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And that's our winner, folks!

Elegant Chaos is our favourite MTMTE/LL arc!

finally we have definitive confirmation of what we all suspected: our fandom's favourite pastime is a) traumatising characters and b) rubbernecking their no-good love lives. <3

[FINAL ROUND] Shadowplay vs Elegant Chaos

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

Elegant Chaos: the time travel one. The one where Brainstorm invents time travel because he had a crush on a boy, and then nearly eradicates the entire Cybertronian timeline because Chromedome is bad at coping with loss. We see the first glimpses of the Functionist Universe, and Rewind shoots a baby. And the whole thing turns out to be a closed time loop in the end anyway, going right back to Chaos Theory. (Sidenote: the Megatron flashback issue gets to be here too.) TFWiki link.

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And it's the finale! Whoo! Bloody hell but that semifinal was close between Overlord and Shadowplay all week. Damn.

No masterpost this time for obvious reasons, but reminder that as usual we'll reblog anything substantive on the final poll's reblogs with 'propaganda', etc etc. Enjoy!!

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[FINAL ROUND] Shadowplay vs Elegant Chaos

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

Elegant Chaos: the time travel one. The one where Brainstorm invents time travel because he had a crush on a boy, and then nearly eradicates the entire Cybertronian timeline because Chromedome is bad at coping with loss. We see the first glimpses of the Functionist Universe, and Rewind shoots a baby. And the whole thing turns out to be a closed time loop in the end anyway, going right back to Chaos Theory. (Sidenote: the Megatron flashback issue gets to be here too.) TFWiki link.

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[SEMI FINALS] Overlord vs Shadowplay

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

The Overlord Arc: the one where Chromedome is shadowplaying a captive, paralyzed Overlord in the Lost Light’s warcrimes basement, gets cocky, accidentally lets him loose, and Overlord goes on a rampage. Which ends extremely poorly for just about everyone, but especially Rewind. This arc includes the run-up, Overlord loose on the ship, and the immediate aftermath in which we find out this isn’t the first time Chromedome has lost a loved one. TFWiki link.

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

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[SEMI FINALS] Overlord vs Shadowplay

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

The Overlord Arc: the one where Chromedome is shadowplaying a captive, paralyzed Overlord in the Lost Light’s warcrimes basement, gets cocky, accidentally lets him loose, and Overlord goes on a rampage. Which ends extremely poorly for just about everyone, but especially Rewind. This arc includes the run-up, Overlord loose on the ship, and the immediate aftermath in which we find out this isn’t the first time Chromedome has lost a loved one. TFWiki link.

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

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[MASTERPOST] Semi-Finals!

Here we go, folks! Semi finals time for the MTMTE/LL story arc tournament bracket, where everyone gets to vote on/bicker about which of the story arcs in the comic is The Best For Real, Actually.

Whoever wins will go to the finals, naturally.

Now there's less polls, we're maintagging 'em.

Even so, if you want to promote a particular poll you have a strong opinion on, reblog it! If you reblog a poll with a significant amount of propaganda for your fave story on it, we'll reblog it with #propaganda as the tag.

The polls can be found at:

Overlord vs Shadowplay Slaughterhouse vs Elegant Chaos

Enjoy!

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[SEMI FINALS] Overlord vs Shadowplay

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

The Overlord Arc: the one where Chromedome is shadowplaying a captive, paralyzed Overlord in the Lost Light’s warcrimes basement, gets cocky, accidentally lets him loose, and Overlord goes on a rampage. Which ends extremely poorly for just about everyone, but especially Rewind. This arc includes the run-up, Overlord loose on the ship, and the immediate aftermath in which we find out this isn’t the first time Chromedome has lost a loved one. TFWiki link.

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

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[SEMI-FINALS] Slaughterhouse vs Elegant Chaos

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Slaughterhouse: MTMTE unburies its gays. The arc where the accident at the start of the series is revealed to have caused a duplicate Lost Light to spawn, and it turns out things went badly enough on that one it almost makes our Lost Light look like things are going smoothly by comparison. And, of course, now Rewind is here again. TFWiki.

Elegant Chaos: the time travel one. The one where Brainstorm invents time travel because he had a crush on a boy, and then nearly eradicates the entire Cybertronian timeline because Chromedome is bad at coping with loss. We see the first glimpses of the Functionist Universe, and Rewind shoots a baby. And the whole thing turns out to be a closed time loop in the end anyway, going right back to Chaos Theory. (Sidenote: the Megatron flashback issue gets to be here too.) TFWiki link.

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MASTERPOST - Round Three Polls

Welcome (back!) to round three of the MTMTE/LL story arc tournament bracket, where everyone gets to vote on/bicker about which of the story arcs in the comic is The Best For Real, Actually.

You know the drill:

Following round two, we've matched up the winners of all those polls and pitted them against each other. From here on out all polls are 1v1!

Now there's less polls, we're maintagging 'em.

Even so, if you want to promote a particular poll you have a strong opinion on, reblog it! If you reblog a poll with a significant amount of propaganda for your fave story on it, we'll reblog it with #propaganda as the tag. (Sidenote: don't shittalk other fans or people who like stories you don't, or not only will you not get a reblog or your ask published, you will be blocked.)

This is a masterpost containing links to all round three polls (8 seperate arcs, for 4 polls).

You can also find all these under the tag #round 3 polls on the blog.

Shadowplay vs Little Victories Our Steps Will Always Rhyme vs Overlord Elegant Chaos vs Delphi Scavengers vs Slaughterhouse

Happy round three voting, folks!

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Masterpost will be up later bc I am tired, but round three polls are live! ✌️

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[ROUND THREE] Shadowplay vs Little Victories

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Shadowplay: an arc giving pre-canon backstory for a bunch of the cast, except instead of direct flashbacks our protagonists are trading off on relating bits of a story they were personally around for, because they think this will probably fix Rung’s brain damage. Shockwave gets his backstory for IDW and there’s a heist. Drift and Ratchet bicker a lot. Optimus is here and jumps off plenty of buildings. Backstory is had, basically. TFWiki link.

Little Victories: following his death, Rewind’s fly-on-the-wall documentary he was making about life on the Lost Light and its crew is screened. It doesn’t make anyone look especially good. TFWiki link.

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[ROUND THREE] Our Steps Will Always Rhyme vs Overlord

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Our Steps Will Always Rhyme: Ratchet has a bunch of emotional repression about being bad at expressing his feelings, decides to go pick up Drift since it turns out his exile was based on a lie, and finally lets First Aid take over his job after god knows how many issues of promising to. TFWiki link.

The Overlord Arc: the one where Chromedome is shadowplaying a captive, paralyzed Overlord in the Lost Light’s warcrimes basement, gets cocky, accidentally lets him loose, and Overlord goes on a rampage. Which ends extremely poorly for just about everyone, but especially Rewind. This arc includes the run-up, Overlord loose on the ship, and the immediate aftermath in which we find out this isn’t the first time Chromedome has lost a loved one. TFWiki link.

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[ROUND THREE] Elegant Chaos vs Delphi

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Elegant Chaos: the time travel one. The one where Brainstorm invents time travel because he had a crush on a boy, and then nearly eradicates the entire Cybertronian timeline because Chromedome is bad at coping with loss. We see the first glimpses of the Functionist Universe, and Rewind shoots a baby. And the whole thing turns out to be a closed time loop in the end anyway, going right back to Chaos Theory. (Sidenote: the Megatron flashback issue gets to be here too.) TFWiki link.

Delphi: First Aid sneaks a message out from Delphi, where his boss Pharma is being very normal and definitely has not killed anyone. Introduces us to the threat of the DJD, and also the surprising about of interpersonal drama that pervades Ratchet’s life. Drift is also here and having a Very Bad Day. TFWiki link.

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[ROUND THREE] Scavengers vs Slaughterhouse

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Scavengers: the first arc to introduce us to recurring group the Scavengers, and our big on-panel proper introduction to major antagonists the DJD. Some down-on-their-luck nobody Decepticons run across Grimlock and manage not to get murdered by Tarn somehow. TFWiki link.

Slaughterhouse: MTMTE unburies its gays. The arc where the accident at the start of the series is revealed to have caused a duplicate Lost Light to spawn, and it turns out things went badly enough on that one it almost makes our Lost Light look like things are going smoothly by comparison. And, of course, now Rewind is here again. TFWiki.

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MASTERPOST - Round Two Polls

Welcome (back!) to round two of the MTMTE/LL story arc tournament bracket, where everyone gets to vote on/bicker about which of the story arcs in the comic is The Best For Real, Actually.

Following round one, we've matched up the winners of all those polls and pitted them against each other! As with round one, this masterpost will be the only one tagged #maccadam to avoid clogging up the main tag, so if you want to promote a particular poll you have a strong opinion on, reblog it! If you reblog a poll with a significant amount of propaganda for your fave story on it, we'll reblog it with #propaganda as the tag.

One poll in this round is between three stories rather than two because that was how the maths shook out when I divided the stories up.

This is a masterpost containing links to all Round Two polls (17 seperate arcs, for 8 polls). You can also find all these under the tag #round 2 polls on the blog. All the polls have a quick summary attached to refresh your memory if the name of the arc doesn’t immediately ring a bell! The FAQ for this can also be found here.

Some fun facts now round one is done:

All winners in round one bar "How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2" are from MTMTE. That's the only LL story that's going to round two!

The biggest percentage gap was between An Axe To Break The Ice vs Delphi.

The smallest (and by a significant margin, most voted in poll this time) was World, Shut Your Mouth vs Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots.

Links to all polls as follows:

Our Steps Will Always Rhyme vs Liars, A to D World, Shut Your Mouth vs Delphi Elegant Chaos vs How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2 Before & After vs Overlord Scavengers vs The Dying of the Light The Not Knowing vs Little Victories vs Silent Light Interiors vs Slaughterhouse Shadowplay vs Remain in Light

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[ROUND TWO] The Not Knowing vs Little Victories vs Silent Light

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Silent Light: Whirl, Swerve and Nautica play out the weirdest robot Christmas-but-not version of Tokyo Godfathers imaginable. They find a “baby” and hijinks occur. Part of the IDW holiday special featuring multiple stories. TFWiki link.

Little Victories: following his death, Rewind’s fly-on-the-wall documentary he was making about life on the Lost Light and its crew is screened. It doesn’t make anyone look especially good. TFWiki link.

The Not Knowing: the crew are on the Necroplanet and have their own reactions to what it can tell them about people who have died in the war. Chromedome and Rewind decide what to do about Dominus, and whether Rewind wants to know for certain what happened to him; Nightbeat has a breakdown at the Necrobot; Megatron visits his field of sparkflowers. TFWiki link.

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[ROUND TWO] Elegant Chaos vs How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2

A quick summary/refresher for each storyline is under the cut including TFWiki links:

Elegant Chaos: the time travel one. The one where Brainstorm invents time travel because he had a crush on a boy, and then nearly eradicates the entire Cybertronian timeline because Chromedome is bad at coping with loss. We see the first glimpses of the Functionist Universe, and Rewind shoots a baby. And the whole thing turns out to be a closed time loop in the end anyway, going right back to Chaos Theory. (Sidenote: the Megatron flashback issue gets to be here too.) TFWiki link.

How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2: the final final issue of the series, a kind of epilogue, which swaps between two possible universes and endings for our protagonists in the future. And Ratchet gets his send-off. TFWiki link.