#polaramblings

[polarpasteque]

Whirl is so special to me.

His life actually starts pretty well, and then the system catches up to him and crushes him like everyone else. He turns rancid. He does terrible things because they make him feel powerful when he doesn't even have bodily autonomy, because it makes him feel in control. Since his life is going down, he might as well be the one crashing the plane.

He gets the consequences of his actions, time and time and time again, yet it doesn't feel like he's moving. He's stewed in violence for a long time already when Optimus Prime comes in and gives him an outlet : "forgiveness as a weapon of war". Whirl is the weapon of war - he's back to square one, just a tool for another agenda he doesn't believe in, yet another cog in the machine. He witnesses and commits atrocity after atrocity, and the judgement never really catches up to him, because the Autobots can't afford to.

Then the war ends and like everyone else, he struggles to adjust - but it runs deeper than that. He's lost, because his identity has been built on violence for much longer than the war. Then he meets people people who have never known violence, people who have done war and still renounced it, people who are not like him and are patient enough to show him that there's another way. The circumstances push him to change, but at the end of the day it's Whirl who chooses the pace, who decides how to become someone else. He doesn't destroy himself to build himself all over again, no, he finds peace in knowing that this is who he is, this is who he was, this is what happened. He accepts everything that he is, but instead of embracing it like a forfeiture, he uses it as a foundation to build a better future for himself, one where he chooses the good that happens for him.

So yeah. He's my crazy helicopter fave.

[polaritiesoop]

sometimes I am cursed with visions of scarian that are even slightly suggestive and I scream like a victorian maiden about to be stabbed by another envious woman.

[polarsus]

DUDE/?? ?DUDE;/?!??!??!?!

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Ultra Magnus you better wife up Rodimus so Megatron is forced to be besties-in-law and stop bullying him.

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Studying for the driver's test & imagining all my faves with car altmodes cheering me on

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Starscream is the pitbull with a bite history to my inner white woman with a saviour complex. I only ship him with green flags because while it might not be what he deserves, it is however exactly what he needs

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This is the 7th time in one week that I see TF art where the characters hype you up for your exams. The whole fandom is going through it huh ✌️😔

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It's official, that fuckass Rung with a gun meme made at 3am and 0.5 active braincells has overtaken the drawing that I locked in to complete under 12h.

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Crying because I felt the need to check my FF.net account for the first time in years and the links to the pictures used as outfit references don't work anymore

No because fym "link target has been deleted" ?? 2017 was literally 2 years ago, Flash Player still works, and fics are still being published in my native language hahahahahaha

Alexa play Where'd All The Time Go by the Pixies.

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When you have the motivation to animate except the animation software is so laggy it makes you ragequit

We're like 7 seconds into 30 this is a nightmare

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When you want to attend TFNation this year but you dare to live elsewhere than in one of the two (2) cities in your country that have direct flights to Birmingfuckingham

Not even talking about the hotel prices yet cause they haven't announced the collab rates with the Hilton, but when I went in 2023 it was £100/night. Yeowch.

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The week is finally over. My plight is not though. Deadlines are locking onto my procrastinating ass

"RÉVISER C'EST DOUTER DE SES CAPACITÉS" I scream as I get dragged out of the exam room

[polarsus]

very behind on the idw comics but she's so silly in this issue

[polarsus]

sunset lesbian flag colorpicked from that one beast yeast ep 10 scene

(inspired by this)

[polarsus]

i have not actually watched the gamescom trailer so i will do that and livepost my reaction

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HE IS ???

Me : Mentions of pregnancy make me so uncomfy. Surely I will be safe in a franchise about alien robots.

The imaginative James Roberts :