Had a dream that DC's latest CW show was set in Gotham and replaced all the action scenes with low-budget Epic Rap Battles
Gherkin 🥒
@thelastgherkin.bsky.social
I'm Gherkin, a visibly queer discontent creator and unique vegetable entity in the sphere of toy robots. He/him/his but not a man. Rantsona designed by @maiaf.bsky.social! LINKUS: https://thelastgherkin.tumblr.com/links
42nd anniversary of the UK #Transformers comic? Good time to pimp my extensive look at every single British Transformers comic! Especially as that Oink blog that's nicked the idea is starting this week as well. thesolarpool.weebly.com/transformati...
Transformation
The weekly British Transformers comic was an something that had a huge impact on me as a child. I came to it fairly late in the day, over halfway through the original 332 issue run, with Space...
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Ringo Starr, Shakira, and Baby Sinclair from ABC's Dinosaurs will no longer be supporting Ed Sheeran
If you like songs where you get shouted at in a foreign language then I can't recommend Ecuador by Sash! enough
Went down a rabbit hole and found out that a group of one-shot Machine Man antagonists were bizarrely foundational to Marvel UK's bait-and-switch "war" comic. You can read about it!
Forces - The Transformers UK Appendix
When five regular humans were struck by a freak accident, they evolved into beings possessed of powerful Forces. They now seek to guide mankind to a utopian future...
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If they made The Raccoons today they'd be woke. And a polycule
I know it shouldn't surprise me, but I have just been taken aback that the franchise we call "RID2015" is over ten years old
I don't think I'll be buying a Switch 2 just for a Zelda that slides off my visual cortex and plays wrong
I've been at work all day so I missed it until now – happy third birthday to the website!
Gherkin 🥒@thelastgherkin.bsky.social · last yr.TWO YEARS AGO TODAY! – the launch of The Transformers UK Appendix, or tfuk.app! Charting the history of Marvel UK's unexpected bestseller through a lens of The Transformers' back-up material, enter a universe that is more, much more than meets the eye!
"Cover the batter and chill for at least 30 minutes" Don't mind if I do!!!
Do you ever think about how, textually, Ultimate Spider-Woman was introduced as a clone of Peter with a Boy's Brain In A Girl's Body. Cos I do
Can't believe they're tainting the legacy of beloved pop culture mainstay James Pond
It's taken FAR too long but you can finally read all about WHO puts the future in your hands: Robotix!
Robotix (comic) - The Transformers UK Appendix
Who puts the future in your hand? Robotix! (Robotix!) Who gives you robots to command? Robotix! (Robotix!) Who lets you build fighting creatures wilder than a movie...
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Black Queen Jean Grey more like yass kween Jean slay. Whatever
If you don't follow Earth Wars it may surprise you to learn which of these is Armada Optimus Prime and which is a downloadable cosmetic skin for G1 Optimus Prime
Something that struck me on my pre-TFN Target: 2006 re-read was that, for all it functions as a The Movie promotional tool, it was still written under the impression that the Matrix is something that exists in Optimus Prime's mind
The dizzying highs of flouncing around Club Con in a frilly skater dress followed by the realisation they don't have a public bathroom for genderfucky femboys
Another TFN come and gone and man. There really is nothing like it
"Ultra Magnus coming out and tossing Galvatron on the floor" - Simon 'Phrasing' Furman