just took so much psychic damage listening to the live performance of fast car

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

I'm so annoyed. @kingcrow01 tumblr ate your ask about Danny's opinion on the League. tumblr i pressed 'save draft' why didn't you sAVE DRAFT.

ANyways I'm making a post instead. For everyone else, the ask was in summary:

What was Danny's opinion on the League now that he's left it? If he missed the familiarity of it, if he recognized the cult-like behavior inside it, and if he now detested his grandfather.

And to answer (again, grrr): It's complicated! We love complicated <3. Yeah, Danny does miss the familiarity of the League, it was still his home for the first ten years of his life and he has a lot of memories there. Plenty of good along with the bad, and while he's less homesick than he was when he was 10, it still hits him like a truck at random intervals.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are great, and he likes the Drs. Fentons enough that he's contemplated murdering Vlad for his meddling, but if he wants to eat the same food his mother used to make him and Damian, he has to do it himself and he can't get the taste right. No one knows arabic so he speaks it to himself because he doesn't want to forget his mother tongue, and he has a few books too. Frankly? He genuinely misses training.

Getting to use Sam's gym helps with his restlessness, same with training with Maddie, but he has no one on or above his level to go against other than his mother. And he only sees her twice a year at most. He knows that he's getting stagnant and he fucking despises it like a bad itch he can't scratch.

He feels conflicted about missing the League, however, since by now he recognizes the flaws and what was wrong with it, and he recognizes that it was cult-like. But even that is kinda, hrm, complicated? If this was a fic I would be able to go better into depth about what he has and hasn't unlearned because cult deprogramming is hard and Danny's doing most of this on his own.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz have helped with the more obvious stuff: like the ecofascism, the disregard for human life, his emotional constipation; the more obvious stuff that shows in his behavior and personality. But none of them are professionals nor do they actually know the full extent of what Danny's life in the League was like. They only have snapshots since Danyal is very tight lipped about it. So they can only help with what they see themselves through Danny's behavior or word of mouth.

But in summary: He sees, for the most part, what's wrong with the League and disagrees with some of the stuff they do now. But he's very conflicted, and trying to dissect his feelings on the League confuses him. His protests about it whenever Sam and Tucker joke about it have at this point become mostly empty (altho it still causes him some discomfort), and its an inside joke between them three.

As for Ra's? Despises him. If only because Ra's wanted him to kill his little brother -- thinking about his motives with the League confuses Danny, cognitive dissonance and stuff, -- a lot of his hatred stems from "He wanted me to fight my baby brother to the death. I destroyed my relationship with Damian because of him, I had to fake my death and leave my home, and I will never meet my father or see my brother again because of him. Fuck that guy."

Season 3 of malevolent becomes even more peak with the added context of episode 40.

When Arthur and John became separated, they both reverted to the worse versions of themselves. Arthur commited selfish manslaughter and John commited a lot of selfish manslaughter. Even though both were very understandably motivated by trauma, they still killed.

I think that’s one of the reasons John was so much drastically “softer” once he came back. He had experienced crazy new lows off screen, but he was finally back with Arthur! The one who’s supposed to be his safe-place! Everything should be okay now, right? Wrong! He’s sinking deeper and deeper into morally flawed ideals and is adamant on murdering.

Was this the person John fought tooth and nail to get back to? Was this the person John killed for?

John had no choice but to “bring Arthur back from the brink.” He already had too many stakes on him.

lost my mind every time he showed up what the fuck was he doing here (affectionately)

I'd just like all the Jet Lag: The Game fans to know that me and my parents have taken to calling Adam "The Most Stressed Man Alive" like it's his official title.

boys. BOYS. Not gonna lie, i created this canvas exactly two months ago and i am SO GLAD to say its finished. Now look at my convex boys in fancy clothes. They are finally here

Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the legend, trophy husband of Yuuri Katsuki, Viktor Nikiforov!

scourge unleashed aus mean nothing to me unless he is a catboy

Incredibly random and obscure Hot Take:

Ghost shouldn't have been Emmalyn

Ghost should have been Janus

There’s so much that Nintendo got wrong with the botw /warriors calamity games that i could really sink my teeth into. I’ve been continuously bitter at them for being such cowards with the angst. They had so much potential for a truly horrifically painful storyline that would’ve highlighted the sorrowful beauty and joy in the happy ending. That game could’ve ripped out soooooo many hearts and then tenderly sewn back together, different and scarred but hopeful and healed by the end of the plot. They had the chance and they absolutely fumbled it

it’s actually such good writing with how insane the tutorial ace attorney cases are because it gives you the need to find out what the fuck is going on after like .

aa1 you meet mia and see her dynamic with phoenix, how much she cares for him and how she’s excited to see what he does. she guides him/the player when he’s trying to save larry, who he’s been friends with since childhood. and then she’s murdered at the end of that night before she can even formally introduce her subordinate to her sister, and her story doesn’t end there—it constantly continues throughout the original trilogy. phoenix has to figure out what’s going on and she’s not physically there to guide him anymore, not without maya or pearl’s help.

justice for all starts with phoenix literally getting bonked and suffering amnesia, and while it’s incredibly stupid it’s also a great way to help new players learn the mechanics. it also introduces the importance of phoenix’s relationships to said new players and emphasizes this to veteran players. phoenix is a man built on the love and trust he has in others, and it’s such an important aspect of his character throughout all of the games.

trials and tribulations gets even crazier because we get to see both 20 year old phoenix and rookie mia—and they’re so much different than what we’ve known them to be. we get a part of the context for a story that we don’t get to fully piece together until the end of the game, and this case gives us details that give more emphasis to the story of the previous two games too. it’s a great way to get people invested into the story and think even deeper about the games we’ve been playing this whole time.

so vague, but i love your takes/thoughts on moira so much so if u have anymore pls bless me with them?

erm well one thing im super adamant about Moira's character is that she is a total loser. She fumbles all of her relationships by being overly conceited and making mountains out of ant hills and she manages to ruin her reputation at any given moment and needs Gabe to pick up the pieces every time. She's a hopeless romantic who will wax poetic over the simplest of things when she finds herself falling for someone, but she is convinced she is destined to be alone so she squanders any chance of a romantic relationship (usually) on purpose, and then will victimize herself like See? I told you, people like me are meant to be alone. I have a headcanon that after blackwatch she lived in her car and Gabriel (Reaper at that point) had to physically pull her out of her car and get her a spot in Talon. However, not many people can see just how much of a loser she is because she has such a well kept demeaner about herself and is incredibly well spoken, and makes a point to make sure everyone around her knows they are beneath her. She is my girlfailure.

do you guys remember when Attack On Titan had a fucking Looney Tunes Babies style spin off where all the characters were in junior high and the titans were just bullies and eren was mad at them because they ate his hamburg steak and it was legitimately better than the original

BRACA ☀️🍭🌈

WV is such a good and interesting character and I love him so very much. The Warweary Villein. The Wayward Vagabond. The Wastelandic Vindicator. Just Some Guy who looked at the world and watched as it burned around him and said Not Anymore. A revolutionary built from nothing, who raised an army to fight against their king, who was a bastion for hope amongst the carapacians. He's so important to me.

This post is NOT about the Mayor.