#but there are more people. so presumably more stuff?

[thethirdromana]

I'm curious about something very brief that happens in Dracula, and the contemporary etiquette concerning it. In the final chapters, Mina receives 2 gifts. One is from her husband, his own gun, and then she gets a MacBook Air traveler's typewriter from Quincey Morris, who bought it for her. Like from a word from our sponsors, Mina stops to praise the inventor of it, talk about how useful and innovative this new technology is, and how much it will serve her to blog while traveling.

Then I remembered when I read a late Victorian etiquette manual (Manners And Customs of Polite Society) where it said that a a man should not give anything more expensive than small tokens and flowers to a lady, because it could be perceived as a bribe for her affections, but I presume that was about gifts while the lady is not engaged/married. I didn't come across something about women who are already married and getting more expensive gifts from men who are not family. Mina and Jonathan don't have a reaction that indicates that the gift-giving from Morris was improper (unlike, for example, when Mina points out that it is deemed "scandalous" that she's with Van Helsing on a carriage together). So I wondered if you know if it was acceptable for a male friend to go to somebody's wife and buy her something fancy? I know that slights to honor are emphasized in the etiquette stuff I have read, especially about men.

This isn't something I knew much about, but I found a couple of different etiquette books (both American, but I would be surprised if this differed much across the Atlantic).

(Hand-Book of Official and Social Etiquette and Public Ceremonials at Washington)

(Manners, culture and dress of the best American society)

Reading between the lines, I think this just translates to "don't give or accept gifts in such a way that signals you might be open to an affair". My best guess is that Quincey's gift is unconventional, but acceptable within the spirit of standard etiquette, if not within the letter.

I think it's also important to remember that etiquette manuals describe the ideal, not the norm. This is the equivalent of, say, the modern idea that if you want a serious relationship, you shouldn't have sex until the third date (do people still say that?). It's an outer bound on respectability but not necessarily what was usual.

Separately, on Mina's comment that her being in the carriage with Van Helsing is scandalous, I strongly suspect that for Mina and Van Helsing to share a carriage alone together is actually fine in isolation. I think the scandal that Mina is concerned about is the implication from them travelling together that they will then be spending the night together. If for some reason Van Helsing was escorting Mina to a hotel where she would be reunited with Jonathan for the night, my guess is that would be fine.

I might be completely wrong about this! (I am not an expert). But that feels more consistent with what I know about Victorian norms.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

hey miss raven!! I was wondering if you knew anything about the weird (at least in my opinion) system in twst that just got introduced to eng servers

I’m talking about the event flashback, I have no problems with the system itself- in fact I think it’s pretty awesome considering I stopped playing for about a years time irl, it allows me to catch up on events I missed

you see, when I started playing twst again, the game was nearing the end of the playful land event, so I wasn’t able to fully enjoy it (I could watch it on YouTube, but I think that takes the joy out of immersing yourself into the game) this is why when the event flashback update come to eng servers I was rlly happy about it only to realize playful land isn’t even one of the events you could play (among others)

I could see why they left out the culinary crucible events, but I’m a bit confused on why they would leave out playful land, cloudcalling on the savanna, the stitch event, and even tsumderland. (I believe these all came on out eng server alr, pls correct me if I’m wrong)

(the tsum event may be an exception to some people since it’s heavily battle based instead of story but they included Sam’s new year sale events- all of them I believe- so it doesn’t make sense why they wouldn’t also include this one? They’re both similar in terms of their battle and story ratio)

I’ve tried researching a bit myself but couldn’t come up with anything, complete nada, was wondering if you knew OTL

If you don't see certain events listened in the Event Flashback feature, it's intentional. Not all past events are currently viewable.

In the official Twst EN third anniversary announcement, they list which events will be viewable:

Presumably, the others will be added in another batch at a later date. This is also the case for JP, which also still doesn't have events like Cloudcalling on the Savanna/Tamashina Mina avaliable in Event Flashback yet.

Generally, events that are fairly new or haven't had a rerun yet aren't in Event Flashback, and nor are events that just wrapped up immediately added in Event Flashback. Events that won't have a rerun (like the New Years Sales, which are annual) are, however, usually added.

I think what's most likely going to happen is that JP (which is coming up on its 5th anniversary shortly) will have an update to the Event Flashback feature to offload more events. EN, however, is usually a year or so behind in terms of these quality of life updates. New stuff for Event Flashback might come at the EN 3.5 or 4th year anniversary.

[craigularory-joe]

Day 9

[transgenderer]

i don't think love songs would be much out of place in most of history! certainly in many (most? almost all? metric on cultures...) cultures marriage from passionate love was not the norm. but, from what i've read, it seems like "young people who fall in love and refuse to be married to anyone else" are a known phenomenon, you have to deal with them!

in particular thinking of "village life in late tsarist russia", where arranged marriages are the norm but passionate marriages are a known phenomenon. i believe a similar phenomenon is discussed in we, the tikopia. and tahitians as described by levy have social institutions remarkably similar to modern dating (series of monogamous sexual-romantic relationships in youth, followed by living with a partner, and if you are compatible, staying together), which i THINK are not significantly influenced by western dating norms, altho he's studying them late enough that they could have been. the mbuti seem to often do love marriages rather than arranged marriages. also while india famously has a tradition of arranged marriage, they also have a long tradition of passionate marriages in fiction

it's true that in all these cultures marriage was centrally an economic institution. but it's complicated, right, it's not JUST an economic institution, it's also someone you have children with, and are physically intimate with, and spend a lot of time together with. and in fiction/music, where economic concerns fade away, the aspects more resembling modern relationships come to the fore

ANYWAY for history of music, there's tons of old love music! the ancient had lots of love songs, most famously sappho but there's lots of bits of it. there's a love poem in the bible, song of songs! (presumably sung? i mean. given the title). then there's the medieval courtly love theme, which also found expression in song. this is courtly love, so it's a bit different from companionate love of course. but music is more about feeling than the specific arrangement, and the feeling of courtly love, of devotion and unworthiness and all that, still very much extant. and apparently love songs did even better during the renaiisance (now shifted away from courtly love). the hunter-gatherer fiction/songs i know is usually stories/myths rather than about emotions... archilochus was famous for being the first in the greek tradition to write primarily about this own feelings, rather than about epics and stuff. so i guess we shouldnt expect love songs to have existed in the early greek tradition... there's the shiu-sin love poem, 4000 years old, but that's kind of a weird case. rumi is maybe the most famous persian poet, and love poems were one of his main things! im having trouble telling if they were traditionally set to music. i think so, but not sure

it's strange, right? the institution of pairing has been so variable throughout history, but it seems there is an emotion, not always associated with long-term pairing, that has remained the same, at least in its intensity, the terrible highs and lows

TL,DR: its popularity has waxed and waned but i think the love song, meaningfully similar to our modern love song, has been one of the main types of songs for at least the last 2000 years

it's already kinda weird that our society's idea of romance and marriage is overwhelmingly western individualism style romantic love ("the companionate marriage ideal"), which was not the historic norm, and today it struck me as very weird that the companionate marriage ideal is the dominant theme in the pop music you cannot escape when you go out in public

it's hard to make a historical comparison since "music, playing everywhere" is a new phenomenon, but my understanding is that if you somehow gave the "music everywhere all the time" power to a randomly chosen pre 18th century society, they'd probably play religious music? or work songs, or epic poems?... these are guesses, I don't read much about music or history (after hunter gatherer times anyway)

so I just wanted to appreciate being in this pretty weird situation, where the public ~aural sphere~ is saturated with a theme that would strike most humans throughout time as marginal or alien

[ganondoodle]

the company i work for decided that its switching from the german formal "You"(Sie) to the informal "you" (Du) in all of our websites so now we have to scour the entire database to change it and i quite frankly hate that, not just bc the unecessary extra work but especially bc its such a weird and unecessary change

i bet its bc everything here is getting englishfied (both literally and culturally it feels like, when my new boss talks its half in english bc every second german word is just replaced by an english one despite there being perfectly fine words for it in german too, its so annoying) and bc they want to sound more personal in hopes of getting more clients bc 'company is your fwiend uwu!!', i know this here is the amercian tm site so you wouldnt understand really but i do not want to be greeted with 'du' by companies, no, thats too personal, you dont know me and im not giving you my data, stay away!!

i guess thats how i would describe it .. the formal you is like a polite distance, like someone you dont know staying outside your personal space, but when its the informal 'you' it feels invasive unless i told you you can call me that, and that goes double for companies

maybe its a small thing that doesnt seem important but i cant stand it, im just a little part time worker doing data work so i got no say in it but the companies founder also announced hes giving his post to his kids some time ago so ...... since then theres been alot of changes and new projects that solely aim to imitate whats popular and whats done by other companies, despite ours being one that is, or used to be, intentionally different, like, that was the POINT, but i guess chasing trends is just too appealing for CEOs

[wherevenusholdssomeofficespace]

Linda Flynn-Fletcher

I think Linda Flynn-Fletcher is potentially one of the most misunderstood characters in the show.

It think comes from a natural enough place. Her role in the show is of course, to act as the potential threat to their summers of fun. While they boys never see her as a threat, narratively she's the big bad. If she sees it, its game over.

Here's the thing though. She's a not a bad mom. Her children LOVE her. Similarly to how Phineas and Ferb absolutely adore Candace and would do nearly anything she asked, Phineas, Ferb and Candace all love and respect their mother and don't disobey her. Now a bit of this is clearly Linda being a more permissive parent, but any rules that Linda has Phineas and Ferb never do anything to disobey their mother. While I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two instances where Candace disobeyed her mother willfully, the closest I can think off off hand is Candace not doing a bunch of chores that she was supposed to do. Really, the fact that all her kids love her, shows how much all her kids feel loved in their household. And I think that's super important. Candace wrote a song about how much she feels loved by her mom, even if her mom is dismissive of Candace. But she still goes with Candace to see what the boys are up to even if she doesn't believe it. She sets boundaries on how often Candace can bust the boys sure. But she hasn't forbidden Candace from doing it altogether. Nor does she punish Candace for presumably lying?

At MOST Linda will say something like: "let's get you out of the sun" after a failed bust. The worst of it I think is probably the time Linda made her promise not to try or suffer the Pharaohs curse. Which, was just some guy in a Pharaoh costume telling Candace curse you. Linda goes out of her way to read books to try and deal with her daughter. She and Candace still clearly hold a lot of affection for each other and do spend a decent amount of mother daughter time together. Linda gives books to her daughter, tries to direct her to other activities, and finds her sleep busting cute, and sometimes goes out of her way to do activities her daughter wants to do with her. All things considered Linda is REALLY patient about Candace's busting. Could she be doing more to get to the bottom of why Candace is presumably acting out? Sure. But Doofensmirtz could also be doing a better job of listening to his daughter and not insulting her (or do we not remember why Vanessa wears earbuds around the house) but we all call him a really good dad.

A LOT of shows have kids hiding a secret from a parent for one reason of another. But while the crux of the show rests on Linda not knowing what her sons are doing, its not because its a secret. The boys aren't hiding it from her. The boys genuinely believe she knows. Lawrence genuinely believes she knows. Candace is the only one in the family who really grasps the situation.

Linda's ignorance, her disbelief of the wild shenanigans that her children get into is easily mistakable for normality. For representing the oppressive day to day. The same thematic antagonist as school. A mom who wants whats best for her kids, and thinks that whats best for them is them being normal, without realizing what's really best for them. After all why else we saw what would happen if she found out in Quantum Boogaloo. But the fact of the matter is aside from that one future (which also featured an effectively evil leader in Doofensmirtz, and therefore implies more factors at play than just Doofensmirtz and Linda's characters), we don't really know how it would play out in the long term. Future Linda even just kinda moves on after discovering the truth.

Linda is exactly like her kids. She just does the same things on a less physics breaking scale. The woman has like 37 different hobbies. She takes a cooking class, donated an art sculpture, is part of a jazz group. She has a background in astrophysics. She was a pop star. She won a meatloaf contest. She takes french lessons. The fact that Linda has several hobbies is part of the reason the formula works at all. Linda is constantly trying new things which gets her out of the house, while her sons are trying their own new things. Her absence is what prompts Candace to have to go looking for her. Also, What Do It Do when the moment Linda gets put in Candace's position she acts the exact same way.

Also it's why she and Lawrence are so compatible. They have a lot of weird hobbies they spend together. She likes Lawrence's history references. They watch car racing together. They went spelunking together. They go bowling regularly enough to have equipment. She has played the bagpipes while Lawrence danced (which sidenote: do you think she taught Candace how to play the bagpipes?).

Not to mention her extended family. Think about it. Her mom was a competitive roller derby skater who once bit a skate and shook it like a dog with a chew toy and pulls elaborate pranks with her identical twin. Really she's a lot like Candace with her aggressive passion. Her dad apparently won a balloon race, but tells the story in the most straightforward way possible, sometimes very oblivious, but is overall a lot like Phineas. Her sister is an adrenaline junky. And back to Quantum Boogaloo for a minute: Her granddaughter is just like Candace, Grown up Candace is a lot like Linda. Do you not see the implications!!?!?!? LIKE???? DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT LINDA WAS PROBABLY A LOT LIKE CANDACE AND PHINEAS WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER?!!?! YOU THINK IT SKIPPED A GENERATION OR SOMETHING???

Do you think Linda used to complain about Tiana??? Do you think Linda thought her family was weird and was embarrassed by them??? Do you think Linda ever called herself the only mature/normal member of her family?? LIKE CANDACE DOES????

Anyway, Linda is just like her family. Sure, she is RELATIVELY more normal, but that's relative, and probably simply because the universe bends itself around to keep her from knowing. Linda literally cannot find out about the real nature of her universe. Linda is just a grown up version of her children, seeking to make the most of each day, but within the bounds the universe has set upon her, both as an adult woman and mother, but also in the laws of physics expected of her. But she still makes the most of her life. You don't have to build a roller coaster to make the most of each day and all that.

I think if Linda is representing anything its that even parents can have rich fulfilling lives. Where they make the most out of each day. Having fun with your life doesn't stop with adulthood. Even if you have more responsibilities doesn't mean you can't have fun? Sure childhood is something you can't get back but growing up isn't inherently bad either?

[hyperfixationsposting]

an immortal bisexual witch and the cute lesbian butcher she may or may not have hooked up with once or twice :))

[edwinisms]

see I can’t accept charles’ comic background and socioeconomic status as canon for the show because if I did that would mean the whole group would be a bunch of rich kids and that’s a horrifying concept

[fingertipsmp3]

Maybe I did this to myself but it does irk me when people see me knitting and they ask who it’s for and I say it’s for me and the immediate reaction is “you should sell it” yeah… let me spend at least a week’s worth of my free time making an item I like, want, and would wear just to sell it on etsy, making at most a £2 profit on materials and not being compensated for my time whatsoever 👍🏻

[lacrimosathedark]

Hiya. Aroace-spec enby Hazbin fan and Radioapple shipper here. No hard feelings here, but you are incredibly misinformed so allow me to learn you a few things.

Firstly, I can tell that this is something of a vent post. That's okay, sometimes you need to just get your feelings out into words and be heard by somebody, anybody. That's alright.

That being said, when that vent includes something people enjoy in non-harmful ways (like shipping fictional characters) you don't add those tags. Ship hate stays out of ship tags for everyone's safety; so the shippers aren't hurt during what could be their only fun time, and so you aren't hurt when less understanding people retaliate. Because they will, as you've maybe noticed by now.

I'm putting the rest of this under a cut because it's long because I am incapable of shutting the fuck up and overexplain. I just want you to know I'm not yelling at you and hopefully don't feel too overwhelmed by this.

Now, I'm glad you want to defend us, but defending us without accurately understanding us only causes harm. As someone on the trans spectrum that's usually overlooked (and maligned if you're transfem) I hope you recognize that. People are so intensely misinformed on sex and gender that even when they advocate for us, sometimes they unintentionally spew transphobic bullshit. That's kind of what you're doing now.

Asexuality and aromanticism is, as you said, about attraction, but that's all it is; attraction. It's that yearning or hunger for that specific thing. This does not preclude aromantics from participating in pseudo-romantic relationships or actions of various kinds, or asexuals from sexual relationships. Sexuality is not synonymous with libido or hedonism, romance is not synonymous with intimacy or companionship. There are lots of sex-positive asexuals who are some of the horniest motherfuckers in the world; they just don't feel attraction. Similarly there are aromantic people who want the reliable closeness of a romantic partner just without the lovey dovey stuff, and may even act in ways that can be perceived as romantic from a platonic standpoint. And the mesh point non-sexual non-romantic aroace committed relationships is a queerplatonic relationship. It's kind of like "best friend" but more committed and takes many forms.

Also presuming we need to be sheltered, that we're all sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed and should be protected from such things, is a little infantilizing. I'd love more media without sexual implications, and I know aros who are beyond sick of all media being about romance. But we live in this world every day. Personally, I'm infantilized enough as a small transmasc. I appreciate the intent, but your methodology is flawed.

Now to the Radoapple of it all.

You're commenting on a fandom you aren't in and know nothing about. You weren't even sure how to spell the character's name. That's not a good starting point.

Alastor is NOT canonically aromantic, though that's a common headcanon. He IS asexual, but as mentioned, it is a spectrum, and he's only shown blatant repulsion to he topic in regards to a character who is hypersexual, which could make even allos uncomfortable. The creator has given shippers her blessing to do what they will, so there's no issue there. And for the "strongest" shippers, even her disapproval wouldn't have stopped them. How often do you see straight characters made gay and gay characters made straight in fandom for the sake of a ship? That's ignoring canon characterization AND it's bi erasure and it's common as fuck and that drives me nuts but I'm getting side-tracked.

Alastor shippers are often very respectful of Alastor's identity. Some of the most common ao3 tags for Alastor are "Non-Sex Repulsed Asexual Alastor" and "Sex Repulsed Asexual Alastor". People come at his sexuality from both sides.

Radioapple in particular is one of the healthiest ships Alastor is put in, in large part because everyone is in Hell and his other big ships have a History behind them.

There's also just who Lucifer is as a person. He may b contentious with Alastor (I'll get to it) but on the whole, Lucifer is very sweet. He adores his daughter more than anything. He very blatantly misses his ex-wife who has been absent for at least 7 years. And we could all but guarantee that if he were to somehow date Alastor, if he said no sex ever, Lucifer would accept that. Partly because he's been alone without his wife for who knows how long so it's nothing new, but also how he won Lilith over in the first place.

Lilith left Adam because he demanded she be subservient. In mythology this is often boiled down to he insisted on "topping" and she refused to "bottom". She's a proud woman and would not be under anyone's control. But she met and fell in love with Lucifer soon after, so you can imagine what that may imply about him. At the very least, he showed Lilith respect and didn't make demands of her. He knows how to respect someone's boundaries. (where also, notably, Alastor's other common ship partners canonically don't. No shame on those who ship them, just making a point)

Alastor and Lucifer met on screen, and sparks flew. Literally. They were firing shots at each other. It was mostly verbal with magical flourish for visual, but it was also the first time in the series Alastor was less than composed. He'd had one big on-screen confrontation and a few small ones before that and he never lost his head or so much as swore. He said "fuck you" to the devil's face less than 5 mins into meeting him. And they got very in each other's faces. People were going to ship them.

So, this? This is why they're shipped.

On top of this, lot of fledgling aros and aces explore their identities through Alastor and shipping him in whatever ways they like. And it's fan work not official work, so where's the harm in self-exploration? A lot of even some of the nastier fanfiction is people processing trauma, which is healthy and can help those who find it too. The existence of "bad" fan work is 9 times out of 10 a good thing.

But I'm guessing you aren't so much reading as seeing drawings, but here's the thing about that: unless it's a comic, a picture is a single moment. You don't have context of the artist's perspective on his identity unless it's right there in the color palette or there's a straight up flag. You don't know if the artist respects Alastor's sexuality or not. You don't know if, hey, they find his design appealing and wanted to mess with it. At a glance you can't know. And assuming the worst, that all these artists are aphobic, is not good for you, them, or us.

Try not to jump to conclusions just because you saw a suggestive drawing.

I know this was a lot, but I hope this helps you.

not aro or ace, but whenever I see radioapple in particular, like Lucifer/Alastar or something, I forgot bro's name.

I get so fucking pissed, because it's SO popular, but I'm pretty sure Alastar is aroace and everyone keeps on excusing it on the 'aces can feel sexual attraction too' or something for aros and I just.

YEAH. Yeah I agree. I might not know the concept personally, but yeah.

But to me at least, it's never been the point of being aroace???? the, well the centre of it?????

like, to me being aroace is not feeling romantic attraction/sexual attraction

or being on the spectrum of something like that.

tbh it's a bit easier to understand the spectrum if you think it's kinda like the nonbinary spectrum.

I'm a demigirl, I can safely say I fall under that.

So....maybe ?? It's like that for aroaces too? ...sorta?

I just feel like everyone keeps on dismissing the aroace thing, just to focus on their fantasies.

Like.

I don't know following my previous thought, I see Alastor (ohhhh) kinda like Paintbrush (II)

I might not understand much, but Paintbrush is nonbinary they/them

being nonbinary is a spectrum, but their identity in particular is also the clear 100% of what you first things first think a nonbinary person is. the pinnacle, the top of a mountain.

kinda like non-diluted alcohol.

the (1)

To me Alastor has never really been stated to like ummmm....... well...... be apart of the 'Ace people can feel sexual attraction too' thing? or maybe romantic attraction for aromantics....??? I dunno

There's lots of terms tbh, arospec, acespec, I can say im nonbinary and still be a demigirl.

can acespec people say they're ace and still mean that too? bweh....

but like, yeah.

I think I always saw Alastor as like a clear no on those topics, so I've always disliked people loving to ship him....... sorryy?????????

then this sorta stuff happens irl, and I just.

feel pissed.

because it feels like weird weird weird discourse is targetted towards aro's and ace's in particular and I nfjcjcksjdcndkjd.fjcmn. if i see one more guy say weird shit about clothing being an invitation,

ugh.

[not-cool-enough-to-scuba-dive]

actually I would quite like to hear your thoughts on gender philosophy in omegaverse worldbuilding? :3

hm. anon, I fear this is a far larger can of worms than you probably anticipated. I'm going to spare you the worst of it by only giving you a short version, but be careful what you wish for.

I'm also hiding it under a cut because even the short version is embarrassingly long.

I'm hardly a connoisseur of omegaverse content, nor would I consider myself anywhere near an expert. I don't want to speak for all fics as I've admittedly not read many. I did do my master's diss about legal gender recognition, so this is more about gender and philosophically sound worldbuilding than an indictment of any particular writing or story tbh.

the short answer is I find omegaverse worldbuilding really interesting, but I've never fully been able to enjoy it due to the way a/b/o identities tend to have a biological determinist slant to them imo, and tendency for a lack of real world implications of what the omegaverse does to gender and character interactions anywhere outside the bedroom. I'd love to figure out a version that's more inclusive and philosophically/ideologically consistent, both with itself and with my own views on real life gender (basically, I want to make it make more sense, have less biological determinism, and be more inclusive of the wider range of human experiences). this is a big task, and ngl I haven't achieved it and don't anticipate doing so any time soon. I have like, a concept in my head, taking apart all the key pieces and putting them together again but different, but to make it thorough enough would require more effort and time than I have because I'm like, employed 😔

I feel like someday if I ever get invited to a powerpoint night though, this could be It.

[smile-files]

i don't know if ralsei is a transfem or transmasc i just know he is trans

[rustedleopard]

Unpopular Opinion(?): I'm firmly in the "Starlo doesn't have a tail" camp

[iholli]

EEEEEE HEHEHE. by all means PLEASE yap about Blitzwing. he's literally all I ever think about and I know the trine is tired of hearing me talk about him and I am VERY restrained about it 😂😂 (/lh ik they love me). the only thing I love more than analyzing my favs is other people doing it in a way that I can just nod in agreement !!!

oN THAT NOTE HEHE--

RIGHT LIKE-- idk the comics especially REALLY read like he was basically in charge when Megatron was presumed dead and Starscream was just fucking AWOL. holding a ceremony for Megatron AND dealing with Lockdown to find the responsible Autobot ??? no one else was trying to track down Prime, and experience shows the 'cons fall COMPLETELY apart without some semblance of a leader. I imagine he had Lugnut helping but still, Blitzwing was doing the heavy lifting imo.

I love the thought of him being the social glue ??? as much as he likes to instigate chaotic bullshit he does usually end up being the one to break up arguments. so like, yeah, I can definitely nod in agreement on that one 👏👏

YOU GET ITTTTTTTT. I absolutely live and breathe Blitzwing being curious about organics and nature in general. it really strikes me that the 'cons have no qualms about the planet itself, and they certainly don't have the. bizarre responses like the general Cybertron populous (which is a whole other discussion in itself. genuinely I have so many thoughts) but Blitzwing especially is just. he's here for the vibes. he's naturally interested in things around him and doesn't necessarily go out of his way to antagonize humans, even genuinely complimenting Sumdac on his work. like nobody else is out here doing that. I would very much like to think about him taking time to just explore and rest before Lockdown got ahold of him. that's a nice thought 💖

continuing to agree on that as well, I mean Blitzwing could easily have put up a fight against Lockdown. he's already familiar with the bounty hunter's ability, and he's successfully taken on the entire team Prime himself and won, and it wasn't even a close fight (before Megatron called him out for messing around on the job), and that's just stuff canon has actually shown. Lockdown catching him off guard tho? I totally see it. it doesn't seem like Blitz is too bothered by being captured, anyway. Lugnut in comparison is ready to let Sentinel have it at any given moment but Blitzy's just chilling until Swindle lets him loose. (at which point, again, he takes command of the situation with Lugnut making the action orders ???)

wheee, I love this kind of discussion, thanks for responding to my silly addition on your post 💖💖

OKAY BUT--

THANK YOU ??? OMG ??? 😭😭😭 I'm so attached to his Bumblebee movie appearance and I feel like his canon design doesn't utilize the jet mode kibble like it could yk,,, that means so much to me 😭💖 hehe I'm being the change I want to see in the world (Hothead needs more attention) I'm very happy to hear you enjoy him 💖💖💖

I had such a realization last night-

I yapped about Cyberverse Astrotrain's dimples under the eyes yes

Oh but there is also DJW's Human!Error TFA Blitzwing design having wee dark circles under the eyes (just like Starscream and kinda Lugnut)

Non-g1 (talking about cartoons/series, not comics) versions of these guys are just so tired 💀💀

Each time I rewatch tfa I just can't. stop. thinking. about how t i r e d Blitzwing is, LOL. Predominantly in ,,Lost and Found"... (also not going to forget the scene near the beginning of season 1 finale)

I mean just look at how many times he's just laying- and especially how annoyed Hothead is. He's had enough and it's like he's sick of everything. Sometimes it feels like bro does N O T want to be here during the above-mentioned episode... l o l [*]

I literally started headcanoning that he got captured by Lockdown just because he wanted a wee rest after all that stuff from season 2 finale and before it and basically got surprised, no fight 💀 (dumb-aah as some would say?) Imma elaborate on that another time maybe cuz it might not sound too clear

Not gonna do any (attempts at) analysing 'n stuff rn, da

(Btw, I am planning to do a yapping session about tfa 'cons)

[lesbiangiratina]

A good while ago i was scrolling through someone’s testament tag and once i got past march 2022 i saw them using she/her for them n i wish i remembered who this was because they were on some remarkable shit