You Will Look At My Cringe And You Will Like It

Recently I saw a post about the rivalry between Soundwave and Blaster (specifically g1 and a lil bit of idw) and it got me thinking about their dynamic. Specifically how much I really don't like/care for it? Especially Blaster specifically, I LOVE soundwave and am always down for more soundwave dynamics/relationships. But something about their rivalry specifically is just so unsatisfying to me. Mainly due to how unbalanced the rivalry is. Blaster in g1 pretty much exists to counter Soundwave, but it always felt so 1 sided to me no matter how often g1 had them match off. Like, there's no specific reason why they dislike each other, they just do. What really bugs me is how Blaster has such a bare bones personality outside of hating soundwave and dancing. Soundwave is allowed to do and be so much more outside of Blaster, but Blaster does almost nothing else aside from fighting Soundwave. It doesn't feel like a real rivalry. Soundwave just straight up doesn't care about Blaster lol. It's so unsatisfying, at least it is to me. Idw tried to make it more even/reasonable by giving Blaster a reason to hate Soundwave, but Soundwave still just doesn't care about Blaster at all. It doesn't really matter either because Blaster does damn near nothing throughout the entirety of idw and the only time their "rivalry" is even discussed is in the Blaster spotlight iirc. I really want to like Blaster cause he's a cool concept, but his singular defining dynamic/relationship is uninteresting to me and Jazz just does everything he does as an autobot/personality that he does but way better. I also just don't think rivalries suit Soundwave, he's much more concerned with Megatron and the decepticon cause to fret about an individual autobot. Especially when there are traitorous bastards like Starscream afoot lol.

Hehe dinosaur drawing my manager commissioned, shout out to Tony!!!!

Icthyovenator laosensis

Black cat mercy

She's so preeeeeetttyyyyyyy :]

Windbladeeee windbladeeee

Ooooh whats your opinion on Sunstreaker?

Ooo thank you for asking :00

Unfortunately he's not in a lot of things, so I really only have opinions about g1 and idw. I absolutely love g1 sunstreaker. He and tracks are The Guys With Funny Voices That I Like For Nebulous Reasons tm. There isn't much to them but they're silly and have fun designs :)). I think the biggest fumble regarding sunstreaker is that he should've been in more episodes and interacted with more of the cast lol. I'd love to have seen he and Sideswipe get into hijinks (probably caused by Sideswipe lol). As for idw Sunstreaker itsss hrrmmmm. I feel like there's a lot of ideas there that could've been executed better. He should've had more of a identity before what happened to him imo. Like, iirc, they kinda just drop him into the story, traumatized him, and then dropped him like that one Toystory meme w Andy after the d-void mess. I especially didn't like how, despite being the victim in all of this, Sunstreaker isn't really focused on as a person. Like, they do sometimes, but the story feels much more focused on the human character (forgot his name lol), Hot Rod, and setting up Skorponok. They do bring him up later on which I found a bit interesting, but it really frustrated me that Sunstreaker was still pretty much delegated to "guy who suffers" after being rescued by Ironhide and repaired by Alpha Trion. And after everything that he goes through, he's still placed on the side line and minimized to just his suffering/trauma. **What annoys me more about this is that we see him after d-void, he's in the background crew of the lost light and we see him briefly in Hoist (?) Spotlight. More couldve EASILY been added to his character, and we could have actually watched him grow and process his trauma. But we don't, he's just in the background the whole time which is such a waste. Especially because Sunstreaker was involved with some pretty inportant plot points ever since he was captured on eath. You'd think the character who RATTED OUT THE AUTOBOTS would get focus or at least some attention in a comic that focuses on characters relationships with the autobot and decepticon causes (Drift, Megatron, Tailgate, Cyclonus, and Brainstorm). The only possible reasons I can think of Sunstreaker getting next to no attention/development whilst aboard the Lost Light is due to the large cast or not wanting to be too connected to idw's previous stories ("Oh, Sunstreaker was involved with the plot a lot, maybe people will be tired of him"). I think both reasons are bullshit tbh, Sunstreaker doesn't have to be a main character to get focused on, Trailbreaker wasn't lol. And the second reasoning is just lazy (which is why I'd like to think that wasn't the reason lol).** I think that idw Sunstreaker could've been so good, but he was just fumbled cause the authors treated him as a vessel for angst more than anything >.>. Granted, I could be misremembering a lot of this, I read idw in high school and it's been awhile since then lol. Ultimately he's a cool guy who needs to be in more things. I feel like modern tf media just cycles through the same 5 guys, which is a shame cause tf is KNOWN for having like a billion characters lol. Please,,,,use them hasbro,,,I beg,,,,

Sorry about being vague when talking about idw, I don't know who has and hasn't read it, don't wanna accidentally spoil lol.

Edit: fixed some grammar/spelling mistakes. Added in a whole ass rant about Sunstreaker in mtmte/ll (inside the *'s), I realized I had more thoughts on the topic after I posted lol

Lil sketch of g1 nightbird I decided to color in digitally.

Mwehehehehhr take that my one follower

I love Elita she was so fucking slay in tfone love my girrrrl so happy shes been in more things :] heres like, a drawing of g1 and es Elita doing some doing some morning stretching

Soumbwabe and Roddy :3 I drew this on twitch and tried to name it smth along the lines of "silly gay men" but twitch wouldn't let meee >:[

Tfa blitzwing ate my brain :((((