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Don't make fun of any accents, ever, for any reason.
The person on the receiving end will most likely fall in at least one of three categories:
Second language
Regional accent
Speech impediment
1. Second language
This person is probably speaking in this language to you because either you don't speak their mother tongue or you speak it worse than they speak the language you are speaking. They are making an effort for you. An accent doesn't make you dumb.
Making fun of someone for attempting to communicate in another language is the height of assholery.
2. Regional accent
Half the time you make fun of regional accents, you make fun of historically disenfranchised accents.
Southern accents? Congrats you're making fun of the way rural, usually poor, people speak. Their speech was highly influenced by black people.
Don't even get me started on making fun of AAE.
Again, an accent doesn't make you any less intelligent.
3. Speech impediment
They know they have a speech impediment. They are probably trying very hard not to sound like that. It is literally not their fault. They have had to deal with people making fun of it their whole life.
A speech impediment doesn't make you less intelligent either.
#submission#manners#good manners#etiquette#politeness#courtesy#nationalism and xenophobia plays a pretty big role in the first one too#In the country I live in a lot of the nationalism and xenophobia specifically centers around language#For foreigners it's a lose / lose situation#If they speak the local language then locals will be rude to them for having an accent#But if they don't use the local language (since most locals born here are actually pretty multi-lingual) they get yelled at#and generally treated like garbage#@ nationalistic people in the country I live in: please choose#Either be patient and kind to people with an accent#or be willing to use English or Spanish or other languages#you can't just yell at foreigners who speak to you at all either with an accent or in a different language#and get mad that they just don't appear here with perfect native speaking abilities
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[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]
saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.
#jrwi fanart#jrwi show#jrwi riptide#gillion tidestrider#GONNA START FORMATTING MY COMICS BETTER. W THE PROPER 'PREV' 'NEXT' LINKS#REALLY DIDNT EXPECT TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES BUT AAAUUUHH MY BRRAAAIN MY BRAIN IS SO IDEASSS. I HAVE 3 OTHER PAGES SKETCHED OUT#NO PROMISES ILL FINISH EM ANY TIME SOON OR EVER. MY WHIMS ARE THEIR OWN BEAST AND I ONLY DRAW ON MY WHIMS#THAT BEING SAID IF U COMMISSIONED ME ILL GEEETT TO YOUUU IM SORRYYYY. ART IS AN EMOTIONAL RELEASE FOR ME N BABY I HAVE EMOTIONS.#ESPECIALLY ABOUT GILLION TIDESTRIDER CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA HERO OF THE DEEP.for the desc here i put smth that i typed up in the tags of#another thing i made. i gotta make a proper Baby Gillion tag or smth. eventually.. eventually...I LOVE DRAWIN THIS LIL BABY GUY..#i also LOVE depicting the teachers as just being so fuckin mean. ofc theres variation in that. just like in all things.like the teacher her#idk if itll be mentioned but the octo lady is named Ms Octburn.an octopus pun based off the name of an actual councilor i had#when i was in elementary school i got bullied alot but teachers never did anything. i hated adults and didnt trust them.#but this councilor o mine was so genuinely sweet. i remember spending alot of time w her. she doesnt work there anymore.#but that one school adult that actually earns ur trust and is there for you when they can be.its SO important for a child i think#i hope she knows how much she helped me.youll see in the next page that ms octburn isnt perfect either.but she tries. they all try.somehow.#ALL these comics are gonna be inspired by somesorta experience o mine in the school system. school is so fucked up u ever thing abt that#AND GILLIOOOOONNN IN THE MOST FUCKED UP LITTLE SCHOOL OF ALL. MAINTAINED BY A CULT. CENTERED AROUND HIM. OUR CHOSEN ONE#I IMAGINE ALOT BANKS ON HIS SUCCESS. THIS IS THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD. THE PROPHECY IS GOING TO COME TRUE N UR TELLIN ME#THAT ITS THIS LITTLE IDIOT THATS GONNA BE SAVING US? WHAT IF HE FAILS. IF HE CANT GET THIS RIGHT THEN HE WILL FAIL AND WE WILL DIE#WE NEED TO TRAIN HIM. WE NEED HIM TO LEARN. AND TO SUCCEED. OR ELSE WE'RE DEAD. WE'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD. I IMAGINE THAT MUST BE STRESSFUL#in other news i hope ppl actually giggle when they read these. they ARE intended to be comical. dark humor or whatever. like its also sad#this is intended to be a sad comic series. but a funny one too. does that make sense? god i hope so.saw some1 say they had flashbacks-#-reading this. like YES!! THE INTENDED EFFECT!! YOU GET ME!! i love seeing ppl get upset on this lil baby boys behalf. i LOVE seeing ppl-#-wail n weep n cry in the comments. i LOOOVE seeing ppl RELATE to baby gillion. and i love letting u all know that this wont be a happycomi#gillion gets his happiness arc in the actual show. this series is one of unfortunate events. teehehehe. do u guys remember that show#i keep listening to the lil songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events for inspiration. GOOD STUFF!!#anyway uuhh uhh thats all i got in my brain. for now. feed me ur comments give me ur input i NNEEEEEDD THHEEEMMMM
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thinkin about the deweys . as always
#there is this trend i have noticed within myself#where whenever it hits finals season i want to avoid doing my finals so so so bad#that i just start coming up with the most unhinged depressing fic concepts ever known by man#today's is a post-trade queer isolation fic centered on the way things weren't perfect in minnesota not by far#but at least connor was a little sure -- a bit mind you nothing crazy or anything#but a little sure that if his teammates didn't already know what was going on with brandon they'd just accepted a certain level of#Weirdness#that gave them a pretty long leash re: what they could get away with without being noticed or ostracized#but now he's on the leafs and he's running into all these new issues he never had to worry about before#they want to know why he's on his phone all the time. they want to know if he has a girlfriend. they want to know about brandon#but not like that of course why would they have any reason to think it was like that. and even if they did think it was like that --#connor has enough to worry about already without being on sheldon keefe's or auston matthews' or whoever's shitlist for being queer#or for that matter the toronto media's shitlist. and to top it all off he and brandon aren't even in the same country anymore.#not even in the same CONFERENCE#fuck.#bees speaks#ok bye im gonna go stare at this stupid poem for a while#rpf talk#2126
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I know my Half Life blog is not the place for this conversation, so I'm holding back from posting a fucking dissertation here, but goddamn, the lack of nuance and empathy in the conversations surrounding the Nickelodeon documentary is appalling.
#K talks#this post brought to you by the most vomit-inducing conversations I've participated in and witnessed in recent history#y'all have got to stop defining yourself and your morality by the 'content' you 'consume'#self-flagellating about what a 'bad person' you are for liking these shows AS A CHILD is not helping anyone#THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU#AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING#THAT'S KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT#and you have GOT to be more normal about victims#nobody is perfect. there are no 'perfect' victims. you are not 'making a statement' by publicly refusing to feel empathy for 'bad' victims#thinking about all the actors whose stories haven't come out and csa victims everywhere#I'm sorry purity culture brainrot has turned so many into callous & self-centered weirdos taking their secular catholic guilt out out on yo
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um. tfw your life is about to change massively very very soon and it still doesn't even feel real yet and still feels like somethings gonna pop up and it won't actually happen and also you're scared as fuck that you're too stupid to actually do it and it'll all be for nothing
#like what do you mean full time salaried w benefits and paid vacation just to do. school.#what made you so enthusiastically think i was the perfect one to do this#when the last approx 20something other guys were like ummmm no you cannot do it#tbf like all that other shit up there aside#this did actually come at the perfect time#i look back on who i was during my masters and i legit do not recognize that person#i barely even remember it i have to look at pictures to think back on who i was#in a strange roundabout way being forced home to stay for a while#kind of re centered me and gave me time to come back to myself in a big way. i was really lost before#and chaining something like this directly after my masters would have been disasters#even like this time last year i did not have this level of mental clarity#and i think thats why i didn't get any of the other positions i was just in a fog and i think people could tell#so as much as like im super scared and nervous about this big change and big exit from my comfort zone#and a little sad and mournful that im leaving my family and wont hear my native language all day every day anymore#im the most ready ive ever been#2019 me was NOT ready im scared of her tbh!! idk what wave i was on but it was weirdo shit!#im also proud that i essentially rawdogged and brute forced a lot of introspection and improvement#entirely on my own#like i really can only just describe it as clarity i feel like i matured 10 years in 4 and cleared all the fog#i feel so good about the way i handle things and react to things now vs then#im like 500x more unbothered and actually know how to put myself first now#anyway uh this prob could have been its own post in and of itself#but woteva innit im proud of how much internal repairs i did on myself over the last few years#became a stable genius as it were#whos a lot more clearly defined and present#but fuck man! i am still scared of being 2stupid
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realisation that lenú and lila l’amica geniale are the equal and opposite reaction to tenoch and Julio y tu mamá también
#The repressed working class 60’s Neapolitan lesbians versus the repressed 2000’s middle & upper class Mexican bisexuals#In either case! It’s about class! And a nation at a juncture! And violence seeping at the edges! And repressed queer sexuality#Julio and tenoch fuck once and never talk to each other again lenú and Lila never fuck (acc’d the books) and end up in a psychosexual#Codependency for half a century#Either way! Class issues and the most insane teenage behavior you’ve ever seen and trips to the beach!#L’amica geniale#Y tu mamá también#something about the jealousy rage pent up rage pent up grief at what can’t be I want to put your head through a window I want your life I#Want to be you I want to destroy you forever#The way Julio views tenoch the way Lila vies lenú#I think there’s also so much that’s fascinating in the way l’amica geniale is about Napoli and the way t tu mamá también is about Mexico#With the internal center/periphery dynamics#A story about two poor girls from the ocean-adjacent working class area#And their struggle to/journey to the national capital to the middle and upper classes to the center#And then the story about the boys from the comparatively upper echelons of Mexico City driving out to Chiapas to the beach#Perfect inverses!#A weekend versus fourty years
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Just watched a knight's tale for the first time and had a very fun time
#somehow watching it in the movie room of a retreat center in (country redacted) with my buds while we're all jetlagged as heck was perfect#actually today was just generally solid. napped in the car. ate good food. swam in the ocean. sang worship songs around a beach bonfire.#though the weeping may last for the night joy comes in the morning etc etc#i havent actually processed most of my feelings about leaving ny internship but it is nice to have some uncomplicated fun
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Idk I also just hate the future actually. My ass is Always living in the past or simply day to day 💪💪💪
#HELP ...... SO MANY OF MY DAYDREAMS CENTER AROUND THIS ACTUALLY.....#like. huge point of drama/point of contention between alfonse and moe is that moe Hesitates.#even outright Refuses. to consider the future. where alfonse's future seems set in stone that is the path he's been striving for all long#moe feels like it won't have a place there. you'll be king. you'll be all set. you'll probably have to have a queen#and even if it's a political marriage thing (WHICH. I HAVE SO MUCH HC LORE ABOUT --#like no one specifically but like. alfonse is the type of guy who has accepted this long ago and just treats it as a fact of life#which moe RESENTS. HOW are you gonna fuckinh ACCEPT THAT. your life entirely out of your own hands#bitch i'll fucking KILL YOU. ect)#also as a side there was a whole wedding banner wip that explored that that i. forgor about#but like. alfonse tries SO hard to convince moe that there WILL be a place for it by his side. he will MAKE that place if he has to#also a king4king situation isn't feasible i think moe would be a concubine (gay style). or an enuch or something#like moe does NOT want to be in any position of actual authority. that's not its heart. it's a support guy through and through#but going back to the start. moe is the type of guy who's convinced it's going to be replaced.#moe is the type of guy who burns bridges and feels a sense of relief. moe is the type of guy who is looking for ANY excuse#to run away. and ESP to reframe it as 'you're better off without me'.#the only reason it was able to get so close to alfonse is bc it was convinced alfonse wouldn't get attached to it#and when he did moe was convinced Well. this will all be temporary anyway. i'll take it day by day#make the most of it. and whenever alfonse hits it w one of his classic zingers like#the more you have to lose the worse it hurts when you do doesn't that make you feel lonely. SHUP FUCKIYBNG SHUT YPUR FUCK UP‼️‼️‼️#moe is a normal guy with no problems. definitely no commitment issues or intimacy issues. i promise.#ACTUALLY THAT REMINDS ME. BEEN TURNING THIS AROUND IN MY HEAD TOO. ESP W MY CURRENT WIP#and the feelings it invokes in me. moe is SO CONVINCED. SO CONVINCED. it's gonna fuck alfonse over big time#do NOT make me your lifeline i swear to fucking god. i Promise You. i Will Fail You.#adjacent but moe being a healer is ENDLESSLY. FASCINATING TO ME. LIKE MY GOD#healer that is just SO destructive. that's w.. that's part of why... it became a healer.........#like god. being a healer to ensure that if you get rid of me you'll be at a disadvantage.#nevermind the fact that i have a role exclusive to me. not good enough. i need More insurance.#the way. the role it took upon itself. when it was younger. to be the fixer. to clean up after [redacted]#and its never ending cycle. ever since it was a child. its never ending cycle of tearing itself apart#to rebuild itself anew. better this time. Perfect this time. this time. this time. this time.
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bill hader wins the prize for being the first person to ever make me spontaneously yell 'oh you're fucking KIDDING me' at the penultimate frame of a tv finale
#barry#barry spoilers#(in the tags at least TAG RANT)#that final bit of text in the mask collector#barry being buried at ARLINGTON CEMETERY WITH FULL HONORS#are you fucking KIDDING me#the actual perfect cherry on top of the shit sundae#TO BE CLEAR#I mean this all extremely positively#the finale was a PERFECT encapsulation of the themes of the show#the fetishization of the US military leading to barry being absolved of all his sins while cousineau goes to prison#essentially for the crime of being self centered#barry - being a marine - appears on the outside to be selfless and self sacrificing#cousineau is seen as being the greedy selfish one#when barry is THEE most selfish of them all#he is ready to die for his son yes but he was only ever *maybe* going to turn himself in once he realized sally and john were truly gone#and even then I'm not convinced he wouldn't have shot cousineau and his friend to get out of there#but barry is draped in medals and honors because his narrative could be - and was - transformed into a paragon of american masculinity#and his son SMILES because he gets to believe his dad was a hero#BILL HADER I'M CHEWING THE POWER CABLES IN YOUR HOUSE#and the good side of 'traditional masculinity' still being present!!!!#it's not all bad!!!!#barry was ready to kill everyone to protect his family BUT fuches covered john with his body#barry and fuches let each other go#fatherhood is a unifying and soothing thing - or it CAN be#fuches covered in tattoos with a bevvy of terrifying manly criminals giving hank an out through vulnerability#and hank saying 'no I gave up my whole world to hold on to the role they want me to play'#'so just kill me and let me die in my man's arms'#THE THEMES ARE INTRICATE#anyway none of this is coherent but I needed to scream
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#Howwwww is it 5am already I want to go home#I begged my parents and sibling to let me go home to my own bed and they wouldn't let me#I don't want to be the solution to our family problems I want to go be alone and not here#I understand me being around more would make our parents nicer and give my siblings someome sane to talk to#But I want to die and I don't want to be here and I don't care about any of these people#Once again them forcing me to go to their house made me miss an assignment. So that class is genuinely failed now.#It makes me so frustrated I could cry. Every time I say I'm doing school work#Or say I can't drop everything and drive forty minutes to their house. they laugh at me#They genuinely laugh and say I'm such a liar and I'm faking and there's no way I ever do any school work#I'm actually shaking I'm so frustrated they don't understand. That's how long it takes me.#Why can't they just realize I'm a dumbass fucking idiot. I'm so fucking stupid#I'm literally so stupid. Intellectually I'm a fucking idiot and I am so useless and slow.#Stop trying to believe I have potential to fucking waste#The fact is there is no potential but I'm fucking wasting anyway#I'm so. Dumb. When I say I'm doing school work I mean I looked at the tab and got nervous about how overdue#everything is and how I'm failing and everyone wants me to leave my safety for their own inane bullshit#I wouldn't be failing this class at all if I had been able to complete the first week on time#instead of like. sitting outside a convention center alone and in agony for Five (5) hours.#Kudos to the devil for creating the exact perfect circumstances to kill me in particular#I should reach out and go to a friend's house and it would be good for me. But.#There's no way I'm going to see or speak to anyone in this state of everything#Everyone else around me seems to have improved in mental health I'm not going to ruin that by making them let me come over#No one really believes any of the problems I have like even I don't. how are you that stupid. just stop having these problems.#I can't go to a friend's house when I have problems like this. Last time I had a breakdown and scared the fucking host and#their partner had to be the one to comfort me because I was crying too loud for autistic ears :(#I can't do that to anyone again#I'm not kidding when I say I'm a huge burden genuinely I exist to be upsetting and inconvenient and frustrating#I am literally the most selfish person to ever have existed. Just objectively. I don't care about anyone or anything at all.#I don't love my friends or my family and I don't care about what they want or need. truthfully.#I just want to sit in my tiny room where nothing changes and no one expects me to drive anywhere holy fucking shit it's 6am
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Okay, so, apparently the Fallout TV show is canon.
That is just terrible management of your IP. TV shows should always be an alternate continuity of a video game.
I enjoyed New Vegas well enough, so I'm definitely a mite annoyed they decided to nuke the NCR all over again which... sure was a choice. Sounds like mostly they wanted an excuse to center the Brotherhood of Steel more, which is a fan favorite faction for baffling af reasons.
Stupid choices or not, I am going to delight in the rage of the NV stans because I hate them. Their tears of rage will be delicious, and their screams music to my ears.
#Anti-New Vegas Stans#NV is a fine game it is not however the height of perfection#I really doubt this choice is about sticking it to 'NV' by Howard#at most it might be about clearing the board for freedom of storytelling and centering the BoS#and making it so there's no more demand for West Coast stories because that's not what Bethesda wants to make#But corporations don't greenlight major decisions like this - especially ones they know will be controversial - purely out of spite#anyway whine and cry on NV stans Fallout 4 is a better game in many ways#Hell *76* is a better game in many ways
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Kokomi fascinates me not in the way I think hoyo intended cause like, every time I see her im like "oh its Kokomi. she is sure there! " . I think she would call herself an introvert (needing to recharge energy), but even then i go back to the idea of her having a quest that's more focused her wanting to get some alone time. Perhaps she reads and reads cause thats what her family used to do. She looks like she would enjoy romance stories out of an urge to form a connection cause ya know. no fam
Yeah kokomi is like. Sure is an entity.
Even her vision story is very ???? to me. Her entire profile is very dedicated to like “she’s an influence in watasumi. she does not want to be. she likes military books.” And doesn’t talk about her life or her family or anything tbh. I mean it says she doesn’t like seafood i guess. Her mom is mentioned exactly one (1) time in a voiceline.
And while it’s probably just a writing thing since Inazuma seemed like a hit-or-miss nation overall from community reception, it also feels like it could be intentional if played right. It probably won’t be, but ya know.
#like it could be a repression sort of situation#she was trained to be the divine priestess since she was very young and was very well read#a lot of her stuff talks about how to please the people and know what the people want and know what expectations she needs to live up to#she talks about how watasumi island needs a ‘perfect leader’ and how that’s not ‘a girl who likes to stay inside all day’#she has a lot of doubt too since she’s young and relatively inexperienced and ‘can’t defy what flows in her veins’#she enjoys politics (to a degree) and loves strategy but doesn’t like being front and center#she has ‘book club’ with miko and they discuss like. foreign policy.#or something#kokomi has a lot of potential to be interesting and I’m so sad she’s never going to be explored further#SHE WAS IN THE MIRAGE SUMMER EVENT AGH and seemed just. there. for the most part.#anyway sorry for tag yapping im like this for so many hydro characters#hi steel!
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Archmage Vishalny, Arcane Diplomat and Master of Enchantment (DND NPC)
#4, dangerous magic / teasing blood stim board. (No explicit vampirism, just danger)
Themes of blood not in the context of a body/ ink imitating blood, nails, hands, dark snakes, bloody calligraphy, shadow/darkness as magic, obscured hands. A darkness and danger board, a powerful magic shown.. Threat but not quite truth, secrets. The power and danger that she holds, that can be used to threaten but can never be brought to light.
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#i was very careful not to show blood in the smae context as people#so the dripping hand in is black and white; the blood is in a tea cup(only confirmed blood); the red on the pens could be ink#all gestures at the blood without the real visceral contact#i also tried to not show a hand completely exposed. either in shadow; behind the bath bomb; wearing a glove; oe behind the snakes#just to show obfuscation#anyway; i could rant forever about how the center teacup blood gif is perfect; just know it is perfect. messy visceral blood in a polite cu#i really love the red ink calligraphy pens that fill up the middle row. the violent wash of color on the left and the slow drip on the righ#with the snakes gifs i wanted to show a more iridescent black color and the actually full head of the snake.#the top bottom and middle and reflecting eachother eith the hands#i love the long nailed claws on the top; and the glove on the bottom moves in a real good way#the tope left and bottom right are more shadow focued#the top left is more violent with what its implying; tho totally in balck and white#i like the crushing of that dark bathbomb; the spreading of the color really looks like some kinda dark magic. love the nails too#prob most proud of this one. or maybe as proud as the next one#gonna tag now#vishalny#stimboard#stim#original#original post#blood#snake#black#red
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i love the gilbert baker sex and magic stripes they literally mean everything to me
#the gilbert baker flag is probably the flag i identify the most with i think...#cause like yeah sure technically i fall under the emily gwen lesbian and the nonbinary ones#but theyve never really felt personal to me#the philadelphia and progress flags are also nice but the fact that theyre used so much in corporate pride really turns me off from them#and so that makes it so that the only mainstream kind of flag i have left is the aromantic flag.#and then my only others i really like are the smaller ones such as my slimegender flag and the objectum flag...#but gilbert baker is really nice... cause like. a lot of my queer identity centers around art and sex and so that flag really feels perfect
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What a time to remember that I am superhero trash
#specifically Superman and Spiderman#had them both on the brain for the last two days#they're my favourite#honestly tho#if you give me a hero character that just wants to do good at the expense of themselves#i will fall head over heels every. single. time.#well#maybe it's also the secret identity thing#i didn't really care much for the mcu characters#none of them had a secret identity and it didn't feel like they were there to help people#i mean#to be fair#they did very well help people and save civilians#but most of their movies were centered around themselves and this one big bad person who didn't really do anything until the final 15-30#minutes#ah the issues of setting up a cinematic universe and establishing everything for the main bad guy to be endgame#however i am saying this as someone who only knows the avengers through the cinematic universe not their comics#but spiderman and superman are just *gestures wildly*#they have their hero persona and they choose to do good whilst keeping their identity a secret#it is the perfect formula for me
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Sorry for being negative, I’m just a bit disappointed that after looking through the Earthspark Optimus tags on and off on different occasions weeks apart, it seems like the only thing the fandom has to say about ES Optimus is finger snaps and dad jokes. :/ (And also a handful of people already trying to frame him as a bad person lmao)
Watch for it, when more episodes of Earthspark come out and a conflict with GHOST inevitably arises, people are going to be raging at Optimus for being “stupid” or “self-righteous” or “blind” for working with GHOST and start calling Megatron and/or the Decepticons right about everything because they spent so long focusing on “haha funny dad Optimus” that they forgot about the other parts of Optimus’ character like... idk, not wanting to colonize planets? Not wanting to start wars with entire species that didn’t want to be involved in the war in the first place? Being willing to make compromises even at risk to himself and his own because he wants to treat everyone fairly?
Idk I guess I’m just a bit salty because it genuinely seems like all this fandom wants is “funny dad Optimus” and nothing else. Like you will give them funny dad Optimus who’s ALSO complex and morally gray but people will only ever talk about the former part. And then when Optimus inevitably makes a mistake and bad things happen, people are probably going to treat him as if he’s stupid or an asshole when he ends up not being the Perfect Unproblematic Fave that people seemingly want him to be.
#negativity#the tf fandom has protagonist centered morality really badly#like yes we all joke/think that humans are the most boring part of transformers#but there's a difference between that as like a narrative preference in a story#versus literally acting like humans don't matter#and a lot of takes i see in earthspark and other continuities#seem to completely ignore the fact that cybertronians securing their future on earth and eliminating the people who want to do them wrong#would literally mean stealing resources from humans and killing them aka COLONIZING THEM#so i see people calling OP a bad leader or stupid or overly trusting for working with GHOST when he's literally no such thing#he explicitly says 'we are guests on this planet' and acknowledges that he sees GHOST merely as his best option and doesn't fully trust them#but ppl in this fandom have a really infantile perspective of optimus#where they want him to be Good All The Time or they just see him as an idiot for some reason#so they see OP making compromises to not hurt humans (people who didn't even want to get involved with cybertron's war)#and theyre like durr hurr he's stupid! he's ignorant! he's an asshole to the decepticons!#no he's not he's literally just trying to not hurt innocent people? and he has to balance both human lives and cybertronian lives#and that's fucking hard and there are no perfect options and there are no outcomes where no one will get hurt#and the existence of those bad choices doesn't make optimus stupid or malicious#it makes him a FUCKING PERSON#trying to navigate a HARD SITUATION and do the right thing#but we can't have optimus being an actual character who behaves like a human being#he has to be perfect daddy prime that does nothing wrong ever and if he does he's a STUPID ASSHOLE ugh
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