#UPON THIS WE CAN ALL AGREE

[transingthoseformers]

I feel like Soundwave would be the most prone to human adoption of the Decepticons. We are cassette sized.

Tbh you are right

And I'm considering the idea of Soundwave bringing a human to the decepticon base and it's Such A Time for everyone involved

[cable-salamdr]

Wwait wait wait. so. There’s people who genuinely hate Harumi but love Morro? Do people not realise they are literally the same except for the fact that Rumi manipulated Lloyd for a bit while Morro just straight up possessed him? What

[blessedchaosgod]

Snow White really managed to piss off Regina AND Mulan in the same life like how is she alive rn

[ask-thearchivists]

Earth is a terrestrial planet, despite 70% of it's surface being covered in water. It has a molten iron core, and has existed for about 4.5 billion years. It's the third planet out from it's star (a yellow dwarf).

The Cartologist: Oooh, interesting, is there more?

The Cartologist: Oh, is that what the song about cheese comes from?

The Coordinator: Yes, mortal planets that have had life for a long time do tend to experience multiple extinction events, which is one of the reasons it is important we tend to our duties.

[uncanny-tranny]

It's actually wild that "derivative" is used as a disparaging term for often small artists, when... almost every artist is derivative to some extent - even the most grandiose of authors, or the person who snatches the world and throws it into his canvas.

Deriving your art from the world you live in is just the name of the game. Now, it is true that you can do this seamlessly, and you can also do it in such a way that is "messy," but I find it odd that people think of deriving your art from a source is inherently negative. We all take inspiration from somewhere. We are not an island.

[supurman]

[anabetel35]

Going Crazy over Vania/Harumi again. Especially Harumi's-redemtpion-arc Vania/Harumi.

Harumi who spent most of her life either acting or being driven by her hatered and anger alone. Who reached a point in her (second) life where she doesn't need to act because there is no one to decieve and where her anger has no clear target. Where she doesn't have anyone to devote herself to, to base her entire being on. A ruler of nothing but herself, with more strength than she can handle.

Vania who spent so much of her life being true to herself and acting with love and care towards everyone who came her way and didn't strike first. Who looked on as her only remaining family tried to kill her heroes, terrorized two whole nations and then tried to take over the world. Who was cast into a life where she has no one to fall back on by her side and a kingdom with twice as many people as it did during her father's rule and twice as many problems, too. A ruler of so many with so few rescources and even less experience.

Harumi who lost her family to an evil beyond the control of the ninja and who chose to pin the blame on humans and not destiny -- on beings that she knew that she could hurt if she only tried hard enough.

Vania who lost what little she had left of her family to an evil beyond the control of the ninja and who chose to pin the blame on evil itself, her father, destiny -- anything and everything, just so that she wouldn't end up hurting anyone who didn't deserve it at all.

Harumi who spent so much of her life actively choosing to hate.

Vania who spent so much of her life actively trying to love.

And then they meet. Both princesses. Both sure that they should despise each other, because they stand (or stood) for opposite things.

But then Vania's reluctant attempts at only partially judging Harumi for what she did, at being polite but not mean, turn into being kind and a bit smitten. Harumi's determination to become a good person (or someone who does some good, at least) drives her into appreaciating Vania, slowly but surely placing her on the same pedestal that she devoted to the Overlord and Garmadon before him.

Vania, raised by a single father, lonely upon an ivory throne of problems, starts to fall for the girl who gives her advice on managing a population. Who reminds her that she needs to rest in order to be as strong as she possibly can. Who teaches her to have a steady hand, somehting that she might need help with sometimes.

Harumi, someone who's never let herself be properly liked by someone so real, a love so true as Vania's, begins to adore the girl that teaches her how to be a teenager even despite their postions -- even despite the fact that one of them is a queen and the other is the ex-right hand of two evil overlords. The girl that doesn't hesitate to communicate how she feels. That offers Harumi a shoulder to lean on.

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

Karlach and Sera are the "they put us in different universes because they knew we would be unstoppable as best friends" kinda characters, methinks

[niteshade925]

“楼下一个男人病得要死，那间隔壁的一家唱着留声机，对面是弄孩子。楼上有两人狂笑；还有打牌声。河中的船上有女人哭着她死去的母亲。

人类的悲欢并不相通，我只觉得他们吵闹。”

--鲁迅，《小杂感》

"On the floor below me there's a gravely ill man, his next door neighbor is playing something on their vinyl record player, while across the hallway another neighbor is busy taking care of their child. On the floor above me there are two people laughing hysterically; there are also sounds of an ongoing card game. In a boat on the river there's a woman crying for her deceased mother.

Humans' emotions and feelings are not mutually connected, I just thought they were noisy."

-- Small Collection of Random Thoughts, by Lu Xun

[marauderingminnie]

So much of the current marauders fandom controversy wouldn’t even exist if people just tagged their posts right 😭😭

[virtual-minotaur]

i still think its the funniest thing ever of that post to only take parfaits as the arbiter of france existing in the shrek universe when the movie has robin hood's first line be in french. and the evil queen in shrek 3 wants to open a spa in france.

i know shrek movies are not taken seriously as movies but the shrek universe makes it very obvious that europe and mexico exist also (not just france) .

[chaosordoffl]

evangelicalism is a mental disease what do you mean "god promised them that land" so the occupation is fine

[no1ryomafan]

In my constant brain rotations of “why are people in the west so hard on mecha aside from the fandom can be a bit unfriendly” I think one thing I realized as much as I hate to say is how mecha is sometimes treated remind me of the constant hatred superhero stuff gets.

It’s such a weird comparison because with mecha I do not know what the root of it was-and I’d love to know why but I feel there’s either no clear answer or there is one and it’s stupid-where as for superheroes in the west while there’s still a dedicated community the mainstream audiences have become tired of them due to over-saturation, which I understand, but it’s caused such a massive dismal to the entire genre of it much like mecha.

People think superhero stories can’t have any substance because it’s all about fighting and not about the characters- yet forget the SIGNIFICANT impact they had to so much pop culture. How superhero stories were rooted within comic popularity, how superheroes inspired countless of stories, even so far as reaching japan since so much early anime was taken off of western media which birthed its own genre of superheroes. It’s no different to how mecha help started up the anime industry making it one of the most important genres to japans history, yet most people don’t know it and belittle it.

Yet in superhero story cases it’s even WORSE when people are against it yet then go to see one superhero movie because it’s animated and put it on a pedestal and don’t bother to try other superhero content even though they consumed is no different from the norm. It’s the exact same shit when people watch eva and then think all other mechas don’t compare to it, when the genre always had darker, mature and emotional elements, just only a select few decide to canter to a audience who doesn’t even accept what genre it’s from which makes it all the more frustrating to deal with.

I’m someone who’s hardly into superhero stuff even if some of it catches my eye but it sucks to see that the situation is pretty identical to how mecha is seen, that I can’t help to feel sympathetic whenever I see some comic book fans upset at the mainstream audience even if they too can be a little hostile.

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

Honestly no fandom does cognitive dissonance like Star Wars. Say what you will about Supernatural, but not only does half the fanbase actively despise the actual star wars content, but there are entire corners of fandom dedicated to OCs or characters with five combined minutes of screentime. I do think not just that any given Commander Fox stannie could take a Supernatural fan the fuck out, but that it would be cruel to pit them against each other, like putting a naughty housecat against a rabid street cat. Clone enjoyers, ESPECIALLY Coruscant Guard fans, have been Goncharoving their own lore together with a coherence that most of you could only dream of long before that shoe was in the spotlight. The general consistency of it is frightening, despite the thousands of variations every writer would have, the one true connecting thread is that it was DEFINITELY not how it worked in canon. Corrie Guard people were just an entirely different breed of batshit, at that point they should've just crowdsourced a scp type thing entirely separate from sw. Star Wars is several smaller fandoms in a trenchcoat and they're all trying their best to ignore each other, but inside each sub-fanbase is many warring factions all arguing very loudly 24/7, all of it held together with duct tape and Obi Wan Kenobi & R2D2.

[dandyshucks-moving]

junebug having a low energy/high exhaustion day but wanting to do a bunch of things still bc theyre so restless and bored VS guz trying to make sure they rest because he's so worried about them all the time: the epic showdown of the century

[asmoonlightthroughthepines]

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