@lactaidsaveme made lovely art for us for chapter 27 of 200k+ word fanfic Addendum (an IDW1 Arcee Novel Fanfic) when Windblade is Cityspeaking with Arcee to help both of them get over losing Anode (& Lug), [not knowing the two adventurers were saved by Necrobot and brought forward in time!(albeit Lug of course did actually die and had to be resurrected by Anode and Velocity and Kaput during Transformers: Lost Light)] tysm! lactaidsaveme chose this particular moment of the Cityspeaking part of that chapter to do (which takes place after among other things Arcee's part in Megatron's trial... which she and Rodimus had planned to use to give Arcee a chance to speak on grievances of gender not just from the Decepticons, but the Autobots as well... which proved resoundingly effective and resulting in actual change. I won't spoil anything else heh).
Also yes this is a very windcee yuri chapter and like the tired and busy sapphics taganites they are they er do not realize feelings quite yet... we'll cover that more in chapter 40 (which is currently in the works) and have been building up to that across the chapters in between...
*checks notes (more like engraved into my memory forever by having worked on this book since 2021): so uh yeah uh if we're gonna fully use earth terminology for the sake of people who haven't read our writing and how we approach transformer assemblage and orientation when gender is in play rather than there just being a xeno parallel assemblage to it (other works we've written do this)... arcee in this is a butch (torque is a somewhat equivalent term)/trixic (altmodus and iterexper + taganite gender/orientation don't quite match 'enby lesbian' but we're just throwing this here as a way to show the loss in translation) transfem and roddy is a butch transfem who was in part inspired by her considering Roddy grew up in Nyon and, all she knew about her and her quests for justice and (gender) liberation read leading an antifunctionist resistance against Nova Prime in chapters 1 through 13 .... Chromia's a torque, Windblade's transfem (amusingly we were not the first writer to write Windblade this way by several years and we really admire the stories and writers that were among the first to tackle this), and Nautica's fluid though she/they doesn't quite have a handle on that yet (that will come up in chapter 35, following up on chekov's guns from chapters 27 and 30...)* yeah so uh if you want trans and sapphic reads of characters there's way more in this book just be prepared for the first 24 chapters to also involve the horrors of fighting eugenics and the equivalent of fascism, the phase ii chapters are 25 - 28, phase iii 29 - 33, and there's postcanon thereafter, the victory lap as history continues arc as it were starts in chapter 33. We note which canon comic issues are relevant to specific chapters, starting with Chapter 20.
You can find more on this book here and our essay about the unique trans rep canonical idw1 Arcee (especially her 2012 - 2018 writing) is in science fiction at large in terms of overlaps with real trans history here.
