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>>216138
I just go with the 'fandom default' valveplug in that they have light up dicks.
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I just think they should kiss
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Sweet boy.
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>>216449>transferring files, but getting off on it.I saw Megaman X fanart like that one time.
For transformers I guess the big three ways of robosex is like the before mentioned plug and play along with
>StickyRobots with all three parts, despite them only having confirmed assholes in like, two continuities
>SparkplayLiterally merging their souls together by jamming their sparks together or something? I find this one pretty cute despite that.
I guess it makes sense that this franchise winds up with so many different kinds of 'how do the robots fuck' stuff though, along with James obsession with robots giving birth in fucked up ways.
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>>216485Seriously James kinda sus with this stuff…
No. 218674
>>216080I was always a comic fan since Dreamwave. Later especially into Chaos Theory of IDW, MtmtE, Prowls story and TAAO.
At first I was mainly a fan of Megatron and he is still my favorite in most cartoons, but after re-reading the comics I ascended an got more into older Primes like Sentinel, Zeta and such, pre-war villains and some randos only one or two other people care about.
Still a huge fan and I have a lot of fun drawing them.
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sorry for necro - but not really, was wondering if there were any robo-loving nonnies still around on this board? i recently caught up to the franchise again, watched tf:one and it got me wanting to check out more and i've now read all of idw and i want to check out cyberverse as well. heard earthspark was gay as hell. also enjoying the new comics from skybound. and i have a lot i want to say on the fandom itself.
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>>460600i have so many thoughts lol, i'll keep it contained and just try to answer your questions for now (also let me know your own thoughts!)
so i dropped out a few years ago around the time Prime was still airing. i thought the premise of Prime started interesting, but the need to maintain status quo like most western cartoons got me bored and eventually i just dropped the whole fandom. got back into it recently because of TFOne which i thought was gonna be a trainwreck, but was actually super cool! i really liked it! its a basic story, but i loved the visuals, i loved how down to earth it kept itself, and the voice acting was really good despite it being mostly celebrities (will never warm up to scarjo tho). decided that i wanted to dip my toes back in the fandom and within 3 weeks id read all of the 2005 idw run, phase 1 2 and 3 (holy fuck the crossovers were ASS) with some mixed feelings, but overall liking it. also decided to start reading the skybound comics and checked out bumblebee 2016 and rise of the beasts. so ive roughly seen: maybe half of G1?, beast wars, all of animated, s1 of prime, the first 3 bayformer films, tfone, bumblebee 2016, rotb, read idw and am reading skybound as it releases. gonna watch the rest of the bayverse films and the 2019 idw run, and was considering watching cyberverse. earthspark seemed to have a promising s1, but then i heard it exploded in retardation and retcons. no interest in the animes or the older comics tbh.
since im a basic bitch, starscream is my favorite character. but my tastes also change between continuities, so there are characters i really like in one universe but dont care in others. however, overall, id say these are my favorite characters (in no order): jazz, megatron, rodimus, prowl, tarn, rung, skywarp, thundercracker, optimus, perceptor, blurr, sunstreaker, sideswipe, knock out, wheeljack, drift, pharma, whirl and there's probably more.
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>>460641>since im a basic bitch, starscream is my favorite characterKek, could be worse. For me it's still G1 Shockwave and Soundwave.
I quite liked the old TFUK and Marvel Comics runs from the wayback but have never been able to really get into any of the newer stuff.
It's still nice to sip my beak from time to time and still hearing Peter Cullen as Optimus gets me all weepy eyed if nobody's looking.
No. 460748
>>460680ive never been able to get super into either of the 'waves, but i admit thats a personal failing and not cuz theyre bad or anything like that. actually id love to hear more about why you like them! i dont dislike them but theyre firmly in the "i have no strong feelings towards them" tier for me.
i havent touched the marvel comics cuz i heard theres a ton of crossovering with other ips and i dont care about humans at all. i only want robots.
man, i wish theyd let peter cullen voice act an actual gentle optimus again before… he gets too worn out to voice optimus anymore… hes the dad for all transformers fans. the dad we didnt have.
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>>460748>id love to hear more about why you like them!If I'm being entirely honest, I think a lot of it just comes down to the fact that I thought they looked really cool. I liked my robots to be robotic.
They both had their own agendas in the comics but I kind of liked that, in the old cartoon, they were both depicted as mostly just loyal soldiers of Megatron. A lot of the Decepticons were pretty much just depicted as standard self-serving assholes in the original series and I found them kind of interesting, not necessarily 'evil' but loyal soldiers on the other side of the war. I've always had a bit of a fascination with characters like that.
>i havent touched the marvel comics cuz i heard theres a ton of crossovering with other ipsIt's been a long time but, if I am remembering correctly, TFUK (Marvel) had a brief crossover with GI Joe that lasted a few issues and the only crossover I can remember the US Marvel Transformers having was with SpiderMan for a single issue. Shit, it's been a long time but I remember that as both series progressed the focus shifted more and more to the Transformers and less to the human (presumed POV) characters.
Still, art and presentation has changed a lot over the years and it's hardly a condemnation of your character if you just don't like the old 80's 90's comic book style, some of the new designs are pretty cool but I'm old and am used to characters looking a certain way.
> i wish theyd let peter cullen voice act an actual gentle optimus againI'd love that, probably because I watched the cartoons as a kid I've always thought of Optimus as a superhero. Cullen does great work and really commits to the tragic soldier side of Prime but I'd love to see some straight up Superman style cheese. Give me more scenes of Autobots mourning the random-ass deer caught in the crossfire.
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i think its funny how popular tfa blurr became with only like, 15 minutes of screentime lol
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>>460819>I like my robots to be robotic.i used to be like that - not saying youll change btw just that i did, but over the years ive gotten used to the idea of humanized robots. soundwave and shockwave both should retain their more robotic designs tho.
hmmm, i might check out the marvel comics too then! i was just worried it was gonna be like 60% not about transformers lol
>>460820goated design and
goated voice can go far
No. 460914
>>460641ayrt and I'm glad to hear you had a good time with tfone and that it got you back into the franchise– I think that's a really neat thing about media like this, you can come and go from it and find something to like after falling out of love with another part. I thought tfone was fun too, especially liked the visual direction of the environments and Quintessons, and it was a pretty charming film in general.
>holy fuck the crossovers were ASSYeah I had loads of fun reading idw back in the day, but man I hated whenever there was a crossover or other derailing event issue kek– why must western/American comics pull this shit? Probably isn't so bad to read through now, but was disruptive af when the comic was still coming out. Agree on the mixed feelings though– the 2005 idw run certainly has its highs and lows, though it definitely has some of my favourite content for certain characters and was generally a lot of fun… if a little retarded in places lmao.
I still need to catch up on the non-Bay live action films lol, and I will argue that TFP finds its feet in the second season somewhat (and then loses them once it needed to introduce stuff for new toys)… though I haven't rewatched it in years so it might not hold up. Cyberverse is something lol. I checked out a bit of Earthspark, and season 1 had a few neat ideas and some nice 3D and 2D animation in places, but yeah iirc the entire creative team changed between s1 and s2 and it went to shit. Was neat to see the 'autobot Megatron' concept escape the comics though– it's interesting to see what parts of the franchise end up influencing newer projects.
>since im a basic bitch, starscream is my favorite characterkek he's probably one of my favourites across most continuities too, he's one of the more dynamic core characters of the franchise, so usually gets up to more interesting shit than some of the other franchise regulars.
>your favourite character listwe are sisters anon, I like all of those too lol. Depending on continuities, I'll also add on the 'Waves and some of the ladies like Windblade and Arcee
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>>4609082 year old comment friend
>>460914yeah! its super easy to get into since theres so many variations you can choose from - rn i just hope we'll manage to get a sequel to tfone (tfTWO!!)
>idwstill probably one of my fave iterations for transformers even if it was hit or miss and messy, like, i really loved the highs, really loved them. tfone was good, but short. looking back animated was actually pretty good. maybe i should finally finish prime… feels bad about earthspark because autobot megs and post-war content is so rare especially in the cartoons and it couldve been really interesting, but alas, it all got shot apart lol.
the non bayverse live actions are… okay. bumblebee 2016 is pretty decent, but rotb was hot garbage imho. very bad.
>ladiesi really want to like more female transformers but ive yet to find one i LOVE tho i did like chromia, mistress of flame, nautica and velocity in idw. had no real feelings on elita 1 in tfone cuz scarjo. blackarachnia is always
goated tho.
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I absolutely despise Simon Furman and his treatment of female transformers, particularly Arcee
In the Marvel comics, he gave Arcee an origin in which she was built from Optimus Primes "rib" to appease strawman "angry feminists"
In the IDW1 spotlight "Arcee", he gave "Arcee" an even more offensive origin in which "she" was originally a male transformer who was forcefully transitioned into a "female" transformer (how the fuck can sexless robots transition?)
So this "Arcee" isnt even actually Arcee this is some male transformer wearing her face and her pink paint job (ew gross)
And of course the TIM fans found this "transphobic" (because they find everything transphobic. even the things in favor of them) so later they hired some self proclaimed "lesbian" TIM who later retconned "Arcee"s origin and turned "her" into a TIM "lesbian" and added two more annoying TIM "lesbian" characters (this whole saga felt so offensive and lesbophobic as fuck to actual lesbians tbh. just nerd scrotes fetishizing lesbianism)
No. 462361
>>461047Sorry for the delay anon, but yeah I hope tfTWO happens! Would be interesting to see where they'd take it– my guess is diverting the 'bot vs 'con war in favour of cybertronians vs quintessons, or maybe end up in a similar position with the factions as that War for Cybertron show Rooster Teeth did (hopefully much better though kek). Honestly don't really care so long as they do fun things with the characters and world and don't rush straight to Earth/humans.
What were some of your favourite parts of IDW? Anything in particular you didn't like? I've been meaning to do a full re-read of the run myself (realised the other day that I could only strongly remember MTMTE and adjacent stuff lol)
Sad to hear the non-Bay LA films are on the meh side– I know Bayverse itself is trash, but I kinda love its retarded, high-budget crackfic-vibe nonsense all the same.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that I
love any particular female transformers (although I somehow failed to mention Nickel last time, who is up there kek, and I also enjoyed the ones you listed) either, but I can confidently say that I like or enjoy quite a few of them (which is more than I can say for many other franchises/media) and that they're getting closer and closer to writing female transformers that I could adore. There must be something about the spider ladies though, because both Blackarachnia and Airachnid (tfp and tfone) are rad
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>>462325are you talking about issue 234 of transformers marvel uk?
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>>462325Jhiaxus? I'm genuinely shocked that any of the Marvel G2 stuff was used again. I've always been under the impression G2 is pretty much universally panned amd ignored.
That page you shared is some pretty grim shit.
>>462407NTA but that's the one! They were goofy as hell but I still kind of like the Earthforce stories from TFUK. Kek, they made it into the wiki.
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>>462325 in idw1 transformers, "arcee" is also really old as fuck and is a twin brother of galvatron.
thats why i always found that pseudo-lesbian ship "arcee" x aileron not only lesbophobic but also creepy as fuck since theres a huge fucking age gap between those two because unlike "arcee" whose literally an ancient old man AGP robot aileron is actually a teen/young adult natal female robot
No. 462526
>>462436>Why do certain retards despise women in Transformers?I used to be one of those retards, still am to a certain degree, and can provide an unsatisfactory answer. For me at least it probably came down to a 50/50 split of resistance to change and good old-fashioned hatred of all things outwardly feminine. I was used to all the Transformers being male and to my thinking at the time 'sexless' so on a certain level I found the introduction of female transformers kind of jarring and also sort of personally insulting, like I was being very poorly pandered to. I suppose my opinion on them was probably not too far off from how some fans feel towards human characters, they were not really my interest and I resented their presence. Pretty neutral on female transformers these days, though I viscerally hated Arcee when I was a kid.
I won't dispute the position being called retarded, I think I mostly held on to it out of stubborn immaturity and it is the kind of thing that should be grown out of with time. Screaming into the void and demanding that the entire world complies with my personal preferences is rather a silly way to live.
>As a Beast Wars watcher when I was a kid and later learning the writing team had to fight tooth and nail to even be allowed to have female characters in the showFunny enough, I was never bothered by the female robots in Beast Wars and kind of liked Blackarachnia. Best retroactive explanation I can pull out of my arse is that animal themed transforming robots having sexual dimorphism didn't feel like as much of a stretch.
No. 462673
>>462526 >I found the introduction of female transformers kind of jarring and also sort of personally insulting, like I was being very poorly pandered to. Was it because the female transformers looked very petite and kind of naked compared to the male transformers?
Would you perhaps have hated them less if they looked more like the male transformers?
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>>462410kek this is so stupid. same energy
No. 462683
>>462526Interesting. I was never bothered by there being female transformers (tbh I don't think that there was ever a period for me where they
weren't a thing, so that might be part of it), I just didn't start to actually enjoy their presence until idk examples from the last 20 years? They were just kind of there, like a background element to the characters I did enjoy (which tbh was also the norm in my experience for a lot of female cartoon characters at the time, I mostly only found women in books that I actually liked as much as many male characters, but things have improved since). I do like that female transformer designs aren't as rigidly locked into looking like slim robotic women now, and that they aren't limited into being 'the girl' archetype much anymore. It's not perfect, but I'll take it (not a fan of the whole disaster with IDW Arcee obviously, and hope future media steers clear of repeating that mess kek)
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>>462325 >>462421"not called cisformers is it 'misogynistic slur'"
And yet none of the male transformers (especially the important ones) are trans. They're all cisformers.
Its only the very few female transformers that troons are obsessed with transwashing
No. 462696
>>462688 Troons took the "trans" part of the word "transformers" too literally.
But if you gotta be that retard who takes words too literally for the sake of validating their own fake identities and beliefs, shouldn't the word "transformers" mean "people who are former trans".
This means all transformers are detransitioned and therefore cisformers lol
No. 462703
>>462688 >"not called cisformers is it 'misogynistic slur'" >And yet none of the male transformers (especially the important ones) are trans. They're all cisformers. >Its only the very few female transformers that troons are obsessed with transwashing it's not just female transformers that are being transwashed because female characters from other media are also being subjected to that.
that's why I hate reboots/new releases of old media because the female characters in it always get transwashed to appease troon scrotes instead of actual women meanwhile the male characters are left untouched to keep the cis scrotes happy too.
actual women are erased from the "representation" and "target audience" categories
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>>462325 >>462421 >>462688 >>462696 >>462697 >>462703 Speaking of characters ruined by IDW, anybody else hated it when in one of the issues of MTMTE it was revealed that Ultra Magnus isn't a real transformer but just an armor controlled by a smaller, ugly and green colored transformer? (a mini-con I suppose)
IDW gave too much liberty to writers when it came to transwashimg female transformers or adding their ugly ocs
No. 463028
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>>463024 While Elita-1 wasn't transwashed like Arcee in IDW, I still hated the evil Carcerian incarnation that they gave to her.
Her design was ugly and her personality was bad and nothing like the actual Elita-1. Literally any other character could've filled that role.
She's suppose to be the compassionate but brave leader of the female Autobots. She's the female Optimus prime.
the IDW incarnation of her strays so far away from the original source material that it isn't even her anymore it's just someone's edgy oc that just happens to look like Elita-1.
I think every incarnation, no matter how different, oath to include some important elements from the original source material that makes a character THAT character.
Anyway I really like this Elita-1 design from the earlier issues way back when Spotlight Arcee wasn't even published. I wish somebody had killed Simon Furman so Spotlight Arcee could've been prevented from ever being published and maybe we could've seen this version of Elita-1 flourish instead
No. 463034
>>462361>>463024my theory is/was that tfTWO would be about the decepticons and autobots starting their conflict and ending with some disaster happening because the quintessons show up again and at the end they realise they have to band together to stop them in the third movie. and then in the third movie it focuses on them fighting the quints - whether or not it keeps to the status quo of decepticon vs. autobots i am not sure since this was supposed to be just a trilogy. ive never seen/played wfc.
>What were some of your favourite parts of IDW? Anything in particular you didn't like?maybe i am a gaylord but my favorite parts were thundercracker's adventures, anything starring prowl and jazz, almost all of mtmte, a lot of lost light and the cybertron stories that were written by mairghread scott. none of it was flawless, but those stood out to me as the most enjoyable. the spotlights were p cool too, hit or miss tho.
there was a LOT i didnt like. im not american and im so far left that im basically an anarchist, so the very early furman runs were dripping with american propaganda which i thought was insufferable. i hated all of the crossovers except for Rom, they were okay. i really disliked how the writers kept juggling starscreams character back and forth, it was pretty clear to me that the writers were not in agreement for his arc/character and it made his whole story very messy, particularly the post-cybertron parts.
actually, these characters were done the most dirty, or were written in ways that i personally did not care for: optimus, starscream, arcee (lol), sunstreaker, sideswipe, galvatron, shockwave (i liked pre-empurata shockwave tho), ultra magnus (yeah i also hated the minimus thing).
on the contrary i kinda liked that elita-1 was an unlikeable bitch. not enough women get to be just straight up hard as a rock like that.
>>462325>>462421imma b real with you i don't think the idw are lesbohobic or transphobic i think they were just really fucking stupid with how they handled arcee. there was not a single time during the entire run where i didnt cringe when she was around. they used her WAY too much and idk why they were so dead set on her character, kinda felt like they were doing a sunk cost fallacy thing with her. also arcee/aileron isnt offensive its just dumb, it made very little sense and again i think they were just tryna force people to like this version of arcee due to sunk cost fallacy.
No. 463041
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>>463028 the pic you shared is from Megatron Origin issue 3.
according to tfwiki, Chromia also made a cameo in that same issue but I don't remember seeing her and I also couldn't find any pic when i searched?
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>>463024The Minimus Ambus reveal was so infuriating. I hate his stupid fox brother too, such an ugly design. There's so much I love about More Than Meets The Eye, but James Roberts is such an annoying writer. He just can't help himself. Lost Light was absolutely awful as well
No. 463386
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>>463041 Here's that Chromia (with Ironhide)
No. 463388
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>>463028 Samefag, here's that Elita-1 again (with Orion Pax blocking the view of course, just like Ironhide).
It's a shame though that these two pics are her only appearances in the whole issue and neither of them is a full body pic.
I would've loved to see what this particular Elita-1 design looked like in full body.
Maybe Alex Milne (the guy who drew these Elitas) would post a full body sketch of this insignificant, 19 years old Elita-1 design on his x/Twitter account one day.
I'll keep being delusional and won't lose hope
No. 463433
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>>463386 >>463338 Samefag, maybe I'm reaching but the shape of the chest plates of some of the transformers in this picrel make me believe that some of them are female.
(It's possible because the comic was drawn by Alex Milne and he always had an affinity for female transformers, thus he would often sneak them in the comics as background characters. Also anyone who knows about his old DeviantArt account would get what I'm saying)
No. 463455
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>>462325 >>462421 >>462688 Samefag, Arcee by Alex Milne (2004) from his (other) DeviantArt account.
(4 years before Furman's psycho Arcee became the norm)
https://www.deviantart.com/willmangin/art/arcee-and-a-kitty-9937682 No. 463495
>>463459>>463470im gonna say it
KOBD is boring, Knock Out has more chemistry with Starscream.
No. 463549
>>462436As 'one of those retards', I like men. I like stories about men. My female role models betrayed and abused me. The people who protected and loved me were male.
This resulted in me not getting along with other women until far later in life, as I have learnt not to trust them. There are many 'female mannerisms' that I have learnt to always double-guess, because they have been used to hurt me very many times.
As a result, I feel happier and more relaxed watching a show with no prominent female characters, because there is no inherent distrust.
No. 463712
>>463549 for me it's the opposite.
i like women and hate men and stories about men.
and even though transformers is a male centered franchise i still only watch/read the versions that has female characters in it and try to ignore the male tfs and only focus on the female tfs as much as possible.
if there was a piece of tf media only about female transformers then i would've just watched/read that instead but since there isn't any i have to tolerate the presence of male tfs in literally every tf media.
And i know this is an unrealistic idea but i wish Hasbro would start making separate pieces of media for male and female transformers so people who only like one of them can avoid having to see the other
No. 463717
>>463549 >I have learnt not to trust them. >There are many 'female mannerisms' that I have learnt to always double-guess, because they have been used to hurt me very many times. >As a result, I feel happier and more relaxed watching a show with no prominent female characters, because there is no inherent distrust. Me but about MALES.
Women are superior, males are inferior
No. 463744
>>463726 Of course, i appreciate that you asked politely.
the charm for me is not the male gender but the concept.
the concept of humanoid robots that can transform into vehicles (or sometimes even other objects or animals) is quite charming.
the lore of transformers usually also tend to be quite charming/interesting (as long as they dont pull a IDW 2005 by killing off all genuine female transformers).
and lastly, what makes me interested in transformers is simply female transformers even if they're scarce.
i liked IDW and Cyberverse Windblade, Prime Arcee, Rid Strongarm, Animated Blackarachnia and WFCT and TFOne Elita 1.
i also liked the version of Elita 1 that appeared in the original cartoon even if it was for only one episode.
mostly because she had a very soothing voice
No. 463749
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>>463024 I disliked all of their holomatter projections, especially Rodimus's. (but except for Nuatica's projection. She looked cute)
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>>463749sorry
nonny you're wrong megs' holoform is sexo
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>>463936Thank god James Roberts hasn't touched the franchise since Lost Light
No. 464143
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>>464131 That's what I believed as well until in IDW 2005 comics, they introduced a bizarre concept called "CNA" which could be thought of as robotic DNA contained in a protoform/transformer's spark that is responsible for determining his/her appearance, including sex.
Tinkering with it can change sex, apparently.
But if you ask me this concept is such bs because you can never change your birth sex on a DNA level.
You can only "change" it on a superficial level by getting opposite sex mimicking surgeries or synthetic hormones.
And also since they're robots why do they have to tinker with their "CNAs" in the first place?
Why don't they just change their body parts or extract and shift their sparks in whole new bodies instead?
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>>462325 >>462421 >>462688 >>464018 the whole Arcee issue could've been resolved if they had just placed his extracted spark in a male body. but Simon Furman wanted a psycho forcefemmed man Arcee and later James Robert and that TIM Rachel Stevens wanted transbian Arcee and two more annoying transbians Lug and Anode for "lesbian" representation so IDW never did the right thing
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>>462325 >>464155 enough with the whole IDW trans discourse already.
yeah it was a terrible idea to shove trans bs in a franchise about sexless robots but we don't have to keep ruminating on that.
instead look at this comic I found on DA (part 1)
https://www.deviantart.com/carrinth/art/Transformers-Missing-1-810122582 No. 464313
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>>464312 part 6/final part
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i just wanna say i fucking hate this creator and her oversexed porn mouthed "female" Starscream SO MUCH
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I'm reading the Skybound stuff in order (including Void Rivals and G.I. Joe) and it's super refreshing. I love Bumblebee but I'm so happy Cliffjumper has the spotlight here. His relationship with Carly is really sweet.
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i'm so tired of MegaStar discourse nonnies…
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>>464920Transformers shipping discourse is so ridiculous. I don't care if it's "
abusive" nor do I care if there's an age gap. These are giant robots that are thousands of years old. Who gives a fuck?
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Show me your robot husbandos nonnies, or waifus if you prefer the fembots.
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>>466422No complex reasons, I just think they're fun.
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>>466422He's really cute in the IDW comics as well.
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>>466422 >or waifus if you prefer the fembots. Heh, thanks.
Anyway, I'm aware that the Evergreen designs aren't liked well by most TF fans, but regardless, I still really dig this Evergreen Elita 1 design.
Especially the cute little horns on her helm.
They remind me of Bumblebee's and Cliffjumper's horns
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>>466422 >>467544 Another Elita 1 design that I'm fond of is the Botcon 2009 one although it is a redeco of Thunderblast from the Cybertron cartoon.
Poor girl mostly gets redecos/retools of other transformers (I fucking hate you Arcee) and rarely gets her own designs