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thexphial · 30 days

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An excellent rundown from The Stranger on JKR's Holocaust denial. As a Jewish woman who lost actual family in the Holocaust, her twisting of the narrative is genuinely offensive and harmful.

Hey all, it’s Vivian. If you've freed yourself from wandering the wasteland of weirdos and robots on x.com, you may not have seen a series of tweets from JK Rowling about trans people and the Nazis. Rowling first questioned if Nazis ever burned research on trans people (they did) and then linked a thread excoriating problematic grandaddies in the field, implying that trans medicine carried on a eugenic or Nazi legacy of human experimentation (it doesn't). I really hate inaccurate history, so I called someone who actually knows what the hell they're talking about, University of Washington's Laurie Marhoefer, the leading expert on trans people and the Nazis. You just can't unpack this complicated, nuanced bit of history in a tweet.

A memorial in Tel Aviv dedicated to the LGBTQ victims of the Holocaust. URIEL SINAI / GETTY

Yes, JK Rowling, the Nazis Did Persecute Trans People

We Asked the Leading Expert on the Topicallot Initiative Success in Western VIVIAN MCCALL Last week, children's book author JK Rowling tweeted some more nonsense about transgender people. In this case, she disputed the fact that Nazis destroyed early research on the community:

Despite Rowling’s dismissal, it is an established fact–not a fever dream–that the Nazis persecuted transgender people. And it’s not the first time this debate has come up on social media. Denying this history is part of an overall effort to discount the discrimination trans people still face in their pursuit of fundamental rights today. It is important to remember the truth and to evaluate what research we have, especially at a time when far-right attacks against trans people are increasing in the United States and elsewhere.

The Looting and Burning

In 1933, the Nazi-supporting youth with the German Student Union and SA paramilitary looted the Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) in Berlin. The institute collected the earliest known research on gay and transgender people, and it helped people obtain legal name changes, medical treatments, and “transvestite certificates” from local police that allowed them legally to present as their gender.

Days after the looting, Nazis took to the streets to burn the 20,000 books looters found inside the building, and they placed a bust of the institute’s founder, Magnus Hirschfeld, on the pile in effigy. Hirschfeld was out of the country at the time, but he later died in exile in 1935.

In the years that followed, trans people were busted under German laws criminalizing sodomy and wearing clothes associated with their birth sex. They were imprisoned in concentration camps before and after the start of World War II. Some were murdered there. Others escaped with their lives.

We’ve Been Here Before

Since Rowling posted about the subject on x.com, misinformation about trans people in Nazi Germany has circulated widely. Some people have also claimed that the discussion of trans victims of Nazi violence distracts from the “real victims” of National Socialism. In light of this discourse, I called the leading researcher studying trans people and the Nazis, University of Washington professor Laurie Marhoefer.

“My first reaction was, they’re totally wrong,” Marhoefer said of the posts. “They’re not even in the ballpark. My reaction 1.5 was, ‘Oh this is eerie, the same thing happened in Germany two years ago.’”

Back in July of 2022, a graduate biology student named Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, who was known for her “gender critical” anti-trans views, made headlines in Germany.

She tweeted that the Nazis had never targeted trans people, and to say they did “mock[ed] the true victims of the Nazi crimes.” People responded with a hashtag that claimed she denied Nazi crimes. Vollbrecht filed a lawsuit against some of them, claiming their hashtag violated her rights and basically called her a holocaust-denier, which is a crime in Germany. She lost her case, and, after parsing the historical facts, the court officially recognized trans people as Nazi victims. A few months later, Germany’s parliament issued a statement recognizing the queer victims of Nazis and of post-war persecution.

We Don’t Know Much, but What We Do Know Is Grim

That ruling aside, this history is by no means complete. Scholars still don’t know much about the lives of trans people in Nazi Germany. Researchers have only recently started to study the subject and to undo false assumptions that cis gay men and transgender women were essentially viewed as the same in the eyes of their oppressors.

Through years of research and the review of published literature, Marhoefer has identified 27 criminal cases involving trans men, women, and gender nonconforming people in Nazi Germany. Locating them is hard work, and it requires parsing heaps of documents in non-keyword-searchable archives to find police files on a very small group of people that did everything in their power to avoid police detection. Marhoefer has 30,000 Gestapo files on their laptop alone. The little we do know, so far, is grim.

According to research from Marhoefer, beginning in 1933, Hamburg police were instructed to send “transvestites” to concentration camps. A person named H. Bode lived in the city, dated men, dressed in women’s clothes, and once held a “transvestite” certificate. After multiple public indecency and public nuisance convictions, she was sent to Buchenwald, where she died in 1943. Liddy Bacroff, a trans sex worker in Hamburg, died at Mauthausen the same year. Officials sent her there because she was a “morals criminal of the worst sort.”

Essen police ordered Toni Simon to stop wearing women's clothes, as she had done for years. She served a year in prison for disrespecting police officers, hanging out with gays, and speaking against the regime. The authorities called Simon a “pronounced transvestite,” and a Gestapo officer said placement in a concentration camp was “absolutely necessary.” She ultimately survived.

Unlike today, Marhoefer said, trans people were never a front-and-center political issue for the Nazis, nor were they rounded up in the same systematic way as Jews or the Roma. Nevertheless, the Nazis did specifically target them for their gender identities. On a fundamental level, transness was incongruous with Nazi ideology, a hyper-masculine fascism that emphasized purity and traditional gender roles.

The enforcement of moral laws prevented them from living as they did in the Weimar Republic era, the democratic government in power before Adolf Hitler and a time of limited acceptance. Magazines, nightclubs such as the Eldorado, and nascent organizations for trans people were shuttered. The state forced detransition, revoking a permit from at least one person named Gerd R. and driving them to suicide.

“I think we expect the crackdown, and then it’s all over their media, but it’s quiet,” Marhoefer said. “How many in a camp do we have to find before people will be like, ‘Okay, there was persecution?’”

While the Nazis did not often discuss transness much, at least one 1938 book, Ein Beitrag zum Problem des Transvestitismus, provides some idea of how party officials thought about trans people.

Author Hermann Ferdinand Voss described trans people as “asocial” and likely criminals, which justified “draconian measures by the state.” Nazi rhetoric also linked trans women and pedophilia, which mirrors the contemporary allegations from conservative Republicans about trans and queer people “grooming” children.

When they came after Hirschfeld, who was gay and Jewish, propagandists also framed homosexuality as a Jewish plot to feminize men and to destroy the race. Years before Nazis stormed his institute, the pro-party newspaper Der Stürmer labeled him the most dangerous Jew in Germany, which brings us to another point Rowling shared in a thread on X.

Problematic Granddaddies

After x.com users told Rowling that Nazis did, in fact, persecute trans people and burn research about them, she accused people who corrected her of valorizing Hirschfeld, rather than doing what they were actually doing, which was simply correcting the record.

Indeed, Hirschfeld, the granddaddy of the gay rights movement and a pioneer for trans health care, was a eugenicist. Furthermore, the early practitioner of vaginoplasty, Erwin Gohrbandt, who operated on Lili Elbe of The Danish Girl fame, was a Nazi collaborator connected to Dachau.

History rightly doesn’t look back on eugenicists and Nazi collaborators fondly, but those facts have nothing to do with whether or not Nazis persecuted trans people or burned research.

Apparently unsatisfied with spreading historical misinformation in one instance, Rowling followed-up with a tweet that directed users to a “thread on the persistent claims about trans people and the Nazis.” The thread implies that trans medicine is eugenic or Nazi in some way, and it draws a false connection between gender-affirming care and tortuous human experiments in the camps.

Broadly, the thread argues that early trans medical care constituted medical malpractice and the development of a new kind of sterilization in the form of gender-affirming genital surgery, and it contends that Gohrbandt performed his early vaginoplasties with the same regard for humanity as he displayed in his later work with the Nazis.

But the beliefs of these flawed medical pioneers have no bearing on trans people or trans politics, and conflating modern gender-affirming care with this early experimental treatment ignores the state violence trans people faced at the hands of the Nazis.

Despite Hirschfeld’s contributions to the field, people are right to criticize him for seeing the world through the lens of eugenics, even if that view was common in the 1930s.

Marhoefer literally wrote the book on his eugenic beliefs. Hirschfeld thought that gayness was eugenically beneficial because queer people did not reproduce, but he made no eugenic arguments for or against his work with trans people. He dedicated one of his books to eugenics, and he believed they sat at the heart of the science of sexology. And while he was critical of scientific racism, you can find anti-Black statements in his work, too, Marhoefer said.

Moreover, while Hirschfeld’s writings suggest he empathized with trans people and wanted to alleviate their suffering, he still staked a career on them. He photographed trans people in demeaning ways and trotted them out for demonstrations in front of other doctors.

It’s important to remember that Hirschfeld did not invent or create transness. The community existed before he discovered it, and the trans people themselves were not advocating for eugenic sterilization. The man was a trailblazer, not a saint. In fact, his approach to trans medicine laid the foundation for a system that forces people to jump through hoops for medical care. To this day, the majority of people who do trans medicine are not transgender themselves, and they do not always have the best interests of trans people at heart, Marhoefer said.

Gohrbandt would certainly make a list of medical practitioners who did not always have the best interests of trans people at heart. The pioneering plastic surgeon’s career bloomed along with his field, which quickly advanced to treat disfiguring battlefield injuries from World War I. He did not work at the institute, and because the surgeries were still very rare, he didn’t make a living performing them, Marhoefer said. We can count on one hand the number of gender-affirming surgeries he performed.

Unlike the Jewish and leftist doctors he worked with, Gohrbandt did not have to flee Germany. He endorsed the regime and later became the chief medical advisor for the Luftwaffe’s sanitary services division. In 1942, he participated in a secret conference on the results of fatal hypothermia experiments performed on Holocaust victims, and later reported the results in a German surgical journal.

Marhoefer said it is not strange that a future Nazi worked with progressive Jews on gender-affirming care in the 1920s. Many German doctors backed the regime and committed atrocities because they wanted careers.

There’s no defending Gohrbandt, but his path does not suggest anything unique and nefarious about gender-affirming care. It says more about the heartbreaking situation these trans people found themselves in when even the few doctors they could turn to for medical care treated them with disdain.

Marhoefer said doctors of the day took advantage of desperate women such as Elbe, Dora Richter, and Charlotte Charlaque, who was Jewish and fled the Nazis. They endured experimental surgeries with no oversight before antibiotics, patients’ rights, or ethics protections. Many doctors saw them as a means to an end in the overall development of plastic surgery.

What All of This Is Really About

Trans persecution is simply one story in a much larger one about the Holocaust. Trans people today who point out this history as right-wing attacks against them intensify around the world are not erasing the murder of Jews and Roma in concentration camps, or the extermination of disabled people, or the deaths of millions of Soviet POWS in Nazi Germany’s murderous campaign to seize eastern territory and farmland.

But this conversation is not really about Nazis any more than constant squabbles over gender-affirming care are about children. Nor does it honor victims of Nazi crimes.

No information, scholarship, or detailed account of a complicated history can satisfy someone who is fundamentally opposed to a person existing as they do. No number of mainstream medical organizations that again and again defend the efficacy of gender-affirming care can assuage their doubts. The benchmark for correctness is constantly moving and shifting, and the argument has no logical endpoint.

Meanwhile, ordinary trans people who rise to their own defense are labeled activists and needled for their wording, or their temperament, or their appearance, or the smallest misstatement.

At the same time, people like Rowling expect transgender laypeople to possess the knowledge of Holocaust researchers, of doctors, of psychologists, and of public policy experts. Every week, it seems, anti-trans interests push out another poorly researched hit meant to undermine the community’s existence in some way. It is trolling, and it is exhausting, and that’s all it is.

#jk rowling #jkr #holocaust denial #book burning #magnus hirschfeld #anti-trans rhetoric

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puhpandas · 3 months

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Honestly you've probably gotten this ask or something similar before, but I offer you my Beckory crumbs anyway. Don't feel the need to post this or anything, I just wanted to rattle this off somewhere lol.

Lately I've been bouncing a concept around in my brain where Tony and Gregory are both controlled by Afton, which leaves Ellis and Monty as the heroes of the adjacent Security Breach.

Maybe instead of Tony presumably dying or at the very least getting attacked at the ending of GGY by Gregory, he's instead pulled into the same mind control and the two end up as partners in crime. Both boys subsequently go missing instead of continuing their daily lives, prompting Ellis to go searching for his best friends in the last place anyone had seen them at. There, he meets a decommissioned Monty Gator who, due to not being on because of Glamrock Bonnie's very abrupt (and painful) return to the spotlight, is the only one not controlled by the virus. They navigate through the Pizzaplex together similarly to how Gregory and Glamrock Freddy do in the game, which according to Monty has pretty much been flipped upside-down.

I wanna say Tony reappears pretty quickly, like a stand-in for Vanessa, but leaning more into the "deceptively kind" aspect, as he tries to trick Ellis into walking right into his death. Likewise Gregory, or GGY/Dr. Rabbit is the replacement for Vanny, and actively pursues Ellis with clear intentions. From there it's up to Ellis to either try and find a way to free his friends from their curse, or to end them, or even escape altogether without looking back. There's presumably a whole confrontation between Monty and Bonnie, Dr. Rabbit takes Freddy's head after they manage to decommission his body, Ellis does lots of reflecting through the course of the events on how he kinda acted shitty towards Tony and regrets letting him dig so deeply into things on his own to where he ended up like this.

Also had the thought on the topic of Tony and Gregory working as a sort of double "Vanessa/Vanny" unit respectively, Tony's costume would be a bear to play into the parallels between Fronnie and Beckory. Maybe Vanessa replaces Cassie, or hell, maybe even Crystal, Luis or Cassie's dad. Not sure, it's just my excuse to have an AU where Beckory are evil boyfriends and are shadowed by their equally as evil gay robotic parental figures. Is it cliché? Yeah, absolutely, but them both being mentally brainwashed and still simultaneously being able to finally navigate their feelings for one another is a really tasty concept to me.

AGH YES I've thought about a glitchtrapped tony au where he and Gregory are under the virus at the same time and have to deal with that and have little moments where they're free together and are able to be miserable and scared as themselves. of course Tony's name would be Tarbell. I've never done much with that au but man... this is making me think more about glitchtrapped tony

ellis protag with a monty plot with bonnie is so interesting and it gives screentime to everyone and everything. in my au I had Gregory accidentally free himself and then in sb he would want to free both tony and vanny who are working together against him but seeing glitchtrapped beckory in action next to eachother is a great idea

#pandas.txt #pandas talks #pandas asks #au #glitchtrapped tony #beckory #gregory #tony #ellis #monty

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themaarika · 10 months

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I love how when you play Signalis it's all "this is hell, you cannot escape your fate, you tried you tried you tried, but it'll never be enough" but then you and the other artists in the fandom take this hellscape and make it all soft and cuddly and "look at them being happy" and "omg cute lesbian robot memes!" and I just want to know I appreciate your contributions so much

thank you anon <3<3

i'm sorry (no i'm not 😈) to everyone that saw my cute signalis fanart and played the game only to find out that it's a SURVIVAL HORROR game. the horrors won't stop me from putting elster and ariane into cute & gay situations.

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clanker-66 · 1 year

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Poorly describe your favorite series, movie, or game so others can guess what it is.

I'll start:

Buff woman goes to prison and befrends plankton. She tries to escape, but her dad's in a coma. She learns evil priest is behind it. Evil priest wants to genocide everyone and gets a new ability. Buff woman escapes, but plankton dies. Evil priest plays mario galaxy at nasa. Evil priest destroys time, but ghost boi survives. Ghost boi kills evil priest before he destroys time without causing a grandfather paradox. Disappointing ending.

Fountain of youth destroyed in 10/10 scene.

Prisoners with geometric heads collect green rocks to save hat man from evil hat only to drown him.

War crimes committed by space monks and their army of genetically identical child soldier army.

Why is English still spoken in the year 3,000? Also, lobster goes unappreciated.

A twink, an ex-cop, a gambling addict, a transfem hacker, and the best cowboy bounty hunt in space.

Explore a ps5 as a robot.

Hitmen from hell work for a gay owl.

WOOKIEE LIFE DEBTS FOR EVERYONE!

Accidental checkmates.

#interactive #dank memes #memes #guessing game #funny #jojo's bizarre adventure #pirates of the caribbean #battleblock theater #clone wars #futurama #cowboy bebop #astro's playroom #helluva boss #republic commando #5d chess

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nanoland · 1 year

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hawking my wares and wawking my hares

hello would you like to buy some books

my name is nano! my books are mostly fantasy, scifi, or romance, although i did recently publish a thriller. yay. i’m indie and i sell my stuff on amazon. right now, i’ve got… idk like 50 stories of varying lengths up on my storefront, ranging from 5K short stories to 120K novels.

here’s a list of my novel-length books, with microblurbs:

Crunch

there’s an earthquake in Sacramento and a journalist tries not to get squashed, with middling success

Every Wickedness

a demon goes to war with heaven and hell, is extremely gay in the process

Lovequake

a cosmic horror falls in love with a welsh guy

Our New King

a gardener becomes king, does not care for it

Hot Air

silly silver age-type supervillain falls in love with gritty 90s superhero

Good as Gold

superhero falls in love with ALL his villains oops

The Tools That Ran Away

robots come to earth and give everyone a very bad day

Eternity’s Sunrise

god goes missing and the angels do not handle it very well

Hopeless Henry

a depressed guy’s village gets destroyed by a mudslide

AND

Dough

what if the only way to escape bankruptcy was to make porn with your worst enemy? (coming December 23rd, available for preorder!)

if you do check any of these out, i’d be real grateful if you’d consider leaving a review. either way, thank! <3

#books #bookblr #writeblr #romance novels #scifi novels #fantasy novels #indie publishing #queer romance #lgbtq books

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adhbombus · 4 months

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LOUD SCREAMING HOLY SHIT AAAAAAAA

To try to dictate my thoughts first of all zombie plot hell yeah dude the puff ball and golf ball scene amazing

Pie fucking Pie cameo I love her dammit dictation isn’t picking up my words correctly. It’s making me so angry because I’m already full of emotions from the episode. Hello the numbers are canon and one is here they were in the fucking moon

So nine skateboard and I haven’t seen them skating since they lost their shades, so I’m wondering if Four just stole it and kept it in the art room I like the conclusion of eraser in teardrops rivalry, ending similar to what Blocky and Woody had

I am loving the friendship that Junior and eight ball has, as well as David and Roboty

I love that Two’s elimination area kind of resembles the Hey Two song’s art style. And don’t get me started Gaty caring a lot about Two. In my previous post intentioned that for an ex, and Clark’s little fishing trip is very gay and silly. It was a nice absurd joke break for the seriousness of the episode. I loved when rubber spatula recovered snowball just to bite him and fuck dude the spotty Wi-Fi in the steakhouse causing fuck sorry I just remembered that the flash back scene said April 2020 and one exploding out of the moon is present day so a lot of shit happened between that three years of shit to be specific. Oh my fucking God I screamed so loud that reveal it’s literally almost midnight. I have a sore throat there are people sleeping in the adjacent rooms and the baby in the house. I am the worst housemate ever fucking hell. I tell you what the episode genuinely tired me out from all of the emotions and I’m ready to go to bed, but can we talk about Pen and Eraser I’m so ready to put TV on my shipping chart. She’s already on there with robot flower as mechanical minds gods and robot flower teaming up with the zombies. Hilarious.

David and Roboty the sillies he cares so much. Also, I think it’s interesting That Bracelety understands him they’re on the same wave length good for them good for them and fucking Match and Pencil. My girlies got split up but it’s okay because they can spend as much time together when they get out as they want. And judging by the timeline, they’ve probably escaped by now and are having their gay little lesbian dates and trying to smooth things over with Bubble with Ruby‘s help and Flower too they were probably so confused about Flower being such a different person than she was when they were eliminated.

Yall, I’m so fucking autistic about these gay ass inanimate fucking objects and I love it. I was literally biting my cushion while watching the episode. I stopped drawing I dropped my tablet. It’s OK though nothing broke. It was not that big of a fall. Fuck guys I have a headache. And that’s all the thoughts I have for now I didn’t hear it probably because I was screaming, but One said something because they have a voice credit at the end of the Stinger.

After I’ve decided that I’m done with this I’m going to peruse the spoilers tag for yummy yummy content and try to be quiet

#bfdi #bee talks #tpot #tpot spoilers

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hadeantaiga · 10 months

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Henlo hope you're having a great weekend! So uhm in case you're in any time up for more breaking down of terf/radfem bullshit I have some particulary awful receipts 👀

(Comparing being trans to BIID and Amputation Fetish??)

https://www.tumblr.com/sowhatnotcreative/721208090257735680

(Calling men these souless and horrible creatures over her own prejudices 🙃)

https://www.tumblr.com/sowhatnotcreative/721277805260914688/

(Unironically calling up for "Androcide" or at the very least for Matriarcal Totalitarism as the only means to "escape" the patriarcy)

https://www.tumblr.com/sowhatnotcreative/721036955767439360

(Literally straight up calling/implying gay/bi men as a whole are inherent pedophiles over annecdotal shit "But It's OKAY Gurls it's not because they're queer men it's becuz they're MoIdS 🤓")

https://www.tumblr.com/sowhatnotcreative/721026890468589568

Also as a little last note so this doesn't end in a negative note: this one Terf i'm taking all the post from, is the same one that tried to own Neil fucking Gaiman with a bad faith ask as a horrible misogynist or whatever, and got destroyed beautifully instead lmao

https://www.tumblr.com/thefloatingstone/719857099410128896/

A fun game to play with these is "Do I already have the TERF blocked?"

The answer is yes, I do lol.

So the first link is a lot of fearmongering about "What if kids could identify as amputees and get their limbs mutilated!? Also, anyone with BIID and ALL "trans" people are fetishists!"

There's so much wrong here but first of all, there's nothing wrong with having a fetish. End of statement. If you engage in your fetish in a way where you and anyone else involved comes away from it happy and fulfilled, I do not give a fuck what you're doing behind closed doors.

As for BIID, she didn't mention the outcomes of the two patients who underwent the surgery with that doctor, nor did she mention the outcomes of any other person with BIID who has successfully achieved their goals. I sure as hell can't speak definitively on it either; I've read news articles and everyone in those stories was completely happy with what they'd done to themselves. But that's probably a biased sample group; I imagine anyone who regretted their choices wouldn't be as open to speaking about it.

Basically: there is very little research into BIID because it's so goddamned taboo to even think about, but people who HAVE spoken on it are completely happy with their choices.

This might seem weird to admit but I've had daydreams about going blind or deaf, needing a wheelchair, or losing a limb, and enjoying it, and how I'd live and adapt. I bet a LOT of people have such daydreams, but we're all told it's "gross" and "mentally disturbed" and "mutilation" etc etc, so no one ever talks about this shit.

I also think about voluntary body modification from a sci-fi perspective. If I lived in a cyberpunk world or a future world where cyber limbs were a thing, would I voluntarily go hack off a healthy limb to get a cool robot arm?

Fucking yes I would.

And maybe that's related to my perspective as a trans person who is already completely comfortable with the idea of more "extreme" forms of body modification beyond tattoos and piercings. I don't have any problem with people who get dermal implants or do scarification or who get surgery to turn their ears pointed or who split their tongues, or top surgery or bottom surgery etc etc.

IDK man, my perspective is, it's their body, let them do whatever the fuck they want to it.

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Links #2, 3 and 4 are just her projecting her trauma onto innocent human beings so she can dehumanize them. She should get therapy about that.

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The final link is fucking hilarious and I love Neil Gaiman so much.

#biid #body modification

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peterlorrefanpage · 2 years

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Idea: Peter Lorre Tarot Deck

UPDATE: IT IS HAPPENING.

Just the Major Arcana, even. Which of his characters go with which trump? What's your interpretation? No deeply arcane knowledge necessary!

Starting it off with just a few. Feel free to add, argue, dispel, change.

0 The Fool - Polo or Louis "The Dope."

Because neither character is one-dimensional, nor is The Fool - that is, I take this meaning in a more positive light. Such as, willing to behave as a fool for his own gain (Polo), or single-mindedly able to bumble one’s way to lobsters with thermidor (Louis).

1 The Magician. Gogol, with his magic hands? Or perhaps Dr. Einstein, who can work wonders with his own hands and escape the law as well?

2 The High Priestess. Editor Stix with his worship at the shrine of woman could be enticed into far more personal experience of womanhood.

4 The Emperor - I keep thinking of Colonel Gimpy/The Baron, because it takes a hell of a lot of strength to play a dual role like that, plus all the pressures of command. But then there's Mr. Moto, who is also always very much in command even when he's tied up in a sack. And a certain fervent Peter Lorre robot character by @soapkaars that should be canon now...

6 The Lovers - Johnny from Three Strangers, with Icey, was an actual scripted Lorre-as-romantic-lead. That could be nice. But then there is just about any Lorre/Greenstreet pairing, a la Maltese Falcon or Mask of Dimitrios. And what about Gogol and his wax figure? A delightfully macabre image that would be!

12 The Hanged Man - I'm looking at duality here again. This card is about temporary limbo, but to me also has a sense of complacency. Hmm. I don't know enough about Galy Gay, yet I wonder about that role. I still need to watch Crime and Punishment. Perhaps Paul Hyde?

And hey, anyone want to draw these? 😁

#peter lorre #peter lorre tarot deck #should this even be a thing #please join in and make it a thing #tarot deck #just for fun

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king-of-better · 1 year

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As a reminder, we are going off the 12 part GGG TV airing, not the original 8 part OVA.

GGG.01: The Reborn King of Braves

1 year ago, GaoGaiGar defeated Zonuda, and a miracle allowed Gai to purify Mikoto, at the same time his organic body was restored.

In a snowy Paris, Lion Reine finds her way into a 12th Bionet truck, finding it too is empty. Gimlet appears behind her to question her ethics, but she just shoots him, but he has been converted into a Metal Cyborg. She Equips to fight him, but is overwhelmed, KoRyu fires a beam to throw him off the truck, running him over, but the convoy now knows they're there and splits, they follow one group while AnRyu attacks the rest.

They cannot detect the Q-Parts they are after on any of them, Gimlet plays his hand and reveals the trailers are the Q-Parts, each converting to spiked wheels and flying away, the sisters System Change to start trying to bring them down. As Police try to handle things, one car turns invisible. Gimlet attacks Renais, but she is caught by Gai atop a stealthed PhantomGao. An attempt from Gimlet to attack Gai is intercepted by Volfogg, who sends the ID Armour, and so Evoluder GUY is ready.

Attempts by the sisters to attack the Q-Parts are easily avoided, only endangering civilians, but fortunately HyoRyu and EnRyu arrive and save the civilians.

With GGG on scene, Gimlet changes fact, merging with Q-Parts into Gimlet Avant Empereur, a robot, Gai in it turn uses Fusion with PhantomGao into GaoFar. Swiftly overwhelming Gimlet, who has his Chapeua de Sorcerie fortress merge all the Q-Parts to form the full Gimlet Empereur, which is able to overwhelm GaoFar properly.

Gai calls the GaoMachines, and in the Orbit Base Papillon reports the Final Fusion request to the chief, Takanohashi reporting approximately a 98% chance of success. Entoji and Ushi have to encourage chief, Yaginuma Noriyuki to actually give his stamp of approval before the Final Fusion signal can be sent to Tsukuyomi, where Hyuma has Mikoto Program Drive. GaoFar, StealthGao III, DrillGao II and LinerGao II Final Fusion into GaoFighGar, which is followed by launching the Dividing Driver, which quickly creates the Dividing Field.

Gimlet thinks he will win, only to quickly find himself overpowered by an Evol Ul-Tech powered Drill Knee, but Gimlet Empereur reforms for one of it's 23 special techniques, the Explosive Rayon, but a Protect Wall sends it right back, and a Colossal Combustible is stopped by a Broken Phantom. Gimlet tries to escape, but the rest of GGG and Chasseur keep him in place. Gai calls for GoldyMarg, and Yaginuma needs no encouragement to get out the key holding the authority of the Secretary of the UN, approving the Goldion Hammer, and Mikoto Safety Relieves, as Gimlet Empereur prepared a Substance Excusez-Moi, only for them to be made into light, before Hammer Hell & Heaven pulls Gimlet's remains out and destroys the Q-Parts. Gimlet begs for mercy, but is executed by Renais.

No one knew yet of the battle that was to come, as Soldato J-002 was imprisoned.

#gaogaigar final

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shikai-the-storyteller · 4 months

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I was going to make a post about Twitter being a terrifying place to post art because literally the first week I made Twitter and posted art, a voice actress for the MMX series commented on one of my comics and tagged her fellow VA saying "OMG we're OTP!" (It was actually like... the one non-ship art I had posted but this too is yuri I guess, power to her.)

Anyways I was looking for that comment to screenshot it and just got blindsided seeing that the English VA of Reigen is the one that frickin sent it to her.

#i talk #no escape from gay robot hell #man it's been a hot minute since I've used that tag #anyways. Don't post your art on Twitter #not only because of the weird AI bros but also because god forbid a VA or content creator sees and comments on it #That's frickin insane to me I'm cackling #what a wild frickin world we live in #I miss posting art #I have so much I never posted #I just kinda lost motivation #and I never have time to draw or write anymore #it makes me really really sad

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ghostly-idiot · 24 days

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how 462 escaped:

(Slight gore)

So...

After months of going crazy over trying to find an escape from this hell hole, 462 decided to ask 404 to download his consciousness into a computer and to turn his old body into something knew (404 cushed up his old body and turned it into armour to use against 8 in their next battles)

462 found himself in the system of the memverse until he somehow found a robotic body from the real world connected to the system of the memverse!

But unfortunately, that robot body was in the deep-sea metro, and was going to be tartar's body but it was unfinished due to 8 destroying tartar.

Now 462 was stuck in the metro, missing his friends and in a dirty and old robot body

But things got much better when 462 met a sanitised octoling (the octoling didn't have a name but 462 called him 'telz') who helped him escape and joined him on the adventure to help the other parallel bots escape!

(Hehehe gay robot boi... I love him)

m a n.

we love gay crackheads

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duskwell · 11 months

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mun -- 21+, they/he. call me glitch or will. i love world-building and character creation.

blog -- for my ocs, inspo, etc. things will be tagged with names. sometimes there will be nsf/uu content, blood, injuries, angst, etc.

feel free to send in asks / @ me in things. i block minors! :)

information on characters under the cut. not all my ocs are here, not by a long shot. but here's the ones i want here.

("hey, what about [story based character of mine]?" check out @daemoniumscribere ! archer is holding all that stuff on his blog for me instead. this is mostly for my standalone ocs and non-serious stories.)

FANDOM OCS.

Mykonen / Mykos - Minecraft oc, originally made for Darkwood. He/they. Formerly an overworld Guardian that was dragged into The End to seal away the Ender Dragon. After thousands of years, he finds himself in the Overworld again, knowing that it is once again in danger. Along the way, he meets a number of people he grows to care deeply for. But, will that be enough? (important other ocs: Iefyr; the son of a village elder that is magic-touched and chooses to follow Mykos on his adventure. Pelri; An allay that Mykos frees from a pillager camp.)

Captain Wren Lux - In Space with Markiplier / Markiplier cinematic universe oc. He/they. The captain of the Invincible II. A strange individual with an even stranger past and a very powerful enemy.

Nikita Melnik - Bioshock oc. He/him. A reporter and Andrew Ryan's personal lapdog. Determined to ruin Fontaine, even if it means getting his shit absolutely wrecked.

Sabriel Gavreilis / Arbor - Fallen London oc. He/him. Came to the fallen city on a holy mission after being told by a celestial being that he had to go. Ends up on a hell of an adventure and meeting his wife and best friend.

Aria LeBlanc - Fallen London oc. She/her. Has been in the fallen city awhile, was brought here against her will. Became a very powerful business woman despite that. Helps Sabriel and his future wife meet and also escape.

NON-FANDOM OCS.

Lenka Dehaven - they/he. part of a dying race of alien referred to as 'star sirens'. was being used aboard a ship as a weapon until they finally had enough and snapped, attacking the ship and causing it to crash land on a planet. Dr. Dehaven finds them among the rubble and sneaks them home, pseudo adopting them. Eventually they become a space traveller. probably.

Dr. Robert Hawk - he/him. his wife was taken away by an eldritch rip in space time, now he's gotta raise their daughter alone and deal with the fact that he's traumatized as fuck from the experience. he's also corrupted and his tachyons are all fucky.

Loreno Reyes - they/them. the voice of the apocalypse, a young adult who locks themself up in a radio tower duing the zombie apocalypse. they now keep morale up as best they can, passing comunications throughout the various camps.

Lark Smith - he/him. a hacker that used to be apart of a very dangerous collective. now he just does illegal shit on the internet and helps girls that get harassed at bars. trans.

Elijah Claude Debroux - he/him. decently high ranking demon that handles the legal side of contracts. can control hell hounds and send them after people wh try to break their contracts. southern bastard.

ITS COMPLICATED / THEY HAVE A SET STORY.

Killian Riley - 7 days to die / zombie media oc. he/him. trans. formerly studying to become an engineer, basing on robotic science. now, he's stuck in the zombie apocalypse.

777 - she/they. the M in the CMYK group of an internet collective / federation that is meant to keep the physical cyberspace safe. extremely gay for 999.

999 - she/her. trans. the C in the CMYK group. intelligence officer. Spade / Masami Ikeda - he/they. magical person oc. their world is fucked up forreal.

Diamond / Lana Belrose - she/her. magical person oc. part of spade's group.

Myde Hallita - he/him. ish. he doesnt care. teacher, dad, will infodump about stupid shit.

August Marcrum - he/they. final girl syndrome in a boy. his sister and her girlfriend fucked with his boyfriend too much, and now a whole group of friends is dead. too bad he doesnt care.

Ard Hajek - he/him. my oldest oc i love him so much. former assassin, now dad and professor.

#pinne

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straydog733 · 1 year

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2023 Reading and Watching Resolutions

2023 Reading Resolution

A book written in North America: The Harrowing of Hell by Evan Dahm

A book written in Central America/Caribbean:

A book written in South America: Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

A book written in East Asia: The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

A book written in South Asia:

A book written in Africa: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

A book written in the Middle East: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

A book written in Australia/Pacific Islands: Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

A book written in Russia: The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh

A book written in Europe: Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker

A biography or memoir: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

A non-fiction book: A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

A collection of short stories: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A collection of poetry: Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin

A play:

A book you’ve seen adapted: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

A graphic novel: Fence, Vol. 1 by C. S. Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad

A children’s book: The Guardians of Ga’Hoole #1: The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

A book older than 200 years: Popol Vuh, translated by Dennis Tedlock

A debut novel: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

A novel by a famous author, other than the one(s) they are best known for: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

A sequel:

A book by an author you’ve never given a fair shot:

A book you’ve heard bad things about: Killing Stalking by Koogi

A book released in 2023: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Wild Card: Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag

Wild Card: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Wild Card: Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie, illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs

Wild Card: Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

Wild Card: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

List Progress: 25/30

2023 Watching Resolution

A foreign film: Talk to Me (2022)

A black and white film: Nightmare Alley (1947)

A silent or dialogue-free film: Different from the Others (1919)

An animated film: Pink Floyd- The Wall (1982)

A film based on a true story: Spoiler Alert (2022)

A documentary:

A film based on a book: Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

An Oscar-winning movie:

A trashy movie: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Your friend’s recommendation: The Blues Brothers (1980)

A children’s film: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

A film released in 2023: Missing (2023)

List Progress: 10/12

Movies Outside of the List:

1. M3GAN (2022)

2. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

3. Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

4. Firestarter (1984)

5. Renfield (2023)

6. The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

7. Polite Society (2023)

8. Blazing Saddles (1974)

9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

10. Barbie (2023)

11. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

12. Strays (2023)

13. Theater Camp (2023)

14. The Truman Show (1998)

15. The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)

16. Bottoms (2023)

17. You Don’t Know Jack (2010)

18. Searching (2018)

19. A Haunting in Venice (2023)

20. Saw (2004)

21. The Boogeyman (2023)

22. Dream Scenario (2023)

23. The Holdovers (2023)

24. Creep (2014)

25. The Iron Claw (2023)

#straydog's reading resolution #straydog's watching resolution

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afterspark-podcast · 2 years

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Transformers/My Little Pony - Magic of Cybertron, Part 2 Transcript

[This can also be found on AO3!]

[Intro Music]

O: Welcome back to the second half of the My Little Pony/Transformers crossover- of the second My Little Pony/Transformers crossover.

S: Last we left, a villain from Equestria, King Sombra, has taken over Cybertron and mind controlled a large amount of Cybertronians and ponies.

O: Including, but most concernedly, Megatron, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie.

S: Issue three begins with Sick Beats. We open with two ponies: Vinyl Scratch and Octavia.

O: These are both background characters that are very popular with- kind of, the fandom, to my understanding? I, despite liking My Little Pony, have not really been involved with the fan community, so I'm still not entirely sure. But um, I do see them in fan art a lot. They are both music oriented which is really the only thing that's relevant to like, this particular section.

S: Octavia is a classical musician. While Vinyl Scratch is a DJ. The two of them run into several of Twilight’s students who have also been teleported to Cybertron.

O: Uh, so we have Yona the yak, Smolder to the dragon, Gallus [Gay-les] the griffin, or Gale-en- Gallus [Gal-us]? Gallus [Gal-us]. Um, Sandbar the pony, Silverstream the hippogriff, and Ocellus the changeling. If you'll remember, in the previous crossover, Queen Chrysalis was also a changeling, but Ocellus looks a lot different because at some point there was a split, essentially of Queen Chrysalis and the rest of the changelings. So, they're no longer under Chrysalis’ control. I only bring this up because I find it very odd that Soundwave actually calls her a changeling later and I'm like, how do you know that? [laughs]

S: The group argues a bit, but Octavia, who is also a teacher at Twilight’s school takes the lead as she is the adult. She is the fucking adult here.

O: Unfortunately, for them as soon as that decision was made, Soundwave made himself known and attacks them.

S: Said attack results in a structural collapse, trapping all of them (including Soundwave) in a cavern under the rubble.

O: Soundwave insists that they are all his captives, despite all of them being equally trapped and arguably him maybe more trapped because he's so big he's having a hard time moving around.

S: Yup. He calls Gallus a buffalo.

O: I would have expected Soundwave out of most of the mechs to be a bit better at ident- identifying that a griffin is not a buffalo.

S: Yona is insulted when Gallus says that Yona is in fact, the buffalo.

O: “Yona is yak! That Yona's whole thing!”

S: Octavia attempts to keep some peace and Soundwave uses a sonic blast to try and break them all out.

O: This fails, and Vinyl Scratch also makes an attempt as well.

S: After Soundwave ah, fails again (after being assisted by Ravage and Laserbeak) Vinyl Scratch suggests a giant robot and pony collab.

O: All without speaking of course, as she is traditionally a non-speaking character.

S: Soundwave agrees to a truce when Ocellus suggests that they just give him some magic instead of him taking it.

O: And through the magical powers of a giant boombox robot, two of his children, a pony DJ, and a classical musician pony, the group is able to escape.

S: Soundwave reports, or attempts to report to Megatron, only receiving an, “All hail King Sombra!” in return. And then he insinuates that he will continue to work with the ponies to you know, free his master.

O: Then we have volume three, part two, which is The Beauty of Cybertron.

S: We see Ratchet and Rarity spying on a group of brainwashed Cybertronians who are dumpster diving.

O: These two are attempting to find a cure to Sombra's brainwashing. Which honestly seems a hell of a lot more like, constructive than Applejack wandering in the freaking desert!?

S: Applejack is channeling her cowboy mentality.

O: [laughs] Evidently.

S: So, Ratchet and Rarity capture a test subject. Said test subject is however, not mind controlled at all and was instead just trying to get some designer racing tires!

O: It will shock no one when I tell you that this is, in fact, Knockout.

S: My first thought was that he was using Jonathan's strategy from The Mummy when he blends in with the crowd by chanting, “Imhotep. Imhotep.”

O: Totally same vibes. Meanwhile, the other dumpster divers scurry away before Rarity and Ratchet can grab any of them.

S: Ratchet volun-tells Knockout that he's helping them now by threatening his paint job and presumably, physical um-

O: The rest of him! [laughs]

S: Yes! By attaching a detonator or something to his shoulder.

O: Knockout does agree, but he insists that he's setting their travel itinerary because he wants to show Rarity some pretty shit. She's only gotten to see war-torn Cybertron!

S: Yep. There's so many fun destinations here. They're all very pretty, with the last one being the natural energon springs, which ends up being exceptionally relevant to their goal when they find more “test subjects”.

O: [laughs]

S: One of which is Breakdown.

O: If you are unaware in Transformers Prime, where both of these versions of Knockout and Breakdown originate from, they are heavily implied through subtext to be in a relationship. This was eventually made text in IDW1 uh, where they are actually married that continuity. So they are also in a relationship here.

S: Mm-hm, the three spring into action with Ratchet saying, “Medical breakthroughs are trial and error. The plan is to try things and hope we survive long enough to learn from the errors!”

O: Ratchet then sarcastically apologizes to Rarity for not having discovered a way to conduct pure friendship energy or whatever the ponies normally do when their initial attempt to snap the Cybertronians out of the mind control fails.

S: Rarity confesses that this was indeed how they defeated Sombra last time.

O: Ratchet then throws a contraption together and puts part of it on Rarity's head.

S: Silly brainwave hat time!

O: This allows Rarity and Knockout to focus on freeing Breakdown with the contraption channeling Rarity's magic.

S: Knockout gives a heartfelt speech to Breakdown.

O: Which ultimately works, um, but Rarity gets to rib him about it because he actually didn't need to say anything to break- well, to break Breakdown out of the mind control.

S: Yup, all he needed was the emotions.

O: [laughs]

S: Breakdown also calls him sweet.

O: Which is- it was, it was actually quite good!

S: Mm-hm.

O: Elsewhere, King Sombra watches these events and comes up with a terrible, awful, no-good plan of his own to channel his power through Cybertronian technology.

S: Now on to volume four, part one, The Mightiest Dinobot.

O: Our cast for this segment being the Dinobots, Spike, and Smolder.

S: And our surprise antagonists, who will be revealed shortly!

O: Grimlock introduces Spike to the other Dinobots. Uh, if you'll remember from the previous uh, crossover, we only got to see Grimlock, uh, because Grimlock for some reason, was basically the only one left in the Ark.

S: Mm-hm.

O: And Spike was the only one that got teleported over there, but anyway! He introduces him to the rest of the Dinobots, trying to talk him up to make him seem cool enough to hang out with them.

S: A situation that's not going in Spike's favor. Uh, with Smolder looking like the much cooler dragon out of the two of them, when who walks out from behind some buildings but Superion!

O: If you have trouble with names like moi, ah, this is the Aerialbot combiner that actually just popped up in episode 56.

S: This is the combiner made entirely out of planes.

O: The Dinobots attempt to fight Superion, but it is not going well for them with them getting tossed around and slammed into the floor, the walls, each other, etc.

S: Spike, having done research since his last outing with Grimlock, comes up with a plan to separate Superion into his component parts. Which, would hopefully break the mind control.

O: He does so by taunting each of the five Aerialbots in turn with some tailored comments.

S: This does work, and Superion falls to pieces.

O: And Silverbolt maybe- he doesn't know what the fuck just happened, but he does at least seem to be himself again, as do the rest of them.

S: We get some super cute Dinobot faces here, but the cutest is Sludge.

O: And Spike is made an honorary Dinobot, while the other Dinobots all cheer him on.

S: The Aerialbots watch this scene slightly confused, but you know, it's like, okay, this is happening, let's- it’s applaud time now?

B: [laugh]

O: And now for issue four, part two, Finale.

S: Optimus and a small group of Autobots have finally caught up to King Sombra who seems to be unearthing something with some mind controlled help.

O: Our group with Optimus consists of: Trailbreaker, Mirage, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, and Elita-1.

S: Optimus calls for backup, but unfortunately, it's not going to reach them soon enough, so they all jump into the fray.

O: Elita realizes that King Sombra is attempting to dig up the titan, Scorponok.

S: King Sombra has combined with Scorponok to form King Sombranok.

O: Which is a terrible name, really.

S: It is. Then the reinforcements arrive including: Starscream, Cosmos, Soundwave, Octavia, the Wonderbolts, and the non-mind-controlled members of the Mane 6.

O: Cute things about this scene!

S: Rainbow Dash and Starscream are good-naturedly bickering and making bets with one another.

O: Cosmos is in fact, carrying Soundwave in boombox mode. My Little Pony said Coswave rights, and so do I!

S: And then there are some organic exo suits that have been adapted for the ponies, giving them the ability to transform into weapons. Harkening back to the Targetmasters but with a much wider weapon and just, tool variety.

O: Shockwave removes Sombra's control from Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie.

S: Rarity transforms into a shield and pairs with Shockwave.

O: Applejack transforms into a hammer and pairs with Arcee.

S: Rainbow Dash transforms into an axe and pairs up with Starscream.

O: Spike transforms into a gun and pairs up with Bumblebee. So, I actually really like this idea. It's really, really fun um, but I'm a little disappointed that aside from Rainbow Dash all the ponies don't get paired up with Transformers they had some kind of relationship [with]. Like, um… Arcee very easily could have paired up with Rarity um, since they were- they met in the initial you know, crossover. But also, like, Grimlock's got a gun y'all! This wouldn't have been hard, you could have very easily paired Spike up with Grimlock.

S: Mm-hm. Using the power of friendship and bonking people on the head they are able to free Twilight, Megatron, and the others.

O: Starscream taking point to smack Megatron… around for obvious reasons. [laughs]

S: The last three ponies also get exo suits and are paired off with a Cybertronian each.

O: Twilight predictably transforms into a sword and is paired off with Optimus.

S: Fluttershy (we think) is transformed into some kind of shield and paired up with Ratchet, but we never really get a close-up and she doesn't have a role in the fight.

O: And please see my previous comment of like, why wasn't Rarity paired up with- with Ratchet if Ratchet was gonna be one of the people involved in this fight but…

S: Mm-hm. And then lastly, Pinkie Pie transforms into a cannon, or a gun, or something, that is paired up with Megatron.

O: It is as magical as you're imagining.

S: Megatron was not ready for this.

O: No one was ready for the Pinkie Pie.

S: Mm-hm. This means that Megatron is running around the last battle shooting rubber chickens and cupcakes out of a pink cannon.

O: I love it! [laughs]

S: At one point Pinkie Pie when she- before she transforms goes, “Party cannon!?”

O: Well, she has a party cannon so, I just basically insinuated that she turned into a party cannon. That's- I'm entirely convinced she transformed into a party cannon. I don't know if that's actually how like, the writers would say it, but fuck it- she transformed into a party cannon!

S: It fits her. They beat King Sombra and the day is saved.

O: Megatron is agreeable to a truce, at least for the moment, after beating King Sombra but he's still going to blast Starstream god damn it!

S: Evidently, using the pony weapons channeled Starscream's thoughts, and his hope that he'd accidentally kill Megatron in ah, his attempt to free him.

O: And back at the gate to Equestria.

S: Twilight gives Megatron a stern talking to, but suggests that instead of the accidental meetups that perhaps they should you know, plan something next time.

O: Megatron's not interested, but it doesn't seem like he's gonna stand in the way of anybody else that is?

S: Rumble is super down for this including holding up the book he was reading at the beginning of our story. And then as our story ends… a Quintesson is looking at a screen, at the ponies and Cybertronians, at their celebration with menace.

O: As you know, Quintessons are ought to do.

S: Sadly, we doubt there will be a continuation given that IDW has lost the rights to the Hasbro properties.

O: Which is really a pity, because I thoroughly enjoyed this and I'm also very sad we like, aren't getting any figures from this crossover. Like, I- I would actually love some transforming pony weapons. [laughs]

S: Mmm.

O: Then I could- I- I would like to give my- my Megatron a party cannon. [laughs] So, um, what were your thoughts of this crossover, Specs?

S: All of the issues and various stories had cute bits. I mean, I really enjoyed how resourcefully Lofty and Holiday dealt with Killmaster. Thundercracker's interaction with Rainbow Dash at the end of the Seekers chapter was cute. He was just holding her up, it reminded me a lot of him and Buster in IDW1. Soundwave’s insistence that the Equestrians were his captives where- while they were all trapped was funny and there was one bit where- just the lighting was very menacing.

O: It was. Like, everything was red- like, the only light was coming from- from Soundwave, basically.

S: Yeah. Then there were also a really nice job with the prep montages in that section as well. How Vinyl Scratch- it showed Vinyl Scratch setting all of her stuff up. Their stuff? I’m not actually sure.

O: She does it twice, I think. She- she does one where she sets up her own stuff and tries to get out and then there's the part where like, she teams up with Soundwave and Octavia to try to get them all out.

S: Yeah. Ah, and then the mind controlled people dumpster diving stealing things that was just weirdly funny to me because it was just… the part where they all just kind of scampered off when they were interrupted.

O: [laughs]

S: And also the bit where it’s just like, Ratchet's face’s getting batted by-

O: [laughs] By people!

S: Yeah. While they're trying to uh, un-mind control Breakdown. And then it was ha- it was nice that Ratchet got to be a main character too for one story, and then the party cannon. The party cannon was just… hilarious.

O: The party cannon was amazing, I have no notes, change nothing. Except, honestly, I wish it’d been in there a bit longer because um, pairing Megatron up with Pinkie Pie is not a thing I would have considered doing but it was hysterical.

S: There are agents of chaos together.

O: Uh, yeah! Very different kinds of chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Um, so, personally, my favorite chapter was the one with Rarity, Ratchet, and Knockout. Um, I am just really happy to see the Prime characters in other things. Including, while this Ratchet didn't look like the one from Prime, he acted a lot like the one from Prime. Um, and I think all those characters are great and Breakdown died, so…

S: He's alive here.

O: It was nice!

S: Always a plus!

O: I didn't like Soundwave’s bit nearly as much in this one, and I was really disappointed he didn't get to interact with Fluttershy at all. Like, they were really cute in that first part and I feel like Fluttershy is a nice pony she'd want to check in with him and all the cassettes. And I'm kind of- overall, if I had one complaint about this, is that I wish there had been more carryover from some of the stuff that happened in the first part. Because like, again, Rarity had paired up with Arcee [in the first crossover but here] they didn't talk at all, and for some reason Rarity paired up with Shockwave. I… just don't know why that was the decision made because again there's nothing- there's nothing narratively satisfying about it, I guess is the best way to put it.

S: That makes sense.

O: And that's- whereas Rainbow Dash getting paired up with Starscream is narratively satisfying because it shows they at least have reached some modicum of trust, or at least as much trust as you're normally gonna get from Starstream.

S: Yeah.

O: Um, you know, over the course of the story and I- I wish for more of that and again like, I'm- I'm- I'm uh, very biased. I liked that scene- the section with Shockwave- or not Shockwave-

S: Soundwave.

O: I liked that section with Soundwave and I wanted more of it and it was very cute and we didn't get to see his cassettes hardly at all. Except Rumble at the beginning and the end had some speaking lines. Which were funny, don't get me wrong! I love the idea of him like, loving Equestrian literature, it's great. But um, some art thoughts. Overall, I'd say that the art was better compared to the first crossover, at least overall.

S: The Rarity faces in some parts were very funny because she just- she didn't look quite the way she normally does.

O: Yeah, but it didn't look like, off model or anything it just looks like her making very funny faces.

S: Yeah.

O: So like, 10 out of 10.

S: Mm-hm, and then Knockout. Knockout's face just kind of looked like it lacked structure a fair amount of the time in this issue, and there was a lot of lip biting. So much lip biting.

O: Which is- it- ironically Ratchet looked fine through it so, you know, whatever. I also found that Soundwave looked a little funky in his section as well. Like, he didn't- you know what I mean when I saw he didn't seem as like, sharp? Like, structurally sharp? Like, he had less sharp edges than I feel like he should but due to the-

S: Marshmallowy.

O: Yeah, he was kind of marshmallowy. But because he doesn't have facial expressions, it's not nearly as noticeable with him so like, it was a good section to have that problem with, I guess? Overall though, the colors were good, the art was good, and it was nice to look at. I don't have any like, massive complaints or anything, and there were legitimately parts that cracked me up.

S: Yep, overall we recommend this if it sounds like fun to you.

O: Like, if you enjoy My Little Pony and Transformers you'll probably enjoy this.

S: Mm-hm. Also, maybe go buy it before IDW completely loses the damn license and the things aren't available for-

O: Purchase anymore.

S: Yeah.

O: It's again, very frustrating because it's like, it's going to make buying those things way harder.

S: Yeah, so join us next time for episode 57, Masquerade.

O: And yes, I know we said that at the end of episode 56. I'm very sorry, our schedule has been super wonky. I had to move a few months ago, and I'm still unpacking stuff, so everything has been kind of all over the place for me.

S: Life is weird guys, we're just rolling with it.

O: [laughs]

S: And that just about wraps it up for us today. Remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark Podcast for any additional information, show notes, or links we may have mentioned. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter @Aftersparkpod (all one word), and in various other locations by searching for Afterspark Podcast, such as AO3, iTunes, Spotify, and Youtube, just to name a few. And feel free to send us questions on Tumblr, Youtube, or AO3. Until next time, I'm Specs.

O: And I’m Owls.

S: Toodles.

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