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(everybody's talkin' 'bout) Pop Muzik by Random_Rodent
Fandoms: The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One)
23 Jun 2026
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A collection of semi-connected short stories exploring the physical effects of music on Cybertronians, and the cultural effects of the same.
Chapter 1: It's the day after "Auto-Bop" and Raoul has some questions.
Chapter 2: Scenes from the life of Jazz, relating to music, Blaster, and Soundwave.
Chapter 3: Blaster and Soundwave have a musical duel.Bookmarked by IndoorKitty
23 Jun 2026
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It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.
The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.
So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…
Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.
Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.
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- Part 2 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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19 Jun 2026
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Hot Rod wonders if he's cursed by something he did in a previous life. Normal mechs don’t have to deal with the slag he gets put through—namely getting stranded on a Quintesson-occupied planet with no means of contacting home, encountering strange, mutilated Cybertronians seemingly built just to kill Quints, and being ordered to babysit said strange, mutilated Cybertronians.
All of this is to say that everything currently wrong with Hot Rod’s life can be attributed to the stray that followed him home: one maybe-empurata victim calling himself “Thunderclash”.
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Before the Kaiju came to Earth, Thunderclash used to dream of being an astronaut, and after the longest two decades of his life, his boyhood dream has somehow come to fruition.
Sure, it’s been a bit more fraught than he’d imagined as a kid—what with him piloting a mecha instead of a rocket, helping giant robotic aliens fight off Kaiju, and dealing with a language barrier that has resulted in said aliens mistaking him for being one of them—but Thunderclash wouldn't give it up for the world.
Besides, with Hot Rod guiding him through these unfamiliar stars, Thunderclash thinks that everything'll turn out fine.
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19 Jun 2026
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Cybertronians as Higher Dimensional Entities by Seedy_Pomegranate
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
16 May 2026
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*WARNING* This is a discussion applying actual real-life science and mathematical concepts (non-rigorously) to the lore of car-robot-toy-aliens.
There are many abilities and attributes specific to Cybertronians that have no physical justification including transformation, size changing, teleportation through warping and spacebridges, their longevity, and the nature of sparks, the Allspark and the matrix.
By conceptualising Cybertronians as higher dimensional entities that primarily live in 3-dimensional space, these abilities and attributes can be explained by a topological model that is consistent with their physiology, reflects their theological beliefs, and even unifies continuities.Bookmarked by IndoorKitty
14 Jun 2026
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Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.
Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.
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22 May 2026