Susie spills the tea... ☕ Or should I say, chalk, moss and apple-scented shampoo?

(Watch with sound 🔊 Music: Kevin MacLeod - Itty Bitty 8 Bit)

So do antis realise that their assumption that the fiction we consume is "our entire personality" is pretty much only announcing to the world that the fiction they consume is their entire personality?

Projecting and all that.

Personally, I like to believe antis have lives outside of Twitter and Tiktok and shit, but when they claim proshippers entire personalities are what they show online, it makes me wonder if antis do actually have a life outside the internet, because surely if they did, they would understand that what someone shows online is actually a very small portion of that person' personality.

Their inability, or unwillingness, to understand this very simple fact leads me to believe that what they show is their entire personality. Because if you think what I'm showing is all of me, then that's probably because what you show is all of you.

Hi! Your solnep art is so cute! Ive never considered that ship before, but given nepetas type, i could totally see it working out. Keep up the good art 💚💛💚💛

y'all are making me emotional by the sweet comments 😭thank you guys so muchhhhh!!!

its fair that folks dont consider them really but i think with working them out a little more and actually having them interact more, theyd honestly be pretty good together in any quadrant. even if its just generally chill friends at first and overtime growing a bit closer (which is how i kind of always viewed that working out).

Idk if my previous posts were unclear but I don't remotely hate any Optimus version that isn't IDW or think they suck. Every Optimus is good and there's a fan (or multiple fans!) of every version of OP no matter how obscure or underrated (as well as all the other characters).

What's more questionable (or at least annoying) is when fandom ignores canon character personalities in favor of writing specific archetypes that are either out of character or repetitive/stereotyped to the point of annoyance. As an example of this, it would be a female character being called the Team Mom just because she's a woman existing in a group of (primarily male) characters even if she's not remotely motherly or nurturing. Or, as a more topical example, how often I've seen Transformers ships where even though both characters are canonically masculine (or gender neutral), fanartists love to turn one of the characters small and weak (or even outright feminine) to turn the ship into Strong Dominant Seme and Sweet Cute Uke to fit a specific kink or romantic fantasy, even if it's a disservice/OOC to portray those characters like that.

In other words, a fandom's popularity of certain characters, ships, headcanons, etc is often more informed by tropes and forcing canon to adhere to one's personal tastes, as opposed to approaching canon and trying to understand it on its own terms. I'm not talking about the quality of the source material, but rather the way that the fandom interprets the source materials in ways that don't make any sense, approach it in bad faith, or just generally don't care about canon at all. So I'm not saying one OP is better than another, my problem is when fandom consistently focuses on certain stereotypes or flanderizations of a character, and then any character that doesn't fit the popular (often stereotyped) mold is ignored or virulently rejected. In other words, I think popular fandom often does a DISSERVICE to characters whether they love them or hate them, it just takes different forms.

So, just as an example, I think one fandom caricature of Optimus that I see a lot (and heavily dislike) is making Optimus some sort of shrinking wallflower type who's innocent, sweet, and virginal, in contrast to an opposite caricature of Megatron that's big, strong, dominant, and rugged, and making ship art that forces the characters into some kind of seme/uke or borderline heteronormative romance. Despite the fact that canon Optimus (in, say, TFP for example) is tall, broadly built, deep voiced, dignified, assertive, and strong (physically and morally), completely incorrect interpretations of him as a shy feminized uke type are still pretty common to find. And it makes you ask yourself why it is so many people make MOP ship art of them of The Small One and The Large One or The Small, Cute One and The Big, Violent One when it's completely different from canon. It feels as if such fanart is made by people who just want to see seme/uke style slash ships, and if canon doesn't give them what they want, they'll simply trash it and replace it with their own version, even if it's completely OOC.

So when I said in my other post that people don't like IDW Optimus because he can't be fit into caricatures like happy dad or shy twink, I'm not saying it to say "other OPs who resemble that suck," I'm saying it to express "Fandom tends to simplify characters into easily palatable and comfortable tropes, and when they encounter a character they can't do that with, they respond by ignoring or even hating on that character."

Other versions of Optimus have the problem where fandom turns them into a stereotype instead of the actual character they are, e.g. portraying TFA OP as some poor abused damsel with no self confidence and crippling anxiety being abused by his superiors, and then they talk more about this fake uwu smoll bean cinnamon roll version of TFA OP than they do about actual canon TFA OP. And honestly I can't think of any prominent content/meta about G1 OP that isn't just "he plays basketball and does funny one liners and is Team Dad/Grandpa." (Hell, you even get that with non-Optimus characters that get simplified to just sexy twink, old grandpa, comedy relief, evil ex, Diversity Win-- She's A Lesbian, third wheel to the favored ship, etc even though there's way more depth to them than just their surface level stereotype.)

IDW OP's problem is that he can't be stereotyped like that so instead the fandom ignores him. He's not small, so they can't stereotype him as a skinny twink getting topped by a burly uke. He's not jovial or happy go lucky or extroverted, so they can't stereotype him as Team Dad or Comedy Relief. He's assertive, blunt, and has a temper, so they can't stereotype him as a shy wallflower in need of protecting. He makes catastrophic mistakes and is responsible for bad things happening, so they can't stereotype him into a sweet cinnamon roll who has never done anything wrong in his whole life or The Infinitely Wise and Kind Paragon. There's no Big Bad Authority Figure who was mean to IDW OP and traumatized him, so they can't excuse the bad things he did as "he's traumatized so he couldn't help it" and wave away his flaws as "it's his abuser's fault, they made him this way." IDW OP has the kind of depression where he's grumpy, shut off, and angry-- as opposed to the shy, sad kind of depression that just stares forlornly out of the window in a beautifully tragic way-- so they can't make him into a sad woobie kicked around unfairly by life.

Or I guess they just stereotype IDW OP as "evil bastard with no redeeming qualities that's mean to everyone for no reason, plus the writers forced everyone to like him just because he's Optimus Prime" even though that isn't accurate either.

Put bluntly, IDW OP forces fandom to contend with the idea that someone can be a good person with good intentions but still fuck up on a massive scale and maybe end up hurting more than they helped. IDW OP is messy, ugly, flawed, mean, stoic, closed off. When IDW OP has mental breakdowns or has his feelings hurt, he's loud and angry and harsh, and the consequences of what he did while he was unwell continue to haunt him long after. In other words, he actually experiences negative emotions the way a real person would, and sometimes when he's under the influence of negative emotions, he lashes out or does stupid things (like a real person might) instead of inoffensively crying in a corner somewhere. He isn't sanitized enough for a fandom that only wants Perfect Pure Good Optimus Who Never Hurts Anyone Even By Accident, so instead of IDW OP's mistakes and dark moments being treated as the logical end point of a person put in constant no-win situations until he breaks, he gets treated as if his mistakes and flaws make him an irredeemable bastard with no good qualities who should've fucked up less often to make fans actually like him.

And this is all in a fandom where 90% of the characters are war criminals and a good half of them have massacred organic planets. But god forbid IDW Optimus ever make a bad decision in a stressful situation. Or be mean to someone. Or have a character arc about how blindly idolizing people as paragons ends badly for everyone involved because no one can be that perfect. He is simply The Worst Optimus Ever and there's absolutely nothing about him worth discussing.

And just to be clear, the problem isn't the fact that some people don't like IDW OP, or he's just not their thing and they don't care.

The problem is the fact that he's consistently and actively hated by the fanbase who makes a concentrated effort to say he sucks and make sure none of their fan works ever include him. It's literally at a level where I stopped looking in the Optimus tag on this website because I was tired of people randomly going "and btw IDW OP sucks and I want to drown him in a ditch" in posts that weren't even about IDW, and I stopped looking for MegOP fic on AO3 because most of it is IDW Megatron/clearly TFP or G1 inspired continuity soup Optimus. Places that are Optimus friendly for Optimus fans, where I could reasonably expect to find positive conversations, but instead get sucker punched by hate about the character The Space Is About. And I can't even have conversations asking about why they do, bc the way 90% of them talk, I can tell they literally just didn't read the comics or deliberately misinterpreted the story.

I find it bizarre and frankly, tragic, that the hate train for IDW OP is so pervasive that people actively erase and replace him from fan works IN THE IDW UNIVERSE in a way that no other character is targeted in. I have tried so hard to understand why IDW OP gets this sort of hate and erasure when other characters who were as bad or worse than him have perfectly normal takes about them that go "yeah he kinda sucks but he's cool and I like him" or "who cares if he's problematic IRL, it's a story." The only conclusion I can come to is that because Optimus Prime (TM) has a specific brand image and is locked into being a cultural icon, he's held to a standard of The Ideal Perfect Hero instead of the way better standard of "Is he an interesting, well written character?"

Good morning Dolts 🔩🌹

*teleports* can you draw winner x bottle (if its ok)

:7

og!Rosalyn: truth or dare?

og!Cale: truth

og!Rosalyn: i dare you to kiss Choi Han

og!Cale: [already in og!Choi Hans lap leaning in for a kiss]

og!Cale: i didn't come here to lose

og!Bud: he didn't even picked dare--

WHY DONT U LIKE HIMENO X AKI?? i thot theyre kinda cute 😭 better than aki x makima...

i just. i have a deep hatred for her... she literally tried to gr00m denji and she just annoys me. also bc i love aki he's too good for everyone no one deserves him especially not h*meno ik she smells. AND SHE SAID SHE ONLY LIKES HIM FOR HIS FACE EUGH there aint no way she went to heaven like aki said she did

The Wife is Here

I am in a Zeti mood right now and decided to draw my favorite couple again, because I love me some Zavok and Zangel. The official Husband and Wife duo.

This also goes along with a HC for Zangel in regards to Zavok.

I truly find so funny and annoying at the same time that Jex fans are pissed the hell off that the head of ABC are promoting Sprina. It confirms what we know which is it’s not just Sprina fans or SOD who believe they are the superior couple. However it’s annoying how they can’t sit back and realize that they’ve had it better for a while now. Their ship don’t have an annoying ex constantly hovering around them, they already got their I love yous, and they have love scenes every time u look up. But because Sprina’s storyline is an event and being spotlighted, suddenly Jex are treated unfairly?

They're vehemently racist and toxic. Their delusional whines are purely because their prize girl (and I mean prize GIRL, not prize PAIR) isn't front and center, being fawned over and wanted by everyone. God forbid another YA girl, a BLACK YA girl at that, get a ton of focus. What a fucking nightmare. Lest we forget that a majority of GH viewers fucking hate Josslyn, myself included. How is hate on Jex only tied to Sprina when half of Jex is incredibly unlikable in their own right? Riddle me that.

They wanna cry about Sprina fans being mean to/about EM, but last I checked, beyond subtweeting, I don't see her tagged in mean tweets about her. In fact, I seem to remember her throwing a fit over an UNTAGGED tweet in the quotes, meaning she went looking for something to be mad at and sicced her rabid, pervert fanbase on the OP. But no, it's TA who's the problem because of her looks or her talent or whatever stupid shit it is because she's not white. Right.

Oh, what, don't drag the actress into it? I'll stop doing that when they stop calling TA everything but the n-word, and when they stop acting like EH is a piece of property meant to be owned and isolated to EM. Sorry not sorry.

Dolts Date! Wanted to make casual clothes for them and ended up going WAAAY overboard as usual

Enjoy! 💚🦜🔩🌹

Get sent to the 50s sitcom dimension, loser

og!Dragon Half-Blood: [helping Glenn clean] who's the alcoholic that keeps dropping you alcohol bottles?

og!Glenn: [avoiding eye contact] which one? There are many alcoholics that I know

og!Dragon Half-Blood: the hot one [internally gagging]

og!Glenn: you mean Bud?

og!Dragon Half-Blood: [smug] so you think hes hot then?

// Ah, so this is what TRUE Rarepair Hell feels like. No fanart, no fanfiction, no nothing. GG. OTL

U know ive got to ask for saw (full series fair game)

I knew one of the sawtuals would have my back here, thank you Shlomo~

Favorite male character: ...Listen. Listen. I could lie to y'all and say it's not Peter Strahm at this point. But it is him. It really is. Adam is tied with him for being my favorite but like. I also can't lie and say Peter isn't high on my list.

Favorite female character: MANDY!!! MY FUCKIN GIRL!!!

Least favorite character: Bobby Dagen die in a hole challenge. Matt Gibson also sucks I don't care for him.

Prettiest character: Hrmmm hard one, there's a lot of pretty people in Saw...I'm gonna go with Lindsey Perez though <3

Funniest character: Hoffman, unintentionally.

Favorite movie: Tied between 2004 and V, I cannot pick one over the other

Favorite romantic ship: I mean...my brand has become Hoffstrahm so...I think that answers the question.

Favorite family ship: Amanda and Hoffman as shitty siblings...I think about it often...

Favorite friend ship: Amanda and Adam, I'm so fuckin soft thinking about them being besties

Worst ship: Hoffman/Amanda and Amanda/John. Keep it the hell away from me.

My contribution to SxF Rare Pair Week

Oh, Your Smile (Brightens My Life)

Summary:

Friendship is hard, and Anya knows that better than anyone (especially since she can read people's thoughts). But after gaining the friendship of one Ken Kingston in the wake of saving his life and becoming penpals, the young Forger feels like her life has brightened considerably.

All she wants is for her friendship to bring him as much happiness as his does for her.

Day 1: Surprise - summary:

Anya hasn't made much progress in becoming friends with Damian Desmond. The boy confuses her greatly, but with Becky by her side, she can face anything.

While leaving school for holiday break, she runs into someone she hasn't seen in a while but has written to frequently.