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I think the discourse around tf Earthspark series 2 is a great example of why I need to distance myself from the Transformers fandom for a bit...

The show isn't even out yet but people are already mad at it / hating it, and going after the writers etc, just because Starscream is seemingly the Series main antagonist...

Just because a show isn't doing the story you wanted it to doesn't mean it's irredeemable media, or complete sh!t, or siding with abusers or something... It's just not the story you wanted...

The series could be terrible, it could be amazing, or just somewhere in between... You just can't tell from a 30 second trailer.

(Starscream is a villainous character, a sympathetic one in a lot of continuities, but still a villain... He is kinda the obvious choice for the main antagonist if the Decepticons are going to be the villains in Series 2. Especially considering an evil Megatron probably off the table*.

*They generally want the current TV show to align somewhat with the current main movie, so they don't confuse younger kids. So "good guy" Megs is probably going to be a thing at least until tf One has run it's course. They did similar with tfp and the Bayverse films.)

Under a lot of stress at the moment and The relentless fandom negativity is just not what I need right now... So I'm taking a break for a while...

#im just tired of this to be honest #transformers #fandom discourse #macadam #Earthspark

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Took me this long to realize that the autobot with the caution markings was Steve. Bless his soul.

Haha thanks!

Admittedly, if the names characters, it's only really Nautica and Bulkhead who actually know his name.

#transformers #fanfiction #my fancomic

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Just repeating this.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SIGNAL BOOST

There are a lot of fraudulent Palestinian fundraisers going around Tumblr and Go Fund Me right now. (Just had one in my recommended posts)

And unfortunately Tumblr doesn't have a clear way to report fraud or fraudulent posts.

It sucks but there are a lot of disgusting people willing to use the horrors in Gaza to steal money from actual charities.

How to help tell if a fundraiser is likely fraudulent:

- It's a brand new account

- They only reblog posts about Palestine / Israel

-Its only original post is the fake fundraiser.

-Reverse image searching usually reveals the pictures to be stolen from somewhere. Or for the lazy ones they're AI generated.

- It spam tags a load of unrelated subjects (usually trending or popular ones)

- It links to a random PayPal

If you want to donate please give through official channels or through reputable charities. Unfortunately you cannot trust Go Fund Me to vet their fundraisers.

#scam awareness #please have due diligence before sharing #scam #scam alert #scammers #fraud

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Interesting! I never heard of starset, I'll have to check them out! :D

Posted about this before but it's my blog and I can post what I want XD

Late to the party as usual, but I've been looking for new music for months and recently discovered the band Ghost.

Maybe it's just the clever lyrics, darker subject matter of a lot of the songs, the theming, or the sheer variety of genres they delve into, but I've never in my life been this into a set of albums/a band.

Getting hyped/excited over music is genuinely a new thing for me.

Admittedly having super strict parents and living in a very socially conservative area, I wasn't really allowed to explore "modern" music as a kid/teen (or comics and cartoons), especially not gothic/"satanic" heavy metal. It wasn't outright banned, so to speak, just very heavily discouraged.

So it's kinda liberating in some ways (in much the same way discovering Transformers was for comics and cartoons). XD

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Forgot to post this yesterday. Attempting MerMay this year!

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🚑Interest check for the Medical Grade Zine is now live!🚑

This will be a zine dedicated to the medics of Transformers!

This interest check will run from now until May 15th! Let us know your thoughts!

🩺Fill it out here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2H6U0yyjnLGFhZoS3nIraCd3xbB3foabM3SzUv56mJSWIfA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Zine mods: @dataglitch , @mal-co-holic , @synchrosart @candychameleon , @dazzledictator

All relevant info is in the interest check form!

If the interest check goes well and we go forward with this zine, I will make dedicated social media accounts for it!

If anyone has any questions feel free to contact me/reply!

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Shattered Glass Prime, Volume 3, Page 194

Updates are going to be much slower than usual for a while... but finally here's the next page.

#transformers #transformers shattered glass #transformers prime #fanfiction #fan comic #tfsg #macadam #fanfic #tfp #fanart #megatron

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Oh this is amazing!!! I love how you draw seaspray!

Lil mini TFA comic set in my au playgrounds about the time Bumblebee was having it rough during his Autobot training with Sentinel Minor. Seaspray offers him a way to help get his mind off it and show him what he believes it means to be an Autobot. What will come of Bumblebee and his zombie space pirate fighting adventure? More to come, stay tuned!!

In G1 Bumbleebee and Seaspray seemed like really good friends, so I thought of doing a TFA spin on em and giving Seaspray a sorta role model/mentor role. Whether not this unhinged war vet who's seen hell and might just let Bee run around with a Halo Energy sword fighting zombies is a good rolemodel or not is up for debate- buuut where's the fun in that!

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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Yeah... This speaks to me XD

To be honest I find the transformers can get pregnant thing takes away some of the interesting parts of the lore.

Transformers culture is in part interesting because it doesn't have traditional gender roles or human concepts of the nuclear family etc.

And there's the issue of asexual erasure too... I don't like the implication that a couple cannot truly love each other unless they have sex...

This is all my personal feelings. Like people can write whatever they want, it's just not for me personally...

#i will gladly stay in my tiny corner of the fandom fanon #transformers fanfiction #fanfiction ramblings

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Going on Hiatus.

I've been completely buried with work right now, having to work late into the evening/early hours of the morning multiple times this week alone. As a result I've just have had no time to work on SGPrime comic pages...

I'm so sorry, but I have to put things on pause...

I might post the odd picture on my other blog, but as comic pages are much more time consuming I can't keep the SG Prime series going right now.

#transformers #transformers shattered glass #fanfiction #fanfiction update #fanfic update

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Because I've been so busy recently, have an old deleted scene, originally drawn back in Feburary/March 2022...

This would have originally been Volume 3 page 15 and 16 during Shockwave's interrogation via Cortical Psycic patch.

I don't normally get this far in drawing something before I decide to cut it... but this was one of those rarer occasions, and it's been sitting on my hard drive for years.

I haven't edited it at all this is how it was when I decided to cut it. All I've done is combine the two pages and added *sentinel prime to the first panel.

#transformers #transformers shattered glass #fanfiction #transformers prime #fan comic #tfsg #macadam #fanfic #tfp #fanart #pre empurata shockwave #senator shockwave #shockwave #sentinel prime

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On Transformers One...

It looks decent, definitely a "kids" film, but thats not a bad thing. Despite what some adult fans say, the Transformers franchise lives and dies on it's "kid" engagement! It's only survived for 40 years by attracting new generations of fans.

Visually it looks beautifully animated, they clearly did a lot of worldbuilding work with it. I will say I don't like how Orion Pax's face is animated... it's like Earthspark OP's "sexy squidward" face again, it just looks really uncanny valley / off to me, the "Thor" voice not really matching the character design probably doesn't help there... it does not sound like that voice should be coming out of that body.

The other's look and sound fine though, for the most part, even if some of the art style/design choices aren't quite to my tastes.

It also clearly a new continuity, I can see elements of the aligned universe's quintesson backstory. But they definitely seem to be doing their own thing with it, which is a good thing, especially considering the aligned continuity never really explored it outside of the covenant of Primus (which is a very hard to find and very expensive book). I'm definitely curious to see what they do with it, as I do find the Quintessons interesting as villains (as those reading my fics might have picked up XD), and it'll be nice to see the Decepticon characters fleshed out beyond evil "snarling" psycopaths in the films for once.

I can see why people found the dialogue a bit annoying. It gives me late stage Marvel vibes, very quippy and a bit unnatural in places... But that's likely/hopefully just a trailer thing, as they will cut out "the best bits" without context. Hell, I'm certainaly guilty of writing "quippy"/cringy dialogue so it's not really my place to complain!

TL/DR Honestly, it looks quite promising to me! A fun movie with some interesting worldbuilding concepts! I'm curious to see what they do with it.

Admittedly I can't really get "hyped" for it, or any film, as I know there's no chance I'll be able to see it in cinema (I have no one who will want to go see a Transformers film with me) and will have to wait for the DVD to come out.

#transformers #transformers one #tf1 #tf one #tf one trailer #macadam

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hey since the transformers one trailer Dropped what's your opinion on what we saw so far

I'm just reposting what's I said on deviant art :)

"I haven't seen it yet.

To be honest with everything going on irl right now I really don't think I'm in the right headspace for hype, especially when it comes to Transformers; As on top of everything else I've recently been forced to cancel my TFNation trip this summer, which I was looking forward to. :') (Oh well money saved at least :) )

I don't want to watch the trailer under a cloud of depression as all I'll see is negatives, so I think it's best for me to hold off on watching it.

I'll post my thoughts on it when I actually get a chance to watch it!

I hope everyone who is hyped by the trailer are enjoying themselves though ❤️ "

#my ask box #my asks answered

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Longarm Prime runs into an old coworker in public he thought was dead. He hopes he won't recognize him and blow his cover. He contemplates causing some interpersonal drama among the Decepticon and Autobot ranks.

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Not happy at all...

It's been a crap few weeks, just too much stressful stuff going on right now, and to top it off I've been forced to cancel my August trip to tf Nation, which I was really looking forward to...

Luckily I hadn't booked hotels yet... but I don't know if I'll be able to get my money back on the tfN tickets.

Sorry, I just needed to vent...

#vent post

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Just reblogging this on my main account, in case anyone missed my previous post about it :)

(I started a secondary blog for my other artwork, as I want to keep this one more tf themed. I'm gonna keep reblogging myself to a minimum after this though XD)

Still very new to the Ghost "fandom" (literally discovered them within the last couple of months). So please accept my offering.

My first attempt at drawing Papa IV and not entirely happy with the face (trying to get my more cartoony art style to even vaguely resemble a real person is a bit difficult XD)... And is robe design is so bloody complicated XD This was somewhat loosely inspired by the dragon priests of Skyrim.

IDK if I'll properly colour this at some point...

#not transformers #the band ghost #ghost bc