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A simple snowy landscape, trying to let the simple shapes be and not get carried away in the detail like I usually do!

Here's the largest commission I've ever done. The dimensions of the full piece are 88" by 68", consisting of 32 11"x17" inch illustration boards.

Took five years to finish in between other projects. All together it kind of makes a nice 35 year anniversary image for the franchise actually in my opinion.

Not every Transformers is represented here, but the following 140 characters plus three ships are:

#Primus

#Computron

#Smokescreen

#Cosmos

#SkyLynx

#Springer

#Superion

#Hubcap

#Trailbreaker

#Skids

#Mirage

#Sideswipe

#Arcee

#Kup

#WreckGar

#Hound

#Powerglide

#Rattrap

#Scrounge

#Doublecross

#Grotesque

#Repugnus

#Ark (Ship)

#Blurr

#Drift

#Broadside

#Brawn

#FortressMaximus (IDW)

#Chromia

#OmegaSupreme

#Metroplex

#Seaspray

#Beachcomber

#Quickswitch

#Tracks

#Wheeljack

#Ironhide

#Bluestreak

#Pipes

#Mainframe

#Ratchet

#Bulkhead

#Inferno

#Windblade

#Ironfist

#Guzzle

#Whirl

#Tailgate

#LostLight (Ship)

#RedAlert

#Huffer

#Windcharger

#Nautica

#Swerve

#Prowl

#Bumblebee

#Rodimus

#FortressMaximus (G1)

#Defensor

#Gears

#Eject

#Jetfire

#Impactor

#Rotorstorm

#Sandstorm

#Blaster

#Rewind

#Chromedome

#Steeljaw

#Aileron

#Jazz

#Optimus

#Ramhorn

#Outback

#Hardhead

#Perceptor

#Warpath

#Swoop

#Snarl

#Bumblebee

#Roadster

#UltraMagnus

#Elita1

#Sludge

#Slag

#Grimlock

#Gnarl (#Sharkticon)

#Menasor

#Reflector

#Galvatron

#Abominus

#Unicron

#Skywarp

#Breakdown

#Cyclonus

#Scourge

#Dreadwing

#Squawkbox

#Devastator

#Ratbat

#Buzzsaw

#Nemesis (Ship)

#Slugslinger

#Weirdwolf

#Starscream

#Predaking (#Prime)

#TidalWave

#Trypticon

#Lockdown

#Ramjet

#Bombshell

#Thrust

#Rumble

#Kickback

#Shrapnel

#Dirge

#Laserbeak

#Soundwave

#Nova Prime

#Bruticus

#Kremzeek

#Sunstorm

#Scorponok

#Megatron

#Predaking

#Overlord

#Thundercracker

#Ravage

#Blitzwing

#Needlenose

#TheFallen

#Tarn

#Mindwipe

#Vos

#Helex

#Tesaurus

#Kaon

#Frenzy

#Shockwave

#BlackArachnia

#Knockout

#Sixshot

#Octane

#Astrotrain

#Transformers #G1 #Autobots #Decepticons #Predacons #Prime #Wreckers #Protectobots #Combaticons #Constructicons #Dinobots #Aerialbots #Stunticons

Crochet mutuals cope behold sppspspspsps

My mom made this. She said you guys would drool on it.

Some of yall needed to hear this

Credits to @/mattxiv on Instagram

Color version of my Nightcrawler illustration. I have prints available in my shop if you're interested: justmadbooks.etsy.com

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

normalize being divorced without ever being married or having a romantic relationship or even necessarily mutually liking each other at all in the first place

jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

Brazil’s president says Elon Musk’s wealth doesn’t mean world has to accept his ‘far-right ideology’

Brazil’s president says he refuses be cowed by the wealth and power of tech tycoon Elon Musk, after the politician backed a ban of Musk’s social media site X in his nation.

The site formerly known as Twitter has been barred by one of the world’s largest democracies after accounts on the platform were accused of spreading hate speech and fake news.

Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has since then shut down operations in Brazil and engaged in a war of words with the country’s top legislators and politicians.

In an interview released Monday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said his country’s stand against Musk—the richest person on the planet worth $239 billion per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index—should be an example to the rest of the world.

“The world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Lula said in the interview with CNN Brasil.

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Fandom olds: "Kids today have no idea how hard it was being in fandom back in the day! You wouldn't last a second in the hard, cold, unforgiving environments we made fandom in!"

Also fandom olds, in your inbox: "I saw one person who ran a zine being a dick and now I think all is lost. I'm considering not posting any of my work to the internet anymore."

As someone who has had someone leave a 3k long series of comments talking about how they wished they could paralyze me and carve me open, forcefeed me my own intestines, carve off my breasts and then fuck each hole repeatedly... let's just say I find myself pressing X to doubt when fandom olds talk about how hard the bad old days were. They can't have been that bad. One person charging once for a zine breaking you completely indicates, to me, someone who grew up without much adversity.

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Why do you guys always send me this nonsense?

The thing people were afraid of in the old days was losing their kids in the divorce because they got caught writing gay stories.

Or losing their government job and chance at retirement money due to a morals clause.

Or, yes, enraged stalkers sending threats like that.

Or, hell, being outed as queer and getting a baseball bat to the head.

Sometimes anti-fascism means showing solidarity with those targeted and dehumanized by fascists by hitting up their restaurants for a meal!

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

This is what it’s all about