#windscream confession

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Imo the appeal of Windscream isn’t “I can fix him”

It’s Windblade trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with Starscream.

Bonus if Starscream is trying to make Windblade worse.

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[transformersconfessions]

Ok so, I've been brewing a bit and looking at some of the confessions here just out of boredom, and windscream confessions caught my attention

And omg, I'm sorry, I may be comming off as rude, but not like some of the confessions had the decency to be nice about it either, but a good majority (not ALL!! Let me emphasize on that) lean way too heavily on gay stereotypes. And I mean to say, to everyone who says "Starscream is gay"

He could be! But that's left for viewers to interpret, otherwise he is neither gay or straight.

I'm not even a diehard WindScream shipper, my OTP is StarBee, but it bugs me how many people (not just with windscream, just any straight ship) just can't fathom Starscream as a straight guy. I don't either, but it's never confirmed, he's just a diva sorta feminine like guy and somehow that absolves him from being in a f/m ship and making it homophobic

Hell, it's also sometimes biphobic, and as someone who's bi, it kinda pisses me off a little.

Not only does the arguments against any straight ships with Starscream come out as bi erasure, it is also slightly homophobic in itself bc he's just casually the stereotype of being gay.

Not just that, we don't actively see him in a relationship in majority of his time in any continuity (maybe sometimes implied, but never outright said. Unless I'm missing one), he could very well be AroAce for all that's worth!!

Anyhow, my general opinion is, leave people be. Starscream is neither gay of straight, and if he's confirmed to be gay in any continuity, then the rule only applies to THAT continuity and not on the others. Which is something some people also seem to struggle to do, separate the different continuities.

Ship who you wanna ship, let people be in peace with their ships, and have some fun for fucks sake. Someone enjoying WindScream won't make your own ship any less valid, and vise versa. These are all just dolls for us to have fun with, the best part about TF as a whole is that it leaves so much open room for you to enjoy any ship!! Block and move on if you don't like it!!

Though also, yeah, I can't be too mad at confessions here since it's a place for people, like me, to vent out their frustrations. But what bothers me is that I often see the arguments used in these confessions outside this place and harassing other fans, which is my big issue.

Also also, they state it as fact that Starscream is gay, which isn't true and just spreads misinformation

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[transformersconfessions]

"windscream sux bc windblade is a lesbian" okay then why does windscream have more fics than windstream and chromblade combined. all talk no walk

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[transformersconfessions]

"Windscream gets so much hate-" Yeah, 'cause it's an objectively boring ship and you can go to any bookstore and read the exact same plot in any dime a dozen romance novel. Windscream is just typical heteronormative "she can fix him" nonsense that's completely oversaturated in media. There's absolutely nothing Windblade and Starscream would get from being in a relationship with each other that they can't get from someone else. Ergo, it's boring.

Even worse is the snobbish insistence I see all the time from het shippers that they're canon. They are not and have never been canon. The hypocrisy is disgusting because mlm or wlw shippers get laughed out of a room for doing the exact same thing. Yes, Windblade and Starscream came to an understanding at the end of IDW, but there's nothing to suggest they were romantically involved or even remotely interested in each other that way. Hell, Windblade doesn't have a single thing to say about Starscream's death, which she absolutely would if the implication was that she liked him.

Obviously ship whatever you want but don't throw a fit just because people don't like the most basic and overdone trope in existence.

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[transformersconfessions]

Response to the last windscream confession. It's fine not to like it, doesn't mean you need to throw hate at fans for just liking it. Have the decency to not be weird about people, or to at least not vent in the tags or directly at people's faces. If it really is such a run-of-the-mill and boring ship, why don't you do some soul-searching as to why it pisses you off so much that some people enjoy it. Because if you truly believed it, you won't be having such strong childish reaction. Honestly, windscream doesn't do anything other TF ships don't, the "I can fix him", as boring I agree it is, is present in almost any other popular Starscream ship and many windscream doesn't even go there. Anyone who insists non-canon ships are canon is annoying, as you pointed out, and it's not exclusive to them either. Not being canon or plausible never stopped anyone, especially TF fans. I just think it's so weird this one of all ships gets this type of attention. There are so many beautiful arts and interesting fics with them just as much as there is "boring overused trope", just like any ship. idk, I've liked many ships of various variations, some that also included these two, in m/m and f/f, but it's this ship that gets me told to 'kms'. They are space robots, damn.

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[transformersconfessions]

Starscream is so gay man coded to me, I genuinely don’t understand fem self shippers; bro wouldn’t be into you. And Windscream? Baffling. The idea of any Starscream being in a hetro relationship is like something out of crack fic.

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i havent read funpub or idw shattered glass yet but i just saw sg!windscream fanart and im so confused because i thought sg!windblade is canonically a lesbian and kissed strongarm in one of the publications? and i heard that sg!starscream has more canonical chemistry with sg!megatron and sg!jetfire. have sg!windscream fans read shattered glass at all or do they just use the continuity for role reversal aus?

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[transformersconfessions]

i like both drift and windblade. however ☝️ the orientalism around the both of them drives me nuts. people hornying over drift at least stray away from that a little more but windblade... </3

also, windscream is good but only some of the crumbs we got in canon were actually enjoyable. the rest of the loaf can be thrown out. fan made stuff varies wildly so yknow. pick and choose as you will

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