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[perish-the-creator]

What Earthspark Could've Been

Back at it again ranting about this show like it's a parasite that keeps gnawing at my brain. And yes, this will ignore season two because DUH

Anyway, one of the biggest missed potentials the show fumbled hard was actually exploring what a war means to the children who come after it.

I had foolishly assumed that half the terrans would stay with the Maltos and the other half would somehow end up raised by the Decepticons.

The Malto Terrans would be on the side of the "winners". Raised on stories of glory and taught that Decepticons are these wholly evil beings that are rarely able to be reasoned with if at all. You'd still get the typical cute little episodes like in season one with them learning about the world, but the big shift would be the "birth" of the others.

Hashtag and Nightshade would now be found and taken in by the Decepticons. Jawbreaker going with the Maltos (probably accidently wandered off first).

Now, if you SUCK at writing, you could just have Hashtag and Nightshade in this story basically pull this scene from Megamind. (Police = Autobots, Burglar = Decepticons)

Instead, they're raised on pure survival. Of course each gaining a guardian who, instead of being written as these assholes who don't give a shit, legit care about these new terrans and want to bring back Cybertron, avenge their comrades, and provide them with a future that isn't under the thumb of the Autobots or humans.

From there you'd get the conflict from the new generation, both given only biased ideas of the other side. Twitch, Thrash and Jawbreaker seeing the Con Terrans as schemers who are just bitter and uninformed about the truth of their side's interest. And Hashtag and Nightshade seeing the Malto Terrans as these authoritarian enforces who don't care about their species and their plight to get Cybertron fixed.

This isn't perfect and there are plenty of flaws, but like in real life there are children born after wars who have to navigate the world whether or not their side won or lost and try to find their place within it.

[perish-the-creator]

It's almost like the show didn't want to attempt nuance knowing they'd have to backpedal and talk about how the fuck Megatron was allowed a pass.

Season 1 vs Season 2 of EarthSpark

Look out for my big ass analysis video coming soon about the destruction of themes and messages in this show from one season to another.

[spectrecowboy]

the triad of all time actually!

[hello-sweetheart]

Steve who has Great Dane vibes

Like he’s a big guy athletic so you know he’s mostly muscle and he seems unaware of this fact

He likes to sprawl on people. Just leans his full weight on their back or throws an arm around their shoulder and has the audacity to relax into it

As if he’s not a hulking figure of a man much like a Great Dane will try and insist that they can sit on your lap

And everyone around him is either tiny or scrawny or BOTH so they end up winded half the time, push him off them like “steve buddy pls… I can’t breath”

Steve sprawling on robins back while’s she’s browsing language books and accidentally smooshing her into a bookshelf when he goes deadweight on her-

Robin: oh god this is how I die? get off me!!

Steve (whining): but you’re taking soo looong

Steve trying the same thing on Mike (his favorite victim)

Steve: oh no! Gravity is increasing on me

Mike already knocked splat on the ground: NO ITS NOT!!

Steve (goes deadweight): is too Mike, the same thing happened yesterday

Mike: YOUR BUTT IS CRUSHING ME

[poppy-metal]

jordan li needs a princess gf fr they are such a down horrendous simp how will they live if they can't carry your books for you, hold you on their lap, and kiss your hand like an adoring knight

[perish-the-creator]

Fun fact,

I only got into Transformers because my partner showed me an edit on Tiktok of Prime Starscream and I was instantly smitten.

This bastard man. He's like a siren.

Earthspark Starscream and Prime Starscream are definitely his sexiest designs. I’m obsessed with ES Starscream’s fucking goatee, he looks so fucking good with it. Prime Starscream is always giving cunt and I live for it.

[bonefall]

it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness

Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.

They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?

This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.

I just...

OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.

But it did not stop.

THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.

And yet... it continued.

They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.

A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;

Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.

I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."

Sometimes, even, in "groups."

Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."

Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗

DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous

Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.

[ethersierra]

Happy Halloween!

Based on this photo by Chloe Atkins

[Image Description: Digital art of Kodira and Amber Gris from The Adventure Zone Ethersea, dressed as a vampire and werewolf. The background is dark blue and there is a hazy effect behind them, and a full moon glowing in the upper left. They are seen from the thighs up, both of them facing left. The lineart is colored to match the coloring, and it is highlighted in purplish rim light, brighter on the left side. Kodira stands in front of Amber and looks back toward her, her head facing the camera. Amber holds Kodira around the waist, and Kodira's arm lays on top of it and they interlock fingers. Kodira smiles, showing two fangs, and looks toward Amber. Amber is seen in profile with her chin on Kodira's shoulder, mouth opening up to show off her sharp teeth. She looks downward at Kodira.

Kodira is a thin older woman with cool brown skin. Her long and curly dark brown hair is in a low ponytail draped over her farther shoulder. It is tied with a red ribbon. She wears a dark red dress beneath a long black coat which is lined along the collar and cuffs. Her eyes are deep brown highlighted in a reddish tone. She has winged eyeliner, dark lipstick, and has blood on her chin beneath her fangs.

Amber is a fatter older woman with light tanned skin. She has scraggly light orange-brown hair that goes to her shoulders. She has wolf ears on top of her head, which are dark brown on the outside and fluffy white on the inner side. She wears a dark red vest which has rips along the sleeve area. Her pants are a dark grey-green and she wears a belt, from which a fluffy brownish tail hangs. She has freckles on her face and tattoos indicated on her arm, including an anchor interlocked with a venus symbol, and a nautical star. On her neck is a black smudge next to puncture marks which are surrounded by a dribbling red. End ID.]

[meraarts]

Endlessly repressed, hopelessly rizzless Edwin proven so irresistible he has canonically driven three (3) characters to total destruction because of their big fat gay crush on him

[myokk]

“She’s tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me”😤😤😤

(Regency AU with Eloise and Sebastian inspired by my slow trek through Bridgerton these days & @bassicallymaestra ‘s AMAZING regency inspired art😮‍💨😇🙏)

[perish-the-creator]

How I'd Write ES Starscream's Descent

Back at it again because as a dark fiction writer I know a thing or two when it comes to depicting the "not so perfect victim".

My issue with how his descend into madness was due in part to the clear attempts from season one's writers to have him be sympathetic and put into question just how much Megatron has actually changed.

After that, it was clearly tossed to the side because the show needed a cybertronian to have the terrans go against and Starscream was right there.

Now, how would I have handled it?

I've noticed that within the show, there is very little things spoken by any given character that is positive about Starscream. Every character who utters his name speaks it in a tone of disgust or comical. That all his actions are a result of who he is and not what he had to endure. And that's where I'd put it in play.

So, imagine he takes the offer. Imagine he admits that he cannot possibly endure having to go into hiding again and scavenging for resources. He's tired of being the target of other's attacks and words and so he joins hoping maybe things will be different.

And they aren't. The physical abuse has been replaced by untrusting eyes and words whispered on hushed lips. Snarky remarks made over public communications or a passing glance at the messages exchanged between Optimus and Megatron.

Could you imagine it? Your abuser has tainted your image so much that it is seen as delusional for one person to actually stand up for you? To have the patience to sit down and understand you? Your abuser, for all the crimes he had committed in the name of a personal agenda (and you admittedly followed for your own selfish means) has the things he's done to you handwaved away and you're told to stop clinging onto that.

It would drive anyone mad. It would make anyone who wants to change ask if it's even worth it because not every victim has the ability to move on so often preached.

So, he decides that he's just going to give them what they want.

So, season two continues and you see him just accept that no matter what he does everyone still regards him as a villain. He can't execute plans without a monitor and tracker on him. He can't make comms without others connected to the frequencies. So why not just become evil.

His outburst at the end is him just letting them win. They desperately want a monster, he'll give them that monster to make them feel so good about themselves.

It's a shame really, because despite this being a kids show it would genuinely show how sometimes not being given the chance to change will cause those who are already bad to sink further into their vices.

[vamprlestat]

i swear i’m completely normal about him x

[mondaymelon]

me n who ?!?!?!? ME N WHO GUYS ...

picrews: 1 2 3 4

mking silly girlfailure picrews are the only thing saving my sanity which took quite a number of blows today ( its hanging on by the measliest thread but i think its better to consider it go n e )

anyways i wanna make a silly tag game so we are going to make a silly tag game because in the wise words of martin luther king i think wait it was probably gandhi "be the change you wish to see in the world" arent i so cool guys im taking like the first step forward and :stareyes: ahahah

(no pressure) tags !! 🏷️ : @cienxpidity, @ilyuu, @anonbinaryweirdo, @suntoru, @tuesdayberries, @lume-nosity, @mrcrazyvillainvillainn, @ceneid, @amalythea, @xianyoon, @aeon-yao, @ryuryuryuyurboat, @auroratumbles, @snobwaffles, @the-white-void + everyone i probably forgot to tag (SPS IM SORRY) n anyone else whod like to join !!

[akkivee]

NEW HALLOWEEN CHIBIS DROPPED

[raytm]

[bwaldorf]

olivia cooke & clinton liberty behind the scenes of house of the dragon season 2