#consideration

[classycookiexo]

[everythingseasoning]

Don’t be demanding when asking for part 2’s!!

A brief post on why and how to be considerate in comment sections!

I finally understand why people are frustrated/sad when part 2 of a fanfiction doesn’t come out. I’m a little bit emotionally invested in this one Suguru fic right now. It’s 3 parts, but only 1 part is out, and the writer has been absent for months. I’m a wee bit emotionally devastated (but I’ll get over it).

SO I GET THE MORE DEMANDING COMMENTS NOW. I understand why people say “when is part two coming out” or “it’s been a year… is part two ever coming out??” — that being said, those kinds of comments are inherently rude.

When commenting something like that, you create a sort of pressure on the writers end, because there is an undertone of a demand. When people ask “when is it coming out” and say “it’s been x amount of time” - it’s implied that only your needs are important. That *you expect a part two* from the writer. Remember folks, writers on here are people too. Try rephrase how you ask about part two:

You can say, “Hey! I loved this fic so much! (Maybe even insert feedback on WHY you like it, as that means a lot to writers <3). I was wondering if you plan on making part two anytime soon? No worries if not, I’m just curious! Love your work, will gladly be on a tag list!”

This way, you’re not making a demand— you’re asking your question while being grateful, respectful, and considerate. It’s not easy work to be a writer for everyone (for some it is, for many it’s very time consuming, etc!)

Please don’t ever direct your frustrations towards writers. We aren’t paid for this, and have our own very busy lives!

I understand it sucks when a writer says they’re going to post something, but they don’t and haven’t. But please remember, they’re people too. Go ahead and ask for clarification and offer grace! You deserve to ask for clarification! But because this is a free service and platform, no writings are owed to you. We all should be considerate to one another 💗

[bouncing-flowers]

Ya know who the sexiest people in the whole world are??? Considerate people ✨

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[savagechickens]

Starting To Think.

And more voting.

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go attack me in July 😈

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[lostdeadpoets]

“What is love?”

“Love is consideration. It's understanding way beyond what words might be able to convey. It's a conscious choice to hold, to respect, to admire, to protect and to turn back, like Orpheus did for Eurydice.

Love is peace, the feeling of freedom that you get to be anything that you want to be, and it's acceptance that your person would love you just the way you are.

Love is security that you feel in someone's presence that everything is safe— your heart, your secrets, your thoughts, your soul. and it’s the assurance that your shortcomings would always be looked at with the perspective to help you grow from and your traumas to be healed from.”

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[the-mercurial-star-o-vesper]

I know a lot of the later series want to put a more serious spin on the Autobot-Decepticon conflict. And I get it, favorite franchise gets nuance when you add some world-building rules here and some hardy expectations there.

And Gen1, well... Gen1 is pretty much a TV form of "Name-your-clickbait-content-farm". Has a large cast, produced rapidly, they will do anything at any given episode (Bumblebee plays a random Arcade game, Megatron tries to drill into the earth, Starscream tries to send the Earth into the sun, TIMETRAVEL, King Arthur's Court--), you name it, its a Gen1 episode.

... But if you drop the more outrageous elements, do you know the kind of Gold Mine, that Gen 1 was and is?

Especially if you brought in the Movie as a predetermined thing--and not just a "we need to use the budget to slap something into theatres for new toy sales--I KNOW LET'S COPY STAR WARS but GRIMDARK."

Now, we know the real reason why Gen 1 is no more deeper than a plastic kid's pool.

They needed an episodic series to get interest and sell toys, and its a cheap clickbait-content-farm series, so everything must be short-term memory Episodic. There is no real long term plot, and no matter what stakes occur per episode, it is only contained to that episode. Megatron is the Saturday Morning Supervillain and the Comic Book Tyrant, Soundwave will always be Loyal, Starscream will always come to blows with Megatron, Optimus is the Dad, Ironhide is the Sarge--its a 2D cartoon with 2D characters in a 2D world with 2D stakes (and prolly at one point, Steaks).

Even post film, Season 3 fell flat, because the attempted "War has Serious Consequences" the film had doesn't work when the per-series really was a Saturday-Morning-2D cartoon. (Like the whole premise of Season 3 is defeated by "Ultimate Doom" a mid-Season 1 3-parter that involved TELEPORTING CYBERTRON TO EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE and ENSLAVING THE HUMAN SPECIES and causing untold Damage.. that got immediately fixed post parter. Frankly, the status quo kinda proved that no, your Super Duper Serious War wasn't and your new Super Dark Backstory Isn't. )

But let's make this fun. Let's have a thought about what gold we can get from this mine, with what salvageable elements it has.

( obviously, there's gold, because otherwise, Transformers wouldn't have survived the 80s--I'm just saying, there's more. )

Consider.

Look, with the fact that the series started with the flight from Cyberton--Megatron won. He has the planet. If he needs resources, he can literally just, convert natural force into it, all green economic like. Pick a planet and sit on it. Easy stuff. We could say that he's going after the Autobots for revenge, but if that's the case, how come he keeps letting them go? Like, this is a billions-aged warlord who won an entire planet, he knows how to slay his enemies. He also is creative and clever with his plans, always something new, always a step ahead.

He could end this at any point.

But he just keeps letting the Autobots go.

After That Very Certain Definitely There Point, one comes to the understanding that... he doesn't actually want to kill the Autobots. He doesn't want to destroy Optimus.

( Many series try to explain this retroactively: "Oh its Vengeance!" "Oh he needs the Matrix!" "Oh Earth is the first conquest!" )

But let's face it. No he doesn't. He either doesn't want this to end, or simply, has so much momentum, that he doesn't know what to do with it. So every plan is just, a delay. A purposeful series of contrivance, because he Doesn't want to do this anymore, but has no idea how to stop it without everything falling apart and resulting in a far worse status for Cybertronians.

Starscream is second in command. You may wonder, why Megatron would keep someone like Starscream?

Because Starscream exemplifies what being a Decepticon is. Ruthless, plotting, being clever--but at the same time, upholding the Decepticon militant hierarchy. if Starscream wanted power and an outright Rebellion--he would have had it by now. We could say that the reason it fails is because of impatience and impertinence--but let's face it, as many series pointed out, if that were the case, Megatron would have slagged this afthole by now.

So the truth we can conclude? This is what Megatron actually wants. This is the example of what being a Decepticon is.

While most episodes involve Starscream being scheming, there are plenty more where he isn't, he's just, sassy and snarky. There's plenty of episodes where he cowers, but just as many where he fights. This translates as someone who sees the odds and picks his battles.

But the worst thing about it all is that... While plenty of Starscream's "usurpations" are fairly false and just, doing the job, he is starting to get actually mutinous.

Because he knows that Megatron is Stalling, and its driving him insane, turning fulfilling expectations of a Decepticon Second into real murderous intent.

It goes down like "Dude, what're you DOING!? We won! Why are we even HERE!?"

Soundwave is basically the Solid Snake of transformers. I don't know what Megatron did to get SolidSoundSnakeWave to follow him, but it must've involved dismantling all the nukes on Cybertron and defeating the Cybertronian Patriots... and maybe killing Liquid Wave?

The point is, is that, if Megatron wanted to end the Autobots, he'd just send Soundwave in and it'd be done. It'd probably look like a Metal Gear game the entire time.

"Lord Megatron, I've infiltrated Outer Arc Heaven"

"Good work, SnakeWave, now do you remember the basics of CQC"

And the only way I'd see that SnakeWave here wouldn't have suggest it, is because he's with Megatron on this one--he doesn't actually want to end the Autobots either and he's just as unsure about what to do next.

They won, and now there's nothing left now. And this is the point in the Metal Gear Transformer series where SnakeWave walks into the Cybertronian Alaskan Wilderness until next game, except he can't even do that. Now, he has to avoid trying to philosophize about war and life's meaning around a bunch of Decepticons.

Shockwave is far to busy trying to fix Cybertron and deal with mass Famine and Planetary Innertness to worry about whatever the hell a bunch of Exiles are doing.

And if he was actually worried, and could possibly worry, he would've invented the T-(Cog) Virus and recreated Resident Evil in Cybertron Racoon City by this point. And uh, maybe scream "CHRIISSSS" a lot.

Optimus and Autobots are making friends and getting attached to the earth, because they're in exile, they're on the run, this is the new Home now. They're going to be friendly with the locals, because all the Autobots gotta go somewhere, and this is as good a place as any.

Except Uh-Oh heRE COMES MEGATRON--

And the fighting starts over again, because they don't want their new friends dead, but damn this conflict has been going on for how long? Billions of years? Oh yeah, everyone's exhaustion is so old and deep, its fossilized and can be carbondated.

Until it reaches the Movie, and that's when the real End crashes down. Megatron decides that, y'know what, I do actually need to end this, and things suddenly become that much more deadly. People die, he finally takes out Optimus, but Starscream, now fed up, does get him killed. Soundwave can't save him, because otherwise, Soundwave will end up out there with him.

And he meets the Ancient Cannibal, the world-eater, --the tranformer version of "Saturn devours his children", Unicron.

This is the part where the Autobots and the Decepticons actually do end. Those Autobots in exile return to a nearly destroyed Cybertron, those Decepticons that survived Earth and Unicron? End up in a barren wasteland, little more than bandits.

Megatron is reformatted into Galvatron, who becomes a mad man.

And the enemy of the past returns to reclaim.

Frankly, for as much "hope" as the finale tries? This did not end well. You could make a commentary about eternal war, and how people change.

It doesn't stop the fact that Transformers Gen 1, effectively ends with being the alien-robot equivalency of the Fallout series. There's a "War Never Changes" thing somewhere in here.

(now that's a mod or game I wouldn't mind playing )

But its funny what kind of thought-gold you can find in a clickbait content farm tv show.

[tou-dai]

Justice

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I am once again asking for mutual aid and financial assistance.

I had made it a semi-habit of contacting random people pell-mell. And it works, sometimes.

But it only works with people who actually care and/or are cognizant of the Reality (tm).

Capitalism is a disease and it squashes Life in many forms.

It dampens innovation, the human spirit, and camaraderie among peoples.

Whatever faults or differences man may have are made more stark in its sickly glow. And it emboldens vice in most by means of duress.

..

I want to be safe, healthy, and free.

I'm not sure I can do that in the world the way it is. With people the way they are. In this society and environment.

Despite the fact I am in much better straits now... existence weighs on me like a burden rather than something to be enjoyed.

I would like to thrive and to enjoy life. I just wonder if I was meant to, with my constitution and demeanor the way they are.

I wonder if I can continue to adapt and grow in the ways I need to. Or if I'm too bad and broken, now.

..

If you care to help a weirdo like myself out, please donate. I would like to continue to contribute to the world in the ways I am able.

But I am disabled and mentally ill.

I need more help. Like we all do, I guess.

[thepersonalwords]

Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.

T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

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[myobsessionsspace]

Respect, Understanding & Consideration

For each member, for fans, for humans as a whole.

Please and Thank You.

💜

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