notwhelmedyet:

Say you’re a bot on the Lost Light and you wanna tell your friend something. Lucky you, you’ve got a lot of options!

Hook up a brain-to-brain cable and share info directly from your brain to theirs

this is a cerebrostream of supercompressed visual data

Meet up in person and talk – in Neo-Cybex, Old
Cybertronian (if your friend is Rewind, Cyclonus or otherwise super
ancient) or Hand (if your friend is Drift, Getaway or otherwise speaks
Hand)

Engrave your message onto your body and stand in front of them (character limit fairly low)

Send info from your brain directly to theirs over the internet (what could possibly go wrong?)

This is called a remote upload, but you’re gonna need to get your friend’s neuro-coordinates first.

Put your information on a datastick. Give it to your friend and have them plug it into their head. Problem solved!

Alternatively, they can take the data stick home and look at your message on the console in their habsuite.

Write them a memo. Send it. (This is basically email)

May seem kinda stodgy unless you’re sending official ship’s business. Rodimus never reads these.

Write them a message and send it. (This is basically texting)

Comm them. (This is basically calling, I think)

now with extra bonus communication method: acquiring paper and writing that shit longhand!

Program a message into one of your datapads and have someone deliver it. (Great option if you’re shy!)

Inter-Autobot Radio

Only gonna work if you and your friends are autobots, though. I think that all autobots within range who are monitoring the frequency will be able to overhear. What is the range? who knows

Subspace Messages – a great option if your friend is on Cybertron whilst you’re in space.

Upside: you get to wear awesome headphones that make you look like you’re a podcaster/professional radio host. Downside: subspace communicator frequently broken, you need their personal hailing frequency.

Just get some paint and write them a friendly note on their door! Note – you may be cited for vandalism.

yeah, a nice, friendly, fun message between pals. Just like the example below.

Assemble a video for your friend, give it to Rewind and ask him to project it for your friend. (you may have to buy Rewind a drink, he’s a busy guy. But if you’re talking history or old cultural shit he’ll probably do it for free)

did I miss a thing? I probably missed a thing.

things I haven’t seen evidence for in mtmte but come up in fics: actual telepathy (that’s only soundwave, right?), empathic field reading, transmitting messages via visual glyphs telepathically