#(he didn't)

[the-impossible-bird]

I can tell that we are gonna be friends

[twistedapple624]

Idea for an alternate ending:

Merlin gets Arthur to the lake in time and manage to save him.

They spend the night by the lake just talking, like they have been for the past few days, and realise that neither of them is ready to return to Camelot. For various reasons. They decide to take to the roads instead, just disappear, together.

Eventually their (few remaining) friends start to worry and the queen sends out her knights searching for them. Maybe Gaius points them towards the lake and maybe the knights find a neat pile of Arthurs belongings nearby, like his armour and cape (To heavy to carry and to easy to identify) and just assumes the worst. They knew Arthur was injured, and now presumably dead, but where is Merlin? Perhaps the grief was just to much for him? Perhaps he went home? But Hunith hasn't seen him either.

They are both gone. And life moves on.

Until a few months later when rumors start reaching the castle, about two heroes helping people throughout the realm. A fighter and a sorcerer working together using their skills to take out different threats from low life bandits to magical creatures attacking people.

No one really suspects anythingat first, but Gwen sends out her knights to find these two heroes. To confirm the rumors and if so offer a reward for their bravery. And maybe see if they would be willing to join forces?

It's not until Sir Leon hears a description of the two that he start to wonder.. A blond sword fighter with blue eyes and a regal nose who talks like a noble? A dark haired sorcerer also with blue eyes and a wide infectious smile? And they are constantly bickering and insulting each other? It couldn't be? Could it?

Trying not to get his hopes up Leon still doubles the search efforts.

No matter what they do though the knights seems to always be one step behind the two. Always gone before the knights reach the village or town they just saved. Missed them by a few days, a few hours down to mere minutes.

Somewhere along the way Leon hears about The Kiss. Told by an eye witness who saw the blond grab the warlock by the front of his tunic, haul him in and kiss him fiercely for almost getting himself killed (again, the idiot <- Arthurs note).

And suddenly things are making alot more sense. Why they never came back. Why they are staying away and don't want to be found.

He never tells Gwen. Or anyone. But that is the day Leon starts pulling back, cutting down on the search. Telling everyone it's not worth it, it has been over a year ( several years?) and there are more important things for the knights of Camelot to do then chasing ghosts. It's better if people start moving on with their lives instead. They are not coming back.

An undecided amount of time later Leon finds himself drinking alone in some random tavern in some random town, in an unknown part of the kingdom. When two cloaked strangers sit down uninvited at his table. And as he looks up their hoods fall back to reveal two very familiar and very dear faces.

Merlin grins widely. 'We heard you were looking for us?'

[stargirlintermission]

Look I know some of you love to act like Kirkman is at fault for everything wrong with these series but Jetfire has not been a character in Skybound since *this* happened to him.

[Slight Skybound 30 spoilers under the cut]

Jetfire is another thing that bothers me about Skybound. The plot seems to have no idea what to do with him.

Like, this happens to him (#7), and it's awful and horrible but we don't get to sit with how awful and horrible it is because Jetfire gets appearently destroyed two issues later (#9).

But not really, because ELEVEN ISSUES LATER (#20!) they retrive his frame and you go "oh he didn't actually died okay" but then he appears in that sequence where Optimus is mourning (#23) and you go "oh he didn't make it" and then he gets repaired (#27).

And honestly? This panel alone is the most character he has gotten since issue 7.

"But Stargirl, issue 13-" So, here's the thing: the Ulchtar storyline leaves a big ass plot hole for Jetfire. Why does he call Starscream by that name if he knew him as "Ulchtar"? He should have no idea that he goes by Starscream now. It seems to me like DWJ just put him there to cling onto their relationship in G1.

But whatever more evidence that the Ulchtar storyline sucks, moving on-

I have seen people mad about the bots Kirkman chose to leave with Elita. And though there are some outrageous choices like Jazz, Jetfire is one I can see actually choosing to return to Cybertron. Like, Optimus did some AM shit to him, and you can see that he is still pretty much affected by it. He was pretty much just sticking around because he had no other choice. There's nothing on Earth for him, so when given the choice to leave? Of course he is going to take it.

Do I think it's a shame that Jetfire didn't get to have an interaction with Thundercracker? Yeah, but I don't really care, the same way this comic never really cared that much about him.

[sanjarka]

AND NO (FAKE)PEETA ABUSED AS A CHILD DIDNT LIKE WHEN (FAKE)KATNISS PUSHED HIM AGAINST THAT WALL. STOP ✋️SAYING THAT.

[zipadeea]

but what if i said project hail mary is an allegory for jesus in the garden of gethsemane? what then?

[allcavesin]

Hey, uh, Fitz??? What the FUCK is wrong with you?????

[yandereunsolved]

Yandere Aegon with barkeep reader who he treats as his own personal therapist—

"No one... no one really loves me. I'm the king, and yet I get treated like shit by my family. My own wife doesn't have all her marbles. We have this war, and the Greens are kinda fucked. I'm not fucked. I wanna be fucked, but the brothels are so far away. Every whore just wants me for my money and my cock. I want them to need me. I want to have them all coated in wax and burned slowly on a stake so I can listen to their pained cries because they refuse to fully submit to me and my will. I just don't have that someone, you know?"

Barkeep reader who has had to listen to his drunken rambling for the past two hours.

"Yeah, yeah, I totally know."

"Do you—love me?"

"That... escalated quickly."

[givemeanightmare]

noticing the parallels between care and the dog changed my life and I can't stop thinking about it and rainer's mercy killing mindset and his cynicism and and and how he sees trauma the be all and end all of everything how there's no life afterwards which doubles back to how he treats himself how its too much effort for him to learn how to live again and his emphasis on states of being and not being able to exist outside of them or exist as them simultaneously (a b nlm) it is so fucked up its not fair