Drift! The Samurai Cowboy!

He's kinda spindly, ain't he?

Sketchjunk

Some of my drawings from the past few weeks, or at least the most presentable ones. I have a growing soft spot for Cosmos, it seems.

What in the Heck is that Accent?

Let's talk about Cosmos. More specifically, his voice and accent.

It is not Spanish. It's just not. I should know; I live in California in a Spanish-Speaking neighborhood, I immigrated to America from Chile, South America, whose dominant language is Spanish, and every single one of my family members is fluent in Spanish. I know from first-hand what a Spanish Accent sounds like, and Cosmos does not have a Spanish Accent. So what accent is it?

(Many thanks to Lilformers for the image)

I say it's Transylvanian. The first time I heard Cosmos speak was in 'Prime Target', where he warned Optimus that the search party sent out for Bumblebee and Tracks had been captured and tortured (Ironically enough, this is an episode that also features Beachcomber in a speaking role. +1 fangirl point). 

I thought he sounded a little like Igor, from the Frankenstein movies and parodies. Not as over-the-top and lispy, though. A nice, toned down sort of accent that helped distinguish him from just about everyone else. I also thought that his nasally vowels and half-closed throat were nice touches and a really great voice for the kind of character he is in G1; a lonely guy with a boring job and no people skills whatsoever.

But what about Animated Cosmos?

One thing's for sure, that little guy is adorable as a... really really cute thing. No, scratch that, he is cuter than a really really cute thing. Oh, wait, I've changed my mind; ANIMATED COSMOS IS THE ABSOLUTE MOST ADORABLE THING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AND ALL OF EXISTENCE END OF STORY. So what kind of voice do you give him? 

Do you give him a cutesy, childish voice?

 Do you give him the same voice as G1 for juxtaposition? 

Do you just let him meep and make small sounds?

Or do you just not give him a voice at all?

Where I stand, I say give an accent similar to the one he had with Michael McConnohie voicing him, but add some of the childish flare and a bit of a 'my-tongue-is-too-big-for-my-mouth' sort of lisp. That's my two cents. What do you guys think?

HATS!

Okay, so since Uncle Derrick is advertising my hat making capabilities on Formspring, here is the low down on what I do!

Hats for RP Characters:

These types of images and hats are 100% FREE. You can have them just by asking what character you want and what kind of hat.

Hats for Real People:

In order to get one of these, you have to give me a clear reference of your face and the kind of hat you want. These hat drawings are US$1


The word on HELMETS.

Since helmets are more complex, and it's a little bit more difficult for me to draw someone's face without any hair surrounding it, these are US$2.


Actual real-life hats?
... uh... No.

SO THAT'S IT.

For those of you who want to know my address to send me the money for your hat, you'll have to email me about it. My email's on my profile!

Tickle Fight!

Sometimes you just can't convey an emotion as pure and wholesome as this, but when you do, you try to conserve it as much as you can. :3

I have guilt.

I prefer big toys to small toys. Apparently this makes me a horrible person.

I really don't see why it's a bad thing to like big toys over small toys. When I was younger I always shoved my smaller toys into the corner of the toy bag (I didn't have a toy box because those were too big for my trailer house) and played with my Barbies instead, since those were bigger than my hand and easier to hold.

A bit earlier I actually got kinda angry and decided that I hated small toys and wanted them all to burn in an incinerator. I quickly learned the error of my ways after some people on Twitter decided to treat it as though I was breaking some sort of law. I don't hate hate them anymore, but I still prefer big toys over small toys. I don't even WANT any small toys in my collection, simply because I like big toys better.

Of course, there will be exceptions to the rule. Cosmos anyone?

Swindle's New Fancy Hat

Uncle Derrick got bummed, so I made this to cheer him up!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT

BEACHCOMBER WOULD NEVER ABANDON COSMOS BUT THEN IT HAPPENED IN THE RP AND GAAAAAAAHHH

*crai*

Path Finder!

"Cosmos's little buddy!" -Derrick J. Wyatt, somewhere in the recesses of Formspring.

Stupid Drawing

I just got back from a boring party so I was grumpy, made this to cheer myself up.

Can I tell you a secret?

Sparks don't actually work that way.

My cat.

Every day there's this adorable little androgynous greenish-brown cat that claws at my screen door begging to come inside and get some love. I can't let it inside because mom says she's smelly and sick, but that actually gives me MORE reason to want to get it inside because if he's sick then I want to take care of him until it feels better and if she's just smelly then I wanna give her a nice bath! Besides, I love messing with pronouns whenever I talk about it.

I give it food and water and stuff, but the food and water always gets infected by the time I get home because of flies and other bugs getting to it, but my mom doesn't want me to even let the cat into the GARAGE she hates it that much. It makes me feel really bad, and I wanna give her some better treatment, but momma's always NO DON'T DO THAT YOU'LL MAKE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH IT.

At least she let me name him. His name is Zinfandel.

Uncle Derrick!

He has HAIR!

Phoneline

For some reason I'm deathly afraid of talking to someone, ANYONE, through the telephone or some other sort of telephone-like tool, like SKYPE. that's one of the main reasons I'm not GETTING a Skype. I've spent years of my childhood only answering the phone to get someone asking for my mom and/or telemarketers, so for the longest time I would just not answer the phone at all.

But then when it came around to people actually wanting to talk to ME on the phone, I panicked. I always keep phone conversations short as I can, and when telemarketers come around I just tell them my dad's dead and they shut up and I hang up. Just now I was supposed to be talking to ATT about my internet connection, because it constantly dies on me late in the day, and only 3 minutes in I was panicking and asking to start over because I had no idea what was happening and I was practically tossed into the Hollywood Tower of Terror I was so nervous. My mom had to take over for me and talk to an agent because of her accent.

So here is a blog.

Yes, a blog. According to my DeviantART journal, people wanted me to do it. I don't really know why, but I'll cave and get one anyway. Let's see if this will last.

But just to get this blog kick-started, have some Rin Kagamine, FVR style.