So you know me as a Transformers fanatic, but I'm equally obsessed about LANGUAGES.
I was playing with the idea of offering anybody online tutoring or being a study buddy for whatever language (I've studied a ridiculous amount). Cost? Whatever you feel like.
This would be to raise money to pay the artists of my Transformers: Prime choose-your-own-adventure story. Payment can be after the lesson on the project's Ko-Fi or GoFundMe.
I have a uni degree in languages and cultures and have done some freelance Swedish tutoring for a company. English, Swedish, French, Japanese, Spanish, and German are some of my most comfortable languages but just message me about anything you're interested in. If you need help tackling tricky grammar, help remembering vocabulary, studying for a test, conversation practice... I am here for you and have a lot of study materials on hand!
Well, it's been quite the roller coaster for us. 2024 & 2025 has been a very difficult journey and it's still is but it's manageable now. It's also been a journey for my spouse, we've been very difficult to deal with, we've bet. However, they have been sticking with us. We've finally figured out what's wrong with us, and we've taken the necessary options that are needed for this ongoing issue with our mental health. One that we hope does not set our destiny in stone. This issue has hurt our abilities to draw and dish out doodles for friends, and for ourselves.
With everything that has been happening in America, has been very hard and while we are citizens, the colour of our skin may put that into question. We are native to our state, a natural born citizen but our skin colour makes us feel like we don't belong. While work has been an issue it has definitely made it difficult to raise our voices in protest. We hope we can make a difference in protesting for a couple of hours that we can spare, or even stepping in and risking our own lifestyle in order to protect others. We do not like to be violent and we hope that we won't use our abilities to hurt again. It's crucial that kindness be our voice not violence, using our voice to pled for reason to the ignorant.
Our kindness dwindles but we are hanging in there. Our love to transformers is still there it's still our therapy.
In these times we need to be kind to one another, please spread it, cherish it. Be patient with others and to yourselves, it goes a very long way. -Elyza
Please read as though you are reading a Manga. This is the opening part of the comic, you get a choice to accept or reject. Links to those options is below.
Fan-fiction for Transformers Mercy by Emperor Kumquat.
My render for the TFRB Villains Zine! @turbofox-zines (crazy late ik 😭)
Raw version of the render too & some wips/related morocco content because why not:
used my techno-organic version as a placeholder before I fixed up the final model lol.
As always, Transformers: Mercy belongs to @emperor-kumquat!
Helex, Kaon, and Tesarus’ designs belong to @cuppajj :)
Starting with Overlord as always! Rendering this was absolute agony but the color palettes on every single character are amazing and AUGH HE TURNED OUT SO GOOD I’M SO HAPPY
Plus bonus pink eyed Overlord because once again that color palette is 🤌🤌🤌
Doodle pages because I have been drawing this mf nonstop. Despite how many Overlords there are are I might actually be more obsessed with Helex (plus obligatory Long Trepan because there are too many cat references in Mercy for me not to make a cat joke)
I didn’t know until recently that Trepan’s name is a reference to trepanation, which is a surgery very similar to a lobotomy. That is absolutely hysterical to me why do the medics/doctors in TF always have such unhinged names
"Public domain Sunder" outside of Tumblr (How my project art runs away)
This is NOT a general Sunder! As cool as he looks, he belongs to me and Mynametia/ Inishira (Instagram)!
I want to talk about how reposted art causes harm. It has been stressful to see and I hope fellow artists can sympathize or empathize. And please, if you base art off this Sunder, credit the project Transformers: Mercy!
Firstly, I've heard both "you're niche and unknown" or "you have a big following so watch your mouth"
It feels mean either way... :( Like the jab takes whatever stance is most convenient.
Bottom line: I don't consider myself special. I am just a very hard worker. The only reason I have gotten as far as I have was my hours of daily work for years on my project and YouTube channel.
I am awed when I reflect on how far I have come. Growing my social media platforms, working with 100 different artists from all over the world, commissioning comic artists like Alex Milne and Livio Ramondelli for posters, getting interviewed, collabing, or having shoutouts on other YouTube channels, sitting on panels at TFcon in front of hundreds (although it was t e r r i f y i n g) and getting to talk to them about Transformers: Mercy! And this year, I will be selling Mercy merch at a table at TFcon in the art gallery!
So I don't think I am niche anymore... I don't think my project Transformers: Mercy is. Over the years it has become very widespread with art posted on blogs across social media platforms. As I will discuss, maybe too widespread in one wrong way.
But... there is a long way to go to completing the project. I have about 1000 images now. That's insane! This is no tiny lil project. And I am gunning for 1000s more to make this TFP fan-made sequel. But, I have to pay so so much out of pocket despite making less than minimum wage most months. I need a lot of support to make this big dream possible. Thank you to all who have already helped me thus far.
I think I am just writing this post to clear the air. I am honoured deeply by fanart or fanfictions or fan animations people have created for Transformers: Mercy. It is very motivating and heartwarming and helps me keep up the pace of working hours every day on this project.
I don't mind inspiration being taken from my work. It is an honour. My project draws inspiration from James Roberts' MTMTE and would be nothing without his appealing takes on characters. We may critique MTMTE but where would we be without his Whirl, Rodimus, Drift, Ratchet, Pharma, Cyclonus, Tailgate, Chromedome, Rewind, Swerve, Overlord, DJD, etc.? I carried on from him, others may carry on from me.
A while back, I never meant offence when pointing out one animation of Sunder had features that looked eerily similar (to me) to the Sunder of my game. The reason I got a jolt of horror stems from the fact that this project has fallen victim to reposts on places like Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, the fan wiki, and other TF forums with zero credit to me or the artists. The growing popularity of Mercy art has also caused it to appear in general searches for IDW or TFP characters. This is why if you search "Transformers Sunder concept art" you are likely to see Mercy Sunder right there but uncredited. So you would see our art but not know what it was for. And Mynametia/Inishira (the artist) did such a good job that it even looks like IDW concept art. It can be mistaken for official content.
But it's not. It was created for my project with very specific features to match my story. A project which costs so much of my time and money and it needs all the donations it can get. It is loses support when its art becomes popular with no tie back to this project. It is still a project in development and is therefore vulnerable.
Transformers: Mercy, after all the years, has become a famous project. But it is a struggling project due to the high financial cost. It is made with ok not blood, but real sweat and tears as I have pushed so hard to make it this far. It has been emotional. It even brought me the love of my life, my spouse.
I want to continue to work on it, the largest Transformers fan project that I believe has ever been attempted. But I need that support, that credit. It hurts when I use google/another search engine and search "Transformers Sunder concept art" and see our work totally visible to the public and not at all attached to Mercy. It then jumpscares me to see other people creating something that looks just like my creations. I see fanart that uses the face of my ghoul Sunder, the one-eyed purple-eyed version with a gaping black pit where the other eye should have been with a small white light within (or the other specific features I requested for Mercy Sunder).
It feels like my ideas are running away from me.
I do not believe anything was done with intent to harm or any malice or spite. I did not believe my project art had been knowingly stolen by any animator or fan artist of Sunder. But when I wrote my post in response to one animation, I did believe that Mercy Sunder had been seen and used as an inspiration because he does appear in general Sunder searches on the Internet. So this is where I came from and why I felt compelled to step in at the time.
I hope I have expressed myself better than last time and I just would like to voice that not this artist/ animator I first reblogged, but other people have reposted Mercy Sunder and caused him to become like.... public domain? Please, I just want it to be known that what you see on search engines, forums, wikis.... was taken from my project. Please do not base your Sunders on that art without crediting Transformers: Mercy and Inishira (Instagram or X).
I hope all the artists here can imagine the feeling of distress I feel seeing credit and support fly away from me and that talented artist, Inishira (who designed Mercy Overlord, Sunder, Crankcase, Fulcrum, Misfire, Krok, Spinister, Waspinator (bug form), and angel Starscream).
I don't want drama or a public back and forth. I seek amicable relationships going forth. Please be very mindful and go back to add in credits if you realize you used this Sunder design as a reference!
Remember when Prime Animation didn't believe Orbital wasn't racist, homophobic, transphobic and a bully? I do and many other youtubers and artists that called it out. There are a lot of comments on Prime Animations Youtube community feed.
I just wanted to post a proof that Prime Animation does read his comments and deletes them. Thanks to a friend who asked to show them the proof. Here's the comment:
I have since changed my youtube account name, but I still have the screenshot. Here:
This was screenshot on January 12, 2023. Here are the others that were delete by Carlos:
I really think Carlos needs to take accountability, and apologize to all who he deleted the comments to who tried to tell him Orbital was a terrible person, the artists that worked on the project that tried to warn him and to the voice actors who were harassed by Orbital. It's the right thing to do! It's not political!!! Be the change for a kinder future, apologizing is a small step toward making a difference.
I know I haven't really said anything recently but I'd just like to say to all my fellow people in the US that are devastated by the election results rn we have to keep fighting even tho it's going to be so much harder now, we can't just roll over and die like they want us to, we can't let them legislate us away like they want to, we can't let them control us like they want to, we have to stand and fight together, we have to hold out hope that somehow there'll be a tidal wave of ballots that will flip it however sadly unlikely it may be, and if the Nazi Cheeto does fully win, we have to fight tooth and nail harder than we probably ever had to before to just stay alive, I know it'll be hard, I've already cried my eyes out at the possibility of so many of my friends and family losing their rights and myself included losing my rights but we can't give up now, we must fight
If you have lgbtqia+ friends and you voted for Trump ... you are not an ally.
Let's be real.
The man ran anti-trans adds bashing they/them to the tune of millions of dollars.
He has vowed to toss out gender affirming care - not just in the prison system or for people under the age of 18.
Last presidency, he appointed anti lgbtq judges and banned trans service in the military.
The list goes on - do your research on actual legislation and the people around him that he supports and who support him.
If you have women in your life and you voted for Trump, you are not an ally there either.
He appointed the justices who helped overturn Roe v Wade. He boasts about it. This has led to insane and restrictive abortion bans across the country. Go listen to real women's stories who this has affected. Listen to practicing OBGYN doctors across the nation who are scared.
Think to yourself, why the fuck do men even get a say in your reproductive rights? Especially men who are smuggly propetuating sentiments like "your body, my choice" after this election.
These men support Trump. They feel so comfortable right now.
You are supporting a sexual abuser. Not just alleged but a man who has been held liable for sexual abuse.
His allies peddle outright sexism and rape culture, and he does not condemn it. He's a fucking blatant misogynist.
You don't get to force unwanted "protection" on women ... you are not a knight in shining armor. Don't want it. Don't need it.
I'm so sick of the hyperbole excuses. On all matters.
Do I even need to talk about global climate issues? Racism? China? Immigration? On and on and on.
You would do anything for your family or loved ones? Wouldn't you? I bet you would. You were just lucky enough not to be born on that side of the coin. Be thankful you don't have to constantly worry about the safety of your family to a degree that you need to flee your own country.
They are people. Everyone that I am talking about are actual human lives. Women are dying. Trans people are taking their own lifes. I know we can't help everyone. Or maybe we could. Idk.
Maybe it's boring and you're taking everything at face value.
Maybe you think it's not that bad.
I hope it's not as bad as it seems.
Or maybe you are anti-human rights, misogynistic or internalized misogynistic, bigoted, anti-lgbtqia+, racist ...
Idfk.
And to those who hide it ... don't you ever consider why you feel enough shame to hide it? If you are so solid and sure in your beliefs, why are you not willing to sit openly and speak about it. I am not saying anyone has to. There is a reason it's anonymous. I'm just saying, consider why you don't feel comfortable sharing.
I personally would really like to understand the thought process. It's your choice. That's the beauty of democracy.
I do wish people would stop saying friendships or family ties should not be broken over it. That it's disrespectful to excommunicate over politics. That's also a choice. I will respect your choices, but it does not mean I have to continue to have you in my life because you are not my ally and you do not value me.
I am a gay trans immigrant in a deep red state in America. I came here for my partner's sake and have been making the best of it. The culture shock was hard, coming from Canada. In fact, we loved mocking Americans back home so it was hard for me to even like Americans. My instinct was to judge them as stupid. But it is never fair to judge people as all the same for something they can't help like nationality.
Each day, I looked for the goodness in the hearts of Americans. I tried to see that we weren't so different. I started to meet neighbours while taking care of the stray cats. I began volunteering at the city's animal shelter to start making a change. I wanted to see other good people and feel kinship.
Seeing the election results has just... hurt me. I feel so betrayed. I step outside and now know more than half of the adults out there don't care about what happens to me. I will work alongside volunteers, wondering if any of them voted for Trump. I will watch them do good deeds for animals, and wonder, how could you vote for someone who hurt people and the planet?
People in America will lose their rights. Women, immigrants, LGBTQ+, the disabled, and minorities across the board. Wars will be funded and slaughter will increase in other countries. Pollution will skyrocket with Republicans and their love of cars and oil. That affects everyone... Haven't we had enough forest fires and storms? We cannot deny climate change any longer.
I am not running away yet. I am staying. I will not be silent. I will be openly trans. They don't see us enough. They think we are boogeymen. They don't even know us. This is why it is so important to have a Pride flag and wear Pride things. We will not hide and be scared and ashamed. We will not be erased and keep hearing lies about us from the hateful ignorant.
I will protest alone with signs. And if or when things get really bad. I will be LOUD.
Fuck everyone who voted for Trump without a care for people like me. Fuck you to hell. You have no heart. Unfollow me. I assume on Tumblr most people are Democratic so that's all good, but I just have to get this off my chest.
I don't want anything bad to happen to me, but if I disappear, this is why. Republicans are hateful and many are violent. It's not a lie when their campaigns lie and fearmonger about specific groups of people.
I'm behind on posting my art but I can post this one since @emperor-kumquat is announcing it. Here is the cute villain icon banner for Emperor Kumquats' YouTube banner. This was really fun to make. Hope y'all like it.
