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[decepti-thots]

It's really funny to me when people get so mad on Drift's behalf in MTMTE series one because they ignore Ratchet's actual motivation for needling him as hard as he does early on (that is, not the actual religion bit like people claim, the part where he thinks Drift is basically faking it to absolve his own guilt for his part in the war; see the Annual scene), but then hold up Rodimus as by contrast being kind to him and more worthy of his good graces as a result. Like... Rodimus. The guy who at the same time Ratchet was being a dick to Drift, was... responding to Drift not kissing his ass on demand 24/7 with apparently constant threats to throw him to the wolves as an ex-con everyone on the ship hated, but had to tolerate because of Rodimus' support, a fact which Rodimus apparently repeatedly held over Drift.

Like. Of the two, Ratchet being like 'I think your convenient religious epiphany is faked so you feel less guilty and face fewer consequences for your terrible behaviour' vs Rodimus going 'I can have you thrown in jail any time I like, you know' seems... uhhh. Well! It's a good thing both of these things are in fact not permanent features of Drift's relationship with either character and is in fact a setup for later character development, lmao. But personally, I think what Rodimus does is pretty clearly worse, season one wise. Ratchet's insulting about his thought-to-be-insincere esoteric spiritual beliefs; Rodimus makes him complicit in a crime via Overlord and insults him every time he doesn't answer a text in five seconds via implied threat, apparently!

To be clear. I love every permutation of these dynamics. I like Drift-Ratchet, Drift-Rodimus, and indeed Rodimus-Ratchet in basically all configurations; I find those relationships very compelling and interesting throughout the comic. I just find the insistence that 'Rodimus is better for Drift because Ratchet in s1 is sooo mean to him' sort of... hilarious, because if you've recently read s1 of MTMTE, uhhhh. WELL. If you want someone who's actually nice to Drift, the guy you're looking for is like... idk, Pipes seemed chill? Any way you slice it, though, it's. Not Roddy. Sorry.

[shineepng]

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[zetterbabe]

prep comes in many different forms 🐀

[fairytale-mystery]

why is your only personality trait being a LITTLE BITCH

not true. my girlfriends can confirm

[nev4rlnd]

@fcrevermcre, 𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓

her lab wad dimly lit as she hummed along to the pounding bass that filled the space, the rhythm vibrating through her bones as she danced between countertops, mixing chemicals with an effortless fluidity. the loud thrum of the music was her favorite companion — loud enough to drown out everything else, to block the world from intruding on her concentration. the lab door creaked open, but tinsley didn’t hear it. she was too lost in the rhythm, too immersed in her creation. her fingers flicked the switch, mixing the chemicals with the precision of someone who’d done it a thousand times before. a soft fizz rose from the bubbling flask, and she hummed along with the music, blissfully unaware that someone had just stepped into her sanctuary. it wasn't until she turned around to grab another beaker that she saw him: she immediately tensed, glancing at him before simply grabbing her beaker and returning to her invention. please, please - just turn around and leave, peter.

[cellienmaycry]

they should add forest owlet to kf3 please please please,.,,.!!!! she's so cuuuuuute she deserves it /p

[nightfury2001sartdump]

even more stuff from around 2020-2021 that i don't think i ever posted here..... mostly low quality shitpost-y stuff but there's a chunkful/chonk thing included that i did put effort into (think it ended up becoming/being used for chunkful's old ref)

[shorttfuse]

penelope n colin / polin au idea that i want but know i couldn’t write, free to a good home:

superhero-esque au. it still being regency is crucial in my opinion. penelope still has a secret identity as lady whistledown but lady whistledown is not a society writer, but rather a masked vigilante. One night she saves colin and he falls immediately in love. and simply Must track her down and declare his intention to marry her. i anticipate a lot of him commiserating to pen about his mystery woman while pen internally screams

[decepti-thots]

i think it's really interesting how rung gets more flack in fandom as a character for stuff like the fact Roberts makes an off-colour joke about Whirl through him in the short story (which, yeah, it is a shitty thing to say, but it's clearly an issue of the comic/text itself at that point making such off-colour jokes and not specific to Rung's character, IMO, so I tend to treat that as more of an issue with the comic at that point personally) and not. well. the canonical fact that Rung was involved in signing off on state-ordered and presumably non-consensual lobotomies. i suppose it may be that a lot of people in fandom take the view that 'he would have just used the opportunity to refuse to ever sign off on them, of course!' but tbh, I do not find that enormously convincing given the framing we get! (and if you're someone who is interested in stated author intent, which admittedly i'm not overlmuch, roberts did discuss this in an interview and the intent seemingly was for rung to be willing to sometimes sign them off. so.)

like yeah, the joke about Rung being unconcerned about Whirl banging his head against a wall is unpleasant, in the same way the comic's snide approach to Red Alert in the earlier issues can be, and so on. but the later revelation that pre-war Rung was essentially performing a legitimized form of Shadowplay if he could be convinced there was a medical justification seems uhhhh. more relevant to any discussion of Rung as a character who has done bad things in his role! i wonder if it's because people implicitly feel like being a bad therapist in the sense of 'breaking the law/medical guidelines' is worse than in the sense of 'being legally required to do bad things as a licensed therapist', regardless of the relative morality of those actions in their own right.

[eldritchsnowflake]

miles g. morales x felix hardy moodboard

you ever get over-excited about a selfship and make a moodboard for your f/o and s/i, despite not having made the s/i info page yet or ever mentioning them so nobody will have any idea what the fuck is going on? ... yeah me neither-

anyway, moodboard for miles and felix hardy (basically earth 42's version of black cat)

[nyctarian]

Oh idk if this is anything people on here would be into but parabola magazine is ending so until april 30th you can download digital copies of literally all of their magazines (50 years worth) for free

[solidaritygaming-fanblog]

More fae Jimmy for you!

Jimmy: hey Lizzie watch this.

Lizzie: huh?

Jimmy: *points to Mythical Sausage* EXPLODE NOW.

PFT-

[wingstobetorn]

Casey and S from Cabin Three offer bookmarks and homemade notebooks! @tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

"What? Yooo! These are so cool, thanks a lot, dude!" Species swap! April is pleased!

"... But what's with the whole alien thing? You from some kinda Venom universe or something?"

[cellienmaycry]

she's living her bestlife

[nightfury2001sartdump]

more old art from around 2020-2022 that i don't think i ever posted here. mostly just lower quality chonk stuff and unfinished chonk doodles