#trans hot rod

[pluralsword]

We mean every word of this meme, and it makes us so happy as a trans sapphic knight/sword lesbian to see these iterations from a different source (knights), it reminds us of the simultaneous invention phenomenon although this is more than several years after this talk in the transformers community really got rolling, so we think it’s more accurate to call it ‘parallel contextualization,’ that’s what we think it should be called anyway.

So since we were at this at midnight we didn’t do our due diligence and research, sure these are knight inspired but the pokemon wiki notes are pulling some game theory bs to suggest that they’re based on the stories like El Cid, which we didn’t realize was what was going on until this morning when a spanish trans woman in a server we’re on was like ????? ?Que? No tiene nada que ver con El Cid! So yeah we had to edit this.

ID the Pokemon Armarouge and Ceruledge standing next to each other on a black background, with text underneath in Arial:

TIL Pokemon Generation IX reinvented trans Rodimus & Arcee (likely via spanish tales of knights): where Armarouge's HRT is bestowal by favorable will of fair unity (the Matrix) taking things head on, while Ceruledge transforms in spite of the brutality of war & death (Cee's stories) becoming an expert killer with old pains who still finds a home & friends to fight for (the Poke team &/or other Pokemon). Nothing new under the sun, just new names & contexts. That's some trans aesthetics 101 <3 End ID.

It’s just extra funny to us that Ceruledge is closer in color scheme to stealth camo/combiner hunter Arcee (canonically trans) and a Ceruledge’s two swords literally are across the trans flag spectrum, and the description of swords absorbing leaking life energy of opponents fits into the vampire thing some people like for ‘Cee. Meanwhile Armarouge will shoot fire at you from their own body just like Hot Rod/Rodimus. For transformer fans who don’t know what we’re on about the G1 Hot Rod and IDW1 Rodimus pages should help show the story while IDW1 Arcee’s gets the most at we’re talking about but it’s really all there in ?Arcana Magnus to be (please she ought to get a Matrix)?’s page too. We don’t really have the time/energy to get into the Rodimus trans affirmation from bearing the Matrix discussion in IDW1 how happy Rodimus is with the Matrix in that is basically why aside from the original film’s literal transformation, while trans Arcees reformat one to five times to find their euphoria while tackling big questions of societal structure and love of oneself, sometimes starting and getting involved in a gender revolution or ending an imperial legacy and getting to hear one of the people responsible declare to her “let’s go lesbians!” before dying more or less.

Here’s the kicker: they’re both in part fire types (Arcee famously has fiery swords), and evolve from the same pokemon: Charcadet.Take this as a you can grow up into whatever knight of good cause you want if you find the wisdom and love to do so, and hey if figure out you’re trans on the way join the team lmao XD

For those looking for the Pokemon visuals, in depth physical descriptions of Armarouge and Ceruledge below, sourced from Bulbapedia:

Ceruledge is a bipedal, humanoid Pokémon. Its body is primarily black, with blue colorations on its head, arms and legs. Its head has sharp pale blue "ears" protruding from either side, and has a fire burning above it that resembles the plume on a knight's helmet. Its eyes have pink irises and wisps emanating from its white pupils. Almost all of Ceruledge's body is covered in an old dark purplish blue suit of armor, filled with grudges.[1] A plate with three pink indentations on its center covers Ceruledge's face. Instead of hands, Ceruledge wields purple-cyan blades created from both fire and ghost energy — specifically, the lingering regrets of the deceased. These blades can grow into great swords in battle, increasing Ceruledge's power in the process.

Armarouge is a bipedal, humanoid Pokémon. Its body is primarily black, with red colorations on its cylindrical legs and hands, the latter resembling oven mitts. Its head is also red, with yellow sharp "ears" protruding from either side. The top of its head is yellow and has a fire burning on top, resembling the plume on a knight's helmet. Its face is covered with a black mask with three holes at the center, and its eyes have red irises and wisps emanating from its yellow pupils. Armarouge's torso and shoulders are covered in a yellow suit of armor and levitating large yellow pauldrons, respectively. The suit of armor has red accents on it.

[bigboppa01]

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Cyberverse Hot Rod

[couldtransitionsaveher]

HOT ROD/RODIMUS PRIME from THE TRANSFORMERS (GENERATION 1)

JUSTIFICATION:

"hot rod is the takua of the tf franchise. i had to ask" - Anonymous

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[therodpod]

RIB15 au where instead of whatever is going on after Prime, Bumblebee ends up as the controversially young dad of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker (the terror twinsTM) after they’re kicked out out of another foster home and Strongarm, the self-proclaimed No.1 Ultra Magnus fangirl (her dream is to read the tyrest accord with him), and it fixes all of their problems

but most importantly and the real purpose of this crack post, Megatron gets an ‘unofficial’ redemption arc where he just turns into the kids’ crusty Peepaw who’s not really all that sorry about what he’s done

just like—Megatron: “I used to be the most feared mech in the galaxy. Planet’s colonies cowered upon hearing my name.”

Bee: “I’m sure Megs :/ but I gotta pick Sides up from practice and then we gotta drop off Sunny’s art project, and that means no one can get Strongarm from her dance lessons—“

Megatron: “I shall do it.”

Bee: “Really?? You’re the best!! Thanks:D.”

Megaton:

[pridewishes]

♔ || RODIMUS ICONS

250x250 || trans || bordered circle

like / rb + credit + read dni if using

requested by anon !!

[flyingsoup]

Four panels to go on my first pair of converses ever, got em for free for work. If you see this and have suggestions please tell me them, a lot of the doodles are suggestions from various places :33

[transingthoseformers]

In general i think a lot about Roddie and the Lambo twins but in transformers Prime

[nando161mando]

[redpencilcreations]

…:::well - I never thought I’d being drawing the Bandit. Thanks to a really cool new client 🤙😊 more to come _✍️

[minersedgarsart]

Old leader Rodimus Prime, she's tired.

[pluralsword]

Don’t think we’ve shared this here, but this is a joke comic rewrite of the Marvel UK issue “Peace”, retitled and rewritten “Pass” by wadapan and then dubbed by a bunch of us who were reading the G1 issues at the time. It contains many jokes, like Rodimus’s difficulty with dating, fart jokes, and Triton’s cred. We voiced Rodimus in this! So uh, trans Hot Rod everybody

[bigboppa01]

[stone-cold-groove]

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth T-Shirt art.

[couldtransitionsaveher]

HOT ROD / RODIMUS PRIME from TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE (IDW)

JUSTIFICATION:

"I feel like there’s something to say about masculinity and the primes, even though Cybertronians are technically sexless. Optimus Prime has always been a VERY masculine character throughout his existence (not in a bad way, just observing) and I think Rodimus taking his place and constantly being compared to him could be an interesting parallel to being trans. On top of that, there are canonical trans girl characters in the TF universe, and I don’t think we have any girl primes yet. So." - Anonymous

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[primal-con]

Got my mom to watch the '86 movie but in doing so became completely gripped with Arcee, Springer, and Hot Rod's powerful sibling energy, more at 5!