#in most continuities

[karlyanalora]

I think the reason they do bond with humans is because of the war. Before the war, eighty or so years was like nothing. You get in your routines, and as long as life wasn't horrible, time flew by.

But I think we can all agree that suffering makes time seem to drag on.

So for people like Megatron, the sedate pace the rest of Cybertron ran on was unbearable. When every day might be your last, when everything hurts because change isn't happening fast enough, every moment counts. And the rest of Cybertron didn't get that.

To them, change was happening fast! Why just last vorn (83 earth years) this new thing got passed blah blah blah. I wouldn't be surprised if this sense of having plenty of time is why the oppressed felt war was their only option.

Anyway, back to befriending humans.

War is hell.

Fortress Maximus was Overlord's prisoner for three years. That's nothing in the life of a Cybertronian. But he felt every single day of those three years, and it seemed to stretch out for eternity. When so many of your days are marked by pain and loss, they hold more weight. A day is suddenly precious.

War brought Cybertronians perspective on time. Just because you have millions of years ahead of you does not mean that what happens in one can't forever shape you.

How many friendships were made within the Autobot and Decepticon ranks that didn't even last a whole year due to death? Did that make them any less powerful?

So yeah, it makes sense to me that these soldiers could see the value in befriending a human.

If I did the math correctly, a Cybertronian befriending a human is like a human befriending a being that lives for less than a third of a 24-hour day.

I am NOT okay.

Average life expectancy of a Cybertronian, according to IDW: 8 million Earth years, give or take

Average life expectancy of a human: 80-ish years

One Cybertronian lifetime is 100,000x longer than one human lifetime.

One human lifetime (80 years) divided by that same 100,000 equals 0.0008 of one year.

0.0008 of one year is 7.008 hours.

Imagine caring about beings whose entire lifetimes occupy a mere SEVEN HOURS of your day.

This puts in perspective every dismissive comment made by any Cybertronian about humans.

And suddenly, every Cybertronian who’s formed a connection with a human in canon is so much more extraordinary to me.

[stuckinapril]

noticed a dip in posts about palestine on my dash, so i think it deserves to be said again: palestine is not a trend. caring about genocide is not a trend. there are still reports about humanitarian aid trucks intentionally blocked off from gaza, meaning so many fucking gazans, a big portion of them children, are just bleeding out with no help. it just came out recently that israelis disguised as women and medics infiltrated a west bank hospital, at which point they killed 3 palestinians (whom they claim were militants. right). these people are living day to day without even the most basic utilities. anyone who claims to have “activism fatigue” needs to question why they’re so severely lacking in the most basic forms of compassion. you don’t get to just grow bored of talking about palestine. please never stop calling attention to the genocide happening full force in front of us.

[akanemnon]

How to be an annoying little jerk 101

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[butchvamp]

bioware really said you can be nonbinary but we draw the line at multicultural

[girlboyburger]

[wiltkingart]

bound

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike learns more about Michael’s childhood..

[animalinvestigator]

happy 9 years

here's to 990 more

[tillsbiggestfan]

ALNST THOUGHT BEFORE I GO TO CLASS

isn’t it so interesting how ivan — who’s behaviors are one of the most incomprehensible to the other characters in alien stage — felt love that was most human?

he calls his emotions shallow. he acts selfishly to vie for till’s affection. he even died because he couldn’t bare seeing till die without a fight.

mizi, sua, and till were worshipping gods. but ivan was worshipping another human.

a flawed, selfish human.

[toxungen]

woof woof wats up lol

[humming-fly]

I've been really enjoying all the heart-wrenching and beautiful art episode 43 of malevolent has spawned, so to even things out here's even more monty python shitposts

Bonus:

[applestruda]

Sun

[kennahjune]

ALRIGHT BUT

I’ve been having flustered Steve thoughts.

The Party has NEVER seen Steve flustered. Steve’s always the one flirting and no one ever flirts back anymore so Steve’s never actually flustered.

But then Eddie Munson comes slithering along and he flirts with everyone just cause he can but nobody’s flustered by his attempts because he’s not trying to actually fluster them.

But for some reason he really flusters Steve.

Eddie uses this to his advantage and actually puts forth effort when he flirts with Steve.

Steve is flustered, bashful, embarrassed. He’s twirling his hair and giggling and he does this thing where he taps his fingernails on his front teeth when he gets distracted.

The Party was NEVER seen Steve like this.

Not even Nancy when they were dating.

Steve has described what he was like when he was flustered to them, calling himself stupid and saying he acted like an idiot to try and get them to just lay off.

All anyone sees is an absolute sweetheart.

Steve blushes really bright, starting with his ears and it just travels down from there. And also he’s really bad at hiding his smiles and he smiles so BIG when Eddie flirts with him. Like you can see every tooth and his eyes crinkle so much they basically close and his nose scrunches up.

And Eddie fucking THRIVES in it.

Because NO ONE else gets Steve like that.

Eddie’s witnessed Steve flirting with the girls of Hawkins. Has seen them all flirt back with varying degrees of bluntness.

None of them have gotten Steve nearly half as flustered as Eddie has.

UNTIL.

Eddie has Steve come over to the trailer to hang out. Steve by some turn of events ends up cooking and making grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Wayne comes home right as Steve is playing everything and Steve is DISTRAUGHT. Like “no Wayne it’s alright, really. I can make you some to it’s ok I like cooking you’re really doing me a favor.”

So Steve makes Wayne a grilled cheese to and refuses to let Eddie eat until they can eat together.

So they’re all sitting and then they start eating. And obviously it was a damn good grilled cheese— Eddie knew Steve could cook but good GOD.

And then Wayne puts his grilled cheese down, looks between Steve and Eddie, and tells Eddie “If you don’t marry ‘im I’m adoptin ‘im.”

And Steve BEAMS.

It’s that same smile he gets when Eddie flirts with him and Eddie is only somewhat livid.

Cause he totally gets the rush of having Wayne compliment you for the first time. He’s just such an honest man.

And it goes from there that the only people who can fluster Steve are Eddie and Wayne (Eddie romantically and Wayne platonic-fatherly).

They both go out of their way to compliment him constantly just to see him smile like that :)))

Aaahhhhh this makes me so happy!!!!

[unhappy-sometimes]

bowling doodles

next thing you know, he’s got a custom jersey and ball, a shelf of bowling trophies, and is on a local team.

i know that loid is supposed to be good at everything, but just once i’d like to see him pathetically fail at something despite his earnest efforts. every time i go bowling i am consistently surprised at how difficult it is.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

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[harmonysanreads]

Sunday in love is so funny and... sad. Here you have this dignified and respected man who nods at everything you say and laughs at whatever joke you make. Whose remarkable composure is shattered at the mere sight of you in a room, his palms get coated in sweat, wings becomes restless and heartbeat rebels against a decent pace. The man who can elegantly handle the trickiest diplomat stumbles mid-speech whilst info-dumping to you about black-holes and neutron stars. And oh heavens if you match his rhythm, get him without him needing to explain himself — or worse, find him endearing — he's so ruined.