FINIIIISHED
Sunday, 15 March 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Nebula; Thundercracker's mother, from Dreamchylde on DA's continuity. :)
Hooooly crap has this ever took me a long time to finish. I got the flat colours down, then a certain person (*coughWarpcough*) barged in front waving a typewriter at me. So... yeah. I need to draw more, I've been slacking. *slaps wrist*
My scanner has actually been kinda friendly with this piece - the original looks way more HOSHIT SHINY and sort of purpler. *hmms* I'm not 100% satisfied with the colouring, but I know if I futz around with it more I'll TOTALLY mess it up.
...aaaaand now I have a sparkling pinging around in my brainpan going "ooh who this, who this? I meet, say hellos?" GO AWAY LOU.
Edit: Why this pic borked? *fixes*
Aaaaand a rambley cross-post off my devART journal. I prefer my ElJay for stupid crap. *nods*
SO! Okay, so this had a point to it when I started to write it, but when I read back over it I realised the point had gone walkies. So… go fig. Anyway. I’m not feeling ranty or angry or anything, just… thoughtful.
Aaaanyway! I was taking a break from writing last night – “lol, don’t you mean the writing WAS the break among all the endless web-browsing?” – and came across a pic that made me think. I forget where it was, precisely, or who the characters were (I think they were OCs?), and it was well-drawn and kinda cute and everything, but… my brain went “…buh?” and just kinda twisted in on itself:
Daddy transformer was putting a nappy/diaper onto his little girl transformer, and then in the second picture Mummy was breast-feeding it.
OK, I know, Transformers are “ridiculously human robots” in the first place. They talk like people, socialise like people, fight like people, refuel like people… At what point can someone no longer suspend their disbelief? I mean, sure, I like the idea of “ridiculously human robots” – to a point! (I know, I know, “then why make them robots at all” some will cry – and that’s a can of worms I’d care not to open right now. :P But anyway!)
I mean, in the first place – nappies. Robots… in nappies. Aside from the fact that FUCK that would be one huuuge nappy, this requires that the baby robot, well… poops, right? So by that token… so do the adults? It’s not new, no, I have staggered blindly across some terrifying badly-written rather-abusive “watersports” stories involving TFs – and yes I know Bumblebee peed (after a fashion) in the 2007 film (and THAT made me go wtf as well), but robots urinating? It just seems… no.
So I guess it boils down to me just being my usual nitpicky self. :P Yeah, I can accept a machine loving a non-machine, but when they get to popping out babies? Not to recycle a point, but HOW IS BABBY FORMED?! Robot breast-feeding a baby robot? NAPPIES? I just… buh. Even machines with big huge pregnant abdomens make me go “…whuuuut?”
All right. SO. The point was, where do you lot suspend your disbelief? Does "robot + biological + magic = babby" = OK? Orrr... does ANY idea of a similarity to biology (including just a coding-intermix) = RAAAGE?
See, the point has run off. BAH. I’ll shut up. I need to go wrangle an over-energised Seeker back into his storyline.
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Date: 16 Mar 2009 12:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 16 Mar 2009 04:28 am (UTC)Or take the whole pr0n concept of sticky, what the feck are the evolutionary odds that a species that evolved in a completely separate part of the galaxy from humanity (not to mention evolved much earlier) would have a set of reproductive organs similar to humans?
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Date: 17 Mar 2009 10:27 pm (UTC)BUT STARSCREAM DOES IT I'VE SEEN IT IN FANPICS SO IT MUST BE OKAY*. *brick'd*
...sticky scares me. ¬_¬ I mean, if we're getting down to semantics, ANY sexual contact is probably going to be plain old wtfery for a robot. ;) Buuuuut...
* - ...ok now I added this to your OTP. FACK. I has no brain now.
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Date: 18 Mar 2009 04:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18 Mar 2009 04:33 pm (UTC)(Although if it weren't for the fact he thinks he can use it to milk Vanner for every credit he's worth, I doubt he'd be half as interested.)
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Date: 19 Mar 2009 04:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16 Mar 2009 04:58 pm (UTC)No, seriously not. Robot + robot = baby robot. No biological, no magic.
Baby needs pre-processed energon, which Mummy feeds through tube in breast. Why else would Mummy have breasts in the first place? *nods*
Okay, this one is a stretch, but I kinda like the idea. Pregnant belly and transforming? Ups, not a chance. So much for flying/driving for the next half a year or so ... (Yep, I'm cruel.) So how about little baby body is constructed automatically inside parent body? Required construction materials will have to be eaten, I guess ...
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Date: 18 Mar 2009 04:53 am (UTC)Given that a growing human child will take nutrients from the mother's body it would be interesting if the developing sparkling actually absorbed the necessary metals from the parent. Loss of structure integrity? Brittle armor?
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Date: 18 Mar 2009 02:37 pm (UTC)They self repair smaller damage, so why not put those systems to use fixing whatever damage the absorption causes ... though metal will still have to be eaten or otherwise supplied as I doubt they can just regrow it.