#prowlastator

[catboyenjoyerdesu]

sorry at this point i just want to post wip but im too scared to put them on twiter

so wip...

#prowl #idw prowl #prowlastator #I WANT MORE OF THEMMMM #maccadams #transformers #wip #I love u prowl... #constructiprowl

[keferon]

OKAY AFTER I SAW @somerandomcockroach art of them I…I HAD TO

More humanformers yaaaayyy

#transformers #maccadam #snow bots au #mtmte #prowl #constructicons #constructiprowl #wait #i think it was also called uhhhh #prowlastator #? #I can’t remember #idw prowl #long haul #mixmaster #bonecrusher #hook #scavenger #scavenger is SO lucky to hold hands with Prowl others going to be envy forever #this is what you get for being the cutest one

[akidachi]

the dynamic

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

[saxandviolins88]

sorry abt the lack of posts, can't draw anything polished bc the only thing on my mind this week is college admissions, the anxiety is eating me apart. 😁

Anyway, here's a doodle of the best combiner ever (plus Prowl). If you're wondering about translation it's just Devastator having a middle-age crisis and being drunk (don't ask, my brain is melting lol)

#transformers #constructicons #prowl #devastator #prowlastator #that's a stupid name #I kinda botched the design but whatever #dont mind my handwriting in it's natural state #maccadam #oh this ain't energon ok? that would be unrealistic

[darkcybertron]

this is nothing that hasn’t been said before but i’m obsessed with the fact that the constructicons came over to seduce prowl because they liked how mentally ill he was

#prowl #constructicons #devastator #prowlastator #idw #exrid #transformers #idw g1 #babbling brooke

[peppiemints]

Constructicon Prowl 💜💚✨

#my art #peppie's art #autobot prowl #idw prowl #tf prowl #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #mtmte prowl #constructiprowl #prowlastator #constructicons x prowl #constructicons #mecha #Robot #transformers art #transformers fanart #tf fanart

[peppiemints-archive]

Constructicon Prowl 💜💚✨

#prowl #idw prowl #transformers #tf #maccadams #maccadam #tf idw #idw #idw transformers #constructicons #constructiprowl #constructicons x prowl #prowlastator #peppie's art #my art #mecha #robot #idw constructicons

[darkstarofchaos]

Let's get uhh...constructicons/Prowl (for the ask thingy)

Don't ship it.

Why don’t you ship it?

The biggest reason is that nothing about the situation was healthy for Prowl. Not only did he become part of Devastator in the most traumatic way possible, but the time afterward was physically and psychologically harmful for him as well. Outside of that, there just isn't much for me to ship there? Prowl sees the Constructicons as a weapon and the Constructicons are just fanboys (up until the narrative decides Prowl needs to be utterly alone and they drop him like a hot potato). The whole situation was incredibly wasted potential.

2. What would have made you like it?

A different writer.

On its own, Prowl being forced into Devastator isn't a deal breaker for me because the Constructicons weren't the ones responsible. They did decide afterwards that they liked Prowl and wanted to hang with him, but until then, he was never even meant to be part of the team; just a disposable test subject for integrating someone new with an existing combiner. And I do honestly get the appeal of, "You were disposable to them, but not to us". Goodness knows Prowl needs someone in his corner. Heck, I can even get behind the angst of "this situation is physically hurting Prowl, but none of them - including him - want to stop".

So the setup was great. Super unhealthy, but you can do some pretty interesting things with unhealthy. But as they say, the devil's in the details.

See, I like the Constructicons. I do not like the way John Barber writes them as an interchangeable amalgam instead of letting them have some individuality. And I really don't like how he tried to resolve that conflict with earlier portrayals by saying that combining "rots away the individual". I like the idea that the Gestalt mind affects its components, not the idea that it supercedes them. I also don't like Prowl's recent instability being ascribed to the combining process and not, y'know. The traumatic events surrounding it. But we get this explanation from Galvatron, who delivers it alongside lies about Prowl killing Spike's father, so I can ignore it. I can pretend it's just another lie.

What I can't ignore is that Arcee doesn't hear this and think, oh, maybe it's not Prowl's fault he's been so erratic lately. Maybe I should see if he's okay when I get a chance. Nope. She just turns on him completely. Because the post-Dark Cybertron arc is the "let's tear away what little support Prowl still has" arc.

So I don't like how the Constructicons were written, I don't like the in-universe explanation for how they were written, and I hate the way everyone saw Prowl falling apart (including people who dared to call him a friend, Optimus), and just went, eh, I don't really care. He's just bad. And then, just to make sure Prowl loses everyone, the Constructicons turn on him too. Because apparently they can spend time in his head and like what they see, but it's still somehow a surprise that the mech who tolerated them because they were useful might not actually want them the way they want him.

Get these mechs a different writer.

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

As I mentioned above, the setup is great. It had a lot of potential, not just in terms of the relationship, but for character development, worldbuilding, and even the introduction of something like chronic illness with Prowl's physical health being affected by combining (again, he was introduced to the team as an experiment in adding bots to a combiner. It would make perfect sense if it wasn't an entirely successful experiment).

I also like a lot of the art and fics I've seen for them, even if most people seem to ignore the inherent angst in favor of sweet, funny, and fluffy pieces. I just wish more people dived into the physical and psychological impacts, whether in a shippy way or not.

#transformers #Prowl #Constructicons #Prowl/Constructicons #It's too bad I have no interest in writing IDW fic #The whole 'Prowlastator' thing is fascinating #but I can't stand most of the characters I'd have to write to play with the idea #Might use a G1 AU to play with it on my own terms idk

[soundwavereporting]

imo IDW1 P1 soundwave would’ve given TFP soundwave a run for his money in the quest for control over the remote, but ultimately, TFP would win, hands down

#after like. dark cybertron. even after prowlastator. soundwave is just ‘I’m depressed and going to focus on myself now.’ #baboon.txt #idw sw gesturing to sanctuary station ‘do you think a depressed person could make THIS’

[bitegore]

I really like that Tumblr established this tag search tab thing on the dashboard and then immediately added a whole bunch of shit that would show up completely untagged in the search

#shoutout to the random blurr and drift art that comes up because i follow prowlastator and vortex #like. these tags are not present. no tags i follow are present. why is it here

[archie-sunshine]

Gotta love how you always draw 6 constructicons instead of 5 (even tho during the prowlastator arc, Scrapper is dead dead)

I can only assume the ghost of Scrapper is haunting Prowl during the worst moments possible hahaha

No shade tho, love your art xoxo love you byeeee

Aw fuck. I’m a stupid son of a bitch ig. Yeah he’s just hanging out as a ghost ig <3

ONE LESS CONSTRUCTICON TO DRAW IN THE FUTURE THANK GOD

Sorry, will fix in the future

#archie answers

[decepti-thots]

for the ask meme: prowlastator/constructiprowl! (if you want to ofc)

Marizibill: Hommage à Apollinaire, by Fernandez Arman.

#ask meme

[ratchlocked]

I love a lot of your ships. Tail/cyc Prowl/cons, roddy/drift/deadlock

Thank you, one of good taste :D despite my favourite characters and ships, I actually think that, so far, cygate has the most meaningful development of the canon ships in MTMTE. Literally every panel related to them makes me crazy.

A dear friend poisoned me with prowlastator. I haven't been the same since.

Even if I'm not personally into romantic driftrod, I still appreciate the art, and you are forced to have some kind of closeness to your conjunx's amica, I'd think. But I could see romance easier with the trio altogether, I think. The art's real cute!

#answers #jean text

[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

[saxandviolins88]

two posts in one day wow, don't get used to it

Just wanted to share a visual shorthand of Devastator's heads I did for myself, it actually ended up looking pretty okay so y'all can see it too 😁

#transformers #devastator #prowlastator #I really really like prowlastator's bug-eye thing he has going on #it looks so stupid hahahaha #the chin is essential yes

[darkcybertron]

prowl regrets creating a twitter account sometimes [inspired by @peppiemints ‘s post]

#prowl #jazz #prowljazz #prowlastator #constructiprowl #bonecrusher #mixmaster #hook #long haul #scavenger #constructicons #devastator #idw #transformers #exrid #idw g1