#transformers super link

[hozcar]

"Be lost no more, your world is in my hands! Return everything to nothing; you don't need your name nor your memories, those who built you, those who stablished you... THEY'RE ALL WORTHLESS!"

[beforethestory]

"…Nightscream studied, observed, and rediscovered the world; on that face was one of the most lively smiles Alexa had ever seen… but she couldn't smile herself: it was all alien, and too wrong to smile back without pain."

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hooray-hooray for sudden sketches and pieces of text from unfinished fanfiction!!

[aldormu]

Collaboration with @pelmeshekjacki "If you want, you can lean on me." After thinking for a decent amount of time over the Autobot's proposal, the seeker cautiously, incredulously took two steps towards him. The pain from the injuries after the fall passed through the entire body with every movement, but Nightscream did not show that it brought him any discomfort. He's a warrior. Just as the Decepticon wanted to say "I don't need it!", he was swayed to the side again. The absence of a wing and, as a result, the lack of balance played a cruel joke with the seeker, but Nightscream was able to stand on his feet. Con's frown somewhat strained him, but Hot Shot only patiently waited until the Decepticon decided and gave an answer to his proposal.

"Thank you…" squeaked Nightscream, though gratefully, clinging to the Autobot's shoulder like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He didn't know the Hot Shot's further plans, so he stared expectantly into its optics. From this distance, he finally saw not a blurry blue-yellow-red spot, but a clear faceplate.

Nodding uncertainly, and then looking eye to eye for a couple of seconds, the autobot averted his gaze and helped the seeker to throw his arm over his shoulders, and then stretched out his palm behind his back. It will be easier to walk this way. But if Nightscream leans a little harder.. it will be problematic to lead.

Hot Shot will cope. They'll do it together.

[simeonscott]

The Glory of a New Day.

[madcoincidence]

Related to this beauty of a post. Thank you @sightseertrespasser and @keferon for sharing the angst and fluff moment with me!

[beheamothscreamoth]

Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O

For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')

[mjrino]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers One (2024) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Orion Pax Characters: Orion Pax, Optimus Prime, Megatron (Transformers), Bumblebee (Transformers), Elita One (Transformers), Sentinel Prime (Transformers) Additional Tags: Time Loop, Time Travel, Fix-It of Sorts, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, eventually, Alternate Universe, possible pnp at some point?, Rating May Change, Eventual Happy Ending, FLUFF EVENTUALLY, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Non-Linear Narrative, No Beta We Die Like Sentinel, Slow Burn, Unreliable Narrator Summary:

—and Orion opens them.

It keeps happening. The switch between frames becomes expected, and revolution and pain and betrayal becomes familiar. Recursion after recursion, iteration after iteration. Neverending.

And [Orion/Optimus/Whoever-He-Is-Now] just wants to be free.

But every single fragging time, Optimus closes his eyes—

[fauvester]

uh oh! triggered some phantom trauma! (dannymanny iteration (c) nicktoonsunite)

[the-internet-things]

The Curse: obsessed with this one semi-obscure guy

[hozcar]

A funny story about this drawing is that in the middle of the process I got mad-sick, I had dengue and ended up in the hospital for days because of two seizures. When I came back, I finished this piece, so now that I look at it I always think about that!

[beforethestory]

a set of very different sketches-almost-without-context from the very different AU that I have at all

[lusias-posts]

[simeonscott]

The Power of Energon.

[cutiekelley]

kay but

what dirt does he have on Wolfie?? 😭😭😭

[theneptuneflytrap]

Everybody, meet my daughter Alpha Q <3 <3

[siphersaysstuff]

ENERGON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

February's Patreon @tfwiki pic update is on 2004's ENERGON, the awkward middle child of the Unicron Trilogy. Caught in the early stage of explosive franchise growth and pulled in too many directions. But there's good stuff in there. ROADBLOCK remains a solid, fun toy, turning from robot to crane-truck to heavily-armed half of a two-robot combiner.

The Autobots' two-bot-combiners gimmick was certainly an interesting attempt, but TOW-LINE really took the gimmick to more interesting places than most. He's his own combiner, with the lower half of his vehicle mode turning into a mobile battle-sled-thing separate from his robot mode.

Store exclusives were rare in Armada, but by Energon, Hasbro was ready to start pumping them out again, and boy did they. CHECKPOINT, a rededo of Rodimus, came in a Kmart "SWAT" 2-pack with a similarly deco'd Prowl. Back when Kmart was still a thing.

The Decepticons, rather than combining, got "hyper modes" and alternate vehicle modes that deployed more weapons. SIX SHOT, a redeco of Shockblast, is one of the better attempts, having a considerably-different "satellite" mode on top of his space-tank altmode.

Oh lawd he comin. OMEGA SENTINEL, a redeco of Omega Supreme, splits into a "construction vehicle" and "cruiser", each with a "platform" mode. The two can also join to for a "Cybertronian Armored Supertrain" but that wouldn't fit in the lightbox. Plus he can merge with Optimus Prime! Okay mainly he's a suit Prime wears, but there's attachment points for all of Prime's drone-vehicles as well.

With the franchise taking off, Hasbro looked to fill out Energon with more stuff. This Deluxe version of the Mini-Con HIGH WIRE came with a figure of human ally Kicker, rendered in the style of the then-current G.I.Joe toys. This set seemingly was not engineered by Takara, and it kinda shows.

Speaking of... oof. This set. Not to editorialize too much, but... the MEGA-DINOBOT set of GRIMLOCK and SWOOP is... well. Bad. Originally intended for the Universe line, it got shuffled into Energon, and similarly wasn't engineered by Takara. The result is a floppy, awkward mess. One of the very, very few Transformers toys in its 40-year run I'd call "bad".

(Also... yes, I re-did the Grimlock pic. Back in October, I used archive imagery for that update because, frankly, I'd forgotten I still owned this set. Upon discovery, I decided to redo the pic so it's crisper and better positioned. Still not a good toy though.)

Mind you... it's not like things were all roses on the other hemisphere. Takara made SL GRAND CONVOY, a smaller version of Optimus Prime without any of the good points of the larger figure. What IS that torso mode?! (This is the shinier "SL Grand Convoy & Kicker" 2-pack version. And it broke. Super-tight ankle joints made from clear-plastic? A recipe for disaster.)

Didn't mean to end on a down note. Here, have a pic of one of the line's absolute highlights, the Omnicons and Terrorcons, and their buildable energon weapons.

Energon was kind of all over the map, trying a lot and maybe lacking a strong cohesive theme because of it. Some damn good stuff, but also some genuine misses.

If you enjoy these runs through Transformers toy history, please consider tossing a coin into my Patreon ("gregstfwikipics" at patreon dot com). More support means I can devote more time to bigger updates with more images each month. There's still loads to do!