#yeah yeah the movies bad or whatever but I actually...like it

[oleandequill]

Because of those damn storyboards, I am completely destroyed and I need to rant.

I thank God that this was not the final scene they went with because if I had to see that animated I genuinely might have just passed away because I swear this version is so much more painful than the one we got in the movie.

I mean, first of all, I love that the High Guard actually had a bigger role here in which they actually fought Sentinel with D-16. Also the fact that they had a bigger impact on like influencing D-16? With Starscream literally telling him to go ahead and kill Sentinel? Also D-16 (during his talk with Pax) looking between the High Guard and Elita and Bee as though he was deciding which side to pick? Just ughhh

Also makes me happy because TFOne Starscream as a mentor figure (I mean, not exactly the good kind lmao) for D-16/Megatron is just an idea I really love

Second, the fact that D-16 had a dream? That they actually gave him like a dream/want outside Pax? Cause like the whole movie he was kinda like Pax's ride or die friend and I always found it weird that he was just so willing to go along with whatever Pax wanted. The fact that the storyboard addresses he had his own aspirations and that Pax realizes this (which def fuels the pain of him thinking he was partially to blame for D-16's crash out).

Also the fact that D-16 realizes he doesn't even know what he wants now?

Lastly, the change of him deliberately shooting Pax? Like oh my god. Cause in the movie it was an accident, but here he made the deliberate choice to do so. And the best part about it, in my opinion, is that he doesn't appear to be full of rage about it? Cause when he dropped Pax in the movie, he was really pissed. Here it looks like he was just resigned/tired about it. He just wanted Sentinel dead, and at this point didn't care anymore.

But yeah, like two things I got out of this (and I'm sorry it's all about D-16/Megatron, can you tell who's my favorite at this point lmao?) is the fact that:

(1) Megatron just acknowledging that he was so much happier when he was living in ignorance? I talked about it before with a friend how it's so painful seeing D-16's descent especially when he was blissfully happy as a miner beforehand. The idea of just living a happy life in ignorance and the fact that you can't ever return to that once your eyes have been opened to the truth. So like, do you purposely choose a life of ignorance just to be happy or do you willingly let yourself see how bad the world is because you know you can't remain blind forever?

(2) Honestly, I'm also glad they didn't go with this scene as somebody who was formally introduced to transformers through TFOne. Cause while I didn't know much about Transformers before this movie, I already knew Megatron and Optimus Prime. Like Megatron is the bad guy, OP is the good guy and all that.

The Megatron we got in the movie, I have no doubt in my mind that he would become the infamous bad guy that I know from Transformers. Cause that one had so much rage.

The Megatron from the storyboards, on the other hand, is giving exhaustion. This man is done. Like he even says he doesn't exactly want to lead, he doesn't even know what he wants. Obviously, this would probably change once Pax came back as OP, but like from this scene I honestly have a hard time thinking this Megatron would become the bad guy. This Megatron is giving "I'm going to go on a self-discovery journey after this" or "I'm going to just die after this" energy.

But yeah all this to say, now that I know that canonically D-16 had a dream about going off-world, all my fanfics will now include that.

AKA, I'm going to punt him into space.

[the--queen-of--hell]

No one:

Antishippers: IF YOU LIKE [X SHIP] THAT MEANS YOU'RE A PEDOPHILE.

Okey, so if someone likes cannibalism in fiction, they're cannibals irl. If someone likes murder in fiction, they're murderers irl. If someone like movies/shows with "toxic yaoi/toxic yuri" that means they're abusers or toxic irl.

"B-BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME BECAUSE CANNIBALISM AND MURDER AREN'T ROMANTICIZED". Yeah, sure. So now it seems like GTA or other games where you have to kill characters doesn't romanticize murder. So now it seems like Hannibal doesn't romanticize toxicity between partners and cannibalism.

If we searched for "hypocrite" in a dictionary, it would probably say "antishippers" because you can't be seriously telling me that playing GTA doesn't make you a murderer or violent but shipping two characters makes you a pedophile. Hello??? You have a brain inside your head???

I'm not saying you have to like every ship of your fandoms. I'm not saying you have to like people shipping incest/age gap ships. But there's a big difference between blocking the tags that annoys you, and getting away from your trigger content (like some incest/age gap ships) and outright calling other shippers you don't know anything about PEDOPHILES OR GROOMERS.

You can dislike those ships, I'm not forcing you to like Tomarry, or Pompous Pep, or whatever "problematic ship" you think about. Actually, the only thing that proshippers want is for you to STOP harassing them, telling them to kill themselves, telling them that they deserved their abuse/rape, etc. The only thing they want is be left alone to ship whatever they want.

"BUT PROSHIPPPERS ARE PEDOPHILES". You're a scratched disk, aren't you? First (and I said this a lot of times), proshippers aren't pedophiles. If you think that, I'm seriously telling you to get help or to see proship posts to FINALLY understand what "proship" really means. And second, yeah, there might be pedophiles in the proship fandom. BUT THEY ALSO COULD BE IN THE ANTISHIP FANDOM, YOU IGNORANT. Pedophiles are everywhere, and saying "all proshippers are pedophiles" is like saying "all white people are racists". You can find good and bad people everywhere, and "proshipper" isn't bad while "antishipper" is good.

In conclusion, if you are a toxic proshipper, get the fuck away from my blog. If you are a proshipper who is actually a pedophile, trust me, I will make posts calling you out, and report you because you're fucking disgusting. If you are a toxic antishipper who tell proshippers they're pedophiles, get the fuck away from my blog too. And if you are a toxic antishipper who tell proshippers to kill themselves, I will report you because you're fucking disgusting too.

But if you are a nice proshipper, or an antishipper who is willing to see the other side, you're very welcome here.

[dyscalcoolia]

complain all u want about the modern day sections of newer ac games but!!! it confirms that the movie's canon And says that Layla came up w the idea for the fucked up harness animus and we should All be Grateful

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that small moment in “Air Turtle” where immediately after the Daves lose yet another game, Leo says how sorry he is and how he’s doing his best as the mascot. This moment is so short but it’s honestly jam-packed with a whole heap of characterization.

His need to apologize for things clearly not his fault - especially when it feels like he messes up the job he was given despite doing the best he can (the phrase “it’s not about you” takes a new meaning when this is one of the lessons to be learned from that - that he is not always solely responsible for things going wrong), his need to save face and make a connection with an older adult man in his life (something he consistently does throughout the series - he’s got a few daddy issues, always collecting potential father figures, it’s no wonder he jumps at the bit to keep rapport), and the way he sounds and looks and the words he chooses really pushes how he is just a kid (“Mr. the Dunk, I’m so sorry”).

Like I know it’s a one off moment that doesn’t truly mean much, but when put against the rest of the series it works really well with the rest of Leo’s established character and helps in solidifying later concepts as well.

[icewindandboringhorror]

boy in silly sitting positions compilation

[cak31ssuperi04]

fun fact: Them

[fleshmetal]

just watched the borderlands movie and the only good part was that krieg’s little harness thingo lowkey looked like a very skimpy little bra thing sometimes

he needs some back support with those jugs ofc

[telesodalite]

I need to be weirder about the scavengers and cannibalism...

[steeltwigz]

Saw a post abt the Sonic movies that was like "plz filter negativity posts better" which is GOOD AND TRUE you should be doing that. Ok. But then they kept going to imply that the criticisms of the Sonic movies are all entirely Personal and Ignorable and not like. Usually abt the horrific copaganda, misogynistic writing, and Paramount's disgusting zionism.... Guys a lot of ppls problem w the Knuckles show wasn't JUST a bastardization of Knuckles' character or thinking Wade was annoying or whatever, but like was focused on the grotesque Zionist message from that one episode 😭😭😭 you can enjoy something and still recognize that it has intrinsic and huge glaring flaws and talk abt them. I think actually you Should be speaking up abt the misogyny, zionism and propaganda the SCU supports and discusses, ESPECIALLY if you like the movies! Its important to be able to recognize these things in media and admit that even media you personally enjoy can be deeply problematic, instead of hiding it away and pretending those HUGE FLAWS aren't issues actually....

[pardonmydelays]

i never told you this but i actually watched the warriors (movie) and while the concept album is incredible, the movie literally sucks lmao

[dullahandyke]

Films good movies good banshees of inisherin was good

[sortanonymous]

Wait, they're making another one? Oh-kaaayyyy... Not holding my breath, but hopefully it's at least better than the $h!tshow that was the second movie. (Even if that "version" of Silver is still there.) If it's any consolation, I don't know how much Sega is involved with the Sonic movies, but if it's a good bit, then maybe they can help out! At the very least, there's this amazing comment under the reveal teaser. (GOLDEN ISLAND MENTIONED)

[w3ndytheraccoon]

There are movies about troubled kids, that’s great, but can I have my movie about gifted kids/burnt out gifted kids now. Please.

[themyscirah]

Suffering more than Jesus atm (being a fan of 80s/90s Suicide squad in 2024)

[dashiellqvverty]

i really don’t love takes that are like “how can you be anti copyright but also against ai” because it’s like. well first of all i don’t think ai itself, or specifically generative ai (because “ai” alone is imo a pretty meaningless term that refers to so many things at this point), is like. inherently evil. it’s a tool and in fact it is a tool that you can do some pretty cool or even useful things with! and like my issue honestly is not even really with people using ai to generate art, but rather with the gen ai software itself because that’s the actual product.

i often think of a post i saw comparing generative ai that pulls from various artists to like. heavily referencing or emulating specific artists in art. and i don’t think that’s necessarily a bad comparison when it comes to the people entering the prompts and generating the images. HOWEVER i just feel like. if someone downloaded a bunch of pictures from the internet and compiled them into a book or a document and then SOLD it as a book of art references without any credit much less compensation to the artists behind those pictures, whether you consider that theft or not i think it definitely constitutes a Dick Move.

there was another post that was like “oh everyone made fun of nft bros about right clicking their bored ape pics but those same people see it as theft when those images on the internet that anyone can see are used for generative ai” or whatever and it’s like. idk, for ME my line is that when SOMEONE is making money (in this case tech ceos) off of a piece of art, but not the person who made it, that is a problem. and maybe this is just a Strong Autism Conviction thing for me bc i’ve felt this way for a long time but like downloading something for free is one thing but downloading something for free AND THEN SELLING it is another. in my opinion

BUT ALSO there is a difference between what i personally think is right/wrong and what i think should be the law. and personally i think that any legislation about ai meant to target stuff like this is almost certain to do a lot more harm than good. like we don’t need copyright laws getting any stronger 😐