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Cover to Transformers #10. Quite a tonal shift from the last few covers. Also Arcee/Carly friendship.

#transformers #arcee #Carly #skybound #tf skybound #energon universe

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this is the money chilchuck of good fortune, rb for wealth & union contracts to come your way

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #chilchuk tims #union voice acting #because otherwise you wouldn’t have Nami from LA One Piece as everyone’s favorite girl fail black mage

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Sliced ‘Virtual On’ SEGA Saturn

#virtual on #sega #saturn #mecha

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When we last left Paramount, fresh off pushing Sonic and The Transformers as their big releases for fall and winter 2024, they were negotiating with longstanding partners Skydance to buy the studio outright after having ignored a cash buyout from Apollo Global Management, an asset management firm. However, while the exclusivity window for Skydance is still present till May, insiders have claimed the company has hit numerous snags on buyout terms.

Now Sony, famous for describing themselves as an “arms dealer” in the streaming race and controlling most anime in North America via Crunchyroll, is making their own bid for the beleaguered studio with Apollo as a minority owner in a prospective deal.

#Sony #paramount #paramount+ #transformers #Sonic

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its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

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A classic rinse

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Hey everybody, it's the Transformers: One trailer! Basically a massive screen test to see who will replace numerous voices in the franchise, and an origin story that involves two miner buddies named Orion Pax and D-17 journeying to the surface to launch a rebellion against the Quintessons. The film hits theaters on September 20th.

#transformers #transformers one #mecha #orion pax #d-17 #chris hemsworth #Brian Tyree Henry #scarlett johansson #jon hamm #optimus prime #megatron #Youtube

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Reddit makes dumb decision -> I finally decide to check out Tumblr -> meet cool people on the 196 tag and become mutuals -> I discover one of them lives in Aus too -> I fly like 1000km and we fuck and cuddle

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I want this!⚡️

Celebrate Metroid's anniversary with a new gadget

#metroid #samus aran

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Though The Commander wears a mask, you can feel awkwardness.

Cobra Commander issue 4

#cobra commander #joshua williamson #image comics #energon universe #wednesday spoilers #sure lets go with that

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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?

#toph #toph beifong #fortnite #she would be making so many jokes about the scope #and then killing a guy

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me, a reasonably depressed edo period pilgrim: just do it. fuck me up

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At this point I view Furman’s poking fun at the female robots thing the same way I view Chris Claremont focusing a lot of his X-Men stories around his own kinks, doesn’t change the fact that he is still the architect for the most iconic X-Men stories and characters. We can forgive things.

The reason why gender is such a mess in IDW is mainly because of Simon Furman stubbornly refusing to let go of his old Marvel G1 belief that the Transformers should be a genderless masculine presenting race. Which, I'm sorry Furman, but you can't put that genie back in the bottle. The girls exist, and it doesn't do you any favors to throw a tantrum and do weird shit with Acree's origin every time Hasbro forces you to write her.

Oh I’m acutely aware, I was there at ground zero, but my problem in IDW was less Furman, though he didn’t help by introducing Arcee as the result of a forced gender reassignment procedure, it was the countless retcons and asterisks other writers felt compelled to fix and only made it WORSE. It would’ve simply been better to just let Arcee’s trans roots be ignored and instead focus on having her become a better character, something IDW did at least attempt but I don’t know if they succeeded.

Like to Furman’s credit, the comical Prime’s Rib at least still showed Arcee to be strong, smart, and capable (what the feminists in story CLAIM they wanted), with most of the humor being Prime trying to appease stereotypical feminists and only making them angrier because they could only see Arcee just being pink and having an interest in men (because she did show an interest in Hot Rod). As much as some don’t want to hear it, the story aged all too well because of the current hyper political environment we’re stuck in now, with even stuff like IDW and EarthSpark being somewhat the result of appeasing radical groups rather than being entertaining to all ages and groups. And IDW lost the license, and EarthSpark had failed on all fronts, only sticking around out of a weak desire on Hasbro’s part to have something on for the 40th anniversary. They’ve otherwise moved on to TFONE and Arcee in Skybound is having a much better time.

I do think Furman may have let it go though, he wrote the Terrans just fine in EarthSpark’s tie in video game, and the tangibly related to Transformers in concept, Astrobots, that he writes, features several main female robots who are strong, capable and smart. Their origins in their race not being dwelled on beyond some handwaved human involvement if I recall correctly.

I do understand his confusion, why do a race of robotic beings who don’t sexually reproduce need females in THAT context, but having them in general doesn’t seem to be an issue beyond that to him. The problem remains is he dwelled on it too long, explained it in a jokey way in Marvel UK that honestly was pry the best way to explain it back then in THAT universe, then tried to explain it in a cooler sci-fi way in IDW and got backlash from EVERYONE that it seemed to have humbled him enough. That said, some ideas are still clung to via Earth Wars, where he gleefully makes fun of both Dreamwave & IDW, and kinda rightfully so in SOME areas. Deathsaurus, with the threat of being sent to Dreamwave’s universe, is horrified at the idea (probably didn’t want to be drawn by Pat Lee among other things). The Prime’s Rib story having a spiritual successor where the Autobots find Melody has written romantic fan fiction about Drift & Prowl, and while they say as a species they don’t romantically pair off and poke holes at the Conjux terminology they don’t even have, they don’t really have too much of an issue with what Melody was doing. If anything they were more confused why she paired Drift with Prowl, and then playfully teased a clueless Prowl about it. Melody is also the main Autobot ally in the game and she and the Autobots get along just fine too.

#transformers

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Gandalf mentions that the Nazgul went to Mordor to “prepare it” for Sauron and if you think that I don’t imagine the Witch King of Angmar with a construction hardhat on, you’re wrong. 

#witch king #lord of the rings #nazgul #tolkien #the lord of the rings #mordor

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The big event of the 40th anniversary of the Transformers franchise, Transformers: One is finally going to show its first trailer. I know both Hasbro and Paramount have a lot riding on this, Hasbro following Earthspark’s flop and ROTB’s middling box office, and Paramount desperate to look as good as possible before a potential buyout.

#transformers #transformers one #paramount

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School: Teaches you something for a week with historical background, context, effects, and outcomes.

One TikToker: Tells you it's fake while doing a bad contour.

Some of y'all: SCHOOL LIED?!