you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

"we need more evil female characters" y'all couldn't even handle her

🔥 every time darius is shown to use his abomination form he is using it in a very deliberate and calculating way, and not because he is supposedly so angry/furious

meanwhile every time he shows real strong emotions, whether positive or negative, he is not in the transformed form (though his abomination powers are clearly important to him with how he uses them for affectionate gestures, etc).

and, imo, both times he is seemingly very outwardly furious - with Raine in ER and the kids in the ASiAS - he is playing the role, possibly playing up the real annoyances (because he is more often shown to be annoyed than angry in actual canon). and compare to how he reacts to other coven heads who are his real enemies: focused fighting with Vitimir, concern over Eber AND over failing to stop the spell in KT, and disdainful and stern expression in the finale. It's concern, hurt, or pettiness, annoyance rather than explosive anger.

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Concept: Ben 10 Alien Force AU where everything is the same except Kevin is just insanely passive-aggressive towards Ben for the entire duration of the series

“No worries Tennyson, I buried the hatchet ages ago! That bad blood between us? Water under the bridge! I mean, it’s not like you got me stranded in a prison dimension for five years and never bothered to try and rescue me or even check up on me or anything like that! Of course I’ll help you save your grandpa! After all, what kind of hero just leaves someone for dead in the hands of vicious aliens that proceed to inflict them with severe psychological damage that will take decades to fully heal?”

I feel as though that would be a whole lot more realistic of a thing to happen, especially as the Tennysons realistically react to Kevin's passive-aggression with their own Tennyson brand passive-aggressiveness, though it might not be the most enjoyable trio to watch, which would be basically the complete opposite of the previous trio of Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max-

Ben and Kevin would have more personal beef (something about stealing a way too high security unreleased but already boxed game vs making two trains crash into each other for free money), but Gwen never particularly liked Kevin in the first place way back when, so even if Ben and Kevin settle their differences with admitting what they had actually done wrong (probably fighting over the more petty shit or arguing about the worse shit they did), Gwen doesn't have much basis to forgive Kevin because ultimately she did not get involved. Which I mean I don't think would be that great to watch nor that great to create a team around, especially in the earlier more mystery focused side of AF-

And this is the obligatory mention of @kariachi for introducing the idea of the Ben, Gwen, and Argit trio- you can have passive-aggressive Kevin (and the Tennyson's appropriate responses to him) all you like if Kevin takes Argit's role and Argit fills in that missing main trio slot in his stead. Depending on where and how he's introduced you could totally have a fake-out trio of the Tennysons and Magister Labrid, you know, with the assumption that someone's filling out Max's 'experienced plumber' slot. Not sure how convincing that might be but oops, I did a little ramble lmao-

Talented artist cousin asked me if I want to do an art swap (a mug for a print) this feels very validating

Song of the Day: May 1

"Wicked Old Witch" by John Fogerty

has anyone here read ode to kirihito. what the fuck

Rolling around an idea for a post-finale MegOP fic where Megatron is getting treated for his injuries and Optimus is hovering around Dot and pestering her for status updates, until she gets fed up (she’s got her wholeass family she needs to be looking after right now) and tells Optimus that if he’s so worried, he should call Megatron himself and as and Optimus just goes

“oh he doesn’t really. tell me these things :)”

“...”

“:)”

“...”

“:) right, of course. I need to go coordinate with GHOST, I’ll talk to you later.”

THE FACT TRANSFORMERS DO NOT HAVE CONSISTENT SIZING OR EVEN CANON HEIGHTS FOR MOST CONTINUITIES

Megatron: I want to do something to try and make up for my wrongs! Put me on the Lost Light and, once I've succeeded where Rodimus failed, I'll confess to all my crimes!

Also Megatron: *never returns so he can sail on a forever journey and never stands to confess his crimes*

Concept: a Magnus Archives animated series. I'm talking like a stylized 2D jam here, a touch of retro energy. All the statements are like their own little films, narrated over by Jon who only shows up at the very start and end. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of an eye or two in the background of statement. In live ones you can see the Archivist himself in the background, barely noticeable at the start but by the end barely trying to hide. Sometimes Jon and Elias will stare right at the 4th wall. The opening scenes playing over the intro change with each season. This will never exist but it will haunt me forever

??? how in the world does anyone come out of jekyll and hyde with this

idc about allonormativity but sugisaki's handling of things is vague enough around the edges that i can still put forward the thematic thesis of 'anybody who doesn't want to be alone shouldn't be alone' and 'lives and people's souls/hearts, like art, can be freely shared with each other and witnessed in order to be good and beautiful' and that sort of thing is like almost the entire driving force of daisuke's character. to me.

is it just me or... are the reputation rewards for fontaine underwhelming as hell?

I need to find people to discuss ideas for how cybertronian anatomy/biology and weaponry work (also things like language, culture, history, space travel tech, medicine, etc)