#DO NOT RECOMMEND by responsible

[todayisafridaynight]

ik a mention rgg nerfing ttm's features when modelin sawashiro every five minutes but they really had to cause aint no way in hell would a been intimated by this bruv if they didnt

#snap chats #oh im fucked i really put 'a' instead of 'i'. whatever thats how i pronounce it we goin phonetic baby #did ou know i remember abolutely nothing about the ending of drive. i watched it while drinking two soju #DO NOT RECOMMEND by responsible #to totally contradict myself im drinkin nigori i bought . i didnt know alcohol cold frreeze and i accidentally froze it ☠️☠️☠️ #iiii ALOMST knocked my cup over ohmy gd #moving on. legality to say soem BULLSHIT noowt ho #anyway n o lsien to me ttm's 38 in this movie and sawashiro's 38 in 2000. probably. i cant do math rn Or Ever point is About Same Age #this IS from drive. great movie. and this is one of his cuter/sillier roles imo so awkward comp but ill still speak #main text got me lying i was out of pocket seeing bro frame 1 anyways but it woulda been a diff vibe this route lsten to me #hes just too cute bro . bye. fymhes an antagonist hes too cte for that <- his filmography prves otherwise #gon try to start an argument with me what you gon do mate kiss me ??? enough. #i like how ttm just has A Vibe to him. Apparently. he always playin awkward mates.... back then anyway.. #postman blues did him so dirty bein all 'slender-framed mates are more prone to socipathy' LKE LEAVE HIM ALONNNE #wehhh i wish they mocapped his facial expressions more accuraltey in rgg. and his teeth. his smle still cute to me.. #i sound lke my mom when she talks bout lee joongi whenever i talk bout ttm ew lke bye. stop #ok im going bak to playing mincraft now bye #oh my gd when did it become 2AM literally suck my ween

[lonepower]

my dad and I just finished listening to a fascinating (and really pretty alarming) podcast about American literacy education recently—Sold a Story by Emily Hanford—and it got me wondering what my peers’ experience was, so here's my first poll! This pertains to people who learned to read in the U.S. specifically, so even if one of the other options matches your experience, I'd politely ask you to refrain from picking one (presumably you guys have better school districts than we do anyway). 

(the most horrifying part out of the entire thing was the fact that dubbya was the one to realize something was wrong. even a broken clock, I guess...?)

#polls #literacy #linguistics #on language #I'm also just plain curious how many responses I'll actually get #it was a really interesting podcast i do recommend it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

We could have had it all...

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #oh man....the NieYao dynamic....All these complex emotions and ties to each other and they *aren't* canon? #Sorry fellas but the way you proposed writing your bro a letter of recommendation & agreeing to it was very fruity. #And *then* Lan Xichen shows up. And both JGY and NMJ are head over heels for him and have been for ages apparently. #Its like they found out that LXC had been two timing them this whole time and their response was: “UM. HOT?” #I'm tempted to redraw these three as that one bisexual-core image with Anne Hathaway. You know the one. It fits. #It's strange seeing all of this fondness in retrospect compared to the betrayal you feel in The Untamed after a longer build up. #Initially it felt like 'oops we made him a little too 2 dimensional as a villain - quick make him more sympathetic'. #JGY even had a scene with him kissing babies. As any politician would do to improve their image. #but it does come around to really showing a more authentic JGY and the tension between him and NMJ. #As an angst lover I am personally all for 'what could have been' relationships and they DO have it all.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

A response video to hbomberguy's latest (on plagiarism) that might actually be helpful to folks

Don't be like James Somerton. Advice on citations and plagiarism.

Eye contact. Auto-generated captions. ~ 30 minutes.

Summary: A professional archeologist and academic talks about how citations are done in professional academic settings, when you need cite your sources, and gives advice on how to adapt these basic principles to the format of a YouTube video.

(PS: gives a couple of shout-outs to @theabigailthorn as someone who consistently does it right)

#hbomberguy #response video #plagiarism #how-not-to #how to do it right #video recommendation

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Obsessed with authors like Naomi Novik whose books always seem to say “no, fuck that, there is another way than cruelty, and we do have a choice to be decent, and not choosing it isn’t a burden but a cop out.”

Authors like Neil Gaiman whose books seem to say “we are all simply human, and that is so valuable. This world is worth more because we are in it, when we choose to notice and care”

Authors like Brandon Sanderson whose books say “We are all a little broken, and there is strength in not turning away from us, and there is pain in healing but there is also strength and hope.”

Seriously, these folks do more for my faith and hope in this life than any religion ever has. I don’t have the words to describe it yet but just. Warm cup of apple cider held close to the chest on cold autumn night?? That’s the best I got

#recommendations #does this count as a recommendation?? everyone should read their things if they get the chance. must recommend. there now it’s a red #dawn speaks #the sandman #where death goes from person to person and the episode is a celebration of life as much as it’s life’s end #good omens #where people literally look at Heaven and Hell and say ‘we’re good thanks. we like Human better than Good and Evil’ #the scholomance #where people see ‘for the greater good’ and say in response ‘do better’ #the stormlight archive #which is some kind of ode to pain and healing and the way that process holds something difficult but so so beautiful #I have read fanfiction that has perfectly captured the human condition #and watched children’s shows that spit in the face of all the ways we have chosen to hate each other #it just. it hits different okay. #anyways thanks to people who make things #because you reach people <3

[sctumsempra]

this is so incredibly self indulgent but. hear me out

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #snape fanart #procreate #sketch #barista!snape #my new obsession. it just makes so much sense #i don’t think he’d be a manager. my guy is over responsibility #would roll up to his fifth closing shift of the week and pray there was someone on register so he didn’t have to talk for a few hours #‘what do you recommend?’ bluescreens with the most customer service inappropriate look on his face #ignores the work group chat like the plague but if you text him he will cover your shift every time without fail #actually owns ten of the same black turtleneck and two pairs of black jeans and will not wear anything else #may or may not be based on real events

[florbe-triz]

Litchi ☆ Hikari Club

#litchi hikari club #Jaibo #Zera #Raizou #I really don't recommend this manga hahahaha don't read it! #BUT if you dare I take no responsibility #DON'T READ IT #if you do be sure you are okay with violence-gore-blood-BL-noncon etc it's terrible and you are warned #Yeah I do enjoy dark stuff too but I never NOT warn people about it #my art

[ffc1cb]

Do you have any tips for drawing men/masculine looking faces? I love your style and that's specifically something I struggle with ;;;

hi anon! this ask has been sitting in my inbox long enough that you’ve probably forgotten you sent it (yikes!) but i swear that the entire time i’ve been trying to think of a way to answer it. 

first of all, i wasn’t entirely sure i could give you any helpful advice at all, considering that i personally do not think about faces in terms of masculine/feminine when drawing them (and this is not a gotcha or anything, i just genuinely don’t think about it on purpose; as in, i rarely go into drawing a face with explicit intent of making it appear masc/femme).

i also as of late have (mostly by accident) defaulted to drawing just these two face shapes, applying them to any characters as i see fit with slight adjustments:

so i figured that since i can’t give you any specific advice, i’ll just walk you through my overall thought process when constructing a face (of any gender).

first thing you should think about is the general shape of it all:

if you imagine these three feature groups as a diagram, you could play around with them & get a wide variety of facial shapes to pick from.

another thing you could modify is bone structure:

generally speaking, sharp features are often associated with masculinity, so i suggest you try experimenting with jaw & cheekbone shape. a face with more fat will hide the cheekbone and make the cheek appear lower and rounder; it will also make the jaw appear softer.

this next thing that i personally omit while drawing (purely as a stylistic choice) but could be of use to you is the brow bone and eye size:

i like drawing the brow & cheek as a straight line (just makes it look more fun and easier to draw), and the eye size varies greatly depending on what vibe im trying to go for. 

you could also play around with forehead size, sometimes it makes a big difference.

hope this helps! sorry it took me five million years to answer ^^;

#salt talks #i do not recommend asking me for art advice unless youre prepared to wait for a Long time. im bad at articulating myself so it takes a while #for me to be able to come up with a response #i forgot how i tag these... #a doodley #maybe?

[gayestcowboy]

my most toxic trait as an artist who is also primarily an instrumental musician is that it bothers me immensely when people draw incorrectly held instruments. if i had infinite time and energy i would love to make a reference image pack of correctly held musical instruments

#it’s usually the worst with flute and unfortunately flute is my primary instrument #and just googling stock images of people with instruments is how to find the most egregious and horrifically wrong shit #if you want to know how to draw someone playing an instrument id recommend looking up videos of professionals playing and taking screenshots #or even just looking up how to hold it so you have a better understanding #i dont think the modern western flute is a very intuitive instruemnt to hold and it requires specific instruction #so just knowing where the flute rests in your hand will allow you to draw someone holding it correctly #i hope this doesn’t sound condescending lol this is just me complaining because i love complaining #dont ever feel as though you cant draw people holding instruments just because you might do it wrong #i love seeing people draw characters playing instruments it always makes me happy :) #and a lot of my own internal criticism of people in art holding instruments wrong comes from the ingrained western superiority ever present #within western classical musicians #that is our responsibility to examine and unlearn #anyways thank you musicology class for making me Think A Lot #yeehaws

[trans-cuchulainn]

i'm sorry i'm not being fun enough on my personal blog which is the only place on the internet i get to just be a person and not have to be professional because it's the only place my colleagues and employers don't follow me but also i'm not sorry because sometimes being grumpy is part of being human and i'm so goddamn tired of having to perform perfection on the internet

#personal #like. yeah. on a good day i would have given a longer and more thoughtful response to the arthuriana ask #but also sometimes you hit a point where you're like. i've said this. i've written this post. it's in the tag already #i don't know what more people want from me that i haven't already given. i can't keep writing the same essays again #i'm not mad at the asker but i also can't do Free Academia On Demand at all times you know? #particularly when arthuriana isn't even my area of research specialism #i am pretty much always happy to answer ulster cycle asks because i always learn something from researching the answers #(or i already know the answers so they're very easy) #but stuff outside of that just feels like work after a while and sometimes i do not have the spoons #i am very glad of cicelythereaper's response. i recommend reading that one. #i'm sorry i couldn't be the one to give it on this occasion but lads. i am so fucking tired #i have so many jobs i have so many chronic illnesses i am so behind on everything in my life

[soracities]

Hey mim, you usually have very insightful responses so i thought I would ask you about this. Is it okay to ruin someone's marriage if you really really like them? asking for a friend. thx.

i'm literally.................babe, No

#there is zero insightful take on this so i'm going to say this bluntly but with love married people are MARRIED--to EACH OTHER--for a REASON #“if you really really like them” is not a defence it is trying to skirt responsibility for the enormity of a set of actions you do not #want to feel bad about or take responsibility for by ignoring the fact that real people are involved here and not npcs #there are other ways to validate horniness!!! #strongly recommend encouraging your friend to find them!!!! #ask #anonymous

[shivunin]

and an OC codex prompt for Maria: propaganda written in support of your OC?

Ahh thank you so much for asking! I'm fudging the "written" part of that prompt a bit, but I thought this was a fun idea c:

(Codex Prompts)

A Submission of Evidence

(425 Words | No Warnings)

A speech overheard in the Hanged Man shortly before the incident at Kirkwall’s Chantry. Submitted here to the record of the Seeker as evidence on behalf of the Champion. 

Record begins: 

Man 1 [Dwarf, red cap, didn’t get a look at his face]: And what do you care? Lives in Hightown like the rest of them, don’t she? Let them sort themselves out.

Man 2 [Ferelden, dark hair, mottled scar across his cheek]: D’you think they’ll keep that to themselves? Had three doors busted in last week by the Templars alone. Catching blood mages is all well and good, lad, but old Birta was no manner of mage at all. Meredith’s gone mad—you think she’ll settle for Hightown where the rich have guards of their own to fight her? Get your head out of—

Man 3 [Odd accent—obscuring his voice, perhaps. Tall, lanky, human, nondescript face]: So turning her in’s useless, you would say? 

Man 2: Ha! Turning her in would get you tossed in the wharf. All o’ them at the Gallows, they know exactly what that Hawke is. You want to get yourself a whole heap of trouble? Go ahead, tell a Templar the Champion’s a mage. I can see three of her friends from here who’d gut you for your trouble, and that’s if you’re lucky. 

Woman [Ferelden; recognized her from the Rose. Dark hair]: What did you just say?

Man 2: Whoa now, he didn’t mean—

Woman: Do you know what she has done for us? Not you; don’t you look at me like that, you worm. Annit’s girl has shoes because of the Champion, and Hari a working hand. She fetched me my wedding shawl back, even though it would’ve fetched her a pretty penny, and that family of hers without a cent to their name. Turn her in? Ha! Don’t bother looking at the lass by the bar, my boy, I’d gut you myself. Have you any idea what it was like to be Ferelden in this city before she knocked the Arishok’s head ‘round? No? Then keep your fool mouth shut while you can still make words.

Woman walked away to the bar. No talking for a moment. Then: 

Man 1: Heh. Fed you your own boot, she did. 

Man 3: Shut up. 

Note: The agent who supplied this information requested its inclusion to your investigation, Seeker Pentaghast. I have found a better assignment for them as we may all agree that they are getting too invested. Nevertheless, their information is good. Do let me know if you have any further questions. 

-L

#maria hawke #prompt response #shivunin scrivening #in my heart you (the PC) can do a lot more for the people at the ferelden refugee center #like. medical care and a recommendation for hard physical labor isn't enough #in my heart maria hires a tutor for the kids and slowly talks her neighbors into hiring some of the people there on if nothing else #starts a fund to help people get home if they want to go. and so on #no way she'd just let that stand

[dreamlogic]

#chronic blogging #current emotion #post-hysto pain has been getting steadily worse over the last month & is now accompanied by near constant nausea #can't even do my PT stretches anymore bc of how bad it hurts #so on monday i finally had a FUCK IT IT'S TANTRUM TIME #and checked myself into urgent care for severe abdominal pains #which finally fucking FINALLY resulted in a referral for a second opinion from a different gyno surgeon #who i hope will finally run the ultrasound & CT scan i've been begging other healthcare providers for for months #THERE IS SOMETHING EXTREMELY WRONG WITH MY BODY AND NOBODY IS LISTENING TO ME AND I'M FED UP WITH PRETENDING #THAT EVERYTHING IS WITHIN NORMAL PARAMETERS AND I JUST NEED TO BE PATIENT FOR HEALING & PRACTICE SELF CARE #watching the urgent care PA's face journey as i explained my symptoms how long i've had them & how apathetic my surgeon's response has been #was so incredibly vindicating & cathartic. she gave me a tactful 'i don't necessarily agree with that assessment......' #told me i have already been doing everything she would've recommended & we're long overdue for a second opinion since it isn't helping #and gave me her blessing to go pitch a fit in the ER if my symptoms get any worse before my appointment with the new surgeon #i'm EXHAUSTED and i'm SCARED and it's ABOUT GODDAMN TIME someone in medicine listened to me & took me seriously #been hovering in the 4-7 range on this chart for a disgusting amount of time. now i'm locked in at 8+ and not backing down

[supercantaloupe]

so maestro told me tonight at the end of rehearsal that he "got an email about me", turns out it was the org that's interviewing me next week for their summer job reaching out to him as a reference. and then when that was figured out maestro proceeded to spend the next, like, twenty minutes standing there writing out a recommendation for me on his phone at 10 pm while i'm Sitting Right There, just trying to get the assignment notes to send to the orchestra,

#living in a Comedy over here #he kept occasionally asking me questions too like 'how long have i known you? ten years?' (it's 8 or 9 at this point) #and 'do they know about your honors and high grades' ('i mean they have my resume so i guess so' 'i will mention it anyway' #lmao thanks maestro) #once again it's very sweet the lengths he goes to help me succeed professionally #i don't know if i. needed to or should have been Right There while he recommended me... #but there it is i suppose. one glowing recommendation ahead of my interview next week #although since this is the first time he's mentioned getting contacted like this i think this means the other internships i applied to #a month/month and a half ago just...never bothered to reach out and overlooked me as a candidate. sigh #oh well...i got one (1) response this week for one (1) job opportunity #(and it was the one i applied to kind of late out of. waning hope that the others were still a possibility..) #so. hoping i don't fuck up next week during my interview and hoping i don't have some crazy competition or something #bc damn i really want and need this internship......please...... #i wanna talk about me

[liveandletrain]

What I'm Doing Now

With tumblr's death knells imminent, (though not immediate, we do have time, barring unforseen disaster)

I'm also on Pillowfort and Dreamwidth under the same username (LiveAndLetRain) both of those accounts are years old so I'm brushing the dust off and will probably be copying my stuff over to there.

I am archiving my main and all my sideblogs, so even if tumblr goes down suddenly next week (unlikely) I won't be losing anything.

A couple of options to do that, for those looking for it.

I'm also on Discord, also as LiveAndLetRain. If anyone is interested in at least touching base on there just as another level of communication shoot me a dm on here first pls.

And of course, my AO3. Which in the light of everything I will be unlocking so that it is visible without an account, chatbot scraping be damned. I'm on there as CaraLee (Baby Rain's Internet name) with LiveAndLetRain as a pseud.

The biggest loss when any site goes down is always the community we build on it, I know over the years I've met a lot of wonderful people on here. "Met" in this case meaning everything from "we've met irl since and talk every day" to "we've been liking and reblogging each other's posts for five years but have never spoken directly.

I'm not leaving tumblr. I'll be on here until it's burned itself to the ground and the ashes blow away in the wind. But I'm also preparing for when that happens.

#rain rambles #personal #in light of everything #fandom things #I know a lot of the tumblr flagship blogs are doing their best to make an organized evacuation plan #if you aren't already following vaspider or bibliosphere or one of the others #i recommend doing so #they aren't prone to panic or out of proportion responses #and tend to give good information on things as they progress

[lord-squiggletits]

I wish to love and appreciate idw optimus more too. But I also don’t want to read through the entirety of IDW 1.0. Can you please recommend me any specific issues/parts?

My best friend and fellow IDW Optimus lover made a post compiling all the comics with major story beats involving Optimus. Her list has a lot of the same things mine does, but also a lot more specific issues because she actually knows which specific issues of which series you can read specifically for ones focused on IDW Optimus. We don't agree on everything (I love some comics she dislikes and vice versa), but I would recommend her list simply because it's the most well-documented and thorough. Link I also have a lot of far less coherent but still genuine posts about IDW OP on my #idw op love tag.

As for specific parts I would recommend... since you don't want to read through all of IDW1, I'll go ahead and recommend you things based on in-universe chronological order rather than story release order, but if anything here interests you then I would recommend reading IDW1 in release order so that you get a better grasp of the story's context and how new lore was given out over time:

Chaos Theory and Police Action by James Roberts (The Transformers 2009 issues 22-23): I love love LOVE the way JRO writes Optimus talking to Megatron during the present day, it's very IDW-Optimus flavored because of how blunt, abrasive, and snappy Optimus is. There's a part in the comic where Megatron claims that he "knows [Optimus] better than anyone else," and he's right, but it's also true that Optimus knows Megatron well enough to see that he's bullshitting and it's very entertaining watching Optimus slowly lose his patience with him. I love the dialogue especially, no one (canon or fandom) has ever quite written the same IDW OP who's in this set of comics. It's also the most MegOP comic of all time because the sexual tension and the subliminal imagery of them doing BDSM together is unreal, plus it really captures their dynamic of two old soldiers who snap together with chemistry despite (or perhaps because of) being such long-time enemies. They just UNDERSTAND each other so well. Also, as a bonus point, Chaos Theory is where the pre-war lore for IDW1 began being published, so if you read Chaos Theory then the context for future pre-war lore makes a little more sense.

Shadowplay by James Roberts (More Than Meets the Eye issues 10-11): More pre-war lore that picks up where Chaos Theory/Police action left off. Important because it establishes a lot of IDW OP's character relationships, especially with "the Senator," Roller, and to a degree Ratchet and some minor side characters. I don't really know what to say about this besides it's just really fucking fun to read and features IDW OP getting to do cool shit like fight bad guys, investigate conspiracies, and do heists while also establishing one of his key character traits: being disastrously gay for suspicious men that he places entirely too much trust in to tell him what the right thing to do is.

Spotlight: Orion Pax by James Roberts: Okay, I'm really sorry for recommending JRO's stuff because it feels like favoritism and I don't even think JRO does the best version of IDW OP, it's just going in in-universe chronological order means that a lot of JRO stuff ends up first on the list. This one doesn't really have much of consequence in it and is honestly one of the weaker Spotlight issues, but like Shadowplay, it involves Orion Pax doing fun action shit and having way too much trust in a suspicious man (a new one from the suspicious man in Shadowplay).

The Autocracy Trilogy (Autocracy, Monstrosity, Primacy) by Chris Metzen: Oh my fucking god this is THE IDW Optimus to me, this trilogy is literally what made my ears perk up to even start liking IDW OP because it's what took me from "Optimus Prime, that's the guy who's the super awesome leader that everyone likes and is a paragron to everyone, yeah I know him" to "Oh.... holy shit this is such a good plot/worldbuilding, Optimus has so much CONFLICT and DRAMA with other people." It covers one of my favorite periods of the general Transformers formula, namely pre-war and early war plot events as conflicts come to a boiling point, there's political conflicts and personal conflicts, the planet is falling to shit and everyone is trying to escape and things are as depressing and scary as you would expect for a war that's literally about to consume a whole planet. I found the general plotlines to be gripping and intense (Autocracy is the weakest in this regard, but the writing gets better with each book) and I really like seeing how Optimus grapples with leadership. Especially the negative parts where people hate/fear him because of his association with Zeta's regime (the previous Prime, who Orion worked for), call his judgment into question, refuse his calls to action or waver in their faith in him, and so forth. I found it to be a really nuanced yet sympathetic view of IDW Optimus that made me fall in love with him. Because really, the thing that humanizes a character the most is making them flawed, and Autocracy trilogy Optimus is so incredibly flawed and conflicted. And also it shows him being shit on by other characters in a way that's well written in a plot that makes sense and doesn't feel like the entire plot is conspiring to shit all over him.

The Death of Optimus Prime by James Roberts and John Barber: This comic is basically the transition from phase 1 to phase 2, it establishes the branching plotlines of MTMTE and exRID, so this is another one of those comics that will help you understand IDW1 better if you want to read for more than just Optimus. Anyways, DoOP is great because it has a similar vibe to the Autocracy trilogy in that society is chaos and full of people who fucking hate Optimus' guts for the role he played in the war. You can also compare/contrast the way OP was before the war and early in the war versus the way he is after the war and see how much the war changed him (Chaos Theory also kind of is like this but it more shows bitchy Optimus specifically in his dynamic with Megatron). It also features a fair amount of Optimus Heroic Moments, Optimus Brooding, and Optimus being so fucking depressed he's literally sad when he wakes up and realizes he's not dead dude get some fucking therapy please I'm begging you--

Punishment by John Barber: This skips ahead quite a bit in the story but I think stands decently well on its own without having to understand the wider context. It's one of Barber's best-written stories and one of the only ones I've come back to reread for its own sake. It features Optimus trying to solve the murder-mystery of a bunch of Decepticons, featuring really cool plot conflicts like Optimus trying to navigate post-war society and the tensions that still linger from the Autobot-Decepticon war. I really like this one because it has that whole "not everyone loves OP and a lot of people hate him for justified reasons" thing that makes IDW OP a much more 3D character, PLUS it has some politics with the way Decepticons are treated post war. And I think it does really interesting things with Optimus in terms of showing how he DOES have this idealistic, merciful side that wants people to choose peace and letting go of vengeance, but of course it's not so easy to expect that of people after a 4 million year war. So when people inevitably choose violence, Optimus gets frustrated and angry and lashes out in a way that feels very real and understandable. It's a really good example of a comic that shows IDW OP in a nuanced way, showcasing both his virtues and flaws in a complicated situation that shows that there's no easy solution to these problems and no way for Optimus to escape without getting his hands dirty. Unlike future comics which involve OP being in complicated situations but instead the plot is super contrived and seems to overwhelmingly shit on OP without ever mentioning the very obvious ways that he could be defended, creating a story that's conceptually fascinating but incredibly mediocre in execution.

If I had to recommend any single one of these to read, I would recommend the Autocracy trilogy the most because it's literally the story that made me love IDW Optimus and made me realize "whoa, this guy is super nuanced and not what I expected of him." That's not to say that no other Optimi have depth and nuance, but I think the Autocracy trilogy was great for me personally as one of the first IDW1 comics I read. It struck a really good balance between "uh Optimus was part of some bad things that warrant being shit on" and "Optimus is struggling to overcome those bad associations he did, succeeding with some people and failing with others" and "Optimus is an optimist who has faith in others even when they don't have faith in themselves." Also, as a bonus, the Autocracy trilogy also features cunty murder-husband Megatron, an interesting character arc for Hot Rod, and the Dinobots as really interesting supporting characters (including their leader, Grimlock, having a cute veteran-rookie dynamic with Hot Rod that I wish we got more of).

#squiggle answers #idw op love #also the blog of that post i linked has a lot of meta posts on idw op. they're really good analyses #and also explain lore and connect dots in ways that i don't do as well because i don't have as fine of a grasp of the lore #also like. just as an aside. i would recommend reading the transformers 2009 because that also features a good idw op #featuring him being an action hero but also tired and frustrated and very human #another note: JRO is a good fun writer but i find his IDW OP is a bit too...whitewashed in a way? #he's very interesting and fleshed out and sympathetic but JRO clearly puts OP on a pedestal and doesn't fully get into the bad parts #barber imo is the opposite where he's more critical of OP in both good and bad ways but his writing uh #barber's writing isn't uh. i think it's very hit or miss tbh #and metzen i just adore because i knew his writing from being an old world of warcraft fan #and he was responsible for the period of lore that fans generally consider to be the core of the franchise #but also keep in mind there are ppl with completely different opinions from me #i've found that even among idw op fans people have slightly different takes on him and interpret his character in different ways #where like. we all came to the conclusion of loving idw op but with different reasonings and favorite story moments #so YMMV but IDW OPTIMUS IS AN INCREDIBLY SLEPT ON OPTIMUS PLEASE TALK TO ME MORE ABOUT HIM