Starscream and Sunstreaker deserve better

Ashley| 25 | Non-binary (she/he/him/her) | Bi | I just really love Transformers okay. Minors not welcome! If you need to talk my inbox is always open!

[axybotyl]

thank you.

i never expected to take such comfort in transformers again but it was always a safe space for me when i was a kid. it was a place that felt like i could come back home to. and in a year that felt like we had the ocean at our doors., i found them again. or should i say they found me.

i found tf again in a time where i really, really needed something to hold onto and im still surprised by how much comfort this franchise has given me. i went through grief and loss; two things i think a lot of people had to go through these past two years. i think i took comfort in the bonds some of my favourite bots shared, their pain and it gave me some amount of solace that you don’t have to go through something alone. you could, but it’d be so much better with a couple extra hands. and to think i didn’t even know what those word mtmte meant a couple of months ago.

just like how some of our favourite bots come as a package deal, so did the community. and they welcomed me with open arms. i’ve laughed, I’ve cried, i’ve cringed (and made cringe) but i’ve met some of the most wonderful people i’ve had the joy and honour to meet. if we’ve interacted in some way, you put a smile on my face and i could only hope I’ve done the same. making my silly little jokes, and knowing that it makes someone’s day out there better if even by 1% is more than enough for me.

right now, as i sit under a sky of stars, i wish you well. because all journeys come to an end, but the bonds we’ve forged are eternal. before i ramble anymore, i want to thank you for taking the time out to read this, to the creators, writers, artists, and everyone who made me laugh on days i’d felt like the ground would fall out from under me. thank you.

and especially to the beautiful person who’s post motivated me to finally make this, i cant thank you enough. but i’m going to try anyway, thank you so much.

just remember; you may not be good. but you’re sure as hell good enough.

[transformerfan97]

This, this right here is why I LOVE this fandom.

It's not just the media that have helped me, but the fans. And it's beautiful, touching, amazing (I can go on) artwork like THIS that have helped me.

It's the fans that reach out and ask "are you okay?" because they notice you're down. The fans that write the wonderful fics. It's the fans that take the time to listen and become your friend. It's this fandom. This wonderful, beautiful, caring, loving fandom that has pulled me out of the darkest of places and it's equally as wonderful fans.

I can't say enough how in love with this I am because I just went through some stuff not too long ago, and a beautiful soul from this fandom, someone I wasn't mutuals with or anything, reached out to me and made sure I was okay. They reminded me once again why I will always be apart of this fandom. So I think I can speak for that person when I say this is more than enough thanks.

I could go on, but the amazing artist summed up everything perfectly.

As always, thank you Transformers fandom for everything. You are truly the best fandom and I'm so happy to be apart of it.

[energonshot]

who let the boombox behind the wheel

[naeella]

Coloured them in! 🔬🌠📻

[dozydawn]

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

[ch40s0w1]

context explaining why the announcer is screaming, this is supposed to take a high level competitive agility dog 40 seconds

[sandersstudies]

This video makes me cry every time it’s on my dash and I can’t even iterate why.

Like the dog doesn’t even know it’s a competition and she’s made history. She(?) just is happy and knows she made her owner happy too.

[solely-ashes]

The face of a being with only a wind storm between their ears, moments before unleashing it unto the world

[severeprincesheep]

always a pleasure to see this girl on my dashboard

[transformerfan97]

Hi, hello, what's up?

I know I only come on here once a blue moon. But this needed posted.

Accidentally texted "moth wtf" to my mom.

My mom and dad are now Momra and Dadzilla in my phone.

Y'all needed to know that.

See you next time.

[blackhole-doodles]

I like to think James Robert’s appears as a creature only swerve can see ever since he pressed the trigger to the meta-bomb

[wobblebees]

Being a notorious robotlover in the current state of "AI" is the worst. I love robots discovering how they process their feelings in fiction, but when a chatbot pretends it knows how to love it feels like an insult to the craft

[feralkwe]

give your characters exes.

give them a variety of exes. give them relationships that shaped who they are but did not last. give them people they tried very hard to love but it didn't work out. give them situationships that taught them things. give them something deep that was real but could not endure. things that hurt. things that ended amicably. people with whom hot passion cooled to warm affection and became undying friendship.

no more first and only. give me the context of what made them know the next or one after was final and right.

[disformer]

ITS BEEN SO LONG!!! Posting what I’ve finished from the Texaid comic I’d been chipping away at in my free time :,)

Atm i’m not sure if id be comfortable finishing this or posting the unfinished pages, and i’ll go into why a bit more under the cut, but for everyone who waited… thank you, you are so patient like the cobra 🥺🫶

Texaid is so beloved and important to me, and i don’t think that’s news to anyone who’s followed me for any length of time. I always come back to them, and even leaving a project like this on hiatus for so long I still felt pretty comfortable leaving this on the burner bc I knew I’d be back.

And with my work sometimes I do have to take fandom hiatus breaks! But I got a slightly confused dm from a friend at one point that said ‘hey man, did you know everyone’s crediting your designs to someone else in the fandom’ and ???? it was true!

And I know how obnoxious it is to see an artist get on their diva shit and claim design elements, but it’s important to know that, at the time, I was one of like three people posting texaid, and the other two were Japanese artists on twitter.

My redesign has my fingerprints all over it; those big circular rotaries on his shoulders? A mistake! I got my references mixed up at one point and just kept rolling with it because it was funny! His pointy teeth and nose and boots and fingers and eyebrows? I’m bad at squares! I was doing everything in my power to avoid drawing squares!

And people have asked if they can use my redesigns in their own au’s in the past, and i’ve always said no (especially in regards to texaid) and that’s because they’re personal to me. My vision of Texaid is something I projected a lot of my own personal romantic past onto, they were my first nsfw art, my first real emotional outlet after getting kicked out of home for being trans and was starving in a flop basement. Vortex’s design was cooked up out of the primordial soup of my brain at a time when I was at my most raw. Texaid doesn’t belong to me, but i redesigned them for a reason, and that was to distinguish the fact I was representing something personal.

So to come back to the fandom and see my boys and the dynamic i drew with the serial numbers filed off, with zero acknowledgement of my influence or even crediting another artist entirely… I feel really bloody hurt. Especially after watching the way this fandom viciously ran off an artist of colour for much less prolific art theft.

It kind of feels like y’all don’t care as long as you like the content. And idk if i want to keep posting in a space like that, where my niche vent art gets repackaged into something more marketable, and I go unacknowledged.

So yeah, might be the last time I post my texaid stuff publicly! If they’re that important to me and I get this upset when theyre cribbed, and if i feel like yall can’t rly be trusted, then Im just gonna keep it in dms with besties. Thanks for hearing me out xoxox

[3-14art]

How i think uno would go with them

[what-even-is-thiss]

I do think that human life has mostly generally improved in recent decades but it still bums me out sometimes that things my ancestors had access to literally every day are hard for me to get now. Like wool with no plastic mixed into it.

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

the thing about running into transformers rarepairs is that sometimes you’ll go “why are people shipping this” and just as with a lot of fandoms it turns out that the two characters have never actually had a direct interaction ever in the entire franchise and someone, at some point, went “i think that theoretically if these two met it would be interesting”. other times, and this is the one that appears to be mostly unique to transformers, it turns out that the characters in question basically made out onscreen in a comic fifteen years ago that no one read and/or everyone forgot about, and the grand total of 3 people shipping them have more basis for it than some of the most popular ships in the entire fandom

[hld-0n]

let's chew on mama

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

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[dobs-s]

a menace machine

[nevaehtyler]

Also the first Black woman to kiss a white man (Captain Kirk) on American TV in 1968.  

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Funny story about that because this is one of my favorite stories of all time: William Shatner was instrumental in that first interracial kiss because the studio execs didn’t want to go through with it and they were just going to have them hug instead. They decided to “compromise” by letting him film one take where he kissed her and several others where he didn’t. They were planning on just using one of the non-kissing scenes later. Well Shatner was wise to their game and he was having none of it, so he filmed the take with the kiss, and then in every other take he made sure to make ridiculous faces at the camera. At the time it wasn’t like you could see every aspect of what was being filmed as it was happening so the editors didn’t realize until it was too late that the only take they could use was the kiss.

[bluespock-blog]

It wasn’t just Shatner who purposely messed up the kiss, Nichols was in on it too.

“Knowing that Gene was determined to air the real kiss, Bill shook me and hissed menacingly in his best ham-fisted Kirkian staccato delivery, “I! WON’T! KISS! YOU! I! WON’T! KISS! YOU!”

It was absolutely awful, and we were hysterical and ecstatic. The director was beside himself, and still determined to get the kissless shot. So we did it again, and it seemed to be fine. “Cut! Print! That’s a wrap!”

The next day they screened the dailies, and although I rarely attended them, I couldn’t miss this one. Everyone watched as Kirk and Uhura kissed and kissed and kissed. And I’d like to set the record straight: Although Kirk and Uhura fought it, they did kiss in every single scene. When the non-kissing scene came on, everyone in the room cracked up. The last shot, which looked okay on the set, actually had Bill wildly crossing his eyes. It was so corny and just plain bad it was unusable. The only alternative was to cut out the scene altogether, but that was impossible to do without ruining the entire episode. Finally, the guys in charge relented: “To hell with it. Let’s go with the kiss.” I guess they figured we were going to be cancelled in a few months anyway. And so the kiss stayed.”

[sapphicfandompirate]

Lt. Uhura was extremely revolutionary and an inspiration

She inspired Whoopi Goldberg who remembered watching when she was a child

“Come quick! There’s a Black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’”

Martin Luther King Jr. was a fan of the show and allowed his kids to stay up past their bedtime to watch it, and when she considered leaving the show after season 1 he convinced her to stay.

She said King told her: “This is a God-given opportunity to change the face of television, change the way we think. We are no longer second-class, third-class citizens. He (Roddenberry) had to do it in the 23rd century but it’s the 20th century that’s watching.’” She rescinded her resignation.

Nichelle Nichols was hired by NASA to recruit women and minorities to the space program, and succeded in recruiting and inspiring the first woman U.S. astronaut, Sally Ride; the first Black woman astronaut, Mae Jemison; and the first Black NASA chief, Charlie Bolden.

[njere]

who's ready to swing? ☆

bonus: live skyfire reaction

i also included the hearts of steel design i made for skyfire, since I needed one to make the meme (i ended up really liking it ngl i love this big man)