#its not called cisformers

[istherewifiinhell]

okay my non tf knower beloveds. before you is the two most famous female autobots from their latest released iteration

[ID: 1. Left, Elita-1, has a slight frame with squared off shapes, augment with chunky boots and plating at her knees, forearms and big shoulder pads. Her base metal colour is light pink, with dark pink plates. She has large rugged tires at her feet and shoulders and a hip skirt made of her alt mode car doors. Her helm is large, continuing the shape of her head in a triangular or trapezoidal shape.

2. Right, Arcee, also slight, but in rounded retro future shapes, her plating very stream line and evoking her retro car alt mode. Base metal is grey, seen only on her face and hands, the rest of her in baby pink and creamy off white. Small white rimmed tires on her legs and shoulders, and a chromed up backpack. Her helm is small, looking more like a white helmet, round with flat disk either side. 3. Extra angle on Arcee in daylight colours to show off her features more END]

sorry no promo art arcee yet. for whatever reason. the bastards.

now. here is the female autobot from the new movie trailer

[ID: Cyber robot design, with more metallic shine. Slight frame, rounded square shapes. She's in a more saturated pink colour at the helm, torso, upper arms and lower legs. With a lighter colour that's pink, rose gold or grey depending on lighting, for the rest. And some black at her joints. Upper arms are long, rounded, lower legs have a sort of swoopy boot shape, with pointed knee pads. Her helm's a larger blocky shape than her face, a squared look from the from, but either side has the round flat disk parts. 1. Upper body from the side, holding big gun. 2. Upper body facing forward 3. Action pose showing some of the legs. END]

yeah i did my best shes not in it much

#some shit #its not called cisformers #i dont actually care about this as a poll i just figure ppl will click a poll even if they wont interact. im just sharing this to share it #im NOT saying u have to love how the es designs as the pinacle of woman tf design. #these are the best either has ever gotten lmao. you know how it is being a tf fan. #also they are not the only or even main ladies which helps a bunch. #NOT dunking on movie girl to dunk on the movie OR cause like booo i hate her. this is about DESIGN decisions. u get? #BOTH es ladys are very different looking cars. movie lady is. ofc. a motorcycle. cause we cant have shit #heres hoping they pull out some impressive engineering for the toy. otherwise. to the backpack hell u go!!!

[frostyfiend]

Remember everyone, its not called CISformers <3

#transformers #earthspark #tfe #nightshade #frosty art

[tiredgn0me]

its called werewolf transformation not werewolf cisformation

[lgb-positivi-t]

can’t believe some people are like “I’m so proud of IDW for finally making gay transformers!!1!” as if starscream hasn’t been around since the eighties

#jokes on you theyre ALL gay #its called TRANSformers #not cisformers sweatie #idw #transformers #gay #trans #starscream #listen..........have u seen starscream #ANY starscream #comics

[spidermanifested]

more enlightening quotes from my mom watching transformers prime: "scarstream is like the crux of this biscuit"

#this is 100% verbatim #her calling him 'scarstream'. the phrase 'crux of this biscuit' #all completely intact for your reading pleasure #its transformers not cisformers

[istherewifiinhell]

IS FLYING GENDERED? On the masculine default, typifying gender in genre, and women as the other in the transformers cartoons.

question for the ages

once again i said back in the halcyon days of watching g1 (aka 5 months ago) i was like. Nooooo, decepticon is NOT a gender that's Silly. It's funny, but as a Read Of The Text, I thought it largely unneeded. (The concept came about, as a joke, involving dismissing the bad guys using the same language you would abt women (sexistly) that they're emotional [heh, flighty], vain, and shrill) after all. If in the 80s era there are 5 whole named/speaking woman tfs, its only ever gonna get better from here right? (<- booboo the fool)

anyway

Let's consider the axiom that the assumed default gender is male, that maleness is often seen as LACK of gender, and femaleness and gender variance are the PRESENCE of gender. In certain reasoning and worldviews, of course (See Androcentrism). Then add that, for transformers, the assumed default thing a transformer turns into, is car. (Autocentrism, if you will)

(The most general term for what a tf turns into is "Alt mode" as some of them are not vehicles at all. The other mode is "Robot Mode", whether its humanoid or not)

So I will be laying out why I believe the cartoon iterations support: non standard alt modes = non standard genders. This is in spite of the fact that FIRST lady tfs were all cars. Sleek cyber cars, but still. For whatever reason, (possibly, the reason for everything in tf, toys) they might as well not exist for how woman tf characters presence in the cartoons progressed over time.

And, to be clear, this is a reading of how these works of fiction are created, not a new unified bioessentialism but for robots aliens I'm proposing for like. In universe lore reasons. I hate that idea.

That said, alt modes in order of most to least gender: Spider, motorcycle, flying (in general, with rotors, jets), tank, and then FINALLY, car. (water and space crafts are already too marginal to rank, but they too can be assumed in relation to default maleness, AND that in making one a woman, would still qualify as othering her).

The NUMBER one reason for this is the bizarre need to have an ESTABLISHED woman tf character before making new ones. AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE. With a g1 gender ratio something like.... (counting even the most marginal cases for the ladies) 9:120? (That's a rough count from a quick scanning of the tf wiki g1 char list) Shits dire out here.

The second is, ofc, character design based. cis people [stand in phrase for the hegemonic world view] are not okay, and their opinions about how tf gender must need be depicted visually is. uh? Im not a fan. Size and shape dimorphism in general is a given, and specifically having women tfs as far more humanoid and curvy in specific. Also general cartoon lady face syndrome but, whatever. I think there's exactly one character here who doesn't have "lips" or "lipstick" as a distinguishing factor. I'm so tired.

Third is generally, the idea of The Girl Of the Team. When there's The Girl, she often isn't JUST a normal character, who happens to be a girl. See, of course, the Smurtfette Principle. But in my view there's also a trend to give The Girl "special traits" on top of "Girl", maybe even to directly combat the idea that the Girl Character has no other traits? To stop this from being a General Primer on Woman in Media, my explanatory focus is things specific to the tf franchise.

(A phrase I use for thinking about normative modes [in general, not just the Alt ones] in within the tf universe is "unique transformerdom" or, even more clunkily, "A transformer of unique transformerdom". The excessive verbosity is amusing to me personally. All I mean by it is to have an umbrella term for any of the ways tfs can be made unique from their peers in the non allegorical realities of the fiction).

I could, and do, and greatly want to, speak about this AT LENGTH. But it keeps spiraling away from me. So I'll say for now were looking at ways a character is being depicted different from her peers, not because she is the only woman (which she likely is), but cause she's a different kind of transformer, AND if she's othered for it.

(IN SOME forms of the lore. Being a transformer woman, IS A UNIQUE KIND of transformer unto itself. Let's just say I hate it and move on)

Fourth, is the gender of villainy. There is much to be said about gender presentation of villains, the ways they are allowed to be aberrant. We will get to it. There is also all the tropes specific TO evil women, and the modes of villainy open TO female characters. But a general thing I think impacting the gender ratios of the factions is the how "Good" and "Evil" female characters are written. I'll generalize and call this the "Damsel vs Temptress" dichotomy. (See concepts like the Madonna-whore complex). Transformers, is by and large, an action franchise. Unless special reasons are made, characters who can impact the action– have more screen time, and likely more memorable, and iconic presences. A villainous woman can be unchaste, violent, aggressive. While a heroic woman, even if not a literal damsel are more likely to be in a support role. The secretaries of the action genre: medics and techs.

(Another factor is that tfs are giant robots, and the good guys are often friends with tiny squishy little humans. These make very good damsel fodder, and can be taking up the spots on the roster that might, in a different franchise, go to women. Additionally, while woman characters in transformers overall is an interesting topic. When I say tf women, I'm referring to ones that are in fictionally, transformers.)

SO, now understanding our points of attack/obstacles for getting woman into transformers. (Getting established, gendering the designed, uniqueness of existence, and general villainy). Lets go over those alt modes, and the characters that have em, in more detail.

Spiders

The "Beast Era" (1996) intro-ed the spider ofc. And what don't we have with this one. She's a villain, but shes also misunderstood, the era and design style let to these more organic shapes. And they used them to make sure she was very sexy. She's genre aware, she's quippy, she's an absolute icon. So naturally. She gets ported to other later shows. Which means we just have sexy spider ladies running around when everyone else is a fucking truck and shit.

Her own origin is, well think of her as a "Bride of Frankenstein" to the resident evil scientist, also a spider. She was designed for, and manipulated by him in multiple ways. Her protoform (A blank robot base), was supposed to be one of the good guys (a Maximal), but was reprogrammed into a bad guy (Predacon). Even then, she eventually joins them, for her own reasons. She's not even the first predacon to do so, the difference? Well the characters are a lot more NORMAL about his autonomy. Both of these characters stress that being a predacon is an identity they still see as important. But only the woman is told that really, she is was was always MEANT to be a maximal. And while that's true in a sense. There's also a plot were she's forced (by plot contrivance, not the other maximals) to get corrective robot surgery for it. And when they think she died from, everyone's more sad for her boyfriend than for her. Ouch.

The second spider, in the 2007 show, is now one in a world where she is the only "techno-organic" transformer, hence, she is spider, everyone else is a vehicle. Similar to the first, her narrative is very gendered, but less in the way were, like, I do literally think the first was was experiencing in universe sexism from other characters. Here, they really focus on the "techno vs organic" narrative, and the tragic circumstances on how that happened. In this case its just real world sexist writing.

THIRD SPIDER, (2010), instead of misunderstood and tragic evil, this ones just super mega likes to cause pain evil. She also occupies a strange place between the typic vehicular tfs, and the insecticons. This is because she has a helicopter alt mode, and her robot mode is just, a lady with spider characteristics. And, more than just a passing bug like similarity, she has the power to control the insecticons (you know, cause evil woman mind control). However, she doesn't fit in with them either, as the insecticons are at the most insect like they've ever been, in look, living in hives and that most don't even speak.

They may vary in exact character, relationship to the story's moral conflict, and design. But they stay comfortably established, dimorphised, flirty and flirting with villainy. And bonus points, always, for black widow spider trope.

SO. SPIDERS. Established: ✅️ Gendered designs: ✅️ (Extremely!) Unique: ✅️ Othered: ✅️ Villainy: ✅️

Motorcycles

Tooooo my knowledge the first bike lady was in 2004, and fairly minor, in the actual plot, but rest assured, they did go the previously established woman route, by being pink, though, which one shes named after varies by language. But neither were previously motorcycles. (And yes, there is also this problem of mixing together or swapping out one woman tf for another. As if we have the ladies to spare). Even though motorcycle men also exist, this one just stuck for a bit. Maybe something to do with Those Movies. I think the Gendered Existence of a motorcycle is pretty evident though, general sex appeal, being smaller, the mode of riding a motorcycle is different, more physical and intimate. Mainly this ranks so high for the level of grossness they can pack in. Just how objectifying it can be, particularly with two instances where the human rider is an annoying teen boy. Naturally, I've also never seen a male and female motorcycle in the same room, but the approach to design tends to be different. And yeah most of em are Arcee, who's first alt mode was cyber car, but it's not just her.

Established: ✅️ Gendered designs: ✅️ Unique: ✅️ Othered: Depends on iteration, I do NOT like the way one gets called "tough, for a two wheeler". Villainy: ❌(they wouldn't need to be motorcycles if they weren't making them the Special Girl Autobot, after all)

Flying

General: It just tends to stick out when your one girl is only flyer in the group, even she's otherwise tactfully done. Only flyer of the Maximals, a falcon, only flyer of the dinobots, a Pteranodon.

Rotors

I can barely even figure this one. Maybe it's just a general, aesthetics and use case of the actually vehicles, the associations? None of these ladies (and special case) are very connected otherwise. As previously mentioned, the spider helicopter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A big one for this is the preschool demo shows, which are rescue team focused. In the first one the only woman on the human response worker team pairs with the helicopter, they mention she does medical at times. The helicopter is male, like the other tfs. But also he's afraid of flying, and while not the first case of a flyer with a fear of heights, their personalities are, pretty different. As he's both fearful AND effeminate, fine as character traits go but, with the tone of humour used, marks him as Other.

In the second, Whirl (pointing to icon) becomes a girl for the first time, now with standard humanized face. I assume as move to keep with the previous show of having a girl one, as there's no human team mates. She's also the only one who really likes rescue school. Aaaand that's all know of her. What more do you want from me.

Helicopters: Unique: ✅️ Othered: ✅️ (milder than some)

But why'd I call this section rotors instead of helicopters? That would be because one of the latest Sole Female TF we just put in everything™ is a VTOL jet with rotors. She'll tend to be the only jet of her type, which is also smaller than the type of jet used for the villains.

And, of course, aside from alt mode, the thing that makes her stand out most in the cartoons? That she's very clearly a comics character. (I find the emphasize that she's "fan created" over done, as it only controlled minor aspects, and irrelevant cause tfs get completely overhauled in new versions all the time). From her design, which is a bit busier than most characters she stars with. And also uses Japanese aesthetic signifiers in ways that I think are a bit misappropriated and untactful. (VERY USamerican comics). Also, when she stars next to a guy, also from comics employing Japanese aesthetic, you can tell its not deployed in the same manner. (E.I she has hair and makeup, he has armor). Either way, her depictions have her either as badass sword lady on mission from god who's constantly getting hit on by an annoying guy. Or have her be from a different planet and has special telepathy.

Do we see how both her gender AND the cultural signifiers are having affects here? That the main woman tf in a series can be a literal alien even among our alien robots, with cultural signifiers they don't have?

Ratings Established: ✅️ (made the comics to cartoon jump) Gendered designs: ✅️ Unique: ✅️ Othered: ✅️ (SO SO EXTREMELY, using methods in fiction and real life)

Jets

I think my association of jets with tf gender is stronger, than some of the above examples, even if there's less reason to it. And why is that? Well, lets get socratic. Here's another question.

Is This All Starscream's Fault?

No. He's not real, he can't do things. But. His legacy as THE main stay transformers character that gets to subvert gender? Yeah. (Sure, the G1 autobots have their own effete, but he's not in every single cartoon they ever made now is he? Plus now that I think about it, he is a FLYING car...)

From the get, he's not a Man's man. He's shrill, he's manipulative and duplicitous, petty and emotional, cowardly and wheedling. He is, of course, the Perfect character. Now naturally, the 80s cartoon was not concerned with your paltry logics. Starscream and his ilk are the jets, but every decepticon can fly. The gun, the cassette player, the camera, the cassettes.

And each to a last, more masculine than he is. Vocally or behaviorally, physically. Every one of them fit the gender expectations more than he does. Even being a small time grunt, is a masculine trait, after all, more so than unchecked ambition. So its not femininity from flying, from jets. But direct relationship, reference, and descendancy from Starscream that makes it. I've yet to see female versions of Jet fire and or the aerialbots, for example.

So what to do when an effeminate male villain was less maltese falcon and more that man has effeminate hips? Well. We had to start getting his ass for being effeminate, explicitly. They made the female clone of him, which yeah, is an offensive joke stemming from the various The Gender Anxieties. (Transmisogyny, homophobia and sexism. General relation toxic masculinity. A heady mix of all and more).

But I mean. It's free girl tf... Once given a name in extra canon materials, she start's showing up in other things. Once you're in books, video games, comics, and most importantly, toys, you're real. And then eventually, her first non clone appearance in a cartoon, and how her presence shaped it.

That being, Cyberverse. Which is a cgi show, you need to know this for reasons of production. Making new models is expensive. This has always been the reason you just make recolours of Starscream and name them different things. Chicken or egg on this one, I don't know, But because CV has Slipstream, and the only difference between her and the generic "male" decepticon jet, is a more feminine face; Suddenly, any random decepticon goon can be a woman.

An absolutely revolutionary take for striving to populate a fictional world with gender parity. By at large it also means they're way more lady villains, and specifically flying model of villain. The show has other woman, but none who get the same androgynous body mold treatment.

Established: ✅️ Gendered designs: Mildly to NO. Unique: By design, no. Othered: Yes for the clone, and Screamer himself, I suppose. No, otherwise. Villainy: ✅️(That's, the whole idea)

Tanks

It needs to be said. Sometimes, when doing things that transgress a norm, anteing up is less subversive. This is another reason why gender variance, female agency and overt sexuality are more common traits of villains. When already defying strictures of society. What's one more.

That's Right. TANKS ARE THE BUTCH WOMAN OF TRANSFORMERS.

Alright. Let me back up. Strika is the stone cold knock out undefeated champ of lady tf designs that, actually has a reoccurring cartoon presence. She is, admittedly, only a reoccurring to minor character.

Her introduction is in another show with techno-organics, this one involved in the struggle between well, the techno and the organic. Strika as we see her, and as the design that will go on to be iterated, is not in her normal transformer body. She has been transferred into a 'vehicon' body. Without a preexisting essence contained in one, vehicons are not considered alive, in the way a transformer is. Visually, they lack the more human body plan, a standard face, feet and hand like appendages.

To further contrast Strika against the two techno-organic woman. Both of them are tall, and slender. Their softer organic shapes designed towards elegance or beauty, whatever your subjective opinion of that result might be. They both have romance subplots too. By the way. Or honestly one subplot and one main plot. Strika. In contrast. Is built like a brick shit house. Her face is. Minimal. And her goal: protecting her planet... by terminating the heroes.

Now, existing as a character that can be referenced for other media, and given the detail that she was a "Famous general", it's off to the races. She makes a wonderful big tank menace that can fill out a background shot, too.

Without her I hardly think we could have Clobber, also from CV. Who is. The true goat. The finest thing, the achievements of all we could ever hope for. A big fuck off woman, gender swapped from a previous male design with minimal faff, with now even more personality and show presence. Friends, wants, desires. Emotions. Thank God for Clobber, Thank Clobber for Clobber. Thank Randolph Heard and Mae Catt for Clobber.

Established: Depends if you want to count that Strika had so much swag they kept drawing/modeling her Gendered designs: FUCK NO Unique: ✅️ Othered: only originally Villainy: ✅️

Cars

So now you have the final piece of the puzzle. In transformers, Autobots are Cars. Yes, there are plenty of autobots that are NOT cars, and there are cars that are not Autobots. But they're exceptions, they're aberrances. They're unique. And Autobots are the norm. They oppose the Decepticons. Decepticons are Villains. And Decepticons can fly. Modal simplified binaries and false dichotomy abound!

And the thing about those original Autobot woman, the one's who largely did not influence all of this? They were cars, it's true, but not like how the men where cars. They've not been designed from transforming car toys, with a shellac of humanoid gender over top. Their designed in the way of human gender. With the car on top.

When the preexisting clause leads to the original designs to be revisited, which, has largely only happened in more recent years. They aren't car woman robots. The cars are literally not part of their bodies, they are additional. Instead of a unifying identity of a robot who is a car, its Arcee and her backpack. Parts of cars get grafted onto their petite lady bodies, and placed anywhere out of the way.

In order to make a transformer a woman, they have to give her a gender, not understanding that that's always been the case. And to give her a woman's gender, she's got to LOOK like a woman, not a transformer. And to look like a woman, she's got to act like a woman. She must be heroic but reactive instead of active, or else, villainous, conniving and or self centered. To be a woman, we must have some other previous woman to explain her presence, or else explain it anew with her unique, strange, or exotic origin. How could she ever be a woman if she simply, existed, looked average, talked average. How could she be a woman if her body is hunks of ungendered car. How can she be a woman if she's everything we expect a transformer to be.

A woman is transgressive, a woman is not normal. Autobots are normal. Autobots are heros. Autobots are men. And Autobots do not fly.

#some shit #its not called cisformers #<- IT SURE ISNT FOLKS #a note on how im using citations here u can read BEFORE getting into the post proper #I'm writing this in mind that someone might have NO idea about tf. or. god forbid. #the general perspective of media trope analysis im working from. #So the links can be considered additional or further reading with intent of 1. if a more thorough understanding of a concept might help #2. something im eliding the name of for search reasons 3. a referential example of what im saying #4. a specifc reference/bit of info that might be unclear. in which case im usually linking to a SECTION of the page #5. JOKE #ALright now normal tag talking space. #THIS IS. serious media analysis done casually for fun! in that. I mean it. genuinely. But also im here for silly fun and im not trying #to be SOOOO academically rigorous that its still not. Posting. u know? #MUCH inspired. or i suppose u might say. encouraged to completion and whole hearted commitment by (fandom) silly serious analysis and #math theroying thematics #i have NO idea if this thing will be searchable with all the links and the words i used. but i prepared for it it case it is #AND I PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO IT!!!!!!!! SO its okay if anyone reads it! #but im also braced for bad faithing inwhich case. I will not be held responsible for my actions. thank you. #i have been told to tag this #maccadam #transformers #if someone tryies to kill me for it im not taking responsibility

[istherewifiinhell]

HM for the bingo: matoba, um um um. your least favorite oppie. your most favorite starscreamer. ummmmm. Abyssal Black Flame Dragon

HEHEHE

shitty id in alt. WELL THATS URRRR GUY. thats the guy thats nat.sume is about. pretty sure <- took me like a year to figure out this is not the case. he is silly. ive seen it in the gag manga. hessss a pretty loser goth in and out of drag what is not to like. im just assuming ur the most right about him i dunno if that means other ppl are wrong tho

joelle joelleity joelletwo is trying to get my ass murdered on tumblr dot gov. EDITED AND UPDATED. need to reflect that my constant with this one is i get why megs got like that

[alt]. ohhh buddy...... you asked. 1. no personality. 2. hate his whole vibe (aesthetics/affect) 3. BETRAYED THE REVOLUTION. 4. not a very good conflicted pasicfist if thats what they were gonna go for. 5. tee fee pee special. u know show dont tell. this is tell, then forget to bring up ever again. simply. simply. listen if the girlies in the tag have to make him interesting for their fanfic and fuck nasty shit (honourary) go with god. i have read good fic of him. but thats compliments to the fans. me personally. i would simply use any other iteration. i suppose u cant beat how DIVORCED this guy is. im not opposed any of his specific characteristics really. its the holistic sum thats my enemy.

DOODLING HEARTS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE ON THE SCANTRON <- which tf is that 🥁🔔

[ALT] actually can i edit this again lets do a bingo for bullying. he got bullied possible the most anyone has but ill bully him some more 😏🤨😳. now ur some ppl might think oh u like this screamer so much to u inversely not like this megs for beating him up. well not u tho. thats gotta be one of my favourite 2 minutes in all of tf kajdgbjfdhb. hes not real so hes fine with that i asked him myself. ANYWAY WHAT IF U WERE BACKED INTO A CORNER BY UR OWN VIOLENT IMPULSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF UR OWN ACTIONS and also millennia of unending war so u just decide to go full nihilist about it. and this literally saves your world and people. well not the ones u killed but most of em. and u keep winning <3 and ur pettiness and self severing survival instincts also saved the universe. btw. idk if i have HC so much as. i can see my reading of the text not being universal but also im right <3. billybob thompson one of 2 fav non latta screamers. prettiest modern screamer design

out of LEFT field but i LOVE IT

[alt] wait how did u land on a orbeez side character i would at remember the vibes of enough to get double bingo. was it dragon sooyoung? kfjjdf. DO U KNOW. how often i watch something and think. this character would be improved if they were an edgy anime fourteen year old. WELL HERE IT IS. the most important thing u can be in the world is a shitty emo teen with a deviant art dragon fursona. i dont remember anything else im literally just like. thats perfect. what a shit head. the best character in the book now im saying so.

#some shit #its not called cisformers #THANKS FOR THE GUYS AND FOR INSPIRING ME TO GRAFFITI THE BINGO. A LOT MORE FUN A LOT MORE WORKABLE #phrase interpretation and obstinate personality problems about multiple choice. SOUNDLY DEFEATED. by playing toys #if some busy body trys to kill me for hating the websites most beloved tee fee iteration im haunting u. but ill just hang out so its fine #RO.BLOX FACE IS A STOLEN JOKE. (<- special privileges) i dont know what fucking ro.blox is.

[istherewifiinhell]

Actually never mind about 'hanging out without talking' online thing i think blogging IS decent at that. My real problem is i cant annoy u all with my knowledge of g1 same model characters without having to make like. A uquiz about it. Which im too lazy to do.

#some shit #its not called cisformers #it doesnt have the same vibe without me gesturing at my phone near tears. #see. see. no his heads different. the. the. these thingys. their different.

[istherewifiinhell]

tfwiki the MOST useful feature u could have for me at this point is to simply having a rating for comics/comics writers on the woman (and other marginalities, allegory or not) suckage rating. i dont wanna hear about it. i dont wanna hear about HOW LONG. weve been having cold take shit heads play in the space. just on a scale of arcee was made to appease the feminists to cv/es actual rep of diverse gender AND diverse gender pres. thats all

#some shit #its not called cisformers #IM GONNA" im gonna start lookingat my dash. evenutally. give me a minute #brought on by seeing notes that theres at least one guy who as like. can we make the woman look normal in the comic please? and hasbro said #NO THEY NEED TO LOOK LIKE WOMAN. so people KNOW we have women in our totally girl boss feminist comics #-> they still employ furman to this day #and. previous same guy. IS EDITING OUT. SOUL BASED GENDER. of... trading cards??? for all i know his comics might STILL. suck. to me. #to me. tometome. they only way i can find out if any comic DOESNT suck. is to read them. but. STAMPS MY FOOT. #IT LOOKS WEIRDDDD IN THERE #and b4 u come at me for cartoon bias note how i had to COMIBINE the 2 shows with women cause es has like. normie women. (og chars/cars) #and a concept of gender variance (beast formers/enbies) #and cv has. EVEN. THE ACCEPTABLE CONCEPT. chunkiest tf but women (tanks/butches)

[istherewifiinhell]

[level 5 toy franchise fan moment]

[ID: 1. TMNT 03 Fast Forward screencap of Mikey and Cody with a bunch of action figure toys on the floor behind them. 2. a close up of the toys that are drawn with a rather specific amount of detail. some look like robots or tanks or monstery guys. one on the very right is indicated with an arrow, its blocky, navy blue and white, with maybe, a blocky chest. END]

does mikey [or cody i guess] have a g1 soundwave in the year 2105...

#some shit #turbles... #its not called cisformers #were all SICK so were watching cartoons [wouldnt u be doing that anyway.... uh. yeah] #theories banding about about those other toys one the left being tfs. red shoulders makes it look a little like oppie i grant #but green arm? id bet anything its vol.tron. i have. NO IDEA. what the villain of that series tends to look like. so. #AND WHY YES THIS EPISODE IS MAKING FUN OF TOY COLLECTORS. what about it. #the wiki is FRUSTRATINGLY not interested my STUPID toy identification pissing contest [not a contest but i have the brain i have]

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This unique character in a scifi has a transfigured and uncanny appearence and the story hinges on the tradegy that unfolds when only two people on opposite sides of a conflict can actually treat it with any kindness and respect.

But well.... we decided that was kinda ableist cause the ables were being meannnnn and the character is UGLY and CHILDLIKE so instead when we revisted it we made HER pretty and she had just like scifi autism [which ONLY presents socially it would NEVER effect someones appearence or GAIT]

You understand im killing you with knives yes?

#some shit #its not called cisformers #why is..... every tf comics thing i learn about like. welllll we thought it was bad rep so we did [something worse] #okay. this isnt techincally 'worse'in the same way the gender one is. which. is just categorically worse. #but like. you understand that THATS. not the. like okay it dies its a sad story. #an episode from the fucking. late nineties that probably wasnt even TRYING to be. disablity allegory. like. #BUT OKAY. u WANT to make it disability allegory. AND YET U ARE AFRAID. OF THE KIND OF DISABILITY. THIS CHARACTER COULD BE ALLEGORED TO HAVE #im KILLING YOU. WITH KNIVES. #the character is also my beloved transmutate so U_U. kill.

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sits down at desk to do smth but remembers i can literally play toys

[ID: photos dino transformers toy, which is 2 tones of green, with silver n gold accents holding an tiny aro flag crochet (2 row double cr stitch each colour). 1. in robot mode holding the flag above his head, each bottom corner grasped in the bite of his hands (each forming half the dino head). 2. in dino mode with the flag resting on is back. tail posed up, mouth open like roaring. END]

shhhh shh hes miss transformered i know. i forgor how to do it.... i know nowww and fixed it okay. hes undermine and hes... a spinosaurus? sure buddy...

#some shit #its not called cisformers #tablet as privach screen dhdhf. though i suppose i coukd have just taken this with my other inherited tfs in the corner........ #their just attactics [base statutettes with limited articulation] BUT. they are meg.op and they kinda look like their holding hands? so.

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is megs the evil gay trans robot son or does he have the evil gay trans robot son. g1 edition

i mean i think he can be someones evil gay trans robot son. maybe not mine tho. kjfdgjh. he doesnt have a canonical dad like g1 oppie does. as for does he HAVE SONS. okay okay. i was thinking about his fondness for animals which ofc as established. beastformers trans. but like are those is SONS? their sounders maybe. or just buds. who knows. but then did he MAKE any guys? and yes he did. constuct icons off screen. sort of. maybe. they retconned that one. BUT ALSO. stunt icons. which i think being a car alt moded 'con is decently trans. so there u go. break down and his lot. now does he LOVE THEM? they stopped screamer from completely over throwing him as leader of the cons one time. hes probably fine with that

BUT ALSO. for the consideration of evil gay trans robot son in the shape of megs. may i present browning

[ID: TF SGMF cap of Browning, who has the body shape of g1 megs but brown, and tiny. Hes standing on the ground next to the legs of one of the armored up human kids, hes barely mid shin height. He's talking to the kid saying "Will you fire me? It's tear gas!" END]

#some shit #its not called cisformers #id go thru the effort of proving the megs like animals cause its a very cute trait for him but lazy. dont wanna. he bond villians it up whe #hes around them. u get it. #and it DID come to mind over the guys he made. sorry. lol. #SO ANYWAY. browning. i say one of the kids. i know its the girl. look how their drew her standing fgbjdh. #im dont have an excuse for any argument for each trait hes just too funny of a character concept to not mention. #GOD. almost miss ID what animethat cap was from. IMAGINE the shame.

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#<- bwah. But i wouldnt mind seeing them go evil kfjfj healthy temporary outlet

WAS thinking. maltos speaking as. threat. cause the government hates their asses the sweetest kids in all the world. or otherwise when bee got them all mads and twitch went super saiyan. BUT FJNKN GOD LOL. funniest rebellious stage ever. will all their supportive safe adults who are [ticks off] ex war general, ex most devious guy in the army, mad scientist one, mad scientist two etc etc etc

someone asks is this normal. 40 ft tall piece of machinery capable of so much violence observing from a neutral distance with a fond expression. yeah they're good they just being kids.

#some shit #its not called cisformers #MAKES MYSELF ILL THINKING ABOUT ES MEGS AGAIN. #urgghhhh he did LITERALLY do that about the cassettes is the thing #he loovessss it hes sooooo nice and attentive to kids im gonna ki-. KISS HIM. about it. how about that. replacement rephrase. HMM?

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b4 i get taken by POSTING urges. i gotta just say. 1. ignore the fucking weirdo shit i did. you really can just watch earthspark if ur a little interested in tf and a lot interested in good looking, well written shows with cute stuff in em. (its not flashing free in the way of a lot new animation. alas. probably about as bad as stylish action genre live action tends to be?)

ANYWAY. other than being about trans tfs, cute little babies, and hot robots, i think es is really about what people owe each other, what societies owe people, and they owe society. Like, yes obvious its, what do people owe children, cause theres lots of kids (so many kids, help). but leaders and followers, governments, people you've hurt, people who've hurt you. Its a very "family show" cause, the family, its so big, but i think you could be over literal and try and add EVERY character to the family. but its not that. Its just also about idenities, and culture, and kinships of that matter, and how people relate to each other, and treat each other, and shape each other. its Good As Hell.

And its about Giant Transforming Alien/Domestic Robots.

#some shit #its not called cisformers #'thats too vague whats it ACTUALLY about' listen what do u think other tf shows are about? from my bloggin. violent erotism? probably. #some tf shows r abt being good coworkers who have fun goofy times. some tf shows are abt being underdogs outcasted by a too rigid society #the buh buh lore scifi nonce Proper Nouns is like. So not what i think Any iteration is ABOUT. unless their REALLY BAD #a lot of them are. about. being sexist adhfbgdjgf i guess. #NOT THIS ONE THOOOOOOOOO

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weee grabbing from joelle cause do love question time

a) three ships

shrugs good naturedly of its tf mode time

meg.ops. please see preemptiment texts on the matter rip each other apart gay styles and hold that man who is a gun

sound.rod (still a bad name sorry) that shit was crazy. like its funny ppl can say like ohh chaotic one serious one ship but im pointing at the guy with no face and serious affect and im pointing and saying. dramatic hater. little bitch (aff). pointing at the one who blasts fire at his friends and gets blasted with like x10 more fire. and im saying. preemiment diplomatic leader of his generation. and then they fist bump and play 80s jams and save the world its the most romantic shit ive every seen in my life

hmm. hmm. yeah okay im gotta say meg.star just to SAYYY. i dont think ppl get how funny this one is. no shut up with ur wah wah angst. this is fun for them. otherwise theyd leave. maybe probably. its like loony toons tom and jerry shit ship. bd.sm isnt fixing them cause what their doing is so much funnier.

HONOURABLE menchy to arm hot shot and his 50 war time homosocial bonds boyfriends. everyone who sees that guy is like. Oh i GOTTA have some weird thing with him. but his dipshit can do attutitude cockiness and true unbreakable friendship. hes irresitiable. guy is probably the highest ranking any tf every got to be (combined army commander) and they still wont make him shotimus prime. stupid.

b) first ever ship

this is one of those memory tricks id need to ask an older brother but they dont fucking know that. uhhhhh?? gigolas? or smth? probably some shit like that watching a movie and being like. damn. cool. first fics read was probably some clamp shit.

c) last song

[blasts the dsnine theme] NAHH uhhh what was the last song in knights tale. some queen shit prob? prob some queen shit?

d) last movie

SEE ABOVE

e) currently reading

justtttt finished light in gaza soooo? i have another book downloaded what is it. essays for free palestine. both from haymarket books.

f) currently watching

[ID: TF whirl, same as my icon, flat expression]. END

guess. (actuallly its. whatever comes after this one. NOT THE final one yet. soon.)

g) currently consuming

bo'uh'le uh wah-er (bottle of water. 1L metal bottle babyyyy)

h) currently craving

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. dinner and then bed?

tagging: whoever didnt get GOT yet. idk. doooo question time i love reading words.

#some shit #[types entirely in tags cadence] huh well. #its not called cisformers