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Hi, I’m rad and I’m here to tell you about the Transformers! There’s six episodes of War for Cybertron: Earthrise dropping on Netflix today, and you might need to know who some of the robots are.
Definitely one of them, anyway.
Bet you didn’t even see ‘em.
War for Cybertron - Siege is just overloaded with Transformers references
Hey folks! I did an article for POLYGON about all the lovely Transformers lore you can find in Transformers: War for Cybertron: Chapter One: Stege Siege, the new Transformers cartoon that popped up today on Netflix!
There are spoilers! So go watch it before you read this.
ryannorth answered:
Haha this was my favourite of the “WHO ARE YOU, YOU SUCK” messages you get when EVERYONE ON TUMBLR is invited to ask you a question! But I wanna give you a real answer even if you just wanted to sass a stranger (and his… face?) on the internet. Let’s talk about fan fiction!
Fan fiction happens when someone says “I like a thing and I’m gonna do something with that thing” - writing your own story, drawing your own comic, whatever - even though that thing is not a thing you created. And it’s a great way to write! You get to do character work: and more importantly, your character work can be WRONG, since everyone knows who the characters are SUPPOSED to be, so you have to get good at it fast.
I think fan fiction often gets looked down on by people (though not by you; yours is the first “pfft, who are you? I bet you don’t even write FAN FICTION” message I’ve ever seen, and that’s amazing). And fanfic getting a bad rap is too bad, because writing is writing, and fanfic doesn’t change that.
You could also make the argument that doing a licensed comic (like I’ve done with the Adventure Time comics) is writing fan fiction, since you’re playing with characters that aren’t yours and which you didn’t create. I think there’s some important differences: you have an editor, you have corporate stakeholders that have ideas of what they want this thing to look like, you have access to behind-the-scenes information the general public doesn’t know about yet, and you enjoy at least a quasi-canonicity status - but if you were to point at a licensed comic I wrote and say “that’s fan fiction” I wouldn’t say “NUH-UH”, mainly because I don’t see “fan fiction” as an dirty word.
Heck, carrying that reasoning along you could say every Batman writer is just writing fan fiction - since it’s all based on the work of previous Batman writers, right? You can take it even further and look at literary inspirations and say “wow, The Lion King is just furry Hamlet fanfic”. And sure, go nuts! I’m not sure what that gains you, but I can at least see where you’re coming from.
Anyway! This is all to say, I CAN make fan fiction - there’s some Star Trek TNG stories I wrote as a teenager that thankfully are LONG LOST - and I wish you the best of luck with your *checks your blog* …drawings of Undertale characters wearing giant diapers.
oh man that tumblr
from now on when some rando is a dick to strangers on the internet, i’ll just assume they jerk on the regular to photos of dora the explorer pooping her diapers and has chosen a terrible means to compensate for a life gone horribly wrong
kittypadding-deactivated2018012 asked:
ryannorth answered:
Haha this was my favourite of the “WHO ARE YOU, YOU SUCK” messages you get when EVERYONE ON TUMBLR is invited to ask you a question! But I wanna give you a real answer even if you just wanted to sass a stranger (and his… face?) on the internet. Let’s talk about fan fiction!
Fan fiction happens when someone says “I like a thing and I’m gonna do something with that thing” - writing your own story, drawing your own comic, whatever - even though that thing is not a thing you created. And it’s a great way to write! You get to do character work: and more importantly, your character work can be WRONG, since everyone knows who the characters are SUPPOSED to be, so you have to get good at it fast.
I think fan fiction often gets looked down on by people (though not by you; yours is the first “pfft, who are you? I bet you don’t even write FAN FICTION” message I’ve ever seen, and that’s amazing). And fanfic getting a bad rap is too bad, because writing is writing, and fanfic doesn’t change that.
You could also make the argument that doing a licensed comic (like I’ve done with the Adventure Time comics) is writing fan fiction, since you’re playing with characters that aren’t yours and which you didn’t create. I think there’s some important differences: you have an editor, you have corporate stakeholders that have ideas of what they want this thing to look like, you have access to behind-the-scenes information the general public doesn’t know about yet, and you enjoy at least a quasi-canonicity status - but if you were to point at a licensed comic I wrote and say “that’s fan fiction” I wouldn’t say “NUH-UH”, mainly because I don’t see “fan fiction” as an dirty word.
Heck, carrying that reasoning along you could say every Batman writer is just writing fan fiction - since it’s all based on the work of previous Batman writers, right? You can take it even further and look at literary inspirations and say “wow, The Lion King is just furry Hamlet fanfic”. And sure, go nuts! I’m not sure what that gains you, but I can at least see where you’re coming from.
Anyway! This is all to say, I CAN make fan fiction - there’s some Star Trek TNG stories I wrote as a teenager that thankfully are LONG LOST - and I wish you the best of luck with your *checks your blog* …drawings of Undertale characters wearing giant diapers.
oh man that tumblr
from now on when some rando is a dick to strangers on the internet, i’ll just assume they jerk on the regular to photos of dora the explorer pooping her diapers and has chosen a terrible means to compensate for a life gone horribly wrong
I don’t care much about this person’s fetishes so much as the idea that they think they’re superior for not showing their face. What kind of measure of quality is that?
I wouldn’t show my face either if that were my blog! Of all the parts of that Ask, it is the one part that makes absolute, iron-clad sense! I mean, if we’re going to have to choose one thing to have our heads clear on, we could do worse than “if you have a tumblr full of diaper Pokeymans sexily shitting themselves, don’t put your own real face on it!”
One perfectly shrewd decision, I tell you.
I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.
I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”
I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.
And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.
My friend, whom I love dearly, found out that the moon orbits the earth as a 20-year-old in an upper-level political science class, and was utterly and completely flabbergasted. When questioned, her defense was that she doesn’t have anything to do with the moon, so why would she have needed to know?
i was once talking to a friend of mine about how at that point in time you could see mars, jupiter, and venus at the same time, which was pretty cool, and she said “where’s pluto? wait, it was destroyed” and that’s how i found out that my friend, who is in her third year of a medical degree, thought that pluto stopped being a planet because it was eaten by a black hole.
a show about a detective with OCD and they make the last season’s box cover different
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i want to fix it but i can’t
Do not tease me with this.
What they said!
this was a cruel joke to play on me
Can we stay like this… forever?
My Facebook header image for several years. I think it upset my mother.
grosseslicornes Omg can I use this for mine?
YUP
here i make u dis too
[Image: a picture of pimply white person wearing glasses placed over a background of alternating colours (coral, orange, green and yellow) with captions at the top and bottom.
Top: SEES GIRLS IN COMIC SHOPS, CHALLENGES THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND OSTRACIZES THEM
Bottom: “WHY CAN’T I FIND A GIRL WHO’S INTO COMIC BOOKS?”]
I don’t usually point out GPOYs of other people, but fucking shitcocks, that’s Shilo. That’s exactly Shilo.
I’ve known Shilo since maybe 2004, and I see him every few weeks at my LCS, also at every major sale and convention. He’s into superhero comics, and only superhero comics. He dismisses manga as ‘crap’ and, despite the fact that there are quite a few attractive, unattached, of-age women that go to this particular comic shop, he’d never hit on any of them because they’re not into superhero comics, and just into ‘shitty anime’. I’m into comics. Heavily. Before the reboot, my pull list at the shop I subscribed in was bigger than his by several books. Last year, while at the Halloween Tate’s sale, despite the fact that there were literally dozens of women under the tent going through longboxes and not just buying manga, he turns to me and goes, “I wish I could find a girl who was into comics, like you, except pretty and straight.”
Uh.
I mean, I can kinda see where he’s coming from with the straight part (most of the girl gamers and female comic fans I know in the area are, in fact, lesbians), but what the everloving fuck you do not say that to someone. I don’t think I even said anything back, my memory of the time after the event is strangely gone. Though he did leave the sale with nose-blood on his shirt, so someone punched him. God I hope it was me.
face leave me alone
ectomech asked:
Beast Wars is on Netflix!






