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just wanted to refine this piece, add more context to the background, and it ended up being kind of surprising..!

Photoshop is fun…

edit: another reason I made changes: a lot of people see the original as a bad ending of tfone where they're killed by sentinel. No it actually happened after the civil war and people decided to execute them both :-}

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Question what happened to Megatron I am not in this fandom at all

Which Megatron are we talking about

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Megatron believes that Orion Pax and Optimus Prime are different people, so he has no problem hurting whatever crawled out of that hole.

Optimus Prime knows that D-16 and Megatron are the same person, so he will never stop believing that he can be redeemed.

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Hi uh I'm taking the last few posts as indication that you've watched TF:One so do you have any thoughts? Any discussion points, anything you adored/despised and thing you'd like more context on?

I only managed to see at the last week before it was pulled out at my local theaters, but I did enjoy it.

The visuals and designs were top-notch, the movements and background settings were amazing (like hello underground cityscapes my beloved), D-16's pretty optics, Megatronus Prime never becoming the Fallen, return of the Quintessons, the Cybertronian fauna of the surface, and Sentinel's character were just chef' kiss.

In terms of complaints: it basically comes to pacing, plotholes, and personal preferences.

The movie really did show the epic bromance between D-16 and Orion Pax in short scenes with so many details, and yet D-16 to Megatron was, in my opinion, a fast-paced downward spiral. Understandable, but considering D-16 played the brakes to Orion's impulsive plans... It was jarring.

The team really put in a lot of thought into so many iconic characters, even as a cameo, but nearly all the Autobot High Command used to be Cogless? Really? Yes, there was Dr. Ratchet, but everyone else was stuck as a miner and didn't have the chance to develop all those crucial skills that were instrumental for the war against then legendary High Guard (on a side note, they didn't starve to death and had no mention of other city-states for support)? Also, where's the administration and support systems that run Iacon? Shoot, where's Sentinel's own aides, Councilmembers, and other political entities? He took down the Thirteen all by himself? No one else in the conspiracy? Really? (I'm a little low-key salty that the Primes don't have that divine flare, but that's the fantasy/horror part in me talking.)

Okay, so the personal preferences... as much as I liked the concept of Optimus and Megatron coming from the same origins, the execution on Orion Pax's part kinda flopped. It felt like it fell into the same trap with the Aligned verse's handling, where they really tried to underscore the differences but sacrificed the cohesion of the story. @lets-try-some-writing 's post on their thoughts of TFOne, particularly on Orion Pax, really resonates with me because why does he constantly sacrifice his safety to find the Matrix compared to everyone else? A similar complaint for Elita. I'm not expecting sugar and floof, but the way her character was handled left me floundering since the creators put a lot of thought on D-16's and Orion's relationship but left us hanging on a different vibe, a completely other spectrum, with Elita compared to other iterations.

Granted, it can be the Opilita shipper in me mourning, but Elita got done dirty. The 'hardass boss' would have served someone else, like Ultra Magnus, Kup, or Scrapper, if they used another 'main' character, or they could have pulled Terminus that's playing between keeping the topside goals and minimizing underground casualties. Plus, I think it could have been interesting to see Terminus being the driving force between Orion's quest and D-16's admiration for Megatronus Prime. I would move Elita into the Cogged Cybertronians and let her be Orion's partner-in-crime. Maybe as a dock worker as an ode to her G1 origins and acts as a smokescreen/voucher for Orion outside the mines, and Orion is showing her all the secret passages and knowledge she would never had access because of her own station. It could have shown so much more of that Cybertron under Sentinel's rule and the policies he implemented. Plus, I need Elita and Orion to be dumbasses together (and for D-16 to rib Orion over his crush and Chromia to do the same with Elita).

Overall, it was a solid movie. Definitely recommend it.

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The clowns medics💉

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If you don't fuck with trans men get the fuck off my blog, it's transfem and transmasc solidarity bitch 🖕🖕🖕🖕

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Dark keeps trying to convince his Sparkmate Wilford to change his paintjob, but Wilford always never listen, maybe making it more neon to annoy Dark. And Dark can't throw the gun away, it's his mate, so he's forced to use the (highly powerful) neon pink gun. XD He knows no other gun can match Wilford's firepower. He just wishes it's less embarrassing. Lol.

Wilford enjoys embarrassing him lmao.

Also I JUST saw your previous ask about Wilford being “Wheelford” and I like it for a Jeep!Wilford but for him being a gun I feel like he’d get wicked into human culture and just pick a name (Wilford, obviously) from them.

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This is a friendly reminder that canonically the Autobots like to watch soap operas on Teletraan-1

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i don't doubt for a moment this has been done 1 million times but thinking about Starscream redemption arc scenario where he gets so mad at Megatron he decides to become an Autobot just to spite him

other Autobots on board once they realise it's not a trick. he's an invaluable ally. he is dishing out all the dirt on the Decepticons ranging from military secrets to every time he's seen Megatron pratfall.

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okay, I see your pink barbie truck Wilford, and I raise you, G1 Gun Altform Megatron for Wilford.

Wilford just transforming into a gun for Dark to use dgfhagdha. And having a massive fuck off gun barrel in his Bot form.

Actually I like this idea better. This is a COOL ASS idea. Dark hates having to use a pink weapon.

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It's been YEARS since I last drew a TF design. So, please be nice lol.

Transformer Decepticon Darkiplier!!!

He's Praxian! (Doorwings not shown)

He has the dual cherons, a hidden black, and a white one. The chevron center is based on the Warp Crystal in ISWM. ^^

Also, Praxians are obsessed with crystals, so it works lol.

He's a Decepticon, but he has 1 blue optic under his visor.

The visor was meant to simulate Dark's bangs that cover one of his eyes. ^^

Paintjob is obviously monochromatic, shades of black, white and gray.

Inspired by this ASK from @lostcybertronian

(I sent an ask about if his helm would be Smooth or pointy, but they didn't answer, so I tried to do a something spike and smooth at the same time)

His Alt Form would be a Fancy Expensive Classic Car. Like a Mercedes-Benz!

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Sometimes you’re talking about ART and Murderbot’s friendship in the New Tideland server and a beautiful image just comes to you.

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What I like about ART and Murderbot is that they both think THEY’RE the reasonable one in the relationship.

ART is always patiently (or “patiently”) helping MB to accept perfectly logical and inevitable conclusions like “we are friends” or “you should let me perform experimental surgery on you” or “you need trauma treatment.” Sure MB resists these ideas at first, but that’s just MB for you - it’s just lucky that it has ART to help it along.

Meanwhile MB is throwing its arm protectively around lesser bots and reassuring them that the “big mean transport” won’t hurt them - and/or stopping them from doing something that would get them deleted by an overbearing and overreactive ART. Sure you can’t take ART anywhere but that’s just ART for you - it’s just lucky it has MB to help it along.

For all that they both have immense processing power, they simultaneously somehow have only one brain cell between them and I love that for them.

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I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

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Art: of course the Preservation responder arrived promptly. I sent a messenger buoy while we were in the system with all the information they would need.

The message Pin-Lee forwarded to Mensahs feed 0.2 seconds after she stepped out of her third session of kidnapping/hostage trauma therapy:

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Yeah okay but Murderbot literally stores ART's comm in its heart. Like. ART's comm is stored under its ribs. And ART's last actions before it got basically fucking killed were to, to hide itself in such a way that only Murderbot could find it. It knew Murderbot would save it. Murderbot, who "does not care" and doesn't like emotions, had an emotional breakdown and went on a rampage when it thought ART was dead. It trusted ART to clear it of the alien malware. ART kept it company in the decontamination/isolation box. ART threated to bomb an entire planet to save Murderbot. ART would have done it, it was ART's first plan. This massive AI bot pilot. Hyperintelligent. Everything at its metaphorical fingerprints. Its friend was held hostage and it made itself missiles and threatened to bomb a planet to get it back. Murderbot keeps a lifeline to ART in its heart.

Your honour, they are ride-or-dies. They are best friends. They are soulmates. Murderbot keeps ART in its heart. I'm screaming.