Spoiler: MOST RECENT tgwp i'm just. fffffFFFFFFFFFFFF OH JAZZ.......... she loves you too......... they all love you too...... ohhhh isn't that just the most inconvenient thing :') ahhhhhh god i have too many feelings and suspicions and FEELINGS..... time to re-read 40-46 over and over again........
mood: Spoiler: mtmte 40 tailgate, what did getaway talk you into this time the pyramid survived? i did not expect that diving might be a better alternative. or not having an open oil reservoir at all. and maybe spending more time with cy and less with getaway i am weirdly fond of ten. must be the faces. hes weirdly adorable i am mildly amused by this setup. -gently facepalms- nautica? where you going? stormys right about that you know yknow stormy, the thing with time travel is... and its a thing especially you as a time player need to realize: stable time loops. you want those. otherwise you get doomed offshoots. time is very adamant about how its supposed to go. oh no not the wrench D:: thinking, working. writing? please be writing more, megs. -hisses loudly at getaway- and tbh cy was right about the overall outcome. its about working with the shit life throws you and making the best out of it. and sometimes, a really shitty situation results in something really really good that you would never have gained otherwise its the prices you pay. for life, and growth, and experience. love and hate and regret and loss. -hisses even louder at getaway- bitch you trying to get my ship sunk cys problem is that hes got problems expressing himself is all (hes basically this: ) and that he accepted the horn shows how much you mean to him, tailgate you tiny inexperienced idiot youd deserve getting killed by cyclonus for the shit youre pulling rn NYAUGH OMG ten you are so adorable also is rodimus doing the bunny ears thing on nautica adfsgfhgdfjgh ratchet ratchet are you telling me that you augh my heart my ships "of course, we're not the only ones. this ship is a refuge for the emotionally inarticulate" adsfgdhf the juxtaposition ratchet are you DID YOU LEAVE TO FIND DRIFT ADSGSDHFJGDFH -screaming-
WHOOPS posted before i even typed anything ANYWAY please consider the following panels, if you have not already considered them: Spoiler: mtmte 40 ALSO i am DELIGHTED to see f e a r.png being put to good use :')
These Games We Play is a+ excellent. It's got me genuinely shipping stuff I was guiltytrashshipping at first. Spoiler Although my OTP is still primarily Laserbeak/Jazz. HE'S TOO GOOD FOR YOU, SOUNDWAVE.
OH! I just realized a thing Spoiler: TGWP upd8 Okay, so Jazz says that him being able to target wasn't a danger, because nobody would have left a gun around that could drop a seeker with one shot, right? Well... how about a gun that could drop a cassetticon? They're teeny tiny. If anyone had left a gun around, Jazz would have been physically capable of killing them anytime. I want Soundwave to retroactively recognize that flavor of the danger, that Jazz could have killed his family so easily, and then I want him to realize that Jazz has never ever done anything to hurt the cassetticons, and awdfsdsdsfdfsfd I want six-way romance and intimacy right now, pretty please
Spoiler Yeah. Jazz does want to be free, obviously, but he also wants the cassetticons and Soundwave to be safe.
Spoiler: TGWP Honestly I love how everything is sort of WILDLY FUCKED UP still but also edging towards revolution, because of course it is. I want them to be happy even with all these horrible horrible beginnings.
you know since my brain has decided I can't nap for a few more hours LET'S LIVEBLOG POLITICS Spoiler: exRiD 8 "Dinobot month" oh goody hi Ironhide Yeah that future vision thing... you could have mAYBE introduced them to that concept a LITTLE more gently oh god are the dinobots sassing eachother? this is... a plan that might end up not being terrible but let's be real this will probably end up being terrible "The Dinobots make me nervous." PROWL EVERYTHING MAKES YOU NERVOUS RECENTLY. NERVOUS OR MURDEROUS. "They could be back to normal like the rest of us" OR you know they could LIKE the way they are right now and not give a fuck about your opinion judgey mc judgerson Okay I mean at least Bumblebee has found his sarcasm again. Bumblebee is shaking his cane and chasing the young-'uns out holy shit I cannot believe this. Are any of Prowl, Metalhawk or Starscream even younger than Bumblebee? I seem to recall vaguely that at least most continuities have Prowl written as at least behaving somewhat more maturely than 'Bee. Maybe not here tho. Okay but the thing here is, Starscream has a fucking point. It does look suspiciously like Bumblebee is deliberately stalling elections until he thinks he can win, especially since he isn't only opposing Starscream's call for speedy elections (which he at least has arguments against what with Starscream's somewhat bad reputation), but Metalhawk too, who he has absolutely no reason to suspect questionable motives from. aw squabbling what in the name of fresh hell is that OH. GRIMLOCK MENTION. okay no it is incredibly unfair that the dinobots have really attractive humanoid root modes WHY grump grump grump grrrrrrr Slag, honey no one is trying to undermine the abilities of the dinobots, you just don't need to take UNNECESSARY risks to prove yourself is it that hard? "I like this! I like listening to you two! You have Issues!" SWOOP HOLY SHIT (he ships it black I can see it) Ugh I don't like agreeing with Prowl but his analysis on why Bee is failing as a politician is fairly accurate so "And how it was Megatron and his revolutionaries that stood against Injustice. And you know that's scrap." is it now prowl? Is it? Okay yes prowl you have a point now shut up Aww okay it's kind of sad that Bee legitemately has that little self-confidence that he didn't think it even remotely likely that he'd win without a pep talk from prowl oh my god okay Ironhide the whole vision thing is cool but could you maybe... potentially keep it a little more lowkey? (Also "I know nothing can kill me" is so sus I don't even have words. I'm betting on the end of the arc murdering ironhide dead.) How can a person without a face look so absolutely offended omg Shockwave pls well I am not sure I particularly like this. (Also decepticons ALSO do not understand politics holy shit, STARSCREAM HAS TO GET A FOOT IN THE DOOR WITH HAWK AND BEE IF HE WANTS TO ADVOCATE FOR YOU YOU DUMBASSES) "The autobots lose, don't we?" interesting question, more interesting implications. Pls give long elaborate answer, ironhide as long as you still can. "Heh. Maybe he's raising an army of turbofoxes" okay but. That would be legitemately cute in a weird way? turbofox raiser Megatron. All he wants to do is beat Orion Pax at the next nationals, and his prized darling has the shiniest plating of all and okay I'll stop now. "I'm not goin' out like an Aerialbot." wow harsh "See- I'd lived, I'd died, and then I'd lived again." TO VALHALLA SHINY AND CHROME that does SO not look like the sillhouette of Megatron like not even remotely, what is WRONG with you Ironhide WELP RIP IRONHIDE I KNEW IT FUCKIN HELL SWOOP WHAT THE FUCK
Spoiler: exRiD 9 No Bee. Absolutely no chance. No time travel bullshit. No. oh primus no not Bumblebee Feels all of a sudden. I'm a good person I don't deserve this. SKY LYNX NO Okay so Ironhide still lives. How is everyone's guess but okay.png "-- Sludge -- I thought you were dead!" "Learn Anatomy. Head's down here, Autobot." bless this dino ........? Oh god don't tell me some kidn of bizarre frequency bullshit is affecting beastmode transformers into becoming aggressive and territorial this is the opposite of what we need right now OH GOOD AT LEAST IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ONLY BEASTFORMERS THAT WOULD BE CRINGEY yes good Bee question why you were a dick to everyone "I miss simple solutions" OMG BEE so it's... is it like some force opposing civilization that is driving bots back into a sort of "primal" mindset? "Maybe the planet wants us to stay together" then cybertron has some terrible ideas about what's good for people bc cabin fever will help absolutely nothing with the tensions Metalhawk called Wheeljack his friiiiiieeeeeend <3 why can't you dumbasses just work together "But then once upon a time it would've been a ridiculous thing to suggest." I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAAAAAAAR BUT IN THE EEEEEEEND IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER I TRIED TO HARD TO LOSE IT AAAAAAALLL BUT IN THE EEEEEEEND IT DOESN'T EVEN MA-A-A-AAAA-A-A-TTER "Blurr used to be a friend. Then Prowl crossed a line." why is Prowl always ruining everything? (also full disclosure I literally misread "Prowl always does what he does for a reason [...]" as "Prowl always does that." and tbh I can't even say the second one would look out of place) everyone STAAAAAAARES at bee oh fuck even I know that comparing Prowl to Zeta Prime is pretty fucking damning. bless you blurr HI RAVAGE Arceeeeee <3 fuck this is a bit scary poor Ironhide. Poor Aerialbots. Poor Dinobots. "As a random example" my ass bee and don't you fucking DARE. NO. TIME SHIT. I understand not a single word of what Wheeljack says about the time machine what SILVERBOLT IS ALIVE OMG oh my god how can you fucking lose an entire ship "Blurr's back in the fold because I pretended to care about him" -narrows eyes- UGH FUCK can't someone just. Give Bee a break? honey this shouldn't DESTROY you liek that
Spoiler: exRiD 10 what is this cover supposed to even show holy shit "Deep space" is not a very specific description what the art is so AWFUL ugh what in the hell is happening and why do bad things happen to wheelie, he is precious oh god hardhead what did they do to your face Orion Pax freely admits he is an idiot who makes bad decisions here does he just forget that when he rips into rodimus over his leadership style or? OP don't touch the glowy thing you dumbass "after I was knocked through time." *sighs* *pounds a "NO TIME TRAVEL UNLESS YOU HAVE A VALID LICENSE" sign in front of my lawn* WELP THAT'S... NOT PRETTY "That can't be a good thing" NO SHIT SHERLOCK I... WHAT? "...Take my lesson and hold it close to your spark, Orion Pax: You overestimate your importance." welp I mean... "It burns like when I received the Matrix." further proof for @Petra's and my theory that Optimus Prime isn't quite a false Prime but he isn't the one the Matrix wants either. He's a torchbearer not the true recepient. wait WHAT wasn't Turmoil on Cybertron still literally last issue? oHHHH is this because Turmoil's time machine is super fucking weird and time on LV-117 is WEIRDER, is THAT why Turmoil is here because technically he hasn't GONE to Cybertron yet? I can literally not follow the narration of this bullshit at all Someone catch Orion Pax with the fabric of time he seems to have gotten out Orion Pax those are WEAKSAUCE rhymes oh primus i don't even actually care anymore what the fuck is happening I just know Bludgeon's face is weird as hell and I love it and I wish to see him drawn by someone more competent ???????????????? wait so Jhiaxus and Ironhide had essentially the same vision? "A ghost planet unhinged in time, dropping visitors in different eras depending on their angle of approach." OKAY BUT you could do so much cool shit witht his concept? And instead I got this disjointed mess? :I bla bla bla set up for Dark Cybertron. Stuff. meh
[Disclaimer I did not yet read the annual bc I am too dumb to actually reference the reading order I have open in another tab I will do this after this but like. That's what happened in case you were wondering why I was missing a huge bit. Let's call it residual temporal confusion from LV-117. Yeah.] Spoiler: exRiD 11 Dirge Dirge Dirge (he has a fun name okay) Starscream. HONEY. why are you annoying Omega Supreme? Starscream you are KILLING it at the media game. My boy. I am so proud of you you terrible asshole. Bumblebee you really expected something else? of COURSE starscream would use the comm-net for his own reputation the second it came online is it just the contrast to the last issue or is everyone particularly handsome today? Lookin at you Prowl, you prick. Prowl this is a bit too much confidence when bee is bitching about starscream hogging media attention. Do you not know ANYTHING about how democracy wo-... OH right. *screenshots Sexy Starscream in his dumb crown* Metalhawk: 'Scream chill have you even thought about what this really means? Starscream: IT MEANS I WIN SHUT UP AND STOP RUINING MY PARTY starscream, honey, this is some shit do you... really not believe this even a little? Do you really think this is all hype train bullshit? "The only force that controlls the universe... *BOOM* ... is entropy." okay you get an a+ for staging and framing, Scream. Wait... did he or did he not blow Omega Supreme up? Starscream? You would not do yomething this petty, right? there is... a transformer named Hot Spot. Isn't that a little like calling a human Nursery? oh my god Prowl don't be a dick. Metalhawk D: did... did they all just decide it HAD to be decepticons, or....? OH MY GOD METALHAWK IS TOO PRETTY AND TOO GOOD AND UGH "I trust you to try to do good." <3<3<3<3<3 Kids have you forgotten the cameras are running? Now is like the opposite of the right moment to talk about anythign even vaguely adjacent to the Ratbat thing okay so Shockwave did the thing? That is at least marginally comforting considering that I don't THINK he is currently actively collaborating with Scream? FUCK this art style even makes swindle cute oh gosh Dirge looks so sad and scared D: "... And I won't let a purple symbol drag me down when I'm about to get everything I ever wanted." My OC is crying in my head well done, Starscream :P he scream at ceiling gosh this will be a big showdown won't it? "You have no friends here" how about you stick a knife in and twist it. He doesn't deserve this you fuckers he is TRYING DIRGE!! "Now Shh! The walls have ears. Sometimes literally." ilu swindle FUCK SHOCKWAVE SO MUCH HOLY SHIT YOU WARMONGERING ASS HAT oh my god Dirge you poor darling "Just hide me-- from Prowl, from Shockwave... from everyone." omg QnQ "Are you even my friend" annnnnnnd the already shaky allegiance is cracking. Should've stopped fucking Bee over a couple months ago, Prowley "I want the truth. Not a rampage." Bee you are so LATE with pulling yourself back out of this ugh but I'm glad you're starting to get your shit back together. "I'm not going to make this political." "... I'm willing to make this political. If you're interested." sdfghj please have fun word substituting "gay" for "political" and be amused with me. "You're not playing me into eliminating your rivals again." Oh honey. Yes. Yes he will. Prowl this is Starscream. I don't think Soundwave wants the war to start again tbh, but then I don't really know why he's hanging out with Shockwave. (I can't understand why anyone would be hanging out with shockwave) Ravaaaaage ARCEE NO DON'T HURT RAVAGE DON'T HURT RUMBLE EITHER FUCK god dammit i can't decide who to root for here D: oh my god "He doesn't have the nerve to do what we're going to do, Arcee." YOU TWO ARE LITERALLY JUST CONTINUING TO WAGE THE WAR IN PETTY LITTLE WAYS So they faked most of the decepticon's deaths. Got it. Starscream you schemer. Arcee is death in high heels and I love her so much Also I kind of ship Arcee/Starscream/Prowl in a dysfunctional clusterfuck "I had it all and then Megatron came back" OH GOD NO MY POOR BABY BOY. POOR STARSCREAM THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST FOR HIM ISN'T IT? OH NO (BUT ALSO YESSSSSSS HI MEGS)
Yessssssssssssssssss, let the Starscream feelings wash over you!!!! He's such an asshole, and I'm so, so emotionally invested. I think that as soon as I get room to breathe, I've got to reread early exRiD with all my emotions about these characters now firmly in place. I get the feeling it will go down MUCH more smoothly that way. (and also I really like your shipping tastes) PS, I'm not in a position to check whether it's online, but spotlight: megatron is REALLY good reading, and I thiiiiiink you're at exactly the spot where they inserted it into the phase two hardcover trades. And by good reading, I mean I almost cried. Did cry? I may have cried. But especially if you're feeling Starscream emotions, you should really, REALLY check that comic out.
Where's that image with everyone's tags complaining about stupid sexy Prowl when you need it.... Impossible
ON WARDS TO THE ANNUAL (why put really important plot shit into an issue that for all intents and purposes to the casual reader would look like non-essential bonus material? I DON'T FUCKIN KNOW BUT IT'S NOT SMART) Spoiler: exRiD Annual oh my gooooooood vintage art how cute oh my god this is so dang clever it SOUNDED like they were talking about the war between cons and bots but it's the first civil war sdfghjkl omg this is so adorable with the old timesy dialogue/narration style pls continue posing starscream like the hot pinup he is Dang scream your hips don't lie omg old poetry okay but listen, Scream and Hawk finishing eachother's sentences is the cutest fucking thing ever and I am trash I just ship Starscream with anyone who gives him more than ten seconds of even vaguely positive attention, i want this boy to be happy so badly. This mech actually uses the words "Yoo-hoo, Blurr" on fucking page if I was able to not-love Starscream before this I just lost the ability Bluuuuuuuuurr being an ass to Scream won't make your situation any better. Vintage cyclonus is not as handsome as modern cyclonus well this dialogue continues to be adorably goofy and stilted also CRYSTAL CITY! OMEGA SUPREME! STUFF Prowl literally immediately either grabs or shoves Starscream around and like. Prowl if you want to get your hands on the goods maybe treat Scream to some energon goodies first. Be a gentlebot. Sideswipe no. "To the tragic death of rodimus and the crew of the lost light" *inappropriate giggling* I-is that an optics flare Starscream? Are you that affected by a gun being pointed at you? I mean fuck Sideswipe is definitly enjoying this far too much, but. Either way. Wow. "He means reality itself, Prowl, he's juts trying to sound clever" Blurr <3 BUT YEAH OKAY less science babble, more explainy babble, Wheeljack, what's going on? ohhhhhh this will be interesting VERY interesting Is this combiners stuff? Starscream you glorious ass <3 GOOD JOB out maneuvering Prowl (like that's hard) Blurr looks like he is absolutely regretting ever even looking at Prowl and I feel that Good lord Monstructor is just always terrifying and weird I love how Wheeljack keeps reminding Prowl that Sky Lynx is a person and should probably be asked about. "It's on a scale from reasonable to something Brainstorm would come up with... About 0.6, 0.7 Brainstorms." ILU WHEELJACK "Planet-Sized fireball and our entire star system turning into a supermassive black hole." "That's 0.6 Braistorms?" "You, uh, you do know what he gets up to, right?" OMG Starscream <3 of course you snuck down to eavesdrop CHASE THROUGH THE RUINNNNNS! did the narration juts make a fucking pun on Omega Supreme's name omg interestinginterestinginteresting Starscream STOP FLIRTING with Prowl omg TITAN PROPHECY TIME haha lol not you Prowl you d-bag omg STARSCREAM IS LEGITEMATELY SO SURPRISED SOMEONE DEEMS HIM GOOD THIS KILLS ME "What do we tell people?" he is so hopeful. My darling. "Nothing. No one would believe you." FUCK OFF PROWL OMG <333 THESE PEOPLE ARE GOOD PEOPLE "My friend... Starscream." METALH AWK pls stop with this no hope for us bs it is tiring and cynical and you can do better. OPTIMISM oh gosh Metalhawk ono OH HAI THERE OMEGA omg Metalhawk sounds so sad and hopeful sdfghjk Yes your planet needs you metalhawk you precious lovely darling <3
Spotlight: Megatron! Shitty pirate edition. Spoiler: context, involving All Hail Megatron and Chaos Theory spoilers Context: Following the events of All Hail Megatron, Megatron is totally dead - no, really! He's definitely, absolutely, positively dead. The Decepticons are in disarray and have gotten kicked off earth. Starscream has yoinked the Matrix and is nominally in charge. But things are... shitty. They're stranded on an asteroid or something, with minimal resources, and you've got things like Decepticons cannibalizing each other. Meanwhile, back on earth, Rodimus is Discontent. He deals with these feelings by stealing Ultra Magnus's spaceship and going off on an adventure. His adventure consists of him deliberately crashing his one singular spaceship on this asteroid-moon-thing where the Decepticons are stranded, stealing the Matrix, stumbling onto, surprise!alive!Megatron (Shockwave and Sondwave dunnit), and getting shot right in the chest and drifting off unconscious into space. Then other things happen with him, and Megatron takes control of the Decepticons again, to regroup and attack the Autobots (what actually happens is that both factions team up against motherfucking Galvatron and his stupid zombie universe, but that's okay). So this comic was published as part of Phase 2, and but it takes place during the Phase 1 events. The compilation puts it right after exRiD 11. And it's a hard read. Recommended reading order: read this, then read MTMTE 28-29 and cheer hard for Starscream during the trial scenes. Then read everything Starscream ever appears in and tear up over how your precious asshole son has managed to pull himself back together and regain some measure of confidence and legitimate power after all the goddamn shit Megatron put him through. Spoiler: spotlight: megatron, 1/3
