Everyone Must Have Ran Like This At One Point Of Their Life

Oh Sideswipe ya cheeky bastard, Prowl is about to take you to school son and you ain't even readyXD

Uh, I had a thought to share. Typing it out made it grow. Oops.

GAMES

Prowl loves a good strategy game. As a matter of fact, he’s consistently in the top scoring position on the most difficult strategy games available in Teletraan I′s vast collection.

Then he’s out of contact for a week or so on a mission, diplomatic in nature, uneventful but necessary, and unable to play. When he returns, he settles in that evening to wind down with a round or two of his favorite game. His shock is tremendous when he discovers his name replaced in the coveted top spot by none other than Sideswipe, a mech who only started playing shortly after Prowl left on that mission. A quick check shows even his most obscure game preferences have his name bumped down into the number two slot, all of them under Sideswipe.

Is this a glitch? Have the games been hacked? Or is Sideswipe somehow in possession of a much keener strategic mind than anyone ever gave him credit for?

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When I finally let someone use my phone

Them: what’s this site, “archive of our own”?

Me:

Me:

Me: *whispering to myself* I was so careful

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only day you can reblog until next year

*nods in agreement*I support this.Almost anyone can throw a ball or tackle somebody,but not everyone can endure the pain of standing on there tiptoes for hours and make it look graceful and painless.

You see these fuckers? They’re my pointe shoes. Now, I don’t know how much you guys know about ballet, but pointe is a style of ballet where the dancer dances on their toes. There’s a wooden box like thing on the tips, and is flat on the front, which makes us able to dance on our toes like we do. It’s called the box or platform. These shoes need to be the perfect size, otherwise the dancer can easily seriously hurt themselves. If the shoes are too small, their toes could break, but if they’re too big, they could snap their ankles. No two pairs of shoes are the same, so you can’t borrow anyone else’s. They need to be yours because otherwise the shoes won’t fit with your foot and how you dance. 

These shoes range from 50-85 dollars, depending on where you get them and what they’re made out of. They’re stiff as a board when you first get them, so you need to break them in. Breaking them in takes months. You have to dance in stiff, hard boxes until the shank and vamp finally takes to your foot. You will bleed. Some people actually cry because the pain of breaking the shoes in is so bad. Once they’re finally broken in, dancing in them is wonderful, even if it still hurts a little. But when they’re broken in, they only last a few more months until they fall apart completely. Then you need to get a new pair and break those in. 

In order to dance on these shoes, you need the proper cushioning for your toes, whether it be cotton, a soft gel slip over your toes, or wool. Your toenails need to be as short as you can make them, so that your nail can’t splinter and dig into your skin as you go up. Sometimes it happens anyway. Before a dancer can even consider dancing on the floor away from the bar, they need to practice for months, perfecting their balance, the set of their core, where their shoulders need to be, and how to go up. 

Going up is key to staying safe while dancing pointe. If you go up wrong, theres a 95% chance you will hurt yourself. To go up, you need to roll up from your heels to the tips of your toes, flat, and with precision. If you hop up, you’ll break your ankle. If you roll the wrong way, you’ll break your ankle. It literally needs to be perfect. Before leaving the bar, you need to be able to balance for about sixty seconds, to assure your instructor and yourself that you will be save doing forte turns and pirouettes, as well as gran-jete, glissade, leaps, and even waltzes. 

The next step is grace. You can’t blunder across the stage. You need to glide, flowing from each step to the other. The dance needs to look like a single step, moving continuously from each pose to another. Fingers need to be extended, necks elongated, shoulders down, chin up, stomach and butt tense and in, legs and back straight and toes pointed and turned out. The dance must always continue, even if you hurt yourself. If you can still move, you can still dance. If you’re bleeding in your shoe, there is no stopping and fixing it. You finish the dance and when it’s over you patch yourself up in the dressing room and continue on with your next dance if you have one. If you fall, you make it look like it was supposed to be in the dance. Your facial expressions and body need to reflect the music, so if you have a melancholy song, you must look forlorn, and depict it through your body and eyes, as well as the set of your mouth. Same as if your number was happy and upbeat, you need to reflect that. 

There are two major styles of ballet: Russian and Italian. An ideal ballerina knows both forms, and can tell the difference between the two. A dancer must follow the song with it’s beat as well, and the tempo can go from counts of four to sixteenth counts. 

Pointe dancers sometimes need to put resin on their shoes so that they don’t slip and risk breaking an arm, or even their neck. But if you put too much resin on, your shoes will stick, and you’ll fall while trying to turn. 

In conclusion, DANCE IS A FUCKING SPORT, OKAY? ESPECIALLY BALLET. WE RISK OURSELVES EVERY PRACTICE AND SHOW, SO DON’T YOU DARE FUCKING TELL ME THAT WHAT I DO ISN’T A SPORT. I PRACTICE FOR HOURS, JUST AS EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO PLAYS SOCCER OR FOOTBALL OR LACROSSE. I GET HURT AND I FALL AND I GET BRUISED AND I BREAK THINGS, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO PLAYS ALL THOSE OTHER FUCKING SPORTS. 

DANCE.

IS.

A.

SPORT.

So kindly fuck off if you think otherwise. 

My attempt at drift.Posted this on my deviantart too because the more the the merrier right?:)

❣◕ ‿ ◕❣orion showing concern for his bf (๑>◡<๑)

This sounds like fun! I'm finally confident enough in my arts to do something like this!^_^

Secret Solenoid 2018!

I’m happy to announce that Secret Solenoid is opening for the fourth year in a row!

WHAT IS IT?

Secret Solenoid is a Secret Santa exchange for Transformers fan artists and writers. If you’ve ever been in a fandom gift exchange, you probably know what’s up. You sign up, you get a prompt/request list from someone else, you make their gift in secret, then at the end of the exchange you share it, and get a gift of your own! Secret Solenoid is hosted here on tumblr, and on the Secret Solenoid community over on pillowfort.

For all updates on the exchange, please join the Secret Solenoid group on pillowfort or follow the secretsolenoid tumblr.

This year (Nov 2018-Jan 2019) the schedule is:

November 1st: Signups Open

November 15th: Signups Close

November 18th: Wishlists Distributed

December 23rd: Gifts Complete/Check-in/Final Emergency Fills go out

January 1st-6th: Gifts Posted

JOINING THE EXCHANGE:

To sign up, you just need to fill out this google form! All the relevant questions are detailed in the form, but here’s a quick summary of what to expect.

The first thing you’ll need to include is your name and a contact (email/tumblr/pillowfort). Whatever you list is how you’ll get information like your wishlist for the exchange, and how the mod will be checking in with you, so make sure it’s something you check regularly.

Next, you’re going to include information about the kind of gift you’d like to. Whether it’s fanfic, fanart, or both, what continuities you’re familiar with, and what kind of content you’d prefer to make. This is also where you let me know if you can do a second gift, if you’d like to step in for someone who drops out of the exchange.

And finally, your wishlist! The most important thing to include is your requests. Make sure to include at least three of them, so that you’re giving your gift-maker plenty to work with!

For example, a wishlist might look like:

TFP, Bumblebee, Smokescreen: Bee and Smokey having a race!

IDW MTMTE/RiD, Swerve/Blurr, Bar battle

Any Continuity, Soundwave being badass in a dynamic action pose

NSFW prompts are allowed, as are prompts featuring TFOCs, but please make sure not all of your options feature them.

GIFTS:

Your gift should be a finished piece. If you’re writing, your piece should be at minimum 1,000 words, and edited before it’s sent in. For artists, that means an inked/colored piece, rather than a sketch. If you’re doing traditional artwork, the scan/photograph should be good quality.

All the deadlines are listed above! If you find out that you’ll need an extension to finish your gift, or if you’re going to have to drop out of the exchange, please let me know before December 23rd!

SIGNUPS ARE OPEN! If you have any other questions, just @ this blog or send in an ask!

concept: sparkling skywarp not knowing he can warp until he randomly sneezes and ends up in different places or a wall