#or like they need him as a cardboard cutout of OP's general vibes but don't actually care about getting his personality right | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lord-squiggletits · 5 months ago

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Some of ppl's refusal (or inability) to write IDW OP isn't bc of annoyance or cowardice but just bc they like... don't know his personality? Yknow very "only read MTMTE syndrome" that's so common in this fandom.

Maybe it's bc I'm an IDW OP enjoyer/simp but I really don't get what's hard to write about his personality or why ppl feel the need to throw in continuity soup elements with him (while maintaining every other character in the fic meticulously and lovingly accurate to IDW lore). Like dudes IDW OP is already interesting even if you only need him as a side plot or character you just need to know how to write him.

But I guess people trying to write IDW OP and failing/writing an extremely watered down IDW OP is an improvement from not writing him at all and being annoying hating him in every single public space related (or not related) to Optimus, so it's meh

#squiggposting #mostly it's the part where they make OP random continuity soup but everyone else lore accurate that annoys me #it's as if OP is just an afterthought to these writers #or like they need him as a cardboard cutout of OP's general vibes but don't actually care about getting his personality right #and it's weirdly consistent in how often ppl do it too #like you read a fic and w/ every other character there's countless loving references and homages to canon #you can see ppl taking canon and putting their own interpretations and filling in the gaps based on what they got #then they write OP in their fics and he's just kind of. there. as some random guy #not based on any particular continuity or piece of lore. just kind of existing as The Concept of OP #w/ whatever traits the author felt like giving him (usually to make him part of a ship or someone's dad or something)#idw op love #tagging prev bc i want to sort thru my posts and rb some stuff about him #move over pharma it's time for the OP autism to come out

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