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call me gun or wyv, my pronouns are he/jet/it, i am the scary complexly queer nonconformist trans dude.. i am also in my late 20s.
i reblog nonsense here of my interests, sometimes my awesome opinions. (if i said/shared anything off beat please reach out and let me know, i love learning and growing).
med recognized autism + adhd (audhd), i am also a suspecting osdd-1 system after 10ish years of suspecting and questioning hell. i will not debate my existence to anyone. i don't care about system discourse aside from our political holder. but thats the point in a system side blog.
this is also where asks/likes comes from. I reblog things I like or find interesting here, my old art can also be found here.
i am also an adult with adult interests (shocker), sometimes I do like (but don’t share) suggestive materials, this is stated for transparency sake. i
I do not have a Do Not Interact list and block freely.
If you come into my DMs or asks to *harass* me then I'll bite back.
a week into artfight i would like to give out the following reminders: it is okay if you thought you were going to participate but ended up not having time. it is fine if you started out enthused and then lost steam. you do not owe anyone revenges. you are not 'behind' and you are not letting anybody down. it is a silly little game for fun. do not forget this.
the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.
My Transformers Skybound Issue 34 Ramble, spoilers ahead if you care.
It's... I don't know all I can say is that this issue is weak compared to the last one.
More stuff under the cut, again spoilers warning!
I don't care much about the Army Flagg guy or whatever plotline, I just do not care. But what I do care about is Thundercracker and the Aerialbots interacting some more;
And while it is nice, I feel like there is so much more to see, I want to see Thundercracker's chemistry with the Aerialbots individually. How does Silverbolt, Skydive(?), Fireflight and Air Raid interact with him alone? I want to see more, I want to see actual personality.
I do not mind if Thundercracker becomes this like older brother figure to them, but I want to see it earned. I still want to see at least at the very minimum one panel where the Aerialbots are grieving for Slingshot - I want to see their anger.
But as said, it is nice to see them interacting more. But I want More Justification for the eventual combining.
Before I get to the main meat of it (with the Combaticons) can I just say it is nice seeing a G1 only villain (as far as I am aware, no clue if the guy showed up in the Marvel Comics yet) in the comics.
As said I do not care about the army plot line, so I did actually cheer a little. But I do not know, Arkeville here is feeling like an annoying quick one shot side antagonist rather than an actual threat.
But I am curious to see where the story heads with him. But I can see the main thing is likely going to be: Arkeville betrays Flagg and by Extension the autobots.
I don't know, I know its foreshadowing probably but lol.
Moving on, the Combaticons getting more page time is also nice!
Swindle looks a little goofy but I am just gonna say its odd lighting.
But this section of the issue just. This is where I have my biggest issue in this issue, and Energon Universe as a whole (particularly with the Transformers portion, as I am enjoying the G.I Joe and Void Rivals stuff), Kirkman does not know how to write combiners that isn't the basis. I am getting ahead of myself,
I love when they give Transformers muzzles, I think its very Critter and Awesome actually,
But this is where my main issue comes in. I get Shredhead is like this new blood young soldier who believes they can take on anything and I get that. However, it gets very - I don't know just. I know its war, people die in war, people get seriously hurt in war.
As much as this panel fucks, and it is very Bruticus to me, I did frown a little when I see it is Shredhead getting fucked up. Beaten to a pulp. Happens. It is what happens after.
Bruticus gets easily taken out by Cliffjumper, which ballsy. I just do not get how a headshot like this by the looks can affect Onslaught the most. I get the destablization of the combiner where they de-combine
Maybe I am stupid but I do not get how Shredheads sword managed to get Onslaught like that, and NGL I will be very pissed if Onslaught is confirmed to be dead. At the most I am hoping he's just seriously injured but alive.
Same with Shredhead. In a way I do hope this humbles them, but at the same time seeing an original character to the Energon Universe just die would suck.
Generally this issue feels a lot weaker compared to the previous issue and to me at least having every 2nd issue to be actually good (of course has its own set of issues but to me didn't feel super glaring), this issue is just. Mid. It is not this horrific thing that puts me off reading though, I am curious to see where it goes next but the writing feels. Off.
Which is odd, I liked Void Rivals which is a Kirkman original, and from what little work I have read he does like making stories and while I did like bits of Invincible, and I have liked some aspects of Kirkmans work for Transformers.
I won't say I could write something better. I can't. I just wished there was more polish to the writing as I mentioned previously I think there are some good ideas but its just executed poorly or done in this awkward way. The writing in this issue just seems awkward at best and just questionable. I feel Kirkman needs a secondary or even a third writer to help ground things better.
Still, I am curious to see what happens next. As said, unless there is something so egregious that actually puts me off from reading I will continue to read the series, and I do aim to buy the volumes when they come out (rather than individual issues).
An upcoming anniversary in the otherkin community: On July 9, 2012, the word “otherkin” will have been coined 22 years ago. It was coined in the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list which is active to this day. On that date in 1990, one participant, Torin, used the word “otherkin” as a variation on the earlier word “otherkind.” Both phrases were casually improvised as an abbreviated way of referring to people who identify as other kinds of creatures.
(Source: Elfinkind Digest #71. The archive of this document is still extant, and I have read it. Thanks to the mailing list moderator R’ykandar Korra’ti for making this primary source available to me while I was researching our community’s history book, the Otherkin Timeline. Thanks to Torin for permission to share this information.)
Right now, the word “otherkin” is nearly 22 years old. That means that any otherkin who are currently in their teens weren’t even born until after the word had been coined. There are lots of otherkin who have considered themselves to be otherkin, of a kind, even years before the word had been coined. Detractors sometimes claim that otherkin is merely a passing fad popular among youth, but this is evidently not the case.
Any thoughts on the significance of this passage of time? Where were you at, as an otherkin, 22 years ago? Anybody want to make plans for the 9th, to set it aside as a day for thinking about otherkin things? Maybe a party for reminiscing, maybe even with costumes and artistic “glamour-bombs”?
This year, the word “otherkin” recently turned 32 years old on July 9, 2022.
The top post in this thread from 2012 is where I first proposed observing it as Otherkin Day, unless if anyone can find earlier references to that. The original post is gone, so I was grateful to find this particular post had been archived on someone else’s blog.
And so did the word otherkind, being otherkin’s elder sibling by a a few months.
I’ve now got a page on my website titled A Brief(ish) History of the Word “Otherkind” based on my reading of the contemporary Elfinkind Digest, which talks a bit about the coining, trends in usage, whether it included elves at first, and whether it included animal folk (today’s therians).
having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.
this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.
an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]
