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So I’ve started reading IDW’s new Transformers run, and not much has happened in it quite yet

but HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS LIKE THE EVENTUAL CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR FACTIONS MIGHT JUST BE WHAT I BASICALLY HEADCANON IT WAS

and this has me making excited bouncy seal noises  

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Uncharitableness ahoy, but MTMTE Megatron sounded like someone in the thick of profound mental health issues and I was weirded out and uncomfortable with the way the fandom took it as cute just because he was wearing a good guy sticker.

(That said I think it was intended at least somewhat cutely, which is part of my whole problem with MTMTE and LL.)

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Ah right yeah that...actually fits real well tbh.
Now I’m thinking of it, ‘aimless and no motivation’ is pretty much a depressive episode. I know seeming nice and placid can be depression behaviour too tbh.

Hm. I tend not to like ‘these characters are mentally ill and lol they hate themselves it’s cute’.
Feels like those tumblr ‘relatable’ mental illness posts that are just ‘I hate myself’ and ‘I’m not coping with my symptoms healthily this is a good joke’ remixed.

I do feel like ‘could the character get some therapy, on some meds because this doesn’t feel funny or cute anymore’

I guess after fighting so hard to recover I get a little mardy that it’s not considered as fun or relatable, sympathetic, or cute as suffering.

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Yeah. And I personally felt like “depression and inability to function” was presented in a way that made those things sound like “redemption.”

And that’s... really troubling to me, since my own mental health issues involve thinking I’m evil and the things I want are bad, so not wanting anything is better for the people around me.

I don’t think it’s what JRo MEANT, but the strong message I got from it was “better walking dead Than Decepticon,” and as someone who this fandom helped through some really rough patches and who’s always identified more with the ‘Cons, it felt weirdly personal.

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Ah yeah I can really get feeling uncoftabke if it’s personal tbh? There’s stuff I’ve been turned off by in Transfomers media/fandom bc it just hit personal buttons so I get you there.

(And I’m also p strongly con identifying. I partly blame that on tea blitzwing XP)