Interlude: Thanksgiving Sunday

[beckyh2112]

Wherein Becca hides in the back with the computer and annoys her relatives by being non-sociable. Fortunately, we're still just cooking dinner and haven't had the ravenous hordes descend on us to feed.

Records of the trip up can be found on dragoness_e's journal

Comments

[sapphirebreeze]

The one thing you see a male Transformer oggling a girly magazine, he's oggling a pink female-design robot. The fact that girly magazines contain pink female-design robots implies that the color is viewed as attractive enough to make such a venture profitable.

Ariel was apparenlty viewed as attractive enough that Orion Pax had to warn off the Arialbots and immediately "claim his turf" pretty much the moment she came on-screen in War Dawn.

Also, what a lot of people seem to forget when they do the "pink=death colors" equation is that colors certainly don't have solid and consistant meanings in human culture... why should they in Transformer culture?

Yes, sometimes red is the color of fresh-spilt blood. But sometimes, red is just red.

[lunatron]

And sometimes red is a sexy cocktail dress.

[beckyh2112]

All fair and honest points. I still prefer the idea that Elita-1 isn't terribly beautiful by Transformer standards.

Also, Aerialbots, not Arialbots.

[ravenclaw_devi]

Red is also "sex, passion" in terms of human colour symbolism, so if you wanna draw a parallel between that and pink-as-seen-by-Transformers... (Luna beat me to it)

And hey, a lot of human guys, esp. young human guys (Orion Pax was a young TF, as were the Aerialbots, coming to think of it) have a thing for hot goth girls, so maybe Ariel was considered attractive because she was a "goth girl." Maybe that pin-up Octane was ogling was the Cybertronian equivalent of a Suicide Girl. ;)

[earthscorch]

That dream is just awesome.