Behold…

✨WORLDBUILDING✨

Excuse me as I go insane over the fact that Cybertron is an inorganic-organic hybrid planet

quick painting of elita-1 from the transformers one trailer

Binging TFP is so funny because oh, here's Skyquake who's so faithful to his master, oh, here's Breakdown who pushes Bulkhead out of the path of MECH's weapons, oh, here's Dreadwing who is So Honorable, and the Autobots PLEAD with them to change sides, to become Autobots . . .

BUT NO, they get Knock Out. The vainglorious, self-centered little shit who has no qualms, no loyalty, no morals, and certainly no medical ethics . . . Knock Out, who DOES NOT have a redemption arc or a change of heart or feel bad about a single thing he's done, who says out loud that he just wants to be on the winning team.

I love that. I love that all the noble, loyal Decepticons fucking die and only Knock Out wedges his way into Team Prime, fueled by spite at Starscream and a desire to live comfortably.

The Dark Game Awards. We have categories

Biggest day 1 patch

This probably could have been a movie

Proof that indie games aren't inherently more artistic

Most playable asset flip

Most gambling addicts created

going into cardiac arrest why does he hold him like that

oh my god

You know that post that was going around a while back, talking about how one of the buckwild things about Transformers is that it's like a few dozen major players on both sides of the war and they all know each other?

Because that was genuinely hilarious (the idea of seeing the enemy general across the battlefield and thinking oh, no, it's THIS asshole again is just gold), but also, on a serious note: I think this is actually one of the real draws of Transformers.

It's warfare made intimate. Modern war stories usually depict it in all its vast, impersonal, mechanical real-world horror, for obvious reasons - and Transformers can do that, too, sometimes - but there's something so... awful and compelling at once, to think about what it would be like to fight a war where you come to know so many of the enemy by name. What it would mean to live for eons and eons and spend them all fighting this one guy. What it would actually be like to live that scene in MTMTE where everyone's talking about their personal archnemeses in the other faction - that strange paradox of not really understanding the enemy at all, and knowing them better than you know yourself. It draws on images from legend, of war as it probably never really was: it's Hector and Achilles at the gates of Troy, it's samurai calling out their enemies to duel on the battlefield, it's Hannibal and Scipio secretly meeting the night before one of their armies will annihilate the other.

And that will always be fascinating.

Now I finished watching the whole TFP series, take this.

Got inspired by this post a really long time ago and finally decided to make something of it

[There were so many moments I could've used for any of these lol]

God. The way Dreadwing quickly saves his sword before turning and looking at Optimus.

Eyebrows up.

Eyes open wide.

Mouth slightly agape.

Dreadwing is absolutely stunned that Optimus saved him, and it makes my heart ache even more for him.

my favorite continuity thing from mtmte:

Rewind and his uncanny ability to hear people's transformation sequences

from issues #6, #13, #38, and the 2012 annual

“Ultra Magnus is dead”

- LL7

i love ratchet

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH !!!!!!! EXPECT SEVERAL POSTS THE REMAINING WEEK OF THIS MONTH (I AM MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME)

TFA Fun Facts!

- Powell, the business rival to Sumdac, has a limo that eventually becomes a bot named Stretch, who is actually based off a GoBot named Tux

- BlackArachnia invented the Triple Changer program used by Blitzwing and eventually Megatron; it was also used to help create Shockwave’s disguise as Longarm

- Blurr has two good friends never introduced in the show: Wheelie and Dug Base. Wheelie talks in rhyme due to being traumatized after being abandoned in Quintesson territory and Dug Base talks in the “Subject: description” format that Soundwave sometimes does, but to a greater extreme. It’s a trio of bots with weird speaking quirks ;w;

- The 3 bots that combine to become Reflector; Spectro, Spyglass, and Viewfinder, are also in the TFA Universe. They combine into a tank instead of a camera

- Beachcomber was meant to appear in the show as a witness to Shockwave attempting to murder Blurr, and would’ve been “crushed into dust” by Shockwave. It was cut, sadly. 

- Straxus was meant to make an appearance in the show as well during a flashback sequence, but it was cut. He was the “Lord High Governor of the Decepticon colony planet Lucifer”. Apparently he makes life a living hell there.

- Shockwave hates Perceptor with a burning passion. He’d daydream about killing him during meetings with him as Longarm

- Soundwave actually built Laserbeak and Ratbat based off of blueprints he found in Sumdac’s labs. He actually built a lot of bots based off of them, but ultimately ended up releasing the prototypes. There was meant to be an episode about animal-themed musical robos running around the city and causing chaos, but it was scrapped. Buzzsaw, Sunder, WingThing, and Garboil are only some of the prototypes that would’ve been featured. 

- Red Alert was originally meant to be the medic of the main team, but Ratchet was chosen to replace her.

- Hot Shot was also meant to be the original sorta hyperactive kid appeal” character that would eventually become Bumblebee. 

- Bayverse’s first movie featured both Ratchet and Bumblebee and released in 2007, only months before Transformers Animated’s first episode aired. This probably has a lot to do with why Hot Shot and Red Alert were replaced. 

- Highbrow was definitely killed by Shockwave while posing as Longarm. You’d think the head of intel would have a bit more caution when meeting up in sketchy places with an underling :’D

- Bots that were bonded to Omega Sentinel bots all have the title “major”, except for Override Prime and Ultra Magnus, presumably because their Prime/Magnus titles outrank their Major title. The only other exception is Ratchet, and the idea of Ratchet intentionally refusing the title of “Ratchet Major” in protest of the unethical forced bond between him and Omega Supreme feels a bit fitting, huh?

This is so silly they hate each other so much

and he won't get his privilege back soon