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i love their dynamic so much here and in "all hail megatron", it's such a shame that their connection ended up being completely forgotten in the rest of idw series... reading "optimus prime" and coming across that one frame, observing what we have had and lost because the authors couldn't keep in mind how and who they were writing... it actually hurts

you guys. you guys! why are you doing this to us. why is it so hard for you to keep track on your story!! why do we have to see their relationship... fall apart?? without a decent look at it?? somewhere out there, in the background?? we're just left with the fact that they are over or maybe never even were there in the first place

prowl and jazz had so much potential at some point of idw history. the way how well they worked together despite all the difficulties, how sincerely prowl supported jazz even though he remained very closed off and aloof the whole time, how he really tried to be a good loyal friend, respected jazz's personal boundaries, didn't push, didn't go too far with his concern, didn't except anything in return and was just there to help... a rare bright moment for this version of my poor boy :'D

there were so many opportunities to develop this further, to show how they could exist in the new cybertronian future for which they had gone through so much hardship, how could they fight all the problems that were coming down on them, together, exactly as it was on earth. but, alas, we have to accept that they were quickly brushed aside and forgotten. a little time passes and they become strangers. forever. their entire bond is just erased. because that's how idw works with their characters...

if you listened to minorities, you would know fiction can and does perpetuate a lot of harm when it props up popular social beliefs and stigmas about minority groups. it reinforces incorrect perceptions about people, and it causes a lot of people to internalize those perceptions.

if someone can watch a queer show and discover their queer identity from it, they can also watch a homophobic show and internalize those beliefs as well. it doesn't mean all fiction holds magical influence over its audience; violent video games or movies don't produce violent people, etc. etc. it's not a magic wand. but there is a difference from believing fiction makes people copy outlandish behavior, and understanding that fiction can reinforce negative beliefs and biases that are already predominantly held by the majority of society.

repeated tropes where fat people are made into jokes and are laughed at and mocked supports fatphobia and causes fat people to internalize shame and poor self image, because fatphobia and body image are dominant social issues.

depictions of disability as something burdensome, unworthy of love, and deserving of death reflects eugenicist beliefs, and causes disabled people to interalize that about ourselves, because society actively devalues disabled people in a systemic way.

stories that misrepresent racial cultures and poc create stereotypes that help spread misconceptions and racial biases, and more often than not also participate in tropes that poc then internalize as messaging of their social value (see: disposable black girlfriend trope.) this is because most modern western societies are founded on and still function under white supremacy and racism.

there are endless groups who get affected negatively by fiction, and it's exhausting that we don't get listened to and basically told to "shut up with that woke shit" by self purported leftists when we try to talk about it in fandom spaces. the harm is real, and pervasive. people have killed themselves over some of the issues that get internalized and the treatment fiction normalizes.

it's frustrating to me that we cannot open discussions about these topics and the way they cause harm without everyone and their dog claiming that it's censorship. critique and awareness aren't governmental powers! conversations where harm is pointed out is not physically stopping you from writing whatever you want!

tbh it's getting reflective of conservatives when they whine about their free speech being infringed upon any time they face social repercussions for their bigotry. people TALKING is not censorship. judgement from your peers is not censorship. people not liking your fiction is not censorship. if you feel threatened by minorities pointing out how certain elements of fiction can be hurtful, you need to do some deep self reflection.

we are allowed to ask for better. we are allowed to open up conversations where we request better treatment, better representation, and better awareness as to what that looks like. but shouting out any and all critique of fiction as "censorship" and denying any of the problems it may cause only serves to silence us and our ability to raise standards for our fiction, which in the end, results in the ACTUAL censorship of real minorities, by ensuring we cannot speak freely about the way fiction affects us, for good or for bad.

anti-censorship MUST include the value of voices who face the most silencing, and a lot of anti-censorship conversations do the opposite by framing a lack of criticism as a neccessary protection against censorship. this is a false binary, and very black and white thinking. critique should not scare you. the idea that some fiction may be harmful should not scare you—something bad or harmful does not mean that censorship is suddenly permissable or ethically viable.

in fact, a core pillar of anti-censorship ABSOLUTELY should be how we as a society should be able to address some of these topics and harmful things WITHOUT resorting to fascist, reactionary regulation. if you can't do that much without "there is no war in ba sing se"-ing about fiction causing harm, then you're not prepared to be anti-censorship.

anti-censorship means being prepared to defend the indefensible. to protect the right of things to exist, EVEN WHEN they are harmful. but we need to be able to address that actual, real harm in ways that allow people to understand why censorship is not the answer; because people who are touched by that harm are not buying your denial about harm existing for an instant, and all you're doing is alienating the people you should be allying with.

the answer to harmful fiction is to address it, analyze it, have open discussions about it, and bring awareness to it; and more people will learn, and more people will improve. it's how we've progressed in fiction so far—how we've gotten more women as main characters, more black stories and casting, more queer characters allowed to exist and explicitly fall in love. censorship—even aimed at harmful stuff—is how we LOSE that progress, because it is a power that is always targeted at minorities. that is the conversation we should be having.

Wow. Talk about attention to detail.

Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

TLDR: I generally like most continuities of prowl. And while I like a lot about  idw prowl, I hate his writing and treatment in the series. He is jarringly different not only compared to other continuities of prows, but even from comic to comic from idw. 

Long version: I generally love prowl and most of his continuities. While There are different continuities with different prowls, Idw prowl is not a common type of prowl, it is exclusive to idw. That Prowl is just well known for some reason. Prowl ain’t always a cop, its actually a rarity for him to be one-n he's just some dude that looks like a cop car.  G1, Cyberverse , prime (books), animated, marvel (comic), even War for cybertron(Netflix) are seperate prowls very dissimilar to idw’s iterations, thats right , iterations in plural form. Because the IDW comics had multiple writers that wrote multiple prowls. 

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020:

Patlabor 2

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