#transformers: lost and found

[kekii118]

newest obsession is @madamadamiu’s lost light cat shelter au

[disformer]

ITS BEEN SO LONG!!! Posting what I’ve finished from the Texaid comic I’d been chipping away at in my free time :,)

Atm i’m not sure if id be comfortable finishing this or posting the unfinished pages, and i’ll go into why a bit more under the cut, but for everyone who waited… thank you, you are so patient like the cobra 🥺🫶

Texaid is so beloved and important to me, and i don’t think that’s news to anyone who’s followed me for any length of time. I always come back to them, and even leaving a project like this on hiatus for so long I still felt pretty comfortable leaving this on the burner bc I knew I’d be back.

And with my work sometimes I do have to take fandom hiatus breaks! But I got a slightly confused dm from a friend at one point that said ‘hey man, did you know everyone’s crediting your designs to someone else in the fandom’ and ???? it was true!

And I know how obnoxious it is to see an artist get on their diva shit and claim design elements, but it’s important to know that, at the time, I was one of like three people posting texaid, and the other two were Japanese artists on twitter.

My redesign has my fingerprints all over it; those big circular rotaries on his shoulders? A mistake! I got my references mixed up at one point and just kept rolling with it because it was funny! His pointy teeth and nose and boots and fingers and eyebrows? I’m bad at squares! I was doing everything in my power to avoid drawing squares!

And people have asked if they can use my redesigns in their own au’s in the past, and i’ve always said no (especially in regards to texaid) and that’s because they’re personal to me. My vision of Texaid is something I projected a lot of my own personal romantic past onto, they were my first nsfw art, my first real emotional outlet after getting kicked out of home for being trans and was starving in a flop basement. Vortex’s design was cooked up out of the primordial soup of my brain at a time when I was at my most raw. Texaid doesn’t belong to me, but i redesigned them for a reason, and that was to distinguish the fact I was representing something personal.

So to come back to the fandom and see my boys and the dynamic i drew with the serial numbers filed off, with zero acknowledgement of my influence or even crediting another artist entirely… I feel really bloody hurt. Especially after watching the way this fandom viciously ran off an artist of colour for much less prolific art theft.

It kind of feels like y’all don’t care as long as you like the content. And idk if i want to keep posting in a space like that, where my niche vent art gets repackaged into something more marketable, and I go unacknowledged.

So yeah, might be the last time I post my texaid stuff publicly! If they’re that important to me and I get this upset when theyre cribbed, and if i feel like yall can’t rly be trusted, then Im just gonna keep it in dms with besties. Thanks for hearing me out xoxox

[ihatebrainstorm]

Late night Brainstorm grief thoughts...

[neonre86]

This whole chapter killed me inside. Seeing one of my favorite bots Cyclonus in utter sadness because of the break up, reacting with anger.

Then these panels of Whirl comforting him. My heart. 😭

[sofonn]

I LOVE THE CREW I LO- (Im only on 20th episode but feel free to tag spoiler things I love spoilers)

[blighted-lights]

posting this one again just because i can and i still really like how rodimus' face came out. your honor they are friends (<- cannot be in the same room together for more than a few minutes before arguing)

i drew ravage so comfy looking,, he's a heat thief and rodimus is a walking radiator, so.

[lmadsadness]

just woke up, half awake and started to draw wavewave (ship artist goals ig >_<)

Shockwave and his daughter, Ravage (based on my shockwave as a cat lover/dad rambling post)

[sundreary]

been going crazy mode (not doing homework)

[tf-animated-out-of-context]

[kalolasart]

Till all are one!

Captain Rodimus Prime of the Lost Light

He's so silly ^^

[transformers-synergize]

synergize mini update

first couple pages of synergize are illustrated/done. Not sure how long it will take for me to finish the first chapter since it's been a long time since I've done a comic, and those were released page by page, not chapter by chapter.

first two chapters of synergize have been nightmares to write, establishing the world, the characters, the basic lore, the main conflict/main plot while also trying to keep it toneally somewhat consistent with future chapters since this is a introduction and I dont want it to toneally clash to much with future chapter and give off a false impression of what synergize will be like. Beginnings are hard, but it's something I have to do to get to the plots/stories I actually want to write.

also, major thing, take everything posted on this blog with a huge grain of salt, the problem with writing, vs planning is things I originally thought would work, sometimes don't, or I come up with something better while writing, or dynamics change as I flesh them out more. I feel guilty for changing things I shared publicly, but as i writes things are bound to change hopefully for the better. The final say on what is truely canon is the comic. Many things on the blog are out of date or could possibly be changed in the future. (Mirage is no longer going to be a part of the starting cast, he's going to show up later, Smokescreen will fill his spot)

still won't be a ton of art for a while, since comic, so here's some ship design references I don't think I have shared yet

[avocado62524]

[kairukitsuneo]

Happy Birthday to Megatron (12/1) ‼️‼️

[antenanotaic3]

AU where Prowl (IDW) becomes a turbofox by the power of Lost Light's whackiness

the Constructicons are wearing ears to make him feel better; it backfired

Bonus(from back when he could still transform or smth; I just wanted to draw blood):

(ngl the alter kinda makes him look like rodimus lol

[starsha-k-luna]

So I’m currently on a Transformers Hyperfixation after watching Transformers One & I’m rewatching some Transformers Series I enjoy watching.

One of them is Transformers Botbots, I also looked at some of my favourite AU’s & Fanarts.

And that’s where I found a Botbots AU “Original Lost and Found” belonging to @capn-rikshu I just love the comics and fanart.

So I drew up a scene of the aftermath of Game Over rescuing Burgertron from being eating by Dave the Night Guard, then explaining what had happened to his friends Spud Muffin and Ulf. Spud Muffin is concerned Burgertron is hurt, Ulf either doesn’t care or is more concerned about Burgertron breaking the “Sacred Rule Of The Mall”.

I had to make up my own designs for Spud Muffin and Ulf because they didn’t have a character design in the au. I kept Spud Muffin’s around the same and just gave him a visor and changed up his helm design. And Ulf I made her slightly taller and bulkier, then I gave her some different boots as well.

Hope you like the Fanart @capn-rikshu

See you all next time👋

[paragonrobits]

I take 'Aligned Grimlock doesn't seem to actually less intelligent despite nearly 99 percent of his processor's energy being forcibly rewired into muscle power' and raise you 'that IS what is happening, but Grimlock is just so dang smart that he mostly suffers some mild speech issues despite functionally suffering a nearly complete lobotomy'