#I Just Really Like Soundwave

[writerdragon]

Skybound #1 Memory Lane Comics exclusive alt cover by Hayden Sherman. Limited to 1,000 copies. A fact which pains me deeply.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

the high guards littlest fan

[dailymothanon]

I can’t believe he so totally inherited his mama Ravage’s cat eyes 😌 the half blindness was just because I could honestly (purely experimental I doubt this is the face I’d keep for him exactly); but if you were to squint you could say that his intense hearing/telepathy from the intense and constant inputs caused migraines (or from the stress of all the inputs) that caused it to go blind (yes migraines can do that), Or simply he had damaged his optic way long ago and having been on the streets And near insanity it simply was left untreated 😌

But I have heard that bats when they use their vision (at least for shorter distances) instead of echolocation they do actually tend to crash more frequently cuz the visual inputs mess up their audial information… figured it could be the same for Soundwave, where being half blind actually makes him feel more comfortable since he hears so intensely

Also I wasn’t sure how a cybertronian’s eye would get cloudy so. I did one way here the pupil would just fade severely/just about offline completely, and another referencing actual animal blind cat eyes

[suja-janee]

I’ve been losing my mind over these guys recently

[zorangezest]

thanks for listening

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[cybertron-after-dark]

Average transformers g1 episode:

Megatron is attempting to black out the entire sky across a hundred mile radius and funnel all the sunlight into one, concentrated solar death ray to target a heavy duty solar panel he's having soundwave and the cassetticons build in order to convert it to energon. Then he plans to hit the autobot base with the death ray just for funsies. Starscream plans to push Megatron directly into the death ray, also just for funsies.

Optimus sends Wheeljack and Spike to deal with it, along with two bots you're pretty sure have not been in this show before this point, but you're kind of past asking how many of these fuckers were on the ark offscreen when it crashed. One of them has the worst fake Canadian accent you have ever heard, and the other's name sounds inexplicably dirty.

Starscream tries to get Megatron to stand in the spot he told Skywarp and Ramjet to direct the death ray, but is interrupted when Rumble asks why Starscream stuck him with extra work (a task Megatron assigned specifically to Starscream). This vexes Megatron. The autobots show up and try to figure out what the point of the blacked out sky is while Starscream attempts to talk his way out of it. Then the death ray goes off two feet away from Megatron, which only pisses him off further.

The Canadian bot yells "AH BINARY-BEAVERS!!" because the death ray caught him off guard and completely gives away the bots' position. Soundwave immediately fires on them. Gratuitous robot violence ensues. Spike is generally useless and tries chucking rocks at Rumble. Megatron is too busy trying to almost-murder Starscream to bother with the autobots and just lets Soundwave handle it.

Probably-an-innuendo-name-bot is luckily a flier and takes the chance to see what's blocking the sun now that their cover's blown anyway. He gets up there and the seekers are sticking tinfoil on the clouds to make the tops reflective. The writers are really just hoping you don't think too hard about it.

Skywarp starts firing on dirty-name and calls him a nerd. Dirty-name takes evasive action. Skywarp runs out of ammo and starts just chucking tin foil at him. Dirty-name calls him dumb and says his processor is made of spare toaster parts. Then he crash lands and canada-bot asks if dirty-name's wings are spare toaster parts as well. Wheeljack yells that they'll all be spare toaster parts if they don't focus on the decepticons. The death ray goes off again and barely misses the autobots. Wheeljack corrects himself to Melted spare toaster parts.

Dirty-name gives Wheeljack the rundown on the tinfoil clouds so he can figure out a way to get rid of them while Canada-bot fights Soundwave and the cassettes in the background. Spike is kind of helping too sort of almost. Those rocks hes chucking sure are damaging. Ravage gets straight up drop kicked. It cuts back to Wheeljack whipping up a good old fashioned Device™️.

Starscream flies up past the tinfoil barrier while Megatron shoots at him. All the holes he's shooting in the blackout barrier are just making more, slightly shittier death rays and the main one is losing concentration. One of them hits Megatron right in the optic and he keels over with an over the top screech. Starscream descends, breaking another hole in the tinfoil to see a golden opportunity.

"MEGATRON HAS BEEN BLINDED!!! I, STARSCREAM AM NOW YOUR LEADER!!!"

Wheeljack finishes his Device™️: A grenade that makes tinfoil entirely invisible, thus rendering the whole weapon unusable. The writers are hungover, please do not think about it too hard. Pretty please. Dirty-name doesn't know if he can throw it into one of the holes in the barrier on his own since he can't fly in robot mode and he cant throw in altmode. Spike offers to get on his back and throw it in for him if he can get close enough. And he's just SO good at throwing things. The other two agree he's their best shot, they're so happy spike is around, couldn't do it without him.

Starscream is hovering in the air as he gives his Decepticon Leader Acceptance Speech he's prepared for this very occasion, golden light streaming in from the him-shaped hole in the barrier. Dirty-name and spike zip past him and spike makes the best goddamn throw of his life. Before starscream can properly question the Fucking Audacity of these autobots interrupting him while he's trying to have a moment, the invisible explosion goes off that the animators are just happy they don't have to put that much effort into drawing. Starscream gets knocked out of the air and crashes directly onto Megatron. This vexes Megatron.

Sky's normal again. Don't worry that there's still tinfoil there, don't even fuckin worry about it dude. Spike and Dirty-name touch back down. Round of applause for spike for throwing super good. Wheeljack comments that he's just happy it blew up the way it was supposed to. Cue uncomfortably long laughing. Megatron manages to roll starscream off him and calls for a retreat.

Back at the decepticon base, Megatron has an eyepatch and is skulking. Starscream yaps about how it makes him look like a proper tyrant, brooding and battle scarred, and, dare he say, darkly handsome? This vexes Megatron.

[smatterbrained]

Oh my godddddd! I've been trying to find a way to combine the best parts of the different continuities of soundwave and you've done it perfectly! I love your art!

Ty!! It was a fun time. Probably obvious, but my biggest influences were G1, Earthspark, and the tentacles from Prime!!

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[parallelpie]

First off this absolutely cursed AU was inspired by Lemonomelette and a post they made -X Secondly I imagine it all being about bots and cons trying to one up each others factions and not actually helping in any serious way because their too busy with their own faction bs.

Think of two rival car dealerships across the street one upping each other to get business and instead of business with cars its interstellar robot fairys trying to woo sm children to let them grant their inconsequential wishes (which may or may not be worth it) instead of the other guy next door.

[sirassban]

Soundwave x Miku anyone? Mikuwave Perchance?

[numberonetribble]

Babysitting Shenanigans Part 1: Piston goes to Shockwave's house. They have an okay(ish) time!

Bonus:

[gravelsong]

Okay there's already that post that talks about the parallels between the previous scene with Thundercracker and the humans vs Starscream and the humans but this is the direct moment after that and. Ohh this is so good. Thundercracker let them go because they're fragile and can't physically hurt them, and Soundwave agrees on that but he knows that they'll tell what happened (considering how Soundwave was a communications officer, he probably knows how fast word travels better than anyone) so they have to die anyway. "Regrettable but necessary", it's for the greater good of the mission

[starblitzy-started-a-fire]

Wavewave Week, Day Three: Research

@wavewaveweek2-electricbugaloo

[urfavisananimegirl]

Soundwave from transformers

Soundwave (Transformers) is an Anime Girl!

[aka-indulgence]

i’m so interested in transformers now you’ve talked about it so much

do you have any recommendations for someone who knows nothing about it?

Man it’s crazy what hyperfixation does to a person dfjfhgf I’ve only really known transformers for 2 months+ now… I only knew Optimus was the big autobot guy, bumblebee yellow guy, Megatron evil, and the only transformer I knew I liked was Shockwave. Compared to then I know so much now o<o

To actually answer your question though! I’ve only seen 2 transformers series, and Transformers One… and I think there’s an argument to be made for all 3 to be a good fun intro!

Maybe Transformers Prime would be the best overall ‘intro’ because you get to learn more context of the transformers universe throughout the show, at least for me. It has lots of genuine+serious moments while having excellent humor, I’ve barked a laugh multiple times throughout the series jdhfd. It has a real cinematic and Grand feel through it all. Also my guys Soundwave and Shockwave are there 🥰 🥰 🥰

I’m not done watching Transformers Animated, but it has an overall lighter tone, and (from what I know!!) Kinda flips the script around the lore? Like how Optimus isn’t the leader of the Autobots, they’re small compared to the Decepticons, uh… (Soundwave isn’t around much 😭) but it’s fun! Also, lots of likeable characters (especially the Decepticons wink wink wonk wonk wink wonk)

Transformers One 😍 I mean. It’s amazing cinema in general, though I don’t know how good it is for someone who doesn’t know transformers? But I think it’s easy to follow the plot, and it’s fantastic for seeing Orion and D’s journey to becoming Optimus and Megatron respectfully. You also get Cybertron lore which I loved! I think the only downside is you won’t recognize characters, which is fine (Llama pointed out the bots I don’t recognize)

Also I hear (from llama) the 1986 movie is good too!