#it doesnt have to be

[jirachibaby]

spinel my beloved

a repaint of an old piece of art, also the perfect size for my desktop wallpaper

[mychlapci]

Your Dreadwing skyquake loving follower has me thinking about them so much lately.

Do you think, because they share a special sparkbond connection, Dreadwing knew that when Skyquake was put into stasis on earth, that skyquake was also sparked? And when skyquake was killed, so was the little sparkling?

It’s extra painful for Dreadwing who had been waiting so long for Skyquake to come out of stasis and give birth. Now he’ll never meet the sparkling he had been waiting eons to meet.

Doop (I’m back! Was away on vacation for a week!)

ohohoho Skyquake going into stasis while sparked... Dreadwing is not fond of it, but it's not like he's going to stop Skyquake from being deployed... if he's in stasis, at least the sparkling can't get hurt...

Oh, he feels it when Skyquake awakens, their bond re-opening and he feels shock and pain and exhiliration cycling through as his twin no doubt battles the autobots like he was made to do... and then, nothing. It's gone. Skyquake, and the little bundle he was carrying, there is just a quick, hash pain as they're both killed...

Suddenly, everything Dreadwing was waiting for, the reason he was fighting this war, it's all gone... no wonder he's so dead set on eliminating the autobots, they took everything from him...

And as he comes for Starscream, knowing he'd revived his dead brother and used his corpse as a weapon, he can't stop thinking about the dead newspark that was still swirling in Skyquake's gestation tank as he stumbled, half-dead, reanimated into an abomination...

[aobawilliams]

I'm going to the aquarium tomorrow and was wondering if anyone would like to send me (short) prompts? Character(s) + a general idea?

[smute]

virginity is a construct but that means sexhavership is also a construct. i used to be such a slut but when that phase ended in my late twenties i swung round to the other extreme and became so perfectly celibate im not even sure i could find the hole anymore gromit. i am not a virgin yet i have never felt more virginal in my life so what does that make me?

[preludetocrisis]

good luck with escapril everyone!!!

[kawareo]

Art snobs are actually a thousand times less annoying than people who respond to everything with "it's not that deep bro"

[disneyvillainsdaily]

Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.

Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).

So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.

Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."

After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.

Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.

The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."

The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.

There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.

[chongoblog]

WAIT

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

[bulbabutt]

i don't know the etiquette for posting other peoples tiktoks but the delivery of this punchline hit me like a FUCKING TRUCK please

NikhilClayton <- you should follow this guy on tiktok he's fucking hilarious

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[erros429]

roommate texted this to me……..

[onixiage]

successful night out!!!

[ispyspookymansion]

“weird and unhealthy relationship that cant be categorized neatly as sexual or romantic or platonic but has a defining air of devotion and obsession to it” wins sound of the summer for the 13th year in a row

[snowylynxx]

old wrinkly hedgehog blows up and dies

[daydreamingtomatos]