Here’s my piece for the Cybertron Wants You zine from @rbzines , and a quick doodle to add to this below:
Honestly grateful for the opportunity to do this. I have this silly headcanon that the Wreckers wouldve had recruitment posters or magazines with pin-ups of their members.. “for morale boost” and to fund for the war effort. (they’d sell well ngl)
And ofc Brainstorm collected the ones with Percy on it.
Mamma Mia but it’s about an assassin who can’t remember which billionaire CEO they was sent to kill at a business conference and they can’t tell the difference between them because all the CEOs look like bog standard James Bond villains.
Banger, a hit post.
You understand theming and storytelling well. I enjoy your brain.
magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.
because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!
needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture
due to the fact that both magics react with basically all of the electromagnetic spectrum - not just the visible light part of it - dark magic is enormously useful for radiation protection (uv-eating spellwork as sunscreen, anyone?), but also has the slightly uncomfortable effect of eating infared as well - which does have the effect of making areas around powerful or prolonged dark magic uncomfortably chilly.
nothing that a nice fur coat or enchanted light-magic IR-emitting lamps can’t fix!
This looks like a shitpost but it’s actually solid advice, like, if you want to achieve a goal you have to pace yourself and be patient instead of expecting too much too soon and then giving up
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August 20, 2023
