#he's like if Oppy got to go back home

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Thinking about Opportunity... Did you know they named an astroid after her. She was the first rover to travel the distance of a marathon and her mission lasted 55 times longer than intended. She literally WAS a completely new opportunity for Mars exploration. The team operating her were the ones who gave her the "Oppy" nickname. They had a whole playlist called Opportunity, wake up! for when they lost contact with her and sent over 1000 recovery commands. The last song they played her was "I'll be seeing you" by Billie Holiday.

[revelboo]

Saw you did a wipe of the asks, so I thought I’d send this in again!!! The little guys arrived and I love them so very much (Pardon the messy desk lol, but I got the rare Oppy!!! He’s so shiny!!!) Could we get some Swerve, Ironhide, or Cliffjumper crumbs, oh mighty Revel??? Much love!!! 🥰♥️

So cute! Sure, I’m still stuck at home sick, so I’ll see if I can get some updates done

Hold Me Down Pt 6

Ironhide x Reader

• What is this now? The seventh time he's heard you rustling around over there? Tossing and turning tangled in all your sheets on your little bed. Every time he's almost in recharge, you start making noise again. "Alright, what's your malfunction over there?" He demands, sitting up and scowling over at you. "Because trust me, you're not going to like me if you don't let me recharge, darlin'." And your little head comes up, hair all over the place as you glare at him and yank a pillow over your head. Shaking off the errant thought that you look almost cute half awake and angry, he vents. No. Absolutely not. You're not going to ignore him and keep him online all night. He has too much work to do.

• You hear him slide off his berth and the heavy sound of his peds approaching. And you try to hang onto your pillow when he tugs it away and frowns down at you. Why is he such a jerk? "I can't sleep when it's this cold!" Grabbing a blanket and tugging it over your head, you wait for him to drop your pillow on you and go away. What is it in here? Fifty degrees? Colder? Maybe he's trying to slowly kill you with hypothermia. No, you're pretty sure it needs to be colder for that. This is just him being awful. Making you miserable.

• Cold? Now that he thinks about it, Wheeljack had mentioned the humans were a bit funny about temperature. He'd also said his likes to sprawl on him to sleep otherwise they're too cold. Oh, for Primus's sake. Annoyed, he grabs you and your blankets, ignoring your angry squawking as he lays back down and plunks you on his chassis. "There. Warm," he growls as you just gape down at him in offense. And bean him in the face with a pillow. "Lay down and recharge already."

• "Sleep," you immediately correct him as he shutters his optics to ignore you. "I want my pillow back." There's no way he's already out that fast, he's just ignoring you. Inhaling, you crawl up his chassis and stretch out against his chin to reach your pillow where it had landed on his cheek. And he vents against your belly when your shirt rides up, one optic opening to watch you. Shuddering, you refuse to let him know how off balance you are. Draping your arms on his chin, you boost yourself up so he can see you better. "Night baby, I loathe you," you whisper, leaning forward to press a kiss against his bottom lip before picking your way back down to your blankets.

• Frozen in shock, he's half tempted to roll on his side and dump you off of him. You have no idea what loathing is. How much he despises being saddled with a little brat like you. Think you've won, don't you? That you can do whatever you want with impunity because you're so little and helpless. Darlin,' if you want a war, you're going to get one. Denta working his bottom lip, he's absolutely not thinking about the way your soft mouth had felt pressed against his.

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[cillianhead]

oppie (cillian’s version) is a sub change my mind

i think oppie (cillian's version) is a freak in the sheets. (listen this is all just me daydreaming more about Cillian AS OPPIE just doing stuff BUT LIKE I DO SAY STUFF REFERENCING OPPENHEIMER KIND OF??? SO SORRY IF ANYTHING IS INCORRECT (tbh this ain't that freaky it's just me writing a short little random blurb lol) (also i sorta switch in and out of using she / you)... 18+ OBVIOUSLY MINORS DNI!!!)

i think he's probably more than happy to be a dom or a sub, he doesn't really care. I think he'd also be into being pegged by his woman or pulled around on a leash or slapped around. oppie is pretty open-minded and pretty eager to 'spice' things up. but this is all just me daydreaming

i can imagine you in the Los Alamos home, waiting for him in bed after a long day's work of telling men what to do. And finally... the time when he got told what to do... whether it be fuck her harder until his back aches or let him be the chew toy he usually was. she liked to joke she'd make him his own personal collar to go along with his clothes... and the thought of that did turn him on, not strange at all to him who stares into the making of the death of mankind. The idea of sex was something just as complicated and interlaced with deep intricacies we will never understand but also something more primal. Something that reminded him he was human. And fuck... staring into your sticky pussy you fiddle with as he starts to undo his tie was like frying every cell in that brain of his.

"No... keep it on..." You shake your head, fingers still drawing circles lazily on your clit barely teasing yourself as you lay there proudly for him. His eyes soaked in your body and how utterly breathtaking the sight of what lies in between your legs was. "I wanna pull you around on it..." "Well... yes, ma'am," He'll flare his nose in a tone of amusement as he tips his hat off to her and sets it down on the dresser as he unbuttoned his shirt. Robert would watch you in the mirror as you slid your sticky fingers to your thinly-veiled tits, slipping your fingertips under the lacy top and toying with your hard and incredibly sensitive nipples. You drove him crazy in the best of ways... in the ways he should be crazy. "Now don't look at me like that, bunny..."

"You're taking way too long to undo those buttons of yours..." You complain and he'll roll his eyes as he always does once he gets off his top pieces, he's undoing his belt and pants within a matter of seconds. His tie still around his neck as he stood fully naked and fully erect for you as you got up on your knees on the bed, perched up and facing him as you leaned in. You'd grab his chin and he'd feel how wet your fingers are. "Are you gonna behave tonight, daddy?" You asked, tilting your head as you yanked on his tie a little, enjoying the way he flinched.

"Yes, of course, my darling..." He nods desperately, mouth full of drool for your demands. "Tell me what to do and I'll do it... command me, I'm your slave." "Get on your fucking knees and beg..." You whisper harshly and then slap him across the face and he lets out a delightful sigh at the familiar burn and the handprint on his face. "You like that don't you..." As he collapses to his knees, Oppie nods and prays for you to give him something.

"Please... Y/N..." Oppie tries, head tilted slightly down as you lower your feet down to the floor and run your fingers through his short hair, treating him like a dog. "I'll be a good boy." You pulled his face to force him to look at your pretty pussy, close enough to smell but not close enough to taste... you were teasing him. "I beg of you..."

'Tsk Tsk Tsk' You shook your head with a smug grin on your face, swaying your hips and tantalizing him with his favorite view. "More."

"Darling," He pleaded, eyes so big and blue, he was defenseless to how he showed his emotions through the dread of the irises honesty. "Please let me taste you... I've dreamt about you in my head all morning and all afternoon..." "Dreamt of me?" You mused.

"In the daytime," He mumbles, trying to shake his head from your grasp like a feral dog trying to get at its prey. "I see flashes of you... pictures of you... traces of you everywhere... I see you in my mind wherever I go."

"How very romantic of you," You chimed, letting go of his hair to lean back on the bed and prop your legs up on his shoulder, spreading yourself out on display for him. His pupils expanded like black holes on the horizon of a dying sun that shone blue. "You can taste..."

No other words were said by him as he (for once) mindlessly dove in and buried his face into your wet cunt. Oppie wasn't sure there was a god up above but he knew this was heaven right here with his head between your thighs and your lips slipping his name loudly and endlessly.

He loved being bossed around, being possessed, it reminded him of his body, and for once not his mind.

??? did any of this make sense??? sorry??? lol

[the-shifting-long]

Perhaps I'll take some screenshots of Oppo dialogue and flesh my thoughts out on this further later, but for now, get unedited paragraphs of my voice of the opportunist thoughts instead anyways, to me, Opportunist seems like someone who gets genuine joy out of Scheming, and Being Manipulative, even though he demonstrably is pretty bad at it. he's a reflection of a player who enjoys the act of betrayal, or taking advantage of situations-the kind of person like me who saw a funny like [Slay the Princess] prompt unexpected and went "well well well. let's see where this goes." It's an aspect he shares with the Cold-an interest in the Direction of events, and preferably them going Up because of his schemes, moreso than anything else. And, like Cold and Cheated, he is one of the more blatantly meta-voices that reflect a state of mind for a player rather than protagonist or person-I want to see what happens if I do [x], I want to try and "win" the visual novel. He sucks up to authority because, like other manipulative characters who I love and who are a lot better at being manipulative little shits, he's trying to integrate himself with those in-charge just so he can use them, or replace them. This is most obvious in Princess and the Dragon-one moment, he's eagerly talking about killing two birds with one stone, and even as he happily proclaims that you're back and he's not cut out for decision making so you should totally do it instead...he'll stab you and the princess IMMEDIATELY if you find yourself back in her body. Which is part of why I fucking love Princess and the Dragon! When the Opportunist is blatantly attempting to grab power nobody even has, he's a clown, nonthreatening. When he actually has it, and his companions are largely uninterested in stopping him...he recognizes that once you're in the body, you're in control, but that doesn't mean he won't try and prevent you from returning to it as to keep the power he has. Why fixate on power, then? On being at the metaphorical top? It's in part because, like all the voices, it's something of a survival mechanism-we died last time, we won't die if we [x]. We won't die if we actually succeed in outmaneuvering her this time, we won't die if we have more power than she can meaningfully resist. It doesn't work out for Oppy, in part because he generally believes he has more control than he actually does-his attempts at manipulating the situations he's in to His favor are so blatantly obvious and self-serving that it's completely ineffective.

And therein lies the rub with the Opportunist-he genuinely believes himself to be Good at what he does. He genuinely believes he Deserves to be at this Metaphorical Top where he rules everything and nobody can hurt him by tearing him apart with teeth and claws and such anymore. He genuinely believes that none of the people Actually at the top got there through virtues such as hard work, or their intelligence, or strength, but because life is full of shortcuts and they knew it, saw those shortcuts, and took them-and he admires that! His dialogue in Wraith and Princess and the Dragon sell that last point home to me-with the Wraith, he's in love with her drive, her ambition, and her willingness to do whatever it takes moreso than anything else about her, and will gladly submit himself to her since he's fully aware there's no winning. As Wraith says, this is only until he can stab her in the back again-she knows the kind of person he, and by extension, we as a player, are. In Princess and the Dragon, he outright states that everybody worth Something (<- including himself!) doesn't bother with "hard work" so much as the shortcuts! "work smarter, not harder" <- a phrase i so wish he said at some point because it fits him so well. He's also contrasted with the Narrator-the Narrator frequently has dialogue deriding the monarchy, of how seamstresses contribute more value than princesses, praising "Viva la revolucion!" with "that's the spirit!" and just generally reflecting overall leftist political beliefs.

Meanwhile Opportunist is giving lines straight from Linked-In-travelling makes him relatable, he wants a job, he can help with the management, a more capitalist, growth-mindset way of viewing a world that does not even Have politics by virtue of being Two People. And this ties back into the Shortcuts, Being at the Top, and truly, genuinely believing that's where he needs to be, and that he belongs there-the mindset of people who view themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires soon to hit the upper class if they just network well enough instead of taking a realistic look at their situation or the bigger picture. The Elon Musks of the world who did not earn their wealth, but reap the rewards again and again. That's the kind of man Opportunist wants to be-the kind who found their way into the upper eschalons of society without having to be anything remarkable at all. He thinks there's a top to get to, in this world that is just the fragmented pieces of You and Her. Meanwhile, there isn't even a constant, or a center.

[aphroditeslover11]

Thinking In Numbers

Oppie x Reader

A/N: as always, based on Cillian Murphy’s very fictional depiction of Oppie, if you don’t want to read it I’m not forcing to and if you do then please feel free to stick around.

This is the response to the poll from the other day, handling some problems arising from the couple’s age gap.

Warnings: mentions fo alcohol, age gap, world’s mildest angst with a happy ending!

You had been on his arm at a lot of fundraising events recently, trying to raise money for the causes that he supported, which meant that you had been spending a lot of time with Robert’s circle of friends. They were all amazing and very interesting people, the conversation was always incredible and you loved them, but you couldn’t help feeling a little like a fish out of water. You were only a philosophy student, in a sea of seasoned academics.

The first time that you really started to notice the difference in your ages was at the end of the summer semester. Both the staff and the students were organising parties and you didn’t know whether you should go and celebrate the end of term with your friends or go and have a far more civilised send-off for the holidays with Robert and the professors. For him there had never been any question that you would accompany him, despite your age he always perceived you as being too mature and sensible to enjoy the parties of your fellow students. He assumed that you were exactly like him at your age, unbelievably introverted and not seeing the point in all of the chaos. You did as he expected of you, and it was a lovely evening with the help of a few of Oppie’s martinis, but you had ended up following him towards the physics faculty who were now having a conversation that you had no chance of understanding. When you got home that night you called your friend’s house, making sure that she had got home from the student celebrations.

“You don’t have to worry about me y/n,” she chuckled, clearly under the influence.

“Did you have a good night?”

“Yeah, the boys decided that it would be a good idea to to try and raid the chemistry stock room so we ended up with impromptu fireworks, it was quite a show actually. One of them nearly blew himself up, but I think he’s alright now.”

“God, I wish I could have been there.”

“How was your evening?”

“Not too bad, it was nice to spend the evening with Robert but he ended up in a corner with the physics department so I was left to my own devices. He expects it of me though so I just do it for him. I’m sure you had a better evening than me.” Little did you know that Oppie was walking past the semi-open door, and heard every word that you were saying.

~

The next day you went back to the campus to pick up some books from the library that you wanted to look at over the summer. You bumped into a few of the boys that you had met over the year, all part way through their degrees just like you.

“How was the party with the old boys club y/n?” One of them asked.

“It was quite fun actually, a lot of interesting conversations. They aren’t all old men, you know.”

“Oppie’s alright, the rest of them can be a bit of a drag,” this came from Luke, who you knew took one of your boyfriend’s classes.

“I heard about your antics with the fireworks, I’m amazed that you’re all still in one piece. I’d take a drag over a near death experience!” You tried to joke back, though it was true that you would rather have spent the evening with them.

“Come on, why don’t you come out with us tonight, live a little. Do you want to be old before your time?” It was then that you felt a familiar arm wrapping around your waist. Looking to your side you were met with Robert, his face with the usual soft smile it wore whenever he saw you.

“Why’s she going to be old Luke?” He questioned, humouring the lads. He was closer with his students than many of the other lecturers at Berkeley and they felt that they could have a little banter with him as a result.

“All of the time that she…” Luke started.

“…Spends sitting at home reading books when I could be out with them.” You quickly cut him off, Robert didn’t need to be involved in this. Luke gave you a bizarre look and carried on talking to his professor, but you could tell that said professor was unsatisfied. Not long later, as you were walking away, he started questioning you.

“My love, what didn’t you want me to hear Luke saying back there?” You were walking back to his office to collect the papers he had left before heading to New Mexico for the summer.

“If you want the truth, they were teasing me for spending so much time with the faculty. It was all in good fun.” Oppie paused for a moment.

“It is true that you don’t spend much time with your own friends though. I have to admit that I heard you on the phone the other night, I never thought that I might have been pressuring you into anything, but I can understand now that I have.”

“It’s not that I don’t want to spend time with your friends, I really do. Sometimes I just feel like I want to do the sorts of things that normal students do.”

“Darling, why didn’t you say any of this earlier?”

“I didn’t want to make things awkward or make you to feel obligated to do anything that you didn’t want to do.” Robert sighed softly at that, turning and taking your face in his hands, looking down at you.

“My love, you can always tell me anything. You are too caring for your own good sometimes, you know that? This is my fault, I shouldn’t have been so shortsighted, so its up to me to make it up to you.”

“Robert, you don’t have to…”

“This weekend we’ll stay here, we’ll have some people over to the apartment, your people, and we’ll do whatever you want for an evening. You know what, I can clear out for the evening and leave you in peace if you like.” He could tell from your smile that you had other ideas.

“Or you could stay and join in with the madness, you do owe me afterall and I think you could make it up to me by proving to Luke that you aren’t an old man. Maybe then he’ll stop taking the mick out of me.”

“I could probably do with a good shafting anyway,” he acquiesced. “So, will you forgive me for being so hopeless.”

“Only if you cover up the raid the boys did the other day on the chemistry department.”

“What raid?”

“They have a habit of setting off homemade fireworks at parties.”

“They are not setting off fireworks in my house…” You stood on your toes then, closing the gap to silence him with a kiss.

“Dr Oppenheimer, my party, my rules!”

[yayasvalveplay]

akjdfhgakjsdfh--

Oppy Breeding Anon back with Hive Queen Optimus to laugh at the idea that at some point on Earth in season 1, Primal asked the three Insecticons following him to mess with Fixit, Drift, Strongarm, and Drift's minicons.

Now I'm imagining a Halloween special where two different signals are detected, so Bumblebee takes Primal to go to one signal and the others are sent to the second signal. Bee and Primal have no trouble finding their signal, but it takes so much longer for the other three to find where their signal is coming from. So much so that despite being sent out midday, they only find out that the signal is coming from underground when its nighttime.

Fixit suggests they go back but Strongarm wants to keep going to find whoever is emitting that signal. Drift takes Strongarm's side since humans as a whole still don't know about Cybertronians. They find the cave entrance the signal is coming from and head inside, down into the cave's depths. The group has no clue where to go, but there's a sudden slam and they realize that the entrance of which they came is now very much closed.

Cue Halloween episode where it sounds like there's scraplets everywhere and the group gets split up (including Drift's minicons, they got split up too) and are fucking terrified, and at the end Drift manages to get out of the cave with the minicon the signal is coming from... only to find out that all the scraplet noises were Insecticons mimicking that noise, it was just a prank, and everyone captured got dunked in neon blue paint. The "minicon" Drift "saved" was just Herald who wanted to join in lol. The Insecticons leave and the group has no fucking idea who planned it... but they just assume it was Bee because they know (they're assuming) Primal doesn't have a connection to the hive.

When they find out in the season 1 finale that Primal does have a connection to the hive, Fixit asks if the Halloween prank was made by Primal or Bee... and the answer is both. Primal got the hive to agree to it and Bee planned out the mission. The fact that there was another signal for a Cybertronian popped up on the day of Halloween was a coincidence they happily took advantage of.

I love how well this fits because they would.

And it gets funnier when Primal gets outed as Optimus's son. And now looking back at all the interactions the insecticons had with them, and the way that prank went. How did they not see it sooner?

Also Herald. Raf being there for this to happen, This is when they get introduced to one of the kids Bee has been talking too none stop since coming back to earth!!!! Raf is so happy to meet Bee's team, he stays for a few days before he has to go back home.

[lacontroller1991]

Fluff/WhumpTOBER Day 16: Ernest Lawrence x F!Reader

Day 16: Yes, No , Maybe/Necrosis Masterlist Warnings: GA, social drinking, two idiots in love Word Count: 754

From the moment you joined Berkeley’s faculty, you knew that your life would change. The atmosphere was wildly different from the one back home. College students are found anywhere you turn, discussing their work amongst their peers. Even the faculty members all hold themselves in higher regards than where you’ve previously worked. One of those faculty members included Ernest Lawrence.

Tall, broad shoulders, neatly combed hair that shines under the sun, infectious smile, firm handshake, and smart. He’s a tall drink of water and 7/10 females on campus can’t help but to swoon when he gives them the slightest bit of attention, including you.

As the year grew on, you and him got close, closer than just fellow staff. What were small smiles in passing, grew into friendly greetings that would end in full conversations, grew into lunches with each other in his office, grew into full blown invitations to dinner parties at his house. Eventually, every time you stood anywhere near him, his hand would always briefly find yours, touches lingering a few seconds more. And you don’t know what to make of it.

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The chatter of people echoes in your ears as you weave your way through Oppenheimer’s house. It was another one of his bi-monthly house “meetings” that always turned into social parties. Tonight was no different. In most cases, you seek out Ernest, sticking to his side to avoid any other communication, instead choosing to engage with him over anyone else, but despite his tall stature, it sure is hard to find him.

“(Y/N), avoiding more people are we?” Robert questions with a smirk on his face, handing you one of his martinis. “I think I saw Ernest talking to a few people over there,” your eyes follow to where the physicist is pointing, easily spotting Ernest’s broad back facing you.

“Ah, thank you, Robert.” He nods his head with a smile before turning to another coworker, slipping into whatever conversation with ease as you walk towards your friend, your crush.

The sight in front of you causes you to halt in your movements. Facing him is a woman whom you’ve never seen, and she’s gorgeous. Painted red lips twist upwards in a smile that causes her eyes to twinkle. But what bothers you isn’t the beauty of the woman, it’s his hand gently resting on her bicep, words being softly spoken for only her to hear. Oh, so we don’t have anything. I was making everything up. He’s like that with every girl.

“Oh hey (Y/N)! I thought I saw you here. Want to join the conversation?” His voice snaps you out of your mental pity party. Downing the martini in one gulp, you offer a polite smile before turning on your heel and walking away, aware of the soft “excuse me” that he whispers to the woman, his footsteps chasing after you. “(Y/N), hold up.” It’s easy to find the door, and you’re thankful that Oppie keeps it open for anyone to come and go when they please, allowing you to slip out into the cool spring air. You need to get out of here and fast. “Hold up,” a hand gently grabs onto your wrist, pulling you into his body.

“What?”

“Why did you rush off? Are you feeling ok?”

Is he serious? “I’m fine. Sorry to disrupt your conversation. Didn’t want to intrude,” you forbid anger to rise to the surface, knowing that if it did, you’d just embarrass yourself. 

“I didn’t get to introduce you. That was Amy, my sister in law.” Wow, aren't I an idiot?

“Oh nice, sorry for running off. Needed some fresh air,” you attempt to chuckle, rubbing at the skin of your exposed arm, but he sees through it.

“Try again.”

Well, might as well. “Ernest, do you love me?”

“Ummm…” And here it comes. “Yes?” Wait. “No?” Well there goes your heart. “Maybe?”

Grabbing him by his biceps, you gently shake him. “Ernest. Pick one.”

He lets out a sigh, his head dropping as his eyes stare at his shoes for a second before looking back up to your waiting gaze. “Yes, yes I do.

“Oh thank God.” You push forward, standing on your tiptoes with your hands on his chest to stabilize yourself as you press a kiss to his lips. “I’m in love with you, Ernest.”

A goofy, dazed, smile plasters itself on his face as his hands fall to your hips. “It’s still early enough, wanna go get dinner?”

“Nothing sounds better.”

-fin-

@un-ionizetheradlab @anonymous-badger-238

[fictional-love-is-my-life]

Say if the Autobots were looking for relics and one brought a motorcycle to life, but the bot calls a college student's garage home. The bot never revealed themselves to their rider, but they are very skittish towards other bots. Any HC on how Oppy, Bee, Ratchet, and 3 other bots of your choice would try to lure out the newborn bot.

Optimus:

He starts telling them about all his Autobots, hoping that if they knew about them they would want to meet the team.

He's patient and tells the bot to take their time, but that he thinks the best place for them would be with the Autobots.

He tells them all about Cybertron, thinking it might pique their curiosity and maybe they would leave the garage wanting to know more about Cybertronians.

Bumblebee:

He gets to know the new bot. He asks them to talk about themselves. He asks what they like most about the garage. He tells them what he enjoyed about staying in Sam's garage, but also stated he couldn't stay in it forever.

He promises to make them a room just like the garage and offers the bot to take any items they want to their new home.

He spends time getting to know them so they can trust him and eventually go with him.

Ratchet:

He does a little bit of both. He sits and patiently talks with the new bot. He asks them questions about themselves and whatever they say, he'll connect a bot to it saying 'I know another bot who likes that'. He hopes it will ease the bot into wanting to get to know the team.

He often brings them gifts, or items to show them. Usually, they are things that remind him of home or things that are useful to the Autobots.

'Why don't we take a quick visit to see the others, then I'll bring you right back' He starts taking them for small visits. Being patient, but gradually the visits got longer and longer until the bot finally decided to join the Autobots and permanently left the garage,

[claireandacat]

Barbenheimer weekend!

It’s Barbenheimer weekend and as a cinephile, I of course participated. Today was Barbie with my brother and yesterday I went to Oppenheimer. I bought shirts to wear to each one and went to my favorite theatre (I will never ever step into a chain theater with the exception of B&B bc it did start in MO where I am from)

This is a year for movies as a Wes Anderson movie and Chris Nolan movie came out this year. My two favorite directors. I know kinda contrasting. One makes serious, science-y movies and the other quirky indie films. I love them.

I got the guy’s name tattooed on my upper back, how super fan can one get? Next I just need a Chris Nolan tattoo and my super fan status will be extended 😂

I’ll start by talking about Barbie, now I’m not much of a fan of chick flicks, they’ve never really appealed to me but hey I’ve played with a Barbie or 10 in my childhood so this movie should be fun.

It was a fun movie. Margot Robbie was amazing as Barbie. The 2001 beginning scene was an awesome touch. I love that Will Farrell is the Mattel CEO. He is always so funny and dramatic with roles such as that.

I still liked Oppenheimer more.

I’m a HUGE fan of Cillian Murphy and have been waiting for Oppenheimer since I heard Cillian would be the star of the movie. Cillian is also in my top hot actors list, I’ve been in love with the guy since I saw 28 Days Later when I was 16.

I mean, have you seen the guy? He is up there with Sebastian Stan and Daniel Brühl in my opinion. 😍😍😍

Maybe I should make a post about my favorite hot actors?

Back to the subject at hand, Oppenheimer was a MASTERPIECE. Nolan never fails to disappoint. It is 3 hours long to do get a quiet fidget toy. I was pretty focused on the movie so it wasn’t too much of a problem. My favorite theater has a bar so I often saw people getting up for a 2nd and third drink based on the amount of cans I heard opening.

That’s what I hate about ASD you get in the focus of something and then you hear some measly background noise and the focus is gone.

Y’all Josh Peck makes an appearance.

I want to point out the scenes where Oppenheimer is overwhelmed/getting a sensory overload. I read another article that Nolan wanted to really capture what it’s really like to be in that situation. Like really really be in that situation. As someone that often (well not as often now that I left a stressful job) experiences being overwhelmed or a sensory overload Nolan was spot on. Especially with the amount of stress and trauma Oppie endured, the sounds and cinematography of it really had you feeling it. Heck for a minute I was feeling the feels of stress, anxiety and burnout I was feeling at my previous job.

I would definitely recommend doing some reading on the Manhattan Project before seeing. There is lots of awesome videos explaining the whole story. It will definitely give you a better understanding of the events unfolding.

Also, want to give a shout out to Gary Oldman (like he would see this post 😅) for playing president Truman the president from my home state and I even live half an hour away from his hometown 😂 and went to a school named after him. Oldman def got that Midwestern accent down 😂

I always forget that it was Truman that signed off on the big kaboom boom to go down. Makes me wanna say, way to go MO! We got buildings, streets, and schools named after this guy 😂 *I’m joking, the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragic*

I am definitely looking forward to seeing Oppenheimer again. I’ve yet to see it with my dad who is also a fan of Chris Nolan’s work. Heck the guy had not one but two professors that were involved in the Manhattan Project when he was at KU back in the early to mid eighties.

RIP my bank account buying all these movie tickets and snacks 😅

I hope you all can get a chance to participate in Barbenheimer fun this weekend.

Happy Friday!

[currentfandomkick]

… well you get a sequel i guess

Danny waited for Duke to tell the others. Or for Alfred to for another week… if they told them, no one mentioned it.

The zombie curse on the others must have lifted or something by the beginning of his third week.

Duke kept checking in on Danny, both as a meta, psuedo cousin and fellow ‘normal hours’ cool older cousin.

Jazz was happy he made a friend. He thinks(?)

Post-zombie time everyone was moving to spend time with him, weirdly enough.

Dick and Damian dragged him to a zoo and Damian formally let him meet his menagerie of pets… including a dragonbat Danny was fairly certain was endangered at the very least.

Bruce showed him the Gray Ghost series. Danny wasn’t sure how to explain his parents used it to teach him ways to debunk people mimicking ghosts for Whatever ReasonTM and it was basically their version of Scooby doo at home.

Cass does ballet apparently and kept initiating dance parties with him between gentle spars and her raising an eyebrow at how he fights.

Duke is by and far his favorite.

Tim had taken to checking up on Danny and bringing him to the observatory in Gotham. One of Tim’s friends, Stephanie, decided to crash it.

When they got jumped on the way back Danny scoffed as the guy stabbed him (rude) and forgot his filter post-obsession adjacent binge.

“When my blood eats your knife, you cant say shit.”

The guy tried to pull out the knife. His blood just left the handle and was working on that too apparently. Dude got one hell of a cheap penknife.

Tim and Steph kept trying to get him to go to the hospital.

“Can’t. Blood eats their shit. Got the stuff for it in my room.”

Stephanie did stare as his jacket putting pressure on the abdomen injury began dissolving too.

Tim drove like the madman he is to get them back.

Stephanie, nursing student, helped with pressure by adding Tim’s coat to his blood’s feast.

“So, meta?”

In his defense, he forgot what that word meant while bleeding out a little.

Danny called Duke while in the car.

duke had something going on in the background.

“Little busy casper, what’s up?”

“Whazza meta ‘gain?”

“Injured?”

“We got him Duke. Stabbed in abdomen.”

“Good—not good good, but like, slow bleed good. Your purifier good to go?”

“Soup when i get in. Fishing to stich.”

“Yes, take your ecto—needed for his body to work—and oh shit, call you back later! A should have it covered!”

“Duke!”

They drove a bit faster home, calling Alfred and getting a sigh in response. “Please be mindful Master Danny hasn’t informed his parents yet. And this is to his discretion,” Alfred stressed while readying the fishing line for stitches.

One patch job later, and he had Tim and Stephanie asking a million questions about his abilities (Alfred shooed then away while he drank his ectoplasm like a good patient) and took a nap.

Duke made himself at home in his room by the time he woke up.

“Hey man, feeling better?”

“Sleeby, wha’, wha’ timeizit?”

“After dinner, others are doing the usual nonsense. Want to talk about the observatory for a bit?”

His core hummed and he was deep into the glory that is Oppy and his plan to ask one of his ‘technically not-from-this-dimesion’ friends to help him get there once he knew how to fix her up and make sure if another storm hits that she can self-clean her solar panels.

Duke nodded along, asking questions here and there.

“So, this friend is one of the ghosts you know?”

“Yep! Different base universe but everything’s tossed together like a Minnesota salad in the IR.”

Duke hummed at that. “And you feel safe going in ti visit?”

“Eh? I know the risks. Don’t open doors that you are not invited in to, if you see Walker you must kick his ass or he will ensure shitty laws are passed at everyone’s expense as he’s ass, and like, don’t go in to trade without having things to trade. Oh, and fight good to survive.”

Duke nodded slower. “Fair enough man. Feel up to eating solids, or sticking with liquids?”

“…if in smoothie form i can eat it.”

“White boy.”

“Blame the sentient food thing.”

“Blame the, the what!”

Danny frowned “Bruce is relate to my dad, does his food not also revive snd demand your death?”

“No, no his does not.”

“Oh. I figured that’s why Alfred doesn’t let him in his kitchen.”

“That’s more pan protection.”

“Ah.”

“Circling back to that, your food comes to life?”

“Mostly the hotdogs. Cross contamination thing. Usually they’re good about it but that stupid hotdog drawer and toying with power sources means somethings things gain sentience, and how to enforce their way.”

“… not my place but is now. You mind if i have B’s health inspectors make them take a course on lab safety and do checks now and then?”

“If they can get past the Fenton Defenses, be my guest.”

“Great, excellent. Texting Alfred now about the smoothie thing—and he’s checking the stab wound too. Which reminds me, how do your powers work?”

“No clue. I have ghost abilities but keep getting new ones after see them in action.”

“You sure mimicry or adaption isn’t the base and the rest is just how it spits out?”

“Like, 80% sure. Ghost doc said my core is all ice with some electric elements. Neither elemental core is prone to mimicry—that’s a Life Core and its variations thing. And water cores, but those can be unstable.”

“Cool, got it. So just a power makin’ weirdo too?”

“Yep. Need to get a shirt for the club.”

“Powers Be Here?”

“Powers, Picture a bumblebee, here.”

“Got it. I’ll see if we can get Dami in on the design, he’s good at arts thing.”

“You sure? I can handle the design once i can sit up.”

“You’re good.”

—

Legit thought i posted this ages ago, my bad.

The Nappers

Dpxdc Prompt #10

Danny was really excited to spend the summer with his second cousin(?) he didn't really remember, but apparently Jack Fenton's cousin was Gotham billionaire Bruce Wayne, a serial adopter.

Jazz had discovered the connection and gave him a call to see if he'd mind Danny staying over for summer because Danny decided he was going to tell his parents at the end of summer about his ghost problem, and Jazz wanted him to have a safety net.

He didn't really have a big family at home, with his parents being largely... absent and Jazz moving to Gotham for college. It would be great to be in a house that wasn't empty again.

Now if only his newly discovered family could stay awake long enough for Danny to talk to them.

"So how's living with our cousins?" Jazz asked him through his Fenton-phone. He flopped onto his bed and groaned.

"They're all seem nice but I haven't really seen enough of them to know yet."

"Danny, you've already been there a week, shouldn't you know them at least a little bit? You usually warm up to people quickly, as long as they aren't trying to kill you."

"Man I kinda wish they were out to get me, then I'd probably see more of them than I have already."

"..."

"..."

"Okay Danny walk me through our family, and what you know so far about them."

"Well first there's Dick, he apparently lives in Bludhaven and supposedly comes back to Gotham to visit fairly often, haven't seen any of him yet though."

"Then there's Jason, I've seen him come over after dinner a couple of times, but he's seemed in a really bad mood and I'm getting weird vibes from him so I haven't talked to him much yet either."

"Cass, Steph, Tim, Damian, and Bruce are the ones that actually live here at the manor and outside of when I first arrived I haven't actually seen them awake enough to talk to me. Anytime I've caught a glimpse of them they're taking naps and I'd feel bad waking them up, Tim especially (he looks like he needs the rest)."

"What are they, nocturnal or something?

"That's what I thought too! But the Manor is even more dead during the night than the day. If I had wanted to live with a bunch of zombies I'd have spent summer in the zone, not come all the way here."

"The only people that have stayed awake long enough for me to actually get to know them are Duke and Alfred! Duke's great, but he seems to have a day job so I only see him for breakfast and dinner and any time I can catch him before he sleeps after. Alfred's amazing, but he already has so much to do around the Manor, I feel bad bothering him."

"It is only the first week you're there, and there was a huge Arkham breakout your first day so everybody around Gotham is a bit tense while the Bats are trying to recatch everyone. Could you give it another week for me? See if it'll be an option for if our parents react badly?"

"For you, Jazz, I'll give it another week, but I can't just trade one empty house for another."

"Thanks, little brother."

"Love you, Jazz, bye."

Danny hung up the phone and sighed, he new there was something off with his cousins, but he couldn't quite place it. Constantly napping, disappearing during the nights, but always on guard when they were awake.

He had a week to figure it out, but if he didn't there'd be no real lost love. He'd come up with some excuse, stay with Jazz for the summer or something. If his parents reacted badly and he didn't have this safety net, it'd be difficult sure, but Danny and Jazz would figure it out.

Danny thought it would be nice to have some other family that had his back for once, but hey, maybe he just had shitty luck when it came to blood relations.

[dancingtwix]

Several dumb crossover fic ideas because I can

1) Steven Universe × Balders Gate 3

It's a Durge timeline just because I adore the ideas that could come from Stevens dream/aura powers interacting with this thing built to be evil but has lost its memory

Haven't played Durge timeliness yet so...

Post Steven Universe Future for that sweet sweet angst

Steven appears in Faerun somewhere between act 1 and act 2. The Nautiloid hopping around the place shunted through a Gem teleport column and Steven got yeeted around mid teleport

Withers is very unimpressed by this fucking rando appearing in the world and is NOT happy about it

Karlach and Stven fuse at somepoint to be Kalven

Steven does his little aura take over of a melon steven at somepoint trying to tell the Gems he's in galactic bum fuck nowhere and needs a lift back

At that time Durge is magically taken over by whatever force I've seen some spoilers for, and casts "Command" on Stevens unconscious bod.

The pair fuse and Durge becomes a Gem Dragonborn

Fighting ensues but Diamond Durge escapes

We go rattling off the plot rails and careen into Oh No territory

Alternatively at somepoint when Lae'zel is going to be rescued Steven goes Perfect Steven mode and wrecks the shit out of Orin

Doesn't save Lae'zel BUT brings her back

Withers is once agains very NOT HAPPY about this as the books are right out the window

Steven can now get home via Lae'zels hair

Lae'zel is VERY NOT HAPPY about this

In either case Homeworld pops by to say hello

Dnd Gods are VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY

The big brain is VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY

The Gith are VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY TO BE OUTDONE IN THEIR TRAVELLING ABILITIES

For a time is generally not a good vibe all around and Steven learns that sadly not every bad situation can be solved by sitting down for a chat/being sassy to a big bad

Resolution somehow???

Hints at Homeworld lending a hand to Faeruns technological advancement in the future

2) Pokemon x Pacific Drive

Haven't finished Pacific drive but hey ho

Set mid game-ish

Set pokemon journeys seasons, the one with Goh

Reports come to the season professor that weird sightings have been reported in Dynamax Dens, some have been becoming dangerous w/ random electrical strikes within/ground moving/a few reports of a car zooming through

Naturally general advice given to approach with caution as the professor send in children to investigate

Ash and Goh sort out a Den but as they finish the battle they can hear a car/see headlights coming towards them

Somehow they've teleported into the Exclusion Zone while the Den collapsed and at the same time the Driver opened up a Gate back to the garage

The pair get into the car and Driver hightail it to the Gate

Various plot things happen

Trainers turn out to be a LOT sturdier than the Driver and can stand the various crippling anomalies (being electrocuted/blown up/radiation poisoning in classic anime fashion amd because the pokemon world is FUCKING ROUGH)

Trainers notice the Driver just...doesn't eat or sleep, also notice they don't need to eat or sleep either now. They can still do those things but they just don't need to.

Turns out LIM energy is the same as Dynamax Energy

Oppy/Francis/Tobias giving info to the trio over the radio in the usual fashion. Frustrated there's no clear routes to the Garage or way for the Driver to communicate back to them but Rthey know the Trainers did pop through and are there

General plot is a mix of trying to get the Trainers home alongside the usual game plot

At somepoint Pikachu Dynamaxes and it goes WRONG. Still looks like Dynamaxed Pikachu but he goes mad with all the energy around.

Poor old Ash is grief stricken seeing his buddy in pain

Driver and Goh have to physically drag Ash into the Car so they can hightail it

Pikachu follows thinking Ash is being kidnapped + brain addled in pain. Can't Un dynamax

Plot follows trying to find a way to force Pikachu to un-dynamax

Pikachu is able to travel through the sames as he is infused with all this energy. Oppy can track movements but Routes the trio can take are too dangerous

Eventually Pikachu decides to go towards what is making him in more pain; towards Cappy

Trio find a route to Capoy too

Cool segway to getting the car off the ramp doing a flying spin into Dynamax Pikachu and knocking the poor thing out

Resolution getting Trainers home & driver out of the Exclusion zone

Whole story become driving force to NOT using the dynamax energy as the LIM tech is a warning to what could happen

[ateezivy]

ivy's relationship with her family

warning! death, abuse, neglect, addiction, cancer

dad 

 ˗ˏˋ name. markus min (korean name. min suho) 

 ˗ˏˋ birthday. february 8 1976 - october 10 2011

 ˗ˏˋ nicknames. papa, daddy, oppi ; liv, vi, sweetie, darling 

 ˗ˏˋ contact name. oppi 💙 

     ……❪ growing up, markus was really his daughters first love. she grew up doing everything he did, from the moment he prayed, to the time she went to bed. he was everything she grew up knowing, until he wasn't. when olivia was just ten years old, her dad passed away from colon cancer. within the years of his cancer treatments, she grew to learn all about hospitals, sickness, and death. his death took an obvious turn on the whole family, and that night still haunts her to this day. ❫

     ……❪ the relationship she had with her dad was one for the history books. he would take him and his sister out all the time, and even when austin was a baby, he would make time for them everyday. he would do anything for his family, and there was quite a bit he did do. ivy likes telling the story of one time when austin was a baby, he carried him around the park, but miya and olivia would get jealous. and even though mommy said she would carry them, they wanted daddy. so miya would go on his back and ivy was in his other arm while austin giggled at his sisters. ❫

     ……❪ he was a goofy man, a goofy dad, it's where ivy gets her silly side from. every halloween he would dress as whatever the kids wanted, it was his way of teaching the kids to work together to make a decision, and a way to just make them laugh. one year he was a fairy, another year batman, and so on. he would teach the kids about his job as an architect, which isn't the most exciting job to kids, but he made it sound like a story. he was the most amazing dad in the world. ❫

mom 

 ˗ˏˋ name. nicole min 

 ˗ˏˋ birthday. december 30, 1977 

 ˗ˏˋ nicknames. mama, mommy ; liv 

 ˗ˏˋ contact name. mom 

     ……❪ she was a good mom before her husband's death. the kids would help her with everything, cooking, cleaning, everything, even if it made a bigger mess. she always supported the kids, when miya decided to quit dance and go on to play instruments and volleyball instead, when ivy decided to join the competition team at such a young age, and when austin first joined dance. she was always proud of them no matter what, and through every step of the way, she was helping them with everything. you could say her and her husband spoiled the children, and they did with as much as they could, but she never cared. ❫

     ……❪ after the passing, she started her addiction. first it was alcohol, then drugs. she chose her children over drugs many many times. and it's not to say she was proud of it, but she couldn't stop. she would scream at them, hit them, leave them home alone for days on end while she was in the streets. miya had to get a job at 14, and almost had to drop out of school. that's the point where their grandparents had to step in and help pay for everything from running water to dance classes. their mom never cared where they went, as long as they brought something back for her. ❫

     ……❪ ivy doesn't really talk to nicole, she really gets a call when her mom reaches a milestone in her sobriety journey before she goes back after a minor inconvenience. she says she would love to buy a house for her mom, but she doesn't know if she could trust her with that responsibility. however though, recently her mom reached her biggest milestone in sobriety yet, but none of the kids are getting their hopes up yet. ❫

sister 

 ˗ˏˋ name. miya noel min 

 ˗ˏˋ birthday. august 20, 1998 

 ˗ˏˋ nicknames. mimi, sissy, noella ; ollie, ivi, angel 

 ˗ˏˋ contact name. miya noel💜 

     ……❪ growing up, miya and ivy got along really well. whenever her little sister wanted to do anything with her and her friend, miya always invited her. and even though she hurt a lot during their dads times in the hospital, she always walked her to play with her in the hospitals play area. she did everything for ivy and austin, especially when their mom started neglecting them. she would get them up for school, make them breakfast, lunch, and dinner. miya even neglected herself just so her siblings could live healthily. ❫

     ……❪ when the addiction started, miya would still be the bubbly older sister, she would never leave her kids home alone. when she needed to go to work, they stayed with a mom from their dance company. even tho she was so tired after work, she would still play legos with austin, and watch the barbie movies with olivia. she did everything in her power to make sure they lived a life they deserved. she would take every beating, every harmful word for them. and when she couldn't stop her mom from hurting the other two, it hurt worse than her own pain. ❫

     ……❪ now, miya is healthy, and finally happy. she's engaged and starting her own family. ivy talks to her all the time, having that miya moved herself and austin to korea as soon as she was 18. when ivy decided she wanted to be an idol, miya practically forced her grandparents to help pay for everything. everything. when she had moved to korea with their brother, it's when she finally got her own life. she got a job immediately so she could help pay for everything for her siblings, she legally adopted austin and ivy both after two years, and then met the love of her life. olivia is so happy to see her sister get the life she's always deserved. ❫

brother 

 ˗ˏˋ name. austin suho min 

 ˗ˏˋ birthday. may 24, 2006 

 ˗ˏˋ nicknames. aussie, aus, tinman ; sis, ollie, ivia 

 ˗ˏˋ contact name. austin suho❤️ 

     ……❪ austin was about four when their dad passed away. and before then, he was the families light. he would constantly make everyone laugh. he was goofy like his dad, that something everyone always points out. he also looks a lot like markus, which often makes his sister emotional. as the baby of the family, he always grew up getting taken care of from both sisters. he was also extremely spoiled when his dad was still around. he was always such a well behaved kid tho, and even when the beatings started, he always checked on his sister first. ❫

     ……❪ austin always tried protecting his older sister as much as he could, even now he's pretty protective over them. he grew up watching and experiencing some really horrible things, but he still remains a bubbly person, being compared to a gold retriever most of the time. but when it comes to his sister, his only family, he'd kill for them. he'd do everything in his power to make sure they are safe. ❫

     ……❪ now, austin has officially debuted in ateez's brother group xikers. his sisters are so proud of him and really excited to see where he goes. ivy says she talks to him almost everyday, and they remain very close. she says austin is her best friend and she couldn't imagine life without him and miya. austin is kind of a big teddy bear, and even with his struggles, his goal is to make everyone smile, especially ivy and miya. ❫

[bluwrites]

Hey since you’re taking TFE requests, could I ask for some Bee x reader romantic headcanons? Human or cybertronian reader is fine, whichever you feel more inspired to write for ^^ thank you! ✨

A/n: Coming right up dear anon! I Decided to go with human, because why not :D

These are more like how the relationship started and small things like that, but I hope it's what you where looking for!

Definitely spoilers for episode 8 under the cut

Bumblebee Romantic S/O Headcanons

-Bee and you first met when he was speeding down the road one day

-Bee was in too much a hurry and almost missed you crossing the road infront of him

-He had to slam on his breaks and jump over you in his root mode to avoid crushing your body like a water bottle

-He had revealed himself to you and so of course he had to get you to calm down after your mini panic attack over the situation

-Once he explained that no he's not a Decepticon you had finally calmed down

-It took some convincing but he eventually took you to Optimus, Bee informing him of the fact he'd revealed himself to you

-Oppy wasn't upset, though very disappointed in Bee for speeding and almost hitting a pedestrian, resulting in this

-Though after time passed Bee and you grew close

-He'd bring you on late night drives if you couldn't sleep

-You'd offer to wash him every once in a while if he got dirty

-You two had started developing feelings for one another

-Bee confessed to you first, one night while you where out on a drive

-You had been too stunned to speak

-He took that as a rejection and drove you back home

-When he transformed in your drive way and leaned down to two you goodnight, you snuck in a small peck to his cheek

-Telling him that you reciprocate his feelings on the matter

-He would call you pet names like babe, or love

-He doesn't do any thing drastic when it comes to nicknames

-You however love to call him your personal "Love Bug" since his name is literally a bug

-He found it stupid in the beginning but it grew on him

-You still go on late night drives together, but this time they're more significant to you two

-When Dr. Meridian shows up as well as the Terrans, you two are called to "train" these Terrans

-You'd mainly deal with the kids while he delt with the Terrans

-In the episode Decoy, when you show up with Arcee and the kids to help them with the Soundwave situation he's especially worried about you

-He takes all the measures he can to make sure you and the kids don't get hurt

-At the end of the episode he's all over you, making sure you're alright, reassuring you he can talk with you if it's needed

-You assure him you're fine!

-There's nothing to worry about, but gosh this yellow bot can't stop the worry!

[morning-might-arrive]

Here’s the continuation of my last post. Thank you so much to everyone who liked and reblogged! This is becoming a lot longer than I thought, so there will be another part soon. Feedback is appreciated!

A series of misunderstandings involving a limousine and Spectra’s blog lead Jackson to the realization that he has way more friends than he thought.

Wednesday

Jackson sighed as he silenced his blaring alarm clock. 7:00 am. As he walked to the bathroom to get ready, he was suddenly struck by a memory.

“It’s nothing personal, normie. You just look like such a freak.” Manny told him as he shoved him off of the lunch table. Jackson looked towards the other mansters, but they said nothing. So they all agreed. Even Clawd. 

He cringed. He’d had to eat lunch in a bathroom stall that day. He looked at his reflection, desperately wishing he could change it. He sighed and got dressed. He had to leave early since he now had no car and his parents weren't home. He plugged his headphones into his phone. Holt had gotten them into this situation, only fitting that he deal with it.

Holt Hyde cursed under his breath as he walked to school. Although the weather was warming, mornings in March were still frigid. He sighed in relief as he approached Monster High.

“Heya there, sweetpea,” Operetta drawled in greeting as Holt waltzed through the front doors of the school. 

“What’s good, Oppy?” Holt responded, his usual loud and energetic self even at the early hour.

“Just peachy keen like always, hun. Say, you seen the Ghostly Gossip lately?” She asked.

“Nah, we usually stay away from that garbage ever since that story about us and Frankie. Humiliated the poor ghoul and almost tanked our relationship. It really ain’t cool what they're doin’.” He replied nonchalantly. 

“Oh. Okay. Well sugar, you know you can tell me anythang you wanna, right?” She continued.

“Uh, yeah, sure. Thanks Oppy.” That was kinda weird for the rough and tumble ghoul to say, but honestly Holt was just glad their botched attempt at dating didn’t mess up their friendship. Oppy was a cool ghoul. 

“What’s the word, cool cats?” Came a new voice.

“Johnny!”

“Johnny.”

Johnny spirit sauntered casually down the main corridor of Monster High, and students jumped out of his way as if he had the plague. He put his arm around Operetta’s shoulder. “Hey, babe.”

Holt snorted. “I’ll never get why everyone lets you float around like you own the place.”

Johnny shrugged. “Guess they don’t have a choice. Besides, I never see you doing anything about it,” he replied with a bit of challenge in his tone. Holt rolled his eyes.

“You know you don’t scare us, Spirit. Anyway, it seems like Oppy’s got you on a leash without our help.”

Johnny bristled at that “Y’know Hyde, I’m gettin’ real sick of-”

“Why don’t we scamper on down to the catacombs and finish that new song we been workin on, sugarpie?” Operetta cut in. She really didn’t want to deal with a fistfight this early.

The couple walked away and Holt made toward the auditorium. He found the symphony on stage setting up and dashed up to join them, plugging his guitar into its amp. Jennifire was nearby greasing the corks on her clarinet. He huffed and sat down next to her.

“Another run in with the phantom pianist?” She asked, not even looking up.

“That guy is such a jerk!”

She chuckled and shook her head. “You boys are so easily provoked; I may never understand it. My brothers were just the same. He has done not to insight your anger.”

Holt really hated to admit it, but she was right. Johnny really didn't scare Holt, and he knew a little better than to try that tough guy act on Jackson. Plus, it was kinda funny seeing guys like Heath and Manny faint when he walked past them.

“Your emotions run like wildfire, I am very impressed you came to terms so easily with your end.” She continued.

Wait. What. “My what now?”

“Of course, it must be so hard for you to talk about. I am sorry.” A tear fell from her eye and promptly turned to smoke upon hitting her face.

“Jen, are you okay?” Holt asked, facing her.

She smiled. “Yes, I will be okay. So kind of you to think of me.”

“Okay, Okay, enough chit chat. Places people!” The director yelled as he approached the stage. Well. That was weird. Holt took his place in the stool beside the amp and looked up as the director began counting them off.

After an awkward hour of rehearsal, they were dismissed to second period. Holt emerged out into the crowd of students in the hall. Jennifire was nowhere to be found, so he made his way toward the art room. His Spotify playlist suddenly changed to a song by Pierce the Veil. He pulled out his phone to skip it and saw he had a message from Jackson. He scoffed. If D-low had told him what was wrong, would he be asking? JJ could be so oblivious. Maybe it was just a normie thing. 

He took his usual seat in front of his canvas and continued his painting for this week. 

“Psst, Holt.” he heard a whisper. He turned and met the shiny magenta eyes of retired popstar Catty Noir. “We’re turning up at Cleo’s place on Saturday, you in?”

“Yeah totally- oh, nevermind. We can’t make it, we kinda got a...thing that day.”

“Oh,” she said, looking kind of taken aback. “It’s that soon?” 

“What was that?”

“ I said I’ll see you soon!” she hastily corrected herself as she got up and turned in her painting, promptly leaving the art room. Man, everyone's acting off today. He touched up his work and quickly followed suit.

He basically had the rest of the period to himself, so he decided to riff on his guitar for a little bit. He couldn’t do it in the building anymore ever since that one time Headmistress Bloodgood caught him, so he moved to the front steps and set his bag beside him.

“Hey Holt!”

Holt turned towards the front of the school. “Frankie Fine-Stein! Where have you been hiding?” Her skin glowed a light mint green and her eyes sparked in the sun. Just as bootiful as ever. She sat on the step beside him.

“I was actually just in the library. I found this book about the original Jekyll and Hyde. It was way harsh; It said that Edward Hyde trampled a child in the streets of London, is that true?”

“Nuh-uh! Those stuffy normie’s didn’t like that grandpa’s were different so they dragged their reputation through the dirt!” Holt declared passionately. “Some of the people they charged him with killing didn’t even exist in the first place! Then they made Dr. Jekyll out to be a complete basket case and threw them both in jail! That is until they got bailed out by our great-great-grandma, Lucy.”

“Oh, man. I didn’t know any of that!” Frankie replied. She actually knew all about it, she had heard the exact same thing from Jackson before. They were both incredibly salty about the smear campaign launched against their great-great-grandparents that made their family flee to America in the first place, and you could hardly bring it up around them without a passionate rant. Frankie felt a little bad about bringing up something she knew was a sore subjet for them, but she had to make sure Spectra and the other ghouls didn’t get caught. It was for their own good, right?

Her phone buzzed in her lap and she glanced down. “Spectra got something, meet us back in the library.” Clawdeen. Frankie jumped up. “Sorry, Holt, I really gotta go.”

Holt watched her go in curiosity. He checked the time and quickly jumped up himself and dashed back inside the building. The only way to not be late now was to go through Section C, the so-called “vampires only” hallway. It really irked them when other monster’s used it, but he didn’t really care when it was either that or detention. As he made his way through he felt someone glaring at him, and met eyes with a large group of the former prep-school vampires. He braced himself, but instead of giving him grief like they usually did, they just let him pass. They were acting weird, but so was everyone else. Oh well, he didn’t really have time to think about it now.

Holt’s third period was Chemistry 2 with Mr. Hack. No thanks. Science was never his strong suit. Plus, there was seriously something off about this particular teacher. He just took a little too much pleasure in the cutting open of living things for Holt’s liking. He pulled out his phone.

“Keep an eye out. Today’s been weird, Bro.” He typed the message out and then disconnected his phone from his headphones. The world went dark.

Jackson blinked a few times. What was that ringing sound? “Oh, shOOT!” He bolted through the closest door- which just happened to be the right one- and took his seat as the bell finished ringing.

Mr. Hack passed out a hefty amount of worksheets to the class. “Okay class: no whispering, no talking, no looking around, no coughing or sneezing, no you can’t use the bathroom, and if I catch you on your cell phone the whole class gets detention. You have until the end of the class to complete the worksheets or it's a 0 for today.”

Everyone groaned. Good old Mr. Hack. Charming and likeable. Jackson tried to ignore the stares and whispers in his direction as he did his work. He knows he’s different, don’t they ever get tired of reminding him? Were they all paying more attention to him than usual, or was it just his imagination? He blazed through his work in about 20 minutes, it was just some simple thermodynamics equations. He looked up and noticed that Mr. Hack was asleep. Typical. Half the class were on their phones and the other half were talking amongst themselves. He pulled his phone out and saw Holt’s message.

Huh. Maybe it wasn’t just his imagination then, everyone was acting a little odd. Granted, every day at Monster High was pretty weird. Last week they had lost their school crest in a rollerblading contest and the school nearly toppled over, so maybe he could just ignore whatever this was.

The bell finally rang for lunch. He set his work on Mr. Hack’s desk as he jolted awake and practically ran from the room. He shot Clair a text

“Okay, transportation is set and decorations bought. Am I forgetting anything?”

“Measurements, goofy.” She responded almost instantly.

“Oh, right. I can get a tape measure from the woodshop teacher and get them during lunch.”

“Have you told the other monsters about Saturday?”

“No. I just don’t know how they’ll react, y’know?”

“Aren’t they always telling you about how you don’t belong? So why would they care?”

“Yeah you’re probably right. It’s just a difficult situation.”

“Yeah, I hear you. Let me know how it goes.”

Looking down at his phone, he didn’t notice Draculara until he bumped her as he passed.

“So sorry!” He exclaimed. 

“It’s alright.” She reassured him as she walked away. She made her way to the library where her friends were already gathered around in a circle. Spectra floated in the center.

“What’s this all about?” Draculara asked.

“While Frankie had Holt distracted, Spectra looked in his locker.”

“Well what did she find?” Cleo demanded.

“Just this. It appears to be a receipt for some kind of car rental.”

Clawd glanced at his phone. “Heath says Jackson is in the boys locker room right now taking measurements of himself and writing them down.” He told the group.

“Then what Spectra said is true.” Fraknie finally admitted. The room fell into extended silence.

“Well we can at least show Jackson he means something to us.” Draculara spoke up.

“Yeah,” Frankie agreed, “we can do something nice for him and Holt.”

“What are we going to do? Hijack the gym and throw a huge party during lunch?” Cleo asked sardonically.

“You’re on a roll Cleo! It’ll be closed tomorrow, but we can do it Friday!” Clawdeen agreed.

Cleo smiled. Very well then. Friday would be a day for the monster history books.

[baebeyza]

Unpopular Opinion: Optimus Prime isn't a very good person and that he's too glorified. (expect TFA Optimus)

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What can I say except that there are many, many Optimus'/Convoy's out there and making a general opinion on them just doesn't work.

But I couldn't think of any Optimus I experienced who wasn't deep down a good person - lets make a roll call shall we? (includes all shows except RB and RBA + Bayverse)

G1 Optimus Prime - Good person, good leader, good father figure. Is forgiving towards wrong-doers without being a pushover. Couldn't think of anything he does that is sketchy

Beast Wars Optimus Primal - He has a harsh personality, hits Rattrap on the back of his head when the Rat talks bullshit and can get feral against his own teammates when they are being assholes like Depth Charge - but all in all, he is still a good leader and a good person. He simply has a more down-to-earth personality and a no-bullshit attitude.

He only ever reacts angrily because his team do stupid and jerkass stuff, but he is never unreasonable.

When he gets angry, you know why and you get why.

Also, he gave Dinobot a chance as a Maximal two times, so he too has a forgiving nature. And his dynamic with Depth Charge shows that he isn't petty either. ("I don't like him much either, but he's still a Maximal.")

He also had a nice moment with Blackarachnia in which he assures her they won't do anything about her coding against her will and that she is safe with them.

Beast Wars II Lio Convoy - The only thing you could call him out for is for refusing the father role when he found out he has a son. It took him half the show to actually call Lio Junior his son, but it made for a nice story! Also, he was willing to make peace with Galvatron in the show, showing his forgiving nature.

Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy - The shy and awkward one! He's a treat who learns to become a good teacher and leader with the help of his students, and he had this moment in which he tried to save Magmatron's life from Unicron. He is a hero with a strong sense of justice who needed to learn about proper teamwork and friendship and it's a really simple and sweet story.

Beast Machines Optimus Primal - This dude is such a trainwreck and I cannot in good conscious say he was always on the right side of things, I admit that.

The way the show treated the Vehicons was a little sketchy, because the Maximals technically became hypocrits, especially when it was about Silverbolt.

Forcing the "techno-organic is the real way to be" unto the non-organic characters feels a little weird, because the show never properly showed us why being without an organic side is supposed to be so bad. (And this matters because the good vs evil conflict isn't properly connected to the techno vs organic plot).

So this Oppy you can make the point that he isn't all that good as he pretends to be in his preachy cult leader role.

RiD01 Optimus Prime/Fire Convoy - Listen, this is the most naive and cute Optimus out there. This dude was willing to let Decepticons into their base just because they were like "We are good now :)" without even checking first.

His dynamic with his jerkass twin Magnus supports that - he doesn't want to fight his brother! The dude fucking pushes him off a cliff and he still tries to reason with him and doesn't fight back at all!

Don't you ever dare call this Prime a bad person, he's precious! xD

Armada Optimus Prime/Convoy - This is the dude who goes fucking feral at the end and shows just how much hatred and anger a Prime can store - but really just towards the end! The rest of the show he's your typical leader who doesn't do anything bad.

And when he made mistakes, he corrected them.

The fact that he always had this hatred and rage that he pushed aside all the time is the most interesting thing about this Prime, but even that doesn't make him a secretely bad person, because he still doesn't do anything bad. He's just an angry boi.

Energon Optimus Prime/Grand Convoy - This is technically the same Prime as Armada, and for once that shows - that anger Prime showed at the end of Armada is still present here and shows up a few times, especially when it's about Unicron.

But just like in Armada, he doesn't do anything bad.

He even tries to save Shockblast, the jerkiest jerk of the entire show, from Unicron's influence! And did just that with Galvatron at the end as well with the full intend to sacrifise himself to save everyone, including the Cons.

Cybertron Optimus Prime/Galaxy Convoy - My favourite Prime of them all - this Prime is just a damn Papa Bear! He will be considerate and loving towards his men, but if you bully his kids, you'll catch his hands bro.

He's bit a stoic dude, but shows compassion and kindness when he needs to.

He doesn't do anything sketchy either, and lets the few remaining Cons be part of the Transformers society in the end, despite their misdeeds before.

TFA Optimus Prime - The one you say is the only good Prime? Guess so, he's a good person as well! He makes mistakes (like insulting his team) but learns and grows from them.

But mate - he isn't a better person than any of the other Prime's I just listed. The only difference between TFA Prime and the other Primes so far is that TFA Prime is a narrative underdog who you are supposed to feel pity for.

All the other Prime's are leaders in a leader role, so just from a narrative standpoint, you don't feel the same sympathy for them as you do for TFA Prime.

But being an underdog doesn't translate to being a better person. The Joker in the Joker movie is also an underdog, but no one says he's a good person and that everything he does in this movie is justified.

TFA Prime just goes through more harsh shit that isn't Megatron and that's it. He isn't being a better hero or person for that.

TFP Optimus Prime - Yeah, I saw the opinion that him being too forgiving towards Megatron in the past is a flaw and that he cares more about this one silver shark more than about the safety of the universe - to which I say: WHEN???

This is a thing Ratchet accuses him off! But I couldn't remember a single scene in this show in which Optimus does, in fact, let Megatron go when he had the chance to kill him!

They always fought to the death when they did and Megatron surviving wasn't because Optimus was too nice. He's not Son Goku peeps.

And I have my issues with TFP Prime and how his characters is written, but being a secretely bad person aint it. He isn't a bad person.

If this is also about Starscream - he has every right to not trust Starscream. No one should trust Starscream! Starscream doesn't exist to be trusted by anyone.

You cannot call Prime a bad person because he elects to not trust the notorious backstabber, who, as Prime himself as pointed out, only does things for his own gain.

Also, he did try to make peace with Starscream after Megatron's "Death", and Starscream refused.

Is it about him destroying the Omega Lock? Nothing wrong with that! He chose to save Earth and all its Humanity over restoring a dead planet! Dead planet stays dead, alive planet stays alive. No one died by his decision to destroy the Omega Lock - but a whole ass planet would have died if he hadn't.

Like bro - I am not a big sucker for TFP Prime, but all these points I see floating around to prove that he is actually a bad person are kinda weird and biased.

Why should he have given Starscream a chance? To get backstabbed and used??? Which we know would have happened because this is fucking Starscream we are talking about??? A dude who doesn't care about Earth in the slightest and was happy about it being destroyed? Who only cares about power and winning this war, which is why he goes back to Megatron???

Should have sacrifised Earth? Would that have made him a true hero???

RiD15 Optimus Prime - This TFP Prime, just sterner, weaker and ready to start beef. But ultimately still a good guy.

Bayverse Optimus Prime - Here you got a Prime who kills his enemies! For anyone saying that TFP Prime is bad for not killing Megatron when he could, do you at least like Bayverse Prime for doing just that? Three times???

Even though he kills all his enemies, I never saw that as him being evil. He just doesn't give second chances. And it was refreshing to see a hero who actually does get rid of his enemies before they can do more shit.

He aint the nicest bot in town, but in the end he still did the heroic thing.

Movie 4 even gave him an arc about losing his faith in humanity and not wanting to help them anymore, but in the end he still does because his Barn Husband Cade convinces him to.

Good man I say, good man!

Prime Wars Optimus Prime - He tried to stop Windblade from making a mistake that would end in war with an emphasis on Windblade herself - saying that war is horrible and he doesn't want her to go through the same thing.

He then decides to help her anyway when he learns what the stakes are, is giving Megatron a second chance, keeps being on friendly footing with the dude and dies in an attempt to destroy the bad guy.

All in all, a good boy!

Cyberverse Optimus Prime - He forbids his soldiers from taking Energon from a foreign planet because the local fauna need it to survive - he constantly tries to do peace talks and doesn't give up on them - He dances in front of his crew to cheer them up - he shows remorse about what happened to Wild Wheel and tries to make things right again - he holds the dead Megatron in his arms and calls him his old friend-

Nothing bad about this home boy!

War for Cybertron Optimus Prime - he fucks up the whole damn time, but he has good intentions! He's a flawed individual who realises what his mistakes are!

Making mistakes, even as grand as his, doesn't make him a bad person!

So, no - I don't agree that Optimus is bad person and I also don't agree that TFA Prime is a better person than any other Prime.

Almost all these Prime's do good things, protect life, try to choose peace over conflict at least once and have a forgiving nature (even Bayverse Optimus, as he forgives humanity) - that all good guy qualities for me!

What more do you want from him to be a good person? Be nice to Starscream off all people???

Also, what do you even consider to be "too glorified"??? The newest media like WFC doesn't even depict him as a good leader because he fucks up so bad.

[aphroditeslover11]

Somebody Else's Wedding

A little something that I wrote for @forgottenpeakywriter based on some prompts she sent me, I hope this makes you happy lovely. x

As for the smut I was trying to write, its coming slowly, sorry to the requester, but I am shit!!!

You had first encountered Robert in a meeting held by a mutual friend, focused on supporting local workers through the economic depression that the whole world was facing at the minute. Someone had introduced you and before you knew it you and you had immediately hit it off. You met up for subsequent meetings and then he started to take you out for dinner. It was fair that after the third of these occasions you had totally and irretrievably fallen for him. He led you along for a while, like a dog chasing a scent, until one day he kissed you as he walked you to the door of the house you were staying in. You were pretty sure that this was his way of cementing the deal, thought apparently not, or you wouldn’t be stood here. Your happy fantasy world had been broken apart weeks later when your parents, worried about the family reputation, had threatened to cut you off if you didn’t end all of your ties to left wing politics. This included Robert.

Today was your wedding day, and to your disappointment it wasn’t Robert who was stood at your side. Instead you were going to be married to a chemistry graduate who had just got a stable job working for Shell. He was a good match and a good friend, but he wasn’t Oppie. You felt like you were at somebody else’s wedding, not your own. Things were even worse in the fact that your fiancé had insisted that Oppie be invited along to the proceedings, having been his lecturer at Berkeley for a while. He had been sat at the back of the room, but you could still sense his presence in the air. As the service began it clearly became all too much for him, the small scuffle in the back pews alerting you to him leaving to avoid the painful situation, not that you could go anywhere.

The vows were progressing and you were getting towards the point of having to say your “I dos”, you had an impending sense of doom but there was hardly anything that you could do about it now, stood up at the altar. The reverend said the inaugural “If anyone here knows of any just cause or impediment as for why this couple should not be bound in matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.” The room was quiet, but of course nobody was expecting anyone to actually speak. That was until one member of the congregation raised their hand - your friend and bridesmaid Sarah. The vicar seemed genuinely taken aback, before addressing her.

“Miss, you have a reason that this marriage should not go ahead? Please consider the gravity of what you are about to do before you share it.” Sarah was hesitant, but continued anyway.

“I suspect that… the bride may love somebody else.”

~

Robert was sitting in a pub not far from the church, drowning his sorrows with a glass of whiskey. His tie was loose, the top button of his shirt undone and moving between leaning back into the wall of the booth, trying to make himself invisible, and resting his head in his hands. He didn’t even look up at the flurry of activity when one of his students, Lomanitz who had also been invited to the wedding, came hurtling through the door looking for him. 

“Oppie, I have news.”

“What, have the happy couple tied the knot yet? How wonderful.” He didn’t even look up from the table, playing with an unlit cigarette, balancing it on his finger to find the centre of gravity.

“Actually, they haven’t tied anything.” He looked up then.

“What do you mean?”

“Sarah stood up and told the congregation that y/n was in love with you and the groom was so angry that he called the entire thing off.”

“You have to be joking me… where is she now?”

“Y/n?” Oppie nodded. “She’s gone home with the Chevaliers, nobody else would speak to her.” Robert stood, downing the rest of his drink, before making his way to the door.

“Thankyou Lomanitz, and remember to get your thesis to me by Monday.” 

~

In the meantime you were sat in the front room of the Chevalier residence. They were friends of Robert’s who knew you well and were the only people who were willing to help you after the revelation of the earlier ceremony. It was pouring with rain outside, the raindrops bouncing off the ground and the sky even blacker than your mood. You were pulled out of your thoughts by a knock on the door, well three rather desperate sounding knocks to be honest. A male voice shouted through, telling you that he would sort it, so you went back to staring at the wall and nursing a glass of something rather potent you had found at the back of the kitchen cupboard.

‘Y/n, there’s someone here to see you.” You huffed as you got up, expecting it to be your parents or someone similar, making no hurry to get there. What met your eyes was somebody very different.

Robert was standing in the rain, soaked to the maximum with water dripping from the brim of his hat, now slightly bent from the moisture. 

“Should I come out or should you come in?”

“As much as I hate to say it we need some privacy, I hope you don’t mind the rain?” There was a strange look on his face that you just couldn’t read. You stepped out into the downpour, anticipation building in the pit of your stomach.

“Look, I’m sorry for walking out of the wedding today,” he started. “Lomanitz told me what happened though, is it true that you love me, because you see, I am so very in love with you.” The whole world stopped when he said that.

“Robert I… yes, I do love you.” The look of apprehension that had previously been rooted on his features quickly left, being replaced by a wide smile.

“I must be in heaven, there is no chance that somebody as beautiful as you could exist in this world. You’re the form of beauty, you know that.” You smirked at that, he always was smooth with his words.

“Oppie, I’m a bedraggled mess in the middle of a rainstorm., wearing a wedding dress from another man’s wedding.”

“It doesn’t matter, you are breathtaking.” He pauses. “In fact, I’m hoping that I might be buying you one of those soon.”

“You mean…”

“Yes, will you marry me?” I reach up for his face, reaching my arms around the back of his neck and pulling him into a deep and romantic kiss. Its a few moments until we break apart.

“I’ll take it that’s a yes!”