#the shunting

[lezzies4monsters]

[the-meme-monarch]

oh boy i sure hope this doesn’t ruin frisk’s perception of their place in the world and reveal horrible truths about the very nature of their existence and i really sure do hope this doesn’t cause them to perpetuate this cycle with beings deemed “less important” than they were

just kidding get strange someone’d idiot

[singingcicadas]

Megatron's Opposite Day

"I free slaves"

This is Soundwave binding Ratbat but seeing as Megatron did the same thing to Pentius by putting his spark into Trypticon and reformatted Rumble and Frenzy into cassettes against their will I think he approves a lot of this practice

Megatron on Optimus and humans, after his defeat in All Hail Megatron ⬇️

he really salty

"I implant ideology" aka brainwashing

Decepticon cause = Megatron. nuff said.

"I liberate cities" says the person who let Nyon burn to make a point

Cities are too small, think bigger

Holding New York hostage.

"Like Autobots, they believe in the sanctity of life" which he doesn't. Kudos for being honest.

Allowing troops to do free-rein massacre is a reward for conquest. Nothing like some easy murder for de-stressing.

The Simanzi massacre which halved the Cybertronian population is off-screen so it doesn't deserve its own pic

"The revolution"

"We only feel good when we stand with a blade in one hand and a throat in another" "Let's make the entire face of the planet into our new gladiator arena"

What nice, confidence-inspiring revolutionaries. I'm sure they'll rule the population with benevolence after they've killed all the Necessary People with Necessary Violence. Final interpretation of what constitutes as Necessary is reserved for the sole discretion of Megatron, ofc.

Good goals.

Sentinel might be an absolute asshole but at least he's got one thing right: they're literally a gang of thugs who gets high off murder.

"The people are my utmost concern"

'The people': ................

"Battling for freedom"

Freedom of what? Function? Autonomy?

Religion?

the ability to choose whether to fight? on which side to fight?

Idk why they used the word "pogrom" for this, it's way too specific

Anyways it doesn't matter, they won't be missed.

Good for Bumblebee for calling him out. Screenshotted this just to appreciate Megatron's bitchy face ⬇️

Other urban legends:

"Megatron loves Cybertron" let's just burrrrn it

He did fight to save Cybertron in Chaos Theory but also made it pretty clear why he did it. It's not out of the goodness of his heart or any sentimental reasons like that. It's an ego/dominance thing.

Plus his wording when he's trying to convince Optimus to let him go with the Lost Light: "I broke the planet. And that, Optimus, is why I owe it to you - to everyone - to find a replacement."

Replacement.

In other words: I made a mess and can't be bothered to clean it up, so I want to get away from it and find somewhere new to start clean.

I don't think Optimus appreciates the favour.

"Megatron tore down a corrupt government" which is true, just too bad that he's worse

He's also, um, a closeted Zeta admirer?

"Megatron advocates equality" ???

Megatron x dictatorship is literally his OTP. They were inseparable for four million years. A lot of people died trying.

"Megatron cares about the Decepticons" no he doesn't. Not his troops nor its cause.

Like for one thing he treats them with complete scorn

Admits that the most useful thing about keeping Starscream around is that he can bully underlings into line

Wants to use the humans' nuke to get rid of his troops and reformat them into peaceful drones after they outlive their use because they were "too ruthless" for his perfect peaceful society

Has zero scruples about fighting Deceptigod, just affronted that his own soldiers are being used against him

And basically just drops the Decepticons like a bag of vermin after he surrenders. He never once mentions them of his own accord, other than to insist he has nothing to do with them. Even his surrender speech is something Optimus makes him do as exchange b/c he wants to go on parole. He wasn't planning on making a public address otherwise, he was just going to leave them hanging.

Looking at the publication timeline, Megatron started out as an established Evil McEvilson-type villain similar to how he is in G1 and it's not until Chaos Theory in 2011 that JRo really gave him a sympathetic backstory that drew his characterization away from the bloodthirsty pugno ergo sum warlord into someone who once held ideals about societal reform and remains convinced of his own moral supremacy throughout the 4 mill years of death and war, adding worldbuilding such as Functionism/oppression/government corruption as justification for the beginning of the Decepticon movement. But because the start of the Decepticons was already written in Megatron Origins and every evil thing he'd done up till Chaos Theory can't be retracted and they had to keep Megatron as a villain until his story was no longer central to the Autobot-Decepticon war line, and JRo didn't try to downplay the atrocities he'd committed (some of the most sadistically disturbing things Megatron did were exclusively in MTMTE flashbacks), but rather tried to distance him from them and placed the focus on the juxtapositions to emphasize change, this as a whole just resulted in Evil McEvilson getting turned into Hyper McHypocrite.

[bloomfish]

It's so weird that in angel s5e2 they do a little flashback to Spike's blaze of glory moment in the last episode of Buffy... but they leave out Buffy saying "I love you". It's such a blatant omission, the ONLY omission from that scene, that it feels totally deliberate and kind of dishonest. Considering a lot of the Spike and Angel moments in S5 revolve around their jealousy and rivalry towards each other, and a LOT of that is to do with Buffy like... Why would you leave it out? It's a pretty big moment for Spike's character in general.

As far as I recall they don't even mention it, they just mention the fact that Spike and Buffy have had a lot of sex compared to bangel's ONE disastrous time (that they remember) but it does kind of cheapen it for Spike. A big motivation for him not leaving LA could have been him not wanting to hold Buffy to her words, since he clearly doesn't believe that she loves him (even though she does, as per Whedon). He presumably thinks she only said that to make him feel better in his final moments, because she wouldn't have to actually follow through on her words. Which is sad. But it makes much more sense as a motivation than the weird 'it cheapens my moment of glory' excuse like since when does spike give a shit about that

[sanepersonhere]

A walk in the Sun

[rb9]

max said i’m number 1 actually

[sunflowervc]

why yes, this has sat unfinished in my WIPs for three months since m9 reunited was announced! thank you for asking!

[kyluxtrashpit]

Kens? I think you mean... RENS

[artaintfartwarriors]

[painless-innit-colourful]

one of the most dsmp things ever is Fundy marching off at the start of a pet war to cause some chaos and the floor of the community house is just inexplicably missing

[uselessalexis165]

tried making some ttte memes (314)

[antisocialxconstruct]

bow down to the ghost, to the god in the mirror he knows no mercy nor tolerates weakness

[waitingforsecretsouls]

Disclaimer that I might be wrong about this, only personal impressions etc., but I feel like there exists a tendency to often depict first age Galadriel as not only particularly distanced but also disdainful towards the rest of her kin, particularly regarding Alqualondë. Which is very interesting to me, if you consider that she's the one who gets a scene of direct and pointed questioning with Melian about the finer points of the exile and lies (even if by omission) to her face. Which occurs after she had already established a stable acquaintanceship with her.

Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth. -Chapter 13: OF THE RETURN OF THE NOLDOR

She furthermore also seems committed to letting bygones be bygones:

And on a time Melian said: ‘There is some woe that lies upon you and your kin. That I can see in you, but all else is hidden from me; for by no vision or thought can I perceive anything that passed or passes in the West: a shadow lies over all the land of Aman, and reaches far out over the sea. Why will you not tell me more?’ ‘For that woe is past,’ said Galadriel; ‘and I would take what joy is here left, untroubled by memory. And maybe there is woe enough yet to come, though still hope may seem bright.’ -Chapter 15: OF THE NOLDOR IN BELERIAND

Which is not to say that she couldn't have born a grudge about Alqualondë, but rather that she prioritized unity among the Noldor and Sindar over acting on said grudge and made the deliberate choice to try and move on, even at the cost of her personal integrity (since she presumable started her tutelage while the first kinslaying was still kept a secret which is...audacious to say the least).

[trashpremiium]

idk if i'm like. late to this party or whatever but i was watching a completely unrelated video essay and i came across this comment:

and i was like. huh. that's odd. i wonder if that's true. so i look it up on wikipedia and lo and behold

that, combined with the fact that they're currently investigating a cult known as the Order of the Fallen Star (yknow. fallen star. lucifer. the morningstar. fallen angel) really lends itself to the religious imagery in this season.

[raceweek]

george and alex joint post quali interview veering into them talking about how they’re driving home together tomorrow and they don’t know if it’s better if alex locks up to shunt into george or the ferraris bc they won’t make it out of monza if he does

[nomsfaultau]

au idea with bedrock bros and with a bit of mandatory family reunion

basically Tommy is a billionaire’s kid and wants a brother and what’s this? An English teacher who complimented him once because he didn’t write a dogshit essay?

yeah that’s his brother now, congrats

mandatory family reunion except techno really IS just a guy but Tommy latches onto him bc Techno actually sees his potential and knows how to pull out his best work without being overbearing. so Philza shrugs and goes ‘new kid ig’ just like he does when Tommy brings home his millionth pet. To the degree of when Tommy is first talking abt bringing techno home Philza has already ordered like a massive dog bed just in case this is another cow. Tbf if the em duo first interaction is ‘OH! Wait you’re human?’ It’s still leagues better than MFR’s hasty threats. Anyway Tommy does puppy eyes so of course they have to get a new Techno.

They hire him as a private teacher and since you know billionaires it’s actually not totally out of the realm of them just having him live there like the servants do in this weirdly remote and fortified mansion. Tommy is actively calling him brother and Techno just rolls his eyes bc clingy goblin. What of course Techno is going to pay attention to him and play w him it’s called engaging the creative mind. And Tommy is the most engaged student he’s ever had (bc ulterior motives) and he’s getting paid bucket loads and doesn’t quite know what normal boundaries for private in house teachers are bc he’s some poor shmuck.

Anyway if these Crafts have an ounce more brains than they do in MFR and he is a free range Techno, it could be like five months before he realizes they’ve forcefully adopted him.

Techno tries to do his taxes and panics bc it came back saying the ID section is filled out entirely wrong, help did someone steal his identity!? Ah!?!?!?

And then Phil is passing through and is like ‘oops forgot to tell you we changed your last name. Sorry mate I’ll fix that for you’ and Techno does a spit take.