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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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My thoughts exactly.

As a Starscream lover I have to say that the Cyberworld Starscream has been great so far. He’s reached his goal to become “emperor”, he has his stupid ass crown, has put up signs with propaganda everywhere, along with statues and pictures of himself, has an amazing actor (constantly screaming, can never just talk normally, which I love for him), is constantly aura farming, a good fighter and a genuine threat, is apparently a good strategist (with the tech system, for example) and he even has his own motto!

Live.

Laugh.

Obey.

Amazing.

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As a Starscream lover I have to say that the Cyberworld Starscream has been great so far. He’s reached his goal to become “emperor”, he has his stupid ass crown, has put up signs with propaganda everywhere, along with statues and pictures of himself, has an amazing actor (constantly screaming, can never just talk normally, which I love for him), is constantly aura farming, a good fighter and a genuine threat, is apparently a good strategist (with the tech system, for example) and he even has his own motto!

Live.

Laugh.

Obey.

Amazing.

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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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Listen, I hate Hamas as much as the next guy.

But if you keep saying that you’re “doing exactly what Hamas wants” by NOT wanting 2 million people to be murdered when getting food, systematically starved to death (which includes the 50 hostages, who are also in Gaza, by the way) or driven out of their homes, then maybe don’t be so fucking surprised when people start liking them.

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Hello everyone. It has come to my knowledge that not everyone is familiar with Transformers Legends, an anthology book from 2004 where several short stories from different continuities of the transformers universes are told.

One of these stories is called "Redemption Center", taking place in the G1 cartoon universe where Starscream loses his memory and is taken in by the Autobots, while being protected by Optimus the entire time. Since copies of the book in good condition are tricky to come by at a reasonable price, thought I'd scan the pages of Redemption Center and share with you all.

Enjoy!

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IT’S HERE

Also megop managed it’s way into the top charts. (might have been there previous years aswell, idk I just got back into the fandom a few months ago)

The list is here

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I’ve been obsessing over this song for enough now and I just felt like I had to get it over with and share my vision already.

’Fight for Me’ by AlicebanD fits Starscreams relationship with Megatron really well, I think. If you see it as an abusive relationship, anyway.

That was all, I bid thee farewell.

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Soundwave and his cassettes. Especially in Transformers: Prime.

favorite pokemon conceptually are the ones counted as a single entity but are just clearly like, more than one guy just hanging out.

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occasional posts from users

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Honestly, this explains A LOT as of why it took so long for me to realize I had autism.

Because even when my sister got a diagnosis (and I knew how genes worked) and even when I would find so many things in other autistic people that also fit into me, I still didn’t think I had it.

A big part of the reason why is I think because I always thought “I can’t possibly be autistic, if I just try hard enough I can do it!”. Which I think plays into the “I can’t do it ‘yet’” mindset.

This was a big eye opener for me, thank you for bringing light to this.

Disability-affirming growth mindset

Children are often taught to think “I can’t do that *yet*” as a form of encouraging growth mindset. That’s a really useful strategy when it’s applicable, and it also needs some nuance in order to be more disability-affirming. 

Growth mindset has to be grounded in reality.

Growth means that I am always learning new things and developing new skills and getting better at things. It doesn’t mean doubling down on pursuing impossible dreams; it means doing real things. 

Sometimes growth mindset means thinking “I can’t do that *yet*,” and continuing to try until I can.

Sometimes it’s more like, “This isn’t working. Maybe I need to do it another way.”

Or: “This isn’t working, and maybe it’s not going to work. What else can I do?”

Or: “I can’t do *that*, but I can do the important part a different way.”

Or: “I can do that with help.” and/or “Let’s figure out what supports would make it possible to do that.”

Or: “We can do that collaboratively, together.”

Or: “I could do that with appropriate assistive technology. Let’s figure out if some exists and/or if there’s something we could invent.”

In those instances, realizing that something isn’t going to work is part of how we find out what *can* work.

There are also cases in which growth mindset means realizing that something may not be a good use of our time and effort and resources. A skill that is broadly useful to nondisabled people might not be worth it to me, even if I’m technically capable of doing it. (For instance, handwriting is a useful skill for most people, but it’s always been so hard for me that it’s not really worth it. Losing the ability to  handwrite more than a few words at a time has freed up my abilities to do other things, like focus on typing words.)

There’s something powerful about seeing your body as it really is and working with it rather than against it. Sometimes figuring out what isn’t possible or what’s not worth the cost in time and effort is how we find areas where we can grow and flourish. 

Growth mindset means that I *don't sabotage my growth* by wasting time and effort pursuing impossible things. I don’t stand on a chair or a roof and expect believing in myself to make it possible to use my arms as wings and fly. If I want to fly, I need an airplane, and that’s ok. 

At the same time, I think that claiming the power of “yet” is really important for disabled people, and especially for people with developmental disabilities. 

Sometimes there can be a lot of pressure to see ourselves as incapable of doing things every time disability makes it harder or means we need to do things differently or it’s not obvious whether or how we could do the thing. 

Sometimes we get pressure not to try things unless there’s some certainty that we will be able to do them. (And for something as complex and poorly understood as developmental disabilities, there’s rarely much certainty. Having other people’s doubts limit what we’re allowed to try makes the world very, very small.)

Sometimes disability-affirming growth mindset means saying “I can’t do that, let’s do something else,” and sometimes it means saying, “I might be able to do that, and I’d like to try.” Sometimes it means saying, “I want to keep trying even though it’s harder for me and I’m not catching on as quickly and no one seems to know how to teach me.” or “I don’t know if this is going to work but I think it could, and at this point, I’d like to keep trying.” Or, “I know most people learn this by the time they’re four, and I know I’m much older than that, but I’d like to try to learn this too.”

Sometimes it means an adult claiming the right to learn how to read, or finding a dance studio where they’re willing to slow down enough for them to learn. Sometimes it means practicing a new skill in private while you’re figuring out if it’s something that makes sense for you. Sometimes it means asking around to other disabled people to see what their strategies have been. Sometimes it means demanding your right to accessibility and accommodations even when others don’t think you belong and don’t see you as capable of doing things in the space you want to be in.

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My bank account is never going to recover

LEGO Icons 10358 - Soundwave - Transformers G1

Arriving in August

Well... shit... there goes the bank balance in August!

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Here’s a little pattern of TFP Soundwave that I made for a custom mask, but I thought others would enjoy it too as a wallpaper or otherwise. It’s pretty much seamless at the edges.

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What transformers prime books are there and where do you think is best to get them/read them on, I’m super interested after seeing you mention them on your YouTube channel!

Exodus (classic):

http://www.tf-base.ru/comics/books/Transformers_Exodus.pdf

Exiles (space adventure):

http://www.tf-base.ru/comics/books/Transformers_Exiles.pdf

Retribution (weird book ngl):

http://www.tf-base.ru/comics/books/Transformers_Retribution.pdf

The Covenant of Primus (lore book):

https://ia803109.us.archive.org/9/items/transformersvisualworks/Transformers%20-%20The%20Covenant%20of%20Primus%20%282013%29.pdf

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Reblogging this if I ever decide to draw this character.

MY INVADER ZIM OC AND THEIR SIR UNIT!!! LOOK AT THEM GO!

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If Zim decided to celebrate pride he'd probably do it a lot differently than how it's typically celebrated. He is an Irken after all