the sibling’s perspectives, it’s a no-school day, but their sibling Nightshade is building inventions instead of hanging out with them. Then they read Batman and tries to go visit the author in a graveyard, and whilst they’re gone, they try and fix their invention with duct tape and self-confidence to try and get Nightshade to hang out with them, and end up breaking it further. Nightshade, however, is not angry, because they met a scientist in the graveyard, and wants to take apart the murdersphere 5007 with the scientist. And then a giant spider kidnaps their parents. 

From Dot and Alex’s perspective, their child is struggling to connect with their siblings, asks about morality, might have met a decepticon, and then they get kidnapped by a giant fucking spider in the middle of the night.

Perfection.

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