#transformers discourse

[orion-nottson]

writing tfp megatron is honestly so difficult because while he is a charismatic, determined leader, eloquent, manipulative, disciplined, cunning, and a very very skilled warrior with expert battle prowess, he is also, fundamentally, the most unstable, unhinged 'con on the show. like think about it, megatron is prone to and embraces these violent fits of rage (i.e. the whole show), he's unbelievably and senselessly petty, has lapses in judgment and often makes poor or even irrational decisions (i.e. choosing starscream over dreadwing.......... starscream, feeding the nemesis dark energon, etc), he ultimately cares about no one but himself which is fine for a villain character, but is often logistically at the detriment to his own army, and he's a prideful, beyond arrogant, narrow-minded lunatic who has such an obsessive vendetta boner for one (1!) bot named *checks notes* optimus prime that he's willing to and often does shoot himself in the foot with the revenge-driven, power-hungry impulses that lead to him (and by extension, the entire decepticon army) failing in spectacularly bad ways! tfp megatron, for all of his strong qualities, is also so fucking impulsive and rash to his very core that it's nothing short of a miracle that the decepticon cause has existed for as long as it has. which makes writing him so so so paradoxical, because in one sentence i could, while staying in character, have him saying something so gothically poetic and in the next, realistically, have him do a 180 flip into a display of wrathful deceitfulness so intense it outburns the fucking sun. he's soooo interesting for this!!! like!!! take a pill!!! mood stabilizer!!!

[tmichelleotter]

Want to see my pretty dick cum 🍆💦

[drey-the-unwell]

How it feels to be a multishiper

I'm never hungry 💖

[cyberglyphs]

Who will win the fight for Optimus Prime's love? His canon girlfriend? His worst enemy who's tried to kill him multiple times?? His best friend??? The guy who screams a lot???? Place your bets now folks!!

(Commission for me by the very talented lextodrawstuff! Also, BONUS LMAO)

[stayregants]

If I was yours, what’s the first thing you’d do with me? 🥰

[comicaurora]

isn't the trope that referes to Magical Girls, Super Sentai/Power Rangers, Kamen Rider and the rest called "Henshin Hero"? ........now I am wondering what Red and Blue would look like as Henshin Heroes. XD

That does make sense, since I think that literally just means "Transforming Heroes"

[goosegooserevolution]

i want there to be real stupid in-universe transformers discourse like "war-frames can't play ranked first person shooters because they have built in aimbot"

[daisylamode]

wonder what’s got me smiling

[everestentertainments]

“Can’t believe Orion Pax took a bullet for a dictator” guys he didn’t do it on purpose 😭😭😭 he jumped in front of D-16 and fully expected him not to shoot. It was just bad timing.

Orion Pax would not purposely take a bullet for a dictator but he WILL fight his friend over how best and when to kill a dictator. It’s not that he didn’t want Sentinel to face consequences, it’s just that he thought his friend was making a rash, bad decision, and Sentinel’s fate got caught in the crossfire.

[orion-nottson]

bayverse optimus had such a fucking potential to be this fallen angel sort of hero and bayverse transformers could've changed so fundamentally and tragically and horrifically and brutally and yet here we are 😐 like wtf was the ancient aliens stonehenge the autobots fought in fucking the wars of the roses and bumblebee was an actual war criminal i guess conspiracy ass lore is this

[itscolliebean]

I would cum in your mouth on a first date 😋🏳️‍🌈🍆

[socalledcharlies-blog]

Y’all like my new jacket?

REBLOG 👈

On telegram @CharlieSocalled

[tsmsddie1356]

Wanna taste? 😇

[transformersconfessions]

What the fuck is wrong with writing an “oppressed becomes then oppressor narrative?” Why is it considered problematic? It’s fiction, it’s a good story

And it happens all the damn time irl too. Take this from someone whose family was torn apart by communism in China.

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[princesstarfire1234]

TLDR: I fucking despise ship art and fanfics that infantilize Orion Pax / Optimus Prime

Okay so I just wanna put my thoughts out here right now because I've not seen many people talk about it and it honestly bothers me a lot...

So, it's no secret that I ship MegOp and stuff right? I like and have reblogged a bunch of art of them before and I will keep doing so, but something about how this place (or more certain parts of the fandom) portray the ship gives me major icks and I fucking hate it so much

Detailed thoughts under cut ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Case in point, a massive part of the TFP fanbase likes to ship Orion and Megatronus and I get that, I get why people like shipping those two but it's the WAY they do it. A lot, not all, but most of the fanart surrounding Orion Pax and Megatronus is him being like the smaller and more submissive one of the relationship which fine, whatever, but most people just end up drawing him REALLY small like ik he's shorter than Megs who was a gladiator and all that and he was an archivist but jesus christ... Aside the size which is weird and all but it's really all about the rampant infantilization of the guy. When they remove all agency from the character and act like Orion is gonna fucking combust the moment someone confronts him or tries to fight him like no... I've not read Exodus but I don't think Orion being a nerdy book guy is gonna make him THAT soft, this is still the same mech who became PRIME like cmon

I don't know the exact words for it other than "infantilization" but like y'know what I mean right?? I'm not gonna name blogs but there's this one AU on here where Orion is blind and it has this cutesy artstyle which is fine but I vividly remember reading a comic on that AU where some thugs confront Orion and he's all like sobbing and shit and has to be saved by someone and it's... so you made him disabled and also a crybaby and absolutely incapable of anything??? Does that NOT give you an ick of sorts or seem weird??? God I don't even know anymore because I've seen many people seem to like that so I'm just scared I'm the weird one and wrong for this lmfao... Maybe there's smthn im not getting, you tell me

Anyways this post is getting real long, but this kind of "infantilization" also applies to certain fanarts of TFA MegOp, I always thought the ship was bordering on kind of strange (since TFA Optimus is like the equivalent of some 20-something college dropout and Megatron is implied to have been doing the war stuff way way way back like Ratchet's time) but I won't get into that, I just don't ship that certain brand of the characters myself, but it's fine, do what you want with it. Just know that I have seen art of those two where they treat TFA Optimus as this sort of incapable cutesy uwu boy (aaaghh)

So yeah.... hahahaha stop infantilizing characters and taking a ship where they're both grown ass big men and like straight up turning the other one into some weird ass incapable version of the character that lacks any and all agency and honestly bordering on being really icky as fuck, thank you, idc if you make Optimus the bottom or whatever, that's not what I mean, cya ✌️

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

unpopular opinion: i love all starscream ships as long as he's not with megatron LMAO