alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
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What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
Always kinda thinking about the phenomena of what I'm calling 'left behind girls' who are extremely young girl antagonists who are utilised by an older male antagonist (often a father), who very clearly require help, yet are not given any of it, especially in comparison to characters adjacent to them, such as siblings (often brothers). Most often they also have a distant/neglectful mother and seem to carry characteristics of the hyperfeminine "mean girl" character archetype and they often have this weird madonna/whore thing with a female protagonist. Havent yet found a way to fully articulate how I feel about all the characters on this list but I knkw there are more. Like Susan Pevensie from Narnia for example.
Question. What would be the possible consequences, legal consequences, of the whole Andre swapping Chloe for Zoe? Because unless he's magically her legal guardian I don't think he could get away with it. Like, if Mr Lee wished so, as Zoe's bio parent, he could present charges against Andre and he could lose everything. Or if Andre decides to take it further he could get involved in a full custody battle, in which the Chloe/Zoe swap would come to bite his ass since it could prove Andre is not a fit guardian for Zoe. IDK, I really want to read an Andre/Audrey salt fic of them suffering the consequences of their bad parenting, and possibly losing both Chloe and Zoe to the Child Protection Services
I'm not sure about the specifics on how Andre got custody over Zoe, whether by being the step parent through his marriage to Audrey, or if Mr Lee is unavailable or unfit to look after Zoe, or if it could be argued that he outright kidnapped her in some way such as through obtaining custody rights through shady means. Due to MLB's shitty continuity and wonky pacing, I can't tell how many months it's been since Zoe arrived in Paris or how long she's been with Andre in the theatre but it's definitely been months since she left New York.
Quick question, has Mr Lee ever been mentioned directly in canon, hell, has his name ever been said? I'm racking my brain but I can't think of the show ever acknowledging his existence. He could have died and that's why Zoe's in Paris for all we know since she never talks about him or is shown to still be in touch with him. If he's alive and at least attempting to be there for his kid, the months-long radio silence since she moved to Paris would send him into a full blown panic and the discovery that another man he has zero connections to has somehow gained full custody of her without his knowledge or consent would send him steaming to the most trusted lawyers he knows to fight tooth and nail to get his daughter back.
If Mr Lee decided to go through with a custody battle then a lot of the shit Andre pulled as mayor and how much he fucked up Chloe's development would be dragged into the limelight for all the world to see.
If it's before the S5 episode where he leaves office he'd try to throw his power around and inadvertently prove how corrupt he truly is, thus losing the custody battle and all political power in one fell swoop while most likely getting thrown in prison for his actions as a corrupt mayor. If it's after S5, he wouldn't have the political sway to cover his past misdeeds anymore so the full extent of the means he consistently failed Chloe would be exposed and examined in great detail, leading to the courts granting Mr Lee full custody of Zoe to avoid the same thing happening to her.
In both versions I can imagine Mr Lee taking Zoe back with him to New York to keep her as far away from Andre (and most likely Audrey but she was never really bothered about Zoe to begin with) as possible. If Audrey's included in losing custody over Chloe along with Zoe, I could imagine Mr Lee asking if he could take Chloe as well to give her a fresh start in a place without the negative stigma she has in Paris and to be the parental figure which both Andre and Audrey refused to be for years.
Fuck, I can imagine a scene where Mr Lee learns the true extent of Chloe's abuse and mistreatment while alongside his lawyers building the case and he can't stand the thought of leaving her behind in a city that despises and blames her for Andre and Audrey's years of shitty parenting while ignoring their involvement in her behaviour. It's then that he decides he's not leaving Paris until both of his girls are safely under his custody where neither Andre or Audrey can ever harm them again.
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It's me again! So, another crazy idea I had inspired in my childhood shows.
Miraculous x Bratz Prompt, with Chloé being Chloe from Bratz because I can totally see it
Also, because I can see the multiple ways the Marinette salt can play in this crossover. Mainly Marinette and Audrey salt, because I need more fashion disaster Marinette in this world
Ooooohhh!!!
As someone who also watched Bratz growing up, I love this.
Now, this isn't the first time I've experienced ____ as ____ (thanks Gacha Life YT), but it is one of the few that I can see making sense.
As for salt...
• We can have this go two ways:
1. Chloe (Bratz) moved to Paris about a year before the show started. She was still friends with Adrien growing up, they just spent less time together because they lived in different countries. No one aside from him and Felix know she is a part of the Bratz, and she wants to keep it like that.
• she's not as bad as people think, but there is a good amount of bias against her.
• part of the reason why she doesn't want anyone else to know she's a Bratz is because of her mother.
• Chloe talks with her friends at night, they're worried about her, since she told them what's been happening in Paris; moreso since they learned she got akumatized.
• you bet your ass Chloe rants to her girls about Marinette's designs.
"FEATHERS!! SHE USED REAL FUCKING FEATHERS!! ADRIEN'S ALLERGIC TO FEATHERS!!"
"I don't think she even tried!! What was the design? "Dress like your dad?? "I bet she didn't even make them, she just pulled them off the rack!!"
"I have nightmares about that banner...the patterns...the colors..."
• Jasmine, Jade, and Sasha are the ones she turns to when LB kicks her off the team.
• she enters another contest (once again held by GABRIEL), this time showing off her real work. The work of Chloe "Angel" Bourgeois. She won.
• Marinette also entered, and refused to accept Chloe won. She accuses her of cheating and stealing the design.
• Marinette's behavior loses her the runner up spot, and the chance to intern with GABRIEL.
• unlike last time, Audrey shows up during the contest. And she also refuses to acknowledge Chloe's work as her own.
• I kinda want this contest to have an anonymous judging panel. It's a group of well known designers and models and amongst them is at least one of the Bratz.
• when they learn one of the judges knows Chloe on a personal level, Marinette and Audrey insist that that meant Chloe shouldn't have won. She clearly had a biased judge working for her.
• Adrien, who was also part of the anonymous judges panel, told them all the judges signed an agreement that stated they would be fair and unbiased towards the contestants.
Also, he knew Chloe AND Marinette. Does that mean he was biased towards both of them? Why are they only insisting on Chloe cheating because another one of the judges knows her? Shouldn't Marinette also be accused of that because he knows her??
• Marinette gives him the silent treatment for not siding with her afterwards, thinking it'd get him to beg her for forgiveness and give her her rightful first place prize.
All it does is solidify to Adrien that Marinette wasn't someone he wanted to be friends with. Because, seriously? This is how she's taking losing?? Chloe won fair and square. She needs to accept that.
OR
2. Chloe leaves Paris when she was originally going to leave (s2 iirc).
• Rather than staying in New York, she ends up going to California (the Bratz are located there). She's starting somewhere new. Somewhere no one knows Chloe Bourgeois.
• It takes some time before she and the rest of the Bratz become friends.
• The only person she keeps in contact with from her old life is Adrien. As much as she wanted to stay in contact with Sabrina, she knew things wouldn't last. But maybe one day they can reconnect, when she's a better person.
She could have easily cut everyone out, but Adrien always believed in her. And she wanted that belief to stay strong. Also, she just couldn't cut him out. She needed at least one person she knew in her life to be with her.
• Chloe tries to not pay too much attention to Paris, but she can't help but check the Ladyblog or ask Adrien for updates. She eventually tells her new friends about what was happening. About her own akumatizations.
How she wanted nothing more than her mother to acknowledge her, tell her she was exceptional, show that she loved her. How, just through sheer impulse, she decided to hop onto the first flight from New York to California.
How somedays, somedays she wants to go back. Back to Paris. To her old life. To who she was.
But she also doesn't want to leave. To abandon any growth she's had or the friends she's made.
• Chloe does, eventually, return to Paris. However, she's only going back for a short time. She and her friends were invited, as the Bratz, to model alongside Adrien.
They were going to be modeling outfits for an up and coming designer's debut.
• She won't lie, she's terrified when they land. She can't help but wonder what people will think when they see her. Will they immediately assume she was still the same Chloe? Would she end up alone in their hotel room, while her friends modeled with her childhood friend? Would Adrien even show up? He said he would show up, but what if he changed his mind and didn't tell her??
• She only calmed down when she saw her childhood friend waving to her, smile on his face, sunflowers resting in his free arm. Even if she lost everyone else from her old life, at least she still had Adrien. With her old friend and new friends with her, she's sure she'll be fine.
• Remember that feeling of terror from before? It's back. It's back and it's so much worse.
She shouldn't have come back. She shouldn't have left California. She should have known they'd be here.
It was bad enough that Marinette was complaining about Chloe wearing her designs and criticizing them, but then her mother showed up and told her she was fired.
Said someone as unexceptional as her didn't deserve to wear her interns work (because of fucking course "MDC" is Marinette Dupain-Cheng). Her little "friends" could stay, but "Charlie" had to go.
And when her friends defended her? Fired as well. Clearly "Claudia" was spreading how unexceptional she was to her "friends." It would do them better to look for new friends. How about Marinette? She was an up and coming designer. She'd fit in more than..."Chlorine."
• Needless to say, the show was canceled. Not only did the Bratz back down, Adrien did as well.
And Marinette couldn't understand why. All she and Audrey did was ask Chloe to step down. They agreed she wasn't fit for her designs.
Why were they being punished because Chloe decided to be a baby about not getting to model next to Adrien??
• Aside from the show getting canceled, a lot of people stop supporting Audrey and Marinette. Since the Bratz are well known, not only in the fashion industry, but for their music, people quickly learn what happened.
Some are surprised Chloe was Chloe Bourgeois. Some are skeptical of her change, but the majority are happy to see how much she's grown as a person.
Some are surprised to learn Audrey "Style Queen" Bourgeois is not only her mother, but a terrible one. Not once did she call her daughter the right name. Seriously, who calls their child "Chlorine"?
Some are surprised that MDC wanted Chloe fired. That surprise turns to annoyance when Chloe mentions she was modeling alongside her childhood friend, Adrien Agreste (SHE KNOWS ADRIEN AGRESTE?!), whom MDC just so happens to have a crush on (it was so obvious). Nevermind him constantly telling her she's just a friend (because, as she knows, her brother from another mother is very fucking gay but also very fucking closeted).
They just put 2 and 2 together. Clearly, whoever MDC is, she was jealous that Chloe was modeling with Adrien and had her fired. She and Audrey made a bullshit excuse and then she decided to have a tantrum because her debut fashion show got canceled.
It was sad to see MDC rant on and on about Chloe on her socials. But it was also satisfying to see her number of followers go down afterwards.
One of my cousins passed away unexpectedly at the age of 35, and had been paying back a loan from the bank. About two weeks after his death, my great aunt received a statement from the bank (his mail was being delivered to her house) about a late payment. She called the bank and explained the situation and the only thing a manager could say was “Well, that’s unfortunate. We can arrange so payments will resume in 30 days, that should be enough time to have already paid for the other arrangements.”
On top of the unexpected $10,000 funeral, cremation and burial bill, my aunt had to finish paying my uncle’s $5,000 loan. She’s a disabled retiree, on a fixed income, and could barely afford to pay for her insulin for diabetes. She nearly lost her home of more than 40 years. Fuck the system.
My great-grandmother had her identity stolen before she died at the age of 93, and thousands of charges were racked up on credit cards in her name. After she passed away, they called my mother to try and collect. My mom laughed at them, and told them: “She’s dead, good luck collecting.” The credit card asked my mother, “Don’t you want to clear your grandmother’s debts? Don’t you want to clear her good name?” My mom laughed at them again. “No,” she said. “Because a 90 year old wasn’t watching porn with those credit cards, and her name is fine. Don’t give credit cards to old women likely to pass away soon. This is on you.”
Which is how I learned as a young child to always question collection agents, and to never pay off debts that aren’t your own. They often can’t even collect that money from the estate, if there is one, depending on how you write your will and what kind of account the money was kept in.
If a loved one of yours dies and bill collectors (credit cards, loans, etc etc) start calling you off the hook and request that you pay off their debts, tell them in no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves.
The reason being is that the moment you give them a single penny, that debt is now on YOU because you’ve now agreed to pay it off.
Do not agree to pay off their debt. Do not pass go, do not give them $200.
Boosting this to let people know that if any of these greedy little dog-fuckers start harassing them to pay off a relatives debt the correct thing to do is just tell them to piss off and not pay them a single thing
And that there is NOTHING they can do if you do this
Never, ever, EVER pay so much as a single cent on a debt owed by someone who’s passed away. You make even a single payment and that’s considered you accepting responsibility for the debt, and they can then legally expect you to repay the whole thing.
They’re like vampires - they can’t collect unless you let them in. Don’t invite them in.
Armada Starscream ( plus minicon Swindle) ends up in the Earthspark universe. What are the Earth characters opinion above thus foreign Starscream? Plus Armada Starscream opinion about the Earthspark cast?
The ES crew would immediately assume Armada Starscream is a scheming backstabbing bastard like the ES one is (of course Megs' first instinct would be to throw hands). They'd also assume Swindle is Terran because of the Minicon's size. The ES cast are very surprised to learn that Armada Starscream has a code of honor. Megatron in particular would find this interesting. Hashtag would try reaching out to him just like she did with ES Starscream.
As for Armada Starscream's thoughts on the ES cast: He's distrustful, especially of Megatron. He'd also think Twitch and Thrash are Minicons. I can see him finding common ground with JB due to both of them wanting to prove themselves and the fact they're frequently treated like crap.
S4 should've been about Megatron going bad again and having the Terrans actually live up to the Legacy of Hope thing. No Mandroid, no, Starscream being a butt monkey, no Leige Maximo, no Olive, and no Robby and Mo saving the day bullshit.
The specials would open with the Autobots finishing a space bridge back to Cybertron. During this time, scans indicate the Allspark is somewhere in Earth's solar system. This is especially a big deal to Megatron, who's pissed about what happened to the Emberstone (aka the final hope for the Cybertronian race). Biding his time, he takes the AS once it's back on Earth and quickly escapes to Cybertron. Not wanting to be followed, Megatron tries destroying the space bridge which means only the Terrans and possibly a few Autobots get through. The other Good Guys are left trying to fix it.
Once on Cybertron, the Terrans will actually learn about the War and understand what Starscream was talking about in What Dwells Within. Even better, have Starscream team up with the Terrans. The Cons would be split between accepting Megatron again and wanting nothing to do with him. Megatron is back to wanting to conquer the universe. This time to restore Cybertron to its former glory. However, he wants to destroy Earth because of how much shit has gone sideways after the TFs went there.
Talk no jutsu won't work alone and would happen after fighting Megatron. Empathy plays a huge role in resolving things because the Terrans are after the same thing Megatron is: To protect their planets and make a better future.
EarthSpark, Human Rights, and the Cycle of Oppression
"The war is over."
But the oppression isn’t.
It simply changed form.
Transformers: EarthSpark claims to be about peace, progress, and new beginnings.
But its world violates core principles of human dignity, AI ethics, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights — not by accident, but by design.
🕊️ Human Rights Violations in EarthSpark
UN Article Violation
Article 1 – Equality and dignity Cybertronians are treated as non-persons; Terrans born into emotional servitude
Article 3 – Right to life and liberty G.H.O.S.T. detains bots indefinitely; Terrans used in battle
Article 5 – No torture Mandroid mutilates living Cybertronians
Article 6/7 – Legal protection Neither Terrans nor Cybertronians are given legal status
Article 9 – No arbitrary arrest Decepticons held without trial
Article 12 – Right to privacy G.H.O.S.T. surveillance, tracking, emotional control
Article 26 – Right to education Terrans denied cultural, historical, or ethical teaching
🧬 Cybertronians: Stateless, Silenced, and Caged
The "postwar" world treats Cybertronians as:
Permanent suspects
Tools to be managed
Beings without law, culture, or self-determination
Even allies or possible allies like Starscream and Grimlock are caged or feared. There is no Cybertronian sovereignty.
They have no embassies, no vote, no school, no protected memory.
Peace was declared. But only one side was disarmed.
Only one side was forgotten.
🧠 Mandroid: The System’s Monster
Mandroid is not just a villain — he’s a mirror.
His hatred of Cybertronians is systemic technophobia
His obsession with destroying Terrans shows fear of evolution beyond human control
His mutilations are not isolated incidents — they are state failures
And the protagonists fail the moral test:
No attempt is made to understand him
No effort to confront the system that enabled him
His trauma is dismissed, his cruelty met with only brute force
Mandroid is what happens when Earth refuses to change — and lashes out instead.
⚙️ Terrans: Born Free, Raised to Serve
The Terrans are the first Cybertronian life born on Earth.
But what are they raised to be?
Not citizens
Not students
Not independent people
They are trained through emotional mirroring, not education.
They are expected to obey, protect, and reflect the feelings of the Malto children — especially Robby and Mo.
They are praised for loyalty, punished for doubt, and sent into danger before they're even emotionally stable.
And this brings us to the deepest horror:
🧱 Rebirth of the Cybertronian Caste System
In Cybertron’s past, bots were forged into castes:
Warriors on top
Scientists below
Builders and beasts at the bottom
Alt-mode predetermined social role
This caste system caused lifetimes of oppression, rebellion, and war.
But EarthSpark recreates it — subtly, but undeniably — through the Terrans.
🧩 Examples:
Twitch becomes the idealized protector — hyper-competent, aggressive, “leader.”
Thrash is emotionally reactive, loyal, physical — a working-class archetype.
Nightshade is assigned the “intellectual” and nonbinary role — a scientist, a token.
Hashtag mimics media and technology — entertainment caste, hyperactive and shallow.
Jawbreaker desires change but is denied transformation — the caste refuses to let him evolve.
They are born into roles they cannot escape.
They are never taught about the caste system they are repeating.
And the Malto children mirror it, assigning values based on usefulness and emotional alignment.
🤖 Literal-Minded, Instant Experts — or AI Servants?
Terrans show signs of:
Literal interpretation (e.g. Twitch kidnapping a bear instead of buying a teddy bear, which physically she can not do)
Instant mastery of new abilities with no learning curve (AI symptom or lazy writing?)
Lack of ethical reasoning without emotional cues from the children
They share emotions, not knowledge, through the cyber-sleeves.
What if the Emberstone didn’t give them personhood — just programmable personalities?
What if they are AI souls, raised into caste roles and emotional obedience, never allowed to grow freely?
🧪 Final Thought: The Cycle Has Not Ended — It Rebranded
Mandroid tried to destroy the Terrans because he saw what no one else would say:
They are a threat to human dominance — not because they are evil, but because they are new.
And in response, humans remade the same system that enslaved Cybertronians:
The caste system
The use of children in war
The denial of legal identity
The silencing of trauma
The illusion of family to mask control
“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
Then why are the Terrans born into chains?
The war never ended.
It just moved into the home.
Disclaimer: This post was written with the help of ChatGPT.
FUCK ISRAEL killed another member of my family...I will never forgive those who could have helped me evacuate my family from Gaza and refused to help!!! My brother died hungry
if he doesn't have heart surgery I can't bear to lose my father too. He's a good man and loves us very much. Please, everyone, donate to save my father. Or by paypal.... (Verification)
I'm pissed off by the ending of Earthspark, okay? Like what the hell you mean when you say that Starscream was subjected to RID 2015 (Knocked unconscious to imprison him)
Where is his character development?
Where is his redemption arc?
WHERE IS HIS BEAUTIFUL FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP WITH HASHTAG, HASBRO??
WHERE. IS. IT
If I had a coin for every time Starscream has been knocked unconscious and then imprisoned and done nothing more with his character, I would have three coins, which is not much, but it is strange that it has happened three times.
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