#robot million

[sargent-space-dork]

Because I grew up on TFA I kinda always love "semi-himbo" optimus instead of like the gruff older leader. Optimus is always cool no matter what tho. But anyway the gay robots are gay robots.

[quailsprout]

weewoo 🚨

[apricustar]

there's something really important in the way buck grieves in 8x16 that feels like it's being misunderstood. i keep seeing people say he was emotionless--that oliver himself gave us nothing--but i think that silence was the performance; that was the choice-- one made as protection.

last episode, we saw him collapse--on the ground wailing, can't hold himself up, can't draw a breath that doesn't feel like it's tearing him up inside. that was raw, unfiltered. that was what happens when the grief and disbelief hit before he had time to build the walls we see in this episode.

beyond an i love you, bobby's last words to buck were that the team was going to need him. and bobby's words have always carried a significant weight for buck, but these being the last? they clearly landed like a mission. a burden. a plea.

so what we get in 8x16 isn't a lack of emotion--its a man white-knuckling his way through unbearable loss because that's what he thinks he has to do in order to live up to what bobby asked of him. it's buck burying his own grief so deep he won't accidentally spill it on the people around him. it's him becoming that steady presence-- the one bobby said they need--even if it means locking away every part of himself. all the too-sharp edges of his own feelings, all the things he knows might take him under again.

because if he lets go for even a second? i truly think he worries he'll end up back on the ground again: helpless unable to fix or do anything.

oliver didn't give us 'nothing'. he gave us stillness. he gave us restraint. he's carefully calibrated, holding his breath, his posture, holding himself--because he knows if he slips, he might not come back from it. he's holding grief in his throat like it might choke him if he swallows wrong. he's trying to be what the team needs while neglecting what he needs. and it's devastating.

and it's all there if you look at him: the way buck's jaw clenches at times; minute changes to his expression before he smooths it over into careful neutrality; the way his every word feels deliberate and weighted, like he's rolled all them around in his mouth first before he speaks. nothing is effortless, everything is held.

it was heartbreaking to see. and i cant imagine how much more heartbreaking it will be when he finally breaks and lets go.

[fricktic]

dump 2 yup yup yup 2

[they-hermes]

[tf hyperlink] spike brings home a new friend :)

[fizpup]

artfight weeks #2-4 (never as productive as week 1 lol)

deer pony belongs to @amebaby

pegasus belongs to @sharkteethies

alicorn/draconequus belongs to @riss-mlp

cow belongs to @plushcowz

[gorgfig]

go! (1/?)

[laurellala-comics]

I watched Friendship is Witchcraft for the first time and I love Sweetie Bot so so so much. She is like an iDog to me

[humanoidhistory]

Maskatron box art from Kenner, 1973.

[chernobog13]

Andre the Giant as Bigfoot in The Six Million Dollar Man episode The Secret of Bigfoot.

[chibiveneficus]

IT'S LITERAL ROBOT NOISES

[diimplekun]

I don't read HSBC but I liked these designs

[violentbumblebees]

I think it might be tv time guys

[transingthoseformers]

I feel like, since they can live for millions of years, cybertronians should have that "found a piece of candy in a pocket your subspace, don't remember how old it is, eating it anyway" moment but it's 100x worse

[sillystringstar]

nene would be strangling tsukasa if i could make that in sekai stories but alas

[t0ast-ghost]

Does anyone have any Starscream redemption fic recommendations? (Any continuity)

Or fics that have him and Miko interacting? Idk I just think their dynamic is silly