incompetently here

A scandelous rumer is about on the Lost Light!

I think that Nyon developed a kind of folk-religion approach to the wider Cybertronian religious stuff around Primus; one based on a lot of comparatively 'informal' beliefs about it, less based on written texts and views endorsed by religious authorities, and which were more idiosyncratic to layperson believers from that place who developed it into a version of the religion that spoke to them.

And I think this is where Rodimus' obsession with the Knights comes in. They're not formally acknowledged #Official parts of Primus-related religion, they're folk heroes who have been incorporated into day-to-day worship in the way that, say, many Christian saints are in some forms of Christianity. If there is an organized Primal church, they're mad about it! But Rodimus came of age in a society that was imploding that was desperate for a view of society that said don't worry, one day this will all go back to how it used to be, and the idea of very real, very non-abstract people who might one day return and Fix Things was understandably appealing in that context. He's religious but he cares less about Primus as a creator god compared to caring about the idea of those who are supposedly chosen who can bring society back to an imagined better time in a very grounded way.

For this reason, he knows a lot of Knights-related stories that more 'formally' religious people like Cyclonus have never heard of. He's one of the only people alive now who knows a lot of them, because many were specific to Nyon. Sometimes he says stuff and Drift is like 'huh? i've never heard of that' and Rodimus is kind of cagey about explaining it even though he knows Drift really is interested, because it feels very private and even sort of embarrassing. And a lot of those stories are much weirder and less 'elevated' than most religious stuff! I am thinking here of stuff like the Infancy Gospels in Christianity; stuff that is very offensive to formally religiously educated folks that proliferates in religious communities nonetheless because it is grounded and speaks to their questions about faith in a day to day context.

Dementia Ratchet AU

An AU built on Ratchet suffering from spark burnout? Oh absolutely. Plus, I threw processor burnout in there too!

Drift tries to play along, just to keep from upsetting Ratchet

Ratchet’s memory lapses are getting worse. Much worse

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

🦈 Daily Megatron 13

if i look at this any longer ill need to be locked away please take it from me