#messyspacespades

It genuinely keeps me going sometimes. He's 79 and his brains rotting, he's not gonna be around much longer, and when he dies his entire cult will fracture and fall because their figurehead is dead. If you have to stick around for one thing, stick around to celebrate his death and annoy all the conservatives around you!

When they die I think we should have an early potluck. I’ll know I’ll probably not spend any time at all on my personal blog that day (yall might get some fandom posts and misposted sillies that day), but it’ll be grand!

GOOD STUFF. war without reason is a Banger and i listen to it from time to time :]

my jaw Actually dropped when I first got to 7-4 and saw Her looking down at me it’s great. i loved the whole level i love violence

The escape sequence freaked me out a little bit just because im bad with time limits but oh man it was great I love it

LORE WISE. oh man oh man oh man (TBA I just woke up)

they kind of remind me of transformers titans they Are walking cities… oc idea where an earthmover basically has a cityspeaker to communicate to its vast brain

their designs are so good and they are so fucked. the texture for the flesh they’re filled with has people in it

(Yeah Starstrike you got it right lol)

3rd time's the charm, I HOPE. Anyway, this is Sonarwave. She's a 55'3" boatformer with a warship alt. However she is also big mom. Seriously she's the sweetest kindest lady you'll ever meet. Uh she's also into (Xeno)Botany and (Xeno)Marine Biology and keeps giant aquariums full of exotic organic marine wildlife (see: Goldfish lol) in her house. She hails from the underwater city of Arigo, which is located in the Mithril Sea and is a sanctuary city for Boatformer and Marine Beastformers (I made it bc I thought underwater cities would be cool :3) and served with the autobots during the war. She's also was rendered deaf during the war, and communicates primarily using CSL, tho she still speaks out of habit. Oh and she's married to a seeker oc I made named Cherry Bomb who's a mythologist. Both of them are huge nerds. I'm praying this is what u asked for. Also praying the image loads for u this time :)

Chillypuff is in awe of this absolutely MASSIVE boatformer!! She’d well confuse her for a titan upon first meeting. When she inevitably gets a read of her personality, she comes to really like her. I can see them clicking rather quickly (depends if sonar into extreme extroverts), bonding over their shared appreciation of marine life. Before she was camping out on earth as a harp seal, Chilly was an arctic rover who did Autobot scout missions (she learned CSL to help her during this time), so she knows a thing or two about the flora and fauna of arctic planets that the cybertronians fought on, and would share them with Sonar! It would’ve been a good while since Chilly was able to be a nerd towards anyone 😄

If Sonar told her about Arigo, she’d be very interested albeit a little wary. She’s been reluctant to return to a Cybertron that’s feeling the ripple effect of the war, but if Arigo was somehow a sanctuary from even that, shed be convinced to at least visit (maybe not permanently move, especially if she couldn’t bring her earth seal friends with her!).

i have a post that details the entire situation, which started last year: https://posi-pan.tumblr.com/post/621946699194171392/sorry-i-have-to-vent-a-little-bit-what-is-your

I have two posts, but my approach has kind of changed, so here’s a new one:

I still work from a simplified & general shape, but now I include guidelines to help me lol. This helps me stay in perspective when I’m drawing in details.

Now the key to armor, imo, is thinking in 3D. Armor is generally not flat; it curves around limbs and the core of the body. It’s important to know, in detail, where the armor protrudes and where it bends. This will especially effect where you place your shadows and highlights in the painting stage.

And when you have that figured out, it’s just a matter of making it look good!

Now if you wanna get fancy: think critically about the material(s) the armor is made of. ‘Break the silhouette’ by adding cracks and wear. Or just mix and match different textures. Glass, polished gold, bug shell, animal hide, stone, pure lyrium crack rocks; whos gonna stop you? Not me! Good luck!

i’m sorry for taking so long to answer this one but:

it’s still kind of WIP in my head so it’s not as detailed. but generally Ludwig, in my mind, is a teenager in the early 1900s and the lead-up to WWI. it may change, but i don’t see him being that rebellious then. he’s...sort of grown up like the son of a wealthy Junker; a comparatively more stable and sheltered life thanks to his older brother being his mentor too. 

but after WWI and the Weimar years; in his early 20s— Ludwig’s life as he knows it is upended. there’s no victory, but defeat and reparations to the victors. and it’s also not just him—the aftermath of the Great War has just set off a whole punch of political, social and cultural changes across the world. the 1920s is a time where i see Ludwig starting to question Gilbert more. his faith in his brother’s authority and strength is shaken, if that makes sense? and what else was going on in the 1920s: you’ve the rise of the USSR. communist movements. also centre-left groups—the Social Democratic Party being a significant player. In this world, Gilbert is kind of more of a pragmatic conservative—not stubbornly resistant against any change (he’s well aware that it’s best to lead a revolution rather than be led up to the guillotine! change before society forces it), but far more instinctively cautious. Ludwig is young and more idealistic, the kind of revolutionary rhetoric being bandied around is appealing.