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To any other Jazzprowl shippers, what's your reason for shipping them? If any.
A big appeal of their dynamic is that they act as near-perfect parallels for one another, whose personalities serve to highlight specific traits not seen within the other. Both Prowl and Jazz (if we take the most generalised characterisations of them) are polar opposites with the exact same trauma response, despite the different ways they go about it.
That while they are very different in many aspects. For instance, with Prowl being a hated recluse, opposed to Jazz, who is a well-loved social butterfly. They are also incredibly similar, that although Prowl is often seen as a symbol of bureaucratic "justice" (which is largely arbitrary and absurd, with Prowl often being a stickler for the rules, unless it serves to upend his authority), and Jazz often depicted as some sort of outlaw, or some force that goes against the status quo.
The common denominator is that they're not strangers to manipulating the system for their own percieved benefit. Prowl from within the confines of said system as an Enforcer, and Jazz from outside as an interloper—which works for the subversive nature of his character, as someone trying to undermine the system, similarly to espionage.
So, there's a lot of themes that could be explored by their dynamic and a potential relationship between the two.
The trauma response thing, however, is pretty explanatory. They're both secret keepers, who push people away. Prowl quite literally and metaphorically, while Jazz instead supplements his anguish by portraying a false image of nonchalance, thus effectively burying the truth.
I just had some like mini rant to say about megastar and you are one of the biggest megastar shippers I see on Tumblr so I just had to say,
I will never understand on why people constantly hate on megastar for the reasons like “Megatron is extremely Abusive to Starscream!!”
Which could be understandable if it was in a continuity where Starscream was actually an understandable/Good Mech like in Armada and whatever but.. Starscream is literally almost always trying to take over the Decepticon’s and constantly trying to kill Megatron..?? why wouldn’t Megatron be pissed? like both Starscream AND Megatron are horrible dudes don’t get me wrong but when people constantly victimize Starscream to make him look like some sort of pitiful abuse victim when he literally is also technically abusive in that sense is so weird. I just wanted to hear your take on that kind of thinking honestly because I just feel when people use that argument on hating against Megastar it just proves that they don’t really understand either of their characters. they are both horrible. They are both horrible to each other and they both constantly tried to kill each other other. Like cmon brah
Even if Starscream was a 'good mech' I'd still have no problems shipping Megastar! I see Megatron as more of the 'bad guy' in Megaratch and Megacracker, but I don't feel bad about it. Megatron makes it entertaining! Now with Megastar? We have two cunty bad bitches who hate each other but will kill themselves without the other. It's beautiful.
I think a popular reason for framing them as victim/abuser is because they think that doing so automatically gives the impression of making their relationship more 'deep' and 'complex'. I get what they were going for... if it had been for another character. If I had gone into transformers with this impression of Starscream, I would not have been as obsessed with him. And I'm so glad I didn't! The freedom of having Starscream be an edgy piece of shit through his own making is amazing. He doesn't need Megatron to be terrible, because he IS terrible, he would be like this if he had met him or not, and I love him for it! Dulling down Megastar as just abuser and victim limits the absurd possibilities this couple can do to the bounds of reality to me.
The biggest problem with diminishing Starscream as just a "victim", is that it denounces a lot of his own moral agency when it comes to the decisions he's made. And it misguidedly externalises blame (i.e., to characters like Megatron), and removes Starscream's ability to confront or take responsibility for his own actions and inactions. Like, he is a victim, but a victim isn't all he is.
Like a lot of the intrigue (for me at least) in the MegaStar ship, is the moral complexity and cyclical abuse between Megatron and Starscream. In the sense, Starscream has to battle his own codependency towards Megatron (like a good majority of Starscream's life has CENTERED on Megatron, regardless of whether he wants it to or not), which diametrically opposes his desire to be independent from him. Which can make for a lot of dramatic tension which I'm a personal fan of (I love drama). They have a very on/off dynamic which goes both ways, which makes it easy for both of them to fall into familiar patterns of violence and abuse. This idea has always been present in their relationship, but to what extent it's explored depends on the continuity (i.e., in G1 and TFA its played up for gags; in IDW and at times TFP the psychological repercussions of it is more thoroughly explored).
But just because MegaStar has these darker themes, doesn't mean that's ALL MegaStar is. Like with any ship, it can be whimsical and silly, and simplifying or flanderising Megatron and Starscream's dynamic in this way is a HUGE disservice to the characters.
Like, the "toxic" aspect of their dynamic is HEAVILY reliant on the abilities of the writer. And again just because a piece of media explores this aspect, doesn't mean its automatically complex or nuanced. As both Megatron and Starscream experience dual-mischaracterisation in this regard, where they're pulled onto both ends of the opposite extremes.
My personal theory onto why this ship has been on decline may be due to declining literacy rates, which is detrimental with engaging in morally ambiguous relationships in fiction. With many people possibly being unable to suspend their morality/disbelief when it comes to engaging with the characters and their dynamic. Feeling that it reflects poorly on their character. Which sucks... because like you said the absurd possibilities are boundless!
MegaStar doesn't need to be deep or serious to be entertaining. And even when it is, it doesn't mean exploring it is some sort of moral failing.
A lot of my favourite MegaStar fics are just them mutually bullying each other and being utterly insane, and I think that's beautiful.
Haven't drawn anything in like 2 months lmao, got inspired by comic black cell shading and wanted to do something with more contrast, so this was pretty fun experiment! Also, THANK YOU FOR 130 FOLLOWERS!!! I was pretty shocked my account had grown that large since I've last been online, so thank you all for the support.
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Guys genuinely how do people organize their blogs
I am lost please help. I want to do a master post and in blog tags and links to art but I don’t know how
yoyoyoyoyoyo, this is how I used to do masterposts. Its a scuffed ahhh explanation bc I just woke up, so feel free to ask more questions.
Make a draft and come up with a title for what you want to hyperlink, in this example its just "link 1".
Insert the link of the page you want it to redirect to. In this case, its better if you made a tag for yourself for example "NC's fanart" for organisational purposes, however, the link can be a post as well (eg., chapter 1 of a comic).
Then add whatever customisations lmao.
Final result could look something like this, then rinse and repeat!
Haven't drawn anything in like 2 months lmao, got inspired by comic black cell shading and wanted to do something with more contrast, so this was pretty fun experiment! Also, THANK YOU FOR 130 FOLLOWERS!!! I was pretty shocked my account had grown that large since I've last been online, so thank you all for the support.
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jazz day 18
yk what? I respect the hate.
Like I ship the characters—both fanon and canon interpretations of them—but I feel like Jazzprowl is ultimately a "can I fix him?" sort of relationship. A more canon-adjacent version of these two (per IDW at least) would be a complicated, toxic mess. G1 would probably be fine—minus that Prowl dies (and maybe Jazz I lowk don't remember?).
Like its fun to come up with wacky scenarios of an amoral Jazz and Prowl comitting war crimes together. But canonically, Jazz has far too much conscience, and Prowl is haunted by his. (Actually they've both done shitty things, but Jazz, out of the two, is the only one who feels persistent remorse, while Prowl—who albeit still feels distress—will chalk it up to another statistic). Which lowk a large appeal of the ship, but somewhat underexplored? At least on Jazz's end.
Not to mention that making him "okay" with Prowl's actions is a disservice to his character. Jazz has far too much empathy, too much love to be okay with even a fraction of what Prowl has done. He may find a way to continue to love Prowl regardless, or at least have a continued interest similarly to an experiment. But it would definitely be a trial of patience, and again a sort of "can I fix him?" sort of thing.
Lovely reply! Thank you so much, this is very well thought out and super accurate. Now I'm using you as a vessel to complain! So my issues with the ship more so reside in the fans and how they portray them rather than their dynamic in any official media. People do not really understand Jazz's character, or they have no interest in him, but write him anyway to fulfill a ship. I've noticed people tend to find Prowl more interesting or relatable, so they center their writing around him and what he's thinking, feeling, and doing. I believe a major part of it is due to Jazz being black-coded (if you disagree or confused I'll elaborate in a separate post) so white fans just...don't really care about him or understanding him. Soooo many fics are riddled with borderline or just fully racist tropes, and few people really think about how to portray him in a way that is mindful of these tropes, since they either don't know they are doing these tropes or they just don't see Jazz as black. With Jazz's coding in mind, and a lot of people writing Prowl to be a police officer, dynamics get....strange to say the least. Even people who aren't aware of racist connotations still end up fulfilling them since those tropes and teachings are so ingrained they don't even notice them. And I'm definitely not saying all Jazzprowl fans are racist, I'm saying that they often aren't mindful to the coding and messaging they are sending with their fan-content.
Moving on to other points, I also feel like its just one of those ships that people ship just to ship. They like Prowl, so they ship him with Jazz who they can easily mold into whatever they need since not enough people have enough knowledge of his character. Jazz is my favorite character in this whole franchise, so it's super disappointing seeing him used in copy and paste ship content or ship content that has really racist undertones (and sometimes OVERtones). He's existed for such a long time, and is so present in fan content, but when that fan content is actually put under inspection it has little to do with Jazz as an actual character. Give me more Jazz content! And PLEASE give me more black authors writing Jazz!!
Girlie, I lowkey thought I was going crazy with the way a lot of fic authors write Jazz.
(Also complaining!!! I LOVE TO COMPLAIN AAAAA—)
As an occasional fic writer, I know I'm probably guilty of some of the things you've mentioned, I'm not black (am filipino) but I did spend my formative teenage years living in a predominantly "black" area—black in this context being an umbrella term to refer to those with darker pigmentation, not of African descent (because Australia, with Aboriginal history being my only personal point of reference when it comes to first-hand, technically second-hand, experience with "black" culture). And its very interesting to see how those same perceptions and prejudices towards black people are carried onto Jazz (and to a lesser extent Prowl).
There's also the whole other debacle of the "model minority", and how white society views and lowkey pins asians (specifically east, or east-passing asians) and blacks against one another to vie for white attention and acceptance. Positioning one or the other as "desirable" in certain facets where the other is not. Its not particularly relevant to this discussion, but a thing that comes to mind is how "blackness" is seen as hypermasculine, and "asianess" as hyperfeminine. That asian women are more "feminine" than white women, and thus more desirable. But black women are more "masculine" than white women, and are thus not (note how whiteness is considered as the baseline for "attractiveness"). Bullshit like that. This outlook also works with asian, white, and black men. But even then, the "feminine" asian man does not face the same level of scrutiny when compared to the "masculine" black woman, despite both serving as direct parallels to one another in this specific diagram, due to different societal expectations associated with one's gender.
But in relation to Jazzprowl and Jazz's characterisation, I feel like a lot of fics—explicit ones in particular—tend to hyper-masculinise Jazz playing into anti-black tropes of aggression and possessiveness, tying into the desirability and fetishisation of the "masculine" black man. Particularly in the objectification of his "feminine" other half. There's a lot to be picked apart with how the both of them are portrayed in explicit media—but then again it's p*rn. And I doubt these authors are trying to make a serious commentary on race and identity, nor do I think (or hope) that any of the above is reflective of the author's actual, real-world beliefs.
(Also note that Jazz's aggression is more largely attributed to the warping of BDSM tropes rather than solely on race, but again it ties into what you said with how a lot of authors aren't mindful to the coding and messaging of their fan-works.)
Also, super sorry if you're not comfortable with NSFW topics!!! But I feel like explicit fan-works are typically the most egregious offenders of the racist under- and overtones you've mentioned, because they're typically able to get away with a lot more taboo topics, as they're not expected to dissect them in any meaningful or nuanced way. For instance, slave-master relationships (which in general are... uh... uhhhhhhhhhh.)
HOWEVER, on a relatively more wholesome note. I'm really happy you brought up how, with black-coding in mind, the dynamic with Prowl being a police officer gets super strange. I find this especially when authors try to be politically aware and try to educate the audience on the race-dynamics present in society.
Which is... fine, and if done well can add a lot meaning and nuance to the narrative these authors are trying to tell, but something these authors have to take in consideration is whether the message they're trying to tell makes SENSE, given the setting they're writing in. Like does the racism, and thus the oppression these characters face, feel like a natural extension of the world-building? Or just something extra that author wrote in to give the story some surface-level depth?
Because while Transformers is an allegory for the underlying philosophical themes and troubles that plague the human condition. The characters in Transformers are ultimately not human. Like robo-racism is and SHOULD be fundamentally different than real-world human racism, because they focus, scrutinise, and debase different aspects of an individual. For instance, through pattern-recognition and basic empathy, we should be able relate the different Transformers conflicts (cold vs forged, frame-type discrimination) to racial conflicts in the real world. As the concepts, such as the notions of being born "wrong" and being treated "different" are directly comparable, WHILE others are not.
Like, while Jazz is black-coded—unless its humanformers—he is ultimately not a black man. And his struggles while in parallel to real-world struggles, should not be a direct one-to-one. Like if authors want to give him stereotypical black struggles, the world needs to justify it, because at the end of the day. They're robots.
Like what is Jazz being discriminated against? His frame-type? His cold-construct status? And if so, why is that so often when compared to other characters of a similar frame-type and status, the narrative or specifically the authors will try to position him as more oppressed? Like with *cough* *cough* Prowl? And it's easy to place Prowl in a position of more privilege because he was a high-level Enforcer pre-war.
But, canonically, so was Jazz???
So, ultimately, I feel like the deciding factor on who gets bent over is racial-coding (this also applies to Prowl btw iykyk).
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jazz day 18
yk what? I respect the hate.
Like I ship the characters—both fanon and canon interpretations of them—but I feel like Jazzprowl is ultimately a "can I fix him?" sort of relationship. A more canon-adjacent version of these two (per IDW at least) would be a complicated, toxic mess. G1 would probably be fine—minus that Prowl dies (and maybe Jazz I lowk don't remember?).
Like its fun to come up with wacky scenarios of an amoral Jazz and Prowl comitting war crimes together. But canonically, Jazz has far too much conscience, and Prowl is haunted by his. (Actually they've both done shitty things, but Jazz, out of the two, is the only one who feels persistent remorse, while Prowl—who albeit still feels distress—will chalk it up to another statistic). Which lowk a large appeal of the ship, but somewhat underexplored? At least on Jazz's end.
Not to mention that making him "okay" with Prowl's actions is a disservice to his character. Jazz has far too much empathy, too much love to be okay with even a fraction of what Prowl has done. He may find a way to continue to love Prowl regardless, or at least have a continued interest similarly to an experiment. But it would definitely be a trial of patience, and again a sort of "can I fix him?" sort of thing.
artemis II x skybound?!!! that little wave meant so much to me and feels suitable to cross with the moon mission
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MEET THE FRONT: HOT ROD
Here it is, my original AU called: ABSOLUTE LOST LIGHT
Inspired by the DC Absolute universe comic run and TF2, This universe is much. MUCH more different than the original Lost Light, I have a lot of plans for this AU, but for now meet the front man and warden of the Lost Light prison, Hot Rod!
More rambles and extra doodles under here vvv
"I was a prime! They did this to me! They left me to rot!" Yap yap mosquitomus. Get spayed.
misc stuff i forgot to post
Is... Kup... papa?!?!
Some helmet studies I did for Prowl and Jazz. Should I draw mech-preg next? (I've lost all respect for myself and am now wallowing in a pit of degeneracy).
I definitely didn't increase the size of his tyrannosaurs hands. No, I did not accidentally—in my albeit sleep deprived state—give him thalidomide poisoning.