OFFIZIR

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INTRODUCTION

officer / offizir

im a dude (he/him)

i enjoy a lot of different medias - mainly transformers, still fairly new

💙🖤🤍 Swindle, TC, Prowl, Sideswipe, Blitzwing & many others

suggestive / crude humor and posts maybe but no explicit nsfw

interact with me on my strawpage / asks are always free !

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mags.......

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skybound shockwave for some reason

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ENERGON IS FUEL

CYBERTRON IS FULL

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Hello! Moneyshot has such a cool design, I dont think ive seen a slot machine transformer before! Do you mind if I make fanart? :)

ouhh my god im so late to this because i havent been online recently BUT YES ANYONE CAN MAKE FANART OF HIM !! you even have to ask hehe

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birthday swinprowl gift for oomfie @/rossgoldsworth !!

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starscream + stubble........

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when i want to watch purple but my bitch trinemate wants to watch green

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jazz day 18

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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.

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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!!

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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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blaster design ..... i like to make my stuff flashy keke

i feel like if he was a prime the title "Radio Prime" would sound pretty cool ,, but blaster prime by itself sounds good too

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i know you too well to like you anymore

saw an album cover i thought was cool

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thinking of them 2day ...

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its 6 am and hes rotating in my head

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Prowl but he gets that stupid mustache (affectionate) that he has in the Worst Bot Ever comic. Jazz is not a fan. Ft. Elita having her smoke break interrupted.

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for u halfway through i wanted this to match a little with a certain rodimus drawing a while ago giggle

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A little gift for @rossgoldsworth 💖

Happy 1 year anniversary of Swinprowl, oomf ☺️🫶✨

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Figured since Tomodachi Life 2 is almost here I would finally do this trend, better late than never I guess hehe