#again i love starscream

[cosmics-beings]

i feel like, in attempting to pin a single "ultimately guilty party" between starscream and megatron, people seem to miss that their story is one of the cycle of abuse. they both perpetrate violence that they were exposed to, as a result of or way to cope with their own trauma. this is a very real phenomenon. i still remember when i was about nine or ten and realized that my abuser's mother was also like that, and he was probably just repeating the way he was raised. its not an excuse for any parties involved. people can be both victims and perpetrators of abuse and neither role diminishes the other. their own abuse is still traumatizing, and the abuse they inflict on others is also still traumatizing. you cant pin one person in the cycle as "ultimately at fault" and absolve everyone else of guilt. people are more complicated than that.

also yeah i bet if nova and fem!skywarp were TC and masc!skywarp like in the og, people would be like nooo how can he treat his trine that way-- but people dont care about nova and fem!warp. they see starscream mistreating them and just shrug. fans have a problem with being unable to assign interiority to female characters unless guided there, so i suspect fans are just... not thinking about how that treatment would affect the girls. if it were a male character being mistreated they'd go "nooo he's gonna let that affect his self worth" or something but fans never really do this for female characters, they just take everything at face value. like oh she was kicked. huh. hey starscream is on screen again

I think ultimately, this is exactly what Earthspark is trying to do, I just don't really think the fandom caught that, which would be okay if there weren't a lot of harmful thoughts being perpetrated that skewed victims.

This is why, despite people being upset that Megatron has a redemption arc in Earthspark, I'm glad he does. Because he is also an abuse victim, he has to live with the trauma, and now he is breaking that cycle or can, in his own way. Because now he also has support and family. He doesn't have to fight, he doesn't have to exist in an abusive dynamic or relationship. He's free.

Likewise, Starscream is also breaking that cycle. But it only works if you acknowledge it. That's why I absolutely hated people attempting to argue away the fact that Starscream were abusive to Skywarp and Nova, because this is a cycle of abuse, that needs to be broken and you cannot sit there and try to act like it doesn't happen.

Because the wider part of the episode is that both Megatron and Starscream, who were victims of abuse and hurt each other, and other people, literally DECIDED to end it there. I think that Earthspark is trying to show us that, that abuse is far more complex, especially when you have two people who are victims of abuse and acting out because of it.

They both decided to stop, and to do better. And in order for that to work, you have to also acknowledge that it's a cycle and in a cycle, everyone is to blame when they start hurting others. This isn't excusing Megatron and it's certainly not excusing Starscream.

and :Re the misogyny regarding skywarp and nova--it just gets me really upset. Because it was a teaching moment and the fandom missed it. not only did they miss it they tried to explain away why that was okay, why him treating them the way he did (which is probably something starscream did for YEARS!) was okay. Like again, that is the cycle that is being perpetrated that you literally cannot ignore or attempt to excuse. And it was such a perfect teaching moment for the fans and they ignored it.

Most fandoms, no matter how progressive they claim to be aren't really going to care about female characters especially if they're used in a male character's narrative. Hashtag is usually just reduced to propping up Starscream, and Nova and Warp are just seen as extension of his narrative, which is literally what happens with female character.

The episode was spelled out plain as day that the way he treated them wasn't okay and he needed to be held accountable, but like you said, people just shrugged.

[epicfirestormer]

(holds all three in my hands) I just think they're neat

[whaliiwatching]

he’s talking abt seeker constellation myths

[loserrofthecentury]

My Goddd Starscream was so trifling Soundwave killed them. I love them sm

My toxic yuri

[omnipotentgarlicbread]

Just something for in between the ask Breakdown series

[trashhole]

Yet another starbee dump (and some sad memes I made)

My friends called this “schröingers kiss”. Maybe I’ll paint it later (or not)

Made this one while listening to “the land is inhospitable and so are we”. Heaven is such a good track, mitski is such a great artist.

This one’s a meme lol

I don’t really like this next one but I spent way too long on it so it goes in the dump

It’s also a meme lol

Here’s more memes I made since I am the funniest ever/j

[peak-dumbass]

For a show that has 3 times as much villains as it does heroes you’d think I’d make one of these for them awhile ago the problem is I don’t care about any of them nearly as much as I do the main cast (if you couldn’t tell by my other posts)

[windydrawallday]

Another "Thank You" doodle! I'm not putting names: each one will know what they contributed to make me gather the courage to do this x)

[fleshandwires]

she's so important to me (crying sobbing)

[zyanova]

I've finally acquired a Bayscream to join my Seeker ranks!!

[transingthoseformers]

Hot Rod: so I fucked with the engines and then there was this big BOOM from across the ship, and—

Ratchet: you fucked with the engines??? Why would you do that??

Hot Rod: to piss Optimus off

Ratchet:

Hot Rod: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[epicfirestormer]

Will never get over how Starscream and Skyfire's relationship is always doomed. There's never an iteration of them where they both stay on the same side at the end. They always end up being against each other, tearing each other apart (whether intentionally or not). They always end up losing each other, be it by a snowstorm, by the war, or by death itself. They never receive a happy ending together, one if not both of them is doomed to suffer.

Skyfire is doomed to be an Autobot, by forces out of his control. Starscream is doomed to be an Decepticon, by his own self destructive tendencies. They are both doomed, because of who they are. They always try to save the other, in their own way. But it never works. They are doomed to fail, whether they stay together or not.

[whaliiwatching]

cozy color..

[ily-cheetah]

forgot to post this but here is a very quick doodle of the bishoujo transformers. they are girlfriends.....

[cosmics-beings]

i miss writing for predastar. there is something just lovely and poetic about two people who were hurt healing together and escaping violence. and it would be a great redemption story for starscream to understand that even if he himself was hurt, he shouldn't have treated others the way he was treated. and i think that predaking, being someone who was hurt by the decepticons, and megatron and also believed in them, would also learn to heal and accept starscream.

i just have these positive vibes for two broken people who have both only been shown and only use violence seeing a better side of each other and healing.

[trashhole]

Starbee photo ops

They’re like Barbie’s to me < 3

@leefyberrybread ‘s little guy (we love gambling 💀)

Photo op!!!

Went to a yakuza pop up shop for my friend @eareyesyrup , it was very fun!

Saw oppy a few times at the store I found star!! Ironically there was a bee I could’ve bot too but I already had him so I seperated starbee…

Hmgffff i want her bad but she was sold out at the gatcha machine (i have no idea who this is)

New art soon hopefully, LA wore me out!