#Megs even tries

[k-martins]

Headcanon ITFS #5

We all agree that Yuji calls Megumi every cute nickname he can think of (darling, baby, honey, my love, my sweet pie, my cinnamon roll, my love, my dear, kitty, Megs, etc.) and Megumi internally always freaks out that this happens.

#Megs even tries #but he's not as creative or open as Yuji #I bet he'd have a nervous breakdown if he tried “yuu” #But Yuji loves him anyway #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #megumi fushiguro #fushiguro megumi #itafushi #itadori yuji #yuji itadori #fushiita #megumi x yuji #yuji x megumi #fushiguro x itadori #itadori x fushiguro #jjk headcanons #itfs headcanon #itfs

[money-and-dandellions]

So, Lester really is okay with himself dying huh.

He also admitted that Meg is like a bratty little sister to him.

Meg did too.

Admit that he is less annoying and did good and that she cares about him; she really does, she knows it.

#oh also he asked reyna out and she laughed at him #toa #lester papadopoulos #pjo #meg mccaffrey #sunflower siblings #love them #he died #and diana came to help #and 'pollo didn't really expect that she would be [that] worried #and meg really did worry about him #and he tried to hide just how much the poison got into him #just not to worry meg [even more] #the tyrants tomb

[albatris]

albatris oc showdown semifinal poll 2

Meg Thiele vs Alexis Anders!

Meg Thiele:

she/her

schizoid personality disorder

weird hermit who lives in the woods

has like twenty dogs and likes them more than most people

mad scientist mechanic specialising in illegal magic cars

Alexis Anders

it/he

alloaro

personal injuries lawyer and very stressed vampire

avid gardener and performer of sleight of hand magic

god of self-control

quiet, diplomatic and intensely kind

chronic pain but being so brave about it

murders only atrocious human bastards but still has an existential crisis about it

yearns to be human and in the sun again

#a rental car takes a left down rake street and disappears #undertow #meg is the only non rentalcar character left #I'm so sad that tris got defeated even if it was by alex 😭

[ziracona]

Sofia the First is so funny because it’s a kid’s Disney Jr Show for sure, but it’s like. Got so much going on. Like not just in the usual ‘be kind learn and grow’ way but like, all these 8 year olds are gonna grow up like “Well Mom actually I think the British Monarchy is in the wrong and should give back the royal jewels — it doesn’t matter if it’s important or been a long time. When Sofia found out the harvest crown actually had been taken by her family decades ago from the gnomes, she immediately just gave it back and apologized deeply for what they’d done even though they had their own centuries of tradition with it, because it wasn’t theirs, and brokered new social peace and cooperation between their communities and-”

#it’s so quietly progressive I lose it sometimes. Meg said ‘they stole it then’ when the crown was introduced and low and behold it WAS above #episode about imperialism 8 minutes later rofl 10/10 #Sofia the first #it’s so cool actually that they do that and it’s been that way from the start. Princess Things is like the number for episode 2 & then a #season later the same kid who was so mean gets an episode about wanting to do ice skating but it’s ‘feminine’ so he’s not supposed to and #she helps him do it even though he tried to stop her from doing Pegasus flying bc it was a Boy thing

[essektheylyss]

Being a good student is so fucking exhausting, but it's especially bad when you have to then explain to your mother that you've never actually been a good student, you were just Good At School, and those things are very different, before you get any sympathy and even then it's really just like, "But you're so smart, you're gonna do fine!" and it's like. all this for what.

#this is mostly a joke I was laughing that my mom tried to be like 'you were always a good student!' and I was like lmfao I Was Not Mother #anyway I've almost finished my. 16 readings for the week. #a good portion of those were not required but as mentioned this is good student hours #also they're interesting! they're really fascinating! but dear god I am tired. #I am also still ahead but like. at what cost. #honestly per week it's not even bad it's just keeping up the momentum. that's really the struggle. #megs vs mlis

[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!!!!!

[no1ryomafan]

Another giant robo related meme because I have brain rot even though I’m not rushing back to watch the last ep-if only because I have to finish new with my irls tomorrow and don’t wanna be burnt out bc this happened before-but I really wonder and fear for how many more “wtf is even happening” mechas there are and if each gets progressively more confusing.

#meg text #shitpost #getter robo armageddon #the big o #giant robo ova #the fact this pipeline goes from “imagawa involvement” to “random non Gundam or brave sunrise show” to “imagawa again” saids all #like this is connected in itself because someone told me the same staff as GR worked on Big O #and even if imagawa didn’t direct that they clearly carried over his batshit ideas #it’s really so fucking weird how Armageddon is the LEAST incomprehensive one here when it feels like a season 2 of a show but isn’t #it still has plot holes and insane shit and a big diversion from getter canon yet it tries to actually even itself out #meanwhile giant robo apparently had the issue of “this was the 6 part in a 7 part series that never got fully made” 😭 #not even shitting on imagawa there bc more people were likely at fault but HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN #(oh and big os production was smooth but cn asking for more action maybe caused the script to change a bit) #man if I ever get curious and watch Eva it’s probably gonna be so fucking normal compared to any of these

[dreamaze]

Who's that Pokémon? It’s Pikachu!      +

#mx7net #monsta x #hyungwon #minhyuk #inssaoppa #tuseral #usermowah #wabisarah #hijaehyukkies #wings.gifs #wings.original #i'm sorry for the lighting it was horrid i tried #i'm not sorry for the terrible pun it is meg approved #he is soooooo done with him and it's not even about the stickers or the obnoxious pikachu voice sldkfjsdlkfj #bestie beloveds!!! #💜💜

[garnet-xx-rose]

I may give Love Never Dies shit, but I will proudly say with my whole chest that the London Concert was one of the best nights of my life

#phantom of the opera #erik/christine #love never dies #The image of Erik in “Box 5” watching Christine sing his aria and her reaching out to him will be burned into my brain for eternity #just absolute chaos in the worst best way #It was the how they tried to redirect the show to make the characters more dynamic and sympathetic and it worked #But also the book is just so frustrating #You have Celinde singing her heart out and Norm's Erik being a pleading mess begging Christine for a second chance #And she's not even unconvinced cause she already doesnt like Raoul she just wants to see how serious Erik is about his proposal #Also Gustave was such a firecracker like the perfect mix of E/C as an offspring #And Meg was so sad cause she wanted both Erik AND Christine's attention #Like she was more so jealous of Gustave than jealous at Christine and was tired of the people she looked up to not caring about her #But yeah they took the Baby Daddy Drama to the MAX which is what I think is the best part of the show so I was thrilled

[rodismancave]

. wanting 2 write stuff for bad ending rodimus but it scares me soooo bad

#i love writing him as being self destructive. however #its like. a specific kind of self destructive yknow? #i don't really share in on the sentiment that he'd completely let himself go to the point EVERYONE can tell he's let himself go #but mostly those who spent a long period of time around him would absolutely notice the change. #roddy's the kind of guy to be self destructive in private. i think he's always had a bit of a drinking problem but always managed #to keep it well hidden. extremely high-functioning alcoholic ykno #i think he haaaaates being in tc's ship and i seriously dont think he ever tried to keep in touch with anyone. #hes very much the kind of guy who doesnt really talk to people if theyre not present or text him first #and after a while hed think texting them would be too awkward and sort of intruding in the life theyve made for themselves #i think ratchet's funeral is the 1 time he lets himself go enough for it to be clearly noticed that hes devastated #and i think him putting meg's rodimus star was both sentimentally charged and a way to rid himself of the last thing he had #that kept him stuck in that life #i still sort of think Drift asking him abt the jump is a tad bit cruel. seeing he's the one guy to notice rodimus is in that state #but theyre both stranded. they dont rlly know each other anymore. #also to add to the funeral: rodimus 100% waited for the ceremony to be over so nobody else would get around seeing him in that state #i highly doubt he even wanted drift to see him like that considering he didnt even spend that long before trying to dip #anyway #those r my 2 cents. i guess. oops #ooc / misty forest

[money-and-dandellions]

Lester didn't understand that Meg launched herself onto the Tarquin in order to save him (because this is Meg why would she— he doesn't really deserve it does he he is such a terrible friend and he is fine with himself dying) until he was told about it by Meg.

Meg who feels guilty that Lester is dying and she doesn't want to lose someone else who is important dear to her.

oh yeah and they hugged

and Meg cried

and Lester tried to reassure her that he is going to live despite not knowing if he will .

#meg mccaffrey #sunflower siblings #toa #lester papadopoulos #love them so much #they make me cry #she is worried about him #they make each other cry #they care about each other so much #oh he also he doesn't really know what he means #he didn't really have one #until now #and he is not really bothered by himself dying #he has changed #he also tried to save his companions by making thm leave him #and he didn't even like concentrate on it like !!!! write it down i am saving people #proud of him #and meg just said nope #we are not leaving you here #the tyrants tomb

[transingthoseformers]

Sorry, I just had the hilarious image of it it was JetOP of Starscream and Megatron bonding over them, both being absolutely offended over who their exes new man is.

Starscream has opinions about Jetfire going for the Prime. Red-white-and-blue and a nerd with feral tendencies! Starscream is not blind.

Megatron just vividly wanting Jetfire dead.

It's one of their rare in sync moments, and everyone would really prefer it was over something different. Soundwave who has hated Orion Pax for years regrets, once more, that he simply didn't block young OP.

No

Starscream is not blind, and he's busy having a fit right alongside Megatron, and everyone's so tired of this immediately

They're both wayyyy not over their exes, and the Nemesis is just getting so trashed from this. So many broken screens.

I immediately got the image of Megatronus and Orion Pax texting each other lovey dovey style and Soundwave (who has exactly hacked Megatron's datapad password because Megs used a shit password) contemplated blocking Orion's number.

#jetop #rare pair #maccadam #transformers #tfp megatron #tfp starscream #tfp optimus prime #Jetfire #tfp soundwave #he was also tempted to assassinate him #he restrained himself because unlike Ratchet he tries to stay out of megatronus/Megatron's love life #and Megs doesn't have the same track record of bad dating taste that Orion and Jetfire seem to have #so he reluctantly let it slide. even though he hated orion. #kobd are just watching this all go down in the corner giving their leader and sic the side eye and holding energon margaritas

[megapwnus]

each time i see art of rodimus and bumblebee fighting i get closer to sitting down and outlining my hot rod & bumblebee sibling au

#wherein optimus is both their mentor and shit father figure #and ratchet is a concerned uncle type #and bee and roddy have weird relationships w megatron who tries to recruit both of them #bee turns him down ofc bc he believes in op more than rod #rod feels neglected by op or less favored #so listens to megatrons empty promises more #bc megatron gives him the attention he craves #anyway then enter the sentinel prime stuff w nyon #that... was sentinel right #anyway #i need to actually go read that part instead of just reading the wiki #furthermore.... #the relationship between bee and magnus is contentious bc magnus essentialy 'sides' with roddy #also i wanna put more weird emphasis on megs killing roddy when he goes to steal the matrix back #like the one guy who did believe in him at one point meant sth even if he rejected him (and became more bitter and jaded bc of it) and then #he kills him #also #roddy stealing the matrix back is like him atoning for the failure of op and double whammy spitting in bees face #me: im never gonna write all this out #me in the tags of this post: uhhhhh so then in chapter 64-- #megapwnus original tm #<- so i can find this later

[essektheylyss]

Brother Dradin Kashmir might only be like 27 but he absolutely should not be at the club, he is not cut out for the club, he does not have the clubber's temperament, and unfortunately he is, right now, on his way to the club 😔

#ambergris trilogy #he's literally the WORST who is letting him do this #(dvorak 😔) #cadimon tried so hard to help him but he can't even listen to sense #for the record? cadimon: an icon. what a bastard. instant fave. #megs is reading

[lord-squiggletits]

You know, I think my thing about liking “asshole Megatron” more than “good Megatron” (speaking in terms of IDW1) isn’t just the fact that I find evil Megatron more entertaining and sexy, but that I suppose I don’t like the way good guy/Autobot Megatron’s personality is?

Like mmmm I’m not trying to be one of those people who goes “he’s OOC!” or “he’s such a wimp!” or “he’s evil and doesn’t deserve to be redeemed,” but there was just something slightly grating about the way Megatron is/acts in MTMTE/LL. If I had to pick a word for it, he just seems very... self-pitying? Ratchet said it perfectly while the DJD were attacking and he told Megatron “Oh of course it’s all about you, what a surprise.”

There’s something about Autobot Megatron that makes me hate him as a person, not like in a “haha what a pathetic bastard” way the way I see villain Megatron, but in a way that’s like “god you are so fucking stuck up and annoying” in a non-enjoyable way. Maybe it’s because Autobot Megatron was a last minute plot change and I’m sensing how JRO “forced” Megatron to be part of the narrative last minute? But that would just be a matter of shoddy writing, and MTMTE/LL aren’t shoddily written.

It’s presumptuous to try and assume the motivation of an author, but I guess it kind of feels like JRO was trying so hard to make Megatron a better person that it backfired and made him more unlikeable in my eyes. Like, Megatron’s dialogue about how if he goes back towards violence he’ll never come back out again because the guilt will be too much is poetic yeah, it’s a very cute notion, but the context is that the fucking DJD (who Megatron made) is attacking and killing members of the Lost Light (who Megatron is in charge of) and was it supposed to make me think of Megatron as noble or pitiable or something? Because instead it just pissed me off and made me want to scream “this isn’t fucking about you Megatron, stop being an angsty mope and DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR ONCE instead of crying about how hard it is for you to not enjoy killing people.”

It’s fucking weird because I of course love the concept of redeemable Megatron, and I’m fascinated with the way in which he adopted violence as a coping mechanism for trauma, but the way he’s written in MTMTE/LL just makes him seem more like he’s a self-justifying asshole trying to make pitiable attempts at good deeds than like he’s actually improving as a person. Which of course is a problem caused by the fact that JRO shoved him into the plot last minute and it didn’t actually make sense for Megatron to be on the Lost Light.

#squiggposting #negativity #like deadass i don't get how so many people loooooove mtmte megs because like yeah there are really good moments #but as a person megatron is so annoying and self righteous and kind of whiney and is basically pointless to the plot to begin with #if you took him out of mtmte/ll i don't think the NARRATIVE AS A WHOLE would have lost anything worth keeping #like idk i'm trying really hard to avoid punitive and judgmental language when talking about meg/atron but just #he really really really annoys me the way he acts and how the fandom thinks that he's so precious and sad and such a good person #yeah he's less of a piece of shit than he used to be but he's still kind of a POS lol #he's so out of place in the narrative that JRO had to invent an entire alternate universe just to give him something heroic to do #meg/atron didn't even make reparations in the universe he fucked up #he just got an alternate universe made just for him for him to save instead #that's not justice that's not redemption that's not him compensating for what he did #CONCEPTUALLY YES redeemed megs is good #JRO did indeed do a lot to flesh out megs as a person #but overall he's like so fucking annoying actually and i feel like he's actually so fucking pathetic as an autobot #but everyone else seems to think he's a precious bb who tried so hard and is such a good person now #there are whole armies of meg stans who try to act like he did nothing wrong and he's god's gift to cybertron/the plot #he's really not BUT when i look at the plot of mtmte/ll i say to myself #'i see exactly why the fandom stans see megs the way they do' #because the whole story after megs comes in has this vibe of making excuses for him and trying to soften him #giving him superficial moments and forced plotlines that make him the hero of an entire alternate universe #THE UNIVERSE LITERALLY REVOLVES AROUND WHETHER MEGA EXISTS OR NOT #sure megs is punished in universe by people hating him and going off to be executed at the end #but in terms of structure and aborted plot lines (looking at you mutiny arc) the story bends to soften mega/tron and give him every chance #and it just feels.... cheap #it's one of those things where if i ignore my opinion i can enjoy the story i'm given #but if i look at it with a critical eye i'm like 'this isn't actually Pure Perfection Incarnate and actually kind of annoys me'

[no1ryomafan]

The urge to not be the most annoying person ever when Gurren Lagann is mentioned by anyone randomly and I get the urge to scream “DID YOU KNOW GETTER ROBO IS A INFLUENCE ON IT” because every instance it’s always unprompted, probably not getting the person interested and it’s not like I even watched Gurren to make justifiable comparisons nor do I know when the fuck I will.

#meg text #getter robo #I will say aside from me this by itself is yet another annoying misconception getter has but worsely applied to GL #the creator was ishikawas editor so he did took the most influence out of respect but it’s ALSO just inspired by a lot of mecha #it’s a mecha love letter but somehow only made people who were curious about wtf inspired it mecha fans #where as most other people call it peak and never watch any other mecha which is why it off puts me #I’m not someone who hates it just for that bc I don’t do it with Eva since that whole thing DUMB even if I get the damage it’s done #but it is annoying to see something so hugely popular and no one gives its creative influences that are just as good a look #but also this goes back to my continued mountain of salt of “man no one talks about how significant getter is to old anime culture” #I will probably try to watch it one day but fuck knows when and please don’t enforce it on me #I have so much shit I need to watch or feel pressured to watch #(also another thing that off puts me even if it’s not related to the show itself is uh- when I first tried to watch it I was sick💀) #on my birthday too #that said if I did watch it I’d probably have a easier time talking to anime fans irl but I can’t make anything easy on myself #rejecting popular things besides a select few until I die (die as in when I finally care to try it)