What People Usually Think IDW Prowl Is Like: Cold, Calculating, An Asshole, Has A Stick In His Ass That

What people usually think IDW Prowl is like: cold, calculating, an asshole, has a stick in his ass that has replaced his emotions entirely, survives through Logic and Rationality.

What IDW Prowl is actually like: angry 45% of the time, frustrated 55% of the time, an asshole, incredibly paranoid, simultaneously gives no fucks and also too many fucks. Is sustained only by spite and angst.

Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3

LITERALLY

Idk how I got here but I’ve been having a lot of thoughts about IDW Prowl and at this point I will defend him to the ends of the Earth. The frequent mischaracterization I see in the fandom upsets me so greatly because hes a really complex character and I would have hoped that the fandom who somehow justified Megatron could analyze his character properly but NAHHHH he’s just the asshole guy no one likes (I LIKE HIM. I DO.)

Earthspark has been absolutely incredible about characterization and I haven’t even watched it, just clips. If they fuck up my man I’m going to be so upset.

IDW, both the readers and writers, did my boy Prowl so dirty. So much nuance was just lost on the fan base, he's such a complex tragic character that seeing all of you reduce him to "that asshole" really upsets me.

Earthspark did so incredibly well with the little nuances of all their characters, especially the Decepticons! I'm so incredibly hopeful that they're gonna treat Prowl right and give him a good story.

......So originally I wanted to make just a sketch of the hug scene but mhmgkhllgkh here we are haha

Based on Mistakes on mistakes until

+ close ups of their eyes because I sprinkled them with the tiny extra details

Something that I kind of think about is the possibility that Leo is the type of person that argues simply just to argue with someone while Donnie is the type of person who argues simply just because he wants to prove someone wrong himself.

*thinks about soundwave*

*wonders why soundwave doesn't like music in IDW1*

*thinks about how tarn and soundwave used to work together*

*thinks about how tarn used music to kill, torture & traumatize*

*thinks about soundwaves original bio quote* "Cries and screams are music to my ears."

*thinks about how being a sound system in a war & using music as a weapon would cause you to associate music with hurting others*

*marvels at how context can flip a sadistic quote on it's head*

IDW1 may be over but my thoughts on it continue to linger and by god i will tie toghether all connections that dare cross my mind.