Got some more robutts! All of GV9 plus Metroplex, Hot Rod, bot mode Sludge, and Shrapnel from GV8. I wasn't expecting them to arrive for another couple days but I'm definitely not going to complain about them getting here early. Guess I know what I'm doing after dinner tonight.

My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies. Her troop wants to visit a museum and camp. If you can support them, then it would be much appreciated.

Now in colour, courtesy of Mike Spicer who works with Daniel Warren Johnson on Skybound TF:

VERY rough first attempt at painting Swerve that will be stripped and redone later, because this looks like absolute ass rn. (Don't try painting when you should really be sleeping, kids.)

Two partially failed tries at casting dice=one kind of okay set plus a couple extras. Just...don't look too closely at some of the faces. (There's a reason I say "kind of okay".) Pink iridescent flakes in clear resin. Might have a third go at making an actually good set bc I'm almost onto something.

Blokees custom WIP. I found a cool little Swerve addon kit on cults3D from someone called Toastedscrews and printed it out. Little guy just needs a coat of paint and maybe for me to scale down a My First Blaster stl and print it for him.

I found two bags of epoxy resin crafting supplies (the resin, assorted baggies of confetti and tiny clay sprinkles, bottles of resin dye, and some mica powders) at my local creative reuse store this week, so I guess it's time to get back to dice making.

Made it through christmas eve in retail and I just want to down a handle of whisky and sleep for a week, and absolutely never listen to another fucking christmas song for the rest of my life.

Got myself a little Christmas present. ROTF Lockdown, snagged for about half of what most of the ones on ebay were going for just because he (as Lockdowns are wont to do) was missing his engine. I found and printed a replacement for it, so now he's complete, if slightly more mismatched than usual.

And a (terrible) photo of the new guys on The Shelf Of Jazzes And Prowls Of Descending Size. I had to do a bit of rearranging to fit them in because they're taller than the OG G1 lads but shorter than ER/SS86. I can't fit any more on there now, so I guess I'm actually finally done with this nonsense

Built the smol robutts. NGL, I feel like their heads are maybe a bit small, but they're solid little guys.

Happy birthday to meee!

Also, I have been living under a rock and only just discovered that Yolopark made mini model kits and now I have a new Jazz and Prowl for The Shelf on the way. These are the last ones, really, actually, finally this time, I swear. (For now.)

The one single upside (for me) of the Army-Navy game happening in my city is that I got to see Jimmy Eat World perform live for free last night. Last time I saw them I was 17 and they were opening for Green Day on the American Idiot tour. Gotta take these little moments of joy in all of the shit rn.

Working on printing a copy of Sam's Forge's Lugnut, and my printer has decided that it's going to be temperamental about which parts print and which don't. Troubleshooting a whole new kind after getting used to knowing what was wrong with resin print problems is so much fun.-_-

All the colours! (I'm going to be printing SO many things.)

May or may not have taken advantage of one more Black Friday sale to buy eleven spools of PETG filament in a rainbow of colours for all of my future robot printing needs. Where I'm going to *store* that much filament is a problem for another day.

I am beginning to think that I really should not be trusted with adult money. Black Friday sales got me once again and I now own a Bambu Lab A1 Mini, because I definitely needed an FDM printer in addition to the resin one I already own.

New lads, because that black friday Blokees sale got me, too.

Got a new job, which means money to buy new toys for myself! I finally picked up something that I've wanted since the day it was announced but never thought I'd have the spare cash to buy, and I'm VERY excited about it. (Perfect timing, too, with the trailer drop.)

New dice! I picked these up while at Otakon this year. Got my first fancy metal set from Norse Foundry (the Vampire Blood set) and our staff-exclusive Ota merch set. The staff set is very pretty but the fact that the D6 has pips and not numbers like the rest of the set is mildly annoying, ngl.

Learning a new craft. I still haven't quite figured out how to get them perfect (there's a reason I photographed them this way, and it's all of the pinhole bubbles on some of the other faces) but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. (I don't even play D&D, I just like the shiny math rocks)

Trump ain’t trying to stop violence. He’s trying to create it. Hold fast, Los Angeles!

Man, that Kennedy curse really picked the worst possible one to skip, huh.

God, the Fallout show fandom shit is really gd funny sometimes. Seen today: "The people running the show were making a jab at OG Fallout fans with the Vault 4 Shady Sands cult worshipping Moldaver because she's NCR!" Like bro. *They* didn't say shit about or even imply that. That idea is alllll you

Started playing Skyrim for the first time, and I can already tell this is going to be one of those games where I end up playing for ten hours and spending so long underground that I actually have to go outside and see the sky. (DAO's Deep Roads started that shit in me and it's never gotten better.)

Wow, this year really is determined to be unrelentingly terrible on all fronts. RIP to a legend.

You know, it's just occurred to me that the fanfic writers of the internet have the opportunity to do the funniest thing with this stupid ass "send me five things" email from the Muskrat.

Currently doing a silly thing with spare bits as an alternative to doomscrolling for an hour or two, and trying to decide whether I like Scourge's shoulder pads or Snarl's better on whatever this nonsense is.

Anyway, have a before and after of the ugliest custom I have ever painted. His name is Straightaway and he's vaguely inspired by Circuit's and SG Thundercracker's obnoxious colour palettes. I rescued(?) him from ebay in 2023 after seeing him on there for months, all sad and yellowed and headless.

(I am maybe definitely redirecting my frustration at the world's stupidity into refuting this one particular bit of stubborn refusal to consider that *just maybe*, the thing the game says happened is actually what happened, and not "IDK, I like my headcanon better, so I'll believe that instead".)

TFW you're enough of a video game nerd to spend twenty minutes writing out a long-winded reply to a thread whose entire premise is "yeah but what if LITERALLY EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS VIDEO GAME'S PLOT *AND* ALL OF THE EVIDENCE PROVIDED ARE LYING?", because someone is Wrong On The Internet.

Just saw people fr arguing that "At its core, transformers is about cool looking robots fighting each other" and is "not very political". Fighting each other over what, my dudes? FIghting each other over WHAT?

everyday

So I feel like posting a thing, for no particular reason, obviously. I got these for ten bucks from a dude outside a train station back in august, and it's still probably the best ten bucks I ever spent. Didn't post it on the bird site for obvious reasons, but fuck it, he can't touch me here.

This is like calling an arsonist a hero for putting out their own fire.

one thing people genuinely need to start realizing that even if “donald trump didn’t do anything to save tiktok” and “he initiated this ban in 2020 so its actually his fault” it doesn’t matter. nothing real matters, all that matters is that something FEELS real to people

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

Also, I have discovered that the weird squishy energon cubes that come with Bombshell fit perfectly into the hollow energon cubes that come with some Blokees. (You're not getting them back *out* without effort, but they fit in neatly and actually work pretty nicely for a cup full of liquid look.)

New guys for the G1 shelf, snagged for ten bucks from that Walmart sale.

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Finished Slipstream! I had to give her an extra coat of matte spray because the purple and teal are both gloss and nigh impossible to photograph without a ridiculous amount of glare if you don't matte them down a little.

Finished DK-2 Guard and Barricade! Slipstream is actually painted as well, but I'm not happy with how messy she ended up, so I'll be stripping the paint and redoing it.

People should probably learn the difference between “plot holes” and “things I didn’t like” or “things the franchise plans to explain in the future” or “things film makers didn’t think they needed to explicitly explain because they thought you had critical thinking skills”.

Ricochet! Not gonna pretend he's perfect, but he's done! (We're not going to talk about how much time and how many tries it took me to freehand that chest detail and get it anything approaching symmetrical.)

Got a case of series 1 Blokees today for both the ones I actually still needed and some custom fodder. Gonna be working on doing customs of Barricade, Ricochet, and Slipstream, but I'm still undecided about whether I'm doing anything with the Bluestreak or Ironhide.

Was playing with some of my Blokees, testing out ideas for customs I want to do, and I managed to rip one of Ironhide's hip pegs right off. Luckily I actually already have a spare Ironhide just sitting unassembled in its box so I can just swap the hip piece and stick the rest in my bits box for now.

Got the best gift. These are very silly and I love them. ❤️(They're very squishy and comfortable, too!)