Autobots In Bumblebee (2018)

Autobots in Bumblebee (2018)

Me waiting for a 20ft robot to fall in love with me

when “the touch” started playing

I think why I love transformers so much is that it’s the only robot story I know where the robots are legitimate People? like every other robot story is “oh these robots are piloted by people” or “oh these robots were made by people and they’re learning what it means to be alive and exploring the anxiety around ais/the advance of technology and how you define personhood” or as accessories to the human characters like in star wars or Star Trek or mass effect or like in wall-e the robots are cute but they’re very much just Cute Machines like “oh it’s a coffee maker but it makes cute noises!” or even just people’s minds in robot bodies etc etc but transformers is so different! cause it’s like… yeah they’re robots but they’re first and foremost People… like they have a soul and the robot thing is partly just flavour cause they’re very much people with emotions and personalities but also the incredible worldbuilding you can do in a race of robots like what kind of society would you have if your race lived for millions of years? if you could rebuild your body whenever you wanted? if there was no concept of children? if your brain was a computer and you could just download whatever information you needed and do complex calculations instantly? it’s so INTERESTING the idea of an entire society of completely sentient + sapient robots with no human influence who are nonetheless people…. I just think it’s so neat

and on TOP OF THAT… they can TURN INTO CARS AND STUFF… I love it I love. Transformers it’s so good

Research collation, non-languages of Cybertron (wing language)

Wing language, as it is referred to, is a form of body language. So, really, this is an essay about body language. Because for some reason, wings are that mysterious and odd that non-winged mechs don’t know what to do when dealing with a winged mech. It is simple, though, as my crew’s commanding officer, Captain Porter of Praxus, has informed us (several times):

Wings are an indicator of mood and deportment. How one feels at the moment, the current state of their life, and their professionalism can all be read from your wing movements;

Wings have voluntary and involuntary controls, but these are easily distinguishable (so I am told, at least);

It’s really hard to have a poker face when you’ve got wings*

(* this is my own observation after a few poker nights with this crew.)

It is simply another indicator of body language to learn. One that is really easy to pick up, especially if you have ever seen a photo-voltaic cat. If you wish for a more sentient example, watch the bio-lights of your fellow mechs. See how they light up.

Try not to get punched for staring, too.

Seeker and Praxian wing language has many similarities, ones which would suggest, if we were a species that did breed and have evolutionary trees, a genetic link between Seekers and Praxians. But we do not breed like organics, so the similarities are an example of frame-based convergent coding.

More on that later.

Maybe.

The great thing about this meme is that you can interchange Bumblebee and Charlie and it would still be true lmao.