#Tf Highbrow

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Winter fun ❄️ Merry Christmas from the fashion bots over at the intelligence division ^^ ☃️🎄

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Has Highbrow walking into the sunset with Scorponok’s head, Zarak, been posted yet?

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2023 Random TF Doodle

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i am once again thinking about highbrow (i doodled these as a break from artfight i am so sorry in advance)

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Highbrow for @oh4geez !

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PFFFFT

I can definitely see this happening.

In retaliation, Perceptor makes the parental controls as strict as possible on each of their profiles 💀

I need to go back to making silly edits like this. They're fun.

Anyway. The only reason Brainstorm OR Highbrow have access to the account is because they sat on either side of Nautica at the bar one night and peer pressured her until she gave up the login info. Evil behavior.

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Sincere content warning Maria (like I'm not kidding, open at your own risk because its NSFW) but this is why I cant take Matty seriously:

https://x.com/heymandah/status/1592759316385509376

I have, in fact, seen these videos (i swear he was shirtless in one of them). not putting the link here bc y’all can seek that out yourselves but uh. here’s my question. i have been assured online that there is, in fact, a point to this. that this is some form of highbrow artistic expression that us normies won’t understand at first glance. so if anyone is a fan of the 1975, can you please tell me what tf the message is here? like why is he doing this?

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surviving Lost Light crew

ok this counts as reference right? here is a list of the crew who were on board when they hopped universes, the TF wiki is fantastic but it doesn't actually have this list

(some characters will have "presumably" when the last time they had been seen may have resulted in their death but it's not outright confirmed so they COULD be alive or their alive status may have been a continuity error and other such dubious circumstances)

feel free to correct or add to this !

full list under read more

Ammo

Anode

Aquabat

Aquafend

Aquastar

Backstreet

Blades (presumably)

Blaster

Bluestreak

Borer

Boss

Brainstorm

Brawn (presumably)

Broadside

Chromedome

Clicker

Crankcase

Crossblades

Crosscut

Crosshairs

Cyclonus

Dipstick

Dogfight

Doublecross

Doubletap

Drift

Fervor (presumably ?)

First Aid

Fortress Maximus

Flex

Fulcrum

Gears

Grapple

Grimlock

Groove (presumably)

Grotusque

Highbrow

Hoist

Hosehead

Hot Spot (presumably)

Hound

Huffer

Inferno

Joyride

Kindle

Krok

Landmine

Lockstock

Lug

Megatron

Misfire

Nautica

Nickel

Perceptor

Pincher

Pointblank

Powerflash

Rad

Railspike

Ratchet

Red Alert

Repugnus

Rewind

Riptide

Rodimus

Roller

Rollout

Schema

Siren

Skater

Sky High

Slamdance

Smokescreen

Spinister

Spoke

Sprocket

Steeljaw

Strafe

Streetwise (presumably)

Sureshot

Swerve

Tailgate

Thunderclash

Tiretread

Toaster

Toxin (could be argued not to be a real character)

Turbine (presumably)

Ultra Magnus/Minimus Ambus

Velocity

Waverider

Whirl

Xaaron

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I finally decided to move the tiny faces to their own folder so I don't have to scroll through the entire archive of like 700 images every time I want to find the newest ones.

As always, we must perform the ancient rite to give thanks to @tiny-tf-faces for introducing us to tiny faces.

Rodimus has seen something indescribable.

Hound!

HIGHBROW MY BELOVED

Bluestreak!

About 70% of Rodimus's face.

Tarn's tiny faces always end up so scrunkly.

Part of Inferno. Poor baby's been cut in half.

This is Hound I swear.

Crosscut!

A smol Swerve.

Nickel yelling at her stupid sons.

Skids! (and part of either Nightbeat's or Nautica's speech bubble)

Helex looking very sad.

Rodimus managing expectations :D

I think this is Siren?

LEOZACK!!!

A miniscule Tailgate.

Cyclonus observing.

Ratchet in the jury at Brainstorm's trial.

Rewind is so small.

Perceptor!

Nightbeat, ready to investigate something.

Riptide! :D

Careful, Nautica's armed.

Rung is here, of course, as he is always watching. o-o

Xaaron! This might be the first tiny face of him I've posted.

Magnus, presiding over Brainstorm's trial.

This image has done Rodimus so dirty. smh

Chromedome!

Brainstorm, defending himself in court.

And that's all we have room for in this post! :D

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Lost in the (Billy) Woods: Ray Garraty’s Year in Hip Hop

Some years, you want to check more new music. Other years, you don’t.  2022 was one of the latter.  As always, music journalists race to name the Next Big Thing, but when you go check it and it turns out Not a Big Thing at all. And the next big thing, you just walk past it.

In the rush to discover something else, people don’t properly follow an artist they discovered a month ago. Yet, often, the artists they gave up mature, get better or even reinvent themselves. Nobody pays enough attention to those artists. We have fewer and fewer listeners and more and more streaming platform passengers. Thus, this year it seemed that nobody properly listened to Louie Ray, Bandgang Lonnie Bands, Chief Keef, even though they created their best music right NOW. For most listeners, they belong to past years.

That is why I was dreading the 2022 end of the year lists. I was sure that we’d get two types of lists. The first would be hype lists, full of Hot New Artists nobody will remember after January 1. The other would be those created by and for a highbrow, white, middle-class public who wants its rap to be “smart.” Thus, we get thousands of lists full of billy woods and the like, which is only good to show your college professor how brainy your music tastes are.

Anyway, 2022 had plenty of good hip hop music. Probably the best music this year was the one we didn’t get to listen to. Boyz Ent, a label holding Rio Da Yung Og catalogue, had some managerial trouble, and despite the promises from the CEO we got only two new songs by Rio (not counting his EPs with Boog and Wayne616). Which is a shame. On to the next one!

Best releases of the year

Louie Ray — My Signature (Still Grinding)

Kookei — Mr. Incredible (H$G)

Bandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone — Shottas (TF Distribution)

Wayne616 — Grease Files (Still Grinding)

Z Money — Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)

Best tracks

Roc Marciano — Bubble Bath

Kookei  — Chris Brown

Z Money  —  Bounce Back

BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone — 3 Kids

Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG  —  Sneak the Balls in

Rio Da Yung OG — Professional Shit Talker

Louie Ray —  Back Home

Chief Keef — Bitch Where

Best production

Sav: Kookei  — Chris Brown

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone—Greatest Bome Back

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone —3 Kids

Fre$co: Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG — Sneak the Balls in

???: Louie Ray — Crazy 22

Best produced albums

Louie Ray — My Signature

Wayne616 – Grease Files

Non rap releases

Apogeion — Astrolatria I: Initiatio

Blood Chalice — The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism

Ignorance of the year

Bizarre — He Got a Gun 

ShredGang Mone’s verse on “3 Kids”

Bizarre, of D12 fame, was long ago discarded as a washed up Eminem sidekick by ‘serious’ rap fans. But he steadily releases new music, of the weirdest and goofiest type. Imagine the worst B-movie, and Bizarre will surpass it with over-the-top amount of ignorance.

Mone on his verse claims he robs rappers, and ironically, his partner Lonnie Bands got his chain took this year. One has to wonder if it was Mone’s job.

Ray Garraty

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Chromedome, Highbrow, & Tekna | Headmasters S01:E21

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I've been asking myself this question for a while... will blurr discover the true identity of the bot (Longarm) that takes care of him and the others?

Well he did once and was scared shitless, he was crying the whole way seeing such a monster. Luckily Longarm got away Scot free with abit of convincing to Highbrow that Blurr must be seeing things after he told the sparklings a scary story. Shockwave was internally sweating during the conversation

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Fandom ask!! 1, 3, 6, 9, 13

list 3 positive things about your current fandom(s)

(a) the sheer inventive enthusiasm for a multiplicity of readings and fanons and ships and - well - everything, really. What's not to love about a fandom that is prepared to adopt at least four ways of having sex, and to deploy more than one of them in the same fic. And I also love the variants where it's not a thing at all, for everybody or for some people. And the number of one-fic wonder rarepairs where the one fic is actively good. I suppose it may be similar in other fandoms, but I think the official everything-is-canon approach probably helps. And there's such a range of tones and content in canon to play with too.

(b) Small sample stuff this, but the people I have met here and their kindness and the ways lots of them leverage their talents to make the world a better place. Which is absolutely a multi-fandom thing - you only have to look at fth for that - but of course I see it here and some of those people seem really special to me.

(c) The art - robots are just hard to draw and lots of TFs very similar because of the way the designs link to the toys and the constraints of manufacturing. And yet there are so many people who make them clearly visibly identifiable (even to my somewhat face-blind self) while creating a really unique style. How cool is that?

And I'll add the thing that got my snobbish would-be highbrow tweenage self into a silly children's cartoon - the joy of the underlying concept of robots who turn into planes and guns and tapes (yes, yes, and cars and trucks and...) and who are people too.

3. a character that fandom has helped you appreciate

Optimus, most obviously. He was the one that my baby brother admired as the hero and my contrary history-is-written-by-the victors-so-this-is-autobot-propaganda reading of all the contradictions in G1 treated most unkindly. But a whole bunch of really good writers have seen him very differently and I've gained a lot from their readings.

6. something you see in art a lot and love

The way people use kibble to express emotions - Optimus' finials for the most obvious examples, but there are loads of others. And the amazing amounts of detail people manage to fit into even the silliest drawings.

9. oh, lots of them. With a few very specific exceptions I'll eat almost anything either / or &. And moreso if you add other bodies into the mix - I can't be doing with Jazz/Prowl in general, for example, but Jazz/Prowl/Soundwave has some lovely stuff. At random, the intra-group Stunticons and Combaticons pairs or groups in lots of combinations, Soundwave/Shockwave, Ravage/Soundwave, Megatron/Ratchet, Grimlock/Starscream, the whole of Decepticon Command in one big tangle, Bruticus/First Aid, Megatron/Optimus/Ratchet... And people have sold me on quite a few I wasn't fond of - for example Vortex/First Aid, Megatron/Optimus/Bumblebee (which is surprising because in general Bumblebee irritates me), Deadlock/Starscream...

13. your favorite type of fandom event (gift exchange, ship week, secret santa, prompt meme, etc)

My favourite favourites are probably the ones like fth and the recent cartoonists' get-together for Gaza and the tf tarot and the Represent zine, where people use their art and writing to raise money for good causes. That feels like getting all the joy of the fan-thing with extra goodness on top. The ones I find easiest to participate in as a writer are the gift exchanges/secret solenoids/etc where you're writing for an individual and you get quite a bit of scoping of what they like.

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more guys I wish we could have seen in the show for more than 2 seconds

Andrip to beachcomber, I heard djw really didn't like the poor minibot, dude was supposedly going to be axed off in the show by Blackout

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I FORGOT ABOUT THESE TOO (these were drawn like, at least 3 years ago :skull_emoji:)