I write a lot about Transformers

My Transformers Side Blog + Trans Misfire header by @tonytheweirdkid + Middle Aged lol + Trans Man + Asexual + UK + Invisible Disabilities + KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/earthstellium + AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Capricorn_Stellium/works

[earthstellar]

Master Post of All My Transformers Analysis Posts and Essays!

Since I just realised I make a ton of these, and my Transformers analysis posts tend to be my most popular content, I figured I’d make it easy on people to find anything they might be interested in. 

I’ll update this regularly as I make more essays and analysis posts! :) 

Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :) 

27 July 2023: This list requires some updates-- I’m working on it! :) 

Listed in order from most recent to oldest:

Language and Communication 

TFP: Ratchet and Raf: Teaching Language is Teaching Culture

TFP Cybertronian Linguistics: Soundwave and Multimodal Communications

Various TF Media: Chirolinguistics and Cybertronian Sign Language + Disability in Cybertronian Culture

Language in TFP

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Medical Analysis

Earthspark: Hashtag and Starscream’s PTSD

IDW 1: Drift and Rodimus: How to Approach a Hallucinating Ratchet 

IDW 1: Pharma, The DJD, and Psychological Resilience 

The Ecosocial Theory of Embodiment As Applied to Cybertronians

MTMTE / Lost Light: Velocity and Gaining Experience as a Medic 

MTMTE Analysis: Ratchet, Tailgate, and Cyclonus - Foreshadowing, Delivering Difficult News, and Receiving It

TFP Bulkhead’s Wrecking Ball Fists and Real World Industrial Drilling Bits

Cybertronian Medical Conditions, Classifications, and Causatives

IDW 1 Ratchet and Potential Pharmaceutical Abuse

TFP, IDW 1, and TFA: Cybertronian Cultural and Medical Distinctions Regarding the Physical Form 

Various TF Media, TFP, and TFA: What Are Cybertronians Made Of? Nanites and Human Equivalents (Uses my own FBC blood test results as example case study.) 

IDW 1 Rung and Cybertronian Psychology + Psychiatric Medical Practice in Canon

IDW 1: Tailgate and Stages of Cybertronian Development 

G1 - Basic Cybertronian Structural Anatomy (Storyboard Analysis) 

Various TF Media: Potential Risks to Cybertronian Health on Earth 

G1 Marvel Comics - Sleep, Stress, Syncope, Trauma, and Cybertronians

TFP - Cybertronian Medical Ethics and Best Practice Standards 

IDW 1 - Drift’s Tendency to Rely on Interpersonal Relationships for Sense of Self-Concept and Self-Identity 

TFP - Megatron and How Dark Energon Affects Him Psychologically 

TFP - Ratchet and the Use of Real World Psychological First Aid Techniques to Reassure Miko 

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Politics, Society, and Culture 

IDW 2: Codexa and Going Immersant

IDW 1: Cybertronian Facial Markings: Spirituality and Grief 

TFP: Cybertron and the Functionist Indoctrination of Youth: Smokescreen and Ratchet

IDW 1 Beginning of the Decepticon Movement + Real World “Fire and Rehire” Workplace Abuses 

IDW 1 Folklore and Folk Magic in the Mines of Kaon

IDW 1 The Differences Between the Leadership Styles of Optimus and Rodimus

IDW 1 - Differences Between Optimus and Rodimus (Additional Commentary)

IDW 1 Cyclonus and Cybertronian Music History 

TFP - The Cybertronian Class System 

TFP / Aligned Continuity: The Nature of the Autobot/Decepticon Conflict 

IDW 1 - Interpreting “Same Face Syndrome” in Comic Art in an In-Universe Context: Drift and the Circle of Light 

TFP - The Timescale of Cybertronian History: How old is Cybertron and the oldest Cybertronians when compared to Earth and Humanity?

IDW 1 - Whirl and the Baby Scraplet: Semiotic Analysis 

IDW 1 - Exploring the Concept of Primal Lineage 

Holiday Special: Cybertronian Holidays and Celebrations

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Cybertronians and Humanity

TFP: What if Cybertronians Never Adapted to Working With Humans? 

IDW 1 / TFP: Cybertronians and their View of Human Beings

TFP: Ratchet’s Assumptions about Human Capabilities 

G1 - When Bots Influence the Development of Other Civilisations 

TFA - Isaac Sumdak and Depictions of Human Aging in Animation

TFP - Ratchet and Raf: The Effect of War on Children 

TFP: Cybertronians and Road Rules / Vehicle Safety on Earth 

TFP: Ratchet’s Science Projects and his Memories of Cybertron

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Miscellaneous 

TFP: Quintus Prime and the Quintessons: Colonialism in Space 

Earthspark - Optimus Prime’s Face Shield and Audience Accessibility 

TFP: Ratchet and Bulkhead: Comic Cover Analysis 

IDW 1: The Characterisation of Cop!Optimus and Revolutionary!Megatron - Analysing Audience Response 

IDW 1 The Autobot Code 

Meta Analysis: Hasbro’s Anti-Union Hiring Practices 

Meta Analysis: The Influence of Eastern European Sci-Fi Media on Western Sci-Fi (Including Transformers) 

G1: Character Designs Inspired by Real World Fashion Patterns 

G1 - Spike Witwicky’s Design vs Real World Fashion Pattern

G1: Transformers in Human Form: Character Design vs Real World Fashion Patterns

TFP - Kaonian Culture vs Real World Punk Scene

G1 Cybertron’s Colony World: Paradron 

TFP - Orion Pax’s Cybertronian Design Analysis

Meta Analysis: The US Military’s Involvement in the Cybertronian Presence on Earth and in Real World TF Media Project Funding and Production 

Meta Analysis: Iconic Music from Various Transformers Media (With Links to Audio)

IDW 1 / Meta Analysis: The Implications of Megatron Being Left Handed 

IDW 1 - One Sentence Analysis of Drift’s Character Development Arc as Biblical Narrative 

TFP - Miko and the Humans: Character Design and Development Discussion + Basic Character Building Workshop

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Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :)

(Bonus: Here’s the start of my TFP Russia AU concept, which is still in the works, the past few months have been...intense, lmao, but updates are being worked on!) 

Bonus 2: Here’s my master list of Transformers media available on the Internet Archive! Content is included from across a wide range of Transformers franchises/media. 

[largecatsphantasia]

"Till our paths cross again."

IDW Megatron crosses paths with Orion Pax before his next death match.

[astralzeraphias]

i was happy.

[sryfoekillingtheyeast]

silly doodles

If Drift can weld

[limesareyellow]

I do like the concept of Ratchet being terrible at holding his EM field.

[chamom1le-t3a]

plump juicy optiratch dump for those in my inbox

[bugswags]

Translations. Last panel translates to “ good job “ :-]

Too lazy to properly translate so here’s the ancient autobot alphabet thing (under cut)

[transformers-earthspark]

I'll work on a more complete list of sources tomorrow, but for now here is a Google Drive with the Season 4 episodes!

[earthstellar]

I’m still homeless right now so I am in crisis and barely surviving as a disabled person lmao but while I am still on Dying Homeless Hiatus at the moment, I just want to stop by and say that I CANNOT BELIEVE WE FINALLY GOT MAGENTA HOT ROD DESIGNED BY NICK ROCHE IN A NEW ANIMATED SERIES AND THEN THEY DID *THIS* TO THE SHOW

anyway everyone wish me luck so I can return more regularly to posting because oh my god do I have things to say, I just need to try to stay alive long enough to say it lol

[parad0xart]

HEHHEHEE MY PIECE FOR @novafire-is-thinking’s @tf-bigbang fic, How Pharma Got His Hand’s Back, which yall can read here!

Very honored to have been able to work on it! Go read it for the full context of this scene!!

[pinetreevillain]

When u discover ur employee writes self insert fanfic about one of your old coworkers

@spectra-bear told me about First Aid’s crush on Springer

[pignk]

It would be funny if the au just takes the same storyline as the show but just change some background and characters design. Imagine if the base is by the cliff near the sea, my man Fowler would’ve been the first guy who jump and swim down there where the mermaid autobots are lmao

[weatherbane3]

Hello Naughty Children, It’s Feelings Time (aka what if Max got to confront Prowl, like he’d wanted to)

[nanopsy3]

Leading them astray with his silver tongue

[madamadamiu]

Just another brick in the wall.

[drill-bits]

The Big Whammy (reveal)

Those first few panels have been deemed “child of divorce ass shit”

THERE’S A LOT OF EVENTS AND SCENES AND STUFF AND CRAP i have planned and think about and i have to remember that part of the process is actually drawing them and then sharing the important story beats so that people understand them.

Anyway, this should answer/clear up a LOT of confusion for folks now.

🎉

Masterpost

[dezmolad]

Your doc does this right before performing a surgery on you what is your next move

[earthstellar]

Fun fact, I do actually know a surgeon with arthritis who has adjusted hours and self-limited his practice to surgeries/procedures less than 3 hours long.

So this is a real thing! Except instead of hammering his servos, he applies anti inflammatory cream to his joints. He has a ton of non-latex sterile gloves because they don’t stick to his hand cream as much, evidently.

But yes. Medical work includes accommodations for disabled medical professionals. :)

And Ratchet qualifies! 💖

[drill-bits]

baby says “frag” for the first time. drifts head slowly turns.

everyone starts running for their life

“‘I don’t swear in front of Spectra’, huh?”

“Oh PLEASE. Don’t give me that slag, you know exactly who you’re talking to.”