#IDW 2005

[picsofbluestreak]

More Than Meets the Eye #41 (The Sensuous Frame)

[thatrandomn3rd]

Somewhat accurate Cybertronian ages and time explained.

I've done a bit of research and found that Cybertronians like up to 65 million years so, that would be the human equivalent to 100 years old here's some others

50 human years = about 32 million Cybertronian years.

25 human years= 16 million Cybertronian years.

About 12 human years= 8 million Cybertronian years.

6 human years= 4 million Cybertronian years

3 human years= 2 million Cybertronian years

About 1 human year= 1,015,625 exactly.

Cybertronians also have these things called 'Vorns' which are equivalent to 83 human years. Here's the rest of the units of time that Cybertronians use:

Decivorn= 8.3 years

Stellar cycle= 7.5 months

Solar cycle= 1 day

Quartex= 1 month (orbital cycal also means one month)

Nanoklik/Nano-cycle= 1 second

Meta-cycle= 13 months

Kilocycle = 1 year

Megacycle= 1000 years (but in the 2005 IDW comics is mean 93 hours)

Lightyear= very long time

Kilk= 1.2 minutes

Groom= 1 hour

Deca-phase= 8 hours

Deca-cycle(IDW)= 3 weeks

Cycle(2019 IDW)= 1 day (shorter than an earth day)

Cycle(2005 IDW)= 1 hour 15 minutes

Cyber-week= a week

Breem= 8.3 minutes

Astrosecond= .498 seconds

Do with this information what you will.

[blighted-lights]

the sillies!!!!

[t-cognoscente]

"average Transformer can hear twice as many sound frequencies as a human" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Transformer hears the same number of sound frequencies as a human. Sound wave, who lives in cave & can literally hear you think, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[hanaby-3]

At first I didn't really like how this illustration turned out, but over time I've grown fond of it and it's certainly very different from what I usually draw.

[brilliantyears]

this just in: old man doesn’t know how Mute button works

bonus for lust

[pluralsword]

An Essay: Trans History and Retcons Regarding IDW1 Arcee and Her Spotlight

As we've slowly learned more and deeply immersed into IDW1 Arcee's writing over the years, finding much more than just kinship to her, we felt this urge to dig further, to understand, feeling threads that were there regarding trans history, but not having much knowledge regarding historical transmedicalism, so we dug. We dug because we wanted to show that Arcee's writing from 2012-2018 not only is a beautiful trans story unique in science fiction, but that her personality there and in part in her Spotlight (which absolutely did not intend trans stuff and walked into a minefield in that regard that inadvertently opened up the opportunity for the writing and consulting team in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to figure out beautiful character arcs for her) are direct successors of the original personality frameworks for G1 Arcees, and to show the impact and legacy of both Sunbow/Marvel and IDW Arcees along with more Arcees combined on many versions of her thereafter.

Here's the introductory paragraph:

In much of the last decade, a lot of people familiar with Transformers’ trans stories appreciate Arcee being trans and her arcs in that regard from 2012 onwards. But during those six years from 2012-2018 where her narratives that firmly navigated her agency as a trans gal were being established by a number of writers, with consulting help in 2015 for Ask Vector Prime and 2018 for IDW1, there was and remains uncertainty over how exactly that works for her, specifically for her comic iteration where her transness was first hinted and then plainly stated. The variety of understandings in this regard in part originates from her introduction to the IDW1 run, Spotlight Arcee, in 2008, which was received rather turbulently because of how it portrayed her gender and transformer gals at large. Writing years after would navigate resolving this rather beautifully as showing Arcee having struggled with transmedicalism, isolation, abandonment, loneliness, and alienation, the brutality of a violent (and androcentric) world, as many trans people across gender and parallel spectrums or lacks thereof have in real life. Her story is done in a wlw trans gal context in particular. She is shown getting closure on all this, finding her happiness by the end of that continuity that would along with her story at large as a sweet, ferocious, outspoken old warrior sage help set the tone for her portrayals afterwards. Much of this overlaps with how she was described in her The Transformers Universe bio all the way back in 1986. In these regards, we (the writer of this is plural, we'll have a note about that near the end) think it is pertinent to take another look at how her story played out, what was actually written and shown vs. what was intended, to navigate transmedicalist history that overlaps with her story, and to show that Arcee’s trans iterations are directly part of the legacy of G1 Arcee overall

also a brief fact check edit regarding HRT:

we said HRT only effects hormones but realized we should fact check that, and apparently for some people HRT does effect their genes!! (this is separate from the discussion of gender journeys and epigenetics which we personally know next to nothing about) this a deeply understudied topic you can read about it here:

Gender-affirming hormone therapy induces specific DNA methylation changes in blood

[trepans-apprentice]

my loving father(trepan) will not let me scratch people (the mechs hes operating on) i am being denied enrichment

[toyotacorolla2008]

birthday art for syncdrome epicsaurus

[ang-900]

I'm very salty because Sunstreaker lost to Cyclonus.

I haven't read the entirety of the IDW 2005 continuity, yet, but I've seen bits and pieces of later installments scattered around, and I know for certain that Cyclonus gets good stuff happening to him.

Don't get me started on how people voted for Megatron instead of Blackarachnia. Like, how???? For either of them???

This is for the TF Waterlogged Cat Poll (a.k.a. voting for the most pitiful character) by @pits-of-kaos, if you were wondering what I was talking about.

But, seriously: how??!?!?!?

[shortthembo]

sometimes i forget this is supposed to be an art blog anyway, my friend is obsessed with transformers and is setting up for a ttrpg for these gay robots. i support this development

[picsofbluestreak]

Transformers #16 (Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies)

[darkcybertron]

screamers from transformers: primacy (2014), art by livio ramondelli

[blighted-lights]

im missing my best friend so i drew THE best friends ever to make up for it

kind of a redraw of this?? not really happy with the posing buuut. i love them <3

[t-cognoscente]

For anyone looking to get into Transformers IDW 2005:

All of these can be found for free on readcomicsonline; just make sure you have an adblocker and a pop-up blocker installed.

[hanaby-3]

Returning to the custom of 2018, the first publication of this year is about Transformers. Drift / Deadlock is one of my favorite MTMTE characters although I think he was a character that had a lot of potential without explote.

Drift is portrayed as someone who changes sides and eventually finds the right way, but to me it's the story of someone constantly searching for his place in the world and whose environment shapes his personality.

I think you can see why I like him.