#i saw a post recently about a canonical trans woman transformer? absolutely rad if true

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Dashboard Osmosis of Transformers: Prime?

Dashboard Osmosis understanding of Transformers!

Okay, I'm assuming Prime is the cartoony CGI series and not one of the older 2D ones but the fact that I have to ask should give you a decent idea of how much I know 😂 this is gonna end up being a general Transformers muddle

Okay, I know that Transformers are fully sentient creatures and have different warring factions, and I think depending on how deep you get into the lore it has a lot more political intrigue than one might expect on the surface. When on earth, they can turn into vehicles... though I have no idea WHY is that a camouflage thing? Convergent evolution...?

The good guys are the Autobots and the bad guys are the Decepticons, they have hella galactic beef but I'm not really sure why... I know for sure that Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots but I'll be damned if I remember who leads the Decepticons. Starscream?? Is that anything?? I assume Bumblebee is a character in it to because I think Prime came out around the time of the Bay films? Oh, and I remember the name Tailgate, I think that's the lil blue and white one with the big blue eye? No idea if he's in Prime, but he's like knee height to everyone else, I love him.

um... honestly, my main knowledge of Transformers comes from a few years ago when someone was putting an improbably large amount of Transformers smut on my dash, something I wouldn't have thought possible, so my main vibe is that I have mad respect for the dedication to robot porn and speculative anatomy in this fandom.

OH and that apparently there's a surprising amount of canonically queer Transformers which is really cool!