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raisedbymoogles) wrote2018-02-25 07:17 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2018-02-25 07:17 pm
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holy crap, it's not advertising my fic for once
......but it IS bitching about other people's fic, which is arguably worse.
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Just once anymore I want to read a G1 fic without Megatron's IDW origin story leaking into it. I've yelled before about why I hate it, but in summary it does not fucking work with G1 Megs for a lot of reasons and it kills my enjoyment of what otherwise are some really well-written fics. Especially Meg/Op, which I love but IDW-leakage affects their relationship in profound ways that I do not love.
"But moogle, here is how you filter out the IDW tag!" you say. I already do that. The IDW leaks in anyway. -_-
"But moogle, hit the back button!" you say. I already do that. Unless I'm willing to block All Media Types, it leaves me with nothing to read. -_-
I just - I used to love all the different takes people had on things like Megatron's origin and the roots of the Decepticons because G1 didn't bother to flesh it out. "Here is a sandbox with some cool toys!" said the fandom. "Go nuts!" Now it's a plastic playset full of plastic dolls that only click together one way and I feel excluded. Which seems like a petty complaint for a series that gave us canon gay and trans robots and girl robots that were actually pretty cool, but fuck it, I'm petty.
TBH I think this is half the impetus for my Gladiator!Optimus 'verse (which I WILL write as soon as On Broken Wings reaches a reasonable conclusion, dammit). The end goal of that fic is basically their canon dynamic on Earth, so it's really just me yelling THE IDW ORIGIN IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION, PEOPLE, GDI.
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tl;dr: IDW Megs keeps invading my G1 sandbox and I wish he'd stop.
*
Just once anymore I want to read a G1 fic without Megatron's IDW origin story leaking into it. I've yelled before about why I hate it, but in summary it does not fucking work with G1 Megs for a lot of reasons and it kills my enjoyment of what otherwise are some really well-written fics. Especially Meg/Op, which I love but IDW-leakage affects their relationship in profound ways that I do not love.
"But moogle, here is how you filter out the IDW tag!" you say. I already do that. The IDW leaks in anyway. -_-
"But moogle, hit the back button!" you say. I already do that. Unless I'm willing to block All Media Types, it leaves me with nothing to read. -_-
I just - I used to love all the different takes people had on things like Megatron's origin and the roots of the Decepticons because G1 didn't bother to flesh it out. "Here is a sandbox with some cool toys!" said the fandom. "Go nuts!" Now it's a plastic playset full of plastic dolls that only click together one way and I feel excluded. Which seems like a petty complaint for a series that gave us canon gay and trans robots and girl robots that were actually pretty cool, but fuck it, I'm petty.
TBH I think this is half the impetus for my Gladiator!Optimus 'verse (which I WILL write as soon as On Broken Wings reaches a reasonable conclusion, dammit). The end goal of that fic is basically their canon dynamic on Earth, so it's really just me yelling THE IDW ORIGIN IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION, PEOPLE, GDI.
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tl;dr: IDW Megs keeps invading my G1 sandbox and I wish he'd stop.