#I mean I grew watching the bay movies

[lu-dao-writes]

I really wanna make a cybertronian oc…

[aoi1dee]

Alexander (Alex) Morello :D

Ah yes here is my very handsome olnf MC

also...

HIP HIP HOORAYYY 101 FOLLOWERS tysm <3333

okay now here he is...

This is Alex in step 1 !! he is a very shy and fear filled kid. Basically anything can make him overthink and believe bad things are going to happen. He's been like this since he was just a little boy :(

His fears also causes his social anxiety. If someone looks at him the wrong way, he's already walking away as fast as he can with watery eyes because he believes that that person hates him. Because of this, he grew up having a hard time making friends + no one really wanted to be his friend. According to other kids, "he is super weird and too much to handle. I don't want him clinging onto me when he's scared"

No one (not even his own mama) knows why he is afraid of everything he doesn't even know himself. Alexander wishes that he could be able to do fun things like all the other kids and not have his brain tell him all of the things that could go wrong.

Though when he meets Qiu and Tamarack, something flips in him. Though he is still scared of doing anything, he is willing to get over those fears if either one of them wants him to do it. He wants to make his two new (and first) friends happy!

(here is the full body design)

moving onto step 2...

Thanks to his two besties (and crushes) Alex is finally able to do the stuff he always wanted to do! Like go skateboarding by himself or order himself food at a restaurant (even though it takes him a little bit) But sadly that doesn't mean that those thoughts are still there. They are.

Alexander and his Ma were finally able to put a name to why he feels like everything is out to get him.. Anxiety~ So all of those thoughts about "what if this happens" "or what if I do this" are still there but they don't affect him as much as they used to.

Because of this, Alex was able to find some things that he was into. He realized that he really loved films and wanted to make some himself! He has a current obsession with horror movies though. If you asked him how many times he has watched Scream he wouldn't be able to tell you. (because he is embarrassed about how many times he has watched it.) But he has also taken Bass guitar lessons! He carries his bass guitar around everywhere (even if he doesn't need it).

As he grew older though, certain things start to bother him. He is always comparing himself to others. While his two neighbors have perfectly clear skin, his face his covered in acne. The way he walks is weird, the way he talks his weird. Everything about him is weird according to his own mind. He's just never pleased with himself. Even after all of these years, the thoughts about wanting to be normal still torture him. Why does he have to have anxiety? Why does he still have trouble with talking to others?

All of those thoughts fly away as soon as he talks to Qiu and Tam. He still will do anything for them but those feelings when he was younger starting growing into actual teenage crushes. Every single thing that those two will do can make his face turn red. Both of them are just so pretty!

here is the full body drawing of alex...

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ah yes.. if you compared Alex when he is 18 to Alex when he was 10 there was an absolute clear difference between them.

As Alex grew even older and went through those high school years, he was finally diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder and is taking meds for it!! Now that his anxiety is finally at bay he started to realize a couple of things.. Why should he care about what other people think? Why does he have to dress for other people? Why was he afraid to be himself?

Though it took a little bit, Alex started to actually find himself. He already knew that he wanted to go to school for film and that he liked to play bass. But! He finally got the strength to join a band as their lead singer and bass guitarist! Even though this band is only planning on staying in Golden Grove, Alex is super proud of himself that he is doing this anyways.

Because of Alex slowly growing to be more confident about himself, it started to be seen by other people too. Other people started to see how beautiful Alex really is and he started to see it to!

And something extra funny, his personality ended up being a copycat of his Ma's. After being total best friends with his Ma his entire life, he ended up becoming exactly like his Mama with the way he stands, the way he talks, just anything is exactly like his Ma. (Though he is still a little shy)

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That's my MC!! If you made it this far tysm!! And I'm so sorry if it was difficult to read I was spilling all of this from my head to this post lol.

Byebye!!!

[yelenasdiary]

Hey I saw you wanted headcanons, if this isn't too much, how about headcanons on what natasha would be like as a grandmother to yn (her daughter) and her wife wanda. With yn who carried and they had a daughter :D (super bonus only if you want to if you did a version where yn was pregnant with the twins)

Please and thank you!! I bet she'd be an amazing and protective grandmother!!

This is actually really cute, like I have never thought of something like this! I hope you enjoy!!

Grandmother! Natasha Headcannons

She cried tears of joy when you told her that you were pregnant. She says it holds a place in her top ten best days of her life.

She brought the twins gender neutral clothing before they were born. She always brought them little gifts during your pregnancy.

~She was so excited to meet her grand-babies, you loved seeing her so happy, as did Wanda.

She was the first person you told about your pregnancy besides Wanda.

She has a framed copy of the twins first ultrasound hanging up in her bedroom.

She brought a bigger house, going from a two bedroom home to a three bedroom just so she could have the twins over for sleep overs and be able to hold holidays with more space.

Besides Wanda ofc, she was the first to meet the boys. Again, she cried tears of joy.

She has always been a HUGE help with the boys, always willing to baby sit if you need.

She adores her grand-sons more than anything, she always asks if she can tag along to their school events (not that she needs to ask but she does anyway).

She took a cooking course in secret so she could be that grandma that had the best baked goods in town (she didn't but the boys never told her that lmao)

She holds the record for making the best peanut butter sandwiches, always so highly requested whenever the boys were at their grandma's for the night/day.

She's HELLA protective of the twins. She keeps herself at bay and never wants to overstep anything but you and Wanda know that Nat is always ready to jump for them if needed.

She loves having the twins over for the weekend, playing video games (even though she has no idea what she's doing), letting them do all kinds of arts and crafts, watching movies with them & more.

She loves telling them stories of how you were as a child, reminding them how they remind her of you so much.

Favouritism doesn't exist. The boys know that neither of them are her favourite because she loves them equally and it shows.

She always gives them the best gifts, I mean, she is nanny nat after all!

As the twins got older, their bond with Nat only grew stronger.

Then came baby number 3, a little girl who stole Nat's heart when she thought the boys had already done that.

Like the twins, Nat was very protective of her little grand-daughter.

Your daughter's first ultrasound hangs proudly next to the twins one in Nat's bedroom.

She would take your daughter out for some girl time where they did whatever your daughter wanted, this mainly included going to a bakery and having a cheeky slice of cake for lunch.

Your daughter boosts that Nanny Natty bakes the best cookies in town, the twins still disagree.

There is always some prank war going on between the kids and Nat.

She always carries a phot of her three grandkids on her.

She has tattoos that represent the kids.

She ALWAYS boosts about how amazing her grandkids are, everybody around her knows just how proud she is of them and how much she loves them!

[simpingforbots]

Hello! I'm kinda new here in your blog and I saw those "what if a human ended on Cybertron" and I just love those stories they're so good

No need to do it now cuz idk if you are taking requests but could you make More of them? A part 6 with souls prime and amalgamous prime

hello there! thanks for letting me know that you like my stories and i will try my best as i am sort of new to Transformers. i got in to transformers thanks to Bay movies, Transformers prime, transformers animated and now Transformers One. So please forgive me if i might be incorrect. i will do my best.

What if human ended up in Transformers one.

part 6 (requests)

Solus Prime

(reade in this situation are female)

Being the first fembot of Cybertron is nothing easy, especialy when you have this much weight on your shoulders. Even if she found joy in creating things, the constant need for weapons was becoming exhausting. thankfully Megatronus were there to comfort her, even if they had some fights here and there, it was something good. So when something small and week showed up on surface of Cybertron, being chased by Quintessons, the injustice towards such pathetic creature fired Solus right up and they took care of those pathetic, ugly, disgusting bug creatures. They smashed them all with their hammer, letting their fiery side out along with all the frustration, all while YOU scrambled for safety to let those huge creatures duke it out. Though you did not stayed hidden for long as you wanted. A servo reached in to the hiding spot you were in, apparently not small enough for them to reach in at all, easily puling them out. After expecting this small creature they were shocked to see that it was as same frame as her, meaning she must be not the only fembot, even if in weird fleshy body. A small creature with no clear way of defending them self against harsh environment of Cybertron. So she takes you with to Iacon to keep you safe from anything dangerous and started working on creating something to help communicate. it is a bit hard as your little chirps were hard to decipherer, but signs were easy to learn. And let's just say you were also subjected to her little experiments as now SHE had a whole new reason to create.

Amalgamous Prime

Being the most unserious of all thirteen, Amalgamous felt a bit out of place time to time. he just wanted others to be a bit more... unserious all the time, this constant monogamy of data pads, meetings and fighting was surreally exhaustion for every one. He did felt a bit jealouse a bit of Solus and Megatronus since they started seeing each other, even if it was "privet secret" between 13 primes, he still wanted something else. He would venture to surface time to time, just exploring away, watching strange deer creatures "graze". Or change in to something else and joing his "subject" and wonder around Iacon. he found you in one of dark markets that he knew was illegal, yet still something about you caught his single optic. Purchasing you along with some book about "hoomans" he returned to the palace, knowing that now he had something to break the rutine. At first it was hard as you most of time hid away, to scared, but overtime you grew used to this strange bot, snickering quietly at his "tricks". after some time you were comfortable enough to laugh along side him at his little pranks.

Zeta Prime

So much responsibly for one bot - having matrix of leadership, being leader of 13 Primes, taking care of entire civilization and defending them from quinteson will be a tool to any one, no mater if they were born to do this. at first Zeta refused to believe that HE - the matrix bearer - was tiered, but in the end no one can escape the truth. It did not helped that a suden raid on Quintessons ship brought a small flesh being in to his existence. so much needed to be done so taking care of something so small and fragile was really not in his plans. But he was sort of stuck with you and just kept you in a cage, for your own safety of course, he does not want any bot to step on you by excident. If you behaved and did not flipped him off or yell something in strange language - you would be reworded by being let out of the cage and let to wonder his table while he was buissy. He would drift away from data pads just to play with you, rolling pen between him and you, chuckling seeing how hard you had to push just to roll it towards him, or simply watch you doodle inside one of the pads he would push towards you, giving the smallest pen he could find to doodle in, finding that it was one of a few ways you can communicate with him through doodles. and apparently he has a new name - Crown, about which he did not complain about.

part1 part2 part3 part4 part5

[steviebbboi]

It's That Steve - Espresso

Writing this for @bigtreefest's Summer Lovin’ 300 Follower Celebration. Congratulations on 300! Thanks for putting this together :)

This follows the prompt/trope: friends to lovers + “you know, that's my favorite” + long drive together + summer inspired song

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader (no y/n)

Words: 1,454 w/c

Disclaimer(s): 18+ fic, widely fluff and sweet moments btw/n you and Steve, adoration and sweetness, mild general descriptions of the reader's features, implied and mild depictions of smut, friends to lovers, equal partnership, subtledom!Steve, vacation time, Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter is featured in the fic - I do not own!

Now he's thinkin' 'bout me every night, oh

Is it that sweet? I guess so

Say you can't sleep, baby, I know

That's that me, espresso

Gusts of wind gently grazed the green silk scarf around your face, strands of your hair still peeking out and being rustled by the breeze. You recognized the song playing on the radio and hummed in appreciation. The song may have been playing everywhere, but when it comes on, you can’t seem to skip it. Listening to it allows the sunrays and laziness of summer to seep into the music. 

You looked away from the road briefly to reach over and increase the volume. Gently singing with the chorus, “Say you can't sleep, baby, I know – That's that me, espresso.” Humming the rest of the verse, Steve couldn’t help but extend a soft smile. He always appreciated your singing and your voice was a source of ease for him to bask in. 

Driving your red convertible on a long ride to Cape Cod, Steve was finally using his PTO. You would think Avenging would allow for unlimited time off but according to Steve, he only desires to take time off if he really needed to. After conversations about visiting the Cape (you may or may have not taken screenshots of the bay and saved them on his phone for him to find later), you accomplished convincing Steve of how necessary it is for you two to spend more time together away from the hustle and bustle of NYC.

Tuning into the song as you continued humming along, Steve’s curiosity took a hold when listening to one particular lyric. 

“What does she mean by ‘me, espresso’? Is that colloquial nowadays?” Steve innocently wondered out loud. 

The man carried super soldier strength and can strategize a whole army to coordinate together, to follow his leadership – but bless him, his innocence when being curious about the modernization of flirting was a beautiful thing to witness.

You let out a giggle and explained, “Steve, it’s an expression of her power as a woman layered within the song.” At Steve’s persistent look of confusion, your smile only grew bigger as you continued, “She’s conveying her effect on men – she’s always on their minds or they’d be up all night addicted to her. Like how you would be if you drank espresso, y’know, a strong caffeinated, addictive, beverage.” You wiggled your eyebrows at him to drill the suggestiveness of the lyric home even more. 

Steve’s face turned into comprehension until he frowned and looked at the cup of coffee securely placed in the car, “Does that mean that you’re my, espresso?” 

At that comment, you heartily laugh and look over at him with adoration, “Yes, Steve. I am your espresso.” Saying that with a straight face was the hardest thing you had to do the entire drive. 

Steve took in your teasing tone and softly smiled while reaching over to grab your hand to place on his lap. It was no secret that the adoration was mutual, if not more, in your relationship with Steve. Your start as friends only increased the intimacy between you when your relationship turned romantic. 

Widely attributed to the dating culture back in his day, but you would like to think it's also because of his own love for you, Steve is the kind of partner to pull out your chair for you everytime you sit at a restaurant to eat. He’s the kind of partner to pull you in closer when watching a sad movie on the couch, to not judge you for your feelings but to rub your back until you feel safe. 

Despite his status as an Avenger, you have never felt less than, nor have you ever felt unworthy, in your relationship with Steve. He took time to always extend an appreciation for you - if you cooked dinner for the two of you after he returned from a long day, the softest of smiles that was only reserved for you (like the one that he is giving you right now). He was an affirmative partner that helped you feel love, never putting you on a pedestal - and neither did you. 

The thought floated in your head as you glanced over at him a few times. Adorning a soft white tee and brown linen pants with a pair of worn converse - a smile graced your face at how casual Captain America looks right now, compared to the formidable stealth suit that most people envision him wearing most of the time. Steve was looking out onto the road, the sunshine lighting his face just right, his blonde hair tousled back by the wind, and his hand now caressing yours in his lap like it was second nature to do so. 

You adored him.

Glancing over your boyfriend again only resulted in him catching your gaze with another soft smile on his face. Although you were the one caught staring, Steve was content in letting this moment sit in silence, the music from the radio still playing softly in the background. 

Noticing this, you bit your lip nervously while glancing at him as he slowly gazed at you from the passenger seat. Steve’s eyes followed the silk green scarf holding your brown locks, down to the white dress that you were wearing that followed the curves of your body, and although partially hidden, your favorite summer heels that accentuated your body just right. His eyes landed on your lips, the way that your teeth were tugging at your bottom lip only reminded him of his own doing the same things last night. At the thought, his eyes darkened a bit making you release your lip. 

Clearing his throat, his eyes gravitate back to your scarf. He simply said, “You know, that one’s my favorite.” 

His comment rested casually in the space until you looked at him again with your own mild curiosity. “Which? The scarf?” You mindfully try to tuck in wisps of hair escaping said scarf back behind your ears unsuccessfully. 

Steve let out a gentle hmm and said, “You look beautiful in green, sweetheart.” He pulled the hand that he was holding to his soft lips and grazed the back of your hand with a lingering kiss. 

Your heart did the thing again where it skips a beat when he compliments you. You aren’t used to partners being so emotionally expressive and deep when extending their appreciation to you. Steve had no issues communicating with you about anything, and you both knew that when Steve spoke, it's always with intention. And right now, although his compliment was sent and received with a wholesome air, you were able to hear the passion underneath that said more about how much he admired you. 

Blushing a bit, especially when Steve was still making eye contact with you and continuing to graze his lips on your skin, you responded with a quiet thank you, baby. It was always like this with Steve. Somehow, his innocuous words and calm observations lead to an intimate, sensuality between the two of you. 

“How much longer till we reach the apartment?” Steve broke the atmosphere with his question. Steve was still adopting a fair innocent tone, although the way that he was still pressing soft kisses on your hand says otherwise.

Gulping a bit, still feeling flushed, you look over at the GPS, “It’s looking like we will get there in about 15 minutes.”

He smiled while still holding your gaze, “Good. I can’t wait to ravish you when we get there.” Still holding that ‘golden boy’, respectful tone, though, his eyes were still darkened from earlier, and were vocalizing his utter need for you. 

Flashbacks to the previous night where you were gasping underneath Steve’s sculpted body, his hands gripping yours above your head in the same softness that he was holding it now. Yet, his passionate possessiveness was shown in his tight grip. The heat of his skin being pressed against yours felt overwhelming but was so welcomed. Though, his whispered words held a revered promise in your ear of the same devotion that he was telling you now. The intimacy was almost too much to take in as tears left your eyes and soft moans were let out while Steve continued to thrust into you. His own groans reached your ears in genuine satisfaction. 

As you finally settled into the rented apartment, Steve proceeded to do exactly what he said he would. The lyrics of the song still echoing in the background of your mind.

Now he's thinkin' 'bout me every night, oh

Is it that sweet? I guess so

Say you can't sleep, baby, I know

That's that me, espresso

Thank you so much for reading! This is my first submission for a collective like this - thanks again to @bigtreefest for allowing us to celebrate with you!

Likes or reblogs/comments are heartily appreciated!

Read my other submission for Essie’s Summer Lovin’ Celebration here

[bones4thecats]

Here are mine from number one to number eight are below the cut:

I hold 2012 TMNT very close to my heart, since I grew up with it. And, I just love this Shredder so much. Kevin Michael Richardson did so well as him. But, by far, my favorite moment was when he was interviewing Don Vizioso (I had to Google him. I hated him so much.) and just sliced the candles without it being seen by the naked eye. Just, so badass. Can't even rank out of 10, he's beyond a 10/10.

Much like with 2012! Shredder, I hold this film (Batman vs. the TMNT) very close to my heart. It just brings a smile to my face every time I see a clip appear on my Youtube or when I watch it. To me, this is a very excellent portrayal of Shredder, his evil and pride just shining perfectly in his actions. By the way... his voice? OMG YES. He's like a 20/10. Hot mf.

I was introduced to 1987 Shredder through 2012, and when I saw how goofy he was, I just had to see some of the classic show's episodes. And when I tell you I fell in love with this cheese grater, I mean it. He is just so funny yet dangerous at the same time, and I love it. Though, I do love 80s cartoons despite being born after those years, so I guess it makes sense. Again, 20/10. Loveable goofball.

Okay, I know a lot of people do not like ROTTMNT! Shredder because he's kind of... minor when it comes to the show? I guess? I don't know. I love his design and how feral he was when brought in the series. The way he towers over the turtles and fought like a true monster, which, in my opinion, matches with Shredder's overall character base. I do wish he had more of a role in the show, but, he did his part and he did it in style. Solid 9/10.

Again, I know a lot of people don't really like 2003! Shredder. And, I understand that. His whole reveal as a Krang was a horrible move and I despise that so much. But, before that whole 'Krang-Shredder' thing, to me, he was a pretty good version of Shredder. I love his whole 'emo' theme, it just makes me go: "Oh! Bad past, love it. Slay, evil king!" Anyways, ignore my weirdness there. To me he is a 9/10 before reveal, and 3/10 after reveal.

This may come as a shock to many, but I was never a huge fan of the 90s TMNT movies, I don't know why, they just never hooked me in like the previous shows have. But, Shredder is a decent villain in these films. He comes in with his evilness and he does his job well. To me, he's a decent 7/10. Not horrible, not fantastic.

I do enjoy the Bayverse movies from time to time, and I do enjoy Bay's iterations of the Turtles and other characters to a degree, but, I am not a huge fan of his Shredder. To me, his design is so... overdone. I like the simpler designs of the other Shredders, so seeing this one just makes me go: "WTF." He looks more like a Transformers x Human character than a human in armor. He's a 4/10. His evilness is pretty good, but the rest of his character is not that good.

My final Shredder is the comic version. Now, I never really read the comics, so that may play a part into this. I do like his design, simple, yet good. Shredder's character is pretty well written, by what I've seen. But, he died really early, so we never really got a big 'evolution' on him there. For his character portrayal, appearance, lack of appearances in the comic, and my minor amount of reading on the comics, 4/10.

[svnnygraves]

[ … ] ❀ you’re not from around here , are you? i figured because you totally just missed { SUNNY GRAVES } walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who { SHE } is ? they kind of look like { OLIVIA COOKE } and i could be wrong but i think that they might be { 29 } years old right now. they’ve been living in palmview for the last { TWENTY YEARS }. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told them this before but they kind of remind me of { JANIS IAN } from { MEAN GIRLS }. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch them in action working at { MARINA MARKET } as a { CASHIER }. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call them the { THE MISCREANT } of palmview! they took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, they must have heard me yapping. they’re coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it they can pretty { CONNIVING } at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to them they seemed pretty { WITTY } to me. we see each other all the time since they live in that { ONE BEDROOM } apartment beside me over in { MANGO BAY }. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you!

☾ playlist. ☾ pinterest. ☾ muse. ☾ connections.

━━ ⟢ i. the basics

full name: sunny louise graves birthday: 06/12/1995 big three: gemini sun, sagittarius moon, scorpio rising  height: 5'5"  mbti: infj sexual orientation: bisexual  hometown: point pleasant, west virginia  

━━ ⟢ i. personality tidbits 

has held a grudge for anyone who's ever done or said anything bad to her 

probably regularly comissions etsy witches for hexes 

has that anxious avoidant attachment style that makes her go swerve when she feels someone pulling away™️

she's a chronic ghoster 😔

she's pretty guarded but lowkey she's a hopeless romantic, although i don't thinks she'd even know what to do with a relationship that was healthy. she's like a dog chasing a car tbh

 she can be very all or nothing in regards to that so like you may get a text from her once every other week or she’ll bomb you with them all at once in a span of five minutes

she thinks she's a great friend, but she's intense so she's not for everyone

struggles with anger issues, has outbursts that usually happen at the worst possible time 

her hometown is where mothman was famously cited, and yeah she makes that a personality trait

she practices witchcraft and has an altar to the deities she worships

she loves to believe in the unbelievable, ghosts, aliens, anything paranormal, she's all over that

she's unconciously very self motivated, but lowkey thinks she does things for other people's benefits

she tends to have a criminal mindset and lacks boundaries stemming from her own upbringing

she doesn't really see anything wrong with crime as long as it in her eyes is justified

actively is always scheming her revenge, never get too comfortable she's coming even if it's years in the process :/

playlists are her love language!!!!1

finds comfort in meditation instead of going fucking insane, sometimes both

always falls for emotionally unavailable people, a lot of times her bosses or people not available 😭

very into metaphysics like tarot, astrology, etc

loves horror movies and probably watches at least one a day (probably while she’s eating dinner ngl)

━━ ⟢ i. go deeper

tw: alcohol, drug use, abuse, suicide

m o m m y i s s u e s 🥳

sunny grew up in a tumultuous household with her parents always fighting and money was always tight

 it wasn’t until she was 9 that she moved to palmview where she was hopeful things would improve since her father landed a better job, but things quickly deteriorated

as she got older her mom developed bad habits with drugs, and her father coped with alcohol 

 as a byproduct she was kind of abandoned emotionally, and didn’t really have anyone to turn to

her mom was self medicating a larger problem under the surface, and sunny had the misfortune of walking in on her mom trying on several occasions to take her own life

as a result she couldn’t focus in school or, would hyper focus on the wrong things and daydream instead of listening in her classes

got the rep of not only the new kid, but the weird new kid 

and as things usually happen, one day when her guard was down because her mom appeared to be doing better, so she decided to go hang out at a friend’s house after school one day. 

when she returned home later than normal, she walked around her house looking for her mom. to her disbelief, she found her mom hanging from the shower curtain rod, and was in denial that her mom was really gone since she’d always caught it in time before. 

hours later her father found sunny holding her mom up talking to her limp body about how she made a friend at school finally. 

when the emts arrived on scene trying to load her mom onto the stretcher, sunny wouldn’t allow them to take her mom away from her until her dad had to physically pick her up and carry her away 

she blamed herself for not being there for her mom sooner

she hasn’t ever really dealt with her mother’s death, i think in a way she tried to acquaint herself closely with death instead. she would buy ouija boards trying to contact her mother from the other side. hire psychic mediums, go to palm readers, anything for a sign from her mom. i think her anger really manifested more after her mom's passing, and caused her to stop caring as much about the consequences of the law because she felt like she had nothing more to lose.

━━ ⟢ i. connections 

 literally anything and everything

people she’s once passed on the street and projected romantic fantasies on, friends, friends of a friend, cousins, exes, ex hookups, ex situationships, enemies, neighbors, regulars at the market she works at, old co-workers, old classmates, old classmates that used to bully her, someone she's stolen from, people from places she's vandalized, etc etc gimme gimme gimme 

[matchbet-allofthetime]

As a long-time (as in I've literally been in love with it/it's been my special interest since I was born and I, as like a four year old, designed a tattoo using the hello kitty/transformers happy meal punchouts that my mom still has) fan of transformers (in ALL its many forms, and I mean all of them) y'all are shitting on rotb so much

Like idgaf that y'all think wheeljack was useless or what the fuck ever

So fucking was cheetor. Bro was there to make mirage scream like a little girl and make mirage look like a bottom. That's it. But y'all aren't complaining about him

Also fuckin'-

I LITERALLY JUST CAME HOME FROM THE THEATER and I cried like 7 different times

Bee died and I cried so hard I was shaking ( the person I watched the film with literally comforted me with a hand on my arm because I was so upset bc it shocked tf outta me bc I didn't expect it and bee has been my favourite since I was like,,, 2 years old. I grew up in literally every continuity, be it comics, films, og shit, etc)

Bee came back and I cried

Mirage died and I cried

He came back and I cried

Optimus existed and my heart shattered because he's such a tired man

BEE IS EVEN SMALLER COMPARED TO OP THAN BEFORE

Wheeljack's glasses n suspenders and my love for vw buses. That is all

"you were inside me" - mirage, 2023, gayest boy ever. Love that for him, him and jazz are the perfect friends, I just know it ❤️

Anyways, long story short, like every other bay-produced tf film (and the same thing y'all did with earthspark at first too) y'all are shitting on it for dumbass reasons and not simply enjoying it for what it is

Who gives a fuck if it doesn't look the same as you want? Produce a movie yourself jackass

Just enjoy shenanigans and a fantastic as FUCK soundtrack and optimus primal bowing his head in respect to op and op being tired and bro with his fuckin twizzler every time and the film being beautiful and bee having thick thighs and big robo titties and also bee being so sure in his love for humans because of FUCKING CHARLIE BEING THE SWEETEST FRIEND TO HIM BC THIS MOVIE NODDED TO BUMBLEBEE 2018 SO MUCH IT MADE MY HEART ACHE

Anyways this film was fucking perfection and I wish all of you criticizing it better taste and a life where you're actually willing to be happy and enjoy media for being different than the media you seem to claim as the "best in the franchise"

This movie was fucking phenomenal and I love everyone in it

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Cross-Checked - Chapter 3

Andy Barber x OFC Leighton "Leia" Andrews

Summary:

Andy Barber is having the best year of his life. His game is on point. It’s gets to play with his best friend and his fiancé just... dumped him?!. 

Reeling from a sudden change in status, Andy decides it’s time to just focus on hockey. Until his best friend's sister comes out with news that rock the entire organizations world., 

Andy has always carried a torch for the untouchable Leighton but in her hour of need, is now the time to shoot and score or risk getting cross - checked again? 

Warnings: Cheating (but not by the MCs); slow burn; friends to lovers eventually; SMUT!; pregnancy; jealousy; handsome goalies, evil exes...

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Chapter 3 – Luke’s Gonna Kill Me - Leighton 

**Six weeks later** 

The season was off to a great start. Andy and Luke had an epic start to the season in light of everything that happened with Craig. Speaking of Craig, he ended up getting traded to Tampa Bay which made Andy extremely happy. From what I heard from some of the WAGs, Fiona refused to move to Florida with him.  So much for true love.  Last I heard, she took a job in New York.  

Good riddance.  

Andy and I had gotten into a good routine once I finished moving in and so far, I love living with my best friend.  As social media director, I got to travel with the team, so I saw Andy and my brother all the time.  It made dealing with the heart ache that much easier. Bret had left an email letting me know where the stuff I didn’t take with me was and that was about it. No groveling, no asking for me to reconsider. Three years together and that was it. I wasn’t sure if I felt relieved, heartbroken or depressed. Yes, when it happened, I cried on Andy’s shoulder but I think it was the shock of Bret asking me to be his little housewife. On well, life moves on. 

The Bruins were three weeks into the season, and I was packing up for a 10-game road trip when I heard the front door slam. Heavy footsteps hit the stairs and my favorite pair of blue eyes were in my doorway. “Hey princess!” 

Yes, I am well aware mat my parents are big Star Wars fans and named their kids Luke and Leia. After I grew up a bit and Luke and Andy had watched said movies, Andy took to calling me "Princess" no matter how much I objected to the name stuck and here we are. 

“Hey Chewy!” If I had to get an awful Star Wars nickname, then so did he 

Andy threw himself onto my bed. “Ready for the road trip?” 

I sighed as I packed the last packing cube into my suitcase. Yes, I was one of those that used packing cubes. I liked to be organized and plan everything out. Sue me. “Almost,” I replied. “Just got to get my carry-on tote.” 

Andy looked over my bags. “How much shit does one girl need?” He lifted out a cube and I yanked it back. 

“Don’t judge me! Not all of us were born devilish good looking in just a button down and jeans. I need to have options.” I put the cube back into its place as I looked over my packing list. 

“Princess, you are just living up to the title now,” Andy said with a laugh. 

I blushed. “One of these days you’ll need a sewing kit and can’t find one and you’ll be crawling to me for help.” I grabbed a pillow and smacked him with. “And If you continue to be mean to me then no chicken parm for you.” 

  Andy perked up. “Chicken parm?” I knew I had him with his favorite meal   

“Yep with home made garlic bread.” 

Andy flopped down with a moan. “What did I do to deserve you?” I giggled as I made check marks on my list. “Like you clean and cook and all I have to do is my own bathroom and laundry and give money for groceries.” 

“It’s Iike having a girlfriend without all the messiness,” I dead panned. I’m not sure why I said it but it pulled at my heart all the shit that Andy had to go through with the spawn of Satan. It also cut me to know that Andy would never see me as anything other than his best friend. I think that stung more. 

“Hey, its not like that, Princess,” Andy started. “You know that I cherish you more than anyone in the world.” He took my hand and kissed my knuckles. “I didn’t mean with anything my comment. I'm saying that living with my best friend has been the greatest time of my life.” 

Goddammit. Why does he have to say shit like that? I give him a soft smile. “Its been the best time for me too, Chewy.” 

Andy bounced out of bed. “Let’s go eat so we head out to the plane.” He placed himself in front of  me and I climbed on his back so he could carry me down stairs. 

As Andy takes out my bag from the trunk, a body slams into me from behind. “Oof!” 

“Hey girl!” I smile at the voice of Bruins trainer and best friend Stella Williams   

“Hey Stel.” I turned as I grabbed my bag. “I’m all set to be stuck on an overnight flight with my best friend and 30 men who have no sense of privacy.”  I gave a big smile to Andy, who rolled his eyes.  

“Yeah, yeah. If I wasn’t aboard, who will protect you from your brother?” My mouth went to argue but he was right.  Dammit. “That’s what i thought.”  

“You know, I hate you sometimes.” I stick my tongue out at him.   

“No, you don’t.” He flashes that fucking smirk that could make a nun swoon.  

I really don’t but I won’t admit it.  I headed to the plane with my head held high, ignoring the laughter coming from Stella and Andy behind me.  

“Hey little sister!” Luke came over and lifted me into a hug. “How are you, Cubby?” 

While Andy called me Princess, Luke called me Cubby as in his baby cub that he took care of.  Made sense since Lukas Andrews was not a small man. Standing 6 foot 1 and easily 230 pounds of solid muscle, Luke was one of the best enforcers for the Bruins. He protected his players, and he learned that by protecting me.  

“Hey Flyboy.” Oh yeah, if Andy and I had Star Wars nick name, then Luke would have one too. Yes, I know, that’s what Leia called Han but Luke had no good nicknames.  We’ve done the research. One weekend, six movies and Andy forever calling himself “General Solo.”  The man has a problem sometimes. “I’m doing good, attempting to control myself from hurting your captain.”  

“What did Andy do now?”  Luke smiled, looking over my shoulder at his best friend. I harrumphed at his attitude and shoved my suitcase in his gut, bending him over with an oof. “What?” 

“Gang up on me and pay the consequences, Flyboy. Just remember who makes you look good on social media so the ladies think they have a chance.” I flash him my “sugary sweet and so innocent smile that you should fear” smile. His smile falls and he swallows.  

“You are scary sometimes, you know that?” 

“I do, and yet, you still gave me your password.”  I flounced away, taking the stairs up the plane to get to my seat.  The plane is divided into three sections.  Coaches and trainers are usually up front, followed by support staff and then the players. Stella and I are the bridge between support and trainers and sit together on the plane.  As I was getting my headphones and book ready for the flight to California, I stopped and said hello to all the players as they walked by. Most just nod or wave, Andy moved to ruffle my head, which I dodged and smacked his hand as he laughed.  I got myself settled, waiting for Stella. 

“Hey Leia,” another voice sounds. I snap my head over to see one of our goalies, Jeremy, stop at my aisle.  

(Meet Jeremy)

“Hi, Jeremy.” I really don’t know what to say.  Jeremy stopping to say hello to me is new, not unwelcome but new.  He is one of the best goalies in the business and well, fuck it, he’s really cute. “Ready for the road trip?” I ask because I have nothing else.  

“Ready! Always wanted to go to Disneyland,” he said with a wink.  

My dead heart beats just a bit faster.  Its been two months since Bret left and I haven’t even thought of another man, besides Andy.  I forgot what it felt like to be flirted with. “That would be cool if we had the time.” I saw Stella board.  “Oops, here comes trouble!” I announce as Stella approaches.  

“I’ll let you get settled.” Jeremy smiles.  “Maybe we can have a drink sometime. See ya Leia, Stella.” He moved on to his seat and I watched as he walked away.  I caught Andy’s face looking at me and for a moment, he looked angry but then he smiled at me, and I knew it was ok.  

“Why was Jeremy Swayman talking with you,” Stella asked. She loved a good romance story.  

I shrugged. “No clue.”  

Thirty minutes later we were in the air and the team manager was going over the schedule for the next ten days.  A ten-day roadie is brutal in the best of times but one with a huge time difference was the worst. The captain announced we were at altitude and shut off the lights in the cabin.  I needed to try and stay awake so I didn’t get jet-lagged and would be able to snap our arrival in San Jose. Suddenly, my stomach twisted.  “Stel, move please?” 

“We haven’t even had anything to drink yet,” she grumbled slowly.  

“Stella, move!” I whisper yelled.  She moved and I raced up the aisle. I made it into the bathroom and heaved everything we had for dinner. I sank to the floor as I tried to breathe through the pain in my stomach and throat. After a few minutes, I was able to get up and wash my face and mouth as best I could.  

“What the hell was that, Leia?” Stella looked me over.  “Girl, you are pale and clammy.”  

“I have no fucking clue, Stel.  My stomach just hurt all of sudden.”  Great, that was the last thing i needed. I didn’t want to be sick while we were in California.  Early November in California still meant great weather and I wanted to take advantage since fall has already made an appearance in Boston. “I hate being sick on the road.” I threw back my head against the head rest.  

“Maybe it's just a one off, Leia.  It happens.  Let’s just wait and see in San Jose.”  

The rest of the flight was fine and traveling to LA meant that it was only three hours from when we took off according to the body clocks.  The guys were headed to the hotel bar, but Stella and I stayed in, reviewing the photos that i took as we left the plane.  

“These are so good, Leia.  Everyone is looking good.  Especially Swayman, Barber and your brother.”  She gives me a smirk while I gag.  

“Gross Stella.  My brother is not hot.” I make a disgusted face as I look at him.  His cocky smile came because I said I would send the photo to Miranda. I shuddered and looked at the photos of Andy.  The guys are required to be dressed in business casual at minimum.  Most are in slacks and a button down, but Andy is never in less than a three piece.  It's his signature fit and let me tell you, I and the rest of the female population, appreciate it. Today’s was a three piece blue pinstripe. Many blessings to his tailor because that suit fits like a glove.  

“You can stop drooling over Barber and tell me what is going on with Swayman.” Stella takes a drink of the wine we brought with us.  

I feel my cheeks burn a little. “I don’t know.  I know the guys know I’m single now because my brother had a big mouth but that thing with Jeremy is new.”  Very new.  As in, what the fuck is going on.  Jeremy is handsome, I would be blind to deny that but I’m just not ready to date. “It's nice though, to be flirted with.” 

“Andy flirts with you all the time,” Stella points out.  

“He does not.  He’s nice because he’s my best friend, my brother’s best friend. It's been that way for years.” Disappointment washes over me.  “Yeah, right would Andy Barber have a thing for me. I mean, let’s check Stella.  I clean for him, he makes me breakfast.  I make dinner, he does dishes.  We are in a mutually beneficial relationship, and not a romantic one.”  

Stella rolls her eyes.  “You are either blind or naive, Andrews. The man is into you.”  

I lay back on the bed with a sigh.  “I wish.  Especially when he is walking around in just a shirt and gray sweatpants. Or in the mornings when he is climbing out of the pool after his swim.”  

“Tell me,” Stella swoons.  “Tell me he had more than six abs.”  

“I will not.  He has six and they are spec-tac-ular.” I went to sit up and that twist happens again, and I run to the bathroom.  Stella follows to hold my hair back as I have my exorcist moment.  Finally, it stops, and I sit back against that bathroom wall.  

Stella gets a washcloth and wets it.  She crouches down and presses it against my forehead, and I moan at how good it feels. “I don’t mean to upset you but is there something you want to tell me?” I look up at my best friend’s eyes. “I mean, could you be pregnant?” 

I laughed a little.  “Stella, be real.  I haven’t had sex since...” and I stop. I count back and realize that I didn’t have a cycle and I’m late for this month. “Oh, shit.”  

I think Stella can see the panic on my face. “Ok, relax. I’m going to the corner market, and I’ll be right back.  It's gonna be ok. Can I leave you here and promise you won’t do anything drastic?”  I nod because I really can’t say anything. She leaves and I’m alone.  

Why the fuck didn’t I notice before? I mean, I guess the stress of the break up and the move took its toll.  Add on that and work and of course I wouldn’t have notice.  Bret was hyper aware when it was time because he liked to schedule his work trips around it.  He didn’t want to be around for the inevitable break downs and cravings of having your period.  God, he was such a jerk.  Thinking of him made me think of when this possibly could have happened. And it hits me. It had been around Labor Day, and we were fooling around before his work trip. I was that 0.03% of woman who have her contraception fail.  

Stella walks back a moment later and hands me a test.  I stare at it like it's a snake ready to strike my hand and I look up at Stella.  “The faster you do this the faster you can either panic or party.  It's up to you.”  

She’s right and I hate it.  I pee on the stick and set it on its wrapping on the counter.  I walk out and chug about half a gallon of water, in fear, I think. “What am I going to do?” 

“Not yet,” she says. We sit there in silence as we wait for the longest three minutes of my life.  I’m not sure if I want it to be positive.  Yes, I’ve always wanted kids.  But I thought I would be married and happy. I’m happy but I live with my brother’s best friend and what if he doesn't want kids in his home?  What if he asks me to leave? I know my brother would take me in but who really wants to live with their brother?  Miranda just moved in. Stella’s phone beeps and I look at her. “Ready?” 

“No.” She looks at me with her threatening face, which is terrifying by the way, and she points to the bathroom.  I get up, my legs shaking and head to the counter.  

“What am i going to do Stella?” We’re sitting at the restaurant in the hotel the next morning. I’m hungry, which is a nice change from being nauseous.  

“Let’s get through the road trip and then we will plan and worry.”  Stella slathered her toast in jam and then dunks it in her over-easy eggs.  

“If you want me to throw up, do that again,” I say with a gag.  I concentrate on my scrambled eggs and toast for a few minutes.  "Can I just say, I really have no idea how I’m going to tell my brother. He is going to lose his shit,” I stop and blurt.  “I don’t know how I’m going to tell Andy.” 

“Tell me what?”  

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1.47 I Won't Be Home for Christmas

Lexie: So I guess this is Christmastime in Del Sol Valley.

Johnny: Yeah, it’s no winter wonderland. I bet it’s more festive in Brindleton Bay. Are you going there for Winter Break?

Lexie: Well, I was supposed to, but my mom just told me that she and my dad are going skiing on Mt. Komorebi this year. 

Johnny: Oh, that sounds nice. Are you going with them?

Lexie: Nope. It was pretty last minute and they won’t be getting back until after the new semester starts.

Johnny: You sound disappointed.

Lexie: I am. I didn’t get to see them on my birthday, and now this. I’ve never not spent Christmas with my parents. It’s extra hard because I’ve been feeling a little homesick lately. I’ve never been away from my family this long.

Johnny: I’m sorry, baby. You’re welcome to spend Christmas with me and my family if you want.

Lexie: Are you sure? I wouldn’t want to intrude.

Johnny: Yeah, my parents would love to have you over! They’ve been hounding me to bring you around.

Lexie: Well, in that case, I’d love to come! I have a feeling your family knows how to entertain.

Johnny: Oh, for sure! There’s never a dull moment when we get together. I know it doesn’t make up for you missing out on time with your family, but I’m glad we’ll get to spend the holiday together.

Lexie: Me too. Christmas has always been a big holiday in my family. I was just thinking about my favorite Christmas memory. When I was 6, my parents surprised me with my favorite stuffed animal. You remember that little white dog from the dog food commercials?

Johnny: Yeah, he was so cute!

Lexie: I was obsessed with that dog. Apparently they made him into a stuffed animal and that’s what my parents gave me that year. I named him Snowflake and I took him everywhere. After a while he was more of a dingy gray.

Johnny: Aw, that’s cute! Do you still have him? Don’t tell anyone, but I still have my favorite stuffed cat from when I was a kid and I still sleep with it every night.

Lexie: I think that's sweet! Unfortunately our dog mistook Snowflake for a chew toy. My mom tried her best to salvage it, but it was a lost cause. I wish I still had him, though. Maybe having Snowflake to cuddle up with would help me feel less homesick.

Johnny: I’m sorry you’re missing home so much. I know I can’t replace Snowflake, but if you ever need a cuddle buddy, you know I’m here.

Lexie: Hmm, well, you’re not as soft and fluffy, but you’re still pretty cuddly. What’s your favorite Christmas memory? 

Johnny: Well, Christmas growing up was pretty rough. We didn’t have much money and my mom usually had to work so it was never much of a thing in my house.

Lexie: Oh, I’m sorry. I keep forgetting you didn’t grow up like I did.

Johnny: That’s ok, I haven’t really talked about it much. Maybe I’ll tell you more about it someday. But things were much better once I moved in with my dads. 

Lexie: That’s good. What do they do for the holidays?

Johnny: Well, Dad is Jewish and Pops grew up Protestant so we do a secular “Chrismakkuh” thing where we combine traditions from Hanukkah and Christmas. On Christmas Eve we make cookies and popcorn and hunker down in the living room for the night to watch cheesy holiday movies. We get our sleeping bags and make snarky comments about the movies. 

Lexie: Oh, like those movies where a woman goes back to her hometown and discovers the true meaning of the holiday season, which always involves a guy?

Johnny: Yep. Our first Chrismakkuh together, my parents kept trying to get me hyped up, but I wasn’t having it. I was just being a typical 14-year-old who was too cool to hang out with his family. But I ended up having a great time. That’s probably my favorite memory. 

Lexie: It sounds like a lovely one.

Johnny: It was. I remember waking up the next morning with the TV still going and seeing the rest of my family still snoring away in their sleeping bags. That was the first time I really felt like I was home.

Lexie: I’m glad you finally got to make some positive holiday memories. That must have meant the world to you.

Johnny: It did. And it means the world to me that I’ll be making memories with you this year.

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[away-ward]

Rank the compatibility in real life of the DN couples. Suppose if they were not based in Thunder Bay which was their "playground ", would the dynamics change... like if Banks and Emmy were on financially equal level with Kai and Will... would the stories still play out the same way?

Hmmm. That's a difficult one. You're asking to change some of the fundamentals of the characters. At the same time, there's an element of 'fated', as there usually is with these types of stories.

I mean, there's no logical reason as a three-year-old, Michael would be completely obsessed with a new born and remain obsessed for the rest of his life.

So, of course changing some of the fundamentals is going to change some of their compatibility. But. . .

Kai and Banks are probably the most compatible.. At their core, Kai likes to hunt and Banks needs to feel wanted and desired. Whatever else is going on with them, that will always be true. Kai and Banks also have had the most changes in their lives. Both had a life in Meridian, a much larger city, before coming to Thunder Bay, and both had a period in life when they didn't have money. Changing their finances or location wouldn't be anything they couldn't deal with.

Taking them real world, I think they'd be fine.

But I now love the idea that even in Meridian, even without money, these two would have found each other. In the bonus scene, Kai mentioned that he went to a party in Meridian. That's the perfect set up for an AU.

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Removing the abuse, the financial inequality, I still think Will and Emory are fairly compatible. They fall into the golden retriever bf/black cat gf. This is a very real dynamic and usually works pretty well. I've talked about how Will is more of a nerd than he appears at first read. They're both movie lovers, both like adventures, and are artistic. Giving Emory less of a reason to be angry and defensive just means they get together even sooner and without all the drama. Check out my high school willemmy headcanons because I think they're fun.

I think Willemmy can go the distance.

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Rika and Michael are your typical power couple. They're both rich, both did fine outside of Thunder Bay, both have degrees in business. They don't need the town to make them work. Not really understand Rika and Michael means that I don't get what makes them compatible, but they don't have many incompatibilities.

They're also the most basic of all the couples.

Still, I think they might suffer from Michael's ambition, and Rika's lack of direction but refusal to be controlled. Taking away the obsession aspect between them, the friction might be too much for them. They also suffer from huge communication issues. Those two things might make it difficult if they were trying to live anywhere that wasn't Thunder Bay, where they feel comfortable and at home. They need the chaos that is Thunder Bay for them to lose control, which usually leads to them clearing the air. Without the occasional night of revelry that only Thunder Bay can safely give them, those problems would build up as we saw in Conclave.

The might not survive if they were anywhere else.

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Damon and Winter need Thunder Bay the most to make them work. You start removing the foundation of their story, they start to crumble.

Part of Damon's obsession is because of their interaction as children. But if his father isn't throwing his weight around a small town and intimidating the other families, Damon is not hiding in a fountain and Winter has nothing to teach him.

If she's not blind, she doesn't get sent away and then she's not brought back to be the shiny new thing in TBP. At that point they're more similar to Rika and Michael, in that they grew up watching each other. She would also be much more independent, which is not something Damon would love. He likes that she is strong and outspoken with other people; he needs her to need him.

Even removing the town dynamic, Gabriel is still Gabriel and Damon a Dark Prince and Winter his ballerina. I think they'd be a couple that worked, but you wouldn't know why just by looking at them. On the surface, they're incompatible.

However, Winter being a successful ballerina might take her away before they could really fall for each other, and if Thunder Bay isn't a place that Damon has a particular draw to, he might not be inclined to stay. It brings their relationship and it's longevity into question.

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I try not to let my biases get in the way, but having a better understanding of Willemmy and KaiBanks is kinda why I like them more, so it's probably inevitable that it seeped in. I also just see more problems with MichaelRika and DamonWinter. I

'd be interested in knowing how other people are ranking their compatibility as real world couples.

Ko

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Hi I saw your old essay post from September 2024, back when the TF One film came out, and I just wanted to say I was one of the people who was very excited over the non-transforming model kits 😅 I did get my own! The big Optimus/Cogged Orion. I specifically wanted a toy that had a super accurate face to the movie and so I was happy that it existed.

I think the difference here is that as a collector of toys, I started out as a huge anime fan so I am very used to buying figurines that don't do anything in order to have the most screen accuracy - not even any articulation at all. As a new fan of TF, the fact that they don't transform doesn't bother me because I care more about what the character represents than something I can play with (though in this case you can because they're still very articulated, unlike anime figures besides figmas). I have a Yolopark "G1" mini non transforming Starscream model kit I got for $10 and I made him hold a tiny pride flag while pointing at me - I cared more about things like his face, wings, and overall accuracy to how I see Starscream in my mind (a silly little evil guy). I genuinely only cared about the fact that he looked very close to the cartoon for a cheap price. I have multiple transforming toys too, and they're fun, but since I don't transform them that often anyway (besides this $10 Galvatron I got that transforms in like less than a minute, I love fidgeting with him), I don't see one type of toy as better than the other.

This isn't really a rebuttal of your essay since your opinions are valid to your lived experiences, I just thought it was interesting how different our perspectives were for a few reasons - I am 21, and TF One was actually the first media I ever engaged with related to Transformers at all. I knew of the Michael Bay films but they didn't appeal to me at all when I was a child because they seemed totally mindless and sexist, and it wasn't until TF One that I even knew who ANY of the characters were (or that there were characters!?) beyond a vague concept of Optimus and Megatron - I went into it almost completely blind because they were promoting it with a free Sonic poster 😭. And it worked...since last September I have bought 7 toys and all of the Skybound comics...😅

I don't disagree that constant reboots and rehashes are definitely a symptom of capitalism (not wanting to lose trademarks, trying to maintain and create a new audience), and it's definitely kind of gross that there is that expectation that of course you should spend hundreds on our franchise - you grew up with it, right? But at the same time I actually kind of like that there are so many different versions of the same characters? I still get what you mean that there should still be a focus on creating new characters, of moving on, since I LOVED TF: The Movie. (Hot Rod/Rodimus is the best). If you haven't checked out the Skybound comics, they're definitely trying to rehash nostalgia with the character designs but they refuse to overly stick to overly used characters JUST for the sake of nostalgia and are willing to kill them off, including Bumblebee in the very first issue. Of course they might not be your thing anyway.

I also personally really loved the fact that Megatron and Optimus were friends first in TF One, and you could maybe attribute that to how I've seen very little superhero stuff, so instead of it seeming like an X-Men rehash it was totally fresh to me. (Well, mostly fresh, friends to enemies is pretty archetypal lol). I was...nine years old when X-Men: First Class came out, and my parents did not care for superheroes (I haven't seen a single Marvel movie and have only seen a few DC ones bc my friend's a fan for the first time last year), so I never even knew it existed until I saw people compare it to TF One. Planning to watch it soon, lol. The whole "OP and Megs were friends first" thing is very fanfiction-y, but if I'm being honest that's what I like about it... I never thought I would get so invested in robot slash but it's everywhere! And wonderful. (Sorry if that's something you dislike).

It isn't the only thing I like about the franchise: the sci-fi space opera vibe the 1986 film developed is awesome, and stuff that could only happen with robots like unique torture such as the "anti-personal mines" or empurata from IDW, the oppressive function based society also from IDW - TBH I think the Stalinist Megatron is cool...I mean like, fascist Megatron is fine (and I see TF One Megatron as a fascist), but the Megatron as a character I want to spend time thinking about and picking apart is the Megatron who wrote poetry and manifestos before being a war criminal, the universal greeting, what forms gender and recreational sex take in a society without sexual reproduction or sexual dimorphism - mostly a fanon thing obviously) but besides all that honestly...if it wasn't for the slash potential I probably wouldn't have gotten invested LMFAO. Yep. I'm just going to own it. I've had a great time with it. In my defense, I'm a lesbian! #representationmatters (Being very tongue in cheek right now)

Anyway...I'm sorry if none of that made any sense and also for the fact that I just sent you an incredibly unsolicited long af anonymous ask, but I just thought it was so fascinating that you couldn't enjoy TF One for completely valid reasons but those reasons could cause the opposite reaction in me (total obsession and fiscal irresponsibility). I feel like it stems from our age, what media we've seen do things better before (I am eager to experience new media but there is so much out there. I have lived under a strangely shaped rock!), and our approach to media in general probably differs which for me comes from a VERY self-indulgent place. Again, I sincerely apologize but I was glad to read your thoughts and I hope you didn't mind reading my own... Feel free to delete this ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh. No chance I'm deleting it, Anon - it's great to hear you're getting a start into Transformers like this.

And, first of all, while I've never been invested in TF slash to any degree, I am eternally delighted it exists. Likewise, I'm not particularly serious in my dislike of non-transforming action figures of Transformers except insofar as they lie entirely outside my own enjoyment. A lot of what I love about Transformers as a concept is the tactile thrill of turning a thing into another thing -- the idea each of them is a puzzle. It's partly the engineering challenge and partly just the satisfaction in fiddling with them, like you and that Galvatron. (This is also why I also have little good to say about overly complex and fiddly toys. There's definitely a sweet spot here.)

But that's beside the point. You want something out of your collecting that is different from me and I'm glad you've been able to get it. People liking or disliking things for much the same reasons is common. I don't feel like we're making the mistake of reading against the source material here; TF One just genuinely did something for you in ways it wouldn't for me!

Part of this is definitely age, as I tried to emphasise in the original essay. I'm at the point in my life where I really value novelty and I know where I am and am not likely to find it. I've spent the past few years exploring mecha anime as a category precisely because I hadn't before. While not all of it is new, it's new to me, and I've had a lot of fun as a result. See also Lupin (the French crime TV series), Dungeon Meshi, classic horror movies, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Doesn't always work out -- couldn't get on with Armored Core 6 because, turns out, there are reasons for me not to play games like that, namely I'm not good at them and don't find them fun. But it's ultimately on me to seek out novel things, rather than sitting around complaining the things I used to enjoy have changed or don't excite me any more.

It's fantastic you get to come in and experience Transformers for the first time, in all its many iterations. As I alluded to in the essay, that's kind what it was like for me in the early 2000s, picking my way through a mass of fiction that had come out over the preceding decade and a half. And you've got even more you can take a look at!

(The Michael Bay movies are indeed terrible, but Transformers: Bumblebee is pretty decent, if you want a live-action TF film.)

In terms of personal taste -- well, that's what it is, in the end, when it comes to liking or disliking particular versions. I don't like IDW Megatron because 1) it's a cludge, multiple different writers trying to salvage from the wreckage after early IDW got jackhammered by the 'All Hail Megatron' fiasco and 2) a lot of historical and political buttons it pushes in the name of a moral complexity don't sit well with me (this is more about where it leaves the Autobots than the Decepticons, although I do not like the idea of the 'cons starting in the working classes either, because the Constructicons are an outlier in Generation 1, not the norm *grumble grumble*). Other rants are available; when it comes to Transformers, I've had over twenty years to formulate very specific strong opinions!

Even so, again, someone liking the things I don't just means there's more enjoyment in the world, which is never a bad thing.

I'm still going to find nostalgia-farming icky. I'm still going to have critiques and complaints that I think are, occasionally, worth expressing in public. But I don't see these as any reflection on the people who feel otherwise, at least not outside certain extremes that don't factor into this discussion (when we get into shitty messages and horrible creative figures who benefit from people buying their stuff). Taste is a subjective thing and while it can be developed or refined, those are processes that should ultimately benefit each individual first and foremost. Nobody should be going round with a clipboard, rating us on the things we enjoy, 6/10, must do better. I try, likely with mixed success, to exercise caution over being critical on this blog. Ultimately, what I wrote last time was about business practices I find noxious, not the fans being targetted by them.

If you're getting joy out of TF:One and everything else, more power to you. Sincerely! I hope you'll continue to have fun and that you'll find other people who feel likewise.

Thank you for reading my post, and for sharing your thoughts in return. :)

[ashbrat488]

Speak Now - Ransom Drysdale One Shot

Ransom Drysdale x OFC Angst, fluff Word Count: 1,594

Written: July 6, 2023

Brittan grew up as best friends with Ransom Drysdale her whole life. She was smart, getting a scholarship to his private high school, one his parents afforded no problem. They never accepted Brittan when he started to date her in their junior year of high school. Tolerated would be a better choice of word; barely tolerated.

In college, plans were made... they would graduate, him majoring in creative writing and her in accounting, and then they would marry. But when he told his parents...

1 year ago, just before the start of their senior year in college...

"What do you mean we can't get married?" Brittan frowns, looking down at the ring on her finger; a ring Ransom had specially made just for her with a small emerald cut sapphire with two small diamonds on either side. It was perfect and she was in love with it.

Ransom flinches slightly at the sound of Brittan raising her voice to him, something she never did. He grabbed her hand, turning her attention back up to him with a groan, his heart clenched tightly in his chest, plummeting to the ground at the first sight of the tears welling in her eyes. "I'm sorry. If I don't marry Camille, my parents will cut me off. And--"

"So?" She rips her hand away from him as he tries to remain calm, keeping his emotions at bay. "You're choosing your money over me?"

"No! I—"

"Yes!" She yells, bringing her hand up to her head, shaking it as she becomes angrier and angrier. "That's what you just said, Ransom!"

"If I don't break up with you and agree to marry Camille, they'll stop paying for college—"

"So what! We can—"

Ransom grabs her, hauling her against his chest, causing her to gasp as he placed his hand over her mouth. "Stop interrupting me, woman!" He takes a few deep breaths as she huffs into his hand, furrowing her brows at him. "If I don't graduate, my grandfather won't give me the publishing company."

She waits until he releases her, fixing her dress with a scoff. "Again, I say... so what? We can help you build your own."

"It's my right as a Thrombey! It's my familial right!"

"Who cares! Aren't I more important?"

"You are important..." Ransom's voice lowers as he watches her chin quiver, his heart shattering as he shatters hers. "But it's the principle of the matter."

"You mean your pride and your money are more important than love," she states as firmly as she can, holding back the tears that threaten to stream her cheeks. "Get out."

"Britt..."

"Get out!" She yells, pulling the ring off her finger to throw at his chest.

He barely catches it before she turns her back on him and he glances down at the small ring. "Britt..." he pleads one final time as he is met with only silence. Reluctantly, he turns to leave her apartment, standing at the open door. "I'll never love anyone else," he mumbles before shutting the door behind him.

His final statement is what finally breaks her, plopping onto the couch in a ball, letting the tears flow easily.

Night Before The Wedding...

Brittan sighs as she hears a knock on the door, forcing her to pause her movie. She knew what was happening this weekend and insisted on hiding in her apartment alone all weekend. She opens the door, surprised to find Ransom's best friend, James standing in front of her. "What are you doing here?"

"Can I come in?"

She sighs but moves to the side to let him enter her apartment. "If you're here to tell me not to show up tomorrow, don't worry, I won't..."

"No," he laughs, shaking his head with his hands raised in a small sign of surrender. "Ransom doesn't know I'm here. And I came to ask you to do the opposite..."

"What?" She crosses her arms over her chest, wondering if this was some sort of joke or prank.

"Look, Britt, I like you. And Ransom loves you. You can't let him marry that monster. I don't care if she is better for him on paper according to their families. You and I both know he should be with you. Fight for him."

She scoffs, rolling her eyes as she takes her spot back on her couch, grabbing her glass of wine to down the rest. "I did. I asked him to choose me and that we would work it out. But no, he chose his money and her over me... so. He doesn't give a shit."

"He does..." James digs in his pocket, pulling out something before shoving it into her hand. "He still carries this with him wherever he goes. I only got it away from him because he's wasted already. He's miserable without you. You're both too stubborn to go to the other, so here I am. Come tomorrow, as my date. Stop the wedding..."

Brittan laughs, shaking her head as she looks down at her engagement ring. "You're not serious."

"I'm a thousand percent serious Britt. Please. Don't let him do this..." He watches her continue to stare at the ring. He leans over, kissing the top of her head, hovering for a moment. "They're getting married at 11."

She glances up at him as he smiles before turning to leave her alone in her apartment. She looked back down at the ring, turning it over in her hand...

Wedding day...

Ransom groans, his hand coming up to his chest as James enters the small room he was getting dressed. "Ready to go?"

Ransom takes a deep breath, swallowing the bile in his throat as he nodded. He proceeded to follow James before grabbing his arm. "Do you know what happened to Brittan's ring? I couldn't find it anywhere this morning."

"I have no idea, man. You were pretty out of it last night though. I'm sure you'll find it." He takes his place beside Ransom in the front of the church as he checks his watch: 11:10... She was late. Maybe she wasn't coming. He sighed, wondering if he should say something before the bridal march started and everyone stood.

Ransom tried to find a smile that matched the giant one on Camille's face as she entered the church, but the most he could muster was a grimace as he watched her approach him.

Brittan parked her car in the back of the church, sneaking in the back just as she watched Camille and Ransom. No one had noticed her yet as she backed up into the foyer. "You can do this," she mumbled to herself, smoothing out the line of her red bodycon dress. She nodded to herself, giving herself one more bump of encouragement as she looked down at the engagement ring on her finger.

She hears the words she was waiting for... "Speak now..."

She enters the church with a deep breath, this time letting the doors shut loudly behind her, causing everyone to turn to her. She sees the smile on James' face, giving her more confidence as she walks down the aisle, everyone's eyes burning through her. Her gaze catches on Ransom's as he smiles back at her, his first genuine smile in months.

"Britt..." he whispers as Camille whines beside him.

"Ransom! Make her leave!"

Brittan doesn't let Camille deter her, or Ransom's parents who were trying to move to put a barrier between them before James nudged them out of the way. 6 feet away from them, she stops. "I am not the kind of girl, who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion. But you are not the kind of boy, who should be marrying the wrong girl."

"Britt," he repeats, dropping Camille's hands as he takes a step toward her as Camille tries to stop him but he nudges her away and his eyes fall down to Brittan's engagement ring back on her finger where it belonged. He turned his head toward James as he smirked back at him. 

"Don't say yes, run away now. I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door..."

Ransom swallows hard the lump in his throat as he watches her gracefully turn to leave the church and his attention is pulled back to Camille, her whiney voice piercing his eardrums.

"Ransom!"

He shakes his head, looking back at her, his heart fluttering in his chest for the first time since he walked out of Brittan's door over a year before. "I'm sorry. You can keep the ring..." He runs to the back of the church where he got dressed, shoving his things into his bag before slipping out the side door before anyone could reach him.

Brittan leaned nervously against the passenger side door of her car. She glanced up at the sound of a door shutting to find Ransom running toward her, pulling her into his arms as he reached her. He kissed her hard, pouring in as much emotion he had been holding in for the last year as he could.

He cradled her cheeks when he pulled away, smiling down at her as tears welled her eyes. "I didn't say my vows. I'm so glad you were around. I'm sorry."

"We don't have to speak now. Just get in..." She climbs into the driver's seat as Ransom throws his bag into the back, jumping into the passenger seat as his mother and Camille with her family come out of the church charging for them. Brittan laughs, pulling out onto the road as Ransom grabs her hand... 

[yumeirochaser]

watched macross: do you remember love?

okay i literally just watched this movie bc i hated the show and wanted to watch the (better) sequels. it is a very well animated movie, with exquisite art and aesthetics. and really good mechanical and character designs.....

but it's also a total mess. a very, very sexist mess.

like man the gender essentialism in this thing is off the charts. it's also kind of a michael bay movie since it's about the cool military otaku guy getting hot chicks except it tries to say Something about women and men and like. it's bad

it doesn't help that hikaru starts bland and nicer only to become a slimeball and misa joins on his assholery later and there's roy whose entire character is hating women but wanting to fuck them and ughhhhhh. hikaru even falls in love with misa in a sequence where she literally stays in the kitchen and starts acting like a trad wife playing house and making fake food in the ruins of a town. it fucking blows. like i don't want to be too negative but this movie is just so mean.

but there's. one character. who is the highlight of it all. the one and only lynn minmay. she starts already tired and disillusioned with the idol business and mostly sees hikaru as a way to cope with her depression and escape the pain. being a normal girl from a small place, in a world too big for her. she's too naive to be with this guy she just met and she has been drafted far from home to do this idol gig and this is like. way too much for someone like her. she has a fling with hikaru...and then she gets kidnapped by aliens who force her to kiss her abusive cousin. and then she gets separated from hikaru and waits for him....while he starts cheating on her with misa when they both fall into the trad family delusion in a deserted earth. and when she meets them again they treat her like shit.they reveal he cheated on her, and don't even try to comfort her until it's time to use her singing as a weapon to stop the war. she says selfish stuff but she also just feels so tired, esp since she was made an ambassador for the galaxy during this. hikaru treats her coldly too. but then she swallows her pride, pulls her pants, and decides to sing with all her heart for the sake of the world and the family that she no longer has. she gave up her youth, an after this, dissappeared in the end and became an idealized image.....she's so tragic....

minmay was the only character who overcame the fantasy she wanted to live in at the start. bc hikaru and misa actually like, don't like each other that much, they just like the trad wife and husband fantasy they have with each other. but minmay, who initially wanted to use hikaru as a fantasy to escape her miserable life as a naive idol coming from nothing in an unknown place, actually grew up and moved on. choosing to live in reality, even if it's not perfect...she still sings.....

i don't think this arc of hers was like, intended? bc in the end it is played in the text as her having a tantrum. but like. the reframing of her character as being depressed from the start combined with the context of the tv show and HIKARU CHEATING ON HER makes her feel really sympathetic. in the end, everyone won and got to live their ideal lives but her. she's not a little girl anymore, but a woman who has to live in the real world. i do feel later shows noticed this and retroactively made her tragic but like. damn. the fact that she was supposed to be in the wrong, and that she was hated back in the day like, says so much about the era and type of show this is. truly rancid. i'm glad she got reappraised and reframed as a hero later on.....minmay deserved better.

sorry for the word vomit i just feel a lot for her. she was treated so badly in this awful, awful film. i came out of this really loving her character and i'm glad later stuff recognizes that she was sympathetic and influential but like. god, this is just too mean. too awful.

[fictional-love-is-my-life]

I'm honestly really sad that they didn't do a final conclusion to transformers the last knight. Even though it wasn't rated as the best transformers movie in the franchise I still enjoyed seeing Optimus and the others on thr big screen being epic as always. Sure there were flaws to the script and it could have been better, but I still liked seeing it. If they had made a 6th movie what do you think it would have been about? They left it on unicorn still being there, and quintessa alive. Do you think the autobots would have had to go in the core of earth to stop unicorn like they did in tfp? What would you have liked to see as a final ending?

So I grew up with the Bayverse movies. The first time I was introduced to transformers was seeing the first Bay movie. It was what started my love for the franchise and it was the stepping stone of getting me into all the other shows. So to me, the bayverse movies will always have a soft spot in my heart.

Yes they definitely could have done a lot better. I do agree, it was not the best movie of them all. But I did like it, and I will happily re-watch it because it brings me joy personally. Also it gave me Hot Rod and that is why I love it so much.

Anyway, onto a 6th movie:

I do think they could have gone into more lore with Unicron. I think it would have been really cool, maybe during the final battle a large chasm opened the Earth slightly and exposed an entrance into the core of Unicron. Maybe for the sixth movie the bots would have to go inside Earth and either kill unicron or make sure he stayed asleep to protect Earth. A possibility could be they remove Unicrons life source and use it to reboot/fuel Cybertron and then they can start rebuilding their own planet.

Bringing Quintessa back would have been cool. I wonder if they could have used it as a way to introduce the Predacons. Quintessa could have captured some Decepticons and created Predacons out of them. Then used them to attack the autobots and try to claim Cybertron and Earth at the same time.

What I would have personally loved to have as the FINAL ending, is the humans and Autobots actually getting along. Let the Autobots live in peace without hiding please! I mean, at the end, Cybertron was stuck just looming over Earth. There would be no way the government could cover it up, so then they could introduce the bots to the world and let them live freely. Maybe the humans could have tried to help rebuild Cybertron with them. Then we could have an awesome world of humans and bots living together and getting into shenanigans together.

[blithesometrait]

15 OC Questions!

I was tagged by @stargazer-sims !

I was so excited to be tagged in one of these! To prepare for my legacy, and the fact that I’ve been putting in more work and thought into it and my characters, I’ll let Olek take it away from here.

Oleksander Jacobs

Are you named after anyone?

Yeah, I was named after my grandfather, Oleksandr. Mama added the ‘e’ so we would still have some difference. My middle name, Lawrence, is after my dad.

When was the last time you cried?

Did Kat ghostwrite this? Last night. I finished Under the Whispering Door and promptly sobbed. She smirked at me from across the table the next morning. She knows everything.

Do you have kids?

Err, no. Maybe one day though! I do love to care for all things, whether it's humans, pets, plants, even objects honestly. For now, I’m just a plant and pet dad. 

Do you use sarcasm?

Never, in a million years! Who do you think I am?? (Does that answer the question?)

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

If they have little strands of hair that stick out. I don’t mean that in a critical way though, I just think it’s a cute little thing and it varies from person to person. Some have the classic Alfalfa style cowlick and others it’s just a little piece falling from their ponytail. It’s cute, and it kinda reflects the personality of the person, if that makes sense?

What’s your eye colour?

Brown. It was really dark when I was younger, but nowadays it reminds me of the water at the lake, where the mud gets all kicked up. Not the most elegant thing, but that comparison is what got me to start liking my eye colour. 

Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings. Not to say I’m one to shy away from scary movies (psychological horror is my favourite), but I will watch literally anything with a happy ending. Except Hallmark movies. I have some taste. 

Any special talents?

I’m really good at hula hooping. I had a lonely childhood, kay?

Where were you born?

Brindleton Bay Caring Hearts Hospital

What are your hobbies?

Ooh mostly gardening! When I was younger, I loved helping dad out in the garden out back, and once I was older and he got promoted, he transferred the ‘ownership’ of the garden to me. So now I’m the main caretaker of all our plants. I also like to read, and I’ve been trying to get into knitting. 

Have you any pets?

When I was a kid, we had a street cat named Patches. Not named for his fur pattern but instead named for the fact that he was covered in little scars that wouldn’t let the fur grow. Mom noticed him wandering the streets but at the time they couldn’t afford a cat since Kat was coming along. After Mykhail was born and we were more secure financially, she finally grabbed him up from the streets, where he unfortunately was still roaming, and we took him in. When he grew to be an elder, we got him a companion who was also a street cat named Sammy. They passed away a few years ago, just one day apart from each other. Now we have another street cat named Cici, who I found wandering around, and we adopted a dog named Pompidou. 

What sports do you play/have played?

Cheerleading. The whole story behind it is that mama signed Kat up for it as a surprise, and when she learned about it, Kat refused to go. I, not wanting the money to go to waste, offered to go instead. So yeah, I did two seasons of cheer when I was fourteen.

How tall are you?

Five foot four inches (162.56 CM)

Favourite subject in school?

Biology. I think it’s fascinating to see where we came from, and in turn what makes up the world around us. 

Dream job?

Well…Don’t tell my dad, okay? But all my life I thought gardening was going to be my big thing and don’t get me wrong, I love gardening but I don’t think I want to be a gardener anymore. Like, lately I’ve been reading up a lot about mortuary sciences, and it feels like it would be a career I would enjoy. Death used to scare me, but now I’m learning more about it and it doesn’t really scare me anymore. I guess I’ll have to decide soon though…

Um, anyway! Thanks for listening to me :)

-Olek Jacobs

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