#second half transformation

[baddawgsports]

🚨 INTER MIAMI MIRACLE! Down 1-0 at halftime, Miami STORMS back to beat FC Porto 2-1 in the FIFA Club World Cup! MLS just made a STATEMENT on the global stage! 🔥⚽ #InterMiami #FIFAClubWorldCup #MLS #FCPorto

[casualavocados]

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023) behind the scenes

[cherboxishere]

Creature Vash but the HC that he half transforms under strong stress and dissociating episodes

[myirlnameiscloud]

Woah?!

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

There is a brutal contrast in how Megatron and Optimus's stories end. Optimus nobly surrenders his spark, along with the Matrix of Leadership, having been sent off by his dear and trusted friends after giving them a fond farewell. He has accomplished his life's greatest goal; now he is able to rest. He dies willingly, at peace, bringing hope and giving life to the next generation by restoring the Allspark.

Megatron had already been killed, and was told that he can never join that very Allspark. Having been enslaved, and only released because of Optimus's actions, he is now reanimated, inhabiting his own corpse. His only remaining ally, who has constantly betrayed him, does not understand him. He flies off, alone, having lost all his forces and failed in his mission, and realizing that his life's greatest purpose was misguided. He is left, we can only assume, to live a hellish and hopeless life--a shell, consumed by the past.

And he did not tell Optimus goodbye. He knows that Optimus will leave him behind, will obtain the heaven he can never enter. He gives him the parting gift of his repentance, to acknowledge this. But in his refusal to say farewell, there is an echo of his own wretched endurance. He does not get to rest. Megatron will remain, eternally alone--eternally waiting for a reunion that will never come.

[knifefightandchill]

RESIDENT EVIL 4 (2023)

...To become one with us.

[lambchop-soup]

Dream Sweet in Sea Major but it’s about Starscream missing Skyfire WAIT WAIT I’M SORRY PLEASE DON’T THROW BRICKS AT ME SORRY WAAAAHHHHH

[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

it's rough out here

[koorinokujira]

The Czech dub of TF Armada is pretty funny

I've been kind of debating whether to upload this or no, but everyone who saw it seemed to like, it so...

I often talk about my love for the Czech dub of Armada (because it's funnier than the English one in my humble opinion), so I translated some silly scenes from the first few episodes for my pals so they could hear what the voices sounded like. So here I am, releasing it for you guys to also enjoy :D

Apologies for the watermark and crappy quality, I made do with what I had ( ´ ▿ ` )

Also, tagging @steelthroat and @ryuki-draws here because I mentioned it to them :DD

[subwaylesbians]

one of my favourite things about adaptations are all the sliding doors moments. if tom waites and walter hill hadn’t had a disagreement, hill wouldn’t have rolled his character off a railway platform mid-way through filming. fox would have made it home to coney, and as per the original script we would have had a fox/mercy romance. if they hadn’t decided during the editing process that the plot was too hard to follow and they needed to add some narration, we wouldn’t have the dj. reunion square and same train home, two of the most thematically significant and emotionally resonant songs, wouldn’t exist. bizarre to contemplate

[fisheito]

UWAAAAAGGGHHHHH I DIDN'T EXPECT HIS NORMAL SOFT OLI GAZE TO BE THE FIRST THING TO POP UP WHEN HE CHANGED HIS OUTFIT SOMEHOW THIS DESTROYS ME EVEN MOOOOOOOORRRREEEEEEE

[laserbread]

Ok, that officially marks the end of my Rescue Bots nostalgia trip. I'm still going to finish the show of course, but the introduction of new characters means I'm heading out to unknown waters because I don't remember seeing any of these guys before.

I'm guessing this means less screentime and focus episodes for my favs, though they did seem to run out of ideas for them anyway considering they went through like every kids show episode trope in the first half of season 3. And I do already like Salvage, so I still have something to look forward to

It feels weird to see new episodes from a tf show I liked as a kid. Last time this happened to me was discovering the existence of Predacons Rising during our initial TFP rewatch back in 2020 (the one that led to me joining the fandom in the first place)

To conclude, as a kid I saw

-almost the entirety of season 1, multiple times but somehow missing the first few episodes

-most of season 2

-the occasional season 3 episode

[they-hermes]

ok so here the deal between the autobots and decepticons in tf hyperlink:

originally orion goes from dock worker to archivist (well more of manual labour with his alt mode to justify his new line of work) by senator shockwaves sponsorship at the archives in iacom run by his sister codexa. and orion quickly realises the shit conditions he lived under back as a dock worker were not unique and in fact a system based problem due to uim facing the same problems as an archivist (with added on discrimination because of his alt mode, isolation from his peers etc) and just "oh fuck this functionism shit is hell for everyone. i hate this"

then he hears about gladiator megatron in kaon who delivers poetry and speeches denouncing funcionism and the gov, advocating for a new world where bots could choose their destinies beyond their alt mode, and reaches out to him. orion finds his writing extremely compelling and righteous due to himself suffering under the same conditions (with his current job and past dick worker experience) and megatron invites him to start the revolution with him (as one does) and orion accepts

they create the deceptobots, and quickly start to gain traction not only orally but also by extreme acts of violence. orion is pressured by megatron to believe that violence is necessary for their cause, and actually starts to believe and inciate this violence "for the greater good" although he carries massive guilt over it. they're not really friends, outside of their political views they have little in common yet stay together as like partners and figureheads of their movement. their movement gains a massive following and follow megatrons plan to take over cybertron by taking over each city state, starting with kaon.

the thing is orion and megatron have vastly different views on the end goal, megatron throughly believes functionism is wrong not because it infringes on a persons individual freedom but because it infringes on what he deems an inherit right to commit violence. megatrons worldview is very militaristic and "survival of the fittest", the senate is inheritly wrong because they are weak and holding back cybertronians from their potential, which is to be a conquering self sufficient species. otherwise, they're just tools to be conquered and enslaved like the quintessons did a long long time ago. so by that logic megatron should be leader of the world bc hes the strongest and he'll prove hes the strongest by killing sentinel prime

the longer it takes for the deceptobots revolution to take over, the more orion realises that this wasn't the future or freedom he wanted for his people. the nail in the coffin is when ariel and dion, civilians and unaware of orions involvement, are severely injured in a raid. he starts to push back against megatron and makes his own allies in the deceptobots to help him take over from megatron. he largely talks and offers aid to civilians who didnt join the deceptobots bc they did not fuck with megatrons vision and he just burries himself with more guilt and shame that he did not recognise sooner of megatrons true intentions. he was never going to free the cybertronians he was going to lead them into a cruel dog eat dog world and lock them in a more violent and destructive cycle than the one they were in.

then finally comes the take over of iacon, the last city state. megatron knows of orions planned mutiny and betrayal but bc hes a freak he still makes orion hold his gun form to finish off sentinel after he fights him. its this weird power play + control over orion bc he knows orion hates sentinel but needs to use megatron as a weapon to kill him, thus reinforcing megatrons view of "all cybertronians need to rely on strength only". jokes on him orion hates himself just enough to kill sentinel and then fight megatron. dramatic battle ensues and orion is killed, body thrown over sentinels body as a last "fuck you" from megatron.

but as megatron leaves to deal with the traitors in his faction a very not dead orion takes hold of the matrix from sentinels body and opens it. and thus is born optimus prime, who now comes back to beat megatrons ass in front of everyone else and is like "ok everyone who doesn't like megatron come with me" and thus i s split the autobots vs decepticons

ill do a part 2 on the autobots and decepticons specifically bc this was just orion/optimus vs megatron

[the-punforgiven]

The best part of any folk metal song is when they drop the metal entirely and just do straight folk shit for a bit but simultaneously the best part of any non-metal song is when they add a bit of heavy distorted guitars or rip a sick guitar solo outta nowhere, it's a very interesting phenomenon to observe

[ehatnow]

"who wants to hear me yap abt my cyberverse au?" i ask, with stars in my eyes.

no one in the crowd answers. i sigh, remembering that no one really gives a fuck about cyberverse.

[getupthestairs]

cyberverse is Insane

s1: bumblebee and windblade hanging out as they try to find their lost spaceship!

s2: our heroes need to stop starscream using the allspark to kill everyone and take over!

s3: We trapped Hot Rod in a post-apocalyptic nightmare hell world, his only company the shrieking horrors from another universe, to watch everyone he loves slowly die, powerless to stop them.