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Megatron who get pulled back from the dark side by someone else than Optimus (Rodimus, Dot Malto...)

And Optimus... has enough.

He passed millions of years trying to save his friend, giving him chances again and again, hurting himself by both the Decepticon's actions and his own despair, before - maybe - making peace that Megatron can't be fix. He's irredeemable.

Except he's not. Someone Megatron knows since less time than Optimus, who didn't have the quarter of the relationship they had, who didn't put a fraction of the time and effort and suffering of Optimus, manages to do what Optimus was incapable of doing.

Optimus doesn't want to do anything with Megatron. He doesn't want to talk to him or to see him ever again. He will not hurt him, but he can't forgive him for this betrayal.

Basically,

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I caved. I got Balatro. I have done nothing but gamble for thirteen consecutive hours. Help.

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[smug grin, putting my paws on my hips] Ok AskJeeves. If you claim to know so much then tell me this. Whats wrong with me,

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WE LOVE YOU PEDRO

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lotta monsterfuckers on this site yet nobody’s horny for the undead lich… alright…

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hell yesssss thank youuuuu for the reminder micheal my man gonna splurge with this one boys I totally forgot about my cent #mycent

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On one hand, I don't think that Shen Yuan's plan to "fake" his own death is actually a bad escape idea generally. He is missing additional insight into the head of a person (Luo Binghe) who now has very good reason to hate him forever and (in another life) famously likes to take gruesome revenge on anyone who has ever wronged him. Only way to get away from that kind of grudge, it seems.

On the other hand, the death that actually gets executed ends up being SO wildly dramatic and mind-bogglingly mysterious and unintentionally gut-wrenching that it's... laughable. A lot of this is not really Shen Yuan's fault, imo, as a lot of wild cards were coming up and his escape window was closely rapidly, so he seized it while he could. But the sheer MESS left behind... Incredible.

So, I'm currently imagining a scenario where Shen Yuan chooses and somehow manages to frame someone specific for his "fake" death. There needs to be some little story, right? Shen Yuan picks some truly loathsome demonic villain to blame like he's planning protagonist enrichment: Binghe can take some nice revenge on these losers for them "stealing" his original revenge from him.

Airplane: "Holy shit, I don't know if I hate anyone this much to do this to them, bro. Wow. Okay. This'll be... uh, fun? Haha, what the fuck..."

Even better if Shen Yuan's scheme basically destroys Shen Qingqiu's body so that no one can do any weird necromancy shit. SUCCESS: Shen Yuan wakes up in the plant body a few years later. (Maybe the System is back; maybe it's mysteriously vanished.) He's expecting Luo Binghe to be more or less back on the path to becoming Demon Emperor of the world now that that strange Huan Hua Palace subterfuge isn't necessary... except... uh...

Well, it turns out that Luo Binghe and Cang Qiong Mountain Sect teamed up to curbstomp the poor villains that Shen Yuan threw into traffic here, and known Heavenly Demon Luo Binghe is just... hanging out on Qing Jing Peak again. There's a- ahem... obviously highly fictionalized song claiming that Luo Binghe basically had a breakdown cursing the evils of demons in front of Liu Qingge... and apparently they were both so mad at Shen Yuan's targets that they forgot to be mad at each other? And somewhere in there, the other peak lords got involved, and Wei Qingwei and Mu Qingfang did NOT like that cursed sword, and thankfully Yue Qingyuan was there to help wrestle a distraught Luo Binghe down at the end there.

Airplane: "Yeah, bro, I really don't fucking know. My protagonist is maybe getting something like therapy now...? Yue Qingyuan and Liu Qingge still look like they're chugging vinegar sometimes, but they're maybe trying to 'respect your memory' or some shit. Huan Hua Palace is sooo mad. Do you know how much shit we're getting from the other sects constantly for having a demon disciple? You broke them, bro. You broke my fucking story. Luo Binghe is teaching a junior painting class later and then going out for drinks with his old classmates afterwards... If he's going to burn the sect down at some point, then he's being really fucking weird about it."

And Shen Yuan is, of course, horrified that he has apparently caused the protagonist to lose his groove. Were his deathbed words of wisdom too much? Luo Binghe is acting like some... normal guy trying painfully but earnestly to get over something? He has a pet dog. He's bringing snacks to weekly games night with other senior disciples. He's acting like a widower instead of collecting wives. It's incredibly pathetic compared to the ruthless go-getter main character of PIDW.

Shen Yuan, watching Luo Binghe try to achieve mental stability and healthy outlets: "Wow, it's worse than I thought. He's not himself at all! Should I do something to fix this?"

Airplane, who's kind of pissed that his story is in ruins but also lives here now and knows the way that PIDW was supposed to end: "Uh, maybe? Wow, I guess you could, if you really want... The broken System might like that, but... Quick question: bro, do you for real hate this kid?"

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in my mind if dragons were real then western and eastern dragons would be only distantly related species filling the same ecological niche across different continents. but due to visual similarities got called the same thing in English. and it would be one of those things that you hear on trivia game shows and go "oh that's neat" about and then move on with your day, like how tanuki get lumped in with racoons even tho racoons are musteloids and tanuki are canids. do you see my vision.

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You know the posts that start with OP saying "Conforming to [stereotype] is not necessary to be happy or fulfilled or to be [group]" and then gets filled with discourse because someone comments "but remember it's okay to like that stereotype as well!"

Or posts that say stuff like "Shout out to [group members] who [fulfill stereotype]!' and people get mad because those people are already celebrated for conforming to wider society?

Well I think that's because those two people are often talking about very different things

In the first the OP is saying something about wider society and how the pressure to conform is damaging. They are usually talking specifically about how being forced to do something because it's the expectation by the patriarchy or whatever sucks.

What the second person is hearing is "You aren't really a part of [sub group eg Feminism or the Queer Community] unless you completely reject this thing you actually enjoy for it's own sake. And you aren't allowed to enjoy things that are stereotypically associated with [group] unless you want to be hated by your community"

Similarly in the second group the OP is saying "hey I know it can be isolating to like the things that are held up by wider society when you don't hold to the damaging ideas that everyone should do these things while also belonging to a smaller group that fundamentally rejects those things. It's also hard to let yourself like these things when they were once forced on you even though you find you actually do like it for it's own sake. But it's okay. You aren't a traitor or a bad person for still liking this thing."

What the person getting mad about it is reading is: "don't forget! Conforming is good but we're going to pretend we're oppressed!"

Examples of what I mean:

Scenario one:

OP: Fuck dressing girls in pink from the moment they are born! Forcing fluffy frilly dresses on a person is stupid and sexist (OP is talking about wider society and the patriarchy)

Reply: but remember! It's okay to wear pink frilly dresses if you want! (Replier is hearing "you're not a real feminist if you like pink and frills" and so replying 'hey don't worry! You're not going to lose your feminist card for liking this stuff. OP is hearing 'fuck you and your point. I support the patriarchy')

Second scenario:

OP: hey..shout out to the girly girls who love the colour pink and being soft and feminine! You're no less strong and worthy of respect then the tough girls! (OP is talking about even feminine traits that are treated as lesser by the patriarchy have worth. They are not a betrayal of feminism and you can be strong and like pink frills)

Reply: way to uphold the patriarchy. Who is even mad at women who like pink!? (Replier is hearing that people who don't conform are the problem and is angry and so is replying to that message. OP then gets hurt because they see the reply as "no..women like you aren't feminist")

Does this make sense?

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Ok actually genuine tip for new tumblr users: if you see a post you like and want to reblog but theres a bad/annoying added on bit in the reblog chain feel free to just reblog that post straight from op or the last person who knew how to mind their business

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one of my personal favorite tropes

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I was a woman with stubble and a receding hairline, alternating back and forth between different terrible haircuts before I got laser and bangs and became the woman you see before you today. And when I talk to some of these girls now who get hrt and laser IMMEDIATELY after coming out, it's got me having mixed feelings. On the one hand, I'm happy for them, it's really a testament to how much we've fought to get access to medical transition. on the other hand, they all ask me where I get my confidence from and literally it's because I used to look like a crossdressing faggot before I looked like a woman, and people still gendered me correctly about 50% of the time back then and it made me realize that nobody fucking notices little bumps in your clothes or the spot you missed shaving. An actress who forgets a line can still deliver a memorable performance.

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I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

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Love when writers do an insane amount of unnecessary research for their fics. I follow an author that did like 8 months of intense research into 14th century Scotland so they could write smut about it, and guess what. It was some fucking incredible porn AND I learned about old Scottish politics

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I love gay characters without romantic interests

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yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*