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he/they i do things sometimes

[bloominglegumes]

oufghrg..,,.,

[kaisellinne]

Sketches for an idea i had about the autobots liking the trailer and just passing time there. Optimus just lets it happen, bc why not

Anyway, i let him be happy for far too long already

The thought of optimus having to carry the literal dead weight of his friends is what actually made me want to do this, i might make this a full piece one day, who knows

[bloominglegumes]

finally,,, i make my little guy do a little dance,,, the power i hold,,

(based on choreo by Molly Long - song: Pop Muzik by M)

[coalballbaby]

One thing I've noticed when people talk about Prowl is that they tend to have a very black-and-white attitude towards liking him. The most common two things I've seen are either a) people feel too guilty about actually enjoying the character that they shy away from going beyond summaries of his actions + a vague feeling of treating him as just a morally-corrupt-character-they-enjoy, or b) they really, publicly like him, but tend to make extremely individualistic takes that reduce his character from a nuanced part of a larger narrative to a guy misunderstood by the cast around him. Of course, I'm not saying individualistic takes are inherently bad-- it can be fun and thought-provoking to think about the more personal elements of character, what they believe, why they might do it-- but it's easy to come up with excuses for a character this way.

I think it's important to consider that Prowl's just... not written as a likeable, glup-shitto-ifiable way. He's not meant to be taken that way, and he does genuinely shitty things to innocent people while wrangling his own sense of responsibility for the future of all things Cybertron. Of all depictions of Prowl, IDW's version is the clearest criticism of the police force and how easily power can be misused under beliefs of serving a "greater good"-- I'm not saying that you can't like him because of this, (for one it be massively hypocritical, as I am. a notorious and huge Prowl enjoyer), but I am saying that this is something important to keep in mind when engaging with the character critically, especially if you're going to talk about him publicly. Prowl isn’t just morally gray or "misunderstood", he’s a deliberate allegory for institutional rot, for what happens when someone fully buys into the idea that the ends justify the means, that it may be necessary to endanger innocent people if it preserves a controlled future. His actions aren’t accidents or unfortunate side effects of good intentions; they're the result of a belief system that values control, hierarchy, and long-term strategy over individual lives. When people detach Prowl from that context-- when they talk about him purely as a burdened tactician doing his best-- they risk replicating the same logic that real-world systems use to excuse harm. I know saying this kind of sounds insane from a Transformers IDW standpoint, but IDW itself is a very political story, and sometimes, well. I like to think about it. (I also realize that I'm taking a lot from specifically Roberts, Roche's, and Barber's interps, which are a lot more focused on this morally complicated Prowl-- but those just happen to be my favorite takes on him, and I tend to focus on those a lot more. Personal bias, I know, but I do have thoughts on the many other Prowl portrayals in the IDW run.)

Okay er. I'm getting distracted. Liking a character like Prowl doesn’t mean you have to soften his worst actions or reframe his motivations into something more sympathetic. He isn’t compelling in spite of being deeply flawed, he’s compelling because the narrative doesn’t let that shit slide lmao. Things/people bite him in the ass for it and that's awesome. He's boiling in his own sweat and fear and anger after putting the onus on himself to make a thousand contingency plans with him in control, because he's a deeply paranoid man who tends to use others' inaction as an excuse. We can all hold hands and think about it... promise?

[stormygopher]

Wheeljack attempts cooking for his human friends. It goes about as well as you might expect.

Half of them don’t even know what banana bread is but they’re always down to roast Wheeljack

[iyuro]

if i was bumblebee i would've rose up from the grave immediately to beat megatron's ass for saying this 😭

[beeperisbeeping]

megateon is the kind of guy who would have a blackout-drunk vegas wedding and then commit way too hard

[charlie-nsfw]

mmm whatcha sayyyy

[the1ogrodimus]

[beeperisbeeping]

thank you power joe

[beeperisbeeping]

can we please talk about all of the themes of sentience and what it means to be human in brave police j decker that get interspersed with the randomest shit ever

[mychlapci]

genuinely can’t stand the “bumblebee is a child” shit and it’s a phenomenon thats in every fandom that makes me want to eat rocks. I’m a Star Trek autistic and saw someone say you can’t do anything romantic/sexual with an android character bc they were technically only in their teens (because they’d been online for a few years then shut off and turned back on). an android who was modeled after a full grown man with cock and balls. an android who had committed a MASSACRE. they were infantilizing a war criminal. like I wanna emphasize the character was treated like an adult and there were no undertones of immaturity people are just insane

that's insane. that's a whole adult robot man. in both cases, transformers and star trek.

[newtypeoffreak]

Go my scarab

[beeperisbeeping]

happy one year Megastar Becoming Canon anniversary 😄

[beeperisbeeping]

i will die on the hill that almost every megastar hater just doesn't understand starscream's character

[wiihtigo]

lets put a pin in this conversation

[ynheer]

idw bumblebee and prowl shouldve broke up bcs he wouldnt stop 𝚊sking prowl to pause his report for just one lil astrosec so he can change his various pastel colored pens while making his cute little aesthetically pretty for no reason & very time - consuming notes with big colorful fonts & cute designs real quick

also another thought abt annoying ass bb trying to make running a literal planet cotteque so he doesn't go crazy bcs hes now a politician when all he ever wanted was to deliver mail & smile & wave at bots who call him cute ---

bee: 𝚠heeljack, im so sorry about this but do you mind repeating the time-stakingly long introduction, instruments, research references, modules, hypothesis, counter thesis, procedures, analysis, second - retrial, results, & explanation that you just spent 700000 earth hours saying because i was busy drawing a cute little bee in the corner of my notes please :] ?

wheeljack:

idw bee trying to run a planet that fucking hates him is just rlly funny to me, especially since everyone views bee as the goody character who everyone loves & he views himself as that & then they finally win this consuming war & he can reap his rewards of being loved without holding a gun & no one fucking likes him. hes even getting on his own old team's nerves & not in the loveable scamp way but the get the fuck out of my face way

[random-cockroach]

I I MEAN... Wanted something for the soul again and MOMU has a great affect on me by slowly feeding me the ideas for animations... I'm sure Ricochet is Jazz, change my mind, I have no idea how it will turn out but MHMM I HAVE SO MUCH GOOD VIBES FOR MY BRAIN FROM THEM

Song <- clickable link

[bloominglegumes]

my brain is fried no caption no context i just like them