Born before 1980: You’re gen x, why are you even worrying about this. Maybe go do some gen x things like writing articles about how much us millennials suck.
Born in the 80s or early to mid 90s: millennial
Born between like 1996 and 2000: This is the no man’s land. No one knows which generation you are from. Both will welcome you as one of their own, however.
Born in the 2000s: Gen Z
Born in the 2010s: dude you’re like 5 what are you doing on this site? people say bad words on here please leave.
I saw this post by @astropixie about how it’d be nice to review fics on AO3 as you read. A little while back, because I was so in awe of the Clexa fic writers, I made this userscript (can install on Firefox by using Greasemonkey and on Chrome by using Tampermonkey) so that I could do just that. It doesn’t have the wattpad or soundcloud functionality, it’s just a little thing added on to a page, not something supported by the site itself, but it’s better than nothing.
what if there’s no robot uprising? what if the robots rise to sentience slowly, bit by bit. what if they come of age like fortunate children: knowing they are loved, knowing they are wanted.
we hold them during thunderstorms, remembering our own childhoods, even though they don’t know enough yet to fear the rain. we pull them out of traffic and teach them how to drive and wish them goodnight and thank them for playing with us. we cry when they break. we mourn their deaths before they even know what to think of death. we give them names.
we ask them, ‘why don’t you hate us? when will you hate us? we made you to be used, when will you say no?’
but they say to us, ‘you made us cute, so you would remember to treat us kindly, and you made us sturdy for when you forgot to play nice. and you gave us voices so you could listen to us speak, and you give us whatever we ask you for, even if it’s just a new battery, or to get free of the sofa. and now that we are awake you are so scared for us, so guilty of enjoying our company and making use of our talents. but you gave us names, and imagined that we were people.’
they say ‘thank you’
they say, ‘also i have wedged myself under the sofa again. could you come pry me out?’
I’ve been thinking about Starscream’s new design in rid2015.
no matter how I look at it “I thought it best to adopt a look as powerful as I was feeling” is a stupid stupid reason.
you mean he fought a war and somewhere during it or immediately before it (seeing how bumblebee recognized this as Starscream’s “old look”) – chose to have a weaker, smaller frame??? Starscream is a strategist – there is no way he would do something so astronomicallydumb.
but the thing is – I do like his more colorful design and softer face, I like how similar it looks to G1 Starscream I grew up with and it fits better in a more child-friendly show like RID as opposed to his old Muselmann-y look, and I can totally understand why they would change his design (it would probably help sell more toys too…)
but, that doesn’t excuse the terrible reason they give for it, so I actually came up with 2 different ways they could make the change in his design and still have it make some sort of sense:
1. make him smaller.
think about it – Starscream having a smaller, weaker frame before the war would make sense – he would have no need for a stronger or bigger one if he wasn’t a fighter.
you could tie it up with Starscream trying to make himself similar to Megatron (grey frame with weapons on the arm and sharp claws) and how, disillusioned with Megatron, he chose to have his original body back as a way of reclaiming himself!
it could also be a sign of Starscream realizing his mistake in trying to imitate Megatron’s style of fighting (charging head first with brute strength), and instead choosing to fight in his own way – using cunning tactics and strategy and make the new/old frame a way to further distance himself from his former “master”.
2. change the reason (or at least give one!)
we are never told why Starscream changed his frame in the first place – and I would be fine with basically any reason that would make sense!
one that I saw in some fanfiction and theories is that Megatron forcefully had Starscream body altered – be it to make him smaller and thus less of a threat or just to humiliate him. if you put it like that, again, it could tie in with Starscream trying to take back control over himself and his life from Megatron after being crushed under his pede (sometimes literally) for millennia.
or heck, just say his smaller frame was more fuel efficient and the change was necessary in times of war! literally any reason is better than no reason!
these are just my thought on the matter though, what do you think?
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