#so yeah shoutout to the optimus archa 7 fic i found that makes the deliberate effort to make a new triple change backstory | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

she-toadmask · 2 days ago

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Don't bring your negative opinions onto a post not looking for them

Was I thinking the same thing (but enjoying the post anyway)? Yes. I made the conscious decision to say nothing because that's how you be polite to people

The tags devolve into bitching about specific fanfiction petty dislikes

UPDATE I WENT OFF ABOUT TRANSFORMERS CONTINUITY CONVENTIONS AND REACHED 30 TAGS SO I GUESS IT ENDS WITH "I didn't count it initially but Beast Wars is also not an example"

#untagged #vent #delete later #yes t f a doesnt have the mythical prime stuff common in other continuities and people adding it is a bit annoying #my personal fandom beef is when people add soup and give t f a megs any kind of sympathetic backstory like. bestie no.#idr how the ascenticon name factors in but there was another guy who led the decepticons. forgot his name and cba to research rn.#but megatron fucking killed him and took over the decepticons and wants to be evil warlord man (even if transform and rise up goes hard)#yes the autobots are garbage but the cons are still also evil #my other extremely petty gripe is when fics dont know that the reason blitzy is a triple changer and Like That is because of experiments #which were run by 'nia so if you change anything around archa 7 regarding who doesnt leave. blitzy's backstory changes #like there are a couple fics that are older that idc because they were probably from before the almanac said that and also they're one-shots #but anything modern. my petty gripe.#so yeah shoutout to the optimus archa 7 fic i found that makes the deliberate effort to make a new triple change backstory #also it manages to make con!tfa!ratchet actually somewhat believable which i didnt think was possible so im impressed #because in my head it was like 'bee gets framed and bulk follows him or smth + optimus is spider + prowl is more bitter about draft'#whereas ratchet lived through the entire fucking war and would have lost many people to it and the cons do war crimes too #case in point the triple changer program. also using cosmic rust as a weapon. whoever that was. rip tfa rodimus o7 #tangentially related pet peeve that was recently revived: blanket statement about optimus and megatron backstory #i dont care if you started with prime. you are doing a mini video essay. 'they used to be friends' is not a multiversal constant.#it is not The Way Things Have Always Been. it started around there but like #tbf i dont know what the fuck is going on with cyberverse aside from season 4 and starscream obtains cosmic power multiple times #or idw2. idk whats going on there except starscream had a mom and sentinel gets the 'you werent as bad as you could have been' star or w/e #being fair and counting earthspark and tfone but excluding those two and skybound (for lack of evidence but its likely more classic g1)#and compressing non-idw g1 into one entity because i also dont know whats going on in the marvel and dreamwave comics #actually no we cant count earthspark we dont actually know shit about their prewar relationship. earthspark also removed from count.#for always-enemies we have g1+tfa+unicrontrilogy for once-friends we have tfp+idw+tfone #i think bayverse would count as once-friends lore-wise but not presentation-wise so its excluded #shit i forgot machinima and netflix existed. i dont know those either.#whatever ive been generous to the once-friends thing. dont remember the translation mess but by english rid01 is enemies #i excluded beast wars but that also counts as *an* optimus and *a* megatron who are always enemies

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