You could always just shoot the author a message and ask if they mind you using that headcanon? I know it always flattered the fuck outta me when someone wanted to use my headcanon.
I read up to #23 last night/early this morning. I have so much pain and glee. I also want to shake some sense into Rodimus and fuck boy you'd better beg Drift's forgiveness for making him the fall bot. Also Tailgate continues to make me love him and Cyclonus continues to prove I have a type with fictional characters. I do wonder if Cyclonus realized something was wrong long before anyone else did with Tailgate, if he noticed the color of Tailgate inner most engeron was wrong. Also Cyclonus tell the bot. Tell him. Tell him.
Spoiler: a bit of fic babbling again Thinking I'm going to push Star Shield's age down instead of an adult she is tween aged, probably just having chosen a non sparkling name for herself and decided to try of the she pronoun gender for a while. 11-12ish earth age wise. It'll clear up some of my OC worries and make the plot a bit easier to work with long term I think. Going to play with a short fic of Cyclonus/Tailgate, nightmare thing later if I can get my concentration level back up. pro-tip never go every other day with your meds for almost a week trying to make it last until you can afford more.
In case it hasn't been clear from previous posts, my primary form of transformers fandom is watching toy reviews. On that note, Tailgate! He's adorable. There's also an IDW G1 Cyclonus from Maketoys that also looks really good. So if you want comic-accurate versions of the characters so that you can have them act out your lewd fantasies *ahem* anyway. Just thought people would like to know. Also Swerve and Gears. From the sound of it, Maketoys will be doing a bunch of IDW G1 accurate toys, whereas other companies are doing a lot of reinterpretations or more cartoon-accurate stuff.
I want the Tailgate so bad. The Cyclonus looks sold out everywhere I've looked though sadly. ): Maketoys is so nice with their toys. I'm going to have to save up and hope Tailgate is still there. I wish I still had my childhood transformers, but they were deemed imporant enough to move by my mother and my dad's estate. :/ Edit: there is a official Tailgate that looks more IDW than G1 cartoon you can get dirt cheap on amazon (I might have bought him for myself as a YAY you adult present). But he isn't as nice as the maketoys one.
Yeah, that's the Hasbro one. I tend not to pay too much attention to the Hasbro/Takara releases because a lot of them are remolds/repaints of other figures they've released and the quality tends to not be so great. On the other hand, the third party figures are usually very expensive and hard to get.
Yeah, but he satisfies my must have now craving and I won't be as worried about playing with him. I'm curious has to the quality of the deluxe line. Do they still make the super deformed super squad type ones? My Bumblebee is very lonely. (I regret let myself be so turned off my the transformer liveaction movies that I sort of shy'd away from all things Transformers. Like good lord bot con was in my city a few years ago.)
I'm up to #30 of mtmte. Summary of thoughts: Rodimus I am so disappointed in you on so many different levels but not as many levels as I'm disappointed in Orion (you better not have known why Megatron would have an issue with mind surgery thing I swear to Primus). Tailgate you precious flower, I adore you but I think you should be having sessions with Rung and thinking about why you shouldn't trust every bot that starts acting best friendy with out. Getaway: I WILL END YOU. Cyclonus: This will not end well, I know it doesn't but I keep hoping I can will it to change and urgh. I am having feelings over bots. What have you all done to me. (This is lies I've always had feelings about bots.)
Goddamn this thread blew up. And you're all talking about comics I haven't read yet. I've been on a TFP kick so... yeah.
It's on my watch list for the holidays and I think there are other TFP fans here too? Please talk about it! I really dig the designs I keep seeing on tumblr!
One thing I really like about IDW is that instead of being the Romantic Attachment, all that Arcee cares about in the IDW universe is killing things. She's ruthless, bloodthirsty, and utterly unrepentant. This incarnation of her is great.
Actually, Arcee is one of the things that turned me off the IDW comics. The whole "Forced sex change" thing really squicked me out. I know the writing team has changed since then but by now there's so much backlog that I haven't read that it's kind of intimidating. And I can't just skip to where it starts to get good because I have a compulsion to read things in order. Sigh sigh. Okay but Arcee is great in Prime. Like, she's clearly dealing with war related PTSD, but she's just as competent a soldier as any of the boys and definitely not treated like Romance Fodder. At least, not by the writers (We won't talk about the Fandom. Goddamn.)
The good news is that when MTMTE/RiD started it was something of a soft reboot so you don't really miss anything by jumping in there. Still they have like 50 issues a pop now...so it is a lot
Yeah, I kind of just pretend that bit of Spotlight: Arcee never happened. I'd much rather they just leave her with a mysterious, unexplained hatred of Jihaxius, because it's not actually that far out of apparent character for her to just hate someone like that for no obvious reason. It never comes up again, as far as I can tell. Even when other female transformers show up, her response to people saying "now you're not the only one!" is basically "bring it up again and I'll kill you".
What @Dist said. I've gotten a lot of recommendations to just reading the wiki for stuff pre- mtmte/rid. I also really adore Nautica.
Nautica is amaze and I ship her with happiness. And yep, I really like that the author(s) are just like "Nope fuck all of you these two robots are in love. So much fucking love. All the love. Here have the fanmix I made for the robots I made fall in love." I'm delighted by the interactions they have with the fandom (and that the fandom doesn't seem to be asses back to them).
Yeah, I love that they took a canon where almost everyone is male and said "welp, looks like they're all gay now". This is what happens when everyone is the same gender: gay. Gay happens. Including the females. You'd expect "oh, they're introducing a bunch of female characters to be love interests" nope, they're gay too. Although their term translates to galpals rather than spouses, which is fucking hilarious.
