#tf talk

[scribe-of-hael]

Growing up is realizing G1 Starscream's voice has always been hot 💕

[starburr]

The last few years of megop were such a switchup. From Earthspark's loving old married bi grandpas that bickered, to THE MEGOP DIVORCE MOVIE

[pinkanonwrites]

Speaking of g1, do u remember the ep where they ended up on the alien planet where there toy sized? And the kid alien keeps them in his toy chest and the parents take them away? 😭 that's the one where soundwave shoots the dad and the dad goes "ow it bit me!" Then smacks him away 😭

YESSSSSS 'Child's Play'! I love that episode. One, because the concept is already really funny and two, because it has some of the most EGREGIOUS animation errors out of any G1 episode, which only makes it EVEN FUNNIER to me.

I remember being high and watching it with @archie-sunshine and @creehd and being breathless with laughter by the end of it. GOD it's such a good episode. Not quality-wise, but purely in the market of making me laugh. Glad they didn't dissect Starscream though, even he doesn't deserve that.

[primal-con]

I feel like every time someone who only vaguely understands Transformers finds out I mostly like Decepticons they just assume I'm a fan of villains but they're wrong. It's cause the Autobots and Decepticons have wildly different group dynamics that are both good for completely different reasons.

The Autobots are a found family that act like a biological family. Like absolutely none of these motherfuckers are related to each other in any way but they behave with the same amount of familial obligation as if they were. Very "I have to care about you so I would kill and die for you but I refuse to share my Xbox."

The Decepticons are a hostile workplace sitcom. They explicitly do not like each other and only tolerate one another as coworkers. They've got office acquaintances and workplace friends groups who they shit on everyone else with at the water cooler but they couldn't give less of a shit what's going on in each others lives. Someone shows up with baby pics and keeps showing everyone and they're all vaguely nice to their face but literally as soon as they walk away everyone's complaining about the damn baby pictures. The copier broke again and no one will admit they did it but they will subtly imply it was Kaitlyn that bitch from HR. Soundwave does literally all the paperwork, everyone else is just playing coolmathgames and desperately wishing they'd stop getting cc'd in another goddamn email that's got nothing to do with their department. He leaves to bail his shithead adult children out of jail one time and returns to utter anarchy. Starscream's claimed sovereignty over the office eight times now and every time he gets fired until he grovels his way into getting hired again, literally nobody knows how he's doing it. The only thing keeping them from breaking out into fistfights in the halls is Soundwave's I'm Not Mad I'm Just Disappointed speech because no amount of passive aggressive rage can stand up to that. They used to run betting pools on which office relationships were going to last but Swindle kept winning so now he's not allowed to run them anymore. It's like The Office but gay, unethical, and I'd actually watch more than two seasons of it.

It's perfect, and the Autobots could never.

[bluestar22x]

So I watched 9x09 of The Flash tonight after having not watched the show in years and I cried. Oliver And Barry’s and Oliver and Diggle’s friendships will always hold special places in my heart.

[the-shy-lonely-weirdo]

It does kind of amaze me that the Transformers: Prime team tried so very hard to make their show as not queer as possible, that they somehow ended up making one of the queerest TF shows out there.

[daisy-aka-the-trans-duck]

like this post if you want to cursed by custom character creator by be turned into a hot warrior lady of your creation or if you found ARK characters funny

[nonotnolan]

TALES OF TRANSFORMATION

Fun little getting to know you thing that @harvzilla wanted to kickstart. 

Simple premise, think back and name four to six different things you can remember that you think kickstarted your transformation kink. Transformation is an incredibly broad umbrella of topics so we are looking forward to seeing all the nooks and crannies people discovered their interests and hoping to be exposed to new things we did not know about. Feel free to take the title header image and tag him if you decide to do it.

1) Gushers Commercials

Man, these commercials do not hold up well.  It’s so painfully 90s to watch these now, but... I really, really liked the idea of casual head transformation.  They’re just so... casual about it.  Like... hey, I’m gonna eat this snack and my head will turn into a fruit, no big deal.  Presumably it wears off?  No one really knows or cares.  The banana transformation is my favorite, because his head thoughtfully peels itself so that he can see.

2) Pepsi Commercial "Innertube"

There are a lot of commercials in the 90s with weird and corny CGI transformation affects, but I went with the earliest ones-- sorry Airheads kid and Sonic shake drinker.  The irony here is that Pepsi is a terrible drink, but man, this commercial fascinated me.  I love the idea of someone managing to trap themselves in such a small container and being completely unable to escape on their own.  And again-- he’ll be fine.  It’s implied he’s done this before, so obviously there’s no harm done.

3) Batman Beyond “Lost Soul”

One of my favorite episodes of the show features a scientist who uploaded himself into a computer to control the company years ago.  Times have changed, and he decides this arrangement isn’t good enough.  He downloads himself into the new Batsuit while Terry is wearing it, kicks him out of it, and then proceeds to use his hollow suit form to capture his grandson.  He’s going to upload himself into his grandson’s body, and his grandson will be deleted.  Obviously his plan fails because it’s a kid’s cartoon, but there’s just so much going on here that’s good.  There’s an episode with animal hybrid DNA which is... okay, and the rest of the series is more miss than hit for me.  But then, I was never a superhero kid.

4) The Secret World of Alex Mack

Speaking of things that didn’t age well... serious trigger warning for 90s fashion.  I realize I was never a fashionable kid, but I don’t remember anyone ever looking like that.  I digress.  I never got to watch this show very often because my parents hated the Nickelodeon network, but this is another one that really captured my imagination.  Alex had the ability to transform into a sentient, mobile liquid and... whatever other powers she needed to have to make the plotline work.  It’s not exactly the most sophisticated show.  But I appreciated a show about someone with superpowers who then proceeds to not be a superhero as much as possible so that she can stay hidden.  (But mostly I just appreciated the blob transformations.)

5) Ed, Edd, and Eddy “1+1=Ed”

I can’t find any good screenshots, so I’m going to cheat and use a “Rolf is a weiner!” image.  That was a good scene, too.  If you’ve never seen this show, you need to get out from under that rock for at least the first few seasons.  Everything about this cartoon is amazing, but this episode is my absolute favorite.  It starts out calm, and then slowly but steadily escalates out of control.  It’s pure imagination and total chaos, and it’s just completely delightful.  Honorable mention to Looney Tunes’s “Duck Amuck” which is a similar episode with similar weirdness.