Sorry about that! I just got into the fandom, so I've been liveblogging snippets whatever transformers thing I'm reading/watching atm that seem interesting to others *saunters over to other thread*
You know you have robotitius bad when you and your roommate (@meow naming Harvest Moon animals after characters. (Tailgate is a sheep. We have Ambius the cow. Stormy the duck. Percy the duck. Whirl the Chicken and Quark the Chicken. We are naming a goat Cyclonus and another duck Nautica. I will let @meowtini on the rocks explain why we're going to name the silkworms Getaway)
The best thing about the Transformers fandom is that no art skills are required to make cute comics. It's perfectly acceptable to get a couple plastic robots, take some pictures and voila! Instant success. It's completely normal to have whole blogs dedicated to storytelling with transformers toys. The two fandoms I've been in that even had an accessible set of toys/figurines never did much with photography stories/comics, but with transformers, playing with the toys is half the point of everything. urghh, I have a whole box of kingdom hearts/squeenix figures sitting in my closest, I don't have the space for new toys. Must resist urge to buy expensive plastic things....
Look, it's not my fault that the last time I was happy to see Getaway Spoiler: MTMTE spoilers he was missing his arms and legs.
Yeah, Dave Willis, the guy who has that blog I linked to, has, like... all the transformers toys. Including many he made himself from bits of other toys, to get the right characters from the right continuities. I can't even pretend to scoff at that, tbh. If you've got the resources for that, why not? I imagine he's cut down on buying the expensive ones since he's had kids, but I can totally understand the satisfaction of having, like... All The Rachets or whatever.
Actually I would like to gently touch his Rachet collection but it'd be super weird to break into a stranger's house to touch his plastic figurines. :P
I'm gonna have to go spelunking in his blog, that sounds fun. God knows we all could use a mighty Ratchet clone army. There needs to be more then one of him around just to keep the team ship shape. @Allenna that's an impressive collection, I love the shelves! Hmm, my wals are mostly covered by bookcases, but I've got some room on my dresser if I clear off all the junk...
A lot of ebay finds with lots and stuff and some of it is @meowtini on the rocks. Even my masterpiece Prowl was only 40. My priciest is the third party maketoys Tailgate I bought myself for Christmas (he was 100). I'm gonna get me the maketoys Swerve for my birthday. The shelves are just a garage wall system I painted to match the walls etc. I figured I might as well make use of the height of the ceiling!
caaaaasually recommends rly excellent TFP/SG gen longfic starring bumblebee and knock out as unlikely allies following some misadventures in dimension-hopping, starscream the badass lady-commander, soundwave the deeply traumatized torture victim, and decepticons who are Good but still very much decepticons. it's!!! really really really good!! knock out is a fucking DELIGHT, bumblebee is the rude angel of my heart, and. man i am just having a great time with it it uh. aw man i just checked for the purposes of this post and unfortunately it has not updated in a VERY long time. but!!! it is a really fun read regardless
VENTING TIME: I've decided to TRY and make a Rodimus music video because I'm flipping insane...Just why does some of the best storylines where Rodimus would be the most expressive have to be illustrated people who draw wooden faces in the ugliest artstyle??? I can't use MOST of the dark cybertron stuff OR the retrospective issue that comes right before that. All that stuff with Rodimus being jealous of thunderclash? NOPE! Maybe I can use the annual, but once again the expressions are so wooden.. All I can say is that Hayato Sakamoto needs to be the lead artist on more MTMTE issues, because his Rodimus is ADORABLE, also butt wiggles. Also, I hope they get Corin Howell to do some work for MTMTE, I'd love to see the Lost Light crew in his style (I ADORED Windblade #2's art. He really brought those characters to life).
Okay, I sincerely don't know what's going on with my camera, because I can't get the flash to go, I can't get it to focus, and my face is REALLY not that red and blotchy. But! I might be working overtime on my weekend for the fourth week in a row, but I have the most precious, gentle angel sitting here on the couch with me
Spoiler: TFA S1Ep9 Blackarachnia... I love you... EDIT: That said jesus christ girl throw the organic out of range before you try and purge urself or whatever. EDIT EDIT: So in my main continuity Elita-One is a badass fascist space queen with secrets that might not actually be that secret to her people but are to us. And in this continuity she's a bitter spider-lady struggling to recover from a singularly horrifying trauma and with understandable trust issues over the fact that she doesn't fit anywhere anymore and it's quite possible the Autobot government would not have treated her well if she was rescued. She's gonna be my hot problematic babe forever, isn't she?
so whenever @IvyLB is present everything is awesome, and we had a conversation earlier which i cant reproduce ad verbatim any more, but it included thunderclash basically being the mr rogers of the transformers universe, the phrase "optimus prime, you're not being the mech thunderclash knows you could be", theorizing what would happen if someone told thunderclash that and why rodimus hates him so much (thunderclash tries to talk it out. he needs to know what's wrong so he can fix it! rodimus just. makes rage noises and says that the problem is that thunderclash is just TOO DAMN PERFECT. thunderclash proceeds to show him forms filled out a bit over the margin. stuff moved 16 mm to the left of where they should be. he doesn't do it in ultra magnus' presence because he knows it would upset him. ultra magnus senses a disturbence in the force. whirl asks what's wrong, and gets "... it feels like thunderclash's office is not immaculate". whirl slowly backs away and mentions that he's supposed to be the crazy one. swerve is trying very hard not to snicker behind his bar counter, while refilling nautica's and brainstorm's glasses.) also someone tipping off thunderclash that part of rodimus issues is that he just wants optimus prime to be proud of him. thunderclash basically just immediately calls optimus prime to tell him to tell rodimus he's proud of him.
