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I think the Transformer One trailer is trying to trick us
Ok hear me out-
Recently there has been a trend of big-time trailers subverting audience expectations to keep a big reveal a secret. (Looking at Marvel/Spiderman.) I have to give it to Hasbro first because it looks like there is every single Transformer in this trailer. (People were even spotting Jazz, Mirage, etc. in that wide shot of the team looking down.)
But what stuck out to me was the scene with Soundwave, Starscream, and Shockwave.
Because those three (from my knowledge) don't really interact until they are a part of the Decepticon force. And this is the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron.
So what's going on???
My big out-of-the-pond theory is that Soundwave and Shockwave were edited in for the trailer. Hear me out!
Hasbro wants to include all their major hitting characters in the trailer to grab the audience's attention and add a few easter eggs to get everyone looking closer. (A lot of seekers I've noticed.) Okay, a lot of seekers. I counted several. I know that they were in abundance in the G1 show. (I know it was probably budget reasons but still.)
My shot-in-the-dark theory for the main plotline is that this is like a round-up for both of the factions to fight whatever enemy it is. (Quintession???) Orion Pax already has Bumblebee and Elita and will probably meet Prowl and Ratchet. From what we've seen D-16 will meet his three commanders. But not at once like the trailer shows!
I need to get to the point.
Starscream already having a sort of leadership role but it's with the seekers. D-16 and Orion Pax have to convince them to join their side to fight the bad guy and it's possibly a point of contention between the two because, we all know Starscream and violence. (Also there were a lot of shots showing seekers in explosions and my Primus if they reference Vos-)
Soundwave and Shockwave aren't gonna be at Starscream's side, but other seekers. (Please Hasbro I beg give me Skywarp and Thundercracker.) Soundwave and Shockwave will already be teaming up with them or about to team up with them or refusing to team up. (Who cares this post turned into seeker central.)
Or the movie is gonna oversimplify everything and have the three of the high command be there to meet D-16. (Give me strength I hope not.)
TLDR: Soundwave and Shockwave were edited in for the trailer only and Starscream is ruler of the seekers. (And this post is a mess.)
#transformers#transformers one#optimus prime#orion pax#d 16#megatron#starscream#thundercracker#skywarp#soundwave#shockwave#crack theory#can you tell how badly I want seekers#or how I need elite trine#elite trine#bumblebee
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it's 1am, I have to work early in the morning and I have to prepare for my Fairytales & Folklore class midterm
but right now i just wanna write a bunch of royalty au drabbles about the drama, spice, and romance of the Seeker/Vosinian royal court (including all of the starscream ships my heart can carry)
#maccadam#starscream#seeker culture#the elite trine#royalty au#skystar#megastar#altalks#i know nothing about how irl royalty actually works but#im obsessed with royalty aus and bodyguard aus and fairytale aus#and been very obsessed with seeker culture#and any ship involving starscream lmao#ive been binge reading a lot of royal!starscream/seeker-centric fics lately#(special shoutout to ninano on ao3#their fics hit so many of my soft spots#i also have a bodyguard!oc that i've shipped with starscream since last year and i wanna make a fic for them#GAH I NEED TO STUDY AND SLEEP BUT THE ROYALTY AU CALLS ME#also if anyone has fic recs with these tags pls hit me up :))
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my akira figurines came in!!!! ft. tiny tetsuo
#so happy with them tbh#also I need to figure out how to string my elite trine on the top of my shelf museum hangar style because they look. so sad in jet mode on#the ground#100% recommend stringing rgb lights on the top of your display shelves it looks so sick#my life as the worst show you've ever seen#txt#akira 1988
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Tarn geting on his infrequently used personal account on The Great Conversation and lurking in Relationship Advice before coming to the conclusion he actually needs to post because there's no previous question that addresses his problem.
Megatron gets a high priority notification that DamasceneSteel is posting. Tarn is using his old personal username! Megatron keeps tabs on his most volitle high comand member's activity infrequent as it is. "Help! I accidentally seduced a jet," is the last thing Megatron expected from the DJD leader so he lurks on his personal acccount(identity known only to Soundwave) and watches the trainwreck unfold in real time.
Tarn's geting notifications of Lucky slagger! Or, Share your Wisdom I beg you! Not to mention, Hoax! Everybody knows jets dont frag grounders ever!
Then User ShootyShoot McBangBang weighs in to dispense his wisdom. No hoax mech. I once when I was a newbuild, I slaged off my CO so bad i got temporary assigned to a grounder unit and let me say you losers on the ground are fragging weird about fragging. All weird and soft and slag when you flirt. I though my temp CO was flirting with me but when I kissed him he punched me for being a weirdo. The loser had no clue even when I explained how to him exactly how he was coming on to me!"
Tarn meanwhile is cross-referencing the database. Misfire might be an incompetent Deceptacon but he's a seeker and he's actually giving an explanation that's sheding light on of what the frag just happened with Pharma.
What would Jet courting look like to the uninitiated? Tarn typed tentitavely and waited for a response.
Hmmmm. It's really hard to describe the subtitles between flirt-threat and threat-threat to grounders but basicaly if it looks like a seeker's trying to kill you and you're still alive or they could kill you at any moment and they chose not to it's pretty likely they're trying to spike you.
Tarn blinked in shock and typed an incomplete response as he processed. Wait would that mean
KaoniteMiner2793 responded at the same time, But Starscream
Misfire cut them both off with STOP! ✋️ 🛑 Speculating on the Air Comander's love life WILL get you slagged! He'll make sure. You could be a Phase Sixer or the slagging DJD and he would find a way! Anyhow onto a shiny new and much safer topic! DamasceneSteel, you said you seduced a jet and I hadn't heard through the gosip network about anyone in the airforce geting it on with a grounder. You bringing the good news of The Cause to the Lost Colonies, or trying to pull a DocKnock?
Pull a DocKnock? Tarn typed brow furrowed under his mask
ShootyShoot McBangBang blythly typed away unaware who he had warned off. You know Knockout the medic and interogator from Velocitron? Pulled a slagging Wrecker over to our side early in the war with his impeccable valve Dom game? Break-something or other? The two of them single-handedly launched the Converted to the Cause porn genre. Its rumored some of the hottest smut in the genra were written by one of the elite trine.
It's been so long I forgot about that recruitment campaign. KaoniteMiner2793 added. It got unpopular when mechs realized they had to kill their lovers if they didn’t join the Cause and didn’t have live capture bounties.
Tarn considered his response. Misfire didn't. Live capture bounties! we had those! When?! 🤯
We still do. Tarn educated absenly before he logged off. Mostly medics and a few others who if they can be made to serve The Cause are more useful alive than dead. Thank you for your help clarifying the situation.
Tarn leaned back in his chair to best consider how to use the situation.
Megatron blinked at his screen stuned. Starscream's ridiculous stunts were courting attempts?!?! It was ridiculous! Preposterous! It made... entirely too much sense actualy. Had he accidentally been engaging in an amorous game of one-upmanship with his subordinate??? What in the Pit?!
Misfire sipped someone else's energy drink and scrolled to a new thread.
This is just great amazing great amazing great
Win Misfire for being our Ultimate The Great Conversation problem solver today
Megatron is Learning Today and he's not quite sure he's ready to think out the consequences
Tarn got what he was looking for, and shall utilize that information accordingly (oh the humanity, that relationship is going to be so fun given the conditions of this au)
Win Knockout and Breakdown for kick-starting a porn genre
The little lore drops make it extra interesting too like the part about live bounties and how for a short period of time porn was 100% used as positive propaganda
#valveplug#i have littl words#mtmte tarn#mtmte megatron#mtmte pharma#mtmte misfire#idw starscream#idw knockout#idw breakdown#kobd#tarnma#megastar#kinda#and a lil mention of Thundercracker
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seekers are really communal frame types. it's actually part of the reason why they trine together; they're like rats or pigeons. a single seeker left alone to their own devices will often slip into depression without companionship. it's actually a big idea i have for my fan continuity.
i've seen people saying that vosians are prideful assholes and while i think that's true to some extent, i also think that they're just generally very focused on their communities. within my fan continuity, certain areas of cybertron lended themselves better to certain frame types. the areas that eventually became the region of vos were pitted by steep mountains and deep canyons so only those who could fly were able to properly settle there.
due to this, vos is a very flight oriented region. most cities there are built high into the atmosphere and rarely accommodate other frame types which has led to the stereotype that all vosians are vain and only care about themselves which is very much not true!
vos, in my fan continuity, isn't a single city. it's a name given to describe a specific region of cybertron that has similar topography, and language families (similar to how we call the middle east, the middle east even though there's a ton of different countries and cultures there)
vosians are generally some of the most outwardly friendly cybertronians due to the wingspeak that the region developed as their main form of communication. this language is allows for far more nuance but it's not something taught across cybertron so when vosian's speak common, their tones often come across as intensely snooty because they tend to be very blunt with their words.
seekers in particular are distinguished from other flight frames by their specific wing forms and general likeness to each other in terms of kibble placement and other such looks, are very community based, often forming massive neighborhoods and colonies of up to 120 seekers.
these colonies function just by the sheer feeling of community that shows up between those who are part of it. members often share, sleeping, cooking, bathing, and living spaces and it's not uncommon for multiple different trines to form massive poly relationships with each other just because of close proximity
this is also my explanation behind why the only air force we see in the decepticons are seekers. because they're so communal, it only made sense for them all to join the cons. not doing so would mean that one left behind might become extremely isolated and depressed from lack of contact.
seeker colonies are highly complex and often feature a single trine as the main leaders (in this case it would be the elite trine) but it can often vary from colony to colony. smaller ones might only have one trine in charge, but the bigger ones might have up to five which create a council of sorts to make decisions regarding the community
going back to the city structures of vos. it varies highly on the area but generally cities that are built high in the mountains tend to build outward around the mountain and then upward. so you'd see a lot of scaffolding around the lowest layers, just general structural support dug directly into the rock, while the upper most layers are connected by a series of bridges and pathways.
cities that built into the canyons of the region tend to be a lot more spread out, with chunkier buildings that better accommodate cybertronians of other frames. however it is consistent that vosian cities are built at high altitudes, feature heavy use of spiraling skyscrapers, and generally focused on flight frames and their specific needs. so lots of perches to land on, runways to take off from, and open aired buildings to allow for better weather predictions since some cities might be so high up that the upper layers stretch above the cloudline.
i have thoughts about the winglord thing in fandom. i think it's really interesting but i don't think it's a seeker specific thing.
so in terms of the winglord for this version of cybertron, i think it's a ceremonial term used to describe the winner of a ritual that determines who will lead the vosian region for the coming millennium regarding religious leadership. it's kinda like if the pope position got chosen by a fistfight. so like the winglord doesn't have any actual political power, but they do have a lot of religious influence
starscream in my continuity never actually becomes the winglord because of that reason. he's not particularly religious and because he specifically wants to join politics to get vos more focused on unifying with other cybertronian regions, he never participates in the winglord fights. however, sunstorm does
skywarp is a cartographer and his teleporting abilities allow him to get into unmapped spaces without too much trouble. which is very useful since vos' topography does not lend itself well to scanning devices because of the unpredictability of the weather. the area is prone to sudden and very random tornadoes because of it's mountainous landscape and it's actually part of the reason why vosian cities are designed the way they are. they're built most commonly in the areas that avoid the paths of the tornadoes
once again this ask is getting out of hand so i'm going to cap it off on that
aaaaaa i can't believe it took me so long to get to this ask, this is literally the coolest thing ever. Though i might be biased because I have... well, not exactly a continuity, more like... it's flashes and, uh, images, in my head, barely headcanons, and they're not always nearly as pregnancy-based as i led everyone to believe. And in these barely-headcanons, i am a sucker for, first of all, the cybertronian "cities" being more akin to areas or states with more cities within, and second of all your idea of seeker communal society kind of reminds me of the way that the roman kingdom operated, and i looove to get inspired by rome for my cybertronian worldbuilding. mostly because rome was very fucked up and cybertron needs to be as well.
and yeah, the winglord thing, i do feel like it's possible that every city/state on cybertron would have a high ranking official that is technically "in charge" and vosnians simply call it a winglord, but it's not exclusive to them. sorry just the political arrangement of cybertron is so interesting to me, no.1 favourite thing to think about. it probably depends on the "area" but the official can be only religious in nature or fully tyrannical or anywhere in between. again, sorry, i have to stop thinking about this.
in love with your mind, i love communal fliers. i know people can get weird about seekers and trines but i love it when it's simply a cultural difference.
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More s/o headcannons because I'm a sad little man who can't sleep
fluff mostly, romantic, canon typical violence, maybe death?
Starscream
Stupid little man (affectionate)
He literally doesn't get his own emotions. if it's not anger or hatred towards Megatron, what is it?
you're.. you're gonna have your hands full.
ESPECIALLY if you happen to be poly and happen to be with Bee or the Elite Trine or (gods forbid) Skyfire. because all those possibilities are just chaos incarnate
Okay so maybe Skyfire or Thundercracker might (might) be able to keep him in check.. no. no that's a lie. RIP (rest in piss) you i guess, have fun.
you're gonna have to save his aft more then once.
not in battles, he's okay with weapons, but talking him out of things? yeah..
do NOT let him try to negotiate. you'll just end up in deeper shit.
even if you can't negotiate, you'll do better then him
he's a big cuddler, but he also likes receiving gifts or giving them
you can't tell me he doesn't behave like a bird sometimes.
like
gifting rocks and sticks and shiny things he finds as presents
he deserved so much better then he got
do NOT raise your hand or voice at him if it can be helped
you'll have to patch him up after Megatron takes out his anger, please be gentle and listen and give plenty of cuddles after
he's not innocent by any means, he KNOWS he's a fucking menace. he does it on purpose.
he's also a war criminal so..
yeah
he's a gift giving (giving) or physical touch (receiving) live language :)
Bumblebee
You'll likely still have your hands full
he has good intentions, he's just rly fucking reckless
i hope you have ibuprofen, you'll both need it.
you for headaches from how many times Bee almost gets himself killed and him for scraped knees and shit
He's totally a drama queen, but only when it's funny
he tried to be the comic relief because he was forced into that role growing up and was never taken seriously, please listen to him and show him it's okay to not be the 'funny one'
gods forbid you both have similar trauma, that'll just be hell and create a loop of 1) him trying to help you by being funny 2) you stoping him and 3) trying to be funny for his sake until he stops you, and then it repeats with him trying to be funny to cheer you up again
Sometimes it really is funny, sometimes it's a defense mechanism.
after all, it's hard to yell at someone when they crack a joke that makes you giggle, he knows this from experience
His love language is totally words of affirmation, both giving and receiving.
he tried his best to behave and be careful, but sometimes he gets into sticky situations, please be patient
Ratchet
he's.. he's something that's for sure
he needs to be told to rest. seriously.
he'll be a hypocrite about sleep, instructing everyone to get some sleep and take breaks but then work for 16 hours straight.
literally force this man into bed please.
he tries not to worry you, but often fails (really often-)
PLEASE make him relax. a bath, a nap, a movie, SOMETHING
he adores you, but he tries not to display any PDA
the farthest he'll go is a quick peck when everyone is distracted
He's worried the cons will take you for bait if he shows PDA
SO. MANY. SNIDE. REMARKS.
/pos
His love language is quality time!
just sit in the medbay while he works. even if you're "in the way" (usually lies so he can pick you up, human or bot alike)
he appreciates the company :)
he's worried about everyone, like a mom with accident prone kids
except all those kids are (mostly) adults and can (mostly) take care of themselves
PLEASE try to stay out of trouble, it'll help lower his stress to know you're okay <3
Arcee
she has a lot of trouble with relationships, please be patient
another anti-PDA bot
except hers is mostly because she's worried that she'll lose you to the cons death-wise, not kidnapping or bait
please please please make sure to stay away from cons and reassure her you're both going to be okay
She might have some days where dysphoria hits hard, please make sure she knows you support and love her no matter what
She supports you and you better support her back
her love language is gift giving (giving) and words of affirmation (receiving)
shiny rocks, food/fuel, small objects that remind her of you, anything is fair game
please please giver her physical touch, she loves receiving physical touch!
cuddles and kisses >>>
Knock Out
DRAMA KING
He can take care of himself, or so he swears
he is a little crazy, and not in the fun way.
he's got something going on in that noggin of his, but insists he's fine
please just hug him and reassure him you're both okay
He loves receiving gifts or quality time, and giving physical touch or quality time
he cares so much about you, but can't really figure out how to show you
he'll touch up your paint/mess with your hair, carry you around if he can, bring you energon, heal you first after battles or scraps with other cons
he doesn't like to say he lives you out loud, sorry :(
but he does love you! he's just scared to admit it out loud
Please please please get him to sit out a race and take care of himself
he uses street racing to get his adrenaline going and to distract himself, please get him to add some other distractions as well!
maybe movies or tinkering or something will help?
maybe not, he's got a speed demon, but maybe!
Soundwave
y'know how most of these have been make them take care of thrmself?
other way around.
look man, he was a dad to the cassettes for YEARS, he knows when shits wrong and usually he knows how to fix it
if not, he has the internet in his head, he'll be fine
He's probably the best about taking care of himself, but he does refuse to take breaks from work sometimes or he works late, please help?
he's gonna baby you so much-
like, making sure you're taking care of yourself and that you're okay
If the cassettes like you, he likes you
his cassettes go before everyone else, including you
you're a close second though, it's just dad things
it's likely the cassettes will see you as a parental figure, if not right away then later
Please help this man out with the kids, he has like 8 of them and he works a lot of the time-
Shockwave
So this can go one of two ways, he can be some evil genius mastermind who barely pays attention to anything but his job, or he can be a sweet dude who's just doing what he think is right.
since we only ever see him from the autobots pov or their allies I'm going with the second
Please make sure he gets enough sleep. he won't do it on his own. if you both have insomnia or just can't then fuck
you'll both be each others bedtime timer in a way?
PLEASE GET HIM SOME LEGOS /SRS
I feel like he would LOVE building Lego sets
He's probably got a little cabin fever, he's been on Cybertron for millenia, but he also refuses to leave base
please take him on a field trip or something-
he's totally a words of affirmation dude <3
he can take care of himself, but only barely-
he's got keeping everything running under control, it's just kinda a messy way of doing it.
controlled chaos type of guy!
Skywarp
Oh. my. gods.
you thought you had your hands full with Scream or Bee?
no.
Skywarp, a well known prankster that can teleport, you're absolutely fucked
He's def gonna pull a bunch or harmless pranks on you, u less you explicitly ask him to stop
He <3
He totally is a physical touch kinda dude, he MUST be toughing you at all times.
Working? sit back to back or hold hands. He's out in a mission? he has a chain necklace with a item from you on it that he clutches whenever he can. Off work and walking around? holding hands, piggy back rides (he's usually the one that wants the piggy back ride, but it goes either way) About to fall asleep? cuddles and sleepy kisses.
THE biggest sweetheart
He'll also bring little gifts, but he's more specific in some aspects. If a rock isn't pretty enough he wont bring it, even if you tell him you love everything he brings and appreciate anything from him
he wants everything to be perfect for you
He likely has ADHD, please make sure he takes his meds
Please kiss his forehead, it's a weak spot for him. a quick peck will have him shutting up and melting on the spot. Sometimes he'll trail after you like a lovedrunk puppy <3
Thundercracker
There's not much I can say about him that won't do him justice
He's smart, but not the smartest
like.. he's good with social stuff and is shit at math (Me too)
the most likely to get jealous or be protective
If someone tries to flirt with you, he'll stand behind you all puffed up and scary looking
The person usually leaves after that, and when you turn around he's either
A. still being menacing and staring after that person with a death glare, just hug him and he'll deflate
or B. he's already calm and just has, like, drinks or something and a smile
he's another words of affirmation person, he loves giving or receiving
#starscream#starscream x reader#bumblebee#bumblebee x reader#ratchet#ratchet x reader#arcee#arcee x reader#knockout#knockout x reader#soundwave#soundwave x reader#shockwave#shockwave x reader#skywarp#skywarp x reader#thundercracker#thundercracker x reader
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(Same anon that asked the jewelry asks)
How do you come up with the jewelry for your Obsidian King AU characters? Do you just think of them or look up inspirations on the internet?
How do you come up with the flags of the kingdoms, like Praxus?
What does Prowls castle look like? Is it very very big, and what colour?
I am so sorry for all the questions- it’s also 2:59 and I’m tired and I got a burst of inspiration of questions lol hope that’s okay!
LOL no no you're all good! i'm winding down from finishing up a piece and haven't gotten back to comms so you caught me at a good time
it's hard to explain how exactly i came up with some of the jewelry (i assume you also mean their gold/etc accents) but generally i thought of what would look best with their given designs/stories and went from there. as far as i can remember, it all came from my big ol brain with the help of some friends
there IS usually at least one element that has a deeper meaning for the character, such as barricade with his face of pyrite/"gold", symbolizing his betrayal to both his mate and his noble family; bluestreak with eyelids of gold, accentuating his sharpshooting skills; and smokescreen with his chevron of gold. this one is a little more obscure, but chevrons as we know are a very integral part of praxian culture and are typically used for affection (forehead taps!) so having a chevron of gold could be akin to symbolizing the genuineness and caring nature of a person <3 smokescreen also has snake bite piercings, which play into his gambling side! (cause yknow. snake eyes.)
optimus has a design matrix centric as prime, along with elita for being queen of iacon (home of the matrix bearer), and she just so happens to be his wife! bonus points for matrix centric design!
for prowl specifically, i chose accents that would bring out the sharpness of his overall design and character. y'know, his wings, his weapon, his chest colors, his chevron, his mind and wit — they're all sharp! his chevron loop piercings were purely for looking pretty, his shoulder loops complimenting them, but the chains that hang from his left side go deeper into his grief over smokescreen, having been confined to his berth for an extended period of time.
jazz's praxine appearance had an element completely unintentional on my part that i hadn't realized until someone in my server pointed it out, but you know how prowl has gold chevrons on his servos and, after they bond, jazz has matching ones on his shoulders? this could symbolize jazz's role as praxine to help prowl shoulder some of the weight of being a ruler, taking it from prowl's hands when he needs. romance! meaningful!
the flags... oh man. okay let me include a pic of all of them so far:
we'll go in order. vos is... well, we all know trines and how they're big for seekers. because of this, vos does not have one sovereign, instead having an elite trine to split the duties, hence one fire trail for three jets in the banner. this one i'm not the most satisfied with as it feels really. obvious. compared to the others but it's cute and practical!
old praxus however is a very different story. there are a LOT of elements in this that come together and it actually took me a very long time to figure out. here is an excerpt from the au's info doc on this one: "Based on the gold and chevron of their first sovereign, King Onyx, and the kingdom's love for crystals. Three crystals + prong-like shapes point up in homage to their Vosian roots." (praxians are direct descendants of vosians in this au) so not only does the triple prong allude to trines, but it also alludes to vos' throne room, which has three tall thrones all pointing in (think of g1 starscream's coronation platform) these prongs point up at the gold badge, symbolizing the sovereign of praxus and their status as royalty. heavy vosian roots, as you can see
this symbol ended up absolutely tarnished by the ruby kings and the war with vos. so tarnished in fact that smokescreen had to change it when he became king. the new praxian banner is pretty straightforward. he removed all vosian elements as they are an independent kingdom (and vos hates them anyway) and based it entirely off his only heir as a symbol of a brighter and hopeful future :>
iacon is just the matrix. that's it. LOL
polyhex is really interesting to me and i love explaining this one! obviously we have a sheet music esque design, with an odd clef/bridge of instrument thing at the end, but the symbol there is called a fermata! in music terms, this is to indicate a note held for as long as the conductor says. it's typically the dramatic end to a song! i promise there's a connection and it has to do with the phrase "long live the king!" because,, get it,,, fermatas are notes held longer than normal. hehe. i will say, while i always wanted to incorporate a fermata, polyhex absolutely fought me on this design so i'm not entirely satisfied with it either but it works!
the praxian palace is indeed crystal!! it's very big and changes colors! it's a soft blue at night and a pink during the day. i don't have a detailed or final version of the palace, but here's a draft i made!
it has spires but don't be fooled, they're not functional. the palace itself is only a few levels and generally follows medieval architecture inside, the crystal having been built into with metal
PHEW is that all in this ask? it's been so long since i've infodumped that much about my au :'D if you want more, you KNOW i am more than happy to answer!
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Sunny Simp Anon here!
I had ordered the zine when preorders first started and when I saw that you were in the zine many months later i got very excited!!
I took a pic and sent it to Smooch and shared the rest of the art with them and their friends and we loved it all and I love what you did with Jazz ans Prowl!!
The officiator: Any one object?
Prowl: *silently glaring*
Jazz: *had a cannon* :D
Also they look so good and I want to frame your art on my wall but I cant because it’s in a book but it’s so pretty and I love it and i want to hug it but it’s paper and akskdldkdk
Many conflict here you see
Also personal update myself, I probably didn’t do good on one of my exams today because i forgot there was an exam and I didn’t have my book and it was open book and so like, i didn’t do good but it is what it is
Also I want to hold your sideswipe so much, he is such a pretty boi and when he pops up he overtakes Sunny for a minute and is the star of the show and he knows he’s a pretty boi and will use it
I want to hold him so badly and domestic soft thoughts are my enemy cause I want them to be happy and heal from their pain and they are twins and they know each other the best and they went through hell and back and deserve good things!!!
Let Sunny become a famous artist again, let Sideswipe help with selling his brother’s paintings and also maybe own a lil bar and stuff also Bob being his cute self and get doted on and Sunny also maybe makes vent arts and let out his pain
I do personally headcanon that Sunny makes some vent arts but keeps some of them secret cause he doesn’t want to worry Sides too much with how he feels and it helped to just draw it out
Also me and my friends in the JazzProwl discord server made a lil meme thing into a bug angsty au and then we talked about the future after they mostly heal and it was from dark and angsty and stuff to more fluffy but still some angst(it’s with the Elite trine but i am gonna ask if we wanna include other ships and other lil stories besides the elite trine’s)
Anyways! I hope to be in your inbox again soon but some smaller things jn my life came up that needed my attention so I had to focus on those for a lil bit but i will return
-Sunny Simp Anon💛
Oh! You ordered a Monochromatic zine?
That's so exciting! I just got mine a few days ago~
I'm so happy to hear that you like my piece! I was really nervous about it because it was kinda spoofy compared to the others. It's pretty silly even by my normal standards hehe
As far as my digital work goes, Sideswipe has been given so much love lately. It's great that his "pretty boi" status has been recognized.
I purposefully designed him to look more friendly and open, so if he's making you think soft domestic things then I have done my job correctly hehe.
On the subject of Sunstreaker's art habits, I think all artists make vent pieces at some point, writers and other creative mediums too (I know I do). So Sunny does probably have some pieces squirreled away here and there, I agree.
I'm glad you're having fun on the JazzProwl server, and hope you get through whatever requires your attention now.
Don't rush through anything, I will still be here when you get done hehe.
#sunny simp anon#thank you for the ask#i'm still working through the fanfics atm#and don't feel bad about your test#I think we've all done something like that at some point#I skidded into my college chemistry final like 2 minutes before starting time because I read my clock wrong#thank you for telling me you'll be quiet for a while
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Okay potential baby daddies (based of my favorite Megatron ships)
1. OPTIMUS, or rather sweet Archivist Orion who is exceptionally overwhlemed to be considered.
2. His Royal Highness Starscream (Potentially us Trine because I have a qeak spot for Megatron + Elite)
3. Rodimus (Guilty favorite)
4. Ultra Magnus or, alternatively, Minimus
5. Soundwave
6. Rung (It is a niche favorite I will admit.)
THESE ARE LITERALLY ALL GOOD OPTIONS 😩💖
1. I literally have like 6 pages written of Megatron holed up in the Ward's extensive archive and reading to his spark's content, checking out every datapad pertaining to poetry. Orion works at the Ward and is always so incredibly happy to help out the carriers, and tho he's not technically on Megatron's pre-determined list, he technically qualifies 🤭
2. ROYAL. TRINE. SHIPPING. PLEASE. Seekers are always born in threes (literally fight me on this ok you can pry this headcanon out of my cold zombified hands), so Megs' expecting triplets? Please I'm so down
3. RodiMegs is always good 🤤 they have like. Cocky young frat boy and no-nonsense English professor vibes. They'd have the most precious little red and silver baby
4. I am literally weak in the knees for Magnus/Megatron. This is also a good option. Idk how I'd go about developing it but I am HERE for it
5. Do I even need to say anything? Soundwave would be such a good dad. He'd be so honored to be chosen as a Donor, and getting to be privvy to the secrets of reproduction? Getting to watch his sparkling grow within their carrier's frame? He'd be such a gooey, excited, nervous dad. 10/10
6. I'm listening 👀 Rung is one of the psychiatrists employed by the Wards, tasked with keeping all the Carriers happy and detecting any problems psyche-wise early on. Teeny tiny papa next to big tanky mama, sign me up
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Gonna do the hardest one first: I know ONE DAY I want to do a winglord!Starscream fic with Elite Trine established romance but I just can’t quite nail it down yet. I almost had it right for the bang this year and I feel like that will be the future idea I go with it just needs more workshopping. (Current idea has MegOP as major plot line too and it’s actually those two that are giving me problems now.)
Idea would be tho that WL is secondary to a Prime; Vos is basically it’s own city state that agrees to play nice with the rest of the planet as long as someone with the Matrix is running the show. So when Starscream becomes Winglord he gets like a fucking text from Primus that Sentinel is fake af as so Star’s like lmao kk revolution time? But it’s more like Vos is like fuck all of y’all then as Star’s quietly funding protests around Cybertron to cause Sentinel to deal with a shit storm.
So the problem is how does Optimus become Prime that I haven’t figured out yet
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Looking for Transformers RP partners
Been looking around for peeps to roleplay some Transformers stuff with for a while now, figured I might as well just bite the bullet and make an add.
I’m f/25, looking for 18+ only, preferred 20+, semi-lit to full lit. I tend to get pretty wordy with my responses, usually multi-paragraphs, but I really prefer quality over quantity, so don’t feel like you need to match my length if you don’t want to.
Looking for something longterm/slowburn like, with heavy focus on how the Cybertronian war actually effects character dynamics/friendships/relationships. Ships and NSFW are perfectly fine, but not necessary. I’m more than happy to discuss ideas for plot, or at least vague directions we’d like to take things. Doubling up is fine, as long as you’re also willing to double.
Some of the ships I’m interested in doing, and I’m happy playing any characters involved in these so take your pick on who you’d like to be:
Soundwave/Ratchet
Soundwave/Cosmos
Soundwave/Blaster
Ratchet/Impactor
Powerglide/Cyclonus
Cyclonus/Whirl
Wheeljack/Starscream
Jazz/Bumblebee
Thundercracker/Reflector
Perceptor/Skyfire
Perceptor/Brainstorm
Skids/Swerve
Grimlock/Misfire/Swerve
Tesaurus/Vos
Elite Trine Shenanigans (Romantic or Platonic)
Soundwave + Cassettes (Platonic only)
Those are just the ships I can think of that I would be most interested in doing, but I am 100% open to suggestions and ideas, so feel free to bring up more than this. If you’re interested in any of these interact with the post or DM me and we’ll make something happen!
#Transformers#Ratchet#Soundwave#Cosmos#Impactor#Powerglide#Cyclonus#Whirl#Wheeljack#Starscream#Jazz#Bumblebee#Thundercracker#Reflector#Perceptor#Skyfire#Brainstorm#Skids#Swerve#Grimlock#misfire#tesaurus#Vos#Roleplay finder
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Can we get a Feral baby Soundwave G1 part 3 please
Locating the escape pod was easy thanks to the tracker installed. The signal led the decepticons to a beach where it had been stranded. Luckily it hadn’t been discovered by any humans that would have undoubtedly kidnapped their young third in command. The only other beings present at the scene was a flock of seagulls that had decided that the escape pod was the perfect place to perch though they quickly scattered when the elite trine landed.
“Ugh, I can’t believe Megatron forced me to come here!” Starscream exclaimed, a disgusted look on his face. “I hate the beach! The sand always gets in-between my seams and takes forever to get out!” Thundercracker sighed and internally compared Starscream’s voice to the screeching of the seagulls.
“We know you hate the beach, Starscream. You wouldn’t stop complaining about it the entire flight here.”
Feeling the need to say something so he wouldn’t be left out, Skywarp spoke up. “I like the beach! Last time I stepped on this kid’s sandcastle and he started crying. It was hilarious!” Skywarp was promptly ignored by his trine. Walking up to the escape pod, Starscream opened it.
“Ok you little brat, game’s over. Time to get back to- oh frag me it’s empty.” Hearing this, Thundercracker and Skywarp hurriedly made their way over to check it out for themselves. Starscream hadn’t been lying, the pod really was empty, no Soundwave in sight.
“Well, where is he?” Skywarp asked dumbly.
“How the hell am I supposed to know?” Starscream snapped back. “Do I look like I have an inbuilt sparkling radar?” Before Skywarp could answer the rhetorical question Starscream lifted his hand, signaling him to keep quiet. Taking a deep breath and sighing, he pinched the space between his optics. “This is just brilliant, isn’t it? I’m sure Megatron is going to find a way to blame all of this on me as well. Why couldn’t the little snot just have been as boring as he is as an adult as a sparkling?”
Feeling a bit of sympathy for Starscream, who for once hadn’t created the mess they were in, Thundercracker patted his shoulder. Skywarp felt no sympathy though as he continued to ponder where Soundwave possibly could have gone. Surely there weren’t that many places a sparkling could go, where there? Welp, at least he wasn’t with the autobots.
Meanwhile at the Ark
“He’s cute” Jazz said as he poked the sparkling sitting on the war table. Prowl, sitting right next to him, rolled his optics.
“Jazz, he’s a prisoner of war, you can’t call him cute.”
Jazz snorted. “He’s a sparkling though. We can’t keep a sparking prisoner. It’s not like we’re gonna put him in a cell.”
“...”
“Prowl, PLEASE tell me that you weren’t seriously considering that.”
“... The autobot code says-”
“The autobot code says NOTHING about what to do when your enemies TIC becomes a sparkling. Trust me, you’ve forced me to read that thing so many times I could recite it in my sleep.”
“This is an unique case, we should-”
At this point Optimus couldn’t sit down and listen to the squabbling anymore and stood up. “Prowl, stop it. We’re not putting Soundwave in a cell, not while he’s in this state.” Looking at the bots sitting around the table, he continued. “We shall treat him like we would any sparkling, with care and kindness.”
Red Alert raised his hand and Optimus nodded at him, allowing him to speak. “But what if it’s a trap? What if the moment we lower our guards he turns back into his normal self and pulls a gun on us? Or what if he’s been sent here to sabotage us! We need to have some safety procedures!” Hearing this, some of the bots around the table started to whisper amongst themselves while Optimus simply shook his head.
“Red Alert, while I would normally agree with these worries if Soundwave was his regular self, I don’t think it will be necessary at this moment. ” Turning towards the bot in question, Optimus smiled behind his mouth guard and gave Soundwave a pat on the head. “Besides, he’s a sparkling. What harm could he do?”
#transformers imagine#G1#AU#sparkling#soundwave#starscream#thundercracker#skywarp#jazz#prowl#optimus prime#red alert#feral baby soundwave au
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Hook showing up to Megatron's quarters to find Thundercracker siting on the berth with his face in his palms, Skywarp chattering excitedly about bitlits, and Starscream arguing with Soundwave over Shockwave tightening the belt because they need the energon here more for the duration of the carying cycle. Starscream just points to the washracks when Hook walks in.
Hook walks in and offers comiseration over Megatron sparking the elite trine and one of Mixmaster's hangover cures. Megatron looks at him bleary-eyed and asks if it's safe for a sparked mech. "Wait! You didn't spark Screamer, Warp, and TC?! One of them sparked you?! With your frame specs it shouldn't be possible for one of them to spark you! What did you do spark merge with all of them and fall into recharge that way?!"
Megatron growls, "Lower your voice Hook, before I rip out your vocalizer." At the same time the disgustingly chipper and unhungover Skywarp pipes in, "Yep!"
The rest of the Structies hear the exchange through the gestalt bond and immediately start planing how to build sparkling suplies and furniture.
Ohhh TC. Thundercracker.
Again Starscream making smart decisions, and the hilarious idea of Shockwave just metaphorically shrinking in on himself audials pinned back because damn is Starscream making this point harshly.
Sdjdhdhs on Hook assuming Megs got all three of them pregnant instead of the other way around, assumptions assumptions Hook. "With your frame specs it shouldn't be possible for one of them to spark you!" hmm. Interesting, but I can see how this went around that.
Careful Hook he means it
Sdfghjjj Skywarp you snitch
It's only been a day and they're already driving each other into a frenzy
#maccadam#transformers#constructicons#Megatrine#g1 skywarp#g1 megatron#g1 starscream#g1 soundwave#who for once agrees with Starscream#i bet he asked megs if he's sure about doing this while watching everyone from a distance#''... Megatron: positive about this?'' '#g1 thundercracker#g1 shockwave#who's gonna definitely get some of his energon allowance for experiments cut
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Primus Help the Outcasts 3
Frag. Frag. Frag. Jazz had largely been removed the news. Once he had left the Elite Guard, he had removed himself from the business of international affairs. Of course he had known about Praxus. Everyone knew about Praxus. But he did not get his news from tabloids or the court of public opinion and he had been delighted to see the young Praxians and their originator turn up at the dojo. He had not expected to see Praxians in Simfur, but it had been good to see them. There had been so many deaths. Prowl, as he had introduced himself, had seemed stiff when he had returned later and registered Bluestreak in the Twins class after their mechlings had paired up in school. Master Yoketron had been his hope and his lifeline. Arriving at the dojo and hearing the news of the Master’s death had obviously put a wrench in his plans. Jazz would honour his mentor’s legacy. It was the right thing to do.
In the evening, he would touch base with his contacts in the Elite Guard to see if he could verify any part of Prowl’s story. But even if it was a self-serving lie, Jazz preferred to house a liar than see two mechlings on the streets. He realized he could probably just ask Smokescreen for confirmation but asking the mechling if he had been raped or molested by a trio of Seekers was not something he was about to do. It would be brutally unfair to him. Prowl, would probably kill him for it too, or try to at least. Jazz had seen the smooth, controlled flick of Prowl’s servo when he had removed that priest’s servo from his aft and then broken his digits. He had used the perfect amount of force. After he had left Simfur and the dojo, Jazz was willing to bet he had kept up his training.
“Ori, Geni, Genitor, I got someone for ya to meet,” Jazz called when he led Prowl into the shop. Rumbler, his geni poked his helm out from the workshop. His ori, Punch and his genitor, Sprocket, came out from behind the shelves they had been stocking. “This is Prowl. Ya met his bitlets, Smokey ‘n Blue, at the dojo. They’re needin’ a place to stay. I offered them Ric’s old place.”
“I’ll get some fuel,” Sprocket said, his optics raking up and down Prowl’s emaciated frame. “‘N we’ll talk shop... in the shop? Rumbler?”
“Nothin’ explosive right now,” Rumbler replied. “I’ll pull up the table.”
“I saw yer faceplates in the news quite a bit, a while back,” Punch said. Prowl tensed.
“Ya know the Senate ain’t gonna tell the whole truth,” Jazz said.
“I don’t got much use for the Senate,” Punch agreed. “Ya got a good youngling, Prowl. He’s helped us in the shop a coupla times when we needed an extra set of servos.”
“I did not realize,” Prowl replied in a stilted monotone. “He is a great help with his brother.”
“He seemed a lil thin when I saw’m last. He’s gettin’ ‘nough fuel?”
“I... he fuels.”
“Ya don’t.”
“Ori, let’m sit before ya interrogate ‘m,” Jazz sighed. “I caught the fraggin’ priest groppin’m when I dropped in. ‘M thinkin’ it wasn’t a one off.”
“No...”
“Priest. Heh,” Punch sneered. “Cut from the same sentio-metallico as Sentinel Prime, that greedy creep.”
Sprocket returned with a tray laden with his fresh baked goodies and Punch let the way into the back workship. Prowl hesitated. Jazz watched him. Given Ori’s opening salvo, he might have thought rejection was coming, but Jazz knew his procreators better. As Prowl continued to hesitate, Jazz was patient. The mech was clearly tired, fuel deprived and traumatized. How many times had mechanisms tried to take advantage of him since he had arrived in Simfur? Had he even seen a medic, had any of them seen medics since the disaster in Praxus? Fragging Pit, the only thing Jazz missed about Polihex was Ratchet.
“They ain’t gonna bite,” Jazz promised and he took Prowl’s servo.
“Your originator...”
“Is testin’ the waters. It’s a’ight. Come on. Let’s get this scrap sorted out before we gotta pick the mechlings up from school.”
Prowl servo was cold yet their was a film on condensation on his palm. Jazz guided him into the workshop and over to the table and chairs they usually used for family poker-cycle. Sprocket pointed to a chair with a plate already filled with baked goodies and a tall cube of mid-grade set in front of it. Once again, Prowl hesitated to sit, but Jazz gave him a little nudge and took the chair next to him. He took a quick look around. They were surrounded by the tools of his procreators business. Machines in various states of disrepair covered the floor space. Rumbler was a talented engineer but the family did more business doing repairs than custom builds. Mechanisms in Simfur did not need war machines.
“Genitor’s a mean baker,” Jazz said. “Best energon nuts around. Eat up. I know that pressed energon didn’t fill ya up.”
“Thank you,” Prowl said. For a mech who had to have been famished, he ate slowly and neatly. Jazz watched his genitor watching him. It was going to take a lot more than this to put healthy mass on Prowl’s frame.
“Ya been lookin’ for work, Prowl?” Punch asked.
“Yes,” Prowl replied, faultlessly polite as the interrogation continued. “I was recently fired and evicted by my employer...”
“Lockdown,” Jazz interjected. All three of his procreators sneered.
“We won’t hold that against ya,” Rumbler grumbled. “Didn’t wanna handle stolen goods?”
“I...” Prowl paused again. “No. I was working security... I did not... he wanted to interface. I did not.”
“Sounds like that piece of scrap,” Rumbler said. The questioning continued. Where had applied to work, where he planned to apply. Jazz understood where they were coming from. He had the biggest bleeding spark in the family. They did not want to get stuck with a tenant who could not pay the rent.
“Did ya lose yer appetite?” Punch asked, changing the subject so quickly that Jazz jerked his helm. He looked down at the Praxian’s plate, and found it not even half eaten.
“No...” Prowl was not a good liar. Jazz almost patted the back of his servo.
“Take lil bites,” Punch ordered. “Ya won’t be any good to yer mechlings if ya waste on ‘em will ya?”
“Y’re a’ight,” Jazz said as he looked at his procreators, feeling a little defensive. “I ain’t worried ‘bout rent. I’ll get’m a job. I got one for Bumblebee, didn’t I?”
“Ya did,” Rumbler said. “It’s gonna be harder for this one, though, ain’t it Prowl? Ya got the deck stacked against ya.”
“It is,” Prowl replied. “My Conjunx was a popular mech amongst his peers.”
“Do ya have regrets?” Punch asked.
Jazz hissed at his procreators: “Enough.”
“I regret not shooting him,” Prowl said. His plating clattered as he started shivering. Jazz looked over to him with concern. He thought better of holding him, thinking it would scare him and kept his servos on the table. “But I didn’t know where my sparkling was. I looked everywhere for him when we got away. I stared at the cameras and the transports they were loading and I could not find him.”
“Y’re a’ight,” Jazz soothed. He brushed his servo over the back of Prowl’s servo. His plating was still unnervingly clammy. “Ya got’m back.”
“They made him watch the bombing before the dropped him in the rubble,” Prowl’s digits curled into the table and he stared down, unseeing. Jazz looked over to his procreators, silently asking, could you just not? “Revenge against me for killing the Trine that raped me after they molested Smokescreen. Crosscut gave us to them. He prostituted us in hopes that Wing Leader would designate him Vassal Lord in reward for his cooperation.”
“Sounds to me like his death was too easy,” Sprocket ground out.
Of Jazz’s procreators, Sprocket had the fiercest temper. His function had been as a reconnaissance specialist but his intelligence packets had tended to be coordinates of the smoking ruin he had left behind. His brother had built him an exoskeleton that had given him more firepower that one would have expected of a scout. Punch fondly called his sparkmate flashy.
“I do not want to fuel anymore. I am going to be sick.”
“Y’re a’ight,” Jazz crooned, and he rubbed Prowl’s back as he lowered his helm to the table. “Y’re a’ight.”
“We’ll have to get furniture,” Rumbler declared. “Ricochet took his scrap ‘n, anyways it wasn’t the slag a pair o’ mechlings need.”
“The Megastore does same-cycle delivery,” Punch suggested.
Jazz smiled as his procreators talked back and forth and made a list. He left them to it and focused on Prowl who remained folded in half in his chair as his fans revved and his intakes wheezed. At least he did not purge. His helm was hot, Jazz realized when he touched his neck. Ratchet might have been half a world away but Simfur had medic’s a plenty. If Prowl had an infection brewing, then they needed to make short work of it. There was no way the mech had a functioning self-repair system. It was a relief when Prowl lifted his helm and stared owlishly at the Polihexians.
“What?” He asked.
“What’re yer favourite colours?” Sprocket repeated. “Mechlings’ gotta have favourite colours. I was guessin’ blue for Smokey but yer sparkling’s a mystery.”
“Red,” Prowl replied. His servo brushed over the chevron on his helm. The red paint was chipped and faded. “He insisted on getting paint to match mine when his colours were done.”
“That’s sweet,” Sprocket smiled.
“Smokescreen likes blue, yes. He like yellow and red. Colour. He likes colour.”
“What ‘bout ya?” Jazz asked. There was something just a little off with Prowl. His expression was pinched and his optics were glassy.
“Red... I suppose. I like whatever they like. Why?”
“Cause we gotta make sure their berthroom’s just how they like it.”
“Mm?” Prowl made a questioning sound. He looked lost and Jazz frowned, as did his procreators.
“Ricochet took his stuff when he moved,” Jazz explained. Wondering how Prowl had missed the entire conversation. “Habsuite’s empty. If we’re gonna get all new scrap we outta get what mechlings’ll like right?”
“Mm?”
“Ori?” Jazz said. “Somethin’s wrong wit’m.”
“Put’m on the ground, I think he’s crashin’,” Punch replied.
Punch’s glyphs rang true. Prowl fell out of the chair as his frame trembled and clattered. His arms and legs contracted violently and with the most hideous squeal. Jazz caught him, falling on his knees next to the chair. As Prowl twitched, arms and legs contracting and released over again, Jazz lowered him down onto his back, and cradled his helm as his spinal struts contracted and released, throwing Prowl’s helm back into Jazz’s servos again and again. It felt like it went on for joors, but it could only have been a few kliks at most. When the spasms finally ended, Prowl’s optics were dark and his frame limp.
“Put’m in our berth,” Punch ordered. “He don’t need to lay on the cold floor.”
“Shouldn’t we get a medic?” Jazz asked.
“He’s got an etchin’,” Punch said, turning Prowl’s arm so Jazz could see the inside of his wrist. Processor Glitch – Crashes. “If he don’t come ‘round in a half joor I get’m a medic.”
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Out of genuine curiosity, what are some of your rarepairs??
Great question! I've got a bunch, including rare polycules. By definition though most of the polycules are pretty rare.
I tend to like a lot of things, though some things I'm not sure how "rare" they are.
You know about MegaRatch and UltraMegaRod by now, but lemme think. All kinda depend on the setup.
Starscream/Rodimus
Thundercracker/Skywarp (is that rare??)
Megatron/Soundwave (also love it when it's platonic too)
Megatron/Elite Trine (look, the dude needs a minder so why not three birds)
Optimus/Starscream
Optimus/Ratchet
Optimus/Starscream/Megatron
Uhhhh.
I'm sure I could think of more but nothing's coming to me.
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Transiting Mercury enters pre-retrograde shadow
Timeline (current events in BOLD)
Wednesday, September 23, 20:55 UT - transiting Mercury enters Rx shadow, 25:54 Libra
Sunday, September 27, 07:41 UT - transiting Mercury enters Scorpio
Thursday, October 1, 15:49 UT - Mercury’s greatest eastern elongation, 4:36 Scorpio
Wednesday, October 14, 01:05 UT - transiting Mercury stations retrograde, 11:40 Scorpio
Sunday, October 25, 18:23 UT - Sun-Mercury inferior conjunction, 2:47 Scorpio
Wednesday, October 28, 01:33 UT - transiting Mercury retrogrades back into Libra
Tuesday, November 3, 17:50 UT - transiting Mercury stations direct, 25:54 Libra
Tuesday, November 10, 17:00 UT - Mercury’s greatest western elongation, 29:47 Libra
Tuesday, November 10, 21:55 UT - transiting Mercury re-enters Scorpio
Thursday, November 19, 21:04 UT - transiting Mercury exits post-retrograde shadow, 11:40 Scorpio
I know, I know, it royally sucks that Mercury stations direct on the US’s election day. It did the same thing back on November 7, 2000: Mercury started the day retrograde, then changed signs (from Scorpio to Libra), before stationing direct very late (US time) that night. If you weren’t born yet, can’t remember what happened, or have blocked that unpleasantness out of your memory - there was much angst involving vote counts and recounts in Florida, and the election wasn’t officially decided until December 12, 2000. So, gang, don’t expect any instant results on November 3, 2020, either. Brace yourselves now.
Anyway. I really loathe these multi-sign retrogrades, because there’s twice as much work to do. What essentially happens, is that we somehow muff the final passage of the planet through the first sign, which makes it impossible to “do” the next sign well (or at all).
Especially given the Capricorn pile-up of unpalatable realities, the trouble with Mercury/Libra is a failure or refusal to admit the truth. We have our rose-colored glasses practically welded to our eyes, and we aren’t going to take them off. Our current situation is described in an uncannily prescient way by Chrissie Blaze, in her book Mercury Retrograde. About “Mercury Retrograde in Libra,” she wrote:
Your sense of justice and equality may be challenged through apparently unfair events that are out of your control. Actually, life is now compelling you to view things from a perspective other than your own. Try walking in someone else’s shoes and see how it feels.
I’m personally not sure how far I want to walk in racists’ shoes - but understanding how racists got that way (e.g., susceptibility to being “played” by monied elites) can help me fix the problem.
The main thing you should do for now, is to identify which of your natal houses contain the span of 25:54 Libra through 11:40 Scorpio. (That’s tucked away in Ms M’s 12th House.) Next, see if this is going to trigger anything in your chart. Will there be aspects to the Sun, Moon, angles, Nodes, important planets? (Quite a few things for Ms M, with the main one being a three-peat conjunction to her natal North Node.)
I’m going to limit myself to the first Merc/Libra part of the proceedings. That’s enough for starters.
Wednesday, September 23, 10:38 UT - Saturn Rx/Capricorn square Mercury/Libra, 25:21 (25 degrees 21 minutes);
Thursday, September 24, 09:53 UT - transiting Mercury opposite Mars Rx/Aries, 26:36 (26 degrees 36 minutes)
Technically, that Saturn square happens about 10 hours before Mercury enters its retrograde shadow. I’m including it here because it’s the first of three squares between them. And although Mercury’s opposition to Mars happens after the shadow begins, we lucked out - this is a one-and-done situation. All together, though, it sets the unsettling tone for the entire Mercury Retrograde period.
Saturn Rx/Capricorn and Mars Rx/Aries are both very stubborn and difficult. “Intractable” and “implacable” come to mind. This isn’t a new situation (cardinal sign affliction), but rather something we have as yet failed to deal with properly, or healthily. Remember the Lennon lyric: “I couldn’t walk, but I tried to run”? Another way to look at it is an angry populace (Mars of course) versus a shady power structure (Saturn of course).
My thought is that this Merc Rx may start out as some kind of argument - bearing in mind that oppositions work through other people. Someone (perhaps a partner or an “authority”) says something extremely outrageous, offensive, inflammatory, etc. Maybe we hear it when watching the news, maybe while in the store, at work, on the bus. But those angry words set off the Merc Rx process for us. Do we try to understand it from the person’s point of view? Do we clasp our rose-colored glasses even tighter? Do we ignore it and hope it goes away? It’s impossible to mediate between two sides that want to obliterate each other - perhaps that’s the lesson we need to grasp.
For another take: Cam White, a YouTube (and other places) astrologer, mentioned this gnarly start. He thinks it’s going to manifest as Merc/Libra trying to harmonize everything, and Saturn/Cap just saying, “Nope. I’m not going to do that.” What does a peacemaking Mercury/Libra do, in the face of evil?
Placements lie between 24:21 and 27:36 of the cardinal signs Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn; and between 9:21 and 12:36 of the mutable signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius.
Sunday, September 27, 07:38 UT - Ceres Rx/Aquarius trine Mercury/Libra, 29:59
Interesting “blink and you miss it” set up here. At 07:20 UT, Ceres retrogrades back into Aquarius; Ceres trines Mercury at 07:38 UT; Mercury enters Scorpio at 07:41 UT. Twenty-one minutes total, and most of us in the US will sleep right through it. (Aussies, will you please tell us what we missed??)
Fortunately, this is also the first of three trines between Mercury and Ceres. The second one, on October 28, is also in Libra/Aquarius; but the third one, on November 10, sees Mercury moved back into Scorpio and Ceres back into Pisces.
Demetra George (in Asteroid Goddesses) wrote that flowing aspects between Mercury and Ceres “signify the ability to communicate empathetically with others and have rapport with beings who exhibit various levels of intelligence: children, the mentally disabled, plants, and animals.” In a natal chart this helps us develop “new communication skills that enable (us) to clearly articulate (our) needs and actively listen to and receive the response of others.”
So, yes, it’s a good thing that we’re going to have three tries! I’m still blown away by the brevity of this first pass, though. Those of us who won’t be awake, can ask for some dream guidance.
Placements affected lie between 28:59 and 29:59 of the yang signs Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius.
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