#tfp tailgate

[ny000mdraws]

made a tfp au tailgate that’s based more on his mtmte version!!

(backstory under the cut)

Born with a condition that makes it so that he can’t scan or transform, Tailgate had to endure years of discrimination from peers for his disability, often feeling isolated or ashamed of himself. The treatment persists to this day on Earth with Team Prime. They shelter him due to a multitude of reasons such as protection and fear of being discovered. More than anything, Tailgate wishes to be treated like everyone else.

So it was only natural that Tailgate would seize opportunities to sneak off base to escape the crushing atmosphere of Outpost Omega One. It was during one of these excursions that he ran into the Decepticon Cyclonus.

Rather than deactivating him, Cyclonus was more flabbergasted on why Tailgate doesn’t even know basic self-defense. So, he proposes an idea: he’ll train him so that he can actually pose a challenge when they meet on the battlefield (his actual reason is so that when the time comes, he would be able to deactivate him without regret). And out of pure desperation, Tailgate accepted, thus starting an odd… acquaintanceship.

Bits of info:

- NOT RELATED IN ANY WAY TO THE TAILGATE ALREADY IN TFP

- Actually physically strong but doesn’t know how to use his strength

- Panics a lot

- His condition isn’t fatal

- Can’t be cured

- It’s not as simple as replacing the T-Cog as its also linked to a bot’s coding and their spark

- Not cybercrosis

[knockouts-medibay]

Music Headcanons for tfp characters

Autobots:

Optimus listens to classical music rarely, usually just white noise to distract himself from the ever encroaching thought of death

Bumblebee listens to early 2010 pop music (so like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Charlie XCX, etc.) Because he's girlie pop and it's about the time that TFP came out

Arcee is a punk girl. As in she's probably sat outside concerts wishing she could be in there, so she records the songs to listen to later on and enjoys herself

Ratchet in secret listens to a LOT of (and I mean a lot) Beatles. If he's caught listening to human music, he denies it adamantly.

Bulkhead (thanks to Miko) listens to scream-o and a lot of heavy metal as we've seen in the actual show

Ultra Magnus doesn't.

Wheeljack listens to classic rock so like 70s to 90s rock. Sometimes grunge if he's feeling like being emo that day

Cliffjumper listens to My Chemical Romance in secret, absolutely having the time of his life

Theres like no info on Tailgate, so I have zero idea what he'd listen to

Decepticon time :]

Megatron thinks the sounds of screaming is music, it isn't, but nobody has told him otherwise

Starscream will refuse to listen to human music for a bit but ends up becoming addicted to like weird core music idfk

Knock Out is a fake swiftie. He listens to Taylor Swift for the sole purpose of pissing everyone off (he actually likes Rock)

Soundwave listens to mostly white noise, occasionally dark techno music alone when nobody else is close enough to hear

Steve is Steve. He listens to a lot of genres. No genre is safe from Steve.

Breakdown listens to rock with Knock Out and they will go on hour long debates on whose the best band. However if anyone else enters, Taylor Swift will be put on. (Its good repellent)

Airachnid pirates most the songs she listens to, and has yet to tell anyone that she is the true Swiftie, not Knock Out whose in reality a fake swiftie.

Hardshell definitely listens to Baby Metal. There's no way in hell he wouldn't.

Shockwave doesn't listen to music and thinks it's illogical to distract himself with such nonsense.

Predaking discovered the Godzilla soundtrack and refuses to listen to anything else despite pleas from most of the other decepticons

Dreadwing listens to death metal. Specifically when he's fighting/fucking slaughtering autobots he's sent to dispose of. When he isnt destroying families and lives, he secretly listens to 90s pop music

Skyquake wasn't alive long enough to find out what music was. Poor guy.

[blade-liger-4ever]

Teela vs Arcee - How to Properly Write a Stereotypical "Tough Girl"

I have been watching/rewatching the 2002 iteration of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and I must say, it is mind-blowingly good. The art is stunning, the acting top notch, and the storytelling is riveting.

It is not without it's bumps, however - the biggest of which is, for me, Teela. However, she is forgivable and believable for her "bumpiness" as a character in stark contrast to TFP Arcee, whose character qualities intrinsically make her grating and not just unforgivable, but unbelievable.

Allow me to explain. @chaoticcreatorgardendean, I feel you may enjoy this.

From the way she is portrayed as a recurring character, Teela is a fine if irritating "tough girl". She does more than in the OG series, has a personality, and actual fighting chops to make her presence worthwhile and important to the story. Despite these superior qualities to her Filmation counterpart, she has a very haughty demeanor towards Prince Adam, the alter ego of He-Man who, while initially more than a little egotistical, now has to keep up said egotistical act in order to keep everyone from realizing he and He-Man are the same guy. Now while her attitude towards Adam makes sense and is understandable (as at the start of the show she saw him "running away/abandoning the team" during an attack when he was in actuality going to become He-Man for the first time), it is still annoying for that to be her go-to temperament when dealing with Adam.

This is not to say that she is completely horrid as a character. It is merely a character flaw that is introduced to make her imperfect, and thus leave open room for character development. That is very good, and the fact that I can find her irritating but integral to the story without wanting to throw her to the moon is a sign of how good the writing for her is.

(I must add, however, as a fan who likes analyzing fictional couples and getting them together, Teela is giving off Not-Safe vibes dating wise for Adam in her treatment of him - all of which is not helped by the fact that she's both more lax with He-Man and wastes no time getting to hold on tight to him when riding Battle Cat with him. She is a good character and a decent woman, but she and Adam definitely need another eight years before courtship begins, at least.)

Then we come to Arcee, and she is everything the writers of He-Man '02 avoided making Teela.

Unlike Teela, Arcee has no real reason for her attitude and waspish nature towards the team. There's no "running away/abandonment" from members of the group that earns Arcee's sniping of teammates, or anything of the like that causes her compassion to evaporate like Teela's compassion toward Adam did.

Instead, what causes this emotional reaction from our token girl on Team Prime is the loss of her partner/boyfriend - which is made worse when we find out that the exact same thing happened when her first "partner" died.

This shows us that Arcee is a selfish character who throws her pain around and uses it as an excuse to be snappish towards anyone. This is proven the innumerable times she disregards Optimus' orders/advice in favor of either throwing a conniption that broadcasts her mood to others and thus allows her to lash out at her teammates to blow off steam and make herself feel better, or to chase down the ones responsible for killing her boyfriends and getting revenge that she never learns to not hunger for. The more I consider her in hindsight, the more Arcee feels like a cross between an anti-villain and an anti-hero: she's neither a true heroine nor a full villain, because despite "fighting for her homeworld against the Decepticons", she seems to consistently prioritize her own personal desires over that of the team.

The key difference between both women is in their degree of honesty. Teela is acceptable because she is actually honest about her feelings. In part, this is due to the fact that despite being a veteran combatant, Teela has had a safe life all things considered. She didn't see her homeworld destroyed, or lost two "partners" to a war like Arcee did. For this, she has no reason to hide her feelings, and so while her personality is grating, it's a respectable quality all things considered because she doesn't hide her emotional state.

Arcee, though, doesn't have that.

One of the reasons Arcee's not honest is because she equates honesty with vulnerability, and she hates that. She does not want to be vulnerable, lest she get pity and sympathy from others. So, instead of being honest and healthy by allowing herself the vulnerability she actually needs, Arcee prefers to hide her emotions behind abrasive sarcasm and fury.

And this contrast between the two "tough girls" is not made better by the fact that Arcee is a Cybertronian adult while Teela is sixteen years old.

You know you're messed up when the literal teenager has both better moral principles and justifiable reasons for her actions and attitude than you do.

The biggest reason Arcee is given the greenlight for that attitude is because she's the "girl who broke the gender barrier in Transformers" and the one everybody remembers.....despite six other females appearing in the second season of Transformers G1 before she was even announced to be a planned character.

But hey, she's Hasbro's token girl and pet, so what more should I expect?

That's my thoughts and advice on the matter. Until I have better ones (as in, not me venting a complaint and actively finding something in TF media to gush about for a change), see you around!

[mimitus]

Test sketch for Arcee and Tailgate (G1/RID 2015 card accurate design)

[autistic-fool-with-ideas]

I have this very specific headcanon about tfp Tailgate (which is actually just me mashing the aligned continuity and MTMTE together while hoping for the best)

[keef-a-corn]

Dat’s right, People, it’s time for ‘Keef watches TFP and you just get the notes!’

This is for season 1, episode 12: Predatory.

I hate this episode so don’t read if you like it. I also don’t have any screenshots.

I write down the timestamps, but I watch Transformers Prime on Stan (an Australian streaming service) so they may be slightly off.

ALSO! I try my best to note points for every character, but tend to get a little caught up by Bee (although I think I do a pretty good job with the notes regardless) so do be warned.

~~~~Transition~~~~

00:40 - I get this is supposed to be important but it’s taking forever!

00:55 - It’s weird how Jack’s allowed to come with Arcee. I would’ve thought she’d be more concerned about him.

00:56 - Why is he comparing them to vampire bats? Why not just ‘bats’. Also unless they’re in Australia, I doubt those Mozzies are anything to ride home about.

01:02 - alright Arcee, settle down.

01:05 - No, she wouldn’t, instead she’d be making fun of the fact you didn’t bring it. Also he was very animated in that moment.

01:10 - The animation got a lot heavier. It works on the bots because their designs are awesome and because becoming more expressive is a rare sight on them. For Jack, it just looks uncanny.

01:22 - Those are a lot of big words. Maybe I’m just tired, maybe my brain ain’t working 100%, but I seriously doubt parents had a good time hearing their child stuttering their way through ‘what does________ mean?’

01:30 - As I stated earlier, I don’t like this episode. One of the reasons is because it’s very slow paced. I’m fairly certain this episode’s a placeholder (considering that Sick Mind and Out of His Head are coming up and those episodes are great) but it doesn’t mean that it has to be so boring.

01:56 - This would be a bigger reveal if we hadn’t seen the thing land.

~intro~ (never have I been so glad to see it.)

02:51 - Arcee is the worst guardian. Why wouldn’t she send Jack home before going in?

03:32 - that could’ve been cool if they did the flashbacks WHILE Arcee was looking around, like if it showed the corridor/hall whatever ya wanna call it without anything, then showed what Arcee saw, rather than just giving flashbacks while Arcee stands there. 

03:46 - finally, doing a smart thing! (Although credit to her, once she recognised something was wrong she got out of the ship.)

03:50 - missed opportunity for a suspense build up then ‘my ex wife’s’. They exes.

04:02 - credit where credit’s due, this is kinda realistic. Arcee’s in a sort of panic so much that she’s blocking out her surroundings and Jack’s trying to communicate with her to understand the situation and how worried he should be.

04:04 - NO! Dear frag have you learnt NOTHING, Arcee??

04:31 - this scene feels like it should be more intense… I don’t know why, but it’s just not hitting correctly.

04:38 - If she had more gone to the neck, rather than the face plates, I think it would’ve been more suspenseful because the face plates are more cosmetic injuries and rarely scar, while the neck on the bots could be hiding more scars and could be more life threatening. Then again, maybe they were right not to do that (if you know, you know)

04:57 - I’m sorry, but I have to share.. I’m so incredibly bored and it’s only been 4 minutes.

05:15 - I.. UGH! What the frag?! I get that Arcee’s upset and all, but I’m on Jack’s side rn.

05:27 - WAS THIS SERIOUSLY THEIR JUSTIFICATION AS TO WHY JACK WAS THERE?! NO RISK?! R E A L L Y ?! THEY WERE IN A NEW LOCATION WITH BAD SERVICE WITH ONLY ONE THING TO GUIDE THEM! IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS THAT NO RISK?!

05:44 - Jack the type to stand at the edge of a sinkhole.

06:24 - Tailgate sounds like he’s voiced by the guy who voiced Shiro in Voltron. I searched it up. He did :D AND APPARENTLY HE VOICED JACK TOO?!

06:50 - those two were dating, pretty obvious.

07:16 - H O L Y . Airachnid’s voice made me gayer. Although missed opportunity to give her an Aussie accent.

07:22 - GODDAMN She HAWT

07:45 - HOW THE FRAG DID HE KEEP ALL THAT IN A TINY BELT BAG.

07:49 - this is a still image.

07:54 - MMMM CURVES!

08:00 - makes me kinda uncomfortable seeing her spy on a child. Makes sense why the episode’s called Predatory.

08:01 - So Airachnid’s ran into no other animals?

08:22 - Airachnid’s moving side to side, why would her perspective be so steady?

09:06 - excuse me but WHAT THE FUCK?

10:01 - Jack, you actual idiot!

10:21 - No. We know she’s not down because she’s also a spider, they don’t stay down for long.

10:30 - …Someone should tell her that she’s the liability too.

10:33 - w h a t ? I can see it in your e y e s 👁👄👁

10:43 - you scratched her cheek and she gave up. The hell are you on about?

10:51 - I like that Airachnid is incredible at getting into someone’s head. She’s physically strong, yes, but she’s mostly talk because once she finds away to play her opponent like a flute she’s so much more likely to win.

10:57 - seeeee?

11:40 - Airachnid’s in Arcee’s head. Someone telling the truth would’ve acted more desperate and focus more on persuading them that their not lying rather thanspeakingallatoncetotryandgetthepointacrosstominimisethechanceofaccidentallytellingthetruth. (Just incase you couldn’t read it: than speaking all at once to try and get the point across to minimise the chance of accidentally telling the truth.)

11:56 - I thought that Airachnid was smarter than that. You never get rid of the only bargaining chip you have right away.

12:02 - that was quick…? Although dumb. Never have heartfelt moments until you’re completely out of the woods.

12:26 - let’s be honest here. She kinda does have to wonder.

12:46 - To be fair, it is working for her.

13:08 - DON’T LOOK BACK!

14:02 - YEAH! WOO! BUMBLEBEE!

14:06 - SLAY CLIIIIFF! Perhaps I shouldn’t say Slay tho-

14:09 - FRAG YEAH!

14:12 - okay, that looks so funny. With Arcee being dwarfed by Bee and Cliff.

14:16 - that couldn’t care less as Arcee screams ‘I couldn’t save him’

14:23 - I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel in this situation.

14:31 - She has SWORDS on her ARMS. Why is she trying to break the webs by force??

15:22- okay, that was kinda scary, ngl

16:25 - a lot of this is just a chase scene.

16:47 - she could’ve stepped over it.

17:18 - you and me both, Airachnid.

17:32 - WHY?! WHYYY?! WHY?! WHY WOULD HE GO IN THERE?! WHY?!

18:16 - she has a similar demeanour to Knockout. In a perfect world, the two get drinks together and talk about other people.

18:26 - smart, NOT going into the ship.

18:51 - you’re telling me he doesn’t have a match?.

19:15 - I’ve lost so many brain cells.

19:33 - his running cycle has me in tears.

19:52 - of course she’s still alive!

19:57 - oh.. Ew..

20:18 - see? Arcee had the odds with her as long as Airachnid didn’t talk.

21:02 - I’m sorry I had to witness it.

21:23 - oh, pretty- WAIT I GET IT. IT’S TO SYMBOLISE THAT THEY’RE OUT OF THE WOODS!

———————

So that was Predatory.

It’s very clearly a filler episodes (Very obviously because they didn’t bring in any other voices actors at a l l. That’s why they chose Bee and Cliffjumper to be the ones to help out Arcee, but didn’t give Cliff any speaking lines.

There was literally only three voice actors in the entire ep and it shows)

I despise this episode. I understand that Airachnid was messing with Arcee, but it didn’t make it any less frustrating to watch. It was also incredibly boring.

I thought an Airachnid central episode was a good decision as her debut, but this was not it.

[grey-viridian]

The newest addition to the TF Girls Club!

(TF Girls Club >> Next New - TF Boys Club)

[vi050iv]

Still haven’t finished season 3 of transformers prime BUT I started reading the idw comic run and all I can say is that I love these goobers with all my heart

[chamom1le-t3a]

tap on image for better quality 😋

og image ⬇️

[maruinrin]

More cygate ft. KOBD and JetStar

(i love gay people)

[rotten-3y3s]

More idw doodles

Also I heart cygate oh ymt god

[ny000mdraws]

pride in tfp au!!

[mrmantisshrimp]

TF DUMP TIME

bots.... can you tell i have a favorite

bonus gijinka stuff... ^_^ yayyy

ok thats all BAII

[ruindroddy]

Continuity soup

The soup is not all that yummy though-

[star-starters]

Wigman #1

[jelloteeeth]

An older wip that I’m not finishing, thought it was funny tho