#yeah i'm being bitchy

[fellthemarvelous]

Holy forking shirtballs

I'm choosing violence today. I started this on Twitter, but I'm going to finish my thoughts here like I always do.

But what really blows my mind the most is the way that people look at Aziraphale's "choice" at the end, as if he had one to fucking begin with.

I'm sorry, but Aziraphale knows how messed up Heaven is. He told The Metatron, more than once, that he did not want to go back to Heaven! We can debate what each of us means by "choice" all night because my "choice" and your "choice" might be two different concepts. He could have been strong armed by The Metatron or he could have looked at where things were headed and realized he had no choice but to intervene himself.

You need to ask yourself what Aziraphale has a moral imperative to do.

What do we owe to each other?

Seriously, if you have not watched The Good Place, I recommend you go and watch it, because it absolutely shaped how I've viewed Good Omens 2 since its release.

My levels of frustration with the bad faith mischaracterizations of Aziraphale are off the charts. If you are blaming him for everything, implying that he should have to grovel and that Crowley has a right to hurt him back, you have missed the point of Good Omens entirely.

I defend Aziraphale, but I don't think one of them is more right or wrong than the other. They're equals. They're a group of the two of them, acting and reacting to each other throughout history. They're Alpha Centauri.

I cannot even begin to explain how fucking devastated I felt when Crowley said these words, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. What he said took a lot of courage because he's finally admitting something they've both been too scared to publicly define for 6,000 years. Crowley has had to spend so long with a rough outer shell because he fell and had to hide all of his softness.

The look on his face was one of pure joy when he created that nebula, but I think the fact that he got to share that moment with Aziraphale is what has always stuck with him.

So yeah, seeing Crowley with a broken heart at the end of "Every Day" was sad for me as well.

My brain still lives here!!

But Neil has said that Good Omens 3 is not quiet, gentle, or romantic. I imagine it's going to be more like the the first season in which they are not central to the plot. GO2 will help us make sense of how they ended up where they are when we see the bigger picture with all the other major players involved with GO3.

Aziraphale was still a soldier and accidentally got himself discorporated in his own magic circle in season one. He had a platoon waiting on him to start Armageddon, and he deserted them to go save the world with Crowley instead. Aziraphale is a deserter. I need everyone to remember that. He yeeted himself out of Heaven and sought out Crowley before even locating a body just to warn him about what was happening so they could try to save the world together.

I can't help but think of 1941 and that magician who had been arrested for being a deserter.

Aziraphale disobeyed orders. That took courage but it branded him as a traitor against Heaven. They tried to destroy him for it the same way Hell tried to destroy Crowley for his part in stopping the war.

Aziraphale and Job are the only characters we have seen interacting with God directly. Aziraphale has spoken to God before and he is determined to do so again.

Aziraphale knows Heaven is flawed, but he also knows it's supposed to be good. He wants it to be good. He does not like the way the system works and he wants to make a difference. (And I'm pretty sure he's also determined to talk to God without being intercepted by The Metatron.)

Since when is that a bad thing? I don't get it. And I've had this discussion before.

If you need to change the system by burning the old one to the ground, it's still change, and we don't know what Aziraphale has planned.

It seems to me that people just want to see Aziraphale fail because it would punish him for returning to Heaven instead of running off with Crowley.

Some of y'all take everything Aziraphale says or does and twist those things into malicious anti-Crowley actions because you think the only reason Aziraphale exists is to make Crowley happy, and if he isn't thinking only about Crowley then he's doing something wrong.

Aziraphale does not exist as a plot device to further Crowley's character. They come as a pair. They've been learning from each other for 6,000 years. Crowley challenges Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale challenges him.

You can be mad at Aziraphale all you want, but villainizing him is gross. Defending Crowley does not mean you have to tear down and mischaracterize Aziraphale anymore than defending Aziraphale means you have to tear down Crowley (but I don't see that happen on nearly the same level it happens to Aziraphale). Stop painting Aziraphale as an abusive partner, for fuck sake.

Aziraphale knows there are flaws in the system. He wants to make a difference, and since he has seen that Gabriel can change, then maybe the whole system can. He has to at least try, and if he can succeed then maybe he and Crowley can stop hiding and finally be together without having to look over their shoulders all the time.

Why is that a bad thing? He's just as protective of Crowley as Crowley is of him!

But don't forget that Aziraphale's wing was covering Adam and Eve too. As much as a wants to protect Crowley, he has a moral imperative to keep humanity safe as well.

He sent Adam and Eve into the unknown with a flaming sword so they could protect themselves.

As much as he wants to be with Crowley, there are 8 billion people on Earth heading toward the Second Coming and Judgment Day. They'll work together to fight alongside humanity in the end. Aziraphale should not have to humiliate himself just to earn Crowley's forgiveness. That's a rancid notion.

The Resurrectionist was a whole ass moral dilemma for Aziraphale, which is why I brought up The Good Place earlier, but that's a post for a different time.

Aziraphale has his own motivations and they're just as important as Crowley's, and they don't have to be chalked up to Aziraphale being the bad guy. Weird, I know, but shades of grey.

"To the world."

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

A/N: I wrote this because there are some people who can't accept the fact that Eddie is bisexual or can't seem to accept the fact that Eddie has had a past relationships with a woman and that invalidates bisexuals. I think if Steve were to discover that he was bisexual it would be nice to know there is someone else out there like him, his own age, and Eddie would feel the same. Robin knows what it's like to be queer but she doesn't understand what it's like to like both genders and to be judged harshly by her own community. I hate the fact that people can't possibly accept the possibility of Eddie being bisexual, of him being with a woman. Just because you don't like it or can't understand it doesn't mean it can't happen. After this, I'm back to taking a break. This is for all the bisexuals out there.

Here's a hand to hold. . .

Warning: Mentions of Eddie Munson having had a past relationship with a woman.

Eddie Munson whistled a jaunty tune as he strolled into Steve Harrington's house, unlocking it with the key Steve had given him. Yeah, Steve Harrington's house. It's been a year, and he still couldn't believe how close they were. They were best friends, and while Eddie wanted more, having Steve in his life in any way was more than enough for him. Seeing him almost every day and seeing him smile because of something Eddie said or did made Eddie's cynical heart all gooey inside like melted chocolate. He still remembered the smile on his face when he gave Eddie his house key.

"These are for people who are important to me," Steve said. "Especially those who are welcome here any time."

Eddie had to ruin the moment by squeezing Steve’s face cheeks together, giving him duck lips. Steve had just laughed, though. Currently, Eddie was calling for Steve’s name but was receiving no response. He frowned. Steve’s car was in the driveway, so he had to be home. Eddie started climbing up the stairs when he heard it. Someone was crying. He followed the sound and found Steve. He was sitting on the floor of his bathroom, weeping. The sight nearly tore his heart in two when Steve looked up at him, and his eyes were full of tears. He knelt his knees immediately, clutching Steve’s knees.

"Steve, what's wrong? Did someone do this to you? Was it your parents? Okay, that's it. I'm murdering them. I don't fucking care if I go to jail. You're worth it," Eddie rambled on.

What he said seemed to make Steve cry harder, and then Eddie began sprouting out apologies for that.

"Is it really okay, Eddie?" Steve asked.

"Is what okay?" Eddie asked.

"To like both?" Steve asked softly.

"Why would ask th - oh, okay, um, yeah. Of course, it is," Eddie said. "Who told you that it wasn't? I'll -,"

"Kill them?" Steve snorted. "Not unless you want to kill me. It's just me, you know. . ."

"Being your own worst enemy?" Eddie asked.

"I was going to say stupid, but yeah, that works too," he replied, sniffling.

"Steven Ronnie Harrington," Eddie began.

"It's Ronald," he said.

"Steven RONNIE Harrington," Eddie continued. "You are not stupid, and I will keep telling you that every single day until you believe me."

"Did you deal with these thoughts when you realized that you're -" Steve paused.

Eddie sighed and collapsed behind him, wrapping an arm around him.

"Come on, Stevie, say it with me. It's okay," Eddie said.

"Bisexual," Steve said softly.

"There it is," Eddie grinned. "And yeah, I dealt with these thoughts. I freaked out when I started realizing it. It was 'I like girls' but no, 'I like boys.' It went back and forth. 'I like girls.' 'I like boys.' 'I like girls.' It was like the worst game of ping pong ever. I kept thinking I was the worst sort of freak. Then I realized: 'wait, why the fuck can't I like both?' I finally let it start to sink over me that I did, in fact, like both. It wasn't until I heard about David Bowie and I knew the word for it. Bisexual. I, Edward Metallica Munson, am bisexual," Eddie said.

"Okay, your middle name is Lawrence," Steve said.

"It's so boring, though, Stevie! Let me have this! It sounds so much cooler!" Eddie whined. "Anyway, what was I saying?"

"You were saying that you're bisexual," he said.

"After that, I kind of had to figure out dating. My first girlfriend. . .man, I loved her, and I thought for sure I could trust her. When I told her, she had this look on her face. . .well, her words said differently. She wasn't quite so okay with it, despite what she said. She found it hard to kiss me and man. Did that hurt? I ended it. I went to this club I was told about in Indie where I met a man a couple years older than me. I was legal by then, don't worry. He was in college. I fell head over heels. He hid it well, how uncomfortable he was with my sexuality. He couldn't understand how I also liked women. He thought I was just confused. He started telling me about how he tried to like girls at first, too. We started arguing about it eventually until I was crying all the time and felt awful about myself. I loved him so much that I started to think that maybe he was right, but then I shook my head. I knew what I liked, I knew who I was. I knew he was too and told him that it was okay. It was okay to like both or to like one gender. What was not okay was to tell someone what you think they are when they aren't," Eddie said. "It's okay to like both, Stevie. It's more than okay. Don't let anyone tell you that it's not. Whether you're straight, gay, or bisexual. . .it's all okay. Don't let anyone tell you that you aren't something because they don't fucking know. Only you do."

"Uh, Eddie, you're squeezing my arm rather tightly there," Steve said.

"Oops, sorry, it gets me angry sometimes, especially when thinking about Lucas, you know. I inadvertently did the same thing. He just wanted to know that it was okay to be a nerd and a jock. I couldn't fucking tell him that. I couldn't put off D&D for one night to let him know that his game was just as important as ours? Plus, the fact that it might have been what gave the jocks the idea that we don't necessarily have to be enemies, you know. I was an asshole," Eddie rambled on.

"Well, you apologized, and Lucas forgave you. As a former asshole, I forgive you too," Steve said, and Eddid laughed.

"So, what made you realize that you're bisexual?" Eddie asked. "If you don't mind me asking."

"You."

"Huh?"

"My feelings for you is what made me realize that I was bisexual because I realized I had feelings like these for boys in the past. I was like, 'Holy shit, I liked those guys.'," Steve said.

"Wait, what?!" Eddie exclaimed.

"I like you, Eddie," Steve said.

"Say that again," Eddie said, getting on his knees.

"Am I speaking another language?" Steve said, getting on his knees and cupping his face, squeezing his cheeks. "Edward Lawrence -"

"Metallica," Eddie corrected.

"Edward LAWRENCE Munson, I fucking like you," Steve said.

Eddie surged forward and kissed him, gripping his waist. Steve sighed happily against his lips and pulled Eddie closer. He pushed Eddie forward until he had his back pressed against the cold tile of the bathroom and straddled his waist as he deepened the kiss. Eddie slipped his tongue in Steve's mouth and moaned as he moved his hand down to cup Steve’s ass.

"Just as fantastic as I thought it would be," Eddie said.

"Well, it's yours now, so you can touch it as much as you want to," Steve giggled.

"You have no idea how hard I am going to hold you to that," he told him. "We should probably cool it because otherwise I'm going to end up fucking you on this bathroom floor and baby, you deserved to be wooed first."

"You're so good to me," he grinned and climbed off of him, collapsing next to him.

"Ugh, I'm still feeling a little hot," he said.

"Take your shirt off," Steve replied. "The cool tile feels good against your skin."

"You just want to see my tits. You should know, though, that I only have one nipple now," Eddie told him.

"And I bet it's a damn fine nipple. Eddie, If I swear not to try and get to second base with you, will you please take your shirt off?" Steve asked.

"Only if you do," Eddie said, and Steve affectionately rolled his eyes before pulling off his shirt, causing Eddie to whistle.

Steve threw his shirt at him and laughed when Eddie did the same. Eventually, they were just throwing their shirts back and forth while they laughed. Steve grabbed them both and threw them in the corner. Eddie sighed as his back made contact with the floor. It did feel good. He felt Steve slip his hand into his, entertwining their fingers, and Eddie gazed at Steve fondly. Sometimes, it's nice to know that there was someone there to understand what you went through, to have shared life experiences with someone who means so much to you. It's also nice to know that no matter what you are in life, there is someone there in your life to tell you it's okay. . .unless you're like a murderer or something or you want to split open a town and bring hell to Earth. That is NOT okay. Eddie's just glad he has a hand to hold.

[cassierobinsons]

if sam not womancoded then why:

[middle class signifier]

[middle class signifier]

[bad thing that happened to many of the male characters on the show]

[bad thing that happened to dean too]

longer hair

eats salads

checkmate hellers 😏

[voidsaber]

#9 pleaseeeee please i can't keep doing this

[vulpinesaint]

they are so fucking silly it might be terminal

[mommyashtoreth]

I am Not someone who thinks that like, character traits change significantly with different gender presentations for Any character, but I think fundamentally Aziraphale and Crowley are both switches, but Crowley is more dommy when she's in girlmode and more subby when he's in guymode, and vice versa for Az, more dommy when he's in guymode and more subby when she's in girlmode. I won't even pretend this is a legitimate intellectual character analysis I literally just think this is the hottest way to do it. Really just says a lot about me and my tastes I think

[passthroughtime]

yagami, WHY do you have to be such a bitch around kuwana. i'm going to strangle you.

(P.S.: he didn't tell kuwana that tesso said not to feel bad about it. obviously.)

[fabled-lady-twilla]

I really am my own worst enemy when it comes to my writing... 😭😭😭

So, over the past two days I performed a little experiment to figure out what environmental factors/mental states/any other factors help me get more writing done vs. hinder me so that I get less writing done.

First day, I didn't do anything different than I normally would. So, I ate breakfast, took my ADHD meds, put on my writing playlist at low volume, sat down at my cluttered desk with a cup of coffee, and started writing. As usual, after spending some time organizing my thoughts, I was able to get some writing done but it was nowhere near my word count goals, and per usual, I was frustrated with myself. It wasn't one of my good days.

I'd write a couple of sentences, get discouraged by my own unhelpful thoughts, then desperately search for a serotonin boost in the form of an Instagram reel or some other brainrot activity in which I doomscrolled for a bit until my brain said: I'm happy again, let's try writing more.

Then, I nitpicked every fucking word (not every sentence, not every paragraph, every WORD) I wrote, compared my writing to other people's writing, and had a general 'my writing isn't good enough and therefore I'm not good enough' mentality. I couldn't even get a sentence out without some form of negative self-talk happening, and I know many other writers can relate to this. We're often far too harsh on ourselves and it does nothing but make us upset.

Second day, I completely changed everything and on god, I literally researched how to become more productive with writing and freaking ✨forced✨ myself to apply these changes to see if it truly made a difference. Being in therapy for many years, one thing I'm really good at is experimenting with methods that help me become better at something and getting rid of things that hinder me. I'm really good at applying (minor) changes quickly to see if they help. So, I ate breakfast, took my meds, made a cup of coffee like usual.

But here is what I did differently:

I completely cleared off and cleaned my desk space so that it wasn't cluttered and had less distractions.

I closed out all of my tabs that had any other novels or fanfiction stories, so I didn't give myself a chance to compare.

I didn't let myself 'organize my thoughts' or do a bunch of unnecessary 'pre-tasks' before I started writing.

I set a timer on my phone and literally put it on the other side of my room. I set my time for an hour and dedicated the hour to writing only and no socializing or engaging with social media.

Like the article below suggested, I wrote in shorts bursts and took small breaks during that hour, which eased anxiety.

Any time I thought 'wow, this isn't going to work and I'm going to have another day of not meeting my writing goals' I simply turned it on its head, forcing myself to say something along the lines of 'wow, lets forget writing goals today and be open to the discovering new ways to write and be happy while doing it'.

I told myself, 'it doesn't matter if it's perfect or if I can't find the right words. I'm just going to write out a bunch of paragraphs and see what I get'. I didn't care or pay attention to grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors, I just wrote without judgement.

I'm sure anyone reading this won't be surprised to hear that not only did I get more writing done, I went beyond my word count goal without even realizing it and enjoyed myself while doing it!!!!

Go beyond, PLUS ULTRA!!!! Lmao. 🤣🤣🤣

Why am I always SO hard on myself? It does nothing but ensure that I get less writing done and make the act of writing as miserable as possible. It's like I forget that I love writing and it's my biggest passion in life, haha.

These are just a couple of articles I used to make some changes:

[lord-squiggletits]

Something I keep seeing when I speak to others about MTMTE Megatron is basically the idea that he's going on a personal journey to become a better person, that the point isn't for him to be "redeemed" but for him to get a chance to do good and die as a person he can live with again. That MTMTE presents a unique take on this because being away from Cybertron gives Megatron a chance to be a person rather than a political figure and this is how it gives him more depth as a character. Or just generally pointing out in a narrative sense that Megatron being in MTMTE limits his story options so of course his story is going to be more focused on a personal journey than on politics of him dealing with the Decepticons/Earth/etc and that just because JRO made a choice to take that path with Megatron doesn't mean that it's inherently bad.

And I'm just, mmm like I understand all of those points and acknowledge that they all contributed to the MTMTE Megatron we got. I even think that without JRO writing Megatron we wouldn't have had his lore be as fleshed out and 3D as it ended up becoming.

(Post starts out as a sort of meta analysis or at least me giving a reasoned explanation for my interpretation of the story, ends up being petty bitching in the last 1-2 paragraphs)

I just..... I just personally don't agree with the "he's becoming a better person by getting a chance to relax and experience happiness and trust after a life of trauma" as being the best choice for his character? Because the problem is that maybe if he were a random Decepticon foot soldier that would be appropriate, but he was literally the leader of the Decepticons that made them Like That and has political/cultural/societal responsibility for why things are the way they are? To be completely frank, I don't care about him going on a personal journey for self-peace, I think that he should become a better person by helping to un-fuck all the things he actually screwed up???

Like idc about the debate of whether he can be "redeemed" or if he should've been killed/imprisoned/etc at the ending. It just comes down to the fact that for me personally, I feel that since Megatron's wrongdoings were at a social level, him "being a better person" would've been better shown by him engaging with those people who he wronged instead of just going on a frigging personal journey for his legacy and self-peace???

Especially since in other series (exRID, possibly Windblade) we literally got plots like "the neutrals hate Autobots but they hate Decepticons even more" and "the Decepticons have been taken over by Galvatron and are now invading earth 2 electric boogaloo" and "yeah the Decepticons are literally living in slums because people hate them so much and won't give them any work." It just leaves me wondering why in the hell people are like, "oh Megatron got to be happy and have a chance to be a normal person." I don't want him to be normal! I want him to repay his debts to the people he actually wronged! Like if you want to cast Megatron as a hero of the people so badly (which so many of his stans do as if he actually cared about the Cons) then how do you reconcile the fact that Megatron just fucked off and left the Decepticons to suffer on Cybertron? Including some of them attacking during his trial and getting killed and Megatron is basically like "sorry, I'm not coming with you and this isn't going to work." And then Megatron complains about "toxic Decepticon loyalty" as if he didn't literally make them that way? Like I get that MTMTE Megatron is still an asshole but if you've read something besides MTMTE and know what the Decepticons are going through, it just ends up being really grating.

I just don't see Megatron as being a particularly good hero or having a particularly fulfilling story if he's completely isolated from all the bad things he did on Cybertron/the way the Decepticons are suffering until LL#25 where it's like "ah damn I'm going to trial now, well this is what I deserve so it's fine." Why could we not have seen something like Megatron trying to deradicalize the Decepticons or change their public image so they could integrate into normal Cybertron again? They were living in SLUMS and getting gunned down by Starscream's badgeless enforcers!

The best we got was the Functionist Universe but like.... I'm sorry, but JRO inventing a whole alternate universe for Megatron to save doesn't do jack shit to save or fix the people he left behind in this one. It was especially grating to read because JRO literally wrote in someone saying "you saved billions of lives from the Functionists" as if he was trying really hard to show how good Megatron is because he saved people (and also if not for Megatron existing Cybertron would be even worse and half of your faves would be enslaved or dead, also the Functionist Council was going to genocide organics too so technically they're WORSE than Megatron since they hate organics AND want to enslave their own race).

I read Barber's, JRO's, and MScott's series concurrently using the omnibus + a release order list for phase 3, and after all that I'm kind of puzzled why the fandom seems to ardently love MTMTE Megatron and think he's so well written but then also shit on Optimus for things that he did during the same points in the story? Because, and I know this is a blazing hot take, I honestly think that Optimus makes a better hero of his story than Megatron does for his, and Optimus' personal journey combines his personal and political identities into a narrative that's a lot more gruelling and questioning of his goodness than we got for Megatron in MTMTE. Which is fucking saying something considering Megatron committed crimes against sapient species and Optimus is the guy who tried to stop him from doing that and has always been pro-equal rights for all beings. But people pretty much just cherrypick things like Optimus annexing Earth or beating up Prowl and go "he's bad" and I'm like no??? IDW OP isn't a bad person or a bad character??? It's just that unlike MTMTE Megatron he's placed in a narrative that actually suits the nature of his actions and has themes that match. To the point that IMO sometimes Barber's narrative shits on Optimus excessively or paints him mainly in the most unflattering ways.

But like. It's just funny to me because Optimus spent his entire part of the story doing things like trying to stop Earth from being invaded/colonized yet again. Grappling with his identity as Prime and dealing with the fact that people literally worship him vs. the fact that his upbringing made him see the Primacy as nothing more than a facade of authority/leadership. Having people get mad at him for prioritizing politics over friendship/relationships with other people. Even getting shit on for being a cop a decent amount so people can STFU about IDW OP being "copaganda" or "not held responsible for his actions". The problems that Optimus dealt with were personal because they had to do with his self-doubt, culpability for the war as a leader of one of the armies, distance from his soldiers, etc. But all of these are also POLITICAL struggles. Because Optimus gave up on the chance to just be a normal person having personal struggles when he chose to become a LEADER, which also means that he's held to extremely high standards that he regularly fails at in the eyes of others.

That's why, to me, MTMTE Megatron falls flat in comparison and really as a "hero" or heel-face character in general? Because he also made a decision to be a leader, and IMO once you do things like become the commander of an army and start your own galactic empire, you lose the right to prioritize your personal problems and instead are obligated by the power you've chosen to wield to focus on your POLITICAL problems. If Megatron's power, influence, and crimes are of a social-political nature, then his heel-face turn arc and ways of showing that he's a better person/helping to heal what little damage he possibly can should have been shown with actions that help on a social-political LEVEL. That's why I'm not particularly impressed with his character arc and feel as if it was overhyped by other people in this fandom: sure, the extra character depth and emotion is nice, but I'm not really going to see him as extraordinary or even particularly good when the extent of him "becoming a better person" happens entirely on a random road trip to fuck-off nowhere. Especially not when the ending of LL tried to sell me a "they lived happily ever after" ending while basically leaving the freaking MUTINY as just Rodimus going "oh it's okay you're forgiven, we're all together again" and I guess everyone was fine with Megatron and wanted to spend an eternity on a ship with him just because Getaway died.

This is why I like (the concept/themes of) exRID/OP and the way Optimus' character arc was handled a lot more. Because for Optimus, the personal and the political were as one. He was held accountable for his actions towards others and the disruptive effects they had on a social level, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (the fucking "oh Megatron is an Autobot so now that makes the Autobots colonizers" plot and that stupid colonist screaming about how Optimus is "literally fascist" my beloathed). Even his very personal issues like his relationship with Zeta were still cast in a wider lens of, yeah this is a personal struggle that Orion faced, but he was still part of a Society TM and his actions were sometimes ill-informed or harmful to others. Even if I had a lot of problems with the way Optimus' story was written by Barber (plot holes, little meaningful character interaction, forced conflicts), at least the BASELINE of it was way better than Megatron's in MTMTE. Especially since Optimus' struggle was explictly about things like struggling with responsibility and how he feels he HAS to intervene in political affairs because has to save people/make up for his past mistakes. That's something that a good leader/good person actually does, so I found Optimus to be a better hero (even if his actions weren't all "good") because he was trying to be a good person by actually getting involved with Cybertron/Earth and subjecting himself to something he hates (leadership, war) and dealing with a shitload of criticism instead of just going on a fuckin "personal journey" lksdlkfsd.

Which just makes me extra salty that people hold up MTMTE Megatron as the pinnacle of Megatrons and literally the best Transformers writing evar! while turning up their nose and ignoring or outright despising IDW Optimus. Like okay. I guess since Megatron got handled with silk gloves on while Optimus got put through the wringer of being shit on by every other person in the story, it's easier for you to pretend that Megatron is a poor uwu boy who just needs friendship and love while Optimus is literally the worst bastard to ever exist. Or maybe it's just that since Optimus' story involves him sometimes fucking up, being criticized, or making things worse, that makes him morally bad. As opposed to Megatron who disrupted a lot of other characters' stories in MTMTE, had to have an entire alternate universe invented so that he could "save lives," and got to sail off on a quantum Lost Light happily ever after, so since he's happy and the story says he saved people that means he's a good hero.

[vampyroteuthid]

gonna need people who are not so much as a us size 6 to stop referring to themselves as things like "fat pig" and so forth. obviously no one should be doing this but if i can count all your vertebrae when you lean over and you consistently wear sizes xs/s you can at least not say things like "i've been really good lately and not been eating until the afternoon" in front of normal people

[outeremissary]

Chaotic haters just jealous of our whimsical and uninhibited swag...

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

didn't want to add it in the notes but i was thinking about this post and how often people have the same attitude towards history

i see posts on here SO OFTEN with some random historical fact and then scores of people in the notes saying "why weren't we taught this in school?!?" and it annoys me because that's..... not what school history class is for? high school history classes are not episodes of horrible histories lmao they're not for teaching you fun facts which are sometimes kinda tenuous in actual scholarly circles, they're for giving you a historical framework for understanding why the world is the way it is today, but even more than that they're for teaching you how to deal with historical sources and contemporary attitudes about history so that when you encounter them outside of class you can engage with them in a critical and considered way, but more than THAT they're about teaching you to engage with ALL kinds of sources in a critical way, a skill that you can and should use in all areas of your life

if you're interested in a particular historical period or topic then GREAT! your school history classes have given you the skills to seek out that information on your own! read books! watch documentaries! go to historical sites! ask questions! but don't sit around on the internet and lament about how you weren't taught any interesting things about history at school, because that was never the point

[whump-card]

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

The person who convinced you(generalized you here. y'all, if you will) you were "bitchy" was doing this thing called "being mean and lying to you." You're not bitchy. Think about who made you feel like you are - do you trust their opinion? Probably not!

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

Go to a small concert or some similar thing alone! I love the idea of being able to leave whenever I want if I get overwhelmed, and to not have to worry about keeping track of another person, but alas, agoraphobia. It's very difficult for me to go to places alone.

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

My house! I've lived here since I was born, and I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into its renovation over the past five years. I want to live here as long as I can.

Thank you for the ask! 💛💛💛💛

[timegears-moved]

great job link

[nyazai-osameow]

I truly believe only fellow cluster B bitches can accurately understand Dazai's character

[charlotte-of-wales]

Why people can’t understand that what the RF can’t do is to support party political ideals. Climate change or LGBT are supported by the two parties, the ‘problem’ for the royal family would be if they start supporting policies from one party or the other, like conversations of ‘what a woman is? and those topics of which the politicians can’t agree with and are fighting all the time.

Perhaps people want them to support these causes in a less ‘loud’ way, but they aren’t doing anything that they can’t. Sure, every topic has its controversies, people agree and disagree, but some people act as if the RF have never talked about this before the amount of division some topics have attracted in the recent years.

William did what, one interview saying he'd support his kids if they were gay and now this? there's nothing loud about that people are just homophobic bozos who think gay people existing is a problem