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fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

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JetPack: A Seeker-Centric Zine

Seekers have been a source of fascination for me since the beginning - and by 'beginning,' I mean when I first started watching G1 in 1985. I mean yes, I fell hard for Starscream, but I also couldn't help noticing his many colorful look-alikes, who always seemed to appear in groups of three. This was, of course, well before I knew the term 'Seeker,' or that those aerial trios would one day be known as Trines. But even then, it seemed that these jets had a distinct culture all their own, and I wanted to know more.

Today, my love for Seekers has blossomed into a full-fledged zine project, JetPack. I'm hoping to make it a deep dive into every facet of Seeker life, from their food and religious practices to their hobbies, sports, nesting habits, myths and legends, and interpersonal relationships. I also hope to highlight some of the lesser-known Seekers, bringing characters often left in the background into the spotlight. My aim is to broaden our appreciation of these iconic fliers, and spread Seeker love throughout our fandom!

Want to join the fun?

JetPack is currently in the interest-check phase, and your feedback is crucial! Fill out our interest check survey and let us know what you’d love to see included. Share your thoughts, express your interest, and help make this project soar!

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this 20 ft tall alien robot iz LITERALLY me

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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

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To The Person Who Walked Past The Window - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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Saw this and was curious if it'd have the same or similar results here!

So tumblr, which VOICE works the best for the character?

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where are my transformers fuckers I think they are a keystone species in tumblr ecosystem

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Having a try at drawing Earthspark Prowl, and included a basic Bluestreak design because I wanted to. My inking is messy, but I’ll get the hang of it or hide it when I color them.

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I made a comic about Godzilla. 

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This weekend I finished the book.

The plot did a lot of flailing at the end. I understand there's a third book* (which I can't find, so a project for later I think) where the plot picks up again, which might explain the absolutely frantic action in the last few chapters.

*In the third book they accidentally mention Bluestreak as a crew member, even though he was very pointedly eliminated/removed from the cast list in The Covenant of Primus. Miraculous save? Sure, I'll take it!

This whole book really felt like it was on rails. I assume the gave the author a starting point, a list of characters/plot elements they wanted added, the ending point, a link to TF Wiki, and just let him loose. Which should have worked, except maybe he had too much stuff he needed to cram in.

I dunno. This was definitely not great. But at least it's over.

Specific thoughts behind the cut.

The Junkions' internet is called JunkNet. For some reason that just tickled me.

Prowl was having a Bad Time of it, but he knew that shooting down a Seeker would make his day much better. So he did. (Sorry, Skywarp.)

Speaking of Skywarp, after getting shot he was apparently rolling around screaming in pain, but paused just long enough to check some readings. Then he went back to screaming.

Sideswipe sasses Jazz. Also, Jazz is tired of this plot of this book, too.

I had a hard time visualizing the scale of some of the things happening until long after their impact. For example, when the Nemesis was ripping apart Junkion, I didn't quite pick up that the planet was literally falling apart until much later. The descriptions definitely could have been a bit more dramatic, to help that info sink in.

You can REALLY see where the initial plot bits for S3 of TFP were going to come from... Until they changed course and decided they wanted robot dragons instead. Space pirates? Cool! (Although their beef with Cybertron was... a stretch. I wish we could have found out how the TFP writers made sense of that and turned it into something workable.)

The whole idea of Nexus Prime being five little bots was very cool. Although I wonder... what would have happened to him if one of them had died? Hmm.

And for all their fanfare, the three Primes who Optimus runs into don't really do much for him. Solus Prime tells him to fuck off and go back to where he came from. Vector Prime says "Sure, I'll help you" except... I'm not entirely sure what he did? And Nexus Prime was the coolest one, and gave Optimus a sword, and then stuck around a bit to sass Megatron before fucking off into his component pieces again.

Anyway. Glad it's over? If I ever run across a copy of Retribution for cheap I'll probably pick it up just because I'm a huge TFP fan, but for now I'm good to move on to something else. 😅

I'm finally getting around to reading Transformers: Exiles and

omg. It is so bad. Like, bad on multiple levels.

I read Transformers: Exodus a few years ago. It was... OK. Definitely not a great work of literature, and there were some "huh" moments in it, but it was fine. But now I'm starting on the next book. I didn't look at the TFWiki entry for Exiles until last night, but just the Errors section is absolutely sending me. (The idea that the book was panic rewritten by Hasbro just before publication would explain a LOT of the issues I'm seeing.)

As someone who loves the franchise, it physically hurts that this guy was paid to write this. It is completely phoned in. Now, I'm sure he was writing on spec, and was probably handed an outline or specific plot points/characters that needed to be included, but even with that limitation it could have been a LOT better.

Anyway I'm going to jot down some of my impressions in this thread because I want to make sure I remember why I didn't like this book, years down the road when I see the book still sitting on my bookshelf. (If I even keep it, that is up for debate.) I'll even keep away from the things mentioned in the Error section of the wiki entry, since that's low-hanging fruit.

(If you enjoyed this book I'm glad for you, but I am down to just hate-reading it now. Sorry about that.)

Impressions will be behind cuts in case you don't want to spoil yourself for this masterpiece. XD

I've finished Part 1 and some of the things that stuck with me have been:

There's a thing in fiction writing that's often bandied about, how you should show and don't tell. It's hard to explain to new authors what this means, and why it's a bad thing. Well, this book has about a million examples. Instead of showing how a character is feeling, it just tells us. Optimus was stressed. Optimus was worried. Prowl was irritated.

Related to the showing/telling thing, this book loves just giving a laundry list of things that happen, regardless of how important it is. For example, we got a whole paragraph on what happened after a race on Velocitron. None of these details mattered to the story in any way, but we still got a whole half page of detail about it:

We got a multi-page scene of Prowl cultivating an informant. He gets named (Armco). A few chapters later Prowl brings him in saying "Here's someone who can keep his mouth shut" and then IMMEDIATELY someone tries to blow up the Ark, and Armco falls out of the plot, never to be seen again. RIP Armco, we never knew ya.

Weird character note: The Autobots show up on Velocitron and discover there's a schism in the leadership there, with factions forming on both sides. While the Autobots are preparing to leave the planet, the "bad" leader says something relatively innocuous to Optimus, who then punches the Velocitronian in the face. This sets off a giant battle between the two factions, whereupon the Autobots dip and go through the space bridge. Brilliant.

More when I finish part 2.