TFs: DARE TO BE STUPID

I think the general way things have gone is that if you want to do lots of separate tiny posts (and the definition of 'lots' is a very nebulous thing), your own thread works better, but if you tend to post only sometimes, or you tend to post multiple screenshots/reactions in one post, doing it here works fine. And either way, we love livebloggers!!

(oh, and depending on how fast/slow you think the reading experience will go, this can be a potentially dangerous place for spoilers, but I'm not sure how much that matters to you)

 

OHHHHH! I'm leaving a comment later when I'm on a real keyboard and can quote ten million lines, but I am so full of EMOTIONS!!

 

Something something inarticulate thoughts about cybertronian robot eyes and perspective, and how precisely someone with the right eyes could nail perspective. And how someone with the right eyes and right brain could play all kinds of weird games with flattening out perspective, like Picasso and suchlike. And Functionist attitudes towards representative vs abstract art. Or even Functionist attitudes towards a photorealistic cityscape vs the pure utility of engineering drawings. And how someone with the WRONG eyes, like astrotrain had, could accidentally the cybertronian version of impressionist art. All kinds of inarticulate thoughts. Mostly my thoughts are just that I want this car ride to be over, but I didn't want to let this slip my mind entirely.

 

Hey, guys, so just imagine functionist universe Prowl :3c

Maybe he's thrived better than most of the cast would have. He doesn't have any artistic aspirations like Megatron or Whirl, he doesn't have a mystery alt mode like Rung, he had a job where he could thrive and use his skills, and he enjoyed a moderately high degree of freedom (higher than someone like Terminus or Tailgate) as a member of law enforcement. But the Prowl we know, who was a creative, twisty thinker, who had such a sense of superiority, who was so certain that he knew best, now that-- doesn't seem like the kind of mentality to survive well under functionist rule.

I don't even know exactly where I want to go with this, because every direction just seems so delicious. What about a Prowl who's still in law enforcement, and has had that independent thought trained out of him until he's willing to function as just another cog in the machine. Depending how deep his convictions were in What Is True versus what the government declares to be true, maybe that independent thought has been... forcibly removed from him instead (it would be an interesting parallel to shockwave. shadowplay because of compassion vs shadowplay because of truth-based absolutism). Maybe Prowl has been thriving up to the present day, with a partner who never broke up with him, who's happily been his conjunx endura for millions of years. And wouldn't it hurt knowing that just that one tiny little change, just one single mech's non-existence, would have let you have that happy life with the person you loved?

Guys, I am just PARALYZED by all the possibilities in this functionist universe. I saw that one starscream post (and oh my god I would have THINGS TO WRITE if i could pin myself down to just one idea), and I'm fixated on prowl because i love all my garbage children, but every single character gets so!!! interesting!!!!!!! in this context! Brainstorm who never got the chance to be an inventor! He got shoved in the aerial corps from the moment he was thawed, and never has had the chance to even try building something of his own. Pharma who never had the chance to... Pharma. Is it better that he never did any of that bad shit, or is it worse that he never had the freedom to even choose to stay a decent person? There are so many charcters who could go in such interesting directions, and I am paralyzed by choice, this is a terrible thing, I already have too many nagging ideas to get hung up on what new thing to never-get-around-to-writing next!