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written on december 18th, 2024 ; published on december 19th, 2024; proofread: NO ; stupid fact of the day: gay people are real

to preface: reading all* of tfidw in a month may have scrambled my memories just a little tiny bit, so there may be... incorrect information. do not take my word as law (although i doubt anyone was in the first place) and beware of spoilers!!! i relied on this and this reading list on my idw journey, switching to the second when the first just . dropped off in the middle, and i know the second also doesn't finish idw as well, i think it's all i can take for now

anyways. reading this continuity was an emotional rollercoaster- one with many lows, a few highs, and a fair amount of times i went "that isn't good." this is all stream-of-conciousness, by the way. it wouldn't be a certified sol blog if not! let's start with a classic: unordered list of my favorite characters off the top of my head. if you've met me even once, irl or in the discord server, i'm sure you can guess who i think of first.

• starscream, ex-mayor of vos (canon!) the most fascinating little guy imo... i keep thinking of his character arc (or lack therof) when im supposed to be going to sleep early (it is finals week) (i refuse to study). tee bee aech i am kind of disappointed with how his relationship with megatron turned out... okay i guess it went badly! how did this affect them?? it's brought up like thrice in the starscream-centric comics and like. five million years of abuse and he doesn't get closure? and his death made me go "what" because he literally just went selfish again and now he's not now that the gang's all back together? come on now. it is also possible all my analysis is empty prose, i am just a pretentious high schooler, etc.
• megatron, ex-miner. oh boy where do i even start with this guy. uhhh megastar beam go as previously mentioned i dislike how his and starscream's relationship is simplified so much when idw seems to expand on so many other aspects. like they managed to make megop of all things viable through The Conversation (i will never stop thinking about The Conversation) but no the guy and his second will never make any sense nooooo. i take great interest in how idw treats "redemption" honestly, especially with the fool's energon reveal. it was so obvious in hindsight and i feel like it did a lot for his character. ALSO him wanting to become a medic??? i need to lie down this makes. so much sense. lost light ending is so inch resting because what deos optimus think of this ?? (probably answered in the rest of idw which i have not read yet but what ever)
• misfire, ex... something. he is so silly. i love his relationship with the scavengers and although they're just side characters, i think he and the others kind of come into their own and get closer in the few issues where they're prominently featured. i haven't found any yet but a post-lost light miniseries of the scavengers' interactions' with megatron, ultra magnus, etc, would be super cool :D
  the reveal where he's actually kind of a good shot was so cathartic... you really showed em my boy

honorable mentions include windblade, knock out, and riptide, because i find them fun. the concept of cityspeaking is super cool tee bee aech, knock out was my second favorite character in transformers prime (the first tf media i consumed as a teenager after the bayverse movies) (guess who the first is), and honestly riptide is just neat. we need more shark characters in everything forever. thats my hot take of the day

crazy? i was crazy once. they locked me in a room. a room where megatron and starscream's relationship kept being as interesting in the rest of the comics as they were in all hail megatron. i can see why it's the recommended starting point (as someone who started before it) because it really is good and honestly it has the furthest-reaching implications in terms of the story at large.

genuinely still cannot get over the fact that they invented cybertronian gender for arcee and for arcee alone. this is like when i was a kid and thought there was something wrong with me because i didn't want to wear skirts. although i am happy that in mtmte/lost light the writers looked back and went "we should do something about this" and made, y'know, non-weird trans rep (anode and lug t4t lesbians!! yippee!!) also i will never shut up about how if bluestreak and cyclonus interacted with humans for more than an hour on a day where the universe doesn't hang in the balance they'd realize they r women; this is based on their holoforms being women despite presenting masculinely (for cybertronians, anyways) and using he/him pronouns. cyclonus is literally me though like imagine being so emotionally repressed you harm yourself instead of telling the person you care about how you feel 🤣🤣🤣

brainstorm is too silly to die

rodimus and brainstorm being br*t*sh is diss gustting... i cant believe the writers would validate br*ts like this... clearly thay dont deserve anything !! but tbh its cool how they slipped those little hints in :) accents are a bit hard to convey through plain text so i will be takning notes for the future

the decepticon justice division is immensely splinky and here's why

• tarn, who is weirdly affectionate with his crew at some times and kills them at others. mechs when they find themselves simply equal to that what they hated all along:
• THE PET. by god the pet i will NEVER stop thinking about the pet i will never RECOVER from the pet i will never stop wishing things turned out BETTER for the pet. falls over

anyways READ TRANSFORMERS!!! i know this was a Nothing Article but it's a solblog what did you expect