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I can't stop thinking about them, so woe, StarOp shipping manifesto be upon you.

Part of the appeal is obvious, I mean my god, give Starscream a happy ending one time, challenge level: impossible. Take the abused feral cat and give him to the person with the most capacity for kindness, let Starscream be validated one time and watch him unravel. Yes. But I have a pathological need to go deeper. I'm not here to fix Starscream, I'm here for him to make Optimus worse.

Because let's be real Optimus is so messed up. He's riddled with guilt, he's crushed by the weight of leadership, he feels every single mistake and death he caused (or believes he caused). He sees exile or death as his only way out, and that's usually exactly what he gets. Sacrifice, death, resurrection, death again.

Both Starscream and Optimus are stuck in these horrible cycles of abuse and martyrdom and to me, the ship is about releasing both of them from those cycles.

With Starscream, he sees power as his only road to safety/security/control over his own life, but he also sees violence and cruelty as the only ways to assert power because that's the only way power was ever asserted over him (hi Megatron). So he perpetuates this cycle and pays the price for it, but what if someone showed him that power can be kind and gentle? Who embodies that more than Optimus? Who has created an entire base of support around people who love him rather than fear him. Just the idea of someone touching Starscream without the intent to hurt or control is probably so foreign, but it's possible and Optimus is the guy for that.

And Optimus, the chronic martyr. Throw him at the guy who literally refuses to die. Even death can't kill Starscream. He's a cockroach. He has such disdain for authority. He'll treat Optimus like just any other mech out of sheer stubbornness and that's exactly what poor OP needs. Someone who can let him exist free of his burdens, who can give this man some goddamn will to live.

Moreover, loving Starscream is a selfish act for Optimus, there's really no scenario where it isn't. It's something that goes against the image of what he's "supposed" to be, loving someone so irredeemable, who has hurt the Autobots so badly. But how healing would it be for Optimus to have something that's just his own? Independent of his role as God's Chosen Special Guy, he gets a relationship independent of (and really in spite of) the job thrust upon him.

Both Optimus and Starscream struggle under the weight of leadership at different points in their many, many narratives and they each need what the other has. Optimus needs Starscream's selfishness and sense of self-preservation, Starscream needs Optimus' capacity for trust and understanding. They're not fixing each other, they're not making each other worse, they're making each other more whole, breaking the cycle, uniting two very different but necessary approaches to power. They're escaping their ordained narrative downfalls. Free my man from the samsara!

And I think they should kiss about that. Like a lot.

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Thank you again!!

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[ Calyx, art trade with @ravenpie52 ]

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i love twilight and her eight million wives

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Do me a favour and reblog this with a show you like that was cancelled after only one season. I don't mean shows that were always meant to be miniseries or shows that work perfectly well as a standalone story, or shows that might still get renewed. I mean shows that are and will forever remain unfinished. The more obscure the better.

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Chat they made Minecraft into a silly goofy cringe movie even through Minecraft is actually about life and earth and the universe and tearing meaning out of the ground and molding it with your hands into something that you can be proud of. They made the pink sheep look ugly and funny for a cheap laugh when it should’ve been a beautiful moment where you, age eleven, come across this rarity, this beautiful anomaly and you hold its face in your hands and stare into its chocolate brown eyes and you realize what the whole world is about. Chat they made it into a joke

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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thinking about how well written horror really needs that human element to it, or like, this touch of connection between people. like theres a TRAGEDY involved, not even in a making you care about the characters way but its to like actually add depth, or spice, or whatever to the horror cuz it cant be horror if there isnt that defilement of the regular or the safety or the known? and that human element THAT is what adds to its weight.

like a sibling bond that gets torn apart or a few peoples closeness is their own undoing or someone's inability to move on from grief or idk, a family falling onto hard times or like someone feeling protective of their friends like there needs to BE something there, horror can't just be scary or it wont make you FEEL like, its gotta also be kinda SAD you know??? right?? right?!

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I legit forgot that it was an eon early I was only counting backwards to how far ago humans were probably made and didn't add on HOW early it was addjkfkfsfkahjkf numbers are my enemy.

Thinking about XiangLiu and like, I don't think enough of a deal has been made about what he went through. Dude went through the near equivalent of a Flowey corruption arc and still came out of it just wanting to leave and make sort of a difference while doing so.

He was trapped within cycles that EACH lasted thousands of years, give or take what the lore would say about the age of everything. He went through repeats and repeats, each with slight changes but still fundamentally similar. That SUCKS man!!!! Insane mental torture that you wouldn't BELIEVE! The fact that he REMEMBERS it all? Horrifying. His obsession with escaping control makes so much sense.

I honestly find him to be of the more interesting villains of the show. He doesn't have a grand design of conquering or wiping things clean to remake how he wants it. He just wants OUT. And honestly, that's so sympathetic compared to everyone else. And on his way out, he frees MK early and lets him grow up and have a proper life for once? After watching him sacrifice himself over and over, like, right when he hatches? That's based.

LBD has been considered the best villain, and I agree that she had the best emotional impact on MK in particular and was given a lot of time to fester. Yet, I've frankly always thought that LBD's plan was extremely flawed and shortsighted. Yes, the idea of bringing everything to nothingness so that pain no longer exists is a fascinating motivation. But she also intended to build it all back up somehow? She wanted a reset, not total entropy. But like, would she even have been able to DO that? Absolutely none of her powerset implied creation. How was she even planning on pulling that off? It's bothered me for years now. It would have been stronger if she craved nothingness and not beyond that.

Anyways, I think that XiangLiu, how little we got of him, made a great impression and can be ranked up with LBD, purely with the narrative strength of how he formed and utilized his motivation.

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If y'all have rare tags and are using them to mark stuff, it's your solemn duty to stick around on a shared dive so that others can grab them.

I stg, if I see another tag I don't have and get close, only for the person to leave, I'm gonna McFreaking Lose It.

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Thinking about XiangLiu and like, I don't think enough of a deal has been made about what he went through. Dude went through the near equivalent of a Flowey corruption arc and still came out of it just wanting to leave and make sort of a difference while doing so.

He was trapped within cycles that EACH lasted thousands of years, give or take what the lore would say about the age of everything. He went through repeats and repeats, each with slight changes but still fundamentally similar. That SUCKS man!!!! Insane mental torture that you wouldn't BELIEVE! The fact that he REMEMBERS it all? Horrifying. His obsession with escaping control makes so much sense.

I honestly find him to be of the more interesting villains of the show. He doesn't have a grand design of conquering or wiping things clean to remake how he wants it. He just wants OUT. And honestly, that's so sympathetic compared to everyone else. And on his way out, he frees MK early and lets him grow up and have a proper life for once? After watching him sacrifice himself over and over, like, right when he hatches? That's based.

LBD has been considered the best villain, and I agree that she had the best emotional impact on MK in particular and was given a lot of time to fester. Yet, I've frankly always thought that LBD's plan was extremely flawed and shortsighted. Yes, the idea of bringing everything to nothingness so that pain no longer exists is a fascinating motivation. But she also intended to build it all back up somehow? She wanted a reset, not total entropy. But like, would she even have been able to DO that? Absolutely none of her powerset implied creation. How was she even planning on pulling that off? It's bothered me for years now. It would have been stronger if she craved nothingness and not beyond that.

Anyways, I think that XiangLiu, how little we got of him, made a great impression and can be ranked up with LBD, purely with the narrative strength of how he formed and utilized his motivation.

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Add in extreme heat and cold and this is perfectly accurate

(the mixing bowls are stupid large, please help all of our backs)

Oc bake shop meme.

Forgot to add back pain on here but it's implied.

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oh ya btw I've been employed for over a month now LOL never said anything.

I'm a certified baker in a cake shop uh, wasn't expecting it, but its the life I now live.

Good luck reading my hieroglyphics, if you know, you know.

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Had to draw this fella immediately as it is a New Favorite.

The sprite was begging for a propeller hat.

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Ok it's been years but I'm still very firm on my stance that there are not NEARLY enough fics diving into how horrific it is that 9th sealed part of what was essentially Tsuna's soul as a toddler

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*knocks on our collective fandom tombstone* pspspspspss

Here's a little bit of food! I plan on making some more but I need to rewatch seasons 3-4 to familiarize myself with the episode details. I've rewatched the second half of the show fewer times than the first half so it's less memorized.

I also am VERY tempted to compile a video of all Taz scenes since skimming through the first two seasons has reignited my interest in the lizard friend. Let me know if you want that. <3

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Can a brother in arms hit me up with video files of season 5 in english (With good quality)? I need them for amvs.

Thank you soooo much for anyone who responds!! Edit: Some people have replied, thanks all!! <3

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Y'all gotta stop tagging the cheap salvage, seriously.

I only tag stuff that's worth at least around 600p, why are people tagging wooden rings and rusty pipes, come on guys.

Don't make me swim over to a present or a crown tag and have it only be 200p, we can do better y'all.