#rescue bots rant

[dominolemon]

I love the fact any time Heatwave and Optimus talk to each other or have a moment it just looks like a father talking to his son and giving him advice

It’s wonderful to see

The adults are talking

[tfp-is-my-lifeblood-lol]

Can we talk about this Rescue Bots episode (Spellbound) because I need to appreciate how TERRIFYING it is??? Especially considering it's cannon in the Aligned Universe. This is some A+ horror.

Like damn, some of Griffin Rock's technology is more powerful than even the Decepticon's tech.

Can you IMAGINE if those creepy mind-control cell phones were used in TFP?

Legit mind control that effects humans AND Cybertronians?

And it's SO UNSETTLINGLY subtle, too. The victim's voices sound like their normal selves but just SLIGHTLY off. *shutter* The voice actors did such a good job.

Just IMAGINE that in Prime.

I feel like Optimus would probably be immune (because the Matrix of Leadership is goated) but can you imagine the Jasper Trio getting mind-controlled, and all their guardians + Ratchet know SOMETHING is off, but not what? Then, slowly, the mind control spreads to the Bots? Or vice versa, the Bots go first, and the humans are like: "Something's up with my guardian."

Kinda wild that Invasion of the Body Snatchers shit 100% exists in TFP's world. Felt like I needed to acknowledge that.

Is this gonna be my next TFP headcanons post? Feeling inspired.🤔

[ashlovesrescuebots]

I wanna rant but I need your guy's opinions on this . Cody is a ENFJ and Bumblebee is a ESFJ . THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE , they're literally the same I can't .

I always knew they were my favorites for a reason . I just absolutely love the parallels between Cody and bumblebee . There's the most obvious one , aka the most sad one . Cause they are both pure good , and really the only way they did evil was under mind control + psychological manipulation .

But also there are also sweet parallels , like the father-son bond Optimus and Bumblebee , and Cody and Charlie have going on . It's more obvious in rescue bots because Chief is very open about trying to keep Cody safe trying his best to keep him off the Field , while Optimus has to have bumblebee on the battlefield but would still kill for Bumblebee; but when Bee's hurt he will ensure he needs to get better .

They hate being put down like their incapable of fighting/protecting but so much shit happens to them daily , Cody being caught in most dangerous situations and target of all the bad guys , whilst bumblebee gets targeted by all the bad guys and Targeted for the most gruesome shit ( bro legit got his t-cog stolen 😭 ) Also not to mention the youngest of the group . But if Cody was in a cybertronian station I bet he'd be a scout . ( Soldier when he's older )

+ extra not them both getting grounded at base lmao

[megaemprezzz]

Besties idk what I'm meant to be doing here ngl

[thedgrnlover]

1. The main four robots are in a polycule.

2. Optimus Prime has banged Megatron at least one time.

3. Chase had an emo phase.

4. Chase is the emo boyfriend.

5. Heatwave is the preppy boyfriend.

6. Boulder is the jock boyfriend.

7. Blades is the nerd boyfriend.

8. In a cuddle pile, Heatwave is on the bottom, Blades and Boulder are on either side of him, and Chase is spooning either Boulder or Blades while holding Heatwave’s hand. (Courtesy of my friend).

9. Cody teaches the robots brainrot.

10. Blades is the only one of them to use brainrot correctly.

11. Heatwave thinks he’s doing brainrot right, but he’s actually just spewing nonsense.

12. Boulder, while interested in human culture, does not really mind not understanding brainrot and can accept it even if he doesn’t understand it.

13. Chase is scared of brainrot and hides behind the chief every time they use it. He thinks it’s dark magic.

14. The chief is confused by it, but he’s chill with it.

15. Graham thinks he uses it right based on the entomology of the words; he isn’t.

16. Kade thinks he uses it right, but he isn’t. He and Graham fight about it.

17. Dani is the only one aside from Cody that can properly use brainrot. She’s proud of Blades’s ability to use it. (She gave him extra lessons till he got it).

18. Everyone contributes to Chase thinking brainrot is dark magic.

19. Boulder loves animal memes and was extremely sad before he knew the homophobic dog was owned by gay people and joking.

20. Chase watches old fashioned westerns.

21. Boulder and Blades watch Bluey together to learn about humans (they just like cartoons, it’s an excuse).

22. Chase and Boulder read, but have VERY different tastes. Boulder reads animal books and National Geographic, while Chase reads classics, murder mysteries, and Fifty Shades of Grey as a guilty pleasure.

23. Chase can read smut OUT LOUD with a straight face and sometimes steals the chief’s phone to hide in his other books to pretend he isn’t reading it. He kicks his feet at fluff though and can barely get through a sentence.

24. Heatwave orders for them at restaurants, kinda like the “They ordered no pickles” meme.

25. Boulder and Blades are Gatcha Kids.

26. Heatwave like musicals. Obsessively, but he’s embarrassed and hides it.

27. Blades is a nonbinary icon.

28. Chase doesn’t know what gender is.

29. Heatwave gives off conservative Christian vibes, but actually goes by anything. (Heatwave is pleasantly surprised whenever someone uses his other pronouns).

30. Boulder also doesn’t care, but he isn’t a tsundere about it.

31. Boulder goes bird watching, and Heatwave goes with him to “Make sure he doesn’t die or something”, but he really just also loves birds.

32. Everyone calls Gram Gram-cracker.

33. The chief and the doctor are secretly dating.

34. Airbots fuck midair.

35. The chief is constantly worried about the Doc and makes sure to save him from himself.

36. Dani is a lesbian or some other flavor of gurlkisser.

37. Kade says “normal pronouns?” when asked, but he’s just an insecure transmasc goober.

(Me and my friend are only halfway through episode three)

DO NOT TAKE THESE SERIOUSLY.

[makiruz]

I generally like things shamelessly, but being reminded that one of my favorite Transformers shows is not just for children, but for babies is a bit embarrassing

(Not gonna stop watching Rescue Bots, though)

[rescuebabiesau]

For The Record-

I don't normally let discourse within the fandom bother me too much because ultimately does it add to your life? No. But this personal situation I found myself in lately felt like it needed to be acknowledged.

I recently had someone comment several times over several months (I have since blocked them) on one of my fics about how frustrating it was to them that so many other people were "Shipping Wrong."

The fic in question was One Scary Night Alone, and it has some very, very light Whirl/Hoist in it, if you can even call it that. Like, the two just have a brief moment of being alone and checking on each other after what happened, not considered romantic and more just close friends... and this person decided that this was cause to complain because it wasn't Hotshot comforting Whirl.

According to them, because Hotshot is obviously the protagonist, that means that Whirl's destined to be with him and not anyone else.

I tried to be courteous and explain that everyone is free to their own opinions, but they were insistent that everyone else was wrong for having differing opinions. That having Whirl and Hoist be close was against canon (hello, they canonically work together making an "Earth Stuff Collection") and so to have them interact like that was wrong.

First of all, protagonists don't always get the girl. Read more books if you think that's true. Secondly, these recruits are not adults, they are children and thus aren't necessarily going to be looking at each other as potential romantic partners, even if sometimes the earliest signs of crushes are there.

To put the topping on the cake, after months of this, they then said "I wrote this story, but you shouldn't read it since you're obviously pro-Whirl/Hoist, but I would ask that you spread the word about it to the rest of your followers."

...Excuse???? After scolding me for months about how I was wrong and needed to accept your way of belief, you ask me to promote your story without even reading it myself???

Like Dude, get a better hobby than harassing artists and then expecting favors from them.

All I'm saying is that if you like two characters together and someone else likes a different pairing, that's okay. You can still enjoy the media and your own perceptions of things, even if that perception isn't perfect to the canon.

[bi-oxy]

I want more Whirl Fanfics...

I ship Whirl with everyoneeee... nghh... mainly in no particular order...

-Sari Sumdac

-Scorch

-HotShot

-Hoist

-Wedge

-Glow

And even freaking BrushFire bc SHE SPUN HER PROPELLER SO GAY LIKE IM LIKE AAAAAAAAAAA

why is Whirl so shippable with everyoneeee???

[wildlygay]

A discussion about carrying in transformers rescue bots fanfiction.

I know this is gonna be a long post, and I’m so sorry. But I kept getting ticked off and needed to tell someone who would listen about this.  So, i’m reading a fantastic 2020 rescue november on a03. (I’ll dm you the author if anyone wants it.) and there’s a bladewave carrying fic in it. The premise of it is that Blades wants time-off because his sparkling is gonna come soon and Heatwave finds out about it that way and gets so happy that they’re gonna be a family. It’s all cute fluff right? My stupid ass thought that Heatwave was the one carrying, and then I realized it was blades. Not heatwave. I have read way too many rescue bots/rescue bots academy fanfiction, and I have noticed a pattern. When there is the term carrying involved, the authors (no shade to them some of the fics are amazing.) always pin the role of ‘carrier’ to the cuter smaller bot, not the ‘big strong brave mech’. It happens everytime. Now I ranted to my friend on discord about it (here’s the screenshot)

My point is, I’m plain tired of the ‘big stronger brave mech’ never carrying. The possibilities, the situations. It would be amazing, but alias they always pick Blades, or chase, and I have only seen one of these; Quickshadow.   C’mon. Put the role of carrying on heatwave, or boulder. Don’t be a coward.  Give heatwave carrying roles. me, oh I always pictured him a mother hen to the recruits, it makes perfect sense. heatwave is the one that is around them the most, it’s adorable. Most would describe him as a dad. Unpopular opinion but I see him as the overprotective mother hen that would protect his kids with his spark.  Part 2 here Ok thanks for coming to my tedtalk, if you wanna keep this going feel free to reblog and all that jazz, i’m making a new tag for things like this. Likes are appreciated. 

[mainenorth]

Since you are a Heatwave fan, I'm having thoughts about him being a dad to Cody

That's all

hi

Fun facts: Heatwave’s been my favourite character since I watched RB in like 2016?? I’m also a Heatwave fictionkin.

OKAY TO ACTUALLY ANSWER: heatwave has always been fatherly to Cody and he’s shown to be responsible to children (i.e. the robot baby) he would definitely adopt him if nobody else could.

although he already has so much shit on his plate bc he’s always shown as the bad guy whenever the rb writers need someone to yell at the other bots for while also being constantly undermined by OP with his OWN TEAM and having to save Griffin Rock every week

overall, Heatwave would be Cody’s dad

[goddessofcrazy]

AHHHHH IM SOOOO HAPPY

I was finally able to get out, and what luck, he was in stock. I have tons more pictures in my gallery, but I’m not that good at taking photos.

Thanks @v1blehzz for notifying me of him.

[dominolemon]

I just finished re watching Reacue bots and all I want to say is…I WANT TO SOBB

I remembered this to be a really good show but I didn’t realize how much it would hold up even until now like how they did this show is absolutely perfect

The plot, the dialogue, the character designs, the personality, the music shall I go on? This show was way better then I remembered it to be and I’m so happy I over heard my sister re watching it cuss without her I wouldn’t have-

I havnt been the biggest transformer fan because it’s more of my sisters thing but this show made me do a 180 because now I feel like I wanna re watch all the shows

I know I do still have to watch rescue bots acedamy but I’m honestly sad I finished re watching the show because now I wanna re re watch it just to sob again- like I’ll be honest if something irl happens I won’t back a eye but if something happens to fictional character or a show ends I will sob, I need to mentally prepare to watch rescue bots academy because I think it’s the only show I havnt actually watched yet and I’m scared and excited at the same time

But like I’m gonna be so sane about it, the last thing I have to add to this small rant is

Quickshadow and Heatwave supremacy suckers💥💥

[vampthropologist]

I hope when I watch the animated Transformers stuff, Bumblebee still can’t talk. Bumblebee sticks with me because he’s nonverbal and people still love him for him. That’s why I’ve liked him since I was a little kid. He was a smart-alec, he was protective, he was caring, he always did his best. His cheekiness didn’t stop him from doing what was right or more important. I love that about him. He didn’t need a voice to do that! He was still loved for doing that, for being him!

Him using the radio is like using an assisted device to speak, and it gives a specific charm and corniness to him that really fits him. His little chirps when he doesn’t use it, adorable! I don’t get why there seems to be a focus on him needing it fixed so often. He’s perfectly alright without it. I mean, sure it took some time but wouldn’t it for anyone? I still try to figure out how to express myself in the best way when I can't use speech.

It just feels like by a show “fixing” his voice, it’s taking a part away from why I love him as a character. It feels like his not speaking the same as everyone else is a downside, when it’s not! Maybe it also hurts and annoys me because it feels like it falls in line with the trope of “fixing” a disabled character by removing their disability. I just don’t like it. Bee is fine as he is. I love him as he is for who he is, and he doesn’t need a “normal” voice to show who he is.

[rescuebotsoutofcontext]

[the-robot-talker]

I find it funny that everyone forgets im colorblind. I know the names to the colors, but i dont know the colors to the names. Like for instance

Red? As in red hearts, red cherrys, red roses

Yeah i see blue. Have a scale compassion of normal vision vs mine

Their all side by side so ya don't get confused. The normal colors are the first images when ya swipe.

So I don't see the bots as their normal color schemes, they all look more...well, yeah idk what word to use for that. But yeah, im an engineer who is colorblind, the Mini bots Jetstorm and Slipstream found out when Jet pointed out a pink car that was in the junkyard. I decided to mess with them and say 'Thats green clearly.' I am kinda learning a few colors right names, but i given up because there is to damn many.

So it was a funny argument, and Bee overhead and said 'Shes colorblind' and i had to explain. Either way, it was funny to mess with them two.

[rattrapdadfigure]

Oh my GOD

Rescue bots Blades is so fruity

I love him sm,,, 😭😭😫😍🥰🥰