!!!! Black lady president! This is awesome. This series is awesome. And Soundwave is the best. I already appreciated him, sure, but I didn't love him the way he deserved to be loved.
Spoiler: MTMTE 21, Monstrosity 5, 12, Primacy Assuming Monstrosity is still canon, the Quintessons have tentacles! And their sparks can be put into Cybertronian bodies!
Spoiler: exRiD, minor spoilers up though liiiiike ~50 I am more emotionally compromised than I expected to be, that's for sure Aileron is my beefy spaceship wife and I love her. I am loving the references that got made directly to Optimus Prime being burned out and the quiet but severe effect the war has had on his psyche. Everything to do with Prowl makes me ache. I hope he has more to do with main events soon. Why would Ray want to be kin with Superion when he could be kin with VICTORION instead?? I mean, yes, eww girls are icky, but holy shit, Victorion. Cosmos being so lonely and isolated was making me sad, and I didn't realize that the story was going to actually address some of the emotions in the plot, and fffffffffff, his interactions with Soundwave make me all flappy. Oh my god I was so afraid we were going to lose Jazz, especially since that one scene echoed his death from the first Bayformers movie, you can't do this to me, writers, I'm not strong enough to take it. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe! Caring about each other! I'm so glad. I'm really, really glad. And Sunstreaker even said positive things about humans, I'm so happy for him, my poor baby has suffered enough, I'm so glad he's been able to heal. SOUNDWAVE MY LOVE you are too good for this world I don't care what it takes I just want you to be happy ;_; Tracks is giving my all kinds of shitty-older-sibling feelings. I'm not the best older sister and my brothers still seem to really look up to me for some reason and I don't know why, because I really am awfully inadequate in terms of big sisterhood. From the moment Tracks showed up with Needlenose, I knew this was going to be a rough ride, and I am probably more emotionally compromised by that than anything else.
Oh my god, Windblade's series is so pretty. Everyone is pretty! I want all of them to kiss and then carefully frame against the gorgeous backdrops because it's all so pretty and organic without running into that uncanny valley organic painting + synthetic characters can run into. Also I'm kissing everyone and no one can stop me.
holy shit look at this Spoiler: 40 ???????? you cannot possibly be serious i mean. you don't need to ship it, friend, but. that makes literally no sense at all "as a concerned health care professional" holy shit also yes, he did, that is literally what happened, that was the whole point EDIT: this is that person who went off on the anon a while ago, and who thinks that drift "went from one addiction to another" and That's Why Dratchet Is Bad™
That's... not even coherent. And Ratchet plain and simple did not have time for that kind of nonsense. He was already chief medical officer and running a side charity clinic in the worst part of the city, and that was before Optimus was like bro, BRO, we should totally steal the matrix. He didn't have time to go running after one down-on-his-luck mech when the slums were already full of them, and probably a lot of them were in even worse shape than Drift. And I think Ratchet has an excellent grasp on physical health, but much much less on mental health. There was a whole plot point in issue 4o about how he's absolute shit at even basic social niceties like saying goodbye properly to your friends. Spoiler: general mtmte, up through 40 And then look what happened to Pharma, slash Roller maybe was killed/captured/brainwashed because his friends got memory-wiped after he got hurt, and is one of the frontrunner candidates for Tarn's secret identity. Those are two of Ratchet's oldest, closest friends. He does not have the best instincts or the time and energy to keep people's brains in good shape is what I'm saying.
I.... if it was because he was a 'concerned health care professional', wouldn't he have sent someone else? Like, idk, Rung mayhaps. I mean, assuming at all that this is a 'health care professional' thing and not, y'know, because they are friends.
*ratchet voice* i, as a concerned health care professional, needed to make a tiny figurine of drift, because,
Is this the Ratchet version of 'no homo'? "It's not that I like you, it's just that as a concerned health care professional--"
I note that no one was throwing this sorta fit over Dratchet before someone made a huge long post about it being wrong and bad but was tots not telling people not to ship it. I'm kinda annoyed at 4theloveofnerds on this because otherwise they've been pretty cool and wrote me feel better fic.
And it's not like that first big post was even very coherent either. I mean, sure, it's a very personal story about someone's struggles with addiction, but it has jack diddly to do with the actual comic. I don't understand how it got any traction at all when it's so irritatingly irrelevant.
Shipping makes people do weird things man. All the more reason to embrace multishipping as our Lord and Savior. Also, still in Rodimus Hell, have a fanmix. (Made by, incidentally, the person who first piqued my interest in robots.)
I think because it was personal and because some wanted a good reason to publicly not like the hot 'younger' mech with the cranky boxy mech. Some old fashioned bash this ship to raise up their own. PercyDrift is very popular right now.
