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semi-professional human impersonator. Free me from this flesh prison. ✏️BalloonArcade on Ao3 🍷Gulping from the well of Sunstreaker and Sideswipe angst πŸ”— https://www.tumblr.com/balloonarcade Not dead yet.

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CHIEF OF WAR looks great, sounds great, and is full of strong performances by incredibly beautiful actors. This is the kind of historical drama I've been waiting for my whole life.

02.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

How dare a program remove my "u" from colour.

How dare.

(I read color in French)

01.08.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leave me alone

It feels like I just walked into a Cybertronian drugstore

01.08.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're desperate to only ever experience comforting media then you don't want art, you want a literary gated community.

30.07.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 311    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Prowl wants to promote Sunstreaker but refuses a promotion if Sideswipe isn't getting one. So he remains a frontliner and Prowl is dying inside with the waste of potential.

30.07.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And Prowl starts analyzing the battles and realizes every single time Sunstreaker is defying an order, casualties are less than projected.

The only way to get Sunstreaker to stop defying orders with his own solutions is to put him under Prowl's direct command.

30.07.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my headcanons for this is Sunstreaker keeps undermining his commanders mid-battle and Prowl is going insane with the field reports he keeps getting that the frontline commanders are always happy to keep Sideswipe but Sunstreaker keeps defying orders - the opposite of Prowl's experience.

30.07.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sideswipe: Prowl (derogatory)

30.07.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I always end up writing Sideswipe/Prowl yet I shipped Sunstreaker with Prowl first. No one has yet gotten to see Sunstreaker having a crush on Prowl from me and Sideswipe losing his damn mind about it because it's *PROWL*

30.07.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I read Where the Red Fern Grows in grade 5, and it became my favourite book.

I've always wanted stories to rip my heart out it seems.

24.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is so much more tasty when I know a ship is going to sink, but defying shipping conventions as default romantic and not exploring a tragic aspect will drive me nuts with tags and reader expectations.

24.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"You're right, Skywarp. This thing is fragging heavy."

"I don't recommend you fire that."

"Won't be the first arm I've lost."

22.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Megatron is smart enough to have an attachment for his fusion cannon that is incompatible with Sideswipe's frame.

22.07.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also my next CR chamber parts arrive later this week so I can add to the next iteration of the design.

22.07.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MDLX Megatron is arriving today to destroy Sideswipe's life.

22.07.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

(Why do people keep giving me trees? What about me says "that person wants to inherit all your trees to protect)

11.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My neighbour is trying to give me an olive tree. This isn't even for my 40,000 tree children.

I feel like I'm not allowed to not adopt this tree too.

I can see it sitting on the side of the road from my office. All sad.

11.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love his hands. In all the ways. The Professor knows how to put his anatomy lessons to practical use.

A personal grievance with Ficbook: this drawing didn’t make it past moderation because of its β€œsexual content.”

#EmmrichVolkarin

08.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

I set a calendar alert for this πŸ˜…

07.07.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How to Save the World in 8 Minutes and 3 Seconds - BalloonArcade - Transformers - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This morning at 3:07 pacific time, Prowl had a really bad few minutes. Happy day Sideswipe almost lost the sun anniversary.

archiveofourown.org/works/28922019

07.07.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"You're taking me on a one-way trip!" Bluestreak protested, voice rising in pitch.

"I won't let you die," Sunstreaker said. "I need your social skills."

04.07.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

big meaty claws πŸ’™πŸΎ
🦜 #art #lintuart #transformers #maccadam #soundwave

02.07.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 572    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

Bluestreak didn’t know if he’d ever become more than a project to Sunstreaker.

Or if this was the closest Sunstreaker had to showing and feeling affection for another

02.07.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My ultimate hubris is my belief of "if only I had a robot body..."

As if I'd take care of those joints any better

27.06.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First I need my brain to not be goo. Drawing Prowl behind the desk made it feel like elastic, and then Sunstreaker's highlights pulverized what was left of it.

25.06.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stand alone of Sunstreaker's self portrait, for your viewing pleasure.

25.06.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Panel One shows an overly detailed Sunstreaker posed with his round aft jutting out on top of a cannon turret with a bright red sun framing behind him. His aft is purposefully overly light lighted more than the rest of him. Panel two shows Prowl's face with an orange glow on it. Panel three shows Prowl's face closer still with an orange glow on it it. Panel four shows Prowl's face very close, his right optic is twitching and he's frowning with a bright orange glow on his face. Fifth panel shows Prowl sitting behind his desk snarling "this cannot possibly be your combat report!" he is pointing at a data pad on his desk with the picture of Sunstreaker from the first panel on it. Sunstreaker is silhouetted from behind and saying "You asked for my highlights."

Panel One shows an overly detailed Sunstreaker posed with his round aft jutting out on top of a cannon turret with a bright red sun framing behind him. His aft is purposefully overly light lighted more than the rest of him. Panel two shows Prowl's face with an orange glow on it. Panel three shows Prowl's face closer still with an orange glow on it it. Panel four shows Prowl's face very close, his right optic is twitching and he's frowning with a bright orange glow on his face. Fifth panel shows Prowl sitting behind his desk snarling "this cannot possibly be your combat report!" he is pointing at a data pad on his desk with the picture of Sunstreaker from the first panel on it. Sunstreaker is silhouetted from behind and saying "You asked for my highlights."

Combat Report, my first single page comic, featuring Sunstreaker and Prowl. ✨

25.06.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me, a genius: I’m going to draw Prowl, who I have never drawn the body of before, sitting behind a desk.

Me, a dumbass: I’m going to draw Prowl, who I have never drawn the body of before, sitting behind a desk.

23.06.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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my take on tfone mirage!! I'm so normal about him, he would be sneaking to the surface to hunt those deers or turbofoxes (ft cogless hound)
#transformersone

10.05.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm still not over the beveled glass distortion on this. Tasty work.

21.06.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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