#sitting in the corner. excuse me

[borom1r]

ok I’m still not over sth a friend said to me when we were talking abt. Recent Life Events.

[acecasinova]

Wow!!!

[fiddler-on-the-starship]

Spoilers for Transformers One.

On the one hand, I do think Orion was right when he said "rebuilding Iacon cannot begin with an execution" (they'd just thoroughly trounced Sentinel in every way, he wasn't a threat anymore, there wasn't an immediate need to kill him beyond the desire for revenge).

On the other hand, on a purely visceral level I do not have a problem with Sentinel getting ripped in half because fuck that guy lmao. Get your revenge, Dee, you deserve it.

But on the other other hand, I do believe that Orion's actions were motivated not by any desire to save Sentinel, but by concern for Dee. (I think these posts make a good point about that; it doesn't seem that Orion was even deliberately trying to sacrifice himself when he got shot, I think he just wanted to get between Dee and Sentinel so he could talk to Dee.)

But on the other other other hand, Orion really did not choose his words well in that scene. "Don't be like Sentinel" was the WORST thing he could've possibly said, all things considered. A while ago I saw a post that described it as "telling a victim they're just as bad as their abuser" and yeah, I agree with that assessment. That probably wasn't how Orion intended that to come off, but there's no way it wouldn't have sounded like that to Dee. Maybe it wouldn't have been possible to talk Dee down from killing Sentinel in that moment, but if it had been at all possible, that was definitely not the way to do it.

However, while this leads to a horrible outcome for the characters, I'm not sure it's such a bad thing for the narrative. It's painfully realistic, actually. Sometimes, people who have nothing but good intentions will say stupid, hurtful things. Sometimes, when someone is in a state where all they can feel is pain and rage, they will lash out without thinking of the consequences, and in doing so they might hurt someone they love. Obviously in the real world this does not usually involve a giant robot shooting another giant robot with a laser cannon, but that's one of the great things about sci-fi and fantasy; a laser cannon can be a metaphor for the horrors we face in real life.

Also, based on Orion's behaviour up until that point in the movie, it's pretty in-character for him to say the worst possible thing at the worst possible time to someone who is clearly suffering. You can tell he has a lot of compassion and generally means well, but that doesn't stop him from being an insensitive dick at times. And I like that. I like it when characters have Layers. (Orion and Dee both have a lot of Layers, and I am fascinated by the way some of the same personality traits manifest very differently in each of them, but that's not what this post is about, perhaps I'll ramble about that another time.)

Basically what I'm saying is:

I think Orion was both right and wrong (right about it not being necessary to kill Sentinel, and right that a public execution was a bad fucking idea; very, very wrong in the way he expressed that to Dee),

I'm not going to say Dee did nothing wrong, but I completely understand where he is coming from (and I'd be lying if I said that when he killed Sentinel there wasn't a part of my brain screaming YEAAAAH, YOU GO GIRL, RIP THAT FUCKER APART),

I think that Optimus Prime should have flaws and fuck up sometimes, because that makes him more interesting as a character, and in the case of TF1, because having him inadvertently contribute to Dee's downward spiral adds to the tragedy of it all (and I do think this movie can rightly be called a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions),

and, above all,

FUCK Sentinel Prime. Seriously, fuck that guy SO much.

[finncakes]

A Dance of Deception🎭✨️

based of J.C. Leyendecker's advertisment for Arrow (under the cut)

[amimuu]

look. So im not a spn fan, not even at GUNPOINT. But its november 5th, so i inevitably stumbled upon spn fans on my tl....and like.

LIKE. LIKE???????

THE FUCK.

[spaceboyrocky]

absolutely obsessed with the idea of s3 starting with crowley driving to "you give love a bad name" with the little bit that goes

🎵 your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye 🎵

is this cheesy? yes? is crowley a disaster gay*? also yes, therefore excuse me as I picture this and cry (and also reminisce on how on-point and heart wrenching the music from this season was)

[itosh1teru]

she evils on my nene until i go insane

WHAT

[minacht]

everyone clap please I made *another* doctor's appointment (pt. 2)

[sorrowssinger]

I am on mobile and I can’t find your muse list anywhere

So this is actually a mixed blog. It's mostly a hub for my other rp blogs and a blog for my OC characters as well as Tolkien muses I want to try out.

My semi-active OC list:

Mithenaro (Noldor Elf)

Sarnaro (Sindar Elf)

Amaurea (Half Telerin half Noldor)

Turelio (Amaurea's brother)

My other muses/blogs (I do have more but these are the most active of them and so got listed)

Turgon

Maglor

torturedbrilliance (multi-fandom multi-muse the listed muses change here a little but it is a mixed bag with Assassin's Creed, Dragonlance, Naruto, and others)

lordsxfgondor (Tolkien Humans from Gondor)

thiefxking (Zelda blog currently Ganondorf main but also Link both OoT inspired)

[lilacwriter07]

I checked on google maps to look at my old childhood home ... Today I saw there was an update version .. yes I cried ..

I didn't expect so many changes, always thinking one day I can return there .. I am happy they take good care of it ...

[lukasadss]

Y'all seen the new pics of Tom Sturridge on set for the second season??

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt my dupe ocs again... Maybe Quinn does have hashtag issues actually

[girlscience]

wanting to be upset at someone but also rationalizing all of their actions because they have a huge smattering of trauma, emotional processing problems, adhd, and severe anxiety... sucks ass.

[nostalgia-tblr]

(Sylvie escape anon) While I dislike the Tumblr stans making everything regardless of context a slight to Loki (e.g. increased security measures because Sylvie escaped long ago, please see the context), I get so defensive of Loki outside of Tumblr. His traumas are dismissed all the time and all his actions are attributed to "manipulation" by the dudebro types that will praise Thanos in the same sentence.

Now the IW death was an actual example of Loki being used to prop up another character, Thanos. A far cry from Sylvie's existence in the series (the Russos were fucking annoying about how much they hated Loki).

Manipulation by Thanos? I am told that this is canon despite not being in any of the films or shows. (Which bugs the shit out of me as Word of God should not be used to convey important plot points, FFS. If it matters so much to you maybe ACTUALLY PUT IT IN YOUR FUCKING FILM???) Certainly I have read many (many, many) tumblr posts about how Loki did nothing off his own bat and definitely not anything he might be blamed for because the thing was bad. Which did initially confuse me because what's the point in going on about villain-stanning if you're gonna de-villain the villain you stan? (I got a comment on fic once about the surprising fact that the fic held Loki responsible for at least some of his crimes rather than focussing on how others have wronged him. Which was nice, I felt seen, but also I feel like that should not be a take so unusual as to inspire comment? Oh fandom, what have you done?)

I suspect I am blocked by at least one person for dismissing Loki's traumas, so I may not be the best person to ask about that one D:

Someone important had to die to make Thanos seem powerful I suppose. But did they? Isn't he more about mass death than killing off individual characters? I don't know these things, sorry :( But I do in general dislike "no wait this baddy is BAD! see, they killed a character you already knew! someone whose death mattered, unlike all those other deaths we showed them doing! so now you hate this baddy! who is bad!" It's practically a cliche at this point.

[dorenarox]

Lord Stept, I feel your pain.

[denimbex1986]

*FEELS*

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love