#kinda megaop

[tftessa]

He is kinda...

shameless promotion for my tiktok account at this point theheh

[kingfranpetty]

Yandere Transformers.

[hercarisntyours]

aw man i just got this really cool gun it sure would be a shame if i shot my best friend situation ship with it

[koukouture]

Tf community I love you but sometimes ya’ll are so fucking boring-

Like, when you’re making your own continuities do you really have to make Megatron and Optimus’ backstories the same EVERY. SINGLE. TIME???? So many creative avenues and you ALWAYS choose gladiator/miner turned influential speaker and academic who seeks to improve the world. Come on man.

[barb-being-mentally-ill]

Day 5: Sharing a meal/Hands

So I went with hands and my selling pitch is; So the day 5, op is dead, megs is tired af and then in a moment of absolute darkness comes in op ghostly form to comfort him(delousion or fr, doesn’t matter).

And megs feels his hands gently holding his face and he is just done, and has this borderline worshipful expression, finally seeing his beloved after a lifetime of darkness

And perhaps I didn’t nail the expression but this an experimental painting and a departure from what I usually do, so I would call it a win 🤷

Here’s the sketch and I would call it “concept art” for this piece

[spreadwardiard]

I miss when tumblr fandoms felt like little communities. It was so fun. You'd make a blog and start reblogging, and pretty soon, you had a few friends who liked the same stuff. I know I'm not the only megaop obsessed person on this site. Where's the community at? Does anyone actually talk to anyone anymore, or am I just the odd one out? Do I need to make a discord server? Is there just someplace else everyone is hanging out that I just don't know about? Are my takes just not cool enough? Are my fics too out there? Do I not create enough content? I feel like I'm doing something wrong. It's been almost a year, and i still haven't found the megaop community here.

[cosmics-beings]

I wanted to make a post like this for a while, but since i was asked the question i can make it here!

i'm also speaking as an actual black person....so if you don't like these conversations where black people speak on black issues and how we feel, then just ignore this.

So in the past, yeah I agreed with this but my opinion has kinda changed with TF One.

However, I am still extremely uncomfortable seeing depictions of Black human formers Megatron because most of it, especially in ship art is extremely racist and relies on racist stereotypes of black men being abusive, violent, and problematic when his partners are drawn white or lightskinned (i see this all the time in megastar and megaop art. megatron is portrayed as the huge brutal black man and starscream/optimus are the small white twinks who are being beaten by him - it's gross and racist but for some reason it's common).

In general, I think it can be harmful to make a slave character, who inevtibly turns into a genocidal war lord and a generally awful person, a black person (even with his redemption arcs). it also racializes slavery, when we know that slavery doesn't have a race, and Megatron himself is a gladiator. Gladiators are slaves, and one of the most famous gladiators was from Thracia. This again is mostly a fan issue, because I at least have always seen Megatron coded as white in the comics and in the shows. In many depictions, he has a European accent, voiced by white European people (posh english lmao, or in ES Scottish).

That said, in TF One, I'm willing to let it slide. That's because Megatron isn't the only slave. Optimus, who is voiced by a white man, is also a slave, as is Elita, and Bumblebee. I think you know, not racializing slavery and having this notion that slave = black by default, is what makes it okay.

I still wouldn't feel super comfortable seeing Black megatron fanart because again, none of the depictions have been good in my opinion, as a Black person. And i mean none of them, and I do wonder where the thought in this fandom came from that making a person who canonically is violent and aggressive, was okay, just because he happened to be a slave. It is a far too common trope that I see in fanfic and fanfart, especially again...in a shipping sphere.

But I think TF One is able to balance it out, and since this is D-16, he is. a lot calmer, kinder, etc. I think things can get in muddy area when he eventually does turn into Megatron and he becomes the genocidal tyrant we all know and love....especially when you make the black one of the group the one who chooses violence whereas the white voices ones don't.

but who knows? My opinions are ever changing depending on how things are handled.

if you disagree with this, that's fine just do so respectfully and i mean at least be black

[swerves-high-grade-supply]

[delicioustarong]

OKAY-- I FINALLY FOUND THE TIME TO READ THIS AND OMFGGGGGG RJ BFJDBF THIS CHAPTER DID NOT DISAPPOINTTTTTTT.

I love so many scenes I can't choose any!! I love the Trine Seekers here, Skywarp's and Thundercracker's POV was MWAUH!! I lowkey love all three's powers(? I forgot the term-- BUT ANYWAYS--) STARSCREAM'S SONIC BLAST, SKYWARP'S LONG AND SHORT DISTANCE WARPING (teleportatiooon is such a cool ability) AND THUNDERCRACKER'S ELECTRIC ABILITIES!! IT'S SO COOL I LOVE IT! Artemis really made use of that! Speaking of powers-- THE PRIMES ARE SO OVERPOWERED IT'S COOL ASFFFF.

Solaris' ability to control A LOT of spears in hus subspace was so 🤯 THE SCENE I IMAGINED WHILE READING THAT PART IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE DOODLED. AND ARTEMIS AND THUNDERCRACKER'S AWESOME COMBO.

This fic got me kicking and giggling on my feet! It's part of my top 5! Now that those gigga class are destroyed, all that's left is to protect the spacebridge (groundbridge? I keep confusing the two) I can't wait to see how this act ends! And how will Solaris and Artemis escape HAHHAHAHAHA. They managed to escape undetected at first due to plain ol luck, but now they're probably going to shock everyone by just-- opening a groundbridge and noping outta there. Man this fic really hypes me up

HYDRAX IS STILL UNDER ATTACK! but dont worry! SOLARIS AND ARTEMIS PRIME ARE ON IT!

[transformersconfessions]

Transformer ship names are actually kinda dumb and we only have a few good ones

Jazzprowl....JAZZPROWL.....

Texaid (Vortex x First Aid)....idk why that doesn't work in my brain

Anything with Optimus is just [name]OP or OP[name] (MegaOP, JazzOP, OPlita, etc)

Blurr x Swerve is...well, I think they're referred to as "Fullmetal bartenders" ONLY BECAUSE THE NAME WOULD BE LIKE BLURVE OR SMTH

I feel like the only ship names that really work are Dratchet (Drift x Ratchet), Skystar (Skyfire x Starscream) and Redfire (Red Alert x Jetfire/Skyfire)

There's probably more but I ship too...many...rare pairs to actually find names... because barely enough people ship them to come up with names...

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[tired-lamb]

happy pride month!!

some of my mutuals may recall me asking them their pride flags, and maybe even their favourite characters in the month of may. well, the reason was that I’ve been preparing gifts for you all for pride! and so, I now present, your pride flags colourpicked from your favourite characters or ships :D!

@spinnysocks — for my favourite canine croc friend, I present a nonbinary flag colourpicked from janja, a genderqueer flag colourpicked from kiburi, and an aroace flag colourpicked from both janja and kiburi! the first two flags are my pride gift to you, and the third one is my early bday gift to you!! :3

@devilsrecreation — for my most creative friend, I present two versions of an aromantic flag colourpicked from kenge, and an asexual flag colourpicked from ushari!

@peacefulemoyearnings — for my friend to whom I am a pocket gremlin (>:3) I present two versions of a bisexual flag colourpicked from caitvi! :D

@hyperfixated-maybe — for my partner in crime, I present two versions of a transgender flag colourpicked from makuu, and an aroace flag colourpicked from zazu!

@valentinbelleyh505 — for my mutual whose an extremely talented artist, I present two versions of a bisexual flag colourpicked from binga and bunga, and a transgender flag colourpicked from bittergiggle!

@secretly-larry-daley — for my first ever cars mutual and my go-to buddy for mcmater, I present two versions of a genderfluid flag colourpicked from wavewave, and a pansexual flag colourpicked from mcmater! sorry the mcmater one looks kinda weird :’)

@kei-maki — for my second ever cars mutual, and someone I’ve heard a LOT about from percy x], I present two versions of a librafluid flag colourpicked from megaop, and a greysexual flag colourpicked frok lightning x francesco! I wasn’t sure what your favourite tf ship was so I had to do some hunting from both your and percy’s blog— sorry if I got it wrong fhdkdj /gen.

incase any of you wanna use these flags, I’ll be sending them as seperate images in your inbox soon!! hope you enjoy these, and once again, happy pride <33

[paintsplash1712]

Kinda want to do some Humanformers Megaops art but trying to designing hair and clothes around what's clearly meant to be armour is harder then I thought!

[leafy-yezi]

Who do you ship more? Shockop or megaop?

It`s kinda just 'the exboyfriend who made you as you are now' or 'the current enemy who understands you better then anyone' situation for Op.

[megatrons-husband]

Hello, I just saw this in the tags and wanted to add my own input. I am an abuse survivor and also a megastar shipper. Megastar is one of my tops, and that’s because they are both abuse victims and I see myself through both of them. When I ship them, I generally ship them as healing past the abuse and trauma they’ve both been through and make them happy, and able to heal and grow together, I always felt that if I was able to see those two heal and be happy, and being victims of abuse (megatron abused thru slavery, starscream abused thru megatron) then I would be able to heal myself. Being able to portray megatron and starscream break the cycle of abuse makes me happy in a way and even tho we don’t get it canonically, I try and portray it with what I write. 

I do agree a lot of depictions of megastar are extremely abusive, esp tfp depictions. I myself don’t really interact with fandom content that makes them out to be abusive. I do admit that there are a lot of people who glorify the abuse in the ship and that was a reason I just, didn’t interact with the fan version of it. At the end of the day, each to their own but I resonate with this answer. 

I agree with everything you said and I think you offered a very kind and nuanced answer. 

That said, at the end of the day I think that most all transformers ships have the ability to be priorship or abusive and it always irks me or at least, saddens me when people just go after megastar shippers. I mean, despite being an abuse survivor myself and going out of my way to portray the ship in a unique way to me, Ive had people tell me to kill myself. I remember there was a megastar story board artist who worked on Earthspark, and people were telling her to kill herself and to get hit by a bus. Ive realized that in the tf fandom it’s like ‘okay’ to harass megastar shippers even this elf us who don’t ship the ship in an abusive way, but other shippers tend to be exempt from this,.

lIKE I also like MegaOP, but MegaOp also has incredibly abusive foundations too. Especially TFP MegaOP, where Megatron quite literally took advantage of Optimus when he had no memories and just in general, some of the things he’s done to Optimus, short of torturing him and even killing and hurting his friends just o hurt him, are abusive and reminds me of things that happened to me. And people tend to romanticize that, and call them like ‘crazy husbands’ or exes or something like that, and I realize that it’s so common to romanticize the abuse in MegaOP, just like proshippers do, but its’ almost never called out the same way megastar is. Hell, some of the people bashing Megastar are the same people who think it’s romantic when Optimus is gettin beat and nearly killed by Megatron, or when Megatron kills and hurts those close to Optimus.

I don’t mean to rant to you, I just noticed how ship hate and suicide baiting is so acceptable to do to megastar shippers. It’s so common, even if we *don’t* ship the ship in an abusive way. And there aren’t that many megastar shippers compared to others. It’s a very isolating experience because I realize this fandom is ‘friendly’ until people have double standards over a ship you like. Like i said, I'm an actual abuse survivor, and in a place where I still have to live with my abuser, so writing megatron and starscream working thru their own traumas and loving one another is kinda healing to me. BUT being told to kill myself over it, sometimes by popular bloggers in the TF fandom, and then seeing them glorify abuse in other ships is not fun.

SORRY i just wanted to send this to you because i agree with your ask. originally i was gonna respond to your post but i was anxious

Ok first i would like to say your absolutely AMAZING. You are a poet becuse this is the most accurate opinion of transformers ships ive seen in awhile, twitter users a shakering is there boots right know!! And your view of megastar is perfect and the way you described your writings of them sounds amasing and a great and healthy way to potray them, also i very glad that it helps you. : ] And just puting this out there as a abuse survivor to i get you. Id like to touch on megop to since you mentioned it! Iam not going hate anyone fore it because once again to each there own, but i hate the double stander for megstar shipers, when megop is just as bad! People really need to understand that both have the opportunity to be awful horribly portrayed ships, or beautiful heartfelt relationship with great story telling! And one last thing that i would like to add is when you said that ever transformers ship has the opportunity to be proship, and yes i agree strongly with this. the transformers fandom has a very bad problem of fetishizing relationship and just around makeing really bad and gross ships. But something id like to say is some ships will never be heathy, and cant be. There are some ships that are just gross and overall cant be labled as anything other than proship. For instance, somthing that makes me absolutely sick is people who ship overlord and Fortress Maximus, specifically there idw/mtmte portrayals. A little background if some have never read the comics, Fortress Maximus was a warden at this prison basically and overlord came a over ran the place, killing tons of bot and taking many captive. Maximus was one of said bots and overlord wanted some information that only Maximus had and for 3 and a half years torture, abused, and lobotomized him. The amont of trama that Maximus gained from that, form overlord, alone should show how awful of a ship it is to began with. There is no way that it could be written to be heathy for either bot because its shown alot just how much Maximus HATES Overlords guts. But iam a stop there, or iam a write a hole essay. Thank you for shareing your opinion on the matter! It was really well written!! Hope you have a good day or night! :]

[cryptidkitteh]

Megaop thought asdfghj

I think it's kinda funny whenever someone makes a megaop kid, because that means the war is a literal custody battle asdfghj

[tboyquackity]

STARSCREAM 👊 and megatron

WOWWWW HI HANDSOME ycome here often omg♡♡♡ anything for you forever wow are you single can i shoot my shot please please please please please please please please pl

• how i feel about this character:

STARTING W STARSCREAM since that's what she would want ☝️ i like her so so bad she's like easily skyrocketed to my top ten characters of all time list. he's my hater he's my silly goose he's my mass murderer he's my baby cat lost in the rain that everyone bullies for no reason AT ALL she's a murderer. fantastic in every version and she should kill more people smile

• all the people i ship romantically with this character:

whale......i must admit that i'm so so fond of megastar what a DEEPLY FUNNY and weird dynamic. yes i hate you sm yr annoying yr always trying to kill me yr my special little second in command above anybody and you're the main one i choose to WIELD ME IN MY GUN FORM? MY MOST VULNERABLE? yes i hate you so bad i will usurp you i will wield you at your most vulnerable with no issues and completely turn my back on my old life and closest friend for HARMING YOU AND OUR CAUSE??? shut up bro they should keep being weird and maybe even eat eachother idk thts the dynamic i much prefer....like i just mentioned starop is also v v cute and i like starbee :] windstar. jetstar. maybe he can make out w smone else too idk sky's the limit

• non romantic otp:

TRINE NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD CUTEST IN THE WORLD ULTIMATE FOREVER. they should be annoying and attached at the hip and hitting eachother with steel beams i don't wanna hear anything else. in general ig starscream has sm enemies that this is a littol harder to expand upon in a way i want to but just insert a funny enemy dynamic here too. him and soundwave and shockwave all hating eachother for being mean smartasses and for megatron's approval is literally unstoppable

• unpopular opinion abt this character:

this isn't unpopular idk what my unpopular onion would even be the tf fandom too vast...i do think she's transfem like on a v textual level smile go my hater (second scarab reference) she's uhh trigender transfem :] to me. boy girl smthing else. i also think it's wack how often she's treated as uniquely evil fr sm shit other characters do all the time. wahhh she's so cowardly in g1 UNLIKE G1 MEGATRON? 😭 she's so evil unlike shockwave the serial torturer. and don't even get me started w skybound lately the soundwave glaze is like killing me. legit seeing people i go i can't believe starscream did this 🥺 unlike soundwave my inoccent hearted sweetpea. YOU MEAN THE GUY DOING THE SAME THINGS NEXT TO HER? rock w thundercracker if you want what yr imagining. don't speak don't piss me off. get mad at her for sm shit she actually did.

• one thing i wish would/had happened in canon:

idk :] kindness and respect. for her. also she should make out w more people. also also i think she should become legitimate lord of cybertron and she ends up doing a pretty good job like she's still vain and wants a lot of praise but people give it to her because she like Is doing well for the planet. the only true ending i'll accept

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• how i feel about this character:

I LIKE HER TERRIBLY what a weirdo :] well written great presence another banger of a character who's staple in pop culture is well earned. go my radicalized exploited class

• all the people i ship romantically with this character:

again megastar weirdness prevails for me that's my numbah one...megaop also fantastic which i mentioned before uhh her shit with rodimus is interesting frm what i hear. i do think he's a bit of a prude in general yk has a kinda ohh i'm so BUSY being a WARLORD i won't stoop to your gay bar visits starscream but that mfer is lying for sure...i think he gets around but his romantic partner style rotation is like 3 people yk how it is on cybertron

• non romantic otp:

i ♡ decepticons deeply funny group of people all standing in a circle watching acid melt through the floor it's fantastic. rodimus and those freaks are apparently v interesting as well and i'm excited to read it :]

• unpopular opinion abt this character:

UHHH idk again idk how unpopular you can get in this big ass fanbase w sm versions but again again. i prefer when the conflict is more equal and not just yk dictator blahblah thts just my preference. me saying bring back his gun form is also not an unpopular onion erm....he's bigender he/she.

• one thing i wish would/had happened in canon:

again in my head my beautiful tf ending is things escalate they have to fight unicron that's their final arc thing and everybody has to join forces for the good of their people...they all win w massive casualties but in the ruins band together and THAT'S optimus' time to strike and they make out i mean make out i mean make up and yk all that. ithink he gets what sm would call a slap on the wrist for his war crimes but at this point who on cybertron hasn't shot at prisoners. and starscream makes him her advisor as like a weird power play thing and they spend meetings going no youuuuu don't know what yr talking abt. lollll ♡. and people go erm. should we be here. and she gets the cape from shattered glass that shit is heat.