#ramble who gaf

[st4hlwerk]

@saguette oc crossover bc I've only drawn this form 1 time before I actually accepted him as an oc and i kinda want to show him.................

(My oc name is centipede guy btw)

[gretahayes]

dc could milk “the dark knight and his daughter” so hard but do they do that? no. because they’re idiots.

[yeloenk]

im actually devastated i missed the prism ink merch oh my stars. comyet drop it like one more time and my life is yours always and forever please please pretty please im going to explode

[daiwild]

i genuinely cannot comprehend how some people yearn for blatantly hetero and/or unstated celebs to be queer when there are SO MANY existing artists that are openly queer and ik this is a basic take but im only saying this because i recently realized that i listen to a shit ton of queer musicians and i dont even actively seek them out. like, i just accidentally stumbled upon tons of really good queer musicians, some with queer centric music but many without. i didnt even ask for this. so why are people itching to put a label on basic white singer #25 when trans breakcore bangers are RIGHT THERE.

[grimxark]

my main criticism about a lot of takes on prowl is that a lot of these people have NOT read the entirety of IDW and it shows. And it especially shows when people get into Prowl as a character through shipping with JazzProwl because Jazzprowl fics and media are very choosy when it comes to taking from their IDW characterizations. I cannot stress ENOUGH how wildly different they are in the IDW source material from fan content, and how the Jazzprowl dynamic originated from G1- not because they had an interesting storyline or cool interactions, but because people liked the laid-back officer x uptight cop trope. People don't take from G1 as often as they do now, but there's a million AUs about this exact dynamic. I won't get too into the extremely racist undertones in a lot of Jazzprowl fan media but it is *unbelievably* present especially when people like to start Jazz off as an 'untrustworthy' character that Prowl arrests/gets into a fight with/has to 'chase down'. Transformers in general is. really bad on the racism front lmao. I've found that though a lot of people genuinely do understand Prowl’s themes(!), their actual takeaways are very superficial. In content where Prowl is of some central focus people like to paint him with more sympathetic qualities, which can work well! To a point! But at some point- especially when Prowl starts getting written as an antihero, misunderstood and hated for shallow reasons- the responsibility he has to take for his actions gets very very diluted. And Prowl's themes are huge on responsibility.

They're also huge on his near-authoritarian use of power, tendency to endanger innocent people, what have you. People reeeally need to understand that Prowl isn't originally written to be likeable, he's written as a plain bureaucratic asshole in a highly political story. He's also a cop car. It isn't a coincidence one of the biggest Autobot symbols for corruption in IDW is a cop car. By shifting the motive of his actions to be overly sympathetic by saying he's just doing what he thinks is right and he's saving others by abandoning his moral code not only are you failing to write a good criticism on political power (and what it can do to an individual!) in general, but you miss a fundamental part of Prowl and what is, most likely, what made him appealing to you in the first place. sorry. this got out of hand. I think I was going to write a bit criticism about how people take ships and sacrifice what made a character's themes good for angst content that just reads as an original story that could be made with any other character from the media. I lost the thread. you know what sure just make jazzprowl forever. you don't have to engage with these characters in any meaningful way and create a brand new Villainous Initially-Untrustworthy Jazz and ignore the very obvious criticism of police that is prowl. who gaf

[carcasscounty]

Micro-labels are so cool to me actually

I really like seeing the specific things people identify themselves with

[lovesickeros]

lord its so dark in here the sahara desert of tsaritsa content you are like a shining oasis. your characterisation of her compels me & mihoyo would be hard pressed to top it imo.!! caaaaan i humbly request yr thoughts on her first meeting w a reader of any kind, or maybe even multiple kinds (sagau, sagau god au, isekai, etc) if you so desire...

it really is like a desert here. being the fan of a character we aren't getting until the last damn nation is driving me up a wall but i will persevere bc if nothing else i support morally bankrupt women in media. we r in a severe drought over here but i do my best. unfortunately nothing i say is ever coherent so pull out your translation notes its abt 2 be messy

also this got out of hand but thats bc first meetings w the tsaritsa are tricky to write + a LOT of her characterization lies in deeper exploration then just surface level yknow...NOT A DIG AT YOU this is just my excuse for rambling. gently pats the tsaritsa she can hold so much complexity i do not have the word count to delve into it completely :]

gonna talk cult au for a bit here though because that's 99% of my content. and honestly? she thrives in sub au's of the cult au like villain au + imposter au. it's basically made for her. i mean, early days, the imposter au had been going around for a little while but one of the first few ideas was the Fatui taking reader in so like. it kinda technically actually was. pretty sure cult au Tsaritsa popped up because of the imposter au. a lot of it's writers kinda left though which. man am i getting old or.

anyway.

there isn't much of a chance her first impression is all that positive. at best it's usually neutral, imo, but rarely if ever positive. specifically because i view the Tsaritsa as someone who isn't as fanatical as most of the acolytes typically are towards the creator. she's not exactly going to worship the ground you walk on unlike a certain geo lizard. which is partially why i think she thrives in the sub au's i mentioned.

imposter au, for example. she meets you at your lowest. there's no gaudy extravagance or pampering from the acolytes waiting for you because your own acolytes have turned on you. for all intents and purposes you aren't a "god" at all. which is why i don't think she meshes well with normal cult au reader. the Fatui are made up of outcasts, basically, and imposter au slots right in just perfectly. you're weak, at your lowest, when you meet the Fatui in the imposter au. and the Fatui can help you, too.

a mutual exchange, really. the Tsaritsa sees a tool she can use to one up the rest of the nations and especially Archons, and she has no qualms about you using her and the Fatui in turn. you both want something out of it, after all. whether you just want to be safe from the rest of the acolytes, or you want revenge, or whatever else..she'll give you the power to fulfill it, and she gains the strongest piece on the chessboard when all is said and done.

the best way i can describe the first meeting is "practical", i suppose. she sees an opportunity in you. the ultimate gamble. because if she "saves" you, and you dont trust anyone else because they tried to kill you, well..she holds all the cards, doesn't she?

but the Tsaritsa, imo, is just as capable of being just as fanatical towards you as anyone else. she just won't worship you as the creator. but as yourself? clawing your way back to your divine power and taking back what belongs to you? the Tsaritsa is, to me, a character who's character flourishes in long-term fics more because she changes a LOT between "just met reader" and after having been with reader for some time. she's practically apathetic at the beginning but a lot of her character, in my characterization, shines through LONG after the first meeting.

[nerdyspies]

i have a theory abt the timeline that tgwdlm takes place in but i feel like nobody else has my same thought process so im like... kicks rocks i Dont wanna seem stupid

[nyaskitten]

Listen all I'm saying is if Paramount and Warner Bros. could be friends, we could have the best Transformers and Ben 10 iteration ever, mushed together ! Just think about it !!!

[captaincanonly]

3 am thinking about aegon i might end it all /j i hate being insane over yet another freakish little weirdo but it’s in my blood atp 😣😣

my honest reaction:

[chialattea]

I’m sorry did Zoro need to get a fucking concussion for his brain to go “oh wait that random old guy who kept yapping about swords was a samurai-> oh wait he’s from Wano -> ohhhh” AND THEN he just goes “well whatever. Moving on check out this cool shit I can do” (LITERALLY SPEEDRUNS DEATH ANY%)

[thecatspasta]

Reminding you all that you dont exist to be likeable to everyone, just dont be a dick and respect others boundaries and youll find others who like you for who you are

If someone hates you on the principle that youre irritating or wtv then theyre not someone you want to be around just as much youre not someone they want to be around

[hiraethminds]

To be nitpicky the ending was a solid, like 7/10, my main issues being: pacing, the revival system, meohone (ugh)

if someone asks I’ll more more in depth my brain is too smooth for all dat rn.

All things being said there was a lot of good conversational writing, I like suitcase and box immensely and I like that knife got gouled. (I still hat that stupid revival system minigame though I’m malding, LET ME FIX IT!!!) mephoje4s and knife was a super cool dynamic and legit the pinnacle of the whole experience. I like it when stressed out dudes are paired with silly guys. Gruhg. They should have bit the bullet and made payjay actually kiss but whatever it’s a kids show, I’ll let that one slide and do the dirty work myself.

mephone should have died instead of mepad, mephkne just STILL feels so unresolved, extremely funny to me that no one still likes him (I like that alot) . But the reconciliation with 3GS opens a lot of possibilities (gotta pull my own weight around here) extra kudos to the voice actors :3

[eebie]

this essay is done in all senses of the word and i have everyrhing i need to submjt for this scholarship but i keep wobbling around hitting send email

[tariah23]

This goes for any sort of ship bullshit tbh. Like, ppl really think that shippers, especially those hardcore ones, care about canon… most of these people are heavy into fanon anyway. Also, even outside of shipping, people are going to HC regardless lmfao. It’s like the people who complain about stuff like this cannot wrap their heads around the fact. “It’s canon so you shouldn’t care about this anymore,” “why are you drawing that despite canon,” like this will forever be a nothing ass, boring complaint.

[robotsafari]

im a little upset that no one made as much of an outrage about the dgs localization names. like wtf is rei membami 😭😭😭😭