#burtie time

[nine-dandelion]

every once in a while I think about how rung has to experience extreme distress before he'll cough up a photonic crystal. all the cold constructed came from this pain. just because his body could do something (his "function"...) doesn't mean he wanted to do it. or that it was effortless when he did.

I like the metaphor. not every day you get a creator god "reentering the workforce." but it seems cybertronians are forgiving of gaps in your resume (and your memory) if you're the only available professional in your field!

[cmdrburton]

if you don't leave the house your mental health gets worse

but if your mental health gets bad enough you can't leave the house??

fucked up and evil. I hate my brain so much

[cmdrburton]

my wonderful friend @unityinblack made this for me for my birthday <3 I love it so much <3 <3

[cmdrburton]

i love how primatt's prosthetic leg is treated in adrian tchaikovsky's alien clay. it isn't a magic limb. it's futuristic but not infallible. it requires maintenance; primatt takes it off at the end of a long day. and overuse gives her sores like with real-life prosthetics.

i like primatt a great deal as a character and a large part of that is how her disability is treated—as a part of her that's always present.

[cmdrburton]

I feel trapped and hopeless. All my medications stop working after a while—I've literally tried dozens, everything available to me—and they all stop working eventually.

I'm tired of struggling. When do I get to rest

[cmdrburton]

VIOLENT asks. 4, 22, 24

thank you for asking 💕

4. final straw that made me block someone: a kid in a server I was in who kept crying about how nobody was into their mildly uncommon kink and threatened to kill themselves really often bc they felt isolated. this had the effect of older server members rallying to comfort them. iykyk. I tried to be nice bc they were young but... yeah. I know this makes me super hypocritical

22. favourite part of canon that everybody ignores: more people should read Till All Are One I think. lots of food in there for starscream enjoyers

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse: hm. probably the "if you write this character [who I relate to to a possibly unhealthy degree, but let's never examine that] doing x or y then that obviously means you think [minority group this character is headcanoned to belong to] should do x and y" branch of m*rderbot discourse lol. I also really side-eye anyone who keeps insisting m*rderbot has to be brown-skinned... like. walk me through that. why is it so important to you that this character is brown-skinned? it's usually just a palette swap (mb doesn't exactly have a human ethnicity) and if it stops there, that's fine, but I don't think people who get pushy about it examine why

thanks for asking again <3 it genuinely means a lot

[cmdrburton]

trick or treeeaaaaat

treat! 31 October is Diwali here so you're getting kaju katli.

[cmdrburton]

the murderbot to transformers pipeline is real