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Spinister is described as an "idiot savant" somewhere, I think maybe in a dramatis personae similarly to Misfire above. That's an old term for savant syndrome/autistic savant (the term is also applied to people with other intellectual disabilities). To me this is enough to consider Idw1 Spinister to be textually disabled. Although who knows if his whole deal is congenital or acquired.

my most pedantic bit of 'no that's NOT RIGHT' nitpicking re: idw is probably that every time someone misremembers 'the specimen' as referring to ostaros in Sins of the Wreckers i get unreasonably annoyed. i'm like NO that is how mesothulas/tarantulas refers to CYBERTRONIANS AS A SPECIES and their society and the war!! it's the thing where he sees them as a macroorganism used to indicate he doesn't view people as interesting as individuals!! and then i'm like 'this is a miniseries that came out like a decade ago i cannot be mad people don't remember that, probably' but i am. that's my toxic personality trait i get a Little mad every time. sorry

Tarantulas and Ostaros are a reverse Frankenstein story and I am completely series about this. I've spent a lot of time thinking/talking about the themes of Frankenstein for other projects and I think its such an important lens through which to see Sins of the Wreckers. Tarantulas' violation of the laws of nature (which isn't even supported as how you're supposed to read things in the text, Prowl describes Ostaros as an abomination, but Springer is just a normal guy) involves figuring out how to reproduce sexually. Tarantulas ends up bringing Cybertronians closer to nature, again the opposite of the major themes of Frankenstein about nature and its exploitation. And the most important part of that is that Tarantulas loves Ostaros to the point of madness, even more than his unconditional love for Prowl. Ostaros was given a name. Tarantulas chooses to die trying to embrace Springer. That is his son, created for the love of science as a craft.

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

Its not even a star fortress!

Peter the borris his here

Starscream is a chaser

Does anyone know if there are any confirmed canon aromantic or asexual transformers?

Ok but when you say "restorative justice" do you mean "hegemonic power structures need to provide ways for people who've done bad things to reintegrate into society" or do you mean "you, personally, someone with no hegemonic power whatsoever, need to keep forgiving people who've hurt you forever" because those are like. Pretty different.

Do you mean community as in "broad coalition of people united by some shared material interests" or do you mean "Discord server"

Drift ends up back on Lost Light high command because he’s the only person who can read Megatron’s atrocious handwriting

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not but now I’m fascinated with the concept of a robot having bad handwriting. Does he shorten all his glyphs into illegible squiggles like a doctor? Has he developed his own little abbreviated language he keeps forgetting nobody else knows? Has he not gotten around to re-coding his writing settings from Decepticon and now only people who know the grammar he keeps defaulting to can tell what he means? I want to know.

Oh I was being completely serious - according to Jro, Megatron has nearly illegible handwriting. Smeared together like a doctor’s handwriting, if I remember correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if half-formed thoughts and sentences where he interrupts himself are common too

Oh that's why he needed Terminus as a proofreader

IDW1 Soundwave is the character of all time. Autistic. Anarcho-communist. Believes in Primus but hates the Primes. Extorted Mark Zuckerberg to build him a commune orbiting Saturn. Loves elephants. His cat is his dad. Moved himself into Optimus Prime's house. Proved the objective existence of the afterlife. Has a GI Joe character as an honorary cassette. Class warfare is his speciality. Was in love with Megatron. Immediately switched his opinion on humans when he learned how to read organic thoughts. Turned his shitty boss into a cassette. His G1 cartoon speech pattern is a vocal tick for when he gets stressed.

Sebulba

Daily reminder that Drift is a total kook and Ratchet loves him anyway.

Whenever I’m blue I just imagine their homelife and how hilariously weird it must be sometimes and I just… smile.

Like, I don’t see post-LL domestic Drift reining in his weirdness at all. Ratchet gives him the love and security to do his thing and Drift just gets spookier and spookier, it’s great.

As a SkepticTM, Ratchet is so much stronger than me