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i would kill for the confidence of novelists who write genius-poet characters and then actually write samples of the “genius” poetry in the book. if i were a novelist writing a genius-poet i’d just be like “trust me, the poetry’s real good.”

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our spiritually elevated rejection of canon vs their intellectually dishonest refusal to engage with the text

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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Time to shift into top gear, Prime.

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Just a short animation. Megatron broods over the past aboard the Lost Light.

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Fandoms will insist that these two characters are obviously in love with each other and then you check out the work they're talking about and they just aren't. And it'll be the whole fandom, too, like the entire community will treat this coupling like it's text, somehow blissfully unaware that they completely made it up! It's like a mass hallucination of invented subtext.

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the deception high command trio is infact just a bunch of squabbling assholes

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Seeing people drive big lifted and totally pristine giant pickup trucks as just a car to get to and from work on fully paved roads is like watching a high energy working breed dog be forced to live in a 1 bedroom apartment and only go out for poop walks.

If you cant provide them the home they need its abuse. That truck should be hauling bricks, it needs to be maxing out its suspension hitting ridges at 65 mph. It should be dirty and dented because they love it. Theres no enrichment in your 1/4 mile drive to the gas station. Youre torturing it, youre killing that truck.

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Megatron is just sitting there trying and failing to compute how a future that is terrible for Cybertronians but wonderful for billions upon billions of squishies could possibly be a better future. 

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This is a better, truer, more compelling analysis of tfp Megatron’s character than any fandom meta.

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The delightful enigma that's idw Soundwave - I feel like he's a hopeless nose of wax who exists in a constant pendulum-like state getting pulled in whichever direction his various bosses wants to go because everything he does - all his beliefs and actions and all the "freedom and equality" stuff he waxes poetic about - is so inherently contradictory that it's insane.

He'll say stuff like this:

And then also stuff like this:

What even is his definition of equality? Everyone above myself should be equal (except megatron ofc), everyone below myself should know their place?

This is him:

And this is also him:

While the order he gave Ravage on the Lost Light is:

(So much for loyalty lol, it only applies to Megatron)

He says he wants peace (i.e. the thing Megatron surrendered to achieve and the thing he hates Megatron for):

But apparantly peace doesn't apply to making peace with the Autobots and he just wants to continue the Autobot-Decepticon war with Earth as a resource base so what even is the difference:

He says this:

But then he follows Galvatron (yes he knows Galvatron was behind the Deceptigod thing that screwed them over):

Who does this:

And Soundwave's just like whoa calm down not now

Through the ex-rid issues he makes like five different proclaimations about what the Decepticon cause is. Really conflicting guy with constant 180 turnarounds, whose only consistent worldview can probably be boiled down to this one line👇

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Does anyone else get extremely opinionated about transformers to the point where you’d find yourself getting upset about a circulating topic involving transformers but then after boiling over it you suddenly realize that it’s not that deep and it’s extremely embarrassing that you even care this much about a fictional piece of media

or is this just me overthinking things

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On a completely pointless note, Orion Pax/Megatron is also a separate tag and not everyone who use it as their main ship tag will bother to include the megop one

So technically the MegOp tag rn should be 3184+881-500=3,565

......I never knew that Jazzprowl was a more popular ship than MegOp. Wow. I've always just assumed that megop was the default #1 ship in the tf fandom, bc, obviously, but...Jazzprowl... it's so weird. I never got the impression they had much interaction in any continuity, like, ever.

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My fan animation of the spaceship Lost Light from Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. Everything was done in Blender 3D. I hope you like it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJEjD-WjT8

Song: Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (RYDER SPOT EDIT) Remix

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......I never knew that Jazzprowl was a more popular ship than MegOp. Wow. I've always just assumed that megop was the default #1 ship in the tf fandom, bc, obviously, but...Jazzprowl... it's so weird. I never got the impression they had much interaction in any continuity, like, ever.

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The entire point to Rewind and Chromedome’s arc is that Rewind holds onto memories and has to learn to let go and Chromedome forgets memories and has to learn to hold on.

Archivist and mnemosurgeon.

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8, 16, 21 for the violence ask game😈

LMAO thank you for the ask <3

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

“drift is a weed smoker” like he is not 😭 being spiritual ≠ being into drugs especially when his whole spiritual persona is a facade to help cope with his feelings and guilt for his past as a decepticon and also he had a substance abuse problem in the past like i feel he would be very cautious of that sort of thing especially because of, again, his feelings on his past actions with the decepticons

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

the whole “megatron is a revolutionary” particularly in mtmte like the way jro wrote it was just. bad. like the way it deals with idealism that just got away from him like that part in of itself isn’t wrong but there’s never any sort of acknowledgment in his redemption that he wanted ultimate power and control and didn’t care about anyone else like it’s always hand waved as “getting away from him” like it was a product of chaos and the manipulation of the decepticons around him supporting violence and not like. an active choice he continued to make again and again. it’s hard to take him seriously as a revolutionary figure too with all the exceptions the main cast are to the system he was fighting against like pretty much every character didn’t fit in the system anyway. the general concept itself isn’t awful like it is interesting but it just has not been made to work yet.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

the romance. im a firm believer that jro actually sucks at writing romance, like he can pump out one maybe two good scenes per couple but overall the romantic relationships are at best mid in canon.