#this situation is a mess it's. hhhhhhhhHH

[icharchivist]

The organization around this quarantine thing is such a disaster tbh. 

About two weeks ago, two of our teachers were the ones who were especially worried. 

There was the first case of covid19 in the nearby high school, and our uni, being a linguistic one in a region nearby the Italian border, has a lot of connection with centric pandemic regions in Italy, before they even shut down themselves.

Two of our teachers were concerned bc, as we just came home from holidays, a lot of people connected to the Italian branch came back to the uni as well, and nothing was really done about it. 

One of my teacher was especially mad bc there was no soap in the bathrooms of the uni for a week at that time. She told us then that she will no longer note our presences for classes (mandatory esp for those with scholarships), and encouraged us if we were scared, knew we would be weak to the virus (asthma and such), or if we knew people who were, to not go to school anymore. Told us specifically to take pictures of the soapless bathroom so if the administration bothered us, we’d send them picture going “you’re endangering us”

I’m asthmatic. I have a lot of breathing problems in general, due to a nose malformation that makes it hard to breath and flow normally. and i have allergies. Hell my seasonal illness involves coughing, headaches, nothing flowing from the nose, and lung pains, feeling tired, all those stuff. I can’t even bring up how paranoid i am. Latest cycle of said sickness kicked in with a fever which worried my mom and I had to go see a doctor in urgence a couple of days ago. I’m fine. But i feel extremely paranoid. (and it’s not like France is getting us tested wth bloodtest or something - hospitals are overbooked with the pandemy so they only take in people with very urgent symptoms. Even if you get the virus unless you’re going very bad you’re encouraged to stay at home. There’s probably a lot of cases that we don’t know of because of that.)

But anyway school still didn’t stop back then, two weeks ago. We had two teachers who took the time to sit us down and discuss it with us. How the uni was not prepared to handle it. How they both thought the uni should have closed by now, that they’re discussing it, but they don’t want to yet. 

For two weeks all we got as info was that everything was fine. Only need to clean your hands and cough in your arms. But we also had massive announcement just 5 days ago about how it was not even thought of to close schools. To close places with high work going. That we can’t let it stop us and all.

Last Wednesday, there were still clear announcement that there will be no stopping schools or work or anything. Last Friday, we were issued with a message announcing the massive closing of every schools and we were encouraged to stay at home.

Our uni, is, of course, not prepared for it. We got a few homeworks or class by mails with clear messages from our teachers telling us they’re not prepared and we will need to improvise - us students involved. Our exams, that were to happen in April, will be pushed back to May or June. For now.

On Saturday, they encouraged us to still go vote for the Mayor Elections on Sunday. Obviously, more than half of the population didn’t show up. But we were encouraged to do it still.

On Saturday, we were told to no longer go in groups in places. Something that is obvious of course, but a couple of days ago was not even issued. People stayed up late, disregarded the announcement. In the same breath we were told to not go out anywhere with many people, but to go out to do the election on Sunday still.

Mid Sunday, i get a mail from my uni residence saying that people living in those are encouraged to leave their room, whenever definitly or temporary to return to their family during the shut down of the schools.

I didn’t want to, considering my relationships with my family, but this was getting scary. We were still /encouraged/ but not obligated yet. 

I had seen my mom on the Saturday for the doctor so we discussed the possibility, and while not obligated yet, i was a bit scared. I ended up askign my mom to come pick me up. I couldn’t move out *everything* obviously, but i took already 7 bags with me. My mom originally wanted to help me move out on Monday, but the announce scared me enough i wanted to get it done then immediatly.

Sunday evening, they announce they’re going to restrict moving around. Every shops would close. My mom works in administration soe she had to go work monday still. 

Monday my mom’s employer basically tells her to take “holidays” so she doesn’t have to pay her, all while planning to pass all the mails and phonecalls to the agency to my mom’s phone. She’s sent home on Monday.

Monday evening we got the announcement from the gov that we were in complete lockdown. No longer allowed out without a permit. Only allowed to be out for reasons like grocery shopping, going to the pharmacy or doctor, or if you have jobs that are obligated for the good functionment of the country and crisis. (although they did issue you’re allowed to take your dog out but not for long)

We have to go on the gov’s website to ask for a permit. Like Italy i’ve heard. 

We also have a curfew, no longer allowed out until a certain hour.

So now, today, Tuesday, the whole thing is in place. I’ve heard policemen in my street earlier today ask for people’s permit for being out. 

And my uni residence just sent us a mail saying they no longer even tolerate people being inside the residence for the quarantine. We are obligated to move out ASAP, to a family member or such, or leave definitly.  Today, while the gov has issued you can no longer be out without a permit you printed - while, also, we don’t have printers in our residences. 

I feel glad i followed my gut feeling on Sunday to move out bc i have no idea how i could have asked help to move out today with those measures in place.

What i’m trying to get accross is how quickly those measures were taken in the past few days while it’s been a few weeks we’ve been many to worry enough to think dispositions should have been taken earlier. We’ve been thinking about it for weeks at the uni, but suddenly in less than 5 days we went from “we’re not changing a thing” to “quarantine yourself at your parents’s”.

Not to mention our President doing lots of lectures about how we’re At War, A Health War Sure, But At War And We Have To Consider It As Such. Obviously extremely reassuring to hear while you hear about the amount of death and sickness on TV.

Not like the sickness is any better either. I have a friend who’s a nurse in a part of France that is badly affected. Cases with young people starts to degenerate very quickly, even if they had no prior reasons for it to happen. 

We discovered ibuprophen worsen the virus and it brought people who would have no prior situation into critical states to be taken care of.

/young people with no prior situations/, which i think is important to mention since so many people are brushing off the virus in a “it only affect the elderly or people with weak immune system”, as if this wasn’t reason enough to worry, as if we don’t all know multiple people like that around us, as if the 14days incubation period wasn’t terrifying, as if even if we get minor symptoms we don’t get to spread around a sickness that can be deadly for people with a weaker immune system. Well, if it’s so bad to understand the issue yet, i guess thus “young people with no prior situation get into critical situation” should be a wake up call. We don’t know that virus. It’s frightening. 

People get recontaminated too. Which means we don’t get an immunity from healing. We can catch it again. Who knows how that may even go.

My friend, the nurse, says people keep stealing their equipment. They’re shortstaffed, short in materials, they can barely handle the crisis, not helped by the fact it’s been years that the gov keeps cutting health center’s ressources down. We’re not prepared for  a pandemic that way.

Like... I read everyone talk about the panic buyer making it much more of a problem than it is. And while it’s true, it’s overshadowing that this is a Bad Situation, that we know nothing of that virus and it’s scary, and that the gov’s quarantine had been rushed into so much no one knows how to organize themselves around it. 

For now it’s planned for 15 days. god knows how long it will take.

I, asthmatic currently sick with issues breathing, am stuck back with my mom who smokes all the time at home. Both quarantined. I feel lowkey cursed tbh. For years i tried to escape my family, dealing with all the issues that goes with it, and when i finally manage to do so, i get two lawsuits up my ass bc my dad is a douche and then my residence closes up bc of a massive sickness forcing me to go back to my mom’s. 

I don’t know how to focus on my classes bc the organization is chaotic. I’m scared hearing the news. I have trouble breathing all day and while i know it’s nothing, i remain anxious. I don’t know how long i’m gonna stand my mom. Internet gets slower bc of the influx of people locked home to work. 

i don’t care much for being quarantined itself, i can spend days in my home without problems. I don’t like being stuck with my mom and i just don’t like how we’ve been pushed into it in a complete lack of preparation for it. 

I miss my home. 

And it’s just France. Italy and Spain have been in those situations for a while too. 

In a way that makes me even more angry that they didn’t take precaution before while the Italian gov had been warning us for weeks to be careful and take stuff into account before it’s too late. And we still waited, and we still rushed, and now we will blame everyone who is not understanding how thhe gov went from “it’s only a little flu don’t worry, keep going with your life just wash your hands” to “how irresponsable are you not to be in quarantine” in two days. You wonder then why people are panic buying, it’s not like the gov did any work to be crystal clear about the situation. You wonder people are being careless, a couple of days ago they were still told they had no reason to worry and to look down on those who panics.

EDIT: and lmao, i have been saying those stuff for weeks, for about two weeks i say it should have been taken into account, and my mom was pro-keeping-the-mayor-election-going (bc she wuld perhaps get a job out of it) and i told her then i thought it was a very bad idea to keep them going. My mom tried to convince me about how noooo, it was fiiine, we had to have those municipals anyway, “if people can go grocery shopping they can go vote” as our prime minister said, which i found horrifying (buying good is vital, electing a mayor can wait). And my mom kept insisting that it was important. And now, everyone says it was a bad idea to carry them on. Our own election house didn’t take any health precaution. Even my mom is saying “it was a bad idea.” Call me Cassandra bc i Keep Telling Them This Is Gonna Happen and no one ever listen to me and Too Bad. Ffs.

This is a mess of a situation. It’s making me extra anxious. 

But well that’s how it is now I guess. Sighs.

[gobstoppr]

hhhhh gamers i replayed deltarune ch2 for the first time in a while and . HHHHHHHHHH. i beat spamton neo not long ago and im still just . recovering from it. this fucked up crumple paper bag of a man makes me INSANE.

the scene right when hes about to fight you and it dawns on him that hes still not free like he hoped . OUHGHHH. theres so much anger. so much desperation. the instantly lashing out , immidieatly grabbing the smallest thread of a solution . he has no reason to believe that getting kris' soul will get him the result he wants. but the neo suit has been the ONE thing he thought would help him become powerful, become free, whatever that might actually mean to him. he chased this shit for years. he didnt think he would ever actually get this far. but then he does. and it doesnt work. so he tries to grasp at the first thing he can think of. a goal to chase. hes constantly a mess in his dialogue, hes got multiple motivations (as much as he might genuinely want/need people in his life again, he still also wants to make a quick buck while he can. try to very unsubtley twist the situation to his favor) and so then ESPECIALLY while hes full of so many conflicting feelings of helplessness. anger. fear. he NEEDS to have something to try to focus on.

he wants to think he can still maintain control over something. over his situation. over the mess hes gotten into. he NEEDS to believe he can still have control over it all. even if that directly contradicts the very thing hes fighting for.

and even still . with just how much fucking,,,, emotions are packed into this character, even this single moment,,

hes still just . this tiny fucked up beast of man. this ugly mess of a creature. this 2 inch tall bastard with iconic lines like "hey every !!" and "click here for hot singles in my "

hes the worst i love him hes a hopeless mess and i hope he explodes 🥺

[angrelysimpping]

Whitney having a wet dream and moaning your name. That is hot. How embarrassed and faux angry he'd be when he woke up. Less so if you clean him up. Or just tease him mercilessly and fuel that embarrassed anger until he flips you into the mattress, maybe shoves your face into the wet patch and just pounds the fuck out of you, it's your fault, you made him make this mess, now clean it up

hhhhhhhhhh

Whitney waking up, your name still on his lips as he grinds into the mattress.

Not sure what's worse, the fact that he was moaning your name in his sleep or that you're awake, that you've been watching him.

You could probably somewhat dom Whitney at this moment, to be honest. He's still a bit foggy from waking up, you could get him writhing under your touch if you do it right.

Going down on him, making him whine at the sudden warmth of your mouth. His hands twisting into your hair. Your name on his lips like a prayer when he cums. Leave him panting and flushed.

When he recovers, he's quick to flip the situation. He refuses to let you leave the bed until he's made sure you know that this won't be a common thing.

Or you could be a brat.

Could tease him until his anger burns through the haze of sleep that still hangs over him. Until he reminds you that your mouth has better uses and straddles your head.

Alternatively

Whitney waking up to realize he's been grinding against your leg.

He's absolutely mortified, face going completely red as his eyes meet yours.

Tries to recover by grabbing your hips and pulling you flush against him, making you grind on him.

Ends with you two grinding on each other, Whitney panting into your neck as he cums. If you haven't gotten off? He's delving down to give you head. Like hell he's not going to make you scream his name after all that.

Wants you to be a whimpering mess by the time he's done. Maybe then you'll forget how this all started.

[tsumucore]

imagine all the setters (aka pretty setter squad) becoming a complete mess when it comes to their crush. i’m talking stuttering, tripping, awkwardly trying to start conversations, ect. the teams don’t say anything because they want them to date them on their own account (also because it’s funny seeing the usually put together setter to “i hope day have a good you- I MEAN I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY!).

THIS IS SUCH A CONCEPT!!! imagine… kageyama.exe has stopped working as hinata and tsukishima make fun of him behind his back cos the third years ordered them not to say anything to him abt it… I would also want to see oikawa and atsumu in this situation cos just imagine them bluSHING furiously and trying to pretend everything’s fine and they’re still cool after they literally tripped over a ball, knocked over objects, and jumped a chair with the energy of a track star trying to get to their crush so they could open the door for them lmaoo.. and don’t even get me started on akaashi…… he wouldn’t show it but he’d be dying on the inside and he doesn’t outwardly blush but you’d be able to tell how much he was actually loathing himself in the moment cos the tips of his ears would be red HHHHHHHHHH  

[tfw-no-tennis]

mtmte liveblog issue 6

and onto issue 6, aka, Oh God Everyone Here Needs Therapy, Including The Therapist

rung already having a bad time on the cover i see

i mean, saying that kinda implies that rung ever STOPPED having a bad time, which is untrue so far in this comic

poor fort max :(

maybe lets NOT bring mnemosurgery into this whole mess, there's an idea!

i like the detail of fort max’s grip on the bed thing causing it to crumble

godddd lmao i love chromedome’s goofy skill of being able to tell who someone is by them transforming 

and his anecdote about rewind, which comes back later in hilarious fashion

tailgate hvgbshdfjsadf ‘is this a good place to sit down and die?’ i love him 

drift saving tailgate from magnus with some dumb hippy nonsense...love it

tailgate is so nice to cyclonus even tho cyclonus has been p much only mean to him....tg such a good boi

CYCLONUS YOURE GONNA REGRET TELLING TG TO ‘DROP DEAD’ IN T-MINUS A COUPLE DOZEN ISSUES OR SO. 

skids’s comment about ultra magnus is easy to dismiss as sarcasm but what if he actually knew a different magnus???? i cant remember the timeline w/that v well but that would be interesting 

tailgate is so fuckgin funny god 

IS SWERVE BEING ARRESTED HVBHDSJKHFBHSJDKF I FORGOT THIS HAPPENED

OH GOD POOR PIPES HE WASNT EVEN THE ONE TALKING SHIT....that guy has the worst luck

i see brainstorm cowering in the hallway there...nice touch

god i love whirl. hes so abrasive and so good at pushing peoples buttons, but its also interesting that we didn't see the leadup to the current situation, which resulted in what we see now - aka rung restrained but uninjured, and whirl all beat up. whirls doing a pretty good job keeping the attention on him at least 

oof this whole thing is so brutal. Its Good Writing

rodimus blease don't argue w/the guy whos having a psychotic episode and holding people hostage

i love the detail of rodimus hating to be called hot rod - I'm assuming bc it reminds him of the days when he was more immature, before he was Important and Special 

ooooof rungs thumb. owwww

god i love ratchets remark about brainstorm claiming he tried to stop fort max, when we clearly saw earlier that he did the exact opposite. i love brainstorm sooo much

hhhhhh the reveal that the reason max targeted those guys was cause of their paint colors - and how they look like overlord 

god i love whirl vbhskdjfbjaskfj

rung upholding hipaa, good job 

godddd i love whirls whole story, its so fascinating and tragic 

meanwhile rewind and swerve are hangin out, riveting some stuff, yknow how it is

i ufckgin love how swerve is like ‘i can keep a secret! [reveals a secret]’ and yet rewind proceeds to tell him abt the snuff films like, immediately

and damn rewind is hardcore. i mean i know you find out later why he wanted that footage but still 

seriously whirls backstory is so nuanced and interesting, and like, layered with politics and implications and GAH i love it 

also, i see that reference to A Certain Prisoner....

lmao oh my god rung PLEASE....that's so fucking sad dude. its literally that meme 

someone: ok imagine you’re being held hostage and your thumb gets ripped out and then your friend-

rung, in tears: a...a friend? 

ok wait a sec what is whirl even impaled on. cause it kinda looks like one of his own arms which is uhhh fucked

yeah it looks like one of whirls claws is missing....jesus

the contrast between max being like OK TIME FOR SOMEONE TO DIE and rewind and swerves lil heads peeking thru the window

rewind is that one guy whos not down with the murder 

OOOOF THE PROJECTION. BRUTAL 

rung is so good :( 

ooof and then they tell swerve to shoot max anyways...ouch

aaaand then he blows up rungs head, and whirl impaled max. way to go team!

THE OVERLORD REVEAL ALWAYS GETS ME HHHHHHHHHH THATS SOOO FUCKED JESUSSSSS

You’re In For A  Bad Time Gang

phewwww, this one was heavy! we got lots of lore and character stuff, and we got a tease for one of the series big plot points - overlord. plus, rung just died. or did he....? guess we’ll find out next time!

[mx-bright-sky]

So I feel like talking about one of my AUs right now, cause I just have a lot of feelings;

So, Izuku and Shoto swapping places AU.

For explanation, because just saying "they're swapped" isnt enough I guess

Shoto is a Midoriya, and has no quirk, and is Inko's son

And "vice versa", because I cant bring myself to think about Izuku in this situation yet so just put a pin in that thought, we'll come back to that later

SO, SHOTO MIDORIYA

Shoto is generally more well off than he was as a Todoroki

Bakugou still gives him shit because he's quirkless,

But Shoto is like immune to Bakugou being a jackass, and he has Inko looking out for him, and he's got heroes to look up to, so in general he's having a better time

Still has a resting bitch face, but is actually the softest boy ever and when people are intimidated by him it makes him confused

Also; SHOTO WITH FRECKLES, HHHHHHHH

Obviously hes got the green hair and green eyes too

He's even more plain than Canon Izuku because he doesn't even have curly hair

Very deadpan sense of humor

He's not quite as analytical as Canon Izuku, but Shoto sure does try his best

(Sadness ahead) because Shoto is less reactive to verbal threats, Bakugou resorts to violent means more often

Good Mom Inko is a Good Mom

Shoto,,, ggood green boy

Gets OFA, too, of course, Dad Might Is King

He's definitely still reckless, but less self sacrificing

In canon, his hero costume gets some support gear on it for first aid and stuff, so you know he would think of that, right?

What i'm saying is, instead of breaking his limbs all the time, he uses support items until he can control OFA

Support items like A TASER

First training exercise:

Bakugou: HAHA DAMN NERD I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS-

Shoto: *Tases him*

All Might: ,,, BAKUGOU IS OUT

Uraraka: ,,,,,,Why do you have a taser?

Shoto: Because I can.

Just,,, give him a taser. Itll solve all the problems.

And now

Oof.

Real angst.

Because Shoto gets to be happy but UHHHHHHHHH

Izuku Todoroki, with Half-Hot/Half-Cold,,,, and the dumpsterfire,,,,,, THAT MAKES ME SAD

IZUKU IS JUST SUCH A GOOD BOY AND IT HURTS TO THINK ABOUT THIS AAAAAAA

I mean seriously, think about any of Izu's habits?

Dumpsterfire would hate ALL OF THEM

Mumbling? Crying? Loving All Might? Dumpsterfire would despise literally all of that and it makes me sad for poor Izuku

When dumpsterfire finds out that Izuku is actually pretty analytical, he pushes him into doing it even more, so Izuku cant even really enjoy his analysis now and it's more of a chore than a hobby

A little less sad; just,, his hair. Is such a mess.

Dumpsterfire: yoU FIX YOUR HAIR YOUNG MAN-

Izuku: *messes up his hair further* no

HIS HAIR LOOKS LIKE MELTED STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM BECAUSE IT DOES NOT SPLIT NEATLY DOWN THE MIDDLE LIKE SHOTO'S

Also, after the Sports Festival, he just becomes,,, so friendly. Very friendly boy.

If we're following the Dabi is a Todoroki theory here, "Touya" gives Izuku the nickname Deku, and thEN IN THE TRAINING CAMP ARC, DABI SAYS, "How sad... Deku."

Hhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Izuku looks up to Shoto because of the Sports Festival, like how things go in canon, but Shoto looks up to Izuku a lot too because even after everything that's happened with him, he still smiles really brightly and Shoto just thinks that's amazing

((Sadness again,)) because Izuku has a relationship that's so much worse with the dumpsterfire in this AU, there's often talk like "If it werent for your quirk I would disown you" "JUST DISOWN ME ALREADY" and so when All Might retires and basically makes it so the dumpsterfire's plan to overthrow All Might can never happen,,,,,, HHHHHHHHHHH

Inko adopts him after that, and Izuku is actually happy because he doesnt have to deal with the dumpsterfire anymore, but hes also very worried about his siblings

They come and check on him all the time too

Just Had Another Thought(TM): ,,,Izuku is tiny,,, and Shoto is tol,,,,, so just- the Sports Festival drama. Is so much more funny to me. Because SMOL IS READY TI THROW DOWN WITH TOL. Intimidating smol boy.

Also

Class A: aw, he's so small and cute, how does his quirk work???

Izuku: *freezes the entire building in the first training exercise*

Class A: ,,, Ah

That's all I got for now, feel free to come into my ask box and as questions. Please.

[bethsreverseharem]

Heyso if I’m an enabler then what do you think of 🙊 finally mustering up the courage to say something heartfelt to you, but it turns out you hadn’t heard him. So now he’s this awkward, flustered mess that can’t decide between sputtering to repeat himself or dropping the subject

FirST OF ALL HOW DARE HDHHSHSHhhhhhHHHHHHH Second of all I,,,,,,,,will attempt to elaborate on this situation because boy I die.

OK so he'd probably try to drop the subject fast, because he probably thinks that I'm joking about not hearing him or something. He'd probably get all grumpy about it like (its OK because like hhHHHHhhhh he's really cute when hes grumpy :]) but after a while of badgering he'd probably confess, if just to get me to shut up. Headcanon (yes you must receive at least one per ask because I can't shut up lol) that he has a hard time expressing genuine emotion and like. It takes a l o t of bothering (and affection 😳) before he even considers confessing.

I'd probably be the first to confess tho, on accident becuase I have a hard time thinking before I speak so. Me accidentally letting it slip that i love him despite his eccentric appearance and fuckt up personality 😳

[tfw-no-tennis]

mtmte liveblog issue 14

oh boy Here We Go, its time to die

ngl I've been putting this off bc I'm not ready to be destroyed hhhhhh

oh god. overlords giant fuckgin face on the cover. I regret everything

ohhh some good ole functionist flashbacks 

is this momus the same guy as senator momus from the shadowplay stuff? lemme say...class traitor

and then some garrus 9 flashbacks, ft chromedome’s snarky interjections. my man you are Not gonna be on the ups much longer oh lord

this is reminding me that I really do need to read the wreckers stuff

chromedome, stop posing jauntily, I'm trying to prepare myself for emotional devastation and you aren't helping 

cd bringin that emo theater kid energy

and here's megatron! well, flashback megatron, but still

megatrons head looks so fuckin weird there

love the thematic (and extremely plot relevant) use of ‘til all are one’ here

WHY is megatrons bucket helmet removable. I hate it 

also overlord is so big gay for megatron its unbelievable 

the name ‘heretech’ is A Lot lmao. right up there w/rigor morphis in the puns category

cd hhhhh this is why you don't talk to your captives in this sort of situation...even to make snappy comebacks, but especially not to TELL HIM YOUR PLAN....now overlords all worked up over megs being alive and yall are screwed

ah, some good old weird birth/re-birth vibes going on here, classic jro

like he literally tells megatron ‘congratulations...its a superwarrior’ god hvbdkhjfbjsf what is it w/jro and pregnancy/birth/reproduction themes

but also like I Kinda Get It bc that IS a pretty intriguing thing to explore w/an alien species like the transformers, who are living machines...ok ill strap on my biologist boots later and get into that when its more relevant lmao 

cd is breathtakingly un-genre savvy here. my man you should have never gotten involved in this oof

overlords weird ab guns are weird

uh no! now overlord is in the drivers seat, and smiling unsettlingly with his creepy lips

its brainstorm!!! I love him

SOUNDWAVE I love soundwave sm he’s just the coolest and best

is that trepan that overlord grabbed? I'm assuming it must be but I have a terrible memory for these things so I don't really remember what he looks like lmao

IS THAT PHARMA

also damn cd rlly b out here committing war crimes/crimes against humanity (crimes against cybertronians? that phrase doesn't really carry over well). the fact that the secret government lobotomy & brainwashing labs populated the ‘good guys’ side is....hhhhhhwow

cant believe cd’s real name is tumblr 

also I love the misdirection from cd not disclosing his ‘real’ name, which leads the reader to think that he’s secretly a different established/important character...but nope!

ahhhh and the reversal of cd and overlords positions in-panel so we can tell that Things Have Gone Terribly Wrong even before we zoom out to see cd in the chair instead of overlord...nice

love how prowl & co made up the whole ‘whiteout vacuum’ thing to lie to the people about overlord...yall really do be breaking moral laws left and right huh

the continuing hilarity of prowl referring to rewind as chromedomes ‘friend’ despite knowing full well they're married...and now that it’s been revealed in-story that they’re married, its just str8 up funny instead of funny AND meta 

is tarn a phase sixer???? genuinely I don't remember lmao

I feel like I could write an essay abt how interesting it is that prowl is so insistent on figuring out the whole phase sixer puzzle and making autobot phase sixers, despite the war being over (and with the autobots having won it, too). like, that's yet another fascinating psychological reaction to the never-ending civil war ending

and the way that prowl is able to rope multiple people into this scheme, which shows that he’s not the only one who thinks that way

aw, bumblebee still has a few morals, unlike most of the rest of anyone. too bad it certainty didn't help anyone in the case of repairing overlord

like, cd is RIGHT, they don't need their own phase sixers - and especially cause like...they won against the cons without any phase sixers already, so whos to say they cant win again the same way? smh prowl 

god I love the exchange here....prowl subtly threatening chromedome, while also calling cd his friend and probably meaning it genuinely, and chromedome looming menacingly over prowl then pinning him down and messing with his head...ooooof. 

also that panel of cd shadowplaying prowl and prowls face is just super blank...sinister as hell, i love it

also also, I'm actually really glad that that plot thread of ‘cd was complicit in what happened to dominus and rewind doesn't know’ didn't end up happening

I also find it a little funny that this very intriguing scene didn't end up going anywhere in mtmte, but from what I've heard the whole ‘cd rearranged prowl’s brains’ thing had big consequences for prowl in exrid or w/e, which is interesting

brainstorm wearing a version of perceptors targeting reticle eye thing...hello....

also I like the fact that they subtly establish when this is taking place by showing brainstorm working on the humansonas, which means this was before the last issue 

drift brainstorm chromedome shaking hands meme: making stupid decisions bc they listening to prowl for some reason

drift, this is Not the way you should be going about showing your dedication to the autobot cause

brainstorm is on a totally different wavelength than cd and drift hvbfdskhfdskjf brainstorm is just here to have a good time and maybe cause some chaos

the tablet saying ‘project: end in tears’ TOO REAL the tears are from ME. AUGH

hhhhhhhhhh the fact that cd did all of this bc he wanted to protect rewind from the war maybe restarting....ouch :( love makes you do stupid things sometimes

I cant get over how h*rny overlord looks...like I cant even describe it, its not necessarily that overlord himself is h*rny, or even that he’s drawn h*rny in the sense that he’s sexy or provocative...he just has those Vibes. this makes no sense except in my head ok

overlord escaped....no way! who could've seen that coming! probably anyone with a brain who isn't blinded by trauma and/or a misplaced sense of duty/love....Ls

AND HERE’S OVERLORD, READY TO FUCK EVERYTHING UP. GODDD

never over the panel of overlord grinning maniacally and cracking his knuckles with the text ‘next: massacre!’ cheerily overlaid 

GODDD this issue god....I mean we haven't gotten to the soul-destroying parts yet but this stuff is so intriguing...the nuance is THERE! and this is basically what we’ve been building up to for all of mtmte so far, and Oh Boy is it gonna be a big one, you can just tell....

[icharchivist]

I think the thing that makes it hard to swallow for me that the Rite of Tranquility could have been reversed all along is that it's such a big deal in the previous games, especially in da2. There is a sort of just downright horror to the idea that it is a decision taken to completely destroy a mage's humanity on an external Order's judgement (a judgement that can go from justified to abuse pretty easily). Especially after da2's quest with that one guy who wanted to make all mages Tranquils to control them better and had a lot of rapey stuff around it.

Not to mention........... Wait actually.............. I was thinking - Karl. Anders's friend who was made Tranquil. The thing is that, there is something horrible with the fact that he was made Tranquil. It was a catalyst for Anders. He will get mad at you if you think about sparing Karl because living as a Tranquil is even more of a torture, and it's killing Anders that the best for Karl is to kill him. But as I was thinking of that I just remembered - Karl regained his emotions when Justice came out. Even for a short time. The explaination at the time was that it was a piece of Fade so close to a Tranquil where they shouldn't be able to get it anymore, that would reactivate their emotions for a bit - but now knowing that the Rite of Tranquility can be inversed by a touch of Faith, and knowing htat - would any other spirit work? Even for an instant? Because game are you making me consider that if he had known better and we could have analysed the situation properly, Anders could have actually done something to heal Tranquility? Or at least help for an instant???

I was thinking maybe it might be too much to suggest - because in a way it's so fatalyst that the Rite couldn't be inversed, it brings a lot of weight to it. But now that i'm thinking about it that way, it could be logical and even more horrible to consider about how far Anders was ready to go and yet he couldn't have known that. Hell, apparently the secret about it broke around the accident of Kirkwall. Things may have turned out differently. Holy fuck. (Istg I will end up putting in my tapestry in the Vigil's keep that Anders survived bc I refuse to live in a future in which Anders can't see that. Because in a case it's even more tragic for him. I need to see that.)

But ye, then again - Tranquility can be used on Non-Mage, which is kinda frightening. I hadn't considered that before but can make sense. But that breaking it can bring abilities, it probably would change a mage who is broken from Tranquility. And that..... Oh dear.

Then there's the ethical implications: Not even letting the Seekers know they were made Tranquil is fucked up, and it seems a bit counter productive, but at the same time it does keep in tone with all we know of those sorts of Orders. .......... And since the Seekers are above the Templars it does make feel like the Templar addiction to Lyrium is manifactured to create a more mindless army, if their supperiors are able to get the same kind of abilities from practice with less side effects known.

God. What a mess.

Okay I admit I wasn't buying it completely when I started writting this textposts but laying down my ideas there, I can see it. I can buy it. But I really hope there's something to be talked about and addressed later there because it can be really interesting if well treated. Hhhhhhhhhh