A Firefly's Prose

Is Megatron Redeemable? Does It Matter?

2026-04-02T05:27:58Z

There has been debate among fans since the plotline was first introduced in MTMTE about the merits of giving Megatron a redemption arc and whether he is actually redeemable/this is a valid choice for writers in the franchise to be making. This is my opinion on the matter based on my interpretation of MTMTE/LL and Earthspark S1 (the two main continuities where this happens).

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Bio

2026-03-27T05:04:14Z

Hi! I'm Ben, he/it, I like bugs and various fandoms and I post my longform writing here. Currently very into Transformers.
My Tumblr: bensect
My Website: bensect.space

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My Transformers Continuity Reviews

2026-03-27T04:37:47Z

Listed roughly in the order that I started watching them. Spoilers for everything.

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I Want Everyone To Know That These Things Happened In Transformers

2026-03-27T04:36:02Z

Megatron ate people multiple times

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How I Selfhost My Website

2026-03-27T04:25:25Z

(This was originally posted to my website with the assumption and language that the reader is seeing it there.)

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Why Is The Transformers Fandom So Obsessed With Mpreg?

2026-03-27T04:22:40Z

Transformers notably has a significant narrative focus on reproduction for a franchise that is generally PG rated. This is mostly to do with the plot element that they’re robots that don’t reproduce sexually, and the war has imperiled their species’ future ability to reproduce at all, because the artifacts that allow them to have been lost or destroyed. For instance, the whole central premise of Earthspark is that the first cohort of Transformers born on Earth is the future of the entire species, because their previous methods are now impossible. The Allspark is destroyed in the first Bayverse movie, Cybertron is dead in TFP, etc. This focus is also coupled with the fact that, for a long time, the vast majority of the characters in the franchise were men (from a Doylist perspective; the whole issue of Transformer gender in universe is more complicated), this actually being enforced by Hasbro as part of the brand identity, and all this discussion about reproduction and the future of the species was happening in a situation where it was made very clear that heterosexual relations resulting in female pregnancy was not what was going to happen.

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Website article crossposting

2026-03-27T04:17:30Z

I've decided to dust off this page and use it as a place to crosspost my website articles for greater visibility. I will be posting them as a backlog.

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Musings on my bug-ness

2024-03-04T02:37:01Z

I am an insect. Specifically, I am a male common eastern firefly. Historically I've used the word "otherkin" for what I am because that was the main word I heard used, but I've learned that a lot of people use the word "therian" to refer to an alterhuman identity relating to an animal that exists in the real world, so I've recently started using that term as well. Regarding whether I'm a psychological or spiritual therian: I'm not too sure. I don't believe in souls or anything, so I don't feel like I was a firefly in a past life or like I'm a firefly soul in a human body, but there's just something ambiguously about me that I can't put my finger on that doesn't feel like identifying as a human being is entirely correct and that calling myself a bug therian is at least partially more correct. It feels somewhat like a spiritual belief but without the supernatural element present in a lot of spiritual beliefs. I'm fairly agnostic about it. I don't really get any sort of phantom limb sensation, but I have a strong feeling in my mind that there are inhuman features that I should have that I don't, such as antennae, mandibles, a third pair of limbs, and beetle wings with shiny elytra.

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First post

2024-03-01T02:43:28Z

Hi! I decided I would make a Dreamwidth because I wanted a place to put my various thoughts and musings that is specifically set up for that and doesn't feel as much like "social media". Expect intermittent posts about bugs and biology and fandom stuff, probably a lot of stuff about General Grievous because I am obsessed with him.

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