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GET HIS ASS RATCHET

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Ive only ever felt motivated to paint consistenyly thanks to these guys

(holomatter designs based on @/notwhelmedyet)

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a fish a bird and just a girl

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LOVE AND KINDNESS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And who's gonna love you if it isn't me?

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“You shouldn’t glorify violence in your stories” well I’m glorifying it. Sexualizing it even.

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The internet is such a beautiful haunted echoey warehouse

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my main criticism about a lot of takes on prowl is that a lot of these people have NOT read the entirety of IDW and it shows. And it especially shows when people get into Prowl as a character through shipping with JazzProwl because Jazzprowl fics and media are very choosy when it comes to taking from their IDW characterizations. I cannot stress ENOUGH how wildly different they are in the IDW source material from fan content, and how the Jazzprowl dynamic originated from G1- not because they had an interesting storyline or cool interactions, but because people liked the laid-back officer x uptight cop trope. People don't take from G1 as often as they do now, but there's a million AUs about this exact dynamic. I won't get too into the extremely racist undertones in a lot of Jazzprowl fan media but it is *unbelievably* present especially when people like to start Jazz off as an 'untrustworthy' character that Prowl arrests/gets into a fight with/has to 'chase down'. Transformers in general is. really bad on the racism front lmao. I've found that though a lot of people genuinely do understand Prowl’s themes(!), their actual takeaways are very superficial. In content where Prowl is of some central focus people like to paint him with more sympathetic qualities, which can work well! To a point! But at some point- especially when Prowl starts getting written as an antihero, misunderstood and hated for shallow reasons- the responsibility he has to take for his actions gets very very diluted. And Prowl's themes are huge on responsibility.

They're also huge on his near-authoritarian use of power, tendency to endanger innocent people, what have you. People reeeally need to understand that Prowl isn't originally written to be likeable, he's written as a plain bureaucratic asshole in a highly political story. He's also a cop car. It isn't a coincidence one of the biggest Autobot symbols for corruption in IDW is a cop car. By shifting the motive of his actions to be overly sympathetic by saying he's just doing what he thinks is right and he's saving others by abandoning his moral code not only are you failing to write a good criticism on political power (and what it can do to an individual!) in general, but you miss a fundamental part of Prowl and what is, most likely, what made him appealing to you in the first place. sorry. this got out of hand. I think I was going to write a bit criticism about how people take ships and sacrifice what made a character's themes good for angst content that just reads as an original story that could be made with any other character from the media. I lost the thread. you know what sure just make jazzprowl forever. you don't have to engage with these characters in any meaningful way and create a brand new Villainous Initially-Untrustworthy Jazz and ignore the very obvious criticism of police that is prowl. who gaf

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i’ll color the last one maybe. one day.

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Lil comic thingy and a wip of Jazz and prowl (Jazz was kinda a scribbly mess so i drew a lil jazz instead for now)

Wow scavenger that’s a big catch ya got there

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rips my shirt open to reveal a second shirt underneath that says I ❤️ STICKING MY FINGERS IN THE OPEN WOUND OF CATHARTIC RELEASE

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hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

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diagram of hubris fig. 1 a fallen angel

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Thots on the Pope

So the pope has thots now