#Bare Reflection;

[hoppips]

a succession of wolves

[passionpeachy]

my renfaire outfit from last year. it was my first time going and I had a lot of fun (ft my fairy boyfriend 🧚🏻‍♂️)

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[snakesonankles]

wip ill never finish, just cant get myself to render this fully lol sorry guys

[rorydrawsandwrites]

HHE LOOKS SO FUCKING CUTE???? THE SILLY HAIR ohh he's adorable I love him

[cutetanuki-chan]

everytime when I remember Nona questioning how people can go on with only touching each other as much as was necessary

I wonder if Alecto was craving the touch as much but mostly was denied of it

[divineandmajesticinone]

BLUE PERIOD ブルーピリオド (2024) "When my artworks are criticized, I totally lose my footing."

[tesseractingrey]

Watching this old live show and with 2024 perspective cringing at stuff like Phil just fully showing where he lives and saying places they’re going to be while 2012 fans were like why aren’t you coming to our tumblr meetup…..It’s making me think about how in TIT Dan says that they were the first to ever do all of it so they were a trial run for all the good and the bad. Like maybe phannies weren’t uniquely awful and invasive compared to any other fan base, the way some people talk about them now. Neither Dan and Phil nor the fans knew what healthy boundaries needed to be set for safety, because none of the bad things had happened yet. And as Dan said, it kinda sucked to have to go through those bad things for everyone to discover why maybe influencers shouldn’t be so open about their locations but people literally didn’t know, at the time, that it was bad. Which is such a different perspective, it’s crazy to think about

[lucdoodle]

reference to that one comic where a kid tries to teach Starscream "what Christmas is all about(tm)"

[mitskiluvr]

“akechi doesn’t like joker!!! he tried to kill him!!! he doesn’t like him!!!” okay AND??? obviously YOU don’t understand the homoromanticism of killing the person you’re in love with … don’t make that MY problem

[notfreetoday]

(Spoilers for JITD Ep 12)

Pei Su's Letter of Reflection

尊敬的领导洛队

今日，我怀着十分愧疚和懊悔的心情来写下这份检讨书. 犹豫我个人的行为，身为特别行动调查...

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Dear Team Leader, Captain Luo,

On this day, it is with a deep sense of remorse and a heart heavy with guilt that I write this letter of reflection. As (a member of) the special investigations department, due to my own individual actions...

🤭🤭🤭

(It sounds a little over the top in English, but these are just "key words" you'd normally use when you've been forced to write a letter of reflection as punishment 🤣🤣)

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Study

Boston, Massachusetts -- 4/3/13

[darkstarofchaos]

Okay. While we're talking about EarthSpark S1 problems that have been made worse by S2. Why is Megatron special?

One of the weakest parts of EarthSpark for me has always been the fact that Megatron is the only Decepticon known to have defected. Later on, Cons like Breakdown, Tarantulas, and even Starscream added some nuance by showing them willing to risk themselves for non-Decepticons, though understandably, none of them were willing to defect at that point. But even though such Cons clearly existed, none of them defected along with Megatron, or at any other point during the war.

And Megatron's own defection was just... It's painfully obvious that he was developed to be a Good Guy and didn't have a lot of thought put into what he was like as a Decepticon. By his own admission and Starscream's assessment, he was a violent leader who ruled with fear, but all it took to make him change sides was... Seeing a human care more about his side than he did? That's it? And if that is why he changed sides, he clearly took the wrong lesson away from that, because he still doesn't care about what used to be his side. Instead of trying to do better by them, he abandons them. And then all he has to do to make Optimus trust him is... Scan an Earth altmode. Really.

It all feels very weak to me, and doesn't adequately explain anything. Did Megatron make any attempt to be a kinder leader, or did he just defect immediately after seeing the Error Of His Ways? How did we get from "damn, I don't care about my guys enough" to "my whole cause is corrupt, I'mma go now"? Did he ever try to use his position as leader of the freaking Decepticons to end the war peacefully or steer them onto a better path, or did he just wash his hands of them the moment he considered himself morally superior to them? If he did try to use his influence before bailing, how did he change so much so fast that none of his officers wanted to follow him anymore? Why did he give up on his entire faction and not bring any of the more open-minded Decepticons with him?

There are so many questions that either aren't answered or only get vague suggestions of what might have happened, and the answers we do get aren't enough for me to buy Megatron's redemption. It all feels too fast and too easy, and I do not understand why he could defect from the faction he led but less committed Decepticons just didn't.

And now all of these issues are worse than ever, because all the nuance the other Decepticons had is gone. Now it's just "Y'know, Decepticons. They're evil." Apparently not all of them, because Megatron is still hanging out with the Autobots, Con insignia and all! I ask again, why is Megatron special? Why does he get to change but all the others have to be flat and evil?

The real-world answer, of course, is that he never changed. He was conceived as a good person and ally to the Autobots, and that's how he's going to stay. But you cannot have a "Cons are just evil" story while the ex-leader of the Cons is walking freely in the Autobot base. Megatron's entire character is only possible with the assumption that Decepticons are capable of changing, and trying to revert to Cons Evil makes his redemption weaker than ever. Because it's so painfully obvious that he was written to be a good person and his dark history doesn't actually matter.

[onelastorm]

──── happy bunny (lion!?) day 🐇💛

...let's ignore that I'm a bit late, okay?

(also I'm sknclemalzmlwmala simping over my own drawing I think I should kmslvnrlwlqlqllsdkekwansns I'm gonna explodd)

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[cowboyinternist]

people acting like wtnv putting ads right in the middle of the show ISNT an intense betrayal of the podcasts values and messaging r getting on my nerves.

stop condemning people for being upset over this 😭 it’s absolutely ridiculous of them to put ads in the middle of the story, especially when there’s already 3-4 minutes of ads before+after the show and ESPECIALLY!!!!!!! when they are STILL ACCEPTING SPONSORSHIPS FROM BETTERHELP. please guys.

[speakofshinee]

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