#es spoilers

[the-dawnburnt-captain]

awesome

[shazzbaa]

Nest in the Eaves was a WILD Exceptional Story for a Light Fingers player for dIFFERENT REASONS, THAN I EXPECTED,

tfw you wanna learn about the Starved Men and instead get scammed into joining a bug cult...... anyway if you let them shape you it doesn't SAY that you get a weird mouth alteration but I just feel like thats the only explanation for Samuel not screaming like he's figured out soylent green as soon as he realised what the "nectar" is

[sunlightera]

☆ starscream tf sequences ~ es s2 ☆

[frost-mothit]

can't believe spider man earth 11580 is canon in flondon

hes just lik me 4 real

[candychameleon]

old man's been going THROUGH it

[ghostingcrows]

Gay gay homosexual gay

[my-writings-and-musings]

Finished the new Earthspark episodes and I'll let this frantic text I sent to a loved one summarize my feelings.

[vampyre-bonez]

wip - hey did i ever tell y’all that i love angst?

(spoilers kinda for the last episode of season 1 btw)

[waterlogged-detective]

I love Caveat Emptor

[the-derpy-duck]

Ok so I haven’t finished the season 2 episodes yet but so far I think it’s been less good than season one but I don’t dislike it. I think, so far, it’s been good. Season 1 was really good and I think a lot of people built up expectations for season 2 and when people have really high expectations the end result tends to disappoint people regardless of its actual quality. Because the potential of where the story could go wasn’t really divisive and as long as that story is unfinished people can take that potential and run in whatever direction they’d like to. The decepticons potentially being not pure evil made people, myself included, interested. It presented an idea and people got attached to that idea and built up a lot of expectations for it. Specifically with Starscream because a most TF media tends to gloss over or oversimplify his morals and relationship to Megatron and the world around him. Armada is the main exception I can think of outside of like IDW, but generally the shows present the relationship between Starscream and Megatron as highly questionable to outright abusive without any other commentary on it and no one really giving a shit. Which could be intentional and helping to characterize the decepticons as a group that doesn’t care about its members because everyone ultimately either wants power or to not die, but I honestly don’t think a lot of the writers were thinking about that. Cyberverse COULD have been intentionally ignoring all of the death (which there is a LOT of) to show how Cybertronian society has decayed and made war and death and suffering so common that no one really stops to grieve. But it also could have been a kids show that had 11 minute episodes and was taking on topics that it was not ready or able to properly address. Same for TFA and TFP (and rescue bots, as much as I hate to admit that). I like these shows and I like to believe my own reading of it, but I do not believe that this was at all the intention of the shows writers.

The author is dead and I killed them, but it was really cool to have a TF show that actually seemed to be diving into the repercussions of Cybertronian society and specifically the consequences of Megatron’s actions on the people around him. And for those consequences to hold weight and be taken seriously, not brushed off because the characters affected by him were also villains. And that’s part of why I think people are disappointed by season 2 so far. Because it seems that all the potential was just waisted. The time skip caused us to miss out on a really ingesting idea, it would have been really cool to see the decepticons go from siding with the heros to being against them. Starscream’s entire thing is betrayal and we skipped over a major betrayal???

And my commentary is very starscream heavy because a lot of what people liked was centered around him. After Megatron he’s probably the most complicated character, especially morally speaking. We haven’t gotten the entirety of season 2 yet. I think this might only be 1/3rd of it. So I don’t want to make a big statement like ‘earthspark is ruined! The show sucks now!’ because I don’t think that’s true at all. I wish a few things were done differently, but I want to see this story completed and I want to see what story they are trying to tell. I don’t think a story being incomplete negates it of criticism (*cough*tfa*cough*) but I think it’s not fully fair to make a final judgement on an incomplete product, especially if it is still being made. Season one of earthspark was some of the best storytelling trasnformers has done imo, but it is not the completed show.

TL;DR: Season two is alright, it’s also not done being released yet and I want to wait until it’s completed to make a final judgement. Oh and also bumblebee is here

[the-dawnburnt-captain]

[shazzbaa]

DEATH AND TAX EVASION WAS SUCH A GOOD ES FOR SAM....... I got so invested in heckin Christian Rat Church so heres a bunch of church rats............... more specifics notes under the cut:

the rat church is dealing with a schism, so early on there's a chance to break up a fight and THIS IS JUST A RLY FUNNY MENTAL IMAGE TO ME.... SAM JUST GOES IN THERE AND STARTS PICKING UP RATS

A thing that's come up a few times in chats and rp with friends is that in order to not constantly feel crazy when verses he knows by heart change slightly in every edition, Samuel's kept his own Bible from the surface to refer to. With the rats specifically taking issue with St. Cyriac's edits, I really want to believe Sam got a moment to share older versions of these verses with the Layrat, before all the verses on death were changed to exclude rats....

IF YOU'RE CONNECTED TO FINGERKINGS then in Cheese Heaven the fingerkings specifically notice you're not a rat and only rats are supposed to be there -- instead of helping you leave, they just politely warn you that you'd better escape soon or else they'll have to turn you into a rat. RULES ARE RULES!! Thanks so much guys. I'm still losing my mind abt how much cheese heaven scrambled sam's brain.... just rly thought he was a rat for a bit there......

ALSO I HAVENT STOPPED THINKING ABT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE LAYRAT PRAYING FOR YOU. I compared this ES early on to another ES I played a while back, All The Saints, where the Intrepid Deacon is sort of looking to you during a crisis of faith, and Sam worked hard to keep him un-tempted. But... for this one, Samuel was less sure, and uncertainly encouraged the Layrat to be willing to question what he grew up with, and to follow his heart on these strange new ratty religious ideas. But... this little rat was the one to keep faith and help him when Sam nearly forgot himself... I DONT KNOW MAN. IVE GOT EMOTIONS ABT RAT FAITH.

[capn-twitchery]

[twitch voice] damn that must be crazy. can't imagine how that must feel,

[lime-bucket]

is it just me? or were the primes in earthspark kind of..awfull leaders?

its obvious the show aimed to give optimus flaws but i feel it was executed in a bad way for he kept acting so terribly bossy and dismissive of his subordinates wich just didnt gave the impression hes a war commander with an experience of million years under his belt.also did he do something about those bot brawls in s1? cause the way es just forgot abt it seemed like cybertronians forced to fight in death matches were of no major concern for him to keep an eye on

and Quintus prime.. that fucker really played god,created many species then abandoned them.and what? assumed theyll be A-OK on their own without guidance once they can walk? sure i can understand the call to leave cybertron in order to share the gift of the emberstone and make allies,but i need to know did he at least left anyone to keep everything in check?? & more importantly how did the cybertronians felt abt their leader basically pulling a rose quartz and never coming back

im willing to give earthspark writers the benefit of the doubt,however If we see it from another perspective,optimus & quintus were inadequate primes who didnt cared enough to fullfill their first priority that is supposed to be guiding and protecting their people

[candychameleon]

also idk if anyone's done it yet but i quickly made a transparent, symmetrical version of the terran insignia!! feel free to use it for your art or w/e, don't need to credit me or anything

[ghostingcrows]

SHE SO FUCKING TINY

FINALLY SOMEONE GIVING STARSCREAM A HUG!!