#and i'm like. so you claim to love optimus but the depiction of him that you praise | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lord-squiggletits · 2 years ago

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Now I may be overgeneralizing a bit, but I feel like in certain fics as well as the audiences for those fics, there's a weird tendency for the writers/audience to treat Optimus as if he's some sort of goody two shoes who doesn't care about his own race because of his love/respect for organics and it like...bothers the hell out of me honestly lol.

Like if you would rather focus on Cybertronian politics and ignore/even retcon out the organic destruction caused by the war, I totally get it. People find the Cybertronian politics way more interesting, there's not really as much lore on the aliens of the TF universe besides humans, you're tired of the Decepticons being bad guys, yeah like I get it.

I just find it incredibly off-putting when people (in fics or otherwise) try to frame Optimus prioritizing organics as legitimate criticism of him when it's not?????? Like his stance across multiple continuities is universally "organics are equal beings to us, we brought the war to their planets, they don't deserve to be hurt or exploited by us" and I don't fucking get how people can possibly frame that as a bad thing. HOW are mfs in this fandom treating Optimus as if his empathy/care for organic races makes him annoying or self-righteous or selfish like what.

#squiggposting #like idk i may be thinking of a few specific fics/authors #but it kind of really annoys me #because i see fics where optimus gets told that he cares more about aliens than cybertronians #or things along that line #and instead of OP making the very obvious case of how this is a bigoted and distorted viewpoint #the writer just has OP sputter ineffectually or like admit that he needs to propritize cyberteonians #when this is in the context of like decepticons (or megatron since i read megop)#being openly racist and disdainful towards organics #like youre not actually making an insightful criticism of optimus here lmao #youre just sweeping the whole colonialism thing under the rug #and acting as if optimus is some unrealistic self righteous goody two shoes whos being unfair to decepticons #for the crime of uh (looks at writing on hands) thinking colonialism racism and genocide are bad #there's this one super popular fic where like #the author basically writes optimus as an ineffectual ignorant moron #who cant even defend his own principles against megatron and ends up giving up on the inherent goodness of the universe #and ppl in the comment section were saying how this is an actual good optimus #(while shitting on idw optimus incidentally)#and i'm like. so you claim to love optimus but the depiction of him that you praise #is one where some of his most defining traits (universal love and respect for all beings)#is framed as a foolish delusion #and where optimus himself is too stupid and ineloquent to defend his view against megatron #and you call yourself a fucking optimus fan??? lmao #you just want optimus to be Nice without actually having a cause to stand up for #with a bonus dash of writing megatron like he's right about everything #and optimus just sits and takes his bullshit #sorry this became a rant against one particular interpretation lol #point is a lot of people try to criticize OP and the autobots in fuck-wild stupid ass ways #and it's really annoying lmao

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