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[orcafreak12]

talking about my ocs is healing i feel like im on ellen rn but like if she was a good person and a discord user

[joffyworld]

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[ondeemand]

Transformers One Review

For the sake of convenience, I’ll be referring to the characters as their new names (Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee) instead of their old ones (Orion Pax, D-16, B-127).

Also, I didn’t grow up with Transformers, so this will be mostly from an outsider’s perspective. I can’t tell what possibly was or wasn’t a retcon or how accurate to the source material it was, but I think the background info on their world held up very well and they were able to explain it clearly to new viewers like me. It definitely would have hit harder if I grew up with Transformers and knew more than just facts from cultural osmosis, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot.

Notes/Things I’m Neutral On

Very weird to hear my name (Dee) being said throughout most of the movie by Chris Hemsworth’s bad American accent.

Also, I forgot that Megatron has transformed into ground vehicles before. I only ever knew him to turn into a jet, so I was kind of confused that he was a tank in this movie. I hope we get to see him get upgraded to a jet in the next one, but the tank is still cool.

Pros/Things I Liked

Simple but effective color theory with their eye colors. Main good guys have blue while Megatron has yellow, sitting between good and bad. Still a friendly color at first, but slowly turns closer to orange and then fully red as his anger and hatred consume him (and after he met the red-eyed Starscream, a cowardly man who ends up enabling Megatron‘s more violent/aggressive tendencies)

○ Also I don’t know if I was just seeing things, but it looked like Megatron’s eyes got more yellow whenever he looked at Optimus which is so sad and so gay.

I really thought they were gonna push a romance between Elita and either Bumblebee (goofy manchild x competent woman trope) or Optimus (male lead x female lead, blue x pink), but I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t. Sadly, there’s still time for it in future installments, but I can dream.

Not to be gay, but spider woman sexy. Airachnid was so obviously evil that it was funny, but I can’t fault Sentinel for having her around because I, too, would want a deadly goth woman to be my right-hand lady. They felt like the evil, less developed versions of Mustang and Hawkeye. I am in love.

The animation is gorgeousssss. The environments, the character designs, the fight choreography, the transformations, the lighting, the texture, mwah mwah MWAH STUNNING!!!

○ Sorry, I’m never gonna stop talking about this. The way they were able to make square/blocky figures move so fluidly was fantastic (and proof of concept that a fully animated Minecraft movie would have worked). ○ The camera angles were also great for framing both the dramatic, intense, and/or high-action moments like fights or chase scenes, while also adding a lot to the comedic moments. Like when the camera stays tracking Optimus’ face when running through the forest, only for him to suddenly fall down a cliff neither he nor us saw coming, only to then zoom out to the perspective of the guards below, showing them stumbling and falling. ○ The contrast between the mechanical and organic elements on the surface were really cool, and the way it was introduced was able to convey this idea that organic life was this strange, alien thing. ○ The way the surface just rebuilds itself into these jagged, blocky terrains was really unique and interesting! It felt like a glitched computer model because of its rougher shapes which really added to the fear and hostility of the surface.

90% of their jokes landed and they landed hard. The bit where Optimus looks like he’s about to transform and then just fucking books it is incredible. The audio and camera work help add to these as well, like the music building as Optimus pretends to transform, the camera zooming in close to different parts of him, only for all background noise to cut out as it shows Optimus running away. I won’t name every joke and quip I found funny or we’d be here all day, but they’re certainly a highlight of the movie.

I love Keegan-Michael Key, but I wasn’t a fan of him as the comic relief character of Toad in the Mario movie. When Bumblebee showed up I got a little nervous, but I really loved his performance of the character.

I really liked the midpoint pep talk about hope. That’s a really nice reason that Optimus is the leader despite not being as skilled as other people. He has the hope for a better future and it was a core part of his character from the beginning, and I really like the idea that a leader is someone who can envision a brighter future no matter what.

Alpha Trion transforming was SICK AS FUCK!!! I love that he was more animalistic when the rest of the cast become vehicles. His final fight was so cool, and it actually made me kind of emotional to see him at the end with the rest of the Prime ghosts.

The stabbings? The beheadings?? The branding??? The way Megatron tore Sentinel in half and then ripped his heart out on-screen holy shit???? This movie was incredibly brutal and I loved it. It’s such an interesting phenomenon that children’s media is allowed to be about as graphic as they want as long as it’s against robots, even incredibly sentient ones like in the Transformers series.

○ I watched the 1986 Transformers movie for a class earlier this year, and while it also had a lot of brutality in it’s fights, the new movie felt more intense. Part of this could be attributed to me watching the 2024 movie on a big screen vs the 1986 movie in my living room, but there are other reasons as well. The 1986 movie had more upbeat songs playing over the fights, specifically songs like The Touch and Dare, which helped keep the tone lighter and more exciting. The 2024 movie didn’t have anything like that, allowing the action, while still cool and exciting, to take on a more serious tone. This is also emphasized by the graphics of the movie being 3D instead of 2D. While the 2D 1986 movie is a stunning masterpiece, people still view it with the idea in mind that, since it’s a cartoon, the stakes and story will be less intense. The 2024 movie being 3D with very detailed graphics and lighting already has more visual intensity. The characters are still these bright, poppy colors, but they can come across more moody and dark due to the environments, lighting, and textures that the 3D medium more easily allows. And while the painted backgrounds and cell shading of the old movie are great, the CGI backgrounds are a lot closer to realism, so the harsher elements like metal and rock, which make up a vast majority of the environment and characters, look real too.

The way Megatron’s hate consumed him to the point where he started acting more villainous and, while not entirely similar to Sentinel, still ended up hurting innocent people was tragic. Trying to push away and deny everything about a person only to wind up being just like them. This was perfectly shown in the end credit scene where Megatron is branding himself and the new Decepticons with Megatronus Prime’s face. To him, it may be him reclaiming the traumatic experience and literally using it like a badge of honor, as well as thinking he’s honoring Megatronus Prime. But in reality, he’s just inflicting the same trauma done to him onto others, just like Sentinel. Such a cool way to show how every villain is the hero of their own story.

The doomed yaoiiiiii I’m never gonna get over them. The only other Transformers media I’ve consumed is the 1986 movie, which kills off Optimus Prime in the first 25 minutes and Megatron becomes Galvatron, so I never knew the depths of their homoerotic relationship.

I’m a sucker for “the hero and villain used the be friends (and maybe even lovers?)” trope, so Optimus and Megatron’s relationship and the general premise of the movie was already a slam dunk for me.

I’m also a fan of legacy stories like Avatar and She-Ra. While this movie didn’t get as in-depth with the concept, I enjoyed that they played with the idea of legacy and taking up the mantle of the former Primes.

I absolutely loved the end message that Optimus gives us. Hope, freedom, and autonomy are incredibly important things to learn, and as a trans person who very much wants to keep control over what I do with my body, I really resonated with that last one. I think it’s really cool that they included a message like that in this children’s movie about robots that turn into cars.

Regarding the message of autonomy, I love that it gives the term Autobots a new meaning. Auto meaning “automobile”, since they transform into cars, and Auto meaning “self”, as they are now fully their own bots with control over themselves.

Cons/Things I Disliked

Mid vocal performances from everyone except Brian Tyree Henry and Keegan-Michael Key. And as I mentioned before, it was hard not to focus on Chris’ attempts at an American accent, not to mention how recognizable his, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s, voices are.

The plot felt a little disjointed in the first 1/3-ish.

○ Good setup with the main characters being an oppressed working class with one dreaming of better things and the other hesitant to fall out of line or take risks. But then suddenly there’s a race, and then they’re in it, and then they lose, and then their leader wants to promote them. At first it feels like there are hints that he’s a scummy celebrity-type and that meeting their hero is what will spur on the disillusionment with their society. But then some random douchebag that doesn’t like them reassigns them which goes against their leader’s command, and that’s how the plot kicks off? ○ Also, Elita’s involvement felt kind of rushed/hand-waved. They all get stuck on the surface, but instead of trying to make her way back to report them like she was saying she would for the past few minutes, she makes a complete 180 and heads the expedition herself. ○ It all just felt a little strange, but once it got going the rest of the plot felt fine.

Megatron’s descent into “evil” felt kind of rushed. I understand that he feels betrayed and I really love where the character ends up by the end, but it felt like a real 180 without a lot of build up.

Some jokes fell flat or felt annoying and kinda cringe. That’s the territory of children’s movies though, so par for the course.

TLDR

Overall, this movie was a really fun watch and I’d love to go see it again. While some parts fall a little flat, the movie is lifted from mediocrity by its many Pros. From the stunning visuals, to the quick humor, to the tragic origins of two friends driven apart by their ideals, I’d recommend this movie to anyone interested in animation or the Transformers brand.

8.82/10

[paigeyssims2004]

spunch bop and his her friends⚓🌊🌺

(I would put credits but used way too many CC so...Thank you CC creators for making it possible to make these mfs)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Psssst, check the Drive folder! (you can prolly guess who this is) ;)

YO

[madness-poison-chat]

R is for raising a whole generation

I is for inspiration

P is for praise, power, prayers and paradise up in the big blue sky

Thank you. Amen. 💛💙💛

[naplicable]

YOOOOOOO BIG OLD 250! Can I have some more pls? Tanks! As an incentive, here's a video meme I edited (Volume Warning)

I also saw that my most recent post reached a funny number, but I didn't get the screenshot :sob: Regardless, thank you. And don't worry, Monika will return, -NA.

[assortedvillainvault]

Could we please get some headcanons for Hroned King with a witch/mage reader?

FUCK YEA WE CAN this is some GOOD SHIT

Horned King x Witch!Reader Headcannons:

Having heard tales of a powerful witch, you were captured (not without resistance) and brought to the King early on.

The men didn't want to go after you, so you were unceremoniously dropped into the throne room by Gwythent Express(tm). Say what you want but magic can't do much when being hunted by dragons.

His Majesty questioned you for hours, begrudgingly impressed with your resistance to the terror his appearance normally inspires.

You were quite literally shaking with fear, but he doesn't need to know that and you were very proud of the fact your knees didn't give out.

It's rare to find a skilled magic user - it's a profession with a LOT of judgement - and as the only other magic user you've met (other than your mentor) is the Horned King himself...you reluctantly get to talking.

And comparing.

And having staged matches in the cellar (not the one full of skeletons. Another cellar. It's a castle he has several.)

How long have you been here now? Too long, probably, but no-one misses a witch and His Majesty is treating you to more advanced magics than you ever managed to find in your shack in the woods. It's also nice to not be blamed for every little thing that goes wrong. That dubious honour belongs to Creeper and you've snuck him away to heal his bruises more than once.

He was disappointed to find that you wouldn't be able to assist with finding the Black Cauldron, but having you as an asset is better than killing you or exiling you from the castle. (not killing you when you can't help his One True UnLife Goal ((get some therapy Sire cHRIST-)) is the first sign you had that he actually wanted to keep you around. The second was when he broke a huntsmans fingers for daring to touch you.)

His very being pulls at your magical senses - he feels like a black hole, an unstoppable siphon taking in energy from the very air around him. He confirms to you one evening that his lichdom literally takes heat and life force from his surroundings, since he can no longer get energy from breathing or eating. It's why prolonged exposure to him makes people feel weak unless they have magical defences.

Out of curiosity, you ask what you feel like to him. He goes quiet, and doesn't respond until many weeks later, when he mistakenly assumes that you're sleeping by the window of his private library.

He gently lays his stole over your curled up form and you can't help but relax under the weight of the thick fur. His words are so quiet that you could honeslty mistake them for the breeze beyond the thick glass when he speaks.

"You feel like a star." Calloused knuckles gently brush an errant hair from your forehead. "Blinding, and unreachable."

You crack an eye open to watch him leave as your heart swoops inside your ribcage. Unreachable you say, Sire? Your fingers clutch the furs to your suddenly warm face. Bet.

[windupaidoneus]

having a pc tower sucks when it gets hot but boy is it practical when it gets colder ooo just close that window & let it warm you up bithc!!

[vecnuthy]

If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog!

Eee round two okay okay I've got this

I graduated high school in a class of 5, and one of them was homeschooled

My favorite flowers are and look like cosmos, anemones, and daisies

I minored in French in college et ça me manque

[ilajue]

HELLAUR ILA IT HAS BEEN A SECOND !! wanted to updatw yoy on the pet situation, no more jotaro pics but i got a cat !! his name is tintan and hes a menace the first pictures are when i first got him and the other ones are more recent

that is all for this jumpscare baybe time i hope you have a wonderful day or night !!!

~krabs :]

WAHH BABEY he's so cute I love him!! hope you're doing well krabs :3 I just got my doggies back recently so here's some pictures for you too

[luciferten]

[Photo ID: A smiling Mr. Krabs against gradiented pink to blue background spattered with Bikini Bottom flowers. Above and below him are the words, "congratulations sailor you made it to Friday!" In Spongebob font. :)

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[trebuchet151]

Hi! I just wanted to say, your art is beautiful! I'm so glad I found you through the Fallen Hero fandom, and can't wait to see more of Corey and get to know them better. They stole my heart.

Also I'm very curious about the kind of Rook you plan to play and who you'll romance!

Hi!!! Thank you so much!

I'm so happy you like Corey, theyre a very special OC to me so im glad I can share them with people now. I draw them lots but for some reason never render it like I do with my dragon age boys so theres a lot less of them on here. I should do a sketch dump

I'm planning on doing that build-a-rook template thats been going around the dragon age tags sometime soon but I can summarize him here for now.

Ithelanas is a dalish OC of mine I made to romance my lavellan inquisitor bc I was sad at the lack of dalish ROs. Eventually he developed beyond just being the inquisitor's boyfriend and now I'm planning on trying to make him be my Rook. Not sure that will work out lore wise, he's full of crazy self indulgent headcanons, so if theyre too specific with the backstories I'll probably make a different character for it.

Regardless, my Rook is gonna be a Dalish Veil Jumper and I'm torn between Bellara and Davrin for first romance!

[space-snowglobe]

Farewell Sweet Crabs 👋 🦀

I summoned 2,125 🦀, captured 165 💰, befriended 0 🌼, and 1 fell in love with me 💜. I will miss you my sweet crabs.

[digirainebow]

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the :N as an emoji concept and kbq kbq kbq kbq made me laugh like so true kbbq is just that good

anyway yeah, again, i did have a guess although you're right i suppose we'll see! >:) BUT A GIFT? omg to what do i owe....

[joffyworld]

KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB

when ur girlfriend has rlly long hair so u gotta lug it around wherever she goes…