#best gift ever if they did this

[stars-n-spice]

No actually,,

If the finale comes out and then they all somehow make it out alive and the producers and shit are like, "LOL APRIL FOOLS (a month late)" I think I will spontaneously combust.

[yardsards]

may you find someone that looks at you the way i look at my sword

[primus-why]

I Feel TFOne Could've Handled This Better...

Hot take but I feel like folks have been really generous with the take that OP was unable to find ~the perfect words~ in the heat of the moment (and thus should be given some grace) when he told D to stand down and "not be like Sentinel"... namely cuz I don't feel that the narrative supports this?

Like-- after all is said and done, OP doesn't reflect on that part of their split. He doesn't have a moment where he seeks validation or voices his regrets over the choice of his words, it's actually cut-and-dry. The narrative (as it stands) supports that OP saw D-16 acting up, so he called him out and stood on business, down to the last scenes where he's basically like "yeah it's a shame but y'all knew I had to do it to 'em."

It didn't have to be much! I'm not saying to absolve Megs, just show OP looking at things from a different perspective/contemplating a bit on that tough choice and the morality of the moment. Some examples of what I wish we had:

B-127 straight up blurting the obvious by later chatting with Orion like, "Wait so you told your best friend that he was acting just as bad as the guy who enslaved us for our entire lives and was torturing him like an hour ago? Oof. Seems kinda harsh." Then have some of OP's regret show on his face.

OP asking Elita-1 after Megs is banished if he did the right thing. Have Elita back his choice up, saying, "You should have seen what he did after you were... gone. It was terrifying. I know it was tough, but you made the right call." OP is grateful for the support, but a conflicted look still flashes across his face before he steels himself to look out towards the horizon... and the future.

Have OP walk past other mechs/former miners who didn't go with the High Guard saying stuff like, "Wish I could've given Sentinel a piece of my mind!" "Yeah, but I'm glad he's gone for good." "Ugh I miss everything." "Oh, it was crazy! Megatron picked him up and then he rrrrriiipped-- oops, hey there, Mr. Optimus... Prime... sir?" And have OP wave hello, looking a bit sick when they leave.

Post-credits scene with Starscream going on and on, asking Megs when they'll be back to teach the upstart Prime a lesson. Megs grabs his face to shut him up. "Patience, Starscream. The Prime thinks I'm no better than Sentinel... but I'll show him. He wants Iacon? He can have it. In the meantime we'll take the rest of the planet! Then I'll come back, crush Prime under my heel, and we'll take Iacon too. Sentinel's reign will barely be a footnote, because I'm about to become Optimus Prime's worst nightmare." The vocal performance would really need to sell this-- like picture Megs saying something like that from a place of anger and hurt, not so much a place of genuine evil or malice.

Basically instead of Orion's assertion being backed up as black and white/good vs bad, I wish we had some different opinions/reactions from the characters sprinkled in there. Like you can't tell me out of allllll the miners who weren't strong enough/willing to go with the High Guard and ended up sticking around that NONE of them were like "eyyo honestly?? Kiiiiinda glad Sentinel is dead. Wish I could have helped, tbh." like come onnnnn...

And you can't even argue that he's not an active threat-- I don't think everyone would see things that way! It's not just about the threat he physically has, but the threat he represents and is very likely to act upon if given the opportunity! He has a proven track record of not only being sneaky and conniving, but also capable of dealing some serious damage/killing people bigger and stronger than him, plus he has the backing of the Quints. All he'd need to do is wriggle his way out of jail and run off to his sponsors, then he'd probably be back to hurt more people! (If the Quints didn't just kill him out of incompetence lmao). There's a lot of "ifs" here, but I think it's a valid argument that not everyone would agree on what is the right or wrong way to handle Sentinel once he was down long enough to, like, do something about him.

I feel the situation needed a bit of nuance. In some way I wish they had kicked the can and had D and Orion bicker while Sentinel escaped, then have D get frustrated enough by the loss of Sentinel to point fingers (and his fusion canon) at Orion, who then falls and becomes OP. (Megs could still show some of thar emotion/remorse right after he does it too.) Not only would this open the door for a sequel, but tbh the Quint might have just killed Sentinel anyways and sought to deal with the miners uprising themselves lol. (Maybe that could have been an after credits scenes too instead of the B-127 bit??)

Would love to see a moment in a sequel where they have a calmer moment after arguing for a bit. Have OP mention how Megs was out of line, that it hurt and even scared him to see him act that way, and Megs can quietly point out "you said I was as bad as Sentinel... is that really how you see me? After everything we went through?"

Then OP can fumble the bag again lmao like "D, I... I'm sorry, that didn't come out right... but you still took things way too far..."

"Why am I not surprised-- your opinion is what matters the most! Maybe that's why you became a Prime, since you're so good at acting like the world revolves around you--!"

*gets interrupted by someone else before another yelling match ensues*

[fortjester]

don't wanna sound entitled or anything but i just think that if i'm gonna be getting gifts, it should be stuff i want. if it's just gonna be random shit you're crossing your fingers n hoping i'll like, i'm honestly not that jazzed abt it i'll be real. i'd rather not get anything if you couldn't genuinely think of anything you KNEW i'd like.

[slav-every-day]

[llondonfog]

two kids have made me think of baby silver recently

a little girl, two at most, bored out of her mind at the doctor's office. they were an hour behind at least, so every time she got restless, her dad would scoop her up and she would stick her little arms out and pretend she was flying.

a little boy dressed as a knight for halloween with his dog dressed as a princess. (maybe baby silver wrapping washclothes or fabric scraps around lilia's bats to give them capes and gowns?)

...so. i jammed these two together and wrote something.

also, what's your ao3? (so i can properly gift it to you)

POSTING THIS PUBLICLY BECAUSE I FINALLY READ THIS FIC AND

my exact face upon reading it oh my GOD 😭

my biggest weakness (not including lilia and baby silver interactions lmao) is silver's interactions with lilia's bats because you just KNOW that they dote on that boy, he's part of their colony, he's their beloved little baby wingless bat and they'll do anything to make him laugh and smile, he's absolutely spoiled by their affection and willingness to play with him 😭

and the way you wrote him being so gentle to the little bat, his personality shining through in how considerate he was in making sure his playmate had the most perfect and fitting cape!!! and god sorry but i'm foaming im deceased at lilia watching the scene of his baby boy, the lost prince, declaring fealty to a BAT of all creatures, to the very kind that his birth father participated in a bloody war against!! the fucking peace in his heart at watching this scene play out in the cottage that has become their home, the awe of knowing that he, lilia vanrouge, the ex-general of the right of briar valley, has come home to the domestic sight of a little boy playing pretend in his living room, and the next instinctual thing to do is to sweep silver up in his arms and let him experience the rush of flying from the safety of his embrace i'm sobbing it's OVER FOR ME

THERE IS SO MUCH LIGHT AND LAUGHTER AND LOVE IN THAT PRECIOUS LITTLE FOREST COTTAGE, SO MUCH DEVOTION BETWEEN THEM, AND I AM BESIDE MYSELF WITH GRIEF, HOW COULD YOU THINK TO WALK AWAY FROM IT LILIAAAA

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Shinichiro is so unwell from what he'd had to live through during Original Timeline that I'm convinced that if it hadn't been Baji, he'd have gone into killing-mode again on August 13th

[ratatatastic]

[linoyes]

can we get a luna pic 🥺

shes having the time of her life with an old converse box rn!!

u didnt ask for this but its a buy one get one special so here's max my lil old rat guy (price of snaggle tooth and drool beard not included in the special)

[sapphosboy]

no cause Ashley Johnson literally made eye contact with me at the SD Comic Con panel. I got so excited I did a little wiggle and she thought it was so cute and she got all excited back and did a little wiggle too. It was the greatest moment of my life. I peaked 

[adore-gregor]

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[lostusagis]

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@jiraipink

[kathrynmjaneway]

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[dooxliss]

note for the unaware: 100 gold coins = $1 and i have 625 so whatever i get will detract $6.25 from the total price

[jackass-jones]

Man i watched the spongebob movie for the first time in ages the other day and god it’s like the most delightful movie ever made like it’s exactly what you want a movie adaptation of spongebob to be

[savage-rhi]

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