Sometimes I'm very glad that I deleted Twitter, because TO THIS DAY I've seen people from there hating on Dark Cacao or/and his ships with whomever except PV, branding him as toxic and 😩problematic😩 father.
Now I understand what people mean by saying that media literacy is dead, because they'll be crying to have morally gray characters in CRK but then couldn't handle even obviously good ones like Dark Cacao, who actually IS A GOOD GUY, and his relationships with Choco don't negate this.
And GOD FORBID you show even a mild interest in pairing him with one of the Ancients (except PV) or, gasp, 😱Affogato😱, even though I can bet it was everyone's first thought when he got released and we didn't know anything about the character yet. People be crying for "toxic doomed old man yaoi", but only when it has the room to make it actually not toxic and doomed, because GOD FORBID a problematic scheming bastard does something problematic and betrays everyone's trust, color me shocked. And when they actually have an opportunity to look into one-sided exploitative end-justifying-means relationship they'll eat you alive. I'm not even the biggest fan of this ship, but I had interest in it in 2022 and witnessing the amount of hate on it, I abandoned it on the spot, even though I love character analysis and royal plotting genre (and let's be real, it got so bad not even so much because of the couple of weirdos drawing disturbing stuff about them on Twitter, but because it interfered with fandoms PureCacao fanon. No hate to this ship though, but it is what it is).
Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!
Sire issues my favourite (I love ur art)
issac & ash
I'm about to say something that got me roasted in the Cyrillic part of the transformers fandom but idc anymore I still stand by it, some of you guys are not ready for the conversation that you greatly overestimate the greatness of Tf Prime show because of your childhood memories and the majority of the fandom is absolutely shitty to RiD 2015 for no other reasons than "ew the picture is no longer turned up to contrast/saturation -210, how can I now pretend that I’m watching a serious show in transformers 😔⛓️🥀" and overall look like this:
Fool
My Roman Empire to this day is a video essay by Emperor Kumquat that I saw a long time ago with analysis of the vehicon troopers from TFP and the evidence that they, in fact, are not mindless drones and have a very real spark to lose and a soul of their own.
Now with taking this into account... why are Autobots so apathetic to their deaths? Are they really so numb that massively killing them is like a real life shooter to them? I mean, it's understandable that the indifference on the battlefield may be caused by the severe war trauma (I'm very familiar with it, even though I'm just a civilian), and the Autobots are severely outnumbered, but even then, why are the vehicons so- haha I wanted to say "dehumanised" in their mind, but you got the point.
Maybe we're all wrong and they're not really conscious, but just have an advanced AI instead of the alive mind? How about their sparks then? Their "instinct" of self-preservation? Pain? I don't know.
Maybe at the end of the day, Optimus is the only one true follower of the Autobot dogma, for better or worse.
Upd 09.01.25: yep, I was right
Idk about the stained glass from the treasure gacha, but this thing from the guild museum – isn't this Shadow Milk's portrait?
I don't know about the shapes and all, but he seems to have that braid from the portrait in the silhouette of his past self. Also it says that it's the first headmaster of the Blueberry Yogurt Academy, and since it has so many much of his imagery (the eyes and all), this also might mean that Shadow Milk was the founder of the Academy.
Look I don't mean to pointlessly whine here and I'm prolly gonna delete this when I wake up but man I'm so tired of these explosions every night, like my life cycle is seriously fucked up, I can't go to sleep before the alarm is over so I stay up until morning (it's 5:51 AM in Ukraine now), I don't know, all of my friends are tired too, we don't even have the energy to talk about it anymore even if we're online, it's exhausting
It honestly resembles fnaf at this point HAHAH I KNOW SOUNDS DUMB but every night you walk in your place with a flashlight, monitor approaching missiles online and listen very very closely for the explosions to locate where they are and I can't even quit a week after 💀⚰️💥
I feel so seen
In case you wake up one night and decide to chose violence! Have some blinkies for all of your passive aggressive vampire political needs.
I'm so sorry y'all I'm not even a part of the fandom idk if it's even accurate 😭
I swear it's my last bsd meme