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If your oc was a canon character what bad takes/gross mischaracterizations would the fandom come up with for them

#tf oc tag #brickback would be made a brainless enemy for Angst of the rodsquad #and their manipulative nature and actual lies would be taken at face value by fans #so its fandom interpreting a character the EXACT way they want them to #so brickback's choice to join the mutineers would be blamed on getaway #while ignoring that brickback HAD a huge hand in that revolt and decided that they were fine with everyone/many people dying #because of getaway as captain and/or planned to see megatron dead and get GONE #and brickback's manipulativeness and observational skills would be ignored in favor of making them Thunderclash's Atomizer #this would also go with brickback and thunderclash's connection and dynamics together being ignored #so they Become Wholesome or bb is written like a predator to be fended off #so their canon aroaceness is ignored if it is brought up at all #or they'd use that to be sexually manipulative which see above #or they'd be woobified #and turned into a Helpless Machine that didn't know Right from Wrong #like they aren't one of the oldest people onboard and older than both ratchet and thunderclash

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

#this is what I love about MTMTE!!! #it feels understandable WHY the characters are all poorly liked #bc they all have that lame trait so it feels more logical that they're considered losers and somewhat underdogs #than it would be if they were considered losers because they ~had to be~ and any ACTUAL loser traits of theirs went unaddressed #it was also very charming!!! #i loved swerve's parasocial thing with blurr because he WAS being weird and pushy about him!! #they're all SUCH losers I love the crew so much!! #oc tag #and it'

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#tf oc tag #brickback and rung

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Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

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The best way to keep the fash off your blog isn't having a dni banner or whatever you just have to bang pots and pans together every so often like "I love trans women and jewish people" and they scuttle away like roaches when you turn the lights on

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fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.

#tf oc tag #brickback

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A fire in the sky - my rendition of Skyfire and Starscream’s first visit to Earth

#skyfire and starscream THE couple ever

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#tf oc tag #brickback bc they've been growing poison for most of the war #and refuse to STOP #brickback joining the mutineers

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#LITERALLY #can you be normal about people of color too!!

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why are people so against negative character development? characters don’t need to improve and become better people they can get worse and make mistakes and end up in a worse state than when they began and it’s just as interesting and entertaining as characters developing positively

#need to internalize this #tf oc tag #part of brickback's tragedy is that they believe that they were “better” when they were younger #and they're right

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

#brickback #they stare into the middle distance sometimes #them at the beginning of season 2 #haha funny grandpa good times but they also hate megatron with a passion and are poorly concealing it dw about it #<- swerve bb pitch to ultra magnus

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Ahaha look. I made Megatron sing that villain song

And also:

#THIS IS SO GOOD OH MY GOD!!! #I LOVE IT!!! #animatic

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Cute canon IDW Transformers things: 

Platonic life partners 

Robot marriages

Baby Cybertronian’s are born as souls and grown in fields like literal cabbage patch babies

Cybertronians give their sick friends/loved ones tiny vials of the only fluid in their body that’s unique and irreplaceable 

Each of them have a unique transformation sound 

They have a festival to recognise and remember the dead which involves them sitting with friends/loved ones around small glowing orbs

They have a whole language that is just robot handsies 

#i love amica endura so much #i love the idea of a society where life partners isn't inherently romantic #and platonic relationships are just as valued as romantic ones #its probably the aromanticism speaking but I love that detail a lot #amica endurae i love you

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dogcoded characters where they're loyal because everything else has been taken from them and they're desperately clinging onto any sense of purpose or meaning they can grasp. dogcoded because they're willingly made into a pet doing tricks for the ones that own them and they're aware of it all and embrace it. dogcoded where they could be sent to the shelter at any time but feels like they never will, because they're a big strong dog who attacks just right, hurts the right people, and doesn't recoil when they're pet or punished. dogcoded where they obey because if they don't the world is dark and cold and empty. dogcoded where they're trained to move on command, to sniff out downfalls and cracks in strength and manipulate them with their nails, all for the ones they heel to. when will i stop talking

#OC tag #young brickback

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#THIS IS SO GOOD LMAOOO #love the designs and this is what all cybertronians will look like in humanformers fics for me now #unless they're like SPECIFICALLY described it's just going to be Their Head #on a Human body #megop

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Constantly obsessed with the concept of a man forced to be a myth. What do you do when every step you take is embedded into the text. Every word you say prose to read. You're part of something bigger than yourself. The narrative tugs you along like water currents. There is no time to rest, to be human. You must be great, you must be legend

#rodimus and optimus #OUGH primes

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If you struggle with learning to draw Transformers or other mecha characters: It's all about bullshitting. As long as it looks consistent in itself, it doesn't matter at all if it's not too accurate. It's about having fun, and if you need to cut some corners, go for it! Fuck it!

#whenever I draw my tf ocs I'm fully just greebling a cube #by that I mean I'm going for simple shapes if not outright human anatomy #and then getting it as close to 'mech" as possible for me to be happy with it