#anode/lug

[ratchetsonlyhands]

For @tfrarepairing #2023TFRarePairingFest Day 2: Nothing But Blue Skies Companion to @probablyrained's adorable Anode/Lug here!!! "You're blocking that beautiful blue sky, Anode! Let me enjoy finally being on-planet!"

"Tell me more how much you love my optics!"

"It's my optic color too you dork!"

[pluralsword]

transformers: doesnt have official anode & lug figures yet

diaclone (way more modular and detailed and expensive): DA-103 WARUDA LEGION (VAJRA) ANODE TYPE xoxo w/ DA-63 Verse Riser No. 2 V-Mover 2 repurposes (also since it's diaclone you can easily take other sets and assemble them with new parts)

we're sure there's a way Lug could be a backpack for Anode in diaclone <3

[wilkoakdraws]

Transformers "More Than Meets The Eye" comic has recently torpedoed me down the feelsy space car robots hellhole, an therefore i present a sketchy collection of Lost Light crew as homo sapiens. I had SO MUCH fun coming up with the designs! Now off to actually learn how to draw robots i guess

[prince-toffee]

Proud, and Far From Extinct | Synergy: A Hasbro Creators Showcase | Arcee, Velocity, Chromia, Nautica, Windblade, Anode, and Lug | by Sara Pitre-Duocher

[ihatebrainstorm]

had a thought

[hellopuns]

I realized I never posted ALL the colouring book illustrations, and since I no longer have any stock, I figured I'd share.

A collection of little Pokémon teams for Lost Lighters, drawn in 2021! There's a bunch of details I forgot about, but I still consider Ultra Magnus + 10% Forme Zygarde to be the biggest brained choice lol

[pluralsword]

Thank you so much dear friend!! 💜 We're honored that you wanted to do fanart of a story of ours, we really love the illustration, the colors of sunsets are so ❤️🧡🤍💖💜 and the taganite (trans) (polygender) gals look so lovely together! The whales and pier w/ lanterns are so cute. We're also deeply moved that you shared a link for donations when we're at a particularly difficult point in our life. Thank you so much you're the best.

For those curious, this short story is both standalone and a postcanon teaser for the later portion of our idw1 fanfiction novel, Addendum (linked as the bext work in the Addendum Nexuses series) that builds on what turned out to be her beautiful and unique story and journey in canon, filling in for time periods (and our own take on the vastness of cybertronian contexts of gender variation and expansiveness that is in the spirit of transformation inherent to transformers) the comic did not get to address and seeks to make some additional arcs on closure therein in the finale. The short story is also something much lighter and more peaceful than a chapter we had struggled to write for a while, the next installment is in the works and will certainly release in the next few months (finishing our One fanfiction first to release a surprise that wouldn't be possible without having worked on that novel an a completed earthspark fanfiction). For people who want to read about our perspective on idw1 arcee canon specifically including comparison with real trans history of trans people surviving transmedicalism and elucidating that gender expansive understandings and pre-20th centurh terms used by gender expansive people themselves (some still in use today) are in fact a very old part of gender history, you can read our essay at our website (reads better on a computer than mobile rn).

i made this art for @pluralsword (also on Neocities!) of xeir fic Resolving Hope! if you got a little cash to spare, maybe consider throwing a few bones her way at her Kofi! Xey're a talented writer/sword lesbian who focuses on hope and reconciliation and gender expansiveness, and she's also just the loveliest. if you want to support a wonderful trans system in need and xeir work, here you go!

[they-hermes]

alright no more boys its time to become a certified transformers himejoshi

heres to the married/canon couples (wow arcee how come you get two wives)

and to the ships we wish to set sail!! girls love 4ever!!!

[checkadii]

Luganodeeeee……. Luganodeeeeeeeeee…..

Boo

[pluralsword]

Anode: Gallant Sleazy Scoundrel Do-Gooder

things we realized writing chapter 17 of addendum (still need to finish uploading chapter 16 and doing the last paragraphs it's just the way time for the fic works out we've been writing by hand and uploading later):

it is so fun to write Anode as a gallant sleazy scoundrel do-gooder and have that be the basis for how she flirts with Arcee whose permission to heal her surgery side effects she is waiting on (still havent uploaded chapter 16 but it explores Anode and Lug's budding feelings for her in part and chapter 17 steps further towards doing something about them) realized part of the appeal apart from the many original aspects of the canon characters and just the sheer trans wlw of it all is:

inspired from leia - han -> arcee - springer

inversion of leia - ?indiana jones!? -> arcee - anode - lug (lug as far as we know does not have any connections to a star war indy character)

lmao now we want to write Springer, Anode, and Lug interacting in something its also fun for the reader to be uncertain of Arcee's feelings and intent through Anode and Lug's point of view oogh. Cannot wait to share. We could spoil what is actually going on in Arcee's head but we don't want to

[pluralsword]

You did such an awesome job with this!!! Truly in awe. It's been such a joy to see you bring this to life and talk about it with you, we're deeply honored and happy that you took this commission on. Thank you so much from all of us. :3

For those wondering about the symbols that Arcee, Minerva, and Road Rage are bearing, that is the symbol of the pluralstic anarcho-collectivist democratic (trans) gender/aesthetic liberation (and therein, altmodes) movement, the Delta League, which we set up as the previous name and the founding principles of the Anti-Vocationist League and building on the league being older than the Decepticons. The symbol, designed by Trans-Mutate with input from her fellow resistance members in the League's early days during the reign of Nova Prime, is a reclamation of the pacifist and defensive technology monarch-autocratesque Solus Prime's Forge of Solus Prime hammer: the meaning is the chosen transformations of spark and blood in a reforging/remaking/affirming context, cyan for sparks and later teardrops, pink for blood (a modern version would have the cyan portion double as camien blood since theirs is blue), and done in an infinite loop pattern within the hammer to reflect infinite variation and iteration.

It is, of course, conveniently, also earth-originated trans flag colors. Thank you Transformers for just, providing that opportunity XD

We aim to have about 35-40 chapters of Addendum, chapter 18 has been particularly difficult and most of the chapters near the end are done, we expect to release chapter 18 soonish :3 this writing has long been a deep joy of ours, and part of how we grappled with getting our head around IDW1 Arcee's canonical writing who our eldest headmate resonated with deeply for a number of reasons from her own life prior, and that did eventually lead to wanting to write about canon itself in the essay blurrito kindly mentioned above :3

Arcee's deco here is in part stylized after Prime Arcee, which we thought was fitting for reasons our essay gets into regarding the parallel (and we think entirely unintentional) personality overlaps of IDW and Prime Arcee. The other aspect of the deco is drawing on her stealth armor deco from The Transformers #42, Combiner Hunters, and #44, which we personally think is fun to think of as having anti-thermal / anti-radar etc. qualities the way the stealth camo introduced after Dark Cybertron that some of the Autobots use is (and one of them asks ?why didn't we use this before? minor Addendum spoiler, our fanfic answer for that is Arcee came up with it and, well canonically the Autobots weren't exactly playing ball with her and vice versa for most of the Great War)

And yeah never going to get over how sunrises and sunsets so easily lend themselves to lesbian undertones (for the record the equivalent of sapphic in how we write Cybertron is the term taganite, derived from the industrial region of the Tagan Heights, where the ancient metallurgist gal Rivetsong lived, her abstract art sculptures of her mostly-non men lovers became so famous they would inspire the term taganite. this is of course a homage to Sappho of Lesbos)

finally finished a comic commission WHOOF!! it's a scene from chapter 16 of the fic Addendum by @pluralsword, which i've drawn for before!

the fic is focused on Arcee's gender journey and her conflicts against hierarchy from the era of Nova Prime up through to past the end of IDW1's canonical run. the art depicts Anode and Lug meeting Arcee for the first time, something Pluralsword has dreamed for years of having a visual representation of, ever since xey learned that Arcee and Anode canonically knew each other sometime during the Great War before Anode and Lug's disappearance in 1516 CE on Luna 2. if you want to read about a discussion of specifically canonical IDW1 Arcee's story across the comics of that continuity and the many overlaps with real trans history of dealing with and surviving transmedicalism, gatekeeping, and a violent hierarchic androcentric world, along with finding love and community, and how her personality is a direct successor of G1 Arcee, including a bit on the two's combined legacy of sweetness and ferocity that both have, you can also check out this essay Pluralsword wrote

[wilkoakdraws]

Woe, smooching robots be upon ye. In honor of the outstanding emotions and relatioships between characters in TF: MTMTE

[howgalling]

lug & anode !! ^^

[nat-but-free]

I started reading LL

[pluralsword]

Hi y'all! Yeah we're collabing with Spashahoney for this zine! It's been loads of fun to plan and work together, and a joy to work with everyone else, there's so many cool stories and art! We wrote two excerpts set at different points in the hypothetical game, one from Anode's perspective and one Lug's, it is very much about finding the Forge of Solus Prime in oneself and the people around you

Been in a lot of projects and still going. Transform and Go Out With Me! was a super fun project. I worked with a fellow fan @pluralsword to craft an entire dating game routemap! Hearing your Trans!Rodimus and other ideas were sooo fun! You, the Player, play as Anode or Lug and traverse the universe to find the Forge of Solus Prime, and romance as many Girls Girls Girls as you want to add in your open marriage. There’s many routes and endings, and while you’ll only get a smidge of the many ideas my author wanted to capture, I hope you can get enthralled by the story I managed to draw nonetheless.

Much thanks to @rbzines, my first tf fan project spot, for letting me doodle with them again! Seriously, the work on this zine? Brilliant!

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ty @cumjunxendura for letting me steal this joke! 💖👍