A random Homestuck person on my dash just reblogged a link to a 489 page long PDF about a massive Bayverse conspiracy theory and to be honest I'm just...afraid
Cyclonus/Starscream, nobody is coping well with anything, nobody has a good grasp of how to do communication, things accidentally get sexy even though nobody really wanted that to happen. 3.8k, dubcon, and I'm kind of delighted with this setting. I might have to write more :3c
That essay is honestly kind of amazing. Also, one of the chapters (sections? chapters?) is a surprisingly appropriate Homestuck quote, so I have to give kudos for that alone.
Ha, the moment I saw this I knew it was that thing that came out of Cinema Discusso on SA. The secret messages hidden in the Transformers movies are infamous.
I just read the thing after seeing it referenced for so many years (because I have nothing better to do with my time I guess). It has a lot to say about the decepticons being coded as the working class, which was pretty funny when I got to the end and saw an after-note about how that's not a dynamic that's been explored before but it seems like the IDW comics are picking up on it. (This thing was written, like... A long time ago.) Also there's a good segment in the middle there juxtaposing Megatron, Mad Max, and uh, that other short film about the dude and the tanker truck that I can't remember the name of now. I forgot how bad the bayverse designs are. It's like an infinite fractal of greebling.
i want to read it but 489 pages of this is no doubt more than my brain is ready to handle (I would however strongly support anyone who posts Best Ofs)
A ton of it seems to be short paragraphs with pictures, with occasional longer passages of text interspersed throughout. I would probably be halfway through it already, if I didn’t need to sleep and now work. Dammit...I’m so weak for literary analysis that tries to make sense of stuff like this ;-;
Hey y'all, I am still mid-reread and haven't been reading this thread bc I want to avoid spoilers, but I had a question about reading order I was hoping someone here could help me with. I just caught up to where I left off the first time I read MTMTE, at #49, and it looks like #50 involves exRID and the other ongoing TF series. Since Dark Cybertron I've only been reading MTMTE because it's easier on my brain to not be jumping around a bunch of different storylines. I was intending to go back and catch up on the rest when I was done, but should I do that now if I want to understand what's going on/ get the full experience of this arc?
Nah, it's not necessary to read the other stuff. The other dudes are just cameos, no plot-or-character relevance. It's more of a "hey, remember these guys? There are other story lines, in case you're only reading MTMTE". Don't worry about them at this point.
MTMTE #50-55 should exist pretty independently of exRiD! the big Dying Of The Light arc that wraps up at issue 55 is a major arc conclusion event for mtmte, so what you're running into is more like the series just taking a deep breath before it dives in. After 55 there's a complicated multi-franchise hasbro crossover event (but mtmte barely brushes up against it, the only notable piece is a one-shot with the scavengers on earth that's really fun). And there's also a basic crossover event with exRiD and TAAO where the only mtmte piece is checking back in with fort max and company on Luna I. That's the spot where mtmte becomes Lost Light, so it's a good spot to pause and catch up with other storylines if you want! But other than those crossover events, which really don't play into the mtmte plot at all, this set of issues doesn't require any outside reading up through the latest lost light issues (the crossovers are.... ehhhhh....... i've read parts of them, have not been able to muster the strength to read the rest. The multi-franchise one involves Rom: space knight, GI Joe, and micronauts, and I don't even know what. The other one involves sentinel prime and requires some exrid background to understand who one of the major characters is, and sins of the wreckers background to understand where prowl is coming from, but it really has minimal impact on anything going on in this ongoing)
This Bayverse meta just blew my mind, and now I'm full of visions of what we could have had if they'd actually been able to pull the first three Bayverse movies off in a coherent, not painful fashion. Reading it was so worth it...all ~400 pages of it!
Tbh, having attempted to read the rest, it... might not be worth the effort. Even following the Recommended Reading Order is pretty hard, it breaks down completely around halfway through. After which I got frustrated and just read the exrid issues, bc fuck hasbro tbh
