#but rest of it is mostly just…. funny?

[vigilskept]

It really shows an incredible lack of self-awareness to go on another person's polite and reasoned reblog, call them pathetic and pissy, and then somehow simultaneously assert that they are the one who is a bully. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

that’s tumblr for you 💖

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Movie Night (Clip of the scene here)

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[peace-hunter]

tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

[asphodeldreams]

obsessed with how 90% of rvb fans just completely disregard the fact that they are in the Military and therefore would have very strict appearance standards that they are supposed to adhere to

[shazzbaa]

"Left where you are right, in all things -- including the heart."

Stumbled across some more reflection lore recently and UMMMMM I CANT BELIEVE DRY SAMUEL CANONICALLY SOLD MY CHILD TO MR FIRES?????????

(context under the cut)

So in the Parabolan War, if you're a little careless about empowering your reflection to help you, it can tAKE YOUR TROOPS AND MAKE YOU WAGE A CAMPAIGN AGAINST YOURSELF.... at the end of which it admits that it lured you out here because it wants to know what would have happened if it had chosen differently -- the one difference between you and your reflection is a crucial choice in the pursuit of your ambition: where you went right, it went left. Your reflection makes the opposite choice to you, and if you decide to sate its curiosity, you get to show it what's different -- in my case, my reflection saw the light of the hybrid false-star, safe on the roof, and I saw the reflection expensively dressed and felt the security that comes with the gratitude of a Master.

So obviously I had to lose my mind and draw this immediately.

I think a version of Samuel who sold the hybrid would have to have done it for the sake of London, a child sacrificed to save the city. But I don't think he could make that choice and not be changed by it, not let it make him a little more cynical, a little more willing to ingratiate himself with power when needed. I also like the idea of every piece of the end of the ambition going slightly to the left in Reflection Samuel's version of events -- Where Samuel apologised and bowed to the Boil to make amends, his reflection reaches for the power the Cats offered that would let him win. Where Samuel hesitated and looked for mercy when confronted with Poor Edward's violent whirlwind of self-destruction, his reflection shoots him dead. He's not an evil version or anything, he's mostly the same guy -- just one who was willing to prioritise the safety of his friends and his city over his own morals.

[tempestmothstorm]

crazy how the sanshee plush is one of the few actual direct confirmations on what a non-act 2 Natsuki’s home life is like because of how cagey she is on literally everything. Like this isn’t anything surprising or something you wouldn’t be able to extrapolate from the games but unlike everything else we know about her the implications are right there on the tin.

They literally did the character bio trope where where all the likes are normal but the dislikes are about their very specific trauma it’s just so funny they did that on the plushie card

[welcometogrouchland]

I'm going to be so real I do not understand tim & steph shippers who feel that Steph dating Tim again would save her character. You can make an argument that giving Tim a more compelling love interest would be beneficial for him! And you can at least make an argument that the fujo mischaracterization of Steph would stop. However she'd still, inevitably, be treated as a prop character/extension for someone more popular 😭 it also wouldn't make her appear in more books! Tim doesn't have many frequent appearances at the moment either! You can just say you like the couple and want them back together without acting like you have some kind of moral stance

[meowsticmarvels]

one of the most insane things about carlos is like. based on how you are introduced to him in ztd you think he's gonna be the most normal character in the game especially when teamed with AKANE and JUNPEI of all people. and he is the hero type main character archetype guy. but then you play suspicion where he literally kills himself with an axe because he's worried about being dangerous to others (? Is he okay actually. What the fuck). and then there's also get back/apocalypse where he waits 10 fucking months for akane and junpei to save them instead of stopping zero at all. What is wrong with him

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[catboyidia]

official final fantasy vii valentines

(like actually posted by the official ffvii twitter account)

some of them are so normal and even mildly romantic (sephiroths… i would fall in love immediately if someone said that to me…) but then there’s cait sith… controlled by a 36 year old man… making a cat pun… (i would also fall in love immediately tbh…)

[r0semultiverse]

Happy 4/13, here's the Deltritan or Satyr Equivalent to Dragon Ball for their species and civilization.

[lorillee]

she was also really funny for this

[therainbowtea]

Elias' colour scheme is always green to me but not because that's the show cover and the whole "Jonah Magnus" thing, but because it's the colour of weed and Elias loved that shit. And yes Jonah would smoke it too just to "see what's up with this Elias guy I'm now in the body of".

[in-tua-deep]

Had a staff meeting yesterday where my boss congratulated us on our counseling center being wildly committed to diversity bc the university asked him to compile all the stuff on our websites and trainings that might be targeted if certain laws go into effect and uh. his job is very hard right now

[quadrantadvisor]

Sometimes I still think about The Owl House Gang all trying to watch ATLA together but then Zuko's backstory in The Storm retraumatizes Hunter so bad they have to stop

[mathmusic8]

My husband is showing me the 2001 Justice League show, and as someone who's only really seen a couple of modern DC movies and video games, the show is very refreshing, and pretty eye-opening. Like, oh, THIS is why people like DC heroes. I get it now.