#i lied i'm not being normal about this

[bisexualbuck]

just thinking of the parallel of buck in his kitchen smiling after breaking with taylor vs after being kissed by tommy, both times a new beginning...

[eyes-of-nine]

tfw when minibosses take you an average of like 8 attempts minimum but then you somehow manage to defeat your fav boss in the entire game on your first try :v

[somegrumpynerd]

I'm certain I've seen this said somewhere else already and I cannot for the life of me track it down but Dream's favourite colour being purple and Nightmare's being yellow

Everybody assumes Dream's is yellow because, well, he's dressed in it head to toe and his magic is yellow and his eyelights are yellow. It's just a bright happy colour, it must be his favourite! Only Blue and Ink know it's not, Ink because he takes note of how Dream favours purple any time he gets to pick something or joins in on an art project and Blue because he just asked.

Everybody assumes Nightmare doesn't have a favourite colour, that if you asked he'd say he was above that sort of thing or tell you something edgy like black because it's the colour of his soul. And it's kind of true, if you asked he would never admit to liking a colour, especially not one so cheery and bright. But the boys have definitely noted how he has paintings of sunrises in his offices and sunflowers planted outside.

[spotaus]

Eyy, King Reaper and his beloved Mage Geno designs <3

[lord-squiggletits]

i know i’m late to the conversation—i just watched the movie this month—but i feel compelled to say this because i was genuinely shocked (still am) to see that the overwhelming takeaway for many viewers was the "d-16/megatron was right" bs. while it’s understandable to sympathize with his anger and grief, justifying his actions in the end or framing them as entirely right feels so deeply misguided. what surprised me even more was the tendency to shift the blame on orion/optimus, as though he was solely responsible for d-16’s downfall. it’s disheartening to see orion/optimus being villainized so much. his efforts to reason with d-16 came from a place of desperation and hope, as he tried to prevent the escalation of violence. at that point, d-16 had already begun to spiral into his unchecked rage, disregarding the safety of those around him. to see that nuance overlooked, with orion being faulted for a situation that was far beyond his control (the whole "don't be like sentinel" thing is often used to shit on op lol), is genuinely baffling.

while i love that the movie showed the tragedy of d-16’s arc and even empathize with his situation, painting his actions as justified—and vilifying orion/optimus in the process—feels like a misreading of the movie’s core message. sorry but i was so happy to see your post about the movie, it was tiring to see so many 'megatron was right about this and that' comments.

Oh man if you're new to this fandom, you really ought to know that this place is full of people who glorify terrorism and war in the name of "justified revolution" and it doesn't really matter what Dee/Megatron does or how horrible/over-the-top it is, he's oppressed or he's mentally ill or he's just plain upset which means that everything he does is justified and questioning him makes you evil.

It's so funny because I hoped for sure that a continuity where both OP and Megatron were working class individuals before the war would reduce this kind of shit take (compare to something like archivist/librarian OP and gladiator Megs in TFP or CBV, or cop OP and miner Megs in IDW1), but unfortunately this fandom literally still found a way to blame Orion for everything even though he suffered the exact same things Dee did..... and furthermore Orion literally was the rebel challenging the system compared to Dee who wanted to keep his head low and not cause trouble so honestly at this point I just think the fandom (and somehow new fans whose first exposure to TF is this movie) purely sides with Megatron on everything as either a knee-jerk reaction or some misguided attempt at being counterculture and intelligent.

People get sooooo mad when you tell them that unbridled rage and killing everyone who disagrees with you isn't a good social/political strategy, but then again this is a problem that is universal to humanity and not just the Transformers fandom. It's just a shame that so many people looked at a movie that blatantly spells out what the moral of the story is, and has all of the protagonists be working class oppressed people fighting against a tyrannical system, and their takeaway from it is still basically "fascism is okay if you're mad enough about it and if your friends try to stop you it's a sign that they're centrist liberals who think punching Nazis makes you as bad as a Nazi." It's childish black-and-white thinking masquerading as critical literary analysis.

And at this point people pretty much just don't give a shit about Orion/Optimus and will find a way to make him the villain no matter what the context is, no matter if he also has feelings or if he also deserves to be respected/listened to/validated as Megatron's long-time (possibly lifelong) friend. If ppl look at the way Dee treated Orion and their other friends and DON'T see what was concerning about that then there's really no saving them until they deradicalize a little and learn what usually happens when "kill all the bad people until society is a utopia" is implemented as a governing party's primary strategy.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[protect-namine]

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[aquilamage]

“Taller than any of the others I’ve seen-” Lemm stared down at the measurements he’d taken. “...Possibly to a significant degree. But it’s skinnier around.” Turning his attention back to the King’s Idol, he rotated it in his hands. For a while he was silent. Then, still tracing the carving lines, he said, “Tried to get a look at his palace once.”

Ghost perked up, leaning forward against the edge of the desk. They’d known there had to be some place where the old king would have resided, but had yet to find anything themself.

“It’s a pain in the ass to get there, and it’s hard to tell if it’s always been like that, if it’s the decay, or if there’s some other path I missed.” He breathed out a low growl, narrowing his eyes for a moment. “All that research, all that work getting there, and what do I find? Now there's nothing left. ...It's a strange thing though. There are no signs of conflict around the area. It's as though the whole place just vanished.” Glaring at the Idol as if it was personally responsible, he shook his head. “Can’t have shit in Hallownest,” he muttered.

[lokiina]

-> Dino Dinovic

[ifeellikewoodz]

Queen Drowning helped me a lot through my exams/term papers in uni and it only deserves the first spot 💙

And even Uniq made it, the gang's all here 🧡

[somuchbetterthanthat]

truly feel like after a certain age at the VERY LEAST Anxiety should disappear. Like, okay, you've been anxious and depressed since you were oh, right, 13 is that it? more or less. So that means your sentence is over. Welcome to the fun 30s. No more of that!

and yet

[villafordefeatedvillains]

2023 REALLY IS THE FUCKING HLVRAI RENAISSANCE HUH. We got RRY2K (very fucking good askblog, my friends run it, you should follow it NOW), we got the Return of the King (year2000electronics/Mothra), WE got back into HLVRAI after leaving the fandom in early 2021 AND NOW THIS????????? NOW THIS????????? GOD. GOD. GOD.

[franeridan]

luffy with a reindeer, a cyborg and a skeleton in his crew seeing bepo for the first time and going "why is there a bear here" and "is the bear a pirate too?" is still extremely iconic btw

[theramblingvoid]

I think about Mr Wines in BaL a lot. How it agreed to deliver the preamble to the death blow in exchange for a promise, how it said it considered Veils a friend some time in the past. I wonder how it felt the night after it handed over the absinthe, back home alone with a full glass in the dark and knowing that somewhere the trap was working. I wonder if it hoped that Veils wouldn't drink it, that there was still some way of turning back. Or maybe it feared that, that it might be too late and the Vake had grown beyond the downfall of pride at last and couldn't be stopped. I wonder what Wines would wish most had gone differently. I wonder what their friendship was like.

[heartshattering]

My aunt seriously complained about me "not doing enough work" today when I've been dealing with one of the worst flare-ups I've ever had.

[navree]

"you can't put alicent in a mother's day asoiaf comp because she's not a good mother and that's okay :)" but you have no problem with cersei fucking lannister in it when half her affc chapters are just about how abysmally she fails as a mother to her children so i think you're just a cunt