#mincedsandwich

[tiktaalic]

Can I just say. The way you write posts is infectious. In a tumblr ectosystem where run on sentences is the norm, your constant periods are so commanding that I'll find myself writing a tumblr post with more of them. And then have to stop. And think. Why am I doing this? This isn't how I usually write posts. And then scroll down my dash and see that oh. Tumblr user tiktaalic just made a bunch of posts. That influenced me subconsciously.

This is so funny I was like damn do I type like that? I thought I mostly did stupid long run ons. Looks at my posts that are all composed of. One word. Or short phrase. punctuated with a period. strung together. Ah. I do

[anneapocalypse]

for the ask game, number 16 rvb

🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

The mercs, and especially the merc prequel trilogy in season 14. I mean, I understand it in the abstract, they just do so little for me personally that I cannot relate to it. To be clear for anyone who's new around here, I do not mean this in a "but how can you love the evil villains!" kind of way, I love plenty of villains; Felix and Locus are just not the kind of villains I love. Their motivations aren't compelling to me, I think what we're told about Locus's motives in 13 is backfill that is not actually set up in the previous two seasons, and I'm annoyed by the attempts to redeem him not because I don't like redemption arcs but because I don't buy the premise. There's too much satisfaction in what he says and does in 11 and 12 for me to buy it. I also think the merc trilogy fails as a prequel because it's a slice-of-life story that does not show any meaningful change in the characters and to me offers little insight into how they became the people they are.

My hot take is that if they really wanted to show us how the mercs became who they are, the prequel should have been set during the war and not after it.

[riphunter]

Despite your foolish insistence on not watching Rescue Bots I still followed, and your insistent Prime Wars posting made me want to revisit it (dropped after Combiner Wars like most people) but I made the foolish mistake of rewatching Combiner Wars first and then by Titans Return I was burnt out and tapped out after like three episodes. The lip syncing and audio is still so bad homie. I can't do it.

prime wars is better than rescue bots

[robotlesbianjavert]

wait can we see your hit list of people you got to read chainsaw man. as well as any potential targets. curious to the ratio of online vs irl people, like im imagining you harassing say some normal coworkers to read chainsaw man and the absolute strength that would take.

okay so like, so far everyone has been online so far because most of the people i know irl are normal and have better things to do with their lives. that said i might be able to bully my sisters into it AT LEAST when the anime comes out, and i know my coworker’s boyfriend could be susceptible and if i play my cards right...!

actually @six-of-ravens i can still trick you right. i can lead you down this perfectly safe friendly back alley right. come on.

[voxregalia]

wow your sidebar really had to go and do me dirty like that in the year 2020 huh

YESSSSSSSSS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY! ALL MY WORK HAS PAID OFF!!!!!!

you are welcome, kind soul

[tfwiki]

Is there any canon instance of transformers having their own "EMP fields"? (This is a somewhat popular thing in fanfiction but as far as I've seen it has never been in any actual tf stuff)

What’s the fanfiction context? The term would lead me to imagine some kind of localized field around a Transformer that disrupts electronics, but I’m thinking that’s probably not how fanfic uses it...?

In the event that it is that type of thing, there are a few Transformers with comparable powers. G1 Breakdown can generate a vibrational field that shuts down other machines. Ravage has a localized EMP-shield that achieves the opposite effect, masking his own electromagnetic emissions to prevent him from being detected by monitoring devices in his vicinity.

If it’s just used refer to some for a natural radiant “energy signature” possessed by Transformers, then yeah, Cybertronians have been described as having those since at least Beast Wars. Characters have often been tracked via them, and there have been an assortment of devices and conceits used to hide them, including the Beast Machine Maximal’s techno-organic beast modes. Sometimes each ‘bot is treated as having their own unique personal signature, and other times, the only distinction observed is between factions (”I’m picking up a Decepticon energy signature,” and so on).

[m-azing]

have you ever browsed @shallura? i feel like their content is relevant to your interests, particularly non stop allura love and the tag #put allura in this

I haven’t but I sure as hell will now

[robotlesbianjavert]

mp100 for da ask meme

oh hell yeah i’m gonna talk about theme for this one

specifically i mentioned it the other day and i’ve been offhandedly thinking about it without the ability to actually sit down and do a proper essay, so this is a bit disjointed and i can’t go back to reference anything specific so this is all memory.

but the way people claim the title “main character” and how it evokes solipsism is something i like to think about, under the consideration that the logical behavioral extreme of solipsism is a disregard for “side characters” - from a solipsistic view, the thoughts, feelings, and ambitions of these people aren’t “real” in comparison to the main character’s, whose goals and feelings in most narratives and i think often in shonen tend to supersede others.

how teru and toichiro explicitly declare themselves the “main character”, and as such easily use and hurt other people to suit their own egocentric ambitions. most other characters also engage is similar behaviour in less explicit or downplayed ways (reigen, dimple, tome, ritsu, dimple, LOTS) have acted in ways that simultaneously makes them interesting as main characters from another perspective but in one or another require them using others as “side characters”

compare this declaration and resulting behaviour with mob’s, who only claims to be the main character of his own life. with this specification is the implication that everyone else is also a main character, of their own life.

this is best exemplified through the reigen & tome spinoff, where those two characters get to star in their own small narrative and journey with basically no input from mob until the very end. as people coming off of the mp100, we know the importance of mob in their lives, but the spinoff doesn’t bring too much attention to that because he’s not the main character here.

there are also all the actual side characters of mp100 who only really cross paths with mob, but aren’t a deep part of his story but get their own mini stories. kamuro, the awakening lab kids, i’ve ran out of thoughts. mob does touch their lives, but they’ve had their own stories beyond him.

i lost track of the solipsism thing: the point is that mp100 does it’s best to show that it’s side characters aren’t JUST side characters, they are able to exist and develop outside of mob, and this is why we should love the side characters more!

did any of that make sense.