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19. You’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…
Nothing and nobody lmao
I love who and what I love and I will not cringe away from them.
Not even from the cringey stuff.
21. Part of canon you think is overhyped
G1, hands-down.
The fandom likes to pretend that it’s The Best Transformers Has Ever Been And Ever Will Be, but, uh…
It’s garbage, let’s be real here. And that’s fine! It doesn’t HAVE to be High Science Fiction to be enjoyable! YOU CAN LIKE IT WITHOUT MAKING SHIT UP TO JUSTIFY YOURSELF, PEOPLE.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE I UNIRONICALLY LOVE BEAST MACHINES BUT I WILL ALSO PICK IT APART AT THE SEAMS AND RANT FOR HOURS BECAUSE THE WRITING IS CRAP.
JUST LOVE YOUR TRASH WITHOUT TRYING TO CONVINCE EVERYONE THAT IT’S DEEPER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS.
23. Ship you’ve unwillingly come around to
None, honestly. If I don’t like a ship, odds are I will probably never like it because there’s something about it that makes me uncomfortable, annoyed, or Actually Angry.
- The character everyone gets wrong
Hmm, I’m hard-pressed to find one that everyone gets wrong, and Starscream is too easy an answer (we all know that most people are projecting G1 Starscream onto every other iteration,) so I’m gonna go with Knock Out.
Like, yes, he’s very Not Straight, but the way so many people (namely the obnoxiously loud male homophobes in the fandom, but also in particular the TF: Prime writers themselves) flanderized him into a borderline-useless cowardly Gay Idiot after Breakdown was killed is just. It’s offensive.
For starters, he’s not incompetent. Not as a warrior, not as a medic, not as a scientist. Like did people just forget that he went toe-to-toe with Optimus Prime in his first appearance, and he not only reverse-engineered Ratchet’s synth-en from a single tiny drop of the substance, but he made headway in puzzling out the missing parts of the formula?
How many times did he put Starscream back together? How many times did he put Megatron back together??
*deep breath*
DEAR FANDOM (AND OFFICIAL WRITERS): A CHARACTER CAN BE GAY AND VAIN AND BE SMART AND COMPETENT, IT IS NOT AN EITHER/OR SITUATION.
DYSCALCULIA TOOL ALERT!
This is an acrylic magnifying glass with a green strip in it that helps you read long strings of numbers! It's been known for a while that putting a colored filter over pages can help people with dyscalculia read numbers without them flipping places, but this is the first time I've seen something so simple and accessible. I put it on some test numbers and my eyes didn't feel like they kept wanting to jump around all over the number. I can keep this on my desk and use it on paper, or hold it up to my monitor to read long numbers at work! It may help people in other ways as well, this is just what I bought it for and I already love it!
I found it at a Daiso location, but there are probably others online.
Spread the word!
EDIT: It's also like $2, so pretty much anyone who needs it can afford it!
Shit, I need one of these.
I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.
ALT
IT GETS WORSE!
"This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour."
So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a "free" account.
Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn't know WHY it isn't loading, so it keeps TRYING.
Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.
This is so completely amateurish it's unbelievable. It's like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it's making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.
He finally did it, folks. Unless he walks this one back and quick, I think this might be the beginning of the end
How your viewing limits go, Mr Musk? Pretty good it doesn't seem
Someone brought up an interesting proposition.
June 30th was the last day of a lease with a company he couldn’t afford.
Suddenly, July 1st, shit just goes south.
Dude didn’t introduce rate limits suddenly. The website is falling apart and until they can fix it he’s pretending it’s this dumb shit. As it slowly gets resolved, he’s “increasing” the limit until he announces he’s “decided” to not have a limit.
He’s shooting himself in the foot to look like a hero lmao
MISSION: Be Normal About That Thing
STATUS: [FAILED]
sent a message
Also, if you’d like, please go off about why the Bayverse transformers movies suck.
TBH it can really be boiled down to:
- Misogyny
- Racism
- Shameless promotion of the US Armed Forces
- More misogyny
- The writing got progressively worse as the movies went on, and that’s saying something considering the first movie wasn’t exactly High Science Fiction
- Weirdly bloodthirsty Autobots. Did Bay not understand the assignment or something?
- MORE MISOGYNY. Like seriously, Michael Bay hates women so bad that I wonder how he functions as a human being
- PEDOPHILIA
- And even worse writing
9. Worst part of canon
A few years back, I would have said The Unicron Trilogy.
Now I am 100% behind pointing the finger at Age of Extinction and The Last Knight.
Kiss Players? What’s that? We don’t acknowledge Kiss Players in this household.
14. That one thing you see in fics all the time
Reproduction even in continuities where it should be impossible lmao
17. There should be more of this type of fic/art
Once again,
Beast Machines
(Am I personally invested in hawking this series even though it’s deeply flawed and could use a competent reboot? Maybe.)
6. Which ship fans are the most annoying?
You know, I actually can’t think of any off the top of my head, surprisingly enough. Transformers fandom can be toxic af in spots, but I don’t really think shipping is one of those areas.
12. The unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
Thrust my beloved
He deserves more love because he’s a babe and also because the writers sure as hell didn’t give him any.
24. Topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
BEAST MACHINES
The most horrifying aspect of parents saying "my kid could do that" about art is that they never ever ever mean "wow my kid is good enough to be in a museum" and they always always always mean "I want to disrespect you so much I'll do it by implying that this thing is just as worthless as the things my child makes with their hands" and right in front of them too. Your kids can hear you u know, and the things they make with their hands are the least worthless and most precious aspects of human life I'll kill u