@Allenna I'm not sure when it was published, all the holiday stories are in a single chapter marked "2012 Annual" on viewcomic.
the holiday special is from 2015! it takes place directly after 49 and right before "no guns, no swords, no briefcases". the 2012 annual is a different thing! i have no idea why it's called the "annual," though.
Spoiler: maximum dinobots The unreadable dialogue isn't terribly important. This page gives me a lot of grief for some reason. My focus just will not cooperate. I remember I tried photographing it a couple times, and that unreadable one was still the best I got. But I've got one that's hopefully a bit better now, and that's up on the dropbox and the google doc! (though the google doc in particular is probably still not very readable at all) Hot Rod: Kk-hh. Flame out did the job, but... Hot Rod: *collapses* ... -:uhh:- I'm not going anywhere fast. Not on this leg Hot Rod: Can't change. Internal comm unit's been disabled. And it won't be long before Scorponok gets wise to what I just did. Face it, Hot Rod... We still do. And if people are interested, I can probably see about getting shitty copies of the Drift miniseries and his spotlight up next! I'm pretty sure those weren't on viewcomic. Those follow right after this in the hardcovers and it was some pretty excellent backstory for Drift and then you can all ship drift/wing with me
oh, i've got a pdf of the drift miniseries if anyone wants that! i have never read the spotlight, though :0
How to tell which Drift mini you are reading? Just look for which boyfriend is in it! The one with Preceptor - Spotlight Drift The one with Wing: Drift The one with Ratchet : Drift - Empire of Stone
alright i'm gonna upload them to google drive and figure out how to share it....... pls stand by for updates on the situation
We need another miniseries so that Rodimus can be his boyfriend in that one. And then a run of crossover boyfriend miniseries! Ratchet and Perceptor doubleteam Drift. Then Wing and Rodimus doubleteam Drift! And so on and so forth until everyone is just heaped on top of Drift in one big pile of love (i did actually see rodimus/drift/wing art from larrydraws today, so this is a Very Important Thing that I need more of)
Okay so this post is about Kylo Ren but I think it would be interesting to look at some of the concepts in it as it applies to the IDW G1 canon. Like, uh... moral injury and the concept of limited free will especially.
i also have a pdf of the chaos theory two-parter, if anyone hasn't read that one yet!! i don't think it's on viewcomic. god knows i looked for it.
Innnnnteresting. You know, given the things they're saying about Sophocles here, and given how the canon war seemed to crush ART out of their society (especially in constrast to a society like Caminus), I'm really curious to know what kind of ground Crosscut's play was going to cover. He was a senator before the government fell apart, so he was in a pretty prominent position to observe what was happening to Cybertron, and he seems like an intelligent, decent sort of person. Slash I'd be SUPER curious to know what kind of things Megatron is writing poetry about these days. He'd be in a really, really good position to observe the effects of moral injury firsthand, given the way the plot's been going. ...goddammit, I want to know all kinds of everything about the cybertronian arts now, and canon is never going to do anything with it and I want to, but I'm hideously unqualified adsafdfasfaf. Maybe something with Cyclonus and Whirl. That might be a nice quiet point for them to legitimately bond over without Tailgate mediating.
And it's helping me articulate things with Whirl. Like, um. For a long time he was doing really terrible things because he had to to survive. One day he was brave enough to ask the government for a non-functionalist job change, and talented enough for that to happen, and he must have been so happy, but the senate and the functionalist council couldn't stand that. It made him a symbol, and it made him something to be crush, and they systemically punished him and ground him down over millenia at the very least for the 'crime' of knowing what he was good at and wanting to provide a service. Do you think he knew that that was wrong? Of course he fucking knew, and he tried to resist, maybe not even fight back but just resist the roles they were forcing him into, and they fucking took his hands and face for it. And we don't know how long his 'punishment' lasted but it lasted long enough to sandblast his morals and his sense of himself as a person who did not deserve to have terrible things happen to him and a person who had any rights whatsoever and like. He's still harsh and crude and violent at this point in canon but frankly he's doing surprisingly well for someone who had that happen. He's not well, but the whole 'Jetstream' thing made me realize the Whirl we know might actually be Whirl on a path to getting well, like, this is absolutely not his low point in the aftermath of what was done to him. And while limited free will is an uncomfortable concept, I don't think it's going too far to say he had limited free will when the council had him, because while he could resist it would be punished so disproportionately that I can't exactly blame him for following along after a point. IDK. Whirl is complicated and feelings are complicated.
