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keferon · 4 months

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..so. I guess I can do these in 3D now haha

#transformers #maccadam #blurr #tf blurr #idw blurr #I literally just learned how to do this hehe #i suffered #learning to work with 3D is uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh #but the final results are kinda cool #all i need to do now is ask for a payment raise on my studio if they would want some of this magic i guess #oh wait #agressive desk slap #my studio dont fucking care about quality content anymore #oh well #i guess all this goes to tumblr lmao

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lazyhomestay · 5 months

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"You are the living embodiment of the Decepticon ideal and are merely a step away from completely embracing it."

#more of wip ig :(#Megatron quotes #throws idea out there so I don't think about it and can get on with work #but now I'm imagining how great it'll be to have Starscream in the Functionist Universe and wishing there are more fics about it #knock 'em out like AVL this is how you deal with flashlight heads #happy holidays #starscream #idw transformers #idw lost light #maccadam

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blighted-lights · 1 month

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glit,,, everyone's favorite little guy doctor and his very own diagnostic drone

i keep going through redesigns because i can't settle on what i want him to look like 💀. can't decide if i want him to be round and short or tall and twiggy,,

#transformers #transformers art #tf art #transformers fanart #tf fanart #maccadams #maccadam #transformers idw #idw transformers #idw tf #tf idw #tf idw1 #idw2005 #glit #idw glit #tf glit #my art #been thinking about him more often lately #love thinking about his paws even if i havent fully settled on how i want them to work yet

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in-the-airducts · 2 months

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POV ur ambulon

For @lemonomelette's DTIYS! A lot of work but very fun.

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rust-bearer · 5 months

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We see in the issue where Bruticus combines that Swindle- despite being comatose? Deadish? Is still present in the shared headspace, and they reference it later on as being pretty traumatic in some ways.

Ambulon is dead when he combines with Defensor. He’s been tended to for months, but he’s still a dead body. And I wonder- how did it feel to combine with him?

It’s not touched on aside from the “Ambulon is used once more as a plot device”, and quite literally in this moment, but I really do wonder. If combining with Swindle was traumatic even for the Combaticons, what about the Protectobots? What about First Aid? The same First Aid who was so stricken by grief that he spent the past 6 months in his room and workshop, obsessively putting Ambulon back together. Grief-stricken First Aid.

#first aid #Ambulon #transformers #transformers idw #defensor #swindle #Bruticus #How Does It Work too. how does combining work that #Ambulon can be the stand in. even dead #is it because of his connection with First Aid?#he wasn’t even a part of defensor. he likely never even COMBINED with his gestalt #thinking about vortex and first aid combining now too. hmm

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toyotacorolla2008 · 1 year

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#chromedome #rewind #mtmte #tf #brainstorm #prowl #cdrw #maccadam #edit #transformers #more than meets the eye #idw #bon.mp4 #bonposting #a little cheesy but i had fun #but i cannot justifiably spend anymore time on it with how much work i have :/ so enjoy!!#video #cheese and burger

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megolololo · 7 months

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SHOCKWAVE AND TARN. UGH. don’t interrupt my rambling i’m about to spit some delulu

they’re SO gonna be a key relationship in tfd… just the idea of damus calling shockwave senator…

just the idea of TWO empurata victims… one who rebuilt himself for someone else and who refused to be rebuild and instead took a gun to protect himself and others…

UGH they are literally the judas and jesus to my bible (is that sacrilegious to say 😭) a betrayal rooted in the idea that the other had failed his nation/country… and the KISS. it’s not romance; it’s strategy. a psychological chessboard.

and the fact that tarn is so young compared to shockwave… the fact that the senator had taken him in and almost “mentored” him. the fact that shockwave was the one who taught him “how to play chess” and is now on the other end… UGH I WILL MAKE THEM INTERACT SO MUCH IN TFD I SWEAR TO GOD

#transformers #transformers idw #maccadam #shockwave #tarn #character analysis #do they even have a ship name #how would their ship name even work.#tfd #transformers division

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singingcicadas · 3 months

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The way it's depicted, Cybertron's pre-war societal issues had a lot less to do with Functionism and more to do with unchecked government corruption, massive wealth disparity, high layoff/unemployment rates, and disenfranchisement.

People were starving, they needed work, they weren’t getting any. Those that were fortunate enough to have work didn’t get paid living wages, much less have anything to spare for health contingencies. Even then stability’s still the luxury of the top few tiers; they live one cut away from layoff. The government cared only enough to exacerbate these issues by coming up with new ways for exploitation. Any attempts to protest or lobby were shut down through political persecution. As a result the masses turned increasingly to crime, drug abuse, thuggery, and violence. Extreme acts of terrorism gets lauded as long as the collateral damage's suffered by someone else. Morality and caution are eroded in the face of desperation.

Meanwhile the many alleged restrictions of Functionism are just lip service complaints made by the characters which doesn’t match up to most of the stuff we’re shown. Like if Rung could become a psychologist, a specialized job that requires higher education, despite having zero background on top of such a weird alt that he had to be classified as an ornament, then wow the functionists must be open-minded. If Dominus Ambus could be a scientist/doctor/explorer/author/successful social rights advocator during the height of functionist control with a minesweeper military-use alt (assuming that his secondary alt's the same as Minimus'), then wow the functionists must be accommodating. If Tyrest could become chief engineer under Nova and later go into law, a complete change of profession, while being a jet, then wow functionism's flexible. If Ratbat and Momus could become senators in a society that discriminates heavily against beastformers and labor frames, then wow that’s progressive. If every Prime from Nova to Zeta (with the exception of Sentinel, his alt’s a tank, he only has wings in Megatron Origin as part of his Apex armour upgrade), every single named pre-war senator other than Proteus and Momus, and four out of five of Nova Prime’s buddy club (only Galvatron's a grounder) were wingframes in a society that supposedly discriminates against wingframes, then wow that’s… inconsistent worldbuilding.

Megatron didn’t get into bloodsports or start a war because he didn’t get to pursue his dream job. He got driven into the pits and down the slippery slope of moral degeneration because his only source of income was cut off by the mine closure incident. People wanted livelihoods above anything else, it's the failure to provide that that made the miners go off the deep end and resulted in the death of a guard. If Functionism actually ensured that everyone could be guaranteed a job or at least minimized the unemployment rates, then stratified castes or not, there would have been no war. People, or societies, are generally capable of tolerating an incredible amount of injustice as long as the majority still have a chance at scraping by at the end of the day. But the government, and later Megatron, kept yanking the rug out from under everyone over and over until they no longer even had a chance at that; there's no other choice left but fight or die.

#I get that all prejudices are full of contradictions and inconsistencies meant to cater to the needs of the ruling class #for the sole purpose of upholding the social stratification #and tokenism is a common thing #but when you can pull out two or more examples as shown to the contrary for every one of a character's complaints #about how they suffered from functionism discrimination #then it's just a really bad case of inconsistent writing with all tell no show #like you cannot expect me to take the 'flightframes are low caste' thing seriously #because the entire pre-war upper class is almost exclusively comprised of flight frames. it's the ground vehicles that are the minority #honestly it just feels like something made up on the spot for Starscream's sake #and Thundercracker Skywarp Jetfire got benefitted by association #when was functionism introduced as a concept in the comic anyway #was it in that Megatron/Optimus conversation in Chaos Theory?#b/c I'm getting heavy retcon vibes there #I got no impression that functionism was even a thing that existed when reading Megatron Origin #Autocracy's written later but still no functionism #The main social issue is widespread poverty like I'm sure a lot of those ppl would be pretty happy if someone could assign them jobs?#the miners in Megatron Origin weren't mad because they had to work in the mines #They were mad because of the layoff and automation and knowing soon there's going to be no mines for them to work. and then they'd starve #idw transformers #transformers #maccadam

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jayspilledink · 5 months

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!! 2023 art review !!

#for those of you who followed me for Flash #Im sorry but im a Transformers account #HOWEVER I WILL BE DRAWING MORE FLASH FOR MY TUMBLR #so my tumblr MIGHT become a Flash tumblr #i also dont know how tumblr works. sorry #well see how it goes #transformers #mtmte #rodimus #blurr idw #team fortress 2 #reverse flash #eobard thawne

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seafl0wrz · 1 year

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a really nice space boy <3

sketch below

#still have no idea how captions work #I really fucked around and found out with this one #transformers #maccadam #idw #cosmos #tf idw #idw transformers #idw cosmos #tf fanart #transformers fanart #fanart #sai's silly scribbles

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esiuolll · 7 months

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Some of my transformers art (most of this is old 😭)

#transformers fanart #mtmte #idw megatron #autobots #decepticons #megatron #starscream #how do tumblr hashtags work

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lord-squiggletits · 11 months

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Pharma's place in a Functionist society (headcanon)

So I've talked in some previous posts about all the reasons that Pharma isn't a functionist because canon never showed him espousing functionist ideals + he's actually in a place to be a victim of functionism. And I've been working on a Pharma-centric oneshot that made me put into words the best metaphor I can think of for Pharma's relationship with Functionism:

He doesn't support Functionism, but is simultaneously a beneficiary of it and also marginalized by it, because his position of being forged both a doctor and a jet basically turns him into a "token minority" of sorts.

I know that sounds kind of silly or maybe like a clumsy political allegory, but hear me out. There are a couple facts about Pharma and the circumstances of his forging that put him at the crossroads between privilege and marginalization within Functionism:

Tyrest says that Pharma was "famous for being forged." Not famous for being a forged medic-- otherwise surely Ratchet would be just as noteworthy-- but famous for being FORGED. But also, note that this is an opinion that SOCIETY had about Pharma, not something that Pharma espouses about himself. (For the sake of an example, Pharma isn't Starscream, who has an explicit, deep-seated need for others' love and approval. Pharma himself doesn't express any opinions on his own popularity or convey that fame/adoration is something he wants.)

Functionism on Cybertron held that if someone was born with a certain alt-mode, they can/should only have certain jobs. For people born with flight alt-modes, those people were almost always regulated to military or transportation/courier jobs

SIMULTANEOUSLY, Pharma was forged with medic hands, which under a Functionist society were viewed as the peak of medical care and all the best doctors were forged or at least had a "special something" that non-forged hands lacked (according to Ratchet).

So taken in combination, this means that from the moment of Pharma's birth, he straddled a line of Functionism between two different "predestined" paths for him, where he was simultaneously forged to be a doctor and also forged to fly, fitting into BOTH of these categories despite norms of Functionism which say you're one or the other. And I speculate that the reason Pharma is "famous for being forged" is precisely because of those lines he straddles: his very existence is a contradiction, but he was also FORGED that way. The same creed that dictated the two different functions of "hands" and "alt-mode" also says that Pharma should be what he was born to be. What he was born to be was a forged medic jet.

In my opinion, I think that being "famous for being forged" is sort of like a token-minority situation for Pharma, where perhaps Pharma was seen as a curiosity or even something exotic, not just as a person. Maybe because he was a jet and people assumed jets were only soldiers/transportation, a lot of his achievements were put in the light of "Oh, he's a really amazing doctor, for a jet" or "It's crazy that he's a doctor AND a jet at the same time". The attention Pharma received for the unique circumstances of his birth WAS positive, but it would've likely been framed in a bit of a condescending way, as if Pharma is noteworthy and famous not for being a good doctor, but for being a good doctor despite being born a jet.

So I would say that as far as Pharma's personal experience with Functionism, he simultaneously experienced privilege and marginalization. He enjoyed the privileges of being a medic while avoiding the restrictions of being a flight frame. However, a lot of the idolization and attention he received would have also come from a place of tokenizing Pharma: he's "famous for being forged," because in this society he's defying expectations merely for existing as himself. That is to say, Pharma in a Functionist society wasn't treated as remarkable because of who he is as a person and how hard he worked to be a good doctor; he was treated as remarkable for the circumstances of his forging, something he had no control over and can't change, and apparently Pharma being a forged medic jet is such a noteworthy origin that he's "famous" for it.

The above paragraph is purely headcanon, of course, but I like to imagine that part of Pharma's reason for having a big ego isn't out of simple vanity or insecurity, but because of a sort of "gifted student" syndrome, in a sense. From the moment he was forged he was treated as a rarity and an incredible phenomenon, and he would have had to work incredibly hard to be seen as "an incredible doctor" in his own right rather than just "that forged medic jet." Maybe, as a jet, he also had something to prove; he had to show to a Functionist society that being a jet doesn't make him an inferior doctor and that his alt-mode has nothing to do with his skills at his profession.

That is to say, I don't think Pharma would have been openly anti-Functionist, or had many opinions about it at all. I actually lean towards the interpretation that Pharma basically saw himself as getting lucky with the way he was forged and being content with the fact that he'd managed to carve out a reputation for himself as being incredibly skilled. However, Pharma not getting involved politically in Functionism doesn't change the fact that he WOULD have had a very complicated relationship with Functionism, in that alt-mode discrimination would have had an effect on him even though he was in the scientific/medical class and supposedly privileged.

#mtmte #mtmte pharma #transformers idw #transformers meta #mtmte meta #squiggposting #pharma apologism #pharma doesn't fit neatly into categories of privileged or oppressed and that makes him especially interesting #tldr: pharma probably got microaggressioned a lot at work lmao #some med student: oh my gosh... a flight frame in medical school... how did you manage that?#omg pharma it's so craaazy that you can fly and you're also a doctor #wow pharma your hands are incredible it's a good reason you have them or they probably wouldn't have let you in #pharma smiling tightly with a drink in his hands: yeah. crazy.#pharma: anyways i'm gonna go perform a triple organ donation everyone fuck off i'm working #i think pharma never got political mainly because he comes off as the type who focuses on his job and nothing else #like he's experienced marginalization on account of being a forged medic JET but he kind of just went #well I overcame the odds and i'm the best doctor ever now and my position in society is comfortable that's all i wanted #but it's a far cry from fanon that decides to make him a full on card carrying functionist that's openly bigoted #i feel like i just repeated myself over and over again without saying much ah well

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ikkosu · 17 days

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speaking of ostaros, instead of mesothulas meddling with the matrix or whatever (I don’t remember) imagine human reader is the medium instead. Meso trying to conjure another method of Cybertronian reproduction via human bodies. Prowl’s unaware but he’s given him the signal to proceed, wary of why the scientist is suddenly so enthusiastic. Then after a week he comes back to the lab and finds human cradling a sparkling in their arms. Ostaros. Now he definitely has to pay for child support.

#Mesothulas did not fuck the human by the way #Idk how that’ll work but let’s pretend I wrote some science science there for a sec #Ikkorambles #mesothulas #prowl #ostaros #idwtransformers #transformers idw #idw prowl #prowl x reader #idw prowl x reader

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emptyfie1ds · 8 months

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