Viv --> TFNation!

@toastergrl.bsky.social

661 Followers 304 Following

29, she/it Artist, writer, programmer. Previously 21331 LEGO Ideas Sonic, Kart Krew Dev's Ring Racers, SRB2 (& Kart). I like making things! If you like what I do please be niceys https://ko-fi.com/vivtoast

Fujimura Taiga from Fate: Stay Night. She's doing a 3-mouth face in pride.

gonk.

Page 34 of a pencil sketchbook.
The page is divided into four segments, each taking a variably sized horizontal strip.
In front of the top three strips is a full shot of the trucker walking in. They look feminine but butch, with noticable meat on their bones, freckles on their legs, and laced shoes suitable for the long drive.
The first strip is dedicated to the mechanitch. She looks just as low-detail as her background appearance on the previous page, but this time she's the focus of the panel! She's just noticed the trucker's appearance and has a goofy little blush to go with the lo-fi rendering. Behind her, the giant bong looms tall.
The next strip is the wizard, leaning forward and sweeping her arm back towards the car in a point. This long distance shot is doing a little more scenesetting - the 3d printing staff continues its job, with a spotty "R R R R R R" sound effect.
The third strip is a close-up shot of the car. The sun has started its travel down the sky, and is silhouetting the crow hood ornament. Once again, we can see the car's license plate is XH26 ZB5.
The final strip dominates the rest of the page. It is itself a two-moment sequence depicting the 3d print job, which is *almost* done as the staff sputters out a few last, sporadic "R"'s. It finishes the job with a loud "ping!", and swooshes around in a curve towards the observer with a "fwwWWUUUSSHH".

Screenshot of "transformerscollide"'s ebay page. The listings are:
- £25.99 - "LEGO Super Mario - Interactive starter figure/course + extra (read description)"
- £23.99 - "Transformers Titans Return Chromedome (incomplete, for IDW upgrade kit only)"
- £25.99 - "Transformers Universe IDW Sunstreaker (classics deluxe, 2008, like Tigertrack"
- £28.99 - "Transformers Animated The Battle Begins Optimus Prime (exclusive deluxe, 2008)"
- £45.99 - "Transformers Studio Series 86 Starscream (2022, Voyager, see desc)"
- £65.99 - "Transformers LG22 Skull (Grax Skullcruncher Butla, TakaraTomy 2016) Megalligator"
- £75.99 - "Transformers Armada Star Saber (Air Defense Mini-Cons, 2003 + 3d print bonus)"
- £20.99 - "LEGO Unikitty! characters (from 41453, 41454)"

Transformers Age of the Primes Bruticus (with some custom paint on the Blast Off arm cladding, and Power Core Combiners Huffer as a substitute for Swindle), wielding the giant turret from Legacy Menasor in reference to the Gravitational Disruptor Ray from the final episode of the original Transformers cartoon's second season, "BOT". A 3d print of the titular protagonist, from Funbee Studios, stands next to the Super Robot and his weapon.

In the background, Combiner Wars and Power Of The Primes Blast Off can be seen, along with Knock-off Kasane Teto Plush that's been a fixture of most of my tuoyposting on this website

Page 33 of a pencil sketchbook.
The top of the page consists of three sections.
The first section is four panels of the wizard from directly above where she laid down after the previous page, in a loose parallel to the mechanitch from page 15-17. In panel 1, she has a frustrated, squinting, somewhat unpleasant-to-look-at expression on her face, one hand reaching out of the panel to try get her sunglasses. Panel 2 has her "put."ing the glasses on her face, immediately losing a lot of visual detail and depth and becoming more representational - a visual metaphor for becoming more put together after her embarassing tumble. Panel 3 has her getting up, with hands reaching out of the panel to pull herself up. Panel 4 has just a shadow in the corner, with an "up!" to indicate successful righting.
The second section of the page briefly sets the scene with another overhead view alongside the road. The truck puts a bit of work into moving with a "...vvvvVVVVVVVVVSSSSSSSHHHH..." as it gets out of the road with a brief, professional turn. An arrow points at where the portal is, leading to section three - a wide panel of the wizard "un-zorch!"ing her portal into a sparkle in her hand, fixing her facial hair with a "beard brusch." as the mechanitch walks over, nonplussed.
The bottom half of the page has one scene-setting insert of the trucker opening the driver's side door to their vehicle with a "clik.", cast in shadow... and then a big establishing shot of their design. The only new details are freckles on the arms and cheeks, the flannel shirt partly poking out over a round belt buckle, and dark nail polish. In addition, the driver side door has a opened ring-pull can of something that reads "ROAD -OUP" (partially obscured) in their door's bottom compartment. They say "All rite.", ready to move on from the establishing scenesetting almost as much as I am!

The same Amalgamous Prime UFO Catcher build as seen in the previous image in the thread, now hoisting aloft Knockoff Kasane Teto Plush by her twindrills

Photograph of a custom "Weaponizer" build of Transformers "Age of the Primes" Amalgamous Prime figure, assembled into a three-pronged UFO Catcher. While it's vague due to the limitations of the sculpting medium, it resembles the SEGA UFO Catcher as interpreted in Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers. A white girl's hand holds it up by the end of the dangly pole thingy. The photograph is from slightly below, showing it's carrying the "Transformation Cog" artefact as its chosen prize.

Pencil sketch on page.
Panel 1: A woman lies in bed, with a floral eye mask, unruly bedhead, and three pillows propping her up. One nostril is gunked upl. Arms cross in front of her chest. "i tend only to dream when i'm sick."
Panel 2: Square photograph of a water tower in the middle of the ocean. The water tower contains a restaurant. The photo is labeled "places weird."
Panel 3: A very steep street with frankly lethal raised sidewalk, cars driving through the road at a pace that could kill anyone who fell easily. The woman is present, very small and terrified. The panel is labeled "fears overwhelming."
Panel 4: A little short haired kid in bed, holding a rabbit plush tight with a pained expression (and a penguin next to them). Behind them, the radiant image of a woman in a dress in the wind stands tall and proud. This panel is labeled "sick in the soul."
Panel 5: A top-down pixel video game rendition of some sort of brutalist building - an office? a school? - with lots of stairs, and a number of exits. A pixelated woman holds hands with a silhouette, a heart between them. A textbox at the bottom - labeled "viv." says "> sick in the ♥️ HEART."
Panel 6: A robot maid, heavily broken, is lying with liquid pooling out of the shoulder. Her face is missing, the exposed void sparking. Limbs are at unnatural angles, and the hip is popped out. She holds her own face - could this have been self-inflicted? an arrow points from the label "sick in the head." to the face void.
Panels 7, 8, 9: the woman from panel 1 wakes up, face gurning. She reaches over, off-panel. She blows her nose with a "HO -- NK".
Panel 10: Just a label - "but mostly it's the sinuses." and a tiny, goofy sketch of the flustered, frustrated woman.

Page 32 of a pencil sketchbook.
The top half of the page is a dedicated sequence of the wizard. She is stepping out of the portal, her slightly-heeled open-top shoe putting pressure on the edge of the hole in space with a "fwzzzzZzzZZZ" that ominously rises in intensity. There is a look of determination on her face as she says "ok, no, not letting that happen to my car. how long can you stay fffFFFFFF--" as the portal, with her hands as a fixed point and her foot applying torque, tips over to dump the wizard harshly on the dusty plain near the road with a ZWAMP. Her sunglasses go flying.
Panel 2 is a look at the observers - the trucker, whose cap has lifted slightly in concern to reveal beady mole-like eyes, squawks "Maam! Are U OK??". To the right of the panel, the mechanitch looks down through the now-angled portal, bringing a fist to her mouth, trying not to laugh and being low-key disrespectful with a *snrrkt*. In the foreground, a mostly-darkened silhouette of the wizard raises herself a little.
Panel 3 is two back-to-back moments. The wizard is initially silent, on her hands and knees and facing away, limbs wobbling in struggle to support her own weight after having just phenomenally eaten shit. After a moment's thought, she flips with a "roll!", and seethes out a "SOME day." Further pause to collect herself. "i will remember to use „rotation lock". "

Page 30 of a pencil sketchbook.
The page is divided into 6 panels.
Panel 1 is of the trucker leaning out of their rolled-down window. We can see they have a cross-hatched flannel shirt, a big round nose and buck teeth, a baseball cap obscuring their eyes, strangely lobed butterfly-wing-esque ears, and a big bushy ponytail. They yell "Hey!!! Can you 2 hear Me???". A little spark "fzzz"es in the air before them.
Panel 2 has the mechanitch and wizard sitting next to each other on the other side of the massive bong as per before. The mechanitch glances over her shoulder and says, in a wavering voice, "(I just sat down...)". The wizard says "don't worry, i got this.", bringing the tips of her pointer fingers together over her head and manifesting a circular spark.
Panels 3 and 4 are the same viewpoint as panel 1, with the fzzzling spark opening up into a circular portal out through which the wizard pops with a "ZORCH!", her pointer fingers aimed down at the brim of the hole in space. The trucker is nonplussed; the mechanitch, however, is surprised to the point of cartoonishly bulging eyes. The wizard says "alright, hold yer dorsals. got a good lass on the case. knowledgable. what can you offer?"
Panels 5 and 6 are close-ups of the trucker and wizard respectively, the former acting casual with a slight head tilt and smile but coming across awkward, and the latter acting casual resting her head in one hand and the elbow on the brim of the fzzzling portal, but coming across opaque and low-key threatening. The trucker says "Hi Sir-" and is very quickly and forcefully interrupted with an underlined, bold-bordered "ma'am." To their credit, the trucker corrects quickly if clumsily - in a cascading series of stop-start speech bubbles, "Maam!" "Maam. Um." "Um." "I can. Lift? & follow Instructions good..."
In the background of panel 6, the mechanitch leans around the giant bong, in chibi proportions, eyes still bulging and surrounded with question marks.

Display of LEGO - a rainbow of classic space minifigures, on a base of sand, launchpad, and blue space base. Some spaceships hover around. Their commander has a village people type moustache and hairdo because grey helmets and air tanks are way too expensive.

A dehumidifier with an upside down pair of damaged jeans, almost fully inflated like a flipped dullahan rump, piping warm air out a window.

Page 29 of a pencil sketchbook.
A large, borderless region depicts the truck without wheels from the previous page drifting to a stop with a "VVVVVVVSSSSHHHHHHH". It does so near the motorbroom (which is drawfed in size) and the writing desk being 3d-printed by the gunstaff. The truck has the make "AHYB", and as previously stated instead of wheels it has a robust, coiled pipe on each side with cables hanging underneath it, implied to be the source of levitation.
Five panels are centered in the bottom half of the page. There are three in front and two behind - the first two in front depict the truck's door window being lowered with a "whrrr", while the ones behind depict a hand spinning a window-opening lever with a "squeak!". The fifth panel, also in front, shows the same vantagepoint with the window fully open - and a person is trying to catch our main characters' attention, resting their doorside arm and waving their other one. Their details aren't super clear, but they have a baseball cap, noticable nostrils (implying a flat nose), and rodent-like front teeth. They say out the window "Heya! Yall need any Help?" in speech bubbles that have rounded sides and aren't quite closed all the way.

The Milky Worm, curled up on its rump-tail, saying it's literally nice......

Face of a weird fantasy worm with three happy eyes on the side of its head, and a blush. Inset is the Milky Way emoji, which the author of this post has paredolia'd into the worm, and therefore has a similar silhouette.

Page 28 of a pencil sketchbook.
This page has a rather avant-garde composition. The throughline (literally) on the right side of the page is an overhead view of the slightly wibbly road in the middle of the desert that our epynomous car broke down next to. There are several fixtures we've seen previously; the sign in the distance from page 1, the car with door open and giant bong from page 2, the motorbroom (parked there by page 5), the summoning circle from page 14 (with staff still going RRRR per page 20), and our main characters sitting next to the bong per page 24. All this information is resurfaced to provide context for the new developments on this page, with a boxy vehicle speeding past the sign...
Top panel: A view of the other side of the sign from page 1. The sign is managed by "KCBolgouix"; its dedicated poster area declares 'HOIL IS REAL! "House Of Infinite Lament"', clearly channelling American evangelical ideas. Passing it with a "VVVVVVVVV" is a boxy, blurry vehicle, with the letters "STO- -RT" visible around the previously mentioned road cutting through the panel.
Middle-left panel is a closer look at the vehicle. It is some sort of long-nose truck. Given that vehicles in this world are 3 for 3 on not having wheels, it instead has some fairly heavy duty coils wrapped around a metal pipe affixed to the full length of the cab.
Middle-right "panel" is the mechanitch, clearly distracted and not all there. She's looking over her shoulder with a "turn.", around the giant bong (and the road border).
Bottom-right "panel" is the rear of the truck's trailer zooming along the road, with a low-detail version of the breakdown site for extra visual context.
Bottom-left features a close zoom into the wizard's face. She hasn't had her concentration broken, staring into the distance with her smoking lead visible in front of the horizon reflected in her sunglasses. With determination, she says "you've got a lot ahead of you, lass. you'll figure it out."

Page 27 of a pencil sketchbook.
The top half of the page is split again. On the left is the wizard at 189yo. Her hat, ears, and nose are the same, but a lot of other details have changed. Her curly hair hasn't receded underneath the hat. Her beard's predecessor is some light facial hair on a somewhat saggy and tired face. Her robe & shorts were a shirt & jeans Her sleeves are rolled up, showing her self-harm scars, her nails are short, and her sunglasses were once shuttershades. She is holding the hand of her 6yo son - a small lad, awkward-adorable afro with a hairclip up to the top of her belly, furrowed eyebrows up to her waist. He's wearing a little sports shirt with a #1 on it, and his most unique trait is his facial mole. He's not a happy camper. On the right is the wizard as her present day 302yo self, smiling as her shoulder is held by the now 118yo, larger than life, VERY attractive son. His long ears flop a little, he's got a tightly curled, rectangular shoulder-length mullet, his eyes crinkle with joy, and a ring set with black opal sits proudly on his finger. The wizard continues from the prev. page, "my son was such the worrywart. always needed his mimmy. learned a lot about managing anxiety through him. you'd do anyhing for your kid, of course, but there's something so special about the way they flourish, especially when it's hard won."
In the bottom left, her son sits cradling a baby. He's drinking from a mug-goblet that says "#2 dad", pinky out, tired out of his mind. Through a window a beehive is visible. "got a neb of his own. still has his rough days. the mindfulness of a good sip of his own brew helps, f'sure. so i get it." The mechanitch - "30's, probably" - thinks on these words with a shadow over her face, mug in front of her. She thinks of her 6yo self, crying with a cartoony spray and a missing tooth. The symmetrical neck-length hair gives the cute, androgynous look of a sweet boy who's too young to know being a girl is off-limits.

Page 26 of a pencil sketchbook.
The top quarter of the page is dedicated to the mechanitch sitting, sole-to-sole, one hand on her right leg and the other held up in gesture, looking anxious as anything but putting on a brave face. To our left is a shaded afterimage of her holding her head in her hands, steaming with frustration and gritting her teeth. To our right is the wizard, in silhouette, listening - not everything needs an immediate reaction. The mechanitch rambles in a HUGE speech bubble that dominates the page, coming apart a little at the seams. To one side of the bubble is another internal view ala page 16, of the vertically-lined circle saying "C'mon, sweetheart, we're at work..." to the 7-pointed star. To the other side of the bubble is a sequence of the wizard handling the goblet-mug she cloned on the previous page - tipping it out, then filling it with a "fizzzz..." by pointing the pointer finger on her other hand and, without speaking, using the „Summon Beverage" ability she mentioned prior.

The giant speech bubble, which is practically a panel unto itself, reads "A-a clean, instant duplicate? As one motion? I'm not really one for. Uh. Abstract casting? Never quite took to it, that's why w- I (underlined) work in hexomobiles and all the practical (underlined) stuff, but it's still sort of an interest of mine, y'know? So I thought what--"

This speech bubble is interrupted by the wizard. "girl.", underlined, "you need to *relax*, ay-sap." She forcefully hands the goblet-mug over to the mechanitch, who sheepishly realises her attempt to cover up anxiety has not worked and is letting out an involuntary "mmhhh" sound. As the mechanitch settles into a "sssssip", focusing on the bubbly texture of the liquid, the wizard says "this drink'll lift any dog in a storm."

Page 25 of a pencil sketchbook.
None of the regions have borders, but the functional panel 1 is the entire top third of the page. In it, the mechanitch sits sole-to-sole, one arm behind her knee and the other resting a hand on her ankle. She's looking over at the wizard tapping their finger against their mug-goblet. The wizard says, largely offscreen: "hah! no, purely for restorative purposes. my youngest keeps mannabees, and he's dang good at it - hold on."
The second segment of the page is the same perspective, a moment later. The wizard says "BANACH-TARSKAE-DIVISSIMO!" as she "YANK"s on the mug-goblet with her pinched fingers, creating what appears to be a complete duplicate of it. The one left behind rattles in-place, with some aftereffects. The mechanitch's whole temperment has shifted radically, astounded by the manuver! Her facial expression changes to a wide open mouth, the seven-pointed star previously seen on page 16 replacing both her visible eye and, if the point visible under her fringe is to be believed, the other one as well. Her eyebrows are floating just above her head. Ignorant to this expression of exuberance, the wizard continues: "-sorry, realised i broke my spare mug last month. i know, i know - did my best not to copy germs. i'll fill it with fresh stuff in a moment--"
The third panel has the mechanitch leaning over in continued childlike glee. She says "WHAT WAS THAT IVE NEVER SEEN A 'TRIP LIKE THAT BEFORE--", in a speechbubble that pointedly only has the top and bottom edges - also reminiscent of page 16.
The mechanitch shakes her head with a "shake shake" blur, then sheepishly says, eyes closed "I mean," with her standard speech bubble.

Page 24 of a pencil sketchbook.
Top left is a borderless panel, of the wizard sitting cross-legged and taking a puff from her bong lead (with the giant glass bubbling thing behind her). She is relaxed but distant, with a mug of unknown liquid in front of her. The mug has a wineglass-like bottom and says "#3 Grammy" on it. Inset is her head turning a look of tiredness, one eye visible through the sunglasses, with arrows surrounding it. Smoke wafts out her mouth, which partially covers the next panel.
Panels 2, 3, and 4 are a sequence of very similar images. They depict the mechanitch walking over, sitting down (hands on knees and undersides of boots touching) and taking a deep breath, then releasing it with an "aaaaaahhhh" respectively. Compared to the previous pages, she has raised her respirator mask to the top of her head to take a moment of rest. The wizard keeps looking at the mechanitch through this, and is comedically pushed to the side by the giant speech bubble, taking another puff while this happens.
Panel 5 has the wizard pointing, sparkles off her extended index finger, bong lead between her knuckles, with smoke wafting out of the mouth again. She says "thanks for keeping at it. need me to fix you up something? Got „Summon Beverage" as a repeatable."
Panel 6/7 is the mechanitch looking distantly forward-down, then turning towards the wizard. She says "Sure." with a slight smile, then adds "As long as it's not status-afflicting. We both need to drive after this, mage." It's been a long day for both of them.

Page 23 of a pencil sketchbook.
This page depicts the passage of time with an avant-garde composition.
Panel 1 depicts the mechanitch, mask and all, removing a liquid cap from the engine. Out of this hole, a toxic, black cloud is "sssss"ing its way out.
Panel 2 is both behind and below it, depicting the underside of the titular car, with the mechanitch's boots visible to the side. It is kept aloft by the clothes-horse-like frame underneath, and a stream of ichorous fluid is "glug glug"ing into a stout bucket with a "plup!". This fluid is also producing the same "sssss" gas.
Behind those two panels is a faraway shot of the gunstaff getting further and further along with its 3d-printing, with the horrible "RRRRRRRRR" noise scattered around.
Two thirds down the page, there is a close-up shot of the mechanitch one-handedly pouring the bottle she was holding on page 22, of "dempsey FINE TOIL MEDIUM", into a conical funnel popped into the engine hole from panel 1. We can see that the "fine toil medium" is completely clear and gel-like, as opposed to the wretched fluid glugging from the bottom of the car - implied to be the medium when absolutely saturated with "toil". The mechanitch is low down, with her fingers over the panel's edge and her eyes tiredly shut behind the mask.
The page bottom has two panels.
The first has the gunstaff getting very close to finishing printing the writing desk. The gunstaff's stock pokes into the panel above, while surrounding the panel is the horrible "RRRRRRRRRRR" noise. It looks like a basic but respectable lectern, with two giveaways indicating it is a 3d print: a slightly jagged edge on all its diagonals, and a temporary lattice support underneath the writing surface.
On the right is a side view of the car. The mechanitch, facing partially away from our sight, is putting her full weight into tightening the cap from panel 1 with the wrench from page 22. A small oil stain exists on the ground where the bucket was underneath the vehicle.

Page 22 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1 is a dark view of the inside of the motorbroom's storage compartment, with some hazy outlines. light is visible through the borders, with a "clik!" happening towards the front.
Panel 2 is the same perspective, but with the hatch opened. The mechanitch's face is cast in shadow too, with a key hanging from the outside of what turned out to be the latch mechanism. The indistinct shapes are various canisters and boxes.
Panel 3 is a full view of, after a short passage of time, the newly kitted out mechanitch walking away from the motorbroom (with back compartment still popped open, and key dangling). Most noticable is her newly-applied respirator mask, with a glass visor which pushes her hair out her eyes. It is "Skla" branded, and one of the boxes from panel 2 is shown in an inset to make it clear where she got it from. She is also holding a strange wrench and a plastic-like bottle of "dempsey FINE TOIL MEDIUM - rated for CORVONE 1360s - 3L", which was also visible in panel 2. She says "Okay. Let's get this STARTED.", with her speech bubble wrapped in glass with a border - like her eyes - to suggest it's having a noticable effect on how her voice sounds.

Page 21 of a pencil sketchbook.
Basically every panel on this page has the letter "R" repeated a bunch, to indicate the terrible sound of the 3d printing fax machine spell is ongoing.
Panel 1 is a from-slightly-below view of the wizard and mechanitch together. In the wizard's sunglasses, the staff printing something is seen in stereo, mirrored. The wizard points towards the summoning circle. She says "summoning a nice writing desk for the scroll. might be a bit.", while the mechanitch is adjusting to the new sensory hell with clearly draining reserves of fortitude. With bags under her eyes, she bites the inside of her cheek and looks down at her hand.
Panel 2: A small inset. Continuous with panel 1, we can see the mechanitch continuing to hold the scroll tube she's been gripping in one way or another since page 9. She says "Well."
Panel 3: Larger inset. She rests the scroll tube in the area of the bonnet that she originally pried it free from with a gentle "put." The mechanitch says "Guess I can't fix this yet, then."
Panel 4: A side view of the car's bonnet. The mechanitch rests one glove at the edge of the bonnet and uses the other to pull what looks like a flexible dipstick out of the engine compartment. It is producing black, ichorous smoke with a low "sssss" sound, much quieter than the "RRRR" in the background but still noticable. She says "...oh gods. I suspected you needed a toil change, but the dipwand is downright necrotic." with underlining emphasis on "necrotic". This speech bubble is coming from a silly low-detail doodle of the mechanitch's head, with X-eyed tongue-poked-out expression of disgust and visible nostrils. An arrow points to her, with the label "smelled that nasty shit making the enscrypgine work 'good'"
Panel 5: The mechanitch jogs to her motorbroom with a little "----> jog!" label. The dipwand is not visible but black smoke continues to be slowly released. In the foreground, the wizard is low down and glances over-shoulder with a "?".

Page 20 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1 has the mechanitch looking a little shame-faced, wincing at some unknown chunk of history. As she glances to the side and her brow furrows, silhouettes of her in argument with an unknown figure appear behind. Estranged family? Ex partner? Who can say.
Panel 2 is the mechanitch in largely the same pose, but has suddenly glanced the other direction. The wizard also turns in that direction, with her eye barely visible behind the sunglasses. She says "hmm?".
Panel 3 is a wide shot of the summoning circle the wizard made, with her gun-staff floating above it perfectly vertically, crystal end down. The wizard thumbs over her shoulder, saying "oh, right. paused the spell. looked like you needed quiet."
Two insets of just her hand (with self-harm scars on the exposed arm) show a before-and-after of snapping her finger. This process produces sparkles.
Panel 4 is a closeup of the crystal touching tip-down in the dust of the summoning circle, with flaring energy buzzing off it. It sounds "FZZZTTT--", and an arc weld-like spark appears at its tip.
Panel 5 is the same perspective, with the gun-staff crystal having moved slightly. It is leaving a trail of slightly jagged material - the spell "azurmes fax machina", the magical version of the fax machine, has turned out to be a fax 3D printer! Unforutnately, it is producing a LOT of noise - RRR RRRRR RRRRRR RRRRR RRRR RRRRRR - which has brought back the mechanitch's exhaustion a millionfold. A silly little scribble version of her stares, a little braindead, in the bottom right corner of the page.

A painting as seen on Dr Who. Purportedly done by Vincent Van Gough. It kind of looks like JFK if he had grey hair. I don't know what it's actually called but it purports to be of a doctor which could go either way.

Page 19 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1 is a large view of the mechanitch, bending forward in the same bowing deference pose as on the previous page - hair hanging over awkward-expression face with tense eyebrows and half-closed visible eye, holding the scroll tube in her lap with both hands. Clouds are visible behind her. Along the bottom of the panel, four different poses of the wizard are visible in increasing degrees of awkwardness, including running her hand over the back of her head, and otherwise pointing for emphasis. The wizard says, in a winding series of text boxes:
"okay -"
"i... hm."
"where do i..."
"ok."
"i know i'm abrasive."
"my first husband made that clear."
"and i get... carried away."
"the staff thing was stupid." (with emphasis on the "was")
"you were never in danger, i'm a good aim."
"but you had no way of knowing."
Panel 2 is just the wizard in silhouette, slightly leaning forward, completely isolated. She says, as an extension of the above dialogue:
"so."
"i get it."

LEGO model of "SA-55 Auto Dragoon", a red mech inspired after multiple elements from the Sonic series. In this image, it is in a casual full body pose and holding a green DOTS wristband, representing the High Voltage Ring from the fangame "Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers". Orbot is once again riding in its collar. Around its feet, several Sonic characters exist; to the left is Sonic, and to the right is Dr. Eggman (the Classic brick-built design from the 21331 Ideas set and pumping his fist), Tails the Fox (grinning with determination in the same pose), and Metal Sonic (who looks over, pensive).

LEGO model of "SA-55 Auto Dragoon", a red mech inspired after multiple elements from the Sonic series. In this image, it is aiming a six-barreled laser at Rouge the Bat, who is holding a yellow Chaos Emerald.

Page 18 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: An upside down silhouette of the wizard looms over the point of view. The sun is radiating out from behind her head, and clouds drift in the sky. She says, hesitantly: "..." and "...heya." in two different speech bubbles.
Panel 2: the mechanitch is drawn quite small and in low detail, with a look of pure panic on her face and tiny beads of sweat on her face. The symbols from previous pages exist to the left and right of her; the circle with vertical lines says "FUUUUUUUCK we disassociated on the JOB Fuck Fuck Fuck Fu" and the 7-pointed star with horizontal lines says "oh gods sorry I didn't mean to get us in trouble--".
Panel 3: The mechanitch suddenly jumps upright and mouth wide open, spooking the wizard backwards with her hands raised. You can't see either eye In the normal view, but in the wizard's sunglasses you can see the mechanitch spooked in stereo, with one eye as a X. She is panicking, saying "SORRY -- I - w - th - I just needed a moment - PLEASE don't mention this to anyone else!!"
Panel 4: A far shot of the mechanitch bending over in an overly polite bow to the wizard. She has sweat drops coming off her and is saying "sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry ..." trailing off into nothing. The wizard also says nothing.

A fight scene of various Transformers toys. In the foreground is Age of the Primes Blast Off (customised with additional paint and a custom Slingshot-based head calling back to his Combiner Wars/Til All Are One design - the original head is in the image on the ground in front, painted), being stabbed in the chest by Studio Series 86 Arcee (using the blue flaming swords from Thrilling 30 Arcee), bringing to mind an event IDW Blast Off once complained about. At Arcee's feet is a customised 86 Ravage, while behind Blast Off is AOTP Vortex, with additional stickered detail of purple, gold, and red on his shoulders and biceps. Behind the immediate fight scene is 86 Soundwave, with some additional paint on their torso, and holding 86 Buzzsaw on their arm. Behind Soundwave is AOTP Armada Nemesis Prime on the Legacy Armada Optimus Prime trailer legs, and the knockoff pink-haired Kasane Teto plush.

Page 17 of a pencil sketchbook.
There are few panels, just a number of images floating in the void.
At the top: A seven-pointed star, horizontally lined, and a circle, vertically lined. These match the shapes seen on the previous page. The star is speaking in speech bubbles with only horizontal edges: "You're too forgiving." The circle speaks in speech bubbles with only vertical lines: "I-- that's NOT what I meant!"
As the text travels down the page, we can see a number of thumbtacks floating in otherwise blank areas. Circle continues: "I mean that... she's clearly worried about giving a good impression," - interrupted by star, "She pointed a STAFF at us." "Granted!" replies circle.
Below that is three panels resembling events on previous pages, each held in place by thumbtacks. One thumbtack holds the first panel, of the crow-like hood ornament of the Corvone Stellesta, as seen on page 3. Under it, circle says "But she matched our energy about the hunk of junk I'd be working on,".
Panel 2, two thumbtacks: A close-up of Pituccia's face, as seen on page 7 - but with one glistening, glassy eye open, and her articulated mouth resolved into a smile. Circle continues "listened to every word about our favourite Deime,".
Panel 3, three thumbtacks. A focus on the summoning circle the wizard's magic made on page 13/14. Circle continues, "and wanted to make it right."
At the bottom of the page is a strong close up of the mechanitch's face. The tension in her brow has relieved compared to page 15, but there's a small tear in the corner of her eye, slightly open, and a slight flush to her cheek. Circle concludes "Well-intentioned and terrible at communication..." The idea is completed in the following bubble with slightly-disjoint/gappy vertical and horizontal edges, representing star and circle doing their level best to work together: "We know all about that.", with underline for emphasis on "that".

Page 15 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: The mechanitch is pinching the bridge of her nose to try and ground herself in the intensity of her response. The wizard, off-screen, says "sorry. i-- hold that thought." as the gunstaff (also off-screen) continues to ring like a telephone. Sparkles gently waft out of the scroll tube.
Panel 2: The mechanitch has had enough, and sets herself falling backwards. Meanwhile, the ringing suddenly becomes a klik, then a new voice is introduced. It says "Hello~! Cavalier Occulting Inventory Speaking!"
Panel 3: A large from-above view of the mechanitch hitting the ground on her back with a WHUMP, clutching the scroll tube in both hands. Her hair is a mess and there is tension in her brow. She is slowly tuning out the conversation taking place nearby, with the speech bubbles becoming darker and darker shaded, and obstructed by her elbow - but the dialogue that *can* be read goes like this:
The wizard leads, saying "hey, this is Mg. erstwham." In response: "Aggie! Hii! What Can I Do You For?" "-fraid it's another long distance, mikh. can you charge a writing desk to my corporate account?" "Of Course Dear! Please Hold!"

Page 12 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: Through the wizard's POV, we see her pulling a strange tool out of the car's driver side doorway. On one end is a crystal slightly bigger than her fist would be, held in place by helical tendrils of carved wood. The other end is a rifle stock with visible woodgrain pattern. She grasps it both sides of the center mechanism, a milled iron chamber with ironsight above and trigger below.
Panel 2: All else fades away. The wizard clicks her gunstaff in half, exposing the loading chamber. A few sparks fly out.
Panel 3 is an extended sequence of the wizard loading the gunstaff with a little glass capsule. It initially focuses on her holding the capsule by her dark nails, which contains a fairy resembling a stick insect; it's not the focus of the panel, but you can also see that she has self harm scars on the forearm exposed by holding the hand up. The stick-fairy declares, in a terrible approximation of cursive: "Hello there! I'm a Tiny Leyline Model! I'm here to help!" The wizard retorts "no ya ain't" as she pushes its capsule into the chamber. It responds "My mistake! You're correct, I'm" and then is immediately cut off by the harsh, crunching action of closing the chamber on the capsule. Subtlety is dead.

Page 11 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: The mechanitch is holding the open scroll canister one handed, and pointing to it with the other. She says "Oh, is that what you're worried about? Your car isn't that old, they started using hardpap in the 30's."
Panel 2: The wizard walks by, and the mechanitch's eyeliner follows her with a questioning look. The wizard says "that's not what i mean." with an emphasis on "not".
Panel 3 is a wider shot, the mechanitch kneeling in front of the car while holding the canister in both hands. The wizard is reaching inside the open driver's side door, though the reflection on the windshield makes it impossible to see what she is doing. The wizard says "you just told me my car's been disrespectin' this Lady. doesn't make sense to give Her less than the best!" The mechanitch is looking away from the wizard and her car with a lost in thought heavy expression. It's unclear whether she's focusing on the abandoned bong lead that the wizard has, somewhat hypocritically, in her haste let fall to the ground and get sandy.

A bespoke rendition of the "wow cool robot" meme, stylised after "wavedash.pptx" from the Celeste farewell DLC. The generic observer is staring at the Celeste boxart and stating, in the powerpoint/dialogue font "Wow, what a beautiful game about anxiety, depression, and the tempest between listening to our limits and the burning desire to have all facets of the self seen and understood. The tale is fairly visceral, so I hope everyone who influenced it is loved and happy." From the boxart, Madeline Celeste is jumping over the generic observer's head, performing a dash-restoring wavedash and careening off screen. This is labeled messily in out-of-dash blue "Maddy Thorson loves SMW ghost house kaizo babyyyyyyyy", with the trail of y's transitioning from blue to red to represent the restoration of airdash ability.

Low-light, low-quality photo of girl with shoulder length red hair, who is at soup. It's wearing cute clothes at the soup stove.

Page 9 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: The mechanitch is suddenly in shellshocked-type thought, flashing back to a period where she was angry. In the thought bubble, she is in a more conventional outfit - a work tshirt with employee badge, and short sleeves. Her arms are raised (and slightly hairy), and has no gloves. She is standing to the side of a flowerpot-like automaton - robust mechanical hands and forearms, a conical head, and a tie and employee badge. The automaton has closed grooves where eyes would be, a spiky line mouth, and a cheek marking not unlike Pituccia's (but a different shape). The automaton has one hand on its hip and one hand raised, with a single finger pointing up. It has a ring on one finger, with a note saying "(he's taken...)" pointing to his ring. He says "PLEASE FO NOT ARGUE RELIGIENCE WITH THE CUSTOMERS." The mechanitch is loudly responding "BUT IT'S AN OBSERVABLE PHENOMENON, COBL! THEY'RE DEIMES!!!"
Panel 2: The thought bubble ends. The mechanitch smiles awkwardly and says "That's... a great point, Mg.!"
Panel 3: The mechanitch is attempting to remove the lid from the scroll tube, which is taking some effort - she's biting her lip. She says "It... has been argued... that patronic tech is a poor fit for cars. A machine weighing fifteen hundred kilos needs... to be more predictable than a-"
Panel 4: The lid successfully comes off with a loud POP!!, interrupting the mechanitch. She says "- God.", finishing her thought.
Panel 5: A close up of the wizard laughing, mouth wide open and forked tongue in view, with the mechanitch hunched over the lidless scroll tube in the background. She has an embarassed-type expression on her face, but a label does say she was "prepared this time". The wizard says "HAAA! that battle was lost the moment they put a sapien behind the wheel!"

Simple digital drawing of a cat with only two legs and a tiny beret, an interpretation of the post I was replying to's image.

Page 5 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: The mechanitch glances towards the wizard (not pictured in this panel), taking a moment to think of a response to the wizard making fun of her.
Panel 2: Almost identical to panel 1, but with the mechanitch shutting her eyes nonchalantly and gesturing towards the car (also not in this panel). She says "You clearly know your stuff. Why'd an old sphere head like you need me?"
Panel 3: Again, almost identical to panels 1 and 2, but this time she has a very smug smile while continuing to have her eyes shut. Behind her, the wizard's speechbubble is full of ranting. Some of the words are obscured, but you can make out "old!?" (Underlined for emphasis) "i'm a spritely three-hundred-n'-two!! barely a quarter of my --"
Panel 4: Wide silhouette shot. The mechanitch is walking towards the car while the wizard is so mad steam is wafting off her head. The mechanitch says "Don't sweat it, mage. I can fix your hexer up like new."
Panel 5: The mechanitch is very close to the camera, such that we can only see a bit of her boot, and the backpack she was wearing earlier being put down with a gentle "Put." sound effect. The wizard is in the back with the mechanitch's motorbroom, still angry, but with her face in her hands.
Panel 6: Identical framing to the previous panel, but the bag has been completely put down, and the mechanitch is tiptoeing forward with the sound effect "Tip toe.". The wizard has dropped their hands, a little less steamed. The mechanitch says "Good instinct popping the hood, but the way..."

Page 3 of a pencil sketchbook.
Panel 1: A clearly retro-looking 1960s-esque car, hovering just above the ground. Instead of wheels, there are strange metal coils, like screw gears, which are implied to be the levitating element. The bonnet is popped open, with something bird-like glinting on top. The license plate reads "XH26•ZB5", in the region of "🌙 PFERD".
Panel 2: A look from inside the car's open bonnet, with lots of strange mechanical detail (and a book and scroll) towards the motorbroom rider and Mg. Erstwham the wizard. The rider has taken off her backpack and is holding it one-handed, with the other on her hip. The wizard is looking at the rider while gesturing towards the car, saying "it's a beaut, isn't it?"
Panel 3: A close-up of the glinting birdlike object on top of the open bonnet. It is a metal crow hood ornament. The wizard continues "a thirteen-sixty-two Corvone Stellesta,". Inset, the rider looks nonplussed, glancing up and to the side.
Panel 4: Another shot of the engine's mechanical detail. Inset is the motorbroom rider again, looking noticably more fed up. The wizard continues "with a duel plate-and-ignition H6-star enscrypgine, it-" but is interrupted by the rider, who says "Mg. Erstwham, I'm a mechanitch." (mechanitch is a portamenau of 'mechanic' and 'witch', and is underlined for emphasis.) "You think I don't know Stellestas are all pieces of shit to a fault?"

A black and white comic, done in pencil in a sketchbook.

Panel 1: A distant view of a road running through a barren desert. There are a handful of large clouds in the sky, a sign in the distance, a mountain even further down the road, and a loopdeloop in the other direction. There is a broken down car and some sort of encampment with smoke coming off it. Down the road past the sign, there is a small dust trail being kicked up. Floating in the sky are the words '"wizard car" by viv g'.
Panel 2: a close up of a bearded person's face. They are wearing a big shaded hat and slightly oversized sunglasses balanced on their knobbly nose. Reflected in the sunglasses are the broken down car from panel 1 (with the hood popped open and apparently no wheels), and a look further down the road towards the oncoming dust cloud.
Panel 3: a close-up of what appears to be a motorbike, with a jumpsuited person wearing gloves riding it (and fast). The motorbike(?) has a strange inscription on the side, and no front wheel is visible - instead, a cylinder is mounted underneath in a bracket, with what appears to be woodgrain on the end of that cylinder.

A knockoff Kasane Teto plush (usually a girl with red twin-drill hair in an idol singer's outfit, but the knockoff has pink instead) is in a situation, sitting clasped in the maw of a giant planet toy with a horned mouth. This oversized toy is of the monster planet Transformers, Unicron. Surrounding this toy is a number of plushies, statuettes, and other far smaller figures, plus a flag of blue and pink and white, slightly softening the existential dread of such a large product made entirely of processed petroleum.

A tile-top table, displayed in a glass case in the V&A museum

A red-haired girl in a denim-heavy outfit taking a mirror selfie. It is smiling and holding up a peace sign. There is a pink carabiner on her belt, dark denim jeans, a yellow shirt and lighter denim jacket over the top.

A photo of a game of Root in progress. Several small miniature pieces representing animals are strewn about the board, including orange cats at the focus, red rats, and a single purple crow.

A terribly drawn comic, on paper, with a toy head on the edge.
Panel 1: "le me" is slouching in a bad chair (that she has wanted to replace since 2020). She is thinking over "your participation is compul(newline)sory" from the Make A Terrible Comic Day requirements.
Panel 2: le me says "lots of things in this life are compulsory huh". the desk she is sitting at is visible, with a laptop, a second monitor, and a toy.
Panel 3: le me is perched over the subsequent panel, looking over a number of things that can happen in a life. she is joined by the toy from the previous panel, which is established as "T30 nightbeat customised by le me's pal~". This is the source of the toy head mentioned initially, which is placed right next to the in-comic Nightbeat.
Panel 4: a long diagonal panel segmented into various moments from le me's life. they include looking at (and deciding against) glasses, two people standing at a grave, holding a baby (labeled "good thing (rare)"), waiting at the doctor's, and filling out tax forms while seeing a news story of yet another set of people being killed indiscriminately by bombing (labeled "(paid for that...)").
Panel 5: in the space under the long diagonal panel, a series of moments of processing various emotions, concluding with ending up in bed and thinking asemic thoughts.
Panel 6: Back to le me at the desk. she looks over, with her gay little hand limping forward, at the toy on it. She says "what do you think, nightbeat?"
Panel 7: A closeup of Nightbeat's face, in which le me is visible in the visor's reflection. He is labeled, without speech bubble (to indicate that it is thought within le me) "Isn't it nice that this compul(newline)sory thing is nice?", with the last word heavily underlined.
Panel 8: le me is sweating a little while looking away in the chair. Nightbeat continues to be captioned "Also don't talk to toys. You know I'm not real. And I don't have lif-"
Panel 9: le me screams "OK I GET IT" which cuts off the previous text.

Model sheet of robot girl named "viv beepboop". Not quite passing as human - orange hair, aquamarine v-neck, blue pinnafore, and pink waist ribbon and boots, but panel lines on its relatively light skin and diamond-shaped face mask. This mask can be lifted up or taken off; a human-ish face with a series of technical ports is underneath.

An image of the characters Metal Sonic and Amy Rose standing in a black void, in a spotlight in the shape of a keyhole. They are in the style of Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers, which this is an anniversary image for; it says "1 year of Ring Racers" at the top and "24/4/24 - 24/4/25" at the bottom.

Amy Rose has a goofy look of concentration on her face while shaking a magenta Spray Can in a blur with one hand (with SHK SHK onomatepeia) and holding Metal's wrist up with the other. She has attempted to give the robot nail paint, which has turned out particularly messy on the other hand.

It is unclear whether Metal Sonic is furious, pleased, or embarassed by these shenanigans, because its facial expression is permanently in a scowl. All we can see externally is that Metal is looking at the camera and lifting up their (poorly) painted nails closer to it, and that there are droplets on the side of its head which resemble sweat (except they are also magenta). It, against all odds, seems to be on its best behaviour(?)

A panel, from an official IDW issue, of Perceptor and Minimus Ambus putting Rodimus on a Matrix-powered crucifix. I've known writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

A battle scene of figures in the style of Transformers Armada, including the following from the Legacy (2022-2025) lineup:
- Optimus Prime (stock, with the trailer in base mode)
- Hot Shot (wheels swapped for black from the Powerlinx redeco)
- Jolt (stock)
- Megatron (toyhax'd)
- Starscream (painted wing, chest, and leg detail)
- Wheeljack (white hands, hips, and feet, and gold biceps and collarbone)

In addition, the original Street Action Minicon team is posed on the base, and an entirely custom Armada Sideways repaint from Legacy Animated Prowl is in the back - travelling through a Marvel Legends Doctor Strange portal, notably used by reviewer PrimeVSPrime to represent dimensional travel.

Tidal Wave would be present were he not too big for my desk.

A feminine robot that looks very much like a red-haired human wearing slightly bizzare clothing takes a fighting stance - one hand ready to chop, and another clenched in a fist.

The bizzare clothing includes a four/five pointed mask, with a single eye and a toothy grin projected upon its surface, and headphones with little winglets. The robot's colour palette includes lime green, multiple shades of blue, and pink.

In a somewhat sketchy style, coloured but faded: A robot that looks very human, but not quite, is lounging sideways in a chair at a table and eating a burger one-handed, poking one pinkie up.

The robot has light nougat skin, orange shoulder-length fluffy hair with spikes at the front, a green shirt with a fresh burger-sauce stain, and blue skirt. It looks quite feminine, with green-blue fingernails - but a few features betray it. A single sharp fang digs into the burger. One eye flickers like a display and has an unaturally aqua-green iris. And the other eye is a series of computer ports.

It is resting one elbow on a table, with the empty hand autistically dangling forward and closed. This table has an empty burger box labeled "BURG", a glass of a colourless, slightly bubbly liquid - possibly water or lemonade - and a strange headset, balanced between two blue wings and the bottom point of an equilateral diamond screen. The headset also has pink earmuffs. This headset is the robot's; she took it off in order to eat.

A screenshot of the LEGO.com web store, featuring 21331 LEGO "Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone", a recreation of the side-scrolling level from the 1991 video game, available for £69.99. According to user reviews, the product has been rated 4.6 stars out of 5. A little yellow rectangle in the top right contains the words "Retiring soon".

The title screen of "Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers". The classic character designs of Sonic characters "Tails" and "Dr Eggman" (also known as "Dr Robotnik) are posing above the name. In the bottom right hand corner, the development team "KARTKREW" is acknowledged, as is "SEGA".

A screenshot of the Bricklink Studio digital design software, which can be used to build with LEGO pieces on a computer. The viewport is an angled shot of the original "Sonic Mania" themed pitch for LEGO Ideas 21331 Sonic the Hedgehog, loaded as "lego_sonicmania_concept_jan2020.io".

In addition to Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr Eggman, and the Green Hill Zone modules, this rendition includes two "Hard Boiled Heavies" characters, Motobug, and three flickies, all built out of LEGO pieces.

Two black & white binary-tool sketch depictions of the same feminine robot character, who looks like a slightly rounded woman with fluffy shoulder-length hair, panel lining on the skin, and a diamond-shaped mask with a face projected on it. Her clothing includes a t-shirt with a shoulder strap pinnafore dress over it, and a ribbon around the pinched part of the waist.

The depiction on the left is captioned "How you think you look when laughing", and has the robot character posed somewhat dignified. She has one hand up folded towards her chest, and the face projected on her mask has its visible eye closed, light watering at the corners of the eyes, and a slightly open mouth. Next to her, the text "ufufu~" is written to represent a small laugh.

The depiction on the right is captioned "How you actually look". She is bent over double and wheezing, represented by a sequence of capital H's near her head. The quality of the image is explicitly lesser, signalling a loss of composure.