Lo; also known as Mechanista. Likes fish, robots, necromancy, and long walks on the beach. An ardent and angry feminist, masculist, and humanist, and a self-identified progressive liberal pinko. Reblogs feminist and political things half the time, neat pictures, fanart, and science stuff half the time, and posts her own art, thoughts on art theory, mysticism, and feminism the other half the time.
Doer of Aquapunk.
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“I don’t understand why everyone draws/writes Transformers with penises. It doesn’t make sense, giant alien robots with giant penises/spikes. I prefer my mechs with ports and cables.”
None of TF makes sense
The fact that you’re trying amuses me greatly
descomic:
jeidekka:
“It always makes me laugh when yaoi fangirls say that there are slash pairings in Transformers that are “practically canon.” F.Y.I. No. There are not. There are no slash pairings that are even remotely canon in any Transformers show. You all are just taking their lines and actions WAY out of context. It’s a children’s show, not a gay soap opera.”
As if it ever stopped anybody lol
I don’t understand why people are always ‘ew slash’? I mean, the show itself wasn’t exactly a het soap opera to begin with either, considering the utter lack of female characters. The ratio was like 1:50. >_> Then again fandom had girls making female OCs left and right to even out the ratio and people go ‘ew female OCs!’ at them too. Maybe it’s the same problem because anything girls like is yucky. Not to mention the whole ugliness with assuming het is the default sexuality setting.
Which it IS because no one would dare to write LGBTQ characters in Transformers because fuck. 8D The writers would rather write Arcee being subjected to involuntary sex change procedures and declaring everyone ‘genderless’ (in spite of being drawn masculine and overwhelmingly using the male pronoun and ARCEE AGAIN) than just drawing more fembots or writing romance that isn’t het.
Fuck. Everything.
It’s mostly just funny watching them get panicky about needing to justify the shit they want to draw and write. “I make them gay because I want to” is cool. “BUT THEY TOTALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER IN THIS ONE SCENE THEREFORE I NOW HAVE A REASON TO GAY SHIP THEM BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE ONE BEFORE” just makes you look dumbbb.
First thing I thought of when I saw the new toy.
“Now, I can enjoy Mpreg any day of the week. But for some reason when authors make the child of two guys a girl, it pisses me off to no end. There are no female TFs. They’re all mechs and the first femme was transgender. Two apples don’t equal an orange, people, and I can’t get comfy with fucked up reproductive logic.”
HAHAHAHA fandom, you get your panties in the twist over the dumbest shit.
Also, in most continuities they’re genderless. gtfo.
eschergirls:
siphersaysstuff:
Oh man. While discussing with my friend Trent Troop an Eschergirls post regarding an egregiously-badly-missing-the-point humanized My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters pinup series, I recalled from so long ago this piece of art by Japanese Transformers artist/writer Hirofumi Ichikawa (colors by me), featuring a humanized cast of Beast Wars… the English-language version, that is. There’s another one I failed to save that shows humanized versions of the characters as portrayed in the Japanese dub, and it is… not flattering.
But I think it serves very well to counterpoint the difference in art goals here. Ichikawa’s humanizing focuses on the characters’ CHARACTERS. You can tell their character traits simply from pose and expression. There’s diversity… and, well, look at Airazor there, since this was spawned by human-girl versions of non-human female characters.
The MLP piece is all about BOOOOOBIIIEEEES. It’s giving the same “sexy” girl superficial differences that kinda recall the visuals of the characters, while completely missing that there’s you know, really strong, really pronounced and very different characters at the core of each. The only one that’s close to “right” is Pinkie Pie, and that almost feels like a coincidence.
Plus it misses the point of the show by light-years, which is “there’s no wrong way to be a girl, we’re all different and that’s awesome”, by making them all the same girl just with a different look.
Oy.
I didn’t make the MLP post to talk about the quality of the humanized MLPs, but it seems to have spurred on some discussion in the vein, and that the artist doesn’t really capture the characters, or their personalities and that he made them all white and fairly similar looking, especially given the diversity of the characters in the series. This led somebody to point me to their post, above and a counterpoint to humanizing non-human characters while capturing the characters and being diverse, and I wanted to share it because I think it’s worth reading.
Personally, as a HUGE HUGE HUGE Beast Wars fan (I literally cried as a kid when Dinobot died, I still cry >_>), I also wanted to post it just for that picture. I think it’s so amazing and really captures the characters. :D
HAHA OMG
Best human!TFs ever. EVER.
You know it’s a job well done when I look at that Dinobot and can’t see him saying anything but “Vermin…”
mechcanuck:
thetransformers:
Transformers The Ride
at the Staples Center
A giant laminate stuck to the side of the sports venue makes it look as if an 80-foot tall, 20-ton metal alien creature from the movie “Transformers” busted a hole through the building. The laminate will remain on Staples Center until Tuesday.
The stunt is meant to bring attention the opening of Transformers: The Ride 3D, an attraction that features the “autobot” and evil “decepticon” characters from director Michael Bay’s “Transformers” movies.
Ah good, backup for the Canucks has arrived.
The hell’d they do to that poor Sedin?