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presidentofthelipglossclub · 2 months

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i think we all are under appreciating just how dumb the rescue bots were. like yeah they’re really good at their jobs but they were plain useless for almost everything else.

heatwave deadass could not even read a math problem. like he for real held the book upside down and tried to read it out loud like that. he even said the words "upside down two" and didn't get what the issue was. graham had to flip the book over for him to get it.

blades suggested retractable buildings as a way to stop humans from getting stuck on top of buildings. boulder had to point out that if those were a thing they’d crush everyone inside. he also claimed the earth holiday with the "lit up tree" is arbor day.

chase became mayor. he sucked. single-handedly he almost blew up all of griffin rock because of his bad decisions and he also lost the keys to all the public spaces. he quit on his first day and everyone cheered because he was that bad.

boulder decided to break into a zoo at night to surprise the team with a pet. his second suggestion after realizing he couldn't use his electronic scan to open the cage was to shut the power off. and cybertron definitely had pets so he has no excuses here.

my point is the rescue bots are so incredibly stupid and that's why everyone loves them and treats them like very small children.

#tfrb #rescue bots #transformers rescue bots #transformers #tfrb heatwave #tfrb boulder #tfrb chase #tfrb blades #transformers aligned #tf aligned continuity #aligned continuity

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nova--spark · 3 months

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Cybertronian Sorcery: A Lost Art

⚠️This is a Personal Headcanon, using lore from TFP, Bay's Last Knight movie, Quintessa [TLK] and personal Ideas and HCs ⚠️

In the early times of Cybertron, it was fabled that there existed an order of what most stories would call mages, sorcerers and sorceressess.

These mages were spinners of Energon, weavers of divine energies, a gift of Primus by which they could not only reshape reality around them, but also see beyond it.

It was said that Primus had blessed them with power directly from the AllSpark. So that they might see not just their own world, but those beyond. Worlds past, current, and yet to be, worlds alternate to theirs, similar and more.

Each wielded a relic which carried a portion of their Spark, and a portion of their power, a Focus by which they could reshape the world as they saw fit.

In the first Eras, they were key to the reshaping of their world, of crafting the landscapes, the wildlife and even at first, the very inhabitants of the planet.

There was no limit to the extent of transformation by which they too could go through, able to adapt to what was necessary. Forms smaller, bigger, agile, stronger, or more.

This art, of weaving reality around them, was also a target on their backs as time came, and the ages of conquest began.

Used as soldiers, medics and more, their numbers dwindled, slowly but surely. That by the time these conquests and crusades ended, there were only a few hundred left, in comparison to the once hundred thousands in their ranks.

After which, came the Hunts.

As tensions rose in Cybertron, with the change of politics, religion and more, the Mages were persecuted, seen as not blessed guardians, oracles or shapers of the world.

Instead, they were now seen as vile witches who could do as they pleased, able to instead warp reality on a whim and no one would be none the wiser.

It is said that none survived, the relics they once weilded now on display in the restricted section of the Iacon archives, where they remain heavily monitored.

But there are whispers that their teachings remain shrouded in myth, found within storybooks and folktales, some argue that they never existed, and were a mere ghost story, the relics on display entirely replicas to fulfill these stories.

But none can truly say for sure.

But what all can agree, that the power they did use, was one to be feared and respected.

#transformers #maccadam #maccadams #nova writings #transformers prime #tfp #tf prime #tf rid 2015 #tf rid15 #tf bayverse #transformers bayverse #bayverse #tf aligned #tf aligned continuity #tf headcanons #transformers headcanons #tf astray verse

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grantmespace · 2 years

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Now that transformers is going to wake back up again when earthspark releases, me and my brother have a contribution to the fandom

#transformers #tfp #transformers prime #transformers robots in disguise #tf rid 2015 #tf aligned continuity #rid 2015 #jack darby #Russell clay

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transingthoseformers · 1 year

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So blah blah blah Cybertronian Taxonomy breakthrough: there's actually quite a few similarities between Insecticons and Predacons. From the beastmode, the presence of mandibles, being unable to talk in their altmode (which is a difference as compared to dinobots and the main TF species, which can talk in their altmode typically) there's connections. Remember my little taxonomy chart that i posted and wasn't sure where to put the Insecticons. Now is when we argue: are Insecticons the sort of modern descendant of Predacons, do they share a particularly significant common ancestor, is it the other way around where the predacons are an extinct branch off of the Insecticons? Is it a case of convergent evolution that occured thanks to the extinction of the Predacons, leaving open a niche for the insecticons to more or less take over the role of some sentient Cybertronian wildlife? Especially since, at least in TFP, the predacons' root modes are more like the typical Cybertronus cybertronii while the Insecticons' have significant differences from the other Cybertronian species we know.

also i am still super fuzzy on where to place the non sentient life that we know existed on Cybertron, such as scraplets, turbofoxes, ect.

#transformers #tf worldbuilding?#cybertronian biology #tf aligned continuity #but the scientific name is from earthspark #trigger warning taxonomy #yes that's the tag i use on here and my main when discussing taxonomy so that you can block it if need be #taxonomy gets frustrating ik ik

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sobbingprincess · 1 year

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Bots with hands on their hips makes me go…

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novafire-is-thinking · 1 year

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Optimus Prime was gifted with extraordinarily acute optics. . . (from ‘Exodus’ by Alex Irvine)

#transformers prime #maccadam #tfp #tfp optimus prime #optimus prime #aligned continuity #tf aligned novels #tf exodus #gifs by nova

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cityzenshark · 2 months

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Earthspark dissatisfaction: Quintus Prime

What is this downgrade?

This is one of the primordial Transformers. The freakishness gives the overwhelming feeling of Quintus being a divine entity in Cybertronian belief. In Earthspark's case, he's the Terrans' Prima.

I can't look at bald Quintus without laughing. Give his extra arms and tentacles back

Edit: I understand that animating the tentacles will be a massive pain but the final design didn't need to remove his recognizable features entirely.

#transformers #transformers earthspark #earthspark #transformers prime #tfp #aligned continuity #quintus prime #thirteen primes #tf terrans #tf malto

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clowntowwn · 2 years

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It’s him… the blorbo

#maccadam #transformers #tfp #transformers prime #tf aligned #aligned continuity #ratchet #tfp ratchet #digital art #my art #illustration #fanart #he owns my heart fr #clowntowwn art ^^

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ploppymeep · 9 months

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finishing reading exodus today and this is the funniest thing ever

starscream voice yeah i don’t care about the tyranny but i draw the line at you being indecisive and annoying

#starscream #exodus #aligned continuity #transformers #tf #talkin bout stuff #transformers exodus #megatron

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ultramagni · 4 months

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hate on rid15 all you want but atleast he's alive and thriving

#i love seeing an alive ultra magnus for once #thank you aligned continuity 😭😭🙏🙏#also hot take but i love how him and bumblebee are considered friends #and how ultra magnus was the first to bring up that friendship #i think he deserves to consider team prime as his friendgroup #like ik optimus said they were his family #but there was really only development with him and wheeljack #and the rest of the characters just didnt acknowledge him after that #so its good to know that atleast offscreen there was something going on #ultra magnus #tfp ultra magnus #transformers #tf ultra magnus #transformers ultra magnus #maccadams #tf

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earthstellar · 11 months

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still re-watching Rescue Bots, still having a good time lmao so an analysis post was inevitable

Chase: “Attention, ants: You seem like reasonable and well-organized creatures. Obey the law and cease this vandalism.”

One second later:

bonk

he’s doing his best, 10/10 I love it when bots don’t understand Earth creatures

uh oh I’m overthinking it again:

implications for how the bots perceive organic lifeforms and organic intelligence

honestly it’s actually interesting that they usually assume (at first, anyway) that any Earth animals have roughly the same intelligence

they assume any living thing on Earth might be sentient; if humans are, then why not anything/everything else, until proven otherwise?

there are potential implications here for how they inevitably see humans or just organic complex lifeforms in general.

we’re not humans to them, we’re organics.

when you realise they tend to group ALL organic life together into one general category, their tendency to assume ants, dogs, etc. all have human-like cognitive capacity suddenly makes a lot of sense.

it’s only after a bit of initial adjustment and trial-and-error that they actually start to distinguish humans from other organics.

we distinguish more between individual species, but they don’t. we’re all just organics

and because the bots are good people, they don’t want to fuck up and potentially assume incorrectly in regard to any organic species’ potential for sentience.

linguistic choices when Cybertronians speak about humans vs animals: words matter

it’s interesting to pay attention to who they call humans vs. people, and when those specific words are used interchangeably to them and when they aren’t.

“these are our humans” versus “we have to keep the people safe”

“we live among humans” versus “these townspeople are weird” (lmao)

it’s just something I like to pay attention to, but the word choices the bots use for referring to people/humanity is worth noting

Chase calls the ants here “creatures”, which is also worth noting!

the bots aren’t so far out of the loop at this point that they’ll assume injects are the same as human beings-- thus there is clearly some kind of categorical difference to them between different types of organics at this point

but he doesn’t call them “insects”, he calls them “creatures”-- further hinting at how unfamiliar Earth still is to the bots in general, in a very subtle way

it might also be that Cybertronian language(s) may not distinguish to this degree or in this kind of way, as even though Cybertron does have native animal lifeforms, there are also Beastformers and other animal-like people and various other creatures native to their home planet which we might then categorise or interpret differently from what they would. the problem would go both ways, to at least some degree

so this type of distinction for organic lifeforms, or possibly just ones on Earth, may actually be either culturally and/or linguistically difficult for Cybertronians to define or differentiate in the way humans would

insecticons vs. insects: easy differentiation, or not?

but Chase still assumes the ants will understand him and respond in some way accordingly, which is almost certainly at least partly down to Chase not wanting to be rude to a species that might understand him

and remembering that Rescue Bots is part of the Aligned Continuity, insecticons don’t have a very positive presence in TFP; it could be that Chase might be aware ants are a kind of insect, or that the category of insect exists on Earth, but may perceive calling someone an insect as being a potentially heavy insult or accusation of some kind of wrong-doing

and since Chase clearly thinks the ants may be able to understand and respond to him here, of course he wouldn’t want to potentially insult them by calling them insects, since to him that may have different implications and he clearly wants to respect the ants

we don’t know a lot about that much native animal/insect life that may have existed on Cybertron in the Aligned Continuity, all things considered, so it’s hard to say if this would even be an easily distinguished category for them; organic insects vs. cybertronian insects might be fairly distinct, but would it be, from their point of view?

consider the existence of not just insecticons but possibly also beetle type beastformers etc.

to Cybertronians, what we would consider animal lifeforms would quite possibly be more closely associated to people who can also turn into those animals and retain sentience while doing so

in which case, it makes a lot of sense that Chase, being unfamiliar with ants, may have just naturally assumed that perhaps these ants were just as sentient as an insect type beastformer in alt-mode, even if he is aware that organic lifeforms cannot transform in the Cybertronian sense

EDIT: just thought about this aspect, too:

“freedom is the right of all sentient beings”: if you don’t know who’s sentient or not, err on the side of caution

the Rescue Bots are aligned with the Autobot faction

famously, across most Transformers media, a large part of the moral core of Autobot ideology is the idea that all sentient beings have inherent rights to freedom (in various forms) and personhood, as per the famous quote from Optimus

it makes sense that any Cybertronians who side more with the Autobots would uphold this ideology as much as possible, in so far as that freedom does not cause harm

as far as Chase is concerned here, the ants may very well be sentient, as he doesn’t know and can’t really tell at first one way or the other-- but their actions are causing damage, and therefore he attempts to kindly but firmly intervene

thus respecting their assumed sentience by taking a polite and diplomatic approach to asking them to cease and desist

in Season 3 Episode 5, Chase does the same thing when the town starts to flood, in relation to the fish in the river: “All citizens without gills and/or fins must evacuate this area.” To them, the fish are citizens too. Because they’re sentient organic people until proven otherwise, and they don’t know yet either way.

(How “citizen” is defined for Cybertronians may also vary. Are all lifeforms in an area automatically considered citizens on Cybertron? Possibly. We don’t know how they may categorise lifeforms on their homeworld in this way.)

because when you can’t tell if a lifeform is sentient or not, it is the Autobot way to err on the side of caution and assume sentience until proven otherwise, for moral and diplomatic reasons.

which Chase does perfectly in this scene, and repeatedly on various occasions throughout the series.

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idk I’m just having a lot of fun on this Rescue Bots re-watch marathon, lmao

[Source: Rescue Bots, Season 3 Episode 7]

#rescue bots #rb chase #tf chase #maccadams #maccadam #long post #analysis post #rescue bots analysis #transformers #aligned continuity

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presidentofthelipglossclub · 2 months

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heatwave and optimus are such an underrated comedic duo. every single time they are in the same vicinity as each other everything immediately goes to shit. this is i think because they are both primus's blorbos, and in true blorbo fashion, must suffer. greatly. anyway this leads to some very fun interactions such as:

heatwave, newly appointed leader of like every rescue bot, on his first day as a secret alien on earth, immediately deciding he wants to leave right after accepting optimus's orders. and when he can't do that, he starts talking to people because he has no fear i guess.

optimus prime, leader of the cybertronian race, chosen by primus, and guy who says "nothing much, double dutch" in response to an extremely casual greeting in a very formal situation in front of his child (heatwave), presumably to embarrass said child.

heatwave, recent student of optimus's old friend who is a respected and decorated war veteran as well as a long time rescue bot, calling optimus (WHO IS FRIENDS WITH THIS GUY) just to bitch at him.

optimus prime, protector of civilians and humanity, fully prepared to watch a game show (created by blades and chase) in which a human child gets electrocuted. (there was a misunderstanding involving the term "lightning round" in trivia).

heatwave, rescue team leader, assigned to protect humans, straight up just driving off a cliff into the ocean with no warning, with his human partner who is screaming, all to win a race.

optimus prime, by now nearly a godlike figure, adopted father of all the rescue bots, also a terrible communicator, ghosting his kids for four years (get it. ghost. bc he died.) and then not explaining ever.

like literally i could go on but they are total messes and it's hilarious. where is all the content of incredibly chaotic and weird father daughter bonding for heatwave and optimus. they are so funny.

(yes i meant to type daughter bc heatwave gives off eldest daughter energy ok. no other reason for the shit he pulls.)

#tfrb #rescue bots #transformers rescue bots #transformers aligned #tfp #rid2015 #tfrb heatwave #tfrb optimus #tfp optimus prime #tf aligned continuity #transformers #they r such a shitty father daughter duo #i think optimus is just too bad at opening up to actually be normal about anything ever.#heatwave can in theory open up but chooses not to because he doesn't like the vibes #i think the sheer power of having the two most overpowered mentally unwell radical bots in the same room could kill someone #probably in rba they use that #like by that time they've both emotionally grown but they r still little weirdos #so they can just girlboss it up and no one can stop them #yeah. idk #heatwave is my pookie bear and optimus is babygirl (esp in tfrb) so i'm giving them the fucked up dynamic they deserve

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bardockarts · 1 year

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Quick & stupid rescue bots sketch

I think heatwave should be allowed to swear. As a treat.

#heatwave #heatwave rescue bots #chase #chase rescue bots #Cody burns #Cody rescue bots #rescue bots #tf rb #transformers #it’s incredible to me that these ‘bots are contemporaries of everyone in the aligned continuity

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transingthoseformers · 1 year

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Friendos i did NOT KNOW THE ORION ARC HAPPENED OVER SEVERAL MONTHS

How- how many months? actually this is making me question how much time passed from s1e1 all the ways to the predacon rising special (not to mention how much time from beginning of rescue bots to end of rescue bots academy— I'm just a freak when it comes to timelines okay dokay)

Wow, that's a long time for someone to temporarily lose their memory. No wonder debriefing was difficult for Fowler.

#transformers prime #tfp orion pax #tf aligned continuity #now I'm thinking about the town of Jasper and how fucking MUCH SHIT GOT DESTROYED DURING THE UNICRON ARC AND S2 FINALE #the butterfly effect is a bitch okay wow #as i may have mentioned the orion arc wasn't my favorite as a kid solely because of my Lying™️ instincts #now i feel like a false fan even though I've rewatched the show several times over the last eightish years

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sobbingprincess · 1 year

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The way he moved his head at the end made it look like an eye roll since he’s incapable of doing so

Shockwave, my beloved <3

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novafire-is-thinking · 3 months

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I was going over Soundwave’s appearances in the Aligned novels for the umpteenth time, and I finally noticed something that seems to confirm he has a face beneath the visor, or at least has optics:

He [Soundwave] kept in touch with the two Minicons via a direct videolink that played as if on the interior of his own optics.

— Transformers: Exodus by Alexander C. Irvine

He’s got SOMETHING back there.

#transformers prime #maccadam #tfp #tfp soundwave #//superior//#aligned continuity #tf aligned novels #transformers exodus #⟣ scheduled post ⟢

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