#Flobster

[newfuturegirl]

[legendary-dumpster-fire]

Was thinking about my childhood today and this question came to mind

[elendiliel]

Flobster Friday follow-up

A few gifs of times flobsters have appeared or been referenced outside "Flobsters on Parade". The first three feature Mr Bunty's pet flobster Crustacia (never named in the show, though she would have been had a particular scene from "Today and Forever" not been deleted), while the last two are from a cut scene from "I Have Heard The Robots Singing" that was storyboarded but never fully animated. (The whole scene is available on Twitter here. TFWiki is a wonderful thing...)

[Let me know if last week's lagging issues - for which I apologise - still persist. I post these on my laptop and don't find out until later how well they work on mobile.]

(Acknowledgements: concept of "Flobster Friday" swiped from @karlyanalora in conversation with @novafire-is-thinking.)

[misfittingwanderlust]

"Alright, why are there flobsters out and about?"

[xxtc-96xx]

Heyo, Rescue Bots rules! Cody and Chief Burns are my favorite Transformers humans. Cody's people skills are too powerful for this world. They had to keep him on Griffin Rock. Otherwise, he'd befriended too many Decepticons.

Do you have a particular adventure that comes to mind when you think of the show? For me, it's the Flobsters followed by the season three finale.

P.S. Since you're feeling burnt out, I can drop some links to my favorite Rescue Bots fanfics if you like.

my favourite is probably when Optimus Prime becomes a T-rex XD I always liked when he visited our bots because he's normally so stoic over in Prime but we see his playful side showing through, like when he told Boulder that his favourite earth story was The Little Engine That Could

[cybertron-after-dark]

Heatwave. Heatwave. I need you to look Optimus Prime directly in those big sad blue eyes of his and answer this.

Frag marry kill, kade optimus and hang on i need to check ao3 and see who else heatwave is popularly shipped with. Blades apparently. Anyway heatwave you have 30 seconds to decide

(This thought has not left my head since it occurred to me that heatwave might not crave honorable death in combat as much as he wants attention and praise from his celebrity crush. If i have to think it, so do you whdbdjdn)

If the flobsters episode was any indication, heatwave is driven primarily by attention and wants people to like him SO fucking bad it's unreal. He gets Optimus to say "good job" and the tough guy persona just totally drops, and he's in :] mode for hours. He is SO lame and I love him so very deeply

[rescuebabiesau]

"Rogue pizza dough, thefts committed by miniature versions of ourselves, having to navigate a sewer system at half an inch tall, Squilsh-"

"-Teleporting probes trapping all of Griffin Rock in a collapsing cavern, a machine that forces us to sing for a whole day, movie monsters coming to life, flobsters, ghost ships, Griffin Rock Triangle, crystal teleporting the entire island to the arctic-"

"-trapped in a video game, time-travel, super-sized toddlers, mind-controlled whales, townsfolk turned into monsters from expired food, blizzard in July, fire tornadoes, runaway dinobots, stolen cross-eyed lions, mechanical bulls, nanites sending Boulder on a rampage-"

"-Robo-Baby, Velgrox, Gremlins, snake infestation in Heatwave's back seat, using Blades as a ramp for a runaway boat, runaway train, mind-swap, crashing satellites, fairies, running for mayor, and a camp director armed with dynamite, just to name a few."

These bots have been through some stuff, even in canon XD

[the-sky-queen]

Been rewatching Transformers Rescue Bots with my three littlest siblings and I'm seriously loving it so much!! Don't believe it when people say it's a preschool show. It is NOT. The story is so fun! The characters are all amazing and there are SO many funny moments. I love the family dynamic the most. Cody, Kade, Graham, and Dani act like real siblings and they have a lot of great moments together! (Kade even has a line in one episode that is literally EXACTLY what one of my brothers would say XD)

It's been a while since I've last watched this show and I think I love Heatwave so much more now. I forgot how angry he is ALL THE TIME. XD And he has his own funny moments too! During the flobster episode, Heatwave literally 'pretends to be sick' so he can get out of going to the parade. XD XD "Ohhhhh. Oh no! My engine won't start! Darn it, I guess you'll have to go without meeee" He comes around in the end though. :)

It's so fun, because I haven't watched this in a while, but my two littlest brothers at least kinda have and my baby sister Potato hasn't. So me and the boys keep remembering details about what's going to happen in future episodes and I keep having to shush them so they don't spoil anything for Potato. XD We just got our first tease of Dr. Morocco and we went NUTS. I can't wait!!

Please watch this show. It's really good. :D

[garnettfox]

Miracubots au: Akumas

Been a few days but I'm back!

Upfront, we don't have Akuma forms settled for everyone. SOME BITCHES *Stares at Chief, Dani and Kade* ARE SHOCKINGLY HARD TO DESIGN FOR.

So this isn't a complete list, hell if this ever became an actual fic some of them might end up changing.

Without further Adu, a very incomplete list of Akumas:

Ticket Master: Might as well get the Mr Pidgon equivilant out of the way, Don and his speeding tickets make him a weekly Akuma giving everyone in Griffin Rock headaches, especally the Heros. Everyone keeps begging Chief to just impound his car already but Don always pays off his fines so his hands are kinda tied.

Crawdaddy: So you know how there's occasionally a Dude who just has a Flobbster on a Leash? Ya, Ya he get's Akumatized over worrying about his pet's health. Don't worry the Flobster turns out ok.

Demolicious: Expect the spelling of this one to change a half dozen times because I hate myself and thought a portmantu of Demolition and Malicious was a great idea. Graham's Akuma form surprisingly enough formed when Graham just comepletly lost his temper after a stressful week and having to deal with a Karen of a tourest who decided to let her kids play in a derelict building he and Boulder where trying to safely demolish, and blamed him for the kids getting hurt.

Evilistratior: Alright this one was briefly mentioned and is something I kinda put in just for me. Being a very old OC of mine Dusk who I love very much. Think Bendy and the Ink machine meets Samarah from the ring and you kinda get the vibe of our Evilistratior, though instead of objects he creates ink creatures by drawing in his sketch pad as Dusk's an artist. As part of the self indulgent nonsence he becomes Graham's boyfriend. They even end up getting reakumatized into Demo and Evie together and are just an annoyingly sweet couple even when Evie's setting ink demons on everyone and Demo's trying to blow up the fucking island.

Glory Hog: Heatwaves Akuma caused by lingering stress over the entire Swallowtail situation and Kade falling back into his own glory hog ways. Glory Hog has the ability to 'Take away all attention and direct it to his self' Basically if you get hit by his beam, you kinda seace to exist for other people. They don't see you or acknowlage your there, your basically a ghost walking through your own life which is kinda horrorfying.

Emperata: Chase's Akuma formed after their reveal, Chase struggling with the sudden change in dynamic when he's become so acustomed to just the Burns family knowing. Coupled with the towns people not knowing how to treat him and just falling back on treating him like a robot when the more socal members of the team get readily accepted. Causes him to become Emperata, appearing as if Chase really had the horrorfic surgery done to him, and able to inflict the same on his brainwashed minions.

Halloweenie: More of a joke Akuma TBH, Blades after getting scared during Earlyween and getting upset at some teens tormenting some frightened younger kids, becomes the pumpkin fairy themed Halloweenie....Who makes everything cute. That's it. Cody and Frankie actually let him run around unchallenged for a bit because he is literally hurting no one, even if someone's wearing a scary costume and get zapped they can just, take the costume off no problem. And there have been a few occasions where letting the Akuma get it out of their system has calmed them down to be beatten without much of a fight.

Razorback. Boulders Akuma and it's a *bad* one. The idea I came up with was uhh....Graham and Dusk on a date off island when they run into uhhh....Anti-Anti-Fascsits if you catch my meaning. Resulting in Graham getting hurt enough to need the hospital and Dusk in jail needing bailing out for defending the pair of them. Boulder having never known about this side of humanity is just so blindsided and *angry* he's more or less a ball of walking distruction before he's calmed and deakumatised.

Defensor:....You saw it coming, don't pretend. Ya in this universe the episode where Cheif get's hurt and goes the hospital goes a little worse, not too much so, but the bots getting a nasty reminder of not only how fragile humans are but how short lived they are...What's more, their humans are emergancy responders, a profession that famously *shortens* those already brief lifespans....Ya, their pain and grief causes them to be fused into the group Akuma Defensor, who desides to take over the security systems Vigil was meant to once operate, they'll keep their family safe....no matter what....

[karlyanalora]

If Dani is on tumblr you know Blades is too.

Breakdown has a Tumblr blog named ThingsMyBossesSaid, based around quotes from the various commanders that he thought were funny. Everyone on the tfp au version of Tumblr eats it the fuck up

[elendiliel]

Flobster Friday

@karlyanalora and @novafire-is-thinking were talking about Dani and Blades (and Bumblebee) having Tumblr yesterday, a "Flobster Friday" was mentioned and... this happened. I hope you enjoy.

[mincedpeaches]

Holy fucking ba-moly I love. Heatwave. I love him. I'm rewatching Rescue Bots and its only been the first four episodes and he's is just. Running the GAMUT in all the different ways of being annoyed AND an asshole. Trying to give up on working with the Burns almost immediately. The hilarious call when Optimus says good luck and hangs up. When him (and Boulder??) make fun of Blades' scoop claw. When he pretends he can't start to avoid going to the Flobster parade only to get pissed that Huxley says the crowd doesn't miss him five minutes later. I love him so much. oh my god. what the fuck. I LOVE HIM.

[dontpetmeibite]

Good luck with that 'don't eat organic food' thing. Some people will never learn.

At one point in time Hook, Knock Out, Flatline and Glit all sat around Soundwave and me in a circle and said, "This is an intervention. We are going to teach you how to clean out Laserbeak's fuel tank, because we give up."

I told Marissa about it and she said it's probably Cybertronian 'pica' which is apparently a thing some humans have where they eat things they shouldn't. It's like a compulsion or something.

Now that LB is hanging out with Wildrider all the time I swear I can't figure out if there's anything they won't put in their mouths.

(We went 'travelling' once and Laserbeak swallowed something they called 'an infinity stone'. Which is apparently very rare in some places and common in others. We were in a place where they are relatively common. For an entire fucking quartex every time she got hiccups it opened up miniature rifts.)

Unrelatedly, are flobsters organic? They look like they'd be fun to catch. Too much work to be a genuinely good source of nutrition but an entertaining snack.

[rxng]

"All friends are lucky to have."

He reaches in and brings the bowl to him, pushing it over to Cybertron. His other hand carefully maneuvers to pat her head.

"I know I do not fit, and I know I do not know how to cook your food, but please, let me know if you need help. I'm one scroll away. You are my friend too."

"Please, don't let this dissuade you from gifts." He insists. "You are, as they say... a pretty lady, and pretty ladies deserve pretty lady things."

"I'm going to assume that makes more sense if you know what a 'lady' is."

"Either way... would you like me to take these? If you have some use for them, I won't disagree. But I am happy to help."

[sparkmender]

A gift, for real this time. It's a nicely patterned box with holes in it. Inside, a single flobster mills around; they're decorated with a big bow.

It picked the nicest one it had.

It is a beautiful gift.

—If only to Rung’s optics, and no one else’s.

But the creature is as finely crafted as any model he could make, with a hard protective shell and marvelously detailed joint work. Wholly organic, as far as he can tell, as he carefully adjusts his grip on the box to smile down at the little beast.

It is just barely the size of his smallest digit. A diminutive cousin of the epsom lobsters down by the docks.

…He has no idea how to care for it, but surely someone must know something, or at the very least he can pester Optimus to look on the intranet for him. In the meanwhile, he sets out one of the deep bowls Megatron uses for dumplings and fills it with distilled water and some brine salt, then carefully taps the side of the box to coax the flobster into it.

Hopefully that will hold until Rung can find out more about it.

[captainseamech]

He’d had High Tide’s Father’s Day present all ready to go, but then there was that 2:00am fire call, the 4:00am water pipe bust, the inevitable Mr. Pettypaws call, Mr. Bunting’s pet flobster getting stuck on a power line, and Mr. Harrison’s helipac malfunctioning and causing mass chaos downtown.

It was evening before Heatwave was able to board the ship with a collection of classic sea stories and a homemade card tucked under one arm and a sleepy sparkling cuddled in the crook of his opposite arm.

“Tide, you home?”

Today was a busy day for High Tide as well on the sea side of rescue stuff. Not only he had to attend to three different oil incidents, help with the immigration path of the group of dolphins that tend to visit Griffin Rock from time to time, rescue Mayor's yatch for the fifth time this month but had to help the mayor travel all around the island to inagurate his Father's Day campaign by allowing him - and his wife obviously - to use his altmode for such due to the yatch incident and he still had to fill in some paperwork of any new findings he had lately.

He was so done with this day already. Luckily for him, his headache medicine just boarded the ship!

Messily going to meet his sparkmate after confirming he was on their ship, High Tide gave him a small smile and pulled the mech for a quick but warm kiss on his lipplates, not forgetting to give Pearl a gentle kiss on her head as well!

"Ye seem t' have brought a lot aside from our lil' bundle of joy this time."