sorry to report another disastrous writing session this evening. I never quite "had it" but I'm seriously beginning to think that I've lost whatever it was I had, fiction-wise

finished a post today... I'm having quite a bad time currently so anything I can create and finish feels like a big achievement to me. It'll be out this evening. I hope people like it

courtesy of @jalaguy.bsky.social

Transformers: Prime gotta be one of the most expensive bad-looking cartoons ever made. Acceleracers-looking ass . Mobile game trailer-looking ass. Also it's boring

it's always so sad when a typal Commander deck ends up running a lot of Changelings and "when this enters, choose a creature type" cards. I feel like there's been a big effort to print Legendary Creatures that support these lists but without several expansions' worth of one type it's not enough

finally got around to watching @vangelus.bsky.social's (excellent) Retro Seaspray review and when he got to the transformation I fully just started laughing in disbelief. Like yeah it's Seaspray, guy who sits down and shmups together! What are they DOING in there www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUFu...

this is the face of someone who's just found out the 90 years he's spent pretending to be friends with Rodimus Prime were a total waste of time (thank you Kei for sketching him! He came out great! Hope you don't mind my colours! 😅)

it's time for 100 COMICS, in which I review 100 random indie comics. Critical darlings and literally-whos, movie tie-ins and movie pitch-decks, and way, way too many comics about vampires, orcs, CEOs, and the Earth-shaking war between Heaven and Hell. Don't miss it! wadapan.substack.com/p/100-comics

Secured me and @wadapan.bsky.social's TFN room for another year, now to try and bring my heart rate back down, lol.

I’m extremely proud to announce The Multiversary Of Ask Vector Prime, my first fanzine that I’ll be debuting at TFCon LA 2025! A deep dive into the history, evolution, and legacy of AVP, with original artwork and an interview with the man himself, @jimsorenson.bsky.social More Info! 🔽

this week I have a really special short story! I wrote it several years ago, and the only reason I didn't share it then was because I had designs to submit it to magazines... but there's an aspect of the story that would have complicated that slightly... wadapan.substack.com/p/i-feel-the...

seeing a lot of buzz on Reddit recently about the Toa Hagah, thanks to some Etsy sellers making 3D-printed parts for the canon contest winning designs. And like those ARE sick-looking MOCS but I just can't get over the fact that come ON, that's Toa Dume and Nidhiki! Lhikan goes with them! Stop it!

just re-read this week's short story for the first time in maybe a year. I had vague designs to edit it, but coming back to it with fresh eyes, I wouldn't want to change a thing about it. You could say "I Feel The Same" about it now as I did when I wrote it

this year will be the 25th anniversary of Spirited Away—a film I somehow had avoided watching until now? Here's a little essay unpacking its coming-of-age-narrative! wadapan.substack.com/p/spirited-a...

thanks TOM

31 years ago, Corey Dubrasy's truck fell through the ice... I've finally finished the behind-the-scenes essay for END OF THE EARTH, my NaNoWriMo project from 2024. It's a rare chance to see how the sausage gets made! wadapan.substack.com/p/end-of-the...

my absolute favourite as a kid. Maybe the first one I ever got? Look at him, squarest guy ever to live

honestly find it so impressive how diegetic Jo's designs and bios are. There's basically a whole assortment of Cobra freaks in this thread and they're all so entertainingly messed up

since getting into G1 I find myself thinking that Ironhide and Ratchet are basically the biggest obstacle to doing a "one per mold" thing with Diaclone. Smokescreen, Bluestreak, Hoist, Grapple, Red Alert, kind of who cares? Just hone in on those guys from The Ultimate Guide, from TF07...

TYPHON—adventurer of the underseas! 86 years later, he's been dredged up from the benthic depths of public domain comics history, for YOUR reading pleasure. Will he get the girl, or is it so over? wadapan.substack.com/p/typhon-1

New original Cobra character Robert "Forwardjump" Shortjump. His ability is Dynamite, which is his half brother and deadly enemy's single weakness. Due to his trademark "dynastep" technique he has really fucked knees and ankle. He works in volcano. "Dynamite is man's volcano!" -quote

crack team of experts I've assembled to kill the crack team of experts Jo's assembled to kill the entire cast of overwatch

Who's the greatest musician in history? C’mon, I know you’ve already thought of names. Mozart. Freddie Mercury. Taylor Swift. Penelope Telephone. Let’s say you thought of a hundred artists like that. Surely the greatest musician ever is one of them, right? BZZT! Wrong! wadapan.substack.com/p/encore

so should you have sex with the pluribus or not? This is just one of the many fascinating topics discussed in my new article wadapan.substack.com/p/pluribus

an extremely generous individual (you know who you are) has bought a year's subscription to the newsletter, which I guess means I'm contractually obligated to bang out 52 posts for you plebs this year???

Happy new year everyone! Today is the ONLY DAY you can read this post and have the intended experience. wadapan.substack.com/p/fateball

anyone have any idea about alternatives to substack that - offer a newsletter service - have an option for paid subscriptions - have a webapp editor with revision history - support footnotes - are not an SEO black hole - do not require me to pony up cash upfront

remembered I needed to dig out all the batteries from my Unicron Trilogy toys with LIGHTS + SOUNDS. Maybe seven or so had a bit of battery acid in, nothing terrible? Crazy how many Armada and Energon toys they just lumped in three LR44/A76 cells in for a laff. Anyway here's your reminder to check!

A HOT SCOOP from the TFWiki Community blog... the long-lost Cobybot prototype alluded to in the yellow Scrapmetal's online Cyber Key content has suddenly appeared out of nowhere! You can ogle it on your computer now! tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/t...

I'm really good at PR

went to a Transformers meetup! If you don't know what to expect from these events, you might be interested to hear how it went down! thewadapan.tumblr.com/post/8030286... (thanks to @primetimetoyz.bsky.social for putting it on! I had a really nice time :) )

My review of Kniv3s Out!!!! Is Out!!!!! Full spoilers, obviously. I'm not going to talk about a murder-mystery without going into full spoilers, that would be silly. letterboxd.com/wadapan/film...

cripes I did not realise that almost the entire writing team for EarthSpark, with exception of showrunner Dale and TF veteran Gavin Hignight (who only did two episodes anyway), was replaced for Season 2, along with the storyboard directors and animation studio?? What HAPPENED back there...

Thinking about Hot House, the fire department A-10 Thunderbolt. The person buying gear for the department read "fire support" on a spec sheet and said "oh perfect, that sounds like something we could use!"

if you've never handled Beast Wars Scavenger before I think the thing that's really insane about him is just the fact that fully 75% of his body mass is just his arms. His entire robot-mode body and head is curled up in his abdomen, which itself is mostly kibble that hangs off his arse

(And this copy in particular now contains a one-of-a-kind sketch!)

“Eyes Wide Shut, Lips Wide Kissable” is officially Larry Hama-approved

honestly like can you imagine. What would he (?) even be doing there. Class of 4 normal preschoolers and 1 deranged killer

....ah-heh, the code is airbrushed out of the other photos. ....which begs the question whether it was airbrushed away because that deco was dropped, or because *that's what toy photographers do all the time actually, but this time it was a false positive*

checked out Absolute Batman today! It was Absolutely unremarkable www.tumblr.com/thewadapan/7...

Was trying to make a point about how much the animation models for all the 1986 Scramble City guys suck, and drew this harrowing look at an alternate reality where the reference material available for drawing Optimus Prime's animation model was just as bad.

Oh this is crazy, I think my DWJ bibliography has been de-indexed by Google? I got it by googling when I went to update it the other day, and just now I tried again—even searching "wadapan"—and it had vanished. Bizarre to think that it was flagged automatically? wadapan.wordpress.com/daniel-warre...

dammit now I'm wondering what the list looks like. Like Arcee has got the most misogynist momence just by sheer volume, but she's born with goodness in her heart. Need me a Thunderblast type stereotype. A real The Razor's Edge OC esque misstep. Do the ROTF bikes count as one slot or three

thinking about her. How many of her exist in the whole world do you think. A single digit number? A two-digit number? Just one? How does that graph look, over time?

publishers should be made to do one of those mandatory health & safety quizzes but it's a Baby's First "how to spot AI art" test. "Ooh, bad luck! Pay close attention to the left and right sides of Optimus Prime's body." seriously just click back and forth on the art and the supposed "pencils" ahaha

I've received a boon! The best Armada character is in my house!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmaE...

god so I just sold my spare Unite Warriors Wildrider that came with the (otherwise Hasbro, inc. Offroad) set of Stunticons I got from TFN last year (for the same price I just sold Wildrider for on his own!) and when I got back from the post office I immediately ran back, "can I have it back one sec"

ichikawa voice: to make this a full supplement to the english version of armada it is paramount that at least one character has a dogshit accent

COMING MONDAY AFTER ALMOST A YEAR THE GRAND RETURN OF OUR WORLDS ARE IN DANGER for one episode about some pack in manga