Transformers Confessions

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I have an issue with Pharma apologists. The worst apologists will blame Ratchet for Pharma but ship Tarnma. Or excuse Pharma’s actions with “oh he was just trying to save people” when he wound up trying to kill EVERYONE and save himself with his rust plague.

“Pharma didn’t deserve that!”

He’s a fictional character whose narrative purpose was to be an antagonist and symbolize medicine gone wrong. If anything, his patients who died from the bioweapon he made didn’t deserve what he did.

“But Ratchet was a bad friend took his hands!”

Pharma was trying to kill Ratchet so I don’t give a damn. Also you think that justifies torturing someone instead of just stealing back those hands? Sawing Ambulon in half?

Frankly, the second most hateful thing about Pharma is how he never goes after Tarn, the direct root of his suffering, but on people who trusted him, who were Autobots like him. But the first hate thing are his fans who justify his actions.

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I feel guilty whenever I can't remember the names of someone in my collection. I have a kreo toy of the drill guy from the Technobots and I couldn't tell you his name to say his life. Like genuinely, I try not to look at him because I feel bad.

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I recognised the writing issues a lot of tf media has, and... with how people are tumblr (and tiktok) side at least I am a little scared to be too vocal about liking skybound.

Issues? Sure. But I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying the energon universe. But there's a small part of me that if I'm a bit too vocal about enjoying it one of *those* sort of people will wish death upon me or something like what one person did when I was vocal about thinking TF: Prime was overrated and that I don't like Starscream (which was very funny but still)

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Is it weird that I really don't care if a given TF property is "good"? Like, I don't care if it's well written, I don't care if it's "woke" or "based" or whatever buzzword folks wanna ascribe to things now, and I don't even care if I enjoy the plot all that much.

What matters to me is whether I'm being presented with interesting takes on the characters that I can roll around in my brain for a while. Toys to play with in my sandbox. It's like superhero comics for me. Even if they're poorly executed, they're neat. And that's what matters to me for a franchise built on selling action figures

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I need need NEED to have IDW Overlord's lips on mine (not just the ones on my face)

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There’s been a couple of times where I see a ship and it’s pretty common and then I finally watch the show and the two characters barely interact and if they do it’s not all that meaningful. Like I felt this most with tfa where I watched the show and I’m like “why do people even ship them?”

Idk maybe there’s a comic or something I’m missing but their dynamic is uninteresting or nonexistent

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Jetfire is a plague upon this earth for any Starscream fan because people are actually straight up taking the continuities and shows where JETFIRE DOES NOT EVEN EXIST and shoving Skystar into them. And it's infantilizing both of the characters at the same time. Never in my life ever read a skystar fanfic or comic that didn't horribly woobify both Starscream and Jetfire. It's like the second that big fucking white shuttle shows up, everyone around him suddenly learns therapyspeak and starts talking out their problems like they've read self-help books. THIS IS TRANSFORMERS. SHOOT EACH OTHER IN THE FACE OVER MISCOMMUNICATIONS. Everybody wants Starscream to have a soft side so badly they invented an OC and gave him Jetfire's faceclaim just to write him "Fixing Starscream <3" KILL.

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manifesting transformers agere content by thinking Really hard about it

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WE NEED TO GET ROBERT KIRKMAN FIRED NNNNNNOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!

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Every time I laugh at the newest animation fail from Invincible I get the creeping feeling of dread Robert Kirkman and friends will give the same studio the Energon Universe and I stop laughing. The sliding Immortal PNG is significantly less funny when you imagine Optimus Prime animated that way.

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People who fixate on Ratchet being a “milf” are weird. There’s no other way of putting it. You guys weird me out in the same way Prime Arcee fans on Reddit weird me out.

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Blackarachnia is the most interesting character in tfa

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I love Wing to bits and his role in Drift's progression was massive but i think Drift himself deserves a little more credit for his changes. Also i think Wing should be appreciated more as a character rather than just, only the guy who helped Drift. (Not saying he didn't, duh, thats definitely a big part of his role, but he's so cool and (imo) under appreciated by himself) of course no hate to loving them as a pair ❤️❤️❤️

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people getting genuinely upset about women/female selfshippers not complying with their specific headcanon of a character is kind of sad actually. starscream has no confirmed sexuality or romantic preference, if you consider the character gay that's for you but it's not canon and people can do whatever they want forever

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I absolutely despise Noblespark but everyone in this fandom seems to love it and its making me feel genuinely crazy. I was thinking about making a hate post about it but the thought of a noblespark shipper seeing it and being discouraged from shipping it makes me so sad it overrides my hatred especially because this happened to me once in a fandom I use to be in and its the worst feeling ever.

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I wish rape fic wasn’t so common in this fandom 🤒 sometimes I’ll just be scrolling and ill see fanart of what is obviously noncon… it makes me very sad sometimes because i do take a lot of steps to Not See It but then people just don’t tag it anyway, at least tag your stuff properly when you post it… thank you 🙏

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