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James Roberts

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8 years

I don't need reminding that immigrants invented X or founded Y or built Z. The argument for inclusion begins and ends with 'they're human'.

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WaPo ‘accidentally’ missing the real story

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Tory Twitter when you say kids are starving: Any responsible parent could easily feed six children on 11 pence a day Tory Twitter when you suggest someone earning 80K should pay more tax: This is an outrage, I’m barely managing to scrape by, do you realise how much it costs to

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2 years

Little UK news roundup for those living elsewhere. Everything’s great, thanks for asking

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7 years

Sorry for all the political tweets and retweets, but a UK general election only happens once every few months.

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5 years

Halle Bailey as Ariel and Lashana Lynch as 007: both clearly wonderful developments. But in slightly different ways, both announcements make me wonder whether the entertainment industry is increasingly exploiting the fact that certain casting choices will be controversial.

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4 years

Pete Buttigieg spends years precision-engineering 100% content-free homilies like “the guarantor of liberty is the hope that gives our dreams flight” and then the maestro pops up to show him how the fuck it’s done

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James Roberts

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1 month

I wish I could say, “Here’s a clip from the upcoming season 2 finale of Netflix’s More Than Meets The Eye”

Transformers Den

@TransformersDen

1 month

#Transformers #Megatron Source:

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1 year

Preceptor, Rodimus, Megatron (Elegant Chaos, 2014)

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James Roberts

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1 year

@hansmollman I read her whole thread — tweet after tweet of agonised handwringing and soul-searching — and couldn’t help but laugh out loud when she reveals that, surprise surprise, she IS going to attend the concert

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James Roberts

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1 year

It was all worth it for this

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@Rinnnoc

1 year

IDW - Lost Light Crew #Transformers #Maccadams #Maccadam Which Crew mate is not sleeping?

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James Roberts

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2 years

Brought to life by @markerguru , first appearing in MTMTE #7 then making his animated debut (of sorts) in Cyberverse, everyone’s favourite smooth talker Tarn is heading your way as a Real Thing You Can Buy. My first OC to get the honest-to-gosh standalone action figure treatment

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James Roberts

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2 months

Not seen this before. Love it

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James Roberts

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6 years

New Sonic has me hyped

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James Roberts

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1 month

Swerve’s, 2am

The “Grouch” @Tfnation2024

@PerpetualGrouch

1 month

Rung when he realises being the lost light therapist does jack shit to pay the bills:

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2 months

When I took my son to see Cars 2 this whole sequence freaked him out so much, for reasons he couldn’t articulate, that we had to leave the cinema

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2 years

I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school. They represent the summum of popularity and success. Those who fall short of this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy.

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James Roberts

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1 year

Hanging this over the fireplace

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7 years

Okay. Alright. I thought I’d seen the bleeding edge of Saucegate Entitlement. Then I saw this. And then I wept.

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James Roberts

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3 months

This gets a Rodimus Star ⭐️

Dig || maybe sleeping

@frooter_tooter

3 months

[It's Just a Theory!] Started out just as a test to see what BS would sound like with MatPat's voice,, got a bittt carried away (Props to anyone who finds all the little details sprinkled throughout :D) #Transformers #MTMTE #Maccadam

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James Roberts

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3 years

Snyder’s Pokemon trailer’s just dropped

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James Roberts

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5 years

Tailgate would start chatting to you. Rung would freeze until he knew there was no one else in the vicinity. Magnus goes once every three weeks, per his Excel spreadsheet. Rodimus wouldn’t close the door in the first place. In fact he’s been known to use the sink.

@So very, very tired Dark Lord of the Dance

@DiscoVader01

5 years

I had to make one of these for the Lost Light crew. #transformers #mtmte

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2 years

New Beast Wars Triple Changer just landed

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5 years

Sad 👏 that 👏 my 👏 love of 👏 making empha👏tic 👏 points👏 is 👏 affe👏👏cted 👏 by my l👏ack of👏👏 rhythm

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2 months

1) “This series is about a decade old…” [old man heart attack meme] 2) “…and still holds up quite well.” Thanks? 3) This is the first I’ve heard about MTMTE reprints. I will try to find out more. Make a noise if you’d like to see the series back on the shelves

Ed Thinks a Lot (Currently processing burnout)

@Ed_Thinks_A_Lot

2 months

Did mtmte reprints just get officially confirmed?

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3 years

How did this happen

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@LargeBorrome

3 years

10 years ago today, #MTMTE issue 1 was released. Happy anniversary to my favorite comic book.

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5 years

You’re all so thirsty

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2 years

I’ll always be proud of my contributions to IDW’s continuity, but I can’t deny the thrill of (finally!) being able to say that I expanded the Marvel US/UK G1 canon

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5 years

If MTMTE *had* been a TV show we’d have put this bit in the trailer

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@NoContextTFs

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James Roberts

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4 months

Chuffed to bits about this

Wade Goodell

@WadeGoodell

4 months

3yo: I want to see the orange transformer! Me: Ok, his name is “Rung.” 3yo: Show me what he transforms into! Me: Ok. 3yo: …what is it? Me: that’s a very good question. @jroberts332

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1 year

Can’t believe you’d attack MTMTE readers like this

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2 years

Fact

crazy ass moments in Transformers history🏳️‍🌈

@TF_Moments

2 years

The heavily-obscured banner hanging in Swerve's is implied to read, "F**K OFF MEGATRON". (2016)

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3 years

Depends who it is

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James Roberts

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6 years

If, from the start, the Autobots had been called Protectobots... the warring factions would have been Pros and Cons. This is my final tweet. Goodbye forever.

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6 months

Tasty

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James Roberts

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3 years

Just smiling to myself at how Hayato Sakamoto would take even the most functional of my scenes and ramp the sexual tension up to 11. You go for it, mate

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James Roberts

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5 years

Got you one that’s both

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James Roberts

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6 years

Lost Light won the IGN People’s Choice award for Best Ongoing Comic Book of 2018! Thank you to everyone who voted - it’s a nice way to bow out.

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2 years

** Now Taking Pre-Orders ** I’m making Volumes 1 and 2 of the MTMTE Notebooks available worldwide. These unofficial but professionally-designed and -printed, perfect-bound A5 soft backs contain transcripts of my handwritten ‘ideas bible’ that formed the basis of MTMTE and LL

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5 years

I’ll have you know that in-universe, Tailgate is considered to have the most sensuous — the most scandalously erotic — mouth of all. Please rewrite all your fanfic accordingly

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1 month

Rung’s final words (original draft)

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6 years

Family photo

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10 months

MTMTE #30 (2014)

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5 months

MTMTE cast: final vs drafts

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James Roberts

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3 years

The fact that Beijing’s Universal Studios includes a Swerve’s has pushed me over the edge (in a good way)

鍾子_ 𝐙𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐫𝐫𝐫𝐫𓂀

@Zoner233

3 years

Friend were sharing this in the gc I’m like: 🤔🤔🤔holy xxxx they know what we need in universal studio Beijing don’t they?

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5 years

Because obviously controversy = publicity. Maybe the blame lies with the reporting, but the 007 PR in particular seems designed to enrage (well, to enrage arseholes; but still get the desired online clamour and consequent second round of media coverage).

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1 year

This cliffhanger being resolved by Megatron ignoring Verity is up there with the best TF moments

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1 year

Prowl’s being a (typical) bastard here: the Mitteous Plateau, which Tailgate was taking a shortcut across back in issue #1 when he fell below ground, is notoriously the most fragile landscape on Cybertron. It would never support the Lost Light’s weight

zide zide zide 🏳️‍⚧️ CDs #1 fan 🎥

@zideanjester

1 year

* rodimus remembered swerves "crusadercons" suggestion!

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1 year

Coming soon! Covering all of MTMTE Season 2, from the Trial to the Showdown and everything in-between. In due course I’ll post details of how you can pre-order copies (and get the Vol 1 and 2 reprints)

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James Roberts

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4 years

Powerful Ultra Magnus energy

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4 years

An incredible sense of mounting dread throughout, with a terrifying payoff

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James Roberts

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7 years

Nothing but respect for MY Justice League

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James Roberts

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5 years

Modern Russian roulette is scrolling through my TL wondering when @thelindsayellis ’s Cats profile pic is going to appear

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4 years

The gap between setup and payoff 😉

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@Cooperstreaming

4 years

Name a thing that lasted longer than the Confederacy.

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2 years

This was probably as politically in-your-face as I got in the book

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2 years

My first draft scripts for MTMTE make me look like a serial killer

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5 years

Spoiler alert: they didn’t

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5 years

The story has become — has been allowed to become? Was intended to become? — that Lynch will replace the James Bond character, when really she’ll assume the 007 code name. But the news has made the required splash.

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7 months

That’s what I’d like to know

Mnemo "Chromedome Girl" Stellar🐎🛸☆

@MNEMOSTELLAR

7 months

WHY NOT WHY WONT YOU READ MTMTE

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James Roberts

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5 years

At some point @JLawrence_Art is going to draw Rodimus, First Aid, Getaway, Minimus and Drift together and you’ll all need to be hosed down

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6 years

That was... rather good, actually. Who’d have thought that a character-driven, emotionally rich story, straightforwardly told, with a great soundtrack and loving nods to G1, would be such fun? #BumblebeeMovie

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2 years

** fighting urge to predict how each would react **

merc 🦇🍊

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5 years

Reader, I found him

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I have never seen anything fall into a trap so perfectly and completely

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Simple trap concept

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6 months

Someone tell me how @JLawrence_Art can give First Aid - a robot with the dreaded visor/facemask combo - a sympathetic expression

tommy/blitz!? 🍉

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IM CACKLING

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3 years

“It’s the end. But the moment has been prepared for.” 17 years is a hell of a run - no other licensee has been a TF custodian for so long >> IDW to Lose ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Transformers’ License at End of 2022 (Exclusive) via @thr

IDW to Lose ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Transformers’ License at End of 2022 (Exclusive)

The company still has a year's worth of stories planned, including a celebration of Joe's 40th anniversary.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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James Roberts

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3 years

We ended up with quite the cast in the end, didn’t we?

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@Nafe_nasutetsu

3 years

#Transformers MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

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Happy to confirm that I’ll be guesting at TFNation this August, signing whatever you want signed, answering whatever you want answered, unveiling the final two volumes of the MTMTE notebooks, and propping up the bar

TFNation

@tfnationltd

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More Than Meets The Eye! #tfnation #mtmte #lostlight #jamesroberts @jroberts332

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3 years

If you’d told me 35 years ago that there would be a Transformers SEVEN I’d have said okay, makes sense, if they’ve already made six it’s obviously a popular franchise

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“Comixology was never going to save comics, but it tried.” Comixology helped MTMTE survive. We did OK with physical sales, but the series punched well above its weight digitally. We found a new audience, a wider audience, and that changed everything

Comixology was never going to save comics, but it tried

Pour one out for Comixology, an imperfect but passionate attempt

www.polygon.com

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James Roberts

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6 years

Happy Christmas x

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6 years

Wednesday

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3 years

New CyGate fic just dropped

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@TPGRoberts “Romance / Drama”

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3 years

I see that @Vic_Draws_ has taken a lot of what I tried to say over the course of 80 issues and successfully condensed it into a single image

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James Roberts

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3 months

Predestination: A Beginner’s Guide (2014)

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James Roberts

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6 years

The surreal weekend continues, as the demise of Lost Light - and one aspect of its legacy - make the national news

Transformers: Misfit robots and the women who love them

The end of six years of a "British" Transformers story, and the new fans it made along the way.

www.bbc.com

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James Roberts

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5 years

(And for those who’d like to see a woman play Bond it’s a disappointing sleight of hand.)

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James Roberts

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3 years

Hey @markerguru I’m t̶h̶a̶n̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ blaming you for the origins of what Tumblr veterans describe as Megatron’s felonious DILF energy. My script was scrupulously neutral

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6 years

Anyone who says ‘classic Banksy’ or ‘epic’ or anything that isn’t ‘world’s smuggest man continues to have cake and eat it’ can leave my timeline $1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction

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4 years

WHO only stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1990 70 countries still criminalise consensual same sex activity LGBTQI ppl are disproportionately vulnerable to destitution, poverty and sexual violence The fight continues Love and solidarity #IDAHOBIT2020

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1 year

This is devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected. IDW gave me my break and were always good to me. It’s a company full of smart, creative, exceptionally hardworking people who don’t deserve this

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@comicsbeat

1 year

IDW "goes dark" on the NYSE, lays off 39% of their workforce as they cut cost to prepare for "recovery and growth." @idwpublishing

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2 years

Can’t believe they launched the new MTMTE series without telling me

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5 years

I dunno. I guess effective PR has always been about finding the angle that will get the most people talking. But the entertainment industry is cynical in nature, and it won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that outrage (and outraged response to outrage) makes for the best clickbait

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2 years

Er, guess we all forgot the earlier scene where he says he periodically erases “redundant and/or frivolous” vocabulary from his neural database, preferring to use the space for sprinkler serial codes?

crazy ass moments in Transformers history🏳️‍🌈

@TF_Moments

2 years

Ultra Magnus denies that "relax" is a word, claiming that he's never heard of it, despite the fact that he himself used the word in a previous issue. (2012)

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4 years

Brexiteers, antivaxxers, TERFs... I’ve rode the Twitter rapids for eight years now, and nothing has me shook quite like the No Masks brigade

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1 year

Incredible

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@TravArtz

1 year

If you ever wanted to hear #Transformers Cyberverse Hot Rod 🙋🏻 read some IDW Rodimus —

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James Roberts

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2 years

This is Buttons. His first birthday was a week last Monday. 48 hours ago he went missing. What follows has a happy ending…

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2 years

Oh my god he’s done a Notes app apology… MTMTE Books update👇

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11 months

That “Tailgate would start chatting to you” tweet will haunt me til I die

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James Roberts

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6 years

This month... everything ends. #LostLight #SeriesFinale

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1 year

Excited about this!

jupitersSpam

@JupiterArtsuvu

1 year

@jroberts332 DID YOU SEE EARTHSPARK?! THEY INCORPORATED THE FLOWERS AHHHHHH THEY INCORPORATED THE FLOWERSSSS

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6 years

Senior, after Senior

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6 years

Fuck me. In the space of 2hrs, Lost Light has been compared to Watchmen on national radio, I’ve been asked if I’d interview a SF icon for a UK newsstand publication, and one of my musical heroes has followed me on Twitter. I’m going to die in a car crash later, aren’t I?

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