More Hardhead/Blurr. Cybertronians can get hickeys, apparently. Not quite #valveplug, but headed in that direction. #Transformers #Fanart

On the one hand, I must have the Mirage & Bluestreak from that upcoming Autobot 3-Pack. On the other... as nice as Ironhide looks, I would much rather Toyhax up my $90 SS86 Ironhide than replace/twin him before the year's even out. Hurf. #Transformers

Some Hardhead/Blurr art what took way too long. Much to his embarrassment, Blurr's fronts crumble as swiftly as he puts them up. #Transformers #Fanart #valveplug (Note: he has a spike. It's just not deployed.)

I hate how often people on tumblr continue to make me feel like I need to defend my asexuality. I really do. "Well forgive [allos] for being human!" I'm not any less human than you, shithead.

Some #Transformers photos. 1) I didn't get Hardhead SOLELY for the sake of rarepair nonsense, but it helped. 2) Pseudo-null ray configuration for Sideswipe. 3) Windcharger's altmode in all its @toyhax.com 'd glory. One of these days, I'll take a satisfactory pic of his robot mode.

@klaart.bsky.social 's Cherry (G1 design), because I like how vibrant she is. Everything below the elbows was guesswork. #Transformers #fanart

Bit of #Transformers AU musing: the Cybertronian concepts of which direction "Heaven" and "Hell" are in is inverted compared to ours--Primus is Cybertron, while Unicron is somewhere out in space. ex. their equivalent of "God in Heaven" is "Primus below".

Look Is the statement Trump put out that names groups that are pro-transgender as terrorists that the government "will kill" awful and horrifying? Yes. But also they've said some variant of this shit at least once or twice a year for ages now. Please don't fall into a doom hole about this one.

So I like Beast Wars just fine, but I cannot make '80s mecha and Guyver mecha fit together in my head. If I did any AU stuff, I'd divorce it from G1 save for some common terms/names. ...and do something with the Animorphs toys, because why not.

A moment between young lovers Hot Rod and Lycoris (OC). …hey, what is it that spider lilies represent? #Transformers #Fanart

There's better photos of Blurr's Achai Studio upgrade, but I wanted to post mine. Yes, he's hanging out in front of the Robotech novels. #Transformers

Apparently, when Star Wars Episode IV was first released, some sci-fi readers were decrying it as a Dune ripoff. I'd like to know what version of Episode IV they were watching.

Paging the #valveplug tag: Where DID the terms "spike", "valve", etc. originate, anyway? Did one individual come up with mechanical equivalents to human junk, or was it a communal thing? And how old are they? Somehow, I don't think they were coined in the '80s.

"If they committed a crime they need a police report, not a callout" A) the police don't take most of those crimes seriously B) Am I seriously supposed to believe that you people would support a victim who went to the police instead of framing them as a "pro cop carceral thinker"

"Sideways the dimension-hopper" is the kind of mid-'00s invisible fanon madness that fascinates me, as someone who encountered a lot of that as a teenager. tl;dr a misunderstanding over Sideways's Robot Masters toy bio, as well as Takara's site, led people to believe--

If there should be one ironclad rule of writing, it's this: be wary of "writing advice" that comes off more like OP trying to absolve themselves of guilt. No good will ever come of shunning critical thinking where it inconveniences your precious id and/or ego.

I am both glad to be home and painfully aware that I may never see Philly again. It's not a bad place; wandering around Manayunk and especially central Philly were experiences I'm glad I got to have. (Even if my thighs weren't.)

Looking forward to swapping out SS86 Blurr's head with the Achai Studio upgrade. His stock head sculpt is... okay, but no better than that, while Achai's is much livelier. Definitely doing the same for Kup if I ever get him, because YEESH. #Transformers

[flops in like a vengeful witch replaced my bones with ballistic jelly] Back.

We're leaving for Philly in a bit. Gonna be radio silence until we return early next week.

Made my first @toyhax.com purchase earlier: guns for Arcee and Elita One, and labels for Windcharger. Hopefully, they'll be here by the time we return from Philly. My 86 Arcee (currently in bday stash) is missing her pistol; the Toyhax ver. doesn't look oversized in her hands.

Someone tell me, because I can't seem to find a primary source: are we getting a Studio Series/"MTMTE Collection" G1 Prowl toy later this year? Because I don't want to spend more on customizing the dead version back to life than it'd cost to get an official "living" one at retail. #Transformers

We got back from day one of the Comic Expo, and all I gotta say is STUDIO SERIES 86 IRONHIDE, BAYBEEEE ...okay, so more than that. No 86 Ultra Magnus like I'd hoped, but one vendor that I chatted with for a bit had Ironhide, whom I'd marked down as priority no. 2. (con't)

Some Blurr x Hardhead fics posited that Blurr runs unusually hot even for a racecar; this gave me an idea. (Not pictured: Hardhead's squad, trying very hard to act like they're not seeing/hearing anything.) #Transformers #Fanart

"ugh the Fandom Entity is incapable of engaging with the text as written ugh everyone constantly gets into petty squabbles ugh they're all fixated on shipping ugh ugh uuuuugh" You're this close to figuring out that a lot of visible fandom content is made by teenagers and early 20-somethings.

Threw my back out of alignment recently. Thought it had un-mangled after two days, then I try stretching my back like ten minutes ago and either it wasn't actually gone or I fucked my spine right back up. GODFUCKINGDAMMIT.

My first Transformers thing ever was Powermaster Optimus Prime from 1988. Pretty sure that Dad owned it first. As I wasn't super-familiar with TF at the time, Optimus mostly got used as a prop (and he was probably OOC when I did treat him as a character). :U

Tonight in "things that make me feel like an absolute dumbass in hindsight"... After a few years of putting him together, I finally figured out what was wrong with my Furai Model G1 Optimus's face: once in place, it needed to be angled upward a bit.

"the puritans are pearl clutching about problematic fiction!" posts very funny when you realize that the publishing industry is currently mostly heterosexist patriarchy fantasies For Her

...so I-Mockery is breaking down. Front page is a mess, some links lead straight to error messages, and a number of images won't load. That's. Not good.

"The Sloppery Slope": once someone who had genuine artistic skill posts AI slop, for any reason, chances are good that they will never post their own work ever again. Or: I am once again frustrated over a thing I've complained about a few times now.

Hey, Blackout the System is back and have declared a general strike next month! Reminder that the guy behind BTS is a scammer wholecloth and you need to stop letting him play activist to build a social media following to scam more people!

"Man, I hope people on tumblr like this set of Transformers doodles I'm working on." [tumblr rolls out an update that destroys visibility and continuity in yet another ill-advised effort to make Number Go Up.] "OH GREAT."

The nice thing about doing #Transformers AU stuff as an adult in 2026 rather than a teenager in 2008 is that I have a much stronger tolerance for characters like Wheelie. (Still prefer his Japanese voice and lack of rhyming, though.)

Only picked up two things at the Lowe Mill Comic-Con earlier today, but they were both worth it: Studio Series Soundwave (with Ravage, Laserbeak, and Buzzsaw) and Missing Link Arcee (C-07, the pink-and-orange one). Never imagined that I would own either. #Transformers

Oh great, dA is now enforcing a ten-download limit for non-Core users. [screams at a pitch that causes all dogs within a hundred-mile radius to go berserk]

I wonder how many of the dorks who consistently blast English translations of Japanese works as missing the latter's subtlety/nuance are just refusing to engage with English scripts on their level (a low-context language). Rhetorical: it's all of them.

Watched that fan-reconstruction of Robotech: The Movie (aka Megazone 23 x Southern Cross) the other day; it may be regarded as a curiosity at best nowadays, but I liked it. The late Carl Maceck deserves some credit for getting a coherent story out of THAT production headache.

Belated cross-post of Bridiar and Psychmin, two more Fakemon derived from That Goddamn ROMHack. Bridiar ("bride"+"briar"+"dire") is loosely based on "Demiwaifu" if she wasn't a chimera of existing Pokemon. Server buddies helped with her typing. #Pokemon #fanart

Happy #Pokemon Day! I probably should have drawn something instead of slacking off (read: going with Dad to the Space and Rocket Museum). Currently crocheting a Fakemon and keeping an eye out for that Game Boy Pikachu plush. Also picked up a booster box for my birthday stash.

Arcee x2: G1, Earthrise (2020) and Movie (2007). I remember grabbing Movie!Arcee close to release, despite my disdain for the Bayverse, just to have AN Arcee. In retrospect, her design is okay--more readable to me than most of the others. #Transformers

Maybe it's just because I was already too old for creepypastas when SonicEXE was written, but I think the base concept of "evil red-eyed Sonic lookalike that's a brutal, sadistic hunter of sorts" could be better served by either Metal Sonic or Mecha Sonic (from S3nK).

"If you do callout posts about artists creating 'fictional taboo content you are a fascist, it doesn't matter if you support trans people or hate ICE" It's so funny how many people will not shut the fuck up about how much they hate purity culture and then say this shit

You have less than one second. #Blood1997 #fanart

Whirpool and Firecycle, two Transformers from the CBS pitch documents. #Transformers #fanart

I read some more of Raksha's #Transformers fics last night (having already red her origin story for Megatron years ago); she was/is a good writer. Dare I say it, an excellent writer... so long as no named Autobots are present. The archive I'm using is incomplete, and--

Unsolicited Transformers post of the day: the Transformers movie designs improved over time, but MAN did I not like them in the first three films. 2007 being in the "Real is Brown" era did not do them any favours--especially the Decepticons.

Check "Following". Immediately hit with "Haim Saban is a twat" [which is correct] "therefore Power Rangers is bad". It feels like I can't talk about Super Sentai (especially the un-adapted seasons) or PR without risk of someone either hijacking it to bitch about PR or harassing me for liking PR.

Seeing photos of KB Toys circa 2005 and later reminded me that, while I do miss it, I specifically miss that narrow window in the early '00s where ours carried stuff I cared about, like McFarlane anime figures, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Resident Evil, etc.

Some more Delta Pokemon (a TCG concept) if they visually reflected their altered typing. (And also a Pinkachu and a one-off contest winner Fakemon.) #Pokemon #fanart