#transformers idw 2005

[ang-900]

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It feels like I haven't drawn Sunstreaker in a while.

I apologize for the quality here, I'm not really proud of it. The computer I usually draw on decided to have an aneurysm (R.I.P. my WIP), and I am now using a Chromebook (ew) to draw. Ibis Paint X isn't bad, but on a Chromebook, everything feels immensely off. I wish I experimented with the brushes and pressure sensitivity more. I don't like how Sunstreaker turned out in this. He reminds me how my old art on a phone would look like. 😭

Below is a time lapse of the progress. I spent too much time on the line art, so you'll see me fixing Sunstreaker a bit - I may or may not have ignored the stabilizer, whoops. Originally I was going to draw his G1 form, but I decided for IDW instead. Then there'll be random lines here and there. That's me experimenting with different brushes (as I should've been) and the pressure sensitivity (finally). I'm new to ibis Paint.🥲

Where it looks like I'm doing nothing, that's me correcting minor colouring mistakes.

I hope to get the usual computer back. I miss drawing on an actual computer. (˚ㄥ_˚)

I realize I should've also made Sunstreaker and Bob's boxes larger.

[staijey-the-creator]

I wanna make a spoof on scratch but idk what characters to use

for context the audio is that tiny angry frog meme from a while ago. also this will help me practice drawing robots(depending on who wins, anyway), so double win for me :D

when i finish it after the poll is done, ill post a link here

[stinger-shot]

I dont know if anyone already answered your question about why thundercracker and skywarp look like starscream, but if no one has i am pleased to inform you that canonically (for idw 2005) they look like starscream because he wanted them to get frame changes to match him so he could use them as body doubles for tax evasion

And they agreed

HUH!? IS THIS TRUE!?

[jaybirdscoffee]

forever thinking about D-16’s “I want to kill him.” monologue. that initial line hit so hard. it was a line that made me think There He Is. because, yeah, that’s the megatron we know. that’s the megatron that worked in the mines, and when cybertron’s government turned its back on him, his rage won out. he devoted his life to something for nothing, for a world that didn’t give a damn about him. the story may have changed, but the essence of his origin is still there.

[wavesinereverse-blog]

so something that I’ve been on-and-off thinking about in relation to The Transformers

is that there’s never really been any deep consideration of how Cybertronian languages actually work in-universe, at least not from any official source

there are named languages, but they’re usually presented as glyph swaps of English or as untranslatable nonsense, with the ”Aliens Speaking English” trope in use for any conversation not explicitly intended to be in the ‘default’ Cybertronian language (Neocybex in the 2005 IDW comics, but usually not mentioned by name in other continuities)

like the deepest look at how Cybertronian languages work is from the 2005 IDW comics where some characters that were around in the planet’s distant past are still able to speak the language from that time (Cyclonus) or somehow only speak that version of the language (Vos’s whole thing in that regard doesn’t make a whole lot of sense without more context on how a presumably ‘recent’ Cybertronian would have been in a situation where they would only learn “Ancient Cybertronian”, but there is very little info on the past of any of the DJD members that aren’t Tarn or The Pet), and a sort of seeming analogue to sign language

[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

[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??!?!?!?

[wetsocksinbed]

Prowl: You have the right to remain silent

Hot Rod: I choose to wave that right

Hot Rod: *screams*

[dividedsingularity]

Prowl at various stages of anger. @happy-duckie all for you

[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