#big rant

[therobotsarestuckinmyhead]

Not to be a hater but I just wanted to say, yes ppl can write whatever they want as long as it's tagged properly but hard same on the "Stop fucking kidnapping me!!" Like- Please can I get like a smidgen of personal agency in reader. Let them try/do things??? Idk I also like Cybertrionian reader more bc of that too. Cause I do like the Cons, but also they need their asses kicked sometimes 😮‍💨

SOOOOOOOOOOOO REAL

not being a hater! this is NOT an attack and is my OWN PERSONAL OPINION DOWN BELOW. a bit long!

i understand why they gotta resort to kidnapping so often when pairing up human reader with a Decepticon, its not exactly easy to pair up a giant morally dubious mecha that wants to destroy your planet with yourself. i won't blame anyone for going down this route but goddamn, there's already so many fics with the exact same premise that it got boring to me.

i like a good plot, i prefer plot oriented fics. even when its smut, idk how to write a smut without some kind of plot going on most of the time cause those feelings are so very important to me. i might be a bit vanilla or romantic or whatever but i need emotions in there.

its always this hostage to pet pipeline with the Decepticons. if you're lucky, the fic ends with them finally acknowledging your individuality and personhood. if you're into tht, idm, write what you wanna! its just that i'm not very interested in it but my opinion should NOT stop you from writing what you wanna. i'm just an internet stranger, my opinion is inconsequential.

its also kidnapping is triggering for some people but no one seems to mention how traumatic being kidnapped can be

there are so many repeated troupes within human reader fics too. i'm a person who gets bored easily so i'm not the biggest fan. cybertronian reader offers so much more variety...

i will mention something, those human reader isekai fics are peak though. probably one of the best ways to go about with human reader, i won't lie. the liaison concept on the lost light is a very repeated troupe but it gets fun depending on how you chose to portray the reader insert.

also a lot of fics are very america-centered... like my indian ass isn't gonna be able to move out of my parent's house until i'm married (never happening) brochacho 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 nothing against my 'murican audience, i just cannot relate at all *grabs a bar of my cage named indian traditionalism*

i love cybertronian reader fics and i seriously think that our fandom under utilizes it heavily. i understand why considering seeing yourself in a non human entity is not easy but consider this:

i wanna be one with these mechs and that means trying to feel the way they do, experience the things they do and explore more with them. i want to explore their world and understand what life is like for them. there's so much to speculate about what it is like to be cybertronian... the mere concept of getting to spark bond, getting to share your soul with another is something so scared & intimate, and to be able to experience that... ohhhhh myyyyyyy... just speculating how it feels is interesting. so much potential. getting to be in their society, explore its concepts and ideas. i just love it. i love when there's a chance for me to speculate and come up with things.

and obviously anon, like you said, to put them in their places cause some cons just need to be humbled. also cause i wanna tease them to hell and back.

little personal for me down here

i will also add that its such a strong way to express yourself with how malleable the cybertronian concept of frames are. you're not bound to any categories like race, gender,, or even body type! it can be replaced and modded to your liking- not only do you have full agency over your relationships with them but also over almost every aspect of yourself. its like the ultimate escape in a way; your expression is not bound to concepts like nationality, race, religion, or even gender. you are just you and i think that's the most beautiful thing about being cybertronian.

and it think that to people, people like me who have no idea what to label themselves as, its so much fun because you don't need the labels. you're just you and there's nothing that haunts you other than your own choices. there's no impact from not the nationality you had no choice in picking, the body you have no choice in picking or the race you had no choice in picking. and if you're born into a religious family, neither that interferes. you're never reminded of it, its as inconsequential as a spec of dust. you are you and that's all it matters.

funny how a metal frame is more fluid than a flesh body.

[crystaliakit]

Development sisters.

I only beg one specific thing to you if you can’t make my other wishes come true.

LET GINGERBRAVE OR THE OTHERS CRY.

That’s the thing I wanna stress the most.

Imagine, running from the thing you fear the most (The Witch I call her Matilda due to CRWC), finding your freedom, making new friends… only to be shoved back into danger after accidentally freeing an evil lady (who literally manipulated you into doing so-).

And now, you have to go fix your mistake, which technically wasn’t your fault, because you were just being an empathetic CHILD.

A child.

I cannot stress that enough. These guys are like, mentally pretty mature. (GB is not stupid actually, he just leads more with his heart, which leads to stupid mistakes) But they’re still FUCKING CHILDREN.

They never even had the chance to have a CHILDHOOD. The first thing they’ve all witnessed is PURE DANGER.

All I need, is for one of them, more importantly GingerBrave, to one, notice “Hey, it’s kinda fucked up how the adults are making us do this”, and two, VOICE THAT! GET MAD! YOU FUCKING DESERVE TO!

That’s literally the most important thing I need out of the anni update. It doesn’t even have to be in the form of a villain arc, just a crashout. Please, development sisters, even if you can hear me—

[zeldos]

I did a hc design for Alia !!!

Big zeldos rant:

imma be so honest I did not care for her redesign when they transferred over to 3d I didn’t care for that design like does it serve? Yes but idk I like her mmx 5-6 design with her hair up and less obviously feminized (no hate to feminine designs I really like them like specifically the ones we see in command mission) (Marino, ferham, and etc) but I think when Alia got that redesign she just lost that bit of charm and semi tomboyish look that drew me into her design. What made her feel unique to me. Idk I think mmx over all when it comes to female designs suffers a bit in what makes them special (expect command mission it has to have some of my favorite designs in mmx in general. I think I was also tied to that design of Alia cause mmx6 went more into depth with alias character. And sadly the X games for the MOST part just suffer from lack of characterization for there female characters (besides command mission which is why I like that game so much) I’m sorry for the huge ramble as much as I love the X games sometimes I just wished they did more with the female characters in the cast.

[andromeda3125alpheratz]

Everyone who says that funding nasa is dumb because it's taking away money that could be funneled into hypothetical universal healthcare all need to be locked in a giant concrete box and dropped into the depths of the ocean. No way you this stupid and no way you think nasa's funding is enough for universal healthcare.

"But we have bigger fish to fry! COUGH COUGH the war we stupidly started with Iran COUGH COUGH We dont have time to go into space!" Artemis II has been in the works for years it's not like this started two weeks ago. If you really cared about stopping the war on Iran what do you think you gain from attacking NASA of all things connected to america.

But yeah go ahead cheer IF trump ever cuts off NASA's funding in the future. wow you really got those stupid engineers and scientists! It's not like the some of the most important modern tech came from NASA. it's not like those scientists and engineers(and other ppl at NASA) are working class as well. Nothing screams class solidarity more than fuck you scientists your science is unproductive and redundant to our society.

[tenshiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

You know something I've realised overtime with having ADHD and Autism is genuinely the lack of respect, understand and basic decency. Like, we're lead to believe that people already understand it and get it, but not only do they not get it AT ALL they also just don't care. (also, this could technically apply to literally any disability/disorder so)

Like I need you all to understand that ADHD and Autism are DISABILITIES. They aren't something you should "just push through" or "force yourself to do stuff despite it" You wouldn't ask a person whose paralysed to try fucking walking, would you?? You wouldn't ask a person with an arm missing to clap their fucking hands, would you? So why the hell is it so okay and so normal to try and force people with ADHD and Autism to push their way through their DISABILITIES to do something and conform to the way EVERYBODY ELSE does things??

"Oh, but you shouldn't treat people with those disabilities like they can't do anything!!!" well yeah, fucking duh you douche bag. I hate to break it to you but that's basic common sense? You wouldn't treat a person with a physical disability, or a person whose blind, or a person whose deaf like they can't fucking do anything, would you? (unless you're an ableist asshole but that's an entirely different problem) they get provided help and accommodations so that they can do things that they struggle with.

"But people with those disabilities also get accommodations!!" I'm going to laugh straight in your fucking face because no. Only half of what we get given, honestly if I'm being real even less than that, BARELY works. It works for like the 5% of people, and even then its still not really what that 5% needs. They have put plasters over a gaping hole in somebody's stomach and called it a fucking day. There's barely any accommodation, specifically no GOOD and USEFUL accommodation. What they instead try to do is quietly gaslight and manipulate us into believing that it's just something we can shove past and ignore of we try really, REALLY hard and wish upon a fucking star. It's not how it works.

"Oh but there's so many spectrums with those disabilities How do we know what to give to help people?" my good friend, FUCKING ASK. ASK THE PERSON YOU ARE WORKING WITH. LITERALLY JUST A SIMPLE, "Hey, what do you think/know you're going to want/need to help support you?" BECAUSE I CAN GARAUNTEE YOU THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE YOU ASK WILL BE ABLE TO TELL YOU!!! IT'S JUST THAT NOBODIES EVER BOTHERED TO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY NEED!!!!

"Oh but what if somebody doesn't know what they want/need?" use your common sense and deduction skills. I know you aren't quite sherlock homes but surely you can figure out this "mystery" because I know I sure can. TRY THINGS. Don't just give up because there's resistance or because things aren't working, especially with kids OH MY FUCKING GOD ESPECIALLY WITH KIDS. "Oh but they're being uncooperative!!" you are complaining like a 5 year old that's upset because another kid chose not to share THEIR toy, do you just expect people to always cooperate with you ESPECIALLY somebody who is obviously struggling? Most people will know what they want or need, and those who don't have probably never been listened to in there however long of living so don't know. Some people are still learning how to manage and accept their own mental disability/disorder. I wouldn't ask you to immediately be able to ride a bike with no prior practice, support or knowledge of how to ride it or what a bike even fucking is, would I? So why is this so hard for you to understand?

"Oh but what if what they want/need is top much!!" sweetheart I'm going to very gently punch you in the fucking face when I say this; it isn't. I'm a FIRM believer that if everybody just got what they needed then everybody would be so much happier!! You know why people don't get what they need? Capitalism. That's also why people with mental disabilities/disorders are simply expected to force their way through it, because capitalism needs worker drones, and they don't care about your health, your happiness, your comfort, your safety, your ANYTHING. THEY DONT CARE. Which is the only reason why YOUUUUUU think that an accommodation is "too much". You don't wanna provide it, you've been taught not to provide it, because they don't want to provide it, because they don't want people to have what they need or want to live happily and comfortably so you can waste your time making them more money. The only reason it's too much or too hard is because the message of society has taught you that you have to be at maximum efficiency all the fucking time. Sorry, tangent, but I can absolutely 100% fucking assure that whatever they're asking for really isn't too much. It's not that you can't provide it or that it'll be difficult to provide, you just don't want to.

"Oh what if they're just faking it to be lazy!! Oh what if they're asking for this accommodation to be lazy!! Or what if they do this, ask for this, don't do that, ask for anybody to not do that ETC ETC to be lazy and get out of doing stuff!!" I need you to listen to yourself really fucking quickly, and if you don't understand just how sickening what you said is in the next 5 seconds I will punch you in the jugular. JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY ISNT ABLE TO DO SOMETHING DOESNT MAKE THEM LAZY. IT'S A DISABILITY FOR A REASON. IT IS A HINDERENCE. IT STOPS PEOPLE FROM DOING THINGS. AND JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY ISNT AT MAX FUCKING EFFECIENCY EVERY SINGLE DAY 24/7 365 DOESNT MEAN THEY ARE LAZY!! YOU HAVE JUST BEEN TAUGHT THAT IF YOU ARE NOT PUMPING OUT WHAT THE PEOPLE ON HIGHER PEDESTALS THAN YOU WANT EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU ARENT DOING ENOUGH AND YOU ARE USELESS AND YOU ARE GOING TO FALL BEHIND AND THAT YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE AND THAT YOU ARE NOT A "TEAM PLAYER" OR A SOLDIER WILLING TO SACRAFICE ANYTHING FOR SOMEBODY WHO STAYS BEHIND IN THE SAFETY OF THEIR LITTLE TENTS BARKING ORDERS AT YOU WHILE YOURE OUT THERE UNDER FIRE AND WATCHING PEOPLE DROP AROUND YOU LIKE FLIES ONE BY FUCKING ONE. IT'S A DISABILITY, NOT AN OFF DAY. HELL YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE FORCING YOURSELF THROUGH OFF DAYS ANYWAY BUT THAT'S A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TIME!!!!

Like I said before, you wouldn't ask somebody whose paralysed from the waist down to just fucking walk it off, would you? See how stupid that sounds? "oh but coping mechanisms are there to help people with mental disabilities/disorders!!" that doesn't mean they're always going to work, and especially not for everybody, and you are still not getting my fucking point.

I am DISABLED. There are some things that I just CANNOT DO. There are some things that I STRUGGLE TO DO. There are ways I can SUPPORT myself to do things, yes, but that doesn't mean I can just magically do that thing. I am DISABLED. That means that I have to do things DIFFERENTLY to you, that does not mean that I'm lazy. That does not mean that I'm refusing to do it. That does not mean I'm taking advantage. IT MEANS IM FUCKING DISABLED AND YOU NEED TO RE-LEARN BASIC FUCKING RESPECT.

(Honestly I could go on for FOREVER and probably accidently end up diving into the fact of how respecting your own limits and respecting your body and mind shouldn't be something to be ashamed of or something to call lazy, but I won't. Partially because that's not what the main focus of this is, and partially because Im not exactly great at explaining my thoughts and feelings on stuff like this because I'm unfortunately just as deeply infested with this bullshit as you are. As we all are.)

It is a DISABILITY. Treat it as such. That goes the same for other people who have these disabilities, because I am also talking to you. Don't try and force your way through it. Don't try to push yourself past what your limits obviously are. Don't think you're asking for too much. Don't think you are shameful or lazy for needing to do things differently, or struggling to do things, or simply not being able to do things. Don't feel guilty. That, of course, doesn't mean never try. I feel like what I'm saying is pretty obvious but just incase anybody says "Oh you're limiting what we can do and blah blah blah BLAH" because I'm not. I'm simply telling you to respect the fact you have a fucking disability and it's not something you can just brush away like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Oh, and to those people who constantly say, "Oh you people can't do anything!!"

Yeah. WE'RE FUCKING DISABLED. I'm so sorry I have the "can't do anything" disorder SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOURE TRASH. YOU ARE HEARTLESS. I WANTED TO BE NICE BUT THERES NO POINT IN BEING NICE IF YOU ARENT GOING TO FUCKING LISTEN.

"Oh you're just pandering to them!! You're putting a cap on what they can and can't do!! They're obviously just being bratty and stubborn!! Oh you're just letting them get away with whatever they want then!!! Oh this is what gentle parenting looks like!! Oh but they still need to learn basic respect and manners!! Oh not everything works like that, they can't just have everything they want!!!" I sincerely hope nobody ever listens to you, gives you anything, gives any support, help or guidance, and never ever respects you ever again in your life. I don't even have the words to describe how disgusting you are, I seriously don't. If you actually genuinely cannot see what is wrong with what you said and the meaning behind why you said it, you are just trash. (not really, I want everybody to be happy, safe, healthy, respected and accepted because obviously, but holy shit you all make it so so so hard sometimez.)

And again, before anybody says "Oh but!" I want you to stop for a second and ask yourself:

1. Does this have anything to with me?

2. Do I have to input my opinion?

3. Is what I'm going to say exactly what they already spoke about in this post? If so, do I have anything actually useful to add?

4. Do I actually know what I'm talking about?

5. Is what I'm going to say harmful?

6. Is what I'm going to say common knowledge/basic common sense that the poster has already probably considered/thought about and not mentioned because it doesn't need to be said???

If it doesn't apply to any of those, cool beans!! If you wanna add onto anything I've said, or wanna talk about anything I've missed, go for it!! Just please be respectful to me, or anybody you reply to/possibly debate with/whatever your heart desires with. I know this wasn't exactly professional, and I was a bit mean about it, so I'm sorry. I'm just really really angry about it 😞

[zzzoomiii]

Ok SO it was confirmed by Noah that Finn wouldve played with Mike’s sexuality given the chance BUT because the d*ffers never planned it or thought it was maybe ‘too gay!!’ they didnt do it.

As the d*ffers said: “It was never in the cards!! They were always platonic!!” yeah okay buddy just admit you dont know how to write gay people and romance.

LET THE ACTORS WRITE THE FUCKING SHOW OH MY GOD

WHAT THE FUCK

[marimariserasa]

Sighhh here comes another rant about AA's second trilogy. I swear I like AA4 and 6. Yeah no DD mention that's the only game I truly hate. This one's big folks

Apollo and his weird relationship with Khura'in

HEEEEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD FOR AA4, 5 AND 6!!!

Before talking about the topic at hand, I'd like to point out yet again that there's something interesting about Apollo not being the main character of his own story in the first game but they fuck this concept completely by making him not the protagonist at all in the next two games

Seriously, what was the necessity of making Phoenix the main character again in the next games? I can understand Apollo having a bit less spotlight in DD because Athena's lore needs to be told. But then they BOTH get their show stolen by Phoenix, who already had his arc completed in the previous trilogy and didn't evolve AT ALL. (One additional note to mention that Athena, in her only case during SOJ—coincidentally the weakest in the entire game—is dumber. And the show belongs to Simon. Just a taste of AA's misogynistic tendencies because they won't survive if a woman gets anything)

Pick up Phoenix from the end of AA3 and compare him to the end of AA6 and watch as he's literally the same person but with employees. Plus he's boring

Now, let's talk about how they fumbled SO BAD in Polly's arc during AA6. Like this game is about HIM. It's about the story of the country where he was born and raised. And he only appears in two cases. One that is about Trucy because by some miracle they remembered she exists and the other that, finally, is entirely about him, but it's stupidly long. Well, you wouldn't need to cram his entire character arc into a single case if you'd had the decency to have him appear in Khura'in FROM THE VERY FIRST CASE!!

Now, about what I really want to talk about, why doesn't he know anything about Khura'in once he's finally there. I get it, Dhurke was basically an exile in the country, but he didn't hate his culture? He absolutely taught him about their religion, history, and everything about Khura'in. He was what? 13? 14 when he was sent to the USA?

And OKAAAAY you could argue that he "tried to forget about Khura'in" because that's mentioned a lot during 6-5. But… why? It's not like he had any trauma involving Khura'in. Okay, he drowned once… but that gave him fear of swimming not fear of his nation. Plus, it's absolutely rubbed in your face how much of a great father Dhurke is. So I don't get why trying to forget Dhurke is a thing.

"Oh but he abandoned meeee!!!" BITCH you were old enough to know just how dangerous it was for you to live there being the son of the most wanted criminal in the COUNTRY. Honestly?? When Apollo notices it's been ten years and Dhurke STILL didn't come, your first thought shouldn't have been "sniff my father left me :(" it should have been "if it's been a fucking decade and this man is not back then my birth land must be SO FUCKED UP RIGHT NOW."

Did the Americans brainwash him or something? Honestly I take back the whole previous paragraph I'd be mad if I had to live in the US for more than a month /j /silly

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the fact that Apollo knows nothing about queen Amara and doesn't recognise her as his mother just as much as he recognises Dhurke as his dad is pretty much a plot hole? Again, Apollo was probably sent to the US AT BEST an year after Rayfa's birth. And he doesn't know Amara...? At all??? WHY IS SHE A COMPLETE STRANGER TO HIM NAHYUTA KNOWS HER AND THEY HAVE ONLY ONE YEAR GAP

Okay, I'm done talking about how it irritates me that he doesn't remember anything about his past in Khura'in. But I want to talk about how it should've been flashed out how that affected him when he was already in another country

I think the biggest problem that makes people believe Apollo has three lores is that Clay's plot is not connected with AJ and SOJ plots, while they tell you in SOJ what happened to Thalassa for her to basically lose her son, they don't tell you how Apollo met Clay or how it was for him to change his life completely

He absolutely went through culture shock, and had to learn a very different language. Imagine Clay being the first person he met and showed him around the US, imagine his first years with Kristoph with him being anxious because he doesn't know a world where the DCA is not a thing, imagine him watching Phoenix's trials and interviews, idolizing him because he literally has the same beliefs as his father!! And that making Kris' jealousy grow before the Gramarye case because "I'M your mentor. You should be idolizing ME. Not a random, third-rate lawyer!"

Well, here's another rant. No, it won't be my last one about Apollo's trilogy. I'm writing one about Klavier having so little screen time it's pathetic. Apollo, Trucy and Klav, I love you three. You deserved so much better than the way DD and SOJ treated you.

[spearxwind]

Big media rant under the cutttt putting it under a readmore so people can ignore it if they want to because im ranting about something a lot of people like mwah #myrant

I still feel sooooo vindicated that jujutsu kaisen apparently turned out to be shit from a butt because I could not stand the writing at all or the characters but people loved it and then the manga ended on a 'i didnt know how to end it lol' note from the author leaving all the fans wondering why tf there was all that buildup for nothing and its like. babygirl the signs were there from the start

Also ofc this is my opinion but godddd whenever anything jjk resurfaces and people progressively think it's more and more mid I genuinely feel so vindicated like I WAS SAYING THAT AGES AGO!!!

i think jjk is also the authors first longform manga and like, good on them for doing it i genuinely have no beef with jjk itself (other than thinking its ultra mid but not the worst thing ever) or with the author, but rather with whyyyyy it somehow became mega popular and regarded as an amazing piece of media, I feel like it has to do with the anime having an inexplicably high budget. Even with the animation being good it just falls flat because of all the bad design, narrative, and pacing choices, feels like wasted potential.

It has the same vibe as solo leveling to me, a bunch of popular tropes thrown together haphazardly with no knowledge of what makes those tropes work in a larger context, and no solid thread and relying on characters aura farming and nonsense 'power displays' to fool people watching into thinking there's actual stakes and an actual story but there isn't any because the power scaling IS the plot and somehow both things are popular because a bunch of twelve year olds with tiktok brainrot think it's the dopest shit ever made because they have never been exposed to media with writing that goes beyond cocomelon levels of depth so anything that so much as alludes to a bigger narrative world feels like the best writing ever to them.

And some of these twelve year olds are also twenty and thirty year olds who's only media consumption and therefore their media literacy foundations are uncultured youtubers who's every recommendation they follow like gospel, and useless twitter arguments where the guy who gets the last jab in 'wins', instead of being able to form their own original opinion on anything at all.