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[yappintilldeath]

I think that the fact that a lot of the porn (and I'm already anti-porn nowadays aside from the occasional joke) around the characters, especially fembots, always using a more human-esque form over complete mechanical-lism is probably why it feels bland to me. Like look at Shatter by tanagi_boooei-

-and tell me that you need to make her more humanoid and give her more "flesh" like those fuck-ass abominations.

You'd be a coward.

[pyromechanical]

idw transformers take on a death god is really good. an amnesiac god of death who has no idea what he is but still feels some sort of pull towards the deaths of others so he goes around cataloguing every fallen and forgotten warrior, performing funeral rites for soldiers whose fate will never be known by anyone else, planting an endless field of flowers and leaving a bit of the fallen’s life inside each petal. a lone soul quietly mourning the lost and forgotten, regardless of what side of the war they were on, still, in a way, unknowingly fulfilling his duty of laying the dead to rest, and bringing their souls to the next life

[viloxenn]

Megop sketches // bear with me I'm still learning how to draw them :cry:

+Bonus some human vers (still working on op's design)

[jaydraw209]

Unicron:..... Primus?

Rung:

Epistemus: Play Dumb.

Rung: Who's Primus?

Epistemus: Not THAT dumb.

[jeyumi]

Something something—I think it would be very funny if Tfone Starscream got a head start on betraying Megatron by just… not leaving with him in his banishment. Starstay AU: 1 2 3 4

[transformersconfessions]

I really don't understand the Transformers prime fandom and why they hate Miko SO MUCH, she's probably one of my favorite human characters in all the series, but for some reason they prefer Jack.

In my opinion it has the personality of a wet paper napkin.

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[transformersconfessions]

What the fuck is wrong with writing an “oppressed becomes then oppressor narrative?” Why is it considered problematic? It’s fiction, it’s a good story

And it happens all the damn time irl too. Take this from someone whose family was torn apart by communism in China.

*

[halenhusky309]

It's a hard pill for Transformers fandom to accept that there are oppressed people in real life would throw other oppressed people under the bus to gain power or simply transfer that power to themselves only to rule over others. There are oppressed people out there truly believed in the system that fucked them over, to the point that they delulu themselves they can lift themselves up from the bootstrap through grifting or emulating the oppressors' behavior and value, hoping to join the club that they would never truly be part off.

At the same time, Hasbros and Transformers franchises as well as the Hollywood are just a dog-shit at portraying the "oppressed become oppressors" narrative that we always circle back to "whether the hero should execute the oppressors or not (usually the answer is "nope" for the Hollywood) or "how the oppressed characters got demonized for getting rid of the oppressors" talking points. (or just outright propaganda to not ruffle up the feathers of the elites).

[halenhusky309]

That is what I mean. I don't think the "oppressed become the oppressors" narrative is inherent bad or it is only used to beat down and demonize the oppressed people. This narrative can be used to help us be beware of the so-called allies within a movement that would hijack the movement within the inside and change for the worst. Or how those people would exploit the other oppressed groups or people for their own personal gains to climb the social ladder or establish themselves on top to dominate others.

[yappintilldeath]

The real problem is that people don't really see how the film's undertones, and pretty much the 90% of the stories with the narrative, are consistently written in a very shallow way. They're borderline anti-protestor stories with the "good protestor being someone purely un-bothering" vibe entrenching the whole film.

They have a very centrist view that, at the root of it, denies the very reality of political violence as a necessity in social change. Kwame Ture literally said it best;

“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”

The film, likewise, has a very similar shallowness within it. It doesn't really draw upon the fact that D is somehow secretly the villain, it is just the same garbage of being purely designed as to say "don't be extreme" when the reality of the narrative is that Magneto shaking hands with Red Skull would be a panel with a staggering frequency to reappear.

Like, the film doesn't want to earnestly interact with these themes, it wants you to use the Chinese Communism, the French Revolution and others, but it will never draw upon them but rather it wants to suppress the "other radicals" like the ones in the LA riots by saying "they're going too far!" but I really, bottom of my heart really doubt that Hemsworth being Pax and Brian being D was just an unnatural coincidence.

[moustawott]

Transformers One Official Novelization Worldbuilding and Lore Bits

Thanks to the Transformers One movie novelization, here are some worldbuilding facts that weren’t explicitly shown in the movie!

About Iacon city:

Cog-less bots can only work as miners, though the tier system (described later) suggests that they can move up or down a ladder of limited job options

All cog-less bots were born after the disappearance of the Matrix of Leadership

No cog-less bot has seen the surface

The book suggests that all Transformers bot, those who can transform into alt mode, were born before the disappearance of the Matrix of Leadership

Transformers can live anywhere they want in Iacon city, unlike miners

Miners have limited transport options: they can only use public transport or walk. The book also suggests that their access to the overall city is limited, said city being divided into main Iacon and the mining sectors

it is explained that Transformers rarely watch where they step when miners are around, often kicking miners as a result. Orion also notes that some will do it on purpose (yikes!)

There is a tier system that miners can climb. The movie has D-16 mention that tier 1 is the lowest. In the novel, D-16 is trying to reach tier 11 by the end of the current cycle. It is implied that D-16 is one of the fastest rank-climber amongst the miners

About Orion Pax:

His favourite Prime is Zeta Prime, who was the original bearer of the Matrix

Orion is passionate about learning the history of Cybertron, hence him often sneaking into the archives

Miscellaneous facts:

According to the novel, here are the Prime cogs each of the main 4 characters received: Orion has Prima's, D-16 has Onyx's, Elita has Alchemist's, and Bee has Micronus'

In some ways, the novel was better at telegraphing D-16's fall. The signs of him eventually getting tired of backing up Orion and failure to control his bloodthirst are more obvious to the reader.

Shoutout to the novel for also making Orion's motivations more obvious when it came to dealing with Sentinel: Orion knows that killing Sentinel won't actually solve the issue and believes Sentinel can be overthrown and stripped of his power without unnecessary violence. (My personal interpretation is that D-16 is using his desire for justice—more like vengeance really—to feel better about himself, not actually improve Cybertron. It’s the same logic those who support the death penalty have. They like the death penalty because it makes their own feelings better, no matter how ineffective the death penalty is for improving society.)

[yappintilldeath]

I genuinely agree with this, but man do I still fucking hate the "valiant sacrifice" line for just how utterly galling it is.

Like how did none of the others jump Trion's ghost in that scene baffles me because what valiant sacrifice did Orion do? With D-16's character in the movie basically both speed-running his conversion into Robot Hitler while also having the worst and quickest turn to "he's gonna be bad!" state.

The story needed like 10 more minutes of actual dialogue between the central characters, actual characterization because Orion getting the Matrix purely for gambling in his survival in taking the bullet for the baby-mutilating, hero-slaying oppressor is so dumb that it defies words as an abstract concept.

Like again, the film just rushes after he learns of Sentinel and while it's coherent in the technical sense, it just completely has the execution of making D instantly on the dark side step one. It just feels too quick in some areas.

[donut-doodles-doodles]

Here’s a post with my cybertronian miko designs!

Shockwave made a mistake.

After taking miko from the wreckers shockwave spent months trying to perfect his biotransferance technology for his own unknown designs.

Little did he know the senator within was still fighting, he managed to distract his dominant half long enough for miko to escape!

Miko is now in a body she disassociates from frequently, the wreckers are helping her through this transition and hopefully stop her going on a reckless warpath for revenge! (Also shockwave tries to dad at her)

[yappintilldeath]

Can anyone find that fanart of Starscream being bigger than Megs? One where looked like this version of Megs?

[just-joeja]

Part two of Survival AU before I dissappear for a moment :D

(part one)

(part two)

(part three)

If you want to know more, here is the lore

[marcheriest]

more of the guys that are neither robots nor aliens

[marcheriest]

punch-hungry princess

[shenanisketches]

Transformers Foundation #2 panel redraw with my designs

[witchtaunter]

House Horse MD performs his daily checkups.

[strawverrii]

hehehaha

[yappintilldeath]

Pay up buckaroo.

Jk but ask next time pls