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ojamayellow · 7 months ago

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Under the cut, I'll explain all the different canon personalities and relationships of my TFormers sona/OC, Jumpace, aka Jumpy. It (Samurai Jack voice) jump good. It/Its pronouns. Contains spoilers for TFA, CBV and some ES. (Those are in order, so if you wanna avoid some spoilers, they're the last 3 besides Skybound).

Every Jumpace can jump good and do Rider kicks and such. It jumps so high it could punch a Seeker from out of the clouds. This ability makes up for his lack of flight (minus the two universe's where it can fly). Here are visual references. G1 CARTOON.

Alt mode: Sand rail/buggy thing. Weapons: Drill, blasters, its kicking. Kind of your average G1 snarky Decepticon. Sparkmates with Starscream, but during mid-Season 2, he and Starscream have a huge fight (cos now Starscream is getting too ridiculous and selfish) so divorce. Jumpace becomes neutral for a while, but then Cliffjumper notices him and takes in the 'Decepticon prisoner' but a lot happens and Jumpace becomes an Autobot. It then develops a hero complex and believes it must make up for all his sins. Falls for Skyfire.

Decepticon relationships: Liked to hang with Skywarp and Thundercracker, and play pranks with Rumble and Frenzy. Dated Starscream for a very long time. Thundercracker was very "UGH, a GROUNDER whats WRONG with you Screamer" for a while though. Autobot relationships: Likes to spend time with Carly, Beachcomber, Sideswipe and Wheeljack. Cliffjumper is forever suspicious about Jumpace, but they eventually form a sibling bond. Tracks and Sunstreaker dislike Jumpace because of how muddy/sandy it can get. Eventually gets with Skyfire, which is going to be huge once Starscream notices BOTH HIS EXES DATING.

I have an AU where there's peace and the skystars and Jumpace can all date. skyjumpstar. In G1 canon, Jumpace is killed by Starscream in-between the gap of S2 and Movie, so he doesn't exist in the JPN G1 timeline.

GALAXY FORCE.

Alt mode: Some kind of flying machine (jet?) I would love an Armada/Micron Legend Jumpace, but if Starscream had a partner from the start, the show wouldn't last long and Starscream would have less problems. So, in both Galaxy Force (its own universe) and Cybertron (Unicron Trilogy), Jumpace can exist. He is an ancient Decepticon like Thunderblast, revived by Starscream. While he has a cocky attitude, Jumpace is crazy devoted to Starscream, similar to Thunderblast's affection for Megatron. That's all I got, really.

ANIMATED.

Alt mode: Mini Cooper. Weapons: Instead of stingers like Bee, drills in servos. Detachable back rails to use as...idk, batons? This Jumpace is a nyehehe villain, coming into play mid-Season 2 when it crashes onto Earth after being separated from Screamy for so long! See, back pre-plot, Starscream was forced to train this new grounder recruit (UGH) but somehow (dw it makes sense in my Documents) they got closer and are a couple ("You should be honoured to court such a fine bot like myself!"). At one point, the jumpstar (ship name) went on their own mission without per-mission (haha) and discover a Space Bridge. Jumpace activates it but it goes haywire, sending Jumpace halfway across the galaxy, with the space bridge deactivating for good. Jumpy ends up in Trypticon Prison for YEARS and made a few escape attempts, but eventually does succeed, steals a ship and ends up on Earth. Starscream finds him and the two are like... !?!?!?!?!?? And end up (grossly) lovey-dovey for like, a week ("Huh I wonder why we haven't seen Starscream since those two clones") and then they get back to their original relationship: Cartoony slapstick couple. Like, funny arguments only to make out? Does this make sense to anyone? They do genuinely care but they're also both selfish.

Though, when Jumpace can't feel the warmth of Starscream's spark, its like "YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU DIED? YOU IDIOT" (STARTS TO BEAT HIM UP). <-Again, cartoony slapstick. Please don't label this as abuse. Also, Jumpace has trauma from being confined and space bridges! I don't agree with most of Season 4's would-be plots, but my idea for Starscream revival is this; Slipstream approaches Jumpace and Starscream's shell, and Jumpace literally begs (rarity for it) Slipstream to give STSC a piece of Allspark Fragment, and in return, Slipstream doesn't have to follow Starscream's orders, she can be her own bot! Just please! And well, Starscream real and Slipstream flies off to do her own thing.

Relationships: If you know the Starscream clones, I'm sure you can expect their attitudes towards Jumpace. Thundercracker's ego makes him think he's better suited to be Jumpace's partner. Sunstorm is a suck-up. Ramjet lies, you know the dealio. I'm not sure how, but I want Jumpace to meet Blackarachnia and fall for her charms to do her bidding. Jumpace hates any and all Elite Guard and obviously Autobots, but mostly Elite Guard. Makes fun of Masterson a lot. I do want him to have fun interactions with the Autobots, and have a bit of a soft spot for Ratchet after he healed it.

Oh! I have a Shattered Glass version for TFA Jumpy! Basically "wow my hero!" at Starscream who's like ":)??" about it.

CYBERVERSE.

Alt mode: Once Cybertronian grounded vehicle, then fucked-up part Seeker thanks to Shockwave's fixer upper. <-Similar to Shadow Striker's ordeal, basically Jumpace needed medical attention and instead got SHOCKWAVE'D. Weapons: 'Drill Missile', Blasters.

This Jumpy...is a no-brained puppydog-like devotee to Starscream. Like, Galaxy Force Jumpy with the flying alt mode and devotion, but more rose-tinted shades Up to 11 and ":3!" moods. Happily does whatever Starscream says, clings to him, etc (a big ego booster for Starscream for sure!). But during Starscream's "the ancients say I should kill everyone :D" moment, Jumpy gets scared, especially during the Allspark fuckery of killing the Seekers. Starscream promises that Jumpace will be the last to go into the Allspark, but luckily the Autobots come in and save the day.

Eventually, the whole 'killing everyone' thing and eventually Judge Starscream freaked out Jumpy, so it became mute for a while after Starscream was out of the picture. It stuck with Clobber and became an Autobot like she did. She would try her best to get Jumpy to socialise with others like Hot Rod, and Jumpy would express emotion, but grew unable to talk. However, it took a glance at...JETFIRE, DOING SUCH AN ELEGANT AND AMAZING HEROIC POSE!! Jumpy became fascinated with this Autobot, how... stunning! It was just staring and Jetfire was like "Oh! Hello there!" and... Jumpy became a puppydog again but less so this time, because he wouldn't do things with no brain, he'd actually instead just ask "May I help you with xy?" oh, he also managed to speak again. Because its in looooooove. That's right, skyjump real.

Relationships: Good pals with Thundercracker (rip) and Clobber! Use to be best buds with Whirl before the war. Sparkmates with Starscream before THAT happened. Ends up with Jetfire. (Who, btw, I wouldn't mind if he was also dating Sky-Byte post-war). Jumpace wanted to get along with Shadow Striker, especially due to their similar circumstances, but Shadow Striker only got softer for Jumpace closer to series end. (And yes, I like to picture safe skyjumpstar here as well).

EARTHSPARK.

Alt mode: Modern dune buggy. Weapons: Batons, its fists and kicks <-More of a brawler type here. So, Jumpy here felt bad for Starscream due to Megatron's beatings but also admired his intensity, so during the war (back on Cybertron) he would bug him constantly like "are you okay?" and also "can you teach me to fight better" as a way to help Screamer, but also just wanting to be closer with him. I addressed this better in my fanfic but I'm lazy to double check. He starts of warm and naive at first in the Decepticons, then a cocky fighter, similar development to TFA Jumpace. But they get together, but Starscream kept it secret for a while because he didn't want to be seen as weak for 1. having a sparkmate and 2. courting a GROUNDER.

My plot with him was that during the war on Earth, he 'died', causing Starscream distress before he 'moved on', so when they reunite, (my fic was set before Season 2 but after Season 1) Starscream is angry-confused because oh surely this means Jumpace LIED and is A TRAITOR (Okay, Starscream). Spoilers for fic if anyone cares, but after much commotion and Malto help, they get back together.

Essentially, thanks to being taken in by a human (as a regular car), Jumpace engaged in many hero shows and started to mimic their poses and even yells "TRANSFORM" when transforming. (Nerd). It is also fascinated with bugs and arachnids, so you bet your sweet bippy it's obsessed with Insecticons and organic bugs. It's a soft side of ES!Jumpy.

But Jumpace hates harming young ones, Cybertronian or other. So if it sees what Starscream did to Spitfire and Aftermath, it will FREAK OUT. It's probs with Shockwave and the others around that point, but holy Hell. Also, Spitfire having similar colours to Jumpace kills me a bit but she's still so fucking awesome I LOVE YOU SPITFIRE.

Relationships: Starscream. But who knows how long that will last considering Season 2? She's so hot but god dammit I SPECIFICALLY HAD JUMPACE NOT WANTING TO HARM KIDS. Oh, I also had him develop a sort of 'bond' with Thrash Malto, but later realises that Jumpy will have to betray the Maltos at some point. Hey, Jumpy doesn't like physically harming them, so betrayal is fine, right? It doesn't like Megatron all too much, feels offended about him 'joining the Autobots'. Acts like its better than Nova Storm and Skywarp, but likes them. Likes to brawl with Hardtop. Oh! And despite him not really...existing except that tiny bit in Earthspark, Jumpace is Cliffjumper's brother! Aha! Callback to G1 where I said they grow a sibling relationship, except this time they're on different sides! I want them to be sibs in other universes too, but I would need to actually engage in those universes. Other than Skybound, I'm not touching any more Transformers for a while. Speaking of...

SKYBOUND.

Basically G1 Jumpace. However, my options are either 1. Killed in Cliffjumper's clan. 2. Wasn't activated on the Ark 3. WAS activated, but because of Starscream's...yeah, disaster unfolds. And might switch to Autobot? It's hard to say, but the possibilities are so interesting! So, if you read all this, or part of it, what do you think? I hope all the Jumpys sound 'right', considering they're all different but contain similar elements. I didn't included JPN G1 cos Jumpy dead. Beast Wars because that's Beast Wars. Anything else I simply haven't engaged in yet. (I mean I read a lot of the Marvel Comics run but that's A LOT to think about). But I hope it sounds like a genuine Transformers character.

Unrelated, TF GOGO Jumpy would be so cute. And if Jumpace was a BotBot, he's be Jumpaxle (tech deck skateboard).

#kit.txt #kit's oc talk #jumpace

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wishlikes · 4 years ago

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i recently finished watching transformers prime (except predacons rising, bc i don’t want to) and i would now like to share my experiences watching it as a fan who watched rid 2015 first. (spoilers ahead, and also swearing)

cliffjumper: *dies*

me: wait, you can do that?

starscream: *is on screen*

me: bitch.

me: why isn’t optimus using his booster jets? does he not have them yet?

me during every other fight scene in the first 2 seasons: holy fuck!

(seriously, there were so many fight scenes where i was just staring wide eyed at my computer, swearing bc this shit slaps)

bumblebee: *has megatron in his head*

me: this is great

me: *remembers bee’s face when sideswipe asks if grimlock could be mind controlled* oh no

ratchet: don’t you think if it was that easy, i’d have fixed bumblebee’s voice box already?

me: but... it gets fixed? right? he talks in rid? ?????

anybody: *hurts bumblebee*

me: sir, that’s my son

smokescreen: *shows up*

me: who tf is that. i hate him

smokescreen: *steals the omega key out of megatron’s hand and jumps off the fucking warship*

me: sir, that’s my son

optimus: *destroys the omega lock*

everybody: *is sad*

me, unconcerned: don’t worry guys. your planet gets fixed at some point

optimus: guess i’ll die. hey smokescreen, you should be prime

me: i’m glad you think so highly of my son, but that is a frankly horrible decision, and also you’re gonna be fine. bitch. get up.

optimus: *flying around*

me: oh yeah! i forgot you were supposed to be able to do that at some point

bumblebee: *fucking dies, holy shit*

me: ??????????????? how????

also me: bitch. get up.

also also me: SIR! THAT’S MY SON!

bumblebee: *gets his voice back*

me: 🥺💗

#transformers prime #tfp #tfp optimus prime #tfp bumblebee #tfp smokescreen

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afterspark-podcast · 5 years ago

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G1 Episode 23: Transcript

Episode Show Notes

[This can also be found on AO3!]

[Stinger]

O: I just have this image in my head of him beating people to death with the Wailord.

[Intro Music]

O: Hello, and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast! An episode by episode recap of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon. I'm Owls.

S: And I'm Specs.

O: And today we're gonna be talking about episode number 23, Changing Gears. Let's talk about giant robots today, shall we?

S: Sure.

O: In today's episode, we open on a mine where some miners have found GOLD.

S: A shit ton of it.

O: And one of them is tits out for gold.

S: There is more ab definition than I would expect here, really.

O: He's got Ratchets VA, uh, so does this mean Ratchet’s tits out for gold?

B: [snicker]

O: Speaking of which, I hope you're prepared for some Don Messick this episode because he voices Gears too. [laughs]

S: Immediately afterwards the Seekers and Soundwave arrive, shooting up everything.

O: Soundwave releases Laserbeak and Ravage who retrieve the miners and bring them back to Soundwave.

S: And by retrieve we mean that Laserbeak shoots through a shed/cabin, thingy and uh, nabs ones of them. While Ravage grabs the idiot who tried to fight him with a stick and then bodily drags him back to Soundwave. Soundwave and the cassettes play fetch.

O: It's good wholesome family fun for everyone who matters!

S: We see the third miner attempt to get to the radio unnoticed as Megatron shows up and demands that Starscream report in.

O: Starscream attempts to shoot the last miner but Megatron knocks him on his ass because Megatron needs him to call the Autobots. You know, a normal Tuesday for these two.

S: And now at the Ark, uh, complete with trees this time.

O: [chuckles] The Autobots scramble, and gather in the Teletraan I room before they roll out.

S: As all the Autobots are running along we see Gears, walking slowly and complaining.

O: Bee hops onto his shoulders and then backflips off of him to continue on his way, while basically telling Gears he's grumpy.

S: Seems legit. Arriving at the mine, the Autobots transform and attack the Decepticons.

O: Megatron and Optimus yell at each other some more as Megs transforms and shoots the cage the humans are in to free them as a distraction.

S: Okay Megs, sure.

O: [laughs] But then, he transforms back into robot mode, shoots some boulders on top of Optimus and company, then transforms back into gun mode and has Soundwave fire him at Gears, who was apparently their real target!

S: This is convoluted.

O: No, you think!?! [laughs] Anyway, Gears is now trapped in a hole and Starscream prepares to shoot him, before being knocked down by Megatron again.

S: That's like twice in the past five minutes.

O: Literally! Megatron blabs about, “Final victory!” Before having Skywarp come over and fly off with Gears.

S: And I think this just looks really silly.

O: It looks very silly.

S: Optimus gets up and says, “They've got Gears!” Our small, angry grumpy man.

O: [deadpan] Oh no, not Gears. He's been in all of like, two episodes.

S: Apparently, we're supposed to care about him.

O: Are we though?

S: Elsewhere in a clearing some where we see the Cybertronian recreation of Stonehenge. And according to Megatron it's a Solar Needle.

O: We're gonna steal energy from the Sun now, finally.

S: The Decepticons finally try solar energy but in literally the stupidest way possible.

O: [laughs] And Gears is gonna help them do it.

S: Gears just looks like he's in a robot playpen with electricity, this is...so silly.

O: The fact that he is significantly shorter than both Megatron and Starscream is not helping this impression in the slightest.

S: It really isn't. When Gears is uncooperative Megatron has Starscream freeze him with his Null Ray.

O: Apparently, out of all of the Autobots, Gears has some circuit that can complete the Solar Needle, that they need.

S: How? But okay, uh, Megatron removes it and suddenly Gears is the most agreeable Cybertronian ever.

O: Be afraid. [laughs]

S: Megatron proceeds to shove the circuit into the Solar Needle and begins gathering a fuck ton of energy from the Sun.

O: And, lo! Across the globe, all the major landmarks are subjected to earthquakes!

S: Megatron's plan to turn the Sun into a rad ass disco ball inspires the Earth to shake what his mama gave it.

O: [barely contained laughter] Of course! That’s- that’s how this works isn’t it!?!

S: Apparently. Um, the Ark is also being subjected to these earthquakes as well.

O: Or did Mount St. Hilary just become active for like the tenth damn time?

S: The excuse for all this nonsense is apparently… solar flares, because somehow solar flares somehow affect the interior of the Earth?

O: [trying not to laugh] I don’t think that’s how solar flares work!

S: Neither do I.

O: [laughs]

S: A bunch of boulders begin to fall on the Autobots.

O: From the earthquakes. Uh, Cliffjumper must be scooped up by Ironhide before he's crushed by one of said boulders.

S: And now all the foliage is gone! Where did the trees go? I wish there was some consistency because... what the hell?

O: Uh, in this show? Never! And after securing the base, Optimus reaches the you know, oh so difficult conclusion, that obviously Megatron's behind this.

S: He said he'd bet his torsion bars on this. What part of their anatomy is a torsion bar?

O: I'm not even gonna think about the answer for that question. Back at the Solar Needle! Megatron is monologuing, to no one!

S: And also Gears is being super helpful right now, for the Decepticons.

O: And jetting back to the Ark, the Autobots have reached a conclusion that the Sun will explode in slightly less than two Earth hours if they don't stop whatever it is that Megatron is doing.

S: The Autobots proceed to roll out and head towards Africa. Which is apparently where the Decepticons currently are.

O: Ah, the reused animation- I mean at the Solar Needle!

S: Which I feel we should specify, the Solar Needle- there's literally just a beam of light beaming into the Sun.

O: Yes, and this is going to cause it to explode.

S: [sighs] Somehow, yeah.

O: Anyway, at the Solar Needle!

S: Gears is helping the Seekers gather Energon.

O: Starscream observes that the Earth seems unstable, but Megatron tells them not to worry his pretty little head about it.

S: This is another one of those episodes that is constantly swapping back and forth between the Autobots and Decepticons with very little relevant information like, occurring in these things so…

O: Yeah. So back with the Autobots, uh, they drive past a herd of zebras before they reach a thick jungle. Said zebras I think, disappear before entirely exiting the frame too? [laughs]

S: That's very possible, I don't remember. Sunstreaker and Jazz hop onto the side of Prime's truck mode and proceed to use their blasters to disintegrate trees to make a road. Oh the ecological vandalism!

O: ~It's FUN!~ And back yet again with the Cons, Gears reflects that he should be mad at Megatron right now.

S: Starscream tries to shoot Gears, but the shot goes awry and is reflected back on him, Megatron and Gears, sending them flying.

O: This is like the third time this episode that Starscream tries to blast something that he should not blast.

S: Well this time he actually did shoot something. The other times he didn't.

O: Yes, it's like the third time he was going to shoot something. I know it's the first time he actually shot something, but basically it’s the third time Megatron's had to be like- Starscream, no. [laughs]

S: [sighs] Gears goes headfirst into poor Soundwave, knocking him over.

O: The Autobots continue to blast their way through a jungle making a leap over a large crevice.

S: Everyone makes it, but Bumblebee, who must be rescued by Wheeljack.

O: And it feels like a super awkward scene because there's zero dialogue, or screaming, or anything happening here. I'm also just not sure why this scene is happening at all? It doesn't really add anything to anything that's happening.

S: The Autobots reach the Solar Needle and attack, but their attacks reflect back on them.

O: Tired of all the talking, Cliffjumper does what he does best- jumping into action! And our little red dumb ass does manage to drop the energy shield protecting the Solar Needle.

S: Who would win? An energy shield or one small red bot, with a name that involves jumping off of stuff?

O: And Cliffjumper’s perfectly fine of course, so um, you know.

S: A fight proceeds to break out.

O: Some nonsense happens, such as Gears magically teleporting and Starscream picking Gears up and talking to him in Skywarp’s voice.

S: The scene changes and Gears is on the ground with Starscream aiming at him. Starscream sounds like himself at least again. Ah, but Bee runs into Starscream in car mode getting a strike, I mean um, sending him flying.

O: Bowling! [laughs] Soundwave sends out Laserbeak and Ravage to attack Bee, but Bee ends up tossing Ravage into Soundwave, knocking the poor guy down again.

S: And onto Megatron and Optimus, it's DANCING time!

O: I think he means sexual tension time.

S: Of course that's what I mean. Dancing is a courtship ritual they're just very bad at deciding who's leading.

O: [laughs] Mm-hmm! Optimus tries to tell him that the Sun will explode but of course Megatron doesn't believe him.

S: Megatron has belief issues. Megs picks up Optimus and chucks him through the air.

O: Gears attempts to save Prime by shooting at one of the machines controlling the energy grid causing the energy to go wild and nearly hit Starscream and Ironhide.

S: Megatron transforms, and then Soundwave shoots Gears... using Megatron?

O: Yes. We're like three for three with Soundwave shooting Megatron today, by the way. [laughs]

S: Optimus attempts to reason with Megs about the whole you know the Sun is going to explode thing.

O: The dreaded return of astro-seconds happens.

S: [groans]

O: [laughs] Megatron calls Gears over, who cheerfully calls Megs, “You rotten a hunk of scrap!”

S: Megatron orders him to repair the Solar Needle and he's like, “Ok, I don't want to, but ok.”

O: Gears is honestly hilarious in this episode because he's like, “Happy to be of service!” Then he mutters, “I wish I wasn't, but I am.” [laughs]

S: Objectively this is actually a very horrifying thing that’s happened to Gears.

O: Oh absolutely, but I do love the dialogue. [laughs]

S: The Autobots object very loudly to Gears being nice.

O: Megatron has the Seekers take aim at Optimus, but Optimus asks for a last request.

S: And then Megatron tells him, “To be quick about it!”

O: Optimus asks Gears for a favor. Gears, then gleefully shoots the Solar Needle.

S: And then another fight breaks out, but did the other one actually end?

O: That's the good question, right? Some highlights!

S: Optimus decks Megatron.

O: Ratchet karate kicks Thundercracker into a tree.

S: I love that bit, personally.

O: Yeah! Wheeljack decks Skywarp.

S: And then Gears picks up Starscream, whirls him around and tosses him into Soundwave.

O: Oh my god, again!?! Poor Soundwave! He keeps getting knocked down through no fault of his own!

S: And then the Cons retreat and Optimus demands that Megatron turn off the Solar Needle.

O: Our idiots continue to fight until Optimus kicks Megs off the platform and then it’s- finally freakin’ flies off.

S: Optimus proceeds to get down to business of getting this damn thing turned off.

O: Ratchet has to save his husband- I mean Wheeljack, kicking a boulder into a falling column to knock it away from him.

S: They promptly disagree on how to turn the stupid solar array off.

O: Wheeljack was right apparently, as Optimus yanks one of the wires out and finally shuts down the Solar Needle.

S: Gears asks for his personality circuit back, much to the chagrin of the other Autobots.

O: They were just talking about, “Oh no! How could you make Gears like this!?!” and then promptly want to leave Gears like this. You hypocrites!

S: It's horrifying.

O: It is!

S: Before they leave, they blow up the remaining equipment and everyone drives off as Gears starts complaining and leaving- they leave him behind.

O: Yeah, they leave him behind as he's like, complaining. So that's the end of today's episode. So join us next time for, ‘The Prime Problem’. [Should be ‘A Prime Problem,’ my bad! ~Owls] Megatron decides to build himself an Optimus Prime, an evil Optimus Prime that is. All right, Specs, what is our fan fic for today?

S: The first fanfic for today is, “A Night Like This,” by Scott Kempe. It's in the G1 cartoon continuity, it's rated K, it's Gen. There are no pairings, and characters are: Daniel Witwicky, Spike Witwicky, Hound and Gears. And in summary, “It's a night under the stars. With Gears.”

O: I love that with that summary, it's still Gen. Like, it sounds like a romantic date with Gears. I have no idea if that’s supposed to be the implication, but that's how I'm interpreting it.

S: I've read it, but it was so long ago at this point since I read it and put it on the thing. I don't actually remember. But it's a one shot, and the character rec for this as literally, ‘Gears’... so, yeah. And our next one is also Gears-centric. It's, “All That it Seems,” by Lnzy1 or L-N-Z-Y-1. Its G1 cartoon continuity. I apparently didn't put a rating on it, but it's probably rated K uh, K+.

O: K+, okay.

S: It's Gen, no pairings and it's Gears. That's the character, the only character in here-

O: [snorts]

S: -I guess. Uh, in- in summary, “Generation One. One-shot. Gears sees something that compels him to... gasp! Be helpful! Damn his Autobot core programming and his compassion circuits to the pits!”

O: [laughs]

S: And yeah, it's Gears-centric, that's why I chose it, and it's also a one shot. So thank you, let's go to the art recs.

O: Our fanartist for today is Koroa, who does a variety, I think? Primarily I saw Prime and IDW. I love their stuff, I wish I had more electronics I could stick stickers of their stuff on, you have no idea. And today we have linked some lovely art of the Autobot and Decepticon badges and some motivational Minimus and Ultra Magnus posters, of which I actually own now and are up by my desk. [laughs] Um, I also may definitely own stickers of the Decepticon and Autobot logos that are on my computers. We will be posting links to their Tumblr, you can find other links on our Tumblr.

S: And on their Tumblr I would assume?

O: Yes.

S: And that just about wraps it up for us today remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark-Podcast for any additional information, show notes, or links we may have mentioned. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter @AftersparkPod (all on word) and various other locations by searching for Afterspark Podcast such as, AO3, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Youtube, just to name a few. Till next time, I'm Specs.

O: And I’m Owls!

S: Toodles.

[Outro Music]

#g1 episode 23 #transcript #afterspark podcast

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blueskyscribe · 7 years ago

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On them question thingies: DFUV. D is for LiGH. On a side note, I was rereading the most recent couple chapters of LiGH last night and caught Knock Out referencing KO Burger, and maybe I'm just slow on the uptake for this, but... do LiGH and With a Side of Rust happen in the same universe...?

I’ve never specifically thought about it, but I would say different universes for LiGH and WaSoR. But Knock Out set up the KO Burger chain in both of them, because it was easier to buy cosmetics than to steal them.

D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

There is! It can mostly be derived from the epigraphs (song quotes) at the start of each chapter, LOL. At some point I’ll compile them and post them on Tumblr. Back when Grooveshark was still around I also had playlists for individual characters. RIP Grooveshark.

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“You know what I think? I think you know you’re in deep slag if they figure out that the Autobots are like Decepticons here, and Decepticons are like Autobots. So you waltz in here trying to convince me to back up your crazy story—”

“Listen, Autobot!” Knock Out shot to his feet so fast he almost knocked over the chair. " I don’t have to be doing this! I don’t have to be sneaking around in the dead of night trying to coordinate with you, trying to come up with something to save our chassis—"

“To save YOUR chassis!”

“To save OUR CHASSIS.” He gripped the side of the berth, the railing chained to his arm clanging against it. "And you know what? YOU’RE the one in deep slag here! I look like their doctor, you look like some psycho who snuffed Dreadwing! They put a handcuff on me and tied you down like a science experiment, what does that tell you?“

“Once they talk to me, they’ll realize—”

“What, Bumblebee? What will they realize? That you’re ‘good on the inside’? Please! They don’t have a cortical patch to turn your brain inside out and they’re scared of you, understand? If Shockwave turned up on your doorstep with a different color scheme, what would you do?”

“Shut up.”

“And if he was with Cliffjumper, which would you trust?”

“The truth hurts, doesn’t it, Bumblebee?” His fingers creaked with pressure as they gripped the berth. "And the truth is I’m your best shot at freedom here. And, Primus help me, I vouched for you, you ungrateful little wretch. 'Oh, Bumblebee, he’s harmless.’ 'Not a real Autobot like Smokescreen.’ 'No, I’ve never been afraid of him, he’s very sedate.’ I didn’t have to stick my neck out for you! I could just as easily have said what they expected to hear!“

"Then why didn’t you?” Bumblebee shot back. "Out of the kindness of your spark? Oh wait, I know, it’s because I’m an ASSET, to keep in reserve until you need to push me into the line of fire!“

Knock Out straightened, his optics burning.

"That’s right, Autobot. You ARE just an asset to me. Something to help me get home. And, guess what? I’m an asset to you, too.”

—

Why I like this:

First, very basic reason: I love writing arguments. I’m very non-confrontational in real life, so I find it cathartic, I guess. This one in particular is intense. They are both scared, trapped. Everything is strange. They hate each other, but … at least they are familiar to each other. Knock Out is too much of a pragmatist to shun a potential ally based on a little thing like faction, and Bumblebee is horrified to discover that he is too.

I also like that this is secretly the first kind thing that Knock Out does for Bumblebee (and the first he’s done for anyone since Breakdown died). As Knock Out says, he could have told the SG ‘Cons any story about Bumblebee. The reason he played up Bumblebee as harmless and nice is that he knows Bumblebee tried to help him when he was bleeding out and–although he would never admit it–he is trying to return the favor.

That’s why the full scene ends with Knock Out returning Bumblebee’s flask, which Bee gave him to keep him from going offline. A gesture of karma.

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

@lizwuzthere [AO3 link] - I particularly enjoy her alternate timeline TFP fics! Great character interaction, great dialogue, and logical progression of events. Like, her fics aren’t just “Knock Out defected, so here is the rest of the season exactly like it was on the show, except with Knock Out on the Autobot side.” Instead, his defection changes the dynamics of both factions and the events that follow.

@greyliliy [AO3 link] - Not only is she great to brainstorm with / bounce ideas off of, but her fics routinely make me cry. She’s made me a Dreadwing/Yellowjacket shipper, which I never saw coming but now they are perfect and tragic. *whispers* You monster.

@albawrites [AO3 link] This Scavengers fic is the best I’ve ever read. Just amazing. Especially Spinister’s characterization.

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

This is a boring answer, but I don’t think I would! I love reading fics, all kinds of fics. But when it comes to writing, I like to do my own thing in my own universe. (I mean, with Transformers it’s not exactly ‘my own’ universe, but it’s still a universe where all my headcanons, backstories, etc, are in place.)

#long post #meme #LiGH #WaSoR #writing #fanfiction #kanonkita

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neverwatchedtranformersg1 · 8 years ago

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08: S.O.S. Dinobots

I got a good feeling about this one.

So there are some earthquakes and Slideswip thinks it is Rumble being a little shit again. Ironhide uses his whatchimicallit to see what is behind that and find.... surprise, its bones!

Spike explains that they are dinosaur bones and Wheeljack takes a good interest in them. Prime agrees and we cut to a waterfall were Shockwave is taking pics.

Why are you taking pacs if you have a literal camera right next to you?

Anyway they have their data and they do they bullshit flying away that I still do not understand.

The Autobots take a field trip to the museum and I am so glad that the 80s cartoons say fuck it to secret identities and actually have the robots out in the open cause the human reactions are great.

“Wow that is what I call heavy metal” Priceless.

So Spike show Hound the Brontosaurs, the Three horned one, and the T-Rex.

Hound makes holograms to see what they looked like and Wheeljack says how great it would be if they could have dinosaurs for for them. Hmmm. Wonder what is going to happen next. Ratchet agrees to help make robot dinosaurs nad Prime says go for it.

And hey it is that negative nancy that I don’t know again.

“It will never work. Big waste of time.”

Anyway Wheejack gets everyone to help him in making some Bots.

Is this how transformers are made? Like are these going to be transformers or are they going to be just robots with no independent thought?

We go to Megatron who is talking about taking some source of energy and Starscream is giving him sass about how that has never worked ever. Megatron tells him to shut up and go attack the wallfalls we saw earlier.

Wheeljack just finished the Dinobots and they are really cool.

There is Grimlock who is the Rex, Slag who is the three horned, and Sludge is the Long neck.

So the purple Negative Nancy starts talking some shit and Ratchet sets them to transform into their dino form.

Of course Cliffjumper asks what else they can do beside being robots. Wheeljack and Ratchet tell them to clean up the rubble around them... with fire. Of course.

Wheeljack admits that they are idiots and that is when they start to go berserk and start attacking people. The Bots start shooting back but these fuckers are pretty touch as Grim starts making his way to the control room.

Bee and Spike, for whatever reason, go to stop him. Thanks Spike but you are not going to be much help.

Just like I said no help, as Grim shoots Teletram One and the places starts to blow. Goodbye Autobot base I guess.

Bee scitdaddles out of there and Ratchet gets to the scene to help Bee.

I think it is a little funny that Bee is hurt but Ratchet goes help Teletram One .

Back to the others, the Dinobots are still kicking ass as they are apparently fucking invincible with lasers and fires. Prime decides to say fuck this and is ready to destroy them till Wheeljack uses his magnetic inductor to stop them.

So with one blast they are out. Wheeljack asks fro Prime’s forgives to not kill the guys for whatever reason but Prime is saying that hell no they are fucking insane and so with they they are deactivation and but behind a wall.

Ya know for safety reasons.

So the Cons are shooting at humans and stealing energy like they do but the humans are unable to cal Teletram One as he is out of commission leaving the humans to deal with the Cons on their own. I.E. loosing.

Spike and Hound are going around looking for any calls for humans and luckily found the one that the Cons were causing. Hound made a holograms about the mess and calls for backup.

Primes tells them to transform expect Bee cause he has to stay and guard the dead ship. Poor boy.

But the Cons are making their cubes out of the endless energy from the falls. Megatron brags about some trap he made for the Bots.

So the Bots get there and for some reason Prowl turns into a car yet he is a robot in the next scene?

What the hell?

Okay so Prowl talks some shit about Hound and no one is amused, like literally no one.

This was their actual reaction. Like geez guys. I know this ain’t funny but lighten up ya know.

The Cons comes out of nowhere, literally, and they star having a shooting out. Starscream and Cliffjumper have some good banter. Gear can’t decide on his colors. Ah, nothing like 80s fights.

Thundercraker maybe? “Nice shooting if you were aiming for the sky.”

Megatron and Rumble start a team attacks than includes the ground breaking and a gun (perfect combo) and the Bots have fallen into the river. Spike watches helplessly from the sidelines.

Lucky for us Bee decides to disobey orders this one time to come and help. Spike gets picked up by him and they both go to get help.

Starstar asks what know cause obviously there are not dead and Megatron pretty says to wait cause he want to gloat or whatever rather than ya know kill his enemies.

Bee and Spike go back to base and Ratchet and Wheel say that they cant find Prime and the others. Wheeljack cuts to the chase to show the upgrade he made for the Dinobots, making them smatter and shit. But Bee wusses out saying that Prime decrees for them to never be activate.

“Got any better ideas?” translation, “Shut the fuck up BumbleBee. I made three goddamn Dinobots out of the scraps of this planet with my energon blood, energon sweat, and energon tears and you expect me to put two inches of dirt on them and forget about my children. Nuh-uh, no way, we are putting these on and we are going to fuck. shit. up.”

So they put on the smart hats and get ready to turn them on.

Wheelajcks tells them to save the Auotbots slowly and they actually respond.

“Save friends.” Good “Save leader.” Yes good, good. “Maybe we should.” Yes you should “We do as told. For now.” ...

Well I guess that is close enough.

So the Autbots are in some energy chinas???

New paint job Prime?

Cause you know it is important to waste your time tying up your enemies rather than actually shooting them.

Megaton readies to fire then daudaudhda the Dino bots come in!

Slag- “Which one friends?”

Sludge- “Uh, ones with face like this, uh, I think.”

Slag- “That good enough for Slag.”

Me too Slag me too.

So Starscream gives Megatron some sass like “you know everything! What are they!” and Megatron is like “They’re garbage!” but Wheeljack gives a shit good shot to Megaton’s dick (no kidding) and we have a good line i have not heard in a while.

“Megatron has fallen. I, Starscream, am now your leader. Decepticons follow me.” I smiled so hard at that.

But the Cons start firing at the Dinobots but their horn laser fire powers kick ass and they have no chance. They kick there asses effortlessly.

He caught a fucking jet in his mouth. Not only do I think they defies the law of physics but that is damn awesome.

Megatron gets up and...

the fuck is this?

So anyway Wheeljack gets the Autobot weapons and helps the rest get out of the mess and gear up.

The Dinobots take cause of Megatron and the rest of the Cons as they all piss off and the day is saved thanks to.... The Dinobots!

Prime gives in in saying that Wheeljack and Bee disobeying orders is okay and that the Bots can stay.

Aww Bee looks so happy!

Sweet episode! So far my favorite!

Autobots I learned: 23

I count the Dinobots are Autobots cause they have the same logo.

Grimlock is the Rex

Slag is the Three Horned

Sludge is the long necked

Decpticons I learned: 10

#grimlock #slag #sludge #autobots #decepcion #g1 #transformers #neverwatchedtransformersg1 #episode 8

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yuukirita · 1 month ago

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Another idea for tf one and transformers lost light crossover, babybee introduced the lost light crew to baby hot rod and cliffjumper. The crew was prepared to meet younger versions of their autobot friends after witnessing tf one optimus prime and elita one trying to attacking megatron on sight when babybee bring the lost light to optimus. After that incident, rodimus made the decision to have ex-decepticon members be accompanied with an autobot crewmate(s) during their stay in tf one universe. Babybee acting the lost light’s tour guide holding a speaker and a flag as he explain and show the crew parts of Iacon. Lost light megatron did not go to the tour and decided to stay at the ship because his presence would scare the Iacon civilians and some autobots.

Tour guide bee led the lost light the park where they meet bee’s friends. Baby hot rod become amazed older version of himself as he asked rodimus stories about his adventures and a race. Meanwhile baby cliffjumper becomes untrusting towards the older bots as he suspects the lost light would kidnap them and steal their t-cogs like sentinel prime did. However, the idea got thrown away when rodimus to baby cliffjumper stories about himself being the autobot’s angry Red Bull of destruction to the decepticons. The lost light tour of Iacon was put on hold as the crew spend the whole afternoon playing with bee and his friends at the park.

Lost light crew return to the ship from their tour with good spirits. Rodimus: “Megs! We’re back and got some gifts”

Megatron: “I take the tour with little bumblebee went well”

Drift: “It was. Little bee was reliable hein helping us finding the supplies we need for the ship. He even give us goodie bags to take home after the tour ended” Drift show megatron his gift from bee

Rodimus: “Speaking of gifts, here”

Rodimus takes out a goodie bag and datapad and hands them over to megatron

Rodimus: “Baby bee was sad that you can’t go outside because his megatron so he put together a gift for you. The datapad is filled with stories about megatronus prime because bee’s megatron admire him so much. Be sure to thank bee next time you see him”

Megatron looking at his gift and smile

Megatron: “I will rodimus, I will”

The next day baby bee receive a lot thank you letters and treats for being the best tour guide the lost light ever had

Aw that's precious-

#awsering messages #babybee au

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afterspark-podcast · 5 years ago

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G1 Episode 20: Transcript

Episode Show Notes

[This can also be found on AO3!]

[Stinger]

O: Fist bump! Oh man, it was great!

[Intro Music]

O: Hello, and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast. An episode by episode recap of the generation 1 Transformers cartoon. I'm Owls!

S: And I'm Specs.

O: And today we're gonna be talking about episode number 20: Dinobot Island, part 2. Let's talk about giant robots today, shall we?

S: Sure.

O: Last time on the Transformers, according to the narrator, the Dinobots were exiled to Dinobot Island.

S: According to, to Specs, to me, um, it was summer camp. Is this supposed to tell us something about the Autobot thought process, maybe?

O: Maybe just Optimus’s thought process?

S: Are they supposed to be in timeout until they learn to get- have more finesse?

O: [Laughter] Maybe? I don’t know, but Wheeljack and Ratchet seemed too supportive for me to think they were exiled, okay?

S: Yeah. [drawn out]

O: Anyway, the Decepticons showed up, gathered a whole fuck-ton of energy on the- well-

S: Island.

O: The- Dinobot Island, and dumped the Dinobots into a tar pit.

S: And now, on today's episode, Megatron is glad to be rid of those, “Dull-witted Dinobots.”

O: At least he's honest about his loathing for them.

S: I guess that is the thing, yeah.

O: Just saying, it may not be nicer than the Autobots per se but at least he's honest about it.

S: Yeah. Megatron turns back to the rest of the Decepticons ordering them to “drain the island of its energy,” like, drain it dry for something.

O: Yeah, yeah, like, gather all the energy and Starscream says they, “Might upset the chronological balance of this island!”

S: Yeah, you know, due to its precarious placement in the timestream. What with, you know, the dinosaurs and all that shit.

O: I got to hear Megatron say the phrase “scientific gobbledy-gook” and it was wonderful.

S: Little did we know that Starscream and Soundwave can summon the Energon from lava just by holding a cube over it and, I mean, apparently, all the other Decepticons can do that too.

O: Which we'll see two seconds later because Ramjet and Thrust do the exact same thing by holding the Energon cubes over a crevasse where some steam us coming up.

S: It's weird, man.

O: It is weird.

S: After the Energon is collected, the island begins to quake and the volcano threatens an impending eruption. Starscream responds to this rather cheerfully, wondering if this is the mistake that will make him the Decepticon leader.

O: While still standing on the rim of that active volcano and the impending eruption. Uh maybe move out of the volcano splash zone before you start, you know, planning your future there, buddy.

S: I guess he doesn't have much experience with volcanoes erupting.

O: I guess, yeah.

S: He'd find himself probably inconvenienced by the ash cloud.

O: [Laughter] Indeed.

S: And at the Ark, Ratchet has finished repairing Teletraan I because you- if you remember from last episode, the Dinobots did a bit of a number on it.

O: The Dinobots trashed everything. Of course, that was on accident because they're sweet dumb babies.

S: Mm-hmm.

O: Ratchet thanks Sparkplug for his help and Sparkplug wonders where Spike has wandered off too and, if you'll remember- um, according to the end of last episode he's a dead, buried under building, we’ll mourn his loss.

S: Teletraan I proceeds to pick up a weird signal that Wheeljack interprets as a [singing] time warp.

O: It's just a jump to the left!

S: And a skip to the right!

O: [Laughter]

S: Apparently, Wheeljack is able to pinpoint at the time warp is near the library.

O: Yes, yes- the library, you know, where Spike and Bumblebee were last episode.

S: Mm-hmm. The Autobots leave to investigate.

O: Showing up in the city, the group digs up Spike and Bumblebee, Sideswipe doing the bulk of the work with his piledrivers.

S: He's a good heavy hitter.

O: He is.

S: Spike is fine, Bumblebee apparently protected him with his body.

O: [Coughs, and continues with a (bad) Southern accent] “Say, Mr. Bee, what exactly is your relationship to that boy?” [Laughter]

S: [Laughter-Groaning] The Autobots come face-to-face with the rampaging mammoths and their accompanying, weirdly stylish, barbarians.

O: I think the VA doing the barbarian gibberish might be Ratchet’s voice actor. I cannot substantiate this in the slightest but, I mean, come on we know the guy can do some first-class gibberish. Ironhide then moves to wrangle the mammoths but not before Optimus says what quite possibly, in my opinion, might be the dumbest line in the entire series, “Remember, those creatures are flesh and blood, not unfeeling machines like the Decepticons.”

S: Keep telling yourself that, Optimus. Buddy, pal.

O: Friend of mine. Okay but I just don't understand how anyone can look at any of the Decepticons, but especially fucking Starscream, and say that is an unfeeling machine. He has many feelings, most of them are varying degrees of screech but they're still feelings.

S: Self-entitlement.

O: Self-entitlement! Um, anger- all of the cons are quite good at anger, except maybe Soundwave. Soundwave is about the only one I'm gonna not call you out on even though I'm pretty sure he's got feelings.

S: And a lot of whine thrown in there.

O: Yeah, yeah, yeah- Sideswipe- or not Sideswipe- Starscream is excellent at whine.

S: Sideswipe is very excited to beat up some mammoths because he's not taking what Optimus said into account at all.

O: No no, he’s gonna beat shit up. We also see Huffer lift an entire mammoth over his head and for an Autobot Huffer’s pretty small, so this is pretty funny.

S: Apparently he's just a pint-sized powerhouse.

O: Apparently. Ironhide then confronts the barbarians- shooting glue at them to keep them all in one place.

S: What's this? Continuity? A character using the same ability in more than one episode?

O: No, never!

S: Sunstreaker also gets into the mammoth lifting shenanigans [sighs] but some of the barbarians proceed to court death and start beating on Sunstreaker.

O: He's very vain, if you don't know this already. You do not want to mess with his paint job, he will literally kill you.

S: Yeah, he then points and generates electricity, and the barbarians get shocked and run off.

O: In order to corral the still rampaging mammoths, Optimus calls his trailer into existence and the other Autobots shove a bunch of elephants into his trailer.

S: He's got a lot of junk in that trunk.

O: Oh Lord, not again.

S: I will use that line anytime I can.

O: [Laughter]

S: Ironhide walks on screen holding a mammoth in an incredibly awkward way.

O: Is his face like at it’s butt? [Laughter]

S: It is, unfortunately.

O: It does not look comfortable for anyone involved but, oh nos!! The time warp is closing.

S: I have some concerns about those barbarians that got glued in place but I don't think it's gonna be addressed, um. Sunstreaker and Hound keep the time warp from, you know, closing by shooting at it and keeping it open with these weird octagon things?

O: I don't think- I don’t know what's going on there and, like, at all.

S: Yeah.

O: But immediately because, remember, they have just shoved all those mammoths into Optimus Prime's trailer. They let them out and then herd them through the time warp. So this lasted all of like, what, five fucking seconds?

S: Apparently they needed something to do, but honestly they could have just had not Autobot circus. I don’t know. Ironhide proceeds to direct the mammoths like he's a traffic cop directing traffic.

O: It is amazing.

S: Yeah.

O: Sideswipe herds the barbarians far less gently. With fire.

S: I mean, yeah, how did they get the ones Ironhide glued down? I mean, did they?

O: I think it's obvious they probably didn’t. [Laughter]

S: I have many concerns.

O: Don't worry, back at the Ark, it's the return of Chip!

S: Our boy!

O: Our boy!

S: And some of the new guys introduce themselves because toy lineup.

O: New season.

S: Gotta get those toys, parents.

O: Yep.

S: Beachcomber and Perceptor are, like, the main ones here.

O: That actually say their names, of which I can only say, Percy? Oh thank fucking God, a sane Autobot! There's just so few of those!

S: Yep. And then Teletraan I and Chip proceed to track down two new time warps. The first one is out on the ocean with a pirate ship sailing through to harass a yacht.

O: They want their wenches. Literally.

S: Yeah. “We want your money and your wenches!”

O: Pretty much.

S: And on the second, dumps a group of Old West outlaws near a group of bikers- presumably somewhere in the American Southwest.

O:The outlaws decide to steal the motorcycles because they will be able to escape faster.

S: Well, they call them, “Newfangled mechanical horses.”

O: Yes.

S: And I feel like this is not how people from the Old West should react to seeing motorcycles.

O: We-we both know that the show has many, many historical accuracies, um, and doesn’t know what science is.

S: [Laughter] Inaccuracies.

O: Oh, what did I say?

S: You said accuracies. [Laughter]

O: Oh, I meant inaccuracies.

S: [Laughter] You said, “Many historical accuracies.”

O: NO! No!

S: It makes you sound sarcastic!

O: [Laughter] OK, I guess as long as I sound sarcastic it works well. Um, we then cut to Cliffjumper who's waterskiing in car mode. Again. While being accompanied by two new characters, Seaspray and Tracks.

S: Seaspray can turn into a hovercraft.

O: He's voiced by the guy who does Skeletor and, like, you go on the wiki and it'll say how he did the voice and it, honestly, was hilarious and I was doing it while we were watching the episode because I'm horrible. [Laughter]

S: It was great. And then Tracks, who turns into the hottest Corvette Stingray. Specifically, a flying Corvette Stingray. You know that's one of the features that you were never able to get in a Corvette Stingray. He's one of our favorite characters in the series.

O: And he only shows up in a couple of episodes. Boo!

S: Tracks is also the sexiest Autobot, or at least he thinks he is. He's thinks he’s the sexiest Autobot.

O: You think Sunstreaker is vain? He's got nothing on this guy.

S: Tracks blinds the pirates and frees the yacht from their grappling hooks before helping Seaspray and Cliffjumper push the pirates back towards the time warp.

O: And now that the showdown between the bikers and cowboys.

S: The bikers all get their butts kicked, surprisingly, considering motorcycles are fucking faster than horses.

O: Yes. Some highlights from this fight include: A biker pulling out a chain all threateningly, but then one of the outlaws just jumps off his horse and tackles him. And then an outlaw tries to drive a motorcycle but runs into the one tree in a ten-mile radius and wipes out. [Laughter]

S: I got some really funny photos of this.

O: They're so dumb and wonderful.

S: Yeah, I don't think the cowboy would actually be able to successfully do this because I don't think he'd be able to balance on the fucking motorcycle.

O: I don't think he would either and I think that's supposed to be why he wiped out, but still it was pretty damn funny to watch.

S: Yes, but it would make more sense for the thing to just fall over when he tries to-

O: They wanted him to run into a tree!

S: The Autobots show up or, as an outlaw calls, “And talking horseless carriages! What’s next?”

O: Then our charming, intelligent outlaws get the brilliant idea shooting at the giant, metal men.

S: Prowl disarms them by melting all their guns with his acid pellets and Jazz proceeds to scare them away with loud, modern music.

O: As-as all is right with the world. Red Alert seems to take a leaf from Sideswipe’s book and herds them into the time portal with fire.

S: Yeah, like, he's sort of chastises Inferno who then joins in, shooting at the outlaws with water.

O: I'm rapidly becoming convinced that Red Alert and inferno are dating because Red Alert always seems like he's really clingy with inferno but I kind of like it.

S: I think that's been the common interpretation for a very long time.

O: Probably, I just haven't read any fic on this one.

S: Those two time warps taken care of, we go back to Chip who's been able to figure out that the energy disruptions coming from Dinobot Island are causing all the time disturbances, which kind of makes me wonder if they were reading all of these energy disruptions and just not giving a shit.

O: Possibly. I mean, do-do the Cons just do shit like this on a daily basis? But no, no the dumbest thing here is that the time disturbances are also causing Mount Saint Hillary to become active. AGAIN.

S: I mean- wasn't it, like, active three months ago?

O: Yes. Yes, when, uh, Megatron was trying to pull Cybertron close to Earth, yeah.

S: Yeah, and I mean when the volcano erupted, too, waking everyone up.

O: Yeah, I don’t think this is a dormant volcano. That's my personal opinion at this point.

S: I don’t know, it’s weird. They can't- they can't get their, you know, volcanism or geology, you know, solid. Optimus Prime orders Warpath, Beachcomber, Perceptor, Ironhide, smokescreen, and Trailbreaker to put on jetpacks and go to Dinobot Island in order to restore the timestream.

O: Meanwhile, back on Dinobot Island, Megatron wants more energon.

S: When doesn't he want more? But touche. Starscream tells him they’re fucking shit up and that they need to leave before the island explodes. Megatron, however, does not give a shit about exploding Islands.

O: Uh, Megs, honey, baby, how are you gonna carry all that energon off the island if it's destroyed. It's not like you came here with the ship and I am pretty damn sure you cannot shove all of that giant pyramid of Energon into subspace.

S: Well, between all the Decepticons that they do have, they might be able to at least get a chunk of it.

O: They could get a chunk but if it just explodes, they don't have time and he's not taking this seriously. He's just gonna get none of it!

S: Yeah.

O: Which honestly sounds like a gamble the idiot would do, yes.

S: Yeah.

O: The Dinobots are able to escape their tarry prison rather suddenly when all the tar evaporates, presumably due to all the crazy shit that's happening on Dinobot Island?

S: Can tar even do that? I don’t know.

O: [Laughter]

S: The Dinobots shoot the remnants of the tar off each other with, like, their fire laser breath or whatever and, uh, before turning, you know, returning to their robot modes. They're all super fucking pissed at the Decepticons and proceeded to fly off.

O: Why didn’t you do that the last episode you nimrods?

S: The Autobots arrive, landing near Megatron and his energon pile.

O: Optimus has somehow reached the conclusion that if they remove the energy from this area then the entire galaxy may crumble and unless Percy came up with that theory on the jaunt over here, you're full of shit, sir.

S: [Indistinct] Megatron knocks Optimus on his ass with a well-placed shot from his fusion cannon.

O: Megatron then orders an attack, with Starscream shouting in order to attack from the air causing, you know, the Seekers and the Coneheads to all attack.

S: Yeah. Warpath hits several of the attacking seekers before he and Percy are knocked down.

O: Megatron and Optimus continue to fight, as you do.

S: Megs proceeds to tell Soundwave to, “Prepare to receive,” before turning, you know, transforming into gun mode.

O: Well, is that what we're calling it nowadays?

S: Apparently.

O: [Laughter]

S: Soundwave fires on Optimus with Megs, causing a huge fissure to open up in the ground.

O: Soundwave then drops Megs, who sort of bounces on the ground returning to robot mode. I don't know why I was amused by this, but I was.

S: Eh, it’s just a cute little bounce. Got to make your warlord who's a gun bounce.

O: It's not as cute as the Ravage bounce.

B: [Laughter]

O: Ravage bouncing was adorable!

S: Yeah. Meanwhile, we see the dorkiest transformation we've ever seen. Blitzwing transforms into a tank- he's a triple changer, for the record- however, his head is still visible in the tank mode and it looks super goofy because he's, like, his face-face down.

O: Yeah, like, it's still obviously his face and then he just drives off.

S: Yeah, I think the next time we see him that doesn't look like it's his face.

O: Yeah, like, it looks like it's probably back to more what it looks like on the toy or what he normally looks like in tank mode.

S: Yeah.

O: And then we have Beachcomber, a known pacifist, who is firing at someone off screen with his hand lasers until Blitzwing catches up with him.

S: Now it's time for the showdown between the tank and dune buggy we've all been waiting for, who will win?

O: I don't know! [Laughter] Beachcomber’s able to escape as Warpath and Blitzwing have a throwdown.

S: The Dinobots arrive on scene with Grimlock rallying the actual dinosaurs to fight for them.

O: His name is Grimlock and he speaks for the dinos.

S: The Autobots appear to be losing badly as everyone is pinned to the ground, getting shot at.

O: Megatron, we all know that you're the one shooting Optimus repeatedly in the crotch during this shot.

B: [Laughter]

S: The dinosaurs arrive and they absolutely wrecked the Decepticon’s shit.

O: It's amazing.

S: The triceratops mows Megatron down as the stegosaurus simultaneously takes out Soundwave, Blitzwing, and Starscream.

O: Dirge is then picked up in a t-rex’s mouth and tossed, as the other two Coneheads are trampled on by multiple dinosaurs.

S: Skywarp and Thundercracker are jumped on by another t-rex-looking dino before also being trampled on by multiple dinosaurs.

O: Megatron decides to get the hell out of dodge, because he's gonna survive this even if his army doesn't.

S: I think all the Decepticons are going to have phobias about reptiles.

O: I don't think I blame them.

S: Yeah. The Autobots decide to release the energy back to the island in an effort to restore the time stream. By shooting at the pile of Energon.

O: Didn't we establish this shit's explosive?

S: We did, because it explodes and everything's fine, somehow.

O: Of course!

S: The Dinobots are then allowed to come back home.

O: Gee, thanks, Optimus.

S: And then, for some inexplicable reason, the Dinobots are all wearing jetpacks when they fly off??

O: Keeping shit straight, we don't do that here. And join us next time for episode 21: Traitor. Watch as Cliffjumper repeatedly makes the wrong assumptions about poor Mirage.

S: Poor Mirage.

O: Poor Mirage. And I believe we have some fanfic for today.

S: Yes, we do. We have two fanfiction recommendations for you. The first is, “Really Bad Eggs,” by JazzBot. It's, uh, continuity wise it's set in the G1 cartoon, but it's a crossover with Pirates of the Caribbean or the Caribbean cuz I don't think I pronounce.

O: Pirates of the Caribbean.

S: It's a crossover with Pirates of the Caribbean, specifically the first one, I think.

O: Yeah, I think it- I think it is pretty specifically, it seems like it's the first one.

S: Yeah, because I think it was written before any of the sequels came out.

O: Probably.

S: Uh, so it's rated K. It's Gen, there's no pairings, and our characters here are Bluestreak, Prowl, and Skywarp. And in summary: “Bluestreak, Prowl, and Skywarp are involved in a little teleportation accident. Hmm. Wonder where they ended up?”

O: Where indeed.

S: And our theme here is a deserted island, and also pirates. And it's a one-shot. And our second recommendation is, “Jailbreak,” by eerian_sadow. Its G1 cartoon with influence from Transformers Legends, which we might have mentioned before but it is a short story collection that's officially licensed by Hasbro but none of the stuff in it is canon so it's basically officially licensed fan fiction.

O: Yes.

S: More or less. It's- it's fun and it's cute and I'd recommend it, but you might have some issues getting it because it was only available on the print run.

O: I want to say it's actually easier to find now but I might be wrong.

S: Maybe. I don't know if it was reissued.

O: I'll post a link if I think- if I remember, when we post this.

S: Yeah, thank you. So, it's rated K, its Gen, there's no pairings, and characters here are Paddles, Seaspray, and Swoop. And, for the record, Paddles is a character from Transformers Legends.

O: He is another Dinobot.

S: Yes.

O: But he is, he- he is an aquatic one. That's the word I’m looking for.

S: I could remember what the heck he was but now I don't. [groans]

O: Just know he's an aquatic dinosaur. That's probably the only thing that's truly relevant here.

S: Yeah, and this one didn't actually have a set summary, so the only thing I can really like I came up with for it was, “It's a short cute thing about a rescue.” Because that's what it is. It's less than a thousand words long and I'd recommend it and this- it's nice to see Paddles featured in something.

O: Mm-hmm.

S: And this one is the theme for it was Dinobots, featuring Paddles and Swoop.

O: Good Swoop.

S: Yep and it's a one shot. Thank you, and that just about wraps it up for us today. Remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark-Podcast for any additional information, show notes, or links we may have mentioned. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter @Aftersparkpod (all one word) and various other locations by searching for Afterspark Podcast, such as AO3, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Youtube, just to name a few.

S: Till next time! I'm Specs!

O: And I'm Owls!

S: Toodles!

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[Stinger]

S: What Transformers would you want to see on Nailed It?

O: Uh, Thundercracker and-

Together: Skywarp

O: And then, of course, they're like what the fuck do we do with money?

[Intro music]

O: Hello and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast, an episode by episode recap of the generation 1 Transformers cartoon! I'm Owls!

S: And I'm Specs!

O: And today we're gonna be talking about episode number 7, Fire in the Sky. Let's talk about giant robots today, shall we?

S: Yep!

O: So last time on the Transformers: Optimus nearly dies, again.

S: Again.

O: Again. Chip goes to Cybertron and shows surprising resistance to acid rain, unlike the robots and Shockwave can't hit shit.

S: There may or may not have been dancing involved.

O: Indeed.

S: [Laughter]

O: Regardless, back at the Ark, it's snowing!

S: The robots appear to be having fun with Spike.

O: And then Jazz was pretending to be a snowman to surprise Spike.

S: Oh god, did the other Autobots just go and dump snow on him? [Laughter] But oh god, yeah, Jazz continues to prove to be delightful. How long was he standing like that? Do you think he had the other Autobots, ah, put all that snow on him?

O: God, I hope so! [Laughter]

S: Then a snowball fight breaks out, Jazz gets buried in the snow again. It's snow fair!

O: Be afraid! The snow puns are here!

S: So many snow puns.

O: Anyway Bumblebee almost kills Spike with a freakin’ snow boulder!

S: And somehow this cumulates- that feels like a weird snow pun.

O: [Laughter] Cumulus, if you will.

S: Yes, with Spike rolling down a hill, um, into more of a ball and consuming three Autobots in rolling snowy terror.

O: They’re all fine after this! Including Spike who was in this, like, boulder sized snowball thing and hit three robots!

S: How the hell didn't he get splatted? Also there's cactuses and a palm tree involved, in Oregon.

O: Now, ladies and gentlemen, coming to you from the Pacific Northwest there are not cacti and palm trees here, ok?

S: Especially since that area would be, um, like it would be at least semi-arid but it- yeah, no, cacti.

O: There would be no cacti.

S: No palm trees.

O: Meanwhile, Optimus Prime investigates the weird-ass weather. Apparently all the heat from the Earth's core is being drained.

S: I guess the people of Alaska and Russia are are just, um, dead.

O: Yeah, they, like, say it dropped by X number of degrees, and we’re like, oh boy, everybody must be dead. Cool. Anyway, you’ll be surprised who's behind this nefarious plot.

S: Anyway in the Arctic, green crystals erupt from the ground and somehow the Decepticons are draining the heat from the Earth's core by draining this crystal thing?

O: No, we don't get it either, but that's what they're doing. Uh, so we the cut to Rumble who's pounding through ice and somehow causes an underground avalanche sort of thing?

S: Sort of. Maybe. I don't know. And afterwards Skywarp and Rumble come across a dead body. [Laughter]

O: Well they nearly dead, anyway.

S: Apparently this is just a giant, freaking robot.

O: Like, bigger than Megatron or Optimus! That much bigger. So Megatron is delighted by this find because he's like, “I have more cannon fodder to toss at the Autobots!”

S: And Teletraan 1 is able to pinpoint the Decepticons’ activity in the Arctic except it's like they're panning over and panning over and they completely bypass the freaking green rock and then it's like, “Hey! Go back to that thing!”

O: [Laughter] Wait, that might have been important!

S: Yeah, and so the Autobots roll out!

O: Ratchet apparently catches up later since he's not seen leaving the Ark with everyone else, and I believe this also happens with a few other characters, um.

S: I don't remember who.

O: It's- god, it's not Huffer.

S: Hound?

O: No, no my brains going Wheelie--

S: [Laughter}

O: --and he doesn’t show up till the movie

S: Cliffjumper?

O: No! No, no, no, uh. He's annoying, he's a jerk. Gears! I want to say like Gears and Bumblebee also maybe don't show up and I don't remember. I just know like a bunch of Autobots that you don't see leaving also show up in the Arctic with them.

S: I don't remember who was there at all, but I guess Ratchet decided to hussle his hoofies [Laughter]

O: [Laughter] Apparently.

S: And back with our favorite energy stealing bastards! The new Transformer is being repaired by the Seekers and Soundwave, with Megatron supervising because apparently he just likes doing that.

O: Elsewhere in the multiverse IDW Megs, act-actually a goddamn medic and Captain of the Lost Light has a conniption about his useless G1 counterpart. Also our bad, it's Soundwave and all the Seekers doing the repairing here, not just Soundwave and Starscream. So apparently robots have a concept of freshness as Thundercracker comments on how being on ice kept it fresh. While, they continue to repair the big guy.

S: Do- do they like their Energon fresh? Or can they have, like, fine vintage aged Energon?

O: No clue, but apparently Starscream knows this guy and I swear to god--Megs is giving Starscream a look that's like, “What do you mean this is your ex?”

S: Anyway, big guy's name is Skyfire and he's a scientist.

O: Which we’ll see more shortly but uh so while working on Skyfire, Soundwave spins his arm into like an energy projectile cannon that's apparently their version of a freaking defibrillator.

S: I don't think we ever see it again.

O: it looks really weird!

S: It just spins into existence. Why? Meanwhile, Starscream explains that himself and Skyfire were scientists that were exploring earth millions and millions of years ago and Skyfire got lost in the storm because-

O: So--this is the most concern we ever see from Starscream for anyone other than himself like EVER.

S: Yeah.

O: But about this flashback. So a couple of things, um, we see Skyfire and Starscream flying in space. This means their jet forms are spaceworthy, apparently. What.

S: Well, I mean, we later see Starscream flying in space with Shockwave riding him at some point.

O: Oh god.

S: Like he just picks up Shockwave off a freaking a meteor or something? If I’m remembering properly.

O: I don't even. Um, Starscream should be a pyramid jet here because the flashback takes place way before the start of the series but he’s still an earth jet, like millions of millions of years before jets existed.

S: He wanted to be fashionable in this flashback.

O: Apparently. It was edited! He edited the flashback. Uh, so the continents that we see on Earth should not look like this they look like modern-day Earth and maybe they wouldn't be like full-on Pangaea as one mass but they definitely shouldn't be in their modern-day configurations.

S: Yeah, and also it's super weird because this is playing from Skyfire’s of memory thingy in his head? But everything is in third person and Skyfire is visible in all the shots.

O: So does he have a camera crew following him around, you think?

S: Maybe? I mean shoot maybe at one point he had a stupid little drone that followed them around like IDW Jetfire and it just gave him footage, I don’t know.

O: Okay, he is definitely Starscream’s ex, this poor guy is way too happy to see Screamer when he wakes up.

S: And Megatron basically says, “Welp, you're a Decepticon now. Don't suck at it!”

O: Or, you know, you're gonna die. Skyfire is kind of hesitant to fight because he's a scientist and not a warrior

S: Like, he wants to study stuff, not kill shit. And later Starscream tells Skyfire that, “He, Starscream, would be in command of the Decepticons,” eventually and then Skyfire will be Second-in-command.

O: Oh boy, oh boy. Eh, Skyfire doesn't really get what's going on right now because he's been out of commission for like a zillion years but he's trying real hard.

S: Poor dude but yeah.

O: So the Autobots show up and Skyfire, thinking they’re enemies, fires on them, because he's been told they're bad guys.

S: He is obedient, I guess. And a fight breaks out basically ending in Skyfire accidentally kidnapping Spike and Sparkplug for their own good after they basically get marooned on a little ice flow.

O: He’s legitimately like, “Oh no! Why are you guys scared, you’ve got nothing to fear, we’re the good guys.”

S: Cuz, he’s like, “Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt you!”

O: Yeah-

S: It's not gonna work out, buddy. Naturally, he brings them to Megatron and Starscream.

O: This goes about as well as you'd expect.

S: Like a lead balloon [sound effect] straight down.

O: So both humans have been tossed in an ice cage.

S: That's not gonna end well for anybody.

O: No. Hypothermia will be your gift.

S: Starscream and Megatron chastise Skyfire for being nice to the flesh creatures.

O: Skyfire has known these guys for all of five seconds and he calls them his friends. Please, please, someone give this robot a hug? This guy deserves a hug!

S: He deserves so much more than he so much better than, well, what he gets from the Decepticons or the Autobots.

O: For that matter! Uh,. but Skyfire’s, like, I’m a scientist, not a warrior!

S: Oh my god, he literally channels Bones from Star Trek.

O: Kind of! The Autobots falling behind in an attempt to save their favorite squishies.

S: And thus begins the wonder of Optimus Prime's inconsistently disappearing trailer. Outside the cave, no trailer. Inside the cave, you got a trailer.

O: And that'll happen multiple times. Anyway, Gears stops, like dumbass, causing Ironhide, Hound, Ratchet, and Gears to fall through ice.

S: Into the nice little ice hole.

O: Apparently. Back to Optimus! Because we're gonna be swapping between three goddamn groups- three or four goddamn groups of people here. I'm not even exaggerating- back to Optimus, Bee, Jazz and Cliffjumper. Optimus’ trailer disappears again and they hear Spike and Sparkplug crying out for help.

S: And Bumblebee totally looks like he's levitating in this shot, I don't remember if it's because he's sort of in front of something that should be- be-

O: In the foreground?

S: Yeah, yeah, I think that's it. Cliffjumper blasts the humans out of the cage, “Lucky for you my laser has a defrost cycle.” Why?

O: Please, name one other time in which that function was actually useful there Cliffjumper.

S: I mean that would be useful for defrosting himself when he's outside in the winter but I mean you never see him use it again.

O: You see! Does Cybertron have ice? Why would he even have this!?!

S: Well, considering that their planet doesn't revolve around a star and it's flying through space it's probably super friggin cold, but I don't know if-

O: Does that matter to them?

S: I don't remember, I feel like, well, in Prime it definitely matters.

O: Oh, yeah but it has to be like sub-zero temperatures.

S: And it matters in Rescue Bots, not sure about here. It doesn't appear to matter here soooo.

O: Prime and Rescue Bots are in the same continuity, though. So, Hound, Ratchet, Ironhide, and Gears spy on the Decepticons stealing heat from the Earth's core. They're promptly seen by Megatron because they're all terrible at hiding.

S: They’re super bad at it, god. Soundwave releases Ravage to scout for any additional Autobots.

O: Back with Optimus Prime because, again, we're swapping, oh, we're swapping so quickly here, folks.

S: Perspectives, point of views, who gives a damn.

O: The- this show- it can't focus. Anyway back with Optimus and the others, Jazz is using the unit of time astro-minutes.

S: At least he's not counting in astro-seconds?

O: Okay, but seriously if you want a good laugh go check out the TFWiki for units of time (we’ll link to it in the show notes). I swear so many of these units are just ??? on like what their actual real world measurement equivalent is. Like, even the fans don't know how long an orn or an astro-minute is and this is hilarious to me.

S: Cuz the fandom’s been around for thirty years and, well, not necessarily fandom, but canon continuities keep coming up with stupid things to add and then not necessarily defining them.

O: Or it’s different between different continuities?

S: Yeah, Cliffjumper runs ahead like a dumbass

O: Again.

S: [Laughter] And is promptly tackled to the ground by Ravage and they escape having trapped Ravage “cold.”

O: Aaaaaah! Why do you guys do this to me?!

S: Cause they love fuckin puns- [Laughter] Cause they fucking love puns!

O: Anyway, they do this by burying him under ice and snow. Um, meanwhile Ratchet and the rest have been lined up firing squad style?

S: They- they don't even get any last requests.

O: This just in, the Decepticons are assholes!

S: Not like we're surprised, I mean.

O: Yeah, no, I mean they're all assholes.

S; Yeah. Skyfire’s like, “'I’m a scientist, not an executioner!” and this pisses off Starscream who shoots him.

O: Starscream then shoots the Autobots, causing them to explode and walks off without checking the fucking bodies.

S: That's not- you’re- You’re Megatron’s second-in-command, you should know better.

O: You should be more competent than this, bud. But anyway, surprise Hound hologram shenanigans.

S: Ho-lo-gram.

O: Hologram shenanigans.

S: So the Autobots are fine! But Skyfire’s not in good shape.

O: And then all the Autobots regroup and Ratchet attempts to save Skyfire and meanwhile Laserbeak is spying on the Autobots while they work

S: And we cut to Megatron who's holding an Energon cube and is gazing at an admiringly, like he's totally admiring his ill-gotten gains.

O: Are we sure he's not just staring at Starscream’s ass through that!?! I'm telling you he's just staring at Starscream’s ass!

S: He's admiring Starscream's lustrous finish [Laughter]

O: Anyway, he receives the transmission from Laserbeak about the Autobot activity and then promptly beans Starscream in the head with the Energon cube.

S: Starscream was clearly posing like a model when Megatron hits him so, I guess your theory regarding--

O: Staring at his ass.

S: I guess-

O: He Just wants to be pretty! And he wants his spouse to notice him, ok? “You disgust me!” exclaims Megatron as he yells at Starscream for not killing the Autobots like he freaking said he did!

S: And then the Seekers attack the Autobots I guess by strafing them, I don't know, while Ratchet continues to work on Skyfire

O: And this part cracks me up because the size difference between Skyfire and Ratchet- it looks like a toddler operating on an adult. Like, that is how much bigger Skyfire is been the rest of them.

S: Oh god, it would be even more pronounced if Ratchet was a minibot.

O: Oh my god! [Laughter] That’s a thought.

S: Yeah, yeah, and Optimus’ trailer appears out of nowhere because guess who gets to show up today! It’s Roller! To shoot at the Seekers. Yeah, and Roller shoots Skywarp in the butt, who thenrear-ends Thundercracker sending them both nose-first into the ocean.

O: Which basically puts them out of commission for the rest of the fight. I have to ask, ya think Megatron would, you know, send out the cassettes here. Who we have established are here! Rumble can fight, they’re on ice, it’s not like they couldn't break up the ground and send the Autobots into the water! We all know Optimus Prime cannot fucking swim.

S: Yeah, we've already seen that.

O: We'll see it again, actually, next episode where the Autobots cannot fucking swim.

S: [Laughter] Oh god, yeah, Megatron and Optimus fight with green crystal shards- got some amazing photos from this.

O: [Laughter] Which we will also post. But, these silly crystal sound effects are clearly just two pipes being banged together here.

S: Bang, bang, bang, or bong or whatever, I don't think they used bong, they couldn't get bells or wind chimes or something?

O: Yeah, to make it sound kind of tinkly--no, it just sounds like you're banging two pipes together!

S: And Optimus grapples Megatron, lifting him up into the air and Megatron then rotates his lower body 180 degrees and lands behind Optimus, knocking him down. It's kind of amazing, honestly.

O: You’d think they do stuff like this more often since they’re, you know, robots--but they don’t.

S: I mean, if they actually made use of their whole, “Hey, we rotate to transform here.”

O: Yeah, like, cuz a lot of them do.

S: Yeah, uh, so while on his back cuz Optimus is knocked to the ground, he starts spinning his wrist really, really quickly? And makes- he- like a helicopter hand? That he just uses to toss Megatron behind him into an ice wall?

S: He's, like, spinning him on- it's like, he's still holding the weird crystal sword-

O: Yeah!

S: -Thingy and like, it spins and then sort of- Megatron’s- he's not levitated on it, but-

O: He, like, picks Megatron up with it?

S: It’s weird.

O: It's bizarre.

S: Yeah, it’s bizarre, but it got some really funny screencaps

O: Yeah.

S: Yeah, really funny photos.

O: It was pretty funny looking.

S: Yeah, cuz, I was doing that janky thing where I just photos of your TV.

O: If you’re curious why our screenshots look the way they do, it’s because we’re taking literal pictures of my TV, mostly because we think it actually looks funnier than trying to screen cap them off the computer.

S: Yeah, it's got more- it's got more character.

O: More character. Look, we can't- we can't make it look as bad as the 80s, but we can certainly make it look worse. Okay, so Megaton orders Skyfire to kill the Autobots because Skyfire’s up and about again Skyfire then promptly rips off his Decepticon symbol and pulls an Autobot badge out of fucking nowhere and just, like, sticks it on his chest. Where did he even get that? How do he even get that? Did Ratchet hand it to him after repairing him? Does Ratchet carry spares!?!

S: And why did his Decepticon symbol act like cloth?

O: Yeah, or a sticker or something? Like, what is it made out of?

S: Do they just carry, you know, do Decepticons just just carry stickers or symbols just to give people cuz...

O: Yeah, like, do both sides do this? They can’t- we don't see people swap like sides very often so this seems very strange, if they, like, carry around stickers.

S: I mean, I guess, if we wanted, you know, some comparison we could look and see what Octane does cuz I think he changes sides, but that's neither here nor there let's get back to this.

O: [Laughter]

S: And Skyfire tosses Megs off into the distance- I don't actually remember this, so I don’t remember how impressive it is.

O: [Laughter] Skyfire does a lot of tossing over the next couple of minutes. Reflector also attempts to attack, as like a weird mobile robot pyramid, like there's two of them on the bottom carrying the other one. They also promptly get tossed.

S: Starscream attacks from the air, Skyfire takes off to follow him.

O: Starscream, the most treacherous second in command in existence, tells Skyfire he'll pay first treachery and I just have one thing to say, “Pot meet Kettle!”

S: [Laughter] Except Skyfire’s, like-

O: Not an asshole!

S: He also didn't exactly get a fair, you know, read in on this. It was basically, “Hey, you're my property now, here's a sticker.”

O: Well, yeah. Starscream just has no room to talk. At all!

S: Well yeah, considering that he keeps trying to take over the Decepticons kill and Megatron

O: Yeah.

S: Yeah. Skyfire knocks Starscream out of the air but not without damaging himself, I guess Ratchet- Ratchet didn't do much in the way of fixing him, cuz I guess he doesn't have much in the way of spare parts. Not a lot of junk in his trunk. [Laughter]

O: [over laughter] Ugh, god, no. He has no trunk! He has no trunk! [indistinct] He has no trunk, Specs, you can not make that joke!

S: On his way down, he causes an avalanche with the tiniest freaking gun-

O: Cuz, again, he’s huge! Right, like, he just has this tiny little gun! [Laughter]

S: Covering the green crystal and the day saved because of this, for some reason? Apparently that's enough to insulate the stupid crystal and stop the-

O: Apparently.

S: The Earth's heat energy from being sucked out.

O: Unfortunately for Skyfire, he also gets buried.

S: Bad Autobot buddies there. Yeah, unfortunately, yeah. Well, goodbye Skyfire, who we’ll never see again.

O: You know that bad little habit everyone has of not checking bodies?

S: Yeah. The Autobots are just like---god Autobots, why? Optimus utterly fails to comfort Spike as they vow to remember Skyfire. Why?

O: But not dig him out, you assholes! And that’s where the episode ends, it that cheesy, I swear to god and maybe I'm wrong- but I swear to god, it does that cheesy anime thing where like, you know, you have the character big in the sky as it like, you know, cuts the episode?

S: Big in the sky and the sunset, like, “We're thinking of you-”

O: Right!

S: “Your memory is in our hearts!”

O: Again, if we have not made this clear, we’ll see Skyfire again shortly. Because these guys are idiots!

S: And I guess it's a spoiler, but apparently they just need Wheeljack to freaking dig someone out.

O: I'm convinced Wheeljack just was like, “What do you mean? All we need to do is dig him out. He was fine ice for millions of years. I'm just gonna go do this.”

S: He's still fresh!

O: [Laughter]

S: He’s even more fresh than he was before, he's only been in there like five minutes!

O: [Laughter] Anyway, that’s where the episode ends. Next time join us for the introduction of the Dinobots! Or as we like to call it, “How not to treat your newborns!” Seriously, Prime’s solution is to lock them in the goddamn closet.

S: You're a bad godfather, Optimus.

O: He should not be a godfather at all! Prime, Prime, you should not be around children, go away!

S: Yup, yup.

O: So, my dear Specs tell us about our fanfic!

S: Well, um, we’ve got kind of an avalanche-

O: [Laughter]

S: -for you today because I just kind of went hog-wild and did more than three.

O: Whoops.

S: So, yeah, lots of stuff that are involve either robots doing dumb stuff in snow, or Skyfire or Soundwave, and yeah. Lots of robots doing dumb stuff in snow and ice.

O: [Laughter]

S: So our first- first selection today is “Bobsled Australia” by Korat. It's a G1 cartoon continuity, I think. It's- yeah,

O: Vaguely, at least.

S: Yeah, well, it focuses on original characters so it's not like it really matters.

O: True.

S: So it's rated T for teen. It's Gen, there aren't any pairings, the original characters are Dart and Deus. So Korat’s original character Dart, and Deus, who is Retrolex's original character.

S: So in summary, “Two transformers, a mountain, and one makeshift sled.”

O: [Laughter]

S: And mountain is specifically about a Mount Blue Cow in Australia, if I'm remembering properly. It's- it's fun. it's funny. So yeah, theme in this was snow plus robots doing dumb stuff in it.

O: [Laughter]

S: It's- it's old, it's good, I really enjoy it. I recommend it even if you're not terribly into OC’s/original characters just because these two have- like they bounce off each other pretty well and it's fun and you get to see robot’s bobsledding.

O: [Laughter]

S: Bobsledding down a mountain. It's kind of great. And our next one is “28 Skyfires” by Beertree. G1 cartoon, rated K+. Slash because it's got Skyfire/Starscream in it, yeah. Characters: Skyfire and Starscream are the main ones, though there are probably some other supporting characters.

S: Uh, G1, In summary “Finally some new fic from the meme going around in LiveJournal, here are 28 Skyfires. These are listed alphabetically except where a plotline is involved then it's chronological for the story rated K-T for Skyfire/Starscream slash and implied slash,” and our theme for that one is ‘Skyfire” cuz might as well have something all about the new dude.

S: Right, so this is a one-shot collection. Bobsled Australia was a one-shot. Like ne- let's go to the next one, which is “Technical Support” by Archaeopteryx_Feather. Uh, G1 cartoon. K- rated K. It's gen, no pairings. It- the main characters are Soundwave and Starscream. In summary, “Soundwave was a medic of the mind, bound by the Technopathic Oath to do no harm. But what if the patient who needs help is Starscream?”

O: Kill it, kill it with fire.

S: So the theme with that was Soundwave and his medical skills cuz I specifically wanted to find something that, um, explored the medical skills that we got to see Soundwave use in this episode.

O: Fair enough.

S: And it's a one shot with an alternate ending in the second chapter. [Indistinct] And our next one is “Ice Skating” by Haluwasa2. It's a G1 IDW to shake things up from the G1 cartoon.

S: It's rated K. It's Gen, more or less. Pairings: Misfire/Grimlock. Characters: Fulcrum, Misfire, Grimlock. “On a pit stop to Earth, Fulcrum finds Misfire and Grimlock in an unexpected scenario that is... completely normal for them to be honest.” And it's robots doing silly stuff with ice and it's a one-shot.

S: And our last one today is “Snow Day with the Scavengers” by Pteropoda (SilentP), in um..

O: Parentheses.

S: Parenthesis, thank you, so it's also G1 IDW, rated K, Gen, no pairings. Our characters for this one are Fulcrum, Misfire, Krok, Crankcase, Spinister, and Grimlock.

O: Basically the Scavengers from the IDW comics.

S: Yep, yep, and in summary, “Fulcrum is not down with toboggans.” So, yeah. Again our theme is robots doing silly stuff in snow and it's a one shot. I- yeah I was very specific on robots doing silly stuff and snow was our big theme today.

O: [laughs] You just wanted something seasonal, uh, it will make no sense when this is actually aired- we're recording this right before Christmas, so it’s like, very in season for us!.

S: But yeah that's it for the fanfiction recommendations, let's go to the art!

O: Yes! So for today we are recommending Larry, as in, Larrydraws, you can find them under- on Tumblr as Larrydraws.tumblr.com. [They’ve since changed their tumblr url to anna--malkova.tumblr.com.] Also we are recording this right after all this shit with Tumblr’s been going down so if they have a Pillowfort, I don't have a link. We will have a link to their Kofi and to their Society6 page if you don't want to dick with Tumblr right now.

O: They tend to try draw a variety of things but I was also seeing some IDW comic stuff they did which is apparent with one of the things I picked. They have some absolutely gorgeous prints available at their Society6 page. We linked a few of my personal favorites uh, for Perceptor, Soundwave, and Grimlock and I will post links to those. They're just very pretty and very well done and recommend checking them out cuz they kind of have a whole bunch of stuff and there's probably something for your favorite character.

S: Yeah, they've also got shirts with their art on them and--

O: oh yeah! They’re so pretty!

S: They’re amazing looking and I really would like, like five of them? I don't know have the money because, yeah. And that just about wraps it up for us today! Remember to check out our Tumblr at Afterspark-podcast.tumblr.com, Um, I mean if anyone's still on Tumblr, for additional information, show notes or links we may have mentioned, you can also find us on Facebook and Twitter at AftersparkPod (all one word) and SoundCloud on YouTube at Aftersparkpodcast. You can also find us on Pillowfort as Afterspark-podcast and on AO3 by searching for Afterspark Podcast because we've just posted that! (Like, a couple of days ago?)

O: This week, basically. We will be posting there in the future, as well, it basically we're just embedding the stuff from SoundCloud but we are uploading the-

S: The transcripts and show notes.

O: The transcripts and then the show notes are in the actual note section as much as we can. Thankfully we can actually link to things which is really nice.

S: And I mean it makes it easier for people to follow along while listening

O: Yes! So if you kind of have trouble with auditory stuff, I know I actually prefer to kind of read stuff myself so, I totally get wanting to have access to it.

S: Yeah it's just it seems like a good idea. I'll see if I can come up with more tags for the AO3 stuff.

O: Yeah, I’m leaving the tags to Specs because, ah, you know I got this fandom like back in, I guess it's like six months now right?

S: Yeah, June-July-ish.

O: Something like that. Anyway and you know how I haven’t been here that long? Well, basically, I haven’t really been in a fandom space very long at all so I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing with tags? Like I’m relatively familiar with Tumblr and, like, nothing else.

S: Whereas I've had an AO3 account since like 2012 and I've been using it probably since 2009.

O: So, she's knows what she’s doing more than I do. I just got on there and was like, “Oh, look fanfic!”

S: [Laughter]

O: “Tags, I love you.”

S: Yeah, so we’ll- I don't know, I guess if anyone wants to suggest tags, feel free. Um.

O: I like to particularly entertaining ones myself.

S: I might have to put on “specs- doing-robot’splaining” or something.

O:[laughs] Yeah, I like it

S: All right, till next time, I'm Specs!

O: And I'm Owls!

S: Toodles!

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