#tf howlback

[raringooo]

Workin on Soundblaster for a server I’m in! He is heavily HEAVILY inspired by blueey-jayzilla’s design and is purely just for like fun roleplay with friends

[blighted-lights]

u can trust that i am always thinking of these three all of the time every day btw. more cassette designs to come!

[lovinglonerhybrid]

you should say more on your tfp and ll/mtmte mashup thing :3

Always happy to expand on a topic. 😊

Anyway after meeting jacks (extended) family Miko and raf confront their friend. Jack with permission from his mom shows the others that he is infact a cybertronion cassette. Miko thinks this is so cool especially after Jack introduces her to percepter,drift,whirl, and Rodimus who she inevitably bugs for wrecker story’s. Raf is introduced to first aid and ratchet who is a lot happier here. At dinner time the two meet back at Soundwave house and are introduced to rumble and frenzy rat bat and the bird twins. Ravage and howlback are introduced by June who is actually Glit. As the dinner progresses they find out how all these bots where brought to this dimension (it’s brainstorms fault) and that they can’t return home.

I have more ideas but I’m on my lunch break and am almost out of time.😅

[queen-of-heretics]

Costum Howlback in progress

[chamm0y]

Shockwave bonding and falling asleep with his babies sitting on his lap while Soundwave spies on them 👀👀👀

he tried

i promise i was about to draw soundwave spying on them but one of these thingies exploded on my street and have no electricity as of now 🤧

fortunately i kept these panels on my phone but the quality is uh bad i apologize

[ravage-tf]

To Glitt: what's the worst thing to hear in an operating room?

[tfdaycare]

Okay, things have settled and we need to post something cute. Thankfully, Soundwave and Blaster in our universe have given us a picture of their youngest kids who are barely two years old. So here they are!

These are seven of their eleven kids. Aren’t they just precious? They stay docked most of the time since they’re so little and young, it’s for their own safety but when they are allowed out they cause so much silly mischief!

Also, because we know people will ask, Frenzy’s the purple one, Rumble’s the red one.

[iloveyoubecauseyouarelove]

Pspsps i drew Howlback and she's on Pillowfort

[cleverthylacine]

Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).

[polyhexian]

Can I ask you to show us all your tf holy grail of toys you have? Or like super rare ones?

Your collection is so cool

CAN you? You know I'll take any opportunity to talk about my collection

Also you gotta remember there's a difference between RARE and EXPENSIVE lol. I have other expensive things. And also rarer stuff but. Grails are favourites.

I'll start with the best. Mg G1 Minerva and my G1 star saber. There's over 500 dollars of market value in this image LOL.

These guys because of the difficulty of acquisition. These are exclusive to China. When I got the one on the left I genuinely might have been the only person in North America to own one LMFAO. I'm certainly not now but when I got it I literally had neeeeever seen a north American who owned one.

Lots of awesome stuff here front and center. My ehobby and Mmc rosannas, my Mmc Howlback. My bootiful girl Optimus. My ripclaw and iron factory arcee in the corner. I adore iron factory figures even if they're not super expensive. Ripclaw is like. A $10 figure but I just fucking love it lol

These lovely ladies are numbered

My APC airachnid! I fucking love APC. They understand me.

And finally, what everyone knows my favourite is lol. My lovely UK magazine whirl jr, now aurographed

Oh, god, dammit, I keep forgetting because it's not actually a toy, but

My hard copy of eugenesis lol! Which, Christ. What is THAT fucking thing worth these days. We all know what the last one sold for, but the fact that was for charity and sooo public makes it a little messier. Is that the real market value?? Hmmmm

Oh and just my old zines in general

[interstellar-elf]

Talon variation: TFA AU

I guess I should try to talk about variations of my TF OC, Talon. First off is Transformers: Animated. Not a particular fan of the series, but I guess I should drop my character in there since she would be a part of the series' universe.

Grew up on a planet near Quintesson territory. There's a ship that seems to have been there for centuries at least, covered in vines and vegetation.

Has always been techno-organic to her knowledge.

Has a entourage of various mechanimals and organic animal companions, one of which is basically TFA Howlback. The others include the Deployers from Beast Machines, aka Rav (this time a hummingbird that turns into a longbow), Dillo (who turns into a yo-yo of death) and Mol (turns into a giant drill).

I wanted Rav there since I kind of like her having a bird companion.

Lives a semi-feral life, mostly observing visitors to her world.

Kind of want to call the world Roraima-1 after the tepui that inspired the Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Lost World.

I think her main conflict would be having the Autobots following some Decepticons to her planet via an ancient disused Space Bridge, with the Space Bridge being repaired in the meantime.

That's pretty much it for the AU right now. I think I might need to draw her in TFA style.

[blighted-lights]

canon howlback:

howlback, according to @mohavegecko:

[queen-of-heretics]

Costum Howlback in progress

[ravage-tf]

who is the LEAST annoying decepticon (besides soundwave)?

(you can ask the other catsettes questions here too, by the way.)

[blighted-lights]

so most female tfs i'd want to see are already on this list (namely flip sides + megaempress and her four guards) BUT

HOWLBACK! a canonical trans woman who chose not to change her frame when she transitioned. part of the cobalt sentries, which is NEVER expanded upon. mentioned once offhandedly in idw to have been put on the djd's list and is never mentioned again. i need to see her as a mc in an animated show, PLEASE

While I'm okay with genderswapping Transformers in shows to better balance gender ratios, I do wish that wasn't apparently the first resort for writers once they've grabbed Arcee, Elita-1, and/or Windblade instead of just... Using one of the many female Transformers that already exist.

Other female characters I want to see animated:

Autobot Road Rage, my tippy top pick. She is so cool and sexy.

Decepticon Spacewarp. She's a deep space explorer that has lots of different adventures and finds herself questioning the Decepticon cause.

Megaempress and the Four Guards. For the love of all things good, please pull a Ruckley and write these ladies something decent because the Unite Warriors comics are terrible with them.

Autobot Javelin, sharpshooter and warrior! She has a really cool design and I think there are some really interesting ways you can take her character, especially if you bounce off the IDW2 story where she's traumatized from getting a head injury in combat!

Decepticon sleeper agent Flip Side. I want to see a dedicated story arc based off of her story with Blaster and how she deals with realizing her life was a lie.

Pyra Magna and the Torchbearers/Rust Renegades. While Victorion showed up in the Prime Wars trilogy, the separate components didn't seem to do so. I think either story from IDW1 or IDW2 would be fantastic story to explore in an animated story!

What female characters who've never been animated (or perhaps showed up for maybe 5 seconds) would you like to see?

[pluralsword]

ID: A meme using Arial font in white with black at the top and bottom for the text, with Transformers comic and cartoon images, tfwiki text, and/or dialogue focused on Arcee, Aileron, Greenlight, Gauge, Marissa Faireborn, Holiday, Lofty, Anode, Lug, Nautica, the Mistress of Flame, Windblade, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Starscream, Howlback, Archadis, Overlord, Nightshade, and Mo Malto, specifically dialogue or actions about transness and/or aesthetic actuation, same gender love, pronouns, gender terminology, playing music, joy, smooching, love, survival, family, medical issues, poverty, value of aesthetic journey in spiritual reforging terms, and criticism/opposition to empire and hegemony.

The meme text reads:

You [(Transformers) fanfic] writer:

Are you normal about trans/expansive people & how our stories are unique?

End ID.

(Please note regarding the image dialogue that Bumblebee and Starscream are not trans canonically yet because of how IDW1 works but nonetheless their stories are uh, not at all standard to the human cisgender experience lmao)

Image sources are: TFWiki Ask Vector Prime Facebook archives for December 23rd 2015, The Transformers #44, “The Transgressors”, The Transformers #50, “All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth”, The Transformers: Lost Light #2, “Dissolution Part 2: Anomie”, The Transformers: Lost Light #8, “An Axe to Break the Ice”,  The Transformers: Till All Are One #12, “Your First Mistake”, Optimus Prime #16, “The Falling Chapter 2: Another Mine”, The Transformers Lost Light #17, “The Everlasting Voices 2: The God War”, Transformers: Unicron #4, “Road’s End”,  Optimus Prime #24, “A Sunrise Dark”, The Transformers Lost Light #24, “Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers”, Optimus Prime #25, “Post”, Synergy: A Hasbro Creators Showcase, "An Arcee Sort of Day" (Arcee’s comic is also findable in Transformers: Best of the Rarities),  My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron #1 “A Real Mother,” Transformers #38, “Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two”, and Transformers: Earthspark episode 10, “Age of Evolution, Part 2.”