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PPS:

*Removes pin*

Here’s the “one” other thing about this issue.

Remember when Megs received the Asuka treatment from a snake man?

That guy was a badass (in fact so bad that he’s all sass and no ass) and I can't wait to see what they do with him in the future.

You know who else was a badass, but turns out was a plot device? 😀

“Jetfire”

…

(Yeah, my version of Jetfire would go full-on Gordon Ramsay if he were to feel even the slightest bit like he’s being treated as a glorified taxi. For all other versions of Jetfire’s safeties, please keep your distance)

"Lol jk that fight wasn’t bullscrap Rumble injured him"

Ok but Megs got his aft beat twice. ⬆️

“Astrotrain got literally taken down by a minicon, so—”

Okay first of all, woah—

Let’s not underestimate mincons, my guy (wait, is Rumble a minicon—? 🤔)

Secondly, I’m not sayin’ Astrotrain’s absolved—

He didn’t fight smart.

l may not be a coach, nor a strategist nor a comedian, but if you're gonna make blind jokes—

Oh, Idfk—

Make sure Megs' actually + way more importantly permanently blind by tearin' off Laserbeak or somethin'? 😑

“He didn’t know”

Skill issue. Specifically the skill of observation.

“Oh as if you’re any better you don’t even know how to read lmao—” 🤡

Tho I guess with how Megs somehow managed to travel all the way down south (like Arizona/SoCal/Mexico ➡️ 🌵) blind, with Laserbeak somehow managing to locate him that quick, and then both somehow managing to haul aft to Seattle without running out of energon it doesn't narratively matter anyway???????????????????

That’s actually wild they really didn’t disappoint with his comeback after all lol.

(Too bad the writers seem to have been shopping at the plot convenience store tho 💔)

Like how could someone hoard food, but then lock someone away with enough food to “last a millennia”—and then kill ‘em anyway?

Ya know, in a goddamn food crisis?

The crisis that, in Opps’ own words, is the reason why he left Cybertron (with Megs, being the predator that he is, following close behind), the reason why both sides struggle to revive each of their members, and oh irdfk—

The reason why the war started in the sparkdamn first place???????????????????

Yeah. Good to know you’re still my favorite dumbaft, Megs.

(Or just a major selfish predatory douchebag)

But that’s what I meant by Astrotrain being reduced to a plot device, never mind that we still have no idea about his love (I’m sure we’ll find out eventually tho, otherwise why even bother writin’ that if there’ll be no payoff lol).

(And nevertheless, we're not gonna have an awkward Christmas this year on my watch)

"I think the reason why Megatron is so strong, in spite of his experiences on Earth so far, is because of his evil Matrix thing that they established last issue”

I would like for that to be the case, but in terms of strictly his combat performance (and the same can be said for Optimus, cuz, um— *Looks at his Matrix*), it's literally never come into play in any of his previous fights)

(To reiterate, Megs got his aft beat twice y’all)

And honestly, despite bein’ my favorite issue (cuz of how much I like to see him suffer lol), imo, Issue #19 shouldn’t exist. Not in the same way.

I would’ve much preferred if Issue #19 instead served to catch us up on Megs’ journey to the saguaros, the same way we got caught up on Starscream in Issues #13 and #14.

Maybe at one point he’s literally about to go offline from energon deprivation, when he hears a frightened albeit curious human. A child, perhaps.

Specifically, a child looking for their father.

Megs starts begging for help to appeal to their sympathy, to get ‘em just a little bit closer and…

*Commits a Circus Baby*

It’s not enough to completely restore him (cuz I think that size does matter in terms of the amount of energon 🐋), but it’s enough to keep him going.

Then for the rest of the volume we proceed to witness the fallout of that.

“I think these parallels have gotten edgy enough already, thank you”

…

Mmmmmmmmm—yeah, wtf do I know right lol.

Like don’t get me wrong (I mean, with the way l am that's guaranteed, so 🫠), I don't mind leaving certain details in a story up to the imagination (e.g. whether or not Thundercracker and Skywarp are brothers/cousins/lovers/whatever), but when you've previously emphasized not just the brutality of war, but the struggle in obtaining energon to survive—

(I mean, they’re not callin’ this the “Energon Universe” for no reason lol)

And then Megs, despite yeah, everything he's went through on Earth (which was conveyed by his abrupt entrance in issue #18 compared to a more gradual one in issue #13 ⬆️), is able to just take an impact like that from an enraged Astrotrain, when logically he should be at his weakest?

If you're not gonna explain why that is exactly (and while maybe the evil Matrix does enhance combat performance after all, we don’t know that as of yet), I will call bullscrap.

I have no notes for you Star tho pretty much everything that happened to you this issue was to be expected.

“He called Megs beautiful”

Well you could say the same about Frollo, but that doesn’t change how much of a monster he was obviously.

“What?!”

UM—

*Long post*

*Face in hands* Holy fragging scrap Optimus…

*Massive sigh*

Optimus. Oppy. Opps—

*Thinks of more nicknames real quick*

Papa Op—

Listen.

I love you (in spite of the villain hyperfixations, and it doesn’t help that we’ve had to focus on the Delusicons Decepticons more last volume), but you’re makin’ it very hard for me to detox rn.

Cuz like—

“Stronger than ever”?

Wh—?

Is my dumbass missing something here again?

(Yes I know he’s talkin’ to Spike, and I’m glad he’s finally gotten a moment to shine again, but—just—that was the only gif I could find ok lol)

Optimus, your efforts have paid off so well that they’ve continuously failed (according to the Duke miniseries, for 6 months straight) to the point where they started fraggin’ each other up out of frustration but um, okay— 😐

To be fair—and there’s no sugarcoating this—you’ve killed some people (they drowned), even when that obviously wasn’t your intention.

We know that (along with the bus incident) has to be demoralizing enough already, and you can tell just how horrible Op feels about what he’s done by the white background as they mobilize for Seattle.

There, the Autobots can only try to prevent as much collateral damage as possible while, once again, the Decepticons frag each other up.

(Side note: speaking of Duke, where the hell is he? How has he not gotten involved in this yet? They made it a point to show him saving lives in his backstory, so why in the actual scrap hittin’ the fan rn is his ass not in Seattle with guns blazin’ at [hopefully just] Decepticons? 🤨)

(I know very well for the sake of the plot, they’ve inadvertently been portraying the military/government as useless as a Cybertronian deprived of energon—wait… *Pins*)

(But Duke, at least in this continuity as far as I’m aware, is not a fan of the government anymore due their lack of urgency regarding/acknowledgement of this ongoing situation, so—)

Ok hold on, lemme just—

There.

That’s what should’ve happened.

…

What?

They’re not actually telling us that after everything Prime has endured on both Cybertron and Earth, all the Autobots and innocent humans + animals who have died thus far, Roller and the Combat Deck (don’t think for an astrosecond I’ve forgotten about them—!), Shockwave will send him over the edge—

But not the bastard who started all this and very likely enabled Shockwave?

The bastard who currently has no optics and no arm? Standing right up there condensecndingly in perfect view?

Bullscrap.

(His fight with Astrotrain was bullscrap too— *Stabs myself with the pin* OW—)

If I were Prime, I would have crashed tf out at first sight and tried tearing his stupid face plate (although admittedly with cool rainbow wires oozing from his optic sockets) off Bayverse style.

“Soundwave would’ve shielded him”

Good. That’s what he gets for waitin’ 6 months(?) to challenge Star (God, he’s so passive! 🙄).

(Y’all, if Soundwave becomes plot-irrelevant for the remainder of the run, when they could’ve wrote this to at least injure him…)

“That just sounds like a war crime, I mean…he is unarmed”

…

Ah. Ahaha—

Sh**.

That’s true.

However, Prime, from what the writers established, can’t really seem to control himself in rage mode, now can he?

Could Megs turn out to have a level of influence and control over his arm after all? Maybe, but then why would he let Shockwave die? 🤔

It just don’t make no sense man (at least for now, at least for now…), but anyway—

If Ratchet were still alive, if Bluestreak was on Earth, or if Carly hadn’t been taken, they’d def have some things to say in a manner very similar to this ongoing conversation.

Damn, what a way to make Elita hate us even more for not makin’ this decision to put Earth first mean somethin’— 😔

*G A S P *

Alright. All is immediately forgiven— 😶

Carry on Prime. 👋

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Oh, them?

*Remembers the Dinobots*

Y-Yeah, t-there’s totally no power imbalance goin’ on there. 😅

PS:

Thundercracker, please make the right choice here. 🙏

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*Long post*

*Face in hands* Holy fragging scrap Optimus…

*Massive sigh*

Optimus. Oppy. Opps—

*Thinks of more nicknames real quick*

Papa Op—

Listen.

I love you (in spite of the villain hyperfixations, and it doesn’t help that we’ve had to focus on the Delusicons Decepticons more last volume), but you’re makin’ it very hard for me to detox rn.

Cuz like—

“Stronger than ever”?

Wh—?

Is my dumbass missing something here again?

(Yes I know he’s talkin’ to Spike, and I’m glad he’s finally gotten a moment to shine again, but—just—that was the only gif I could find ok lol)

Optimus, your efforts have paid off so well that they’ve continuously failed (according to the Duke miniseries, for 6 months straight) to the point where they started fraggin’ each other up out of frustration but um, okay— 😐

To be fair—and there’s no sugarcoating this—you’ve killed some people (they drowned), even when that obviously wasn’t your intention.

We know that (along with the bus incident) has to be demoralizing enough already, and you can tell just how horrible Op feels about what he’s done by the white background as they mobilize for Seattle.

There, the Autobots can only try to prevent as much collateral damage as possible while, once again, the Decepticons frag each other up.

(Side note: speaking of Duke, where the hell is he? How has he not gotten involved in this yet? They made it a point to show him saving lives in his backstory, so why in the actual scrap hittin’ the fan rn is his ass not in Seattle with guns blazin’ at [hopefully just] Decepticons? 🤨)

(I know very well for the sake of the plot, they’ve inadvertently been portraying the military/government as useless as a Cybertronian deprived of energon—wait… *Pins*)

(But Duke, at least in this continuity as far as I’m aware, is not a fan of the government anymore due their lack of urgency regarding/acknowledgement of this ongoing situation, so—)

Ok hold on, lemme just—

There.

That’s what should’ve happened.

…

What?

They’re not actually telling us that after everything Prime has endured on both Cybertron and Earth, all the Autobots and innocent humans + animals who have died thus far, Roller and the Combat Deck (don’t think for an astrosecond I’ve forgotten about them—!), Shockwave will send him over the edge—

But not the bastard who started all this and very likely enabled Shockwave?

The bastard who currently has no optics and no arm? Standing right up there condensecndingly in perfect view?

Bullscrap.

(His fight with Astrotrain was bullscrap too— *Stabs myself with the pin* OW—)

If I were Prime, I would have crashed tf out at first sight and tried tearing his stupid face plate (although admittedly with cool rainbow wires oozing from his optic sockets) off Bayverse style.

“Soundwave would’ve shielded him”

Good. That’s what he gets for waitin’ 6 months(?) to challenge Star (God, he’s so passive! 🙄).

(Y’all, if Soundwave becomes plot-irrelevant for the remainder of the run, when they could’ve wrote this to at least injure him…)

“That just sounds like a war crime, I mean…he is unarmed”

…

Ah. Ahaha—

Sh**.

That’s true.

However, Prime, from what the writers established, can’t really seem to control himself in rage mode, now can he?

Could Megs turn out to have a level of influence and control over his arm after all? Maybe, but then why would he let Shockwave die? 🤔

It just don’t make no sense man (at least for now, at least for now…), but anyway—

If Ratchet were still alive, if Bluestreak was on Earth, or if Carly hadn’t been taken, they’d def have some things to say in a manner very similar to this ongoing conversation.

Damn, what a way to make Elita hate us even more for not makin’ this decision to put Earth first mean somethin’— 😔

*G A S P *

Alright. All is immediately forgiven— 😶

Carry on Prime. 👋

…

Oh, them?

*Remembers the Dinobots*

Y-Yeah, t-there’s totally no power imbalance goin’ on there. 😅

PS:

Thundercracker, please make the right choice here. 🙏

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This blind mf really got no chill

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So much for finally bein’ discharged from reality—

Y’all found out, didn’t ya?

Yeah. Idk whether to pet ya guys reassuringly or yeet the both of ya out the window.

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Me: *Sees the preview for Issue #20*

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*Turns*

So, how does Megastrostar sound? :D

Megs?

W-Wait, I’m not talkin’ about— (•᷄- •᷅ ;)

I’M NOT TALKIN’ ABOUT— (°ロ°)

PRIME—?! ( ˶°ㅁ°)

( ´ཀ` )

Megatron: I guess one can say you've been, silenced—

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Optimus. Prime. Of Cybertron.

You have his fusion cannon.

He's just standing there menacingly.

People are dying.

Lock. The frag. In.

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This is an every night thing isn’t it? :/

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/ Somethin’ my boss said the other day—

Boss: I could listen to Optimus Prime’s voice for hours.

Me, a little giddy all of a sudden: Oh, I get that.

Boss: He could tell me to sit down and I would just—

Me:

/ God, I love my boss.

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Finally ordered myself to make just as much human Op art as I did human Megs art so (we can’t let him win anymore)—

PS: My sister thought I was drawin’ Jesus.

No (not this time hehe) but I’ll look more into the comparisons guess who I actually based him on (partially).

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The Iron Tyrant

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*Long post*

And tho she be but little (even compared to a normal shark for reference lol), she is fierce. 💅

She has never done anythin’ wrong, ever, in her existence.

We know this. And we love her.

*Gives Shanix*

(Why is Shanix capitalized it’s a currency—)

Somethin’ tells me that some writer 40 years ago had it out for aquatic animals.

Thus, we got squid colonizers (in which one is referrin’ to the Cybertronian they abducted as their “brother”? And not anythin’ more demeanin’? Huh...Interesting…) and their piranha-anglerfish-shark hellhounds.

(And also their non-hybrid alligator bailiffs)

Yes, that’s what we’ve finally concluded after readin’ this issue 3 sparkdamn times, to try and figure out just what the actual frag’s goin’ on here.

‘N nothin’ else. :)

*Awkward silence* :)

*Awkward silence intensifies* :)

God, they really might be basin’ all of their designs + lore off G1, are they? 🫠

(I’ve read some opinions regardin’ that, and they are understandably not very positive. I get it. G1 is honestly just pure source material, and should only be seen as such, if we’d all like to keep the remainin’ sanity we have left)

(Therefore, you can interpret whatever the frag happened and the way things worked in it however you’d like, and adapt whatever you like into your own fan continuities. That’s what DWJ’s been doin’, and doin’ good…ish. That matter can be a separate post)

Well, if they really do go through with it, at least they can finally acknowledge (and dare I say address, if they have the page time of course) the one origin for Megatron that I think I can actually get behind so far.

(K*rwa, make this former Pokémon fan look even more like a geewunner, why not? Why. Fraggin’. Not at this point? *Bangs my head against the headboard of the bed*)

It’s not like I made an entire scrappy post about it that I deleted later or anythin’.

(Although the points I made in it still stand, no post here is safe 🙂🙃)

✨ Anyway— ✨

Let’s review our notes:

. Megs has a clan, and by clan I think he means his warriors (“You will turn from my enemy…into my kin”), which means he’s been fighting before his abduction, which means that I’m still allowed to hate him yay—

. And his fusion cannon (so we have yet to learn how he acquired it)

. And that cathartic defiance of his that he has in common with Starscream (a major reason why I love ‘em both equally)

(I really need to stop makin’ Megatron centric posts to prove that)

. Oh, he’s a triple changer after all—! 😮

Wait, what is he doin’—? 😶

（・口・）

You guys

That was f**king AWESOME (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

NEW FAVORITE ISSUE I LOVE DRAGONS— *Flashbacks to Beast Hunters* 😍

. Imagine, instead, if he had to start over every time he died, and what I mean by this is that each new part of the trial is the next trial. So if he dies on the 500th trial he has to restart from the 1st trial and fight his way back up

I think I’ve spent a little too much time with Shockwave—

. Wow, there really is an evil matrix. Is that how he got all these new powers (e.g. revivin’ Ravage)? 😂

. Yes, this is Hell Megs (don’t ask how Cybertronians know what Hell is)

And in the future you are going to the 9th Circle. We call it Earth ❄️

(　〇□〇）

. Not to rip from that deleted post, but like—

*Pretends to insert Smokey and Craig’s “Dayuuuuuuuum!” cuz of the 10-image-per-post limit*

You guys don’t know how much I’ve wanted a character to talk to Megs like this. About this. In canon

And that character turning out to be a Quintesson is f**cking perfect

(*Gets unapologetically sidetracked* Other than, firstly, Optimus. Or Kiloton. Or Impactor. Or even a human in a scenario where they desperately try to get Megs to understand that he doesn’t have to be a gun à la Iron Giant

Yes, he has a literal gun as his alt mode but that’s not what I mean hear my pretentious ass out—

He doesn’t have to be a literal weapon programmed to serve the misguided or oppressive interests of individuals, who might not even be online at that point in the war—along with Optimus, Elita and Magnus. Oh why link them together, you may ask? Cuz they are all in the same boat!

They tell him that he can be so much more [DEZIMIR SAID THAT BUT IN A DIFF CONTEXT AAAAAAAAAH—], but here’s the twist: Megatron’s happy the way he is, and D-16/Megatronus/whatever his former name was consented [with no room for doubt in his spark] to becoming a tyrant—but they don’t know that, and that’s the point

They will always question whether or not Megatron has free will/agency/an understanding of “right” and “wrong” [they theorize that he’s mentally incompetent, but they can’t check his brain chips cuz ✨ ethics ✨ or somethin’], and he of course goes along with that to avoid facing justice [kinda like Joker’s situation but potentially way more complicated I’m trying my best to explain this lol]

Then the Autobots start questioning themselves and each of their mental states (as like I said, they’re technically all in the same boat) and it all just goes to hell

I want a fanfic of that lmk 😂)

(Secondly, Starscream. He could say all this to Megs as well, esp during a particularly heated interaction, in order to criticize his poor leadership. However, Star’s unfortunate thing is that while he sometimes does have a point, he goes about his dissatisfaction/frustration in such a disastrous way, as to result in his words fallin’ on damaged auditory sensors oof)

. *Gun mode acquired*

. Aw, the dragon got slayed :/ 💅

. Is he putting his servo on an optic? A little confused by that still 🤨

Update: Oh…we’re seein’ his servo through his optic 😶

. Some people are saying the “Master” is Unicron

I mean, if that turns out to be the case, and he’s just lyin’ to Megs about bein’ on the same page screen as him in order to somehow c[REDACTED]e his brother again (wait I forgot is Primus a thing in this continuity)—

(Another update: “Primus have mercy!” *Gets executed by a douchebag and his own future douchebag*)

Well, this is Hell and he’s the Devil so— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I should stop it’s Palm Sunday 😅)

As long as they don’t use him in anyway to excuse or downplay Megs’ actions, I’m fine with that

He’s always gonna be irredeemable (so there can’t be anyone written to be “worse” than him right?)

(R-Right…?)

Anyways, let’s go recruit younglings and ruin Ulchtar’s existence lol

PS: Wait, let me test somethin’ real quick: wouldn’t it be really funny if Megs actually apologized to Star next issue as a plot twist

I know that s**t only happens in fanfics, but with the way they’ve been writin’ his dialogue (as others have said, it’s givin’ self-righteous cult leader), and just the way he’s been conductin’ himself (in a frighteningly calm manner)—

Like he’s actin’ very humble/subdued after bein’ in CC’s custody, which I find weird since we now know that he’s been through this typa s**t before, so—

Idk…we’ll see. Oh, we will fraggin’ see

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Y’all gettin’ recruited (ur age don’t mattur).

I swear I didn’t base them off these 3, but I think I’ll do so from now on cuz holy fragging scrap they get it

Also made this a while ago so no spoilers for the new issue I just wanna be cringe again also I can’t sleep thanks Megs 👍

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💛 The Lion 💛

🩷 The Witch 🩷

🗑️💔 AND THE AUDACITY OF THIS BITCH 💔🗑️

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Bayverse Megatron sighted at the American Dream Mall

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Abusive hypocrites who try to stay dignified and authoritative but are really just this goddamn close to crashin’ out 👌

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Wut?

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We are in the eye of the f*cking hurricane, people