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pleuvoire · 8 months ago

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i feel embarrassed saying this about a fanfic writer who like, apparently helped actually found ao3 and has posted plenty of cringe on their profile, but astolat's transformers fics are some of my favorite transformers media ever, on par with and possibly even outstripping(?) mtmte, and my number one inspiration forever when it comes to writing robots. i'm always rereading them

#they definitely outstrip mtmte in the politics area #mtmte has a better take on the ''megatron used to be a revolutionary'' trope than the ''he was a RADICAL and that was BAD''#of other continuities like tfp/aligned #but still falls victim to the inevitable horseshoe theory stuff (even more so by explicitly invoking imagery of both communism and fascism)#because in the end the decepticons still have to be the bad guys for the fundamental transformers premise to remain intact #and astolat's fics sidestep that entirely by having the decepticons /not/ be the bad guys #they're ruthless and scary but they're (mostly) right.#always tickles my brain soooo good

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