Aaaaa Spock that's amazing! All the details and colors! The white rectangular bit over the chest with the pattern resembling the Decepticon symbol! It's perfect!
I love your design for soundwave so much spooooock (Also shuttershades meme may be over but shuttershades roddy will live on in my avatar and u can't stop me)
I am terrible at keeping my interests to myself, and that was how I discovered my mom has seen more Transformers movies than me. Which, I've seen zero, but still. She's seen two, in theaters. It was a work thing where her team voted on what to see at the theater and the company footed the bill for the purpose of morale. She said the movies were very earnest but she enjoyed them. She remembers Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Shia LaBeouf. Also I keep sending my sister out-of-context snaps of Mirage.
Important canon details I forgot: Prowl has had his hands welded together for a joke, and the danger of doing this was listed alongside other life-threatening events like braving the Crucible and fighting on Babu Yar.
Spoiler: Large Also, this. The Shimmer is at least sometimes real, it's just Springer showing up to recruit you into the Wreckers. And the Necrobot is an old dude with niche hobbies. So.... what's up with this seething moon business? OuO Spoiler: LL03 Does it have anything to do with the funky Luna I hot spot? Does it have anything to do with the sudden surprise reappearance of Luna II? And on the final, most important note: sniggering 5ever over 'cybervore'
Spoiler: Spotlight: Kup Huuuhhh. Was gonna ask if that might have been in some way be related to Kup freaking the fuck out in his spotlight. Checked the wiki, and apparently yes if you count retcons. And I do! I appreciated that spotlight a lot because I feel strongly that if you're gonna go and reference I Am Legend, you should be prepared to follow through. And it did!
Spock that might be the best Soundwave human I've ever seen 8D Also time to self-promo a project I've been working on fooooooor about three years now, aha. Book of Hours is a TFP fic project that's intended to eventually be sort of a chronicle of the life and times of Optimus Prime, starting from juuuust before he met Megatronus and going up to the end of the war (an AU version, because I heavily dislike large parts of Beast Hunters and Predacons Rising, but y'know). I just posted chapter 8 of Rise, in which people have been filming Megatronus' rallies and one's gone viral, and Orion Pax is about to embark on an academic career that will eventually turn very political...
GUYS guys guys Imagine empurata Starscream That is all (ps also I saw someone on tumblr mention that tfp soundwave could totally have been empurata'd) (empurata for all is what I'm saying)
Okay but, what about Empurata OP? He DID burst into the senate chambers and call them all the fuck out while screaming Megatron quotes at one point. What if ORION PAX had gotten shadowplayed and empurata-ed? We know what timeline happens if Megatron doesn't exist, but how about an au where OP got taken down? Maybe even taken care of by the decepticons after, depending on how badly off he got left?
I was thinking about this too!! But I was also thinking even more about a TFA Optimus Prime who was empurata'd as part of his disgrace given the mess with Elita and Sentinel. It's a body horror shock that goes both ways when he meets back up with Blackarachnia, where he has trouble feeling bad for himself when she has it so much worse, and she feels kinda bad for him, but is angry about feeling bad for him, because just look what happened to her! It's a constant visible reminder to Sentinel of how things got fucked up, and how Optimus took the fall, and how Optimus is to blame. And it pokes at his negative emotions without hitting him in the WAUGH ORGANICS trigger. It adds so many extra dimensions to Optimus opposing Megatron, even though they've both been fucked over by the autobots, and they both know how corrupt and unjust things are. It adds depth to Optimus looking at what happened to Wasp, knowing how disproportionate and unjustified autobot punishments can be. It's another reason for Ratchet to take him under his wing even harder, because god, just look at this poor kid who got fucked over and mutilated. Plus optional things with Sari and her dad and offering to make Optimus a face, and Conflicted Feelings, and! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck, I might have just talked myself into writing a fic about this XD This is some exciting stuff to consider. But also!! More idw characters it is exciting to empurata: Functionist timeline Ratchet Functionist timeline Pharma, especially if it ties back to Ratchet or his professional standards, or it hits him right in the vanity, just any way I can tap into his emotions Dominus Ambus, not in the functionist timeline flathead way, but in a standard timeline eyeball+claws way, before he disappears Megatron, but I already did that one XD Functionist timeline Prowl, which I actually have a wip for, I just got sidetracked and my lack of object permanence wiped my memory Sunstreaker, just for the vanity points (maybe because of his attempted participation in ye olde gladiator rings) Any one member of the trine, especially if it introduces asymmetry into the triad Rung DRIFT, especially how a missing hands/face thing might shade later interactions with Ratchet SOUNDWAVE RODIMUS! I need to cut myself off now, I'm passing out as I type, hahaha. It's dangerous being my fave, apparently, the moment I get emotionally attached, I just want to chop your hands and face off :V
Oh, and one last thing. MTOs. Countless numbers of mass-produced soldiers being made annnnnd usually immediately dying. How important is it to make faces for these guys? Is it really that important? Just think about Getaway, Brainstorm, etc, being born without a face at all, just being dumped onto the battlefield, barely thawed, with what basically amounts to a half-finished head. I actually had a page from.... I think Stormbringer or something with a bunch of one-eyed cybertronian mooks in the background, but I think I tossed the tab and viewcomic is down and view-comic has failed me, so that's the limits of my attention span :V
I'm looking at the amazon preorder page for Transformers: Revolution, and (ps, this is apparently the trade that will have the 2015 holiday special included)
Sure would be nice if I could make the decision to go to sleep and actually follow through on it for once in my life. But I have now absorbed even more serial killer trivia, as a woman living alone, learning about someone who killed women living alone. BUT HEY, worth it for empurata TFA Optimus! I couldn't stop thinking about this. I vaguely want to draw a Megatron thing, but we'll see how much longer I have before work destroys me or I finally get for-real sick. Optimus and Blackarachnia! (sfw) Spoiler
Spoiler: Bumblebee #4, Discworld Okay so Skywarp furiously hoarding weapons for Megatron makes me think of a very single minded dragon attempting to impress a much bigger, more serious dragon with Important Hoarding Skillz. A bit like Errol but meaner and with far less chance of success. Honey just.. settle. There's aiming high and then there's aiming stupid. Your chances are nowhere near a million to one. Maybe if you stand on one foot...
BE SAD WITH ME SO It's established that mnemosurgeons get a kind of backlash from their work where they can accidentally recall things pulled/erased from their patients-- Chromedome specifically has (what looks like) PTSD nightmares of someone else's trauma, but we don't know if or how else these 'misplaced' memories crop up. Spoiler: MTMTE... 15? just after the Overlord Incident Chromedome brainfingered himself to erase memories of his four previous conjunx endurae, with Rewind 1 being the only one not to get this treatment because Tumbler Is A Perfectly Functional website Robot. Who wants to bet he occasionally gets flashbacks/memory leaks of the four conjunx he erased out of his own brain?
So do you remember months ago when I was posting about Lugnut and Strika? Or the time slightly fewer months ago where @applechime reminded me of my posts about Lugnut and Strika? Long story short, guess which silly pose I finally got around to referencing (sfw) Spoiler: large
I've got an hour to kill, so I'm gonna round out my TFP liveblogging with Predacons Rising Spoiler: the liveblargening "Unicron is revived and possessses Megatron's body" THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING also how is this different from Dark Energon poisoning stabbing [happy sighs at relit cybertron] ...wait, how far out was the warship from Nevada? Southwest of the Baja Peninsula is kind of a long way to go the christian symbology is real 'you did the bad thing so now you don't get to see the afterlife' is kinda shitty bruh Primusâ™ Unicron is fuckin canon Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee <3 <3 <3 listen to my boy SMOKEY D8 they wouldn't kill him off so soon but D8 D8 D8 aww there he is <3 I still love Predaking <3 "Darksteel" someone on the writing team plays MtG smokey is adorable for a robot deity Unicron sure has a pretty organic aesthetic going on I mean it looks great don't get me wrong but guys. guys. swing smokey into the pillar, he can phase through and continue travel within whatever that tower is. Arcee weighs significantly less than him, and without the extra weight Bulk'll have a much easier time hauling her up. It ain't that hard. the sass is real smokey stop being such a pitch stud ratchet buddy I know you're trying to be inspiring but Ultra Magnus has more experience as a tactician and if he's up and running you'll all have a better chance oh nooooo don't let this fight end with darksteel and sky lynx dead :< OH MY GOD THE ORGANIC AESTHETIC IS BECAUSE ORGANIC LIFE IS FUCKING CHAOTIC COMPARED TO MACHINES FUCK you can't convince me there wasn't a pitch quickie involved in that KNOCK OUT :< smokey <3 STOP MONOLOGUING MONOLOGUE WHILE YOU DO SHIT TALKING IS NOT A FREE ACTION don't vaporise them D8 why they gotta poof, please tell me they get rezzed you kinda brought this on yourself screamer I don't like seeing you hurt but dude WHAT IS IT WITH OPTIMUS AND JUMPING INTO THE WELL GOD FUCKING DAMMIT DUDE [Clearly holding back tears:] "I didn't come back to save a life, only to lose the one I care most about!" OPTIMUS/RATCHET IS FUCKING CANON I mean I like that they've finally got round to getting rid of the Prime caste but goddammit optimus don't abandon your diamond wait this is the same day wh what goddammit optimus
