"you think my enemy are the prime deities? those are my siblings! we were happy once together"
"just ask yourself, zerxus, whom did we betray?"
they may be gods. they may fight by killing thousands of people (instead of just. like. stealing some clothes or something). but they are still siblings, and if they need to bring down a city to make sure the mortals remember that, then so be it
if life is categorized by Before Loss and After Loss then I exist in the before but with a countdown to the after. and the countdown is always always present and debilitating. the loss will be debilitating too but i cant help myself. i will always suffer twice.
alright~ a few updates about everything! so this weekend I'll be seeing changkyun in chicago- so I prolly won't be posting until after I'm alive again from that 😂😅 (I am vv excited about it- I just know I'll be vv tired when I return home). Anyways, I have a few fics in the works~ one of them that is a request 🤭 I'm vv excited to work on them! But I think I'm going to change my masterlist a bit when I come back. I'm going to retire a few groups from the main masterlist and I've been debating for the past year about it... But I think I'm going to add a yearly masterlist- So it would go from most recent to the beginning of this year~
I'm also thinking about changing my pfp- I haven't been really into stray kids for uh... years- But I will be sure to make an update about that if I go thru with that too- (It may be ji changmin next 🫣🤭)
Transformers: Cybertronian Reproduction, Sex and Gender labels
This has been on my mind for a while. What’s the in-universe reason for transformers to have sexes and genders? Meta reason is obvious: it’s an 80s children’s toy franchise aimed at young boys. Of course the characters are needlessly gendered!
Ranting aside, what’s the in-universe reason? As far as I know, as a member of a sexually dimorphic species, there really shouldn’t be. Every CANON reproductive process removes sexual intercourse from the equation. And Cybertronians all fill some role regardless of gender. If sex/gender serve no purpose for survival or civilization, what necessity does it have? What purpose/niche is it fulfilling? Sexes exist because of sexual reproduction. And genders, from my understanding, are cultural concepts built from the existence of sexes. (I think, I could be completely wrong about this-Feel free to correct me/give your own takes in the notes)
I like how James Roberts tried to handle this; Cybertronians got exposed to other races, and got encouraged to explore themselves and their identity. Definitely helped fixed the damage Simon Furman caused. (Females went extinct and Arcee was forcefully turned into one wtf?!)
My personal headcannon is that Cybertronians didn’t have sexes or genders because they don’t reproduce sexually, and thus didn’t develop a culture built around sexes or genders. Once they developed space travel and discovered other species, they learned about sexes and genders and got HUGE gender envy! They started incorporating aspects of sexes and gender into their society and that’s how we got the Transformers we know today. (My explanation for why the Thirteen and Guiding Hand are gendered is because of cultural osmosis. It just became part of the culture and no one questioned it.)
Note: I specified Canon because fanon is its own can of worms, with its own rules. And it destroys the purpose of this question. Mostly. There are other things with that that I’m not qualified to explore or explain.
I just realized I can’t spam you with sungjin until tumblr decides we can send asks from blogs that aren’t our mains 😔 guess I just have to describe him to you 😇
The sungjin on my mind today is from that one October 2019 festival when he was wearing the red jacket and it was so iconic they turned it into an official outfit for bang. It’s been 4 years but he still lives in my mind
Another sungjin that lives in my mind permanently is when he was a radio show host for a few months at the beginning of last year and he would bring his little bang and a different outfit to change him into every week like sir please 😭 my mental health (that was the only thing that kept me going)
💕 — math teacher anon/kbandtrash/Rachel/whatever you want to call me lol
omgg yes i just googled the 2019 festival and boi have my memories been refreshed. that red jacket looked so good on him (i have a little collection of that in my pinterest too hehehehe)
YES I REMEMBER SEEING THAT TOO that was early 2023 right?? 2023 was such a rough year and i missed day6 so much so i was living on these day6 crumbs we got 😭😭 he's still the same dude he's been from the early day6 days and that consistency just 😭<33
tumblr fr needs to open the ask option for sideblogs too how come we can receive asks but not /ask/ >:(
anyways here's sth i found while searching for the red jacket outfit idk who clicked this but why is it making me crack up so bad 😭😭:
I’m done being nice to Meera. I voted for her and Alfie to fucking go. She’s fake nice so she can board another flight to kiss my ass and take alfie’s clingy ass while you’re at it. It was a tight race between them: Gabi and Dana + Kat & Finn.