Megatrons_Bridesmaid

Real.

[mistymoondragon]

Ratchet being the atheist of all time is objectively hilarious considering his immediate circle includes:

-his very devout husband

-his close friend, the demigod robopope

-his other friend/boss/annoyance who is also a demigod robopope (frat boy edition)

-his mild mannered co-worker, who is god

[ideas-on-paper]

Reading about how, in the 19th century/Victorian era, the male lover of a gay man was often said to be a "dear friend" or "like a brother" to him to cover up the nature of their relationship:

Alright.

Even Adrian and Vincent from the Adrian Mayfield/Green Flower trilogy - very good historical novels set in the 1890s (and sadly not available in English) - literally call each other "best friends", even when they're among themselves.

Though I wanna say that these phrases were probably used for the lack of appropriate terms (or terms that weren't derogatory). There wasn't really a way of saying "gay lover", much less a socially acceptable one ("gay" only came to refer to homosexuality specifically over the course of the 20th century), so they just went with the next best thing.

Actually, 19th-century gay love was all about concealing the nature of the actual thing: As long as you didn't say it out loud, as long as there was some degree of ambiguity, people were willing to turn a blind eye (or at least keep it at a raised eyebrow) - nobody could judge what happened behind closed doors. The gay subcultures of the time actually had their own, codified way of communication, conventions, and dress. So, you could actually be gay in the 19th century - all you had to do was keep it secret and lie about it. (And ohhh, I'm licking my fingers here about just how well this fits into the overall theme of Lies of P.)

[sticklystag]

love how robin just drags will around that’s her new favorite gay boy

[claiireluv]

will feeling comfortable enough with robin to ASK the questions he’s thought about and DISCUSS those queer topics he believed to be negative and EXPLORE his own queerness through her experiences is GENUINELY SO IMPORTANT TO ME

and robin being the reason will is able to begin to accept himself for who he and on top of that being the source of encouragement to INITIATE and TEST THE WATERS between him and mike

will’s confidence to entertain mike’s subtle flirting with his OWN playful glances and touches is something ROBIN was able to influence

up until then, will was almost afraid to make these kinds of moves, and seeing his development is truly beautiful writing

[asha-mage]

Objectively 'post Carlo's death but pre-Romeo becoming King of Puppets' is the MOST unhinged period they could have picked for the DLC. Both for the story and for Promeo/Carmeo shippers specifically.

[venigni]

Wow, "Someday" was already the Carmeo record because you get it at the Red Lobster, but now the lyrics hits even harder post-DLC.

[zzxid-deactivated20220516]

List of canon LGBT Transformers

(warning: spoiler heavy)

People don’t believe me when I say Transformers: MTMTE/Lost Light is really gay. JRo confirmed is an homonormative society, so here a list, anyways:

____100% confirmed____

Chromedome (gay): Is married to Rewind. Had other husdbands before him and used to date Prowl too.

Rewind (gay): Is married to Chromedome. Before him, he was married to Dominus Ambus.

Cyclonus (gay): Falls in love with Tailgate.

Tailgate (gay): Falls in love with Cyclonus.

Brainstorm (gay): Fell in love with Quark but it was unrerquited. Heavily implied he has feelings towards Perceptor. Then confirmed by JRo at the end of LL.

Perceptor: Any interaction with Brainstorm during and after the Time Travel arc heavily implies he has feelings for him. Hints go until being confirmed in the ending of LL.

Drift: Have ship tease with both Rodimus and Ratchet, Lug and Anode mistake Rodimus for his boyfriend,and had bigger hints with Ratchet. Gets with Ratchet at the end.

Ratchet: Cares a lot for Drift and is implied to be attracted to him. Canonized as the ending of LL.

Skids (bi): Flirts with Firestar not realizing she is a “she” and not a “he” but doesn’t change his opinion on her. Had romantic feelings for Nautica but that arc was dropped for a platonic one.

Pipes (gay): Flirted with Drift as he explained him his very specific type and his interest in getting in a relationship (during a time there were only men in the ship), shown interest on Tailgate, had a crush on Riptide.

Prowl (gay): Chromedome’s ex.

Getaway (bi): Like Skids, he also Flirted with Firestar and seems to don’t have problem flirting based on gender.

Anode (trans lesbian): Changed her body after leaving her planet and realizising she is a girl. Married to Lug.

Lug (trans lesbian): Trasn girl, didn’t changed her body. Married to Anode.

Crankcase (gay): Has an internet alien boyfriend (cons4eva - right). 

Cons4eva (gay): The internet boyfriend.

minor characters: Dominus Ambus (Rewind’s first Conjunx), Proxima (Married to a lady),

____Hinted in canon / but only confirmed by word of god____

Rodimus: It’s implied he is attracted to Drift, Anode mistook them for a couple, so apparently implied Magnus, when asked if Rodimus would officiate the Drift/Ratchet wedding JRo answerd “There was a conflict of interest”. The LL ending shows him supportive of Drift relationship with Ratchet. JRo confirmed him and Drift were more “friends with benefits”.

Ultra Magnus (Minimus Ambus): It’s implied he is attracted to Megatron, Rodimus thinks they’re a couple, when asked if Minimus had a crush on Megatron, JRo answerd “only if life were this simple”, script comments mentions he wanted to be held by Megatron in the christmas comic.

Megatron: Had ship tease with Ultra Magnus (read above), some of his interaction with Optimus can be read as romantic.

____not mentioned in canon, but confirmed by JRo____

Cerebros, Fortress Maximus and Red Alert (gay): Confirmed to be a poly relationship.

Nickel (bi): Confirmed she had a girlfriend back then in her planet. She is shown flirting with Roller too..

____IMPLIED____

Roller (bi): Shown rather touchy feeling with Springarm during the little pages they’re together. But he also flirted with Nickel.

Springarm: ^.

Optimus Prime / Orion Pax: It’s implied was in a Relationship with the Senator Shockwave

Ten (gay): Implied to have a crush on Ultra Magnus.

Whirl: Consideres Chromedome, Rewind, Rodimus, Cyclonus, Tailgate and Rung attractive, but haven’t shown romantic interest in any of them.

Swerve: Has a crush on Blurr, but Skids calls it a “celebrity crush”.

First Aid: The way he describes Sringer heavily implies he has a crush on him.

____non-MTMTE LGBT Transformers____

IDW: Knock Out & Breakdown (canon m/m), Arcee (trans lesbian) & Aileron (lesbian), Blast Off & Onslaught* (m/m), Needlenose & Horri-Bull* (m/m), Greenlight & Lancer (f/f), Dust Up & Jumpstream (f/f).

TFP: Knock Out*

Shattered Glass: Windblade & Strongarm (canon f/f)

[characters/relationships with a “*” are examples of LGBT representaion that I don’t find positive and won’t give credit given that their attraction/gender where based on negative stereotypes/tropes.

[simfur]

Since you’re including a few non-mtmte examples now, I’ll just mention that Bazooka and Crazybolt in Beast Wars Uprising (two dudes) become conjunx endura at the end of the story Intersectionality!

Also there’s some stuff from Ask Vector Prime but I feel like opening the AVP can of worms is inadvisable

[simfur]

Oh I don’t know HOW I forget to mention the OG trans girl transformer

Howlback is a girl in classicsverse, which is one of those “Furman said no gender allowed” universes. According to the author of the comic she was introduced into that universe from (David Willis, in Recordicons), she’s a trans girl!

(okay I guess she’s not the OG because IDW Arcee was technically a trans girl at this point in that comic but that was during The Dark Years Of Arcee before her arc got rehabilitated)