#Rust Renegades

[they-hermes]

the sure path to victory lies within victorion!

[arceespinkgun]

Rust Renegades vs. Stunticons rivalry is actually so perfect... it still surprises me that some ideas from Earth Wars could be good:

Leaders are both Optimus Prime rivals

One group are huge fans of their leader and are super loyal to her and the other group is afraid of theirs and are bullied by him

Victorion and Menasor both wield a cool sword

Victorion is zealous and Menasor is a mess of conflicting thoughts and feelings

The Rust Renegades are Torchbearers who protect precious artifacts and the Stunticons would be right at home in a demolition derby

[primevein]

Victoria: We are the lost daughters of Caminus. I am Victoria, the Shard that Fell from Heaven. I am the Wrath of Japheth Prime, and I shall be your foe.

[angeleyeswide]

Renegade

[arborealkey]

Another reverse undressing video. Made (not from scratch, some parts are upcycled) in december 2021/january 2022. Loosely based on the game Dying Light 2. I look very happy in the first sequence for some reason.

[whovian223]

September 2023 Gaming

September 2023 Gaming @gmtgames @PlayRenegade @garphillgames @alderac @25thCG

As 2023 steamrolls ahead, another month of gaming is complete! September actually was a slight step back from August, even though I didn’t miss any game days! However, there were fewer days at work where we had lunch free to play. In addition to that, a couple of our Sundays were dedicated to one (maybe two) games, which made the quantity go down just a little bit. Here’s my list of games…

[elfdragon12]

While I'm okay with genderswapping Transformers in shows to better balance gender ratios, I do wish that wasn't apparently the first resort for writers once they've grabbed Arcee, Elita-1, and/or Windblade instead of just... Using one of the many female Transformers that already exist.

Other female characters I want to see animated:

Autobot Road Rage, my tippy top pick. She is so cool and sexy.

Decepticon Spacewarp. She's a deep space explorer that has lots of different adventures and finds herself questioning the Decepticon cause.

Megaempress and the Four Guards. For the love of all things good, please pull a Ruckley and write these ladies something decent because the Unite Warriors comics are terrible with them.

Autobot Javelin, sharpshooter and warrior! She has a really cool design and I think there are some really interesting ways you can take her character, especially if you bounce off the IDW2 story where she's traumatized from getting a head injury in combat!

Decepticon sleeper agent Flip Side. I want to see a dedicated story arc based off of her story with Blaster and how she deals with realizing her life was a lie.

Pyra Magna and the Torchbearers/Rust Renegades. While Victorion showed up in the Prime Wars trilogy, the separate components didn't seem to do so. I think either story from IDW1 or IDW2 would be fantastic story to explore in an animated story!

What female characters who've never been animated (or perhaps showed up for maybe 5 seconds) would you like to see?

[cozzzynook]

You know what I realized? 'Magna' sounds similar to 'Magnus', and 'Pyra Magna' basically means great fire. Is it me or does this sound like a name for a Rodimags child? Pretty good one too, could've been an alternate name for Roddy in the G1 cartoon if Ultra Magnus was his father figure.

Anyway, Rodimus sees her leading a group called the "Rust Renegades", which is a badass name actually, then talk's smack to Optimus's face and goes, "that's my girl, you're doing amazing sweetie."

And papa Magnus is face palming in the background.

Pyra magna is now the name for their sparkling i don’t make the rules its just true

[didyoutrydynamite]

If the renegades fell into the ever after, went back in time and became their own version of the Rusted Knight? What would they be called?

Neo, The Mad Hatter: An illusionist lost in her own imaginary wonderland. All who enter her realm risk getting trapped in her own delusions, never to return to their lives as they once knew.

Cinder, The Witch Queen of Ashes: Ruler of the Obsidian Throne, the Queen seeks to spread her rule through fire and force, all in the name of claiming what she lost.

Adam, The Beast of Bandersnatch: Rumored to have once been a proud warrior, he strayed too far into a land he should not have dared gone. Now lost in the twisted maze of Bandersnatch Woods, cursed with insatiable bloodlust and to forever hunt any prey that dare enter his prison.

[shinymist]

This year as part of @renegadeguild’s event for FanFic Writers Appreciation Day (FFWAD), I had the honor of binding @isnt-it-pretty‘s fic “Fingernails The Colour of Rust” with art by @pigeon-noises! Both of them received a bound copy of the work, shown below :)

You can view Pigeon’s beautiful art Here and Here!

This project was super fun and I learned a lot along the way, more photos and description below the cut :)

This project saw a lot of late nights battling the printer, but equally as many nights excitedly experimenting with fonts and designs and layouts. The end design featured lineart tracings of the in-game Scarab and Nilopata Lotus materials, and in total is 312 pages long (284 of which are the fic itself). Making the case was by far the most challenging part of this process - using a foil quill was especially fun to learn, I owe so much to the Renegade binderary presenters. Unfortunately, the dust jacket would not print to size so it’s a bit small, but overall I think the books came out really great!

Thank you again to @isnt-it-pretty and @pigeon-noises, your works are so beautiful and I’m so grateful to have been able to make these books for you!

Be sure to check out the tags #FFWAD #renegadelovesfic (and their variations) to see other’s amazing fanbinds from this event!

[dlineates]

First off, Gemerl has hips and no one is talking about it.

Second of all, I had a fun time with this, but I still haven't figured out what the band should be called. Reformed Robots? Rusted Renegades? The Repercussions?

There's a joke in there somewhere.

Anyway,. The song they're playing is Egg Reverie Zone - Sonic Mania. It's what inspired me to draw this the first time I heard it, a year ago, but we're not talking about that.

[arceespinkgun]

Elita-1 and Lugnut from the Earth Wars Mobile Game

Pyra Magna: Elita... help us! The Prime Core's bleeding us dry of energy! Life support systems... failing...

Jumpstream: Get... us... out... of... here...

Lugnut: You have a choice, Elita-1. Fight me and maybe grab the Prime Core... Or save the Rust Renegades.

Elita-1: Looks to me like you've got the exact same choice, Lugnut - the Core or the Stunticons.

Lugnut: Ha! That's no choice at all. I would gladly give my life for Megatron and they should do no less. Farewell, Motormaster, you'll be remembered... As a footnote, maybe.

Motormaster: You... miserable... jumped-up... I'll- Unhhh...

Elita-1: Without the Core, Optimus Prime may die. But... he'd never forgive me... never! Not if others paid the price for his life!

Pyra Magna: H-Hurry... we're running on fumes here!

Lugnut: Tick, tock, Elita... Time's running out for your Rusty Regenades. While my eyes are on the prize!

Elita-1: Optimus... I'm sorry...

Lugnut: Haw! This is like taking cyber candy from a protoform! The Prime Core is mine... all mine! In the name of glorious Megatron, naturally!

Elita-1: Hang on, Rust Renegades - I'm coming. Tow cable away! I'm going to haul you clear of the danger zone... one at a time.

Motormaster: Lug... nut... come... back. Don't... leave... us...

Dead End: Too... late... boss. He's as good as gone. They... all... left us... to rust...

Motormaster: No! Never! I may be critically low on energy, but I got reserve tanks full'a rage! I'm... gettin' us out of here! An' when I do... they're all gonna pay! Lugnut and the Renegades!

Megatron: Lugnut - you have done well. I am pleased. Unlike some of my underlings... You do not fail me!

Starscream: Pah! Creep!

Megatron: Keep the Prime Core, Lugnut. You will be my... talisman. With you at my side, no force on Earth will lay me low again.

Lugnut: This... This is the most glorious day of my existence!

Elita-1: Optimus, I'm sorry, I... failed you.

Optimus: (shaking head) No, Elita. You remained true to the ideals we both hold dear. Thank you.

Jetfire: Optimus! I've been experimenting with the Prime Core that Hound recovered. When supplied with the energy signatures Elita-1 experienced on her mission...

Optimus: Short version, Jetfire.

Jetfire: Don't say your goodbyes just yet, Optimus. We have a cure!

...All I could picture at the end there when Elita-1 and Optimus were spouting the very Autobot duty, responsibility, sacrifice thing:

Also I firmly believe transformers can feel all emotions and I'm a shipper, but I kind of love Elita-1, Optimus, and Lugnut being seen as like... abnormal for their romantic feelings LMAO

[album-tourney]

The round 1 polls for the favorite songs tourney

Suddenly I see by KT Tunstall - Misery Business by Paramore

Voodoo by Godsmack - Teenagers by My Chemical Romance

Genie in a Bottle By Christina Aguilera - Life on Mars by David Bowie

Lovefool by the Cardigans - Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

Harness Your Hopes by Pavement - Rent By the Pet Shop Boys

Gotta Get Up by Harry Nilsson - Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai

It's too Late by Carole King - Romeo and Juliet by the Indigo Girls

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - Good Old Fashioned Lover boy by Queen

Technicolor Dreams by the Bee Gees - Me and Bobby Mcgee by Janis Joplin

Maintain the Madness by Jane Austen Argument - The Logical Song by Supertramp

Voulez-Vous by ABBA - Your Day Will Come by Streetlight Manifesto

All Day and All Night by The Kinks - Rule #21 Momento Mori by Fish in a Birdcage

Fuck it by Days N Daze - The City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

Budapest by George Ezra - Riptide by Vance Joy

True Trans Soul Rebel by Against Me! - Father and Son by Cat Stevens

Hungry Dog in the Street by The Taxpayers - Loose Lips by Kimya Dawson

Black Bird by the Beatles - Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman

Season of the Witch by Donovan - Volcano Girls by Veruca Salt

Friday I'm in Love by The Cure - Just Dance by Lady Gaga

Somebody Told me by the Killers - You Gotta Die Sometime from Falsettos

Love Me I'm a Liberal by Phil Ochs - Touch Me by the Doors

Ohio by Neil Young - Plate Glass Apology by Apes of the State

Sweet Talkin Woman by Electric Light Orchestra - She Has a Girlfriend Now by Reel Big Fish

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal - Vienna by Billy Joel

A-Punk by Vampire Weekend - 15-Step by Radiohead

Float On by Modest Mouse - TERF bangs by Butch Baby

Toxic by Britney Spears - American Pie by Don McLean

Call Me Al by Paul Simon - Spiderwebs by No Doubt

Manic Monday by The Bangles - Body by Mother Mother

Monday Monday by The Mama's and the Papa's - Once in a lifetime by the Talking Heads

Rio by Duran Duran - People by AJJ

Bugs by Jesse Welles - Man on the Moon by R.E.M.

Glad to Be Gay by Tom Robinson Band - All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix

Only Happy When it Rains by Garbage - Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation by Tom Paxton - Hot Stuff by Donna Summer

Culling of the Fold by the Decemberists - Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles

For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield - Two Headed Boy by Neutral Milk Hotel

Pink Triangle by Weezer - Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan

(Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult - Gold On the Ceiling by The Black Keys

Make your own kinda music by Cass Elliot - Micheal by Franz Ferdinand

Renegade by Styx - Gay Bar by the Electric Six

Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst) - Frank Sinatra by CAKE

Dog Days are Over by Florence + the Machine - The Impression That I get by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield - & by Tally Hall

[gallifreyianrosearkytiorsusan]

Treasure

Author's note: I'm going to be trying to do Mermay 2025.

Summary: Amaden in Mer AU

Warnings: None. LMK if I need to add something

tagged: @sleepyfan-blog @c-u-c-koo-4-40k @i-am-a-dragon34 @ms--lobotomy @jaghatai-khock

tagged: @kit-williams @whorety-k @bleedingichorhearts @thevoidscreams @gra93fruit-blog

Tagged: @felinisnoctis @bispecsual, @egrets-not-regrets @finchly-tintinnabulation

He has hauled up some rotted would- rusted metal- and sometimes some bits and bobs that could be useful with a bit of elbow grease and spit-shine to polish it up. "Plucking riches from the bottom of the sea."

Amaden is humming to himself as he dives down deep and pulls up some fascinating treasures, "Down in the trench where the sun doesn't gleam."

He is hauling up some long lost treasures- fallen to the floor of the ocean of Ancient Terra- he's doing some reconnaissance and gathering supplies to be used or traded among the Hydra shoals. "Past ruins and wreckage and whispering nightmares."

He nods towards some of the others who are on the retrieval mission with him. He's in his guise as a Salamander as he's helping the shoal he's swimming with a mixed blend of Loyalists and Renegades- they are headings towards Steelix Cliff Base.

"Gold Doubloons and silver spoons," Amaden continues to sings as he finds a half rotted chest filled with shinnies and treasures.

"What'cha got there Cousin?" Jeroth asks, a gruff, but good listener- he's an Imperial fist.

"Treasure to trade, cousin," Amaden says as he shows the chest with shiny things in it.

"Wonderful." Jeroth says as he scratches at his left cheek a bit. "What's in it?"

"Sunken runs and pearls in shells," Amaden sings as he continues to move.

"I see your in a strange mood- singin' like that." Jeroth says with a sigh.

His cousin certain is a strange one at times.

[artsy-hobbitses]

So what teams/ small groups are you covering in this au? I know you mentioned the DJD, wreckers, protectobots, seekers and dinobots. I know someone else took the combaticons. Do you know if anyone took any other teams like the aerial bots, stunticons, spychangers, the torchbearers, terrorcons, rescue bots , techno bots or any others? do you plan on using any other future teams to add to your cast or mention anyone who is, was or will be on a team like say mirage and hound were members of spychangers team or like jet fire used to be a part of the seekers before falling out with his friend or strongarm is a candidate for the torchbearers and wreckers.

Technobots, IDW2 Wreckers, Rust Renegades, Megatronia and Torchbearers are under @elfdragon12. Rescue Bots are under @pajamadragon. Stunticons, G1 Predacons, Scavengers and the Mayhem Attack Squad (as several members of theirs were discussed) are under @wolf-mask.

Those I'm quite certain of! As of now, no coverage on Aerialbots (I might play with them if no one picks them up), Terrorcons or Spychangers.

Strongarm is listed in the roster as a Wreckers, so yes to that. Jetfire is a likely (I have not developed him yet) a former 'Con but not a Seeker.

[maggotknight]

A small vingette for my renegade!au. In which, Lilith does not have the warrant of trade and is in hiding. She's currently working as a mercenary detective in one of the many hive spires on Dargonus. She has a chance meeting with a (un)familiar interrogator.

"You don't give up for one second, do you?"

"Give up what, exactly?"

"The Emperor forsaken questions."

"You do realize who you've been speaking with these past few days.. right, Lilith?"

It was that leveled, self assured gaze that was enough to make Lilith's desire to punch a wall as great as the one to run up it. Heinrix van Calox, Interrogator of His Most Holy Inquisition, had been poking at her open wounds ever since The Sacrificial Lamb went up in flames.

The hostel was local. A run of the mill co-hab that many of the manufactorum workers used as temporary lodging. There were only two things of note with The Sacrificial Lamb: it's namesake and the man who paid for a room there that, ultimately, lead to its demise. Witchfire licked at the neighboring buildings and charred some of its unfortunate inhabitants. They writhed and screamed, unable to put out the flames. The narrow street was colored with an otherworldly light that made Lilith's stomach roil. It wasn't her intent to get involved with the Interrogator and his investigation. Quite the opposite-- she just wanted some food. Something cheap, quick and filling. The best places were always just outside of the manufactorum district's habs. Makes coughing up rust and silica just a tad more tolerable when you can wash it down at the end of a shift with a bowl of noodles.

Lilith was hoping this dinner would do the same: make swallowing whatever interrogation was inevitably coming her way a tad more tolerable.

"If we are to do this, I need to know that I can trust you." Heinrix says, his gaze not wavering from Lilith as she cooks. By His Mercy, she's able to focus her attention on the root vegetables she was sauteing. Hiding her shame in the steam rising from the pan, Lilith snips, "I could say the same of you, van Calox. You're not exactly the most affable man I've met."

"Idle conversation has never been my strong suit."

The silence that settled between them was anything but comfortable. Lilith felt, for the briefest of moments, that the guilt she carried was beginning to grow lighter. That the good works done in the bowels of Dargonus' main Hive could absolve her. Now that guilt sat in the forefront of her mind-- staring at the back of her head with cold, grey eyes. Heavy and unwavering.

She sighed heavily, reaching to her top cupboard on her tip toes to grab dingy plates and two mismatched cups. The humble meal placed before the Interrogator was a mix of various root vegetables, sautéed with spices and synthetic fats. She gives the larger portion to Heinrix before pouring amasec into each cup. Heinrix cocks a brow, Lilith furrows hers.

"If I'm goin' to spill my guts, I need a drink. Could you find it in your heart to grant me this small mercy, Master van Calox?"

Heinrix relents to the smirk that was trying to break through his cold exterior, "I will admit-- I was more preoccupied by the potential quality of the amasec. But, go on." Lilith takes a swig of the, quite frankly, piss poor amasec; hiding the reluctant smile behind the glass.

She tells him everything.

Lilith describes her time spent serving as a Commissar on the Death World of Giath's Last Breath. Ultimately leading to a plot to utilize Tyranid genetic material to enhance her fellow guardsman. Few were left untainted and even less so survived the Exterminatus once it was clear to the Imperium that Giath's Last Breath truly earned its namesake. But that wasn't really what Heinrix van Calox was asking about. He wanted to know what came after-- who came after. That was a little more difficult for Lilith. She swallows down her shame with another swig of amasec and fiddles with the root vegetables on her plate.

"At first, I was excited. Y'know, new opportunities-- and the Lord Commissar always said I was 'too shrewd for my own good'. And if I could help prevent something like that happening elsewhere.. how could I have said no?" Lilith frowns, her teeth biting at the inside of her cheek. Heinrix says nothing, the silence cut by his fork piercing food and chewing.

"At the time, I wasn't terribly familiar with how the Inquisition operated-- less so the smaller Ordos. The lack of resources seemed.. appropriate? I mean, there was only maybe five hundred agents within the Ordo Millitarum. "

"The Inquisitor you were requisitioned by.. their name?" Heinrix interjects.

"Inquisitor Corvin. Alexander is his first name." Lilith mumbles, dejected.

"I see." van Calox states in a flat tone. Giving away the appearance of indifference to her confessions thus far. How indifferent the Interrogator truly felt will reveal itself in due time.

Lilith finishes the last of the bitter amasec in her cup but refrains from pouring more. She laughs to herself, "In hindsight, it seems so obvious. Corvin was so keen on learnin' about everythin' I knew regardin' the genestealers on Giath's Last Breath. To the point where.. I started gettin' suspicious. It didn't seem like normal fervor. You're taught in the Schola to sniff out those sorts of character defects-- bein' overly zealous can be just as dangerous as a psyker who's lost control."

Heinrix nods slightly, urging her silently to go on.

"It wasn't just me who thought it was strange, other acolytes did too. How.. destitute we seemed to be-- no requests for back up, or supplies.. or even spare crowns." Lilith motions with her hands, like smoke going up into the wind. "It was like Corvin wasn't an Inquisitor at all.. or at least completely rogue." She paused, that familiar sting of tears and hard lump in her throat threatening to boil over. On reflex, she grabbed the last stick from her carton of lho and struck it ablaze. Nursing on and exhaling the blue grey smoke. The Interrogator coughs and waves a hand in the air.

"Lead me and the savant Corvin acquired down a long path of the same damned thing. A trail of missing guardsmen, reallocated supplies and ghosts of regiments they were assigned to-- Just like Giath's Last Breath." Lilith takes another long drag from her lho stick, her other hand reflexively moving back towards the crook of her neck. Feeling the thrum of the crystaline potentia coil embedded into the cerebro-spinal implant. Its cold metal clashing with the heat of her skin, now tacky with sweat. "And just like that Emperor Forsaken planet.. I found those fetid things. I.. Alexander Corvin was.. He was infected too. The whole time, I reckon. And he knew that I knew.." She takes the final breath from her last lho, a tremor in her hand making the dying ember bob in the dim light of her hab.

"That's all I gotta say on that. If it makes me Excommunicate Tratoris, then so be it. Interrogate me. Kill me-- whatever. Just let me finish this cult business here.. I can't leave these people at the mercy of the Archenemy without doin' somethin' about it." Lilith says with a huff, her teeth gnawing at the inside of her cheek once more.

Heinrix stays silent for a while.

Lilith wished she could peel back that inscrutable expression. To see the truth of what he was mulling over in his mind. Or perhaps he was doing the same to her. After all, Heinrix was a psyker. Perhaps, maybe, he was peeling back the layers of her own mind right now. All without her knowing. Finally, he leans back with a tired sigh-- the sigh of a man who made a decision. “You are not an Excommunicate Traitoris material, at least in my eyes and these circumstances. Don’t get me wrong-- the entire episode is woefully unfortunate, and your penance of repaying the debt of, although unwittingly, aligning with the enemies of Humanity, will weight heavy on your shoulders till the end of your life. Besides, I see no point in interrogating you until you give me a reason to doubt how you align yourself now.”

She smiles at that; a rueful, pain filled smile. "You're right. I will live with that weight for the rest of my life." Lilith pauses, thinking over all the oaths she had taken, lives she ended, the faith that she still desperately clung to. Quickly, she turned away from Heinrix. Unable to keep the welling in her eyes at bay, tears threatening to spill over her cheeks.

"Thank you for your mercy, Interrogator van Calox. I've.. I have lost my appetite. You can have my plate, if you so wish. Gonna take a shower-- head off to bed. We got a lot to do tomorrow." Lilith says, her voice wavering on the word 'mercy'.

"Yes." Heinrix states. Tilting his head slightly to get a glimpse of Lilith's face; to no avail. "Much to be done in the next coming days. Goodnight, Lilith and thank you for the meal."

"Think nothin' of it." She says before passing through the threshold of the small living space of her hab to the even smaller bedroom; closing the door behind her.