#my brother in christ you stan me/ga/tron

[lord-squiggletits]

Sometimes I see people call IDW Optimus an asshole (never talking about him in any other way), and then I look at their content and they stan characters who are literally worse than him in personality or in the shitty things they've done

And I go ah, so when you say "IDW Optimus is an asshole" what you really mean is "I hate it when Optimus has a personality and agency and fucks up like a human person. What I really want is for other characters to get depth and nuance while Optimus forever remains a G1 character who does nothing but inoffensively smile and make dad jokes in the background."

#i'm especially looking at all the id/w me/gs fans in the MOP fandom lmao #bitches be like 'i hate idw op he's an asshole' #my brother in christ you stan me/ga/tron #ah but i forgot half of the megs stans in this fandom barely even recognize he did any wrong #i suppose it's no surprise #this fandom sees nuanced characters and assigns them either woobie who did no wrong or asshole #but esp with op it's fucking weird because it's like people have a fatal disease about touching him #i'd get it if people could actually like talk about specific story reasons but 99% of the time it's just #asshole end of story. no explanation no acknowledgement of context or perspective. nothing. #half these mfs havent even read anytging besides mtmt/e or ll #so yeah even in the MOP fandom i cant engage with most content because it's just #totally not idw me/gatron + bland continuity soup optimus with no particular backstory #besides 'archivist' or 'dockworker' lmao #really tired of being in a ship fandom that has OP as one of the two people #only to see (imo) his best incarnation shit on and barely given second thought #while people coddle meg/a/tron despite him doing far worse even to OP in particular #negativity