hellkitty posted a really interesting question about femmes, and how different fans interpret them. It got me thinking about my headcanon on Cybertronian reproduction and history more generally and I started to write it down. It, er, got very long. In fact it's a history of Cybertronian society from the Quintesson revolt to the Civil War from a reproductive perspective. oops. 

If anyone's interested I'd really love to hear what your head canon is for these issues!


I have multiple head canons. This is the one with no sexual reproduction.


The Quintessons established the basic Cybertronian frame, based on consumer preference, which was produced in factories. The main division was between the labourers and the soldiers who also had little chance to intermingle culturally before the revolt, with the result that Cybetron never quite managed to loose that fault line from their culture.

After the revolution one of the first things the former slaves did was seize the means of their own self reproduction. There was a huge desire to reject anything Quintesson which resulted in a lot of experimentation and a proliferation of new frame types and operating systems. A lot of infrastructure had been destroyed in the war as well so there was practical as well as ideological reasons for why the next several generations were hand crafted.

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OMG I was good, I was so so gooood, I didn't read any spoilers for the Transformers:Prime finale and the ending the ENDING!! There is karma.

*stuffs fingers in mouth and vibrates in glee*

Soooo... I've started playing with my tumblrs again. Which I mostly use for bookmarking pretty art of pretty robots so when I'm jonesing for a hit of, say, Perceptor, I can just hit the relevant tag and stare dreamily.

I have, er. Seven Tumblrs. Eight, counting my personal one. Its my need to sort things into categories showing.... If pretty pictures of giant robots are of interest to anyone my tumblrs are


happyclanging.tumblr.com - Transformers ships. Mostly (but not entirely) non-explicit, and also a lot of stuff that could be gen friendship just as easily, or more probably, and also stuff like Soundwave and his cassettes where its more about the relationship than the ship but I stamped on my fingers before I could make another tumblr XD Mostly art exploring the relationships between transformers whether romantic or not.

girlscanberobots.tumblr.com - All Femmes, all continuities, all the time.

mytransformers.tumblr.com - art with (mostly) lone Transformers. I try to focus on pics that show them doing something (i feel!) is relevant to the character. This is a very indulgent tumblr.

sexyseekers.tumblr.com - sort of a combination of happyclanging and mytransformers focusing on robots with wings!

tellingtransformers.tumblr.com - art that doesn't fit into any of the above but which somehow FEELS iconic? (Really scientic classifcation going on here)

gettingsquishy.tumblr.com - humanised transformers

crossoverkisses.tumblr.com - a tumblr not focused on transformers! Nope, this one is crossover arts and vids.




Anyone else on tumblr? My personal one is at katharoskate.tumblr.com if you want to say hi..

Like most people I try to keep my fandom self (Katharos) seperate from my real world self (Kate last name deleted) in the 'public' part of the internet.

So it's a bit worrying when Facebook offers up someone I only know from fandom under 'People You May Know.' And the only reason I picked up on it was because they use the same handle on Facebook as in fandom.

Just. How? We've exchanged a couple of emails using the email I use for Facebook - is that all it takes? Is Facebook monitoring my hotmail history? Do I need to resurrect my fandom only account? Am I revealing my lack of Facebook knowledge by even asking this question?


Argh.

I mean, there's nothing really worrying about this particular incidence. It's just the idea of links being made somewhen, somehow, without my knowledge or control.

Hey all! If you don't remember who I am that's fine XD. Been a long, long radio silence...

I'm currently in Cambodia - via Russia, China, Hong Kong, China again, Vietnam... When I stared this trip I decided I was going to leave my netbook at home and try and get by with just my ipod touch. Which has been great - I LOVE my ipod touch - for passive reading but not so convenient for typing. Anyway I'm in Cambodia - I extended my visa so I could stay and volunteer at this local organisation, mostly writing apps to try and get them funding - and I broke and bought myself a cheap netbook. It's probably shaved a couple of weeks of the end of my trip but at the moment it's so SO worth it - I have a KEYBOARD! And a hard drive! All my photos are backed up and obsessively organised and everytime I've got good internet connection I'm downloading a shit ton of stuff.

All caught up on Doctor Who now. Transformers Prime currently downloading!! Soon I can stop avoiding spoilers, yesssssssssssssss.

I'm rolling in consumerist glee over this (so tiny! so YELLOW!) yet also feeling. awkward. Tiny cheap netbook is more expensive to the people who live here than an apple laptop is at home. Mac Book might be a months wages. Here tiny netbook costs two months of a good salary, and when I say good I mean a hella a lot more than most people in this country earns...

*deep breath*

So! New netbook! Going to try and get back into the habit of talking to people again. Which would be nice. And squeeing about silly happy fandom stuff. That would also be nice!

Okay, this is really cool:

The Galaxy May Swarm with Billions of Wandering Planets.

Cybertron's not alone out there? *grin*

Just finished marathoning TFA. Oh so wonderful! So adorable, silly, happy family with awesome hilarious but still edging scary cons. (proper reaction post to come.)

But somehow the fic I immediately HAD to write was this one. Because I find a lot of the Autobot Elite Guard deeply creepy.

Cadet Optimus is ordered to report to the Science Division.

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Currently in Moscow! ... and seem to have spent the last two days struggling to get tickets for the next two (long) train journeys. Note to self: if do this in future do it in a tour group I don't care how expensive they are. Or at least buy tickets in advance through an agency forget about the bloody markup *huff*. anyway have tickets out of this country yay! Only thing is train journeys are long. DAYS long.

So... I want to treat myself to some really good self indulgent fantasy and sic fi books to read on my kindle. I'm going to nab the latest Temeraire but does anyone else with a kindle have any suggestions?

In Estonia! actually in a hostel in Rallinn, waiting for my hair to dry before I venture out into the subzero temperatures.

Um, don't think I've actually mentioned this but I'm actually intending to travel the world? Or at least the bits between russia and Australia. Well see how it goes but I'm determined to get as far as japan at least! was difficult leaving yesterday. Hopefully today will be good!

I've got Justice League, Transformers, and Outnumbered on my iPod and a ton of fanfiction on my kindle so my comfort blanket is prepared! I've also got a blog at whatkatedidnext.com which doesn't have much yet but that will change!

It's the Six Nations rugby, the one time of year that my Dad acts like a Real Man (tm). And it REALLY distresses the dog.

See he gets really into it - ducking and weaving about on the sofa, gasping and groaning and cheering - and Tess gets terribly anxious and comes running up to me and Mum, trying to tell us that Something Is Wrong with Dad!!!!!!

And when this fails to makes us get up to save Dad from his terrible seizures she runs away and hides upstairs. And then Dad feels guilty and goes and watches it in the kitchen. And then she comes back and pants imploringly at us, her nerves shattered.

(We invited her up on the sofa but I think that just freaked her out more, as she knows she's Not Allowed on the good sofa - when there's anyone to see her...)