#greenlight/aileron

[pluralsword]

can't top coat arcee yet so will show alt mode later, but really had fun painting this arcee and sculpting the torso when we could, in the latter regard she will probably be one of a kind (green stuff was a lot of work) but in the former the reaper mini paints seem to be the right choice for replication, very proud of her. 💜 🏳️‍⚧️

[they-hermes]

alright no more boys its time to become a certified transformers himejoshi

heres to the married/canon couples (wow arcee how come you get two wives)

and to the ships we wish to set sail!! girls love 4ever!!!

[elfdragon12]

Transformers yuri

[truuskn]

i don't know who was responsible for gifting us arcee and greenlight as a couple in idw-2, but it was the best decision in this person's life + my girls are absolutely perfect for each other + please, give them back to me, they are my roman empire

[sodynell]

Happy women's day!

[mudhound]

[thestitchesarchive]

It’s mildly funny that IDW has its designated gay rep across both its continuities and the two most prominent ones are Arcee and… Cyclonus. Like they both get a whole plot line or so kind of involving their partners, who might I also add, are different across these two continuities (unlike KOBD, but they were already kind of gay before IDW decided to canonize them.) Arcee has Aileron and Greenlight, Cyclonus has Tailgate and Paragon.

And this is funny because Arcee is queer rep one could kind of get (being the love interest in like 4 shows or whatever already), but Cyclonus is such a funny pick. You’re telling me the purple noble warrior guy from G1 who barely has any emotions is the gay one in both IDW runs?

…

Actually on second thought, I get it completely, that is not the look of a straight man. Carry on, folks.

[pluralsword]

Sorry everybody, had to do it. XD the joke is in the comic panel text if the meaning is unclear due to this being a variant of the meme format. Arcee sure has long days sometimes huh, glad she has determination, wisdom, trust, and love to get through it. If you're stumped check under the cut:

This is a variant of the Loss meme, the loss also being her and her family's long days

[pluralsword]

Since poly ships are rarepairs... we actually wrote stuff for ours! Day of Multiflame has the greenlight/arcee/aileron/anode/lug/lancer mostly together, in that fic its greenlight/arcee/aileron/lancer (romantic equivalent) and arcee/anode/lug (queer platonic equivalent, of course anode/lug is romantic) and while we write them with alien aesthetics they have a rich vocabulary for that parallel gender they are of course drawn on their gal iterations, and well, it probably surprises no one that the GAAALL ship will appear at the end of Addendum (An IDW1 Arcee novel fanfic) where they are gals (and in the case of e.g. Arcee, we also write her as polygender), but the fic does start with Arcee/Codexa which ends up being Arcee/Codexa/Shatter/Dropkick

Note- Arcee/Greenlight, Arcee/Aileron, Greenlight/Lancer, and Anode/Lug are canonical

femslash rarepairs save me

[mentallyunstable47]

Arcee Profile Picture

Below I share the art process, and then I explain some of my Arcee AU stuff. The AU info is after the WIP pictures if anyone wants to skip to that!

So the art gods possessed me and I’m back, this time with something I feel like I have the right to brag about…. IM SO PROUD OF THIS LOL?

Anywho, information on the piece! Of course, this is Arcee. It’s also my first time seriously drawing a humanoid side profile, but I can’t take all the credit. Hours spend scrolling Pinterest for side profile references was a HUGE help, and I wish I could credit all the artists—but Pinterest isn't exactly known for images posted directly by the original artists.

I don't draw painted styles very often, but man it was fun. I tried to make her look more metallic since I struggle with that… didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped. But it’s fine because the painted style still comes through really well.

This drawing took 8 hours 30 minutes, and was done in two sittings. First I got the outline done, then I went to sleep, and then I accidentally spent my entire morning drawing the next day. Whoopsies! Worth it. As a commission, something like this would cost $28 or two months of Discord Nitro + three months of Nitro Basic.

Aaand now some WIP shots.

And, finally, my Transformers AU information! My AU is very early in the making, so my canon profiles won't be featuring original characters. When I get around to making OC profiles, their info will likely contradict my canon profiles. Just think of it as two separate universes: one with OCs, one without.

Anywho, we’re here for Arcee. Specifically, I will be going over her relationships:

Mentor: Megatronus Prime (DECEASED) -> Ultra Magnus

Conjux Endura: Greenlight (DECEASED) -> Aileron (DECEASED) -> Mirage

Amica Endura: Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime

Binary Bond: Daniel Witwicky

Siblings: Galvatron

Mentee: Gauge

Rival: Airachnid

Perceived Siblings: Elita-One & Chromia

Former Love Interests: Springer & Chromedome (Chrome liked her, but she did not like him)

Partners: June Darby & Cliffjumper

Notable Friends: Moonracer, Hot Shot, Kup, Bulkhead, Ratchet, Verity Carlo, Sunstreaker, Grimlock, Wheeljack, Swoop, Delta Magnus, Maccadam, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, & Jetfire.

Yeah… it’s safe to say that she isn't lucky in the lover department. Arcee has been canonically hinted to be in so many relationships, it only seemed fitting to make that canon in my AU. But I had to do something semi-unique, so after the war, she ended up with Mirage.

If anyone is interested in how these relationships work and their dynamics, just ask me!

Thanks for reading, have a good rest of your day/evening/night. 🫶

[thenamesblurrito]

here's an assortment of guys, some SNAP counterparts to AutoAca characters by @stonecrusherproductions, for part of an art trade

this isn't Hot Shot's first time off Caminus. he's gone on a few trips to Velocitron to see the races and even stopped by Devisiun once to visit family, but he's never been to Cybertron before! he's more interested in exploring the streets, hanging out with friends like Lightbright, or snacking on JaAm than completing homework, but he can usually speed through it at the last second. the JAAT is the perfect school in his mind, giving him extracurricular opportunities like sports so he can burn off some of his high energy. it's certainly a relief to his roommates Aileron, Stardrive, Quickstrike, and Maxima when he's no longer bouncing off the walls!

Lightbright is so excited, she's never left Caminus before, and oh isn't Cybertron lovely? what a wonderful school she gets to attend! and what delightful people she's gotten to befriend, like Sparkstalker! most of her roommates are lovely, but even she gets irritated by Sentinel sometimes. she's also fascinated by the heroes running around, and sometimes she and Hot Shot will procrastinate their work just to watch the supernatural drama unfolding. the only thing she's disappointed by is the lack of easy access to bodies of water, as she grew up near one of Caminus's seas and often took a relaxing swim in her submersible hovercraft alt mode

it's only a matter of time before Glyph tries camping out in the JAAT library again, despite how often Alpha Trion has chased her off before. her home in Polyhex never had this much information freely available to someone like her! when she first passed the exams, she agonized over whether she should attend the JAAT or elect to take part in an exchange program to a colony planet like her friends Lancer and Greenlight, but she's glad of her decision now. there's so much to learn here! it's easier to stick with data than meet new people thanks to her shyness around strangers. she'll even avoid her roommates Quickslinger, Sunder, Vortex, and Sceptre, but she thinks she can count fellow student Tap-Out as a friend now, probably?

Side Burn doesn't even remember taking the exams, but somebody told him he passed, so here he is! and wow, what a cool Academy this place is! it gets him a front row seat to awesome hero beatdowns and brawls, what's not to love? his grades have been, uh, bad, but that's fine, the counselor says he probably has some mental thing that makes it hard to focus, so it can't be his fault. he's too busy ogling all his gorgeous scarlet classmates to care about whatever the teachers are saying, no matter the fact they're offput by his juvenile antics and sometimes the odd look of his prosthetic left optic. while coming all the way from the Overdrive Compact in Rodion might be a bit disconcerting to most, to him it's just another place to rise and grind

(Lightbright has a tail but she's not a beastformer! tails are somewhat normal for mecha like four arms or a centaur body, i just realized i've forgotten to give them to anybody except beastformers... so uh. i'll try to remember in the future oops)

[yumyumsteak]

have you seen arcee and her gf from the comics? :3

i only know aileron from IDW1 and her being a mom with greenlight in IDW2 (which i never finished since it was around that time i lost interest in TF😭)… but i think they should give arcee a gf in every continuity heheh

(i actually haven’t GAL-fied arcee yet.. actually haven’t GAL-fied most of my favorite characters)

[askarcanamagnus]

Arcana Magnus: hi yes this is the art we're using for our ask-blog indeed! Please feel free to ask us things-

Danielle Witwicky: we look so pretty and dashing, such a good likeness. I love you-

Arcana Magnus: love you too darling *hug*

Danielle Witwicky: So, some of you may be wondering about our story... I'll tell a little bit about two of me (this is not canon information although much of this first paragraph is): the emotional and sweet gunslinging kid you might know from the Sunbow cartoon telling of the tale as Daniel (I don't mind people using that name for me I just also use Danielle both make me happy and are ones I associate with my galness) was seriously injured in 2007 CE when I (there will be some continuity slips in the gestalt that's why I'm using I here) was seriously injured helping Arcee fight Snapdragon. What with the opportunity to use headmaster technology thanks to the Nebulan resistance, Arcee volunteered to have her systems be used as life support for me- her head reconfigured to be able to transform into an exosuit for me, so we had a binary bond, working closely together, building on the sweet mentoring trust she had already given me previously, and proving quite the effective duo in combat.

With everything we went through risking body and mind to help save the world, and still sharing our bond after as we helped rebuild Nebulos and looked after the future of Earth and Cybertron... by the time 2008 rolled around, I was fifteen, and had a sort of hybrid education with some formal actual Earth schooling while the rest was Cybertronian education, and well, informally, learning from Arcee every day of my life thereafter.

Her prowess, her sweetness, the power she wielded from who she had made herself, her attentive outspoken demeanor that situated us as the right hand of Optimus Prime and set part of my life on the path of a warrior sage, all amazed me, all things I wanted in the way she did it that I had not known I had longed for. When we first met the other Solus Shield resistance fighters besides Chromia, that is, Elita One, Moonracer, Firestar, and the adorable couple Greenlight and Lancer whom Arcee was enamored with, I realized that... I wanted to be a gal, or knew myself as one from then on. Cybertron's history of ever transforming gender was one I found deep comfort in, and so, though it wasn't so easy back in 2008 (and in the 2023 CE we are posting this there are still many barriers including transmedicalizations), I started hormone replacement therapy, something that Arcee, to her amusement, experienced through her connection to me and my body. Her happiness for me is a joy that I cherish deeply, and it is a loop, for at this point, she is me, and I am her.

The two in the picture above though- somewhat different situation. That Danielle is a cyborg, for one. She er, wanted more of the metal framework in terms of bodily experience. Arcee, if you want to-

"Zoomy" Arcana Magnus: I do, I'll tell the rest. I grew up on a Cybertron where, though we had some conflicts from time to time, aesthetics of self and community was deeply celebrated as everyday and remarkable. Our first word for something like what many of you know as gender was sparktion, that is, of the spark, sparklike, since we saw it as something one tries to figure out from the soul and contextualize from lived experience and creativity, but can't ever fully know. For me- that meant eventually realizing I wanted a different frame than that I shared with my dear brother and fellow Autobot Galvatron, wanting to still ahve a robust shape but have more of a slope and curve, to have two lovely back stacks with wheels- to feel a graceful rush to my movements and thoughts and life realized through reshaping my body. My words for this sparktion to me are zoomdare. There are some parallels and overlaps with galness- but it is not the same.

I designed and forged the parts I would add to my body by hand. I couldn't do the surgery myself, but my grandmentors Solus Prime and Amalgamous did, and apart from sensory side effects (that for me only lasted a few weeks) not unlike what humans can experience from HRT or surgery, I was deeply glad with my form, and it gave me so much happiness that helped me find balance in life apart from studying wisdom and practicing it and having a community and health resources to turn to. There are other parts of the story to tell- but, regarding Danielle... I was about 200 years old when we made contact with humanity in the early history of transformer originated society. Human bodied folk were in their 2800s CE, and had made new homes on other star systems, like Gliese Exiom, where I met Danielle in her fifties, a mechatronic engineer who had long studied the history of gals and gender expansive folk at war, peace, and revolution, and read quite a bit of fiction in that regard but hadn't really found an answer to their gender stuff and had left that be. As part of a diplomatic bonding program, they and I both volunteered to binary bond-

it was initially dysphoric, for me. Her gender stuff, though rapidly exploding with epiphany and euphoria from contact with me, was not something I was used to, the way she thought about things and all the implications and history gender carried good and bad. It was too much. I could see why she with contact with my mind realized xenogender stuff in relation to my zoomdareness. She felt lonely in that too, even though patriarchy and empire had been dead for her species for the last two centuries.

So, for a while, she kept her stuff from me in our mental link and cyborg patching when they was inside my head, and I stayed an open door. But, eventually, I came to know galness another way that was euphoric to me- Earth vehicles. I took up another reformat from combining the designs of two such sport and muscle cars- and now we share freely with each other.

I helped her raise a family with the Nebulan jixurque (an aesthetic we'll have to tell you about sometime) Llyra, and the two helped me, Aileron, Lancer, Greenlight, Anode, and Lug to raise Gauge and Sideswipe II. We have fought Neofunctionists, Unicronists, and Decepticons, and took part in the aesthetic Autobot Revolution. We do our own things separately sometimes but it's rare now. I don't know what I would do if I lost her the way I've lost Hardhead and Sideswipe and Kup-

"Prof" Arcee: hey, you okay? If you need to talk, I'm always here, you know I know how loss feels, how I felt when I thought Anode and Lug were dead, when I thought I was alone.

"Zoomy" Arcana Magnus: I'll be okay, thank you though. Maybe we should talk, because the thought scares me.

Danielle is- one of the dearest people in my life. I don't know how to say, to phrase, the kind of love I feel for her. It is a deep kinship but even that is an understatement.

Also yes she's a sword sapphic/lesbian apart from sharing my mutuality but I think that was fairly obvious

Danielle Witwicky: harhar, what gave it away, emulating you?

Arcees: Hahahahaha!

Greenlight: why are y'all so cute

Aileron: why are you

Greenlight: did you just no u me

Aileron: *smooch*

Greenlight: I guess that's more of a yes and

Arcees: talk about cute...

Aileron: hehe y'all are next

Commission for @pluralsword !

It was an absolute delight to draw their version of Danielle and Arcee! Check out their RP blog!

I still have commissions open! My patreon, Ko-fi if you are interested in seeing how this art work was made, or want a high res version of this drawing!

[mudhound]

Shout out to public libraries for letting me get this printed!

“Girl Out!” Will be available at TFCon Baltimore in just over a week!

[tfrarepairing]

How do you feel about rare polyamory pairings? not necessarily for us since we already write them, but we don't know anyone else who actually has released stuff on Greenlight/Aileron/Anode/Arcee/Lug/Lancer or Greenlight/Aileron/Arcee/Lancer. we're probably just going to do some very rare ships like Libras/Solus Prime or if we're really feeling like dipping into what we've already written, Rosanna/Flamewar or Arcee/Codexa (maybe Arcee/Shatter but that will take a lot of spoons to write) or maybe Pyra/Rust Dust.

oo also? humans? e.g. Marissa Faireborn/Ayana Jones?

tysm, it was so fun to write for this last year <3

Polyam ships are A-Okay! We love threesomes/foursomes/moresomes around here! All of those sound amazing and fun and I can't wait to see some!

Aw, thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed last year and I'm so glad you're back!

[pluralsword]

little bit of personal stuff about us, 1st encounter with "Kilroy was here" in either in stuff about World War II or in Calvin & Hobbes when Calvin made a giant snowman one. Kids in school would draw Kilroys, & our maternal grandpa drew them for mom when she was young. Realized yesterday that the spelling of Aileron's name was perfect for doing a transformer equivalent and so naturally the first continuity we put "Aileroy was here" in was IDW2019 (we will be doing more). We chose this continuity both because of what the Autobots and Decepticons' opposed ideologies were and fought over, and because its nice to think that Greenlight or Arcee drew her because they knew her well, or that their mentee Gauge was thinking of her or she had become memetic among the Autobots in a good way. The issue the art we graffitied on is from IDW2's Transformers #40 btw, we will be doing more in other continuities and invite people to do this iteration of an over 80 years old meme themselves in other things!

AILEROY

WAS

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