#Transformed by Jesus

[archie-sunshine]

no gods are watching us (Kissin under Heaven)

[rdps01]

how it's been lately

[tech-obssessed-shark]

I knew Megatron was Tall but DANG

Ratchet is going to get neck cramps looking up at him, god

[gebo4482]

Transformers One by Gerald de Jesus #2

[deskraven]

ok ok this marvelous piece is meant to be a joke. expand below to watch me explain the joke

As you may remember, a while back somebody posted this paragraph in JRo's MTMTE notebook (sorry I still haven't found the original post) (I found them!!!)

Basically it says Megatron's birth is the equivalent of virgin birth so yeh Megatron = Jesus.

Then my friend asked "if Megatron is Jesus, does that make Whirl Virgin Mary?"

Me: OMG yes.

Me: I hope someone can draw Mary nursing Jesus but replace Mary with Whirl and Jesus with Megatron.

My Friend: Why not do it yourself

Me: OK Let me look for some references.

Then I found this wonderful painting by Domenichino.

Me: It even has Rodimus!!! (Sorry angel in red and yellow I don't know who you are but you are definitely Rodimus.)

(I failed to incorporate Rodimus harmoniously into my drawing tho.)

Anyways, I grinded for 11 hours on this drawing so I can make this joke about Megatron being Jesus and Whirl being Virgin Mary. I hope you enjoyed it.

[alvie-pines]

for a kids franchise, transformers is just... so fucking bleak. their planet is dead. their species is dying. they've been fighting this stupid fucking war for 4 million years and they destroyed everything over it. their planet can no longer support life. their species is dying out as, without the Well, they can no longer reproduce. the few that are left are scattered to the stars as lonely sentinels. its only a matter of time before the current generation dies out and cybertronian life, history, art, love, knowledge, everything is gone. and yet... and YET... they continue to accelerate their own demise by fighting this STUPID FUCKING WAR. they're a species, a people consumed by war. they let their own hatred and violence destroy themselves.

transformers is a tragedy.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

The Transformers wiki feels like it was written by aliens who only know Earth through Transformers media

[gravelsong]

I need to go curl up and cry somewhere

[cybertron-after-dark]

We were robbed of a Rescue Bots episode where chief Burns, doc Greene and Optimus hang out and do middle aged dad things.

[rodimushusband69]

WEEEEEEE I FNALLY WATCHED EARTHSPARK I LOVE HIM <3

[spaceybot]

TFwiki you never let me down

Hot dog (food)

[jugumpuppet]

◗ Big thanks to @shockbot for holding my hand as I attempted what ever tf Prime Prime is. Also ES Megan. *thumbs up*

S: "You chose the hardest OP to draw." Me: "Don't say that."

[krussyarts]

Starscream design by my wonderful girlfriend @sxnssouciart

[robotclownindulgence]

[emergency-vehicle]

as like The marxist leninist transformers fan (im literally in a ML political party and do revolutionary activism in my personal time)

im telling all of u rn

it is possible that BOTH d-16 AND orion pax were right. like. im begging all of you to not think about this in black and white. BEGGING you.

i have to literally sit down and watch the movie scene by scene and take notes to write the analysis i want to, but im going to give you something VERY brief.

Iacon City is NOT a fully fascist society. It is, in fact, a colony of the Quintessons. It is the victim of Quintesson imperialism.

Sentinel's leadership is absolutely on the path to fascism, but NOT FULLY fascist. Is Sentinel himself a fascist? Yeah, probably. But his societal development is not. this is not to say he isn't an evil dictator- HE ABSOLUTELY IS.

D-16 represents the proletariat's rage against the oppressor. D-16 represents the quote "Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon [violent revolution]-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution." (-J.V. Stalin, the foundations of leninism).

Orion, Elita One, B-127 and D-16 represent the vanguard party. Orion is NOT like lenin whatsoever, except in his representation of revolutionary optimism, but the role he takes on is similar to lenin's role in the russian revolution simply because he finds himself as the leader.

NO WHERE IN THE MOVIE DOES ORION PAX TALK ABOUT REFORM.

ORION LITERALLY SAYS "I'm thinking about what WE'RE going to do." he AGREES with D-16 that something ABSOLUTELY has to be done about Sentinel. ORION LITERALLY LEADS A VIOLENT COUP AGAINST SENTINEL.

and, something that ALL of yall with this take are conveniently ignoring, is Orion's line "The rebuilding of Iacon cannot start with an execution."

WHICH, OBJECTIVELY, FROM A HISTORICAL STANDPOINT, IS CORRECT.

Yall remember the Chinese revolution in which they overthrew the emperor (who btw was just as evil as sentinel) and then literally turned him into a street cleaner?????

it IS possible to overthrow a violent, evil dictator and then exact revenge on them, while also building a far more moral society in the process.

[dragoncarrion]

He's like a thang to me