#the afterlife theories abt pokemon and shit-

[reel-fear]

I think you guys are losing it with the Earthspark critiques now actually like at first I was on board but now it feels like u guys have forgotten we've only got one season so far and 99% of what we have seen was clearly set up for later pay off like calm down a little-

#if u replace these words with other words this is fucked up #and someone replies #ramblez #I joined in on it for a sec to talk abt how I personally view the themes #but now going in the tags is kinda a minefield suddenly all from one blog #and its like guys this series JUST started #not to mention a lot of the takes just feel. In really bad faith or purposely reading too deep into minimal stuff rn #like sure maybe the cybertronians are supposed to be symbolism for immigrants and stuff but I think they could also just be #symbolism of poc or other races in general? Considering what they've expeirence isnt purely xenophobia but other forms of racism too #and we dont exactly have enough info to know how the cons are gonna be treated what route the villains go down etc etc #ngl some of the takes feel like that tweet where some guy was like yea did u just figure out changing words in a sentence changes its meanin #the same is for stories #we dont yet entirely know what the terrans symbolize in all of this #what they are going to do with the cons the villains and everyone else #so yeah if u decide that certain characters n such symbolize something different than the intention [which we dont know yet #] u can make a story fucked up and problematic but thats not good critique thats how u make X character is secretly dead and this is #the afterlife theories abt pokemon and shit- #u cant just be like 'if you take this character and read them as symbolic of a thing thats never really mentioned or suggest by the story #then their story is actually very fucked up' and not provide more elaboration- #reminds me the tfa transphobia post that was like 'tfa clearly shows modifying ur body to be evil and dehumanizing #in terms of the characters upgrading' AND LIKE DID U EVEN WATCH THE SHOW OPTIMUS UPGRADES HIMSELF TO #TAKE DOWN MEGATRON... YOU KNOW... THE VILLAIN #LIKE YEA IF U TAKE THESE CHARACTERS NOT CODED TO BE TRANS AT ALL AND SAY THEY R SYMBOLISM FOR TRANS PPL #U MIGHT SEE THE STORY AS FUCKED UP BUT ITS NOT THE STORIES FAULT UR SCRATCHING OUT WORDS AND REPLACING #THEM WITH OTHERS- #reminds me of the nightheart shit too #nightheart isnt coded to be trans hating nightheart isnt transphobia its common sense #and yea if u take him as symbolism for being trans suddenly every woman in TC is transphobic now but thats not the storys fault #thats yours for putting concepts in the story and projecting ideas onto it that it does not hint at nor care to explore