#screw it if it's garbage-- it's MY garbage!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#I still have half an opinion that inside cabling should be standardised and an installation hazard#If you can't prophesize how to install stuff you shan't have the power to conjure the demons inside it#I'm well aware this is elitism - which is why I try not to argue it in practice#But I miss the times when a computer was a brown box that screamed at you and merely having one implied you knew what you were doing#Or were at least aware of the inherent fire hazard of trapping lightning in a magic crystal

Hard disagree with you there mate. We should have the right and the ability to repair and adapt as much of the stuff that we own as possible, and that means that doing it should be as accessible as possible. Everything done to make computer repair easier is a victory; I look forward to the day when my grandma can do it. If I had to drag this thing to some bullshit shop to be charged ten times the equipment cost to plug a new PSU in I'd kill people with hammers. The 'brown box that screamed at you' was built and experimented with and improved by people who wanted as many other people to be able to use it as possible, and the ones who didn't want that were the ones who went on to fuck their customers over with stupid 'buy this overpriced garbage and pay is a hundred dollars to tighten a screw if the flimsy cable breaks because you're not allowed to open the thing you bought' bullshit.

Standardisation is good though yeah (makes sourcing parts and constructing/repairing things easier).

I love when you buy computer parts and the manufacturer doesn't know what other computer parts you want to plug them into so they give you every cable ever conceived of by man just in case

[infamouslydorky]

Why is it that people go out of the way to screw others over for monetary value? The value of a human being is bought for a few thousand dollars? Can life have more meaning than money and a struggle to survive?

[mathewton-cl]

As An IzuOcha Shipper…

…them not ending up together isn’t the problem.

Horikoshi taking the “leave it up to interpretation” approach and then proceeding to COMPLETELY AVOID ADDRESSING their relationship status is the problem.

Horikoshi failing to tie up that one last loose end for Uraraka’s character arc (not closing off her feelings) is the problem.

Again, I ship IzuOcha. Still do, because I��m stubborn. Would I have liked for them to end up together, even if it was only a somewhat blatant implication that could be handwaved? Obviously. But you know what? Maybe I would be upset if the story went out of its way to explicitly de-confirm any chance of Midoriya and Uraraka being a romantic pairing, but I’d at least respect it and understand it a lot more if the story let Midoriya and Uraraka actually talk about this, or at the very least SHOWED US them talking about this. I’d understand if Uraraka completed her character arc by having a heart to heart with Midoriya and telling him that her feelings have changed, her priorities have changed, and Midoriya understands and they remain good friends. Let’s be real, romance isn’t Horikoshi’s strong suit, despite his many attempts to leave romantic implications throughout the series. I’d completely understand if he just had Midoriya and Uraraka talk and they didn’t end up together, because at least then it still provides both of their characters with closure.

But no, that’s too simple. Let’s just “leave it up to interpretation,” because it clearly wasn’t that important, right?

Well, as many people on the internet have already brought up, if it wasn’t so important, why did you spend so much time putting emphasis on it? Why did you have Uraraka, up until the FINAL WAR, have her crush on Midoriya be a crucial part of her character (it wasn’t her only character trait, mind you, but it was still important)? Why did the penultimate chapter have the class come to comfort Uraraka and tell her that they can talk to her… and then come the next chapter, Uraraka apparently hasn’t done anything regarding her supposed crush on Midoriya? For literal YEARS!?

…see, this isn’t even a shipping problem anymore. This is a character problem.

Horikoshi, for whatever reason, chose not to include a romance for the main character and his supposed love interest. And again, that’s fine, not every story needs to be a romance. Two problems with it here though (well, one problem and an observation):

1) Choosing to not at least address the romantic subplot with a “I think we’re better off as friends” encounter, thus actually concluding the subplot and providing a sense of closure, not only leaves the result feeling underwhelming and frustrating, but also actively damages Uraraka’s character arc. We can have her address the problem that caused people like Toga to exist, but heaven forbid she talks about romance with Midoriya.

2) Despite his supposed aversion to romance, Horikoshi still went out of his way to give Gentle and La Brava wedding rings… he’s willing to establish a side romantic pairing without bringing too much attention to it, but he can’t be bothered to do something similar for the arguable MAIN pairing? It’s the “Togata has special clothes so he doesn’t end up buck naked, but Hagakure’s still gotta go commando” debacle again…

I’ma go ahead and wrap this up ‘cause I don’t wanna keep y��all much longer, but like… being optimistic, this ending was… functional. I’ve got my problems with it, obviously, I don’t think it was BAD bad… but it certainly wasn’t good. It works. Barely. And it’s ‘cause of stuff like this.

Midoriya and Uraraka didn’t need to end up together, truly. All Horikoshi had to do was put the smallest amount of effort and give us something of substance, something with closure. Instead, we got what we got.

I get that he was exhausted and wanted the manga to be over… but that excuse only holds up for so long.

[azadrithaanatheme]

Unexpected Reunion (Part 1)

First post of 2025 and it's Old Woman Yuri, as robo-god intended.

[lexicorp]

Legiiiitt

I admittedly also love writing Starscream with some level of lawful in his circuits. Cuz he's the flavor of go by procedure, but if the orders you get are dumb then screw dat scrap/ or at least question it

Yisss I love that flavor of Starscream progression going from running away to running into the sus shit

Armada /definitely/ does it's Starscream rlly well with showing the duality and selflessness he's capable of

As for Earthspark, it certainly can feel as tho they retconned it going into S2. Although for me, as the one to hyper analyze the scrap outta Starscream's aft, I still feel like it has the capacity to make sense. In the fic that I've been writing, I run on the idea that he didn't think he was betraying hashtag in his goals to take the shards (he never directly aimed to harm the terrans). He jus wanted to make earth a safe place for cons by finding a way to purge it of humans and Autobots. Buuuuuut he got screwed over by using corrupted magic that fragged his processor. And I don't even believe that in the scene showing him kill the chaos terrans, that he actually thought he /did/ kill em. But geez that would be SUCH a gigantic rant about all my theory garbage for that lore

Arcane not wanting to involve the kids in war because of it having robbed her and Star of all normalcy is SO REAL. She would definitely be far more self aware than Star first about just how screwed up they got from their experiences I'd imagine. Although as time goes on he'd be like "aw slag maybe we /should/ keep them distanced from uh... Some of all that."

Arc takes the kids on a field trip to "send some ✨fireworks✨ for the Autobots"

LMAO I think star would do it just to fuck with em and just burst out laughing at their expressions XD his version of a dad joke clearly

I just had a huge realisation yesterday and I wanted to share this after going through some pretty horrible stuff over the weekend: Something I've always asked myself ever since getting into G1 Transformers was "why do you like Starscream so much even though he's a narcissistic bully? Why are you, someone who is a victim of narcissistic abuse, taking comfort in a narcissistic character?" Well, I think I finally figured it out. Because Starscream is also a victim of that very same abuse. I mean, he's beaten, called names, bullied, unappreciated, abused, and put through the wringer…and he internalised all that abuse because he knew no other way. He had no one to turn to, and the few bots who did support him, he treated like dirt. Once he had that freedom and power, he abused it and became the very thing that abused him. I have no doubt he was always self-centred, selfish, had a huge ego, etc. before all that but honestly? I think Megatron's abuse caused him to turn out the way he did. I could have turned out that way and it's a little scary, some of the parallels I'm drawing with him.

@ichbinmeltdown wrote a great analysis on Starscream that I want to share here:

"Megatron was abusive as hell to Starscream. He treated him horribly, and I legitimately almost cried a few times watching it. There's an episode called Starscream's Brigade that introduces the Combaticons, and I think that perfectly demonstrates the cycle of abuse. The entire world is against Starscream at pretty much every turn throughout the series, but none more so than Megatron. Every word out of his speech synthesizer to Starscream is to berate him, and he's constantly throwing him around, beating him, even ripping out his speech synthesizer in a scene from a previous episode (Hoist Goes Hollywood, IIRC). His own teammates don't like him, and even his brothers- Skywarp and Thundercracker, going off of the idea they're brothers- just... allow Megatron to abuse him. (Not to get into headcanons here, but I personally believe that Megatron's abuse fractured the Elite Trine's family dynamic. They are still brothers and love each other, but they're all too afraid of Megatron to really... stand up for each other as they did in the past.) And Starscream seemed to just snap in this episode. He treated the Combaticons poorly, and even when teaming up with Shockwave, he subjected him to a lot of the same ridicule and torment that Megatron put him through. He failed to realize Shockwave was the one of the only bots who would give him a chance- and unfortunately lashed out at him, which ruined his chances of Shockwave ever being a true friend and ally to him. Once Starscream had finally gotten a taste of power and not being under another bot's boot, he too became the very thing that he lived in fear of. And that really is how the cycle goes- when you're finally free from abuse, it can be tempting to overcompensate and take back all the power you were robbed of, at any cost whatsoever. Starscream, like D16 in Transformers One, snapped up this opportunity."

And the sad thing is, I've seen this in real life and I've internalised some of the abuse I've dealt with too. I'm not proud of it. Like the Seeker Trine, my own family dynamic has been fractured by similar abuse. I know there's traces of narcissism in my behaviour too, and I'm NOT proud of it. Maybe this is why I can forgive Starscream for being a narc, because I can see a little bit of my own personality/attitude/behaviour in him. Maybe it's because I know where it came from, I get why he acts that way and it's not just random and out of the blue. Maybe it's because--and I know this is a bold statement--I don't think he would do some of the stuff my own family did to me (blah blah blah he's a fictional character).

I didn't mean for this to turn into a long rant, so

TLDR: I finally figured out that part of the reason I love and relate to Starscream so much despite him internalising some of the abuse I went through, is because he was the victim of that same abuse.

[life-winners-liveblog]

Hey Jimmy hows Last Life Joel in the loser void??

LimL!Jimmy: Him... he refused our offer to join the Bad Boys and said I was stupid and he apparently talked badly about the Duskbringers to the new guys...

[baskettt]

young love | cyno

cyno wasn’t very well-liked in his akedemiya days. he, even then, did not like transgressions and believed in pure and blind-speared justice. a person who didn’t respect policies and rules had automatically made an enemy out of him. so if his watchful eyes just happened to catch you using your akasha terminal during class for unrelated purposes, he immediately would lean over, invade your space, and tell you to pay attention. 

  he did get in a couple of tussles (that sometimes escalated unnecessarily) because of his… “expression of unfiltered and fated justice,” as he put it. but cyno was never harmed, though you couldn’t say as much for the offender, because of his physique and wit — which only caused more negative drama surrounding his name. 

 to his credit, however, he only called out people for their misconduct. he never felt the need to report to teachers, as that wasn’t his… whole responsibility, but of course there were rumors and he already had a label as being ‘annoying know-it-all,’ and a ‘greasy little snitch.’ not that he cared; hell, he might as well have been oblivious to all the nasty things people had to say. 

  in short, cyno had an unflattering reputation for bothering people who breached the rules. 

 and you just happen to be constantly breaking them. you were the akedemiya’s infamous troublemaker. even with the akedemiya’s strict guidelines, you ignored them all, going about your youth messing around and pissing your teachers off. it was a miracle how you hadn’t been expelled yet— a natural wonder and a hot topic of speculation among your peers and seniors alike. 

  you assumed your saving grace was that you were a prodigy. even if you didn’t attend your classes, you ended up passing tests and quizzes with ease. assignments and projects were all done last minute, but were always (reluctantly) made an example by teachers of what was top tier quality work. 

  to describe your relationship with cyno at first was… strained. you did what you wanted, and that obviously bothered cyno. which insinuated tensions, and then you were at each others throats almost daily. somehow, your bickering and fighting eventually evolved into some form of mutual begrudged fondness. 

  what was originally something born of malice turned into cyno catching you skipping class and wordlessly scolding you through his eyes, and you knew that, but then joining you nonetheless. or when people got into aimless fights and cyno was nearby, you extinguished it immediately because you knew he’d interject and get himself into more trouble than it was worth for some petty argument. he noticed that too. 

when people would spit out nasty rumors about cyno, you’d tell people to mind their own business, and albeit they’re confused and disgruntled looks, they didn’t say anything more because they were scared of you. or when cyno, a hall monitor by choice, noticed a teacher running after you and was asked, “have you seen them? which way did they go?” he’d point in the very opposite direction you went in. 

  tighnari teased cyno for the odd behavior and contradiction. and cyno always dismissed it, saying he held the same hatred for you as always. what you wouldn’t admit, rather what you both wouldn’t, is that you cared for each other and liked one another way more than arch-nemesis should. you both didn’t acknowledge that painfully pleasant feeling in your chest when you saw each other, or the way you felt your face light up when you saw each other. 

  “young love,” tighnari would comment, and earned himself a noogie in return. 

  the small smile on cyno’s face didn’t help his case.

( part 1 ? )

[artvann]

I just think she's neat!

[justanotherfanfolks]

Y'aaaaaaaalllllll, what IS THIS?!

[miodiodavinci]

undergoing self-immolation from stress

[bukimina-zu]

i reblogged a yandere simulator redesign here by mistake because it was very pretty but you didn't hear it from me ok

[whalehouse1]

-Absolutely terrible nihilistic ending happens.-

Fate fans: I just love that this is the true ending.

Other ppl: There’s other endings though and you’re allowed to c-

Fate fans: THE TRUE ENDING!!!

[queencvbra]

hot take but if your “horror” movie centers around mental illness and your plot resolution is that the only way your protagonist can escape the force terrorizing them (the analogy for the mental illness) is for them to die then you shouldn’t make that fucking movie. don’t ever touch the subject again. you’re banned.

[eats-the-stars]

other ppl love having extra hands on deck to help them out but i prefer to have the whole big machine floor just to me. me doing all the work. yes all the steps from picking to final packaging. sorry but i am picky about the way i do things and unless you do it just the way i like it will rub me wrong and if it is legit wrong i will have to redo it anyway.

[pebblessyou]

all these sickass wallpapers? AI. All of them AI. I don't even care how ethical this specific AI application is, there is literally no point to textures if they are not real. The magic is what it's always there beside you, you're just too big to experience this other reality yet just big enough to see it. Like, i can't imagine myself as a mite inside a tiny wall crevice if it's all fucking beeps and boops, i'll get electrocuted and die.

[cigarettesandcloudydays]

Frequently I've been told that I'm like my mother, but not as much as when they tell me that I'm just like my father. All my life, since when I was little, people would come to me and say that I look more like him, behave like him. But that's just because people like to judge and assume easily.

My mother is an extrovert and my father has no soul, he just wonders around until it's time to shoot, time to feed us with venom. But people only see him wondering quietly, so as I myself am shy and introverted, that makes me like him.

But lately I get these "compliments" only during discussions and I don't really enjoy it.

All my life I've had this burden and I'm always trying to behave like myself just to end up listening to these words.

How can I grow up without their influences? How should I try to walk to not make my footsteps sound like his? Or express my opinion without sounding like her? Can I still free myself from their huge shadows over me? Or is it already to late?

I don't even know who I am, all I know is how to grieve, give give give and be quiet to not get hit.

I hate them for causing me so much trouble, so much insecurities about how I'm supposed to be.

But then again, I guess I only know them and that being all I've got, unconsciously I end up behaving like them, the same ways they used to treat me that I've always hated.

I guess I'm fucked up and there's no way to escape them, this, and the version of them that I've become.

I wish to know what my life would've been with normal parents.

Parents are such a disgrace.