#fuck automatization of functions that shouldn't be automatic

[the-crooked-library]

i am so serious when i say that the popularization of tablets and phones prevents inexperienced users and especially seniors from accessing online services and exploring technology in general. i am so serious

the degree to which they strip the control from the user, rely on automated functions, and sacrifice ease of navigation for sleekness is atrocious. pair that with smaller screens, tendency of heavier websites to freeze or just straight up refuse to open, and you get someone who's online by technicality but can't actually do anything there except go on facebook or some shit

[hydenine]

hey

hey tumblr

hey @staff

why did I only just find out TODAY that if you block someone, it only blocks them from interacting with your main blog... AND THAT THEY CAN STILL SEE AND INTERACT WITH ALL YOUR SIDEBLOGS UNLESS YOU GO INTO EACH OF YOUR SIDEBLOG'S SETTINGS ON DESKTOP AND MANUALLY BLOCK EACH BLOG INDIVIDUALLY THERE TOO??

[minzart]

Beggars can't be choosers (9)

Ao3 - Prev - Next

Decepticons & Reader(GN), Megatron & Reader(GN)

You find an "automatic" tank busted in the middle of the night, and as the good millitar Mechanic that you are, you fix it.

Or, the Decepticons don't have a trained doctor(yet), and you just volunteered as a substitute by their leaders' logic and standards

The rain started to fall in the middle of the night road, alone in it, a lone green truck drives, it's driver listening to the late hours radio station, fighting exhaustion with cans of beer besides him, he takes a sip of one of them and grunts when not a single drop falls out

Then from the corner of his eyes, he spots a figure right in the middle of the road, he honks at them, and when the figure doesn't move the man almost didn't register that he needed to stop. With the screeching of wheels and splash of water he is able to stop just in time, giving the middle finger to the stranger, he screams "Get out of the middle of the road!"

The figure dressed in black pulls out a pistol, and aims at him, for a second the driver doesn't react, and realization hits him, the shame of stupidity gracing his face, he shouldn't have stopped

"Out"

......................

The drops of heavy rain send shivers down your spine, you never though you would actively join in whatever the fuck the decepticons do, but here you are, sneaking in your old work place with a cybertronian in your belt and a stolen truck parked by the hole he punched in the eletric fence

Your job was to patrol around and, hopefully, without being noticed, run back to him so you two could escape without too much of a fuss, so you walk around the facility, the night sky pouring from all around you, dressed in black, covering your face just to be sure

The facility is in full function inside, you hear workers shouting at each other, running around, lantern lights passing inside the facillity from time to time, meaning their intern generator broke, that's convenient to you... probably

The cameras were down, if it were not for the distant murmurs of conversation, this place would look like an abandoned factory. Walking back to where Megatron works his magic, you stop for a bit, observing the absurdity of cybertronian technology in all its glory

He holds a device close to the wall, right where the machines that generate the quinectic energy lie, from the weird contraption you can almost see eletric curents being pulled around it, connecting the thing to inside the machines, from it a purple liquid seems to pour down, thick and glowing, that, you assume, must be energon, but why is it purple? Does it become blue when inside the body? Or to consume it needs to be separated from impurities like water to humans?

You force yourself to look away and continue patrol, giving a thumbs up to his direction even if he didn't saw, just in case

The other side was just as empty of life, for a while, a door opens by the corner, and you hide, listening and observing the shadows that stand just a few meters from your hiding spot

"So what did you want to tell me, champ? Lunch break is yours not mine" an older man chuckles

"It's just..." a younger voice joins in "this is wrong dad! How long can we keep this up! We can't just shut down the energy like this forever!" Your eyes wide, carefully you take out your phone

"Spike... we are helping in every way we can" and start recording the exchange

"But in the hiding! Can't you see? We can't keep this up forever! Someone will find out we have been causing the black outs and then-"

"Listen. I know you want the world to see how great the autobots are, but the world is not ready for them, you are a big boy you should know that"

"But we are! Look at us! Look at Chip and Carly! We are their friends! I'm sure if they make a peaceful public apearence then..."

"No, even if they did I doubt that starting out with, we are hungry please feed us, will only create more suspicion, especialy that this would give the green light for those Decepticons to go rampage without a cover. It's too risky, son"

"... I guess... do you know if they are done in section 6?"

"Not yet, they just started... don't look at me like that, I don't like doing sneaky things either, but they are our only hope of surviving a decepticon invasion if push comes to shove"

"And our friends" you hear the stuborness in the boys tone

"And our friends" and the contempt of his father

You see them walk around the facility, entering another door, and disappearing, you release a breath you didn't know you were holding, so that's how the autobots get their energon...

....................

Megatron hadn't plan on doing a heist today, didn't even crossed his mind, however, an opportunity is an opportunity, especialy if he can shove it up Starscreams aft when he gets back on comand while the base is on fire

After all he might have, or not, given Soundwave a free zero-punishment-mensage if, say, the caccettes run rampage around the base for today only, his quarters were obviously off limits, but that might teach Starscream a lesson, perhaps the seeker might even beg him to "take over", as if he actualy left, control when he comes back, it would be glorious

A self-satisfatoried smile is plastered in his face he is sure of it, but tonight might prove extremely satisfactory, storming off after a failure of a mission only to come back with a full cargo of energon, morale will be strong for few cyrcles after today, hopefully

The little human pass by, stopping to watch the process of extraction for a while, their eyes are far more expressive than a cybertronian, the wonder and awe of simple things amuse the silver tyrant, not even a new forge is as curious as you have been for cybertronian biology

It would be off-putting if he wasn't used to Shockwave. You two will hate each other or become fast allies... and isn't that a weird picture, Shockwave with a consistent friendly presence by his side, the scientist would call him illogical by the mere though of it, however he was also a hypocrite that can't see himself emoting even in front of a mirror, while others could tell the "only most logical of cybertronians" was just an introverted egomaniac like the rest of them, given long enough time in his presence that is

Then again, he might actually prefer studying you, open you up, learn the ins and out of a humans body so to see what can be your limit, he would kill you if the torture of the experiments doesn't do it first... and that's what will happen, won't it? Once the bridge is build, their empire reconnected, because he refuses to believe his decepticons have lost after four thousand centuries, that will be your end, a slave to the decepticon empire or an experiment, nothing more, nothing less

And that... isn't, shouldn't be of, Megatrons concern, worse has happen to far more important people, worse has happen to him even, and yet... he puts the energon container down in the truck, and observers his job, far less energon than he imagined there to be, only twelve full containers, perhaps he can get five more with enough time-

[The autobots are here - 02:14:67 - °°/°°/°°/M.R - D.C: Human ]

The mensage shines in the corner of his optics, the silver tank snaps his head around, silence and rain, nothing indicating an ambush, nothing indicating a fight

[Status of mission]

He steps cautiously at the energon extractor, by sheer will he forces his engines to quiet down

[Not compromised, they don't know we are here- 02:15:04 - °°/°°/°°/M.R - D.C: Human ]

That makes Megatron stop, processor running calculations and possibilities

[Where are you?]

[ Getting close to your location, retreating - 02:15:40 - °°/°°/°°/M.R - D.C: Human]

This could be an opportunity, an ambush, he could destroy this place and every autobot in here, but how many were there? Who were they?

He hears you coming before seeing, steps heavy and quick, water slashing around the ground, when you get to him you immediately speak "we have to get out of here, this is their main energon source"

Megatron knees closer to you "do you know how many are there?"

"Didn't get the chance, heard two people talking about them at sector 6, couldn't risk confirming and being discovered"

"So this is how they get their share of energon... hypocrites" he snarls in a wicked smile "I'll close the truck, prepare it to go, but do not start it"

"We are not leaving? We are out numbered, one against who knows how many, there's no way we get out of this with the energon or our lives" you go to the truck, putting the keys on and getting everything out of the way so you can jump in without inssue

"Your life is certainly garanteed, they wouldn't hurt a human, and I will not die by their servos. I can not let an opportunity like this pass by, we are going to delay their main source of production"

"How?" You hang out of the open door, he smirks at you

"We are going to blow up their energon"

"You are joking" and you hear him transform, pistol hitting the ground as the rain gets worse

"Energon, raw energon, is highly unstable, one good shake and it will cause a chain reaction, and an explosion will sure put this place out if comission for a month, you only need one good shot"

"I..." You jump out of the truck "I am not trained for this, I'm going to lose an arm, a finger, or worse, how... what even is your range anyways? If i get caugh by the explosion, I will die"

One step after the other, one drop after another, you walk towards him anyway

"You won't" you pick him up, heart a blaze, blood pumping in your veins "trust me"

.....................

There were three autobots extracting the energon, a yellow one, a white one, and a red and blue truck, for some reason, that last one seemed familiar... then again, it could be your imagiantion, trucks were not hard to find in that color anyway

You walk in the shadows, carefully minding your surroundings, thankful for the heavy rain that drowns out any sound you make by mistake

"Do you think this will be enough?" You hear the yellow one ask from the distance

"It better be! This place is running dry by each visit "

"We have to find another way to extract energon, hopefully a way that doesn't involve the humans, it's our war, not theirs"

"Your concern is noted, Bublebee" the truck talks, you feel Megatron pulse in your hands "however our best way of survival without ruining this planet is to use what is already being taken, we can not let what happened to Cybertron repeats here"

You turn around another corner, taking a clear vision of the cargo full of purple energon

"I understand, Optimus..." You take aim, both eyes open, the silver pistol and you hidden in the shadows of the night, you hope you have distance enough, you hope you can make this count, you hope you won't lose a limb... you wonder... how does he work without bullets

"There there, now help me lift this thing" taking a deep breath, you feel everything around you quiet down, like the universe itself is watching, in your hands the gun warms up, you hear his engines pick up, swirling in your finger tips

Your blood roars in your ears, heart jumping in it's ribcage, one hand bellow the handle, you prepare yourself for the recoil, and pull the-

"Hey what are you doing here!?" Trigger

In a glorious shine of purple you see the energy leave his barrel and momentarily stop mid air before cutting in a straight line like a blade directly to the energon pile, you turn around to face the boy that shouted at you and as the explosion happens behind, you can only note, he has no recoil

"OPTIMUS!" You hear the mechs' voices roars behinds you as the boy jumps, fists first, into your direction

"What have you done?!" You take one punch right in the chin, for a moment you fear conscience leaves you body, but the second you feel your grip lighten around the silver pistol, you force yourself back, grip solid and imediatly swing it's butt to the boys head

It has enough force to throw him to the side, creating an opening for you to run and run you do, because your life depends on it, you ignore anyone who notices you passing by, you just need to get out faster, from behind you the boy shouts "Get back here! Stop!"

The lights return to the facility, you jump out of the busted electrical fence, climbing the truck so fast you almost forget how to turn on the damn thing

Do you know how to drive a truck safely? No, you have a hunch they aren't made for high speed and need to be in the lowest gear possible to make turns when full of cargo, especially dangerous cargo like yours, but fuck it, if you live after today you are going to be on the high of the century of power trips

Turning the gears up and up, doing your best to get out of the forest you find yourself in, hearing shots being fired behind you, purple energy swirling around as you finally exit to the main road

You see a yellow beetle car run pass you way faster than it should, you turn the gears back and back, hitting the breaks as fast, but as smooth as possible starting a turn to break free of the road and do your best at avoiding your pursuer

The truck almost tumbles in your haste, but you persist, getting pass the disguised autobot, from inside him shots are fired, breaking the window seat, you do your best to hide your face, grip still firm and heels still down in the accelerator

Heart ablaze, blood roaring in your ears, you feel the tugs in your face of a hysterical smile coming in as your adrenaline surpasses its peak in this chase, one turn after another, one trafic light after the other, one acident after the next, a trail of destruction you leave behind as the yellow autobot is still hot in your trails

When arriving at the main road leaving the city you hear Megatron "throw me out! Right now"

With a shaky hand you pick the gun and throw it for the opposite window with all your force, you hear the familiar sound of mass displacement and two voices shouting "Megatron?!"

Body rigid, never stopping, you look at the side mirror, Megatron has transformed into his tank mode and is exchanging shots with the yellow beetle, that now has two little guns besides his headlights, he is buying you time

And you take it, you run, engine roaring into the rainy night, you go far and far, for how long you don't know, where are you going? you also don't know, but anywhere is better than where you where before

As your heart slows down, body goes limb, exhaustion kicks in, you start feeling an ever growing pain in your left arm, your vision becomes turvy, you feel yourself sweat, then you finaly look at your arm... it is full of glass shards, but worse? There are three bullet shots in it, and one is an open wound that transpassed your whole arm

For a moment you felt nothing, no fear, no anger, just numbness, enough for you to finaly stop the truck besides the road, shakely you help your own fingers lose grip on the steering wheel, arm going numb, you pick your phone, vision going black

The last thing you remember trying to do, is calling an ambulance as the sun rises in the horizon of the tundra desert

...............

Starscream is going to kill Megatron, that has always been the plan, but now it is officially personal, how dare that idiot pass him comand in their lowest point possible, how dare him jump ship in the worst possible scenario leaving him to pick up the pieces of this damn situation

Stradled in a backwaters planet with little to no energon, a useless crew that refuses to listen- "SOUNDWAVE GET YOUR CACCETTES UNDER CONTROL IMEDIATLY!"

Rumble has, yet again, picked a fight with Skywarp and the two threw themselves at the red comander with full force in their brawl, the spy comander takes one look at the mess and turn back around ignoring Strascream pleas

"YOU MESSED WITH MY TURBINS IN MY RECHARGE! I KNOW IT"

"Oh shut IT YOU STUPID PICE OF JUMKWARD YOU ARE JUST BAD AT FLYING"

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK"

Starscream punches Skywarp right in his chin and kicking Rumble out of the purple seekers pads does his best at a commanding tone "WILL YOU TWO BEHAVE FOR ONCE! THIS IS THE FIFITH TIME IN TWO DAYS AND IF I MUST I WILL USE MY CANONS AND TRANSFORM YOU BOTH IN SPARE PARTS OR SO PRIMUS HELP ME"

skywarp recolects himself enough to steady his balance, Rumble, the second he bounces off the ground, comes back in possition, both look angrily at the seeker, judging that three second is enough for them to have listened Starscream leaves following Soundwaves direction

He quickly catches up with his coworker, as a painfully scream can be heard by Skywarp as Rumble bites his ankles "You stop right there Soundwave, I know you have Megatrons location, give it to me or so help me get him back right this instant!"

"Assumption: incorrect"

"Incorrect your scrambled wires for a processor, I am your superior, and you will listen to my commands or die"

Soudwave stops abruptly, face millimeters away from the Seekers "Treath: Empty. Soundwave: too valuable for Starscream"

"Doesn't mean I can't hurt you into submission" the air commander doesn't back down, his hand carefully going to his back, fingers glazing the hidden compartment where a small blaster lies "why haven't Megatron returned yet Soundwave?"

There is an air of darkness in Soundwaves visors, a frustration only seen when the caccette player is decoding a hard software or even if he... "you don't know, do you?"

"... Megatrons' communication line: ...silent since last cycle" a shiver runs down Starscreams plating, at any point he would be elated, relieved, ready to party even, but how things are now, if Soundwave does not know his localization then... the seeker backs down pushing his co-comander inside their office, locking the door behind them

He starts circling the messy place, wires and half made computers lie around, Soundwaves work, no doubt, side stepping as he spins around the place "The autobots would have contacted us if they had him, or even apeared already in our doorsteps arealdy, wouldn't them- the human!"

He turns, Soundwave already in the only functional computer, a cable connecting his back to the sistem, fingers gliding along the three primitive keyboards "find their device, it's location has to be of use"

In mere klicks, the screen circles the world, pinpointing their device last location, and it's journey "what... were they doing?"

As he asks and watches the small red dot travel along the human map, Soundwave relaxes in his servos, the cloud of frustration leaving the spy master, Starscream looks at him "Did you find something?"

"Megatron: requests presence at main hangar"

"HE IS HERE?! BUT- Frag it" both comanders storm out of their shared office, marching purposefully to the main hangar, the spy relaxed and pleased, the air officer tense in faux arrogance

They hear him before seeing, voice as demanding and commanding as ever, but there is an amusement in his tone, a lightness and arrogance in his request "Thundercracker, Frenzy, unload the cargo! Gently now, we don't want one single drop of it to go to waste... ah, Starscream, how gracious of you to join us"

Exiting the corridor, the second and third in command are met with their leader with open arms, a cruel smile in his face as the seeker and caccetticon unload an old earth tuck full of gallons of energon

"Megatron... how gracious of you to show up after abandoning us without a single information of your location" the red jet growls

"Oh why so angry Starscream? Did leadership prove to be too hard for you now?"

"You could have compromissed our whole operation in the middle of nowhere that you had been-"

"I was getting us energon" the silver tyrant gestures to the purple liquid "being useful, something you could learn to be"

"You...if you could have always done this THEN WHY ARE WE STARVING FOR MONTHS?!" The shot was expected, the seeker screams in pain as his right leg receives a blast from the warlords canon, the smell of burned metal and fried circuits gracing his sensors with all the familiarity it has "STOP! STOP! STOP! I UNDERSTAND, STOP!"

"Welcome back, Lord Megatron" Soundwave nods at his lord, ignoring Starscream in the ground

The warlord nods back, a satisfied smile appearing as he faces his third in comand "Soundwave, it is good to be back indeed"

Both, leader and comander walk away from the hangar, shoulder to shoulder, the red seeker craws to the closest wall, resting his back to it, angrily punching the ground, and grunting when he feels the pain shot trough his sistem, the rest of the team continues working, like nothing as changed

"So... the human?" Frenzy asks Thundercracker, him not being here when their lord arrived with the beaten down truck

"Lord Megatron hasn't mentioned anything about them" the blue seeker continues picking up the energon "..."

"... did... do you think they ran away?" The black caccette murmurs as he decides to head to the front of the truck, seeing if he can drive it to a far corner

"They were seen leaving togheter... it wouldn't explain his good humor...unless..."

"He killed them..."

"What?" Thundercracker trips in his own pads, reflexes thankfully saving the energon box from faling down and exploding

"Look" he walks towards the front, the drives seat is open, Frenzy hangs at the door, red smears inside it, spots dry, he senses iron in the air "humans bleed red don't they?"

"... oh"

"Hm..."

Both seeker and caccette stare at the red in the steering wheel, at the soft seat, at the broken glass scattered around it, expressionaless. Then Frenzy squishes himself in, analyzing the pedals and turning the vehicle on "We better go back to work"

Thundercracker is still, looking inside but not seeing anything, a... far familiar, feeling crushing his chest plate, his spark contorts in itself, with an intake of his vents after, and it's gone, it is not the first, will not be the last time he feels this

"Well, good ridance" they hear Starscream screech, now standing in his pads, servos on hips "one less pest to worry about now"

The black caccette sees Thundercracker tense, eyes shining bright red as he turns to the air commander "Oh shut it Starscream, they never did anything to you"

"Nor for me" the red seeker mocks "so better gone than uselles, right?"

"They did nothing but be useful" the blue seeker stomps to meet his commanders gaze

"Then why isn't them here?" That makes Thundercracker stop, his head hangs down and with a forceful shoulder bump he storms out of the hangar

Starscream follows him with his gaze, no smile on sight, only a neutral thin line in his lips, when he turns around Frenzy is staring at him, that makes the seeker squawk "what are you looking at?!"

"Nothing!" The black caccette looks back inside the truck, to the last barrels of energon "... a little help?"

"Ugh" he groans,but steps forward, a limp clear in his walk "incompetent fools"

[ask-mischabachinski]

OOC

Uhhh hi, addressing something because this is something that is pissing me off to no end right now.

Someone has accused me of trying to make Misha look stupid or that I'm infantilising him because in an earlier post I headcanoned that he can't tie his shoes/or a tie.

Which, yes, could be fair. If that wasn't fucking stupid. Not being able to do those things doesn't make anyone stupid. If you look in my pinned post of this blog, you will see that in the blog canon, Misha has autism. Before anyone accuses me of ableism, I have autism and I depict Misha's autism similarly to mine because it makes him easier to respond as. People with autism tend to have poorer motor skills and may struggle with things like tying ties and shoelaces.

I don't think that makes you stupid and if you do, maybe do a little bit of reflection. Someone's motor skills being poor does not automatically mean they are stupid and that mindset is ableist. Because, for all you know, that person could have dyspraxia or, the focus of this post, autism. These things do not equate to how smart someone is.

Also there's a post going around about someone else head canoning Misha as not being able to tie his shoes and people going around saying that is depicting Misha as stupid. Honestly, disrespectfully, if you believe that makes someone stupid shut the fuck up and DNI. That person who the post is about, they could be struggling with not being able to tie their shoes and placing it on a character to make themselves feel better about it. Also, you don't have to have some sort of mental disability to struggle with motor functions, but it's more common in neurodivergent people so that's the focus.

It feels like every fucking day there's a new post going around saying that we shouldn't do something that is utterly ridiculous. Like some of you guys just throw terms around like nothing. I'm not going to name examples, but I'm sure you can think of one.

Ending statement; some of you guys in this fandom have internalised ableism, but not all because I've met some awesome people.

[npd-confessions]

I told my therapist I think I'm a narc, and she told me I can't be a narcissist because a narc would never admit that. Makes me think about how many people have undiagnosed ASPD because most of the diagnoses are done in the penal system. But what about those of us who fly under the radar? I think there are high-functioning and low-functioning aspects of everything. A self-diagnosis shouldn't be an automatic disqualifier for something as complex and understudied as ASPD or NPD.

Yeah it's kinda fucked up tbh. Some people are self aware, others aren't. Doesn't mean they're not still disordered

[uneatenclient]

murderbot tv show ep 6 reactions/spoilers under cut. i'm so late 😭 but goddamn this ep

oh my god. i really do love sanctuary moon.

BIG MOOD

everyone needs a little warmth. the cheese might kill me omg

no dopamine is tragic

CUTE LAUGH??? help

omg it's freaked out too

uh oh

BECAUSE I HAD TO

SO SERIOUS

SEASON 19 SRS BUSINESS

LMFAOOOO

book mb has learned not to do this but i can definitely see tv rebellious teenage mb having to learn in real time not to delete mission info while still on the mission

GASP mensah how could you say that about sanctuary moon

agree to disagree mb that's surprisingly diplomatic you really do like mensah

awww. it's acknowledging that it has feelings. terrible that those feelings are p much only negative

wtf that fluid is so. metallic looking. like obviously it would be but you know what i mean

ratthi wtf is that

aww he just wants to help

so much cool stuff bharadwaj i love you

it be like that sometimes

okay

okay plz don't

lbb i need you to not. ESPECIALLY bc you're being extra sus today

STOP

jesus fucking christ

oh mb no

MB NO

it's trying so hard but it's SO BAD at being reassuring

anxiety IS contagious you're so right

trying SO HARD i love it sm

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adsfujohnk

I'M

THE SINGING HELP ME

mensah please

causes synchronized breathing

dear lord every tiny sanctuary moon lore drop feels like an acid trip

"that's sad" "yes" i'm having so many emotions

IT'S CANON

goddddddd it really helps it and she finally sees that it's trying to help her oh my godddddddd

uh oh

it really shouldn't be leaking like that cuz its shit seals automatically when it gets hurt but also. mb how did you not fucking notice

DON'T TOUCH

god every time it says that i explode w pride

the way its swaying and making confused sounds

"i'm fine!" in the most unconvincing tone ever heard b4

mb i'm begging

i mean it's right but this is not one of the things that wouldn't incapacitate it WOOPS

gurathin's fucking expression

DEBT

gurathin omg

once more i'm team gurathin

sdfughiujksbnf

gurathin you're right about corporates you're so right but mb being free of its gov mod lets it hate them just as much

AHA

ME AND GURATHIN KNEW IT

'it's a gun.' GURATHIN

lmfaooooo mb

where armor? armor gone?

EXCUSE ME

IN TRANSPORTS??

in the books art specifically doesn't have human neural tissue and i'm gonna be sad if it does in the show but all the same ART? ART HINT???

oh armor gone for surgery got it

time to cut jfc

she's gonna fucking pass out

pass out twinsies episode??

HEY

YOU'RE RIGHT BUT HEY

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sdighjbsjfhnadl

STOP

STOOPPPP

yeah sure him too

ugh that wound opened way too wide from such a small cut jfc

RATTHI

me too arada

just for one scene can this polycule all be comfortable with each other. just once. plz

non threatening vibe. big same

oh man gurathin about to climb out of his skin

YOU DON'T HAVE TO EAT ME

mb that's not the pOINT

OH FUCK NO

oof mensah that's pretty bad you right

oh ick

YUCKY

uh. mb. your spine's kinda

out

GOOD TIMES???

he won't

gurathin won't. YOU'RE TOUGHER THAN THIS GURA

they're all frozen in the same position holding hands im

DAMN ARADA

ratthi secunits #1 fan

uh oh

worst thing to say to gurathin

YEAH MAN

FUCKING HELL YEAH MAN

BADASS SEC UNIT FRONT AND CENTER WOO

it really is baby. older mb wouldnt have let her know it was there b4 it exploded her head

YOU COULD'VE KILLED ME

THERE WAS A CHANCE YES

"hostile subdued" i mean. you right.

mensah, faintly: oh no

I'M RELIEVED AND I'M CHEERING

SORRY YOU CAN'T HEAR ME BUT I'M CHEERING

aww man. awwwwww man. it really did save them. from its pov it did good and they should be happy or at least not displeased. and it protected them which is the part of its function it likes!!! god this sucks

all aboard the trauma express

god. if they ever get around to mentioning how mb doesn't want its humans to be afraid of it i won't recover

what a transition

every sanctuary moon actor is playing this so fucking straight and it's so goddamn funny and good

damn. commands from inside and commands from outside. oh nooooo im so

you sure did mb

and good job

HELL YEAH

HELL YEAH IT DID WOOOOOOO

oh my godddd thank fuck they mentioned that it enjoys killing when it has a reason and choice to kill

hoo boy. that was a lot. they packed so many emotions into 20 mins.

[kamimarroco]

happiest valentine's day to you guys! <3

cw: slightly suggestive, Fox plays with the reader's nipple in a painful way (but still tame compared to what he can do)

He runs his clawed hands over your chest possessively, rivulets of blood forming across your fragile, soft skin. You feel the adrenaline consuming your mind, your heart pumping to the rest of your body, your fight or flight instinct activated in a moment that should be intimate, delicate, rewarding.

But instead, you feel in danger. A prey being made a toy by the cat — fox — who holds you hostage. You can't move, you shouldn't. The chains do the job of keeping your hands and feet firmly in place.

“Already so anxious... and I haven't even done anything to you yet”, his breath sends chills down your spine, both of your legs spread uncomfortably on the mattress. You can feel something pressing insistently against your entrance, and you can't help but feel at least slightly aroused.

This has always been characteristic of him. Every sexual act, every act of violence, was mixed up in the emotions of the moment. There was no way one could exist without the other.

Just like there was no way you could exist without him.

Two fingers reach for one of your nipples to pinch with sharp claws, the act making your face contort in agony and take on highlights of genuine discomfort. Your legs respond in kind and you rub against him unconsciously, the pain making you feel things other than fear.

This is strange. He's being nice to you. Nicer than usual. You don't like to think about what this means to you.

Fox flashes a toothy grin from ear to ear as his tail acts like a whip, easily breaking the air due to the speed at which it moves. “Fuck, you really don't make things easier when you react like that”, he increases the pressure on his claws and violently twists your nipple to the point where you start to whimper, tears threatening to form in the corners of your eyes.

You are generally much more resilient than this given the fact that you have been through much worse. You can't imagine how pathetic you must look right now for getting so worked up over something so small — fuck, he almost made you rip your guts out live!

You can only blame the fact that Fox gave you time to recover after everything. Gave you time for your wounds to heal and your body to function reasonably again. Which didn't automatically free you from his sick amusements, but it made you forget for a brief period what it was like to be played with.

“You are sensitive", he comments as he continues to twist, twist, and twist. It's agonizing. You assume that your nipple may just be bleeding at this point because of the burning and sensation of fluid appearing in the area.

Fortunately — or perhaps unfortunately — for you, he stops when he's satisfied enough with this, letting your nipple go as your breathing makes your chest rise and fall. He takes a moment to revel in your pained expression — which, by the way, must only be making him harder.

Fox suddenly feels comfortable enough to sit on your lap, his body not being much of a problem for you since you are bigger than him. The beastkin holds your cheeks tightly with both hands and brings your face closer to his, his eyes maintaining unbreakable eye contact as your noses touch. He smiles big at you, and you now feel more desperate than ever to be this close to him.

“I really missed you, darling. Let's make up for all those days you were recovering…”

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

When my wife and I first started fucking dating, we had a shorthand phrase we would exchange when someone was being...some kind of way about gender and sex and sexuality...to sort of indicate to each other what we thought was happening.

"I see we've decided to round to the nearest dick."

See, wifey and I are both trans and bisexual in REALLY similar ways, but with different AGABs right? And we noticed with time that interesting trends showed up. For me, people, even those who know I'm bisexual, treat me like they would treat me as a straight person in their life. Wifey often gets treated like loved ones treat exclusively gay people. Then with gender it's similar! People assume I *don't* have a dick and so they treat me like they would treat [failed] women in their lives. They assume Wifey DOES have a dick and treat her like they would treat a [failed] man in their life. Even beyond that, when wifey and I are TOGETHER, we are automatically defaulted into the "straight" category or the "gay" category depending on which of us (how many of us) they are assuming has a dick, and then defers authority in the relationship to whoever they think has the dick.

It's all gender essentialism all the way down, and interrelated essentialism across the whole spectrum, butit shows up in different ways depending on how people perceive our relationship to our genetalia

And it IS about our genetalia because it almost always gets explicit about it at some point.

I think what I've always found the most interesting is how other queer and trans folks interact with the concept of rounding to the nearest dick, including how we as a community wield it against each other laterally. The experience of being called "basically a woman" by lesbian partners in order to reconcile their discomfort with my gender (as distinct from lesbian partners whose reconciliation of my gender with their sexuality involved calling THEMSELVES "basically alesbian" or some similar iteration that emphasized the importance/meaning of THEIR identity WITHOUT commenting on my own) while Wifey gets treated like "basically a man" because of how race, gender, and sexuality intersect for her. The experience of being told I am excempt from certain realities not based on ACTUAL lack of the experience but based on a feeling of ownership people believe they have over how those experiences may manifest in the world, like when someone says "well trans men aren't oppressed anymore" so I shouldn't take up space in women's communities, men's communities, OR trans-general communities. Or like when someone told wifey that gay men haven't been oppressed since same sex marriage.

Like A) you're simply fucking wrong, and B) even if you were RIGHT, I'm NOT a trans man and my wife ISN'T a gay man. So why would that mean anything about us?

Part of what we both noticed is that the function of "rounding to the nearest dick" is usually about silencing or side-lining someone. WHO exactly is relational and context dependent, but essentially it boils down to "I need one of us to be explicitly less empowered than the other of us to feel safe navigating our interaction"

Sometimes it's preferrable to BE the disempowered (e.g. justification of horizontal hostility) and others to be the disempowerING (e.g. gatekeeping access to socio-economic resources) but in either case, we explicitly see gender wielded asymmetrically and selectively to create and redirect power. Not as something intrinsic to a person or within their control. And I think it's interesting as a trans person to experience gender explicitly as power even when, for me, that's never what it's been. It's interesting to see how people engage with that power when THEY don't usually experience it that way.

Anyway, rounding to the nearest dick is something I think we should all avoid, in part because maybe we should stop focusing in so much on people's gender and sexuality having ANYTHING intrinsic/inherent to them, as opposed to a layer of context within the wholeness of their lives

[petite-guignol]

yapping about the mechanics of Hide on bsky and. man now THIS is some Lore (tm).

the Apollo Harp, which does indeed deal a fuckton of extra damage to dragons, i believe makes its debut in FF5 (where a good strategy for dealing with Omega is to have a Chemist mix up a potion called "Dragon's Kiss" to give it the Dragon type and then have a Bard play a flaming harp at it? how can you not love video games i swear to god). but it was first added to FF4 in the GBA remaster, which is coincidentally the only version of the game containing a bizarre bug that makes Edward invincible.

(i also like that Edward keeps Hide in TAY and it functions identically but has been renamed "Escape", and i thiiiink he no longer does it automatically at critical HP? the line between thoughtful caution and irrational fear is so thin)

i am a confessed mechanics wonk so this kind of thing is fascinating to me on its own but i am also now thinking about it in conjunction with this Feymarch AU i keep vaguely poking at. like what if there WAS some ancient beef here. Bardsong affects the minds of monsters after all! (yes in theory you could also use it on the handful of human enemies but you fight so very few of these... edge cases) monsters that the eidolons in the Feymarch refer to disparagingly as their rowdy cousins on the surface.

putting this under a readmore to spare tag-trackers and all

what if, very long ago, this magic WAS used to subjugate and/or kill powerful monsters -- so long ago that practically everyone on the surface has forgotten about it. so long ago, in fact, that the people who kept and preserved this magic ended up founding the only nation besides the summoners themselves that seems to actually have a positive relationship with any of the multitudes of fierce creatures that roam the earth. so long ago that one of the last living wielders of Bardsong walks into the jaws of an antlion with perfect confidence that they won't snap shut on him, not because he's pacified it with magic but because he remembers playing in the creature's pit as a child, because he knows there's no reason for them to fear each other.

eidolons live forever (i think anyway). maybe some of them remember. maybe some of them don't understand that humans can change so much over the generations that they no longer even remember where they started

idk i kinda like the idea of more ancient eidolons being fully infuriated that anyone suffers a BARD to set foot in the Feymarch and Edward learns his ancestors had this fucking. tactical nuke magic that posed a threat to God Himself, which he never knew about and can't use and wouldn't use even if he could.

(Ifrit, of course, has bedeviled wanderlust-afflicted Damcyani princes and princesses like its his job for generations and thus knows how much things have changed. plus, he loves frightening people and Edward is an easy mark. Ifrit appears as a villain in a lot of Damcyani stories, especially ones intended to scare children away from dangerous situations, so i imagine this is something like having the boogeyman decide he's your new best friend and also you're pretty sure this has not completely eliminated the chances of him eating you. Rydia being like "what's wrong' and Edward shakily recounting his harrowing first encounter with Ifrit where he narrowly escaped death, feeling guilty the whole time because he shouldn't be saying all this terrifying shit to a child but she's the only person he can actually talk to, only to have her beam at him and be like "ohh i didnt think Ifrit liked ANYBODY that much!"

"I thought i was going to die" ":) yeah!" )

[seriousfic]

How many "cosmic junk drawers" does the MCU have?

First off, we have Sakaar, which seems to be where you automatically end up if an attempt at FTL travel goes wrong. Thor and Loki end up there when a Heimdall portal gets fucked up, so does the Hulk, Jude Law was meant to end up there at the end of Captain Marvel. And keep in mind, lest you think this is just a Space Bermuda Triangle, it's overseen by the Grandmaster, one of the Elders of the Universe, which gives it a good claim to being a big deal and not just a space dumping ground like Jakku or that planet in Soldier.

The Quantum Realm... oh God, I just looked at that picture, lol!... is where people end up when time travel or shrinking goes wrong? (I don't know why those two are the same thing either.) Kang ended up there after being exiled by other Kangs, Janet van Dyne ended up there, and apparently every being there has come from somewhere else by accident.

Then there's the Void... please don't confuse this with the alter ego of the Sentry in the upcoming Thunderbolts... which is where the TVA exiles people to. Even though it's clearly not a void.

Why don't they just use the Quantum Realm? How are they associated with the Quantum Realm? Unclear! Everyone exiled to the Void is eaten by Alioth, unless they strike the fancy of Cassandra Nova, who is powerful enough to rule the Void and she's struck a deal with the TVA to keep her placated.

(Wait, that's a little weird, isn't it? Even for someone who's an evil Professor X and sometimes is said to have every mutant power ever (but that would make her unbeatable, so ignore that)... still, she's not like a Galactus level figure, is she? Cuz what would a Galactus level figure need with Pyro or the Russian or any other henchmen? I guess she just likes bossing people around? Whatever.)

There's also incursion'd universes, as seen in Multiverse of Madness, which is somewhere Strange gets banished to in a fight with Wanda and man, lot of banishment in the MCU, isn't there? And also does the TVA bother with people who are jumping from universe to universe and causing trouble? You'd think they would--in fact, you'd think that'd be their one job--anyway, this is another place you can end up if you are changing universes and something goes wrong and you don't end up in the Quantum Realm or the Void.

I don't know, does this seem inconsistent to anyone else? Why do we need all these different "cosmic junk drawers"? Can't they just reuse one instead of introducing a new cosmic junk drawer every time the banishment plot point is used? I understand there's probably a difference between 'just' going faster than light and pulling a Sliders, but if time travel and dimension-hopping are the same thing, shouldn't there be one big fail-state instead of lots of different ones that are functionally the same?

Like if Kang throws you through a portal, you can end up in the Void and meet a crazy alternate self, or end up in the Quantum Realm and meet a crazy alternate self, or end up in an incursion'd universe and meet a crazy alternate self? It's both lazy and really lazy. If they reused the Quantum Realm for all of these, that'd be a little lazy, but at least it'd be a rule they were following and maybe they could build on each appearance the same way Tony Stark used to upgrade his suit in every movie.

Instead they just start over with a new green-screen thingamabob each time and do the same thing with it. Thor goes to Sakaar and he happens to meet a character from his past, Valkyrie. Scott Lang goes to the Quantum Realm and he happens to meet a character from his past, MODOK. Wolverine goes to the Void and he happens to meet a character from his past, X-23.

If this is so random, shouldn't it get mixed up a bit? Thor could meet MODOK. Wolverine could meet Valkyrie. It'd be a little less convenient-feeling, wouldn't it? Like when Deadpool met Blade, Elektra, and Johnny Storm. That's at least only thematically related instead of them literally knowing each other.

Although I do think that as long as we're doing this thing where some Marvel characters exist in the sixties and others are in present day, they could've done something like that. Like have the cowboy Ghost Rider show up.

You know, we still have Sam Elliot, but he's not gonna be here forever. And you really just have to get him into a voiceover booth. Come to think of it, is Nicolas Cage that busy? I suppose I couldn't resist getting Channing Tatum in there either, if he's that desperate to do Gambit, but Jennifer Garner over Nic Cage? C'mon. No one liked Elektra that much and the new costume wasn't even comic-accurate.

They actually did it better in 2005. At least they went red. I guess they were doing specifically superhero movies released by Fox, but then they have Blade in there. He's from New Line. And what about the Punisher? I think most of us liked Tom Jane enough to want to see him again.

I suppose I should be grateful it wasn't all industry plants and also Professor X, like in Multiverse of Madness, but I just feel it's a bit sloppy to do a movie that's both a Wolverine-Deadpool buddy movie AND THEN an ensemble cast reunion. You can't really have an ensemble and go "oh, but the REALLY BIG GUNS are Deadpool and Wolverine." Doesn't work. Can you imagine a Lord of the Rings movie where all the focus is on Aragorn and Legolas, and then there's a little bit of stuff with the rest of the Fellowship, but only in the second act? And it's mostly an extended cameo?

Anyway, earlier I reblogged a post about the interconnectivity the 616 Universe used to have, with different writers coming together to integrate all their work, and that seems like it's lacking in both 616 and the MCU. No one wants to build on what someone else is doing, they all want their little fiefdoms, so we get all these plot points that are going in the same direction but not collaborated on and it just feels poorly edited. Sorta like this post. Sorry.

[system-positivity]

I was gonna do a request and submission( ? is that the right term in this context ?) but ykw fuck it !!!!!! I'm making two submissions (? kinda? its in the same ask)

It's okay to be a system that has multiple hosts, or co-hosts It's okay if the host[s] feel like they shouldn't be a host, or don't qualify/deserve to be one It's okay if the host[s] are fictives, factives, or just introjects in general It's okay if the host[s] leave front easily It's okay if the host[s] don't leave front easily It's okay if the host[s] are trauma holders, anger holders, etc. It's okay if the host[s] are prosecutors, or persecutors

I'm sure I'm missing more, but speaking of persecutors

It's okay to be a system that has multiple persecutors, or one that is perseuctor heavy It's okay if the persecutor[s] are really violent, and cannot be left in front It's okay if the persecutor[s] refuse to heal/reform as a persecutor It's okay if the persecutor[s] interact with littles, or alters that typically don't/'shouldn't' interact with persecutors It's okay if the persecutor[s] are the host[s] It's okay if the persecutor[s] try to reform or successfully do so, but then relapse(? is that the correct term to use in this context??) and most importantly: It's okay to be a persecutor. You're not automatically a bad person

I'm probably missing a lot here too but !! ya also if this is the wrong way to submit stuff or if I worded something wrong, I apologize </3

-- 💊 [host + persecutor]

Thank you so much for the submission(s)! What you said is absolutely correct. It's more than okay for your system to function however it functions - even if it may seem odd to others.

btw shoutout to persecutors who take the role to reenact trauma because they know if they don't the brain may split someone who Actually Enjoys It. (This is a direct shoutout to one of our persecutors, sheeps is doing the hard work fr...)

[copperbadge]

[ID: A photograph of a television showing a YouTube search screen; previous searches are displayed, including world cup soccer highlights, cruel summer, president trump, spa music sleep, mw2 warzone season 5, barbie girl, boxing jake paul vs nate diaz, prince harry meghan markle, apex legends revenant reborn, and akshay kumar omg.]

It's time for my favorite hotel room game: Youtube Search History Roulette!

Most internet TVs in hotels automatically log you out and eliminate your login information when they turn the room over, but if people don't log in -- and most don't, when it's just YouTube -- the app remembers their search history and you can call it up by opening the app and just going to the search function. So you go into history and just start opening stuff.

Notes: TSwift's Cool Summer is almost parodically a "Taylor Swift" sound but it's still a bop. I'd never heard it before because I don't get out much. Aqua's Barbie World is also still a bop. I'm less enthused about Nicki Minaj's Barbie World but I think it's just an aesthetic I'm not into. She seems like she'd be real intense to know.

MW2 Warzone is a video game, I guess. I feel like an eight year old shouldn't be playing it but apparently there's an eight year old who makes videos about it. It took me genuinely clicking on one of the videos to figure out Apex Legends was also a video game. It looks deeply uninspired, like Doom fucked Five Nights At Freddy's, but I'm not a gamer.

Akshay Kumar is apparently a Bollywood star, and while I couldn't watch the film OMG without paying for it, I did get to watch the OMG2 trailer, and it looks like a trip, I want to see it now.

[rottingraisins]

ur colors r so good and so vivid and beautiful all your art really stands out to me, it’s so bright and vibrant and brimming with character. howd u get so good w color?

thank you! and hm good question. I think like anything its ultimately just practice but thinking on it there's a few things that helped 4 me that I don't see mentioned a lot:

the single most important thing that made my art improve almost immediately once I realized it is that you can legitimately do fucking whatever. I think a lot of younger artists that look at like social media art tutorials a lot get it in their heads that there's a single perfect "system" that art functions in, like using a particular brush for lineart, a particular color and overlay filter to shade and highlight, a particular way to draw noses or hair or hands and while I think this certainly works for some people and even kinda happens automatically as you get better at art bc you create shortcuts for yourself you shouldn't really try to force it! I think the mark of a good artist is being able to vary these things, sometimes even within the same piece, and this goes doubly for color bc when you know how to use it well it can shift the mood of a painting a lot! Unless you're going for realism you can always say fuck it; red skin, purple shadows, green highlights. Whatever gets across the feeling you're going for y'know!

learning some basic color theory is obviously super important. I'm not gonna break it down here bc there's like hundreds of youtube videos on it but smth I recommend looking into is the distinction between local and non-local color! It'll help you start looking at art with more of an analytical eye so you can figure out what exactly artists you like are doing so you can try to imitate it in your own work. I personally learned a lot of what I know abt color from post-impressionist painters like Les Nabis, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc but you could just as well look at more contemporary art or even other people on social media

smth that helped me a lot is learning how to mix my own paint! I really think you only really need a handful of base colors (red, blue, yellow, green, pink, sienna, black and white) and should mix everything else from there. Those huge gouache or watercolor paint sets look very pretty but ultimately are mostly just a lot more expensive than they need to be, and mixing the paint yourself helps you figure out a lot about what base colors actually make up a certain hue. This knowledge even carries over into digital art bc the color wheel you have in most art programs is based off of traditional paint mixing so by familiarizing yourself with that you're simultaneously getting better at colorpicking! I used to be a digital-only artist and I saw a huge improvement in my digital art once I started working traditionally

I hope these helped somewhat! I should reiterate I'm not really classically trained in art at all and these are just what helped me figure stuff out! I've found a lot of it is just trying at it until you find something that works for you but maybe this'll speed it along :]

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

What would you consider the best, most reliable, low maintenance car? Bonus points for affordability. After having to take my 2011 Corsa to the garage for the fourth time this year due to a faulty temp sensor (this car just runs on a constant fever I swear. I'm in the UK for goodness sakes it shouldn't get that hot!!!), I'm curious as to whether there are any cars that don't have expiry dates outside of carefully maintained classics.

Well someone's not read my shooting brake post that thoroughly eh! :P

Jokes aside, I've touched on reliability a couple of times so those could be interesting reads for you, but I can tell you that, you'll hear it a lot, Toyota Land Cruisers are usually what you see when a dozen people need to cross a desert and camels aren't an option. And I cannot talk about the durability of old Toyotas without bringing up a piece of television that has been burned into my mind from when I was six or seven to this day and has never faded or faltered in clarity for a single of the seconds between them. Like, genuinely, you go pay me a visit eight years since I last saw it to hit me with a trick question about shot composition details and as you open the door shouting it you walk in on me losing my virginity and I shoo you away yelling "Piss off with your trick questions, I'm getting laid here".

But in terms of advice that is more actionable for you, I would as noted in other posts advise Toyotas and Hondas, and by extension Toyota's luxury brand Lexus (but please don't consider this advice against anything else, especially because these brands, Toyota and Lexus especially, have in some contexts developed a bit of a premium due to their reputation). And I know what you're thinking: "Mate I've a Corsa ya think I could get me a Lexus?" And the answer is yes. And other positively splendid pieces of kit.

I mean, you can find yourself plenty of first generation Lexus LSs in various states of rattiness, and one of those most famously did literally a million miles so I'm pretty sure you're going to be good on that front.

...but if you're not in the extremely lucky position of ULEZ compliance not being a dealbreaker, while looking for those, I also found some second generations...

...and I saw an ad for a third generation, and you know when you see an item and a price and you go through the description just to find out what the deal is and as you comb through you slowly realize that the part where they explain how this is not actually a functioning, usable product isn't there you start whispering "what the fuck? what the fuck?" and you put your hands in your hair and- yeah this is that level. Like genuinely I do not CARE if you were not asking purchasing advice and are not interested in changing your car you go phone your insurance for a quote and if it is anything below "This insurance price will actually ruin my life" you go click on that "Buy it now" button before someone else does.

But of course you may want a smaller car, what with coming from a Corsa and all that. Well, if that's the case, there's a little beauty that you're going to love love, and needs no TLC you and my help can't tackle. Remember my kei sportscars post? Well guess what it just so happens to turn out:

(if you are actually interested in getting a new car but have requirements these don't fulfill don't hesitate to drop me a line, there is little I love more than window shopping car ads and I have plenty other great ideas. If you want a new car you are going to end up with something cool whether you like it or not.)

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[deviantartdramahub]

So, DADramaNow, you're not just attacking Club purely out of ableism? Lol okay, lemme show you in more depth detail why we know that isn't true.

3 notes

Here they're making fun of Club bc he doesn't always understand sarcasm or humor. One of the most well known things about autism is that it makes you struggle to understand tones or social cues. That of course will be an especial problem on the internet, unless you use tone tags. This makes it clear they're making fun of one of his struggles he has due to autism. They're making fun of something pretty much all autistic people struggle with at least a few times in their life. In fact, it might happen to you even if you don't have autism, it's a simple, small, innocent mistake. The fact that they're making fun of Club for this is just malicious.

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You do know not all autistic people are "high-functioning", right?? It's called a spectrum for a reason. NO autistic person deserves to be made fun of for their ability, no matter how high or low it is. Even if Eduard's just a fictional character, it's messed up that you say this and not take into consideration he's not able to.

 1 note <- Here they say "psycho" is an ableist term...

0 notes <- But here you had no trouble calling Tri a "psychopath"??

Not only is it hypocrisy, but also looking pretty damn ableist.

2 notes

Here's them downplaying ableism just bc there's more than one oppressed group. Seriously?? Trust me, as a bi person AND an autistic person, I want both groups to be accepted. But trying to silence and downplay disabled people won't help with SHIT.

1 note

Maybe you should consider the fact he focuses on autism and incontinence is bc those are the things he has experience with?? He himself has autism and has an incontinent step-brother. Even then, he still attempted to include others bc he does truly want to be inclusive, I remember a post he made where he asked people what other disabilities they wanted to see included. I requested for him to introduce a dyslexic character, bc my sister has dyslexia. And guess what? HE DID. Because he truly does care. He just mainly does autistic and incontinent characters bc that's WHAT HE HAS EXPERIENCE WITH! YOU are the ableists for thinking autistic and incontinent people shouldn't be represented!

2 notes

Don't be so judge-mental on the poor kid just because he has incontinence and mind your own damn business, jfc...

5 notes

Club is NOTHING like that sicko you're talking about, they sound disgusting and I know Club would NEVER do something like that. (Unless those things you said are lies and Nightflight's just another innocent victim of yours, but idk. -_-

But anyways, saying all autistic people are automatically bad bc of that person is completely stupid.

 3 notes

Here they seem to be talking about disabled children like they're burdens.

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Another example of the 5th link.

 5 notes

They literally use "mister autistic" as an insult against him. They also full on say the r-slur without censoring it whatsoever.

Anyways, I'm sure, in fact 100% sure, there's more in depth proof their hatred of Club is purely ableism, but once again, DADramaNow does a shit job at running their group, and this is what Club's tag links to:

Not Found

So looking for proof was difficult, though I think I've gathered up enough, at least for now.

Anyways, pedophilia is a harmful stereotype pf autistic people, and DADramaNow is projecting this stereotype onto Club, bc they're very fucked up and bigoted people. There's no denying it now,Mod S and co.

Their unfortunate dismissal of disability hits even harder knowing many of them in their group identify as having autism. They don’t come off as it and don’t treat others with it kindly, which makes me lose incentive to acknowledge they may have it. It’s as if everything to them is a matter of identity.

[woolieshubris]

my tamagotchi UNI review:

im so sorry its going to be long...

TL;DR it's good :3 if u want a color tamagotchi and don't mind spending 60 dollars (about what you'd pay for an after market tamagotchi ON/MEETS) i'd highly recommend it!

full review below cut

Aesthetics:

Let's be honest, the aesthetics make sense, but are still a tad disappointing none the less. they are going for a more gender neutral vibe this time around + trying to make it more similar to the way that the original tamagotchi shells look, rather than going for the hyperfem aesthetic, which I can appreciate. I just wish they made them more interesting. give me my glitter!!!!!!!!

Form Factor:

It is very much built to be played with the watch case on. Not a bad idea- but outside of the case, the buttons stick out quite a bit. I just hope they produce an official case that doesn't have the watch band attached- I'd love to be able to clip it onto my belt loop! I'm sooooo glad they continued with the rechargable battery, because it makes it so much smaller and better. It's even smaller than the smart- which to be honest, I wasn't expecting.

Engineering:

I'm so fucking glad they brought back the 3 buttons. They make it so much easier to navigate the menus. I got pretty used to the Pix's touch capacitive buttons though, and I wouldn't have minded them here- but I do understand that they were extremely hit or miss with people. (I do miss being able to do swipe gestures though. I guess that just means I need to play with the pix more.) I'm honestly incredibly glad they didn't do the touch screen here, because after playing with my smart for about a year on and off, the screen gets really dirty really fast. (not to mention the discoloration.) I'm also glad that on the official tamagotchi shell they didn't include any silicone- this pretty much solves the discoloration issue, and I hope that they sell more watch bands in even more colors. I dislike the placement of the lanyard/charm hole, I never really liked it being on the back, it should be on the side- otherwise it has a tendency to hit things, but I can understand putting it there. I do wish they upped the speaker quality though, the 16 dollar gigapet shouldn't have better speakers than the 60 UNI. I'll probably turn off the sound after a while. The speakers do their job regardless, since the tamagotchi has continued to stick to their guns and not have it play any noise other than beeps at various pitches. ALSO. USB C CHARGING IS A GAME CHANGER FOR REAL.

UI Design/Region:

The fact that this tamagotchi is not region locked is amazing. all tamagotchi UNI's share the same programming, and on startup you can pick whatever language and whatever server you want. The menus are pretty simple and not confusing, and I like a lot of the choices they made. It's not my favorite UI from a tamagotchi, but it's perfectly serviceable.

Gameplay:

It's cute! It's tamagotchi gameplay. Seems like they brought a bunch of fan favorite features back- having pets, marriages ect. I also like that each tamagotchi has a specific personality that you help them develop. I think that's really sweet. Also, being able to hold 4 accessories at once is a great way to be able to decorate the tamagotchi! I like that they added more places to go- the pix was really missing that. The games are fun and interesting, and I really like the way they use the gyroscope in some games. The growth chart seems like theres elements we haven't discovered yet which cause certain characters, so I'm curious as to see how it pans out. There's still a lot of mystery surrounding the gameplay!

Online Functionality:

The online functionality is scary to me, since I'm worried about the ability to push out updates. I haven't run into any bugs, so it seems like it'll mostly be used to push content updates? But I'm not entirely sure. I do like having the codes be exclusive, (I'm sure the modding scene will be able to find ways to automatically hack in certain items) because the PIX's QR code system made me a little bit sad with how easy it was to get any item in the game. It seems like there are also more items in this game as well. I do think the online functionality could be a really useful gateway for the modding scene, and the fact that the tamagotchi can download updates and items from the internet (not just backgrounds like the ON/Meets) is super exciting. I'm very excited to see what comes next. It is slightly worrying that bandai could in theory patch out any modding/hacking entrances, but also this is bandai we are talking about and they only really care about each tamagotchi model for about 2-3 years before phasing it out. (Though to be fair the Pix and Smart were smaller releases- they kept support for the Meets for 4 years)

OVERALL REVIEW: it's good :3 if u are a tamagotchi fan and have the money it's a must buy imo! I can def see it becoming a fan favorite down the line, esp if they release some extra lines with fun designs.