#how tf is this normal

[sunboki]

the things i’m thinking about this man RIGHT to me w a straight face is insane ya’ll need to remind me to control myself

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

[when-sanpape-arts]

get yourself a friend group who constantly dress like they’re part of wildly different friend groups

[hinamie]

choke you back like fingers

[blighted-lights]

staring dead-eyed into the distance as if witnessing some unseen tragedy. au where ravage was in the mines pre-war and met megatron before meeting soundwave. what if. what if ravage was with megatron from the start. what if.

this is the only thing i'm gonna be thinking about for the next few days sorry (more thoughts in tags)

[todayisyourturntolose]

happy one year

[slorgfest]

list of things ive observed after watching tfone 2.5 times (the 0.5 was because i was speeding through looking for image proofs etc)

starting with something funny: B's cogless form has an energon compartment.

assuming that this is standard for all cogless models, it makes it especially hilarious to think that OP during the intro chase sequence either didn't think of storing his energon, or that he's just hungy enough and he's snacking as he runs

2. cameo guesswork (excluding jazz, since he was the only one that got formally mentioned and any screentime outside of main cast). has varying confidence/accuracy levels. here we go.

moonracer, prowl, perceptor (or sideswipe), ironhide, wheeljack, hound (if it is hound, at a later scene a mech of a similar frametype had a line in a fem-sounding voice), sunstreaker, arcee, red alert, and chromia (caught only because the announcer said so lmao. im more used to her darker blue paintjob like in idw and cyberverse). i think i also saw a helm that looked like drift (not deadlock, drift) but i can't really confirm.

3. bots that appeared on the iacon 5000 leaderboards but to my knowledge no screentime otherwise (can also be seen as a list of bots that are cogged and will later join the autobots, assuming the timeline will follow traditional bot/con division):

silverbolt, deadend, slingshot, cliffjumper, motormouth; powerglide, jetstorm, blurr (of course. this is his natural habitat after all); swindle and tailgate.

admittedly i found the inclusion of swindle so so funny because like?? dude i thought you'd be running the betting rings rn lol.

4. sentinel's characterization (outside of g1, i watched reruns as a kid but i don't remember them anymore) has always been either someone grossly incompetent or a menacing/suppressive force on cybertron. i thought it was interesting that they made him devious and actually kind of cunning this time around.

anyway. i also thought his paintjob was based off of tfa, but no his g1 counterpart laid the groundwork there.

they did away with the cheeto orange (goodbye cheeto orange) but the gold is striking. really gives him that image of glamor and opulence.

telesync kinda fucked up the colors but: elita's optics have a greenish hue to them, more aquamarine/cyan than the regular autobot blues that B and OP have. D's is, of course, yellow.

verging into speculation territory, i wonder if there's a reason why they gave D distinctly hexagonal optics? the yellow is pretty obvious, its easier to transition from yellow to red than blue to red. but the hexagons are very eye catching (pun intended), given how they spin around. it's not exactly something people would miss. tune in later for my Outlier/Point-One Percenter D theory

6. sentinel's guards (excluding airachnid) are kinda weird.

theyre very homogenous in shape, no individual characteristics, not even a little kibble to separate them from one another. and when they speak its very stiff, almost droning. its most certainly not an animating/funding/studio issue, given that almost all other cybertronians (even in the background) have been personalized one way or another.

so: possibly cold-constructed mechs, mass produced and onlined for the singular task of serving sentinel. think of the eradicons/vehicons from tfp, the shapes are certainly similar enough.

7. in the cave scene after the sentinel/quintesson reveal, D stomps on something, breaking it.

that's his worker's tag. all the miners have them. pictured: D's, OP's, and jazz's. elita and B all have their own tags too.

what i found most interesting though, that directly after the sentinel surface encounter, D crushes his (as said before), B and elita remove theirs (it left a faint indent on B, which begs the question how old he actually is and how long has he been working, exactly?), but OP keeps his tag on.

(continuing in a rb, ive hit image limit lmao)

[rachelfawcettmp]

going to the tattoo parlour RIGHT AWAY!

[gunsatthaphan]

these bitches really have the audacity to air this freakshow on a Wednesday eye---

[holographic-mars]

Never forgiving tfa for taking cosmos episode from me I’m so mad. I’m so mad

GIVE HIM BACK GIVE ME MY LITTLE COSMO BACKHKK AAUGHH

AND HES SO CUTE

HES PERFECT HOW DARE YOU …..TFA COUNT YOUR DAYS TFA

[alastair-1205]

I feel like we as a fandom don't talk enough about the fact that Clancy's colors this time around are red instead of the bandito yellow.

Like what do you mean the guy who was so far under the thumb of the oppressive religious leaders of the city he kept getting dragged back that he was forced to perform their propaganda for who know how long is now storming the city while wearing the ONE COLOR THE BISHOPS CAN FUCKING SEE? (I think). What do you mean he's refusing to do the safer thing and hide behind the yellow tape and clothing that would keep him out of sight of the people who hurt him?

What do you mean it almost seems like he's trying to prove a point? What do you mean it kinda seems like he wants the bishops to know he's coming? That he wants them to be scared and to know they they can't stop him because he's twisted their own powers in the same way they twisted his song writing abilities? What do you mean this only happened After he realized he can seize people and is just that little bit similar to the beings he hates the most??

It's almost concerning how much he's determined to stand out compared to how dejected he was during his time in Dema you know? Kinda like he's leaning just a bit too far into that anger that he must feel for the city and the bishops in that moment. Like you can totally see how someone with that mindset would decide to burn everything (maybe including himself) to the ground.

Do yall see the vision-

[borgialucrezia]

[ironladders]

im a big fan of when they turn starscream into a cute anime girl

[swervesbar]

Team meeting

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price guest stars as Super Dope (which is one of my favorite characters ever) -- Red Skelton Hour; Loused in Space (1967)

[blighted-lights]

thinking about them again,,

(this post by @weapon-up-wallflower had me thinking about rodimus' apology towards drift in dying of the light again, and,,, yea. not Fully related to the original post but it got me thinking)

ive always thought drift accepting the apology was one last form of appeasement towards rodimus- or at least less of a genuine acceptance and more of a, "we're probably going to die soon, do i really want rodimus to die thinking i hate him?"

but then they both lived 🤷‍♂️ and it was just easier for drift to fall back into his old role than try to change things. surely this will not cause a build up of resentment in the long run. surely.