#and probably not explained properly

[gin-juice-tonic]

I deleted that last post because frankly I got embarrassed. But ultimately, I really would like to know if the new journal pages are suspicious on purpose.

Them being fake pages made by Bill is a theory I believe quite heavily in, and in my opinion there's a decent amount of evidence for it. It feels percentage-wise very few people agree. But I guess I just want to say, it's not that I'm just out here grasping at straws to discount a book I didn't like. What we know Ford to be like, what we know Bill to be like, and most importantly what we know journal 3 to be like, those are what the theory is driven by.

When I first looked at TBOB for myself, I got to the second page of the journal pages and the perception that I was reading pages written by Ford himself was shattered instantly. It was not repaired through the entire rest of the pages. When I was sitting around at work later, the next day after I had finished reading, I was struck in my mind by a bit in Ford's final message. "He's making it all up as he goes along." I know people have different readings of the meaning of that line, but for me that's what made me feel like maybe there's something to all this.

Suddenly it wasn't just "This book sounds nothing like Ford..." But rather "Maybe this book sounds nothing like Ford... because it isn't supposed to." And I started realizing stuff. Like "Hey... wasn't Ford drawn super incorrectly here?", or "Could this part really have happened?", or "Does this page make sense to even exist?". "What is it that creates such a strong sense of dissonance to these pages?" I have kept digging into more and more of what felt wrong ever since.

If you read through them without feeling like anything was off, or if there was it wasn't something you felt to be important, it makes sense my theory would not be for you.

But I believe in it.

And if I had my own chance to ask Alex, I would.

(Update: if you haven't seen the additions I made to this post, I ask you read them too)

[cacturnia]

Chili Bean!

[mechanismmadness]

Drumbot Brian regularly takes out his spine and just cleans it with a brush (like those big brushes for,, horses? I think they're for horses)

[stardustamaryllis78]

One thing I was thinking about is how reserved Aaravos was in the past. It seemed for a while that he became very charismatic after his trauma but like I've stated in a previous post, I think a lot of that is masking his true "self".

In season 7, when Aaravos has his guard down around Claudia, I've noticed a lot of the time, he's very quiet and reserved as a person. And as an added bonus, he's very dorky too! He's that perfect mixture 💖 Its just a shame that Startouch baby boi is extremely depressed and on a mission of taking down an unjust order/vengeance because that masking is overshadowing the fact he's a real sweetheart deep down 😭💖🙏

[zero-aves]

Ashswag & LifestealLord (or just Lord as my brain calls them) autism creatures

[quibbs126]

Something that’s been bothering me, in Cyberverse Season 1 we hear about the Decepticon cause being made because Megatron wanted to fight against and change the corruption on Cybertron

But like, we never actually saw any of that in the flashbacks. Best you can say is Starscream having a high opinion of himself due to being a jet (or at least that’s what I think was going on? It was something about Starscream and being a jet), but you can also assume Starscream’s just being an ass, not that this is a systemic issue on Cybertron. Outside of that, everyone seems to have been doing fine, they got along and everyone was vibing and having fun, going to Cube games and chilling at Maccadam’s, going out to do some racing on a vacation to Velocitron

I do suppose we were limited to only seeing things that Bee witnessed himself, but he was there for other important events before war was declared, we could have seen some more evidence that things were bad on Cybertron before the war and why Megatron and Optimus were so intent on changing things

As it is, it feels more like telling and not showing, and I don’t really understand why the Decepticon cause was needed in the first place. Well I mean I do, but that’s because I know the story in other continuities, not because Cyberverse told me

And if I can pivot slightly, I feel like this is an issue in other shows as well. Earthspark barely went into the backstory of the war at all, only making vague allusions like the “lower-class” remark and Orion Pax getting the Matrix (which honestly I don’t remember why he got at all and if it was related to the war). And yes, Earthspark was about moving forward after the war, but also the show wanted to portray Decepticons in a more neutral light, allowing them their second chances to do better after the war. Not to mention Megatron switching sides due to realizing how far he’d strayed from his original cause. I don’t feel like telling the Terrans the original causes of the war would be out of question, it makes all the sense. Also if we’re trying to portray the Decepticons as not being pure evil, explaining the horrible conditions that drove them to starting it would do wonders. Megatron is here, he can tell the Terrans with all the correct info if the Autobots can’t

Prime also has this problem, but I’m willing to give it a lot more leeway because it was part of the Aligned continuity, which was made up of more than just this one show, and Transformers Exodus I’m told went into this backstory a lot more. So okay, it’s explained somewhere. Though personally, I wish we went into this backstory a bit more in the actual show, because all I know from it was that Megatron was a gladiator fighting for change, Orion Pax met him and agreed, then they proposed their ideas for change to the Senate and it caused them to split. I don’t actually know why they were fighting for change. Again, I know Exodus did and it was around at the same time as the show, but we don’t all have access to Exodus. And honestly it might be the reason the other shows don’t go into it much either, despite it being the only one with an excuse

Like I think this annoys me because it feels like the shows expect you to know the general backstory so we don’t have to go into it. But you’re supposed to tell us this, especially when this isn’t like Batman or Superman’s origins where everyone knows the backstory of the war

I know what the backstory is, but not because these shows told me. It’s because Emperor Kumquat told me in a YouTube video where he was explaining the Aligned backstory from Exodus, while making the point that people who only watched Prime wouldn’t know all of this. How was I supposed to know this information if I hadn’t?

And to go back to Cyberverse, I can make excuses for Prime and Earthspark; both were set long after the war started and Prime especially didn’t have much reason to go into it outside of what it did. But not only did Cyberverse have the means to show us corrupt pre-war Cybertron vis Bumblebee’s flashbacks in Season 1, it had at least a little leaning to making the Decepticons more sympathetic. They are still for the most part antagonistic, but it did make the point that Optimus originally agreed with Megatron, we had bots on both sides getting along during peace talks and Windblade being angry at Slipstream’s killer, had most of the main threats not be Megatron’s forces that had the two sides forced to team up, and by the latter half of Season 3, had Megatron be more heroic, with him saving the day from the Quintessons and wielding his own Matrix of Leadership, and working to stop the other him that he knows is coming to reclaim his Matrix. They aren’t at Earthspark Season 1’s level, but they weren’t making the Decepticons pure evil either. So I feel like we should really see what it is they were fighting for originally

[off-the-rails-raccoon]

Any clingyduo headcanons? Or any duos in general

I can't think of much of anything currently but I have been thinking of the fact I don't know how to tie a tie so I just went with that lol

Whereas cTommy had cWil to teach him basic necessities like how to tie a tie for a suit, cTubbo only ever had a negligent, drunkard father before he and cTommy met. Hearing this, cTommy took it upon himself to be the one to try and teach cTubbo how to tie a tie always help him when he struggled, which was often.

Eventually it became a routine for them to put on their suits in the same room so cTommy could get help with the small buttons—which he struggled with because of his perpetually shaking hands—and cTubbo would get help with the tie.

This routine abruptly ended both times cTommy got exiled. Luckily cTubbo could pass on not wearing a tie the first time around, being not too high of a position in the office to worry about looking that professional, but the second time he wasn't so fortunate.

When cTubbo would come into office with a loose, messy tie the week after cTommy was exiled everyone assumed it was due to his grief. The next week it was shrugged off as stress. The next month a rumor had started that the president had inherited his supposed father's drinking habits, and it was this rumor specifically that gave cRanboo enough courage to pull cTubbo aside one day and offer help to fix his tie and properly explain how to do it, or at least better than cTommy could.

thats all i got, im too tired to add more or come up with a coherent ending, sorry !!

[ballcrusher74]

also uggh sorry to rant here rq ( might delete later if my dumbass dont forget ) but tbh this has kinda been bouncing around my mind where I only restrict having oc art / lore / etc on this blog cus dude it's honestly really demotivating to just have it flop really badly on twt.

yas, ik likes / views shouldn't equal worth but I think you gotta understand that getting a fanart piece to 1.7k, and then posting artwork of ur oc and it barely breaking 100 is actually saddening cus it's like. damn. ( only exception seems to be meiro tho but i kiinda wish my other guys also got just as much love )

idk and honestly the most interest I've seen in my guys is on here ( there are some people on twt but most of it is literally just my friends ) maybe I'm being dramatic about this and this is like. dumb and i'm asking for too much out of randos in my computer screen but idk man

fuck my chud life

[nihilean]

we need to remake that queercoded characters: Gabriel vs Miles edgeworth poll but have Gabriel actually be fucking described properly and WHY he's so queercoded instead of the absolute joke of a description he got against miles fucking "teehee they're kissing and we're soooooo going to hell for this teeheehee" capcom edgeworth who somehow did get a good and exhaustive description (actually anything is better than a description that lasts three mobile phone app lines tops where half of it is a jokey epression)

[maxaroniiiii]

echoes of wisdom takes place in the downfall timeline the maps and stuff line up

the zelda team has just added stuff like gerudo and gorons from previous games that werent in alttp because they werent really a thing in zelda yet and theyre probably expected and stuff

[ujunxverse]

i got back from seeing ateez yesterday and i think my pre frontal cortex is developing as we speak cos tell me why i felt so disgusted abt writing yn fics like these men are real people rpf suddenly became so weird to me…..

[arolesbianism]

I wanna take a crack at making some fake screenshot graphics for my Sif Odile duo loopers au but I do not feel confident enough in my ability to mimic isat's art style and I also have a crippling fear of drawing backgrounds

[infizero]

i cant phrase this well but infinity train book 2 is for the aroace transgenders. lake transgenderism is obvious but nothing in my life has screamed to me queerplatonicism as much as lake and jesse like their qpr readings are off the fucking charts

[musubiki]

lime has such a special place in my heart. like hes such a prominent character in the story and even though he was one of the first ones made i still have a hard time finding something to do with his arc that is satisfying to me and brings justice to him as a character,.,

[thethingything]

does anyone else ever get delusions that aren't particularly well defined, for lack of a better description?

like I know for us, the way we normally describe delusions is more "this is a thing that feels very real whether I choose to believe it or not. I can decide that it sounds ridiculous and impossible, but that just feels like being in denial about something that's very obviously happening", but sometimes it feels like a thing is happening but I can't quite pinpoint what it is other than just the vibe of it being a particular kind of delusion.

there'll be the sense that it's definitely a specific type of thing, but no concrete details about the exact nature of it. I feel like I see delusions described a lot as being really specific beliefs and I do experience that, but there's also stuff that's more "something related to this sure is happening but the details are a complete mystery" and a hell of a lot of stuff that's somewhere in between

[i-like-anything-water]

after meeting my current partner I realized something very important which i thought wasn't that much big of a deal back then when I was dating other people:

I thought I didn't want kids because I could never be a mother figure, turns out I do (want kids) but I'm just a dad figure.