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trinarysuns:

Want to read an almost 500-page pdf analyzing the (first three) bayverse Transformers movies, about the creeping fascism of the autobots, bizarre symbolism, and Megatron being the secret hero of the piece? OKAY HERE YOU GO

(Full disclosure, most of the length is pictures mixed with short paragraphs. It’s not 500 pages of text.)

The “bayverse is actually good” analysis is a firmly tongue-in-cheek bit of fun that came out of Something Awful’s Cinema Discusso forum circa 2012. I’d heard it referenced but never bothered to read the thing until now. A lot of it is “wtf, Michael Bay?”, but there’s weird stuff going on in the background, from Megatron’s design and role becoming gradually more feminine as the movies progress until he’s letting his children eat his own body, Starscream the last loyal decepticon, Optimus’ deliberately-misleading narration, Shockwave-as-the-red-scare, and the decepticons’ working-class coding before IDW Megatron came along. If you enjoy reading too much into media as much as I do, it’s worth a look.

balloonarcade:

coneheadtrine:

balloonarcade:

Speaking of mighty needs, does any Transformers continuity have official holidays? Cultural, or religious?

Some things come to mind but I think…they are fanon?

i see all spark day has already been mentioned in reblogs, but additionally in that episode blades mentions a “festival of primes” which i don’t think we know anything else about lol

Festival of Primes sounds rife for headcanoning. 

Festival of Mortilus I can’t seem to find anything on…but I like the sounds of it.

haiku-robot:

themodernsouthernpolytheist:

sosuperawesome:

Stained Glass Centre Piece and Corner Crystal Clusters, Cacti and Agate Moon, by The Sweet Karma Bar on Etsy

See our ‘stained glass’ tag

OMG they have spider webs, too, and they’d look so cute on my house!!

omg they have
spider webs too and they’d look
so cute on my house

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agatharights:

cadaverriffic:

so here’s my thoughts on TFA Ambulon:

He was originally a Decepticon, but it became apparent pretty early on in his life that he didn’t really “fit” with the Decepticons- he didn’t like violence, spoke quietly, showed lots of compassion and kindness towards his patients… For the most part, the other ‘Cons didn’t mind his more pacifistic tendencies. Any medic that won’t harvest your organs while you’re recharging is a good medic in most Decepticon’s books.

Ambulon, on the other hand, eventually has enough of the excessive violence and killing that comes with being a Decepticon, and leaves to join the autobots. And he lived happily ever afte- ahahaha no I’m just kidding this is where it goes to hell.

So it turns out that due to his “criminal record” (ie. Being born a Decepticon), Ambulon isn’t allowed to practise medicine on Cybertron or any other planet in the autobot commonwealth. So, when he’s offered the chance to volunteer for some “medical experiments”, he quickly agrees, figuring that if he can’t heal people directly, he can at least help further the study of medicine.

Oh, Ambulon. You really should have looked more into what you signed up for.

It turns out that the “Medical experiment” is in fact the early stages of the “Protectobot” combiner project. Ambulon isn’t there to be part of the combiner, however- he’s there to be a guinea pig. He spends the next few years being poked and prodded at, undergoing several surgeries, and overall just being treated poorly by the staff due to his Decepticon roots.

When it’s all said and done, Ambulon is left with a host of mental and physical scars. He’s stuck with a useless alt. mode, and somehow the reformatting process left him unable to scan a new one. He eventually joins up with the lost light crew during their jailbreak from Cybertron.

BrU H

Somebody plz hug this leg.

agatharights:

Quintessons are very soothing to draw. They are eggs that are also squids with grumpy old man faces? Some have multiple faces! The security guard Quintessons are particularly cute to me because they just have GUN on one side of their bodies.

Interestingly, the majority of Quintessons we see are not the five-faced judges, though Judges seem to be the leaders in most senses! I think a lot about how I would do Quintessons in Transformers, like about their weird fucked-up culture and why they’re all horrifying egg cyborgs. Also, does the Judgement face remind anybody else of Tyrest?

And then I tried to draw one not based off any I’d seen and it looks kinda like Alpha Trion.

Help me make a Quintesson OC. Or stop me. IDK.

agatharights:

agatharights:

Apparently my motif for The Thirteen are “spooky energy beings with angelic imagery” and i still got like eleven of these demigods I haven’t drawn yet

I’m all about this spooky aesthetic so have a Solus Prime, the Inventor! I figure I’ll actually put this over on the tfm blog when I write up a thing about each of them.

She has lots of little tool-arms that come out of her chest to work on stuff.

tfmatrix:

There is a thing known by many titles and names. The Deep Void, the Hunger in us all, the Pit-Mouth, the Devourer, some whisper a name long forgotten- Unicron, they breath. The end given form.

It’s a silly myth, nothing but a representative force, a nameless adversary used to fill in for the threats faced by beings of legend. Nothing more, just a silly superstition, an explanation for the starless patch of sky or the ravings of madmechs.

Unicron does not appear in history, after all.

Nothing so vast and terrible could exist.

Ancient depictions of a winged planet devouring solar systems are nothing but metaphors, a visual, visceral impression of perhaps conquest or exploration or simply a commentary on how many species live on the cusp of death, such brief lifespans. Still, one has to wonder…why this image?

And why do these impressions unsettle all Cybertronians, so?

(Unicron seldom appears in art, or as pictographic runes, but as all good corrupting eldritch forces do, whatever you illustrate or describe it as…It may not stay like that should you look away. In illustrations it appears something like this, a weakened tangle of chaotic limbs/wings that is defeated and dispersed into nothingness.

Modern Cybertronians generally don’t believe in Unicron, or think it was killed ages past, but they like a good spooky story and there’s little spookier than something so ravenous it must consume planets and people, souls and all.)

Unrelated (?) Question but…

tfmatrix:

tfomegaquest:

transformersmr-hq:

How does Cybertronian cooking work? Do I just stick “Energon” in front of any random food like Energon nachos, Energon corndogs, Energon fries and stuff???

Idk, TFWiki has a list of canonical Transformer foods, and the fandom has come up with a few staples (e.g. Mercury rolls, though no one can really agree if these are like cinnamon rolls or something else), but I think most things would work if you added ‘energon’ in front of them?
I personally have looked into chemistry experiments and wondered if transformers could eat the results, like aerogel.

I know that energon is similar, physically, to honey in Matrix, so there’s a variety of flavors and textures it comes in depending upon trace elements and how it’s crystals form, or how it’s treated, but actual cuisine in Matrix revolves more around anything else they need- certain minerals or chemicals they need to ingest, metals they might supplement their diet with, etc

Though on Earth that winds up less “cuisine” and more, uh.

Cronch cronch rocks.