Like my position is that, as far as my watch of Prime is concerned, Knockout and Breakdown are canonically together, because they were written so much that way that their IDW G1 counterparts were introduced as married now that they were in a continuity where there wasn't any coyness needed. So like, together but the show isn't going to use those words.
IF THERE WAS ANYONE AT TFCON I DIDNT GET TO MEET IM SORRY!!! i was laser-focused on getting simpatico confirmed Canon in writing by jro. which he did. thrice. i also spent just, god, so much fucking money on prints and buttons and a script (for mtmte 40) and pins and stickers and more prints, my god, what am i going to do with all these fucking prints
I love Verity, and I've stuck my own kinda-human in there in the form of Sari - it's mainly just the slog of crossovers that exRID became that I roll my eyes over and discard as irrelevant
Aaah, yeah. Humans are good! Just... use sparingly. It's the crossovers that really stunk, so I'm hoping the reboot isn't going to be shared verse, as funny as GI Joe Skywarp was. And honestly, p sure the people who are hardcore into the Micronauts or whatever aren't that interested in a bunch of crossovers with Transformers! I only regret that if they cut out the crossovers Stardrive is going to be really up in the air, and honestly I'm sure there are ways to make her equally weird and isolated without dragging in properties specific to ROM.
Things I noticed and liked: we're told Blacksmiths are considered super special and valued by functionalism, and that it's a rare and innate ability that then needs to be honed with training and practice, but all the blacksmiths we see are different alt-modes! Anode is a plane, Wipe-Out is a car, we only see a single glimpse of Scammer and Rocket but it looks like one's a bike and the other might be another car? Basically, what makes someone a blacksmith is completely disconnected from what their alt is, and from what we see with Anode it's something with how the hands get forged?
Also Spoiler: Functionalist universe speculation I have to assume Lug is hella dead in the Functionalist timeline. We know she and Anode bugged out of Cybertron in the main timeline early in the Great War. Without that to provide a glowing 'get out of Dodge now' sign, I have to assume she and Anode stayed on Cybertron too long, and I can't imagine that the Functionalists were very kind to someone who turns into a backpack. Like, by the time they realized they should leave, I don't think Lug was able to leave, and I don't think Anode would have left her. After that, well... probably the backpacks got recalled at some time. Could be part of why Functionalist!Anode hates the Functionalists so much despite her extremely privileged position.
SO. I don't remember if I screamed about the cdrw cross-stitch hell project here or confined it to my cross-stitch thread. But I did it. And I brought it to chicago and successfully gave it to JRO! The actual conversation is kind of a blur, but I know he was very definitely stunned and moved, and he asked to take a picture of it with me! Spoiler: large?
I bet he actually hangs it up on a wall! EDIT: I say seconds before realizing it's like 12 squares. Still! It's amazing work.
Spoiler: mtmte 53 So I was thinking about the atrocities Dominus Ambus would have definitely had to commit to be made a member of the DJD, and more specifically, thinking about the ways he probably had to dissociate himself to deal with it. And the most obvious angle, given his abilities and people suit, is to think that well, these aren't really MY hands, this isn't the same as doing it with my REAL hands. That's a pretty solid mental loophole to hold onto while you're trapped in hell. But then the next step is subtler. I can see it taking years and years for it to even occur to him. If he can kill these people because he's not doing it with his real hands... then he's never touched his husband with his real hands either.
