#mincedthoughts

I love Cyberverse Soundwave so much. Cunt extraordinaire. Plays diegetic music just to be a bitch to his fellow Decepticons. Gets in petty office place drama with Shockwave to get employee of the month but NOT because of an unwavering loyalty to Megatron; it's just because he's a bitch. When Megatron pisses off not once, but twice, Soundwave takes over the Decepticons no questions asked. Where's Megatron? Soundwave doesn't give a fuck, he has things to do. First joins up with the Decepticons because of how he beat Soundblaster in a rap battle, something Soundblaster holds a grudge about for YEARS and meanwhile for Soundwave it was a Tuesday. Of all his lack of loyalties, he gets so bent up about HOT ROD getting hurt that he kamikazes to defeat the Big Bad.

I know everyone loves to make japes and jabs about the queerbaiting of Grimmons (including me) but my hot take is was that it was never truly queerbaiting until at the earliest S15. Never in a single mainline season of RvB before 15 did they truly queerbait Grimmons. The qualifier for queerbaiting is to keep LGBT fans watching while not aliening their mainstream audience, but I do NOT think they looked at their fanbase comprised majorly of reddit users and thought "okay lets tease the minority shippers too to make sure they stay watching". They did not even consider the fangirls, for years. Rooster Teeth never needed to do that until their company was on life support.