#exrid

[fjordline]

Galvatron's beloved ipad which he has somehow managed to not crush within his big strong hands

#transformers #galvatron #maccadam #exrid #tf idw #my art #copyright of this joke goes to felix once again #his highscore is like 12 #when arcee receives the ipad she annhialates his highscore by like 1000s of points

[novafire-is-thinking]

Things I love about this:

Whirl’s presence can be felt. He holds a room captive with his chaotic intensity.

Despite his reputation, Brainstorm is sensitive to the emotional “atmosphere” of a place.

Ratchet is the mom friend who knows right away which kid is missing. lol

#don’t mind me #I’m having poetic thoughts about a character with psychopathic tendencies (Whirl) #just typical TF fan behavior #idw transformers #tf idw #idw1 #exrid #idw whirl #idw brainstorm #idw skids #idw ratchet #nova reads exrid

[blighted-lights]

BOO. soundwave and ravage be upon ye

#transformers #transformers art #transformers fanart #tf art #tf fanart #maccadam #maccadams #idw tf #tf idw #tf idw1 #transformers idw1 #idw transformers #2005idw #mtmte #more than meets the eye #lost light #exrid #soundwave #idw soundwave #tf soundwave #transformers soundwave #ravage #idw ravage #tf ravage #transformers ravage #mtmte ravage #my art #forcing myself to ignore ravage's face #if i dont look its fine #this is so funny 2 me bc my opinions on idw swave and rav are um. very complicated. i think rav needs to he 200% more angry @ sw

[akidachi]

the dynamic

#transformers #exrid #constructicons #prowl #hook #mixmaster #bonecrusher #scavenger #prowlastator #constructiprowl #maccadam

[randomtfscreencaps]

#transformers #idw #exrid #thundercracker

[postapocalyptic-cryptic]

#oh soundwave we're really in it now #soundwave #idw #exrid #maccadam

[wildpiercy-art]

Arcee!

#I wanted to try something with more complex lighting with markers and I'm decently happy with how it turned out #my art #maccadam #exrid #idw1 #arcee #traditional art #alcohol markers

[fishdance]

pro(wl)blematic fave

#transformers #maccadam #exrid #prowl #fanart

[heliopauseentertainments]

A Bouquet of Firecrackers

For @tangentially-displaced

Continuity: IDW1

Rating: Teen Relationships: Megatron/Starscream, Megatron/Rodimus, Rodimus & Starscream

Characters: Megatron, Starscream, Rodimus

Warnings: Alternate Universe, Polyarmory (a vee), Comedy, Swearing, Not Beta Red

Summary: In which Megatron bemoans Starscream and Rodimus’s failure to get along.

Crossposting: AO3 | Dreamwidth

Fic under cut. See AO3 for complete notes.

The door to Megatron’s study burst open while his back was turned. Unfortunately, there were two options of who could have been the culprit, each as equally likely as the other.

As a physician, he had the means for a decent, though not extravagant dwelling. This meant he had the space to cohabit with those closest to him. To call either of those who shared his home close to each other though would be rather more than a misstatement.

After the decommissioning of the Lost Light, Megatron had been granted amnesty on New Cybertron at his trial in recognition of the lives he had saved, much to Prowl’s chagrin. That had granted him the time to… make some additional amends.

"Your twink fucking bit me!”

Starscream.

He must have learned “twink” from Rodimus. Megatron still wasn’t sure what that word meant, as it did not occur in even Neocybex slang dictionaries. It must have been an incredibly recent borrowing from somewhere.

“Did you provoke him?” he asked, turning to look at the seeker who still blocked the doorway to the hall.

“Me?” Starscream held his hand to his chest, wings high in offense—No, one was drooping slightly. “Never!”

From this angle, Megatron couldn’t see a visible injury, but it was most likely on a part of the wing concealed by Starscream’s frame. Starscream had always had a habit of hiding injuries, always being loath to show any vulnerability, sometimes even when receiving treatment for said wound.

Megatron would have to carefully coax him into showing the bite mark so that the injury could be appropriately patched.

Distantly, elsewhere in the apartment, he could hear the sound of Rodimus’s engine revving. That was almost never a good sign.

It was a mistake to have both Starscream and Rodimus in the same home, but there had been no viable alternatives. Starscream was a jealous creature and Rodimus liked to cause trouble. Both of them were strong-willed and prone to bucking authority.

As a result, Megatron was also in no position to arbitrate between the two of them; he was neither “master of the house” nor did he outrank them. That and even if he had, neither of them would “obey” him. Starscream had only ever done it when it suited his purposes in the War and Rodimus… Rodimus had just never, never minding their allegedly equal rank while serving together.

Megatron had never been a peacekeeper, even after he had put active warmongering behind him.

“Do something about it! He is a danger to me personally!”

With a sigh, Megatron put the datapad he had been looking through back on the shelf, not even looking behind him. He knew where it was supposed to go. Before this seeker-shaped interruption, he had been searching for an obscure symptom just to keep on top of his training.

“You promised me protection, Megatron. And—“

“Provoking people is one of your favorite pastimes—“ The sound of an engine roaring grew rapidly louder, the kicking of cylinders echoing off the hall.

Brakes screeched to a halt followed by the sound of a transformation cog flipping over.

“Megs!”

Suddenly, Starscream was pushed downward into a hunched crouch as a brightly colored mass of armor used him as a pivot to vault through the otherwise blocked doorway.

Rodimus slipped for a moment on contact with the floor, but quickly regained his footing to stick the landing.

He lifted one of his spoiler fins high, revealing a series of dents that looked rather like bite marks. He even pointed at it with his hand.

“Your twink fucking bit me!”

#fic #one shot #maccadam #idw1 #mtmte #exrid #megatron #starscream #rodimus #megastar #megarod

[pluralsword]

trans and enby solidarity be like:

(we don't care if the team up of Arcee and Nightshade fighting xenophobic arachnomech cops was intentional or not we just care that it happened)

alongside idw1 (the transformers #44 "The Transgressors"), and if you count it, Cyberverse (season 3) due to Quintessons society is mainly courts commanding genocidal carceral enforcers aside from scientists also working towards the goal of annihilating other species in a policing fashion, that's three continuities that Arcee has fought cops. this will never get old for us <3 thank you Earthspark. we do hope she and Nightshade actually talk to each other sometime- and the count of continuities is actually 4- As was pointed out by arceespinkgun in a reblog of this post, Arcee also rescued her friends from being sentenced to death in the sunbow g1 episode Five Faces of Darkness pt. 2! have to go watch that and update the image below

We knew when we saw Arcee's intro episode where she's teaching the kids to speak out when something's wrong at the same time that Megatron and Optimus are discussing prison aboliton with Bumblebee that Earthspark was going to go in a fighting an oppressive justice system direction, though to be honest we had been waiting since episode 1 for this moment

re Arcee in other continuities:

#transformers #maccadam #earthspark #earthspark spoilers #es spoilers #Arcee #nightshade #tf nightshade #trans arcee #earthspark arcee #cyberverse arcee #idw arcee #transformers idw #idw1 #idw2005 #cyberverse #transformers cyberverse #exrid #the transgressors #trans robots #nonbinary robots #“I have nothing but contempt for this court” something Arcee has in common with Rodimus

[darkcybertron]

LOVE that all three of the decepticon big bads (megatron, starscream, soundwave) found a nerdy little autobot to love post-war

#babbling brooke #transformers #megatron #starscream #soundwave #minimus ambus #but could be. anyone on the lost light #wheeljack #cosmos #coswave #starjack #idw #mtmte #exrid

[novafire-is-thinking]

“Of all the worlds our war touched, only Earth dared touch us back.”

The very beautiful, very broken sanctity of Cybertronian-human relations in a single line.

#I need this on a poster in my room 👀 #idw transformers #maccadam #tf idw #idw1 #exrid #idw optimus prime #nova reads exrid

[blighted-lights]

oh this is um,,,

this is uh,,

just a little familair. huh.

#transformers #maccadams #maccadam #mtmte #more than meets the eye #exrid #robots in disguise #idw2005 #idw1 #lost light #idw transformers #ravage #tf ravage #transformers ravage #idw ravage #galvatron #idw galvatron #tarn #idw tarn #djd #decepticon justice division #literally stopped dead while reading the rid issue when i saw this #literally just 😨

[enby-rodimus]

What will always kill me whenever I think about the IDW1 continuity is the potential of Autocracy!Hot Rod and how better writing for him (honestly, just better writing in general) could have made Autocracy and Primacy infinitely better. Because the idea of Rodimus being much older than he previously was portrayed as, a destitute insurgent, and someone who has so much blood on his hands not by choice but to spare his home and people of the pain that Zeta promised to inflict is so fascinating. He's neutral but more sympathetic to the Decepticons because of their aligned cause and beliefs. He and others are making deals with Swindle for access to resources to fight back and it seems like Nyon had a pretty good relationship with the movement itself prior to the events of Autocracy.

It's interesting because despite all this, Hot Rod hasnt' joined the war on the side of the Decepticons because he's focused on helping his home and community first. And in a story that's tackling the early days of the war, that is an amazing concept to introduce and explore further.

And yet it's squandered in favor of trying to adhere immediately to a four million year old status quo in the early days of the war. The early days when the Decepticons were still fighting back against a violent functionist government, which the Autobots worked for as a police/security force.

This is frustrating because they showcase Autobot crimes with Autocracy, revealing how they've been draining citizens of Nyon dry of their precious energon and in fact is not only limited to this city. It's happening all over Cybertron. Hot Rod is taking a gamble by exposing himself to Orion and his team to show the truth, something incredibly risky because Orion is still siding fiercely with the Autobots despite being confronted by Megatron with the truth and Hot Rod is a wanted domestic terrorist. Zeta wanted to make an example of him and it wouldn't have been pretty, likely in the lines of what was done to Shockwave or worse. He knew this and still risked it because he hoped that Orion had a shred of, for lack of a better word, humanity in him. But it was too late for Nyon. And they speedrun the social progression of the war to have Hot Rod immediately wary of the Decepticons, like the insurgents hadn't been making deals with them earlier.

Further into the trilogy, Primacy shows Hot Rod having graduated from the Autobot Academy after the events of Autocracy. Allow me to reiterate. Autocracy where the Autobots had been slowly killing the people of Nyon and is stated to have NUMEROUS facilities across Cybertron harvesting energon from people directly hooked up to the tanks. And they never do anything about it. Hot Rod apparently having gotten over that the faction he just joined has so much blood on their hands and was complicit in numerous crimes. Crimes he's a witness to.

To add to it, Slinger, an old friend of Hot Rod and member of the insurgency returns as a Decepticon and this is the first sign we see of the conflict of Hot Rod being a survivor of Nyon's destruction and yet a member of the faction that made it happen. Not much is done by it either because the writers were so focused on making the Autobots look like the actual good guys and the Decepticons the bad guys they killed Slinger off with his quick change of heart and forgot the explicit information they gave to us, the readers.

Hot Rod is destitute. He's an insurgent. The Autobots were committing horrific crimes in the name of their cause, draining innocents of their energon during an active energon crisis. All this to crush the Decepticons who were fighting back against their corrupt government. Hot Rod was actively fighting back with the resources given to them by the Decepticons. He's a victim of the Autobots. Enforcers helped round all these people up into the tanks to die. Optimus assumed his new position as Prime and never really did anything to fully dismantle the system because its sentiment is still alive 4 million years later.

Yet Hot Rod is there, as if nothing had ever happened.

The only reasoning we get is somehow the Decepticons are worse. As if the Autobots hadn't committed bigger crimes he was witness to or understood what made them. It's so frustrating because with his origins, it should've taken longer for him to fall in with the Autobots or an outside force forcing him in with them.

Because you don't forget or forgive an institution that ruined yours and others lives, that murdered them for daring to take a stand against them.

#transformers idw1 #autocracy triology #idw1 #autocracy #primacy #mtmte #more than meets the eye #ll #lost light #exrid #hot rod #rodimus #hot rod | rodimus #i'm tagging these series due to how both the pre war and post war stories influence readers perspectives on the trilogy #maccadam #maccadams #tentatively tagging as #meta #musings #this is kinda messy but i needed to get my thoughts out

[akidachi]

Frankensteins Fanclub!

#happy halloween yall #halloween #transformers #tf #idw1 #exrid #constructicons #prowl #hook #mixmaster #long haul #bonecrusher #scavenger #prowlastator #constructiprowl #i need yall to understand that the lineart and coloring on this thing alone took like 8 hours #all the lines sans prowl along with the flats took over 5 hours #and the shading was 2 #my only real break was pacing around the living room for an hour inbetween these #my way of measurement is the dr retrospectives ive been listening to as background noise #but with the extra time for earlier lineart included that makes 8 #dont even ask me how long the sketch took i have no idea #theres 6 characters in this and theyre all robots its safe to say it took a while #anyways it is 4am and my shoulders hurt so #i am in pain but i am proud #also dont question prowls costume #they dragged him into this and hes lazy #maccadam

[fishfingies]

AIR COMMANDER

#starscream #maccadam #tf #my art #seekers #mtmte #transformers #exrid