(Crack Headcanon incoming!) There is a reason nobody can have sex with Rung: whenever he gets really into it, he ends up going Multiversal on them and either accidentally smiting his partner, or driving them mad. The only one who can handle him in that state is, of all people, Overlord. (Don’t ask how Rung knows this. Just don’t. Mistakes were made.)

I will admit, I have a certain fondness for the Rung as an Outer God idea. 🙂  Still Rung, still understanding and sweet and lonely, but with certain times and situations when his fundamental otherworldliness shines through.

And I can absolutely see Overlord being the only being equipped to handle sex with an Outer God.  There’s just something about Overlord’s particular mix of perfectly in control and deeply unhinged that makes that make sense.  This is a man who has seen the face of God, and licked it. 

Concept: Pharma as a Ratchet/Starscream lovechild conceived after a sordid night when Screamer was in the Autobot medbay. Thoughts?

Well, I mean – he does seem like the perfect union of Ratchet’s medical abilities and Starscream’s… everything else.

I think the real question is, conceived by whom?  Who’s raising this precocious little cross-factional scandal, and who’s not even aware that he’s out there until, inevitably, the worst possible moment?

catilinasuggestions:

thoodleoo:

ladies if he:

  • never responds to your texts
  • abuses our patience
  • eludes us with his madness
  • boasts himself about with unbridled audacity
  • lives even though the senate and the consul see what plans he has taken up
  • not just lives, but comes into the senate, is a participant in the public council, and marks out each and every one of us for slaughter with his eyes

he’s not your man. he’s lucius sergius catilina

😉

Do you think we’ll see characters that were introduced in the IDW-verse in future continuities? Drift and Windblade made it into other media, but I wonder if characters like Pharma, Ambulon, Trepan, Nautica, Stardrive, etc will ever see life elsewhere. I really hope so, but I’m preparing myself to be disappointed.

I really hope so, too!  And I think there’s at least a good chance.  As you say, Drift and Windblade have already appeared in other media, and the IDW books are a great source of compelling original characters that I think Hasbro would be foolish not to tap into further.  For those who aren’t quite as well known or aren’t as easy to fit into your typical heroic Autobot team (like Pharma or Trepan, say), it might take a little longer, but I’m confident we’ll see some of them (I hope all of them!) before too long.  I’m firmly of the belief that nothing really dies out in Transformers.  Hell, look at characters like Rattrap or Knock Out and Breakdown popping up in IDW!

I’d love to see everyone on your list make an appearance in other media, and would also love for Rung, Tarn, the DJD, the Necrobot, the Scavengers, and many others to carry over.  (I realise the revelations towards the end of Lost Light might make Rung a little difficult, but still. :))

And I suspect we’ll also see more IDW takes on existing characters, especially those who were less well known before.  Like, Tailgate in TFP was a wisecracking soldier (what little we saw of him), but I’d be surprised if Tailgate showed up in future media and wasn’t, you know, adorable waste disposal marshmallow with a penchant for broody jets. 🙂

why-animals-do-the-thing:

jhameia:

premierbonheur:

sententiola:

[Video of venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough standing amid vegetation.  On a near-horizontal branch above his head is a brown and yellow greater bird of paradise, about the size of a crow, with big floaty yellow plumage puffing out along its back.]

Bird:  Pwuk.  Pwuk.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely –
Bird (hopping along the branch):  WUKWUKWUkwukwukwukoooh.  Oooh.  Oooh.

[Cut.  Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely, is one –
Bird:  Kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely –

[Cut.  Same shot but the bird is on the other side now and venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough has his hand on the branch.]

Bird (hopping up and down on venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough’s fingers):  Eh-eh.  Eh-eh.  Eh-urrrr.  Eh-urrrr.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  Close up –
Bird (hopping away from him):  Tiktiktiktik.  Tiktiktiktik.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – the plumes –
Bird (hopping around):  Huek.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – are truly –
Bird:  Huek.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – exquisite.
Bird:  Huek.  Eh-eh.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  The gauzy –
Bird (hopping and spinning on the spot):  HukWUKWUKWukwukoooh.  Oooh.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  …

[Cut.  Same shot but the bird is back on the original side of the branch.]

Bird:  Aark.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  Of course, by the eighteenth century –
Bird:  Ehhh.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – naturalists realized that birds of paradise –
Bird (hops across to the other side of the branch)
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – did have –
Bird (hopping back again):  Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – legs.  Even so –
Bird:  WUKWUKWUKWukwukwukooh.

[Cut.  Same shot.]
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (apparently trying to tickle the bird’s tummy):  – by about the eighteenth century –
Bird (hops away and spins round)
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – and so –
Bird:  AAAAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK aaak.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (wearily):  …  Very well.

[Cut.  Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – but Karl Linnaeus, the great –
Bird (vibrating rapidly on the spot and then flapping its wings):  PWAAAAAAAK.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – classifier of the natural world –
Bird:  AAAAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAUUH.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – when he came to allocate a scientific name –
Bird:  …
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – to this bird –
Bird:  …
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – called it –
Bird:  Wooo-ooo.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – wooo-ooo –
Bird (surveys the surroundings with a dignified turn of the head)
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  ‘paradisia apoda’: the bird of paradise –
Bird:  Hoooo.
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – without legs.
Bird:  Eh-eh.

[Close-up of the bird.]

Bird:  WUKWUKWUKWUkwukwukwukwukoooh.  Ooh.
Bird:  Ooh.

[Fade to black.]

Officially the only good post on tumblr

I’ve been planning to teach students how to describe videos and write transcripts and I shall save this post for this very purpose.

Sharing for the perfect transcript.

fidefortitude:

slumbermancer:

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body.

that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

These words scan with a fantastic degree of confidence considering that together they make no sense at all