Optussy

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.

may the light guide us both!

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.

dialtown characters reacting to you asking for their pronouns [headcanon-y] :

gingi : "OOOH OH I KNOW THIS ONE! Me/myself/you/youse/your... She/he/they... We/us/ours... Uh... and I'm/I'd?"

karen : "I use she/her/hers and they/them/theirs."

randy : "Uh- he/any, really... H-honestly, it's preferable if you dont refer to me at all..."

oliver : "He/it and neos, yo! Less serious shit like emoji pronouns and dude/dudes work too - Gotta keep the gender silly!"

norm : "Well, I aint give 'em too much thought, but he n' she work jus' fine."

bigfoot : [CONFUSED APE NOISES]

jerry : "Just he/him please."

hobo : "There's PROfessional nouns? Mine only work part time!"

stabby and shooty : "Nah, I use BROnouns." "Bronouns?" "Yeah, like bro/bros... how you refer to me." "Ooh... what about he/him?" "That works too, but gender is a fuck, man." "I getchu, bro. I use it/she/he."

billy : "HAH, you bozos still use pronouns? I've ascended past the need for THOSE centuries ago. Colossal Billy will know when you're referring to Him regardless of language."

abel : "What did you just say at me???"

theoroar : "AHA! Are you, perhaps, one of those QUEERS I've heard about?"

bunny : "I know what you are."

mingus : "...She/her."

tango : "WOA nobody's ever asked me before!!! Mine are they/he/thon, thanks!"

mr dickens : "Oi chap, I'm a bloody he/himmer."

gabby : "I'm a woman that uses she and her, dear."

callum : "I'm whatever the American people NEED me to be! This country only deserves the best of the best and I intend to uphold to the standards of our founding fathers, using he/him myself. Why, I'm a self made man!"

Thank you Benni Latham for voicing this:

The way that Cybertronians move is very important to me.

Doorwings and antennae and little bits of kibble moving around to express their emotions make me so happy. Humans don't really have anything like that, so it's almost animalistic, but in the best way. It's almost like they don't realize they're doing it sometimes.

Of course, some shows don't do it very much, but when they do!!! It makes me very happy.

Look at his doorwings!! They're going down! They're expressing his emotions!

Shockwave is supposed to be an emotionless, logical bot, but look at his little antennae!! They're going up and down!! He's feeling things!! He's alert!!

He's angry!! I love watching Prime!Starscream especially because he uses his wings to make himself look bigger sometimes, and he's so expressive with them!!

Optics!! My favorite example is Orion Pax, but the animators for Prime managed to make everyone's optics so expressive instead of just glowing lights. (Which is also fine and I love those too, but looking at Prime optics does something to me)

You can see the machinery moving!! You can tell it's one big ball behind the soft metal!! It gets smaller without Orion realizing like how our eyes get smaller in light!! But it's an emotional response instead!! And Optimus rarely lets his optics do this, so??? Is it something they can control??? Their optics??? Who knows but it looks cool!

In conclusion:

Hey so it's come to my attention that the Creators of Disco Elysium want you to share the game and not give the company who took over and fired them (illegally)?) any profits off of their ideas and work, and I originally joined tumblr 2 weeks ago when that post was going around about the Steam sale and how you should [Skull and Crossbones flag] it instead.

So.

in light of that.

Check the replies/notes of this post :)

I was informed that posts containing links in them aren't findable in the search so i'll just.... drop a link in a seperate reboot :)

first things first though, copy this key:

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Reblog to headbonk your mutuals like a cat full of love

More designs for my tf continuity! Nickel of Rivets Field and Firestar of Caminus edition. I'll try to add my thoughts and decisions about them at a later date bcuz my mind is like uhhh lagging

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