#and had a lot of adult fans

[notfeelingthyaster]

i think what we're missing in the batman fandom is shitty 2000 jokes

[thedeadthree]

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[transformers-synergize]

if you were going to rate transformer synergize like a TV show or video game rating what would it be rated?

Well, with a comic rating, it probably be a T+ or 15+. I guess if you want a game or TV rating, it would be a T or TV14,

There is definitely some violence mostly towards robots, but humans/non-robot characters can get hurt as well. There's also some techno-organic Body Horror, and the insecticons are techno-organic so when they get hurt it's a little more than wires and broken metal, but Transformers comics are usually pretty violent in general, so idk if synergized would be about average, or maybe even less violent than your average tf comic, but it definitely would be less graphic mostly due to the art style.

Their occasional profanity, it’s mostly leaser swears like damn, crap, hell, or Transformers substitutes like scrap and frag. But if I feel the scene calls it, or it makes sense for a character to say you may find a rare fuck or shit.

There may sometimes be suggestive jokes, dialog, or implications, but nothing sexually explicit happens on page or is talked about in detail.

[autisticrosewilson]

If you brag about avoiding the comics/only watching the animated stuff and movies...just block me because I don't want you interacting with my page atp. If you haven't even read the most BASIC comics to understand a character then I just don't think you do and I don't trust anything you have to say.

"but in the animated universe-" don't care didn't ask. "Well I try to avoid the comics-" you don't even know what you're talking about. Genuinely you don't even have a leg in the race. This is a COMICS blog the discussion doesn't include you.

[charismawizard]

the real reason public safety doesn't pay for denji to get a therapist is because then he'd realize half the fuckin people they send to him are freaks who shouldn't be allowed within 20ft of a school.

[crossedwithblue]

El Higgins and Discworld comparisons

So I've seen a couple of comparisons between El and Tiffany, and to an extent I guess I agree - they're both young female YA-ish protags who are passionate about injustice. However, I'm not convinced that El really does weaponise her selfishness into a virtue the way Tiffany does - El (at least where I'm up to) is more about being crankily selfless despite her better judgement.

Which Discworld character does that remind me of a lot more than TIffany? Prickly? Aggressively practical? Expresses concern and affection via tough love? Tall, attractive in a scary way, with a death glare that could melt steel? Perhaps a tad arrogant about her own raw ability, or at least, not precisely humble? An unreliable narrator convinced that other people hang out with her only for whatuse she is to them, and continually surprised when someone wants her for who she is? Constantly battling not to take the easy path of becoming a monster, arguably despite a world determined to paint her that way? Has a himbo boyfriend she keeps trying to push away?

Am I describing El, or Granny Weatherwax?

(PLEASE no spoilers beyond the middle of book 2/Field Day, I am aware that the boyfriend situation has different outcomes in the two cases but it's still a parallel IMO.)

[lastdivantruther]

soukoku headcanons

[queenlua]

Ouran High School Host Club has aged extremely strangely, fyi

[x-rds]

That post about huge red flags from exes is going around and I’m like well mine requires some background reading

[gaydogmarriage]

alhaitham is such a lying liar who lies dude. acting like he and the sumeru boys gang have always been besties since forever. "that's how it's always been with the four of us" - man who has barely spoken to most of these people before he decided to team up with them to overthrow the government and regularly skips social gatherings with them. yeah right buddy ok

[tariah23]

I gotta get up for work rn but the original tweet………….. they’ve got to be joking at this point because while they are correct in some instances, they must’ve chosen some of the worst examples imaginable… Also, Why is Shigeki in the same category as Joshu and Alessi knowing how they are… he was just a greedy, fat kid. The others were literal creeps.

[cybertron-after-dark]

What are the humans like in wayward sparks? Are there any notable ones?

They're not necessarily as prominent in the story as they tend to be in any canon series that includes them, but they're definitely there. The bots spend the first arc just trying to survive on earth until they find a way home, and they have quite a few run ins with the locals. Most of which are relatively unhinged, many of which are not very friendly, because they crash in an itty bitty, rural new england mountain town called Ironwood, wayyyyy out in the sticks. Most residents aren't particularly afraid to fire at will when giant robot aliens decide to show up.

Least alien-friendly would be Rusty Williams, a local logger with one hell of a trigger finger for anyone and anything on his property he sees as a threat. Aliens, government agents asking a few too many questions, cops, whatever. All of them only get one warning.

Fortunately for the stranded Cybertronians, gunshots aren't really fatal or even particularly damaging long-term for giant robots that can put themselves back together if they sustain enough damage to fall to pieces. Unfortunately, they still do enough damage to tear through their outer armor layers and that tends to hurt like a bitch.

In the very least, there are plenty of humans around with their heads screwed on right that won't try to blast anything that looks at them funny. Like Rusty's Daughter, Crystal.

That said, Crystal is an elusive type. A middle schooler Going Through It, trying REALLY hard to be edgy so people stay away (hence the $2 Spirit Halloween horns headband), she'd really prefer to spend her free time hiding in the woods where nobody can perceive her. Thats been a little more difficult ever since a bunch of giant robots started stomping around out there and all they know about her is her dad is super cringe, so she's pretty scared of a bad first imprsssion.

She'd be lying if she said she didn't want to be friends with them (which she does lie about frequently because ew, genuine feelings), especially the Decepticons, because she thinks they're cooler, but she also knows her dad would flip his lid if he knew.

Also interested in approaching the Resident Aliens, is Marie Lambert.

Marie's only just recently moved into Ironwood. It's been a rocky transition to say the least. Her dad's a biologist, a real science-y type, and he moved out to the boonies to be closer to the wildlife. Marie's plenty used to being out in the sticks, camping trips with her dad were a regular occurrence before the move, but it's a little hard to get used to the new place when there aren't very many kids her age around. And the ones that are there aren't exactly very welcoming to flatlanders showing up taking over the place.

But in the very least, Marie makes ONE friend when she finds Crystal out in the woods. And a few more when they find what the adult residents of Ironwood have been telling them to stay the hell away from.

They don't approach them straightaway (mostly because their first encounter consists of watching Shockwave scare away Bumblebee, and Shockwave skulking off when he realizes he spooked the Autobot), but the next day at school they start Planning. They HAVE to know more about the robots, and they're willing to pool their resources and information to make that happen. They figure if there's two sides and they don't play nice with each other, it's easiest for one girl to pick one side and they tell each other whatever they can find out.

This begins several beautiful friendships

Marie chooses to gather info on the Autobots. Mostly because, well, they seem less scary and potentially friendlier. She tries the polite thing (which she's hoping will result in the least possible chance for things to go off the rails) and knocks right on their door. The bots aren't really sure how to respond to a very small, very shy alien critter that showed up right at their door to ask what they are and if she can hang out. Marie isn't sure if any of this was a good idea.

They turn out to be pretty welcoming, especially because organics that aren't actively shooting at them are a nice change of pace.

She gets especially close with Bumblebee. Hes comforting. Makes her feel like everything's going to be okay. She gets pretty anxious, and he's good at keeping her grounded. So far, anyway...

On Crystal's side, it's been... Well, it's been different.

The cons would not admit it on their deathbeds but good lord did Crystal scare the slag out of them when they first realized she was there. She snuck right on aboard their crashed ship and nobody noticed her for about 15 minutes.

After the initial scare, and a bunch of big bad giant robots scrambling around because there is a Tiny Squishy Critter in their Space and they do NOT know what to do about that, Crystal starts in trying to get answers. Answers most of the cons aren't particularly willing to give out (other than Shockwave, who is just very excited at the opportunity to make a new friend).

Megatron eventually deems her more or less harmless. She isn't really causing problems or hurting anyone, she doesn't appear to be hostile (other than hissing at Lugnut when he got too close), and he can't really fault the little gremlin for her curiosity. An ally in a foreign world can be very very valuable when you're stranded, so he lets her stay, "as long as she doesn't get in the way."

Marie and Crystal meet up at school during lunch to share notes. It gets confusing trying to keep track of everything when the two sides give conflicting information so often. The girls try to keep an open mind. Hard to remember things about someone you don't like, but they can't really figure out which version is true for any given story, but they're hoping if they spend enough time with their robot friends, they'll figure it out together.

Maybe they can even help the bots and the cons make up. It's just a silly fight, after all.

It's not like anyone's going to get hurt, right? They're all good people.

[its-hai-time]

Ok I don’t really get why people like this bluey show, isn’t it just like. A show for little kids. I’m genuinely asking what makes it more enjoyable than other stuff

I can't say for everyone, honestly, but I can give you why I personally love the show.

I grew up in.... a less than stellar home. Concerns brought to parents weren't taken seriously and emotions on my end were treated as invalid because my parents were only seeing from their adult perspective. Add on the fact that I was growing up in a religion that would leave me with intense trauma later. As I grow up I see more and more of my friends with these turbulent relationships with their parents. We as children were doing our best to understand our parents, but weren't being given that same respect back. It was really disheartening for a kid, realizing that your parents don't actually care about your perspective. It was a lot of screaming fights throughout my teenage years, trying desperately to make them see what I was seeing. They never did. I moved out at 18 to escape from it.

My best friend has had a much worse lot in life. A lot of intense abuse that I'm really not going to go into. What matters is we bonded over the fact that we felt completely invalidated in our homes and took it upon ourselves to be an escape for each other.

Enter: Bluey. This kid's show I was seeing clips of all over the internet. In these clips I saw parents that listened, kids that were happy and validated. A tight-knit family group that always cared about every perspective. A kick-ass mom and dad who made it a point to play along with their kids' goofiness. I saw proper connection. Most other kids shows don't portray this. Parents are often portrayed as the final authority figures, in Bluey they're people. They make mistakes that hurt their kids and then they make up for it. That's the point of the whole show. Whenever my best friend comes over to my apartment we sit down and watch episodes of Bluey. I've had some of them genuinely make me cry because I was watching an experience I was never able to have and it moved me so much.

That's why I like Bluey.

[4lph4kidz]

[novantinuum]

man speaking of connverse fankids i really do need to like. draw them eventually. they're relevant in my post canon OC riddled storyline, and all lmao. i even have names picked out for them already

Jason Quinn, Aanya, and Riya

Jason's the firstborn- they both choose the first name, and the middle name was Steven's idea. At first he was envisioning like... starting a 'Q' middle name tradition, but then in practice he and Connie both realized what a mouthful this kiddo's name is with their last names hyphenated, and. Because of that, the next kids don't have middle names at all.

Aanya and Riya, identical twins, come next- and are named after distant family members on Connie's side.

I like to imagine Jason as the very ordinary, straight laced one who ultimately grows up to have the most Ordinary Human life ever. Like. He ends up being an architect, or whatever. Idk. (There's some Internal Conflict with him, re: being the absolutely ordinary kid of two very extraordinary parents, I might delve into later, though.)

Whereas Aanya and Riya both end up pressing more towards the extraterrestrial aspects of their heritage, in various ways. Aanya ends up doing engineering work for humanity's leading space agency, and Riya is the pioneering researcher on the theoretics of post-gestation human-Gem hybridization.

[fuckedupwizard]

i'm glad of my time in the danmei fandom, there are some i still want to read since they're now being published as complete translations, and my favourite blorbo/his main ship will be important to me for my whole life probably. but i cannot in good conscience recommend the fandom to anyone... oh my god. it was the WORST!!! i don't think i've ever seen more discourse in my life, and the thing is, it's still going. character hate and people mistaking mild criticism for hate. the exact same people having virulent top/bottom discourse like, 4-5 years ago are still doing it. someone made a joke about a character being unhygienic bc they were a forever teenager and instead of ignoring it the fans chased them off twitter. people shipping a main character with a side character and getting harassed for disrespecting the author.... screaming. terminally online fandom.