#i hate being a writer sometimes!

[ayyy-pee]

me: i'm gonna write porn no plot today!

also me: five seconds into writing, creates intricate backstories leading up to the when where and why these characters are having sex and psychoanalyzing their emotions and then giving those emotions intricate backstories and-

[lazylittledragon]

mombin pt 9!! it's been too long i'm sorry

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[keferon]

May I ask what were the best transformers media you ever saw/read?

Well Transformers Prime, Transformers 1986 and IDW comics are having the first place that’s for sure

And then the second place is kind of shared by Fall of Cybertron, Exodus, Prime wars trilogy, Robots in disguise(2001) and Transformers One.

The third place goes to G1, Animated, Earthspark, Armada, War for Cybertron Netflix series, Aligned Robots in disguise, Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts and Cyberverse because I only liked some little parts of them.

And then I also saw some of the Bay movies, Victory and Headmasters and didn’t like them at all.

Separate first place for J-Decker. It is not exactly Transformers but it is a show about giant robots and I loved it

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

[rowanoftheunknown]

I love that stede acknowledged he was a shit dad actually like they don't woobify the fact that he is just. Not a very good father. I am not being sarcastic when I say I love it.

[epickiya722]

I haven't even read the ending and I won't have a full opinion on it until the actual chapter comes out, but from I have seen about "loose ends"... I could imagine that Gege actually wanted to explore more but there are certain reasons that kind of halted that. Similarly, like with MHA's ending.

(I'm sorry but I'm not deciding on just leaks on whether a chapter is good or bad.)

It just feels odd to me. I don't know, it just does.

I think about the overall scheduling and that Gege can't and can do certain things because he does work with other people he has answer to. I wouldn't be surprised if after this, Gege comes out with a statement saying there was a lot he wanted to continue to explore but couldn't due to reasons. There's also Gege's health to consider.

Whether the ending got fumbled or not, again, I don't know. I'm not here defending Gege or making excuses, but putting insight and why the ending possibly became what it is.

Hell, just last year people were upset because how some of the episodes of the anime looked but then it's turns out how the workers literally had to crunch for time and apologized (which I think was just so sad to do because the animation and pacing was fine for me and I know that has to be hard to do with little time to perfect it but some of you couldn't relate but I digress) as if they are actually to blame when they're just employees.

Maybe it is just me but it just seems odd to me.

And I know some people are upset about Gojo. If you are, I'm not holding it against you. I like him, too and yeah, I'm shedding a tear or two.

However, how this fandom acts now compared to before is such major whiplash for me.

Some of you want to throw around "Gege hates Gojo" so much but Gege is the same creator who gave the audience Gojo and a story to understand and yet a lot of people still mischaracterize him and only see him as "a hot character" or "the powerhouse that should come back because how dare he be happy in the afterlife" or "the blue eyed twink".

Actually, I find that some of you probably hate canon Gojo more than Gege supposedly does because of all these different versions that the fandom have conjured up.

The most Gojo did deserve is a funeral after he died and I get being upset if he didn't get that in the story, I would be upset for sure.

But given how much I have seen the fandom act when it comes to Satoru Gojo's character, I'm taking a lot of opinions on "Gege mistreated Gojo's character", the ending and everything else with a very teeny grain of salt. Yeah, be "critical" all you want but it just seems for anything nowadays that's all people want to do without considering other factors.

You can still hate or like something and acknowledge other things that play into why that something is the way it is.

[bi-panic-at-the-disco]

I like how whenever I watch AstralSpiff or Backseat play a new Poppy Chapter it’s pretty clear what game that they devs had been playing before hand lmao,, Chapter 4 being very clearly referencing to the Resident Evil 4 underground factory insect fights with how it was framed

[whozkay]

when lorde says "it feels so scary getting old", i would love it if she had put I warning for when you really get older, the things will be even worse.

another day that I feel myself into a void, disconnected from myself, walking aimlessly through my own mind wondering why I can't reconnect with who I am, why I can't feel that weird (but amazing) feeling of doing something you really like.

i miss the happiness of writing and the delight of painting. instead of a brush and a pen, I have a broom and a sponge. they will never make me happy, they will never be my lovers, not even my friends, the same way as art is... or used to be.

i miss this, i miss just being myself. and I've realised I can't live that way.

getting old can't be like this, I'll never accept and I'll never let myself fall into this suffering easily. not that easily

[mamawasatesttube]

saw someone being wrong about kon on the internet again (i know. shocking) and you are all so lucky i'm sick and feverish and lazy because i DID just seriously entertain the thought of writing up a small essay complete with issue and panel citations about why it's simply incorrect to say that kon never really seemed to reciprocate any sort of crush on tim before geoff/tt03. this is just not true. you dont have to actually ship them but to downplay their importance to each other even in the earliest days is simply incorrect. i'm too tired and achy to bother digging through comics to pull up all the issues that have the bits i want to point at but like... they were both very mutually important to each other from early on. it was in no way shape or form one-sided, whether you want to read that as platonic or romantic. man.

[antlerclxws]

Someone’s got to motivate me cuz omggg im actually losing it and thinking of so many things to write it’s freezing me up

[mood2you]

(ID : Stardew Valley on my switch. Elliott is in the doctors office of Harvey talking to the farmer, "What brings you to this terrible place?" He is low friendship. My sock matches the mint green walls and privacy-curtains in the doctor's, end ID)

I guess I should try to understand him better I'm always bewildered by the way he talks (if you even care)

[batcavescolony]

The pain of finding a fic with the concept you've been yearning for. You've finally found it, it's the only one in the fandom like it... But that fics main paring is a ship you HATE with a burning passion 😭

[joutsummer]

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[wolfhednn]

　𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 　/　drabble ₊

growing up, he'd never been made to feel the lesser of the sons of fraldarius. often, he'd wondered if it was all in his head.

he couldn't be said to have received any less attention. though his memories of his mother are sparing, their father had been equally rigorous with them both. their education had been equally complete. their training equally emphasized. it made sense——the name fraldarius wasn't a small one, or easy to live up to. the arm that filled the king's shield, young or old, needed to be strong, peerless, unflinching.

he couldn't be said to have received any less love. as the youngest of their entourage, many would've said he'd had anything but.

maybe it had only been in his head.

maybe it was him who saw glenn's skill in both lance and sword when he just wanted to exceed him in the blade.

maybe it was him who noticed how glenn cast with their father's talent in the goddess' magic when he showed no interest in those lessons.

"you're too narrowminded, felix," his father told him. his tutors told him. his mentor told him. "what happens if you're disarmed? your sword gets taken?" they proceeded then to do just that——schwing!——sunlight glinting sharply off steel as it sailed tip over hilt to clatter to the ground, leaving him defenseless at his enemy's lancepoint. at the other end of it was any number of those who'd built him and honed his skill, made him who he was today.

. . .

like he said, his father was like that too. skilled in faith magic, that is.

they say that magic came to him before the lance did, even before riding did. that when he was a boy, he used to struggle to match his peers in steel, and would be mocked and laughed at: what kind of king's shield can't even land a javelin! but that he made up for it in the strength of the goddess' smite that would silence them.

glenn, too, harnessed the same terrifying aurora that spilled from rodrigue's deft hand: a roar of brilliant light, the memory of dark waves bloodstreaked from horseback burned into a foe's eyes, more than enough to make repentence of apostasy.

for his father, it'd been faith in the goddess. his brother, faith in his loved ones.

in turn, felix had never sought out magic, never felt or welcomed its spark. his father said nothing——even after glenn had died, he said nothing, for all that he said to him at all at the time. and with glenn's death had died the last of any desire he might've had to pursue it: to better match him maybe, or live up to some imagined expectation ; to please his father maybe, or shirk off the voices saying he was too stubborn. instead, the blade was where he found himself, the same where he had always found himself. the blade was where he found his brother, and the pieces of everything he'd once held sacred. and so there he'd stayed.

until——

until. . .

a drop of ink disturbs clear water. someone tells him: magic will make you a stronger swordsman.

it's an echo of the voices from the past. "you're too narrowminded, felix" chases him forward in time like a hydra, grabbing him again in these cloistered, dust-smote halls where they'd never walked and had never seen him. his expression sours at first, and he swears, he swears. . .

but this time, he listens——because the voice that has chased him is none other than glenn's. airy and teasing, always flippant, who used to say to everyone else: "lay off him. he'll pick it up or he won't." now he says:

give it a try, felix.

give it a try, felix.

so felix finds, with enough time, that his faith is the faith that splits like lightning. born not from the goddess, nor in the belief that in memory he will never die, but something else. some third thing he doesn't know, but which howls and thrashes and bites even him, which would claim his life if he wasn't strong enough. and it feels like him. it feels like him like the blade feels like him, an extension of something he lives by and vouches for.

after all, thunder isn't too far off from faith: a flash of light, a smoldering crater, a scar for the departed.

　 FELIX has mastered:⠀ dread fighter.

[falloutcoys]

y do you hate on malev sm if ur a fan of it? like not criticizing its flaws but every time i see a malev fan callin it bad its u . thats no shade /gen im just curious y u engage w somethin u dont like

I mean, there is a lot I do like about it, especially in the first three seasons. I don't think that having problems w something means you can't enjoy things about it 🤷 there's tons of cool fan art and fanfic and I enjoy that plenty, and I don't think I shouldn't engage with it just bc I have problems with some parts of canon

like, I will exaggerate my feelings about it for comedic effect. you don't see my genuine criticisms on here because I honestly don't have the energy for the arguments that can bring. if I'm doing meta it's for the aspects of something I enjoy.

and I reeaaally don't think I'm the only one doing that either lol like, I have plenty of moots who put similar tags to me on posts. maybe it's bc I just come from a fandom history where bitching about the show doesn't mean you hate all of it, like that's a time honored tradition in the spn fandom lol

[jollyreginaldrancher]

Van's beef with Misty

I remember seeing this and being so excited and happy for them only for Van to be an absolute turd to Misty not five minutes later and make me rethink all the time I spent stanning her

But seriously though, whys is Van such a bitch to Misty?

I'm with her most of the time. Was with her when she came at Jackie, that was justified, and it was punching up. With her when she gave Travis tough love. Yes she was harsh but he needed to hear that and not wallow like Shauna.

Side note why didn't she have the balls to talk to Shauna like that? Was Jackie and Travis just easy targets she felt she could talk to like that but somehow Shauna out of the question? Was it because of her closeness to Tai? Anyway, not the point but it still bothers me.

I was with her most of the time but Misty? Why is she punching down?

Why is she picking on someone smaller than her?

Why is she making fun of someone who's already an outcast?

What does she hope to gain from that?

Why does she think she's entitled to be such a dick?

Hell, why do the other girls not stop her? Only Taissa seems to call her out but even that is performative. Taissa trying to smooth things over and be the politician she is and play all sides.

Why wont Natalie speak up for her though? Is she afraid of getting caught in the crossfires? Does she think it's just some catty bullshit, that's not a big deal, like Shauna and Mari's feud? If anything she should know better than anyone how much that shit stings because she was often the target of that kind of stuff, especially in the first season. That's a whole post of it's own though.

What really bothers me is Van's behaviour.

Like, in the first ep we see her catching strays by Ali. We see her blossom and be this sort of comedian and entertainer and that's cool. I genuinely loved Van, but this attention-seeking behaviour is going too far when she starts just being a dick for shits and giggles like this.

Like, doesn't she get enough from her audience of adoring fans? She needs to put Misty and others down to make herself feel better? Cause at this point she's going from class clown to just straight up bully and I don't like this regression. I hate it actually. I hope she shapes up, even though I doubt it, or at least redirects some of that to someone more deserving.

Like, if she was punching up I wouldn't have a problem with it, however she's reaching her peak and there's very few people she can target without making powerful enemies.

She doesn't have the balls to challenge Lottie or Nat right now, and can't come after Taissa, and it'd be taboo to go for Shauna cause of her whole victim mentality and the couple bad things that happened to her and the general pity that she's basking in. So she goes after Misty instead? At least come for Mari, coach ben, Travis, etc. Though even Mari's a stretch now, she has no real power and she's far more palatable this season.

I guess the best solution is to just stop being a dick but I don't see that happening any time soon.