Design Practice From Today 🌸

When people make disparaging comments, just say thank you.

“You’ve gain weight” “Thank you” “…”

Then they have to either settle with being misunderstood or double down and explicitly explain that they were intentionally being unkind.

I work at a church and religious people use coded language to say crummy things in camouflaged/passive aggressive ways. Today someone told me, “that was an…interesting sermon…”

“Thank you.” <smile>

Then I got to watch them squirm as they tried to decide how to respond.

Tl;dnr: when people are passive aggressive, just say thank you.

Kywi and Lauki made so many strides today dear Lord Above I love these two so much

Kym and Will having a moment and the whole music box???? Soft. So soft. I love them your honor.

Them. Being teammates and friends and Kieran being proud of Lauren and doing a good job with the Redcliff situation. Lauren playfully bantering with Kieran because they’re buds now. Her face when she asks “Oh yeah?” I love her so much.

And Kieran making sure Lauren’s alright and his expression and then her expression? He’s so earnest and she’s still a little guarded and yet I doubt she’s lying. Probably still trying to process all that’s been happening.

Just. Them.

Pink rose

I would dedicate this for a close friend of mine.

Remember to smile :)

“Be kind, work hard, stay humble, smile often, stay loyal, be honest, travel when possible, never stop learning, be thankful always, and love.”

— Ritu Ghatourey

Ok now I can officially go on a mini nerd rant here

"Oh so I'm just invisible now?" - Jazz /j

But jokes aside, that is also very interesting to know! Orion Pax is a very bubbly person, seems to be the type that would have many friends, the one that has that shine no one else can replace, but let's look back on a few things.

Jazz, in his introduction, mentions how, "We miss you like crazy back at home" to Orion. Implying there are other bots at home who know of Orion & miss him, but are they really friends or just friendly coworkers that you wouldn't talk to outside of the mines? Now you could say Jazz is a good friend, but we don't know their actual friendship on a deeper level, all we know is that they're playful & a bit touchy, so what does Jazz know of Orion other than being his crush on the sidelines and a friend to joke around with?

We dont know much else other than that. We see how Orion & D-16's relationship grows, we all ask what is D-16's story, but what is Orion Pax's story? Does he have friends or does he believe deep down he isn't worthy of a friend? Considering he always smiles and appears to be happy, but is probably battling his own insecurities. And I might be thinking too deeply, but what if D-16's comment on calling Orion Insignificant brought back memories for Pax? Yes, Optimus admits he was hurt & said it was silly to be upset over it, but to Orion, it must've hurt more than anything, to know it came from the ONE mech he truly considers a friend.

There's just a lot to uncover with both D-16 & Orion, and I might be thinking too hard cause I am a chaotic mess craving angst, but I can't help it, lol.

This brings a smile to my face tysm

Most of the stuff I draw are timeline ambiguous so you can see it as before the time Jazz arrived. Even if it's after though, Jazz is not so heavily involved in Orion's daily life that he'd have a spot here, similar to how Elita isn't present in Dee's piece.

How I'd describe Jazz and Orion's friendship, they're good friends, Jazz was probably the one that catered to Orion's shenanigans the most, that's why Orion considers him his bestest friend. They sort of grew up together and they were a group, Orion has not met this group of friends/family since he's become an Apprentice. Jazz is here, somehow earning a talk with Nexus and claiming an Apprentice spot, because he wanted to look out for Orion. He did everything to there for Orion.

Orion left his community behind but he's here for a reason, I want to slowly reveal everything in time. Regarding his thoughts during this time, the hurt over "Insignificant" is actually super minor to him. He's no longer hurting, he listened and he switched up his behaviour to do better by D. I've almost yet to be able to write a comic about it urghhhhhh there's so much stuff to do.

I wouldn't say Orion has any of those insecurities, he's just curious and a bit too focused on himself to notice how he makes people feel. He has trouble making friends in the new fancy place and that's why you don't see him with other people. D's not the first person he sneaked up on to say hi and you can imagine why most wouldn't appreciate that.

Worry not tho! He'll make more friends as the story goes on!

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“Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.”

— Unkown

You know that phase where children ask their parents for a pet? Would Lumin go through that? To be honest.. I'm not even sure what pets cybertronians can have, haha.

My puppy is sick currently, I was trying to distract myself from the situation at least a bit, and then I remembered that I have tumblr and that you have the au. It's one of my favourites so far. Keep up the good work.🫶

I don’t think he’d ask for a pet.

he would ask why animals aren’t kept as pets though!

And megatron would probably tell him how animals are meant to be free!

In my mind cybertronions see animals as symbols for things. Birds, for example, were seen as signs of good luck in the mines! Since it’s very rare to see down below.

They’re symbols of hope, but having one stay around you can happen! They’ll stay around a perosn because they like you and to keep you company!

I like to think lumin has alittle bird he sees in the wild often, maybe the one that Dee is holding here :)

I hope your puppy gets better! Having a sick pet is always hard, but I’m sending you my love and best wishes🙏🥺💕

This is so me right now ...

Okay, okay. I’ve got my coffee, I’ve got my music, I’m gonna write.

(Sits there and stares at half-written document for an hour and a half)