#drift confession

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Baffling to me that Drift and Rodimus in fandom are seen as Rodimus being very insecure and Drift more aloof when their canon dynamic is the exact opposite. Rodimus has many insecurities, but his friendship with Drift is not one of them. Meanwhile Drift is following him around like a lost little puppy begging for attention.

It's very difficult, nigh impossible, to find fics that accurately portray this.

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Sometimes I feel weird for not vibing with Drift/Ratchet as a pairing

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Feel like I’m the only one who read “Ratchet carved into his spark for Drift” and immediately hated that. It just sounds stupid. Didn’t Ratchet die from his spark giving out? You know what probably didn’t help? Weakening the integrity of your spark chamber by CARVING INTO IT. Idiot.

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Slightly bit of a controversial take maybe? But Dratchet somewhat "ruined" Drift

As in, Drift, in fandom, has essentially just become Ratchet's husband, and he can't seem to be anything else. While other characters get a chance to be in other ships in different contiuities, Drift, in any small appearance he even gets, seems like he HAS to be shipped with Ratchet

And I don't hate the ship btw, I don't really care for it, but everytime I find anything that involves Drift (besides bayverse I guess) he has to somehow be in a relationship with Ratchet

This has somewhat made me go from natrual bout the ship, to spiteful towards it.

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Cyberverse Drift's role could've easily been done by Doubledealer.

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I feel like the message of Drift and Ratchet went over a lot of reader's heads to the point of villainizing James Roberts, and making claims that he was using Ratchet as a self insert. I feel like not a lot of these fans actually had close friends/family who used to be addicts and turned to born again Christians. That shit is real and annoying, it happens. I thought Drift captured that pipeline really well and I love him. He reminds me so much of people I miss dearly that I wish survived OD, people that I wish got to have the happy marriage ending. And many friends who did turn to religion to cope. So, his story is extremely cathartic to me. I feel like ratchet is realistically portrayed in MTMTE and LL, hes allowed to be bitter, skeptical, and tired. I think any criticism of Drift's samurai-woobifying is valid and fair, but I still love both Drift and Ratchet so much.

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I don't like it when people criticize something in fandom but then don't apply that to canon.

"Fans need to stop infantilizing IDW Tailgate!" Okay, but you do realize that trend stemmed from how the author treated him, right? That he'd only had two-weeks of lived experience before falling underground, and his holoform was a baby, and his partner calls him "little one" as a nickname etc. That's all pretty egregious, so shouldn't we start by criticizing the author's decisions?

"Fans use racist tropes when they write about Jazz!" ...said by people who also say they love the IDW arc about Jazz having once been a beat cop who is abandoned by his comrades and then aggressively hunted by police and the military for having once killed a cop to save his friend.

"The way fans write about Drift and sex work plays into Orientalism!" It does, but you know the author is the one who made him rent out his body parts and once joked that Drift "rented out his thighs" right? This trend started with canon and with him.

"Can people stop reducing TF One Elita-1 to a mom figure when she wasn't in canon?" That is very annoying and she wasn't a mom in canon, but it's strange to me when people who say this never mention how Elita-1 being ignored compared to the male characters was also a trend in the film itself? We should probably start there, shouldn't we? SHE ISN'T EVEN IN THE THEME SONG WHEN ALPHA TRION IS

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I would like dratchrod a lot more if people didn’t write Ratchet as a third wheel in his own relationship.

I say this after seeing way too many works where people have Drift cheat with Rodimus.

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