#FOC

[dana-sculy]

[goalieflashflight]

Vetinari is fascinating to me. He sees the Thud board and views all the pieces to better understand the game. His whole life is puzzles, decisions, and being hyper aware.

As I read through the Disc books, I can feel the moments so heavily when it looks like he is taking a break. Sure, it comes with poison, head trauma, being in enemy lands, or the trust in a con man, but he is slowly allowing people in. He is relinquishing control. He may have already solved the mystery, but he isn't getting any younger and now has people to trust to do this, and they need practice.

I know it is a common joke that in FOC Vetinari let the investigation go on as enrichment for Vimes, but it was also a trust exercise. It wasn't only Vimes having to do more work. Drumknott had to keep the paperwork going, and I know we get so little of him in the book, but from the sound of it, this is as much a test for Vetinari's clerks as it is Vimes.

He even starts to allow a body double to take his station. He lets himself out of his own prison. I am sure he went out disguised before, but he let's people he trust in on it if they are clever enough to figure it out.

I am emotional about this tyrant finally letting himself be open and having a good time. We can see what a dork he is in the past; painting tiger faces and even in the present with his don't let me detain you. I bet Vetinari is that quiet kid who says the funniest things you ever heard if you stopped and listened to him closely enough.

[jujucomet]

For doodle requests, may I suggest a Shockwave of your choice stargazing?

[cosmicgifs]

madison bailey

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

[nautical-nauticals]

g1 purists saying megatron should always be a gun is like if a wfc video game fan said that megatron should have been a tank in prime bc it’s a sequel to the games

[petitminou]

 · ♡ · love square kisses  · ♡ ·

[kbunburyhelps]

NICK SAGAR GIF PACK

If you follow the source link below, you’ll find roughly 294 gifs of the handsome Nick Sagar as Kevin in The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020). Sagar is a British actor. He is most known for his role as Kevin in The Princess Switch 1 and 2 Switched Again, as Detective Alonzo Loya in Queen of the South, as Victor Aldertree in Shadowhunters, and as Charles Frederickson in The Haves and the Have Nots. Ethnically, he is of Indo-Guyanese and Jamaican descent, so please cast him accordingly. The gifs are all small/medium, textless, and mostly hq. There should be no repeats, any were completely accidental. I made all of these gifs so credit to me and please if you decide to steal them or edit them in some way, although I’d like to say don’t do it (but some of y’all won’t listen) at least please give me some sort of credit also don’t whitewash him. Please like or reblog if you plan on using. Thank you! 1/?

[protagonistprime]

Fall of Cybertron Ultra Magnus from Earthrise Optimus Prime ---------------------------------------------------- One of the least known OP repaints that could and perhaps should see the light of day someday.

Transformers, Ultra Magnus, Fall of Cybertron belong to Hasbro and Takara, Theses digibashes belong to me

[shnowyfox]

Transformers art dump again can you believe it

I cannot draw him. 86 was one helluva year for robots with facial hair huh?

Cyberteonic spree rumbles because he's just so cool and funny to me. I cannot look at the word scorponok without getting that fucking song stuck in my head thanks for that buddy /pos

Cybertronic Spree Shockwave can't catch a break

Foc metroplex my huge wife who is completely fine always and nothing bad ever happens to him

[dana-sculy]

[tumbwr]

[family-of-crime]

[transformers0]

From previous asks where you mention being annoyed at Hasbro for mandating the modern Optimus voices be like Peter Cullen, I'm guessing you weren't a fan of Transformers Prime having Peter Cullen himself come back to do Optimus?

Gonna pull from a couple of my debate posts on TFW2005 for this.

For the record, Cullen's best takes on Optimus were in G1 and the 2007 movie up to DOTM (and arguably AOE, if you really want to include that).

With that said, I am tired of Peter Cullen's portrayal of Optimus being put on a pedestal and shoved in our faces, to the point where modern incarnations, even when not voiced by Cullen, have actors who are mandated most of the time to try and sound like him.

Also, if fans are obsessed with Peter Cullen's portrayal to the point where they will rate poorly written or mediocre Optimus Prime portrayals (TFP, Bay Films) over objectively better written Optimus portrayals out there, then there's a bias problem.

I also think Cullen's portrayal is growing stale inevitably due to age.

He was the right age to play a father figure in G1.

In the Bay Movies, and to a lesser extent the High Moon Games, he was more of a military leader first, so whatever effects age had on his performance as Optimus were acceptable.

But honestly, with other parts of Aligned trying to make Optimus a father figure again (when they're not trying to stupidly make him a god), their attempts fall flat because Cullen is just too old to sound like a father. He sounds increasingly more and more like a grandfather figure, which isn't his fault, but is inevitable due to the passage of time.

It is grating and frankly cheesy (and not in a good way) when, particularly in TFP, Optimus refers to those of his senior troops as "old friends" — yet said troops still sound young enough to be the equivalent of his children.

Going back in the Aligned timeline to the WFC and FOC games, I'd have Optimus NOT be voiced by Peter Cullen. He was supposedly young when he got promoted to the rank of Prime, so have his voice reflect that, ya know?

Also, there was a time on TFW2005 that a number of G1 / Cullen fans were clamouring for Optimus to be voiced by an AI that could replicate Peter Cullen once Cullen is actually gone.

Which is, frankly, farcical.

If a franchise is timeless because one of the things it does is reinvent itself for future generations, then locking one of the main characters to a literal portrayal of their first incarnation — done by AI, just to remind you — is a disservice to the character, the actor, the story, the franchise, and filmmaking, acting, and audiences as a whole.

Focusing again on Transformers Prime, the show's writing issues seem to get a lot of free passes just because Optimus and Megatron are portrayed by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker yet again.

That's honestly why I personally push the need for new voice actors for all the characters (as long as they're professional) in each incarnation as possible, rather than more role reprisals. Because 1) let's be fair to other great voice actors and give them a chance, and 2) people are gonna get complacent with acting and writing standards if the same acclaimed voice keeps coming back to multiple incarnations over and over again.

[candy8448]

READ THE NIGHTWING PROTOCOL

So i just finished the nightwing protocol and i must say that it is one of the more glorious, beautiful fanfics that i have ever read.

I mean, i dont even know where to start! The writing is beyond fantastic, i genuinely have no words. The entire time i was reading i couldnt stop myself from having very vocal and physical reactions, i was non stop saying things lile "thats crazy" "duuude" "broooo" "thats insane" this fic has me going crazy. It caught me off guard many many times and and jerked me in many different directions that were unexpected but made so so much sense

This author knows these characters

I usually dont like the sladick ship however this fic explored their relationship with all the nuance and care that i love in this pairing of characters, every moment is so carefully constructed and each section has its purpose, even all the explicit scenes were so carefully thought out and executed that i can apprectiate and understand their sheer importance in this fic. The structure is perfect.

Every character in this fic is crafted with so much care, both canon comic characters, as well as the ocs for this fic. I shed real tears for frat boy.

I binged this fic in four days and experienced every variation of every emotion so much harder than i knew was possible. This fic is poetry, the imagery is beautiful, all the call backs, all the ways everything is tied in so perfectly and so thought out, i cant even think about examples because you know them already and my mind is screaming. All the checkov's guns and aspects introduced, the various themes that come back full circle in the most satisfactory way, every detail did not go unnoticed, this fic felt written with deliberation. I could see every time some aspect was introduced exactly how it was going to tie in with the nightwing identity at the end. I am breathless reading this fic.

I cant even think straight, this fic was perfect and complete, i have no questions because everything important was adressed in the most careful way and i am satisfied with all the things i do not know. My heart aches and feels like its flying at the same time

I love these characters, and im glad i put off reading this till i was ready to fully embrace it, because the 251,000k words was worth it in the end and i dont think i could have aprectiated it before. I will be thinking about this fic all day, probably for the next few weeks, I will be drawing art for it.

[kbunburyhelps]

RYAN PAEVEY GIF PACK

If you follow the source link below, you’ll find roughly 414 gifs of the handsome Ryan Paevey as Will Nash in Harvest Love (2017). Paevey is a model and actor, most famous for his roles as Nathan West in the long running soap opera General Hospital. He is also a Hallmark regular so he has acted in many Hallmark movies including Hope at Christmas, Marrying Mr. Darcy, and A Summer Romance. Ethnically, he is of Indonesian, Dutch and English descent, so please cast him accordingly. The gifs are all small/medium, textless, and mostly hq. Any repeats were completely unintentional or made with a lighter version which are right after each other. I made all of these gifs and honestly you can use them in anyway but if you add them to a crackship or gif hunt or anything of the sort please give me credit. Please like or reblog if you plan on using. Thank you! 1/?