#split personalities

[doshi-sukiru]

Making something based on an old idea I once had for tfone megs/d-16.

After the script was released, I had a thought, especially with how many people would joke saying 'D-16 grabbed Orion, Megatron let him go'- Megatron and D-16 are separate people. Like- different mechs entirely.

Megatron is a defensive alter, formed to protect D-16 from any dangers, be it physical, mental, or emotional. From what I know from my little knowledge in IDW, cold-batches are mocked and hated by most Cybertronian's, and I heavily hc D-16 and B-127 are cold-batches. Being a mech with who is a cold-batch, cogless, and is most often times mistaken as dead, he was put through the brunt of the bullying against other miners, and almost every mining guard in the beginning.

A brutal beating in his first weeks of being online caused 'Megatron' to form and take over, protecting D-16 from the pain and guilt of hurting others for his own safety, though he had no designation then. He rarely came out after then, as after the first few times most mechs left D-16 alone out of fear. Orion never knew about this, as they were still new to being around each other.

When D-16 learned the truth about Sentinel's actions, and his eyes became orange after being given a cog, he was unknowingly mimicking 'Megatron,' the surge of anger from the betrayal making him forget to think properly.

At the pit scene, when Orion was barely functioning, D-16 was terrified. Terrified of losing his friend/lover, and him being the reason he was going to die in the first place. His eyes lighten up to an amber yellow in the movie, and in that moment 'Megatron' believed he was in danger.

So when D-16 lowered his head, he was blacking out and letting 'Megatron' take over (think like how Cruella came alive after Ella let her in from 2019). That's why his eye's became red right after, and he became far more aggressive than D-16 ever was.

Again. All my thoughts for an old au idea, not a headcanon.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[reckonslepoisson]

Gay? (1997), Split Personalities (1998), Separation Anxieties (2000), Lost Time (2002), If We Stayed Alive (2023), 12 Rods

I like the idea of Pitchfork not focus-grouping perfect 10s, dishing ‘em out impulsively, almost as a favour, on a whim. Most listeners love music instinctively, or I hope we do, and P4K handing out a faultless score to 12 Rods’ Gay? shows that the publication’s writers were once like the rest of us, sympathetic and blinkered and impulsive. Even if it happened just the once.

Perhaps it seems unfair to talk about 12 Rods solely through Pitchfork, but it’s justified. The latter has remained a much greater cultural force, even now, nearing its (apparent) end. Gay’s actual sound? Soaring fuzz-indie, a product of the reverb-soaked alt-rock-worshipping ‘90s. Split Personalities refined it all a bit, focusing more intently on melody with less fuzz and more stylistic diversions – a superior, refined work of the same era (with a couple of the same songs). 

It's Pitchfork’s perfect rating that refuses to allow 12 Rods to fade into obscurity – but also drives listeners (ie me, particularly non-Americans) to engage with the rest of the band’s discography. That critical process allows a panned work like Separation Anxieties to find new audiences; indeed, it succeeds more than the reaction it stirred in critics of the time, admirable enough in its pop intent if still clearly a lesser effort. On the flipside, I’m not sure Lost Time is quite the return to form it was heralded as; a return to 12 Rods’ earlier style, sure, but not necessarily to quality. 

In many ways the crowning statement in 12 Rods’s longevity arrived just last year. A full two decades after Lost Time came If We Stayed Alive, a record largely (but not entirely) unremarkable in content but entirely notable for its very existence. 12 Rods doesn’t owe everything to Pitchfork, but it owes enough – let all that be a testament to criticism. 

Pick(s): ‘Mexico’, ‘I Wish You Were a Girl’, ‘Radioaction’, ‘Telephone Holiday’, ‘Twice’

[lmaverick123]

Critical Examination: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth and Cloud's Decaying Mind

I’ve been replaying Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and I gotta say – this game is amazing.  It’s a mark of my favorite games that the second it is over, I kinda wanna play it again.  I waited on this, not wanting to go in too soon from when I finished my first playthrough, and that was actually a smart decision.  Because, you see, there are a lot of things that I missed in my first playthrough of…

[ohgodmusic]

I wish you were a girl I hate what I just said I wish you were a girl for some reason I don't know, but someone told me to

- "I Wish You Were a Girl", Split Personalities (1998), 12 Rods

[heyybeach]

Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way

[met4lwhore]

yall are pro mental illness until they hallucinate

yall are pro mental illness until they dissociate

yall are pro mental illness until they self-isolate

yall are pro mental illness until they're paranoid

yall are pro mental illness until they split

yall are pro mental illness until it's too Scary for your comparatively neurotypical brain to handle

[borderlesbian]

please don't be mean to me bc i can be meaner and i hate being mean

[yourgirlinpieces]

yeah alcohol is cool but have you ever been someone's first choice? me neither. pass the bottle.

[feralkitten420]

"You need to relax"

Best I can do is dissociate

[dollheartbadparts]

If the vibes r off I will assume you hate me and want me dead

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[athenas--ashes--777]

Where do i go if nowhere and no-one feels like home anymore

[worthless-mess]

[deadbeatfox]

"What's wrong?" Everything. Everything is wrong.

[nemosopenletters-blog]

I just want to be important, too.