#yeah yeah consider you're the outlier maybe

[jedi-enthusiast]

I have to ask you, considering my own pro jedi views, why do people think the sith are even better

If the Jedi are miserable without a romantic relationship

Then the sith are downright husks of their former selves

They regularly kill their loved ones in blind anger after all

And don’t get me started on darth marr and malgus they are outliers of the sith empire

Even the malgus was like “ better kill my wife because I would be seen weak if I’m shown to love her and cannot protect her.”, like that’s more toxic

You cannot tell me that the sith are better people if they managed to make an outlier of their order and empire think that

I'm gonna be 100% honest with you, I was half asleep when I read this yesterday and I thought you asked me "why do you think the Sith are better?" and I was so confused. Then I woke up a little more, re-read this, made breakfast, and then promptly forgot about responding 😭

so yeah, sorry for the hold up lmao

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To be honest, I think people think this because the Sith are the opposite of the Jedi---so, when people hate the Jedi and make up shit about how they "aren't allowed to have emotions" or whatever, they view the Sith as good and emotionally healthy and happy just because they're the opposite of the Jedi and not really because of anything we're actually shown about the Sith.

They make up a fake version of the Jedi in their heads, using terrible takes and bad-faith arguments and fanon headcanons, then hear "the Sith are opposite of the Jedi" and proceed to make up a fake version of the Sith in their heads, using straight-up delusion and more fanon headcanons, to be "the REAL good guys" in this ridiculous daydream ooc roleplay bullshit they have going on.

I think it's fucking insane, though, considering that literally nothing in canon shows us that---in fact, it's exactly the opposite.

Literally every Sith we're shown, save for like...maybe Palpatine, is fucking miserable. They're hateful and angry and generally have had their lives completely fucked up---they're not happy in the slightest, let alone happier than the Jedi.

And you're absolutely right, Sith are husks of themselves, because that's what the Dark Side does---it twists you and brings out your worst traits and enables your worst impulses until you're nothing but a cold hateful shell of your former self. That's the whole point.

You're also very right about the whole Malgus thing because, if even the Sith outliers are killing their loved ones, I have my doubts about the Sith being happier and/or "being allowed to love while the repressed, cold Jedi are forced to not love anyone" (which is like...the main argument I've seen about this).

I don't have the comic panel on hand, but there's even a comic where some Sith lord (I think it might've been Palpatine) says that there's no place for love/empathy/etc. in a Sith.

Meanwhile we get quote upon quote about how the Jedi are "weak" because of their compassion, how they care for the innocent, how the Jedi will literally put themselves at risk just to help people because that's who the Jedi are, etc. etc.

So yeah, I have no idea where this whole narrative of "the Sith are better than the Jedi/allowed to love while the Jedi aren't/they're happier than the Jedi/etc." has gotten so popular---it's literally all nonsensical bullshit and everyone who genuinely believes this is just fucking delusional at this point.

[yellowocaballero]

skgk u Naruto dweeb

Sure I'll fucking post the first scene don't fucking test me. It bangs and one should never be ashamed of the things that bang. You're never getting that PJO fic at this rate.

First scene of a fic that bangs under the cut. There's an actual premise for the fic but I think it's funner if that's not obvious.

“Hey, kid. Wanna join a gang?”

Sakura halted, kunai half-buried in the hard packed dirt. She looked upwards, blinking owlishly. 

Obito didn’t have to fight the urge to sweat, because he was partly wood and wasn’t capable of it. The desire persisted. Sakura blinked at him.

He was being ridiculous. The girl couldn’t level mountains with a punch or stop hearts with a touch. She wasn’t head of a hospital and inventor of a dozen medical techniques. She wasn’t even married. Not even to idiots. This was a whole-ass civilian child. She could barely stick a leaf to her abnormally large forehead.

“What kind of gang?” Sakura paused a beat. “I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.”

“I’m not a stranger, I’m a ninja. That’s trustworthy.” Ninjas were pretty famous for being trustworthy, straightforward people. Granted, there was an outlier that should not be counted. “And it’s a fun gang. With…uh, candy.”

Sakura narrowed her eyes. “Where’s your headband?”

“Laundry day.”

Sakura applied every ounce of her genius intellect towards considering this. Obito carefully crouched down across from her, looking down at the small and crumbling hole she’d created. Wasn’t she a bit too old to dig in the dirt for fun? 

Finally, she said, “Sorry, Suspicious Ninja-san. I have school, homework, and chores. And a class project due next week. I have no time in my schedule for a gang.”

“Not even if it’s a really good one?” Obito wheedled.

Sakura shook her head solemnly.

Obito sighed dramatically, poking a gloved finger into the small hole. He allowed Sakura to smack his finger away with the kunai, ignoring her glare. It was super cute and potentially deadly. “So you’re too busy learning away, huh? Guess you’re just another kid with no intellectual curiosity. If you’re perfectly happy with the normal classes, I guess you don’t need advanced ones…”

Obviously, that got her attention. Obito knew full well that classes weren’t challenging her. Acing all of them across the board was a point of pride, but she knew that she wasn’t reaching her potential. She wanted to ace more difficult exams, which was more pride, and continue onwards towards higher difficulty in her quest for self-esteem. She searched unceasingly for the most difficult questions so she could experience the vain victory of knowing she was better than everybody else. Gifted kids. They were all the same.

“Is your gang a class?” Sakura demanded. “Is it special tutoring? Like the clan kids get?”

Ah. And maybe she wanted to do the impossible just to be as good as everybody else. That had always been the life of Sakura Haruno.

“It’s a group of people bound together by a shared dream,” Obito said mysteriously. Sakura’s eyes widened. “Yeah, we teach each other things. Special secret techniques that only we know. Here, I’ll show you one.” He looked down at the hole, brushing away stray rocks. “You weren’t using this hole for anything, right?”

“I was digging for worms,” Sakura said, frank and even. Somehow, her little dress didn’t have a speck of mud on it. 

“Cool. Uh, why?”

“They have really simple chakra networks.”

“Sorry I asked.” Obito dug his finger a little deeper into the hole, forming a small cavity, before raising his hand and cupping it over the hole. “Watch carefully. A true ninja looks underneath the underneath.”

Anybody looking from a distance - anybody from ANBU to nosy mothers - would have assumed he dug into the hole and pulled it out. But Sakura, ear to the ground and big green eyes fixed on the magic underneath Obito’s hand, saw it clearly.

A wisp of green pushed through the bottom of the hole. It slowly rose upwards, leaves growing and unfurling, as it reached the top of the hole and continued to grow. Petals budded at the top of the plant and unfurled, spreading pink. Spring passed in an instant, and in a slight of hand Obito pulled the plant up by the stem and pretended it had been there all along.

It was a camilla, petals dyed as pink as Sakura’s hair. Obito ceremoniously presented it to her. She was almost unable to take it: she was stupified, surprised stiff. She knew exactly what she had just seen.

She mouthed three syllables to herself: Mokuton. Obito smiled slyly. 

Sakura finally took the flower, inspecting it closely. Somewhat critically, she said, “Camillas don’t come in pink.”

“I thought I’d cater to my audience.” Obito leaned in, and Sakura ducked her head to match him. “I can teach you how to do it.”

Sakura’s eyes narrowed, twirling the flower between her finger and thumb. “It’s a kekkai genkai. You can’t teach kekkai genkais. And nobody would, anyway.”

“I would. I’m even offering.”

“Who are you?”

“Guy who wants to put together a gang. With fun and candy.”

Sakura’s eyes narrowed further into slits. “You said the gang already existed.”

“Let’s just say that we’re getting the gang back together for the very first time.”

“Why would we say that?”

She had not warned him that it would be this difficult. Obito remembered little girls as being way more pliable than this. But most little girls would have run away from strangers offering free rides, so maybe Sakura was more gullible than most. Or more susceptible to temptation. But every great ninja was.

“Flowers have simple chakra systems too.” Obito put his hand over the pit again. “Feel for my chakra this time. Earth and water. Watch what I do.”

He made a small sapling this time, which was far simpler and straightforward than creating a flower that didn’t exist. Sakura watched him carefully, eyes closed shut, and when he finished she reached in and ripped out the sapling herself. She studied the sapling carefully before sticking it in her mouth, running her tongue over the leaves and stem. Then she spat it out, brushing dirt over the plant as if burying a body and placing her hand over the hole.

Sakura screwed her eyes shut and lay there for a long time. Obito’s mind was almost spiraling into megalomania again before she began drawing her hand up. She made several small motions with her fingers, almost pinching, and Obito watched in marked interest as a small sapling rose from the soil. It only grew an inch out of the soil, and it was nothing more than a sprout, but so was Sakura. 

When she opened her eyes and saw what she had made - when she realized that the no-name and do-nothing girl could create a mokuton as mighty as the god’s - Obito knew that he had hooked her.

Obito smiled at her, stiff and unyielding. “I have a dream. I’m dreaming of a world filled with meadows of beautiful flowers and forests of the tallest trees. You could help me create this dream, Sakura. I can teach you some of it, but you’ll have to make it the rest of the way on your own.”

The sapling sat in Sakura’s palm, and Obito knew that she found it far more beautiful than any flower. When she spoke, she stared at the sapling. “How?”

“Well…” Obito scratched at the back of his neck, laughing slightly. “How do you feel about crime?”

“Crime?!”

In the end, he had to kidnap her a bit. Technically he could have kidnapped her from the beginning, but a little work now saved a lot of work later. She complained a lot at first about her ‘family’ and ‘school’ and ‘desertion’, but she got over all of that predictably quickly. Her village did too: a disappearing child was not noteworthy in Konoha. Worst case scenario they’d accidentally stir up some ‘but I thought you kidnapped her for your child army’ situations.

Obito would create a heaven on earth, come hell or high water. Anybody who got in his way would die, from the lowliest Suna ninja to the Hokage himself. That was what it meant to be an optimist. And this little girl would be key to it all.

[skaruresonic]

What the fuck do neurotypicals smoke in order to reach the conclusions they reach? As an autistic person myself, even I know not everyone under the autistic spectrum is gonna enjoy Sonic. I've seen autistics like Pokémon, mainly for the cute monster designs, the number games with battling, and so on and so forth. And I've seen autistics like Pikmin for similar or different reasons.

When you meet an autistic person, you just met one autistic person. Autistics aren't a conglomerate of people, they're just average people who have a rough understanding of social cues.

tfw other video games don't exist

Honestly, Sonic is the outlier among my interests. The others are much darker by comparison, and despite their own occasional moments of silliness, don't share the same aesthetics or narrative tone at all.

Pyramid Head kart racing. PYRAMID HEAD KART RACING.

For some reason, outside of maybe Paper Mario, I find it difficult to get into similar colorful mascot games. Sonic fills that need for childish joy too well to permit anything else in, I guess, lol.

also, as I read that ask, I kept thinking "yeah, you probably don't mean the Deadly Gang brand of neurodivergence, we just get called stupid" lmao

Been seeing "Sonic appeals to neurodivergent people" takes float around recently - though it's not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination - and, well. I don't want to step on anyone's toes since I'm not autistic myself (as far as I know; strongly suspect ADD though), but isn't it equally reductive to say you must belong to a certain demographic in order to have good takes?

You don't need a PhD or a diagnosis to have accurate takes on the series. All you need is to have paid attention to the games. That is literally the only "barrier" to entry. The bar resides in hell, and yet folks continue to cha-cha slide right under it. Two hops this time.

Besides, they always mean a certain kind of palatable neurodivergence, not the kind of brain spiciness that causes you to "over"analyze the games and gets you branded an extreme game purist.

Because deep down, liking Sonic in the "wrong" way is still weird to these people. You can't be into Sonic NSFW, you're ~lewding minors~. You can't be so attached to the games that you prefer that other media follow suit, you need to make concessions. You need to espouse the "correct" opinions, and those opinions had better be transformative, lest you be considered a stick-in-the-mud who hates fun.

And it's really ironic too, because it's like well what did you expect, this is a Chili's and I'm still waiting for my shrimp tacos a place where people who like Sonic express that like. Do you also go to the aquarium and complain that there's too many fish?

[incorrect-primarchs-quotes]

Hi, sorry if you don't like asks, but too bad i sent this already

Don't really know much about most of the primarchs, and you're one of the silly primarch people so yeah.

How did lorgar feel about the admech? While most of the primarchs probably didnt care for them or saw them as a neccesary evil (besides probably ferrus and perty), lorgar is an outlier compared to the other primarchs in his beliefs, and since he believed so vehemently in his faith, im curious how he reacted to the admechs altered and radically different interpretation of his god (who not even all of the A.M saw as even the omnissiah, moreso just a very powerful mortal)

Needed and useful, but the WB - pre Heresy especially - considered the human being to be perfect and above any other creation. Sufficient to say, the fact of ruining it only to add some mechanical parts is like desecrating a holy temple.

Plus, body aside, they also tend to loose a more human mind and, consequentially, its fantasies and passions - even more "cold" legions were criticized for this, like the Ultramarines.

Argel Tal narrowed his eyes at the absolute neutrality in the tone, not a ghost of emotion. He’d seen automatons in the Legio Cybernetica with more humanity than the Ultramarines primarch.

Lorgar unironically shitted on the custodes too lmao:

"You are not entitled to watch over me like a pack of prison wardens. I am the Emperor’s son, formed by his mastery in order to carry out his will. You are a flock of genetic toys pieced together in a laboratory from vials of biological scrap. You are so far beneath me that I wouldn’t piss on your bodies even if you were aflame."

For him, I don't remember if he ever addressed the AdMech specifically in the books, but it's easy to guess what his thoughts were.

Hope this helped c:

These excerpts are all from "The First heretic" by ADB - highly recommended, one of my fav book.

I don't remember now if there are any other scenes in other books honestly, maybe someone will add something more in the comment/reblog, so check it later 👀

[synthy-sizer]

9 MONTHS AGO

“Why do you need a blood test?” Sofia sits, confused, in the operating seat. The medical office is one of few places you can absolutely guarantee is safe and clean. She looks around, a bit intimidated by the array of medical machinery and equipment, and frankly you don't blame her. You were scared of it at one point too. “There's some genetic traits passed down through Lunar citizens. We want to check your DNA and see if you have them.” You prepare a syringe and turn back to face her. She looks even more confused. “What does that have to do with anything?” “Well, if Heresy is correct, then you might be very important for our mission. Although it's only a suspicion.” You step beside her and gently hold her arm. “This won't hurt much, I promise.” She looks at you hesitantly and nods. You carefully inject the syringe and start taking blood.

“Hey, Violence?” You look up from your work. “Yeah?” “Why do you call Jordan that?” You chuckle a bit. “Would you believe me if I told you it was her idea?” You look back down at the vial. It looks good. You pull the needle from her arm and bandage it up. “Myself and Lust already knew each other. But Heresy was a bit of an outlier. She just cropped up spewing nonsense about some prophecy, and how we were supposed to join her in a mission. Lust and I already had a mission, of course, and although she seemed aligned with it somewhat we were a bit skeptical. So she said, ‘I can prove it, just watch.’ And she predicted the future.” “She what?” You take the sample over to your computer and start typing away. “I know. But she was right. She told us pivotal world events, and sure enough they happened exactly the way she described. I still think she's crazy. But maybe her brain still knows how to do the math.” You plug the vial into a machine and it starts whirring away, processing the results. All you need to do is wait now.

You turn around in your office chair to face Sofia directly. “In the early days, though, we were enamored. What she told us had to be done, we did. And that includes our titles. It helped that somehow she could tell what names fit us even without knowing us. It's like someone told her everything about us before we even met.” She considers for a moment. “I asked Jordan about her story. And she said she died. That all of you had.” There's suddenly tension in the air. She watches you, and you watch her. She fidgets around a little. Maybe she's regretting asking. “I don't believe that.” “But you're not a normal human, I've seen the way you three fight off angels. Something happened to you.” You clench your fist. “I am aware, yes, that something has happened to us. But I don't believe in whatever bullshit Heresy spouts about how we went to heaven and God spoke to us. Apollo did enough weird experiments to justify the results without that.” As you look at her expression, you realize that maybe you were a bit harsh in your tone. She looks nervous. Scared, even. Of you. You sigh and try to calm yourself. “I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lash out. I just need my fate to be in my own hands.” She still looks a bit worried, but she nods quietly. You sigh. Way to control yourself. The computer beeps behind you.

“Ah, there we go. Let's see what the results are.” You turn back around and start examining the results. “Hmm….I definitely see traces of what we're looking for, but not exactly.” You turn back around to face her. “That's a good thing, by the way. It's in our best interests as well as yours that you didn't have it.” As you talk you get a good look at her expression. She's definitely still a bit nervous, but she looks like she has something to say.

“Do you have a question?” She hesitates as if trying to form the right words. “If you don't believe Jordan anymore, why do you still use the name she gave you?” You're not sure what face you're making but she reacts like it was a bad one. “I-I'm sorry..” she stutters. “It's fine. Can you go grab Heresy and Lust and get them in here?” She eagerly takes the out and makes her way outside. You sigh. Well, that could've gone a lot better. “I never did think we would be good parents, I guess.” You would recognize Lust's voice anywhere. “I don't want to talk about it.” She steps by your side and rubs your shoulder. “It's ok. So, show me the data.” “I'm very interested, too.” Heresy's voice rings out as she also walks over to the computer. The three of you lean in and examine the results. “I hate to say it, but it's what you predicted. She carries the gene, but it's mutated.” “Very interesting.” You can practically hear the smug look on her face. “Heresy, this doesn't mean you're right. Just because the strain has mutated doesn't mean she's capable of what you think she is.” Heresy slaps your shoulder in a chummy way. “Ye of little faith. You'll see.” And just like that, she's off. 

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[fandomfluffandfuck]

i’m the anon who previously sent the message about the deplorable things alba and her friends have said and done.

i did indeed see your response to my message, and to be completely honest, i thought it was a genuine and well-thought out reply. i know you mentioned you did not want to engage (which is completely fair, considering the scope of your blog), so i understand if you don’t post this. however, i was disappointed to see you continuing to give alba a platform when she has, in fact, not changed or learned from her previous actions. she is still close friends with people who have publicly tweeted statements such as, “fuck me like hitler fucked the jews.” it was revealed that she is heavily antisemitic on set just as recently as last year. she is not sorry for her actions, that much is clear.

it’s your blog - you have final say on what to do with it. but as a part of your previous reply in stating that you could do more in holding racist people accountable, i just thought that you would at least stop giving her a platform to spread such horrible values. because of her antisemitism and racism, her (and now chris’) fans also think it is okay to do so. yes, we cannot control the actions of others. however, as public figures, they do play a part in guiding the narrative and setting an example for those who see them.

i wanted to end off with saying telling you that someone previously asked a fan blog of chris and alba, “is nazism and racism okay if you’re white?” and the response was a resounding, “yes!”

this is who you’re supporting, parasocial or otherwise.

related to this

Thanks, I am surprised that you came back. Also, thank you for not screaming, I've seen way too much "discourse" that is just that online and, unfortunately, in real life.

That's all horrible, and awful to hear, obviously. I knew vaguely of her association to friends with problematic, harmful views through another anon, but no details. The description given certainly paints that she's not learning or growing, yeah. That's shitty. Especially shitty when it's more recent things and not past regrets or ignorance.

It is certainly in my mind whenever an anon sends me something about Alba. She's in a photograph with Chris, I see her in his tag, or whatever. Each time I post something of her, even if it's not really about her and more about Chris, it's consciously something I contemplate. I really hate getting into the real, real relationships and such. I'm not a gossip blog. I have no interest in that side of stanning/supporting a celebrity. So, I very much hesitate to post anything that toes the line. I don't want to, and I shouldn't give people who are racist a platform. You're right, clearly.

Also, I'm sure there are fans of either (or both) Chris and Alba who support racist views or think that they are allowed to because they see their favorite celebrities doing it. I would prefer to think that it is just a very vocal minority, though, in the same way when I see people posting about committing violence toward Alba, death-threat-ing her, making remarks about how they hope Chris divorces her and does horrible things to her because she deserves it, etc. I hope people understand better. Maybe they don't. Maybe I am naive and the outlier by assuming that people compartmentalize their fandom lives from their real lives similarly to me. If so, more should be done to educate them, or push them to educate themselves, on why that isn't okay. Poor behavior examples can be very dangerous, though, I agree.

Anyway, again--for real this time, haha--I'll say that I don't want to get further into this. I can feel a very slippery slope coming, not necessarily from you, but generally about who has reportedly said what and when and to whom, and that's too much for me.

[askanallo]

Could you explain what attraction is? And how you feel towards people you are attracted to vs those you're not?

So this is one of the things where I think definitions get difficult because the ace community uses the word attraction to mean something quite different from most people.

Generally, allos refer only to sexual and romantic attraction, usually as one combined thing, as attraction. There's no knowledge of platonic attraction, alterous attraction, etc. for most people. However aces refer to many many different things as attraction. The split attraction model it's called I think? Where attraction is split into a lot of different types that are all very specific. 'Platonic attraction' for example either doesn't exist for allos or they would call it something different than attraction. From an allo POV, you're not meant to be attracted to your friends unless you want to take the relationship into a different (romantic/sexual) direction while being attracted to your friends (platonically) is considered to be the normal among aros&aces.

As for me, I have never felt the ace version of attraction. I don't know what platonic/alterous/queerplatonic attractions are and sensual, romantic, aesthetic and sexual attractions cannot be separated for me, together they make up this one concept of a general attraction (which varies a lot, depending on the strength of the feeling).

For me, if I get a crush on someone, I get nervous around them and want to impress them. I can't stop noticing how pretty they are. Usually I try to spend more time with them. (Assuming I'm not in a relationship. If I am, I just try to interact like normal and ignore the feelings.) If I meet them a couple more times, I start thinking about them a lot even when they aren't there and maybe fantastize about them while masturbating - which is a conscious process btw. I've never looked at someone and involuntarily started imagining myself having sex with them, which is apparently what most of the ace community thinks attraction is? I don't know if I'm an outlier or something, but I've never experienced that, and it sounds extremely inconvenient.

Once a relationship begins, I stop being nervous after some time but I start craving non-sexual touch and lose all concept of personal space with my partner. Attraction then becomes a short-cut to intimacy. Romantic relationships generally get more serious faster because the brain chemicals you get from being in love & attracted to that person can sort of fast-track your relationship. It's like using a cheat in a game or something lol. It took me far longer to get comfortable with my current group of friends than with my boyfriend. It is very difficult to describe. When I was younger, I didn't get the difference between romantic and platonic relationships and the people I asked just told me "you'll know when you experience it" and yeah I did get it then. The new relationship brain chemicals I had for a couple of months after me & my bf got together were fucking insane. Like they single-handedly pulled me out of an awful depression spiral even though it was literally the beginning of covid and my living situation was actually kinda awful.

I don't get as nervous around people I'm not attracted to, I don't seek out ways to be around them as much, and I never fantasize about them. I hope that this was helpful!

[marvellouspinecone]

#why would they be mentioned they end on 1 3 and 5 so they are very obviously odd and have e in them#nothing to write home about#also being divisible by 2 and being able to split evenly in half is literally the same thing

You might have been joking but I'm not sure and anyway I haven't come to your askbox in ages, so hi :) How are you doing?

In case you actually want an explanation: I only mentioned 11, 13 and 15 to complete the 'proof' that every odd number has an e in it. The 'proof' in the post

(okay, yeah, that one is too much of a trainwreck to call it a proof for real but anyway)

showed 1,3,5,7 and 9 all having an e and then said 'by induction every other odd number has an e because they end in one of these and hence the wordsnippets 'one', 'three', 'five', 'seven' or 'nine' will be part of the number'.

But 'eleven', 'thirteen' and 'fifteen' don't include any of those word snippets (while seventeen and nineteen do) and are hence outliers that have to be regarded additionally to complete the proof. (and yeah, of course they are odd; that part I consider a given here, but you could actually prove that, too)

And, of course, you're right about 'divide by 2' = 'split evenly in half', but conceptually (to go with the examples in the post) 30=15+15 feels very different from 30=2*3*5 for me. Idk, it just seemed like a weird way to define eveness with a sum instead of with a product but that might just be me

(that is, actually, if we're being pedantic, 'being divisible by 2 and being able to split evenly in half is literally the same thing' is wrong, I think. Because 'divisible by 2' as a term is only defined for natural numbers and means you divide by 2 and get a natural number back (or equivalently the prime divisor thing). And being able to split evenly in half works for any number, I think? At least every real number. Like, π=π/2+π/2 or 3=1.5+1.5 is also evenly split in half if you know what I mean. Maybe that's part of my issue with the sum thing, too. But, like, everyone would know what you mean in both cases, of course. But mathematicians do love to be pedantic.)

Okay, the long math rambling you probably didn't ask for is over :)

Noooo 3=1.5+1.5 is not split EVENLY in half bc 1.5 is not even. Hope that helps :) no passive agressive remarks meant by this, it's just that i understand this is not technically correct, but it is objectively correct in the vibes department.

Tbh the comment about 11, 13 and 15 was half-hearted, i really didn't care anough about getting any of the points right and wouldn't even have left any remarks, but trainwrecks are hypnotizing i guess. Your comment was absolutely correct, these numbers absolutely belong there, it just seemed a little too much of the same, like hammering down the point that had already been made

Also jesus christ tumblr spagettified the text of your ask in the post editor like a black hole, i cannot read anything and don't remember any of the specific things i wamted to respond to.

Hi to you too, glad to see you in my askbox!!! I haven't seen you here since last year!!! (I will see myself out now, sorry) Hope you are well and thriving in the new year

[teeny-tiny-revenge]

There's a lot to be said about being aware something even exists as an option. Stede is from the 18th century. They didn't publicly talk about sexual attractions there. Even marrying for love is an unrealistic dream, especially in Stede's peer group of high society, where marriage has nothing to do with love and attraction, because it's basically a business merger.

Like. I'm ace. I spend a good decade, from my teens to my mid twenties, just assuming I'm probably straight, maybe, or bi perhaps, but kinda bad at it, and just not that into sex in general? Surely everyone else is just blowing this whole sex thing out of proportion. Nobody actually wants it, right? It's just the social convention. It's a trend. You gotta say you want it because that's just what you do. And if you're an adult and you want an intimate relationship, there's gotta be sex in it because - because? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I'm not even saying this world view made sense, because looking back to really, really didn't. And there was that day when I stopped, looked around and realised it makes no sense. If nobody is actually attracted to anyone outside of "oh this person looks gorgeous", if nobody wanted sex, the world as it is makes no sense. But it's very hard to get to this point unprompted. One thing about labels and stuff is that they provide us with concepts, and concepts help us think in new ways. I didn't consider I could be ace because I didn't know being ace is a thing that exists. I had never heard about it. You're either straight, or gay, or maybe bi. That's your options. There was zero doubt here once I actually thought about it, looked it up and learned there's another thing I might be. Just instant "oh, yeah, that makes sense".

And I feel like that might very well be what happend to Stede. I don't think anyone ever told him he could be gay, as in, an orientation. Because people wouldn't talk about orientations in his circles. Maybe about men having sex with other men, but then only as an activity, and in negative light. Love already doesn't factor into the heterosexual marriages in this society, I don't think anyone ever entertained the idea that some people might be falling in love with a same sex partner. So Stede wouldn't even have that in mind as a concept. Love is a nice dream, but unrealistic already. Sex is for procreation. Attraction or desire or love don't have anything to do with things. And Stede went through life feeling empty and disconnected and wondering what is wrong with him and why everyone else seems to have an easier time going through the motions of society as he does. But it wouldn't even necessarily ring many bells specifically, because he was an outlier in many ways, so that he's weird about love and sex is just one disconnect among many others.

And then he goes to sea, is introduced to the world of piracy, where queerness is visible and talked about and a much more casual part of life, where there are queer couples on his crew and it's normal, where Spanish Jackie has 19 husbands and wives, and he's going "oh, there's more options?" And then he meets Ed. And he feels things for Ed that he's never felt for anyone in his life, both because he's never fallen in love before, never had anyone fall in love with him, but also because he's never lived in an environment where that was a option at all. So now he's building new contexts, and learning that the way he was taught to think about romance and sexuality is extremely limited, and he's not actually broken at all, he's not a failed straight man who can't straight properly, no, he's just gay. And that's fine because Lucius and Pete are gay, and Ed is gay, and Ed likes Stede too, and oh fuck he's made a mess of everything by leaving, but he understands now. I don't think Stede ever thought he had options, because he didn't know different ways of loving and being attracted were actually a thing, but once he gets the evidence, that gay people exist and that straight people actually like straight sex? It all makes sense to him. He's met someone, and his name is Ed.

I think one thing I see a lot when people talk about Stede that doesn't ring true to me is when it's said he "thought he was straight."

I do not believe for even one single second that Stede has ever thought he was straight. I think the more accurate way to think about how he probably understood himself is that he probably assumed everyone else had similar thoughts but were just better at hiding them. If you told Stede pre-canon that he liked men, he would be like "well duh. Doesn't everyone??" Realizing he was gay was a really fantastic development for him because it also meant there was never anything wrong with him, he was just a gay man forced to act straight for a long time.

I don't think Stede was ever walking around thinking "oh yeah I am so straight. Look at me. So good at being straight. Unlike gay people. I am straight."

While that's hilarious, I think it's more likely he was thinking "I hate that I'm forced into a marriage with a woman because I would much rather be kissing and holding hands with a man. But I'm sure everyone else thinks the same thing, and it's me who is the problem because I can't pretend to like this as well as everyone else can."

Subtle but important difference.

[aesterblaster]

yknow what.. also @kryptic-krab who talks with me about which characters we could beat up lmao and @honeybachira

How The Blue Lock Boys Fight HCs

[most characters]

Rin

He honestly knows nothing about fighting

Throws his fists super ineffectually but with enough sheer rage that it lands

Just flailing around but somehow all the punches still do damage

Will literally try to overwhelm you with a flurry of blows

Doesn't even untuck his thumb or anything

He constantly brags about how he can beat people's asses but hasn't been in a fight fight since 5th grade

Don't let that trick you bc he will not hesitate to initiate something if he sees the chance

The type of guy to be talking shit even when he's losing

Isagi

He took karate for a while in 5th grade and he's not afraid to use it

The type to watch self defense vids and then forget every tip like 30 minutes later

Throws a pretty good right hook though

He prefers not to fight and pretty much has never been in a fight

No one has any real reason to fight him anyway

Once when he was smaller he kicked someone for insulting his mom

I think that's about it

Bachira

Has been in the most fights out of the whole fuckin cast [except shidou who is an outlier.]

Not by choice he just had to shut up his bullies ok <3

Uses flying kicks a lot

Also knows how to use nun chucks because he went though a TMNT phase

Has amazing reflexes when it comes to fights, cordination 100

He prefers to not get in as many fights now especially since he has a bit more inner peace now

Type of person to say some weird catchphrase beforehand

Just saying if you talk shit about him/his friends you will end up getting hit

Gagumaru

Will just fucking grab your face to stop you from getting close to him

Considers fighting a waste of time and trying to fight him will not get you anywhere

Doesn't even get angry when you insult him he's just like "..ok"

Has fought wild animals before though so maybe it's for the best that he's so passive towards people

Why would you even try to fight him honestly

He does know some taekwondo though from his childhood before he hit his growth spurt

Hiori

He has never fought in his life

0 skills even though he likes to think he could hold his own in a fight

If he HAD to fight he would try to go for pressure points or something strategic like that

What can I say he's a gamer

He has had people get into drama with him online and it always stays online and he prefers it that way

Would rather verbally talk it out than actually get into fisticuffs

His dad is obsessed with martial arts movies though so he has picked up a thing or two

Niko

Yes somehow he can see through his bangs

Has fought people before suprisingly and he's always won

Is very secretive about his fighting ability and no one's ever seen him fight because to him it doesn't have to be a public thing

But he's done judo/is good at flips

You try to come at him? Boom you're gonna get flipped over his shoulder

In the winter he does in fact train at a gym

Got into it because one of his friends was into it and ended up being better at it than him lmao

Also is good at predicting his opponet's moves for obvious reasons

Kunigami

Since he looks like a walking "don't fuck with me" sign he hasn't been in many fights

Once he has stopped a lady from getting robbed so that was something

Kinda just slapped the knife out of the criminal's hand then punched him

His strategy is 100% act first think later

His uppercut is in fact lethal

He has been beaten before though

One of his younger sister's absolutely whopped him because he lost her dog and didn't look for him that well

Yeah his only big weakness is that he won't fight women or people much younger than him

Nagi

Is the first to walk away

Never runs away from a fight but has walked away from several

He does insult people a lot, luckily it never comes back to bite him

His baggy clothes do hide the fact that he's a trained athlete so most people fighting him think he'll be weak

He does have a suprise advantage because usually he's so chill

The few fights he does get in usually end in him just tripping them/embarassing them

Calls fights annoying and then talks shit about people constantly

Raichi

Eats and breaths fighting montages for breakfast

He has bitten someone and he will do it again

Fights with him are like a fight with a wild animal, he starts out fucking headbutting people

Is always fired up so it's not hard to persuade him into trying to knock you out

At his school the file on him probably deserves it's own drawer

Posts videos of him flexing on tiktok with captions like "hey [insert random name here] wanna rematch 😂😂😂😂

Plan? Where? Just goes out doing every move in the book and probably all at the same time

Sae

Knows how to fight really well

Will go for a knock out straight away

Defends karate on insta and hates people who do other martial arts lmao

Has been in a decent amount of fights

But honestly he wins it from sheer power not his beloved karate

Will harp on how cool karate is and how he's a black belt but get in an actual fight with him and he will just start punching/pummeling you

He avoids lawsuits som e h o w but has done serious damage to people

Nanase

Can and has picked people up like they're a lamb

Although he's very passive and kind if you get in a fight with him you will get handled like a farm animal

Has only been in two or so fights and he won both of them

Afterwards he brought the kids to the nurse and everything TT

Says sorry the whole time

Talks to his parents about it and they're like "violence isn't the way" or whatever

It takes a LOT to get him riled up, he's more often breaking up fights than actually in them

Oliver

He had a bunch of siblings so of course he had to get good at fighting

Usually he does n o t play around when it comes to that

But sometimes he does playfight with his friends

Often wins those too

You wouldn't know it from how his exes slap him though lmao

Is more the type to finish fights but not start them

And he doesn't like getting into really serious fights, doesn't want to risk his health or anything

Reo

Kind of overreacts

It's either nothing or everything with him in fights

Look he tries to aim but he always misses/is pretty predictable

Has been in a good amount of fights (mostly because of above thing about going from 0 to 100)

Usually he loses though

The nurse knows him better than the principal even though its a pretty elite school

However he can copy moves so watch out for that

Also Nagi usually comes in at the end and saves his ass

Barou

Look, he came out of the womb kicking and screaming and that's pretty much how he fights

Very loud about it/will be screaming the e n t i r e time

His favorite thing to do is use his knee especially kneeing people in the stomach

Has only gotten into one fight at his school because everyone heard and saw him just fucking screaming like he'd been waiting for this day while tearing the poor kid apart

Yeah no one's started anything with him since

Also will go out of his way to make whoever he fight's life a living hell after the fight

Is pretty damn intense about fighting if you couldn't tell

Otoya

Well first you have to catch him

He's really good at getting out of slippery situations and pretends to despise fighting especially to girls

Has never gotten into a fight but will hang around and record fights he sees at school/on the street day to day

Runs a drama channel tracking fights and disputes happening throughout the city

And honestly if he were ever in a fight he'd just automatically go for the eyes and groin

Talks about how skilled he is at fighting but will never prove it lmao

Aoshi

He has been in a fight and honestly he just took blows until the other person tired and moved on

His entire strategy is to just be a living shield

Luckily no one knows about his main weakness which is his lower back lsmeniudrbfyui

If he weren't so muscular he'd get absolutely demolished by bullies

He's the type to be like "One of these days I'll learn to fight back!" then never does

Just tries to keep to himself and not start anything honestly

Kenyu

Yeah he's a pacifist but he also knows like 5 martial arts "just in case"

But also is so good at dissing people

If he did get in a fight it would probably stem from him back talking people because he knows that he's good if something actually starts

"What are you gonna do, dirt breath? Hit me?"

Honestly this side of him only comes out if you're an asshole first/known for being rude

He treats most people with respect but has threatened to beat up a couple of people

Chigiri

Fought much much more when he was a kid than now

Now sure he gets bitey but never actually throws hands bc of his knee

Thinks it isn't worth it

But his record was pretty win lose and usually just scrabbling and pulling hair with no real consequence

His sisters would give him tips on self defense like "if someone's trying to kidnap you do this!!"

Low key adults were afraid to approach him before or after school bc he'd go karate kid on them and be like "GET AWAY"

Never learned martial arts but just copied moves he saw on tv with varying sucess TT

Igaguri

Acts all big and bad

Gets himself into sooo many fights and loses all of them badly

Comes home with a bruise or something and his family goes on a whole rant about how he's a training monk

He legit gets himself yanked out of school and has to be at the monestary full time

He'll vauge post on social media about being taken out of school bc he was a huge bully and someone (otoya) responds with a video of him running home while some kids way younger than him chase him on a bike and he deletes the post TT

Tabito

Refuses to fight with people that are "mediocre"

But when he does fight he goes for the weak spots and pressure points

Usually wins

Has only been in like 3 or 4 fights and all of them were over something said about his appearance

He's sensitive deep down ok

Also makes sure he won't get in trouble for fights/tries to not get it on any record or anything

Shidou

His high kicks are painful as hell

Likes just kicking and rarely uses his hands

Side kicks, roundhouse, flying, straight out you name it he's used it

Is constantly learning new moves for fun

Has started fights with complete strangers on the street bc he was bored

He's just a fucking fighting fiend ok

Can and will fight a kid for something arbitrary

and finally.. the cursed extra

Ego Jinpachi

If he were to get in a fight he'd use his surroundings as a weapon

Would smash a coffee cup over someone's head

When he's bored in meetings he doodles drawings of him beating up the executives for not letting him go through with his plans

Is rather physically weak but you best believe he'd still win

As a kid he pummeled people for looking at him the wrong way lmao

[princess-of-the-corner]

"And Marinette isn't exactly poor either. Her parents own a very successful bakery. It's not 'rich af' but it's nothing to sneeze at. " Problem with that is that "Animaestro" is only episode, where we have anything implying that "Dupain-Cheng's very successful bakery" is just one of *four-five digit number* of "very successful bakeries" that probably are in Paris on practically every other street

Actually!

Heart Hunter/Miracle Queen also does this because they do the catering.

So like.

If the Mayor of Paris and the Style Queen chose this bakery as the one catering their 20th anniversary party, it means the place is pretty damn successful.

And again even if it's not:

We don't know the financial situation of most of the classmates' families. Chloé and Adrien are the only ones of the main class continously shown as fuck-off rich.

What little we've seen:

Alix - Her dad is a curator at the Louvre. Probably rich then. But her and her family aren't included in the Chloé/Adrien events so we don't know the details of that.

Lila - Mother works at the embassy. But 1.) we don't know if she's actually a diplomat or if this was one of Lila's embellishments and she's just an office worker(common in saltfics but not confirmed) and 2.) Considering the stuff we've seen in the Bible Spoilers? Lila is an outlier and should not be counted.

Alya - Her mom did get the job as head chef in a fancy restaurant, so that leans into the money. Her dad is a zookeeper.

Max - His mom is a train conductor who is just beginning a new career as an astronaut(but is not quite there yet).

Juleka - Jagged does not count. She had no contact with him as a parent until Season 4. Anarka might be living off residual royalties from her days in Jagged's band and maybe child support(if he paid), but they don't have Jagged's money as a whole and only live on the houseboat.

Sabrina - Her dad is a cop

Mylene - Her dad is trying to get into an acting career, but his main job is 'assistant educator' at his daughter's school.

The rest of the class we have no context for how rich they are. But it does seem to be a bit of a mix of financials.

They are also protrayed as.... fantasy average. This is a thing kinda common in fiction but you don't have as big divides you have 'poor as hell and part of the main personality', 'average' then 'rich as hell and part of the main personality'. If you're lucky you may get an upper/lower 'average' but it's not focused on too often.

So yeah most of the class other than the 'fuck off rich' kids are portrayed as fairly average/middle class financial situations despite a few of the more fantastical jobs.

[itsclydebitches]

Chapter 12, about the Relics: “I think it’s something we wanted to do cause they were sentient and because they were from the God of Light and.. in essence - even though they’re supposed to be impartial - they do want humanity to succeed." Okay. I'd wish they were impartial but I don't mind this. So why is it that Oz is treated worse when he uses them? You know, the one your creator tasked with the job? Yet they're not only more lenient with Ruby, but Cinder, the one working for Salem.

Yeah, for me Ozpin is the big stumbling block here. We see Jinn allowing Ruby to pseudo-cheat by stopping time, Oscar is offered the same loophole, they overtly cheat with Ambrosius to an absurd extent, and though Jinn answers Cinder's question, she doesn't look happy when she does it.

I think it's easy to infer that the Relics are hero-aligned based on these things, though like so much else in RWBY, it's not very well executed. I would have preferred some in-world acknowledgement of this bias considering that these sentient beings could, at any point, simply tell the heroes that they want them to succeed. I personally don't want the heroes' obstacles erased simply because these beings happen to like them, that's just not a compelling story. And if we're meant to understand that the Relics are helping the heroes because they're anti-God of Darkness/Salem/grimm, we have the problem that Ruby never told Jinn that she's out to destroy Salem. She just asks what Ozpin is hiding from them. What about that interaction tells Jinn that Ruby is her ally? This is all very messily done, but there are other details (the cheating, the sad expressions when Cinder calls her) that do help forward the writers' intent, so it's a case where I might have been able to say, "It has its problems, absolutely, but I got the overall message." There's no hand-holding, so to speak.

Or rather, I would have taken that position if not for Ozpin.

He's the outlier here. Though the Relics seem to instinctively support the group who only just found out that Salem exists and they should maybe do something about that, Jinn is downright cold toward the man whose entire purpose is to deal with her and unite humanity. How does that make sense? I've spoken about this in other metas, how the less than kind nickname for Ozpin ("Old Man"), amusement at him begging on his knees, and a useless, one sentence answer ("You can't") compared to Ruby's 20 minute vision (which just happens to air all Ozpin's trauma, further hurting him) all send the message that Jinn hates the guy. Or, more accurately, at the time it sent the message that these beings were impartial and, like the genies and djinns of myth, prone to twisting your wishes in horrible ways. Remember Ozpin frantically trying to keep Ruby from using the Lamp, to the point where the ran at her to take it? At the time I theorized that this wasn't just because he had a secret to keep, but because there was some severe downside to using the Relics at all. That would fit with his extreme reaction, Jinn's uncomfortable treatment of him, and it would put a much needed limitation on the all-powerful, magical objects. I believed something more was going on because, at the time, I still had faith that the writers were putting effort into their story. But instead, it turns out that there is no downside, Ozpin just freaked out over the Salem secret, Jinn loves Ruby for reasons only established in the commentary, and she dislikes Ozpin because... just because.

So we've got this cycle of conflicting characterization going:

Oh cool, these Relics are kind of cold and aren't useful unless you're careful about exploiting their rules

Wait never mind, this one adores Ruby. Why is that?

Hmm, maybe it was a fluke? Jinn is pretty stern now about Ruby not being allowed to cheat anymore.

That was a lie! Oscar is able to summon her again without a question. What's going on?

Okay, new Relic, new rules. We get an entire scene detailing how crazy hard it is to get what you want from Ambrosius.

...never mind, their wish was nonsensical and broke all the rules. He also gave Penny a body for free. This is ridiculous.

We've been saying that for months now, but most of the fandom is bending over backwards to try and explain how, actually, the heroes are just that smart and talented.

Well, would you look at that. The writers have admitted that the group cheated. Glad they're owning up to that, but why are they allowed to cheat?

Apparently because the Relics want the good guys to win. Okay, the motivation is solid, I've argued that reading myself, but it would have been nice if that had actually been established in the show.

And even if it had been, why haven't they helped Ozpin in the same way they've helped Ruby? You know, the guy whose entire existence revolves around winning this war?

Beyond the obvious fact that the writers are not planning ahead and thus whatever idea they next introduce is likely to contradict what came before it, I honestly believe that this Ozpin problem is a result of everyone hating Ozpin in Volume 6. The show made it crystal clear that no one was allowed to sympathize with him. Out of a cast of ten, including a total stranger who had no personal beef with him (Maria), not a single character took a position other than, "Yeah he's the worst and I'm glad he's gone. Why would we try and get him back?" So with this single reaction driving the entire Volume and beyond, why would Jinn be any different? Having her be kind, or even just neutral, messes with the blanket perspective Volume 6 was going for. Jinn acts cruel towards Ozpin because Ozpin, in that moment, is supposed to be hated by everyone, regardless of whether that makes sense or not. It's a characterization based on the badly constructed tone of the Volume, rather than Jinn's own personality, backstory, goals, etc. And that decision has now, Volumes later, severely impacted our ability to go, "Okay yeah. The Relics are pro-heroes. I'll buy that even if we haven't done as much with that idea as we could have."

I swear, though RWBY obviously had the seeds of these problems planted long before (badly written racism allegory, semblance rules keep changing, boring Volume 5 with inactive heroes, etc.) I personally think RWBY went off the rails in "Uncovered." The biggest problems we have with the show now can be traced right back to those snow episodes where the story decided to make the heroes entirely uncaring of an ally's extreme pain, respond to world-shattering news with identical reactions, refuse to admit that they might be out of their depth here, ignoring 20 minutes of lore outside of a single line, another mentor character is introduced that doesn't amount to anything, the start of Qrow's turn from drinking as a joke to alcoholism, introducing the idea that we don't just have macguffins, but sentient macguffins with ill-thought-out characterizations and rules the writers don't actually want to follow... those episodes introduced so much that is still haunting RWBY two Volumes later.

[wifiwulf04]

Movie was great! Wish it was longer, ending felt a little rushed and there was foreshadowing abound imo (clocked the villain immediately, but not all the intricacies of what happened), but hella epic!

That being said, bingo time! Spoilers under the cut, my full evaluative thoughts about the movie as relates to the bingo card and extra comments after that.

So, no bingo cause the movie took a bit of a different path than I expected and definitely focused in on OP and Megs as advertised, almost but not quite to the point of neglecting everyone else. I recognised so many folks in the wide shots, there was so much potential there, but they were sadly relegated to fan recognition easter eggs only.

Let's start with what I did get:

Decepticon movement starts without Megatron: Not exactly, but they're all there, and Starscream's leading the charge as advertised in the trailers. Ngl, I wasn't expecting to hear them designated the High Guard of all things, but like I said, the movie took a very different route than I expected, especially with folks' origins (like putting Orion in the mines rather than the Docks or the Records)

Megatron getting the Decepticon brand against his will: Pretty explicit in the film, doesn't need a whole lotta explanation. I deduced it from the scratched-up quality in the trailer when it did show up in the middle of his chassis, which looked like it was either Starscream's handiwork or Megatron's own attempts to get rid of it. As it turns out, neither of those.

Starscream gets his ass beat by Megatron: A Transformers staple, at this point. I wasn't expecting Starscream to taunt Megatron to hit him harder, kinda sadistic and a little sus imo Star 🤨but he switched up real quick to the Starscream I'm familiar with when Megs whipped out the fusion cannon, so I guess that speaks to his original confidence in the limited damage Megatron would have dished out against him and his armour using his fists alone.

T-cogs are restricted to the upper classes: A bit of deduction on my part, but considering Sentinel's response to seeing Megatron and Optimus in the race, I think it stands. The miners had theirs removed (I still don't quite get why tbh. Sentinel power play things I guess, but wouldn't the miners have even better production and odds of survival with their t-cogs?) while folks serving Sentinel directly (drone troops and Airachnid) and "his racers" kept theirs, a privileged status that clearly gives them some kind of social standing considering how Darkwing and his friend talked about Orion ("He can't even transform" and all that).

Use of outlier abilities: Soundwave used Telepath! It was super effective (unless you're Starscream snapping at him, rude)! I was hoping to see a couple others, maybe Blurr to win the race, but Chromia winning was one of those name easter eggs (like calling for Ratchet in the medbay afterwards LOL)

Megatron being genocidal, OP being pacifist/defensive: Tale as old as time, these two. I wish they spent a little more time developing Megs' genocidal snap, that's what felt rushed to me. Like yeah, he feels betrayed that Sentinel has been lying and controlling him his whole life, but he was content to follow the rules and even clung to them for a little while longer after knowing that they were artificial (yelling at OP for not following protocol, which was the event he pinpointed as the start of them getting into things), but after his fight with Starscream where he showed his capacity for anger (and the threshold past where he could control it, aka pressing his cannon to Starscream's faceplates and pretty clearly contemplating whether to kill him on the spot while Starscream begged for his life). We can see the anger build, but his decision to 'long live the king' Orion feels like whiplash. One moment, he's terrified for his friend, full of grief and regret, and suddenly he's cold and enraged, dropping him into the abyss (and I called that pit going all the way to Cybertron's core when I saw it. Ain't no way they weren't going to bring 'Primus is legitimately Cybertron' into this when they showed how the caves collapsed in on themselves like the planet was healing itself).

MegOP divorce: We all knew it was coming, free space for a reason (thank you merrydearest for the exact quote)

Elita gets to be a badass/actually gets an arc: We got both! Badass as always, and she got an arc from being out for herself and no one else, to believing in and helping Optimus round up the troops, being his second-in-command without hesitation and supporting him with a pep talk that didn't compromise her pride in herself and her own capabilities.

Jazz being an actual character: I clocked him on the train and lost my fucking mind, and again when he was mentioned by name during the cave-in. Every wide shot in the barracks was me recognising as many folks as my brain could handle and freaking the fuck out next to my friend who very patiently let me point everyone out :p

Now, what I missed and where the movie took it instead:

Starscream attempts to betray Megatron: A classic Transformers trope for Starscream, second-in-command to try and overthrow Megatron, but they didn't have enough time to even establish Decepticon command, or indeed Decepticons as a faction before the end of the film (putting it in a post-credits scene doesn't count, but it does leave the door open for a sequel, though considering TF:One is apparently supposed to be the prequel to the Bayverse, I don't even know anymore. I'm hopeful, but not hoping.

The Command Trine/Trines in general: As mentioned above, the film zoomed way the hell in on OP and Megs, so not too surprising that the Seekers didn't get too much mentioned. I clocked Sunstorm and Skywarp amongst the Seekers I think, maybe Thundercracker, but way too many Coneheads to pin down Thrust, Ramjet and Durge (I'm also not familiar enough with their colour schemes to even try). Was hoping to see them flying in formation somehow, or Starscream to be leading as Air Commander, but Soundwave deployed them ("High Guard: Eject" is as close a reference to Soundwave's cassettes as we get, unfortunately) and they went on to kinda just do their own thing.

Shockwave controls Megatron into starting the war: Like I said, Megatron's turnaround felt rushed and a little whiplash-y, but I didn't notice Shockwave get close enough to Megatron to plant anything (unless he did it while they were unconscious, but unlikely considering Shockwave has no idea who D-16/Megatron is at that point in time)

Alpha Trion escaped Quintessons harvesting T-cogs, passing 4 of them to the gang before he conks it: Technically he did escape Quints and pass T-cogs to the gang before he knocked it, but the Quints weren't doing the T-cog harvesting, so this failed. Side note, the magical T-cog transplant in the middle of all that organic material from mecha who had been deceased for 50 cycles (I'm assuming that means years here, which also means that the gay old men aka MegOP are younger than that at this point) had Ratchet pitching a fit about 'unsanitary conditions' and 'T-cog complications'.

The Seeker bombing of Praxus/Decepticon bombing of the Docks: Turns out that bombing scene is neither, despite the sheer number of Seekers present who got blown up, which I thought was the bombing of Vos from the trailers. Guess war crimes would have been a little heavier than the tone they were angling for with this family-friendly movie (despite Sentinel's brutal death, although not necessarily super graphic with the lack of energon spilled in any fight in the movie).

Pre-Autobots and Decepticons fighting the Quintessons together: That's what I thought OP was rallying them towards in the trailers. As it turns out, something else entirely. The Quintesson war being supposedly over for the last 50 cycles and then finding out that Sentinel was paying them off, and then the post-credits scene of Megatron and the Decepticons on the surface makes me wonder how they're going to deal with living up there. Are they gonna take out the Quints? Cause with so many Seekers, I'd say they have a pretty good shot of bringing about an actual end to the war.

MegOP brought before the Senate post T-cog retrieval: Technically Megs gets brought before Sentinel, but OP isn't there so no dice. Gotta have both husbands present pre-divorce.

Soundwave and his children: I thought the kitty in the trailer might be Ravage, albeit a very strange looking iteration. Now we know it's Alpha Trion instead, things make a lot more sense. A little disappointing that we didn't get any cassettes making an appearance despite Soundwave's clearly G1 appearance, though.

Prowl joining OP from the current system: Technically he does, but I didn't count it because the condition was that Prowl had some kind of position in law. Instead, he's a miner, as are just about all the recognisable Autobots, rather than their multiple scattered backgrounds (I'm just a little salty about that).

Bee gets his vocaliser crushed by Megatron: Surprise! It's Starscream's turn! A nice touch that the damage actually stayed between scenes, enough that Sentinel commented on it.

Megatron enters the gladiatorial arena: I guess he kind of did when he played Starscream's little power game and won by beating Starscream's ass and threatening his life, but that's not really the gladiatorial arena, even though they all quickly acted like it when the two started brawling. I was hoping for some kind of reference to the underground fighting ring of the Pits, but alas. Guess blood sport is another thing too non family-friendly.

"All the best names are taken": I was hoping B would get his name (The whole Bumblebee, but to be fair there weren't any bees amongst the flowers.) and say the line, but no one did.

OP's promotion after the Quint war turns him into Senate figurehead: Since the Quint war was supposedly over, this one was dead in the water from the jump. No Senate either, just a false Prime.

Cliffjumper survives: Cliffjumper is never mentioned except a passing glance at the Iacon 5000 position tracker. His fate is therefore technically unknown.

Jet Judo with the Terror Twins: Ngl, I saw a screencap of Sunny and Sides in the Iacon 5000 crowd, so I had a shred of hope they would be seen jumping jets and having a wild time, but nah. I guess Sides technically did get his jetpack since he was part of the rush towards Airachnid's drones, but no sight of him and Sunny steering jets into one another.

Cuts back to present-day/post-war at the end of the movie: It seems like a bit of a trend recently, or maybe I've just been watching too much Earthspark (season 1, imo season 2 isn't as good and I wish they brought the guys who created season 1 back). The mid- and end-credits scenes are neat tho.

General movie thoughts!

From the trailers, I thought Sentinel was Ultra Magnus tbh. I didn't think Mags would do anything even remotely close to offend Quints for them to grab him without some kind of retaliation. Having Mags around would definitely have made it much harder for Sentinel to carry out his plan, sneaking around and surrounding himself with yes-men.

Some folks in the mining barracks look copy pasted. Look, I get that wide shots can be hard and no one wants to put in a lot of effort into a model or something and have it go completely unnoticed in the final product, but it made ID-ing folks harder because I would have a name on the top of my tongue, but spotting someone super similar made me doubt my guess.

End of the movie felt rushed, but I've griped enough about that.

I'm a little annoyed they didn't even try to bring in any other city other than Iacon, though. I get that Iacon is the headliner city that non-TF fans are most likely to recognise and too many names might throw folks off, but not even a mention of establishing a Decepticon empire in Kaon or Uraya or something?? The zoomed out view of Cybertron still has multiple spots where the cities would be, for crying out loud. Maybe there used to be multiple cities before the Quint war, but they don't say anything about before the Quint war, probably because all knowledge about it was locked up under Sentinel's command, but surely someone in Iacon is older than 50 cycles and remembers a time before they all went underground, right?? Sentinel is older than 50 cycles, you're telling me he's the oldest living Cybertronian??? Hell, bring in Kup as a conspiracy theorist old man or something, but it turns out he's retelling old memories, y'know?

Visuals, stunning. Sound design, amazing. 10/10 would watch again, more than likely going to (when I can get it online, shhhh. Cinemas make my hearing kinda fucked up and oversensitivity ahoy, now that I've seen it in an amazing theatre, I'm staying home with my 1440p monitor) just to further analyse it and lose my mind all over again theorising about this timeline. If they make a second one (probably not considering it's apparently supposed to be a prequel to the Bayverse according to one of the producers, I don't remember who, the article is on CR somewhere) and they don't show more folks or at least call it TF: Til All Are One (or TF: Two, I don't mind a good meme), I'm gonna lose my mind (even more).

I'm going to watch Transformers One with a couple of friends next Friday, decided to make a bingo card for the fun of it (my ass been trying to figure out which timeline the movie is on) and after watching the second trailer, shit Clicked

Will update after the movie o7

[oflgtfol]

"the armorer is a cult leader because...."

"...din doesn't know anything about the jedi, but she does, obviously she hid it from him." even though literally barely anybody else in the outer rim in this time period knows anything about the jedi. din is not an outlier here. and considering the fucked up shit the covert is going through re: the great purge, being forced into hiding, etc i truly do not believe "educating the next generation about an extinct group of people, when we ourselves are nearly extinct" is the top of their priority LMFAO. she only ever mentioned the jedi when it came up in conversation and she wasn't exactly dodgy about it?? like she was forthcoming with information when the situation called for it. and i doubt the jedi were ever a conversational topic before this? otherwise why the fuck would they ever care enough to make it a point to drill into din's head. i don't think literally anybody cared

"...she said that those who didnt follow the creed all died, but obviously they didnt, so she must be lying!" or maybe she's simply unaware herself?? considering how absolutely fucking chaotic and traumatic that situation must have been i really don't think she would have been keeping tabs on people she doesn't care for, when she's trying to make sure her own group is able to escape? plus she said they were on concordia, not mandalore itself, so i think also the fact that they were literally not even on the same surface could have contributed to her not knowing. i think if you're on a moon and you see in the sky that the host planet is getting bombed to glass you're going to assume that pretty much everyone who had been on planet at the time died.

"...she exiled din for the helmet thing!" i'd be remiss to not mention this point but i have already talked about it here so i'm not gonna rehash it

"...she's superstitious and blames the purge on lack of following tradition!" being superstitious is not inherently a bad trait unless you let it like, actually get to you. and you can argue that she does but again, she's been through something genuinely traumatic as all hell so i kind of find it hard pressed to blame her for grasping at straws for any sort of logical explanation as to what just happened. you see someone who doesn't follow your interpretation of the culture, who actively scorns your sect as well, and who has broken tradition in a way that has been warned about for eons, and then you experience something as LITERALLY world-shattering as the great purge, like. uhm. yeah! i think the irrational frightened human mind would say "hey, the ancient songs foretold this, they must have come true. fuck bo-katan for breaking tradition then, she's the one to blame"

[druidonity]

You're not the only one worried about a time skip! I desperately don't want them to skip ahead in time. It's lazy storytelling because it almost always skips over character development and just gives us a developed character and says "Trust us, they grew! We'll never show you how but they GREW!". I hate them and I don't want them to do it to all my favorite WoW characters ): and GOD forbid they kill of characters in the time skip - that's also a worry D:

EXACTLY!!

For example, one of our main characters, Anduin Wrynn.

He's at most 20. Any time skip at all will change him alot, and while weve gotten nice character development the last two expansions, hes not done yet. There is a lot that hasn't been resolved.

- I dont think hes over his father's death yet, 1-2 years later. He prayed to the light to know he was at rest and the light didnt respond. That is a plotline left opened. (One I think was left for Shadowlands to address).

- I know we like to call Genn a creep, but getting married and having heirs is kinda part of the monarch profession (though Anduins not typically one for tradition). Where does a time skip play into this? Does this time skip get used to pretend he and his future partner develope a relationship off screen?? ((Our most likely candidate is Taelia, and I think seeing them bond via world saving adventures for an expac would be all you need. Shadowlands?? U listening??)) ((My best wish would be, if we did have a time skip, Anduin is married BEFORE maybe for human heritage armor questline and we return 5-7 years later to see a lil prince or princess. I imagine fanfics will fill in that space with midwife Wrathion))

There is still a crack in our Alliance, and Anduin is still fighting to gain respect as a king, from both his people and his fellow racial leaders. This takes time to address, a time skip would hurt the story telling here. Over the years surely Anduin grows as a king, but what makes them see that? What action, what speech, does he give that makes him finally comfortable in his shoes? Please dont make marriage the answer. (Varian seemed to regain respect from people when he killed Onyxia and then went to fight the lich king alongside Horde. Can something besides war do the same for Anduin??)

Anduin is human. While humans irl live 80-100 years, I've always felt like humans in wow, due to constant war, live 40-60 at most. Turalyon is an outlier. Any significant time skip brings this character closer to his death. Yeah, hes been in the game since vanilla, a 15 year old character, but hes very young and is only recently getting BIG development. I dont want this character to be thrown away so soon. Especially considering that a lot of us have grown up alongside his character, a reason I would argue hes one of World of Warcraft's main characters.

- sorry I've kinda vomited thoughts but I think alot, especially about Anduin. A lot of this could be applied to characters like Taelia, Flynn, Mathias, possibly Wrathion but I feel his disappearance between MoP and BfA would make a timeskip with him feel more approachable. Were used to missing information with him.

-additional thoughts, but I worry that a time skip will just bring us to another world ending threat, and I'm a big fan of the idea of having a downtime expansion. My idea was like, a dark moon faire themed one, where we get stuck in a wonderland type place and are forced to play games to escape. Main lore characters meanwhile have personal storylines. Wrathion deals with his past and where Left/Right are. Anduin deals with Westfall and tries to right a wrong hes not been able to address. We see Moira's son in game, we see Thrall's son, we see an attempt to clean up Lorderan/Undercity for new residents, maybe a retaking and cleaning of Gilneas. Romance drama?? Let wow have a breather, have a "filler" episode, ya know?

[medicinemane]

Just try to understand, in spite of everything I've done with the trailer, with the house, with keeping myself together, no one ever really treats me like they trust me

Family is constantly second guessing me, and then on here you get people who they mean well, but like do you really think that I'm just too thick to have figured out therapy might benefit me?

The sad thing is how good my mental health is, I'm sure you'll say I'm wrong because I just got through saying how nothing is very pleasurable and I wish I'd hurry up and kill myself but I'm just not in the mood

Consider this though, you all lost your shit during quarantine, and I'm not saying you shouldn't have but I'm saying I didn't even notice it

Cause every day of my life for my whole life has been lived more or less like I was in quarantine barring a few outlier times like when I was in Quebec (where I was still very isolated for those couple months). I just live with what I guess bothers the shit out of everyone else

So I'm not saying I'm healthy or something, I'm saying for where I am and what I deal with I'm pretty fucking stable

I'm saying what do I do? What am I always doing? No matter how shit I'm feeling I'm slowly working towards moving forward in some small ways. Takes me forever, but I can tell you the next steps in the plan. Get the last phase one room cleaned out, get the commission sent. Those are the two current accessible steps. Having trouble executing on that, but I know what the next steps are and it was some time ago, but I cleaned up the whole rest of the house, didn't I?

Is it too much to ask to just fucking trust me?

When I, how sincerely hates myself at this point because my mental heath has gotten worse over the years, when I'm saying that following my plans work. When I'm saying yeah it's not ideal and there's bleeding I just can't stop, but unless I can get help this is kind of best case scenario... when my worst critic (well... one of my worst, there's always family) is saying things are going as well as can be expected... can you not just trust me for one second?

I wouldn't be so bothered if this wasn't far from the first time I've has someone say this to me even after I've explained why I literally just can't or maybe just won't get professional help right now, but it's not coming without a change

Not to mention I'm gonna blow your mind, but there's more than just professional help, there's also peer help

I don't know, you (not most of you, general you where I'm not naming names but if you haven't said it you're excused) you keep saying this and I get tired of it

Some of this has come from people I really really like, some times it comes from more or less strangers, or in between there, you know... but some of it comes from people I don't want to get mad at but like... I just don't know how to get through to you

You're making things worse. Fucking stop it. All you're doing is making me feel like you don't fucking listen, and that just makes me feel worse

Trust me and leave it, don't feel up to dealing with my depressed ass and take care of yourself by not looking at my posts, or offer me a hand or just some company or whatever

But stop with the telling me to get help. You're lucky I can probably get it covered (though, once again, not sure I can get stuff that works for me covered), cause if I'm blunt you're kind of being dicks telling people to just get help cause do you know how expensive that shit can be?

I've known people who really wanted therapy, really needed it, but just couldn't fucking afford it. Think how much it would help if I told you to just go see a dentist when you don't have dental. What's that doing for anyone?

This really bothers me, like really bothers me, look how much dumb shit I write explicitly saying it bothers me

So stop it, don't do it again