Break The Rules, Take The Heat

male artists who draw every woman/slightly femme looking person with the same yassified disney elsa face while having the decency to draw men in different and interesting ways are not seeing the light of heaven. btw

With all due respect IDW Megatron is the kind of dad that would go out to get cigarettes and then never see his kids again considering that's what he did to all of the Decepticons leaving on the Lost Light + he groomed Tarn into worshipping him as a mentor/authority figure and then basically stopped caring about him.

Soundwave knew exactly what happened. He didn't want to believe it.

Ignoring the stabbing pain in his chassis and spark, he scooped up the cassettes and bolted for cover. Blaster fire rained down on the battlefield around him. Autobots and Decepticons were scrapping each other for the last bits of energon they had available. He already knew this was a pointless battle with more energon spilled than they would have acquired. Starscream was a good fighter, and he was cunning, but he was no leader.

With Megatron turned traitor, they had no other choice. They were starving. Malfunctionioning.

Soundwave was too starved of energon to even be able to protect his own cassettes. He had tried to eject Rumble to send him out into battle. They could have used his pile drivers. But something went wrong with Soundwave's ejection systems. Rumble… he'd gotten caught on something. There was an explosion. They were supposed to be safe with him, but he'd killed one, injured the other, and damaged himself.

He would never forgive Megatron for abandoning them. For leaving them to die.

Soundwave ducked into the forest, out of sight. He set his cassettes down as gently as he could without jostling their injuries. Frenzy groaned in pain. Good, Soundwave could work with that. That meant she was still alive. The pink splatter across her red frame wasn't promising. Neither was the damage to her exterior plating. But she was alive.

Rumble…

Soundwave didn't want to look. He didn't want to think about it. And he didn't want to do what he was about to in order to save Frenzy. Rumble was already gone, he wasn't going to lose her too. He just hoped that, in the Allspark, Rumble understood his desperation.

By the time Soundwave finished fitting Frenzy's frame with undamaged parts from Rumble, Frenzy was more purple than red. He hoped she'd forgive him too. He couldn't imagine waking up and being fitted with spare parts from his dead twin.

A roar of jet engines overhead caught Soundwave's attention. Thundercracker landed in front of him with an armful of energon cubes. He saw the grimace in his optics when he looked down at the mess before him.

"They've called in reinforcements," Thundercracker told him. "We need to retreat. Starscream won't back down until he's dead or captured."

"Go," Soundwave said. "I'll comm the others, and we'll rendezvous back at the base. Tell Knockout to set up a medical bay."

Thundercracker glanced down at Frenzy. He nodded wordlessly before transforming and flying off.

Soundwave would make Megatron pay for this if it was the last thing he did.

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Okay, I can't sleep (again) so I'm rewatching the last two eps of Earthspark and... hmm. There was this one theory submitted on my Earthspark blog that seemed pretty interesting, and suddenly it makes a lot of sense.

Ehh, this got long... also, spoilers ahead for future episodes.

So, the Maltos have the Emberstone, and then it's teleported away and stolen by Skywarp. (she is so pretty-)

So now she's got the Emberstone, and she holds it as she negotiates with the Maltos.

And then, suddenly, it starts to glow in her hand, and there's a voice.

Evolution of Hope.

She's... super confused by this. And distracted.

So Thrash throws his wheel thing to knock the Emberstone out of Skywarp's hands, then Twitch flies up and grabs it and returns it to Mo.

But the Emberstone stops glowing pretty quickly after Skywarp isn't touching it anymore. It glows for a second after Twitch grabs it, but it stops before it's even passed on to Mo. It doesn't start glowing again until Robby and Mo ask Quintus Prime for help, and then it creates Nightshade, Hashtag, and Jawbreaker.

But wait. Three new Terrans? That's a little bit weird, considering how Twitch and Thrash were born specifically connected to the two young humans that were touching the Emberstone. And, well, maybe the numbers don't matter, or Quintus decided they needed extra help, but...

What if Skywarp touching the Emberstone made it create a new Terran connected to her? Specifically... Nightshade.

Nightshade's the only one to announce their own name rather than have Mo or Robby say it for them, and they seem to be the first born in the cave-- at least, they're the first one shown. They do have a connection to Robby and Mo, because of the pronouns scene, but there's a theory that they might also be linked to Skywarp.

The synopsis for episode 13 says that "they (Nightshade) find a new connection in the most unlikely of places". Just saying... *shrugs*

Heres more breakdown you schmucks *throws gravel in the general vicinity of the public*

I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

Please don’t support the fan project Galvatron’s Revenge.

Prime Animations, the team behind the film, had just casted a racist and homophobic voice actor as Optimus in the film. This voice actor has a history of making violent threats against Emperor Kumquat and UltraPrimal (two popular trans Transformers YouTubers), has a history of wishing death on BIPOC folks, and has a history of making homophobic comments such as the same ol, “LGBTQ+ people are gr00mers” bullshit.

This person goes by the handle Orbital Bacon. He’s a legitimately awful person and instead of addressing the backlash by firing this person from the project, Prime Animations instead decides to keep him under the pathetic excuse of, “This channel is for Transformers, not identity politics!”

Since Prime Animations has decided to be Boo Boo The Clown Fool by platforming such a despicable piece of shit as a pop culture icon that many LGBTQ+ people look up to, including myself, what’s the point of supporting this project?

Please boycott Galvatron’s Revenge. Please support Transformers fans of color and Transformers LGBTQ+ fans who are content creators such as artists, voice actors, video essayists, and many more. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Racism, homophobia, and transphobia has no place in the Transformers fandom.

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