What exactly ARE the autobots and decepticons fighting about? I tried to wiki it but they had like eleven subsections on the Cybertron civil war and I already have too much to read
Hace you ever been so clumsy that you start a war?
In this anecdote:
Takes place in an Oil House instead of a bar or coffeehouse bc they’re transformers
A time traveling autobot went back in time 4 million years to have a drink with the lads; he has a penchant for curly straws
A clumsy bartender gets thrown out the window while fetching a curly straw
A peaceful miner is arrested for the ensuing barfight (I’d like to think it’s because the bar doesn’t allow “minors”)
A dirty cop named Whirl teaches the miner about The Power of Violence™
The miner (Megatron) then leads the Decepticons into a massive war using The Power of Violence™
I believe the creators of transformer were high as a kite when trying to write down the reason for the war
a person of color in a fandom: something that happened in the latest episode that made me really uncomfortable was -
a thousand fandomites, typing their replies so furiously that their keys snap off: oh my god this person is so stupid The Discourse ™ good job missing the point the message is that racism is bad it’s a show for kids calm down (lists off every racial slur known to man)
i’m truly not sure how people on here can see someone very clearly upset by something that reflects real-world racism and instead of like, taking the moment to understand the op’s perspective or sympathizing with them, they decide to mock them and say they’re wrong to feel the way they do because it wasn’t the showrunner’s intent
Because they don’t actually care about people of color or racism but use diversity and tokens in shows to make them feel like by watching a show they are engaging in real activism and don’t need to white guilt themselves about never taking a stand against racism in their personal lives.
hey yall dumb fucks reblogging this and yapping about how, ur life is actually super hard as a younger sibling…
the ‘eldest sisters are oppressed’ thing is based on the fact that the oldest girls in many families are, a lot of the time, drafted into watching her younger siblings to the point that shes more of a young third parent than a kid anymore. shes expected to be incredibly responsible while her younger siblings get to make mistakes. she get to do more housework than her father because apparently men shouldn’t have to watch laundry.
op is obviously referring to the ways in which older sisters ( nope not brothers) are forced into maternal roles by both society and their parents for a number of reasons, not limited to society’s insistence that they must learn to become mothers early. theres also the fact that many families both need and cant afford childcare. this idea that an oldest sister is free childcare is bullshit.
There’s a book called “The Eldest Daughter Effect” that goes into detail about this. And it applies to the oldest daughter so even if the oldest child is a boy and the second child is a daughter, she is the one who ends up getting all that extra pressure and responsibilities for younger siblings.
did i ever tell u guys that in fifth grade my class wrote a play bc we were studying ancient greece? it was called persephone and the (not so hot) heroes. i played demeter. basically, persephone got kidnapped by kronos and i strong armed hades into giving me 3 heroes from the underworld to get her back but they were actually terrible and i forget how she was actually saved but bottom line is that you wish you were my fifth grade class
this wasn’t little either, we used the town hall and we wore togas and shit
me as demeter
some lines (this was a joint effort of a bunch of greek-savvy 10/11 year olds):
athena: ‘im the goddess of wisdom but you don’t notice me telling everyone. i’m too smart for that’
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aphrodite: is zeus chasing some mortal woman again?
athena: no this time he and hera have gone for marriage counselling
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athena: we can ask hades to let them out of the underworld to help
aphrodite: he’ll never agree, he’s such a deadly bore (we made a fucking pun im so angry)
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demeter: hades wont pick up. he’s too busy torturing the dead in tartarus
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hades: i can’t undo the laws of death. just think of the paperwork.
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aphrodite: the humidity is messing up my hair. it’s getting all frizzy
athena: is that all you care about?
aphrodite: no, it’s also messing up my dress
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demeter: it’s so dark, and there aren’t any trees or flowers
hades: what do we need trees for, everybody’s dead
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paris: yeah, and i can shoot straight! isn’t that right, achilles?
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(hades enters)
paris: who are you? do we know you?
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achilles: im mighty achilles
odysseus: im wily odysseus
paris: and im hungry paris
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kronos: i really am awesome, aren’t i
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aeton: one wrong move and you’re history
odysseus: fool! we already are history!
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demeter: where are those mortals? i left them right there.
athena: are you sure? this isnt the first time you’ve lost someone.
I suddenly have the need for the entire screenplay, and to direct it at my college.
When a female character from a popular geek franchise gets redesigned with a non-sexualised outfit.
It should be corrected to “Straight male fans who only knew the character because of their sexualized outfit and didn’t care about their actual characteristics”
