#but in the same vain

[technically-human]

Confessional... things get complicated when you're a ghost.

@i-am-as-normal-as-you-are asked for, and this is a literal quote, "R!Edwin going to a confessional (full angst)" so yeah... full angst indeed.

[ollierachnid]

Coloured renditions of my initial swapped-ghostbusters au, now featuring the rest of them!

(I will explain roles/dynamics at some point soon, I swear, but my main note is that the key aspects of the characters' personalities remain consistent with canon and so changes have been made to the narrative to fit better)

[pjxckson]

Lambert and Aiden

very much inspired by the beautiful writings of @inexplicifics

[sharky857]

Sir? Excuse me, sir? Who gave you the right to look this dashing, sir?

[ID: Three screenshots of Amir Beckett taken from the in game arsenal and cropped to show only his close up. The images show the character in three different angles while seemingly wearing Aoi's makeup, due to an in game visual bug. /END ID]

[sannencarts]

Y'know what they say, the couple that blasphemes together stays together

[starredforlife]

obligatory butchtober post ig !!!

[wispforever]

hidan and kakuzu share thoughts on religion

[akalegos]

the idea that all of rvb could still just be some guys in their mid to late 20s playing halo together makes me giddy

[immult]

i'm sorry did i just heard that Right. vespin chloras the greatest villain in history looks imogen dead in the eye and say we're more similar than you think?

vespin chloras when he dragged asmodeus into the realm with the Good Intention to replace him so that the world is less nefarious and imogen temult when she becomes predathos' vessel with the Good Intention to let the pantheon of exandria live so the people in it were no more abandoned than they already were.

sad that good intention is a telltale that a Calamity is arriving.

[pichiicake]

My annual OC reference dump for ArtFight!

[lord-squiggletits]

Reread/skimmed my oldest Pharma apologism posts (mainly the ones about Pharma not being a functionist) and it just occurred to me that possibly another reason the fandom saddled Pharma with the "functionist bigot" label is because his introduction by First Aid says that everyone hates Decepticons, but Pharma really really hates Decepticons. Mix that with the portion of the fanbase that lionizes and whitewashes the Decepticons, and I can easily see it entering common fanon that "Pharma hates Decepticons -> the Decepticons are freedom fighters wrongly maligned by the Autobots/the franchise -> Pharma must be a bigoted functionist since he hates Decepticons who represent freedom."

The simpler explanation is just that Pharma is an antagonist and therefore gets the "everything about him must be evil and wrong" black-and-white analysis so common in fandoms in general, but given some of the bizarre Decepticon takes I've seen I can also easily see Pharma's Decepticon hatred being taken as a sign of him being bigoted and evil.

Though AGAIN in this case it would still be singling Pharma out as a bigot for crimes/flaws that multiple other Autobots are guilty of like.

Oh, Pharma hates Decepticons? Well a lot of other Autobots hate Decepticons too, First Aid's narration about Pharma even says "we all hate Decepticons"; for that matter, there are a lot of Decepticons who hate Autobots. It's a massive civil war that's lasted for a lifetime causing two groups of people to be stuck in a near-permanent blood feud, you can't assume that every Autobot who hates Decepticons (and vice versa) hates them because they're a bigot. Maybe there's been a war where both sides have been building an ever-increasing mountain of reasons to hate each other, so hating the opposite faction is a social problem caused by war and politics rather than a sign of individual moral failing.

Pharma worked at the New Institute so that means he must be evil/bigoted? Chromedome and Brainstorm also worked at the New Institute, but there's no widespread fandom shunning of them or headcanoning them as bigots.

Hell, even the very premise of assuming Pharma is a functionist bigot for hating Decepticons is ignoring the very premise of Pharma's motives, which are, uh... being blackmailed by the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division, who represents the ultimate form of Decepticon ideals to the point of literally wearing their symbol as his mask? So how were we jumping straight to "oh Pharma hates Decepticons bc he's a posh bigoted functionist" when there was a far more immediate interpretation/headcanon of "Pharma hates Decepticons because he's being tortured and blackmailed by one."

That's not to say that Pharma couldn't have hated Decepticons before Delphi, and I think you could make interesting headcanons/extrapolations based on either idea. But still. It kinda feels like people saw Pharma and just wanted to make him the Token Evil Autobot who's the opposite of our Good Heroic Autobots regardless of whether evidence from canon supported it or not.

Good riddance to bigoted functionist Pharma fanon, I'm so glad that the majority of Pharma fanon these days actually gives him a chance and puts him on equal footing as other Autobots.

[multiseb21]

casually showing off that he doesn’t have a bald spot is a form of high-level psychological warfare

[sillydeimos]

Please please please talk jeb 24/7 hours jeb forever yes. The jeb guy (that's you) share his wisdom ? Haunt the jebble. say whateveryou want. He deserves it #Deserved I need him in a hydraulic press. Playing fetch with his halo and possessed by the visions. I'm being incomprehensible for fun this is an invitation to say whatever you want about him

what have i become....

[dallasgallant]

Everytime someone calls:

American Graffiti or The Outsiders

1950s an angel loses its wings

[callistocrescent]

have the biggest soft spot for when ppl depict bill cipher praying and/or pleading to the axolotl cus from what we know that is literally just god. and it's so humbling too since the image that we get from bill (and the one he paints himself as) is that he's all powerful, all seeing, all knowing and to see him cower under actual GOD is just unbelievably human and degrading. bcus even the most prideful will be stripped of their ego once faced with the utter truth

[adiraofthetals]

"Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddammit time." - Cooper Howard | The Ghoul