#just thinkin

[pandoras-boxs-world]

After Regulus dies, James always wears a sliver ring with a star on it on his middle finger. People are always asking him why he wears all gold jewellery except for that one ring. He just shrugs

[rochenn]

i personally think the lightsaber maul got from mother talzin after his restoration shouldn't have been an ass pull replica of his old one. like where did she even get that from.

it would have been SO much cooler if he'd clung on to obi-wan's first lightsaber after both he and it fell down that reactor shaft on naboo. the symbolism of it all would be so tasty. he kept that thing for years, he turned it red and corrupted it but it still very much carries a part of obi-wan around. maul claims he left him for dead and his lightsaber echoes that sentiment. and imagine if he kept that thing until obi-wan kills him on tatooine so many decades later. bro i wouldn't have recovered

[inkskinned]

pay attention to how your partner values your time.

i mean this beyond things like how much time you spend at work or how often you answer their text messages.

if you spend hours getting ready for them, do they value that effort? if you plan a meal and do all the shopping and prep and cooking for it, is it just dinner for them? do they notice the small chores you're always doing, or does it just magically "get done" when they're not looking? do they notice when you've spent time for them, or is it just something that is expected to happen?

my ex understood our relationship as some kind of credit service. he would do something large and nice for me maybe once or twice a season - and then "collect" on that credit for a while. my time was not as valuable as his - i was expected to give up my time for things like the upkeep of our relationship, chores, everything. even though i was in school and employed (and honestly doing more than he was), he assumed my time couldn't be better spent. he used to say i was just "better" at the daily stuff. he was my first longterm boyfriend - i hadn't been taught it. it didn't come naturally. it's just that if i didn't do it, he valued his time too much to do it for me.

recently i saw a video of a man smashing a cake into his new wife's face after she explicitly asked him not to. i'm glad that these days, most people don't find it funny. but still, someone comments: girl, just wipe it off and jump back into the party! but the fact of the matter is - even if it wiped off perfectly, even if the makeup only took a few minutes to reapply, even if the dress wasn't ruined by the oil in the icing - she would have to spend time away from her own wedding in order to do it. her new husband - he gets to laugh and sit around and party. she has to leave her loved ones and go be alone to handle the results of his prank. it might be the only day she gets to see some of these people; but that time spent (the makeup, the dress) is just valued less. it's seen as inconsequential.

just... pay attention. is it normal for you to give up your time, but they wouldn't reciprocate? do they consider their hobbies essential while yours are just "useless ways to fill the day"? is going out with their friends a hallowed event that must not be interrupted - but at the same time, you find that you're punished for or banned from similar events. do you do most of the upkeep? do you trust that if you needed to take a break, they'd absolutely pick up the weight? if you spend time and energy and effort on something, is that valued; or is it just a thursday to them.

[noxioustoxin]

Thinking heavily about the fact that since Dazai is an insomniac, after fucking, he’d definitely play with your hair and hum while he reads a book or gets on his phone. You all tuckered out and nuzzled so perfectly against his chest, bodies still naked and pressed together. His gaze rests on your chest that rises and falls, occasionally kissing your forehead or whispering sweet nothings into the room. Because it would take so long for Dazai to openly tell you he loves you (since he will always have that little voice telling him he doesn’t deserve such an emotion), he keeps that hidden for nights like this, when he thinks you can’t hear him. “I love you, my sweet 'donna.” His voice is raspy and soft, but all the jokes laced with sarcasm have long since ceased for the night.

(I just can't stop thinking about this man, it's a whole ass curse.)

[bambiali]

sometimes it bunny kicks

[eartha-zipp]

Why tf would I believe in a God that would intentionally set up his creations for failure so they can rebel and then try to get back in his good grace so he won't torture them forever? What about that is beautiful

[axristes-styseis]

In a fair world my balls would be clapping at her pussy right now

[xpupslxtx]

thinkin bout how i cried during sex a couple nights ago due to overstimulation and he just laughed at me and said “awww, feels so good all you can do is cry huh?”

[earthstellar]

Miko and Holding a Grudge: Storytime is Learning Time

I was thinking about how in the final episode of TFP, Miko uses the "I'm going to beat your ass" armour to punch Knockout clean across the face

Miko punches him so quickly and efficiently that I genuinely could not get a screenshot of the impact moment. lmao

And there are a lot of good reasons for her to want to slap this twink into the stratosphere, but I was thinking about any specific grudges Miko might have personally against Knockout to help fuel that punch

Because typically Miko goes in with a sort of "I learned this by watching WWE with Bulkhead and I'm excited to hurt you" tiny human wrecker energy and is naturally hyped, so she tends to go in with a slightly showy approach to delivering a beatdown, which makes sense.

We know she watches stuff like monster truck rallies with Bulkhead, and we know she's watched Bulkhead and Wheeljack pretty closely, and this has had an impact on her developing her personal fighting style: High energy, maybe a couple attempts at some kind of signature moves. she's learned from TV shows and watching actual factional alien warfare play out in the Nevada desert. Shit's wild, and so is she.

But when she punches Knockout, it's a totally silent, quick, efficient hit-- which is pretty different to how Miko usually approaches "the smackdown".

Sure, part of it is because Knockout is sort of ruining a huge moment for the Autobots by quipping at a particularly annoying moment to do so, and she probably just wants him to shut the fuck up as quickly as possible so they can all get back to enjoying watching the revitalisation of Cybertron.

And they're all probably a bit tired from even managing to get to this point.

But then I remembered:

In the episode Flying Mind, Miko and Raf help Fowler off the Nemesis after he's been incapacitated.

But Jack stays behind, and when Knockout snaps out of Trypticon's stasis, he attempts to power drill through Jack's head/upper torso.

Ratchet comes through the ground bridge and punches Knockout, in the same way Miko punches Knockout in the series finale. One hit, and we're done here.

(Sorry for the crunchy quality screenshot, my internet connection is a bit crunchy itself at the moment lmao)

Now, Miko wasn't there to witness this, but we know Miko frequently asks the others to tell her about anything she misses, either because she's been asked to stay home or because things kicked off when she was otherwise not around. She likes to hear battle stories. She's actively jealous of the others when they get to go deal with cool shit and she can't for various reasons.

So we can assume that she asked Jack what happened, or perhaps Ratchet briefed everyone once the other Autobots were revived from temporary stasis, and she would have been present for that in the base.

Miko holds a grudge. There is an entire episode where her and Wheeljack essentially go on an ill-advised revenge mission after Bulkhead is injured. She operates on that mafia level shit, wanting revenge so badly that she essentially withholds information from Wheeljack until he agrees to let her tag along.

And while she learned from that experience, it does hint at the type of mindset she has-- Don't fuck with her friends, or she will very much hold onto that anger until she gets the chance to act on it.

When she punches Knockout, it's a quick, clean punch. Which makes sense contextually for that scene, she's not going to haul completely off on him in that moment.

But it also echoes how Ratchet dealt with him when Knockout was threatening Jack, and that seems like the kind of detail Miko would remember after having it described to her.

She has a bit of a vengeful streak, and even though she does learn not to act on desires for revenge, she's still a kid and god she loves fighting so much, and there is no way she forgot about that one time Knockout tried to kill her friend with a fucking drill-- Even if she didn't get to witness it, it's likely she was told about it in some way, and she's been holding onto that for a while.

So I just really like that her punching Knockout is a mirror of when Ratchet punched Knockout previously, because we know she's very good at paying attention to detail when it comes to fighting, and we know that she learns from observation and from listening to battle stories.

It makes a lot of sense if she just recognised Knockout as being that one bot who nearly killed Jack and remembered how Jack likely described the incident to her later (or may have gotten details from any debriefing Ratchet may have provided at the base), and in that moment recalled that Ratchet took him down in one hit, so she should probably just do the same.

It's quick, it worked before on this exact bot, it'll probably work again.

Miko does learn. She very much holds a grudge. And I like that even though her actions in the finale make sense even without the possible background connection to a prior episode, it does perfectly make sense either way.

You know she begged Jack for all the details later, and you know she committed that shit to memory.

If Ratchet can knock out Knockout, so can she.

And she's not having their victory moment fucked up by some dude who seriously put them in danger on many previous occasions, even if he came around to the "winning team" in the end.

anyway you just know Miko is a mascot for the Wreckers later on, like there's no way Wheeljack and/or Bulkhead doesn't custom paint the side of a ship at some point like a WW2 aircraft lmao but it's just a painting of Miko laughing maniacally while punching a boulder or something

[pandoras-boxs-world]

Professor Mcgonagall was the biggest wolfstar shipper you'd ever seen. She'd give them detention, but she wouldn't turn up. So it's just the two of them.

[marisashorror]

Lately I've been watching a bunch of urbex videos of people sneaking around abandoned buildings, exploring mines and generally getting into weird, cryptic places they're not supposed to be in. I wish someone would make an exploring style video game connecting all these environments.

One environment could lead to another, but I'd want it to be completely random. And not like the backrooms where it's mostly empty, but full of stuff to look at and investigate. Kinda creepy but not necessarily full of monsters.

Maybe there could be guards to evade in one environment and monsters in another? The goal would just be to sneak around for as long as possible and see as much as possible without getting caught. There would be a clock running at the top of the screen to let you know your Hours Survived. Probably a combination of real abandoned/off limits places and fake ones. Hopefully with 100s of connected places to snoop in.

Example: you're in an abandoned military building evading security, you sneak around and make it to the roof. You find a tiny door on the roof, crawl through it and you're in an abandoned mine where youre evading a blind underground monster. The point is: you never know what you'll end up in next and who/what you'll have to evade until it almost gets you.

Maybe there's posters on the wall that give cryptic hints as to what other environments are nearby?

I'm not a video game person but I'd play this.

[chongoblog]

I’ve learned that in life we kinda go through different “eras”. This might be part of human nature to categorize things, but I feel like my life has gone through some pretty significant changes over the last ten years in ways that I can easily sort. Things like meeting new people who would impact my life, moving, getting new jobs, pursuing new creative endeavors, people leaving my life, and more.

I think this is just on my mind because on Monday I start my new job. Maybe this will mark the start of a new era. I just hope it’s a good one

[antares07]

Oh, won't you kiss me on the mouth and love me like a sailor? And when you get a taste, can you tell me what's my flavor?

[part-time-zombie]

This is probably just the sentimental maximalist in me, but I love giving characters/ocs stuff. They just have certain things in their inventory that they refuse to part with, for whatever reason.

That old jacket they always wear because it's all they have left of the person who used to wear it first. The trinket that had been left in one of their pockets by accident when they left home and now they always have it with them. A pebble they found by the side of the road while they were traveling and now they treat it as a good luck charm. An old book their parent(s) used to read to them when they were younger, and even though they know the words by heart and the spine is wearing away they still make room for it in their bag. The cheap pocket knife they keep on their person for a sense of protection, even if it's too dull to defend them anymore.

Idk, I'm just thinking about items that are a part of someone's story for so long that losing them is like losing a limb or a memory.

[salembehindbars]

Because of how popular fast fashion is (Shein, Temu, etc) in this generation, will we have any heirlooms to pass on to our grandchildren? Any unique jewelry our grandchildren can say they got from us?

[youdontlookautistic]

Would it make sense to try and create a system of support for neurodivergent people which is essentially a pay it forward system? I mean, I know there's a lot of plot holes here but when I think about the current structure of support for people with autism (specifically in the western world), we know we have to bind to our community because they don't understand. And that's just how humans are. If we don't understand, we judge and assume.

But if autistics created some sort of pay it forward system where all those who are happy to be out and about can use their special skills to help, while those who can't leave the house can offer their special skills to someone else.

We're a special skill hot house. We can't just let it sit there. We gotta tap into this shit.