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(259) Continuity mashup: Megatron crash lands on Earth all alone and has to be nursed — for a certain value of "nursing" anyway — back to health by a rural family who initially keep him in their recently rebuilt barn. He has little hope of getting out of the Earth's atmosphere on his own, so all he can do is angrily pace circles around his own distress beacon for now.

He discovers that the human family who helped him moved out here when the nearby mine reopened; both parents work there, and the local economy is pretty reliant on it. Megatron sees remarkable similarities between blue collar workers that truly cross the species barrier from inorganic to organic in his head. At first the obvious comparison between them disgusts him, but over time he adapts.

By the time the Autobots arrive on Earth, Megatron's already been there twenty years. He's got a job with the union, and, wow, wouldn't you know it? Labour reforms seem to be proceeding apace. And yet: the government still seems strangely keen to support Optimus Prime in his war effort...

#tf fic ideas #maccadam #megatron

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It really is, often controversial in Korean fandom too, but honestly, it's hard to blame the Korean public on this issue....None of the anime series are easy to watch (Earthspark season 1 surprisingly got a chance, but recently there was shocking news that season 2 won't be available) and the only legitimate and comfortable route they can see is the movie series. People can't get access to series that don't have subtitles and aren't even aired in korean if they don't use VPNs.

Anyway, I enjoyed BB and ROTB and am very much looking forward to TFone. I just hope the audience is a little more interested this time around.

PLEASE TELL ME YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY

#transformers #transformers g1 #transformers meme #tf memes #transformers earthspark #transformers bayverse #earthspark #transformers rise of the beasts #transformers one

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I don't usually talk politics, but I can't help myself.

Freedom is dying in South Korea. It's really no different than the North Korea government. That fxxking guy was directly elected by about half the country. South Korea has had many dictatorial presidents and their collective brainwashing still has a strong influence on the older generations and it's the same for their children.

Now South Korea government is really going crazy, they're eliminating or reducing every public welfare budgets and wasting taxes on weird stuff, and now want to stop us from buying things from abroad. I'm worried about not being able to buy transformers comics and dvds, but the ripple effect this will be bigger than that. Especially people in related industries will be out of work or miserable. But they don't care, don't even consider the possibility of a trade conflict.

Of course, those idiots didn't protest properly when the Israel embassy committed a serious diplomatic fault pas by making a video of Hamas attacking Seoul. Israel blatantly ignores us, and we're supposed to side with them because we're an US ally. Screw you guys. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. Palestine must be liberated. I am against the horrible Holocaust. May the world's dictators, deceitful powers, and war criminals be gone.

#free palestine #free gaza #south korea #republic of korea #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #thanks optimus #optimus prime #transformers

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yeah a trailer is just a trailer. It's not the full season. Starscream's villainous dialog could be fake, or it could be a flashback, or maybe they've traveled back in time.

Plus I'm happy to see new terrans, I'm just little worried about the screamer's bad parenting but who know...

Hey all. 👋 Two things I should talk about.

First, I've been getting a lot of messages about the recent rumors regarding Earthspark's cancellation after Season 2 in favor of a new animated TF series. I get it, people are scared that Hasbro will shut Earthspark down after only two seasons. I'm nervous too, considering the backlash from things like Fox News last year.

Right now I don't know anything more than the rest of you, and I really don't know which way it's going to turn out. We'll have to wait and see. As of now though, we still have all of Season 2 to look forward to, and we can do our best to show support for the show. And if it does end up being cancelled-- at least it happened, and it was great. Plus, I'm sure if the creators think it's not being renewed they will have a good conclusive ending to the story at the end of this season, even if it wasn't everything we or they wanted.

Second thing I want to quickly address; whatever happened about Starscream the second the trailer came out. Does this small fandom really need this kind of divisiveness over a 30-second trailer that shows only the very surface level of the plot? I guarantee there will be more to this season than "Starscream is evil again!". Earthspark's plot revolves around the idea that nobody is inherently evil, and that everyone can change for the better. They're not going to throw away all the character development that happened in Episode 21.

That's all. I'm on vacation so I won't be active much this week. Take care <3

#earthspark #transformers earthspark #tfes #tfe #tf earthspark #transformers #starscream #earthspark starscream

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I'm excited that the trailer for Earthspark is out, but it turns out I can't officially watch season 2 in Korea due to OTT issues. That means no subtitles for the new season, and no rewatch season one. I am in pain right now....damn, I'm making unofficial subtitles for G1 and now I have to do it for Earthspark? you guys no consideration for non-English speaking regions at all 😩

#earthspark #transformers earthspark #transformers #tf earthspark #megatron #tfe #nooooo 😭😭😭😭😭 #I know they're in business but....

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honestly I wasnt interested in Alpha Trion, but the trailer ruined me. I can't wait to see the depressed, sad old robot 😇

#transformers #tf one #tf one trailer #transformers one #alpha trion #sorry alphy its all my fault

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By the way, what happened to the Fallen in TFone? As I understand it, didn't he betray his siblings and run away? But somehow he seems to have died with them, I guess? not sure but...If really so, it's possible that he actually stood with other primes to the end and fought against Quintessons, so they hated him so much that twisted the entire Prime mythology to write him off as a despicable traitor. (just delusion I dont know much about 13 prime things) at least that kinda makes sense for him to be a symbol of decepticon revolution.

I'm also wondering what the role of Quintus Prime would be if Quintessons are the main antagonists. I'm a fan of Earthspark too, so I'll have to find out what this guy's up to. 👀

#tf one #transformers #transformers one #megatronus #megatronus prime #quintessons #quintus prime #earthspark #transformers: one #thoery? #well who knows #decepticon

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귀엽다

heyy hi i dont normally ask requests but since youre taking them how about some astrotrain or skywarp? feel free to can this one if youre not feeling up to it

How about both?

He’s not sorry.

If anyone else wants to send me art or writing prompts, I’m open to just about anything right now so long as I’m familiar with the subject or can otherwise pull up a reference for whatever it is.

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OHMY-

dreams of maids

#transformers #earthspark #optimus prime #megatron #megoplita

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[ 1/2 tomorrow ]

#shes so beautiful... Im dying...

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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!!!

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Yes. I agree. I was hoping for a more multifaceted narrative on the human side. I think it was really important to understand the pain and trauma that the humans have been through in order to tell the Terran story, especially how they dealt deeply with the motivations of the villains. In the process, the Terrans would have faced and learned the truth that without the war, they would not have been born.

It's obviously Twitch and Thrash were born bcs GHOST hired Dorothy so her family removed to Witwicky and Mandroid sent Arachnamech to hunt down the Cybertronians. Jawbreaker, Hashtag, and Nightshade were also born in the context of fighting seeker twins. So Terrans are, to some extent, a direct result of the war. I don't know if there's a Quintus Prime or Primus conspiracy involved here, but I'm pretty sure that was very significant origin. For the Terrans, Earth is their only home, but for humans, the Terrans can be terrifying. I don't want the show to just jump over that.

As they grow up, they will develop a certain amount of disgust for the adults and themselves. They should have at least little understand how the Mandroid came to be, but at the same time, also get to know about a lot of people who didn't turn out to be like the Mandroid. there are more people who live through war and try to maintain a normal life. They may have an instinctive fear of Cybertronians, but that doesn't automatically make them enemies of the Terrans. In fact these characters would contrast more with villain who believe Cybertronians should be wiped out.

I like all of the main human characters in Earthspark, so I wanted to see their development, it's unsatisfying point. for example Dot is a really tough and strong character, but she seems to be emphasized more as Megatron's friend or the mother of children than as a person in her own right. I think there should be something hinted at about her PTSD, since she was directly involved in the war and lost her leg in a bombing. and this is just my guess, Dot was probably hit by friendly fire, because she was close to Megatron. Obviously Decepticons (except for starscream) would not have shot at their leader, that would explain Dot's reaction when the mandroid told her one of the Autobots had opened fire and the building collapsed. even if that's not the case, there's something fishy about how she lost her leg.

I'm sure her deep connection to Megatron has something to do with her desire or mentality, because she's a vulnerable human being too. it's not meaning she's a weak character, it's just that she's clearly affected by the war. She has gotten very strong beliefs, so that's probably caused conflicts with other people. According to the guidebook, she helped an injured Decepticon, and I don't think all humans saw her actions in a good light. In fact, I don't even know if she adjusted well in the military, the show doesn't really touch on that at all, but.... I think there must have been some reason her opening up to Megatron like just him opening up to her. She may have been trying to maintain her humanity in the midst of a disastrous war for the sake of her family. Megatron surrendered as a result of her action. of course she couldn't refuse him when the living embodiment of her beliefs was right in front of her.

I love the relationship between Megs and Dorothy, and I can't stop to think about the reactions of those around her when Dot became Megs' friend. It's not hard to imagine the uproar within the US military when the Cyber Strike platoon was formed....my headcanon is that Dot and Megs were co-captains, but I don't know how the rest of members would've reacted to Megatron. Perhaps some of them refused to work with her, I fully understand that and think it's something that should be explored further. it was not necessary to go into great detail about what her time in the military, but I think there should have been at least some explanation. It would have been nice to see what different perspectives the citizens of Witwicky have on Cybertronians.

and talk about villan side, Mandroid and Karen Croft are really wasted characters. There were so many more stories that could have been told. I would say that the Mandroid's search for self should've been a mirror version of the Terran's. While the Terrans are figuring out who they are, the Mandroids are figuring out who they are, with former becoming a hero and the latter a villain. He was going to find his own name in the second half, that's why Mandroid hated the name "Mandroid," because it wasn't fit his identity(he was a some sort of denial guy😔). And his relationship with Alex was important part of the show, and it's a shame that they treated it like nothing.

While I consider Dr. Meridian to be a dead man and the being called the Mandroid to be something reborn afterwards, it would still be worth knowing about the ghost of the past, if the his friend is the parent of the main characters' children. it would have been a great addition to Alex's story. Alex lost his friend in the Cybertronian war, but he's friendly and interested in the Cybertronians, and I can tell there's something angst going on here. since Meridian "died" in the building that the Autobots knocked down, the Terrans would have been reminded of what the transformers war meant.

In Croft's case, her villainous appeal, hinted at early on, was that she didn't just overwhelm the Cybertronians with firepower; she used psychological warfare to divide them. I couldn't imagine that this would remain a MacGuffin, especially when it's implied that she has a past with her brother Jon Schloder who literally has a different last name with her. On top of that, she hid the fact that she was abusing Decepticons from Jon. It's not like the other agents know either, but it's clear that she doesn't want him to know. Maybe she didn't want Jon to know because he would annoy her, but there's something more between the two of them.

They don't look alike, not just with their last names, and it seems likely that Jon is her adopted brother or something like that. She had the power to remove Jon from the GHOST if she really wanted him to have nothing to do with it, but she kept him on. (He's a parachutist, sure, but he's passionate about his job, and he trusted his sister. He really should have been in therapy after the ending of season 1...) so that I question what the U.S. government, which is rarely shown, is doing for citizens. It's almost as if they've left everything to the GHOST, and the fact that Croft mentions the president suggests that she may have had connections with the White House....they might be the villain of season 2.

It is correct that Cybertronians brought their war onto Earth, they are not exactly innocent. You wouldn't exactly blame humans' hatred for them but the thing is they can't go home, even if they want to they can't. And it's been more than a decade since the war ended.

Maybe back when the war was ongoing all that graffiti telling Transformers to "GO HOME" would've been valid but at present the Transformers cannot go home. They are stranded. That begs the question:

Well, what do we do with them now?

We can't kill them, that'd be cruel, imprisoning them would be too. A lot of them would resist the control also, GHOST spends their entire time trying to hunt down rogue 'cons in the show. The Cybertronians working alongside humans seems to be the best strategy and it seems that is what Optimus was trying to do. I'm pretty sure they also mentioned that the Autobots helped rebuild after the destruction of the war. The biggest issue would be not every Cybertronian or human would want to actually work with each other.

But currently with the space bridge being destroyed it would be a bit insensitive telling Transformers to "go home". But you could understand why when some human families have been affected by the losses in the war.

I wish the show explained this in a more morally grey way. Show more sympathy to Mandroid, show how bad the destruction the Cybertronians have caused is, show families who've lost loved ones in the war. There've clearly been suffering because of this. The humans are kinda justified but the problem is as a viewer we know that not all Cybertronians are bad, we know that they want to help people.

I've realised the show has been dealing with this problem in a purely 'Terran' perspective. To THEM it is unfair, all that discrimination, to THEM Earth is their only home. They are Transformers too but just born on Earth. They are the only purely innocent ones in this Cybertronian vs Human conflict. Cybertronians are the ones who are mostly at fault, humans are a bit justified but it would be quite morally wrong to discriminate against a population of alien diaspora isolated and stranded on a foreign planet with no way back to their home planet, also there's a possibility that their planet would be dead. As I said before, back in maybe the 80s it would be justified but at present it's a bit... yeah.

Terrans are the only innocent ones in this. That's why the discrimination in 'Home' is mostly from their perspective.

On a meta note, some people seem to forget that and immediately compare this fictional situation to real ones. I don't exactly blame them but it's not a one to one allegory to real life immigrant discrimination. I don't think we should exactly treat it as such. It's fine comparing some similarities but it's not a one to one match.

I don't believe it's particularly handled distastefully or harmfully in Earthspark, a bit simple, sure but it gets the message of discrimination across to a child audience easily. I don't think it should be compared to racism either, humans and Transformers are not even the same species. So it shouldn't be compared because on the technicality it is wrong.

#earthspark #Am I the only one who thinks so? #transformers earthspark #anyway hope to see ES human characters in other series in the future. #There's a lot of potential to capitalize on #earthspark spoilers #tfe mandroid #karen croft #tfe #tf earthspark #dorothy malto #dot malto

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it is dangerous to go alone, take this.

#>> mod: firefly #(( reblogged art #jawbreaker #earthspark jawbreaker #grimlock #earthspark grimlock

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Always judge a book by its cover.

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Nightshade with nightshade in the night's shade lol

I will be prototyping this for possible merch after I get back from TFcon, so keep an eye out for that!

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I recently found out I might be an Aegoplatonic. I know I'm Aegoromantic and Aegosexual but never thought about platonic attraction. And come to think of it, I've always had less desire for interpersonal relationships themselves, so maybe other attractions are Aspec too?

I like the various relationships of characters in fictional stories(such as lovers, families, friends, etc.), but I've never wanted to have that in real life. I don't want friends just like don't want lovers. and don't feel love-thing to my family...It feels like having an aego-like attitude(?) when interact with people in general.

#aspec #aegosexual #asexuality #acespec #aroace #aegoplatonic #aromantic #asexual