#rattling the bars of my enclosure.

[invisiblewhatnot]

Staring in the mirror, haggard, face streaked with blood: “ladies love my style… at my table getting wild…”

[drift-phonk]

hi i'm reblogging this with your additions from the tags bc they pass peer review

[ image id: tags from tumblr user extrahorribledynne that read: #Hey anon you should be my friend, #And op has great additions, #Im putting 'starscream is a victim of abuse' on the top shelf, #Nobody can have it anymore, #Bc holy shit the unfortunate implications of acknowledging that, #Making him imperfect but sympathetic, #Only to turn around and do THIS....., #Idk man its so. Man 🐎, #His scenes in the season 1 finale were NOT written with any of this in mind, #Its so abundantly clear there were other intentions for him, #Turning around and making him crazy just stings, #Congratulations earthspark i had issues w how tfp handled starscream. You one upped that handily, #Maybe tfp isnt so bad with starscream after all. /end id ]

I think these days there's an issue in that Megatron is being rebranded as a protagonist and anti-hero, which means Starscream as a foil character has to go the other direction. Problem is Megatron still has to be a cool badass, so Starscream has to be weak/pitiful, which means he still comes off as an underdog. He's not meant to be sympathetic and yet by design, he's not being able to fill Megatron's old evil boots. However he's too iconic to be killed off and too motivated to be sidelined easily. So they make him do something monstrous to justify everyone washing their hands of him and have him go CRAZY to keep him too dysfunctional to be a threat after.

AND MAKING HIM GO CRAZY DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!! the terrans can just go on their merry way into terratronus but he can't find his way out?? i don't buy that for a second.

also this is fucking starscream we're talking about. cunning, ambitious starscream, who would have absolutely 0 reason to keep hanging out up there. he could have left at any point. he clearly knew his way around if he was able to find terratronus' spark chamber even after she'd been in stasis and underground for millions and millions of years. starscream, who was the decepticon second in command. a member of the elite trine. starscream, who is far more intelligent than anyone really gives him credit for because he's always seen as too weak/pitiful to be any sort of threat.

i don't even necessarily mind this trend with megatron, where they're rebranding him into an anti-hero/protagonist. as long as they acknowledge the bad things that he did during the war, and show that he's still struggling to leave behind his old ways, i really don't mind it.

i'm just so tired of every piece of transformers media giving starscream this treatment. the idw comics did GREAT with giving him character development and something of a redemption arc, only for him to (as always) get the short end of the stick. you know what happens to him in those comics? he loses his title as ruler of cybertron to windblade after confessing that he'd been plotting shit from the start, gets imprisoned for life, and then ends up sacrificing himself to save everyone. they developed him into something beyond the usual villain that we know starscream to be and they still couldn't help but kill him off and make him a ghost or ghost-adjacent.

justice for my boy. yeah he did all that stuff but the writers can't keep getting away with this.

[pariahsden]

"Who the fuck are you?"

"Alastor. Pleasure to be meeting you, quite a pleasure. I'm about to end your fucking life."

[azvhaalk]

Hecate, my beloved.

[98chao]

something that belongs to me

[coffit0]

This happened in canon btw I was there trust me

[kristoffs-lullaby]

SPEAR AND SHIELD!! 🗣️🗣️

the calm shield and the spear that creates a path for the shield to think clearly..

[lifemod17]

WHEN I SAY I BELIEVE IN 'MOVEMENT' SUPREMACY I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS

Hozier tonight at Lytham Festival

Source: Instagram.com

[felassan]

Corinne: "The Mage Spellblade uses an elemental orb in one hand and a spellblade dagger in the other. The orb is short to medium range, while the dagger is short range but can cleave. These two weapons have some interesting interactions between one another, but we’ll save that level of detail for a bit later on 😉" [source]

On Spellblade gameplay!

[historical-fashion-polls]

[spoopdeedoop]

*sees 6 pixels of a new red son outfit* oh yeah this is gonna go crazy

(fit in question under the cut)

[doodlejoltik]

‼️ Disclaimer! This is speculative! ‼️

BUT. The official Japanese Pokemon Masters Twitter account released this teaser audio which has the cries of two Pokemon, to tease the upcoming pairs for next month.

Two Dynamax cries... two very specific Dynamax cries.

(The above is timestamped to 2:34, with the relevant 'mon being the below:)

Guys. Guys. Which trainers are specifically associated with these 'mons, and are popular enough to headline an entire month.

SUBMAS NATION, I THINK WE'RE BACK!!!!!

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

[dizzybizz]

jay kinda day today

[sirompp]

its really fucked up how you have to design a character before you can draw them.

[gumibuki]

The vision wouldn't leave my mind- this is inspired by both this comic and the follow up post!

And of course, check @circuscountdowns other posts!