I should never be allowed to write for Transformers because I’d probably try and make it really happy and just have everyone live domestic lives and have milkshakes with the Cons.

hipy papy bthuthdth thuthda bthuthdy.

playbunny:

growing attached to people but not wanting to be that clingy friend

Momentai, dudes.

magicrobotgeography:

minimusminor:

adventuretimegrabyourdog:

magicrobotgeography:

you know, there are interesting avenues for discussions on gender with transformers.

i mean, we’re talking about asexual beings who have no need for gender, and yet are still referred to as male and female.

there’s a lot of interesting debate that can come about from this: what IS gender? does gender have the same meaning for them as it does for us? is it more of just a case of simple pronoun assignment and nothing else? do they choose what gender they want to be? are they gendered on cybertron or are they just gendered to better associate with the humans?

it’s silly to think that gender discussion can’t result from this sort of thing, but the thing that’s happening isn’t discussion.

Ugh, you wonderful person! I actually really enjoy discussing this topic and kind of have my own headcanon regarding gender and Cybertronians (which I hold as a totally separate thing from what actual canon is for most series). What I don’t enjoy is people being dicks about it and having weird circlejerks with their online mates where they gang up on a person of choice. It seems like you can’t have a discussion without someone randomly accusing you of a bunch of shit you never did.

This is something I’ve loved to think about a lot, and is also why I love Arcee, despite how she’s handled. Arcee is essentially trans, but since she’s at the moment the only ladybot (I’m disappointed that Furman’s comment about her being the first and not the only one hasn’t been explored) she can look and act however she wants - and that’ll be feminine, because she’s pretty much the only female Cybertronian! She could look like friggin’ Strika and she’d be feminine.

As a random headcanon, I personally think that gender - male, female, agender, something in between - is a cosmetic thing. Cybertronians can look however they want and act however they want. So I guess in my head all of them are potentially gender-fluid? They can change it however and whenever they want… 

Did that even make sense oh Primus I suck

And on a side note, there’s nothing wrong with having an all-male cast (it gets incredibly boring though), so long as you don’t claim they’re agendered. Because they ain’t.

Ah, i haven’t read that much about Arcee, so I don’t really have much to discuss about her. 

Ah, I like that headcanon. i have a similar headcanon, but mine’s more that they have no official view of what gender is, it’s just that some like to refer to themselves by the male pronoun and some like to refer to themselves by the female pronoun. Like, on Cybertron, they have no concept of gender, but when they come to earth (and are specifically introduced to a culture that has a strong emphasis on gender identity), they’re forced to adapt and some of them associate more with the male pronoun, while others associate more with the female pronoun. It kind of doesn’t make sense in every verse, but that’s my view.

Well, to be fair, there is that argument that, technically speaking, the male pronoun can be/is more commonly applied to agendered things. An editor usually wouldn’t allow the actual agendered pronouns to be used because the public as large aren’t familiar with them and may get confused. It’s stupid, yes, but that’s more of the fault of the publisher, rather than the writer. That’s a rule that has been around since the 80’s. Personally, I think it would be better if they were all referred to as “it,” and call it a day.

That’s actually pretty much what I think as well :) I had thought of the whole “introduction of gender by adaption” idea before. Since I spend a lot of time thinking about what I’d do if IDW gave me a job writing TF. I wanted to introduce a whole bunch of ladybots who’d been on an alien planet as part of the whole Infiltration protocol, and had adapted to be more female-centred due to influence by the indigenous species. And it has the potential to be all women-empowering and stuff: freely adapting and choosing their own gender identity. That’s some body-positive LGBTQ shit right dere.

And yeah, I mostly blame the editors, or hell, even just the social stigma. Much as we’d like to say we’re accepting nowadays, especially in America (which I don’t live in), that kind of thing would not go down well. Which is why I kinda see how Roberts was very vague about Domey and Rewind.

adventuretimegrabyourdog:

magicrobotgeography:

you know, there are interesting avenues for discussions on gender with transformers.

i mean, we’re talking about asexual beings who have no need for gender, and yet are still referred to as male and female.

there’s a lot of interesting debate that can come about from this: what IS gender? does gender have the same meaning for them as it does for us? is it more of just a case of simple pronoun assignment and nothing else? do they choose what gender they want to be? are they gendered on cybertron or are they just gendered to better associate with the humans?

it’s silly to think that gender discussion can’t result from this sort of thing, but the thing that’s happening isn’t discussion.

Ugh, you wonderful person! I actually really enjoy discussing this topic and kind of have my own headcanon regarding gender and Cybertronians (which I hold as a totally separate thing from what actual canon is for most series). What I don’t enjoy is people being dicks about it and having weird circlejerks with their online mates where they gang up on a person of choice. It seems like you can’t have a discussion without someone randomly accusing you of a bunch of shit you never did.

This is something I’ve loved to think about a lot, and is also why I love Arcee, despite how she’s handled. Arcee is essentially trans, but since she’s at the moment the only ladybot (I’m disappointed that Furman’s comment about her being the first and not the only one hasn’t been explored) she can look and act however she wants - and that’ll be feminine, because she’s pretty much the only female Cybertronian! She could look like friggin’ Strika and she’d be feminine.

As a random headcanon, I personally think that gender - male, female, agender, something in between - is a cosmetic thing. Cybertronians can look however they want and act however they want. So I guess in my head all of them are potentially gender-fluid? They can change it however and whenever they want… 

Did that even make sense oh Primus I suck

And on a side note, there’s nothing wrong with having an all-male cast (it gets incredibly boring though), so long as you don’t claim they’re agendered. Because they ain’t.

I call this set “Wanganui is purdy.”

Copying off tron, sue me. Anyways, photos. Mirror water, cloud perspective, that one time the sunset was friggin’ awesome, and this cute patoot kitty that I found lazing around the university campus. No name.

Would anyone care a fig to see a bunch of silly landscapey photos I took this year around the city?

fandomlurker:

So by now I imagine many of you have seen this panel make the rounds here on Tumblr:

And have seen the “controversy” that it’s produced among some members of the fanbase here that write this off as James Roberts promoting ableism either directly or inadvertently. Members of the fanbase, I might add, that haven’t even read the comic in question and are taking this panel completely out-of-context.

For people who claim that they’re merely “critics” of MTMTE, they’ve broken what I consider the first law of critique: Never critique something that you haven’t seen/read/played. It makes you look like both an idiot and a very poor critic.

But let’s get into the meat of the problem here, shall we?

(MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SPOTLIGHT: HOIST UNDER THE CUT)

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…wow. 

I’ve had my opinion of Hoist completely reversed. 

Everyone should read this. Not just TF fans. Not just sufferers of mental conditions. Everyone.