#sunbow g1

[nukeli]

Some Shattered Glass haters apparently believe that mirror universe aus are inherently one-dimensional/morally black and white? Or that making a mirror universe au inherently flattens and monochromes canon, somehow??

People who say that are just showing a lack of imagination (and at least TFP's canon is morally black and white to begin with). Reversal can, in fact, still beinteresting and maybe even complex.

For example, in my G1 cartoon SG fic, The Guardian, Shockwave was a good person but had lost faith in Megatron because he thought Megatron abandoned them.

My SG TFA Blurr is the spy, and increasingly conflicted between his indoctrination and his experiences with the Decepticons on Earth.

And in my TFP SG series Smokescreen is a disillusioned child soldier, and while Soundwave's not really a bad person, in Better The Revolution, (SPOILER!) he grows to resent Megatron and blames him for the cassettes' deaths, and ultimately tries to kill him when an opportunity presents itself.

[saxandviolins77]

Flavors of G1 that are spread around in the fandom and in official material:

Idealized and flawless G1, which is the most perfect cartoon... because it was the first?

Conservative, AMERICAN, G1... Like, I get that G1 had some weird undertones (80s), but I don't think Optimus would hate trans people.

Lobotomized G1. ISN'T G1 SO SILLY AND RANDOM XD??!! Nothing makes sense thereeee! Look at the animation errors!!

Transfanon, which uses G1 designs, but erm... IYKYK

[pluralsword]

thinking about how aesthetically TR already did partner Daniel Witwicky with IDW1 inspired Arcee because of the helm shape TR Arcee has, before we did that in fanfic, & afterwards (almost certainly having done so without knowing about our trans Daniel and Arcee fanfic) JRO did so for uk postage stamps+

ID 1 of 2: Three Arcee toys on a window sill. Specifically, an IDW1 custom of Arcee (from Legacy Elita) holding Leinad (Daniel Witwicky) in head mode showing Arcee's face, and touching the back of that head is Studio 86 Arcee. TR Arcee has helm guard ridges on her mid and lower cheeks, just like the IDW Arcee custom, whereas S86 Arcee does not. End ID.

ID 2 of 2: Visual art Arcee heads: from EXRID of IDW1 (art by Alex Milne and Josh Perez), a stock photo of the TR Arcee from TFwiki, a zoom in on the box art of TR Arcee, and screencap of Arcee's head from Transformers the Movie. The TR heads do have some differences from both the comic and cartoon heads: the audials are smaller (likely due to the TR headmaster gimmick) and are pink (like her early EXRID helm), and the head crest has an additional smaller crest on top with a blue biolight at the front (similar to her early Phase 1 helm). End ID.

Combined with the fact e.g. original Arcee bio describes her as a ferocious warrior especially when fighting people who threatened her loved ones, and well, if you watched Sunbow you do see some of that, a lot of this was not new ground for EXRID to tread, just a different journey. So TR Arcee being an amalgam of the trans gal we know in the comics & G1 Arcee (and TR Blurr retool no less, across gender retools are one of our favorite things about transformers) is just bringing together two overlapping aspects of Arcee the postage stamp bio did the same.

What the stamp bio did not do in having Arcee & Daniel being friends was have Daniel go on a gender journey as a result of that lmao, which we did write , after talking with another fanfic writer who was writing how Daniel would be inspired by her & the blurring from their binary bond.

Now, we aren't actually the first person to post a trans Daniel Witwicky story on Ao3. Somebody beat us to that  by nearly nine years, back in 2013 (we definitely don't mind! the more people who write trans Daniel the better) but it's smut so we won't link it here lmao.

But if you want to read the fic that led us to write how Daniel & Arcee's gender journeys could intertwine, or want to read a good G1 fic go read Showdown at Sherman Dam , the fic we did partially because of that one is Day of Multiflame .

More & more we feel that G1 & IDW1&2 'Cees aren't drastically different chars, just different things happened to them & have some personality differences. But the ethical & martial core of her is there. Earthspark Arcee reflects this. Don't believe us, then read Best of Arcee. it's all there. That comic has one of the better moments for Arcee in the old G1 comics, she speaks to her pacifist ethos to keep Hot Rod from losing it. Sound familiar to Arcee advising Optimus in IDW1? There are some big differences but that's for another time and frankly we’d rather save that for a larger thing about Arcee that would also talk about Aligned, the movie comics, Animated, all of it that we have the spoons to dig into

[wemblingfool]

Transformers Bumblebee: Across the Multiverse

Follow up to Cyberverse Adventures.

Concept is Into the Spiderverse meets Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Centered on Bumblebee because that's the only thing Hasbro would do.

This explores both existing canon TF universes (it's not going to a universe like Marvel G1, it is Marvel G1), and new ones to explore "what if...? type stuff.

If they go to an existing show's world, then like TMNT 2012 and CW's CoIE, then they try to get the original voice actors where and when possible.

Picking up some time after the end of Cyberverse, from within the Allspark, Cheetor senses destruction on an unimaginable scale. Universe after universe is collapsing in a massive chain reaction. The next one to fall is this one. Utilizing the power of the Allspark, Cheetor acts as quickly as he can, sweeping away as many cybertronians as he can just before everything collapses.

Unfortunately, it isn't many.

When Bumblebee awakens, he's on a dark, dead ship. The only other survivors seem to be Shadow Striker, Clobber, Thunderhowl, Meteorfire, Wildwheel, and Hammerbyte.

None of them are a mechanic, so restoring the ship seems beyond them.

But together, they figure out this gigantic mysterious ship is adrift in a pocket outside of spacetime. And running off battery reserves, it has a very limited ability to send and retrieve mechs to and from parallel dimensions. At least while it's between dimentions.

But it only has enough power left to send and retrieve a few into another universe.

Bumblebee takes Clobber and Thunderhowl, as Shadow Striker chooses a universe with cybertronian signatures at random, with the hopes they'll find a Wheeljack willing to come back with them.

The universe they arrive in does have a Wheeljack. But not one they'd want to have anything to do with (it's Shattered Glass). They're rescued from the clutches of Optimus Prime who now wants their dimension hopping tech, by Cliffjumper and the Decepticons.

After another adventure, Starscream volunteers to return with them with Megatron's blessing (and some gifts of supplies).

Starscream isn't the engineer they hoped for, but his scientific mind is still needed.

With his help and the power cells Megatron gave them, they can at least get the transmat powered for a few more trips.

By the end of Season 1, they've aquired a few new crewmates, and are actually underway in restoring this ship, which they've since learned is called The Lost Light.

While the Lost Light is still far from functional when Season 2 starts, they're in a much better place, and can start taking a proactive role in trying to stop the end of the multiverse.

Season 2 ends with the complete collapse of another major well known universe (Sunbow maybe? Not out of my dislike, but because it both has emotional meaning, and is functionally dead anyway), and the Lost Light taking as many refugees as it can.

I have no clue what's causing the collapse, but I do know that I would have it be something completely new. Not Unicron, not the Dead Universe, not any other recycled concept that's been used before.