User talk:Geewunling/FemaleTF-Sandbox
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It'll be quite some time before I can wrap up this kitty, but I would kind of appreciate to get feedback already. The lay-out is currently rather unconventional, and I am not sure if it actually works, not to mention that the size of this thing makes me wonder if I should split it in two pages - one for fiction, one for production process (and then another one for toy history, but that's a later day concern). Also, there are sections I am going to be unable to write (completely) and would like to ask help on (these would be Headmasters (maybe), Masterforce, Beast Era cartoon material, UT cartoon, Movie, Animated, and anything you need to be member of the club for). Geewunling 09:55, 5 April 2010 (EDT)
- *pokes* I understand nobody finds this an interesting subject, but the current article is in a big need for an update. So, a little help? Geewunling 14:58, 7 April 2010 (EDT)
- I'm interested in it, and I like where you're going with it, but I'm not familiar enough with "oddball structure" articles to say anything outside of that.
- I'd be willing to help write up the Club fiction, too, although I'm not really sure what angle you'd want to take for how to handle the writeups. (Since just listing what the character does like we normally do for Fiction sections wouldn't be the right approach here.) --Jeysie 15:06, 7 April 2010 (EDT)
- Right now, the way I try to write the fiction sections is that they give a good overview of the female variants history through the TF species as specific to that continuity/the philosophy behind the continuity as a whole (ergo why the Japanese and American Beast Era section are currently separated). Like, why do they exist, who was the first, what purpose do they serve, what is their appearance frequency etc. and from there on out what role they performed throughout. How the section should be written is dependent of the broadness of the fiction though. The Art of War, for instance, pretty much only features a short "now"-timeframe, which makes it impossible to write from a bigger perspective. Hence, G.I. Joe's fiction section is mostly "Arcee did this and that and then she cried", rather than "Female Transformers are a result of Jhiaxus getting curious some era ago. Arcee went batshit and hunted him down. It appears she was not his only experiment." For what I know of TransTech and Shattered Glass, a historical perspective seems not very much possible, but both could offer good G.I. Joe-ish write-ups, the goal not being to mention everything every female ever did, thought or said (in that sense for instance, I can't think of SG Andromeda being relevant to mention. TT Andromeda on the other hand..), but those things they did that made an impact (like SG Crasher becoming an honorary citizen or Beta being a crime lord) or offer perspective on their role in the continuity (Crasher's shape being acceptable in SG). I, uh, I hope that'll do as explanation. Geewunling 15:56, 7 April 2010 (EDT)
- Well, sorta. I admit the fact that the Fan Club femmes are generally treated as non-notable gender-wise was my stumbling point. If memory serves, the only two bits that ever address the fembots in terms of gender are CJ's being confused over Crasher, and Jackpot being the TF equivalent of a skirt-chaser. --Jeysie 16:11, 7 April 2010 (EDT)
- Right now, the way I try to write the fiction sections is that they give a good overview of the female variants history through the TF species as specific to that continuity/the philosophy behind the continuity as a whole (ergo why the Japanese and American Beast Era section are currently separated). Like, why do they exist, who was the first, what purpose do they serve, what is their appearance frequency etc. and from there on out what role they performed throughout. How the section should be written is dependent of the broadness of the fiction though. The Art of War, for instance, pretty much only features a short "now"-timeframe, which makes it impossible to write from a bigger perspective. Hence, G.I. Joe's fiction section is mostly "Arcee did this and that and then she cried", rather than "Female Transformers are a result of Jhiaxus getting curious some era ago. Arcee went batshit and hunted him down. It appears she was not his only experiment." For what I know of TransTech and Shattered Glass, a historical perspective seems not very much possible, but both could offer good G.I. Joe-ish write-ups, the goal not being to mention everything every female ever did, thought or said (in that sense for instance, I can't think of SG Andromeda being relevant to mention. TT Andromeda on the other hand..), but those things they did that made an impact (like SG Crasher becoming an honorary citizen or Beta being a crime lord) or offer perspective on their role in the continuity (Crasher's shape being acceptable in SG). I, uh, I hope that'll do as explanation. Geewunling 15:56, 7 April 2010 (EDT)
