#funky and so depressed in G1

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To light our darkest hour

Its seven am and i have not slept yet because I wanted to finish this.... End me now

So new way of drawing for me cause I can do colours better digitally but I prefer lineart with ink on paper

1. Drawing my stuff as is on white paper with black ink

2. Taking a well lit picture or scan of that drawing

3. Pop it into a digital art software

3. Put the picture on a multiply layer (in my case the black wasn't dark enough on the photo so I duplicated that bad boy

That also gave me a nice digital texture from the paper I used

3. Colour everything on a layer below

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My Top 5 In order:

G1 Starscream- The sassiest, saltiest, most bratty, but intelligent of all Starscreams. A personal top fav forever. He was so legit. Had the BEST voice imo for any Starscream, Chris Latta was a boss, I love his unique voice for SS. This Starscream got shit done! After he was banished from the Decepticons, he washed up on a deserted island and fucking made his own combiner after stealing their chips from a prison on Cybertron, and then proceeded to beat up Megatron successfully with said combiner. And then later after the G1 Movie, after everyone else had died, Starscream fucking came back as a ghost and tricked Unicron!! !! ! - Even further, he appeared after the series ended and had an entire Beast Wars episode dedicated to this version of Starscream. He was like a lovable cockroach. 

TFA Starscream- This was a tie between IDW, and I’ll explain why in a sec. But this Starscream is great, he’s got that ambition that he had in G1, the guts to stand up, that hint of self preservation most Starscreams have, and he has a great voice to match. He was salty and sarcastic as well as incredibly sneaky. His relationship in Megatron wasn’t even as bad in this series as it usually was. He and Megatron argued with each other equally, and since this Megatron was actually competent, Starscream was made to be just as sly to match.

IDW Starscream- I really loved this Starscream back during the earlier IDW comics and the Windblade comics. That’s just about where it ends though. But let me start with the good things here. I really love his frame design in the Windblade comics, 117/10, god tier, good job Sarah Stone. After he becomes ruler of Cybertron, he actually is competent enough to pick up some of the pieces Megatron and Optimus left behind on their broken planet. Starscream, as deceitful as he can be, was actually trying to restore Cybertron back to something better than it was (Even if it was just to make himself look good, you can’t say he didn’t actually do anything good for Cybertron, he absolutely did). And then we follow this character through the whole Windblade comics and watch him and Windblade herself try to keep Cybertron together and reach out to other colonies. They work together, despite hating one another, and they even get so far as to be able to tolerate each other on occasion. Starscream grows and learns from mistakes and for once Cybertron actually isn’t so bad. Starscream literally was left to fix what ages of war had destroyed, and he did an okay job at it. I’m proud of him. - The bad things about this Starscream and why I prefer TFA over him? How they handled him in Till All Are One. I loved TAAO at first, I drew fanart for it, wrote fics, and roleplayed this Starscream. But after more time passed and the comic began to come to a close, I realized that things were going backwards? The writer, as great a job she did portraying Starscream in the Windblade comics, was regressing his character in TAAO, and that made me upset. The whole ending ruined this Starscream for me, and not just because his “True Form” was ugly as fuck lol. It was because the Starscream who was changing for the better, who was depressed, had been psychologically damaged, and was tormented with PTSD, was thrown back down into hell all over again. In the comic, they put Starscream in prison. I could argue so many other mechs who deserve to be in prison than Starscream, but it happened anyway. It was so disappointing to me to see this, as if everything Starscream actually went through in the comics was disregarded and thrown in the trash. Anyway that’s my little rant about IDW SS.

TFP Starscream- My first impressions of this Starscream were.... meh. But then I started watching more of the show and I loved him. I definitely had to get used to his voice change, from screechy to chain smoker. However, I am sad to see just how much physical abuse is used with this Starscream, as always. The fandom presents him as a huge coward, but like if you knew how abuse could affect someone, you’d realize just why Starscream acted “Cowardly” the way he did. He was also pretty small too, so I don’t blame him for not wanting to face literally anyone but small TFs like Arcee or KnockOut or whatever lol. I honestly do love this Starscream, he’s a little funky and different from the other incarnations of him, but I still like him for this show.

Armada Starscream- This Starscream was always interesting to me because he sorta began like the other Starscreams and had that ambitious nature to him, but then later on we see that he’s not very similar to the other Starscreams. He’s very noble in this show, but also plays the game to win. And this was the first time we really saw a Decepticon befriend a human or really did anything decently kind at all.  - This Starscream started off wanting Megatron’s praise and would do what his leader said, but then he realized just how shitty Megatron is! I like the wiki’s definition of this, “Starscream may have once been compassionate, he may once have known what true friendship is, but all that has been replaced, scab for scab, with the lessons of Megatron's abuse. Unwittingly, Megatron may have created a monster even he cannot ultimately control.” And I love that. He definitely can’t be controlled, but he’s also kinda lost throughout the series, switching sides. - Ultimately in the end, he sacrificed himself to save both sides. And wow, that definitely made me tear up when I first watched it. _______ Anyway, that’s the list of my top 5 favorite Starscreams and why. I know I wasn’t asked why, but I wrote it anyway. And I may be rusty on my information, because honestly I haven’t watched any of these shows or read the stuff in ages djhfgjhf

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So the Bumblebee movie. 

tl;dr, I highly recommend this movie, even if you’ve never watched a Transformers movie in your entire life. Please go and watch it so I can yell about it with you! 

So! Spoilers under the cut!

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 The easter eggs: 

-I can’t believe the Decepticons invented the Internet. -Cliffjumper gets killed. Not only that, he gets Ambulon’d  -Besides being a nod to the 80s, the poster of The Thing, a movie where aliens shapeshift to hide in plain sight, was wonderful and made me feel 100% validated writing my romcom-slash-IDW Transformers version of The Thing.  -Powell seemed to be a nod to Porter C. Powell from TFA -I feel like the kite might have been a nod to Dark of the Moon Shockwave getting a parachute stuck on his head?  -That funky transmitter Shatter and Dropkick were trying to broadcast from reminded me of some other funky transmitter, but for the life of me I can’t remember which one.  -Simmons is already working at Sector 7 -The Touch  -Arcee, Wheeljack, and Ratchet (I’m 90% sure it was Ratchet, it might’ve been Prowl?) all make appearances, and will presumably be any any sequels.

I really hope there’s a sequel.

Things I Noticed and Appreciated, but Aren’t Really Easter Eggs: 

-If this were a true prequel to the Bay movies, the only high-ranking Decepticon left on Cybertron should be Starscream. Shockwave and Megatron are frozen. Soundwave is chilling on either Earth or Mars. I’m choosing to believe this is a soft reboot. -Though they were only in the movie for two (TWO!!!!) scenes, I loved how Soundwave and Shockwave behaved. The bit where Optimus is surrounded and the generic Decepticons run towards him, but Soundwave and Shockwave just saunter forwards was a REALLY NICE callback to TFP, where they walk pretty much everywhere, no matter the urgency of the situation.  -^ I’m really feeling the need to watch that TFP episode where they team up to get the Predacon bone thingie.  -Despite being much gentler tone-wise, Bumblebee is still capable of brutally killing his foes.  -I’m 100000% convinced Dropkick and Shatter watched movies. And they’re also married.  -I haven’t spent money on TF figures in years. I’ve a mighty need to buy figures of Shatter and Dropkick. -While Bumblebee and everyone on Cybertron look a lot like their G1-selves, Shatter and Dropkick’s designs are such a nice nod to the inherent alien-ness of Cybertronians (which is something the Bayformers movies portrayed really well.)  -I’m 100% going to write more fic about them. It’s going to be called San Antonio Love Stories, and will feature driving through the unknowable state of Texas, drive-in theaters, and popping humans. 

Feelings (TM)

“Thank you for helping me feel like myself again.” 

This line broke me because, well, it’s me saying that. Except it’s not to Bumblebee, it’s to various incarnations of Soundwave (most notably TFP), but hey it’s a movie and I’ve been gifted with an imagination. There was something so CATHARTIC about seeing a depressed, mixed race girl who gets a giant robot friend on the big screen. Because, well, that’s me. 

It’s fantastical wish fulfillment at it’s finest. It’s the movie I needed when I was 17. And for that reason alone, this movie is now my absolute favorite live-action Transformers movie. 

ANYWAY. I love this movie with all my heart and I really want to go see it again.