#i havent read idw

[hibiscusbiue]

cracks my knuckles as i prepare my 8 hour rant.

rise donnie would NOT win. did you see him get folded in the first episode??! with sheer strength alone he is NOT winning 😭 my boy would take a couple hits and then die….. this is a fist fight not a determine of tech and on strength alone?????? i think he wld get kicked to the moon. probably not the first one out. but he would NOT survive a challenge with the 3 i believe would win

im siding w 87 donnie bcz he tore off an entire side of a metal van.. but 03 and idw(from what i’ve seen and heard, i havent read it yet) and 87 could easily take place in top 3.

also 03 don by muscle…. have u seen her in action?!?!? it’s crazy

make one of my 3 girls win!!!! plz

I'm redoing this again cuz ain't no way rise Donnie won out of all of them some of y'all are LYINGGGGGGGGGGGG. And also probably because cuz this poll lasted a day and not a week... That's my bad on my part y'all 🥲

[roadwrecks]

asked my friend to give me a bot to draw and he gave me swerve, so here he is!

[duckdodger]

can I tell y’all how much I adore some of the Saturday morning adventures comic covers ?? MY BOYS MY BOYS !!

[aircommandr]

this makes 0 sense dont ask me the context

[mmm-asbestos]

This is metamy content to me

[sonknuxadow]

went to a comic store today and saw individual issues of idw sonic in person for the first time ever btw . epic win

[nightgarla]

Are you open tô requests? Can you drew surge and kit? I love your style too much <3

i do take requests yes, esp when im in a creative crisis such as this^_^ plus ivebeen wanting to draw them for a while

hope u likeit :3

[chiptunepacifist]

THIS SONURGE MOMENT DKDKDKDKD

[diurnalcritters]

Day 408

[lord-squiggletits]

Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).

And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.

IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.

So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.

Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....

There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).

It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.

I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.

At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care

TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence

[liontamarin]

reeeally old team spiral piece i never posted on here, but i still like it ^_^

[ninjasmudge]

little deathsaurus sprite i made years ago because i wanted his sets of eyes to blink separately so bad

[dorkicon]

hey what if impactor made it to the lost light....lol

[aircommandr]

i think he has the tism tbh

[neurotypical-sonic]

the rottmnt/sonic fic that now lives in my head. the miscommunication of it all.

[the0venisfrozen]

I've been watching a lot of snapcube lately

Have some more shadow art. ft Rouge.