As it began, so shall it begin again. I've been largely absent from DW and LJ, and have shifted my blogging to my quilting blog at https://tinkerstitch.blogspot.com/. But now I'm back, because my typing into the void there won't do a thing for my fandom needs, and Tumblr is crashing and burning as a platform, like LJ before it.

Today, Wonderful Husband dragged me to see Bumblebee. Partly, I think, because he's worried about me and knows that my love for Transformers is a deep and abiding one.

(Which is why I stopped watching the Bayverse movies after Dark of the Moon. That was the point at which they went from "not good, but interesting" to "this is bad, you cannot make me watch any further.")

But I'd heard good things about it, so I was mildly jazzed, and these last two weeks with him taking time off have been the first times we've gone to see film movies since... Black Panther. Good heavens, has it really been nine months? I guess it has. So last week we went to see Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse (loved it!), and this week we went to see Bumblebee.

(And, no, we don't really watch movies on TV. It takes energy and two hours of the kidlets not getting up to see what Mummy and Daddy are watching. Which is why I still haven't seen most of the Marvel'verse.)

But Bumblebee was... wow. It was honestly a love letter to the original series. And to all of us girls who weren't supposed to play with the boys' toys (both literal and metaphorical, though not in this case sexual). I have FEELS about this movie and I need to spend some time thinking about it. Wonderful Husband and I debated whether or not this can even be part of the Bayverse. The continuity cracks between it and the first film are wide and deep. Yet at the same time it clearly was intended to be part of it. And Bayverse has always been riddled with continuity cracks. (Kind of embarrassing when a 1980s cartoon series has better continuity than the multi-billion-dollar Hollywood blockbuster franchise based on it.)

So, any of my TFs peeps still around and alive and interested in talking about Bumblebee?

Wonderful Husband and I are updating our giftlists, and he happened to come across The Covenant of Primus.

Any of my TFs friends know exactly what this is?

This post on CNN's website amuses me. I snorted aloud after reading the first sentence: "Frank Welker's name may not immediately ring a bell to you..." Like hell! Anyhow, it's a voice actor article including an interview with Cullen and Welker. I'm intrigued by picture #11... wondering if that was taken at the opening of the ride at Universal Studios. (Which I still haven't gone on/to. I'm not masochistic enough to do any SoCal amusement parks in the summer.)

Trawled through both Transformers categories on ff.net tonight. Over ninety percent of the fanfics are Mary Sues. (In this, I include the "What if Sam was a girl?" works, because I'm pretty sure none of them have "Samantha" as an unpopular, awkward skateboarding lesbian with a crush on Mikaela. Which I totally need to write someday.)

When did the fan-twits abscond with my fandom?

Have Jazz-car back. The bumper looks better than when I bought the vehicle! Caliber Collision does good work. Next, Jazz-car gets to go in to my uncle/mechanic for an oil change on Monday. Next week's writing class has gotten switched to Monday again. Timing may be tight; dinner may not happen until after class.

Wonderful Husband mentioned he had seen a gray Pontiac Solstice with the "Solstice" decal removed and a "Jazz" decal in its place. (Win!) Thus, I am now pondering getting in touch with a Honda dealership in the UK and getting a "Jazz" decal from them and figuring out how to swap it out with the US-only "Fit" decal....

And, to end the TFs riff, happy birthday to Megan Fox! Love to Mikaela; BV Carly simply does not exist. (DotM, in its entirety, does not exist. Also, Michael Bay does not exist.)

Changing topic, I work in the funeral industry. I have a terrific sense of gallows humor. One has to, or at least one develops it. That said, there are two things I have trouble parsing. The decals in the back windows of vehicles, with "[name], [birthyear] - [deathyear]". Why do people get those? And, also, twice now I've passed carwashes being held "In Remembrance Of [deceased]". I'm assuming they're to defray funeral expenses, but, just... somehow it doesn't quite compute.

And I must be more careful about where I leave mostly-pinned petticoats. I may see the giant green amoeba on the floor; Wonderful Husband may not, and thus step on a pin.... :(

Since I have an awkward split of medical appointments today (10:45am, 2pm), I am taking today off of work to get them done. I don't really feel stressed about them, but given it took me two and a half hours to fall asleep last night, and I slept badly at that, I suppose I must be.

But the first appointment was lightened somewhat by going into the exam room and seeing two Transformers movie posters and a Transformers calendar. ^_^

So at some point in Simulacra'verse, I've mentioned Red Alert playing lots of Minecraft.

I suspect this may be one of his more whimsical artistic endeavors. :)

I note there's a button and some redstone circuitry by the left foot; I wonder if he moves or anything...?

Wonderful Husband just showed me a well-choreographed trailer for TrackMania 2. My main thought was "Why are these cars not Autobots? Why has there never, to my knowledge, been a Transformers racing game? Where if you fall off the track you have to transform and climb back up to it to continue?"

Two T-shirts for next Botcon:

One that says "I accept Primus as my Lord and Savior" with a logo for CoC: Church of Cybertron. Because, really, I've been to too many conventions where religious zealots/wingdings try to convert/save the fannish masses.

The other shirt, I'm thinking simple black, would have blazoned upon it the words "Ironhide Shot First." Bayverse reference, obviously, though it would work equally well for the G1 movie.