Other things (besides charming, helpful, is-he-going-to-turn-out-evil-or-not Getaway) that I would love to see future TF continuities carry over from IDW:
Iconic couple with somewhat reworked origin story – so, like, we meet Chromedome and Rewind before they’re together, say, and watch them fall in love. Or Tailgate and Cyclonus meeting in some way that isn’t necessarily “we happen to be from the same time period because I got buried for six million years”, and being drawn to each other regardless.
Whirl being Whirl. Just… Whirl being Whirl. (Note: I actually think you can scale back Whirl’s initial violence for a more kid-oriented show, if needed – he can be prickly and self-destructive without necessarily ALL THE MURDER. I just want that Whirlocoaster of sad and funny and shocking and endearing all over again. :))
Scavengers, for obvious reasons.
Also Anode and Lug pulling a bunch of heists – I’d love to see them initially in an almost Scavengers-like role, so they’re not part of the main cast, we just keep dropping in on them and finding them in the middle of some wacky misadventure where they’re being pursued by mechanical were-unicorns or something.
Prowl the unlikely intergalactic heartbreaker. Seriously, this is one of my favourite bits of his characterisation in IDW, and I want this almost as much as I want Prowl the Machiavellian schemer. I want the Autobots to be tied up in a death trap by the villain of the week, and for Rodimus to be screaming, “Prowl, this cannot possibly be yet another bitter ex-boyfriend of yours!” and Prowl’s just like *shrug emoji*.
Please consider Lug and Anode and the Scavengers constantly meeting and are sitcom rivals.
YES GOOD.
I can also see a recurring situation where Anode will run insane risks to steal a thing, only for the Scavengers to steal it from HER in turn because Misfire had the munchies and thought it was food/could be exchanged for food.
Anode gets her own back usually by pinching some bit of salvage, the extraordinary value of which she and Lug recognise and the Scavengers don’t.
# I’ll draw Thundercracker surrounded with as many Busters as likes this pic gets.
Thundercracker with 38 Busters ❤
When I was but a tiny young lass, I got “attacked” by a horde of puppies at a friends ranch. Truly there is nothing as indescribable as pure euphoria that happens when you have about 12-20 puppies knock you down and demand your love. This picture brings back a ghost of that euphoric feeling ❤ HGNNNN~
Okay whats weird is i just remembered, i had a (surprisingly polite) discussion with another guy who was trying to defend the first one, and I literally used the example that really a character’s gender should be as notable a detail as their accent??
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, CHARLES. 😀
Seriously, though, absolutely agreed!
I just realised that the TF version should really be, “Get out of my head, Chromedome.” 😀
Okay whats weird is i just remembered, i had a (surprisingly polite) discussion with another guy who was trying to defend the first one, and I literally used the example that really a character’s gender should be as notable a detail as their accent??
It’s not just “oh, life just isn’t fair” though. It’s “I didn’t deserve my trauma and I didn’t make it happen. Some people are just ableist and one of them hurt me, and I didn’t cause that.”
Like think of the Princess Bride (not memorized ack):
Angry kid: That isn’t FAIR! WHO GETS HUMPERDINCK?
Grandpa: What do you mean?
Angry kid: Someone always gets the bad guy? Is it Fezzik, Inigo, WHO?
Grandpa: No one gets him. He lives.
Angry kid: Sheesh, Grandpa! What did you read me this thing for?! IT’S NOT FAIR?
Grandpa: Who ever said life was fair?
I keep talking to myself, heh
I think my problem is… the only alternative I see to believing life isn’t fair is believing just world theory.
And all you need is the tiniest bit of trauma or oppression to see just world theory as the utterly horrifying fridge horror it actually is.
Just world theory (if you don’t realize it implies a lot of us deserve a lot of awful stuff) is noblebright—the chosen one will come and save us all. Things will sort themselves out In The End, even if we can’t see the end. Because the powers that order the world—magic or gods or laws or whatever—are fundamentally good, even if we can’t see that right now.
Life isn’t fair is hopepunk—all we’ve got is this and it isn’t making us any promises. And we have our hands and our minds and our resolve, and maybe we can’t make things right but we can make them better.
I suspect a chunk of the problem is people using it as an excuse for their own unfair treatment of others. If life, in all its chaotic, uncaring, largely chance-based glory, throws a few slings and arrows my way, that’s not a personal attack on me, but if some person deliberately fucks me over, I’m going to have a problem with it and feel reasonably justified in having it.
The next time somebody tells me “life isn’t fair” to excuse their screwing me over, I want to respond something like “let me clarify. you are being unfair. that is not chance, that is your active choice. this isn’t a life problem. this is a you problem.”
Life’s unfairness is not your excuse.
I think that there may also be a more meaningful split here, between those who believe the world already is as it should be and those who believe it isn’t.
Like: I’ve encountered people who think the world is basically fair, in the sense that if someone is a million times richer than someone else, they must also be a million times better and so deserve it. I’ve also encountered people who think the world isn’t fair, but are fine with that because that’s the way the world already is, social darwinism survival of the fittest blah blah. The two groups have different positions – one puts itself forward as a moral stance, the other is pretty much amoral – but they usually agree on the best course of action to take (eg, don’t tax rich people, whether because they’ve earned their wealth or because “you can’t interfere in the market”).
Likewise, I think people who hate the phrase “life isn’t fair” because they’ve had it used against them by people benefitting from its unfairness, and people who like the phrase because it emphasises that bad things happening are frequently not the fault of the people they happen to, would both agree that unfairness is a problem, and that taking action to make the world more fair is a good thing.
a society that allows people to starve when there is food has failed. like. that’s it.
People arguing with this saying, “why do people deserve food for free???” is honestly just further proof of the failure.
Other things (besides charming, helpful, is-he-going-to-turn-out-evil-or-not Getaway) that I would love to see future TF continuities carry over from IDW:
Iconic couple with somewhat reworked origin story – so, like, we meet Chromedome and Rewind before they’re together, say, and watch them fall in love. Or Tailgate and Cyclonus meeting in some way that isn’t necessarily “we happen to be from the same time period because I got buried for six million years”, and being drawn to each other regardless.
Whirl being Whirl. Just… Whirl being Whirl. (Note: I actually think you can scale back Whirl’s initial violence for a more kid-oriented show, if needed – he can be prickly and self-destructive without necessarily ALL THE MURDER. I just want that Whirlocoaster of sad and funny and shocking and endearing all over again. :))
Scavengers, for obvious reasons.
Also Anode and Lug pulling a bunch of heists – I’d love to see them initially in an almost Scavengers-like role, so they’re not part of the main cast, we just keep dropping in on them and finding them in the middle of some wacky misadventure where they’re being pursued by mechanical were-unicorns or something.
Prowl the unlikely intergalactic heartbreaker. Seriously, this is one of my favourite bits of his characterisation in IDW, and I want this almost as much as I want Prowl the Machiavellian schemer. I want the Autobots to be tied up in a death trap by the villain of the week, and for Rodimus to be screaming, “Prowl, this cannot possibly be yet another bitter ex-boyfriend of yours!” and Prowl’s just like *shrug emoji*.
my favourite part is the small crisis halfway through about whether or not beast wars TFs can have sex
YES. 😀 I kind of wonder whether he got caught in his own logic loop – “Wait, I said they can’t have gender because they’re not organic but some of them ARE organic, what do I do??” – or whether Beast Wars is just so chock full of sex jokes that he couldn’t get away from it. 🙂
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