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grieving...... sorta

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Pharma’s Name

I’ve already compared Pharma’s design to the Angel of Death and his arc to that of Icarus.

But if I’m correct about Pharma’s name, Roberts and Milne’s mythological and historical references don’t stop there.

To start, there are the obvious explanations for the name (courtesy of TFwiki):

Then there’s the origin of “pharmaceutical”:

Now, phármakon (φάρμακον) can mean either ‘remedy’ or ‘poison,’ depending on the context. This duality is present in Pharma’s character too. For most of his life, he was an excellent doctor—one of Cybertron’s best. But what was once a remedy became a poison.

A similar word is pharmakós (φαρμακός):

Yes, you read that right.

“Delphi”

“unjustly tried and executed by the Delphians” and “thrown from a cliff”

Hey JRO…did you mean to imply Pharma was Tarn’s scapegoat?

Hey JRO…did you mean to imply Pharma was unjustly tried and executed?

Hey JRO…can you make Pharma any more tragic?!

(Nowhere has JRO said anything about being inspired by either pharmakón or pharmakós, but I strongly suspect he was at least inspired by the latter because the similarities are striking.)

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the art of malicious compliance

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would Megatron (G1) pay his child support?

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Make an effort/Make a difference

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BreakBee where, after everything is settled, Bumblebee realizes he really enjoyed his time as a mentor and shared the idea of having kids of their own to Breakdown, but he just can't consider the idea. Not after what happened to Aftermath.

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Pride flags colour-picked from that time Breakdown ran over Spike Witwicky

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MOONRACER MONDAY EVERYONE 

LETS GIVE IT UP FOR MOONRACER MONDAY

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Transformer Reforged: The Stunticons 🏁🏎

Each of them are supposed to represent a different type of motor sport! And MotorMaster is their hauler / boss.

Deadend is Nascar / stock car racing. Breakdown is street racing. Wildrider is demolition derby and Dragstrip is drag racing (funny car drag racing specifically)

Though they each represent a type of motor sport, they are not limited to that singular type. On Cybertron they all competed in various types of races together. On earth, they chose forms they felt came most naturally.

MotorMaster is still a work in progress. Trying to figure out how I want his alt mode to work and if his trailer becomes part of him so he doesn't have to just leave it around 🤔 meaning he'll be a pretty big fella! This is his full alt mode atm ⤵️ he carries the boys around.

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KOBD AU ideas I rotate in my head constantly and finally decided to write them down !

KOBD where they're both professional racers. They get closer to each other once they find out both go to illegal street races, not only because the professional scene doesn't fulfill their needs of rush, but a bit of extra money never hurts. Surely this won't affect their professional careers whatsoever.

Only Breakdown is a professional racer, and Knock Out is a member of Override's pit crew: the top one racer at the moment. The Stunticons are rising starts on the scene, but they get those wins at the cost of always making a mess of their cars, and with each race their pit crew starts giving up on them. Maybe they could really benefit from getting a certain mechanic famous for his skills to work for them.

The Stunticons have been getting more and more popular for every monster truck show they participate in. One of their many fans is Knock Out, a man who's been into the motor sports scene for years. In truth, he just really enjoys watching cars get destroyed (something he should keep a secret on his line of work), but that doesn't stop him from noticing one Stunticon in particular who he believes would rule the more professional leagues if used all the potential: DragStrip (yay!).

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yeah ok thanks

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Okay. While we're talking about EarthSpark S1 problems that have been made worse by S2. Why is Megatron special?

One of the weakest parts of EarthSpark for me has always been the fact that Megatron is the only Decepticon known to have defected. Later on, Cons like Breakdown, Tarantulas, and even Starscream added some nuance by showing them willing to risk themselves for non-Decepticons, though understandably, none of them were willing to defect at that point. But even though such Cons clearly existed, none of them defected along with Megatron, or at any other point during the war.

And Megatron's own defection was just... It's painfully obvious that he was developed to be a Good Guy and didn't have a lot of thought put into what he was like as a Decepticon. By his own admission and Starscream's assessment, he was a violent leader who ruled with fear, but all it took to make him change sides was... Seeing a human care more about his side than he did? That's it? And if that is why he changed sides, he clearly took the wrong lesson away from that, because he still doesn't care about what used to be his side. Instead of trying to do better by them, he abandons them. And then all he has to do to make Optimus trust him is... Scan an Earth altmode. Really.

It all feels very weak to me, and doesn't adequately explain anything. Did Megatron make any attempt to be a kinder leader, or did he just defect immediately after seeing the Error Of His Ways? How did we get from "damn, I don't care about my guys enough" to "my whole cause is corrupt, I'mma go now"? Did he ever try to use his position as leader of the freaking Decepticons to end the war peacefully or steer them onto a better path, or did he just wash his hands of them the moment he considered himself morally superior to them? If he did try to use his influence before bailing, how did he change so much so fast that none of his officers wanted to follow him anymore? Why did he give up on his entire faction and not bring any of the more open-minded Decepticons with him?

There are so many questions that either aren't answered or only get vague suggestions of what might have happened, and the answers we do get aren't enough for me to buy Megatron's redemption. It all feels too fast and too easy, and I do not understand why he could defect from the faction he led but less committed Decepticons just didn't.

And now all of these issues are worse than ever, because all the nuance the other Decepticons had is gone. Now it's just "Y'know, Decepticons. They're evil." Apparently not all of them, because Megatron is still hanging out with the Autobots, Con insignia and all! I ask again, why is Megatron special? Why does he get to change but all the others have to be flat and evil?

The real-world answer, of course, is that he never changed. He was conceived as a good person and ally to the Autobots, and that's how he's going to stay. But you cannot have a "Cons are just evil" story while the ex-leader of the Cons is walking freely in the Autobot base. Megatron's entire character is only possible with the assumption that Decepticons are capable of changing, and trying to revert to Cons Evil makes his redemption weaker than ever. Because it's so painfully obvious that he was written to be a good person and his dark history doesn't actually matter.

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a bit of pride themed doodling,,

(hcs/flags are largely just me being goofy dont take them too seriously)

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Hear me out, on how this means KOBD would gradually start a family and they would be the best parents ever.