#please it was so criminal to have their last convo being about the future

[sashthesloth]

I'm going to rotate them in my mind.. the angst potential for my poor poor Rook . .... .

[miradanii]

Transformers MTMTE (2012) read

I finished it. I still have more but I finished...I thought I'd have another break but I was already at Issue #50 and 6 hours later I was not as emotional compared to Issue #47 while in the car to Kings Hawaiian but it was close.

I loved it. I have the Lost Light left but I've been switching back and forth from different series. It's been a whirlwind getting into comics like this.

My only gripe is that this series is out of print and I guess I'm going to go on a long search to hunt this series down without it being expensive in the process.

More thoughts below. And spoilers. A lot of them.

I think I liked the series a lot more after Dark Cybertron. Not because of my horrific miss of story beats, but it got funnier??? I dunno I guess I was laughing more. Maybe it's the Cheers reference that sent me.

And apologies to Swerve. Each chapter to a point he had been doing recaps with the same illustration of him. Because said recap and I was reading issues back to back I tended to skip it. Course the author puts one in the middle of the damn comic to show it was a character thing...course he would.

Cyclonus and Tailgate :(((

They love each other so much ♡♡♡

I was okay on Whirl for a while. I think he has a sick design but I think personally for me to get attached to a character out of the 50 or so they have to balance they gotta have that sweet sweet moment that gets you to their side and it's the frienemy relationship he has with Cyclonus. And so fucking smart. Using his Avatar to warn Cyclonus. I wish I had a physical copy of that issue. Most of them actually. Please...these comics need to be reprinted. Lend the rights to let these damn comics to be printed. It's fucking criminal that it isn't.

I understand the flowers now. Wow. I saw them before and the tweet Alex Milne saying Optimus Prime should have the same amount. Imagine the convo between him and Megs about it. Is there? Idk I haven't read Lost Light yet.

The character exploration continues to facinate me. And surprisingly a very fun one for other characters to bounce off of. A cat dad, Rodimus' bbsitter, on the same wavelength of Ultra Magnus. Like its fun. Yeah okay a mass galactic murderer going on a Space cruise is not a punishment. However, we have other characters that point this out throughout the rest of the series. And the biggest however being you can't have a series without Megatron being in it with some capactiy. So what do you do? Chuck him in with the hooligans and see what he does sitcom style. And it's great. It's fun and I loved it. As well as the mental punishments he gets from it, too, due to sitcom hooligans.

I think its a popular moment but I have seen the panels with Megatron talking to Optimus out of context. Before reading the series I genuinely thought this was a Flashback to the past since...ya know it's all casual. I guess I was half right. The comfortability. The pleasure to talk to someone who could have been your friend without the shitty history. It's scenes like this that make the series so great. The ability to make genuine moments like these in a story.

The last interaction with Megatron I really like is Rachet. Rachet knowing Megatron is a paranoid freak yet can still talk to him? It's a fun dynamic.

I want to name my future pet "Ravage"

And...Ravage :((( thank you for the cool moment of flying s space ship with your little metal paws. The pets are not okay in this. I'm assuming this is added to doesthedogdie.com (including all pets I think)???

Oh Rodimus the enabler.

Skids :((((((((

Nickel is queen. Wish I could see more of her.

So it took me until Froid showing up to realize Rung is like Carl Jung. It's embarrassing knowing how many chapters I went in not realizing that.

Hello Red Alert. Also I guess I actually don't like you.

I have more thoughts...but there's too many...I wanna see analysis videos and more posts talking about it but I'm technically still not done with the series. The Cheers episode even called me out for getting spoilers from tumblr. Oops.

[ladyofthewrittenword]

Arguing w/ the Uninformed: The Saga

Just had a very illuminating conversation, though I hesitate to call it that, with my future mother-in-law about... wait for it... A BUMPER STICKER!! Side note: We live in very small-town Ohio and this is deep in Trump territory. Back to the main plot: Now, we’re driving back to the house after she’s picked me up from work and we’re stopped at a red light when I notice, that displayed very prominently on the bumper of this beat up Chevy in front of us, is a bumper sticker that reads: “Hilary for Prison 2016″ on an American flag backdrop. Hee haw, so clever! But the entire time, I’m internally screaming because, knowing my MIL’s political leanings as I do, I really don’t want her to notice the sticker too and go off on a tangent/rant (which, I guess is just what I’m doing here.... Go, figure!). I’ve had a long day of work, and I hate her and want to spend as little time listening to her speak as possible because frankly, her voice is a like a cheese grater on my eardrums. Still with me? Good! Because it gets better! (Or depending on how you look at it, much much worse....)

Now, this must be the longest light in the history of red lights, but she inevitably notices the bumper sticker, proceeds to read it aloud for the class, snort with laughter, and elbow me in what I can only assume she perceives to be a playful manner. On the one hand, she had started to drive again and my body was like, “EYES ON THE ROAD!” and on the other, my brain was screaming, “Don’t touch me, beyotch, ew.” But, as I knew was unavoidable... the rant begins. (She actually stopped to take a deep breath for this too!) 

MIL, so pleased with herself: “Isn’t that so funny?” ** Snort chortle **

Me, tired, petty AF, and ready to be done with this convo or wherever it’s leading: “It’s been three years. Let it GO.”

MIL: “The Dems still haven’t let the Mueller investigation go...”

Me: “Uh, yeah, because Trump’s whole administration is filled with crooks and criminals. There’s no statute of limitation on treason....”

**awkward silence while the troglodyte formulates her next retort**

MIL: “Hilary broke the law too.”

Me: “When?”

MIL: “All those emails... What was in them, huh? All this about Trump’s taxes, but what about the emails?!” Meanwhile her voice is getting higher one octave at a time and more shrill the more aggravated she gets. “Oh, I wish Pelosi would just drop dead of a heart attack already and let the man get on with it...”

Me: “Well, someone needs to stop the dictator-in-the-making.”

MIL: “The only thing he’s guilty of is listening to people who lead him astray...”

Me: (fed absolutely TF up to here with her nonsensical, hateful BS) “He’s a terrible human being who has no right to be the leader of anything.”

MIL: “Why?” (smugly thinking she’s going to catch me unawares)

Me: “For starters, he’s openly xenophobic, homophobic, racist, and sexist regularly, he separates and locks up immigrant children from their parents in what essentially amounts to ice boxes to die of exposure, the unchecked nepotism with his unqualified kids, and don’t even get me started on the wall!”

MIL: “He’s only doing what Obama and Bush Jr. did before him. The only difference is that now people are bitching about it.”

Me: “What do you mean?”

MIL: “Chelsea Clinton and her parents’ NPO.”

Me: “Do you mean Chelsea Clinton who went to school, studied and interned with her parents, both of whom, despite their personal flaws, are some of the greatest political thinkers this century... What is Ivanka doing? Is she Secretary of Handbags? Trump and his children can’t even form cohesive sentences without insulting someone or stuttering that they don’t know!”

MIL: “Trump’s kids all went to school too.”

Me: “Yeah, maybe for business but that has little to do with politics. And we’ve seen what kind of business people they all are... They’re all unqualified and lack any kind of diplomacy abroad. Being able to communicate with other world leaders without insulting them or making a fool of yourself and your nation should be the very least a President is capable of.”

MIL: “Name one world leader or country he’s offended!”

Me: (Forgive me, I’m SHITE at remembering names!) “Germany, England, and France for starters. All historically our allies for the last half-century, at least... He won’t talk about Climate Change, he’s devastated the EPA and National Parks, and he’s plunged us into a national debt in the trillions all while cozying up to some of the world’s most infamous dictators and tyrants... North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.”

MIL: “The French have never been our allies! All they’ve done is mooch off of our resources...”

Me: “The helped us defeat the British and win the right to declare ourselves an independent nation. So, even if you were right about them being mooches... I think they’ve earned the right.” We’ve pulled up into the driveway at this point and she’s put the car in park to try and stare me down. But I am unwavering because I know my facts and she’s a foot wart at this point...

MIL: “The French helped us kick out the British?” 

She’s incredulous and honestly, so am I because she is exactly the kind of person that I fear most being the child of immigrants, being bisexual, being Latina and multilingual, not being religious, and on top of all that... being so outspoken about all these things. But those people who chant “Build the Wall”, “Speak English, this is America”, or “Go Home” are just like her in the way that they claim with such certainty that this is their country, but don’t know the first thing about its history. And that is both sad and frightening... 

But on the other hand.... 

#BitchesGetShitDONE!!