Spoiler: MTMTE 53 It's probably a good thing that nobody seems to tell Ultra Magnus anything until long after the fact, because now would probably be a particularly bad time to tell him what happened to his brother. Spoiler On the other hand, now would be a great time for all of us to learn more about how the Houses work. Now that he's both the head of the House of Magnus and the House of Ambus, how is he going to balance his responsibilities to both Houses? Is he going to come back to Cybertron only to get sucked into a power struggle as the two Houses try to gain favor with him via political shenanigans that he is totally unable to handle? Later on, just as he's starting to get his bearings, the two Houses realize that most of the time Houses only get joined via marriage, not by the convolutions that have led Minimus Ambus and Ultra Magnus to being the same person, and so decide that he has to marry someone. Spoiler What am I doing? I don't even like this kind of stuff.
Spoiler: mtmte 53 Double wedding with Rodimus and Megatron or just Swerve? (not that the comic has been giving me much for that ship lately ;_; ) XD
Spoiler It turns out that if Ultra Magnus marries someone from a minor branch of House Ambus, and Minimus Ambus marries someone from a minor branch of House Magnus, then who's flying the plane? everyone will be happy, except for maybe Mims but who cares about his feelings, this is politics. So, who are the least likely/appropriate people to end up in each House, one of which has included both a steward of the Matrix and the Duly Appointed Officer of the Tyrest Accord, and the other having included two minibot point-one-percenter load-bearers?
Spoiler: TFA Episode 1 Season 1 Liveblog Liking the setting premise! Interesting way to follow Optimus and co to important personhood without getting bogged down in the super-long war. I can definitely tell it's for kids, but that's not a bad thing. Starscream's voice makes me giggle. I like Bee's voice! How will I make my MegOps ship fly in this canon? Also IDW G1 has ruined me because I keep half-expecting Prowl to be horrible. Why does Rachet have face dimples. Is it because there is no Drift for him to kiss? Someone get Gun Gun off the ship. Starscream has an Aquarius Symbol. Hope you like being the chosen one, Optimus! It's pretty horrible. Giving a new meaning to the name 'Starscream' I see. Are they literally a 5 person crew? Bumblebee is great. Impulsive but great. Gun Gun has been... disarmed. Gun Gun don't be rude. :c More like Gone Gone. Wait I was making all these Moon Moon jokes and he ends up in a place called Paw Paw? Sorry, Megatron, seems like I'm keeping the nickname. Sari's a brat but it seems like Dr. Sumdac isn't very good at getting her proper socialization. Where does she go to play with other kids? YOU DONE FUCKED UP SIR
OK, you guys have done it, I'm starting reading these. Petra got me to read the short Wreckers side comic and between that and Ivy and Whimsy talking giant robots all the time on the WT Skype, I have to. Let's see how it goes!
First issue read. SO they're in the middle of whothefuckknowswhere because this was a great way of getting rid of all the troublemakers "permanently". And they're getting warnings from the future. Can we say giant clusterfuck? Yes we certainly can.
mood: Spoiler: mtmte 47 thats one very ominous cover page there -loudly hisses at getaway- -sighs- thats a pretty shitty backstory you got there, getaway. shows that a war like this mustnt ever happen again tailgate, cyclonus is a way better match for you he might be recalcitrant and unable to voice his feelings, but he does care for you. it shows in his actions. oh cy... this issue is going to break my heart into itty bitty tiny pieces isnt it getaway. getaway are you planting stuff in tailgates head is that what youre doing are you grooming him are you gaslighting him -loud hissing- (also ) this is going to end badly isnt it -loud hissing- -very loud hissing- getaway are you trying to trick tailgate into robot marrying you i mean the needles are cool and all, but i seriously doubt tailgate knows how to use them getaway, i dont think anything can top cyclonus' spark transfusion via ancient sword do your homework, bitch (ʘ‿ʘ) (also i love how ridiculously easy it is to accidentally get robot married) -VERY LOUD HISSING- whirl: friend or foe? cyclonus: ... you tell me whirl: *opens door* adssfgdfhgcjk whirl is still making clocks oh whirl bby oh cyclonus bby yeah ok @IvyLB point taken those two also work as rails whirl youre a dick and i love you whirl. whats with that face. you look like someone who suddenly and unexpectedly got an answer they didnt foresee and now have to think about (also: oh cy bby) whirl has second thoughts and is upset by the prospect. oh whirl thats the sound of healing. dont fight it. embrace it. give yourself to it you'll be fine. trust me. ... uhm uuuuhm -very loudly hisses at getaway- oh if the world were only so simple get your bullshit out of my faaaaaaace getaway -LOUD HISSING- GETAWAY ARE YOU ARE YOU MANIPULATNG HIM VIA HIS RELATIONSHIP TO CYCLONUS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME go die in a fire, getaway aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
So good. I haven't even watched the show yet and that fic. Is so good On top of or underneath his facemask thing? Because in the hypothetical situation where Rewind has a face under there and attaches the mustache under his mask dealio so it's hidden most of the time, you have the perfect set up for some tall asshole to demand proof that this shrimpy minibot is actually head of the house. Rewind just snaps his fingers to reveal THE GLORIOUS STACHE(tm), causing everyone to cower before him in awe at the magnificence
mood: -gross sobbing and screaming- Spoiler: mtmte 48 so, tailgate just ascended to godtier via pure despair. i hope getaway and atomizer get the full force of an ascended page of void straight to the face ::) ... nichrome was that your invention ok wow this is fucked up (hm, rung and skids working on some detailed stuff, and an explosion waiting to happen...) oh rung you exciteable dork and skids holding him up so he can put the model where it should go ::D froid and rung. who could never agree on something, do i remember that correctly? i smell a setup oh COME ON you telling me we got a time skip after the cliffhanger? boooooooo BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "stiff", you say. "old and stiff." while flexing. a pose that says "never been better." (also dont think i dont see your hand on tailgates forehead, cy) while i am quite glad that megatron and cyclonus are talking, i really do agree with both of them regarding rodimus, uh, what do you call it? tendency to abuse power? also, rodimus? shut up. youre not half as good a troll as swerve is. swerve at least knows when itd be tactless. those are some unhealthy-looking mnemoneedles WOW FUCK YOU FROID There you are! Look at you all! So young! All thin-winged and bow-legged and blood-warm and new. And me... a mess of angles and frequencies and sour light and brown noise and--" say what you want but that shit here is downright poetic hi tarn
fun fact: i spent about 3 hours last night trying to figure out how i could get the entirety of tgwp on my phone in either my kindle app or my google books app. there was probably almost certainly a better way to go about it than what i ended up doing, which was: Spoiler: long list documenting my failures copy and paste every single chapter into a google doc do some minor editing and by minor editing i mean go through and fix every gotdamn typo i can find in the entire 260k file because that is who i am, fundamentally, as a person crash the program when it turns out that the last chapter is one chapter too many cut the damn thing in half and make a separate document (this takes a LONG ASS TIME because 269k words) send them to my kindle surprise! it didn't work. download the files as zipped html files send those to my kindle it works! hey presto! open the files on my kindle app surprise! the margins are fucking huge and i cannot fix them, and it is too distracting, i cannot read this wait for the tender embrace of death upon realizing it is now 2 AM attempt to download the (fucking massive) files as pdfs onto my phone so i can open them in google books hahahahahahahaha! haha! oh, apple, you fool it doesn't work. i try again anyway. many times. definition of insanity, etc. by then it is nearly 3 AM and I Am Tired. i give up. THIS MORNING, i finally realized "hey wait i'm an idiot and i can upload the files to google books on the computer and sync it to my phone" so that is what i did. it took like 20 seconds. and now i have TGWP and TGWP 2 on my phone in a really pleasant format with flippy pages and customizable fonts and colours, forever and ever, thank you god, amen
