#flowspade tfa

[paradimeart]

not final but i havent posted properly in what feels like forever soo. tfa megaempress and flowspade :3 #feminist

[cleverthylacine]

I'm not well versed in Transformers, but who is your favorite Autobot? What's one thing that if Hasbro called you up right now and said they would do whatever you suggested, you tell them?

My favourite Autobot is easy because I don't like most of them very much. I love Decepticons.

It's either Jazz or Ratchet or Rodimus, depending on the phase of the moon and whether my brain is in RavWaves mode or Deadlock mode.

Jazz and Ratchet and Rodimus are all people who probably would have been Decepticons if it weren't for a stroke of fate.

I also love Rosanna, but she's a civilian and she's been in like 3 things, one of which almost everyone hates.

The problems with Autobots:

they tend to use the same colour schemes which makes them hard to tell apart

many of them are boring af

the Decepticon movement was a legitimate revolution against an extremely bigoted and oppressive government, and the Autobots were the liberals who patted them on the hand and said "we can do this the nice way" even though most of them were from social classes that were literally disposable.

some of them are fucking fascists

some of them are just such goodie two shoes rule bound characters you have to laugh (Star Saber in anything other than IDW was probably the robot version of Sheldon Cooper once)

It's really only in TFA that I don't think Optimus Prime is a giant hypocrite. I don't hate him. I think he's an awesome character. I enjoy him a lot! I also write a lot of fic where he gets his aft handed to him, at least verbally.

But I don't really sympathise with him. Because even when he's unfailingly sweet, like in TFP, he's still...a part of the problem, not the solution.

In some series the Decepticons did become horrible and genocidal, which is wrong, of course, but that led in IDW at least to both sides playing atrocity chicken.

In other series the Decepticons are anti-human mostly because we're in their way and we like the Autobots. In the Bumblebee movie they never even wanted to come here, but they had to--it is Prime's fault that their war came to Earth.

If Hasbro was willing to do whatever I said I would ask them to create a series of all the femme characters most people don't know about. And not make them teeny tiny Core Class dolls. (I own a few of them because they're cute, but.)

I would get them to include Ravage now that ES has confirmed her for a femme. (She is ACAB, assigned cat at birth.)

This would also include:

Esmeral, who should really be a leaderclass because her husband is the size of a small planet (from the Victory manga)

General Strika, who is the least feminine female character in all of transformers and a butch goddess of war (from TFA and Beast Machines)

Botanica because she's cool AF

Rosanna and her evil twin Flipsides (Rosanna's in KP but both of them are in... TFA, I thought? For a heartbeat.)

Howlback (done like her twin sister Ravi, with biped-to-quad transformation that does not involve extra limbs hanging off, because both MMC and Xtransbots have done it just fine) from the Cobalt Sentries who never got a show

Lyzack (from Victory -- the twin sister of Leozack who defends the home front and is a teal and pink seeker)

Nautica (from the IDW comics, who is the most adorable of nerds even if she is Ravage's unwanted aemula/kismesis/hatecrush until they make friends)

the Megatronia combiner which includes Megaempress, Trickdiamond, Lunaclub, Flowspade and Moonheart)

Minerva (yes there's a legacy but it's tiny and they made it a walgreens exclusive)

Clobber (from Cyberverse)

Nightbird (G1 not ROTB)

Termagax (Megatron's mom from the IDW 2019 series)

I have nothing against Elita-1, Arcee, Windblade, Chromia, Moonracer and Slipstream but some people can name hundreds of male characters and only those six and not even all of them.

If I was also G-d of the Transformers franchise as a whole, I would revive Kiss Players, cut out all the bad sex jokes and dropped panties of teenagers, rename a few things -- we do not need a base called "the spiral vagina" -- and take the plot we were actually given in between sex jokes, which was very cool, and write it all out as a comic/story/cartoon. They did the plot in the last few episodes of the radio show after kind of leading up to it very slowly between dirty jokes.

Everyone says Kiss Players is the worst thing Transformers ever made. I'm sorry, that's RID 2015, which is a Transformers show for the "Blue Lives Matter" crowd where the entire plot of the show is to find all these low-class Decepticons who are from denigrated castes that escaped from a prison ship and throw them all back in jail. Like seriously fuck you very much.

I will take perverted panty jokes over asskissing the cops any day. Besides some of the stuff that looks so bad and gross looks so bad and gross because it is--you're not supposed to be down with it, you're supposed to guess that a certain person is being groomed looooong before she figures it out. and the main human characters are actually Secretly Lesbians

I'm sorry this is way more info than you asked for but this is my main hyperfixation other than thylacines, fossas, small wild cats that can't eat you, and other cute weird predators.

[elfdragon12]

Flowspade lowkey seems like the “Shockwave” to Megaempress’ “Megatron”.

Anyhow, The Megatronia group need more spotlight.

Depends on which Shockwave we're talking here. XD I would probably compare her loyalty more to Soundwave.

Preferably without the extremely cringy/sexist shounen anime bad writing tropes. Bring Brian Ruckley back in! He did great with Trickdiamond!

Megaempress's ability to ~seduce~ every man just needs to get thrown out entirely (I cringe at how Blackarachnia does this in TFA too). Just make her regular charismatic. Being more on the sensual side is fine, but yeesh. And let's either play into her similarity with Megatron as more of a cloning situation or siblings or something OR make her a more separate entity with a separate identity.

Lunaclub was dealt the worst hand. Dial back that creepy obsession with Starscream or, at the very least, give her more to do outside of it. That Starscream was forced to make a "sexy video" with her as a punishment is Yikes On Trikes! Maybe we could highlight a specialty. She has a flame sword! (Double-checked her article and apparently she was in it, but I haven't read it yet, so IDK.)

I don't have much in the way of notes for the other half of the Moon Moon twins, Moonheart. She's a shy medic with a crush on Soundwave. She does stalk him too, but more "wistfully gazing from afar" than "I'm going to cut off a lock of his hair and keep it". Maybe playing at how the different attitudes of the twins play off each other in how they interact with other people.

As for Flowspade? ENHANCE THE YEARNING! Similar to Road Rage and Nautica.

[speedfreak01]

here’s a big ol digibash commission for my dear friend @transgirlsoundwave, who requested digibashes based on her excellent tfa megatronia designs!

i had so much fun putting colour on her designs, and adapting the team megatronia decos to fit into the animated universe!

[speedfreak01]

working out some concepts for a tfa megatronia team- megaempress is based on optimus' body type, trickdiamond uses arcee's and flowspade I think is gonna use rodimus'

strika and megaempress do not get along