Callously Callum

I've been thinking about this skybound canon divergent AU for a long time which is WHAT IF Megatron and Optimus fell into Earth together, got captured by the Cobra-la, and escaped together through cooperation.

Like instead of Lazerbeak being Megatron's eyes, what if it had been Optimus? Co-dependency oh yes oh yes... Very toxic, but they'll get around! Your red eyes through mine, and blues in yours.

── . i joined the Russian TF ASK community to get the role of Starscream. i immediately drew my welcome post.

Q: What did you do to become second in command?

── . My response within the Russian TF ASK community ✶⋆.˚

How to stop your friend(yea) from doing something you disagree with ?

❌ - tell them not to be like the one they despise

✅ - smooch them hard enough to leave scratches out of blue

I'm still alive I swear 😭 Half a year after the first part, I finally finished the second :,,,, )

have a problem with is not

paying your dentist.

effective than any meds

I’ve ever taken

My crack ship commission vol.2(vol.1 is sg if anyone wants to know😵

Drift designed and drawn by talented Abyss❤️‍🔥

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

so like for idw1, arcee, lug, and anode, theyre all trans women, but in this understanding, it would be like, theres the...lets pick an arbitrary number rn and say like. five. the five basic cybertronian genders right. so arcee appears comfortable with her land vehicle gender. but she was Not comfortable with the secondary classification, oooh actually it would be really interesting if for their cybertronian glyphs, lets say that theres like the unisex pronoun (which gets filtered through their translator as 'he' instead of 'they' to english-speaking humans for some reason, probably because its singular and the translator isnt amazing) but then theres the subglyph spoken beneath it at the same time that is associated with their alt mode. so with arcee, were it translated literally, someone referring to her pre-transition mightve ended up with a sentence like 'his [sport-land-vehicle] paint job is pink and white'. and her discomfort wouldve come with the unisex first pronoun, and not the secondary pronoun. the only reason the unisex first pronoun would come first/be spoken on top of the alt-mode pronoun in the vocabulary i think is for when they dont know the alt mode of a character, which has interesting implications for rung in this hc.

then for a character like starscream, who struggles with body dysmorphia in idw1 but doesnt seem to have gender qualms despite the storyline having the trans allegory, it would be because in-universe, his gender struggles are associated with his alt mode and not the unisex assigned pronoun! going by how sick with despair he gets at not being the huge shuttle-like flying vehicle that his 'true form' seemed to be (though im not sure if it was only huge because of the mindspace 🤔) then id definitely guess there would also be some sort of distinction from size. theres the argument that he isnt experiencing any gender dysphoria and its singularly body dysmorphia, which is probably whats Canonically happening in-universe, but i find the trans allegory interesting and i like this cybertronian gender hc too much to not weave it in. so starscream would be the opposite of arcee and lug and anode in this situation.

for the different frame structures, like the ones that look more humanly 'masculine' or humanly 'feminine' or the ones that dont really reflect human body types at all, i think that would depend on continuity, but generally id like to see it as just a random difference that isnt really associated with which bots would prefer to diverge from the unisex pronoun. both ways, too. since the unisex pronoun would really be more like how english speakers use 'they', it is kinda funny to imagine a transformer who is very specifically a trans man and to his human friends is like 'ive decided that i align more with the male gender, like you humans have!!' and theyre like 'well wed offer to use different pronouns for you, but you already use he...?' and thats how they find out that the translators kinda suck 💀

Seeing as functionism is used as an allegory for different issues that we have, having pronouns that reflect that separation. Different jobs would be treated better and the way you’d speak of or to another person would signal where you stand in the societal hierarchy. Which would also come with all the problems and prejudice accompanying it.

Also adding to that! (Robots is bugs and i am a big hater of making aliens having “girl aliens” and “boy aliens”, i beg you, there are so many options there) I feel like at least in the golden ages of classicism (read: functionism) Identifying with your role would be extremely important. “All a cog in a machine” type of deal except way more. I think the functionism universe in idw05 shows it most blatantly with everything in there.

I had ideas of singular pronouns also automatically signaling to other people who you are, what you do. All that, that I think would change while The Civil War was going on, recognizing the biased language I think most would simply use a “warrior” pronoun or something similar. To make everyone “eaqual” i suppose, though that would again alienate any neutrals that have stuck with the pre-war pronouns (and isn’t that a fun thing to also think about Cybertronian culture splitting with the milion year old war? There are so many ideas i cant get into rn, id write a novel)

Talking mostly about IDW1 here, and trans characters that are seen there, I could see some adapting organic “genders” to further distance themselves from the functionist language. And also to express oneself.