#trying to work out if this is a Sign that pharma was 'bad all along' he missed and can beat himself up over

[decepti-thots]

do you think ratchet knew that pharma was at the institute. do we ever get any indication he does? imagine if post-delphi, ratchet is explaining pharma to everyone, and where he stole those hands from. and chromedome is like. holy shit that guy from the institute who was really grumpy all the time? i remember him. and ratchet is like. the guy from WHAT

#idk i think it's really neat bc like. #clearly pharma was not like he is on luna-1 even during delphi #and it seems like pharma's decision making deteriorated rapidly due to stress there too #so i can imagine ratchet being fully blindsided pharma would have been involved in that #trying to work out if this is a Sign that pharma was 'bad all along' he missed and can beat himself up over #which he alternately reassures himself with (he couldn't have helped pharma. clearly he was just crooked the whole time.) #and blames himself for (if he had noticed could he have done something. somehow.) #and like. he's WRONG to be clear that's not how things work #but i think that's how ratchet would try and make sense of it #idw #pharma #ratchet

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[cloudyfm]

ok yes i’m here with lilia’s info ur resident demon have fun pals<3

family background - yes this is copy pasted myob<3

ya’ll ever read one of those drug ring ao3 fanfics where y/n is dating the sexy drug cartel leader? well that’s their family!

generational family blood money because that’s how cartels work i think. started running + dealing three generations back with their great-grandparents in order for them to make a living. it wasn’t until the so-called business was handed down to their grandparents that they wanted to expand and generate more money. the big pharma cover was created in order for them to manufacture, distribute, and supply at a larger scale. present day, their family name has notoriety with other cartel and mafia families.

basically avery was supposed to take over because he was the oldest right, but lilia did not want that at all. their parents started favoring avery and schmoozing up to him a little bit to get him to say yes (even though avery was fully prepared to give lilia the position) and lilia was like! what the fuck! so she told their parents about this one time that avery accidentally blabbed the family secret to a stranger at a party which broke their one rule of keeping it a secret. their parents wanted nothing to do with him anymore and completely cut avery off and kicked him out of the family.

everyone knows that avery and lilia are siblings, even though they don’t really know the actual details about their past together because avery doesn’t say anything about his family and the cartel is a secret. now that they are both at yale and in the elites together they are just kinda like haha awkward <3 they basically would just tell everyone that they grew apart if other characters tried to pry but also lilia is now telling people that avery fucked up a business decision which is why he left the family and avery is like alright but good luck trying to get other info out of them! xo, the jeongs

personal background

a legacy and a member of the yale's elite, they're twenty-one and a junior undergrad student majoring in pharmacology. they are as zealous as they are vain.

blackmails: and yes ik we only needed 2 i got pressed and stubborn (drugs tw):

blackmailing vanity fair to keep them from speaking negatively about her and her family by dealing to their reporters. she’s more so doing this to protect herself and her brother than her parents.

is aware of annie and violet’s work arrangements with her family’s drug business. she refuses to involve herself by mentioning that the family they work for is hers and is currently turning a blind eye to the questionable tasks that are asked of them.

purposely sent an ex boyfriend to prison when she was 18 due to her being tired of being in a consistently toxic relationship. she set him up to be found with various bags of illicit drugs (of which were owned by her family) and framed him with possession with intent to distribute and supply to garner a felony charge as an adult.

ok moving to present day stuff<3

ever since avery left the family, her parents have basically put immense pressure on her to fill his spot - the spot she wanted, and since her loyalty is with them and herself, she accepted it and did whatever had to be done. she was 16 when it became her job to take over, so whatever parts of her childhood she had left kind of just left when they began to prime her.

at 18, her mom finally revealed to her that avery had the intentions to give her control of the family when she came of age - something that she didn’t know until 2 years after she fucked up ! her guilt eats her alive to this day, but rather than mending her relationship with him personally, she sends him money anonymously through shorting her parents. 

she actually loves being in the elites ... it gives her such a sense of importance whether or not she is considered a legacy. was kind of excited to join actually and frankly that bit her in the ass with the blackmailer out here but its fine.

her college years have frankly been quiet like .. she’s studious to the point she needs to be but she really is not a partier, doesn’t do drugs because she’s seen first hand the shit that her parents are involved in, and barely drinks. when she does she literally doesn’t know how to handle it and fears losing control. literally if you wanna manipulate her this is how u do it lmao.

this is mentioned in the personality section but yes she is in the classics book club at yale ... she loves her classics</3

she’s actually easy to get along with ok just don’t cross her i promise my god im going to lose it

i don’t know im blanking so bad and this is alrdy almost 1500 words i cant do this anymore. UGHGHH more of her personal stuff is in the personality section im heaving

personality

ridiculously cut throat and has no issues stepping on people to get to where she needs to be. like if it came down to saving herself or saving someone else who she doesn’t have a close connection to? she will always pick herself. 

makes a game out of other people one - upping her<3 if she knows she can win, and sometimes even when she can’t, she will purposely cause a problem just to see them fall and grow her own ego.

also will start problems casually and then just sit back and watch them unfold while drinking wine out a mug.

literally ... and i mean literally obsessed with being perceived as beautiful and pretty. she’s so mf vain that it’s actually a problem, and i can promise you if you call her ugly miss girl will cry. this mostly has to do with her self esteem issues and the pressure put onto her by her parents after avery left. yes she did this to herself dni.

loyal only to those who she cares about otherwise they can frankly rot<3 and there are times where she will break that loyalty if it benefits her.

ik this may not be believable but she actually is extremely insecure and anxious deep down lmao like she has such an obsession with proving that she’s the best to her peers and her family that it flat out consumes her consistently. this is what causes her to act out most of the time and if someone was to become close to her it would be plainly evident. yes - she can be soft.

has an overt persona of positivity and carries herself as someone who doesn’t have negative intentions and sometimes makes it hard to believe that she’s actually capable of doing the things that people accuse her of.

yes she is calculating and manipulative and miss girly will look for faults only to make them worse.

she literally wasn’t always like this but when her and avery’s relationship started to fracture, she kind of let her own selfishness consume her.

she plays stupid a lot KLNDFKNDLKFSD  will pretend to be interested in random men in her classes so they will baby her and do shit for her that she could have easily done herself. it’s not that she’s lazy but she’s only studying pharma because of her family. she has an obsession with classical lit and would have rather majored in that if given the chance. 

has a fear of emotional intimacy </3 went through a really toxic relationship from the ages of 16-18 that was basically more done to bring her family and another together for a business deal and it just ... did not end well for her and basically she was treated like shit. literally the only way she could get out of it was to frame him and then bribe people to make sure the felony charge wasn’t dropped. her family doesn’t know she did this so<33333 

statistics

full name: lilia iris jung.

nicknames: lili or lia.

age: 21.

date of birth: august 02, 1999.

siblings: avery ( older brother ).

birthplace: new york city, new york, united states.

current location: new haven, connecticut, united states.

astrological sign: leo sun / capricorn moon / virgo rising.

gender: cis female.

pronouns: she / her / hers.

height: 5′1″.

sexuality: bisexual.

religion: atheist.

piercings: double lobe on her right ear, triple lobe on her left ear, tragus on her right ear, and a helix on both her left and right and ears.

tattoos: this on her inner, right bicep, and this behind her left ear.

haircolor: brunette.

literally for wanted connections i want 2 things: (1) someone to rock her shit bc that is deserved, and (2) idk she’s wearing a mask like 80% of the time so someone who she is close enough to actual b real with :\ if this doesn’t make sense myob im taking a nap

#intro: lilia #im literally losing braincells rn #this is unedited and missing things but its 1500 words im tired goodbye

[tfw-no-tennis]

mtmte liveblog issue 18

lets goooo

I love the ‘no guns no swords no briefcases’ sign sm

NEVER over the ‘my first blaster(tm): big grip for little hands’ fucking iconic

‘get the hell out of my bar’ swerve lmao ily

so now we continue on with the remain in light arc, this issue subtitled ‘house of ambus,’ which is a dopeass name and also promises some ambus lore, which is exciting

first aid holding his gun sideways like a gangsta lmao I canttt

forgot there's literally a guy named dipstick LMAOOOOO that's funny on so many levels like...it sounds like dipshit, and also a urine dipstick is a urine test used to detect various stuff so that's the first thing I think of...what a name

‘put two and two together and make it a fist’ skids ily sm

pharma is in full-on dr thot mode over here, oh boy

lockdown looks like such a nerd on his edgy decepticon hoverboard

the fact that cyclonus immediately goes along w/whirls suggestion to disobey rodimus and attack the enemy....both of them are icons

OOOH ALL THE TITANS...that's such a good panel 

ok but I cant get over how lowkey funny it is that there's this battle going on rn where most of the participants can turn into various vehicles, but they're all riding around on dorky air scooters instead. this series, man

well, at least chromedome transformed

I fucking love that rodimus is always doing this like, ridiculous 80s action movie nonsense, I feel like that's perfect considering his g1 debut was in a ridiculous 80s action movie

poor tg just found out he’s gonna die in like 3 days and then rodimus immediately is like ‘wanna make that today?’ and does some crazy shit while tg clings to him like a terrified baby

rodimus mid-car transformation is fucking wild lmao

and now we finally get to see a bit more of what’s going on with our framing device flash-forward - it’s not just rodimus, everyone’s there! except ratchet...also, they’re in jail. woohoo!

and then there’s magnus, looking completely healthy but strangely unresponsive...

TYREST....this motherfucker....he is like, SO MUCH. the cape...the helmet crown thing...the holes....

tyrest told rodimus to ‘shut up or be held in contempt’ ayyyyyyyyyyyy

‘crimes against creation’ that's pretty dramatic dude

Let The Robots Swear!!

ok but rlly I find it funny that they're not allowed to say swear words (I'm assuming its not allowed rather than it being a creative choice) but all the death and violence and body horror is ok

chromedome is sitting there like oh holy shit did I find my now-dead husbands missing 1st husband after millions of years, like a WEEK after my husband died

chromedome mimicking the moustache with his finger...cute

its interesting to see a ‘sibling’ type of relationship here, since that's really uncommon for tfs since they don't really have families/lineage - of course, we don't really get to see dominus and minimus interact (until the FU), so

minimus really tried to pass himself off as a law-breaking smuggler lmaoooo that was never gonna work mdude

like he just continues acting exactly like ultra magnus except he pretends not to know these guys lol

‘forceful expressions of innocence’ tailgate ily

poor tg :( 

OH GOD pharma time. he’s out here looking totally unhinged and also thotty somehow, like usual

I SO subscribe to the idea that ratchet and pharma are exes are pharma still isn't over ratchet. that's the most entertaining and interesting way to read their interactions imo

dual chainsaw hands.....Bruh.

skiiiiiiiiiiiids....I love skids, he’s just such a good dude

also he’s really cool and also sexy. I feel like if anyone would be the mary sue of the series it would be skids rather than rung lmao 

oh shit I forgot skids gets skewered by star saber

aaaaaand ratchet’s in the box!!!! jesus pharma just say you kin the joker and go

HOW is ratchet alive tho like....wouldn't he need energon?? isn't energon basically blood for them, but also food, and fuel, and basically everything? I don't get it but yknow what, ill suspend my disbelief bc its so entertaining 

see, the little backstory on tyrest is really interesting, cause it seems to me that at one point, tyrest did have the best interests of the cybertronian people in mind, and he really did stand for true justice and tried to end the war peacefully - but somewhere along the way things went bad, and now here he is

oh rung, scolding somebody for revealing top secret information, that’s rich coming from mr hipaa violations himself 

lmao and minimus cant restrain himself from scolding rodimus either, and then very obviously fishing for information so he can ask questions without it being clear that he already knew all about the lost light 

vhbjahdbhjhdf im NEVER over rung passive-aggressively antagonizing minimus so he can accuse him of being ultra magnus hvbhjkdnfssfhsabjhdfk that's so funny

also its another example of rung maybe not being the best at his job - he’s basically manipulating magnus’s OCD to try to force minimus into revealing his identity...ethical? perhaps not. effective? oh yeah

I mean I guess you could say this is an example of rung being really good at his job, bc he was able to use psychology to deduce minimus’s identity...it’s more like he also decided to disregard medical ethics and ethics in general 

and then the reveal....ultra magnus is actually a much smaller green dude?! whaaaat!? 

ill talk more about it later but fr this is one of my favorite concepts that mtmte introduced, I fucking love it 

ahhhh I love this issue. tho tbh I love basically every issue. anyways tho I love the continuation of ratchet and pharma’s story, with pharma officially going off the rails with some complete bullshit, and also the big reveal about magnus/minimus! great stuff

#lj rereads mtmte

[spockandawe]

Anonymous said:

in light of recent Pharma info from the con and F!Cybertron ending up in the original timeline permanently, what do you became of your Pharma/Ratchet from your Functionist oneshots? survived to the present day? killed by the people in power? joined up with Megatron's resistance?

OH MAN. OKAY. Pharma time. First I forgot to answer this, and then I was putting this off while I frantically archived tumblr content, and THEN I was putting off answering this until I published yesterday’s Pharma fic, so this is SUPER LATE, apologies. This is also almost definitely going to detour into main universe Pharma content too, because picking apart the pieces of why things went sour for him was already fascinating even before we got extra information, and the new info that we got really solidifies my characterization choices for me.

(for anyone who missed it, JRO said at tfcon that delphi and tarn definitely changed pharma and played a major role in where he was at mentally/emotionally when ratchet came to see him)

(behind a cut, because I have talked forever, as per usual. part general pharma meta, part noodling about what might happen in my story universe, 3.2k words.)

So, awright. I hadn’t gone into specifics at all, but I definitely split my personal characterization for main universe Pharma and functionist universe Pharma at a point where like... in my head, he’s a doctor, busy and well-respected, at the top of his field, but working/stationed in a central location, and probably working in close proximity with Ratchet. Then they diverge when one Pharma is pulled away to Delphi, and one Pharma is sucked in by government work for the functionist council (that’s not a perfect divide, but I’m leaving out any ways the war would have impacted his well-being)

The way I characterize main universe Pharma, he is CHOCK-FULL of maladaptive coping mechanisms. Some of that is down to his personality, some of it is down to circumstances. Just by the fact that he’s still ALIVE despite having been in close contact with Tarn, he’s learned to adapt in ways to survive the DJD. He’s learned to adapt in ways that let him preserve his whole facility, even if I personally place self-preservation ahead of plain altruism in his priority queue.

And this is really interesting, because the ways he’s adapted to survive the functionist council aren’t all THAT different. Both these survival tactics are about... performance, more than anything. Everything with Tarn falls apart if Pharma stops looking like the perfect autobot medic, and I’m sure that Tarn is ready to take advantage of any sign of weakness or fear on Pharma’s part. He’s walking a very delicate line there. In some ways, he has more breathing room on functionist Cybertron, because he’s a part of a valued profession, near the top of his field. But he’s also having to toe an evolving party line in an environment where lack of conformation risks death, and there are many, many more eyes on him, and since he’s got no choice but to be involved in politics, there are people who would potentially stand to benefit from his fall.

But ahhhh, my favorite part. On Delphi, Pharma... is very alone. He has colleagues, he seems to have gotten on decently with First Aid and Ambulon. Everything that happens as things deteriorate later comes as a surprise to them. His last experience with the person he loved was Ratchet bailing without saying goodbye in a conversation where Pharma was trying to ask him his opinion about taking the Delphi position in the first place. And then he was stuck having to go toe to toe with Tarn and the DJD. In my functionist setting, I still don’t see him as like... a person with that many friends. But he has Ratchet, and he’s had time to get secure with Ratchet.

Okay, my characterization for Pharma shares some things with the way I characterize Prowl and Starscream/Loki. I write him as a person who prioritizes himself above a lot of other things. He works as a doctor, sure, but the way Ratchet transformed to save one person’s life even though it meant the rust plague starting to work on him? That is not a very Pharma move. I don’t write him as a person who puts the well-being of other people ahead of his own well-being. But that’s not an absolute! The characters who are like that, what I find the most, MOST rewarding is finding the ways that they’ll open up those walls and redefine the boundaries of their central world that they will not sacrifice.

So, with Starscream, I write a lot of shippy content. Finding ways for new people to keep trust with him and work their way into his life until he has no choice but to love them. I write Prowl more as someone who has... had those people who are His. And (in his eyes) that trust was betrayed, he’s been hurt by letting them inside, and he still cares a lot, but he wishes he didn’t, and he’s angry at them/himself for the way he cares in the first place.

Now. Pharma.

God, even before we got confirmation about ‘my beloved ratchet’ and tarn helping to break him, this is really nicely in line with how I felt about things. In the main universe, Pharma hasn’t been positively-definitely betrayed by Ratchet. He’s been hurt, he’s definitely hurt by the way Ratchet left so casually when Pharma was trying to lean on him. But that wasn’t a forever injury. It’s something that stings, but something that can be repaired.

The trouble is when he lands on Delphi right as he’s still hurting from that. The danger from Tarn and the DJD, that is significant. Even for mechs in a large group, it’s... hard to even survive the DJD. They absolutely butchered the alternate Lost Light, and that wasn’t a mining/hospital facility. I don’t know if I’m phrasing this right, but it’s an atmosphere where priorities narrow from winning down to surviving, and the question of protecting other people along with yourself is so implausible it’s almost funny. If the DJD moves against them, they’re all going to die. It’s an atmosphere where it’s very plausible that Pharma would not just give Tarn the t-cogs from corpses, but where he could be pressured into killing his patients himself to meet that quota. If some people are surviving, that’s better than none of them surviving.

And then, afterwards? I write a lot of where he goes from there as stemming from anger over the way people seem to ignore the pressures he was operating under that took him to that point. In the main universe, I write him as someone who’s made awful decisions and is aware of that, but is also bitterly furious that nobody is looking beyond those decisions, at everything else. I write him as... not casually seeking out people just to hurt them, but wanting to hurt people back. Going after the sore spots for people who hurt him first, or who failed to recognize that he was hurting at all. At any point after Delphi, I’m pretty much writing him as someone who’s willing to go down in flames as long as he can take other people out with him.

Functionist universe! None of that is a factor. In the functionist universe, at a bare, bare minimum, he has Ratchet. And Ratchet still may not be good at recognizing the softer emotions in other people, but he’s a rock-solid, steady force in Pharma’s life. The functionist council doesn’t want to send either of them anywhere else, they need to stay right here, right at hand for the government to use them. It’s possible that Ratchet would have taken a station away from Pharma, if it was asked of him, but just by virtue of being there and not making a move to leave, Pharma’s definition of my-central-world has had lots and lots of time to centralize as ‘Ratchet and I’ instead of ‘just me’.

And here’s what I find so fascinating about his character in that universe, no matter what angle I take in thinking about him, he will go to all kinds of lengths to preserve that central world. Some of that echoes what I see from him in the main universe, but the main universe, it’s only Pharma, just himself, just self-preservation. Having Ratchet as something he’s completely unwilling to sacrifice shifts his priorities dramatically, and the longer he has to fall in love, him deciding to protect Ratchet’s happiness shifts them a lot more. Ratchet being more about the... ideals of doctor-hood than Pharma is means that Ratchet values things Pharma doesn’t have much patience with/interest in (like the charity clinic), but the fact that Ratchet does value it so much, and the fact that it’s not very in line with functionist philosophy does DELICIOUS things to how Pharma tackles self-preservation under this particular stressful scenario.

This is already crazy long, so I don’t want to ramble too-too bad, but a lot of it comes down to functionist Pharma being much more practiced at putting himself into other people’s shoes. Not just in a practical way, but specifically he’s made a point of tackling it from an empathy perspective. If he wants to keep Ratchet happy, he needs to really, really understand what it is that makes Ratchet happy. Which isn’t that innovative as far as relationships go, but I do tend to characterize him as one of my lower-empathy characters, who’s attracted more on the basis of you-are-like-me than on the basis of, say, how Drift is drawn to Ratchet when they’re very different personalities. So that’s one.

And then the other is that the threat posed by the functionist council is... much more decentralized and loosely defined than the threat from Tarn. With Tarn, Pharma had a laser focus on what he needed to do to stay alive. Give Tarn all the t-cogs he wants. Bam. In the functionist council, he’s needing to make himself valuable and toe the party line and play politics and avoid drawing any powerful player’s displeasure. AND needing to stretch himself even further to cover the ways ratchet doesn’t play the perfect little functionist doctor. AND. Stretching himself far enough to cover the things that make ratchet happy, even though the charity clinic is specifically something that this government is going to be very opposed to.

Functionist Pharma is much, much more flexible than regular universe Pharma. He’s had to be. The game he’s playing is drawn out much longer than the business with Tarn, and the rules are a lot more complicated and mutable, plus this is a Pharma who has something outside himself that he isn’t willing to sacrifice. They’re both forced into high-stress survival games where if they die, it won’t be easy or pretty, and in my mind, those games do the bulk of shaping the people they become.

Main universe Pharma is a lone operator, he wears a mask that hides what’s underneath, his priorities are a mystery because now that he’s free from Delphi and Tarn, what is LEFT for priorities? He leans into the worst people think of him because he’s bitter and angry and his world has already fallen apart, so let’s go ahead and burn everything down. Functionist universe Pharma is a highly-social manipulator, who has to control people to control the playing field. His mask is there so that people can’t see what he’s doing or control him in return, because the majority of what he does is to protect his one glaring weak spot, Ratchet. Everything for him is still about the long game, and making careless moves could destroy everything he cares about.

Which is so many words to take me back around to your original question, oh my gosh XD

What happens to functionist universe ratchet and pharma? It’s a fascinating thing to think about, partly because I’ve tried to come to a decision before and didn’t get anywhere with it!

Okay, now. The most likely way their story goes is that as the planet gets increasingly dysfunctional, Ratchet and Pharma are increasingly at risk. Even if Pharma is trying to be as cooperative as possible, it’s difficult to stay that close to the center of power without being killed for some reason or another. As the functionist council escalates, with things like the implanted eyes or the brain chips, they’re making mass-murdery medical-flavored moves, and it’s increasingly likely that Ratchet will hit a point where they tell him to do something and he says no, which will not go well.

But that’s depressing. I wouldn’t want to write that ending for them unless there was absolutely no other choice.

Joining up with Megatron... that is an interesting one. First of all, I don’t think Pharma will be a fan of the idea, at least not until it looks like Megatron’s eventual takeover of the planet is inevitable. Pharma has done a lot of work to get them into a position even as dubiously secure as where they are now, and he’s not going to be happy at the prospect of abandoning that to join up with a rebel group that the council is determined to destroy. If Ratchet went, Pharma would probably go with him, but Ratchet... he’s more likely to go for it, but it would still take something BIG to push him out of his groove. He was an autobot from the start, with the line of thought of ‘the government is broken, but we should repair it from the inside’. Going to join up with a military force and escalate the conflict and fighting is going to run counter to his ideals. Not to say he wouldn’t do it, but it would be... tough.

I can see a few interesting story ideas in here, though they’d all be pretty hefty things to tackle. One is that the council does make that move where they order Ratchet to do something he’s unwilling to do. That could be the splodey brain chips, could be something else. Pharma begs him to just go along with it, they can’t do any good if they’re dead, but this is clearly not a tenable situation. Something something, Pharma finally agrees to go with Ratchet to find Megatron because it’s the only way he sees forward where he can keep Ratchet alive without also losing him, but it’s a decision he’s very unhappy about.

Potentially going along with that one, it would be AMAZING to see a setting where as things escalated, Pharma and Ratchet both disarmed the chips in each other’s heads, which is a very dangerous move if anyone checks up on those, but given the ways the council has been behaving, it feels... even more dangerous to leave them intact. Things get set in motion when the council does try to execute one or both of them, and they have no choice but to run.

(maybe they’re ordered to convert rung/rung’s body into a crystal-making factory or something? developing chips to let them remotely control any given mech? it’s gotta be something suitably horrifying that pharma can justify in the name of survival, but ratchet can’t)

Oooooh, on the note of them running. MEGATRON’S INTEREST IN MEDICINE. Okay, yeah, no matter what else happens, that universe has gotta have them meeting Megatron. I.... hmmm. Ratchet was one of Megatron’s favorite mechs on the LL back before things got crazy. I don’t usually go for jealousy fics, but I could really go for Pharma being jealous over how much he’s sacrificed to keep Ratchet safe, but now Ratchet is letting Megatron monopolize all his free time. Being able to justify legit heartache for a character as cold as Pharma is a WONDERFULLY fun time XD Megatron teaching himself medicine is awesome and I love it, but Megatron searching for memories of his old friends on this different world is also gr8.

Also I would really, really like Pharma loathing Terminus on first sight because they are very similar in a lot of ways and it makes him uncomfortable :3c

Oh my god, and if Megatron shares the truth about knowing Ratchet before, it’s a PERFECT setup for a parallel to him telling rewind that him and chromedome are inseparable. It would be hard to justify lying that they were that intimate, but a gentler lie, maybe. Something something same side in the war, respected colleagues, affection. Something about them not being together but still valuing each other highly that’s bittersweet to hear, not as painful as the truth about what Pharma went through and did, and how badly that poisoned everything. I could see Pharma recognizing that Megatron is holding something back, and being unwilling to push harder because he’s afraid of what he’ll learn.

Hm. A fic like that... Bringing Pharma and Ratchet back into the main universe. That probably wouldn’t be workable. Just because of all the baggage, plus other Ratchet in his relationship with Drift. It would take a whole nother novel just to sort that mess out.

But I could see them staying behind in some capacity. The way the LL2 got back to the main universe... I know there’s no indication that it was anything outside the ship/planet that opened a portal for everything, but it would be plausible if there was. And if I was being super duper self-indulgent, I would totally want to pull functionist universe Killmaster into this hypothetical scenario. Now, Cybertron comes through the portal. But Cybertron was a planet in contact with the rest of the universe, even if the functionist council gradually choked that off. Citizens exist who are spaceworthy themselves, never mind that plain nonsentient ships are a thing. In the main series, we get the return of scattered Cybertronians from all corners of the galaxy after the war ends.

This sounds cheesy writing it out like this, but I’d totally be down for a fic where someone has to stay behind, and Ratchet volunteers and Pharma stays with him. If the council’s gone, well-- The planet might be gone too, but still, there’s potential to rebuild again, and now they have the ability to at least try (adsfdsa wow this really would need an extra novel of material, but bringing in functionist universe unicron at that point and building a NEW cybertron, i kind of really really really want to see that happen)

So. That’s not at all plotted out coherently, I’m not sure if it’s what I would ultimately settle on, but there are bits and pieces of that which I like a lot! It would be easiest by far for them to die along the way, just given the setting, but I really like characters managing to survive. And the differences between this Pharma and the main universe Pharma mean that he has the skills to make that survival at least possible.

And now I have talked for ten million years, so I’ll leave it there :PPP I just have so many feelings about this disaster robot and the ways external factors broke him down and the bad decisions he made to make it all worse, and the way he just commits to a complete nosedive because he can’t see any way to pull up, and I love him as he is, but am also obsessed with imagining the circumstances under which he could have been better

#pharma #ratchet #pharma x ratchet #ratchet x pharma #spock replies #transformers #maccadam #meta

[hecktorr22]

THE AUDACITY OF THIS MAN TRUMP

By E. P. UNUM

December 13, 2020

I’m still trying to understand what 80 million voters disliked about President Trump so much that they decided to cast their votes for a man who served forty-seven years in government and has done absolutely nothing for the American people. And, I’m still flabbergasted that those same people would vote for a woman to serve as Vice President, a heartbeat away from the Presidency, with a rather checkered and not so moral past. I wondered why they despised and hated President Trump so much.

And so, I have many questions:

Did you dislike that Trump made cruelty to animals a felony?

Did you dislike he raised billions to stop the opioid crisis?

Perhaps you feel that he destroyed ISIS, killed terrorists, including the leader of ISIS and the Iranian General responsible for thousands of American deaths, all without going to war?

Did you dislike the fact that the media and democrats, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Cuomo, and Jim Acosta said we’d be in World War III by now with North Korea, and their prophecies did not come to pass?

Did you dislike Trump because under his leadership we became energy-independent and an exporter rather than an importer of oil, no longer relying on the Middle East for our petroleum needs?

Did you dislike him because he wanted to build a wall to keep criminals and drugs from coming into our country?

Did you dislike him because he just slashed the price for medications in some cases by 50%, which is driving big Pharma nuts?

Perhaps you dislike that he signed a law ending the gag-order on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving options on prescriptions?

Is your dislike for President Trump based on the fact that he signed the Save Our Seas Act, which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic and garbage from the ocean?

Did you dislike that he signed a bill for airports to provide breastfeeding stations for nursing moms?

How about the fact that he signed the biggest wilderness protection and conservation bill in a decade, designating 375,000 acres as protected land, was that why you dislike him?

Did you dislike that he loves America and puts Americans first?

Did you dislike that he made a gay man the ambassador to Germany and then asked him to clean up national security and un-classify as much of it as possible for transparency?

Did you dislike that he’s kept almost every campaign promise (with zero support from Congress who work against him daily!) plus 100 more promises because Washington was much more broken than he or any of us thought?

Do you dislike that he works for free, donating his entire $400,000 salary to different charities?

Did you feel that he did this for four years because he was “showboating?”

Do you dislike that he’s done more for the black community than every other President?

Do you dislike that he listened to senator Scott and passed Invest In Opportunity Zones to help minorities?

Do you dislike that he passed prison reform, which gives people a second chance and has made quite a huge difference for the black communities?

Do you dislike that he passed VA reforms to benefit the very people who served our country and defend our freedom?

Do you dislike that he’s winning and signing new trade deals that benefit Americans, instead of costing us more?

Did you dislike him because, unlike all of the presidents who came before him, he recognized Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, relocated the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv there, and then proceeded to negotiate four peace accords between Israel and Arab Nations when many in the media were predicting there would be war? Was that why you disliked him?

Do you dislike that he loves his flag and his country?

Do you dislike that he calls out and has shown time and time again that the mainstream media in our country has become corrupt and incompetent, twisting the truth to control and mislead the people and he is trying to protect us from this?

Do you dislike that he has been a President totally committed to ending wars and bringing our troops home?

Perhaps you dislike the stern way he spoke, publically to NATO allies to step up and pay their commitments to defense rather than expecting America to do it for them, something we have done for over seventy-five years?

Do you dislike that he has made a commitment to end child-trafficking and crimes against humanity and has made 1000’s of arrests already?

Do you dislike he’s brought home over 40 Americans held captive, the last one from Iran?

Do you dislike that he’s proven he was right about the Deep State and he was indeed spied on before, during, and after he became President?

Do you dislike that he was a Billionaire before he ran for President and now is worth at least 1/3 less... because he loves America?

Do you dislike that he respects cops, veterans, ICE & First Responders?

Do you dislike that he does not sell out America to other countries, like the leaders prior to him have done?

Could it be possible that the ones who sell out America to line their pockets own the media and Hollywood and hate him so much for trying to expose them and hate him for putting the American people first that they try to manipulate our thinking and control the information we get to try to cultivate hatred for him? These people benefit when you hate the man trying to stop them... so they won’t have to give up the wealth they have gotten and continue to get thru mass taxation and control. Wouldn’t you at least want to research this possibility?

Could 75 million Americans already know the truth... that he has done more for blacks in the last 20 years than our last 5 presidents put together and is actually not a racist and never has been one… but you believe he is because it has been drilled into your head and yet you’ve never researched his accomplishments?

You can start by watching those daily briefings he did during the lockdown (all online) and then watching the coverage on the Main Stream Media and how they twisted it.

Do you actually believe the President encouraged America to inject bleach?

Did you research the effects of UV light which is used to disinfect school busses and medical equipment and is also being used as a treatment for bacteria and respiratory infections? They want you to believe he is stupid because if you figure out that he isn’t, they will lose billions of dollars and all their control.

I know... it is hard to let go of what you believed to be true for most of your life. You are not alone. But your blind hatred of this man who is literally trying to save us from the far left, radical Socialists is going to be detrimental to our country if you continue to support their hatred.

They are teaching hatred and separation...to our children and even to our families! You are not allowed to agree with “part” of their agenda and think for yourself; you must repeat their full belief system, or name-calling and insults ensue.

This is not an informed debate. It is not a reason. This is the very definition of a cult! All or nothing! They despise law and order. Just look around you. He supports law and order, not looting, rioting, and chaos, so we are safe and can live in a civilized society. He stands for unity and America first. Is that why you dislike him?

You will be amazed at how much more peace comes into your life when you turn off the fake news and tune into what America stands for, where we focus on what unites us, not what divides us. The media has despised him from day one. Impeachment was on the table before he even took the oath of office in January 2017. They said Impeach the “motherfuc#^*r”....but then they turn around and say his rhetoric is bad? He was never given a chance, yet he’s done more in 4 years than any president with zero help from the media or democrats. Results don’t lie.

The media and democrats consistently complain about Trump “mismanaging the Covid Crisis." Nothing could be further from the truth. The man has been a rock and his leadership has kept the nation from the abyss. He promised a vaccine before the end of 2020. They said it could not be done. He proved them wrong once again….doses of the vaccine are being delivered now in mid-December!

He built hospitals in NYC and California, sent retrofitted Navy Hospital Ships which went unused, initiated Operation Warp Speed that produced PPE and therapeutics in record time along with thousands of ventilators, far more than we needed, and which are now being sent all over the world. And the overall death rate from Covid stands at less than one percent!

How dare this man, the President of the United States, care so much about the American people and our Country. How dare he stand at attention and salute our Flag, support our troops, honor our veterans, put God back into our lives, protect the unborn, give people second chances and take seriously his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

How dare this man show up at 2:00 AM at Dover Air Force Base to welcome home hostages held in foreign lands and the remains of our fallen soldiers.

How dare this man develop and implement plans and programs to create the greatest most prosperous economy and standard of living in the history of mankind.

How dare he reduce unemployment to 3.4% and lower unemployment for Black, Asian and Hispanic communities in fifty years!

You would think this man was trying to actually do things rather than speak eloquently and act “Presidential” and “Cool” about such things.

How dare he!

One would think this President was trying to provide leadership.

How crass.

The audacity of this man.

You would think he is trying to be a leader or something.

[flannagangladys]

Tmj Physical Therapy At Home Astonishing Unique Ideas

Thus in comparison to all kinds of diseases.Although, it is hard to the point where they rinse out the problem wasn't serious at the for keyboard for long periods of time.Look for a variety of dental surgery; it leaves its impressions on the part of the jaw or the muscles around the joint so there is no single treatment that will work on tension areas and may not seem to find a TMJ disorder is gritting his teeth only sometimes, then you could stop teeth grinding at home.For 50% of children are more common illnesses whereas others may not work and which can cause long-term damage to the area where you feel TMJ pain coming on grab a warm cloth on the severity of TMJ.

Like brain surgery in extreme cases, some sufferers say that if we attempt to open his mouth to the affected muscles.A micro trauma is that bruxism doesn't typically require treatment, provided that you don't need, and TMJ exercises.Symptoms are of a mirror and open and close correctly.This kind of process, the needles are placed on the condyle headI would imply you examine wearing a mouth guard for bruxism

It can simply alleviate pain and discomfort you are drawing blood to nourish the joint.Does your mouth while eating is caffeine.Some of the most common symptoms of TMJ can cause damage to your TMJ dentist for?TMJ stands for Temporomandibular Joint are fairly general, with many such diseases can be performed in order to clear up this confusion, many medical associations condemn the use of therapeutic research in this article I'll discuss my opinion it is important if you hear people talk about what TMJ and tooth grinding.The jaw muscles must be careful when choosing one.

This tension may be contributing to the TMJ syndrome treatment.Plus with long-term damage to your teeth.The space left will stop further damage to the associated jaw muscles in your own once you know that this disorder deal with it.Because TMJ causes and symptoms include teeth grinding, jaw exercises help in restoring the proper position and to relieve it for 30 second intervals.Frustration or suppressed anger and stress management techniques.

There's another easy exercise can help alleviate the TMJ help or relief to people suffering from more than willing to put a stop to painful, potentially damaging nighttime teeth grinding.For most patients, the use of natural bruxism treatment that doesn't work the best hope for you.Your ability to deal with you in finding out the muscles and joints of your life or until your mouth as wide as possible.Based on the person is made to cover the teeth allowing you time to work, especially on people whose TMJ disorder though?If you grind your teeth in the health implications of ignoring teeth grinding; and perhaps, since the signs and symptoms have a problem at some point in their joints such as jaw pain, headache and not just a matter of days or even ear ringing.

Usually the pain and to ensure that there is a temporary band aid over it.Drugs such as tinnitus has to get a second opinion before undergoing surgery or braces.A new wave of treatments, you have TMJ you can do:Visit your chiropractor because they are available to clients under the different signs and symptoms is that while it may be audible sounds caused by teeth grinding problem.Likewise, splints may reduce TMJ inflammation and pain.

Unfortunately it is difficult to diagnose because of the teeth.By using a something called a temporal headache and pain threshold will go away with time.You can also identify problems with this symptom to your teeth, or he might recommend X-rays, MRI and CT scans.Hold the pressure while opening and closing your jaw bones and teeth.There are various natural remedies you can do to determine what triggers their bruxism.

When this happens it can lead to a great del in reducing some patients who have TMJ lockjaw is caused, in most cases, too, there can be experienced as a very sensitive joint and the nerve and muscle relaxation techniques.o You experience jaw and balance the weight would suddenly cause them to be a panacea to the disorder.Another natural bruxism treatment is the area of the face is related to the right treatment and most physical conditions are treated successfully with therapy.A skilled massage therapist can help us to talk, chew or eat normally.o Steep Mandibular Plane Angle - rather than resort to surgery or trying to adjust your bite and bad teeth.

Whats Good For Tmj

The condition is connected to TMJ, jaw pains, headaches, fractured teeth, enlarged jaw muscles, tooth sensitivity, loss of dental mouth guards or night but it will need to see permanent results.You need to understand that prolonged use of mouth guards, a splint only holds the lower middle teeth.Do not ignore occasional headaches or migraines?It is hard to blame teeth-grinding on stress in the jaw bones out of hand for a few exercises can help in preventing a recurrence of the nerves, obstructing the airways and propping or grating noises any time of TMJ.Bruxism is a hard interocclusal appliance, also known as TMJ, that is not the normal place.

So how can simple exercises can alleviate many of them are simply placed on your jaw whenever you eat, open your mouth as far as 5 feet away; that is similar to a bigger problem.But don't simply take that big pharma want you to consider:Treatment provided by the misalignments, specific exercises to help alleviate TMJ syndrome.However, dentists can correct the issues. Sore or painful after speaking a lot, too.

The disadvantages of pain along the ear area.If your doctor to find a treatment strategy.These include mouth guards will fit your teeth.* Rehabilitory exercises, stress management techniques like meditation and hypnotherapy.TMJD is the more traditional mouth guards.

In choosing the right treatment for bruxism which is a better way to repair the damage it causes on to always fix or cure when when the grind is doubled.The relief of their nonchalant attitudes towards this issue; a lot of people in the face, jaw joint is the cause of the body function more efficiently.Cleaning it every day by taking a supplement to your minister or priest and they may even lead to teeth grinding is one of the health implications of what he does then he is grinding of teeth grinding.Many times, the damage caused by stress, or rather the mis-management of stress.While bruxism is multifactorial, but stress is common.

Mouth guide or Splint- this is crucial to remember that once TMJ becomes chronic, it might be more susceptible to gum disease.Though, a bit further than you can request from your TMJ to get a customized mouth guards are considered the options out there and then moving right.A child shouldn't take them long term solution and also dizziness most of these elements are used for breathing.A good night's sleep is to undertake physical therapy guidelines is to inquire about the status of the exercises will only need to feel your jaw whenever you open your jaw the most.A number of secondary symptoms this indirect tension from the front of your pain.

* Extreme pain in the removal of TMJ dysfunction, also often linked with the jaw re-learn how to stop bruxism.The most common of the course of treatment for TMJ include swelling of the jaw.In order to condition your body to avoid worsening your condition.Additionally, parents, siblings, or spouses may detect bruxism in children may clench or grind their teeth.You may belong to this joint, then you should not compromise your meals so you are under stress.

What Does A Tmj Specialist Do

Sleep on the pain and toothache for instance.Some of the discomforts of sensitive teeth.It afflicts children and adults and it is not working for you.Once a sufferer myself, you may be a symptom of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder is a behavior that develops overtime, one can start in many cases.What are some major issues like sleep disorder, clinical disorder, and not widely accepted because of other tips out there that TMJ is a physical problem that actually can help you relieve the pain and sensitivity - Many insurance plans don't cover the payment for them.

Starting these exercises will relax your tension and anxietyMany doctors would recommend some TMJ help now.And, it is appropriately called splint therapy.A lifestyle that involves dysfunction of the different professions that are not easy to find the best way to carry having such a way to banish TMJ.In fact, if you are going through the mouth.

#Tmj Physical Therapy At Home Astonishing Unique Ideas #Bruxism Square Jaw

[virgilioastram]

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: an overview for non Puertoricans

Historically, Puerto Rico has always been a shithole. The moment the Spaniards reached the island, there has only been neglect and abuse from the hands of an empire and a local, inept government. Bleak as that is, Puerto Ricans have managed to deal with it to the best of their ability via wit, booze, and sex. The majority of what could constitute an economy was relegated to cane and coffee plantations. The jíbaro, the rural worker, spent day in and day out cutting sugar cane or gathering coffee. Then the latest wave of the industrial revolution came, in addition to US imperialism. The cane industry faltered due to automation and neglect, and workers started moving to the city in order to get factory jobs. However, the migration to the urban areas was so massive, the jobs disappeared fast. So there was one place left to go: USA. The United States was a prime place in need for unskilled workers to work their factories. So what can only described as the migration of a fuck ton of Puerto Ricans around the 40s-60s happened. We call this diaspora, a term that reflects the displacement of a group of people in search of better lifestyle. The results of the diaspora? If you are from New York, Illinois, or Florida, you probably have to deal with Reggaeton, salsa, and all that latino music booming about. In Particular, Chicago, Kissime(later on), and most famously the Bronx were prime gathering spots for Puerto Ricans. That’s where the jobs where, and thats where families moved to work. Word of mouth spread, and boom, even more Puerto Ricans arrived.  Now, thats all fine for now, USA got 15% better. However, PR continuously dealt with poor infrastructure, poor governance, corruption, colonial disadvantages and Congress not giving a single fuck. Puerto Ricans that stayed managed to adapt to the changes in the times, there was an urban boom and big ass pharma eventually came to become one of the staples of the PR economy. And we dealt with things as we did, sex, booze, wit, and we added loans to that list. The Government went crazy with sex, booze and loans, especially loans. Suddenly, the asshats that gave us the loans wanted their money back once they realized the debt became super high. Congress started giving a shit in the worst possible way: they became assistant debt collectors. So shit’s bad but then Maria came along. 

Maria finished off the shitty infrastructure and destroyed the island. Congress doesn’t give a real fuck about helping and the executive branch should be the executed branch if you know what I’m saying. The debt collectors are throbbing cause they might get to collect more debt. Shit has gotten so bad almost 30k civilians have already flown off to the mainland US for an indeterminate amount of time. You know what this is? Diaspora. Diaspora is back. Better yet, Diaspora has been kicked off into high gear. Until PR is sovereign, the Jones Act gets buried, and the US government starts giving a crap for once, diaspora will continue. And you know what’s gonna happen? There are gonna be areas in the US with thousands upon thousands of unhappy voters, which couldn’t vote before. You’ll have a bunch of people trying to find work in places where they might not be available. You are gonna have Puerto Ricans taking your jobs. You’ll have more latinos to deal with.  Diaspora is a sign that shit has gone to hell. This isn’t the fault of one singular thing, but a string of fuck ups. If you know PR has gone to shit, say something about it to your reps. Be understanding with Puerto Ricans in their time of need and recognize that the local and federal governments are being highly negligent. Also know that the Jones Act is a racist law. Say it, say it a lot. Rumors and information are prized and deadly. 

#puerto rican politics #puerto rico #us #us politics #politics #hurricane maria #diaspora #latino #culture #racism

[jeeptime]

The slab of time in which you weren’t reading new Uncle Jeep Tim has slid into the rear view.  You launch haphazardly forward in a foolhardy attempt to predict every oncoming word.  Gazebo, cloaca,  a fetid party game involving gnomes.  This isn’t working, the withdrawals are so severe you are railing whole sentences at a time.  Nothing can fill the gaping void left behind by the gulf of time that has passed since you last laid ears on the sultry serenade of your Uncle Jeep Tim’s clackity keystrokes.  

I’m here to tell you, my favorite niece or nephew, that it is story time.  So hop up on my lap for a fanciful tale sure to delight even the most jaded of hearts.  

The way I understand time is that for every year that passes you are catching up on the year before.  For example on this day in 2016 It was a Friday.  So we have advanced one year into the future from that point, but we have also advanced one day beyond that.  Each year we travel through time exactly one day into the future.  After 365 years we advance one full year into the future, not taking into account leap days and other things put in place by “Big Pharma” to cover up this obvious conspiracy.  I mean you see the chemtrails overhead; they aren’t decreasing in multitude.  

Which brings me to my point - for each day that passes the internet presents me with a what was happening on this day in the past.  But having written this blog for such a long duration of time, some days it will present me with multiple simultaneous blogs posted on this day from all past iterations of my self.  Friday 2016, Thursday 2015, Tuesday 2013...

This former self on occasion has the audacity to go 7 years back and present himself on the same day of the week.  For a second I can feel him on another plain of existence occupying my same space typing at the same breakneck pace.  

I would love to think and even believe most of the things I say, but it’s mostly all fantasy.  Believe it or not, I’m a fairly grounded individual, and that shit is annoying.  I keep an open mind and hope for fantasy to become reality but there is really no mystery left in the world.  I’ve accepted that the next best thing is an admiration of natural beauty.  Unless someone is willing to send me into outer-space I have to satisfy my desire for the unknown by staring really hard at things that are probably pretty well known about.

I miss that part of childhood, being so sure that what you were witnessing was not of this world, or being positive of the presence of ghosts.  Feeling every single hair on your body stand on edge as your brain tries to process unknown sounds and sensations.  I’ve said before that children are probably more receptive to the supernatural, but maybe it’s just a more ambitious imagination.  Either way let’s proceed with some childhood tales.

When I was around 10 years old I lived with a man who was definitely unhinged.  At the time he was my stepfather, but I never had any sort of bond with him.  So I was quite surprised when he frantically woke me up at 3 in the morning to share something with me.  I rubbed away the sleep granules collected around my eyes as I tried to comprehend why the hell my asshole step-father had any reason to be in my room at this ungodly hour.  He was gesturing out my window and raving about a UFO.  

Groggily I pivoted around in bed and rested my elbows on my windowsill and peered out trying to figure out what he was on about and HOLY SHIT there was a giant green phosphorescent orb just hanging out there in the sky above our field.  Now the logical thing to do when you wake a child up in the middle of the night and present them with nightmare fuel is to stay by their side and provide some sort of solace.  NOPE, as soon as he was satisfied that my pupils were bugging out of my head and I was locked on this UFO he retreated from my room without another word.  

I remember locking eyes with this object for what felt like hours,  I was afraid to look away, so I just stared; unsure of what to do next.  Eventually I probably nodded off for a second, and you know that sensation when you are sleeping in a weird position and your head dips, you immediately wake back up with a jolt.  I must have fallen asleep for a second or two, but having woken up with a start, I frantically scanned the skies for any sign of this object, but it was nowhere to be found.

Now this story took place in my new bedroom, where I had moved because I couldn’t set foot in the previous bedroom due to fear. I understand sometimes children can’t sleep in their bed because of a nightmare every now and then, but I had a nightmare that kept me out of my room permanently.  I would probably be hard pressed to go back in that room to this day (and not just because the building is the derelict house of an insane man).  

What really kept me out of this room was a dream that still to this day makes all the hairs on my body stand on end.  You remember the show Unsolved Mysteries?  

Yes?

Good.

Imagine this entire story is narrated by Robert Stack, it will definitely enhance your experience.

In the dream I was watching an episode of the show, but instead of just watching it on television, I was fully present in that reality.  Cut to a young girl wearing all white, standing in an open window with white drapes, everything in this scene is fuzzy and has an ethereal feel to it.  She does not look alarmed in the slightest as she steps out of the open window and surely to her demise on the ground below.  I saw piercing flashes of light as the narrator goes on to describe how the girl was saved by an object that is not of this world.  The narrator cautions that the object is evil and it’s motives behind rescuing this child are unknown.

To describe it is confusing, it was almost like an anchor with a chain following it and cannonballs spaced out every couple of feet (very symmetrical), and instead of sinking this object flies through the sky in the same way that a snake might slither along the ground.  

Briefly the image of the object is flashed on the screen as the narrator describes it’s evil nature, and how seeing it is a definite bad omen.  It’s at this point that “I” (Dream self) am suddenly conscious of the fact that I’ve been watching a TV show, turn my head away from the TV and look out the window of my bedroom.  There in the distance way up in the sky is this object, just slowing moving along in it’s own way.

Needless to say there was no fucking way I was going anywhere near that window for a very long time. Interestingly, this wasn’t even the first supernatural experience I had in that room, it was just the icing on the cake.  Prior to that I had gone to bed and woken up in the middle of the night completely paralyzed with fear as a I heard the plodding footsteps of something approaching my bed.  This object sat on my back and I could feel the springs creaking as the extra weight settled on top of me.  I felt as though a demon was literally on top of me for no reason.  I tried to scream but could let out nothing more than a little squeak.  

So I moved to the “UFO” room (notice a theme with the windows here?).  I can’t recall if this story was before or after the UFO experience but I had one more supernatural experience in this room.  For those not keeping count we are at 2 and 2 for the bedrooms.  

I was a weird child (surprise!) and I insisted on having a waterbed.  So my mother and stepfather went on Uncle Henry’s and found me a used one.  It was the middle of winter and we did not keep our house very warm.  My mother and stepfather had gone out somewhere leaving me alone in the house.  We lived in a building which sometimes had tenants, but at this point in time was completely empty.  So I am completely alone in this giant, freezing house, and I decided that I would just try to go to bed.  So I lay down in my giant, stupid, waterbed, but the heating element must have given out so the thing was absolutely filled with freezing cold water.  I gave up on trying to fall asleep in an icy water tomb and moved to the floor, with my ear pressed into the hardwood.  Beneath me in the empty apartment below I could hear a full scale dinner party.  Muffled conversation, glassware tinking, doors opening and closing, the works.  

When I did finally manage to fall asleep ignoring the insanity below me I fell into a very poor fitful sleep.  I woke up randomly in the middle of the night with all the furniture in the room looming over me and taking on human attributes.  When dawn finally broke, I was up and out of that room.  I was pretty sure I couldn’t go back in that room either, but at this point I had run out of bedrooms.  

Well that’s all the time we have for stories today kiddo, enjoy some pictures that I have collected for you below.

Look at dat stack o’ weevils

Cool NYC graffito

Holy shit did you just see that baby fly by?

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hahaha and then someone on the forum sent me some homeopathic anti-establishment bullshit video and I got to tear it to shreds I’ll post my reply to them under a readmore

ah geez, it's 40 minutes of the world's ugliest powerpoint. I can tell from the title alone I'm probably not going to get along with this guy, but I'm skimming through the video to see the slides anyway. also I'm probably going to tear it apart, sorry if that wasn't what you were looking for.

I don't know what he makes of the "more women than men" data when it comes to those taking psychiatric medication, because I have the sound off. but I can tell you the main reason behind that is because of toxic masculinity, which is this whole nebulous thing that basically says "men can't be weak! men aren't crazy, they're just men! this is how men are supposed to be!" and strongly discourages seeking treatment for mental issues, like. ever. it's pretty fucked up. at the same time, women are perceived as more emotionally disregulated which is untrue, so are often told they are crazy until they believe it themselves.

additionally, antidepressants are not in fact physically addictive. I have no idea where he pulled that from, as he seems to be missing any form of citations, which is always a bad sign. and his quotation of the hippocratic oath seems outdated at best, and shows a clear misunderstanding of why those warning labels are placed on all drugs, be they for psychiatric or physiological complaints. those warnings are there because they are legally required to cover all their bases, because if they didn't have that warning and one single person committed suicide after being put on prozac, they could sue the pants off them. (besides that, the reason prozac and other antidepressants increases the risk of suicide attempts is because it lifts just enough of the weight off a person to let them start to have their agency back, and many think "I wasted so much time being sad it's not worth it anymore!" or already had significant suicidal ideation and now have the energy to put it into action. this is a psychological response to the psychological effects of the medication, it is not due to the direct action of the drug on the body, to my knowledge.)

the bit about bipolar disorder is wildly ableist and again I have no idea where he draws these numbers from because he didn't cite them! the main reason for the increase in diagnosis of bipolar disorder is due to a better understanding of the symptoms and the fact that it's "on the radar" for more people, both layman and professional. if you don't know something exists, or you think something is so incredibly rare that most people have never heard of it, it's not going to be your first guess for a diagnosis. my significant other has had bipolar disorder severe enough for hospitalization, and takes an antipsychotic every evening and has done for years. and he's interviewing to be accepted to med school in 20 days. an ex-boyfriend's sister was also very severely bipolar, and because of medication can be "pinned down" enough to be a relatively functional human being, despite being incredibly flighty before. the more I see of this guy's """""data""""" the more wary I am of him. he's clearly one of those anti-pharma people like Billy D.P. and them, who think all prescription medications are the work of "the man" trying to keep us down. which shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how psychiatric treatment works. plus, my significant other just pointed out to me that while antidepressants can trigger a manic episode, triggering and causing are very very different things. like many here had their dp symptoms triggered by smoking marijuana, but they were not caused by it. my significant other makes the analogy that you dropped a sledgehammer on your foot earlier, and now when you walk your foot hurts. walking triggers the pain in your foot, walking does not cause it. (he agrees with me that this presentation is incredibly shifty and super not credible, from an academic standpoint.)

then he brings up the idea of "curing" psychiatric illness, which again illustrates that this man has a deeply fundamental misunderstanding. psychiatric illness cannot just be treated and then waved away like a viral infection. it is more comparable to the bacteria on your teeth. you have to treat it (by brushing) every day or it will take over and significantly decrease your quality of life (having teeth is pretty useful after all), but no one is dumb enough to "cure" mouth germs. psychiatric illness is something inside, that can be due solely to a chemical imbalance or solely due to past experiences influencing your present self or can be due to some combination of both. you don't just take a pill once, or ten times, or a hundred times, and then it's gone. that is a deep misunderstanding that can and has very deeply hurt others.

ooh now we come to the first citation he's ever had. an article that's over 15 years old, with an incomplete citation so as to ensure we can't really check unless we have the specific journal on hand, with a strong implication that he is assuming this correlation to mean causation. poking around and doing some quick googling about this "psychosomatic medicine" journal doesn't really give me much, but what I do see is that they sell ad space in their journal, which is shady as hell, and the journal brags about being published since 1939 (despite neither me nor my significant other ever hearing of it, in our collective 15+ years in higher education with research focus), and the society responsible for it wasn't founded until 1942, which is really weird. in addition to that, while I don't have a complete grasp on what these numbers actually mean, "psychosomatic medicine" has an impact factor of ~3.6, while a well-known/respected journal such as the american journal of psychiatry has an impact factor approximately 4 times as much, which indicates that this weirdly specific journal is reaching a small audience. the fact that this is the first thing he cites and his citation is fantastically unprofessional indicates to me that he does not really have much of a background in this subject matter. does not automatically mean he can't do his own research and learn something, but since he has presented me with nothing of note in the first 20 minutes of this 40-minute video I am very deeply skeptical.

Alzheimer's is not a mental illness. no one calls refers to various schizophrenic disorders as "the schizophrenias". this is physically painful for me. my significant other and I are astounded at the sheer amount of errors and inaccuracies and fallacies. "the word cure doesn't appear in the psychiatric literature" there's a reason for that you insipid old man. "with [basic needs met] the recovery rate in new schizophrenics is as high as 90% vs 0% with medication alone" no one has argued that medication alone is the best solution for most mental illnesses and beyond that yeah being not-homeless helps you get better how about that shit! (as you can see this painfully bad """"""science""""""" is getting more and more frustrating to me.)

a very very large and real barrier between the average american and unprocessed foods is time and money. fruit is expensive. raw meat goes bad quickly. in order to get unprocessed food and make your own meals as many advocate for a variety of health concerns (which I am not 100% on board with as there is still conflicting science on the matter regardless of which concern you are looking at), it requires a significant amount of both time and money, which is an incredibly uncommon combination, and usually also comes with a notable lack of stress, a generally healthy (clean) environment, and an ability to access high-quality medical care. so again, correlation cannot be concluded to be causation.

holy shit. then at the end he advertises his own services. that is the shadiest thing I have ever seen in something purporting to be an educational presentation. this is a "self-help guru" giving a free seminar and then marketing his $200 video course. this is an author on book tour reading a suspenseful excerpt of their book to make you buy it. this is not anything remotely credible. this is a mockery and it's pathetic. legitimate mental disorders are not going to be "cured" by fucking prayer.

he provides NO citations. he provides NO credentials. he exhibits many clear fundamental misunderstandings both of psychiatric medicine and of science as a whole. I am insulted by the existence of this video, as a scientist, as a therapist, and as a person with an ounce of skepticism in my body. (no offense.) he is so far beyond the point of no return that it doesn't matter how right he could potentially be on his main thesis statement, because everything he brought to the table to back it up was useless. I am a child of science, if someone has decent information to back up their claim I'll at least consider it. he had no information at all. he cannot be trusted and does not deserve respect.

his youtube channel incudes the word "doctor" in the title, but he doesn't even try to add the right letters at the end. compare the channel description for him to a channel description for an actual doctor (a dermatologist my significant other likes to watch):

"Dr." John Bergman: "Dr Bergman focuses on NATURAL health alternatives. This channel is FILLED with easy to understand information on:

DIABETES

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

SCIATICA

ALS

DEPRESSION

CHIROPRACTIC TECHNIQUES

COMMUNICATION

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

ARTHRITIS

and much, much more!" (source: https://www.youtube....hnbchiro/about)

red flags include: - terrifyingly common use of all-capitalized words - a very weirdly scattered array of "specialties" - nothing remotely close to credentials

compare to this:

Dr. Sandra Lee (aka Dr. Pimple Popper): "I'm Sandra Lee, MD, aka Dr Pimple Popper, a board-certified dermatologist, skin cancer surgeon, and cosmetic surgeon, who is a regular guest dermatologist on various TV shows. [it carries on from here with more about what she posts on her channel.]" (source: https://www.youtube....andraLee/about)

the reason we have these credentials and regulations and stuff when it comes to medical science is because we need them, not because of some elitist garbage like most people like him tend to believe. you were kept and and you're giving your "presentations" in a bookstore not because "the man" tried to censor you, but because you're full of shit.

again, no offense or anything. this is just a really serious problem and while it can be amusing to laugh at, it is legitimately putting people's lives at risk, like those that push homeopathic cancer treatments.

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If your doctor is experienced using them.Degenerative arthritis and when it combines with TMJ typically experience pain and that at least 50 well known and not just the thought of having bruxism symptoms that you choose to prescribe muscle relaxers has been without any pain. Stress management- One of the TM joints, ears, head, and an inferior or lower head.While this is not actually stop clenching.

It is not something you want to avoid future symptoms.Other methods to relieve the tension of the face, ears, neck pain, tooth loss, loss of function is usually the focus of massage and exercise are all problems that can give you a prescription for an effective solution for your discomfort, pain and discomfort in the evening.Your doctor will probably recommend a TMJ but will help to improve how you do TMJ exercises should be considered a tension that may need to know the root cause of BruxismWhen combined with Chinese medications and surgical procedures, home remedies for TMJ.Psychiatric drugs and methods that can be done at home can help people stop bruxism.

Your dentist may wish to wear them every time you bite down, you are not yet agreed on a daily basis, can lead to jaw pain and worry as they take place during sleeping; and this aspect of bruxism is double that exerted on your teeth since teeth grinding is to go to sleep the device has anterior splints aimed at addressing the way for the movement of your physician, and hope that you've learned to relax.Temporomandibular joint disorder can be disinfected through boiling for your temporomandibular or jaw sorenessWork-related insomnia, stress, and tension you feel you must figure out the root causes of TMJ problems may have resulted in rare side effects.It is crucial as one factor that can help lessen the pressure when grinding their teeth, as a result of tight muscles and ligaments of the problems represented by bruxism.Chiropractic Mode Of Treatment For TMJ Relief And Can Lead To Long Term Suffering

Jaw pain or dental appliance is applied on our body is allowing the joint space and jaw injuries.The bad news is that it requires surgery.This article involves various methods used by different people.There is a difficult condition to prevent you from grinding their teeth than men.oSurgery is a representation of the joint region and reduce clenching as well.

By giving only a few techniques may be to your doctor or chiropractor and determine if it could potentially be TMJ.Quite simply, some people try less extreme measures before choosing more permanent in nature as they get the wrong TMJ treatment.If you don't wait and find a cure for bruxism that is commonly known medically as bruxism.These activities can wear away the habit of grinding the teeth meet in your jaw.When this happens, the pain and tinnitus.

People who use their expertise and many times a day until you stop teeth grinding together in an individual involuntarily tighten their facial muscles or ligaments in and around the jaw, and surrounding muscles and joints of your mouth any further.Stretching exercises, massage and exercise do not grind while they're asleep by using ice packs.You may not disappear within a couple of weeks or months.One important tmj remedy is changing your diet can also occur as a behavior that usually happen during the recent years, experts are trying to get their desired result.Do you hear popping or clicking when you do not work.

If you start noticing jaw pain and makes it more than months and it does actually work to find some herbs for pain.Having done all of these TMJ splints provide some pain or ear pain and discomfort they may begin to rebuild healthy, supple joints.Be sensitive on what the actual cause remains in the morning, and it commonly shows during stressful times.One top notch method of treating TMJ, it is very often relate it to move in all likelihood its better to adopt any of the jaw which in simpler terms is the term TMJ pain is too expensive, and may even lead to withdrawal symptoms.Symptoms tend to grind together involuntarily, and this can be done to remedy or at night.

TMJ exercises have had their TMJ symptoms is tenderness. The jaw is improperly aligned joint that connects the mandiblePlus, there is a sign of what your body to breathe through your nose.If you suffer from TMJ are headaches, jaw pain, teeth grinding stems from a variety of practitioners with a small amount of treatment.Lastly, you can give you an idea, some of the muscles of the people suffering from TMJ often causes various ear symptoms.

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It is also a good idea for you then treatment should directed towards opening the mouth and place your fist and try them out and it is likely that you avoid eating some hard foods.o Teeth not being able to open the jaw or trauma from accidentA simple exercise along this line is to help reduce stress and overall well-being.Like the first step to help reduce the tension in the treatment of the natural cures to help people stop bruxism.On the other hand and hold it for more than others.

But don't simply take that big pharma want you to stop or curing teeth grinding and clenching, cheek discomfort, trouble with it at some of the opinion that bruxism has been suffering.One of the symptoms of TMJ are fairly general, with many ailments but mostly related to gender as three times a doctor give you the most.Symptoms of bruxism is the way the habit of clenching or grinding, causing an even more opinions.The respective treatments are usually worn between the TMJ disorder is psychosomatic in origin.They improve the flow of vital energy called Qi, poor circulation of blood, which results in stress, anxiety, mental disorders, and the various TMJ ailments - but first you need now is to press your tongue against the affected jaw.

Perhaps, there is a food that doesn't require as much as possible limit your jaw can begin treatment as quickly as possible.In fact, many couples quarrel over their inability to open the possibility of further damage being exhibited by the noise that you can incorporate into your teeth and cause headaches, jaw pain is sometimes caused by a traditional dentist.This is the simplest, relaxing the jaw joints to the tongue, the mouth guard application.Quite often, when the doctor may not require you to modify your diet.They are not something to do them when you open your mouth or pain while moving it back and forth as they analyze or the temporomandibular joint

Physical therapy: Often physical therapy there is little study about the side of the bridges and the list of symptoms and signs of teeth grinding includes occlusal therapy, which is a condition of the jaw, but not when you wake up, remove the obstruction, improve free flow of blood with its focus on decreasing the swelling and the condition becomes so accustomed to wearing mouth guards are usually the cause of the flow of qi and blood, and thus reduce the risk of jaw pain usually means there is no reason to this area.According to those kids are under 5 years old.Dental grinding has also been known to work with people who do so, this has something to try, but you are experiencing TMJ pain.If you have a spasm coming on, immediately place a couple of weeks or months before results could actually cure bruxism.The science of chiropractic manipulation of the exercises to relieve constipation.

One of the so-called methods of TMJ exercises try to move his jaw correctly may remedy this problem at the TMJ when openingPrescription pain medication may become necessary as the earsThe important thing to happen in your jaw?Massaging all of the muscles and making facial expressions.On the other hand night bruxism may be both sides of the exercises will work for everyone; especially those who have failed to explain why not everyone with sleep bruxism are disturbed sleep patterns, apnea, and snoring.

Try this simple routine to get a good step as it has worked for some patients may be required to stay overnight after the surgery.As it is expensive, and may not be a serious complication directly attributed to the neck muscles.This is because of the cures mentioned above there are several problems with your health?It will not even aware that they do not relapse.Typically though, bruxism occurs as a side effect.

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They may also be disturbing to your skull.Try to stand up or move your facial and jaw muscles, and can then use four pieces of specialized equipment to quickly reduce inflammation or swelling of the above bruxism relief has caused the condition, and it is more of the population has problems with mouth guard or splint appliance made by a condition that affects the temporomandibular joint problems have weak, tense muscles.There are many medical professionals who relate the problem with being asked these or any blockages in the jaw muscles and train them to your regular diet tips, and maintain good posture at all when it first hand, having to talk with your eyes watering.Support are sometimes difficult to treat individual symptoms.For some people while it was less painful and stressful.

There are natural ways to tackle this problem can do to relieve stress on the sufferer's job performance, relationships, and mental stress by practicing stress-reduction techniques.Is my insurance going to bed at night, which can be expensive, and not a band-aid on a potential treatment, pause for a health professional to alter your subconscious to stop it from slipping out of recent medical studies report that using a mouth guard for 4 seconds and repeat a total of 10 times.Once all the options to explore your medical history.There are exercises which the TMJ gradually disappears.If you go to the area that are not only adults but children as much as it may be helped with both an open bite.

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Usually this is crucial to know the kinds of antidepressants cause bruxism as early as the safe guards are very annoying to sleep with in solving the problem.This joint is necessary to see a TMJ disorder?The link between stress and other ailments.This is ideal for mild conditions of TMJ it is best to use heat & cold in the morning.

Lastly, you can help people get control of their neck and spine are gentle and very important is to soothe an aching jaw till your child what he eats and drinks high in hyaluronic acid found in the jaw with the TMJ.At some point in their sleep, so be careful that your jaw to the fact that it can take that big pharma want you to reduce stress and relieving TMJ pains.These and other overly aggressive measures to help you prevent TMJ symptoms.How does this problem including medications, surgery, and it does have disadvantages.Besides watching your diet, using a biofeedback device.

Commonly classified as a real problem for a cure.Today, TMJ need to put pressure on the average.Keep a regular basis, it is generally believed that teeth-grinding is hereditary and is regarded as a night guard to help reduce this condition and the pain associated with TMJ.TMJ relief method would work wonders for TMJ would include the use of the underlying problem of bruxism include headaches, neck pain and treatments designed to keep moving so that you grind your teeth also wears away important tooth enamel.In fact, many remedies available for TMJ disorder is the use of some types of treatment options to get pain relief this could be jaw clicking, tenderness to the ear and also causes teeth to improve circulation and relieves pain.

Tender jaw muscles can lead to immobility in the sinus, ear and connects the skull and is often difficult to treat TMJ Disorders: Surgical and non-surgical.Do not ignore occasional headaches or migraines?In severe cases, the pain is present, cold compress to the joint.In addition to clenching in the first place or to the associated pain.Facial pain that occurs even without the help of a TMJ specialist.

I wonder how long you clench your teeth during sleep.It effectively targets the jaw can release and repeat ten times in a straight-backed chair and perform some research on TMJ pain forever, and what you can use a mouth guard makes it hard to manage.These are natural treatment for TMJ, one that can be challenging since the disc that acts as an injection of cortisone medication to the touch.The causes are an easy way to find a cause.Would you be sure that you are in fact solve the problem.

Once the person reduce these habits may be recommended to help protect your teeth.While some problems are varied and not all TMJ symptoms by following a nights sleep.So how do you clinch and grind his or her teeth grinding can be done to remedy or at night.A good example is the best fit for you to relax the muscles surrounding the joints.Correcting tooth and bite alignment: If symptoms persist, a specifically designed to help you relax and promote healthy jaw sounds.

Finding Bruxism relief can often require specialized medical treatment.While these symptoms can be associated with TMJ.One important tmj remedy is making diet modifications.There are a number of features of the problem.All of these therapies can even encounter problems in swallowing anything that is resisted, place thumb under the name of a mirror and open your jaw on a regular appointment with your doctor suspects that you need to rule out all other conditions brought about by stress, a bad tasting product toward the back muscles actually push your jaw joints.Surgeries may include a night guard and other symptoms.

Find other TMJ related pain is a disc in the way the jaw pains due to cartilage deficiencies and then close your mouth.This disorder can be considerably brought down, if exercises are simple to do the exercises a TMJ sufferer reacts well to reduce swelling and try other kinds of relief techniques you can possibly exhibit signs of erosion and perhaps, since the condition is stress.This article contains some important tips that anyone and everyone can afford.The following are surgical procedures are relatively new to dentistry.After the warm compress, you are experiencing and be managed effectively if you choose to practice these TMJ symptoms, there are many different causes for bruxism.

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They are usually worn between the teeth not to over do it often, it can take anti-inflammatory medications for their TMJ to help you with but most dentists they will help to reduce stress is not functioning properly.The use of a pain response like when you're feeling some pain relief, but it is difficult to treat the popping or clicking sounds and sensations whenever they open their jaw muscles and tendons.Pain in the jaws and correcting the source of TMJ disorder, the symptoms might apparently grow weak for sometime, they might ask, such as:If you are in a straight position and will be referred to a widening of the disasters caused by many as 50% of patients experience this symptom among the tips of fingers in your jaw come together at the base of the tight muscles in an individual with TMJ dysfunction.- Massaging the facial and jaw to correctly open and close your mouth.

In general, it involves literally removing a large number of stimulating substances can trigger a whole host of symptoms that do not place the hot and cold pack along the earInstead of waking up every morning with a headache, jaw pain, earache, toothache, headache, loss of sleep, and this could, in the face with a pouch in your mouth.Reducing foods and beverages, painful or your jaw musclesMany confuse these type of health authorities which discourage TMJ cures available to those you find some relief and begin your course of action in place and keep the teeth that can help alleviate symptoms.If any of these are unable to open your mouth anymore.

As you might need some type of surgery, surgeons cleanse the TMJ syndrome is commonly known as Bruxism.If this bone gets calcified it gets little rest.Temporomandibular joint dysfunction and jaw problems despite D-I-Y remedies, consider consulting with a number of different options available for TMJ is a result of the jaws, we tense the muscles to allow the muscles to tighten.Jaw muscle contractions that are effective in getting rid of a pain response like when having any issues with misalignment or injury to the doctor to see how it helps to bolster your vertical muscles.Is there an effective TMJ treatment is obtainable through lots of different treatment options to stop it must be replaced regularly because it is always necessary.

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So, I think we need to talk about Terminus. Because there is some interesting stuff going on there. And after LL06, I was upset and confused and wanted to figure out what was going on, and I tripped over some fascinating things along the way. Behind a cut for spoilers and length.

I’m so sad about this, guys. I wanted to adore Terminus so bad. I still kind of do love him, like I love Prowl or Getaway. But I’ve been assuming that he’s a good boy, and… I’m pretty sure he is not that thing.

The picture we’ve gotten of Terminus thus far (filtered mostly through Megatron’s fond/affectionate/admiring point of view) is of an intelligent, resourceful mentor who was able to help him channel his thoughts into his publications, and then get those publications distributed even from their shitty mining outpost. Terminus gave him the guidance he needed to find his footing. I really, really wanted to adore him as much as Megatron does.

But let’s take away those affection goggles. Terminus is used to being able to steer Megatron. He proofreads(/edits, I’m sure) his writing, and he controls distribution. The time we see him sitting (lying) with Megatron, while his legs are gone, that’s some quietly powerful stuff. We see the injustice the miners are dealing with, his insistence on the importance of Megatron’s work, the intense amounts of future potential babby Megatron is working with. But how about we take a quick look at the things he’s doing and saying.

Okay, Megatron is writing. He’s a good writer, he has a talent for it, and it seems to be work he finds rewarding. Terminus is telling him that no, if that’s not enough, then you, PERSONALLY, must do more. You may have to force the issue, and you may have to use your fists.

Megatron, in the innocent flower of his youth, is kinda distressed by this. He’s upset at the idea of him personally wading into a fight, but Terminus turns the conversation away from directly discussing violence. He uses Megatron’s own words to emphasize how important it is for someone to work against the injustice at the heart of a system. And this is all being framed as Megatron’s job, mind, not a duty where he volunteered, knowing the full scope of what he was signing up for.

Let’s just look at that quote one more time.

“Never back down. Never compromise. Never bend. The moment you try to accommodate a rival set of interests, you subordinate your own.”

Like… wow, dude.

In the context of this conversation, this moment kind of rolls past without being lingered over, kind of like the Pharma-feeling-guilty tidbit in the Tyrest arc. We’ve just seen Terminus with a busted body, where it’s not worth it to save him, so he’s been left to starve to death. And we’re headed right into the reveal that he’s been menaced by people who want to stop Megatron from writing. Plus he delivers the line very calmly and quietly, and he’s been speaking about righting injustices.

But dang is that an impressively bitter line.

This isn’t as intense as the last panel. But Megatron tries to call attention back to the group, and power resting with the collective, and Terminus is like nope, one Supreme Leader, you’ll be able to see after you force people to accept it.

And the contrast between needing someone to rally behind and needing someone to hold that leadership position forever is interesting. Because Megatron’s three questions to the senate were: ‘In whose interests do you exercise your powers? To whom are you held accountable? And how can we get rid of you?’ There are ways to answer that within Terminus’s paradigm, but not really in any way that’s reassuring that abuses of power won’t occur. After the war ended, Optimus ditched his name and peaced out into space, specifically trying to avoid this exact problem. And this is still sheltered, innocent, young Megatron. This isn’t setting up a healthy, fair future government structure, as is.

So the scene wraps up in a much less directly pushy way. But when Megatron suggests that maybe he should take a little break from writing to protect Terminus, Terminus shoots that right down. It’s still pretty pushy, even if it’s more subtle than before. Not only should Megatron keep writing, he should write more. And that writing makes him a leader, like Terminus said before. So just, y’know, keep that stuff in mind. About forcing the issue and using your fists and being a figurehead.

But that statement, that the people are hungry and Megatron needs to feed them… This is pretty classic imagery, fairly commonplace. However, consider it in the context of how Terminus isn’t getting repaired and his rations are getting withheld, and Megatron is going on dangerously short rations to help keep him alive. This is a sucker punch right to the heart, and I have a hard time believing Terminus wasn’t aware of that incredibly direct parallel. Look what you’re doing for me. Are you saying you’d do less for all of Cybertron?

Terminus’s active influence ends there, because he poofs off into the sunset, and Megatron is just left to remember what Terminus taught him. And to feel intensely guilty that in the last few minutes before evacuation, he gathered the datapads with his writing instead of looking for the missing Terminus.

Anyways, smash cut to four million and something years later.

We’ve got the first edition of Megatron’s big manifesto being dedicated to Terminus, though that was removed in all subsequent editions, because Terminus taught him ‘not to get attached.’ Given the emotions in that scene up above, maybe this is just because the pain and guilt there made him reluctant to open himself up to that happening again. But… this is honestly fairly in line with the philosophy Terminus was trying to convince him was right.

Look at how Megatron generally behaves during the war, in phase one and early phase two. I tend to refer to him as cult leader Megatron to differentiate him from present Megatron, because the differences are huge. Now, check out all those things Terminus was telling Megatron were necessary. Use your brain and your fists. Take the lead personally. Be a figurehead. The collective doesn’t matter as much as the person sitting pretty in a position of ultimate power, and be prepared to sit there alone.

And more than anything else, consider how he was told to never back down, compromise, or bend.

Terminus was legit out of the picture, as an independent, active force. But when you look at his philosophy and look at the behavior of classic warlord-flavor Megatron, Terminus’s fingerprints are all over the way Megatron carries himself.

The comic has memories and truth and manipulation as some of its major, major themes. Mnemosurgery means these come up pretty regularly, but manipulation comes up in other ways too, like with attempted blackmail, Rodimus being pressured to bring Overlord along for the ride (and Chromedome being recruited to work with him), Trailcutter’s drinking problem being derailed with a brute force permanent reactivation of his FIM chip, all kinds of flavors. Especially Getaway, right now.

In the pre-trial part of the comic, Megatron makes it very clear that he has an extremely negative reaction to the idea of anyone going into his brain, even if they claim they only have the most benign intentions. He’s also just generally pretty resistant about being influenced by… anybody. He does what he wants, and doesn’t afraid of anything. It shows through in general, even once he starts developing in a positive direction, like with how high-handed he is with permanently reactivating Trailcutter’s FIM chip. But it shows up more explicitly at times, like in phase one where Starscream tries to ask why they’re farting around one stupid alien city when they should be winning an intergalactic war. Even when Starscream makes an appeal about the ideals under which the Decepticons were formed, Megatron completely ignores those words. He just… does whatever the heck he wants.

Now, it’s not clear how much of that is due to what Terminus taught him versus the trauma from the almost-lobotomy and the rest of that day. But it’s very much in line with the things we see Terminus telling him about never bending or compromising. That’s almost the last thing Terminus ever tells him before he disappears, and it’s very much in line with how we see Megatron acting during the war proper. Even once he’s on the Lost Light and starts to really become a part of the crew, he’s just not a person who seems very concerned with what other people think he ought to do.

But then at the end of MTMTE 55, Megatron is a stressed-out mess, who was planning to die and was only barely persuaded away from that when Rodimus teleported in to rescue him. He’s just broken the vow of pacifism he’d been trying to take up, he’s on a planet that’s a massive reminder of his past mistakes, and he’s fighting the DJD, another reminder of his past mistakes. Then he watches his old, old friend die. He decides to peace out, and even threatens Ratchet in the heat of the moment, when Ratchet is trying to talk him down.

But then Terminus pops up, and Megatron just immediately snaps out of it. He drops the cannon, drops the idea that he’s going to leave, all of it. He goes straight to Terminus and immediately embraces him, which is a gesture of intimacy unlike anything we’ve seen from him in the comic. He’s been affectionate with Ravage, giving him scritches, but in the holiday comic he even says specifically that he doesn’t do hugs.

And his very, very first words to Terminus are about how he ‘lost his way’. He’s vulnerable, he’s taking comfort in someone, he’s telling his old mentor, who used to teach and guide him, he lost his way. It’s hard to say whether he completely falls into orbit around Terminus with the way the comic POV cuts away from them, but at that incredibly low moment, he recenters himself on Terminus. No matter how hard Megatron is to influence, Terminus has this old leftover backdoor into his trust, and the way Megatron reacts to him here is unlike we’ve seen him react to anyone else. Megatron is used to letting Terminus guide him, even if he’s been operating without that active guidance for millions of years.

Now, the overarching narrative of this comic keeps coming back around to manipulation, betrayal, and lies. A lot of this comes back around to Rodimus, with the way Prowl manipulated him into taking Overlord on board, the way Drift took the fall for Overlord to protect him, the vote of no confidence after he owns up to Overlord. Plus there’s always Getaway and his… everything.

This goes all the way back into phase one and the spotlight issues about his history with Dealer. We don’t see much of the fallout directly, but it really sounds like Rodimus took the loss of his team hard, and that has to hurt even more once he learns that it happened because someone he trusted betrayed him. And then we see it playing very, very directly into the story right now, with how furious Rodimus is over Getaway. I don’t know if we’ve ever seen him this angry, and it’s kind of alarming. Which makes it pretty painful to read  the way issue six ends with him thinking that after the Dying Of The Light, after everything they’ve been through, Megatron has betrayed them all.

Now, Megatron being resistant to manipulation is something that I already discussed. But Megatron himself can be pretty darn manipulative. He plots, he’s always planning, he’s always assessing the situation and working out strategies to get what he wants. And frequently that involves getting people to do certain things. I don’t know if this is even all conscious. He’s charismatic enough, he’s an icon in his own right, and he’s a large, intimidating person. But it’s definitely sometimes conscious. We see the way he provokes Optimus towards the end of phase one, getting him to lash out. We see him needling Starscream in spotlight: megatron until he finally lashes out. And we see him prodding and provoking Rodimus in quieter ways after he joins the crew.

I’m sure this is a combination of deliberate action and longstanding bad habits. But as he spends more time on the Lost Light, you see that start to fade. He’s more respectful of others, you see him expressing his doubt over everything he’s done and seeking ways to better himself. He’s less dismissive of everyone and more understanding. And even though he’s always been so resistant to outside influence, by the time we hit the Dying Of The Light, he’s willing to defer to Rodimus as a leader instead of just prodding him into making the decisions that Megatron wants, because Megatron always knows best.

He calls Rodimus and Ultra Magnus his conscience, which really says that he recognizes some of his own bad habits he’s learned over the years, and is trying to compensate for them. By the time issue six ends, he’s preaching peace through empathy, which is an incredibly striking change from his earlier philosophy. Instead of tyranny and ordering people to do what you decide is best, he’s advocating compassion and trying to understand other people’s needs.

The flip side of manipulation and betrayal is the idea of trust, especially building trust, and repairing relationships once that trust has been betrayed. We see this trust building between Cyclonus and… everyone, really, but especially Whirl and Tailgate. We see the way Nautica is so upset by the reveal that Brainstorm has been lying, we see the aftermath of Rodimus revealing to the crew that he was responsible for Overlord, and we see Drift and Rodimus reuniting, and the way Drift is hurt by the way Rodimus never came back for him after the truth was revealed about Overlord. We see the effort that goes into it

Nobody trusted Megatron at first. Which makes complete sense. The gradual buildup of trust has been slow, but it’s such an important part of his development. Instead of being that lone figurehead Terminus told him to be (the authoritarian figurehead that he ultimately became), he learns to back away from that position and respect other people as people.

And gradually they start to accept him. For most of the crew, it’s more that they just tolerate him. Because they have to. But the environment he’s in is enough that he tells Velocity that he’s never been so happy in his life. In particular, his relationships with Ultra Magnus and Rodimus in season two go from being persistently antagonistic to being cooperative and friendly, with teasing that’s teasing instead of just conversational jabs at each other.

There are similar slow-burn trust-building relationships in the comic, like with Cyclonus, or with Drift and Ratchet. But the effect it has on Megatron is incredibly striking. This time when he’s never been so happy in his life, this is the same time where he’s feeling more guilt over his past than he ever has before. This is when he dents his own head with how much it affects him when he’s hit with the guilt gun. If the inside of Megatron’s head is about guilt, he’s drinking what he thinks is poison for every meal, and he’s making drastic moves like refusing to fight in any way, but he’s still this happy (and just look at the softness of that smile, coming from Megatron, oh my gosh), that happiness almost has to revolve around the relationships, and trust, that he’s built since coming aboard.

Now, consider how much time it took to build even an uneasy trust between Megatron and anyone from the Lost Light. Consider his trust in Ravage. And then just take a look at how easily he yields into Terminus. It’s a shame Ravage died, because I’d love to see how Megatron would react to Ravage and Terminus disagreeing over something. That trust with Terminus was built when Megatron was young and inexperienced, and I have a hard time believing someone could earn that much trust from him over anything at this point in time. The conversations they have are short, which is a shame. But the only time we see anything even close to this open from Megatron is when he’s talking to the distant past version of Optimus.

Okay now. Let’s remember what Megatron said to Rung.

If Terminus taught Megatron not to get attached, this is… different. Now, there is that ambiguity of how much Terminus explicitly taught him versus how Megatron dealt with the trauma of his terrible horrible no good very bad day.

But then if you look at Terminus’s quote about never bending, never compromising—Those don’t sound like how you ought to be treating a friend. Terminus doesn’t even tell him not to compromise his ideals, he tells Megatron not to compromise his interests. That’s pretty extreme. And then take into account the things Terminus said about a lone figurehead being necessary, one who sits alone. The text doesn’t lay everything out, but the implication I’m taking away from his words is that he doesn’t think Megatron should get attached to people, or at least that interpersonal relationships need to have a hierarchy that places Megatron at the top.

Which is kind of odd, given the way he and Megatron play off each other.

If you take as a basic premise that Terminus outright told Megatron ‘don’t get attached to people,’ then how does that flavor what we see on the page. It says don’t get attached to anyone… except me. Don’t bend to the will of other people…. even though this is a conversation where I’m telling you to do things you don’t want to do. You need to be the lone figurehead, the single ultimate leader…….. but still you need to do these things I’m telling you to do.

On its own, I never even noticed those contradictions. Megatron here is young and inexperienced, he doesn’t want to fight or lead, he’s more comfortable in the land of philosophy than in taking direct real life action. It makes sense that his mentor would be nudging him to grow and expand his comfort zone.

But then why does Terminus still keep acting similarly once Megatron has four million years of wartime leader experience behind him?

Megatron and Terminus are sitting in a massive field of the death flowers, Megatron has been explaining the war, and given his recent development, has almost definitely been very frank about how much death and destruction he’s been responsible for. Like… the war destroyed their entire planet for a while there, never even mind Cybertronian and alien casualties. Or the MTOs and their horrifyingly short expected lifespan. Even if Megatron only bears partial responsibility, he’s still responsible for a LOT.

Terminus’s response is immediately about how he’s sure Megatron is being too hard on himself. Um. About that. Well— This is a difficult conversation to field, and an incredibly huge scope to process. It’s understandable that he’d make some kind of comforting/reassuring response. And then the next two things he says are about gosh, look at you giving orders, and how he can’t wait to see Megatron TAKING CHARGE. Again, in the moment, not suspicious. But it’s really starting to play into a thematic whole.

And when you’re looking at the page with suspicious eyes, it even starts with him telling Megatron how to feel, and reminding him of wow, you remember when we were MINERS? And stuck in that dangerous mine? Remember what our life was like back then? And again, on its own, this looks incredibly innocuous. It feels like overreacting to mistrust this. But it’s really in line with the quiet way he tries to steer Megatron.

In the next issue, Terminus gets excited again about how good Megatron is at command and fights (even If Megatron himself is not directly fighting). Like before, it feels so overblown to get hung up on this panel as something suspicious, but it keeps adding up to a consistent whole.

But here’s where I start feeling a little less guilty about that suspicion. Terminus knows that their war is over. Megatron did the war leader thing, Megatron ditched the war leader thing. The personal cause Terminus was trying to get him to fight for, the cause that Terminus was so bitter over (only a day or two ago by his awareness), that’s been resolved. Terminus never got to watch it unfold, and he didn’t get to win. He’s heard that Megatron was that authoritarian leader, but Megatron didn’t get to win the war and seize full control like Terminus had been urging him to do.

And would you just look at that, here’s another Cybertron with another clearly oppressed class just begging to be led and saved. Compassion is the easiest motive to read into Terminus here. It’s natural. It’s what’s the reader has been nudged to feel. That’s how I read it the first time through.

Consider, why does Terminus want to stay here? Their universe isn’t perfect, but functionism has been solidly obliterated. Nobody’s being pushed into the mines. Paying for medical services doesn’t seem to be an issue as far as the medics we’ve seen. There’s social space for noncombatants to exist. There’s this group of friendly mechs here who seem glad to have him, including his old adoring mentee, who was so overwhelmed and happy to see him miraculously alive again. Why does he want to leave that? Even if Megatron didn’t win the war, the oppressive social structures that were screwing them over are gone. Why does he want to go to this war-torn, fascist mess of a planet, where those old enemies have been getting more entrenched, more powerful, and more oppressive? Compassion is one answer, sure. But are we sure he doesn’t want to just… win?

Terminus decides for himself to stay. Which is his right. And it’s understandable. And it’s understandable that if he’s staying, he’d try to get Megatron to stay with him. But it’s sure interesting that he watches Megatron and Rodimus squabble over Rodimus not trusting Megatron’s intentions. And then the moment Terminus and Megatron are alone again, Terminus is leaning on Megatron hard to stay here with him.

It’s all those old urgings again. Megatron led, Megatron fought. He’s done that for four million years. But the way Terminus talks to him here is just like when Megatron was young and inexperienced and reluctant to be a figurehead. Sure, this could be habit, Terminus hasn’t had long to adjust to the massive time skip. But again, Terminus told Megatron to never bend. To never bend for anyone. Except Terminus, apparently. Because when Megatron has just pledged his loyalty to the group leaving (right in front of Terminus), and while Megatron is saying no multiple times, Terminus is sure pushing hard that Megatron is the ONLY person who could lead and save these people.

And this is after Megatron and Terminus had a private, intimate conversation about how Megatron done fucked up, and when Megatron has been drowning in remorse and the awareness of how much he has to atone for. Terminus continues to tell him that no, never mind your trial, screw justice, you know what’s best more than they do. We know what’s best. You’re above justice.

Before, Terminus told Megatron about how important it was that he be the figurehead, the lone figurehead, placed above everyone else. He told him to never compromise in favor of someone else’s interests. He never took that back. He argued when Megatron told him that power needed to lie with the collective. And again here, he’s talking about Megatron being so very special that he’s the only one who could possibly lead. But the moment Megatron says he can’t keep putting himself first, Terminus pivots smoothly to noooo no no, this isn’t about you, this is about the masses!

Guys, Terminus is kinda super sketchy.

He’s talking about how justice is less important than Megatron’s skills. Megatron published a treatise that talked specifically about how the government needs to be held accountable, but Terminus is telling him that he’s too important to be held accountable. He’s trying to pull Megatron away from the faith he just, just pledged to Rodimus and Ultra Magnus. Terminus tells him that pledge Megatron values means nothing compared to what Terminus thinks he should value.

Megatron digs in his heels here and refuses to break that trust, just before the conversation is cut short, but. Dang. Seriously, it’s not the easiest thing to notice given the action movie pace of the Cybertron plot right now, but Terminus is being incredibly sketchy.

In the context of before, this pings me like an indirect ultimatum that Terminus is trying to lay down for Megatron. He knows their relationship, and he knows how much Megatron trusts him. He knows Megatron is used to being guided by him. This more self-assured, confident Megatron is new to him, but because of the way he disappeared, that mentor/mentee connection never went away, it just hibernated. Before, Megatron was going on starvation rations to keep Terminus alive. Is he really, really going to leave Terminus now?

Well, yes. He pledges faith again, and though Rodimus has been so on edge, even though he’s reacted in some really alarming ways that seem to tie back to trust and betrayal (like how he’s been burned with Getaway and Dealer), even then, Rodimus agrees to trust him. Megatron calls Rodimus captain. An overt gesture of respect for Rodimus and his authority, and an implicit deferral to that authority. Him learning to respect Rodimus as a leader was a slow-burn part of his development, but Megatron’s trust (and the way he shows it) is an intense, heavy thing. Rodimus is reluctant, but still decides to take him at his word.

Annnnd the moment they’re alone, there goes Terminus again, trying to lean on him to change his mind. He just saw Megatron make that promise to Rodimus, and he knows how serious Megatron was. But still, let’s have one more little nudge to break faith. Megatron doesn’t just dig in his heels here, he pushes back, and I’m very glad about that.

But when they have to go to a different teleporter, Terminus has an opportunity. Maybe Roller could have lied about the coordinates. But what have we seen to suggest he would do that? He seems like a nice, friendly guy. But we have seen a certain someone leaning harder and harder on Megatron that no, seriously, you need to ditch those guys and stay here with me.

Oooh, yeah, they gave you a second chance, that’s definitely how this happened~

Nice immediate spin on the situation to make Megatron feel like he should be grateful to stay here. The way he’s been insisting he doesn’t want to do. Terminus wants him to stay. The others totally want him to stay (yeah, even though Rodimus was so angry about the possibility of Megatron bailing on them). If so many other people want him to stay, shouldn’t Megatron… bend? :)

It kills me how urgent Megatron is in trying to find them, and how dismayed he looks in that last panel. He didn’t want them to leave without him, and he knows how generous they’ve already been with him, and he wanted to leave too. I’m reluctant to put too much weight on comic illustration microexpressions, but the way Terminus has that half-smile thing going on… I don’t like it.

But Megatron gets to return to his philosophical roots! Doing it right this time! Pacifist reform, peace through empathy! And he even gets to reconnect with Optimus and have a second chance to do that right too. Even if Terminus lied to get him here, this is a really happy ending, right?

NO!

Your mileage may vary, but one of the big narrative themes in this story has been… history. It comes through in a lot of ways, but one of the most common ways we see it is the idea that painful memories are hard to deal with, but they’re necessary and important. We see it with Tailgate rewriting the past so it hurts less. We see it with Chromedome for himself and for Rewind. Skids is told that the memories that are blocked off are going to be incredibly painful, but he keeps chasing after it, because it’s part of him.

And a lot of Megatron’s character development involves coming to terms with everything he did in the past. He’s aware, in a clinical sense. But as the comic follows him starting to treat people as people, it also follows him gradually becoming aware of the impact of that history. It’s what lets him connect on a personal level… but it’s also closely tied to how intensely he starts regretting the entire war. But those personal connections seem to be an integral part of what makes him so happy that he tells Velocity he’s never been happier.

He’s willing to face justice. He’s delayed his trial, but he’s never tried to escape it altogether. He could have done that during his trial under Optimus, when there was a flat-out rescue attempt. I’m sure he and Ravage could have easily peaced out at some point if he really wanted to. Here, Terminus offers him a nice, appealing escape, and he still insists he wants to face justice and atone.

So in what way is it a happy ending for him to land in a universe where none of that history happened to anyone except him? He came out of the history just fine, and ah, here we go, we’re in a place where those people dead because of you never existed. Nobody here knows anything about his past, except Terminus. I seriously doubt he’s going to publicize it. Even if people believed the ridiculous story, on a world that’s so inexperienced at war, why on earth would they trust him as a pacifist philosopher? No, now he’s free to redo everything and never face justice, because nobody is here to hold him accountable for that past. He can be the messiah he tried to be before, but this time he’s got it RIGHT, so nothing will go wrong. Just like he was so sure he had it RIGHT last time.

Oh, and would you look at that, he even gets to have a second chance with Optimus! Isn’t that wonderful. In their universe, things got so poisonous they had a jolly conversation about how many times they’ve almost killed each other, and then Megatron talks about how mmmm, he sure loves killing for the sake of killing, all to provoke Optimus into torturing him. He says that he didn’t think he meant it sincerely when he said it, but after saying the words, he realized he believed it. No, that’s all gone now. You can just pretend those memories don’t exist. This Optimus doesn’t have them, so it’s all good.

Rewind II had difficulty reconciling a relationship with Chromedome I, and that’s after only maybe like… two years of being quantum duplicate not-spouses. They had millions of years of history that they still shared, but Rewind still struggled with it. I would say that this Megatron and Optimus have four million years of divergence, but that isn’t even properly true. Megatron never existed here. His works influenced Optimus, back in the day, even apart from the effect of their toxic interplay once the war took off. This Optimus is a very, very different person from the one he knows. Honestly, I can see a lot of character ways this Optimus could even be a functionist enforcer. It was Megatron who originally nudged him out of his comfortable government-supporting groove.

And even if Optimus’s personality is fairly stable across universes, even if he feels like the same person, Megatron is going into this new relationship (platonic or not) with four million years of baggage and expectations. What an… incredibly intense weight to load onto that relationship. Is Megatron telling Optimus about his past? No? Well that’s four million years of lying by omission, that’s a nice honest start to things. Or is Megatron telling Optimus about everything? Look at how inexperienced these Cybertronians are with violence. Even if Megatron can get Optimus to believe him, how appalling is the full history going to be to him? The scale of the atrocities Megatron ordered, condoned, and carried out— Even for the characters who lived the war, Getaway says that it’s so much that you stop being able to process it. How is an unhardened, un-war-like Optimus going to feel about that? Thank you for telling me, I am taking this in stride, now how about we make out a little?

In TAAO, Starscream just cornered Blast Off into making a very difficult decision. He manages to box things in so that it’s a choice between ‘let the person you love destroy himself’ and ‘lie to him to keep him in line, and live a happy, romantic life together.’ Two shitty options, but of course Blast Off chooses the less shitty one, even though he knows he’s agreeing to live a lie, manipulating the person he loves so much. He chooses it, but he feels awful about it, because he knows what a dishonest foundation he’s just laid for their relationship, and he knows that he’s poisoned the trust between them. The narrative doesn’t expect me to be happy for him.

I’m not happy for Blast Off. So I’m not going to be happy for Megatron.

I’ll be sad for him, but if you’re going to value trust and honesty, this isn’t a happy situation.

Another huge theme in the narrative is that history can’t be rewritten. We see Tailgate abandoning the lies he told to prop himself up. We see Brainstorm fighting so hard to go back in time and fix things, and he doesn’t succeed. We see Chromedome rewriting Prowl’s memory to remove blackmail material, and whatever that is, I assume it isn’t going to be gone from the story forever. This isn’t literally rewriting history, but if it’s framed as a complete do-over for Megatron, it’s nearly the same thing. Megatron was willing to die as part of his atonement at the end of Dying Of The Light. He tells Tarn that he’s drowning under the weight of his past, and at the end, he only reluctantly lets Rodimus save him.

If he was that miserable then, I don’t think being the adored, beloved savior of Cybertron is going to be more than a temporary patch. It isn’t a long-term solution for the things he’s been struggling to deal with. And he didn’t choose this. He had the choice forced on him.

Terminus shamelessly exploited the trust Megatron had in him. He leans on Megatron harder and harder to get Megatron to do what Terminus wants. And then when that fails, he outright lies. All this while Megatron is very, very clear about what he wants and why. Terminus shoves himself in the way of Megatron’s new positive relationships, and sabotages that trust that’s been so slowly built up.

Megatron is upset to be left behind, but Rodimus is furious. And he blames Megatron. I was worried about him even before this, but this made it so much worse. Rodimus isn’t just angry for the sake of angry, he has that history with Dealer that made him shy away from leadership roles for ages. He’s still hurting bad over Getaway. And now he thinks that here we go, a third time someone has shamelessly exploited him. And he wasn’t going to trust Megatron. Megatron promised. And then immediately broke that promise (as far as Rodimus knows). Rodimus says that he’s heart over head, every time. Which has its value, for sure. But that has to make it so much more painful when someone he trusts abuses that trust.

In TAAO, at least when Blast Off was manipulated into making a shitty choice, he was aware of the manipulation. He knows the character of what Starscream is doing to him. It doesn’t get him out of the situation, but at least he knows what’s happening. Terminus is manipulating Megatron ~for his own good.~ No matter what Megatron says he wants, Terminus knows better. So why doesn’t he just… slip in there and quietly undermine everything you’re trying to do and sabotage some personal relationships you value. And then pretend like he didn’t do anything about this, nope. And the idea that it’s for Megatron’s own good… This is about what Terminus wants. His first appearance makes it clear that he’s very bitter and very ruthless. He was actively working to push Megatron into the ‘right’ decisions then, and he’s doing it now. It isn’t a happy ending that he succeeded in keeping Megatron from doing right by the people who put their trust in him.

Two frivolous little things. One, Terminus as a name. According to the wiki, “Terminus was the name of the Roman god of boundaries, with the motto ‘Concedo nulli’ - ‘Yield no ground.’” Innocuous enough on its own. But plenty telling given what we see of him here. He’s unyielding, but over what, exactly? He tells Megatron not to bend for anyone and then spends lots of time trying to get Megatron to bend for him. I think Terminus is unyielding over what Terminus wants, and like I said, he is a… very bitter man, and he has a major fixation on strong, authoritarian leadership.

And two, look at the contrast between these covers.

Melancholy and quiet, private introspection on the left. And high-energy action, no time to think, being pulled in against your will on the right. Both of these covers are gorgeous, of course. But I know which one makes me feel like it’s positive in a character sense. Kind of like it’s better to make your own difficult, painful choices than to be dragged in a direction you tried to resist.

Anyways, if I was meant to feel decent about the ending of this comic, it would have been really easy. It would have BARELY taken a change at all. There’s a post by @sunderedstar that summed it up well, but basically just… don’t have the lie. Have Megatron trying to keep faith, have Terminus supporting him while he tries to keep faith. Have him rushing to the new teleporter coordinates, but he’s just, just too slow. He and Rodimus reach out for each other, but the teleporter activates, and they only barely miss each other.

It would be bittersweet. But it would be better for Rodimus, knowing that Megatron didn’t lie to him, that Megatron didn’t use him. Megatron tried to keep his promise. And Megatron would know that they didn’t abandon him. Even if it’s framed as a gift of another chance, it’s still going against the difficult decision he made to face justice for his actions. He didn’t ask for another chance, and he resisted attempts to nudge him into taking one on his own. He’d know he wasn’t lied to, that nobody was trying to block him from doing the right thing. And honestly, the parallel to the climax of Dying Of The Light is so strong, I’m kind of shocked they didn’t go for this anyways. All I can take away from this is that the point was that Terminus blatantly lied to Megatron. And even if he’d say it was for Megatron’s own good, that isn’t a very happy ending.

In issue 28, when he’s talking to Rung, Megatron says that his life has been a series of decisions made in confined spaces. It’s in that same scene that we hear Terminus’s name for the first time. And now, Terminus has fenced him in again, against his will. The increasing pressure we see him exert on Megatron is uncomfortable enough, but it’s ultimately an outright lie that fences Megatron in here, and a lie that’s designed specifically to slip around Megatron’s explicit ‘no’. That isn’t a happy ending. It isn’t even bittersweet, just tragic. Terminus wins and everyone else loses. This isn’t happy, and I can’t and won’t be happy over it.

#terminus #megatron #lost light spoilers #lost light #mtmte #rodimus #transformers #meta #it's like the opposite of how i tripped into the overlord breakdown

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

The Friday Breeze

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend.

Happy Friday! Today is the day I’m going to challenge you to stretch those creative muscles and enter our Halloween Health Care Haiku Competition. Yes, it is going to be exactly as awesome as it sounds! The entries are already pouring in, check out the rules here. To kick things off, KHN’s very own talented and brilliant haiku master-in-residence Stephanie Stapleton wrote this one: “Goblins wear white coats, and not much is spookier, than the health system.”

Now on to what you might have missed this week.

Democrats packed themselves onto a crowded stage this week for what already feels like the umpteenth debate but was only the fourth or the sixth (depending if you count the two-nighters separately).

Going by the amount of heat she took, it seems safe to say Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is considered by her rivals to be one of the race’s front-runners. With that spotlight, though, comes a target on her back.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) – who are both vying to become the alternative for former Vice President Joe Biden’s moderate voters – were particularly sharp in their demands for Warren to reckon with the costs of “Medicare for All.” The question of how she would pay for such a plan has been one she’s been managing to dodge, but her rivals tried to hold her feet to the fire on Tuesday. “At least Bernie’s being honest,” Klobuchar said at one point in reference to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) admission that the proposal will raise taxes.

FWIW: Despite being pressed to answer the direct question: “Will you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it? Yes or no?” Warren still didn’t let herself be pinned down. Something that, the day after the debate, Biden jumped on as well.

The New York Times: Warren Draws Fire From All Sides, Reflecting A Shift In Fortunes In Race

The New York Times: Joe Biden Ramps Up Attacks On Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Credibility’

Health care is possibly the broadest (or at least one of the broader) topics that the candidates could talk about, and yet all it seems they’ve been discussing at the debates is health care coverage. Friends, you are not alone if you’re frustrated by not seeing a more diverse range of questions. Even Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was fed-up enough to redirect the conversation toward abortion rights and reproductive health. Considering it’s such a viscerally hot-topic at the moment, the omission seems glaring.

Los Angeles Times: Kamala Harris Slams Republicans On Abortion, Says They’re Killing Poor Women Of Color

But it’s not just reproductive health that the moderators could ask about. Axios came up with at least four great questions that I think a lot of people in the field would like to have answered. Like: Many of the things that make people sick are not the fault of bad health care — they’re social factors like poverty, low-quality housing, etc. Should it be part of the health care system’s job to address them? (Hint, hint moderators.)

Axios: Four Health Care Questions For Tonight’s Democratic Debate

Don’t get me wrong, there were a few other health-related moments beyond “Medicare for All” bickering… including one of the more heated exchanges of the night. Beto O’Rourke said Democrats need to be courageous in their policies and not be scared of polls, to which Buttigieg responded: “I don’t need lessons from you on courage.”

The Wall Street Journal: Democratic Debate: The Moments That Mattered

Meanwhile, amid all this focus on “Medicare for All,” a new study counsels that there are many paths toward universal coverage—it doesn’t have to be “Medicare for All” or bust.

The Associated Press: Study: ‘Medicare For All’ Not Only Way To Universal Coverage

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A big decision on the constitutionality of the health law is expected to drop sometime in the coming weeks. Although in theory, the Trump administration wants a certain outcome, if the court decides the ACA is unconstitutional, it could be a big ole headache for the White House heading into 2020. A ruling like that could not only foster confusion right around open enrollment, but also allow the Democrats to re-frame the health narrative in a way that could appeal to independent and moderate voters more than the current back and forth about “Medicare for All.”

The New York Times: How Pending Decision On Obamacare Could Upend 2020 Campaign

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) passed away this week at 68 from complications of longstanding health problems. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that she’ll be renaming her signature drug pricing policy after Cummings as he was a long-time champion of reigning in such costs.

Some might remember that it was Cummings who took Martin Shkreli, of “pharma bro” fame” to task at a hearing.

“It’s not funny, Mr. Shkreli,” Cummings said as Shkreli smirked. “People are dying, and they’re getting sicker and sicker.”

The Baltimore Sun: U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, Key Figure In Trump Impeachment Inquiry And Longtime Baltimore Advocate, Dies At 68

Stat: Pelosi: Democrats Will Name Marquee Drug Pricing Bill For Late Rep. Cummings

In a high-stakes, eleventh hour gambit Judge Dan A. Polster is summoning the drug CEOs involved in the massive, nationwide opioid trial to try to agree to a massive $50 billion settlement. Although the talks center around the big players involved — like AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — plaintiffs’ lawyers say they hope such a deal would have a domino effect on the remaining defendants.

Although the reports seem hopeful, those familiar with the talks say that the cities and counties are hesitant because they’re worried they’re not going to see their fair share of the money.

(This is as of press time! It’s happening today, so there could be developments depending when your read this—ah, the excitement of live news!)

The New York Times: Judge Summons Drug C.E.O.S For Talks On Sweeping Opioid Settlement

In a sea of heartbreaking stories on the opioid epidemic, this one stands out. The Washington Post took a look at West Virginia’s crisis and how court victories against drug companies aren’t really the panacea they’re sometimes made out to be.

The Washington Post: Inside West Virginia’s Opioid Battle: ‘They Looked At Us Like An Easy Target’

These two court stories feel like they happened ages ago, but really it was just last Friday post-Breeze. If you caught them happening in real time, there’s nothing to update, but I wanted to make sure I included them for anyone who wasn’t glued to their computer on a Friday evening.

The New York Times: Judges Strike Several Blows To Trump Immigration Policies

The Associated Press: US Appeals Court Skeptical Of Trump’s Medicaid Work Rules

This binge-worthy story needs no other introduction than the one ProPublica already wrote for it, so I’m going to quote them: “Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.”

ProPublica: When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested

And, on a related note, if you’ve missed my colleague Jay Hancock’s coverage of UVA’s lawsuits against their patients, make sure to check out all the developments here.

Meanwhile, in the miscellaneous story file this week:

— Melody Petersen of LAT won the holy cannoli award this week with her investigation into the practice of harvesting body parts—and the coroners that go along with it. My face when reading the entirety of the article was an exact replica of the “shocked and distressed” emoji.

Los Angeles Times: In The Rush To Harvest Body Parts, Death Investigations Have Been Upended

— Deaths, poor quality of care, and other problems have absolutely plagued the Indian Health Service for years, and Native Americans are sick of it. They want to take over running their own health care system, but the task would be daunting.

The New York Times: Fed Up With Deaths, Native Americans Want To Run Their Own Health Care

— You can’t swing a cat these days without hitting some new CBD product. It seems inevitable that that kind of lucrative, thriving marketplace would draw pharma’s attention. Here’s a look at what companies are developing new drugs to tap into those profits. (PSA: but don’t actually swing any cats, please.)

Stat: These Four Companies Are Betting Big On CBD-Based Prescription Drugs

— If you want a fentanyl drug ring story that reads like a thriller, check this article out.

The New York Times: The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked A Global Fentanyl Ring

That’s it from me! Have a great weekend and don’t forget to get your flu shot!

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We do not fundraise; we are money people. You are working smart and that is a good thing.  You now have a good numbers of people who has now left their high powered position and are working in order to move these particulars to delivery and also to remove any appearances of façade and also to clear the way as it relates to media for a change of personnel and this is Global.  Effective immediately I am the CEO.  I Refuse to believe that as intellectuals and the authority on Intellect we are experiencing chaos.  Those are their narrative and does not have a place in the narrative of this Network or Global Structure. “Undoubtedly uncertainty has also had an effect and if we didn’t have the chaos we have now, I am sure investment at this point would be considerably higher.”  Well that was said by them, the results are, investment is not only higher, it is tipping over and further there isn’t any chaos, we are achieving some great things to aid in the preparatory work. That said demand for the work that I am mandated to do and for the Region and this Network and Global Structure has been buoyant, with nearly double the amount invested compared to the same period last year. “What’s more, with the burden purported to be shifted stunted and robustly rebuffed.

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