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*sigh* Suddenly remembered Decepticon Prowl and this song got connected to it, had to do it or die

Saint Mesa - Throne

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Art by • Lucas Graciano

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doodles i accumulated while watching transformers prime

bro the poor bots in this show and their horrible fates. remember how skyquake got murdered and resurrected and then left to roam the shadow zone as a dark energon zombie for the rest of the foreseeable future

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This had me spiraling because like WHAT DO YOU MEAN A 4 ON COURAGE 😭 acting like he didn’t mock and taunt the ENTIRE autobot team while strapped to a table in their clutches… former gladiator btw too?? But yknow in his defense his courage stat is higher than Starscream’s so it’s not too outrageous 😒 but still (credit to @/fumbletron3000 on twt for the pic of the stats btw)

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y’all remember when lost light leadership tore off getaway’s arms and legs and removed his voice box and left him to rot in a cell in a similar way to how overlord left fort max and it’s not clocked as torture bc the reader doesn’t like getaway and transformers can have limbs reattached so it’s nbd but it’s definitely torture (and even mirrors the explicit torture we saw earlier in the series with max) even if the reasoning behind it is “bc we don’t like him” and “so he can’t escape”

y’all remember how he got a worse punishment than megatron did which likely only served to reinforce his pov and who can blame him for that when it is this blatantly obvious how stacked the deck is in megatron’s favor despite millions of years of war that he got off more or less scott free for when getaway got this

that was fucked up

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y’all remember when lost light leadership tore off getaway’s arms and legs and removed his voice box and left him to rot in a cell in a similar way to how overlord left fort max and it’s not clocked as torture bc the reader doesn’t like getaway and transformers can have limbs reattached so it’s nbd but it’s definitely torture (and even mirrors the explicit torture we saw earlier in the series with max) even if the reasoning behind it is “bc we don’t like him” and “so he can’t escape”

y’all remember how he got a worse punishment than megatron did which likely only served to reinforce his pov and who can blame him for that when it is this blatantly obvious how stacked the deck is in megatron’s favor despite millions of years of war that he got off more or less scott free for when getaway got this

that was fucked up

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A collection of some of the best James Roberts' Tweets:

Context for last tweet:

Not a Jro tweet but, the tweet and responses are too good not to share:

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Honestly another one of those worldbuilding things unique to an alien robot race is I wonder how Cybertronians' long, nearly immortal (at least in the context of organic lifespans) lives would affect their views on punitive versus restorative justice?

Ignoring the inconsistencies for a moment (and the fact that this lore is almost never acknowledged), in IDW1 it's written that Cybertronians can live basically as long as their sparks keep burning PLUS it's apparently so hard to kill a Cybertronian for good that suicidal people have to go to specialized euthanasia clinics to be thoroughly executed. (This also helps explain how a war lasted 4 million years and didn't make them as a species go extinct.) So given their near immortality, it does kinda bring to mind some questions like

Is imprisoning someone for a certain number of years even a meaningful punishment for a species with life spans in the millions of years? Does it just mean that average prison sentences are somewhere in the tens or hundreds of thousands of years? In other words, do Cybertronians just do "human prison sentences, but to a Cybertronian scale" or would they even view a time based imprisonment/other punishment as meaningful at all?

Does the fact that Cybertronians are so hard to kill affect their views towards the death penalty? As an example, do they view their near immortality as something that would be cruel to end via execution because it deprives someone of possibly millions of years to reform? Or is the death penalty strongly supported BECAUSE their immortality makes them see ending someone's life as a fitting punishment for crimes?

What about how often crimes like murder happen? If it's really hard for Cybertronians to kill each other/themselves, then a lot of crimes would end merely as assaults and not murders, aka the people involved would all survive, aka restorative justice might be more necessary in this society when "coexisting with that guy who's attempted to kill you at least once" is a common scenario to have happen. And even if there is punitive justice, well, the guy just goes to prison for a few thousand years and comes out virtually unchanged bc he and you and everyone are basically immortal.

I know "the writers are human" and all, but sometimes it feels like worldbuilding around Cybertronian age ranges is really underutilized. Like, in pretty much every series except maybe IDW2 Cybertronians don't seem to differ on their views of time/lifespans compared to humans. Like the fact that the plots of many shows/comics (at least in certain series/seasons) take place in the space of weeks, months, or maybe a couple years is rarely commented on by these beings who live for millions of years, and it doesn't seem to affect their society much. Not even with a Tolkien ent-esque style of moving very slowly and pondering things deeply before moving. If anything Cybertronians tend to be very...reckless? Prone to fickleness of the heart and mind?

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I started this back in november, only now am I finishing it......

probably OOC yea ik....... I mean he has like probably 10 appearances total so ima do whatever I want at this point

not really related but please I want sunder content that ISNT FREAKY WHY ARE ALL HIS FANS FREAKY LORD PLEASE/hj

btw the dude at the end is just my sceptre design

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PLEASE LMFAO......... :DDDDDDD

hes so happy he thinks d is gonna help him make bad decisions.

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screw osha all my homies die at work!!!!!!

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Hope is a powerful thing

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Begging people to hop on the scavenger x Optimus train. In armada specifically but ngl ANYWHERE. Cmon. Please.

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im in disbelief at the fact that a lot of folks are simply over palestine. like protests are dwindling down. people are not very interested in news related to gaza. some are simply over it.

israel hasn't let aid in gaza in 70 days. gaza has been starving for 70 days. the condition of people there is horrendous.

i find it distressing to think about children in gaza. how does one continue to have a childhood in a genocide? they don't have school. they don't have safety. they don't have food.

despite all this, the kids will be alright. they'll be alright once the genocide stops and they get back to 'normal'. till then, can we please try to support them however we can?

this fundraiser (verified) helps feed a family which includes two young children. please consider helping their mother take care of them.

donate here

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aw give prowl someone who flutters back

END OF PROWL ARC (pt 1 anyways 😏)

we may now resume our previously scheduled starbee

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My beautiful wife and his self doubt issues. He can fight just fine, I know that in my heart.