#howlback

[blighted-lights]

u can trust that i am always thinking of these three all of the time every day btw. more cassette designs to come!

#transformers #transformers art #maccadam #tf art #idw transformers #idw1 #idw2005 #mtmte #more than meets the eye #lost light #ravage #tf ravage #transformers ravage #glit #tf glit #transformers glit #howlback #tf howlback #transformers howlback #as much as i love the uniform designs where they all look the same with different paint... i need them to also be wildly different #unique cassette designs... walk with me #cassetticons #decepticons #my art

[ravage-tf]

To Glitt: what's the worst thing to hear in an operating room?

#transformers #maccadam #tf fanart #my art #glit #howlback

[runawaymac]

Cassette (they aren't really cassettes anymore) designs for an au where everything's gone to shit so pretty normal They're Soundwave's little vampires :)

#transformers #maccadam #my art #disrepair au #ratbat #laserbeak #buzzsaw #ravage #howlback

[withoutalice]

#transformers #maccadams #withoutalicespeaks! #my polls #just for fun! #sunder #termagax #trepan #flamewar #howlback

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #642 - "Let's Play Frisbee"

Originally posted on March 26th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - James Cox Colours, Letters - Brandy Dixon

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wada sez: In the Shattered Glass universe, the Scrounges are a bunch of disposable, interchangable drones under Blaster’s command; a riff on Scrounge being unique thanks to his “special arm”. This one was actually published as a Mosaic! It was Brandy Dixon’s first ever lettering effort, per a comment on TFW2005.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #James Cox #Brandy Dixon #official creator #Scrounge #Starscream #Megatron #Rumble #Overkill #Ravage #Howlback #Beastbox #Squawktalk #Ratbat #Slugfest

[astralzeraphias]

some of my favorite obscure tfs !!

#kiloton #glit #howlback #yellow splendid convoy #maccadam #transformers #optimus prime #<- nothing can stop me from using this tag . and anyways if i had to shove her into a continuity box #she’d probably be the one that’s just referred to as optimus prime anyways . as yellow splendid convoy doesn’t have decepticons in her #universe anyways??? i think??? idk man this shits confusing

[energons]

howlback my friend howlback

#transformers #maccadam #howlback #my art #fanart #idk why i keep posting at 11pm. hi

[cleverthylacine]

Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).

#Japanese G1 continuity #femme bots and human women #maccadam #transformers victory #transformers super god masterforce #transformers headmasters #transformers kiss players #transformers unite warriors #cobalt sentries #esmeral #megaempress #minerva #flowspade #lunaclub #moonheart #trickdiamond #illumina #lyzack #howlback #rosanna #angela #melissa faireborn #(not marissa) #xiaoxiao li #atari hitotonari #alexis thi dang

[kittykatzvillage]

Putting all my hopes and dreams into this one lol Okay but like seriously what if Howlback appeared on Earthspark! There are three Decepticon cassette kitties in existence let more than just Ravage have a chance in the spotlight! Also I don’t see how Ravage would have gotten back to Soundwave after he got captured unless he was already with him. That leaves the cat that’s set free with the other cassettes to be the decoy right. So we have two separate cats. There’s a brief moment in the tunnel as the cassettes escape that they are not in frame, presumably having gone inside Soundwave’s chest, that the switch could have happen. Or they just could have been switched from the start and nobody aside from Soundwave and the other cassettes could tell the difference. Speaking of which, Ravage is usually mostly black in color but in Earthspark he’s leaning more a dark blue. Dark blue is closer to Howlback’s color so if she does appear they’d probably be pretty similar colorwise and harder to tell apart. Now I didn’t notice any difference in color of Ravage from scene to scene but that’s probably what would make this a good decoy anyway.

#transformers #transformers earthspark #maccadam #soundwave #ravage #howlback #art

[pluralsword]

ID: A meme using Arial font in white with black at the top and bottom for the text, with Transformers comic and cartoon images, tfwiki text, and/or dialogue focused on Arcee, Aileron, Greenlight, Gauge, Marissa Faireborn, Holiday, Lofty, Anode, Lug, Nautica, the Mistress of Flame, Windblade, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Starscream, Howlback, Archadis, Overlord, Nightshade, and Mo Malto, specifically dialogue or actions about transness and/or aesthetic actuation, same gender love, pronouns, gender terminology, playing music, joy, smooching, love, survival, family, medical issues, poverty, value of aesthetic journey in spiritual reforging terms, and criticism/opposition to empire and hegemony.

The meme text reads:

You [(Transformers) fanfic] writer:

Are you normal about trans/expansive people & how our stories are unique?

End ID.

(Please note regarding the image dialogue that Bumblebee and Starscream are not trans canonically yet because of how IDW1 works but nonetheless their stories are uh, not at all standard to the human cisgender experience lmao)

Image sources are: TFWiki Ask Vector Prime Facebook archives for December 23rd 2015, The Transformers #44, “The Transgressors”, The Transformers #50, “All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth”, The Transformers: Lost Light #2, “Dissolution Part 2: Anomie”, The Transformers: Lost Light #8, “An Axe to Break the Ice”,  The Transformers: Till All Are One #12, “Your First Mistake”, Optimus Prime #16, “The Falling Chapter 2: Another Mine”, The Transformers Lost Light #17, “The Everlasting Voices 2: The God War”, Transformers: Unicron #4, “Road’s End”,  Optimus Prime #24, “A Sunrise Dark”, The Transformers Lost Light #24, “Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers”, Optimus Prime #25, “Post”, Synergy: A Hasbro Creators Showcase, "An Arcee Sort of Day" (Arcee’s comic is also findable in Transformers: Best of the Rarities),  My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron #1 “A Real Mother,” Transformers #38, “Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two”, and Transformers: Earthspark episode 10, “Age of Evolution, Part 2.”

#transformers #maccadam #trans transformers #ROBOTS AND GENDER #trans robots #Arcee #idw arcee #trans arcee #Anode #tf anode #lug #lug idw #howlback #tf howlback #archadis #overlord #tf overlord #bumblebee #starscream #mistress of flame #windblade #greenlight #tf greenlight #Aileron #gauge #tf gauge #marissa faireborn #optimus prime #mo malto #Nightshade Malto

[transingthoseformers]

Oh no. Sad thought.

Part of why TFP Soundwave stays hooked into the Nemesis so often is to carefully partion off data to avoid just that. He only has Lazerbeak left and doesn't want to risk creating with the state their species is in. He couldn’t handle another loss.

Then to directly counteract this: the creation of twins Glit and Howlback Post-War due to finally watching a.) All those hospital procedurals that he'd denied himself and b.) Finally being able to joyfully dive into human music. Tiny cassettes that act fussy because they keep having to be docked when their power drains because they are still being built. Like toddlers who don't want to nap.

Glit stalking the Medbay to learn medical procedures and then Howlback following around Starscream and Arcee because she likes how they walk "on tip toes" and tries to imitate them.

ohhh oh tfp sounders, now that there is a story YESSS

That's amazing, nature is healing Soundwave can finally listen to earth music and there's more cassettes around which in general is great like.

#maccadam #transformers #tfp soundwave #glit #howlback #tfp laserbeak #sad thought yes but it's hurt/comfort

[blighted-lights]

🍳and 🤍 for the ask game!

(For this post! 🍳, 🤍, and 🔪 have all been asked for, so feel free to send any of the others!)

🤍 - Favorite Neutral or Obscure Character? - 🤍

Censere, aka the Necrobot, aka Mortilus. We get so little of him as he only shows up briefly in MTMTE, but he is probably one of my favorite characters outside of the main cast. I just wish we got to learn more about him!

(And come on,,, the guy is handsome.)

And adding as a second choice, because I am indecisive; she's not a neutral character but she is obscure. Howlback!

🍳 - What character would I go to brunch with? - 🍳

I already answered this once over on this post, but I'll answer it again! I'm picking Tarn this time. Not because I think it's a good idea or anything- its probably one of the worst ideas, actually- but I think it'd be interesting to see Tarn in a casual settling. Even if that setting happens to be eating brunch while sipping on innermost energon and being surrounded by the bodies of dead miners... yikes.

(Sorry Skids. I don't think you're going to be staying for dinner.)

#ask: synchros #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #mtmte #more than meets the eye #lost light #idw transformers #idw2005 #mortilus #necrobot #censere #howlback #tarn #djd #decepticon justice division #skids #idw skids #the double 🍳 😔 #thought itd be funny to have one answer be nice and normal and the other is um. tarn.

[ravage-tf]

Who do you think is better: Howlback or Glit?

#transformers #maccadam #glit #howlback

[tfwarfareincorrectquotes]

Motormaster: Those are the Recordicons?

Soundwave: Yes.

Motormaster: In tiny berths. Beside YOUR berth.

Soundwave: Yes.

Motormaster: That’s pretty embarrassing.

Soundwave: You’re right. I must get them bigger berths.

#transformers #maccadam #transformers warfare #transformers au #incorrect quotes #motormaster #soundwave #alright buckle up people time to name them all off #frenzy #rumble #ravage #laserbeak #enemy #garboil #glit #flip sides #wingthing #ratbat #stage dive #howlback #overkill #slugfest #beastbox #squawktalk #squawkbox

[onlineviolence]

Ok imagine Ravage. Now imagine 2 Ravage.

ravage 2: howlback

#the real ravage clone would be nightstalker but no one knows about nightstalker #transformers #ravage #howlback #catsette #mtmte #more than meets the eye #idw1 #idw #maccadam #idw ravage #mtmte ravage #woofs art #sparkxii

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #617 - "The Story Of Drift"

Originally posted on August 29th, 2011

Story, Art - Matt Marshall

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wada sez: Shane McCarthy’s pet OC, Drift, had a rocky history with the fandom until James Roberts did the magic trick of convincing everyone to like him. The Empty who Drift is speaking to loosely resembles Wheezel, but it isn’t an exact match; his pet is Howlback. Drift buys his katana on eBay. He’s next seen waiting in a queue to join the Autobots, alongside two characters with more impactful defection arcs from previous stories: Armada Starscream and G1 Carnivac. The use of a wonton font in the strip’s title can be assumed to be satirical of the orientalism riddled throughout McCarthy’s writing of the character, and we can probably also assume that this strip’s hateful attitude towards homeless people is similarly meant to parody McCarthy’s undercooked writing in Drift’s backstory—but I will say I’m really not sure what purpose it serves to frame Drift as a bratty teenage girl in the first panel. This strip was translated into Italian, German, and Spanish; see below for all of those, along with Matt Marshall’s remastered version of the strip from his Tales From The Matrix Keeper zine.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Matt Marshall #IDW Transformers #Drift #Wheezel #Howlback #Starscream #Carnivac #Kup #Springer