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brotherdusk · 5 years ago

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transformers for 1?

thank you rowan!! <3

Favourite character: this is so hard but I think ratchet reliably brings me the most joy across all continuities

Least Favourite character: tarn is so relentlessly cruel and the djd stuff is so grimdark that I don’t get any enjoyment from reading or thinking about him

5 Favourite ships (canon or non-canon): in no particular order: minimegs, lug/anode, nightbeat/rung, magnus/swerve, simpatico

Character I find most attractive: sh. shockw. shockwave Big Pruple. P. Purp (I don’t even have an explanation for this I just see him and I go a little feral)

Character I would marry: metroplex because my god he deserves love. what a sweetheart. I care him

Character I would be best friends with: minimus and I would understand each other. I would appreciate his well-maintained spreadsheets and we could commiserate about being tiny together

a random thought: I’m genuinely really excited for the netflix show despite fandom elders and most tf pundits grumbling about it after seeing one teaser? maybe I’m just a fandom baby and every piece of fresh content is still new and exciting to me. there seem to be a couple of new twists on the old story and the way they textured the models is gorgeously stylised. even if the story is a bit shit I’m gonna watch the whole thing for the texture work

An unpopular opinion: the djd - pet dynamic isn’t cute or quirky?? do people forget that that’s A Real Person trapped and suffering in there? stop it I had to blacklist the pet on twitter because people can’t control themselves

My Canon OTP: cygate. I dare you to read the way cyclonus talks to/about tailgate in later issues and not cry because I can’t! I remember full-on sobbing in my bed when they reunited and hugged on mederi

My Non-canon OTP: nightbeat/rung because their friendship was SO sweet and they deserve better... rung balances out nightbeat’s tendency to (fatally) run at mysterious things headfirst and nightbeat genuinely cares for rung and takes the time to figure him out when most dismiss him

Most Badass Character: kup!! go grandpa holy shit. honourable mentions to wheeljack for being wheeljack, astrotrain for being a ROBOT STEAM TRAIN in SPACE and g1 unicron for orson welles’ voice acting

Most Epic Villain: I REALLY wish froid and sunder got more chances to shine because they were so disturbing and terrifying and their designs are so good! I wish there was more of them in the mutineers arc because the little we did get was so much fun. getaway being disturbed by sunder’s serial killer speeches and being taunted about his limitations by froid could have led to some really interesting exchanges if jro had had the time to explore it. in this essay I will

Pairing I am not a fan of: rung x any of his long-term vulnerable patients like skids, red alert, fort max etc. it doesn’t get me angry the way the fandom treatment of the pet does but I simply Do Not See how people manage to see those relationship dynamics in a romantic context and idk why it’s so popular or at least used to be

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): rodimus in the "bad end" of lost light didn't sit right with me for reasons that others have articulated better than me. the idea of him doing mundane things and being so discontented with it just hit a sour note like... growing up and maturing means learning to accept being terminally bored and unhappy? what? the tone of the "bad end" had multiple problems but rodimus' were most egregious I think and it lowkey hinders my enjoyment of the “good end”

Favourite Friendship: minimus and ten are almost unbearably wholesome... I hope minimus kept the miniatures ten made of him when the quest was done

Character I most identify with: rung, unfortunately. I’m comically wimpy, need glasses and would rather eat candy and construct (digital) models than admit I have ever had a problem in my entire life

Character I wish I could be: g1 ratchet (especially from what I’ve seen of the 80s comics) is just so gung-ho and delights in being snarky and doing silly shit and inventing dinosaurs all day? so Him

send me a fandom/character/ship and I’ll answer these questions

#long post #ask games #praesaepe #tf

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darkcybertron · 6 years ago

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mtmte b99 au bc i said so

both series are avid supporters of dumbass rights so here we go

first there’s hot rod of nyon, otherwise known as his self given name “rodimus prime” that everyone refused to call him until it eventually caught on

came from a poor house in nyon’s slums and became a cop due to a scandal with corrupt government officials siphoning money from his town’s citizens and secretely murdering them...a couple of accidents later and both of his parents have been killed, he feels personally responsible and the rest is history

then comes minimus ambus, a detective working hard to become captain one day...he’s insanely organized and has plenty of binders and things that rodimus teases him relentlessly abt (secretly roddy is growing a crush on him but don’t tell)

there’s the precinct badass named cyclonus of tetrahex. nobody knows anything about him other than he has a mysterious bf who’s really sweet and when cyc is on the phone with him he melts...he will stab u if u say anything tho

drift of rodion is the loving husband & sergeant who actually has a criminal past and used to be addicted to drugs, more on that later. he’s married to a grumpy mech named ratchet who the rod squad sometimes sees out on the field as a paramedic

& once they had to investigate a case with a crazy medic named pharma who was actually killing his patients and almost killed ratchet, drift was so pissed and worried it was a nightmare

OF COURSE there’s nightbeat...he doesn’t strictly fit the role of charles but he’s one of rodimus’s most trusted friends, he’s smart and cunning and was accidentally sucked into a rogue fbi investigation and had illegal drugs tested on him that he became unwillingly dependent on. in a craze he trapped rodimus, cyclonus, and a few other detectives from the gorlam precinct (optimus and hardhead) and rodimus was the one who ended up saving him

sunstreaker is their receptionist, he and his brother sideswipe were childhood friends with roddy, roddy got him a job at the precinct. he’s crazy arrogant and he likes dancing, he never gets off his phone but has actually been through some shit as a kid (he ends up dating nightbeats hot cousin skids nd everyone is so in awe)

captain megatron is a man that has immediately feared as soon as he steps into the precinct. when he’s announced as the new captain rodimus immediately faints. he used to be the leader of an entire precinct of disguised dirty cops who secretely hated the way the justice system worked. he fought to change that but eventually his precinct became a hive of crime, murder, drugs, and police brutality

cybertron’s shitty court system chooses to reform him by placing him as the Lost Light Precinct’s captain through a loophole in the system (mayor starscream is at the testimony and hates megatron’s guts)

drift was also a part of the dirty cop precinct but he was poor and roped into it by drug use and saved from human trafficking & hate crimes by megatron...he was pardoned after some hard work on rodimus’s part and a thing called the regeneration act

megatron eventually grows on the squad and when deputy chief prowl tries his hardest to throw him in jail they all defend him, again and again

there’s a group trained by megatron called the DJD that’s honestly a terrifying case, megatron and roddy had to go into witness protection because of them

rodimus’s nemesis is this absolute dumb criminal named misfire who’s also part of a group called the scaVENGers, misfire betrays him every single time they work together

cyclonus’s nemesis is this really tall mech named whirl who’s missing an eye, he’s been arrested for like. eight bar fights and twenty counts of theft

rewind from public relations is the widow that minimus’ family still considers one of their own even after dominus’ death, when minimus’ coworker chromedome starts dating him he’s so shocked

also woohoo time for me 2 sprinkle some rodimags in here...

minimus starts dating this detective named tyrest, he’s weirdly obsessed with the law and does some questionable things but minimus doesn’t want to break up w him for fear of hurting his feelings

rodimus is dating hot shot defense attorney thunderclash, someone rodimus loves but their positions don’t work together. he knows they won’t last, they’re fire burns too bright for that and rodimus’s crush on minimus is starting to become a little more intense than he thought, they end up breaking up because of that

minimus and roddy get together and accidentally kill their temporary boss sentinel prime bc he finds them kissing in the closet and he short circuits (you’re not one of those, are you? a sentimental?)

THEN dirty cops getaway and atomizer find out they’re being “sneakily” investigated for secretely attacking cyclonus and tailgate in their home, they set up cyclonus to keep him quiet in jail but roddy happens to come along as well

thunderclash is getaway’s defense attorney and he cries as rodimus is sent out of the courtroom in handcuffs

they spend months in jail until the rest of the squad gets them out, getaway’s entire precinct is arrested and undercover agent first aid and his team are transferred back to the lost light along with clueless beat cop riptide

the precinct is being faced with a shutdown and that’s when nightbeat and roddy dig up one of their oldest cold cases: the disappearance of this church group

minimus: “what’s the church group called”

rodimus: “nightbeat, give me my sunglasses, they’re called the”

[rips off sunglasses]

“the knights of cybertron!”

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tfw-no-tennis · 4 years ago

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mtmte liveblog issue 12

lets do itttt

I love nick roches art...he draws rodimus so twinky, its a delight

ohhh I forgot abt the non-linear storytelling this issue. bangin

rewinds feet don't even touch the ground hhhhhh tiny

i fuckgin love that panel of skids talking abt briefing vs debriefing, everything both he and rodimus say is just golden

I love hearing tailgate tell completely made up stories from his primal vanguard days, that slaps storytelling-wise

HHHHHH and the fact that tailgate’s happiest memory is movie night at rewinds ;_; gosh

lmao I love whirl kicking down the door

OOOOH and then the time skip!!!!!!!!! I fucking love non-linear stories

jesus, swerves whole face being gone is still disturbing

magnus rlly is a grade A badass. I forgot he has missile shoulders

rodimus saying ‘wham, bam, in the van!’ is my fuckgin favorite hvbsdhhfbhdjkf that's my son right there

cd saying that rewind is allergic to ultraviolet light [eyes emoji] remember how UV light is the only way to see mnemosurgery marks? that little detail must be in there for that ‘cd did mnemosurgery on rewind’ plotline that jro didn't end up doing (thankfully)

I love how mtmte came up with a name for cybertronian marriage :) that's the kind of lore I want baybe!

also rewind and cd hhhhhh they....the og canon gays...confirmed outright in issue 12, which is so early on, considering!...its a beautiful thing. I will talk about the representation in mtmte Extensively throughout my reread since this is, yknow, Just The Beginning when it comes to canon gays - which, again, what a beautiful thing!

actually I'm not done. thinking abt the fact that this issue came out in 2012 and also this is freaking TRANSFORMERS of all things - a long-running franchise whose primary audience is adolescent boys - is extra amazing. augh, the representation! it gets me man.

ok, so, the story! jesus poor cyclonus

chromedome riding on the trex guy hbhsjkfbjshdf dude. I choose to believe that that’s his go-to tactic here bc he’s probably pretty terrible at fighting. idk how canon that is but I just see cd as the type of dude who cant fight well at all, regardless of how many fights he’s actually been in

minibot squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really interested in the little we see of general cybertronian attitude towards organics - obvs the decepticons think very little of them, and the autobots generally believe all life is important, but the post-war attitude seems a little more grey and I like that

tailgate!!!!!!!!!!!! I love tailgate SO much. the way he volunteers to defuse a bomb that he has NO idea how to defuse, and the way he lies so quickly and casually? fucking love it

and then he takes all of his bomb disarming cues from rewind, who ALSO isn't a bomb disposal expert by any means - like, tailgate risks both his own life and everyone else’s, just because he wont come clean about his real job - that's some [chefs kiss] characterization right there, I love it

augh I love how he prompts rewind, who of COURSE would have some idea about this as an archivist, for help, and rewind doesn't have any idea that tailgate’s even more clueless than him

but tg, being a generally good person, still tells rewind he should proooooobably stand clear - just in case!!!!!

and then rewind whips out some marriage issues and tg is like ooookay then lol

cyclonus just stabbing people w/his hands....icon

whirl quoting the raw ass line ‘you, who are without mercy, now plead for it?’ nice

swerve. WHY would you point a gun AT YOUR OWN FACE. especially a gun made by BRAINSTORM. why did anybody let swerve handle firearms if this is how he does it. actually, why did anyone give swerve a gun after the thing w/rung. jesus yall. so not only are hipaa laws basically non-existent on cybertron, but gun safety is a rarely-taught thing as well. no wonder yall have issues

so cd must not like cyclonus bc cyclonus was the one who attacked kimia, where cd worked. right?? am I remembering tfwiki correctly? lmao

OOOOF cd saying he was born w/out innermost....I cant remember, is it canon or just extrapolation that that isn't true, and rather it was that cd gave all his innermost energon away w/his previous husbands and whatnot, but he doesn't remember since he forgot about them? either way, oof

all the functionist history stuff is so INTERESTING...I could read an entire comic about just like, pre-war when the functionists were just taking over

tg saying he hates dominus - is that that tweet from jro where somebody asked him why tg said that, and jro basically said ‘he’s petty and jealous’ lol I fucking love it. I love how a character like tailgate, who is very ‘pure’/innocent, has flaws as well

cd has a good point - its hard to kill tfs. so, that makes it extra fucking depressing that cd was seeking out death to that extent

gahhhh the whole rewind-dominus thing is so INTERESTING - I love how vague things are...we only hear about dominus from other people’s perspectives; mainly rewind who clearly thought highly of him, but he’s obviously biased, so it’s hard to tell what dominus was REALLY like, especially with the unavoidable power gap between rewind and dominus...UGH its so interesting

oof, the whole dynamic of cd thinking that rewind cares more about dominus - dominus the ghost, and finding out what happened to him in general - than chromedome himself, is just so Ouch

and the fact that cd thinks that the SOLE reason that rewind is going into battle is so he can look for dominus, but tg makes a good point - rewind is likely also worried abt cd’s safety, especially after dominus disappeared how he did - rewind is probably terrified that the same thing will happen w/cd, bc rewind cares about cd just as much as he cared/cares about dominus, but cd cant see that. AUGHHHH the Complexity!! mannnn

HHHH and like I adore that this first gay couple we get isn't perfect, and that's OKAY bc they’re not The Gay Rep, we get plenty of other gays with their own 3-dimensional relationships....augh bruh it Gets me ok

AHHHHHHHHHH THE OVERLORD STUFF. AUGHHHHHH

who was that talking to cd?? I don't remember....it must've been drift, I think? or maybe brainstorm...

whirl :’) I mean, we find out later that its kinda his fault that rewind was blown up, but still, him putting his own life at risk to save rewind...aww

cyclonus be nice to tg, he’s trying to give you his cool baja blast innermost energon

CYCLONUS BE NICE :( :( :(

we gotta have our slowburn, tho....OOOOUGH

hhhh and then cyclonus like, realizes how much of a dick he’s being and goes back to help tg.... ;_;

cyclonus my man u are lucky that tailgate is so forgiving

and then we have whirl and cyclonus, which is another relationship i LOVE. their development is just...[chefs kiss]

cyc just grabbing tg by the head and YEETING him out the door...lmao

cyclonus’s extremely detailed threat to whirl came at like, the WORST possible time lmao

alternatively, rewind unfortunately asked the worst two people for help at the worst time

also alternatively, tg defusing his first bomb ever based on instructions from another amateur was maybe not the best move

and of course whirl just deciding to lock cyclonus (and rewind whoops) in with a bomb lmao

the requisite to joining the lost light is that you have to be a complete disaster of a person, on some level

cyclonus shielding rewind ;_;

fucking love how they managed to have a cliffhanger w/the bomb going off, despite us seeing exactly what the outcome of that was earlier in this very issue. brilliant

ah, issue 12, the issue that officially canonized the gays and introduced us to a whole bunch of worldbuilding on cybertronian relationships. i love it! plus we have some fascinating backstory and some cool character stuff, and relationship development for tg and cyclonus. awesome stuff!

up next: humansona business! oh fuck yeah

#lj rereads mtmte #The Gays Begin

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