#and the haunting what could have been me

[ao3wasntenough]

The absolute sadness the engulfs me when I think about a Sam who was never told the autobots were distancing themselves from humans. One day waking up to see all traces of the bots gone. To hear the news call them decepticons and terrorists. To see the world forget them as he desperately rallies against local and government officials and forces to find his friends. Being shown ratchets and Bumblees supposed deaths. Ultimately feeling as insane as his ancestor…

To just giving up and being taken by another shadow company doing evil with stolen cybertronian tech, bodies anything they can find of the aliens and keeping Sam like a specimen or trophy.

To Sam being laughed at and mocked about was any of this even real? Or legitimate? Or did his parents sign him over to an insane asylum of nightmares.



To him watching one day as the facility lights up in alarm and sirens. Watching as three kids run by his box, maybe they see him, maybe they don’t. Maybe one sees him and thinks him a ghost from an old photo he found swept into a corner crevice. Listening to the kids fading voices that “the autobots have to be just outside right? They had to set off the power!”.

But maybe he didn’t watch as Jack raf and Miko ran to an escape he only saw when the building began collapsing…

But some universe was kinder and killed him before he knew a life like that of the allspark he destroyed. Trapped in a cube as the world around changed to burning and dying.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

jin guangshan and lan qiren yaoi perhaps? since their shapes create a perfect balance?

Two old men perform worlds first successful 96.

[andrewminyardslawyer]

Do you ever long for the Dreamer Trilogy that could have been? If the publisher let Maggie do what she wanted? Like she said the whole moderator thing was not the plan. What was?? Ache for what would have happened if people hadn't been so weird and horrible about Adam for years to that point that she doesn't even want to mention his name? If people hadn't posted her address online and went to her house to yell at her over how she wrote TRC? I do, every single day

[rustpuppy]

[brocedestruther]

My mother doesn't hug me. she doesn't know what to do with me.

my father has the kind of anger all fathers do; loud and terrible. it lingers for your whole life.

you robbed me of my life. i could’ve been human, i could've been alive, but you took my heart and you murdered it. you made me into this.

the blood on my face didn't make me brave, it only made me hurt. i was full of rage and he didn't ask why. he didn't even notice.

i have a very childlike rage, a childlike loneliness.

You are allowed to grieve over the child you could've been.

[kacievvbbbb]

Super silly but I’m picturing a scenario where Shanks can’t really read all that well (raised by pirates etc) but he still figures out Mihawk’s little hobby and then becomes Determined to Get Better so he can keep up with the smut. Benn is like oh finally, you’re actually putting some effort into this, good, and then immediately regrets everything when shanks tries to persuade him to use Mihawk’s books for his reading lessons

No not silly at all! That’s not a headcannon I have but I can definitely see how it’s so popular Shanks doesn’t not look like he was the “education” type when he was young so I can defiently see him not knowing how to read.

And I am obsessed with the idea that his main motivation for learning how to read is so he can keep up with Mihawk’s smut publishing. I love it so much! Like he had no interest in learning how to properly read he could get on fine and Benn was always there but the moment he finds out that Mihawk is publishing smut? About them? He has to get on that’s hit immediately. That’s his new favorite hobby he is constantly buying books his crew is soooo confused.

Benn who has previously offered and encouraged Shanks yo learn is initially ecstatic but then he sees just what shanks is so excited about reading and god these fucking freaky dorks (Mihawk & Shanks) need to stop dragging him into their fucking foreplay. He is also very exasperated by just how much he features in these books and very wary of Shanks’ idea look he can see forming. (He’s not opposed to joining in but he also knows that those two weirdos have never been direct about emotions a day in their lives and so are going to go about enticing him in the weirdest most exhibitionist way possible.)

He does like to see how slightly jealous and turned on Shanks gets when Mihawk’s reader is fucking different pirates tho.

[perenians]

oh merrill...

[cheemken]

Some Vertin thoughts I have, but do you ever think she and Matilda had this talk after seeing each other again?

I always imagine Vertin just coming up to her and hugging her, and Matilda being so flustered tried to push her away until she feels Vertin shaking like a leaf. Vertin's trying so hard to talk to her, saying she was so glad, so so glad Matilda backed out during the breakaway plan, cause she can't handle the thought of losing Matilda that night too

I think there's so much unexplored potential for these two. Like yeah, Sonetto regretted letting Vertin and the others go that night, but do you think it haunts Matilda too? That maybe she could've tried to talk them out of it, maybe then she and Vertin would still have their friends around

[cryptiduni]

“white mourning.”

[thousand-winters]

I think everyday about Dana saying they were meaning to include more Darius stuff, I think straight up one episode about him? Before the show got shortened.

Digging my own grave over this. I miss him so badly, why did Disney do this, why didn't they allow my man to flourish in all his beauty. HE'S SUCH A FOIL TO BELOS, THE MAIN VILLAIN, AND FOR WHAT. CHEWING ON GLASS.

[divorcedwife]

going to read wuthering heights chapter 3 and 4 today :-) im intentionally limiting myself so i don't read it in one sitting and can enjoy it more. heathcliff sobbing for catherine to come haunt him, and her not doing that... i feel like i need to draw five illustrations for this scene alone. god it's so good

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

There's nothing he can't do. Yet.

(Thank you to everyone who participated in the poll!)

[longagoitwastuesday]

I have learnt things about Geto that I wish I could unlearn

[cowchickenbeefpork]

Every day I am haunted by the fact the Saw franchise would've been a masterpiece if they focused on the cult themes in Jigsaw and his apprentices. it doesn't matter if morality the movies preach make no sense, it was created to prey on the weak and vulnerable and give them something to believe in

[vaguely-concerned]

it really is hilarious how little objective quality has to do with how much I'll love an RPG. larian makes games that are objectively very good, but don't really resonate with me personally when I play them, for whatever reason. bioware makes games of wildly erratic levels of quality that cause my soul to vibrate at pitches heard only by dolphins and god.

[berenshand]

shakespeare snobs still aren't ready for this conversation but revenge of the sith is the closest western media has to a modern equivalent of a shakespearean tragedy

- entertainment created for mass appeal

- effectively utilizes comic relief despite overall serious tone and/or subject matter

- the audience knows it's a tragedy going in

- utilizes, as shakespeare did, the elements of the greek tragedies which came before him, ie:

- the tragic hero is virtuous but for a fatal flaw

- the audience fears for and roots for the hero despite said flaw and their knowledge that the story is a tragedy

- in his attempts to escape his destiny, the hero unknowingly runs toward it, even brings it about himself

- it's entertainment for the masses even though the masses know it's a tragedy before it even starts