#those are just because im pretentious

[bmpmp3]

sorry to be a bit of a hater but i do wish youtubers weren't so scared of making their videos just like, "reviews", whys everything gotta be a "video essay" all the time. every day my recommendations are filled with 40 minute videos titled "_____: An Underrated Masterpiece" where the first like five minutes are reading the wikipedia definition of "masterpiece" in a somber voice with dramatic themed text on screen. please just tell me how good or bad you think something is and use the rest of the runtime to explain why. you dont need to put on all these airs

[telesodalite]

Sort of a ramble, sort of me just writing my thoughts out while I'm stuck with writer's block, but I keep thinking about how Fulcrum was in stasis for roughly 3 million years??

Like, that's a long time, even for Cybertronians. Not a really long time, not an entire lifespan. But still, it's a large chunk of a normal lifespan just gone. Poof.

One second you're crawling across the pockmarked terrain of an alien planet, surrounded by the sound of gunfire, and the shouting and screaming before and after each earth shuddering impact of another k-con hitting the ground. And then it's quiet. You're not there anymore. You're drifting somewhere between not alive and just asleep. Preserved somewhere in the background of a doomed body, ignored by time and space, still here, but also not.

And then there's sound. Not gunfire. Not shouting or screaming. Not the sounds that'll haunt you till your dying days, your own death sentence pounding in your head. No. Just voices, talking, standing out against a silent, dead world. Wondering. Joking. Bickering. Familiar. Just, not familiar to you. And you're awake. Pulled back from the nothingness you've been frozen in, consciousness tugged forwards with the yank of a fuel pump and the nearness of life.

These two moments are roughly 3 million years apart, but only minutes, maybe even seconds, to him. From a hectic harrowing battlefield, to an old silent graveyard in one blink.

How long did it take to really sink in? I mean, he seems to just roll with it. He doesn't seem particularly bothered. But like, what happened outside of what we see? How did he really feel?

Also, his body aged without him. While his mind preserved itself, freezing him as he was right then, his body was left to weather Clemency for all those years. No wonder it crumbled to dust when he jumped off the world sweeper. It's probably a miracle of some kind that it didn't just fall apart each time someone leaned on him.

And even after they rebuild him, give him a better, newer body. His spark, it's casing, all the irreplaceable core bits that make up their inner bodies, it aged in the time without him. Does he feel it? Does it make his body even more foreign to him?

Then he's also a technician with information that's 3 million years out of date. Lucky him that the scavengers probably weren't working with top of the line material. But still it's gotta be weird when faced with anything brand new, because a lot can change and progress in 3 million years, and now some of the knowledge he once prided himself in is obsolete.

Besides those things, his view of the galaxy, of the war, of their kind, of other kinds, is one of the few things actually pointed out when it comes to him being stuck in the past. So, how often were his old views challenged? Facts of life he held close proved to no longer true? There's 3 million years worth of new science, new beliefs, new words, new terms, new views.

And sure, some of it can be familiar, because they're an ever evolving kind, and they have patterns, core beliefs, repeating behaviors, but a lot of it's gonna be unfamiliar at the same time, because it's 3 million years worth of catch up, it's not like missing last week's trend.

In a way, it makes him a living relic of a bygone era for Decepticons. It would've been really interesting to have had that explored a little more.

[just-wublrful]

not to be obnoxious on main but classic literature is not global literature. it's western literature at best

[mbat]

sorry for the james somerton jumpscare but im finally getting to finish hbomberguys video and the fact hes wearing this hat is painful to see. YOU DID CRIME. AGAINST YOUR OWN COMMUNITY! THATS NOT WHAT BE GAY DO CRIME MEANS!

[im-still-watching-anime]

rip my mom casually asking me what the worst shakespeare take i’ve ever heard was and unlocking a two hour rant at 3 am

[demiel-kheiv]

Душу в зарю приковали к фонарю

[tradedsymmetry]

what I want to write in my discussion post replies for my art history class: "I think you're all fucking nuts and/or I'm the only one who actually watched this movie and didn't paste a discussion reply directly from an AI chatbot."

what I actually write in my discussion post replies for my art history class: nothing, because everyone is fucking nuts and I feel like all of these replies were written by AI and I don't know how to deal with that.

[gibbearish]

namewise how do we feel about zane/zayne

[recents]

dude ok why are there are so many viral text posts on here complaining about zombie fiction that doesn’t call the zombies zombies in-universe? like first of all you can say the last of us it’s fine, there’s really nothing else recently majorly relevant you’d be complaining about, second of all who gives a shit? it’s such a minor worldbuilding detail and such a weird thing for people to fixate on and be like personally bothered by. i wouldn’t even be posting about this except i’m watching an old playthrough of the original tlou and i remembered how there’s like multiple vague posts in this vein and i just really don’t understand why people give a shit

[dearest-lady-disdain]

leigh bardugo, ma'am, are a virgil and dante from the divine comedy slasher

[unusualshrimp]

i hate mental health content like "heal your inner child 🥺" what if i HATE that thing and want to beat it to a pulp. is that allowed because i think that would fix me

[arsenicflame]

hi <3 while im propaganda-ing u on my music taste can i recommend u not known at this address from the distant voices project? it's an album of songs by small scottish artists and it is so so good- some tracks id recommend in particular are 'rendezvous with war paint' , 'dining room hospital' & 'i wont follow him to the grave'

[feral-and-or-horny]

Cotton candy and cookie dough!✨

cotton candy— do you prefer savory or sweet food more?

I almost said sweet for this, but tbh as I was typing I realized that's not actually true anymore, lol. I still have a major sweet tooth, but I've started leaning more towards savory food lately.

cookie dough— do you prefer jewel tones or earth tones? (so, do you like cool toned colors more or warm, earthy colors more)

I usually prefer cool tones, but my general preference really just boils down to "I like black"

[pricklepines]

no 3 least favorite op fandom member gotta be the dudes who comment "oda said that zoro would kill any of the straw hats if luffy told him to ☝️🤓" SHUT UP

[ranvwoop]

not to be a tumblr user but For M IS one of the poems ever . and i have read some poems

[fakeosirian]

getting my parents to watch succession has been a morbidly fascinating experience. theyre both very smart people whose opinions i respect BUT. when it comes to tv specifically. they watch so much stuff that's shoddily made and have such low expectations for the medium/the level of artistic intent that can be behind it as a result that my mom was just telling me "i can't tell if the show wants me to hate them or wants me to feel bad for them" Jennifer. I know if this was a book you would not be asking me this question like there's actually a chance this show is actually the shittiest possible version of itself when its like that