WinkWonk and the Cling Clongs - A TF Thread

You were obviously just so overcome with giant robot emotions that you had to retire to your fainting couch! Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

I haven't had a chance to embark on my epic porn quest yet, but omg, I have to show you this beautiful beautiful pair where I totally wrote (nonpenetrative) porn for them just to see if I could do it! I even decided to write it with Megatron not even able to get a finger inside him :3c I'm dying to draw them, but the logistics make my head hurt. It's going to happen, though! I'm definitely going to make it happen :DDDDD



And I still haven't got wireplay visuals, but! I DO have a short writing excerpt from TGWP, just a few paragraphs, but enough that you can get the idea of how it goes if you're curious! (oh, also, glossa means tongue)

Spoiler: TGWP porn

"Now then. Poor master, you've had such a hard day at work, dodging power grabs, playing scary games... you should rest." Applying one finger of pressure against Soundwave's chest, Jazz backed Soundwave up to his own chair and pushed him down into it. "You must be so tired. Allow me to help you relax."

Jazz breathed that last word directly into his audio sensor, before retreating just enough that Soundwave could see the wicked grin on his face. Jazz didn't straighten and step away, though, his knee joints melting beneath him until he was on the floor directly in front of Soundwave.

"Donne-moi ta main."

Wordlessly Soundwave complied, holding his right hand out to Jazz, who took it in both his smaller ones. As if he'd just been handed a fascinating treasure, Jazz cradled it tenderly, gliding his palms over every inch, tracing lines and joints with a gentle fingertip. Finally he turned Soundwave's palm toward himself, tilting it forward until a significant gap had opened up along Soundwave's wrist joint. Ever so delicately, Jazz reached one fingertip inside and ghosted it along a sensor wire.

Soundwave's systems accelerated sharply, and his internal temperature climbed two degrees. Jazz graced him with another sinister smile before tipping forward and replacing fingertip with glossa. The warm, moist tip merely touched the wire and Soundwave's spark jumped in his chest, excitement crackling throughout his body but especially along the most vulnerable lines. Of its own accord his armor loosened, relaxing itself for anticipated pleasure, and the wrist joint gap opened even further. Jazz made good use of the extra room, dancing and tickling his glossa along sensitive nerve wires, teasing them with an expert's touch. Soundwave's fans kicked on, spinning hard to combat his skyrocketing temperature, and even over their noise Soundwave could hear the air rushing in and out of his wide-open vents. In contrast Jazz looked perfectly cool and collected, toying lovingly with Soundwave's internals in what Soundwave had always thought was a fairly insensitive joint. He withdrew his mouth and blew lightly over the wires so recently moistened, and Soundwave almost jumped out of his chair.

Looking smug, Jazz tickled his fingertips over Soundwave's palm and returned his glossa to the wrist, pushing in harder, delving deeper, exciting Soundwave's systems into rotating even faster, generating friction, and unbearably delicious electricity. He could feel the fuel pumping furiously through his lines, generating increasing surges of energy that had nowhere to go. The electricity almost sang through the wires under Jazz's glossa, quivering with sensation. There was too much of it: the heat, the friction, the energy that sparked and flared with every new tickling touch. His left hand curled into a vicelike grip on the arm of his chair, tightening to the point of pain.

"Go on," Jazz murmured, and even the movement of his lips against Soundwave's outer metal was enough to make his plating buzz with pleasure. "You deserve it."

His body did not need the encouragement. A hot white flash erupted inside him and he overloaded, tiny sparks bursting from every joint. It was brilliant, sizzling bliss, pure ecstasy in those first few seconds for which even his optics had blacked out. Then his systems restarted themselves, his vision cleared, and he was left panting in its ebbing glow.

I love Shockwave/Blurr! You've got Shockwave and his detached, mysterious, emotionless act, but you know there's got to be some kind of hardcore passion driving him for him to do SUCH a crazy infiltration. Also, him lorge. And in the other side, you have Blurr, who's emotional, impulsive, but it's presumably very smart and skilled, since he's in the intelligence service. And also he's delightfully tiny :3 I love either seeing it played in line with canon, where Shockwave is using him and is just a couple steps ahead, or seeing the script flipped with Blurr domming the everloving HECK out of him. And either way, ohhhhh the SIZE KINK! I love this ship.

Ahh, thank you!! I have a lot of fun with the faces in this series, and generally speaking, I LOVE drawing the transformers who don't have proper faces at all. I've got some lovely references lined up for some of the most size-difference-y ships, and I'm hoping to start having fun with those tonight! Also I want to draw Lugnut doing the Will Smith pose with Strika

Oh mannnn, there was some SERIOUSLY cool stuff in there that they didn't really get to play with! I especially would have loved to see the contrast between Ultra Magnus's sketchy-but-relatively-decent leadership and Sentinel. Also I need more Waspinator. MORE WASPINATOR! Plus I'd love to see more about Omega Supreme and the other bots in his series. It's so deliciously fucked up that they were built stupid so they'd be easier to control. Plus even though they were instrumental in turning the tide of the war, only TWO of them survived, and both of those two were in comas in their alt modes for years and years and years.

Oh!!! I didn't even think of that! Hahaha, YES Blurr is absolutely definitely still alive and I categorically resize to believe anything else. BLURR LIVES!

(that's a reference to the comics, where a group of characters is going around painting [CHARACTER] LIVES on the walls of their city)

 

OH ALSO, so I'm working on a picture for the first time in like two weeks, and I got myself all excited over Shockblurr when I replied before, so that's what I'm doing. But then Shockwave's face looked so empty and bare while I was filling in the rest of the picture and I just

 

It's really funny, because the comic DEFINITELY plays games with the robot proportions in a pretty serious way. With Tailgate and Cyclonus, you usually get relative sizes like this, where Tailgate comes up to about Cyclonus's waist.



But then you get a panel like this, where Tailgate is sitting in Cyclonus's cockpit, in the pilot's chair, with looots and lots of wiggle room.



I think that's the biggest example of size-difference shenanigans in the comic, but like... it is not very consistent. The minibots are consistently tiny (which is gr8) and a couple mechs are consistently MASSIVE (also gr8), which makes written or drawn porn an adventure. When I end up writing for two mechs who are about the same size, it's always like... wait........ hold on, this is too easy, something's wrong. But it's also nice having those logistics steering me away from just standard-issue tab a + slot b porn. Which is still lots of fun! But I've got almost 40 chapters in my kink bingo fic, and it's good having that extra nudge to keep me steered away from getting repetitive.

Oh man, I know, right? It's exactly like how you described it! It's such a weirdly intimate way to do sex, and kind of horrific if you slow down to think too much about it, but it gets HOT. The fic covers a lot of sexual ground, because even though Soundwave doesn't force Jazz into the full sex, he's definitely going past Jazz's boundaries into 'it's heavy petting time now' and is putting a lot of energy into nudging Jazz into voluntarily getting jiggy with it, plus all the slaves in the story have sexual slavery as part of their unfortunate deal, so the fic is FULL of sexual content. There's even self-servicing (one of the hottest scenes) and coerced sex (also hot) and straight-up rape all over the background (also pretty darn hot), but because of how the wireplay is set up the fic itself is only rated T, hahaha. I'm dying to find good art, but I've been striking out, so I think I'll have to take it upon to try drawing some ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

Jazz is speaking French because he's really into the sheer amount of variety and diversity in Earth's culture! The fic says that most of the mechs only bothered to download English while they were staying there, but Jazz went for just about everything, and it looks like Soundwave did that too. Sometimes he uses it to talk to Soundwave so the cassettes can't understand what he's saying, but sometimes he just uses phrases in other languages for the hell of it. And I think there are times when he uses other languages around people he knows aren't going to get it as a way to hold onto the last shreds of his independence. Since Soundwave is usually the only one around who can understand him, it's often something that just the two of them share, and I think the author uses it occasionally to draw a line under the slow burn of their growing intimacy.

Oh, and I think you'll appreciate this. @coldstars mentioned in a PM that wireplay sounds an awful lot like robot guro, and mentioned 'but what if Overlord made a friendship bracelet out of Fortress Maximus's nerves' and welp, looks like now I've got to draw a comic, thanks coldstars

Oooooooooh, I hadn't seen that! That's absolutely gorgeous, omg. I think that one of my favorite things about the extreme size difference here is that when you want to show them being physically intimate, it so often means that you end up with Soundwave curled around Blurr. It's just too cute, my poor heart can't handle how adorable it is. And one of the weird things that that got my attention about the TFA art style is that I really love how the thighs look on these robots. Usually I'm all about that thicc thigh lyfe, whether I mean to do it or not, and art like this that captures how delicate the TFA thighs are is just lovely.

It's a lot of fun!! It's kind of nice not having to worry about mouths or noses or any of those face angles, and because everything comes down to the eye, you can do basically whatever the hell you want. You even wind up having canon panels like this, and it's fantastic.

His character really grew on me! I didn't care for him at ALL at first, but now, like... my precious violent bomber child. Let me embrace you. I think my tipping point was reading that one TFA fic coldstars and I keep bringing up, because you get to see how much Strika loves him and get a picture of him as more than 'muscle for the bad guys,' but now I look back at the show, like awwwwwwwwwwwwww, why would I ever dislike you, you're PRECIOUS! Oh, and I think I might have mentioned somewhere that the IDW comics are pulling in characters from all kinds of old continuities? Lugnut totally got a brief appearance recently :DDDD

I AM REALLY UPSET THAT WASPINATOR GOT SUCH A SHITTY EVERYTHING. I am also ticked that Bumblebee did such a shitty-ass job of apologizing to him. Like... oh my god. You fucked over this guy who was an asshole, but an innocent asshole. You ruined his career and his life and whatever happened to him in that prison fucked him the fuck up. He was 100% definitely tortured for information. Information he didn't have. Because he was innocent. Oh my GOD, at least give the poor fucker a genuine sorry :CCCCCC

But on a lighter note! I really enjoy this little minor tweak to canon

And just generally speaking, if you're curious about anything to do with TFA, I have the almanac, which is the monster book I photographed below (edit: I forgot to actually insert the image, so it's the attachment at the bottom), so like... virtually any aspect of the show, if you're curious, I'm glad to go in and go digging for information. I haven't gotten much past the character bio stuff (there's a LOT, for tons of background characters that never really did anything in the show), and a ton of worldbuilding and other information like that. There's an entire thing on the ships like Omega Supreme, who they were and how they died and all that. Slash, apparently the only other surviving Omega Sentinel was Sigma Supreme, who was bonded to Ultra Magnus. It's a little moot since he's stasis-locked and in his alt mode, but I wonder what happens to the Sentinels when their bonded mech dies. Aw :( And also there was apparently one known lady Omega Sentinel... until Blitzwing blew her the fuck up. BOOO, Blitzwing. Boooooooo :CCC

Oh, and in the almanac, most of the character bio stuff is done with a framing device of characters describing other characters for the reader. I was flipping through the decepticons and stumbled onto Motormaster describing Toxitron, and long story short, I'm pretty sure I just discovered THE BOULDER'S transformersona

Ahahahahaha, I'm like... 99% sure I'm going to draw a bunch of silly faces onto Shockwave when I'm done and upload them all to tumblr. I keep gettting all sad about how the face has to go, and oh what if I drew this other expression, or oooooooh what if ahegao-- So looks like I'll have to draw them all! All the silly faces. Only the most respectful treatment for this dignified character :V

Oh, also, if at any point you start itching for a further Transformers fix, I know the phase two comics (more than meets the eye and robots in disguise are the beginning of idw's phase two) are still on hold for you, but there are some phase one comics scattered here and there around the internet that you could always look into if you're curious! No pressure or anything, but if at any point you decide you're looking for more content, I can point you towards things!

 

Ooh, and surprise bondage-flavored plug and play porn on my dash! This is adorable

 

I feel a little horrified right now, but also I am giggling uncontrollably. Blurr should definitely just keep his eyes shut.

Spoiler: nsfw

 

No worries! I feel you on the fleshy vessel thing. I look forward to the day I can shed this mortal husk and become a being of pure logic and efficiency



....someday :')

I think this case is just a silly art mistake :P The plot was moving pretty quickly at that point, and they needed to shift characters along, and either didn't realize they were being silly, or just said screw it and hoped people wouldn't really notice. Neither of those two characters do anything else with mass displacement, and another part of the comic mentions that you need to have your spark modified to be able to do it at all, which we haven't heard about for either of them.

It works out really, really well!! There are moments that are plain cute, like with the 'give me your hand', but then there are moments where Jazz is like 'please don't comfort me, people are watching, please let me at least have this.' And one of the most elegant touches, I thought, was actually a Galileo reference. I had to google it, but after Megatron forces Jazz to say a thing about how Autobots are inferior, Decepeticons are soooo much better, and Jazz is nothing more than a slave, Jazz says a thing in Italian that translates out to 'and yet, it moves.' When Galileo was trying to be like 'dude, the earth totally orbits the sun,' the church forced him to recant, and this was apparently his passive-aggressive way to say that even if they're forcing him to say something, that doesn't make it true. It makes me want to work something that elegant into a story, but whoops, I do not write very deep stories or ones that are long enough for that kind of thing to be worthwhile :P

Funny you should mention that, because



It is the roughest, ugliest sketch, but now it's started, so I have to finish it. I'm trying to figure out if I can get away with.... not redrawing these characters from scratch across four or five panels, but I guess I'll only know once I get that first one done :P I really ought to try to work out a sketchy style, but I have to be in the right place to be improvising with art style, which is thbbpptppbpbppt. But we'll see! It's going to happen one way or the other.

Rodimus got posted up above, but the other notable thigh-tastic robobabe is Drift! His thighs are out of control





And Tailgate also has hips for days

Listen. Listen. I have to warn you. Whirl is the most adorable thing, it's awful and wonderful how adorable he is. No matter if you think you're ready, he's going to be more than you're prepared for. He is. THE. BEST. I am emotionally compromised by his character, all day, erry day.

There isn't too much more, because he kind of got bumped aside as a main character by the third season :C I haven't finished looking at all the pseudo log entry things in the almanac, but there may be more for him in there! One tidbit I do remember is that he has his split personality thing specifically because he was rebuilt as a triple-changer, and in this continuity, that destabilizes your personality. I thiiiink I heard somewhere that Megatron was supposed to be a triple-changer in the fourth season, so I wonder if any of the same thing would have happened to him.

One other tidbit I can't remember if I already said! The Jettwins originally had ground-type alt modes, and were like... manual laborers or factory workers or whatever. They were young and low ranked. After the Autobots caught Starscream, Ultra Magnus was like hmmm yes I think we should have some flying Autobots. But ugh, I don't want to risk any of my experienced soldiers with this experimental surgery. Oh hey, those two Autobots just got caught in an industrial accident? WELP, looks like I have my "volunteers" (he said it with the quotes and everything). And their new names apparently came when Sentinel Prime was assigned to train them and he was like UGHHH I DON'T WANNA and just named them whatever. So their names weren't even chosen with love or care ;_;

I have a few pages I took pictures of from the almanac, but they're on my phone and I'm typing on my computer, so I'll give them their own post soon! There's also one page that's hard to photograph, because it's super blurry and handwritten, because it's a message in a bottle from where Waspinator got stranded all alone with Blackarachnia after she double extra fucked him up.

OH MAN, so my guilty guilty pleasure ship for The Boulder is totally with Toph. And imagine her and Motor Master! I feel like she'd be ALL about the destructive potential of these robots.

I shamelessly stole that idea from other artists who do a similar thing! The autobot and decepticon faces can be soooooo annoying to get right

Blue guy is in fact Ultra Magnus!! He's a major player in mtmte, so you'll get to have lots of chances to see him being DELIGHTFULLY HUGE and interacting with smaller people. And oh my godddddd, I love his character, I get so choked up over him, given half a chance. My useless superpower is being able to cry over Ultra Magnus on cue, which I'm sure I will put to excellent use in fighting crime and being a deadly vigilante superhero :P

Awright, so IDW's Phase One is much more conventional than their Phase Two stuff (which is where the mtmte and exrid series fall). A lot of it comes back down to autobots versus decepticons fighting on earth, and it starts out... dull. There's definitely some really interesting stuff too (especially what happens with Sunstreaker, which starts early and escalates for a long time), but I think it has a much less exciting foundation than the later stuff does. It's... erratically good. There's some stuff that's PAINFULLY BAD (mostly the things about Cyclonus's backstory, unfortunately), but there's also a lot of stuff that's really exciting and fun! I read mtmte without even touching phase one, and I got by just fine, but there is some good stuff in there that will add depth to some of the characters and plot points in mtmte, if you're interested.

There's a lot of material in phase one, split between sequential miniseries that tell the ongoing plot (not just one ongoing series, that would be too easy) and various character-oriented spotlight issues that (sometimes) tie in pretty closely and add depth to the main plotline. I was going to photograph the phase one trades to give you an idea of how much there is, but I forgot that half of them are with my friend right now (he's trying to infect me with warhammer while I try to infect him with transformers, and his wife just laughs and sighs at both of us). But here's half of phase one



That isn't all required reading! Some of it, I recommend skipping, because it gets weird at spots (there's a crossover with the avengers, who are never ever mentioned again, or there's a.... zombie plague?? I don't even know) Where things get a little tricky is figuring out which issues you want to read, and which are actually online :P The pirating can be kind of erratic for these early books. That being said!! People have been navigating this mess in the other thread, I just have to figure out where that part of the conversation got buried.

SO. There's a rough timeline here, which isn't exaaaactly the same as the reading order the trades themselves lay out for you.

First! As a general thing, I really recommend the Drift 4-issue miniseries, but I am too lazy to figure out where to stick it in the reading order. It's in the past compared to comic present, but not TOO far back, and it's good background to have on his character and for the war in general. It's got good writing and good art, both of which can be hit-or-miss for the rest of the series. Also it features the comic version of Lockdown, who is spiky and handsome! There's a copy in applechime's google drive folder, Drift Series 1-4. Just ignore the other documents in there for now, they won't make much sense yet, hahaha

As a kind of rough order for the main plot

• Infiltration (squishy human discovers there are giant robots hiding out on earth, giant robots are distressingly un-hot compared to later versions)
  
• Stormbringer (autobots uncover an ancient genetically modified supersoldier in the ruins of cybertron)
• Spotlight: Kup (dark and weird, but Kup and what happens to him are important in later parts of the story, all the way through phase two)
  
• Escalation (Bad Things start happening on earth)
• Spotlight: Blaster (being a radio star and prime target during wartimes. in older continuities, blaster is set up as soundwave's autobot counterpart. also, first hints in the series of robot mental health being a major, major running theme)
  
• Devastation (Bad Things just don't stop from happening)
  
• Spotlight: Hot Rod (good times in character development land)
  
• Spotlight: Dealer (sequel to spotlight: hot rod)
• Spotlight: Shockwave (shockwave's Weird Shenanigans play a part in the background parts of the plot that go beyond autobots/decepticons. not my favorite, but the spotlight issue is interesting and it's got DINOBOTS)
  
• Spotlight: Soundwave (more to do with shockwave's thing, and not too-too consistent with his later characterization, but again, it plays into the plot pretty soon
  
• Spotlight: Grimlock (pretty immediate lead-in to the next miniseries)
• Maximum Dinobots (NOT on viewcomic, annoyingly, but I posted shitty pirates from my trades onto dropbox) (things get EPIC AND ACTION-Y on earth)
  
• All Hail Megatron (the autobot vs decepticon conflict escalates, humanity gets dragged into the mess, everybody is super fucked up)
• Last Stand of the Wreckers (this!!! is!!! my favorite!!!!!!!! it's about propaganda and redshirts, and it's very sad and excellent and features OVERLORD. if you're up for it, there are also text supplements that came with the trade that I pirated and posted, some of which are extra stories, and some of which are just background on making the miniseries. you should totally read them if you can, it's all amazing. i could talk about this miniseries forever. join me in loving rotorstorm, my traumatized asshole son)

And after that is when phase one gets... messy. Art and writing are usually at least tolerable up to here, but after that, there are some spots where it just gets awful. I'll break those down for you soon but right at this moment, I am le tired and untangling the content is complicated. I'll look at that for you soon, though! That's most of the way through phase one, there's just a little bit about untangling what the fuck galvatron and cyclonus are even trying to do, and then a bit more about moving the cybertronians back to cybertron and trying to make the planet habitable again. Galvatron's stuff and the bits where the characters are languishing on earth has some of the worst art and writing I've ever seen, but there are some decent bits I want to try to pin down, and the concluding miniseries is definitely good stuff.

 

Just some random pages from the TFA Almanac that caught my attention as I was flipping through yesterday! Figured I should probably share them before I forget that I ever meant to post them in the first place :p Apologies in advance for the quality.