#(but i digress)

[leethepiper]

“DON’T YOU GET IT?! COMPATIBILITY TESTING ISNT SOME FUCKING JOKE TO US! It Hollows You Out- Rips Your Mangled Shell Open- And Then Puts Whatever Is Left Of You Back In As If You Could Ever Be The Same.”

Sideswipe panted, he sounded wrecked, like this was something that tore its way out of his voicebox throat instead of being spoken.

“It’s like pouring liquid slag into your engine instead of fuel, and pumping it throughout your body like it’s your damn blood.”

Jazz looks away, quietly muttering something about lead and anthills.

Sideswipe begins to say something else- Hound cuts him off.

“Enough Sideswipe,” not Simon, not Simon anymore, never Simon “they didn’t know and we didn’t tell them. Nothing was meant by it.”

Hound sounded calm (but his hands servos were shaking.)

“Sure, Yeah, just let them Keep Talking About 'Living A Long Life' AS IF WE HAVEN'T ALREADY TOLD THEM WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PILOT!? As If We Haven’t Already Signed Our Death Warrants In Red and Walked To The Guillotine With Our Hands Unbound? As IF WE DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS?”

The room was silent save for Simon’s Sideswipe’s panting.

…

“as if any pilot in this room could live to see another 20 years?”

Prowl flinched.

It wasn't Sideswipe who said it.

"He's right, and it's been driving all of us insane. Having it rubbed in our faces that we're not going to get an after. Pilots have no happily ever after. The closest thing we get is being allowed to die how we want.

What was done to us is irreversible and painful. There are consequences of becoming a pilot. One of them is that we won't live long enough to see the end of this war unless we can carve it out for ourselves."

Jazz spoke softly, but his words weighed more than the judgment of a hundred thousand people.

...

"Fuck it" Hound murmured.

"Blurry vision," because your brain can forget what it's like to have eyes, "disassociation," because the strain sometimes means that your brain needs to step away even if your body doesn't, "memory loss," people can't always handle more input than their bodies give them, mecha are too much, "paralysis," pilots like that weren't accepted even if they were compatible, "altered personality," aggression, mood swings, depression, "brain death," pilot after pilot who went too far into the drift and never came back, "shortened lifespan," most pilots don't live long enough for that to matter, "trauma, PTSD, trouble breathing," nightmares, waking up screaming and unable to draw breath because a mecha doesn't need to breath "part rejection," pilot's bodies being unable to process the difference between mecha and man and losing life and limb(s) over injuries that didn't even touch them, "and more, there's always more."

"Only 0.3% of pilots have ever retired or been retired, 2/3 of them have already chosen to find salvation through the loop of a noose rather than die in bed or end up on shockwave's table."

Hound sat down on one of the chairs in the room.

"There's a reason pilots prefer to die fighting."

...

Sunstreaker stepped onto the soapbox next.

"Sides and I have been pilots for six years. To you, that's nothing. To most pilots? That's a hundred times longer than they expect to live after compatibility testing.

We have more experience than most pilots because most of those who came before us are dead, and most who came after us are also dead."

...

"I did not choose to be a pilot," Breakdown said, "I was conscripted. All the same, I choose to continue, and I choose to fight."

...

I swear to god I am so ready for one of the guys from the Arcturus Mission to lose their temper if one more bot tries to convince them to "think about the future and the life you could enjoy!" And just. Going off like "There IS no future! It's not just about piloting being dangerous, it's that being a pilot is not conducive to LIFE! They've taken out, replaced, and added so many things to us that it is not sustainable! Even if we stopped fighting right now, we would never live to be old! Either or bodies give out from the strain or the mods malfunction and kill us!" I don't know why I felt like sharing this dramatic rant i pictured somebody having. But I thought maybe it'd be enjoyable. I am seriously eating up all the misconceptions the cybertronian's have about the humans. And it just keeps getting worse! Like the humans have already come out and pretty much admitted to being heavily modified. But I can't forgot the scene of Hound admitting to Knockout that he can't read expressions from visors very well either. And maybe that's just how their species is, having different ways of conveying emotions to each other. Except the humans seem pretty well versed in understanding facial expressions, have likely used words specific to describing facial expressions. To the point it might be logical to conclude that humans normally have faces. And yet none of the pilots do. Sorry this started out as me just sharing the dramatic rant I'd imagined, and then I just started sharing more thoughts. Um... Enjoy???

I have to let everyone see this.

I feel like you’re inside my head, this is incredible. Believe me, with irritability being a symptom of overuse that blow up moment is coming. Cause all these guys figured they wouldn’t live very long, they all thought Jazz was dead and now these thousands of year old mechs keep talking about their long lives? It would piss off a totally calm person.

And yeah, I definitely feel like someone would/could be piecing that together for the visors v faces thing. At some point, one of them is just going to erupt on how horrible the compatibility testing is and how much it changed them mentally and physically.

[danibee33]

how I picture price’s body😩

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's weird how in the past 5 or so years the left's understanding of decolonization devolved into some kind of weird Nazi era eugenicist thing about how people's "true places" are something encoded in their DNA and no one in the history of the world should have moved anywhere and anyone decendent from people who moved at some point should be shot.

[shiveringfrogspawn]

i have a (mildly) whovian friend that couldn't think of the word 'companion' the other day and referred to river song as an 'accomplice' instead and i'm still thinking about it...like that's literally what she is...an accomplice to all the doctor's war crimes...but fuck if that's not the cutest substitution i've ever heard

[cyber-corp]

The worldwide Miku trend is a testament to the insane and beautiful diversity within humanity’s culture and also a testament to Hatsune Miku’s versatility within her character design

[jingerpi]

i think the main character that differs transmisogyny from transphobia + misogyny, is the goal.

trans masculine individuals experience what we'll call "corrective misogyny", where they experience a derision of their chosen gender in an attempt to push them back into the class of [cis]woman this is transphobia + misogyny.

People I think confuse this with transmisogyny because it involves transphobia and misogyny, but transmisogyny is not "corrective". The point of transmisogyny is to push trans feminine individuals out of both the class of man and woman, into a gender underclass, a subaltern as some have called it. There is no premise of "rescuing" trans women. trans men are abused in attempt to bring them back into the protected underclass of women, while trans women are abused in an attempt at the opposite, the intent is explicitly to push us out of all protected classes.

[karlydraws]

💕Love & Peace with a Cowboy☮️

[dapper-lil-arts]

I'm not the kind of person that's like "Here let me fix the canon" usually but like holy crap gen 5 implied a lot of messed up shit about our hero Twilight Sparkle lmao

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.

Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.

Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.

Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.

Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.

Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.

[zombiecowboy65]

“Jean passenger princess” WRONG. Do u honestly think Jeremy’s going to take that damn car ever again after he learns Jean can drive that damn bike lmao

[demaparbat-hp]

Progression (and digressions).

The first post of the year belongs to the one, the only, the boy you've had for less than a month but if anything happens to him you'll murder me slowly and painfully: Lu Ten II.

His travels through the Earth Kingdom with Zuko are some of my favorite moments in the Spitfire AU! We get to see their dynamic truly flourish and deepen before they're reunited with the rest of their family.

But then the Gaang is forced to take care of Ten Ten as they move through the Fire Nation.

Spitfire grows a lot during the course of the story—and not just in height! He's the hope for a better future and the kindness needed to go through the present. I love him dearly, and I hope so do you.

[sarcasticamaleont]

Everybody analysing everything that's happening with the main cast (as they should) and here I am loosing my goddam mind over the fuckinig BEARDED MAN.

WHO ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU HERE? WHAT ALLIANCE DO YOU HAVE?

I don't know if I can trust him or not

When he was introduced at the beginning I thought he was just a pretty face but then, THEN he does this:

When Maddie is talking to Vi about what she did in Zaun. He even faked that he was snoring so he would not get caught listening.

So I though, mh, probably a noxian spy to check on Vi and Caitlyn. Not one we should trust. I mean I was unfortunately spoiled that Ambessa was behind the attack at the memorial so when I saw this:

I was like "AHA for sure you are working with them!" Right place, right time, with a shield non the less. (he did seem nice with what little we saw of him but I did not trust him because I thought he was a SPY)

But then,

BUT THEN,

Ambessa does her crazy stunt appointing Cait as a general and HE'S NOT HAPPY.

This is not the face of someone who knew what's going one:

or is happy about it:

and when Cait accepted the role HE LEFT

(forgive the poor quality I'm screenshoting from my pc)

LEFT, I SAY!

Why? Tell me for who do you work for!

He did not leave when Vi left so I guess she was not his priority but the moment Cait ascend to general he dips out.

Also why did they immediately put him on the squad? He literally deank in the street the whole night with Vi when they introduced him to us. What made them go "Ah yes, enforcer materials to go on a super important mission." Like WHY.

[maxz-b]

be overcome with a sad hollowness at the prospect of no f1 for three months. like a winner. part 24/???

[unitedstates0fdakota]

At some point a gal has so many posts labeled “Harry Du Bois coded” saved on her phone that she starts to think she might be the problem

[samdeanspo]

i deserve samdean old man yaoi. what the fuck. i need to see them in heaven sitting on their porch making out lazily in the evening not giving a shit who sees because they're in heaven and they're middle aged and they love each other eternally... ohhh.....

i love the domesticity of them like they know all of each other's habits and preferences so so well as eternity stretches on. they have every contour of the other's skin mapped out. tell dean to close his eyes and find a mole on sam's skin and he will find that fucking mole and sam is all "i didn't even know i had that. stalker." but he's the same with dean's freckles so. truly who is the greater freak.

just the concept of sam and dean being in heaven together forever is sooooo important to me. i'm sure those fuckers would still find problems to chase after in heaven and maybe they'd never have true peace but let me indulge a little why don't you. plus, they're not really themselves if they're not getting themselves into Deep Shit every other week. i do love the thought of them just being ready to settle down (especially sam!!!! he spent years without his dean.)

[stillgotscars]

it’s immortalised on travis’ podcast that he pursued taylor, not the other way around, yet people are trying to push this tired narrative that she’s holding him hostage… talk about textbook misogyny