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Genuinely curious but is it okay to ask why you don't like ko/bd esp compared to other canon tf ships? (I'm personally neutral abt them since i only watched tfp as a kid & when they appeared in idw i was just 🤷 )

Is it okay to ask? Anon this is you and me right now

It’s been many years since I’ve watched the show, so I’m going to put a disclaimer on everything I’m recalling in this post by saying that I could be recalling incorrectly, but also I remember I specifically tried and FAILED to put my shipping goggles on for KOxBD when I did my tfp rewatch back in (oh lord) 2015 after not having watched the show since it aired. And I was only REAFFIRMED in my stance that: Oh. There’s nothing interesting here. They genuinely read as coworkers to me. There is no compatibility to expand upon that seems interesting. I do not get it and it does NOT compel me.

Knock Out as a character before Breakdown dies was presented as wholly selfish and self-interested. The way he is presented in fan works with Breakdown is almost always antithetical to that. One of the favorite KOxBD crumbs people I remembered people liking; the “this was so much easier with Breakdown around” line when Knock Out is trying to wax his back, read more to me about how Breakdown’s absence is an inconvenience to him. There didn't seem to be any deep affection there, no pinning - nothing really even hinting at anything more. Knock Out is a sultry character by nature but I swear he flirted more with Optimus than he did with Breakdown. And meanwhile Breakdown was hitting on Arachnid lmao. Which to be fair, I’m not going to pretend that a man hitting on a woman has stopped me from shipping them with another man, but again, there was nothing with his dynamic with Knock Out that provided anything interesting to expand upon. I recall him having next to no thoughts on it outside their battles. His somewhat affable demeanor when he talked to the Vehicons wasn’t even really seen in the show with Knock Out as far as I remember. He died before anything could even hope to be interesting with them.

And then MEANWHILE in fanon world, it feels like its yaoi clichés all the way down. Which makes complete sense if you believe there’s nothing interesting in their dynamic to start with, since yaoi clichés can fill in the pieces when you want to slam two hot guys together and stand in for their personalities.  Granted I haven’t bothered to read any fanfiction with them in the spotlight (that I remember) and the clichés I’m picking up were mostly gleaned through fanart, but it all goes back to there not being an interesting enough dynamic for me to want to read fanfic in the first place. Compare to my tfp underdog ship, Knock Out/Starscream where the KOxSS moments seem so plentiful and interesting. Type in “Knock Out Breakdown” into youtube. You get a video “Knock Out and Breakdown teaming up”, a five minute video where they hardly even talk to each other, with Knock Out giving Breakdown the FYI that he left a battle with all the gravitas of a coworker saying sorry that he’s leaving you on shift but he’s clocking out for his smoke break.  

But type in “Knock Out Starscream” and you get “knockout and starscream being disaster ‘friends’ for 11 minutes” (air quotes included) where they microaggress each other, scheme together, interact as doctor/patient, scheme some more, try to beat each other up, trade barbs non-stop, BUMBLE their way through fighting zombies, and betray each other all the time. It’s soooo much fun. And hell, this video has the best KOxBD moment as far as I’m concerned, with the whole “you’re no Breakdown” line when they’re having their moment hiding from the zombies. But that line, like most KOxBD, felt like a barely there conjecture within the show. I didn’t get to see how Breakdown compared to Starscream such that Knock Out would say a line like that. As far as I recall, even with my yaoi goggles on, Knock Out and Breakdown in the show barely DO anything together.

And in the end I’m mostly 🤷 about it too - except for SOMEHOW the ship is popular enough to be winning tf yaoi polls left and right, getting them in IDW as a real couple, getting people to fanon Wildbreak as their child because he kinda looks like them, and having people mention Knock Out’s name in relation to Earthspark!Breakdown even though ES!Breakdown feels more G1 inspired and has his GREAT thing with Bumblebee, and I’m just like. Enough. Be serious.

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🤖- What got you into TF?

🔪- Character you would Kill if you could.

🤍- Fav Neutral or Obscure Character?

🤖- What got you into TF?

Me: *after seeing and enjoying the 2007 movie because I was a dumb fourteen year old, and then seeing a commercial for TFA on cartoon network months later*: "pfttt, I can't believe they took the COOL transformers from that movie and make it into some goofy cartoon for kids!" <-idiot who knows NOTHING and is about to get her world fucking rocked.

🔪- Character you would Kill if you could.

As a story telling choice I completely understand why the outcome of Megatron's trial is left ambiguous, and narratively within the confines of the Lost Light book it works. But also? That guy is fuckin dead. In-story I'd fuckin kill that guy.

Also honorary mention because they already actually got killed but. The way Kaon got killed was sooooo satisfying to me. Not only because Revenge for what he did to Trailbreaker. Because also of how some people in the fandom were boohooing about their imagined DJD found family that was now ruined since Tarn killed him. I want to relive what those fans crying did for my skin, and if I could I'd kill him all over again.

🤍- Fav Neutral or Obscure Character?

I'm trying to scale my definition of obscure here. I feel like real hardcore tf fans are naming some repaint only released in 2009 or some comic book character only from Dreamwave. Meanwhile I'm like. Well does Heatwave from Rescue Bots count? What about Vector Prime, is that Obscure enough? The only neutral I can think of off the top of my head is Metalhawk, and he was like, fine I guess. I remember his thing with Starscream as interesting...

I'm gonna say Override, from Cybertron. She was really fun, and if there was justice in this world she would be in the evergreen rotation of Girl Transformers that always get into the current transformers cartoons (currently Arcee, Elita, and now Windblade). As it is I'd love for her to show up in anything else at all.

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I saw a post about the brain stuff, and did I see Kadewave? R you a Kadewave..I am looking for MY SPECIES! IM Kadewave person, too.

Hello fellow kadewave shipper

While I don't post about kadewave with regular frequency these days (that post was a draft leftover from 2018), may I also direct you to my kadewave tag for shitposting as well as my actual kadewave tag for your perusal. kadewave is still very near and dear to my heart. I love it.

Also I will give shoutouts to two of my beloved mutuals as parts of those dozens: @roboromantic as a shipper I am forever shaking hands with (neir kadewave tag) and also @asveri (aka @verit) as a retired comrade on the kadewave battlefield (their kadewave tag)

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🛳️ A fic that brought you aboard a new ship

Thou Which Art But Air for Q/Jean-Luc Picard oh my goddddd.

in the Star Trek Next Gen theyre just kind of haha. a little funny. Q, this chaotic neutral god-like being, purposefully being annoying and flirting (to be even more annoying) all to get a rise out of the more even-tempered Jean-luc. haha isnt it funny. and I don't even mean this in a "oh they were queerbaiting haha knife emoji" way. Like it was genuinely funny dynamic. enjoyable to watch. nothing serious there to me.

AND THIS FIC IS LIKE. SURPRISE BITCH. WHAT IF THAT, BUT SUBTLY ALTERED TO WHERE IT IS HEARTRENDERING. what if there is (to quote the author) "realism and angst, but a satisfying ending"

there is SUCH a tension in this fic as their real friendship builds. and not even a sexual tension (they dont even kiss on the mouth in this), but an emotional one. its so good. my god. the scene at picard's retirement party. the scene with Q taking picard to planet and its one tree. picard driving in space for months toward that planet. so many scenes live in my head RENT FREE. the way picard ages and q becomes his friend I just. Augh. It's sooo good man. it made me realize qcard could be MORE than haha funny. that it could be real.

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Scam blog.

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blorbo bingo dean winchester, i need to see you throttle that bingo card

HI THANK YOU

The thing is that when a show runs for fifteen years a blorbo can form MANY facets

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Hiyah! Im so sorry for thisnbeing direct! 🥹🙏 please do give me a chance and read what im about to ask 😭

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Scam blog. Blocked and reported. Again.

Explanation.

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get crabbed <3

thank you <3 i will love and appreciate every crab 😊

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Ideally all babygirl conmen with a heart of gold should have a judgemental liquid or gaseous freak hanging around to argue with them. Ideal dynamic

SO true anon. Citation: this post. People want that IDEAL dynamic for their ship. they want what quodo has. And ekurei has it too.

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Hey nice scam. Really sucks you taking advantage of people with posts like this, especially when it makes people distrust real blogs asking for real aid. Blocked and reported, bye.

Explanation for anyone that doubts.

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Where can you watch the graduation event ?

I'm so sorry anon, but by "catching up" I simply meant opening my twitter for the first time in months and scrolling through a bunch of livetweeting threads to absorb it through osmosis. People had to pay to watch it so if there's a VOD somewhere it's probably sequestered away as a link in some discord.

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🔥 anything about transformers (but not about ko/bd :P)

Oh you sniped the easy answer lol

Here’s one that I think is pretty up there: I don’t really like Ratchet? Across pretty much all continuities. I don’t even know exactly how this happened… he’s basically Robot McCoy, and McCoy is a great character.

I think because it’s a combo of his archetype (curmudgeonly medic) being pretty played out (see McCoy comparison above) and there being some continuities where he does things that are beyond that archetype that I didn’t really like. Like after my first real experience with a Ratchet (tfa Ratchet, my favorite Ratchet to this day) I was like, thanks, had my fill of that. And then other continuities had the things I didn’t like, mainly… being shipped with Optimus in tfp and with Drift in mtmte lol. Sorry Ratchet, you’re the triangle leg I don’t prefer. The mtmte one especially sits with me because of how Rodimus got shafted in characterization, even though that has nothing really to do with Ratchet. Again, sorry Ratchet.

And people loooove this guy. And I’m like. He’s fine I guess. Never my favorite.

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i went to your blog because you asked so nicely and clicked on your real about page and had a good old laugh xD

that has been there for AGES, for YEARS. like since I first changed to this theme in 2016.

and its still the realest about me there could be.

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may I please use that markiplier edit over that rescue bots image and put it in a post on my art instagram? credit will be given! thanks in advance!

Sorry, for the late reply, go for it!! I dont have an instagram so it would never end up there otherwise, and the way I think about rescue bots every night is WELCOME to be spread to the masses.

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That's totally fair! Not intending to clown, just wanted to offer a viewpoint. Thanks for the thoughts and have a great day!

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Women want/love men more than they love themselves to the point of sadomasochism and self destruction. And tolerating bad and abusive behaviour in a miserable relationship rather than being single, because dyeing alone with cats is worse than being chained to “live with a guy who abuses you" or "be abandoned when you get sick" or "feel alone yet never have solitude" or "be gaslit for wanting validation, love, and consideration" apparently? Chained to a guy who sees her worth as less than his

Anon this is a wendys