#g1 out of context

[g1outofcontext]

#transformers g1 #g1 out of context #optimus prime #starscream

[tech-obssessed-shark]

#Inspiration strikes #Convos in the lost light server #Transformers lost light server #Transformers g1 #starscream #G1 starscream #vs #Tfp starscream #tfp #transformer prime #discord #discord server #discord chat #out of context discord #THIS IS FROM THE LOST LIGHT DISCORD SERVER CHECK IT OUT

[lord-squiggletits]

The reason this fandom hates IDW Optimus isn't because he's a cop (plenty of people are fine with Prowl) or because he's a bastard (most characters in IDW are) but because he commits the crime of being an actual person who's messy, flawed, and makes a shitload of high stakes mistakes fitting for the intense situations and pressure he's put under constantly.

But we can't have Optimus actually react to his situations by lashing out or being unpleasant, no, he has to have the personality of a cardboard cutout of G1 whose only defining personality traits are "dad, funny, nice," and if he ever vents negative emotions it can only ever be #relatable depression or him being sad on his own without ever letting it show during the important parts of the story. If Optimus dares do things like be angry or frustrated or bitter it's just a sign that he's a bastard and LITERALLY the worst Optimus ever. If Optimus ever makes mistakes or does wrong things in the heat of anger/frustration/stress it's because he's just an evil bastard with no redeeming traits.

God forbid Optimus go through an unending gauntlet of war, politics, atrocities, near-complete loneliness, and a seemingly endless cycle of violence for his entire life and come out of it kind of bitter, angry, and tired of dealing with people's shit. He's not allowed to be a realistic person, context doesn't matter, sympathy doesnt matter. IDW Optimus doesn't fulfill the fandom's fantasies of Father Figure or Perfect Cultural Icon or Twinky Fucktoy and since that's the only reason most people care about Optimus in general, the fandom collectively trashes on IDW OP.

All because he can't fit into the overly simplified and childlike double standard the fandom has where if any other character is messy and flawed, that's good writing and interesting and compelling, but if OPTIMUS is messy and flawed, he's Literally The Worst and he's an asshole for no other reason than He Sucks, context be damned

#squiggposting #ive been here too long and seen the same shit too many times #i'm tired of going 'maybe it's just a difference in taste' nope #the issue is literally just double standards and people not reading the text or taking things out of context #and the worst part is if this were just something OP haters did i would get it #after all if you just dont like OP then of course you arent gonna find anything interesting or compelling #but i see this shit from literally other MOP fans who supposedly love M and OP #but their OP takes are shit and i can count the no. of people who write IDW OP on one hand #i kind of thought that at least among other OP fans there would be deeper readings but if anything it's worse #fandom OP content is 50% haha funny dad jokes g1 knockoff OP and 50% yaoi uke twink sad baby OP #so unimaginative. so fucking boring. so immature #to style yourselves some sort of mature TF fans and then viciously reject the One OP who #dared to be written a little darker and more flawed than any others #it's literally just people refusing to give a chance to any nuanced take on OP #they just want him to be There and Nice and for his biggest flaw to be Being Annoying About Equality or something #might delete later might not

[magpiecrust]

UwU?

#maccadam #transformers #transformers g1 #g1 transformers #tf generation one #tf g1 #marvel transformers #transformers marvel #g1 shockwave #tf shockwave #out of context

[mysteriousxace]

To curse yall too (this from my tik tok account btw @imagine.a.cliff) :3

#transformers #transformers g1 #transformers tracks #transformers soundwave #transformers blaster #tracks #soundwave #blaster #soundwave transformers #blaster transformers #tracks transformers #josh #josh huterson #huterson #curse #you cant escape him #tf #transformers out of context #tik tok #:3 #silly #idk

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

Noah/Mirage this Mirage/Noah that, show some respect for Raoul and Tracks they were THEE fucking blueprint.

#not a hater #just want respect where it's due #also mirage has been my favorite since i was 11 so #mirage transformers #noah transformers #rise of the beasts #rotb #rotb spoilers #transformers tracks #transformers raoul #maccadam #for context raoul was a latino car thief in transformers g1 #and he tried to steal this tricked out fancy ass sports car autobot called tracks #and they became best buddies #or such #yeah

[steelthroat]

Being one of the 20 people who genuinely liked the Netflix trilogy and tolerates a lot more than it deserves the rid2015 series, is there a chance for me to find entertaining the Prime Wars trilogy?

I'll watch it anyway because I'm a very curious fella, but I'm specifically asking if my infamous bad taste will approve of it or not even this will save it.

#tumblr polls are fun #and funny #and I will definitely sbuse of this function #so yeah #transformers #maccadam #steel rambles #I know about this trilogy thanks to those funny moments/out of context yt videos lol #so I'm very curious #but it's also shorter than g1 so I'll finish this one first and then the last season #too much silliness I want something different i guess #for a while #and cyberverse kill count requires me to be psychologically prepared #which I'm not #lol #megatron #maccadams #prime wars

[whatudottu]

Ever since making my human Shockwave design, both my original one and this one, I've been thinking of what arm he would have because even if you have access to a cannon arm as a human it's logical to have a functional arm prosthetic maybe idk-

An extra ever since after reading @nukeli 's SG Shockwave fic I've also been thinking of human Shockwave having a donor arm like what happens in the oneshot, it being mismatched because though demand is high supply is very very low and replacement body parts don't last-

#shockwave #tfp shockwave #shattered glass #tfp shattered glass #transformers #tfp #humanformers #maccadam #fanart #i realised with making this design for shockwave i would need to draw out his teeth everytime #i mean i would have had to do the same with the previous design for shockwave but ya know #others have gone with either robotic emulation of shockwave for humans designs #or gone the more intense torture aftermath that would remove teeth out of the equation or at least have the option of hiding it behind lips #eh whatever i tried to cartoon teeth my way out of this one #anyway check out nukeli's fics i do mostly only spotlight tfp ones since that's what i know best aside from animated #but they have other transformers fics like g1 and stuff if that strikes your fancy i'm not fully aware of those continuities tho #but this fic in particular is about shattered glass shockwave after the explosion and before the show- before predaking too #it does make me think how insecticons (the beastformer ones not the experiment kind) would translate to humans #i guess i'd have to consider what beastformers are like in humanformers because they're just as much bots as the rest of the cars and jets #eh probably keeping in context with the fic (which you should read i'm sending you a link directly to read it go read it now) #they'd be a settlement dealing with the general fallout of a large scale wall which also means wandering animals and potentially #the threat of danger lingering on the outsides of safe territory #which would cause someone to potentially die and thus potentially serve as a donor for a special someone's missing limb #read it read it read it #thistle don’t look #i don’t know where the scale of human these teeth are so…

[brockendrems]

new draw your blorbo just dropped

#watching g1 out of context and i see this #what in the fuck #who even is that #and why is he the biggest mood i've ever seen

[cuchufletapl]

PLEASE I NEED SOMEONE WHOSE SPECIAL INTEREST IS MY LITTLE PONY TO TELL ME IF THIS IS REAL

#this is the best out of context clip from anything that I've ever seen #'negotiations begin between the ponies and the french' I am fucking DYING. just like that pony drowning on screen in an 80's kids' show #my little pony #mlp #my little pony g1 #(I think?) #mlp g1

[justworthlessreblogs]

finally got myself a g3 draculaura to replace the g1 i gave to my sister years ago and i’ve already reverted to calling her laura. i think it’s ingrained in me

#for context: a friend of mine gave me draculaura for my bday years ago #i was an easily scared child and Did Not like the monster aesthetic #so i called her laura and refused to acknowledge she was a vampire #i did warm up to her once i found out she was a vegetarian #she stayed in super good condition and then i passed her on to my sister. i regret that choice #monster high #draculaura #justie's dolls #i went to find my g1 and she was missing :(

[g1outofcontext]

#transformers g1 #g1 out of context #starscream #megatron #Bro screeches like a todler

[rex-underscore-ink]

I still can't get over how Beachcomber just fucking hitman assassinated dirge in this scene

#transformers #transformers g1 #transformers dirge #transformers beachcomber #out of context #transformers clips #Youtube

[lord-squiggletits]

Okay another instance of "fuck canon" that's not just Pharma-related, but Ambulon related. I keep thinking of Luna-1 where Ambulon called Pharma "Doctor DJD" and I feel like that's such a total "he would not fucking say that" moment. Obv JRO controls the characterization so what's in the comics is canon/right, I just think that it doesn't make sense for someone in Ambulon's position with his backstory to be that petty towards Pharma?

Ambulon's a Decepticon traitor, he's on the DJD's List. Moreover, he's stationed on Messatine which is the DJD's home planet and is (was?) still an active battle front until very recently.

Proof that Messatine being the DJD's territory is common knowledge: not only First Aid, who's stationed at Delphi, but also at least three Autobots on the Lost Light, know that the DJD make Messatine their home. And this is long before Pharma does his monologue to Ratchet about his t-cog blackmail with Tarn.

Proof that Delphi/the nucleon mines were in an active warzone at least until Pharma started his plague: Pharma wouldn't have had any t-cogs to harvest if there wasn't a continuous stream of soldiers/war-dead coming in to use as his supply.

So then, Ambulon knew fully well that he and all of the rest of them were right next to the DJD's home base, and as an ex-Decepticon he knows he would be on the list. Probably not very high on the list, since Ambulon was a mere MTO who got turned into a failed combiner experiment, but he IS on the list; just because the DJD only proceed through the list in order of importance, doesn't mean that Ambulon wouldn't know that they'd come for him eventually.

And this is a really fucking neat idea to play around with! We don't ever get a canon/explicit explanation for why Prowl decided to station those three medics on Delphi, especially one who's an ex-Con on an execution list. Did Ambulon have a choice? Or was he told to go there with no argument? Either way, I think Ambulon deserves some major kudos, because he must have ball (bearings) of steel to be an ex-Con in DJD territory without constantly being on the verge of a mental breakdown or panic attack. I could honestly write a whole post on the question of "why were these three stationed on Messatine" in itself, but that's for another time.

The point I'm trying to make here is basically that Ambulon of all people should've been sympathetic to the circumstances that drove Pharma to do what he did: they were ALL stationed in the DJD's territory and they knew it, they ALL knew that the DJD's playbook is horrific torturous murder, they ALL knew that Ambulon was a former Decepticon. It wouldn't take a genius for everyone at Delphi to piece together the fact that the DJD would come for Ambulon eventually if either he wasn't evacuated or Delphi as a whole wasn't evacuated. But I mean, this is wartime, right? Every soldier is risking their life, everyone could die at any moment. They can't close down Delphi or evacuate all of the personnel in an active war front battling over a mine just because a medic or three might feel unsafe. Nowhere in war is safe. If High Command let everyone abandon their posts who was afraid of being killed, nothing would ever get done because war comes with inherent risk of death that all soldiers accept by participating, as well as accepting the obligation to follow orders on threat of punishment. (Almost as if Pharma couldn't have just evacuated or run away like Ratchet suggested, but JRO clearly isn't a military expert so I'll digress/chalk it up to "wasn't plot relevant to bring up".)

We got all of like, two pages that showed Pharma and Ambulon's working relationship, and the best we have besides that is JRO's word of god that Pharma and Ambulon had 'mutual reluctant respect' for each other. It's highly unlikely that the two were best buddies regardless, but I don't think you need to be friends with someone like Pharma, while sharing the same situation as him, to be a little more sympathetic to him? Like I get that Ambulon would be offended by the idea of his boss trying to frame him for murder to cover up his own murders, but the "Doctor DJD" line always seemed weirdly callous and petty to me. "Doctor DJD" implies that Pharma was some sort of willing collaborator or servant to the DJD which clearly wasn't the case. And I find it hard to believe that Ambulon, who knows exactly what kind of people the DJD are, would have an opinion of Pharma that was just "oh he should've tried harder/been less of a coward and resisted." Hell, Ambulon's reaction to Sonic and Boom showing up at Delphi asking for refuge was to instantly take pity on them and offer them shelter immediately; if he feels protective/sympathetic towards literal random nobody Decepticon soldiers, shouldn't he have at least as much feeling (if not more) for another Autobot who he worked with and supposedly had respect for?

Assuming that Ambulon got the full details of Pharma's blackmail deal. I mean, there's no reason to assume that Ratchet would've lied to First Aid and Ambulon about what Pharma told him (unless??? conspiracy theory!!!!) , so Ambulon should've heard about the t-cog deal and how it was the only reason the DJD didn't raze Delphi to the ground so long ago. Then again, maybe Pharma's story got explained to him and First Aid via Ratchet's extremely judgemental take on events, so who knows how much of Pharma's side of the story Ambulon would've actually known.

But wouldn't it be so much more interesting if, instead of sneering at Pharma as "Doctor DJD", Ambulon had a more conflicted perspective of Pharma's face-heel turn? Would he wonder how it is that someone who he had such respect for could've been so despicable? Or, more sympathetically, would Ambulon ever wonder if Tarn threatening Delphi was his fault for being there? Would Ambulon wonder what he would've done in Pharma's position, being forced to bargain to postpone his own horrific execution? Would he be angry at Prowl or the higher-ups for stationing them all in such a dangerous post to begin with?

I mean, the answer is that Ambulon was a tertiary cast member at best, to the point that half of his appearances on the Lost Light literally are shown in retrospect after he died, so there would've been no room to explore this in the plot, and Ambulon and Pharma were way lower priority compared to other, more important protagonists. I just think it would be interesting to explore these questions in other metas and fan works.

And yes, I do think Ambulon would not fucking say that ("Doctor DJD") regardless of what canon actually says lmao.

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i mean it's not really pharma apologism. only a little. but this is mostly about ambulon #g1 idw #meta #long post #come on JRO you can't tell me that pharma and ambulon had mutual respect for each other #and then expect that to mesh with ambulon calling pharma doctor djd so callously later #SURE ambulon could just be that disgusted by pharma's actions but. given the context delphi was in? #it would be weird if ambulon's own fear of the DJD/sympathy for its victims didn't inform his perspective #i just think that like. the watsonian explanation of 'ambulon just hates pharma for what he did' is way less satisfying #than the obvious doylist explanation of 'JRO didn't plan for all of the implications and wasn't gonna flesh out these rando side characters #so in this case i feel like it's better to diverge from canon and explore the implications that it didn't address #than to just accept canon's overly simplified depiction of ambulon just unilaterally hating pharma #however i do think it's IC of first aid to hate pharma and not care about the circumstances. he seems like that kind of hotheaded person

[that-glitter-chick]

Apparently Ratchet learned some Jet-Judo from the Lamborghini twins (Sunstreaker and Sideswipe), or maybe they learned it from him🤷🏻‍♀️💥✈️🚑💨

#transformers g1 #g1 ratchet #g1 thundercracker #jet-judo #transformers out of context #funny image #funnyshit #my childhood #i love the 80s #nolstagia

[mysteriousxace]

I love making silly videos :3

#idk #transformers #mccadams #transformers g1 #transformers jazz #coconut mall #transformers out context #transformers edit