#im probs not gonna put this in my regular tf tag bc i dont wanna clutter it lmao

[tfw-no-tennis]

TF mtmte liveblog 1

sooo welcome to my latest liveblog, i love talking so i decided to liveblog my re-read of the transformers comics, specifically mtmte/ll. so, here goes!

starting out today w/death of optimus prime...i read mtmte/ll about 2 yrs ago, and i almost immediately re-read it, this time w/ruth...the first time i read it i missed a LOT, and reading it again really helped me actually understand what was happening lmao. so this’ll be my 3rd time reading it overall! so SPOILER WARNING for anyone reading this, i have read the whole series and will be referencing stuff that happens in future issues (tho i doubt anyone will read these, which is completely fine lmao, i love hearing my own thoughts so these are for me first and foremost) 

on we go!

omg i forgot how dramatic this is. ok lets do it, monologue time

‘afterspark’...i love transformers words lmao

hvbhdjfsdf optimus being like ‘I'm still alive it seems...bummer’

gps meaning ‘galactic positioning system’ vbajkhfdsk again, love the terminology 

optimus rlly just went on the biggest bender of all time and then wandered into a city like ‘where the fuck am i. this is the future right?’ lmao bro

WHIRL!!!!!!! i forgot he showed up this early

RODIMUSSSS my fucking boi

and bumblebee and wheeljack! i remember first reading this and recognizing basically nobody aside from optimus lmao

ooooh is that cyclonus i see in the bg of rodimus’s mini flashback explanation?? MY MANNNN 

also i have no idea what they're talking abt vhbhadjskhfjsf I'm w/ya there optimus....i never read anything other than mtmte/ll so i really am not filled in on any of the other lore

ultra magnus arresting swindle in the bg lmao

i love the fact that there were all these like, refugee cybertronians all around the galaxy who didn't want any involvement w/the war for a variety of reasons...like, that makes so much sense!!! love it

god i love the politics in this world. its all so nuanced and interesting and grey, bc everyone’s side has Some logic to it

‘the decepticon pen’ vbhsdfhsajbfk i cant why did they call it that

oh god i almost forgot they threw poor cyclonus in there. let him live

[sees soundwave] <3<3<3

perceptor and rewind!!!!!!! 

rewind...so tiny and smart...love him

TRAPPED LIGHT....aughhhhh i love all the mfing FORSHADOWING stuff

THE MATRIX IS A MAP YEAH BABEYYY

the optimus prime effigy omfg

drift!!!!

also the fact that the knights of cybertron supposedly left cybertron abt 10 million yrs ago...in the grand scheme of transformers that's not even that long ago tbh

also bee is so ufcking tiny oh my god

oh god prowl. #1 jackass 

i feel like rodimus only understands part of what's going on and is like. ok this politics stuff sucks lets DO something

bumblebee out here quoting hsm 

hvabjdfbsaf i remember the first time i read this i lichrally didn't know who any of these characters were and finally when someone said prowls name i was like THATS PROWL?????? lmao

like as a kid i watched tf animated and the bay movies so all my lore knowledge came from there. and well also transformers was my first foray into fanfiction so theres that too lmao

‘terrible things happen in war. terrible things happen in peace, as well’ LOVE IT

oh yeah those i/d chips sure are FUCKED UP jesus christ

magnus: yeah I'm down for a road trip actually. this place blows 

also I'm sure magnus knew that rodimus & drift’s party ship would last about 5 seconds without some sort of solid authority to prevent everyone from dying immediately, so

i rlly love the conflict between the autobots and the nails bc both sides have really valid points abt everything

oof optimus leaving cybertron bc he recognizes that he as a figure represents the war...bro

bee rlly is hardcore in this continuity 

optimus silently handing bee and rodimus a half of the matrix and stalking off...peak tired dad energy

optimus orion: fuckkkk yea i can finally do shit without my hundreds of kids bothering me for stuff. exile rules

so that's it for this issue!! ill probably try to keep these shorter and more coherent than my hxh liveblogs lmao. not sure if ill do quite as much meta here as I did there, since this isn't the first time I'm reading this 

anyways, great start to a great series, i love the post-war setup SO MUCH, especially since so many other pieces of transformers media takes place during or before the war

and like, this feels pretty earned (at least to me) bc there WAS a bunch of comic stuff from the war period (not that i read any of it...)

god i wish idw didnt reboot the tf comics. there's so much more they could've done w/the post-war setting ugh

anyways, great start, cant wait to reread more!