mintymankey:

spikespiegell:
when the power went out i heard an explosion and my boyfriend was like “a transformer probably busted” and i deadass thought he meant Optimus Prime was out there nutting

transformers heritage post

it’s not called “bust” or “blow” though

it’s called

overloading

and here in the circuit-fic world, we understand this

Then Megatron said thoughtfully, “Do you know, you’re so pathetically understimulated that I could probably bring you to overload just talking. Shall we see?”

(source: the brilliant masterpiece “Victory Condition” https://archiveofourown.org/works/13272438)

(BUT if you google “transformers overload,” you get pages of “are you doing electrical work in your house? here’s how to keep them from overloading” mixed with pages of “there are actual characters in Transformers named ‘Overload,’ like at least 4 of them, unrelated except for the name, it’s apparently a real common name in that world” and I am not sure how to feel about that)

(i for one welcome our robot overloads)