Blaster - Blog Posts
This is how Soundwave’s and Blaster’s fights always look like to me. Catsette carrier fighting… the way they hate each other so bad makes me think of two stray cats bumping into each other and immediately getting hissy about seeing another cat in general 🙄 so many it’s just a cassette carrier thing. They must be introduced to the other slowly and comfortably or else they WILL fight like cats
I like his apperance so much and i decided to make a full art with background. This darcarian is part of other subspecies, who lives in tundra. Because of cold and difficult access to resources they more centered around developing technologies than others.
In my universe actually magic and tech do not contradict each others. They both working with same laws of universe. And not matter will you create machines or perform rituals to achieve same goals.
Swtor is one of my favorite games last time. And i always like those imperial trooper armors. And for me this older armor is much better looking than clone/stormtrooper armors in the movies. So i did this art with myself equipped with this type of armor.
Battle At Dancitron
Previous Artworks
Battle At Dancitron
2019-2020 inspired by TF G1 ep52 Auto-Bop
Bunch of dumb doodles I’ve been making when I’m bored
been working on anime-girlifying the music bots for extremely self indulgent reasons,, havent yet decided for sure on designs but im having a great time
Sleep - (found this on pinerest)
I like to think that when they get startled, they’d instinctively transform into their alt modes like turtles or pangolins cuz they’re much more compact and sturdy and smaller targets 😌 also maybe possibly I am secretly a sucker for bloominglegumes’s jazterwave stuff so I wanted to make something with them too 🙄 but I’ll never tell. Also this is my first time drawing Jazz, so I hope it’s good for the Jazz fans out there
Recently I saw a post about the rivalry between Soundwave and Blaster (specifically g1 and a lil bit of idw) and it got me thinking about their dynamic. Specifically how much I really don't like/care for it? Especially Blaster specifically, I LOVE soundwave and am always down for more soundwave dynamics/relationships. But something about their rivalry specifically is just so unsatisfying to me. Mainly due to how unbalanced the rivalry is. Blaster in g1 pretty much exists to counter Soundwave, but it always felt so 1 sided to me no matter how often g1 had them match off. Like, there's no specific reason why they dislike each other, they just do. What really bugs me is how Blaster has such a bare bones personality outside of hating soundwave and dancing. Soundwave is allowed to do and be so much more outside of Blaster, but Blaster does almost nothing else aside from fighting Soundwave. It doesn't feel like a real rivalry. Soundwave just straight up doesn't care about Blaster lol. It's so unsatisfying, at least it is to me. Idw tried to make it more even/reasonable by giving Blaster a reason to hate Soundwave, but Soundwave still just doesn't care about Blaster at all. It doesn't really matter either because Blaster does damn near nothing throughout the entirety of idw and the only time their "rivalry" is even discussed is in the Blaster spotlight iirc. I really want to like Blaster cause he's a cool concept, but his singular defining dynamic/relationship is uninteresting to me and Jazz just does everything he does as an autobot/personality that he does but way better. I also just don't think rivalries suit Soundwave, he's much more concerned with Megatron and the decepticon cause to fret about an individual autobot. Especially when there are traitorous bastards like Starscream afoot lol.
sorry just dumping more messy speeddoodles of them bc they're in my brain 24/7. i'm sending kisses to everyone drawing them so beautifully but my only contribution to the jazterwave agenda rn is as always just being insane </3
Did anyone else just spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how Rex’s blasters aren’t falling out of their holster in this scene?
I’m doing an 80′s themed zine with my college class and I couldn’t pass the opportunity to get some robots in there.
Cassette player from Cassette?
You know, I love cassettes in Transformers. (I love them so much that if you woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me what cassettes Soundwave and Blaster had, I could probably list them all by name.)
Many people underestimate them because of their size and the fact that they transform into cassettes and they are often reduced to the "children's" equivalent, but listen.. Just listen. In my mind, cassettes are not children at all, no, not at all, to go through such a war and stay alive, you know guys, they are definitely adults. Maybe teenagers close to becoming adults or this stupid period when you are kind of an adult, but you still need a "More adult adult". Moreover, in the comics, Rumble and Frenzy were actually miners, so let's keep that in mind, okay? In short, cassettes are quite adult and independent, this will be useful to us in my subsequent words.
In general, it seems like the show and comics have never said how strong this connection is between the cassette host and the cassette. What kind of connection is this? How do cassette host and cassettes work? Like… I don't remember it being said directly, but obviously there is a connection. (Remember how Soundwave feels pain from Ravage's death, or from Rumble's injury? Obviously the connection is strong, but what kind of connection is it?) How do cassette players and tapes work? HOW?
How the fuck does this work???
Well I have a couple of ideas about it actually, it may seem unusual, but here are a couple of my ideas.
It's pretty obvious that it's similar to symbiosis, where one species helps another in some way. While symbiosis can be parasitic in nature, I'm guessing that for Cybertronians it's more like a mutually beneficial phenomenon. Usually, creatures of different species enter into symbiosis, be it clownfish and sea anemones, or butterflies that feed on animal tears (they need it to get sodium). I think that cassette player and cassettes are more closely related. Aside from the obvious symbiotic relationship, where the one offers the cassette safety, care, and a secure life in exchange for some services from other side (like recording information, spying/intelligence activities, etc.), it seems to me that this could have a deeper evolutionary mechanism, for example for survival purposes?
Ever wonder why there are literally only two Cassette Host in the show and comics? It's literally just Soundwave and Blaster (Soundblaster doesn't count, he's a clone. Sorry, fans of that guy). It's also not really clear what niche they occupied in the caste system the Functionalists founded, but it's probably not a very high one since Soundwave was found on the street by Ravage. I think the fear here might be precisely because bots like them are capable of this type of symbiotic relationship. They don't need mods for it, they are designed to share their space and path with trusted Cassettes. This connection itself must imply that you understand each other on some deeper level. Maybe like Gestalts, a common type of internal connection that other bots can't recognize? I think that makes sense. You're basically slightly in each other's heads. The Cassette Host not only takes on the responsibility of providing the cassette, but also of regulating this internal connection, both emotional and physical. In return, the cassettes provide an unlimited ability to store and accumulate data (I think this is connected to their altform, that is, Rumble and Frenzy can be quite smart, they just don’t need it. A striking detail in this regard would be Rewind and how he helped Tailgate reduce the bomb’s radius, but there’s a lot that can be said about him). Understand? This increases the likelihood that the Cassette player and the cassettes act as a single, well-coordinated organism, it’s no wonder that the functionalists were afraid of this. This symbiosis can resemble from the outside both a family unit and a business gang, where there is a boss and cronies. In any case, here’s another thought of mine, what if…
What if, under certain conditions, a cassette tape could become a cassette player?
I know this might sound weird, but just hear me out. You know, I often come across the idea that cassette hosts can create cassettes, and that's a possibility, because my idea is based on that. Could a spark of such a bot be predisposed to create smaller sparks to provide security and support for those cassettes that don't have the ability to become cassette players? Look, we have a cassette host, it can have its own cassettes that it created, or those that were reformatted into this altform and taken under its wing. If the host is hurt or killed, cassettes can remain destitute and forgotten until they die, but what if, due to the symbiotic relationship of these Cybertronians, they have some kind of evolutionary mechanism? What if one host has enough cassettes that it realizes that it strains the internal communication and does not allow time for each? Then one or two cassettes created by the bot and having a predominantly humanoid form and also access to comfort and resources, begin to gain mass of the protoform, form a cassette deck and so on. They become new cassette players, provided that they have always been in this altform and have not been reformatted, I think the second type of cassettes is not capable of this mechanism. Why is this an evolutionary mechanism? Well, because perhaps earlier these two types of Cybertronians really belonged to different groups, but in the process of millennia and millions of years they were simply close for so long that they turned into one group. You know what, in essence, cassettes would be like an axolotl from our world (like… Have you seen an axolotl? They are actually not an adult version of an ambystoma)
This mechanism would essentially explain why we know only two cassette hosts and so many cassettes. Probably, before the war there were a sufficient and diverse number of them, but during the war many could have died and Soundwave and Blaster essentially picked up the destitute, deprived of communication and scared cassettes. None of the cassettes had the necessary level of comfort, fuel and other factors that would contribute to the evolution into a new host, you understand? In essence, this means that Soundwave and Blaster were loaded with an additional level during the war (that's why they look tired, taking care of so many charges is tiring…)
I can just see how after the war, with the improvement in the quality of life, one of the cassettes finally decided that the conditions are good enough, but there are too few hosts… It's time to evolve into an adult version and become a cassette player.
I hope Soundwave can rest and this won't be another world.
Finished up my stickers for Vancouver Fan Expo, I'll be wearing a free stickers sign (which I am yet to design) and handing these out to anyone who wants one ^-^
Get it cause...cause he's a beetle...
I love drawing two guys standing next to each other 👍