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Okay, I have been followed by bot accounts for a while, and I know there are newcomers to Tumblr, but it's hard to distinguish who is bot and who is real. I normally blocked accounts that does not have any posts or reblogs, and I will keep doing that. Unless someone make a comment on one of my posts/reblogs or DM, I will keep blocking accounts following me that look like empty white void.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH
this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?
I have despised the "Apology tour" since Hasbro announced it and every single thing they do during it just makes me hate it more.
It's just them telling the "Optimus dead childhood ruined" joke over and over again, and it really pisses me off. It's the anniversary of the 86 movie, you would think that they would do– idk, things that actually focus in the movie? Because with the way they market it you would think that the movie ended when Optimus died. We didn't have the movie crew trying to save Cybertron, or the scenes with the Quintessons, or the visit to Junkion, or the Rodimus vs. Galvatron battle, no– just the battle of the first 30 minutes and Optimus dying.
Like bro, BUMBLEBEE IS BARELY IN THE MOVIE, WHY IS HE IN THE MOVIE MERCH???
Actually, you could say the same about Optimus. He is barely in the movie. He dies and that's it, the others went on. The movie is not the best thing ever but it's fun, the cast is great and I believe they could have done more things with it. Dealing with Optimus' ghost is a really interesting concept, and it could have been great to see it play out if they had ignored the backlash that came with it. But they didn't, focusing in the backlash have been the only thing they done in this 40 years, so now we get repetive stories and repetive jokes.
Yay.
When JC stans said "Wei Ying would hate JC antis for slandering his as-fake-as bitcoin bro", they kept forgetting that Wei Ying literally married to JC biggest hater.
Wei Ying would more likely back slap Jiang Cheng for disrespecting his husband than be bothered about people slandered that man's ass!!!
you can’t help but wonder what comics would be like if comic book writers considered women to be people
Every single time that I look for anything Termagax, most of the posts about her solely revolve around her being "Megatron's mother" and that pisses me off. Mentorship in IDW2019 is not inherently familial, and the sole one we know of that is familial is with Arcee and Greenlight mentoring Gauge. Termagax is not Megatron's mother.
She is far more than the fandom boiling her down to just the bland "she's his mother". Women exist for more than motherly dynamics. Termagax is a fascinating character whose entire dynamic revolves far more around her radical beliefs that pushed society to exile her, and her giving up and self isolating herself because she cannot find similar minds with anyone in Cybertron's society. Her mentoring Megatron is mentioned only a few times, and she interacts with Megatron directly twice, and none of it is about her being a mother figure to him. It is her disliking him because of how much he has taken her views and twisted them for her own gain, and that she sees him as a failure on her part.
she's far more than just 'mom'. she DESIGNED THE WINGED MOON. you know. the megastructure hanging in orbit doing all the energon collecting work, tethered to the planet with a giant fucking sky-elevator, and that was in spite of the Nominus Edict restrictions or whatever it was the senate was spouting. i'm no math whiz, but you'd have to imagine the effort it takes to design a moon-sized satellite, with a bajillion different moving parts and possible points of failure, keep it in orbit just low enough to be easily accessible but high enough that it doesn't immediately come crashing down on the planet, not to mention the logistics of obtaining/managing such resources to do so.
all the meanwhile she's tussling with the senate and creating a genuinely interesting opposition to the Autobot status quo that rippled across cybertron society enough to grow into a proper political party. she's a brilliant engineer and a philosopher, the bonafide Karl Marx of decepticonism (or ascenticonism as she intended). she's what every tech bro in silicon valley probably wants to be but 192038 times cooler. she reared combiners in the rebuilding of post-war Iacon... And that's just the stuff off the top of my head, megatron just barely scratches that surface. relegating her to mom is doing her a massive disservice.
if I had to guess (and based off my own instinct) she gets relegated to 'megatron's mom' by fandom because it's just an easy way to connect a pretty obscure character to a very, very popular one seeing as megatron typically takes the spotlight as one of the franchise's most popular characters. I've done it before myself, I'm pretty sure. And the shock value of megatron having a mom in the first place adds because who would raise that kind of monster? Also people just lock onto the familial dynamic in general in fandom; if you look around at anyone touting dad optimus/mom elita or anything, you can see the tendency towards such just becomes second nature, for better or for worse.
Exactly! Termagax is a scientist, an engineer and one of the most brilliant minds to ever be seeded by Cybertron. Her being Megatron's mentor is barely a shred of her importance to the story. Termagax moves the story more than stated, through her early speeches and dissatisfaction with the way Nominus Prime leads Cybertron.
She not only started what would become the Decepticons, albeit only after Megatron took the idea and twisted it so Cybertron would fit his beliefs, rather than what Termagax espoused. Termagax did not want a violent end to the ruling government, but to take power through the choice of the populace. In her second (and last) in comic encounter with Megatron, she explains her viewpoint and how Megatron's view clash.
She wants change through a collective choice of the population, not Megatron forcing that choice upon others through threat of force, policing the streets and not allowing anyone a voice unless they are in agreement with him.
Termagax and Megatron are two people who have seemingly identical desires, but actually don't. She may have given him that avenue of desire for changing the world they lived in through being his mentor, but Megatron is his own person. She did not cradle him into her beliefs, he already had them, then had his own beliefs heightened by hers, but he took that to the extreme while she retreated inwardly at how the government turned against her ideals and pushed her away.
A government which she took part in! She was a senator and part of Nominus Prime's council, a post she took specifically to try and change the government from the inside.
And it was not simply Termagax arguing for expansion beyond Cybertron, she was arguing against Nominus Prime shutting down the Forge Pyramid - as in, how new Cybertronians are born and brought into their world - in an effort to ration energon expenditure. Nominus Prime believed the best way to restrain Cybertron and its population was to prevent new mechs from being brought online. And the very first issue of this entire continuity made it clear what Termagax's thoughts on the future generations was:
"You owe everything to those yet unforged."
Of course she would fight against Nominus Prime's want to shut down the Forge Pyramid, to restrict what new Cybertronians come online and join the population. She is so much more than "Megatron's mentor", and never, ever, has been deemed his mother. I just wish people would be introduced to Termagax through far more than the consensus of "she's Megatron's mom" because that will color (and has) how people think her story should be told, and what her general purpose within the overall story, of IDW2019 but also beyond, should be determined by.
Every single time that I look for anything Termagax, most of the posts about her solely revolve around her being "Megatron's mother" and that pisses me off. Mentorship in IDW2019 is not inherently familial, and the sole one we know of that is familial is with Arcee and Greenlight mentoring Gauge. Termagax is not Megatron's mother.
She is far more than the fandom boiling her down to just the bland "she's his mother". Women exist for more than motherly dynamics. Termagax is a fascinating character whose entire dynamic revolves far more around her radical beliefs that pushed society to exile her, and her giving up and self isolating herself because she cannot find similar minds with anyone in Cybertron's society. Her mentoring Megatron is mentioned only a few times, and she interacts with Megatron directly twice, and none of it is about her being a mother figure to him. It is her disliking him because of how much he has taken her views and twisted them for her own gain, and that she sees him as a failure on her part.
she's far more than just 'mom'. she DESIGNED THE WINGED MOON. you know. the megastructure hanging in orbit doing all the energon collecting work, tethered to the planet with a giant fucking sky-elevator, and that was in spite of the Nominus Edict restrictions or whatever it was the senate was spouting. i'm no math whiz, but you'd have to imagine the effort it takes to design a moon-sized satellite, with a bajillion different moving parts and possible points of failure, keep it in orbit just low enough to be easily accessible but high enough that it doesn't immediately come crashing down on the planet, not to mention the logistics of obtaining/managing such resources to do so.
all the meanwhile she's tussling with the senate and creating a genuinely interesting opposition to the Autobot status quo that rippled across cybertron society enough to grow into a proper political party. she's a brilliant engineer and a philosopher, the bonafide Karl Marx of decepticonism (or ascenticonism as she intended). she's what every tech bro in silicon valley probably wants to be but 192038 times cooler. she reared combiners in the rebuilding of post-war Iacon... And that's just the stuff off the top of my head, megatron just barely scratches that surface. relegating her to mom is doing her a massive disservice.
if I had to guess (and based off my own instinct) she gets relegated to 'megatron's mom' by fandom because it's just an easy way to connect a pretty obscure character to a very, very popular one seeing as megatron typically takes the spotlight as one of the franchise's most popular characters. I've done it before myself, I'm pretty sure. And the shock value of megatron having a mom in the first place adds because who would raise that kind of monster? Also people just lock onto the familial dynamic in general in fandom; if you look around at anyone touting dad optimus/mom elita or anything, you can see the tendency towards such just becomes second nature, for better or for worse.
While I want to see more Codexa and Orion Pax as in mother and son dynamic (Because honestly, we are really lacking great mother and son dynamic in mainstream media, where the mother not only shaped the son's outlook, but also taught him technical skills to deal with the world), I don't want Codexa to be reduced to Orion's dead mom for his angst and "character development". I also want to know who she was as a person and her experiences before mentoring Orion Pax to see how she would shape Orion Pax to be who he would become in the future.
She didn't have to be an Archivist. She could take any jobs and how her specialty would give Orion Pax's knowledge and technical that would later help him survive the civil war later.
How the hell I went from Termagax to Tegamax in one note?????????
The fact we have more fics of Termagax being "the mom" to Megatron than Codexa and Orion Pax being mother and son, even though Tegamex and Megatron in IDW2019 were at best just estranged acquaintances is irritating me.
Termagax was cool because of her hjinks with the Ascenticons, her displeasure toward the constricted rulling of the Autobots and the Primes and her concerns about her own political movement that she chose to disassociate herself from the Ascenticons just to do her own shits (She's so funny for that).
But nah, TF fans turned her into a fridged "mother" to fuel Megatron's angst.
Every single time that I look for anything Termagax, most of the posts about her solely revolve around her being "Megatron's mother" and that pisses me off. Mentorship in IDW2019 is not inherently familial, and the sole one we know of that is familial is with Arcee and Greenlight mentoring Gauge. Termagax is not Megatron's mother.
She is far more than the fandom boiling her down to just the bland "she's his mother". Women exist for more than motherly dynamics. Termagax is a fascinating character whose entire dynamic revolves far more around her radical beliefs that pushed society to exile her, and her giving up and self isolating herself because she cannot find similar minds with anyone in Cybertron's society. Her mentoring Megatron is mentioned only a few times, and she interacts with Megatron directly twice, and none of it is about her being a mother figure to him. It is her disliking him because of how much he has taken her views and twisted them for her own gain, and that she sees him as a failure on her part.
They thought Termagax and Megatron dynamic are similar to Codexa and Orion Pax, which is far from the truth. Termagax and Megatron are estranged acquaintances, and even if we squinted for purely "mentor and mentee" dynamic, either of them cares each other like Codexa and Orion Pax. Just because Orion Pax and Megatron were clashing each other, doesn't mean their relationships with the older mechs (Codexa and Tergamax) have to be parallel.
P.S. I would argue that Orion Pax and Codexa does have a close relationship akin to mother and son, which is similar to Arcee/Greenlight and Gauge as mothers and daughter dynamic. Though we only have a brief moment of them truly interacting with each other before Codexa entered the Immersance, we can still see Orion Pax was still grief and yearning for Codexa's guidance and presence.
i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?
"Robot men and femmes"... The women word is right there... Robot women even sounds better than what ever hell that is.
Now now, they call male characters mechs sometimes
which is stupid. Like sure it sounds vaguely like men, but we can all agree that the word mech doesn't have gender attached to it, right?
I referred all Transformers, regardless their genders as mech. Using mech to refer male bots is literally implying that women are just derivatives while men are the default. I hate how with even neutral words, people still treat them as "male" things.
i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?
"Robot men and femmes"... The women word is right there... Robot women even sounds better than what ever hell that is.
no one asked but I need to share my thoughts about the nolan odyssey with someone because trust I HAVE MANY
so for starters, I'm a big fan of Greek mythology, I love the original texts but I am by no means a snob who wants every word form homers poem to appear. I watched almost every odyssey and Iliad adaptation with a friend once and honestly I find the way people choose to adapt the story very fascinating. Whether it's more faithfull like the 1997 version, unfaithful but beautiful like Troy, whether it zooms in and explores Odysseus emotional state like the Return or wether it's plain old bad like Troy the Odyssey, I can find something to enjoy in each of those.
That being said, Nolan's Odyssey is not necessarily bad, I can see what he was going for. The way he changed the Laestregonians, Polyphemus, Circe and Agamemnon I think the major thought behind it was that it was sort of about the fear of something unknowable and dark. All of these characters break Xenia in ways that are important to how Nolan frames the story and it's reflected in the sort of strange and scary way they are designed. They are all sort of gnarly and alien looking in comparison to Odysseus and his crew, who have a very regular guy vibe. In the end, when it's revealed that Odysseus and his crew actually are the monsters for breaking Xenia with the Trojan Horse (the whole goofy ass sea people thing?) it kind of makes you reflect on that assumption you could make based on how the monsters vs Odysseus are meant to be seen by the audience.
Still, I think the message is greatly put down by what is utlimately a somewhat infantile fascination with cool action scenes. The whole movie spends way too long stretches on action scenes, which yk, are technically well done, but kind of undermine Odysseus as a character.
If we are meant to question the violence, why are we unquestionably portraying Odysseus as a hero? Let's reflect a bit, if we're doing what the Return tried to do with the whole 'Odysseus has PTSD and is remorseful' thing, why is he like this? Odysseus, in the original text, cries all the time. He is, frankly, miserable. His entire demeanor is not one of a stoic Hollywood action hero, it's one of a snide mischievous little trickster, who gets his comeuppance for disrespecting the gods and repeatedly trying to avoid accountability. That fits the message Nolan was seemingly going for perfectly, after all, the Odyssey never gives you the impression that Odysseus is some righteous guy who respects others. Then why change it?? Why take out his iconic tricks like his scene with Polyphemus?
I think ultimately, they slammed the Odyssey into a box of this dark, gritty and realistic Nolan formula, that just doesn't leave room for actual introspection when it comes to the action hero archetype. It just needs to uncritically reproduce it so some 14 year old on TikTok can make a Phonk edit of Agamemnon aura-farming. That's probably why the remorse Odysseus showed at the end felt so tacked on. Frankly, it was barely present throughout the movie because they were pre-occupied with making Odysseus look cool. You can't have a snide trickster, you can't have colorful armor, you can't have the gods and you can barely have the monsters Odysseus fights when doing something like that. It may look cooler to Nolan's target audience, but I'm having a difficult time seeing how there is anything more to it.
Overall, not for me. Clearly I'm not the target audience. If you are either and are looking for something that studies Odysseus as a character, watch the Return. If you want something more faithfull, watch the Odyssey from 1997 and if you want something to hate-watch, Nolan is not that bad, this is not the movie for it. Watch Troy the Odyssey, that's the peak of so bad it's good.
Am I beating a dead horse to bring up the fact that mdzs fans, specifically JC stans, wrote a long ass essay to insist Wei Ying to feel "guilty" about killing the motherfuckers that attacked him first and tried to kill him at the Nightless's bloodbath for more "weight and shit"?
Oh yes, but I will keep beating that dead horse because that are some pro-oppressor/pro-mob violence/victim blaming bullshits.
Another Nolan's movie that I didn't like because I can't stand how this movie kept telling me Odyssey is the smartest man alive, when he was dumb as fuck in the movie that made me go "huh".
Also, Matt Damon was too dull like an empty shell as Odyssey for me to even give a fuck about him.
Other actors/actresses acted the hell out of their roles (Lupita as Helen is gorgeous and 100 plus).
Funny that I kinda saw what Nolan tried to convey the theme about pointless wars in this movie. It's just the execution was kinda meh, lots of the design choices were just so out of place (The fucking armor giants), some of the lines were so awkward and Matt Damon's acting just made me want to to go "bruh"...
Another Nolan's movie that I didn't like because I can't stand how this movie kept telling me Odyssey is the smartest man alive, when he was dumb as fuck in the movie that made me go "huh".
Also, Matt Damon was too dull like an empty shell as Odyssey for me to even give a fuck about him.
Other actors/actresses acted the hell out of their roles (Lupita as Helen is gorgeous and 100 plus).
Funny that I kinda saw what Nolan tried to convey the theme about pointless wars in this movie. It's just the execution was kinda meh, lots of the design choices were just so out of place (The fucking armor giants), some of the lines were so awkward and Matt Damon's acting just made me want to to go "bruh"...
