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Christmas party

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More sparkplug in dresses

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Herbie fled Cybertron, after the war became too much for him. He got a good life in Earth, befriending humans and racing with them.

To relax during the NASCAR off season, Maggie and Herbie travel through the state, and end up in Brighton Falls.

When they cross paths with Charlie Watson and her autobot friend, what can go down?

Herbie and transformers Crossover: patching up canon

(Or, using IDW for background of BB and giving Herbie an outlier ability to justify stuff)

Man, if Herbie and Transformers movies have something in common is their crazy canon! Organizing the timeline for the fic I want to make is a little puzzle. As of now, this is how I'm justifying some stuff that happens:

-Herbie crash lands near the factory or place were Dr. Stumpfel assembled his proyect, he scans that beetle and leads the doctor to think that his experiment worked without meaning to.

-There are weird gaps in time (Ex: herbie hasn't raced in 12 years acording to Monte Carlo) because Herbie doesn't fully understand earth time messures, and remembers the wrong time unit sometimes

-Herbie has an outlier ability that allows him to make machinery sentient, wich would explain the beetle army, the other sentient objects, and could be the reason Horace was sentient too (this opens the question, why didn't Herbie join the Jhianxian Academy? And the answer is that he didn't have a reason to do so, his job could be done without going to any academy)

-His love interests Giselle and Honey are cybertronians too, who also crashed on Earth and adapted quickly to living as cars (it would be cruel to make them a product of because of his ability)

For the movie order, I would put them like this:

-Herbie The Love Bug

-Herbie goes to Monte Carlo

-Herbie Rides Again

-Herbie Goes Bannanas

-Herbie's TV show

-The Love Bug (1997)

-Herbie Fully Loaded

(The movies in black are the ones that I watched, but I read the wikis of the others to put them in that order for now).

Herbie Fully Loaded will have to occur in 1987; between this one and Bumblebee, the time period is more revelant for the story in the latter (I also think that it makes a bit more sense for a loophole in the rules to allow Herbie to compete if we push the time back).

And since BB and ROTB don't give us enough information about why the war started, I'm taking from the IDW comics because it's cool, and I' reading those right now.

The summary could be better, but it's what it is right now. I need to check more about racing in that time.

That's all I have for now, but it is some work towards the idea :] thanks for reading if you got here!

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unfortunately for them, soundwave has found out about human christmas traditions and now they have to deal with him

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Nightflyer has always been communicating with the ghost of Predaking whoever kinda like the ancient ancestor of flying transformers. He was always ment to be a predicon but yet he emerged much too late to be one. Even though everyone around him praises him for how perfect and gorgeous his body is, he doesn’t see himself in the mirror. Just because you are beautiful by society’s standards, doesn’t mean you’re beautiful to yourself… true beauty is in being able to find comfort in your own body.

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Nightflyer has always been communicating with the ghost of Predaking whoever kinda like the ancient ancestor of flying transformers. He was always ment to be a predicon but yet he emerged much too late to be one. Even though everyone around him praises him for how perfect and gorgeous his body is, he doesn’t see himself in the mirror. Just because you are beautiful by society’s standards, doesn’t mean you’re beautiful to yourself… true beauty is in being able to find comfort in your own body.

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Putting this here to see who actually reads my posts

Next art is gonna show that Nightflyer has always been communicating with the ghost of Predaking whoever kinda like the ancient ancestor of flying transformers (because wings, fuck you. I’m sorry that was rude). He was always ment to be a predicon but yet he emerged much too late to be one. Even though everyone around him praises him for how perfect and gorgeous his body is, he doesn’t see himself in the mirror. Just because you are beautiful by society’s standards, doesn’t mean you’re beautiful to yourself… true beauty is in being able to find comfort in your own body.

But yeah that’s that

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While trying to get back to earth, the Decepticon justice division finds and captures Sparkplug and Soundblaster. While on the ship, Tarn goes ahead and remodels Spark into a smaller version of Megatron, pushing her closer to the edge.

While this happens, Soundwave breaks off from the larger group in order to cover more ground. He takes Rumble and frenzy with him as back up and leaves Ravage and lazerbeak with Megatron.

When two paths cross, hope comes back to our heroes. Spark is able to reunite with a small part of her family and Soundblater is promised a home back on earth. If only it was so easy.

In a final attempt to fully break Sparkplug, Tarn takes his full strength out on Soundwave, overpowering the bot who had to hold back as to not hurt his sparklings. As she watches her father figure be torn in two, something snaps in Sparkplug, the same thing that snapped in Megatron all those years ago. A power and rage that could have been from Megatron himself overcomes the young bot and pushes her to kill tarn in cold blood.

Now as the new leader of the DJD, Sparkplug takes on her father’s name and plots a corse for Cybertron, on a mission to get back at the powers that ruined her life. However she’s still just a girl, and shares her grief with her siblings, knowing there’s no coming back from this

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Ooh thanks for answering! I tjink you have a really neat idea here. I always thought that the whole "AFO manipulated the kid from the beggining"took from the story more that it gave to it, discarding that seems better in my opinion.

Hello! I read an ask from a few months back (I think it was from august) were the question was about the ending you would like, in the answer you mentioned giving Shigaraki a redemption arc. It was also written that the ending you wanted wasn't possible at that point.

I wanted to ask, if you still have that idea in mind, at what point of the story would you redeem Shigaraki, or what would you change to achieve that?

Thanks in advance for your time :]

Hi @the-useful-disaster 👋

It is true that I would give shigaraki a redemption arc. However, there isn't a particular moment that pinpoints when shigaraki will get that redemption arc. This is because, to me, shigarakis whole journey in the series should have been a redemption arc where he evolves and flourishes as a character.

Now, I think shigaraki is a hard character to give an original arc to because I honestly don't want to go down the route of making him a hero for the villains since I think nine does that soo much better.

Due to this, planning and creating a different path for shigaraki has been difficult, I suppose. However, I think that shigaraki should have a very similar arc to zuko's redemption arc from atla.

By this, I mean have shigaraki actively seek validation from AFO. Have him do what he does out of selfish type of desires and grief for the childhood that was robbed of him due to the system. Shigaraki is so entagled in AFO'S manipulation and standard that he does anything to appease him. However, as time goes on, things slowly change with shigaraki feeling betrayed by AFO'S absence and building up a hatred that he takes out on society.

He becomes a leader edged by AFO, yet he isn't connected to the league. The league here falls apart easily as shigaraki heads into a journey of self-discovery, figuring himself out and what he believes. A raised puppet breaks out of the chains his creator casts him in, and now he has to live and experience the world through new nuanced eyes. This leads to various situations occurring, which all lead to shigaraki going off the rails murdering AFO and shifting from a villain to a morally grey vigilante who would end up helping izuku.

Of course, there are many things that happen before shigaraki reaches this point, and izuku will definitely be someone who kick-starts this type of development in shigaraki.

Note : iam not having AFO manipulate shigaraki since birth!!

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As a baby Sparkplug was very fragile, mostly because she wasn’t meant to even exist in the first place. Bots would come in and out and take turns talking to her, saying goodbye to Optimus and simply getting used to the new normal

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TFOne Sparkplug… or as she would rather be called.

Tarn.

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Sparkplug and her stage name “Shatter” (to mimic Rumble and Frenzy)

I really love the idea that she sneaks out with the twins to go play in a punk band. Not being allowed to leave the autobot base due to safety concerns, this is her way to rebel and scream out her frustration.

I like to think she finds a sense of mental escape in this as well, she’s no longer the failed experiment, she’s just one of Soundwave’s cassettes, nothing more nothing less. She’s able to confide in Soundwave a lot, mostly because he didn’t lose a partner and isn’t projecting on her most of the time. So he makes sure she doesn’t get in trouble and keeps his mouth shut. (He also gave her Ratbat, who acts as a guitar and axe power up for her…. Also as a little friend to have)

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Sometimes it’s a familiar face that gets you back on your feet. Some things are just destined I suppose.

I think this would be better in my head. I don’t know why but I’m just not feeling it. However I did put a crap ton of effort into it and I’d hate to just toss it. I guess I’m embarrassed in a way, I’m not sure

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About TF:RIF, the up-and-coming Transformers Fan Comic!

Sometimes I forget that Tumblr is a blog site... Hence, there's no better place to update my production notes and spark some hype for TF:RIF! I'm Moth, and here's the beginnings of what I hope will become a community-made fan continuity of the Transformers, Transformers: Reform is Futile!

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For the uninformed, TF:RIF is a fan comic that I've begun production on starting two weeks ago, and I've gotten quite a lot already planned out! -> Following our favourite Decepticons, as well as some who've gotten less attention over the years, Shockwave and Starscream take centre stage following a great tragedy on The Nemesis that leaves every survivor questioning all they've ever known. <- The story has exclusively redesigned characters, new takes on character developments, and a completely new origin story for our beloved 'Cons!

The TF community has breathed new life with the release of Transformers: One, and I'm hoping that these inspired new sparks want to get in on creating something special! Without further adieu,

What's in the works?

-> The story already has a timeline of events--beginning, middle and end. This includes key plot points, character motivations, and a plot twist~ -> Begun work on the redesigns of our protagonists. The full cast of TF:RIF is going to be redesign-focused. -> The script of the comic is already in the making.

What to expect? (This part's the cool part ;^] )

The prologue of the story, the catalyst, the big stir of the comic is going to be drawn, coloured, and published by me, someplace in the near future!! Or rather: Get hype for a whole issue of TF:RIF!

I intend to build hype for the comic and show the public what this comic can one day become, and I'll be very open about the production process here on Tumblr. If you've read up to here, thank you very much for your interest, this comic's for all of you!! A big love letter to the TF community.

'Til soon! Moth.

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Sorry if I'm asking this again I just don't know if my ask went through because my phone was glitching out at the moment.

Does Sparkplug still see Op now that she's older and does it happen less than when she was younger? Also, has Sparkplug ever told anyone that she could see him or has she kept it a secret all this time?

(sorry if this is a word vomit type question this is my first ask and I'm nervous because you inspire me sm😭)

As she got older, she saw him less and less. I image it was her spark becoming less of a patchwork of Optimus and Megs, and her own personal spark. So as much as he would try to see her, his connection to the mortal world slowly disappeared.

As a baby she didn’t really understand what he was, he did small things. Tucking her in at night, unlocking the energon snack box for her, and making sure she didn’t get hurt when someone wasn’t keeping an eye on her 24/7.

Later he was simply a imaginary friend, he would sit and listen to her talk about silly history facts, open the training room for her (she wasn’t allowed to train for battle) and helping her find things she lost.

As of current day, she’s more convinced that he’s just a hallucination caused by the anxiety of being Optimus Prime’s daughter. She’ll see a glimpse of him after being rejected for scout try outs, see him sitting in the library for a moment when she’s hiding there, and seeing him sitting next to her after getting in an argument with Megatron or Elita.

She had tried to tell others but they mostly thought she was playing, it’s not hard to imagine she’d create an idea of Prime from reading about him.

Prime tried to be there as much as he could, he really did. He loves Sparkplug as much as he loves his older children. He would do whatever he could to make sure his last sparkling got a chance to live in a free world.

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Ohmygod, I just began reading the IDW comics, this is so so cool

I think this is my first Tumblr post? Thought I’d check out this white hot new app

(It’s James Roberts — just realised that my username gives nothing away)

There may be some MTMTE fans on here who (wisely) avoid Twitter etc and so may not know about the MTMTE Notebooks and Scriptbooks that I make available once a year

These exclusive behind-the-scenes books are essentially creator journals chronicling the evolution of the series, containing pitches, concepts, character thumbnails etc that I worked on ahead of and during the comic’s run

If you’d like to find out more, email mtmte.books@gmail.com and I’ll send you the details

Oh, and I have zero reach on here, so I’d be grateful if anyone who finds this and is a MTMTE fan could repost, or whatever the Tumblr term is

Thank you!

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I arise from my grave with a new oc clutched in my rat-like fingers

He is my Transformer OC and his name is Wire :)