#fernacular

What the dick is quantum foam. Sounds like something you'd find at Lowes.

OKAY BUT THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME. Megatron is a poet, obviously there are playwrights and artists and shit, we know that functionalism is very very stupid, like Owl House Coven levels of stupid. But were there ever art bots. Poet bots. Is anyone's alt a typewriter. Or is it like in humans, where artistic expression like song, dance and art are behaviors that everyone can do.

"Anything can be replaced"

Yknow, one of the things I have enjoyed immensely about this comic is that the big ideological issues theyre having problems with are ridiculous. In a lot of media there's this "justified" oppression trope that @fernacular has a lot more interesting thoughts on--but the idea is more or less that sometimes the analogy the writers are trying to get at fails because the oppression is rooted in some kind of Real Reason. In Zootopia there is history between predators and prey in that predators DID used to eat prey. In DA, baby mages can explode into village eating nightmare demons at random, which justifies the local's fear of magic in general.

Here? All the stuff about constructed cold, forged, MTOs, functionalism--its as stupid as real-life racism, in that it's a made up story that is contradicted by reality. Here, its like, God made you a car or whatever, or a helicopter. You can't be anything else. In fact, it is a SIN to try to be!

And yET. ANYTHING can be replaced! And all of these bastards are so old, they've Ship of Theseus'ed themselves to hell and back. Anyone still alive. Its stupid on its face and thats with intention. Like the Horrors of War, this comic takes a grindingly real approach to concepts of the sacred, the profane, and the self.

I was talking to @polyhexian on the way to work today and another thing that popped up in this respect was the relationship these bots have to their sense of who they are. "Their bodies are so transitional. Anything can be replaced". And this is also a comic that, incredibly, about near mono gender asexual robots has a ton to say about things like rape, the sacred nature of the body vs its condition as worthless garbage--with both of those things being held in contention alongside each other.

Just like humans.

AFDLSJFKASJG OH COME ON YOU PEOPLE LIVE FOR MILLION OF YEARS--

Also, same though Nightbeat, Im always asking questions like this a;dsfjd;slgk

OH GOD OH SHIT OH GOD

WELL. SPEAKING OF IDENTITY AND THE SACRED--

This shit is breaking my heart T m T

ALKDFJLDKJASG

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS--

QUE THE FUCK??? EXCUSE??

I am unwell with the amount of like, soul breaking, bone dusting profound shit that this comic is packed with. Every time I have a moment to breathe from grief or awe or tender feelings they just throw out shit like this

Also, gotta love this is the bad episode where we see everyone's murdered bodies and also get lore--OH JEsus GOD

TARN IS GETTING SLOPPY YOU SAY okay youve crunched all my faves PUT THEM BAAACK

This was not on Rung's bingo card asdlf;sdiajg

Oh dear GOD

I HAVE QUESTIONS. QUESTIONS THAT DONT NEED ANSWERS. THE LAST HORRIBLE QUESTION ABOUT TRANSFORMERS I ASKED WAS WHERE GLIT CAME FROM AND NATE KINDLY SPARED ME BUT DEAR GOD

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen a "heroic" character yell at someone in anger, I'm going to remember this until I die. The way work is going, possibly even by face palm! Thanks Rod!

Yes yes blah blah, I know youre going to pardon Megatron, Optimus where are my ships and what have they been doing for the last six months

FADSG

Why is Swerve "let me be the one to tell Tailgate he's been displaced out of time"the one in charge of this panel

Also, Swerve, bring to the party!? Excuse me!!? The only thing the people on this god damn boat have brought to the party are DISORDERS

Oh okay this makes more sense

Eeeesh

Optimus, Rod...y'all. I know part of the joy of this comic is how messy it all is but there's something real weird to me about Optimus sitting in judgment of Megatron of all people. Like it makes sense that Rod's all, well, this:

But surely, SURELY Guys, there is a difference between symbolic and cruel? ALthough perhaps to a political, end, there can't be.

WEFJFASG WE ARE COPING I SEE

Chromedome...

They're all doing their best and their best is a goddamn disaster---ASDLAKSJG WHIRL NO

Whirl, there's no way you come out on top on this one in any way

Back to that symbolic/cruel thing I see. But also, Megatron more than anyone has the perspective to understand what Whirl was at the time (where I don't really see the same kind of wisdom in Whirl, who is better at perceiving other people's fears in what feels like an attempt to distract from his own) -- someone also at the end of a social rope with few options doing what he was told. Doesn't change it but, it is interesting. I'm very tired. I need to be more awake for this.