Priorities?

okay… I’ll just make a new post with the update, since the animation is not working properly and I don’t wanna risk of accidentally deleting the old blog. (why is Tumblr so hard to use) All right so this is Brad from Lisa the Painful game. Suggested by @witch-gamer Feel free to suggest too of any indie close-eyed character you want, MAYBE I can add them in the group!

How would Prowl respond to people arguing that if the fellowship took the Eagles, then they could risk losing the ring in enemy territory. Since Gandalf wasn’t at 100% power while he was still Grey and the Eagles could’ve died fighting the Fellbeasts & other forces of Mordor while protecting the people on their backs. 

It’s been a while since I saw the movies, so feel free to correct me if I’m missing anything from the source.

For the ties that bind au characters, what are their specific least favorite things about the hobbit and lord of the rings movies?

Jazz will die on the hill of 'Tom Bombadil Was Good Actually and should have been included' because y'all don't fucking know how to have fun.

Prowl is definitely that one guy who would ask "Why didn't they just take the Eagles to Mordor it doesn't make sense".

Mirage thinks Glorfindel got the bad end of the stick in this series.

Megatron will write a full thesis about how the Stewards of Gondor had almost all their complexity thrown out of the window for cheap movie villain tropes and how Far-from-the-book-amir pretty much took away the author's personal voice.

Rung wants to know why you would do the Ents dirty like this.

picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

Btw Israel let Palestinians celebrate not one (1) holiday in peace. They didn’t grant Christian Palestinians access to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they actively attacked families who were already starving at Iftar during Ramadan, and now there are several reports of families being killed on Eid al-Fitr—a sacred multi-day holiday practiced by lots of Arabs. It breaks my heart imagining the Palestinian families in Gaza right now, most of whom are spending Eid mourning loved ones who were taken by Israeli strikes. Most of us will never understand the sheer magnitude of that pain.

yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.

‘Cause  I’m no prophet or Messiah You should go looking somewhere higher

Figured I’d draw Omar Parvez/Optimus Prime with the Matrix since I’ve never detailed him with it, but TLDR, it’s very Iron Man!

Notes of interest:

- He doesn’t actually know how he got this weird urban legend arc reactor which seems to respond to his thoughts and emotions, just that he thought Sentinel Prime had killed him by shooting him in the chest and flinging him off a cliff, and then oops he’s actually alive and everything hurts and there’s this brand new addition.

- He doesn’t like being called ‘Prime’. At all. He’ll reluctantly accept it from outsiders/casual acquaintances who are genuinely using the title as a term of respect for him, but within his inner circle, he prefers to be called by his given name only. That the title was not levied on him willingly is part of the reason; Sentinel Prime took on the title of the 13 Quintesson war heroes as his own when he was becoming increasingly dictatorial, and an irate Alpha Trion who he took as a captive for information, blurted out that his protege (Optimus when Optimus was a cop) is more of a Prime than he’d ever be. And it sort of snowballed from there when Optimus was revealed to be one of two heads of the Resistance. Morgan/Megatron found it somewhat amusing but kept to calling Optimus his given name in being the man’s close friend and understanding his discomfort with being placed in that pedestal. Though during the war when he becomes increasingly antagonistic, he does occasionally call Optimus ‘Prime’ in a more taunting manner. 

TFATWS ending

I haven't been able to go onto any Bucky posts because they're usually accompanied by John Walker antis, so I don't know if anyone's actually discussed this. But it doesn't sit right with me that we watch Bucky go through the entire season atoning for his past as the Winter Soldier, only for it to end with him still going by The Winter Soldier. This show really stopped caring about Bucky at the end, and we couldn't even stay for the apology to Mr. Nakajima they've been building up since the first episode. I'm already not too pleased that Falcon is no longer going to be a character, it would have been interesting to explore more into "Captain Falcon" or even retire the shield entirely instead of giving up his original name to an already existing character. Even John Walker gets to be his own character (US Agent). Quick rant: I don't know how people can look at the new Cap and call it representation, we had representation in Falcon. The show wanted to discuss race by having Sam represent a country that supposedly doesn't represent him, and in doing so, ironically rid us of an original black character in favor of a yet another white character (This is an observation on blackwashing, not an anti-white post). And before you say: "Cap is a black character", just remember, under every John Walker hate post, you'll find people quoting "There will never be another Steve Rogers". If you immediately saw John Walker as trying to replace Steve whenever he held that shield, it would be a double standard not to feel the same when Sam holds it. Both wanted to do something good with it, but only one got the chance to be taken seriously

Thoughts and info on TTB!Optimus Prime as I’m putting together the plot in a master copy; 

- Omar Parvez (Optimus Prime/Orion Pax) actually trained under Sedgewick Princeton, Police Commisioner of London, known fondly as ’Ol’ Sentinel’ (due to their decorated service and high number of arrests) and was something of an apprentice to him. The reason Omar was assigned to patrol the Dead End and its surrounding precinct was because two previous Chief Superintendents had resigned from the post due to their inability to turn it around, as well as the stress that took on them, and Sedgewick positioned it as a trial by fire for Omar to prove he had what it took to work directly in Scotland Yard as Deputy Commissioner.

Omar took up the challenge, but quickly realized after the first two weeks of struggling to adapt standard policing tactics to the area that what he learned in the academy wasn’t going to work here, which is when he decided to try and and solve the issue holistically/win the trust of the locals instead of fighting them; He gets Ronan Chase/Ratchet to establish a free clinic, funds a small public library which doubles as a secondary education centre due to school closures in the area (He lives/sleeps in a second floor office here, because trying to do good means actual sacrifices to time and money, and he’s ok with that), oversees the creation of community gardens to support local food banks struggling with food shortage, builds genuine rapport with locals and studies extensively about the housing crisis/liaisons with activists involved with the cause to finds solutions for the issue for the people of his jurisdiction. (A long time ago, he promised a kid—-a young Morgan Trayton/Megatron— on the other side of the fence that he wanted to be a cop to make the world a better place for everyone, and he hasn’t forgotten that kid or that promise)

Now, crime slowly but steadily goes down as kids have safe places to be, people are fed and housing initiatives are put into place, but what he’s doing is seen as out of his scope of duty (You sure you a cop?) and more importantly to the higher ups, he isn’t making the arrest quotas which means private cells aren’t being filled and less bodies are available for prison labour, which Sedgewick isn’t happy about.

“Boy, you know I like you, but the system works for a reason and you work for the system.”

They get into their first argument as mentor-apprentice when Sedgewick lets it slip that while he’s proud of the fact that Omar had managed to ‘tame’ the Dead End to some extent, the whole idea was to drive out/cage the undesirables and THEN develop the place, not fix it first and let undesirables leech off the goods when there’s big buyers out there looking for the first time to invest in property within this shithole.

You turned it around! That’s great! Now get with the rest of the program!

The cracks solidify when Omar shoots back that he was assigned to this district—not a system—-and he’s going to serve this district and its people, all of them regardless of class, until someone can prove wrongdoing on his behalf in any form, and if that means giving up on that promotion to Scotland Yard next to his mentor, so be it. 

Sedgewick can’t find any, Ronan/the local activists serve him a whole helping of loopholes to cover the initiatives they’d put into place, and this is the reason why Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime don’t get along in this universe, and  why Sentinel is all too happy to throw Optimus under the bus when he gains the ire of the Senate and fires him the moment a chance presents itself.

“So much wasted potential.”

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