#his lectures SUCK

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

[reallapiscake12]

I occasionally see the idea of a "normal jeff au" where Jeff never became a killer and was just a regular dude

and usually these aus just have it where the incident with Randy never happened and Jeff just continued to live out his life normally. Now that idea is cool and interesting but i had a thought, what if Jeff's a normal dude AFTER the incident. Like instead of his mom going immediately to the idea of a late abortion she gets help for her son and he goes back to being a (slightly) normal kid, so you just got this 15 yr old in highschool looking like a half dead corpse doing algebra and running track or whatever kids do edrfgfdfvgb what would life be like for Jeff i wonder, would kids continue to treat him harshly or would everyone be afraid of Jeff? Or would they just pity what he gone through or just treat him normally. How would his family life be affected by the events of Randy.

[wubbybubbly]

I find it very funny that eden academy is a prestigious institution known for its excellent schooling, but when it cuts to anya in math class, the instructor’s just like, “this and this are like this, and that’s why this turns out like this. and this is this. this gives you this answer, and you can use this method to get this answer over here.”

brilliant.

[iceyrukia]

For a good portion of women, their lives are too attached and intertwined with men to ever actually hold them accountable. It's why so many women's anger is subdued or they look the other way when men act like scumbags - all of this meek behavior all because in their back of their minds they want a future where they're on good terms with men and that means not being to "harsh" on them or else they won't have that.

[lordturkish-robomallcop]

Assorted footage of the average Fairhaven session:

[volfoss]

The fact I'm 20% through this book and like maybe 3 things have happened at most... We are SO back in Anne Rice exposition dump hell forever and ever

[1o1percentmilk]

i love my security prof he's like if suzuki touichirou was real and wasnt a terrorist and gave lame ass computer security lectures instead

[qeyond]

So. B and A getting super high together. B has an insanely high tolerance and A only smokes maybe once or twice a semester, if studying allows. A has a Horrible high and is super on edge and anxious, but B makes them feel really safe so they're not completely bugging out. B is just vibin' and having fun, but also being a bit of a Shit Disturber. Keeps bringing up creepypastas and A ends up sitting snuggled up super close to B on the couch with their arm around B's. A being all "heyy this is getting really scary :(" and B being like "haha, oh I'm so sorry~. We can talk about something else..." and A getting relaxed and :). But then B interjects: " So yeah... you know The Bathroom Head?" and A shoves him and is all ">:((!!!! LISTEN!!! ITS SO SCARY, OKAY!! I HATE YOU!!!" They're both laughing and it's very soft and intimate, but in a very queer found family kinda way.

[the-winds-of-destiny-xxx]

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[starlooove]

Bruce yelling at clark about being mean to kon << they justify eachother’s crap parenting like their life depends on it

Real

[neonacidtrip]

I am home from apartment hunting and I would just like to say I am extremely disappointed, as an able-bodied person, to learn only 1 out of the 13 complexes we visited had an elevator.

[ofdraiocht]

Yall my boss is lucky I've learned self control

[lannisterdaddyissues]

i might have been a little too optimistic while i was planning out how to budget my time so i could prepare for my exams next week

[a9saga]

i wish my physiology professor assigned a friggin required text book. there's nothing wrong with a textbook. he assigns periodic word docs he wrote himself which cover all sections on the next exam. the current one we're on is 79 pages. his writing is so fucking messy, so unclear, and so unfocused. they're full of grammatical errors, unlabeled charts that don't make any sense, and the order in which he puts his key concepts could really use revision. like so many times, i'm reading one subsection and i'm like '.....why did he say this before that?'--it reads like he never asked a colleague, 'hey can you read my lecture notes and tell me if it makes sense?'

i've had other professors base their lectures and course work off of their own docs rather than a textbook. it's okay not to do that, i'm sure they aren't easy to write but it never occurred to me that someone would do that without being good at it. for his lectures, he just projects and skims the doc and paraphrases stuff, and for a lot of the shit in there he says 'don't worry, i'm not gonna test you on that' (????) which for me only blurs the lines on what small examples or elaborate tangents i will or won't be expected to know. the lectures feel anti-helpful and reading the doc myself feels anti-helpful. i spent half the summer reading a physiology textbook at work in preparation for this class. i can understand the topics according to the organization of a textbook. i do not understand his word docs. it feels like a waste of time.

[lesbiancocksucker]

im really enjoying the long windup in my maor204 class to governor grey. its like watching mcu movies waiting for the villain of thanos to show his face

[orionlancasterr]

Sorry guys ive been sucked into the solas enjoyment but the problem is that i hate major fanon solavellan. I like the part of solas where hes got a constant need to be the smartest person in the room and is constantly holding secrets above everyone else's heads and making the inquisitor feel like the most specialist person ever until they disagree with him and then he's got to remind them how smart and wise he is but its okay because its not your fault youre so stupid.