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so like imagine Undertale characters but they're all crafts supplies Part The Fourth (Sans and Papyrus) (Undyne and Alphys) (Toriel and Asgore) (Napstablook and Mettaton)

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Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

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I hate this man, I say as I draw him numerous times

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now we just need to have Primal going to their base and doing gorilla mating rituals in the middle of the night. see how they like it it’s totally not because he thought it was kinda cute he swears!

the Maximals hear a weird sound in the middle of the night and when they go to investigate they find Megatron doing this (skip to 1:40)

bonus points if they can’t decide if it’s for Optimus or Dinobot

This could be really sweet tbh 🥺🥺🥺

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broken sun / shed a light on everyone

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this was funnier in my head soz everyone should be equipped with antimatter, any universe!

bonus

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What if abilities changed the appearance of a Pokemon?

A master post of all the ability forms drawings I've done! It's been such a fun series to work on and it makes me so happy that it's brought you all so much joy!

I regret not starting the little additional descriptions earlier and I thought of fixing that but I desperately need a nap so nope.

I did fix the one that ruffled the most feathers though - quite literally! The Skarmory saga is finally complete!

Other Ability Forms posts!

Find me and my art elsewhere!  

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pink Nintendo DS 🍰🌸࿔*:･

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everything here is so classically g1. jokes that arent sure if theyre jokes. starscream declaring himself leader because megatron mispronounced a word. [takes off and immediately crashes]. the awful lip sync. optimus putting ravage in the trash. megatron and starscream bitching match. "i never miss at this range" [misses]. megatrons dance and flail. im so serious g1 is awful and one of the funniest shows ive ever seen

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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I binged the first three Bayverse Transformers films and in order to stay awake I wrote notes on my thoughts and then decided to doodle my funniest ones. Idk how to draw most of the characters tho so I chose any random design that wasn’t Bayverse

And also this thing:

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TRANSFORMUARY » tf one + alt mode

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🧡Ao3 tags by Kyri45 on RedBubble - P.2🧡

Part 1 here! Thanks @cherry-pop-elf for the suggestions!!

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re: your last answer about megastar (it's really cool!) - what are, for you, the most interesting things that Starscream finds objectionable about Megatron's leadership? i mean, one could headcanon SS as a totally delusional and self-serving power-grabber, or alternatively, say that Megatron has become a tyrant drunk on power and destruction - but, to me, smth more complex would be more engaging? for SS to have some valid points but also be wrong about some other things maybe?

I put this in my drafts and forgot about it for a couple of weeks lmao.

It depends on the continuity! Like, if we’re taking straight G1 cartoon, then I think Starscream’s only genuine objection to how the Decepticons are being led is that it’s not being done by him. Any criticism he levels at Megatron, no matter how accurate—and some are accurate—has to be read with the understanding that Starscream is only bothering to voice it because he thinks he should be in charge and wants to undermine Megatron. I think the same can be said of TFA Starscream too.

Other interpretations of Starscream have more nuance, and in them I think you can read more complex motivations/different reasons for criticizing Megatron. And in those, the dynamic I like best is that they’re equally good leaders, but in different fields. The dynamic I like best, and I think it can most easily be seen in TFP and in IDW: Megatron is a better general, and Starscream is a better politician.

Which is why Starscream always loses. As long as they’re at war, their dynamic will always be biased in Megatron’s favor. In a one-on-one fight, Megatron will always be able to defeat Starscream; and when their successes at leading the Decepticons are compared, Megatron will always pull ahead because Megatron is better at directing soldiers.

You can see this very well in All Hail Megatron. Megatron leads the Decepticons to a stunning victory over the Autobots. The main force on Earth crippled and banished to dying Cybertron, Optimus nearly killed, the Matrix stolen, every major Autobot base in the galaxy attacked at once; Starscream assisted with the ruse that let them attack Optimus’s force, but you really get the sense that this is Megatron’s victory. But Starscream is quick to point out that, once they’ve won, all the Decepticons are doing is replaying that victory—piddling around on Earth crushing human forces that really don’t offer any competition—and that soon the troops are going to get bored and ask for something more.

And he has a point. The Decepticons have had a military victory so massive that the war could very nearly have been called in their favor right then and there, but Megatron doesn’t know how to move forward, to transfer that momentum from a military victory into a political victory. He can’t consolidate power and leadership. He has to keep playing out the military side because that’s what he knows how to do.

Starscream, shrewd politician, not only sees that and calls out Megatron on it, he also demonstrates that he’s thinking about that future political victory, and he immediately takes action—like a politician would—to consolidate power for himself. He rallies nearly every heavy-hitter on Earth behind him to confront Megatron and try to seize power from him. And he does it by making bargains, offers, alliances, and arguments—whereas Megatron pretty much exclusively gets his troops in line under him through shows of physical dominance, beating them back in line under him (a la Spotlight: Megatron).

Starscream may well have seized power from Megatron at that point, if not for the return of the Autobots. And that swung the conflict back from politics into the military, Megatron’s forte. Starscream backs down, lets Megatron resume leadership, and Megatron acknowledges that someday—when they need political leadership, not military leadership—Megatron will go down and Starscream will rise up.

That’s indeed what happens. The second the war’s over, Megatron’s influence has waned. His last-ditch effort to conquer Cybertron his way—through force—is thwarted in one night, and in the very same night Starscream conquers Cybertron with a single assassination and a couple of campaign promises. Megatron himself marvels at how swiftly Starscream achieves exactly what Megatron set out to do, and he didn’t have to fight a war to do it.

Starscream himself certainly demonstrates a far greater aptitude for politics than for military leadership. Compare his depressed brooding while he wore the Matrix and led the Decepticons after AHM to his leadership in RID and TAAO. Even though he’s plagued by an array of insecurities and self-doubts in both cases, when he’s leading an army he’s paralyzed by the weight of the decisions he has to make, retreats to space, and spirals into a depressive funk while his soldiers cannibalize each other for fuel. When he’s leading a planet, he pushes through his self-doubts and constantly moves forward and upward, and leaves Cybertron in a far better position than he found it in.

We see glimpses of this potential in TFP, as well, although only obliquely. At the start of the series, Starscream’s been in charge of the Decepticons for several years, and what’s he been doing? Mining. His primary concern has been with gathering resources and maintaining stability, not with conquest and battle—and the Decepticons moved no closer to winning the war, but they did thrive, in their own way, under Starscream’s leadership. They even managed to kill one (1) whole Autobot, which, may I point out, is more Autobots than Megatron managed to kill in TFP. A concern for fuel/food and general stability seems to me much more like the focus of a peacetime leader than like a general, but it’s where Starscream’s strengths lie.

When Megatron comes back, shifts the Decepticons from defensive to offensive mode, then immediately goes comatose and leaves Starscream in charge again, Starscream repeatedly flounders in his efforts to earn any major Decepticon victories. (To be fair, Megatron’s victories never seem to stick either—but even at that, he does a better job at fighting than Starscream, both as a single combatant and as a military leader.) When Starscream does succeed, it’s generally through a combination of bargaining alliances, trading information and favors, and solo stealth operations that don’t rely on combat.

So: that’s how I read the dynamic between Megatron and Starscream when it’s at its best. Megatron as the master of military leadership, and Starscream as the master of political leadership—and both liable to falter and fail when they take their skills in their own realm and attempt to apply them to the other’s realm. In such a dynamic, when Starscream objects to Megatron, it’s coming from a place of looking at his actions like a politician and feeling like they’re flawed. In cases where Starscream’s thinking “this is fine in the short-term but when the war’s over—which could be soon—Megatron’s methods will alienate people, lead to anarchy, and/or leave us with nothing left worth ruling” those criticisms may be valid; whereas if his objection is purely to Megatron’s battle tactics, the odds are good that Megatron’s got a better idea of what it’ll take to win this particular fight than Starscream would, especially if Starscream is too caught up in the subtle power dynamics between the leaders and major players to play proper attention to the getting the right soldiers with the right weapons from point A to point B where they can mow down the Autobots.

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hey it's probably a really good idea to download a copy of your Master Promissory Note since most of them stipulate that your loans are *specifically owed to the Department of Education* and if you intend to dispute the debt in the wake of the DoE dissolving that will be really good to have

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drawn with jumbo crayons

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assorted college trio moments