#bot rants

[my-toast-is-burnt]

Okay, I understand why bots comment on my art posts asking me to dm them. I do commission work and it's a common scam attempt.

BUT MY FUCKING DEPRESSION RANT POSTS? MY POSTS ABOUT CHRONIC FATIGUE??? FUCK RIGHT OFF. IM ALREADY UPSET AND TIRED ENOUGH.

[nonbinarynerdbot]

I got a comment yesterday that was just such a backhanded compliment. “I just know we’ll never get more chapters but thanks for everything you wrote!”

I have the next chapter. I have notes on the following chapters. I had life things come up that gave me negative associations with the fandom, but I was planning on getting back into it. Now I’m not sure I will. If I *do* ever continue writing that fic, it’ll never go on AO3 because it’s not the first rude comment I’ve gotten on that fic and honestly the fandom was already pretty toxic when I joined it.

Why would I stay in fandom spaces where I’m viewed as if I owe the consumers content? I have other fandoms that are much MUCH kinder that I *don’t* have any negative associations with, why would I want to go back to that one, especially after this comment?

Fanfic authors owe you nothing. Fanfiction is a hobby, a side project, a *PASSION* project. Negativity kills passion in ways that are hard to truly express until you’re on the receiving end of it.

I get being frustrated with an unfinished work, but you’re able to filter that out - and I do when I read fics for this reason. The authors owe me nothing, I owe my readers nothing, what good does it do to put yourself in a place where you’re going to be upset about an unfinished work? Especially given that there’s absolutely no way for you to know what’s going on on the other side of the screen.

Please, for the love of god, please don’t be this person. No matter how long it’s been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.

Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. “This author” can see what you say.

RIP decency indeed.

[nonbinarynerdbot]

Apologies to my irl friends who have to deal with all of my discussions revolving around The Magnus Protocol, Epic the Musical, Hazbin Hotel, or The Magnus Archives because FUCK the brain worms be WORMING!!!

And tbh??? It’s mostly one friend because he loves me and puts up with my shit without worrying about spoilers because all my brain will consume is Magnus Protocol and Archives because FUCK

[mxxmx0h]

How come no ever talks about the fact that Heatwave was once a Three time Lobbing champ. Like, that's the only type of information we have of him when he was still in Cybertron. Well, other than the fact that he was a Fireman before becoming a rescue bot.

Mf drop his lore like it was nothing

[himeshifts]

no offense, but i really dislike c.ai.. yes, it can be fun to chat with people from your dr or even your s/o but it ultimately feels pointless. it makes you romanticize them and your dr, distorting your perception. you know what’s easier? to just shift. exactly.

[tfp-is-my-lifeblood-lol]

Can we talk about this Rescue Bots episode (Spellbound) because I need to appreciate how TERRIFYING it is??? Especially considering it's cannon in the Aligned Universe. This is some A+ horror.

Like damn, some of Griffin Rock's technology is more powerful than even the Decepticon's tech.

Can you IMAGINE if those creepy mind-control cell phones were used in TFP?

Legit mind control that effects humans AND Cybertronians?

And it's SO UNSETTLINGLY subtle, too. The victim's voices sound like their normal selves but just SLIGHTLY off. *shutter* The voice actors did such a good job.

Just IMAGINE that in Prime.

I feel like Optimus would probably be immune (because the Matrix of Leadership is goated) but can you imagine the Jasper Trio getting mind-controlled, and all their guardians + Ratchet know SOMETHING is off, but not what? Then, slowly, the mind control spreads to the Bots? Or vice versa, the Bots go first, and the humans are like: "Something's up with my guardian."

Kinda wild that Invasion of the Body Snatchers shit 100% exists in TFP's world. Felt like I needed to acknowledge that.

Is this gonna be my next TFP headcanons post? Feeling inspired.🤔

[confeethoughts]

Moderate Your Site Tumblr

The crazy thing about the complete shitshow of medical bots flooding Tumblr tags is that it demonstrates just how awful Tumblr's policies are.

Relying on users to report bots and spam only works when you are dealing with maybe one or two blogs every now and again. I think I have reported and blocked over 200 in three days now.

Moderation is a job. Asking your users to moderate your site for free while you refuse to look deeper than the accounts being reported to you is an insane route to take for staff. Maybe deal with the issues that make your site unusable.

Edit: Very good point we should tag them - @staff telling your users to just report them is crazy when almost 1K posts in health and wellness tags seem to be just spam bots

[debatablyspicydurian]

I know the full arsenal update is out and hype for that but I just found the gutterman's poem in 7-2 and I HAVE to type about it because its night where I am and I cant wake up my friends to rant about Ultrakill.

Anyway, absolutely indescribable how we have the thoughts of a machine just laid bear in a secret for the first and maybe last time. The fact that a machine made for merciless slaughter could not only feel sadness for the person powering it but also WRITE a POEM? A machine made art??? The knowledge that they understand how cruel it is to make a human a blood battery, recognize it as torture, but also feel gratitude for the life they've been given?? It was known that machines had a sense of aesthetic from Swordsmachine and Mindflayer's entries but. Goddamn. The gutterman refers to the human as their mother and it states it CRIED when it crushed her skull as it hoped it would redeem its life.

Also the excerpt, "I know I know you would hate me so, and mother of me, I do too." Does this mean the Gutterman hated itself as much as the human? Did it hate the human instead along with the feelings of love and gratitude? Probably the former. Gutterman angst is so in.

V2's mannerisms and Swordsmachine's data entry are intresting, but a gutterman's eulogy for its prisoner and its attempt at redemption is another level. Actual machine thought process recorded!! Sapient lifeform that knows only war and death! The fact that the gutterman crushing the human's skull seemed to be out of mercy. Ough.

Noone has to interact I havent proof read this I am just RANTING this is CRAZY HAKITA HOW COULD YOU AND THE TEAM DO THIS

[rustic-space-fiddle]

Is anyone else getting a TON of bots in their ask box? Because I have so many and some are repeat messages from different “accounts” and I’m getting a wee bit tired of it

[lexicorp]

"But hey, what can you do? I'm a Touchy Feely Fool."

Some unhinged Starscream shit i was compelled to draw after listening to the thicc friggin playlist I made on loop, and this song by AJR has been a pretty constant mood

[forgot the "could I be unfeeling too" line lol oopsie]

[arzzyxi]

II 18 SPOILERS:

The amount of gore we had of this guy this episode LMAOOO

Like imagine if this was like animated as real people or smth and this would basically be brains or smth being pulled out of his body💀💀

He did not want to lose AT ALL .He went to such extreme lengths to win, going as far as to ripping his body apart and being so desperate to get rid of HIS creation that he ended up getting blinded by victory over a assumption and that ended up literally cooking him

+(and then probably being eaten up by Lightbulb or something bcz WHERE IS HIS CORPSE LMAO??)

"Im going to cook" "no, you're going to get COOKED" (ignore my stupid vocabulary I had 2 hours of sleep guys😭)

Hydrogen bombs vs coughing baby ahh match

I loved his character though, these people are so good at writing such interesting characters and giving them satisfying endings (taco and pickle was sad but at least we hot Yuri YAYY)

I wish taco and pickle talked or at least interact but then again what we got was pretty realistic lmao, ignoring people after getting hurt by them is so accurate

Taco defender since day 1 🔥🔥 I knew she'd get Mic

Bow screaming 'brother!!' And literally swooping in to save him was so cute too I loved that, and the immediate sibling response of Dough asking for a voice recording of it is perfect 😭😭

Can't believe an attempt was made on Doughs life oh my days

I can't believe its OVER AUGHHNHHHH

[disillusioneddanny]

Friendly reminder; if you are trying to get art commissions, this is not how you do it. Do not go onto a persons fanfic and make them feel good about their story only to come back and say "this will be a paid partnership."

I am writing this story for free I am not asking you to create art for my story. If you want to create art for a story of mine, you have permission. But if you're trying to get someone to pay you to make art for their story that they are already putting in free labor and time into, this is not how you do it.

Now, if I approach an artist and ask them to create art, then yes, I am absolutely going to pay for it. I'm the one asking for that art piece based on my works.

but this ^^^ this is just soliciting and spammy and rude asf. don't do this.

[nonbinarynerdbot]

*kicks wall and bites through drywall*

I can’t stand when related fandoms take over tags because people won’t let go of the idea that things are connected and they don’t leave the tags in the individual tags.

Like, I get it, parallel universes are interesting but FUCK let me scroll through a tag without seeing shit that isn’t TRULY related!

[mxxmx0h]

Saw the transformers one movie and decided to re-watch RB sinces, its been years

Anyone else noticed that Bumblebees little ears move.

LITERALLY WATCH THE WHOLE EP AGAIN TO SEE IF HE MOVES THEM AGAIN

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME

[dominolemon]

I love the fact any time Heatwave and Optimus talk to each other or have a moment it just looks like a father talking to his son and giving him advice

It’s wonderful to see

The adults are talking

[georgiesblurredbones]

Hi, As a Blurr FictionKin, I’d Like 2 State My(Very Long) Case(Rant) On Why

Is (By Cybertronian/Velocitronian Means) a Scared Teenager (And NOT a Self Serving Narcissist) And Shouldn’t Have Been Put On a RESCUE TEAM By Optimus.

And Why The Rescue Bots Shouldn’t Have Put So Much Pressure On Him (Looking At U Heatwave..) And Why Blurr Would Be Happier Not Being On a Rescue Team.

So When The Bots And Some of The Humans Find Blurr And Salvage In Stasis Pods On Their Ship, Blurr Is The First One Awake, The First Thing He Does Is Hug The Bots Because He Believes He’s Back On Cybertron, But The Second Thing He Does Is Ask “Where’s Salvage? Is He Okay?”. Salvage Was The Loader of Their Ship While Blurr Was The Pilot, When Earth Had Meteors Raining Down On It, Salvage Saved The Cave People While Blurr Panicked And Ran Back To The Ship, Like Most TEENAGERS Would In a Type of Situation Like That(I Sure Asf Would Tbh). Sure, Blurr Was Selfish And Stupid To Run off Without Telling Salvage, But Salvage Also Had No Reason To Physically FIGHT Blurr Over It (Which He Canonically Did, Source; SALVAGE SAYING ‘We Fought’, And Salvage Marching Over To Blurr With Clenched Fists, Plus Ira[Cave Man] Running Out of The Ship In Fear). People May Claim Blurr Never Cared For Salvage, But He Very Obviously Did, When Salvage Was Taken Out of His Stasis Pod, Blurr Immediately Ran Up To Hug Him, Visibly Happy That He Was Alright. Blurr Wanted To Leave Earth In The Spur of The Moment Out of FEAR, If Blurr Truly Didn’t Care For Salvage, Then He Wouldn’t Be So Happy To See Him.

Now With Blurr Taking Credit For The Things He Didn’t Do (Saving The Cave People, Saving Salvage, Etc), That’s a Sign of Blurr Having Low Self Confidence And Even An Inferiority Complex, And Maybe Being Desperate For Attention, As a Lot of Young Teenagers Are Like, He Craves Attention Because of His Life of Being a Racer, Blurr Isn’t Used To Being Treated Like a Regular Bot. Blaming Blurr For Wanting Attention And Wanting To Seem Important Is Horrible To Do, He Behaves Young, Similarly Young To Cody And Francine From RB or Maybe Even Miko From TFP. He Lies Because He Wants To Be Seen As More Than Just That One Racer Bot.

‘But Blurr Is a Horrible Rescue Bot, I Don’t Blame Heatwave For Shouting At Him!’

Blurr Never WANTED To Be a Rescue Bot, He Wanted To Stay As a Racer, But Optimus Denied Him To Have Comfort In Familiarity, Saying Blurr Needed ‘To Give Earth a Chance’, Blurr Doesn’t Like Earth, He’s Obviously Not Happy, Keeping Blurr (Who Likely Has The Cybertronian Equivalent of ADHD And An Adjustment Disorder) On An Unfamiliar Planet Where He’s Uncomfortable And Sad, ISN’T How You Make Him Into a Rescue Bot, Blurr Should’ve NEVER Been Forced Into Being a Rescue Bot, All He Knows Is Racing, He Doesn’t Know ANYTHING About Rescuing, So For Heatwave To Shout At And Scold Him For Not Knowing How To Rescue(Even After Finding Out That Blurr Was Lying) Is Not a Healthy Training Tactic, It Made Blurr Hate The Idea of Rescuing And Earth More And More, Heatwave May Have Had Good Intentions But His ‘Good Intentions’ Caused Blurr Severe Distress. When Blurr Got Onto Their Space Ship And Tried To Escape Earth, That Was Because Heatwave Had Told The Chief That Blurr Had To Go, Which Was Blurr’s Last Straw, His Reason To Leave Earth. The Worst Part of All of This Was When He Arrived Back On Earth (After SAVING Griffin Rock From a Rogue Crashing Satellite That Could’ve Blown Up Both The Space Ship AND Blurr With It) The First Thing Heatwave Said To Him When He Got Back Was ‘I Don’t Know Whether To Hug You or To Yell At You’ DUDE HE ALMOST JUST DIED SAVING YOU GUYS WHEN HE REALLY DIDN’T HAVE TO ??????

The Point That I’m Making Is That Blurr Was Not All That Happy On Heatwave’s Team. When Blurr Showed Up On RiD2015, He Took The Blame For Sideswipe’s Poor Performance, Thinking That He Himself Was For The Blame of Sideswipe Knocking The Decepticon Into The Water And Letting Them Escape. Blurr Told Bumblebee On Screen ‘The Accident Was Totally My Fault, Bee, I Broke Formation To Drive Next To You’, Blurr Was Conditioned By Heatwave And The Rescue Team Into Believing Everything That Goes Wrong Is His Fault, Whether It Be Just a Malfunction of Technology or a Crash, Blurr Believes That He’s To Blame Because of How The Rescue Team Treated Him. Blurr Also Almost Dies In That Episode As Well, While Blurr Was Driving a Bomb Away From Bee’s Team, The Bomb Easily Could’ve Detonated And Killed Blurr On The Spot, But It Didn’t. Blurr Almost Dies Constantly But It’s Almost Never Taken Seriously, Always Used As a Joke Afterwards With The Rescue Bots And Brushed off With Bee’s Team.

Why Do I Believe Blurr Is a Teenager? Simple, He Behaves Very Similarly To Sideswipe, Who’s Described As a Teenager/Young Bot In Many Episodes of RiD2015 And Was Described In Season 4 As ‘Being Moved Around From Home To Home’, Like a Foster Child. Both Blurr And Sideswipe Are Careless At Times, Immature, Dislike Authority, Like Going Fast, And Are Implied To Be Teenagers Who Never Asked To Be On Earth In The First Place.

It Isn’t Blurr’s Fault That He Doesn’t Know How To Rescue, It’s Heatwave’s Fault For Not Teaching Him Properly or Trying To Understand Blurr’s Situation, It’s Optimus’ Fault For Not Listening To Blurr’s Complaints, It’s The Rescue Teams Fault For Treating Blurr Like He’s a Bad Person For Not Knowing How To Rescue. The Only Living Beings To Treat Blurr With Respect And Listen To Him Is Cody, Sideswipe And Bumblebee’s Team.

In Conclusion, Blurr Never Wanted To Be a Rescue Bot, It Was Just The Circumstance He Was In, And The Conditioning He Was Put Through To Make Him Think He Always Wanted To Be a Rescuer, When All Blurr Really Wanted To Do Was Race And Have Fun.

Thanks For Coming 2 My Ted Talk ;3