#Alt Mode

[oozeandgoo-art]

A fun comic for ObliqueVion - Megatron loves Bluestreak's sweet talk; Bluestreak just thinks he found a neat handgun in the armory.

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Admire! Something I did!! Squirrel Thrash!!!

A little fun idea based on the first TFES ep. He and Nightshade are now closer than ever!

[shapeofmetal]

What does Sparkbite think about earth animals? Like cats? :0

BEHOLD. Lore.

[bluebellbot]

Been thinking of getting a new alt mode. My old one has been around since 1996

[delicateartisantrash]

Nova - Transformers OC concept

trying to cement a design for Nova, one of my way-too-many Seeker OCs

[transformersmr-hq]

Quick question. What alt mode is the fastest in ur continuation?

Short answer: Space shuttles.

Long answer: It depends on circumstances. Details provided under readmore.

To be honest, any altmode can achieve the "fastest" title if they were a speedster-type outlier. However, since that's obviously not the point of the question here, so let's state what's obvious first:

In order to be considered the "fastest altmode," They must have control over their speed and direction (e.g. launching them with orbital railgun doesn't count)

Now then, let's get started.

On land - Hovering type Racers

As I mentioned earlier, Hoverbikes or hovering vehicles are part of the groundframe family. In fact, it's actually considered as a type of beneficial mutation, which means any altmode with wheels has a slim chance of being hatched with thrusters instead.

Naturally, hovercrafts can generate greater speed than their wheeled counterparts as they are relatively free from road condition issues. Adding that with sleek, aerodynamic structure of a racer frame, and you have an ultimate speed demon.

One downside is that, the faster they get, the more unstable they get as they do not have any wheels to keep them firmly on ground when they are trying to make a turn. Sometimes they spin out of control as soon as they hit the curve when they are at their top speed.

On Atmosphere - Seekers

Basically, they are F1s of the sky. The entire species evolved to have maximum SPD, maximum AGI, and minimum of anything else, so there is no way a plain Cessna or Helicopter can ever take them over at Sky race. It's pretty obvious just by how their alt mode looks, honestly.

'But hey, wait a sec! Didn't you mentioned it was the Shuttles that were the fastest? What happened to that?'

Well......

On anywhere else - Space Shuttles

The Seekers may be the fastest on atmosphere, but the space is a vast place with no air friction no gravitational pull and plenty of space to accelerate. Given enough time, Shuttle can and will hurl themselves through the void with almost godzillion times the speed of an average Seeker. That alone would be enough to grant them the title of "fastest altmode."

Besides, the terminal velocity needed to escape Earth's atmosphere is 11.9km/s(~42840km/h). No Seeker would ever dare to challange THAT. This would have made the Shuttles the fastest on atmosphere too, but as I mentioned they can only produce such speed when they are going to Space. Their atmospheric cruising speed is obviously a lot less impressive than those of Seekers.

[ultra-phthalo]

Trying out pixel art animations.

[xlyinerror]

X009 aka "Nine" final concept and referece. I can't believe I spent more than 20 hours in this-

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[pluralsword]

Transformers Fanfic Recs

Hey so, we remember there being talk about starting up fic recs again, so we went and made a fic rec bookmark collection with different subcategories (short fic, short shipping fic, and long fic or series) on Ao3! For most of them we haven’t commented what we liked or not, just two where we mentioned something that squicked us but we enjoyed the work and think it’s good. We don’t have the spoons really to do reviews of them or add captions. Here’s a snapshot of the bookmark lists, which are set up to be randomly listed:

From the overall bookmark list: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Fics_Pluralsword_Recomends/bookmarks

Above is an image of Ao3 bookmarked works, the three listed are:

1) Day 2: Pink by GemmaRose (she’s a fantastic writer of sapphic and lesbian robot stuff)

2) How to Be A Bike by PrimeRadiant (I really love his stories, they have such a unique viewpoint on transformer-organic relations, alien parallels, how their code and language would work, and gestalt stuff and martial arts)

3) Cybertronian Tales! #0 Prologue by sofie_the_trans_girl (the series is incomplete right now, but if you want to read some action set during the WW1 era with Anode as a biplane of the time working with Marissa Faireborn, highly recommend this)

And as an example of short shipping fic recs: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Short_Ship_Fics_Pluralsword_Recomends

Above is an image of Ao3 bookmarked works, the three listed are:

1) Day 23: Arcee & Greenlight by GemmaRose 

2) Roadside Attraction by Lush Specimen (this Arcee/Aileron fic they wrote is so fun and cute, with a lovely depiction of emotions, we want to read their longer fic Raiders of the Lost Forge but haven’t had the chance)

3) Is It Gay to Ask Your Friend out by birdwhythis (absolutely hilarious Nautica/Velocity fic. Haven’t read a lot of their stuff otherwise but we enjoyed this fic)

There’s a bunch of other writers and fics in three collections put together, over 76 bookmarks so far. In regards to the ship fics, most of what we read for that is sapphic/lesbian or similar content, so if you’re having a hard time finding something like that and want something that isn’t erotic (there’s one or two fics on there that hint at eroticism about as much as the queer robot canon does these days for humor) hopefully this list helps! There are more on our reading list we haven’t gotten to yet, and we will eventually venture into reading longer fics more :3

[thatfantasylovingdork]

I just saw this huge ass black manly truck and I’m pretty sure that’s what Scourge’s alt mode would look like.

[peculiar-potato]

I can't be the only one thinking it

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

All right, NEW NEW CHALLENGE!!

100 reblogs and 80 likes for a What if... Thrash got a squirrel Alt mode!!

Sketches under the cut

[keferon]

…..I should be working rn but one of the songs in my playlist hit harder than usual so

[bigangrytrev]

Ask Trev: Pipes versus Huffer

This question comes from Katrina in Sydney:   Pipes and Huffer have the same alt mode but different robot modes. Which is your favourite? Such cute little alien war machines! It’s true that most of the 1986 Autobot Mini-Vehicles are just slight retools of their 1984 counterparts.  The likes of Swerve, Tailgate, Hubcap and Outback are simply recolours of Gears, Windcharger, Cliffjumper and Brawn…

[vainvaiheart]

and they were rivals (and they were rivals)

[koumori-1999]

doodles of a dumb self-indulgent AU where ratchet has TFA blackarachnia's backstory, purely because i love both characters and i thought it'd be fun to draw a roleswap (and because i like making optimus suffer)