#the icon was a tfa bumblebee

[melishade]

Did you watch Transformers One yet or are planing to? Because I just did yesterday and hoooooly fuck. Holy fuck.

That being said I go ham the second I get the notification of a new chapter godspeed

So yes, I have seen it, and It's been at least two weeks, so I'm going to talk about my thoughts now. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it yet.

So I absolutely adored Transformers One, and it is one of the best Transformers movies that I have seen in a while. The plot! The world building! The characters! Oh my god! It was great!

So what did I like:

-I absolutely adored all of the nods to previous Transformers iterations. The soundtrack paying nods to Transformers Prime, especially the Resting Place of the Primes soundtrack. Makes sense since the composer was on the TFP soundtrack. Meanwhile, some of the iconic G1 poses for Optimus were present throughout the story. I'm certain there were other nods to previous iterations, but it's littered all over the place.

-I adored Orion Pax finally being made into a feral gremlin. In the Aligned Continuity, it was stated that Optimus was essentially living out in the woods before Alpha Trion found him. So TF1 Orion manifesting that energy was awesome.

-I adored the dynamic between Orion Pax and D-16, with such simple and massive things showing how they valued each other's friendship, only making the division and ultimate betrayal that much more devastating. Orion giving D-16 the Megatronus sticker, D-16 helping Orion escape the guards. The two doing the race together and going to find the Matrix together. These were all sweet moments that make us feel the pain of them falling into their respective roles. It also really helps that Orion and D-16 are in the same caste system instead of different ones. Many have criticized the power imbalance because of the caste differences, especially in TFP. So putting them on the same playing field does help establish how they handle their environments.

-Also, I adored D-16 descent into becoming Megatron. Some people do say that D-16's descent into Megatron was rushed, and I do agree with it somewhat. D-16 switched on a dime in a matter of three days while Orion still stuck to his morals through and through. But think of it this way: you've devoted your whole life to the system that you grew up in. Worshipping Sentinel like everyone else was, only to find out this guy betrayed the Primes, sold out Cybertron to the Quintessions, robbed you of your fucking T-Cog, and then lied about it to your face. Orion was constantly questioning the system and challenging it long before the reveal, which is why Orion immediately thought of what to do next. How do they fix it? How do they stop Sentinel and build a better world? D-16's whole world view was shattered in one moment, and from that moment on, he's not given any room to breathe and process his emotions properly. Everything else after that, from Sentinel Prime poorly branding him to the High Guard emphasizing strength over everything else. D-16's world view is constantly getting warped to the point where only ruthlessness matters. So when D-16 is at that pivotal moment where he's holding onto Orion, he decides to let him go, killing whatever inkling of kindness remained, leaving only Megatron.

-Oh Sentinel you bitch! I had a gut feeling from Bayverse, TFA, and Aligned Continuity, that Sentinel was going to be some sort of asshole. I just didn't know how. I thought he was going to just be a pansy in the face of the Quintessions. But instead, he sold out his own people to the Quintessions?! He killed the Primes! HE ROBBED BABIES OF THEIR T-COGS?! Bro what the fuck! You deserved to be ripped in half!

-Surprisingly, I adored Bumblebee. When watching the trailers, I was super worried that Bumblebee would be really bad comedic relief. And while there were some moments that did drag on, the movie knew when to pull back and let Bumblebee have a serious moment. Not to mention, the movie does justify Bumblebee's chatty nature, which is just a reflection of how absolutely fucked Sentinel's whole system is.

-Elita is a whole mood in the story. She worked hard to get a position she strived for, only to get fired because of Orion's decisions, is suddenly dragged into Orion's mess again, and then finds out everything is a lie. Like she genuinely did not want to be there and had to roll with the punches.

-I loved the subtle nods to how messed up Sentinel's system is. Orion scarfing down as much energon as he could. Miners being easily expendable and working in dangerous conditions. Bumblebee's forced isolation in a sublevel no one has even heard of. Getting robbed of your T-cog as a baby!

-The Birth of Optimus and Megatron was some fucking poetic cinema!

-The fight scenes were awesome!

-The A-a-tron is a reference to Key's substitute teacher sketch. I just know it.

-Comedy was on point and so was the angst.

-Voice acting was well done, although I did notice they reused the "C'mon" line for Elita at least 3 times."

-Shockwave: Why should we follow you?!

Elita punches her fist.

Shockwave: We will follow you! (I die laughing every time I hear that.)

-Airachnid going full murder bot and trying to stab everything with her claws multiple times.

-"NO I WANT TO KILL HIM!" My jaw dropped when D-16 said that.

Also I kind of got spoiled at the fact that both Sentinel and Orion were going to die. I blame the Youtube Algorithm for spoiling me. But I did not expect Sentinel to get ripped in half and for D-16 to fucking drop Orion!

What did I not like (or what gave me pause):

-Them kind of decided to use Airachnid in order to expose Sentinel. Like how did they know how to use the console in order to play back her memories?

-Alpha Trion saw D-16 tweaking so hard and so fast and still decided to give him a T-Cog! Yes, I know how charged the situation was but damn it Alpha Trion!

-I kind of expected the Quintessons to play a bigger role in the first movie, but they didn't. Which is probably good in hindsight because the story should focus more on the fallout of D-16 and Orion Pax. I just wish we saw more of the Quintessons. Maybe in the next movie.

-They really learned how to use their T-Cogs super fast. Also, how did getting T-Cogs teach them how to fight? D-16 was a miner for most of his life and is suddenly going toe to toe with Starscream, a trained military officer.

-Speaking of the high guard, I felt like the foreshadowing of them could have been better. I mean we do see them in the trailers, why couldn't we get a diagram of Starscream or Shockwave when Orion was rooting around in the archives instead of referencing them by name? Spiderverse does this type of foreshadowing quite a bit.

-As much as I liked Elita being so annoyed at everything throughout the story, I do have to agree with @lets-try-some-writing review of Elita in Transformers One (They also provide a really in depths analysis of the movie. So please check it out if you can). She is pretty arrogant throughout the story and doesn't really develop into being a kinder more understanding person. Also, how did she know how to fight before acquiring a T-Cog?

-I definitely see the argument about D-16's descent to Megatron is too rushed. Again, it did take like two to three days. I can see why people wouldn't buy it. (However, I'd argue that it's done better than Eren's descent into madness in AOT.)

-There were a few people calling Orion hypocritical for not wanting to kill Sentinel but he and a few others were killing a bunch of his guards. There's another video that goes into it. It's blanking on me, but the general idea is how Orion killed in self defense during a coup, and once he exposed Sentinel, there was no real need to kill anyone anymore. D-16's pain and rage towards Sentinel is extremely understandable, and I don't think that Orion's comment of 'not being like Sentinel' was meant to come off as hypocritical. Orion has been seeing D-16 spiraling for the past few days and isn't really sure how to stop it, nor does he really get the chance to. He's afraid of losing D-16 to his rage and anger and just wants him to calm down and stop before D-16 did something he was going to come to regret. Could Orion have been more proactive in doing this? Probably. But just like D-16, Orion is overloaded with new information, new threats, and the consequences of everything.

-I also agree again with @lets-try-some-writing on how D-16 had much more of a motivation compared to Orion. Like we know that Orion wanted to build a better world and prove that miners were more capable then what they were programmed to be, but what motivated him to do that in the first place? What was the thing that initially inspired him to do more and be kind and optimistic?

There are others who have conveyed their thoughts and written an analysis far better than what I have. This is just me rambling. But I still recommend watching the movie for those that haven't. It's a fun ride with fun nodes and it was clearly made with care and love for the franchise.

Also I finished the next chapter for AOP. I just have to make some edits before publishing.

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

What if in TFA holoforms were a thing and the Bots were able to use them?

What would the teams look like and how would they choose to use them?

-Optimus' holoform looks pretty similar to his human form from the episode Human Error. The difference is that his holoform has short, dark brown, curly hair that looks incredibly soft and freckles. His eyes are also brown and he's got those long eyelashes that models would kill for. His holoform wears pants similar to those belonging to firemen, complete with suspenders. He wears a simple, form fitting black t-shirt and big black boots.

As for what he would use it for, Optimus would use it to better help normal humans. Not everyone trusts or feel comfortable being handled by a cybertronian but someone that looks like a fellow human being? Yeah, it makes his work much easier.

-Ratchet's holoform got shoulder length white hair held back by a low ponytail and he's got a goatee. Like his human appearance in Human Error, he has a scar except this scar starts right above his eyebrow and disappears in his hairline. In holoform, he wears small, rectangular glasses, a red turtleneck, a white doctor's coat, beige khaki pants and brown leather shoes.

Similar to Optimus, Ratchet uses his holoform to better help humans. While he's not a human doctor, he still knows the basics and it's just easier to treat an injury when your fingers are not the size of your patient's limbs.

-Bumblebee's holoform looks to be about the same age as Sari after her upgrade. Other than that, he actually looks pretty much the same as his appearance in Human Error, thinking that his color scheme and general appearance is too iconic to change. He's got a lot of ear piercings though.

Bumblebee uses his holoform to goof off and have fun. There are some things he can't do in his true form, since everything on Earth was made for humans, but thanks to his holoform he can now access them. Things like theme parks and arcades.

-Bulkhead's holoform is 6'5 and built like a brick. But he's got the kindest eyes and a button nose. He's also got red, curly hair and freckles. His clothes consist of a green turtleneck with rolled up sleeves and brown suspender-pants, covered in paint stains.

Like Bumblebee, Bulkhead uses his holoform to have fun in ways that he couldn't as a bot, at least not without causing some major destruction on accident. But he also uses it to visit places and do stuff that he was always to nervous to do before, like visit museums and art galleries.

-Prowl's holoform is a tall and slim man with slicked back black hair. He's got a couple ear piercings and instead of his visor, he wears black pilot sunglasses instead. Prowl wears a fake leather jacket with gold detailing, a dark grey form fitting t-shirt underneath that in addition black jeans and combat boots.

As you might have expected, Prowl uses his holoform to better understand life on Earth and experience things in a way his true form does not allow. It allows him to gain a new perspective of things and better understand what it means to be a part of this planet.

[johnnytesticles]

Man I was super excited for the overwatch x transformers event cause I love transformers but there’s a lot left to be desired.

For starters and maybe like my biggest like “I wish but realistically wouldn’t actually happen” is bastion bumblebee is such an odd choice. Bastion has 1 eye and a gun for a hand, who you know what really iconic decepticon also fits that bill?? Mf shockwave!!! Like I get it bumblebee is now iconic and you need him but like it being bastion is so strange

Second issue is super opinionated but like Ramattra megatron looks just really bad, he looks nothing like him and that’s super disappointing. Like he straight up just looks like Ramattra with a decepticon logo and that’s it.

The biggest BIGGEST issue for me is holy fuck why did they give Optimus a HAMMER!!!!! Like the skin looks really good until you see the stupid hammer when prime has always had his super iconic energon axe!!!!!!!

Some might say like “oh well Reinhardt always has a hammer so they probably didn’t wanna change the model” which is w r o n g cause he does have skins with an axe so???? And also if they wanted to do a hammer why didn’t they do a really cool deep cut and make it sentinels hammer from TFA??? Just really salting my apples with this event.

[the-derpy-duck]

Reblogging this again because I did not make a comment under my friends account because this is just a side blog to watch the worst robot ever lose to Five Pebbles.

I know NOTHING about Rain World. But I do know that Starscream is a whole ass character archetype. And it all surrounds him being pathetic. I need another word for pathetic because it’s gonna become really repetitive to read and write but here’s why you should vote for the red fighter jet and not the other robot.

1. Starscream sucks. I hate him. I hate him so fucking much. He’s horrible. He sucks at his job, he sucks at overthrowing Megatron, he sucks at everything. The reason why he’s even still alive varies from Megatron just being an idiot to Megatron enjoys watching Starscream constantly fail at everything.

2. He is the saving grace of almost every transformers show he’s in. Why is Armada considered good when it is actually kind of difficult to sit through? Starscream. His friends all leave him and the good guys laugh at him as he has a mental breakdown (Sort of Hotshot just makes a small joke but it’s better if they laugh). He gets abused by Megatron constantly because fuck him but his story is great. I loved watching him plummet and die. TFP starscream is almost better. He’s not but it’s very close. He starves. He gets thrown out. He gets beaten up by Arcee. He can’t afford medical insurance so he begs the autobots for help because he’s a stupid, pathetic, leach on this world. His stupid face in pushed into the dirt by Megatron’s boot. G1 Starscream screams “I’m stupid, I’m stupid!” And I think it might be the most iconic and used quote from G1 but idk. RID15, a show I will never watch, has a small bit where Bumblebee is just verbally tearing down Starscream and laughing at his stupid plans and pain because a fucking sword rejected him. I watched a YouTube short of it. He didn’t even get a YouTube video how fucking pathetic is that? TFA SS gets to die twice and become a head. In cyberverse there is a 3 minute scene where Megatron just beats the shit out of him and leaves him to die on the moon. Five Pebbles seems fine I know literally nothing but Five Pebbles only has one Rain world (I think I don’t know D: I’m sorry) Starscream has more than 10 shows to be pathetic in.

3. Spotlight: Megatron. It is a comic where the point is Starshit suffers.

4. TFP Starscream has stilettos and he’s still short. Look up the image Tumblr doesn’t want me too add any more pictures I’m sorry

5. His best friend/husband leaves him for the autobots. If I was skyfire I would do the exact same thing.

Starscream’s ceiling is leaking directly over his head all the time. His pillows are always warm on both sides. When he goes to take a shower the water is cold. And I don’t mean like ‘oh wow it’s cold’ I mean the water is literally frozen. His showers are just hail. When he tries to take a bath the water is always too hot. Like he’s melting into the tub. When he walks outside, birds shit directly on his head. When he sits down the floor caves in around him. He is always failing.

I hate him. He’s not even loosing when I’m writing this but mother fucker I hate him.

Please please please vote for starscream. Look at me. Look at my face that you cannot see. This is the face of a little bitch. Not unlike starscream.

But. Losing would also be like starscream. Especially if it’s by like- .01% that would just be so perfect

Round 2

Starscream propaganda

Five Pebbles propaganda

[woolydemon]

im so used to tfa & knightverse bees' metal grey faces so when I see other bumblebees im like

[bayheart]

oo, could i request Bee with a demigirl flag :o?

TWO bees for the price of one!!! :]

[bantamblip]

Happy October! Take some blitzbee as a treat🎃

*whispers* free to use!

[dzzystrs]

revamped my headcanons for tfa characters gender and sexuality (and as ive said before, i have. Complicated feelings on how gender works for bots in tfa BUT for the sake of simplicity gave them identities id give any human character) but this time around decided to do pride icons to accompany them!

optimus is bi & bigender, ratchet is aroace & agender, prowl is aroace, bulkhead is pan, sari is pan & a demigirl, and bee is bi & trans!

part 1 (you are here!) | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

the rest of my pride icons can be found under my tag #pride icons! these are free to use with credit! if you want another flag done, just shoot me an ask and i will provide!

[honey-hexes]

Emo Bumblebee on Facebook what will he post

[kabukiaku]

Prowl and Bee pixel icons for @peaches-n-reptiles !!

thanks for commissioning me :)

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Love your Barbie-Bot design!

Hey, what if Barbie-Bot was a femme found and raised on TFA earth?

As she got older, she became a bit of a celebrity and eventually got the attention of a young Professor Sumdac who asked her to become a spokesperson/robot for his new company?

She agreed, and because of that her fame skyrocketed. Her image was nearly everywhere thanks to Sumdac Systems.

While mostly advertising domestic robots and inventions made by the company Barbie-Bot also inspired lines of cars, accessories, jewelry, clothes, and toys! Especially toys that were in her image and were most girls' favorite for the next century.

She does love it, the fashion, the fame, the happy faces that humans get when seeing her, but she often wondered where she came from. An answer she soon gets with the arrival of Optimus and his Team.

How do they react to this famous femme raised on Earth?

For simplicities sake, we'll call Barbie-bot Milliesecond, or Mille for short, as suggested by @curespectra.

-Optimus has a lot of respect for Millie. She's a professional businesswoman and the face of the most influential company on Earth. She's built a career, a life, on this alien planet. He doubts just anyone could achieve that. Kinda looks up to and admires her for her confidence.

-Ratchet thinks Millie is a naive but genuinely good person. She's ignorant of her cybertronian heritage, which admittedly isn't her fault, and Ratchet often has to remind himself this whenever he gets frustrated. Actually very patient with her and carefully explains things.

-Oh, Bumblebee wishes he had what Millie has. She's famous, successful, rich, confident, pretty, loved by millions. She's even got her own action figures. Like, she's got it all! Envies the way she doesn't even have to try to get everyone to like her. Also has a massive crush on her.

-Bulkhead thinks Milliesecond is so cool. She's a businesswoman, she's a celebrity, she's super nice and probably the prettiest bot he's ever seen. Just in awe of her story, how she rose from nothing into becoming such an icon.

-While yes, Prowl finds Millie's rise to fame and success to be inspiring and intriguing, he's more interested in how she got to Earth in the first place. Just how did her protoform get here? Starts investigating her past, knowing that if he figures out the truth, he might be able to give her some peace of mind.

[flowerbots]

beebee in the house 🐝

screencaps taken by @alucardy2000!

[toxiicatiing-a]

@stiinglike​​ continued from here

The techno-organic had waited for so, so long for this moment to occur, for one of those pathetic, miserable, disgusting Autobot’s to separate themselves from their usually tight-knitted group. For several months, she waited patiently, slowly creating her own race, a race to rule over, to become a queen of those just like her.

Optimus’ worst fears had come to life, in the form of starving arachnid looking for blood to drown the streets of Detroit with, and now that she had the yellow minibot just where she wanted him, nothing would stop her lusting for reeking her suffering onto every single Cybertronian in existence.

Cruel talons forcibly grasped Bumblebee’s chin, her sharp claws painfully digging into the metal on the scrappy thing’s faceplate, her gaze glued to the energon that wept from the puncture marks, coating just the tips of her inbuilt nails. “Don’t you get it? Optimus doesn’t deserve you, not that he ever cared for you in the first place, Bumblebee. You’ll realise just how awful of a Prime he truly is, once you become a Predacon because I’ll always be here for you...” Blackarachnia’s smile, though appearing almost seductive, held the promise of morbid intent, should the Autobot continue with his pointless ramblings.

Leaning ever closer to her captive’s face, the arachnid slid her servo downwards from Bumblebee’s chin to his neck, those horrid claws beginning to dig into the thin layer of metal that protected Bee’s most precious feature about himself; his voicebox. She didn’t say another word, not until her derma barely brushed against the yellow annoyance’s audio receptors.

“Join me, and you’ll never be doubted again, sweet-spark. Just think about the things we could achive together, Bumblebee.” Withdrawing from his audio-receptors, the cruel queen didn’t shy away from placing a free servo on Bee’s hip. “We would be unstoppable... We could free so many so that they no longer have to be slaves to the Autobot council. I know you’re not just all looks, mech, you’ve got smarts; use them.”

[xkokopuffs]

i love him so much

[vodid]

Curious, do you like Transformers Animated?

i do now!

i never particularly hated or disliked it, i was just very passive about it. the style was iconic but funky, the characters were unique but massively different than what i was used to, the plot built nicely overall but was difficult to stay focused on when each episode only contributed a little or even nothing to the entire plot. i tried watching animated multiple times and was never able to finish it (thanks adhd) i tried liking it and drawing but i never felt connected to any of it

and then i read some fics 🥲

i think the problem was that the only reason why i even would've liked animated at the time was for jazz/prowl but in all honesty, the ship dynamic/characterizations differed a bit too much from their g1/g1 fanon counterparts for me to really get into it. so i stayed generally neutral on the ship. i like it ofc but i probably wouldn't go out of my way to draw it just for myself unless i really needed to scratch an itch

so i needed different characters or ships to get into since i wasn't gonna find it in jazz or prowl. but i got desperate one day for j/p and read a tfa jazz/prowl longfic that included two other ships i wasn't particularly excited for. i didn't hate them! i was just more focused on j/p than one of the ships and didn't even ship the other

well that changed for sure. by the end of the fic, i wasn't even thinking about jazz/prowl because it heavily got me into....... you guessed it, blitzbee! i don't remember my opinions on blitzwing before this (i think he was just some cool decepticon i decided to draw once) but i knew i didn't care much for bumblebee before. i was a bayverse/tfp fan so that bee never resonated with me

well now he does! and now i get to project my adhd, rsd and apd onto him. and thats what i needed. a character to latch onto, to project onto and to call my own little blorbo. and now tfa bee is one of my favorite bees!! if not top favorite

it was also a matter of being able to draw the show. i didn't feel like my style was as developed as i wanted it to be every time i tried watching it, so that only heavily added to the disconnection. i've gotten better at drawing and have been practicing, so i've definitely grown closer to tfa :)

aaa that was a rant but i have Many thoughts about tfa hsjdjsjs its fun!! and i'm definitely enjoying writing fic for it!

[decepti-thots]

Optimus, bumblebee, OR metroplex

Gonna do OP!

OTP: across all continuities? G1 style megop. I'm BASIC so SUE me. they're iconic, innit. genghiskhan.mp3. buuuut I'll give a runner up in the interest of not boring us all to tears: TFA op/prowl. i want more of it so bad ;-;

BrOTP: slams fist on desk. WHERE'S THE JAZZ-OP FRIENDSHIP. I LOVE IT. I WANT IT. there's ONE bit in the first Aligned tie in novel with them i have read like fifty times. they're so well suited! jazz should gently tease him a lot and they should chill together!!!

OT3: i know it's recency bias but i was LITERALLY talking about my terrible slapstick comedy TFC!megoptarn bullshit today so. that. it's so dumb and i love it so much. they should fight over OP while he's like '???? friends :)' like a dweeb.

NOTP: don't have one i guess!!! shrug 🤷‍♀️