#LITERALLY MTE

[lord-squiggletits]

No offense but I feel like among IDW1 Megatron fans you can lowkey tell who's read multiple series of the comics (namely, phase 1 and early phase 2) and who's only read MTMTE by the way they talk about, headcanon, or write Megatron. And like it does genuinely make a huge difference because I feel like MTMTE Megatron in general is a different flavor of Megatron from the rest of the series..... not OOC, that's the wrong word, but like....... more as if JRO had a very specific vision of him and janked the reins of the series to drive Megatron down a specific interpretation of his character, which is still in-character but is very different from the way he was characterized early in the series.

But in terms of Megatron fans, you can really tell the difference between MTMTE-only readers and other-parts-of-IDW readers.

#squiggposting #not all of them are negative difference but like #for me it seems like the mt/mt/e M only readers tend to have a softer idea of M #or like. they're less willing to accept he did bad things. even though mt/mte HAS some of the worst things M did #like idk sometimes it feels as if that group of readers stans an entirely different idw M and it's hard to put a finger on #it's not even them writing M ooc it's more like. they seem to view his mt/mte self as like the ultimate incarnation #and treat his previous appearances/personalities with disdain or even claiming they're ooc #but like. to me it's mt/mt/e autobot M that's the one that's different and unusual #but ppl literally come into this series with m/tmt/e and god help you if you try to coax them into reading anythign else #plus like no offense but it's my honest opinion that JRO handled mt/mte M with silk gloves on #or like. some kind of gentler treatment and less harsh narrative consequences than he would've gotten if written by say Barber #it's weird to see people sucking JRO's dick clean off about how he wrote M when JRO's style in general is quite flawed #it feels like these people haven't read anything of idw1 and see JRO's writing as like the only valid way of writing M or any other charact #anyways i feel like if you only read mt/mte you don't even get a complete picture of M as a person #like in order to appreciate his heel face turn you honestly have to see him as he was before #otherwise wtf do you think he has to redeem himself from??? being mean to a couple people on the lost light???

[thegreymoon]

The Story of Minglan

I have to study. It's so late and I am so tired. I must pass these fucking exams and I know nothing. But I must also know. WHAT. HAPPENED. WITH. THE. PIRATES. 😭😭

Just a few minutes. Please.

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I wanted to yell "PRIORITIES!!" at her when she grasped this doll as she was drowning, but.

I remembered that I too have dolls I would totally jump into the river for. However, mine are too delicate and there would probably be no saving them if they got soaked.

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GU TINGYE??

LMAO, of course 🤣🤣 He's been saving the Sheng siblings from pirates from the moment they met!

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Ugh, cutie baby 🤗

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LMAO, what is up with that beard??

I am not a fan.

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WAIT, WHY DOESN'T SHE RECOGNIZE HIM?

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LOL, what is this nonsense?

It's literally been days since they last saw each other, a few weeks at best.

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What a joke, smh. I hate it when writers pretend we are imbeciles and think that they can get away with nonsensical rubbish like this.

The beard is ugly, BUT COME ON! You saw this man literally days ago, he still looks the same and sounds the same. Why was this necessary? This is honestly insulting.

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I'm still fascinated that Sheng Hong put an old woman, a fifteen-year-old and a bunch of useless maids on a boat and just let them sail across half of China, bandits be damned!

Why were there no men, no guards?

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I also want to know.

Other than fanservicy coincidence, of course.

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Seriously?? 🙄🙄

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Eh... from everything I've seen so far, I am not convinced that she is not better off being the daughter of a water pirate 🤔

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MTE.

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Minglan and Tingye, minding their own business:

IRL footage of me:

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LMAO, I love Shitou 🤣🤣

MTE, where did this come from?

I mean, an army is a great place to build a career if you have no other choices but you have to survive it first! How will it do your illegitimate daughter any good if you were to die?

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Aww, happy old people make my heart melt 🤗

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Yeah, because two dead maids are nothing to think about. It's not like they were actual people or anything 🙄

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Why do all the girls have the same last syllable? Hualan, Molan, Rulan, Minglan, Shulan, Pinglan, etc. But the boys share the first syllable. At first, I thought it was a gender thing, but the Yu sisters, Yanran and Yanhong, also share the first syllable. Also, I thought it was customary in ancient China to give all kids from the same generation a name that started with the same first syllable?

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LMAO, are the grannies back to matchmaking?

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Wait, is this the guy he saved in the forest?

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Ooooh, imperial relatives, you say??

Imperial relatives that Gu Tingye saved and are now his friends that owe him a debt of gratitude? 🤔🤔

My plot senses are tingling!

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Oh my god. Bandits? Again?? 😑

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Are you kidding me?

I am not a fan of this Pinglan. She seems like a reckless idiot, in addition to being a boundary-stomping, attention-seeking know-it-all.

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OK, I am not keeping up.

I don't know anything about Chinese history. Are these characters based on actual real people?

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LMAO, the blank expressions on everyone's faces 🤣🤣

Sometimes, parents can be so embarrassing.

#the story of minglan #tsoml spoilers #tsoml ep23

[sweetwateriver]

Ok review of the new riverdale: unfortunately overall misogyny won this episode and girls who are jughead LOST! SAD! Oh well there are other timelines. The Betty story would have been way less misogynistic if she had turned into a QUEEN BEE bc of her BEEHIVE instead of stupid spider eggs killing her. Greg Murray that was just plain stupid. Veronica “the sexual politics in your stories are….. troubling to say the least” MTE QUEEN!!!!! But ultimately I do forgive this episode all of that and more for the janitor narrator possibly my literal favorite riverdale character ever the janitor narrator

#personal #AVERT YOUR EYES PERVERT!!!!!!!!! #riverdale spoilers #when ETHEL writes her own comic books then we will know peace and I’m manifesting this

[sufferinggod]

so got that special december bonus check today and kinda disappointed ngl lol i thought itd be more. but ive only been with the company 2 months so its okay. i basically just got a weeks pay as a bonus. better than nothing. and it still helps me a lot. couldve been a lot less. i will be getting paid on friday still and i will have a lot of cash then. so yeah. what ima do is buy a new tv. just a small cheap roku. that way i will still have a lot of money left. then, im going to save up for a new mattress. and i should be all set after that. i will buy new vans bc i need new shoes bro. i want these vans mte but they are worth literally 2 weeks pay which is ridiculous. the current pair of vans i have are 3 years old and still going and its a decent investment if i buy new ones and they last 3 years but ugh. still dont feel like dropping that kinda money. it would be more than what ima spend on the fucking tv lol

#thoughts #life

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[voiceless-terror]

tagged by @nammikisulora!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i narrowed this down a bit because some of my WIP titles are simply 'untitled document’ fgjdfkg...and some of these are literally just the first words of the fic

- It’s Martin’s Birthday

- Five Cats!!!!

- Sometimes, late at night

- Car Park Battle Royale

- Top Shelf Box Ladder Martin’s Arms

- JonTim Week Day Six

- Someone is following him

- Ghost Hunting with Friends

- bad ghosts pt 2

- Wednesday’s Child

- jon & sasha (mte cont.)

hnnn i feel like i annoy people with tags BUT im doing it anyway @bluejayblueskies @suttttton @rosy-cheekx @ghostbustermelanieking or whoever wants to do it gfdjgfdkl....feel free to ignore

#my writing #as you can tell im not good at titles and thats why all of mine suck

[maxortecho]

Oooof! I am L-I-V-I-N-G for the dark-chaotic-sexy energy we are getting from Jones this season!!! It's fulfilling the darkMax! shaped hole in my soul I feel we were robbed of last season when the show resolved Max's post resurrection destructive energy problem in, what, the first 5 minutes of ep 2x06?

Gimme all the condescending smirks, sauntering gait, and slow drawls please!!!

Anyways, in leaning towards the idea of a dual possession, i.e. Jones is sharing Max's body, I am vibrating in anticipation of the mental breakdown Max is (finally?) primed to have when he gets back some semblance of consciousness. I've had MANY thoughts since the first season surrounding Max's isolation and self-loathing, I believe largely triggered by how he felt about killing the man who attacked Isobel in the desert, that has then been compounded every time he learns more about who they are. The idea that killing makes them more powerful, feels good, etc and how that runs completely counter to Max's morals and how he wants to act. I feel that this internal conflict has been building every season, i.e. Max killing Noah, the fear of the chaotic energy he would bring with him if they brought him back to life, losing what was left of his identity when he found out he wasn't Isobel's brother, almost killing Flint at the end of S2 (which, btw, can we get some mention of that people?), and now, in walks Jones. A man who is his family, who potentially has all the answers, who has HIS FACE, and who kills people seemingly without remorse.

Uggggh, Max being literally confronted with a mirror image of himself, all the parts he keeps hidden and is ashamed of?!?! I'll just be over here with a spoon for the rest of the season eating this up...

MTE! S2 teased us so much with dark!Max and then didn't even let that cranky lightning man thrive the way we all deserved to watch. Tbh the weak fizzle of the dark!Max plot has to be in like top 3 s2 disappointments for me haha.

This Jones stuff may not be the same as actual dark!Max, but it is a fun twist in terms of circumstances/ alternative realities that could've played out with him.

AND YES re causing Max a crisis. Particularly if Max has been "awake" to some extent while Jones possessed him? If Max was forced to passively experience the high Jones felt from killing and doing whatever he wants? Max would be seeing his own hands committing all the things he's feared and dreaded about himself.

That fear has been a part of him since the beginning, and iirc it was only really in 2x13 that Max first tentatively vocalised it to Liz. So I'd like to see that topic revisited when they get him back in control of himself and he's still reeling from the experience. 3x09 seems like it could be a great opportunity given Liz/Max will be on their own working together.

But the way you described all this is *chef's kiss* to me lmao. Max has definitely tried to avoid this part of himself by averting his eyes and never looking directly at it; which is hard to do when your OG copy is now in front of you. I'm interested in whether there will be permanent consequences from this experience too. eg, a psychic merge, maybe resulting in Max connecting more with his dark side and finding a way to channel it rather than bottling it up. But idk if the show would be willing to go there lol.

#mo talks #laniel-young-again #rnm spoilers #rnm asks

[thinknicht]

what's your biggest challenge and what comes easiest to you when writing?

Interesting question. It’s really made me think about my writing style and how it’s evolved over the years (honestly, it had been one hell of a journey and I have no regrets), tbh, my only regret is not knowing your username so I could give you a shoutout, but in any case… thanks for the ask! I mean it. It made me think, and do so a lot, which I appreciate.

But you probably don’t care all that much. You’re here for answers. And fear not, my fair anonymous, for they shall be given.

I suppose I should be a procrastinator and go with the easier answer first. (Get it? Okay never mind ignore me. ) What comes easiest to in writing, hands down, is… (drumroll)

dialogue. Yep. You read that right. It’s harder for OCs but generally, once I start I can’t stop. Literally a recurring problem for me is that I often start to add stuff in second reads (once a severe is already completed) making it sometimes twice as long as it was originally. The downside of this ease at writing it is that my dialogues get way too long and then I have to make hard decisions on which pieces of dialogue need to be cut out and which get to live. (Or whether I think my readers would be fine with the surplus.) I know you were probably expecting me to say something else is easiest but yeah. Dialogues, definitely. They’re my best friend. They really help me flesh out new characters, relationships developing between them and add dynamism to the story.

As for my biggest challenge…? It really isn’t a fixed thing. For example, believe it or not my biggest challenge used to be humor of all things. Humor, which is now one of my strengths. Well, it wasn’t always. In fact, learning the art of humor (make no mistakes, writing humor and doing it well is a literal ART) was my main aim when I wrote Twisted (it’s on ffnet) with literally that one goal in mind. To learn how to write humor. It was something I’d been stewing on for quite some time prior to that, reading articles, starting to watch a lot of youtubers that appealed my own brand of humor, giving myself a push to start making more jokes in social situations. Basically it was a day to day effort to cultivate my own sense of humor and laugh more easily at things. This, I have to say, really changed me as a person and I was much happier for it. Going back to twisted now (my first ‘successful’ humor piece) I feel like a lot of it was kind of immature and a bit unrealistic, but it was a definite start and I learned so much from writing it. I am now a much funnier and happier person than I was before, have more friends and confidence in social situations and all… because I once decided to learn how to write humor scenes. Yeah. No lie.

Then came my next challenge, which was adding more layers of depth to antagonists. This is why I made danzo morally grey in MTE and why Hiruzen is also neither good nor bad, but rather someone with good intentions and bad executions. In short, I wanted to start writing contradictions. Real humans are full of them and I think realizing this is an important part of being a writer. Also, I have always wanted to try my hand at a Snape-ish type of character and my danzo in some ways resembles him (in some very limited ways) so that was a bonus! That actually I didn’t struggle with so much, but I think the important part was coming to the realization of wanting to make my characters like this. It is something I’m incorporating more and more as o write.

My next challenge was writing OCs that wouldn’t make people run in the opposite direction. I have to admit… I am still struggling with that. But! I have also made a LOT of discoveries in the process (I don’t want this post to go on forever but if you want me to specify, just say the word!) and I think I’ve gotten most of the ‘formula’ of dos and songs down by this point. Anyways I also realized that morally ambiguous FEMALE characters are way less well received than male ones, especially if they’re potential love interests, which made me wonder in turn about societal perception of ‘anti heroes’ as cool when it’s a man vs when it’s a woman. Make of this info what you will.

But anyways, there are many other challenges to writing I’ve been struggling with, such as pacing, the classic showing va telling, which can be observed in the larger scale of things as well as adverb and adjective usage, then there’s the order and length of scenes when you have many POV switches going on… another hard task for sure… and coming up with original metaphors… knowing when some comic relief is needed… honestly there’s so much stuff. But if I had to pick ONE thing? Again, I think you’ll be surprised but…

I pick writing romance and or mushy stuff, which I weirdly have a lot of trouble with, even though I love reading it. I cannot explain it. I guess I just find it embarrassing to share, in a way, something so deeply personal with the internet. Here’s to hoping I’ll do Sakura and Itachi justice!

Anyways, I think that covers it :) Peace!

#fanfiction #naruto #thinknicht #morethanenemies #writing #advice #oc #feminism

[stepheny-stoker]

Your bio says requests are open, but Idk what kind of fics you write and I can't find any rules anywhere, so just ignore this request if it violates your rules or something. Could you do headcanons (or a short scenario, whichever you want) for Vladimir taking care of his human mate who is sick?

Vladimir would not understand the concept of a cold. He would eye you suspiciously and stay away for the first, let's say, 40 days. Just kidding, Ștefan would intervene and force him to attend to you, both because he cares about you and because he isn't too fond of sick humans, even if he knows vampires are safe.

Once Vladimir decides to help you, he does some extensive research on medicines and other remedies. He is amazed and taken aback by the ability of human doctors to cure illnesses.

This new-found faith in humanity leads to Vladimir not accepting the fact that there is no cure for the common cold.

If his mate had the common cold, may the gods help them. Vladimir will literally do anything to relieve their discomfort.

He will run to the chemist's and buy some drugs, then to the supermarket. He will ask every and each store clerk what they would buy for a sick loved one. In the end he will purchase some vegetables, fruits, tea and a new cozy blanket.

He would put the fire pit to use and cuddle with you while keeping you occupied, reading to you ancient stories or telling you anecdotes about his time as a king/emperor.

Their mate would love this because of the warmth of the fire but also the coldness of his chest. Cuddling with a vampire in front of the fire is like the most perfect of the cuddling scenarios.

If his mate has something more serious than the common cold, then Vladimir would force them to go to the best doctors in the country. He would bring along Ștefan, the designated driver.

He is very caring and loving and patient. He would stay by your side all the time until you fell better.

He would drop some hints about how awesome immortality is, and his mte would shot him a dark glare at first, but then they would slowly warm up to the idea.

Vladimir has lived through wars and other horrors, so he isn't afraid of the gross aspects of being sick. He would let you rest while he happily cleans. And this is coming from a former king/emperor, so it's a very big thing.

He would shower you with gifts. Simple things yet very delicate and effective, like a bath bomb of your favorite scent to make you look forward to bath time, or a snack of your liking to make you start eating normal again.

#romanian coven #bdp2 #twilight saga #vladimir and stefan #stefan #Volturi #twilight reinassence #twilight requests #twilight rant #twilight renewal #twilight realm

[lord-squiggletits]

Something I keep seeing when I speak to others about MTMTE Megatron is basically the idea that he's going on a personal journey to become a better person, that the point isn't for him to be "redeemed" but for him to get a chance to do good and die as a person he can live with again. That MTMTE presents a unique take on this because being away from Cybertron gives Megatron a chance to be a person rather than a political figure and this is how it gives him more depth as a character. Or just generally pointing out in a narrative sense that Megatron being in MTMTE limits his story options so of course his story is going to be more focused on a personal journey than on politics of him dealing with the Decepticons/Earth/etc and that just because JRO made a choice to take that path with Megatron doesn't mean that it's inherently bad.

And I'm just, mmm like I understand all of those points and acknowledge that they all contributed to the MTMTE Megatron we got. I even think that without JRO writing Megatron we wouldn't have had his lore be as fleshed out and 3D as it ended up becoming.

(Post starts out as a sort of meta analysis or at least me giving a reasoned explanation for my interpretation of the story, ends up being petty bitching in the last 1-2 paragraphs)

I just..... I just personally don't agree with the "he's becoming a better person by getting a chance to relax and experience happiness and trust after a life of trauma" as being the best choice for his character? Because the problem is that maybe if he were a random Decepticon foot soldier that would be appropriate, but he was literally the leader of the Decepticons that made them Like That and has political/cultural/societal responsibility for why things are the way they are? To be completely frank, I don't care about him going on a personal journey for self-peace, I think that he should become a better person by helping to un-fuck all the things he actually screwed up???

Like idc about the debate of whether he can be "redeemed" or if he should've been killed/imprisoned/etc at the ending. It just comes down to the fact that for me personally, I feel that since Megatron's wrongdoings were at a social level, him "being a better person" would've been better shown by him engaging with those people who he wronged instead of just going on a frigging personal journey for his legacy and self-peace???

Especially since in other series (exRID, possibly Windblade) we literally got plots like "the neutrals hate Autobots but they hate Decepticons even more" and "the Decepticons have been taken over by Galvatron and are now invading earth 2 electric boogaloo" and "yeah the Decepticons are literally living in slums because people hate them so much and won't give them any work." It just leaves me wondering why in the hell people are like, "oh Megatron got to be happy and have a chance to be a normal person." I don't want him to be normal! I want him to repay his debts to the people he actually wronged! Like if you want to cast Megatron as a hero of the people so badly (which so many of his stans do as if he actually cared about the Cons) then how do you reconcile the fact that Megatron just fucked off and left the Decepticons to suffer on Cybertron? Including some of them attacking during his trial and getting killed and Megatron is basically like "sorry, I'm not coming with you and this isn't going to work." And then Megatron complains about "toxic Decepticon loyalty" as if he didn't literally make them that way? Like I get that MTMTE Megatron is still an asshole but if you've read something besides MTMTE and know what the Decepticons are going through, it just ends up being really grating.

I just don't see Megatron as being a particularly good hero or having a particularly fulfilling story if he's completely isolated from all the bad things he did on Cybertron/the way the Decepticons are suffering until LL#25 where it's like "ah damn I'm going to trial now, well this is what I deserve so it's fine." Why could we not have seen something like Megatron trying to deradicalize the Decepticons or change their public image so they could integrate into normal Cybertron again? They were living in SLUMS and getting gunned down by Starscream's badgeless enforcers!

The best we got was the Functionist Universe but like.... I'm sorry, but JRO inventing a whole alternate universe for Megatron to save doesn't do jack shit to save or fix the people he left behind in this one. It was especially grating to read because JRO literally wrote in someone saying "you saved billions of lives from the Functionists" as if he was trying really hard to show how good Megatron is because he saved people (and also if not for Megatron existing Cybertron would be even worse and half of your faves would be enslaved or dead, also the Functionist Council was going to genocide organics too so technically they're WORSE than Megatron since they hate organics AND want to enslave their own race).

I read Barber's, JRO's, and MScott's series concurrently using the omnibus + a release order list for phase 3, and after all that I'm kind of puzzled why the fandom seems to ardently love MTMTE Megatron and think he's so well written but then also shit on Optimus for things that he did during the same points in the story? Because, and I know this is a blazing hot take, I honestly think that Optimus makes a better hero of his story than Megatron does for his, and Optimus' personal journey combines his personal and political identities into a narrative that's a lot more gruelling and questioning of his goodness than we got for Megatron in MTMTE. Which is fucking saying something considering Megatron committed crimes against sapient species and Optimus is the guy who tried to stop him from doing that and has always been pro-equal rights for all beings. But people pretty much just cherrypick things like Optimus annexing Earth or beating up Prowl and go "he's bad" and I'm like no??? IDW OP isn't a bad person or a bad character??? It's just that unlike MTMTE Megatron he's placed in a narrative that actually suits the nature of his actions and has themes that match. To the point that IMO sometimes Barber's narrative shits on Optimus excessively or paints him mainly in the most unflattering ways.

But like. It's just funny to me because Optimus spent his entire part of the story doing things like trying to stop Earth from being invaded/colonized yet again. Grappling with his identity as Prime and dealing with the fact that people literally worship him vs. the fact that his upbringing made him see the Primacy as nothing more than a facade of authority/leadership. Having people get mad at him for prioritizing politics over friendship/relationships with other people. Even getting shit on for being a cop a decent amount so people can STFU about IDW OP being "copaganda" or "not held responsible for his actions". The problems that Optimus dealt with were personal because they had to do with his self-doubt, culpability for the war as a leader of one of the armies, distance from his soldiers, etc. But all of these are also POLITICAL struggles. Because Optimus gave up on the chance to just be a normal person having personal struggles when he chose to become a LEADER, which also means that he's held to extremely high standards that he regularly fails at in the eyes of others.

That's why, to me, MTMTE Megatron falls flat in comparison and really as a "hero" or heel-face character in general? Because he also made a decision to be a leader, and IMO once you do things like become the commander of an army and start your own galactic empire, you lose the right to prioritize your personal problems and instead are obligated by the power you've chosen to wield to focus on your POLITICAL problems. If Megatron's power, influence, and crimes are of a social-political nature, then his heel-face turn arc and ways of showing that he's a better person/helping to heal what little damage he possibly can should have been shown with actions that help on a social-political LEVEL. That's why I'm not particularly impressed with his character arc and feel as if it was overhyped by other people in this fandom: sure, the extra character depth and emotion is nice, but I'm not really going to see him as extraordinary or even particularly good when the extent of him "becoming a better person" happens entirely on a random road trip to fuck-off nowhere. Especially not when the ending of LL tried to sell me a "they lived happily ever after" ending while basically leaving the freaking MUTINY as just Rodimus going "oh it's okay you're forgiven, we're all together again" and I guess everyone was fine with Megatron and wanted to spend an eternity on a ship with him just because Getaway died.

This is why I like (the concept/themes of) exRID/OP and the way Optimus' character arc was handled a lot more. Because for Optimus, the personal and the political were as one. He was held accountable for his actions towards others and the disruptive effects they had on a social level, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (the fucking "oh Megatron is an Autobot so now that makes the Autobots colonizers" plot and that stupid colonist screaming about how Optimus is "literally fascist" my beloathed). Even his very personal issues like his relationship with Zeta were still cast in a wider lens of, yeah this is a personal struggle that Orion faced, but he was still part of a Society TM and his actions were sometimes ill-informed or harmful to others. Even if I had a lot of problems with the way Optimus' story was written by Barber (plot holes, little meaningful character interaction, forced conflicts), at least the BASELINE of it was way better than Megatron's in MTMTE. Especially since Optimus' struggle was explictly about things like struggling with responsibility and how he feels he HAS to intervene in political affairs because has to save people/make up for his past mistakes. That's something that a good leader/good person actually does, so I found Optimus to be a better hero (even if his actions weren't all "good") because he was trying to be a good person by actually getting involved with Cybertron/Earth and subjecting himself to something he hates (leadership, war) and dealing with a shitload of criticism instead of just going on a fuckin "personal journey" lksdlkfsd.

Which just makes me extra salty that people hold up MTMTE Megatron as the pinnacle of Megatrons and literally the best Transformers writing evar! while turning up their nose and ignoring or outright despising IDW Optimus. Like okay. I guess since Megatron got handled with silk gloves on while Optimus got put through the wringer of being shit on by every other person in the story, it's easier for you to pretend that Megatron is a poor uwu boy who just needs friendship and love while Optimus is literally the worst bastard to ever exist. Or maybe it's just that since Optimus' story involves him sometimes fucking up, being criticized, or making things worse, that makes him morally bad. As opposed to Megatron who disrupted a lot of other characters' stories in MTMTE, had to have an entire alternate universe invented so that he could "save lives," and got to sail off on a quantum Lost Light happily ever after, so since he's happy and the story says he saved people that means he's a good hero.

#squiggposting #it started out sort of analytical but ended up bitchy #i also feel like for some reason my understanding of what a redemption arc is is different from others? #when i talk to people about it they keep saying 'well M can't make up for what he did' #and i'm like. no that's not what i mean by redemption arc #to me redemption arc literally just means 'a character goes from bad to good over the course of a story' #whether they're forgiven or if they can 'make up for it' objectively is irrelevant like #redemption arc is literally a common label used for the general trope so idk where this confusion is coming from? #also hot take when i say a character should be redeemed i'm literally not talking about wether they're forgiven or pardoned in universe #i just mean. as a reader. do i read their story arc and see them go from bad to good and progress in meaningful ways #do they do something. anything. to address or apologize or fix what they did #is there some sort of symbolic or literal sacrifice or act of service or any Good Thing even if it's only one single moment #then to me they've been redeemed in a narrative sense. it has nothing to do with whether they can literally compensate for hteir crimes #anyways. the tldr of this is that i don't hate mt/mte at all and i also don't hate idw M. i love them in fact #it's just i feel like i was severely let down by how much this fandom hyped and continues to hype mt/mte meg #(peg/gy the pirate spongebob meme voice) that's it? that's the M redemption arc? #that's just a guy going on a space road trip and being emo #mfs tried to tell me it was one of the best tf stories ever written and i'm like. yeah thanks but no #worse still ppl came out of m/tmte going 'actually M was right about everything' #and i'm like. shit take and you are spreading this nonsense everywhere including shitting on my faves w your bad takes #mfs wanna call M a hero of the ppl who at least cared about the cons when he literally left them for broke on cybertron #i don't think idw M had a good heel-face turn arc bc he didn't really like do anything meaningful in the wider scope of things #what if idw M achieved inner peace by protecting the cons and making sure they had rights post war. how about that #i mean for various reasons the story would've been more complicated than that due to editorial and company mandate bullshit #i just feel as if talking about the story narrative itself IDW M's redemption arc is far from remarkable #except for the fact that JRO dared to do it at all perhaps #(vine voice) that's my OPINION!!!!!

[thegreymoon]

The Story of Minglan

Oh my god.

This is her mother and baby brother who died because of all you losers in this house. Not some petty grievance.

He's literally the worst.

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LMAO, what does she mean, "No such thing happened!"

Everyone here was present for it! Who the hell is she lying to at this point?

With that said, looking at Sheng Hong's stupid face, it seems like he too is very willing to rewrite the past and act dumb about it and Minglan just has to go around reminding him of it.

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Thank you, Rulan, for not going along with this gaslighting and confirming that the emperor is indeed naked.

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You came at the BEST time!

Take her home and go no contact with all your shit family on both sides. You can keep Granny, Changbai, Rulan and Hualan, but disown the rest of them, please!

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LMAO, did you think every man is your piece of shit spineless father that you can bully and manipulate? The world is much bigger than you!

Also, you have got to love how quickly he turns on her too when his shitty reputation is at stake. He's so weak.

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LMAOOOOOO, HE DOESN'T KNOW!!

OH MY GOD, HE'S SUCH A DUMBASS 🤣🤣

Sure, your masculine prowess is so great, she just saw you by chance at the monastery and was OVERWHELMED with desire to have sex with you right then and there! And you were SO GOOD and your dick was SO GREAT, she had to keep coming back over and over, disguised as a maid! It had nothing to do with your wealth and status and social climbing at all!! 🤣🤣

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Whomst?

She has been here all of two seconds and is already insulting Minglan. Is there not a single decent person in this shit family?

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HOW ABOUT YOU WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN CRUSTY VAGINA AND STAY OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S SEX LIVES, HMM?

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Wait, she what?

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SHE HAS WHAT?

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MTE!!!!!

WHAT EVEN? WHAT???

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MINGLAN, WHAT DID YOU DO?

SO WHAT IF SHE IS A JEALOUS WIFE? SHE SHOULD HAVE SHOWN THEM JUST HOW JEALOUS, GOUGED THEIR EYES OUT, LEFT THEM TO BLEED TO DEATH AND THEN CALLED FOR GU TINGYE TO PROVIDE HER WITH A SHOVEL AND AN ALIBI!

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ARE YOU ALL FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?

I WAS EXPLICITLY TOLD GU TINGYE WOULD HAVE NO OTHER WOMEN EXCEPT MINGLAN. WHAT IN THE ABSOLUTE FUCK.

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IF HE DOESN'T WRECK SHIT RIGHT HERE AND NOW, I AM SO DONE WITH HIM AND THIS ENTIRE MARRIAGE.

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MINGLAN, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR ENTIRE DAMN MIND?

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OKAY, SOMEBODY SPOIL ME, WHEN DOES HE START MURDERING PEOPLE WITH OR WITHOUT MINGLAN'S HELP, I AM NOT PICKY 🤬🤬

I AM PISSED BEYOND WORDS.

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WHY ARE YOU STILL ARGUING, TINGYE?

KILL, KILL, KILL, STARTING WITH HER SHITTY ASS.

#the story of minglan #tsoml spoilers #tsoml ep52

[echthr0s]

the Monolithic Trans Experience (MTE(tm)) is funny to me because it’s like, you can’t say “oh I remember that from back when I was a girl” or “I used to be a girl but guess what, fuck that” or whatever. that’s not how transed gender works! babey you were Born This Way

well, yeah, I imagine that’s a great and affirming narrative for a lot of people, but here’s the thing. “when I was a girl” is an absolutely correct way to describe any experience I had from childhood through my first few years of adulthood. whatever I am now is not the same thing I was then, and that’s cool. life be like that sometimes. sometimes a person wakes up and realises they are not the same person that they were yesterday. (sometimes that happens a lot more literally than you’d imagine.) but that doesn’t somehow change the person I was. it’s not retroactive. I’m here now. someone else was there then. it’s logical for me to explain my experiences using that terminology.

there was a straight girl here once. there isn’t now. but she existed, and she was pretty cool when she wasn’t losin her fool ass mind about everything. I used to be a girl but guess what, fuck that. also I’m evil now

#singularity.txt

[yakumtsaki]

I love the absolute disaster that the Unions present without fail every damn time. The first heirpoll was already impossible to answer and now this??? There will be no salvaging these disaster children and I feel for you. Are Gunther and Daniel at least doing alright??? ily

lmaooo ty so much! ❤️❤️❤️ and god mte @ heir poll, im so glad choosing is not up to me bc i can’t do it to save my life, i have ‘serious’ concerns about both shajar and cyneswith. shajar is a very typical ‘me’ sim, like shes really my comfort zone but i feel shes not different enough from jojo and i dont want this to potentially get repetitive. im also starting to blv shes one of those ultra rare legit asexual sims and idk how she’s gonna procreate if she wins, and i dont want to like force her to get married if she doesnt want to. with cyneswith i have the opposite problem, which is ive no earthly idea how to write a romance sim with 10 nice points and idk if ill be able to make her funny. but if generation 2 is any indication, college is where things clear up so we’ll find out soon enough lol

gunther and daniel are doing gr8! def better than the main house lol. their respective lives are basically this, gunther and brit brit remain unemployed and besotted af with each other, they have acr sex about 20 times a day. daniel and melody are wholesome af, they’re always cuddling on the couch and they’re obsessed with their twins, literally the best parents ive ever played. i’ll do a spare update b4 we go off to college :)

#rr #Anonymous

[skold]

MTE. like. when you consider the songs tim produced were america, the divine infection, sinematic, and infamous. which have all specifically been compared to golden age of grotesque. yknow. perhaps because. THAT ALBUM WAS PRODUCED BY THE SAME DUDE. literally all i am asking is that people use critical thinking skills but alas

[radbadbi]

SMH they really think she’s worse than like S**ngr* 🙄 the miss o gin knee

mte lmao like yeah she’s ~problematic but we have MULTIPLE literal rapists thriving in this industry lmao

#Anonymous

[taylortruther]

Many jewish people, including myself: this is offensive, delete this garbage. Them: how dare you call me out. How dare you express discomfort. How dare you.

mte. they’re like, you’re just trying to make us look bad! they’re doing that all by themselves AND we’re literally just asking them to stop using dehumanizing language. what the fuck lmao 

#tw antisemitism