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ive been playing expedition 33

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can I come over and look at you like this

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Just a lil meme edit I cooked up

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nahhh senate got bro 🥀

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mermay is over... time for gay month <333

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i love idw

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“perryshmirtz is problematic because it’s bestiality”: overplayed, kneejerk reaction, demonstrates lack of understanding of the source material

“perryshmirtz is problematic because it’s a professional conflict of interest”: fresh, sexy, demonstrates concern for perry’s career image

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Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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(unofficial) Dratchet art by Jack Lawrence, one of the comic artists of LL.

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A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

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One aspect I love about Optimus is almost every continuity is how much of a paragon he is, it’s like a core part of his character but I feel like so many people brush it off as “unrealistic” or “blind to the truth” or something. Of course, everyone is entitled to their reading, but I feel like it’s such a shame when people try to make Optimus “morally complex” by making him more of a self righteous asshole.

To me, that misses the point - Optimus was chosen to be a Prime because he was worthy of it, and I know not everyone likes that “chosen one” thing but part of why it works for me is because Optimus is the one who can see there’s a better way.

I feel like people are often writing Optimus in fanfic to be ignorant to the evil of the world, or being shown that actually he wasn’t fighting on the side of good all along, or defending a system that he didn’t know was completely corrupt, and that’s interesting but I feel like it misses the crucial aspect that Optimus does know about these things but decides he would rather try to fix the world then destroy it. (I see this especially often in MegOp fics, since it’s a quick and easy way to humanize the Decepticons and Megatron especially, but I feel like it does undermine Optimus’ character sometimes. But I don’t want people to feel bad if they do this, this is more me ranting about my own tastes/interpretation.)

Like G1 Orion was part of the working class, TFO Orion was below the working class, TFP Orion was part of the middle class but joined the cause of those below him because he can’t let injustice go. But they all become a hero because they know there’s a better way that might not always be obvious.

And what makes Optimus interesting to me is seeing him struggle with being a paragon in a world that is dark and messy. He stares into the darkest depths of hate, greed, corruption, and cruelty and was able to stare back and try to make it better. It isn’t easy, but he is willing to face that challenge if it means making the world just a bit better.

He’s a lot like Superman in that way, what makes him interesting is seeing a paragon face the darkest problems and try their best to find the best way possible.

And I would love more fanfics delving into his internal struggle, or how he tries everything he can to make the world better despite it always pushing against him. Stories about him even fighting against his high command to do what is right that none of them think is even possible. Hell, a story about him finding out about Autobot corruption and completely stomping it out and what the rescued Decepticons think of him now.

There are a few stories like this, probably loads I haven’t found or forgot about, but I always am looking for more because it’s always so interesting to me. Optimus is a character I look up to, a comfort character, but also the guy I want to see kicked around by the narrative. I want everything in the world trying to make Optimus cruel or give up his morals, but he spits in their face and calls them a pussy for even suggesting he should ever give up.

Because Optimus always tries to make the world better and do the right thing, because no one else can or will.

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Um. Dont look at me . #yaoi

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