#wild sentinel

[rei-ismyname]

X-MEN #7 From The Ashes

Possibly the biggest downside to the circular, repetitive nature of X-Men comics is that real life is awful enough. Jettisoning the hope of the Krakoan age for the misery porn of From The Ashes feels kinda callous and depressing in a world where there are multiple ongoing genocides and the USA just said yes to fascism again. Nevertheless, join me in some light escapism - a little Magneto goes a long way. Spoilers for X-Men #7.

I've also been spelling Jed Mackay's name wrong. Sorry

Running throughout this issue is Magneto's flashback to The Iron Night. The 'this is Logan behaviour' exchange from the previews has been all over my dash and it's great to get more of this dynamic. It's fantastic to see someone in universe say it out loud - Logan is a whiny little bitch, often a hypocrite, and can be blind to his immortality privilege. Scott knows that better than anyone - his wife's boyfriend throws a tanty like no other. They love him, but it's another reason why he's not the best Wolverine. I hope 'Logan behaviour' sticks around in the fandom.

This is Logan behaviour, Idie

I appreciate the informal nature of the Piper discussion. For one, you don't want to scare the kid or make her feel unwelcome. Idie said that she 'couldn't wait for you (Cyclops) and Magneto' re: Idie - having Psylocke be the one to spell it out for her is effective. The X-Men IS a team and the stakes are incredibly high. Besides, as Beast said in my first screenshot they have a Cerebro. This test could have been done from afar without the risk, and it's implied that it was.

I'm enjoying seeing Idie behaving compassionately, but it looks like she's got some serious anger and mistrust of authority (both justified) from Krakoa. It's great she's getting this kind of character focus and I hope it's followed up on. So many threads and beats have been setup that are likely to be disrupted by the Raid on Graymalkin event kicking off next week, but I'll reserve my judgement on that for when this first arc is concluded.

This is Logan behaviour, wild sentinel.

Gotta love Max and Scott's friendship being shown as they drink crappy beers and bask in Magneto rhetoric. I don't want to question the expert, but is this sentinel Wild or wild? It's clearly not an ORCHIS Iron Man model, but Wild Sentinel has a very specific meaning.

Okay, clearly Wild. It's not attacking either of them, though. Kind of Cyclops to spell out the Star Trek Borg adaptive schtick they've got going on. This is the action scene of the issue, the mandated violence.

I don't mean that entirely pejoratively either. I'm just as susceptible to the Magneto and Cyclops power fantasy as the next person, though it's a bit of a dirty trick to wait until issue 7 to show it.

This is NOT Logan behaviour, Magneto.

Sigh. I love your sense of drama Magneto. Play to the crowd, old man. I hope your monologue doesn't become ironic.

Uh oh, looks like his knees are weak and arms are heavy. Vomit on his sweater already...

So we see the moment Mags' powers start to shit the bed, right after a Wild Sentinel attack. I'd be suspecting Cassandra Nova's involvement just off these two data points tbh. Which idiot resurrected her anyway?

Oh, fuck off. Logan behaviour, Mackay.

R-LDS sounds like horse shit to me. Scott says 'we don't know that for sure' so how does this speculative condition have an acronym already? Mags is speaking as if it's a fact, but he doesn't even have the same body The Five resurrected. Maybe he has Umari-Key-Waiting Room-Brashear Portal Syndrome. Obviously he's scared but this feels like an idiot ball moment, and a cynical jab at Krakoa. The Five was something they got right, even with Sinister in the mix. The implications would be insane. 16 million Genoshans were resurrected, 250k Krakoans (give or take), a whole bunch of vulnerable human children via The Phoenix Foundation, Captain America.

No, there's way too many data points that apply to Magneto alone to make seriously considering The Five's resurrections as the source of patient zero's malady. It would be scientifically irresponsible to get to the point of naming it and then an acronym for that. Mags is good enough at science to know this, and Beast is too. I'm no scientist, but it manifested during a fight with a Wild Sentinel. I assume they have better resources than the Marvel wiki I'm using, but that robot/Cassandra Nova is my prime suspect - the lady they know for certain to be involved in ongoing genetic fuckery - activating X-Genes. Though not Piper Cobb...

Or yes Piper Cobb? Smash cut cliffhangers aside, this would be a great time to retcon Homo Sapiens Superior right the fuck out of existence. It's never made sense, and not just the 'Superior' part. Again, I'm not a scientist but I'm certain that's not how phylogeny works. They're mutated humans, but I don't live in 616 which canonically operates on impossible physics, so idk. My fingers are crossed but my expectations are nil.

That is Logan behaviour, masked kidnapper

Okay, we'd known from solicits that Beast would be getting beat down in captivity at Graymalkin. I had speculated he'd give himself up to get inside, but the ol' bag over the head works too. I dig his outfit.

X-Men #7 is worth reading IMO, and it's one of the better ones based off Magneto content alone. Last issue I wrote that the formula was becoming easier to spot, and I stand by that. A handful of character moments, some new information about one of the ongoing mysteries but it piles more questions on top of half answers and speculation. For example, we get to see Scott and Max fight a sentinel and be friends. There's new information there but a LOT more questions. The characters are at the point of absurd speculation which raises tension but doesn't make them look very competent. To kick off the event 'Raid on Graymalkin' they went with a final page bag over the head instead of any choice and comic book events notoriously derail everything so friends can argue and punch each other.

What did you think? Thanks for reading.

[pastelpaperplanes]

Pastel please. I we need to see tf one Sentinel in your style please. Please I need him. I mean we. Who said that.

you all better open your ears as wide as you can bc you're gonna hear me out

[rxcketwip]

fun fact:

they did not bother to model legs for this outfit LMAO

it makes sense tho bc you're never actually supposed to see them

this one simply has no bone for the waist/hips, but that's not that big of a deal tbh

honestly I need to continue playing this game bc I did not know these existed before now

[friedfriedchicken]

Who wants to talk with me about Sentirachnid? Any Sentirachnid fans out there? Hello Sentirachnid fandom

[youwillfindilluminating]

sydney's, "you need to calm down. I am not asking," sent me to the moon!

she is going to domme him into being a better person and I am here for it

[quetzalpapalotl]

In regard to IDW1!Sentinel Prime’s repulsion towards romance, I legit thought his hatred of such concepts was meant to make him homophobic or along the lines of “ugh gay people”. Was there an instance of him also hating heterosexual romance or at least all kinds as well? The more I learn about Sentinel through this blog, the more I realize I’ve been missing out on a lot of things (and the more I am going to simp for him) 💦

Well, he doesn't go out of his way to say he thinks het relationships are gross too. It's normal that his comments would reminds us of homophobia as that's a sort of equivalent in our society, that's probably what's evoking, and I do call him homophobic as a joke but homophobia is ultimately a human concept. Sentinel is not homophobic because Cybertron as a society forgot the concept of gender, everyone is male by default, the only Cybertronian women are people like Arcee who are old enough to remember when women were a thing or the lugnodes who developed a concept of gender after traveling the galaxy. Sentinel says "only the terminally sentimental had sparkmates" he's not talking about homosexual relationships, he's talking about romance itself, which is mostly homosexual due to the society they live in.

And okay, yeah, Sentinel turns out to be quite old, he would have known about women, but still, it would be really weird that his problem with romance turned out to be that it isn't straight! That makes no sense! Not only he doesn't make any comments to indicate that's the issue, but Transformers don't have any of the material conditions that led to the development of homophobia in our societies. They're not human. They wouldn't have a concept of "straight" or "gay", if they were to put social constrains on attraction or were to taxonomize it, it would be based on something that has actual bearing in their society like class or alt mode.

Indeed, Skids flirts with Firestar even when he's still getting used to use she/her pronouns, people from the colonies, who never forgot about gender, get involved in both same and different gender relationships with no issue. And the colonies retain some of the bigotries of old Cybertron. There really isn't anything in the text to support the idea that homophobia would even be a concept for these people.

So if homophobia isn't the issue, then what the fuck is Sentinel's problem?

(Mtmte #56-57)

These are the instances where Sentinel displays... amatophobia, I guess. But is this just one example of a societal trend or does Sentinel have some very radical ideas? I think it's a bit of both.

This just doesn't sound like the kind of idea one develops in a vacuum, especially with how the language resembles real-world homphobia, I think it is meant to indicate that there used to be some sort of bigotry against romance.

Cybertronian society is just not amatonormative the way ours are, Brainstorm mentions that having a conjunx is rare and that's no surpsise. These people live so long, it's quite the commitment to attach yourself to someone for that lifespan. Though, the fact that both Skids and Getaway casually flirt with Firestar right after meeting her makes me think that casual romantic dalliances among Cybertronians are a thing. It doesn't expect monogamy or the kind of prioritizing our society demands. But that's just my headcanon and me projecting a bit, anyway.

A conjunx ceremony only requires the two people to be married and is carried out in private, but the fact that Rewind has Chromedome listed as his conjunx endura and this grants him the ability to make medical decisions for an unconscious Rewind shows that you can legally register a conjunx status and this grants you special rights much like a human marriage. Now, this is under Optimus' rule who is far more chill and maybe things were different under Sentinel.

Speaking of, here's a panel of officer Orion Pax during Zeta's time asking Tappet if the guy that was killed by the police was his conjunx and that it's totally okay if that's the case because they're totally not bigots anymore (OP #1)

More evidence for amatophobia being a thing when Sentinel was Prime (and given that this is Barber instead of JRo, two writers making reference to it make it a more solid piece of lore). But when exactly did conjunx endura gained legal status instead of being just a two-people arragement? It's hard to say, it could have been under Optimus, Zeta, maybe it was a thing under Sentinel but frowned upon, maybe it had always been a thing but it got outlawed under Nominus or Sentinel before getting restored under Zeta or Orion. Since the colonies do have a concept of conjunx endura, meaning it predates Nova's rule, my guess is that this amatophobia was a later development and that conjunxes had legal status before that being removed and later restored.

That being said, Sentinel does seem... radical in his beliefs. Look how he says in his time people had "peers and colleagues, associates", that sounds kinda impersonal, he doesn't use a word like friends. Surely, even if people thought getting involved in romance was weird, the average Cybertronian wouldn't have anything against the concept of friends. Sentinel kinda sounds like those super homophobic guys who are disgusted at any level of male intimacy because that's gay. I think Sentinel is particulary opposite to interpersonal relationships and an extreme example of the normal attitude.

That still doesn't answer why is he like this tho. If I had to answer what purpose does this bigotry serve, I think it has to do with how Cybertron developed this culture of "you're all cogs in the machine" for the benefit of the ruling classes. You should serve your purpose of making Cybertron great, it's an offense that you'd choose to give your devotion to a single, common Cybertronian instead of like, the planet or a Prime (Sentinel has not problem fanboying over Onyx Prime). Look at all the things Sentinel complains about, not just conjunxes doing PDA, he has a kinda fascist idea of what Cybertron should be, nice and orderly with a disregard for differences. Transformers don't have sexual reproduction or nuclear families, so romance doesn't serve The Powers That Be in any way and is just a display of individualism.

[seafoamsol]

starting a collection

[sentinelprimesupperhalf]

i almost feel bad for you looking at the absolute insanity you're being sent

I’ve lost more recharge time than I’d like to admit.

[andietries]

Tadaaaa “jazz hands”

[transingthoseformers]

Megatron's heat/rut. Ultra Magnus geting panicked messages from the Elite Guard unit that Megatron have captured Mister Sentinel Prime! Megatron thought he was Starscream and he smelled funny! Megatron not Mister Sentinal Prime" Ratchet in the background from another room behind a closed door "what do you Megatron Smelled Funny!"

Ultra Magnus face palming, " Smelled Funny how?"

"It was weird and heavy, Mister Ultra Magnus Sir!" "Jazz made us all hose off before coming on to the Steelhaven, Mister Ultra Magnus Sir!" He said we should report while everyone else finished in the wash Racks!" "They been in there for a while." "They were starting to make funny noises when we left." "Should we check on them, Mr. Ultra Magnus Sir?"

"Leave that to Ratchet. Hold down the fort untill Jazz gets out of the wash racks and Ratchet clears him." UM cuts the transmission and faceplants his desk. "Frag my life." (I hc the twins were too young to be affected and were the reason Megatron didn't have the whole team as a harem.) Sentinel "bravely" took one for the team so they could escape the evil Deceptacon pheromones. BA was on the ground laughing when she heard. The Deceptacons probably cleared a path for the bots while Lugnut was snoring.

sdhfhfhdsfs

Oh mags

oh sent

oh megs

oh jettwins

Mm. Yes. "Bravely took one for the team". Riiiight.

Evil decepticon pheromones

Sdfdsdg. Yeahhhh say that until one of the autobots goes into heat, then what then what lol

Blackarachnia get the energon puffs you're watching this shit live

[thewildrescuersfanpage]

Wink 100% helped expand the cave by just running into the walls over and over again.

canon, I was a piece of cave moss and watched it happen

[petitelepus]

TFA team prime and elite meets an animal wild bot that was raised in the mountains, and by a wild boar in the forest. She is very unladylike, not the smartest and hot temper but she loves to fight to become stronger than all, very loud and confused anything affection for a fighting technique since she is a beauty https://youtu.be/BMvZDK3qOfU (btw she can flex anywhere in her body, including moving her most fatal parts in her body to avoid what could be a very bad injury; like moving her spark chamber from a stab wound and basically dislocated her bones to move like a worm)

Okay, Autobots were worried. At first, they worry that you might be a danger and menace to the people of Detroit and it doesn't help that you aren't the sharpest or smartest.

At first, Autobots mistook you for a Decepticon, but you held no symbol, Decepticon or Autobot.

"She doesn't appear to be an enemy..." Optimus mumbled but Bee frowned, "She doesn't exactly look like a good guy either!"

Some Bots, Sentinel, think you should be imprisoned.

"I don't care, either way, she is coming with us!" He shouted, but as soon as he tries to approach you with stasis cuffs, you jump at him and show everybody just how good a fighter you are.

"Take her off, TAKE HER OFF!" Sentinel is screaming like a sparkling as you tear him a new one, and while the Elite Guards move to help their so-called leader, the team Prime approaches the situation more calmly.

Or, Prowl does.

"Alright, easy there..." He talks calmly as he approaches you. He makes sure that he doesn't do anything that could provoke you.

Curious of him, you let Sentinel be and approach the Cyberninja. Prowl smiles and he offers his hand to you... And just like magic, there is a little engex treat on his palm.

Amazed by his trick, you take the treat and enjoy it happily. While your attention is on Prowl, Jettwins drag Sentinel away and far away to be safe from you.

Sentinel was relatively alright, save for a couple of scratches and such, but more than that, his pride took a huge hit.

"Optimus, I ORDER you to cuff that BEAST!" Sentinel shouted and you flinched and jumped away from Prowl.

You growled as you transformed into a huge giant boar and ran at Sentinel, scaring the Pit out of him before you disappeared into the forest.

"She's gone?" Bulkhead wondered out loud.

"Not for long..." Ratchet grumbled, "I have a feeling we run into her sooner or later again..."

[silent-partner-412]

fuck it. silent-partner-412 favorite video games topster. if you wanna know what this blog will probably be all about, here it is lmao.

[tiny-cup]

Video games played in 2022 Part 1

[rangers-arecool]

For: Halbarad :: @menelvagor Muse: Hal Verses: Fading Light & The Sentinel

  A peaceful, clear starlit night with the full moon shining down and bathing everything in it’s bright silvery light. Or at least… that’s what it should have been. But instead, the darkened moonlight shone down on a land broken apart by cracks and crevasses in which shadows twisted and snaked. Never dispersing even in the light of day, for the sunlight could not touch them.

  Hoofbeats shattered the eerie silence of a desolate and abandoned farm, passing thorough broken fields on which stalks of golden wheat once grew. But now there was nothing growing, except for wild grasses and the few wildflowers that could survive on the darkness tainted earth. The farmers and animals who had called this place home, were now long gone.

  Miles had already been covered by the black Rohan warhorse and his rider. Traversing the ruined landscape easily and leaving the wargs that had tried to follow, far behind. But their long journey was not yet finished, for they still had far to travel to reach their destination and neither wanted to be caught out by daylight.

Hytbold | Rohan

  Had it not been for Hal, they would never have been able to make Hytbold into the safe zone it was now. Yet to many of those outside of the Dúnedain, the Commander of Esteldin had finally followed in her father’s footsteps. A fact that was completely untrue but one they couldn’t disperse at that moment. Even though Hal had continually proven her loyalty to both Aragorn and her kin, the sceptics had still remained.

  However what many of the Rangers knew, was that Hal had been on a long term undercover mission. In Carn Dum, Angmar. One way coded messages were the only communication that Aragorn received from her. But it had given them a chance to find the burned down town and for that, he was grateful. Although still worried for his friend and second in command.

  With a message of just a few words in his hand, the Dúnedain Chieftain went to find the one Ranger it would affect the most. It didn't take long to find the older Sentinel as he rarely went far from the East Guard Tower, the one facing the direction of his Guide.

"Halbarad. I'm taking over your duty tonight. You'll going to be needed elsewhere soon."

[megapwnus]

Saw tf one tonight and LOVED ITTTT

-spoilers below, bewaaaaare-

It was so pretty! Amazing lighting and color palettes!! Loved the world building and designs of the cybertronian fauna and landscape!! ObSESSED w the quintessons being like. Organic crab guys.

Also this is maybe my favorite Optimus ever??

And omg. Megatron’s slow descent… chef’s kiss.

Also just LOVED the general plot and lore for this iteration.

It’s funny because I shouldn’t give myself credit for this because 1) sentinel is like always the Bad Guy and 2) Quintessons are always the extra planetary Bad Guys but literally as soon as I saw Sentinel my thoughts were “okay so he is a quintesson puppet somehow” and. CALLED IT!

What I was pleasantly surprised by:

- no romance between elita and OP (thank god I was worried about a hiccup and Astrid situation. Still am for future films tbh)

- bumblebee was insane?? I expected him being the comedic relief but I didn’t expect him to be half crazed making fake friends and canonically very unhinged and annoying. Good shit. ADHD realness. They sent him to the 50th level of hell for his ADHD!

- airachnid…. Wow. Though I got so excited bc I thought the eyes on the back of her head were “baby” “spider” bombs. Was sad when they were simply MORE eyes. Tho it was funny.

I could go on but I shouldn’t write an essay I should go to bed but. Hell yeah babeye!!!!

Sidebar: I was hopeful for future hot rod but due to the manner in which Orion became OP and the fact that he got flame throwers… maaaan we are never getting Roddy 😭

Overall?? 10/10 minor issues w the pacing towards the end but totally minor. LOVED the verisimilitude between OP and Megs. Making their divergence a choice made from the same playing field really adds weight (and gets rid of the problematic violent revolutionary narrative… lol)