Kae

secured the FUCKING bag today, i was on such a high (until things went to shit at work but yall don’t wanna hear abt that lmao)

THEY ACTUALLY HAD THIS AT TARGET TODAY AND I IMMEDIATELY SNATCHED IT UP. i love them so much it’s not even funny oh my god i love transformers 🥰

honestly so glad i got this bc i really needed to feel better after work today it went to shit so quick and i feel so much better now after taking them out

my blaster is a lot easier to transform but he’s a simpler designed toy (same with his cassettes) but honestly soundwave is easier to transform compared to a lot of my others. saw ss thundercracker at the other target i go to but didn’t get him bc i already have a different figure of him and i don’t collect multiples of my nonfaves unless i think it’s worth it

shou naruse is an actually likable male lead, and while he’s pushy towards yuki and forcefully pushes her boundaries at times, at least he’s not treating her like a slave or a pet, as kurosaki does multiple times. yu seems practically stockholm syndrome’d into liking kurosaki, and i’m only on volume 2 i think, but i don’t like either of the love interests at all. kurosaki straight up assaults and manhandles yu on multiple occasions, and i already know shirakawa is just flirting with her to get at his friend for interacting with her at all, and yu has no backbone and is repeatedly calling them by their titles instead of their actual fucking names

i don’t like hating on heroine characters until i actually learn more about them, but i legit know next to nothing about yu. in “cheeky brat” we’re shown how yuki is a private person and why she is the way she is, especially towards naruse, and why she actually does allow him to break down her walls piece by piece. while we’re told that yu was a very different person in junior high and she forced herself to change because she didn’t want to be seen as she was before, i don’t really root for her in any respect aside from getting the hell away from both of the love interests. yuki is a much more compelling character, and i actually want for her and naruse to get together

now i’ve seen the rodimus model at hobby lobby before but it’s like $68 so i never got it until the other day cuz i had gift cards with me, and i found the bombshell and ramhorn at another walmart that i’ve never actually been in before but was surprisingly stacked! they had a ss nemesis prime, tfone bumblebee, micronus prime, and a couple others that i don’t usually see at my other walmart

was there for a completely different reason, randomly decided to check out the toy aisle just cause, and lo and behold i found the coolest thing ever

i almost didn’t get it but i gave in bc ive NEVER seen blaster or soundwave in stores and i couldn’t pass it up. also, they were $17 compared to what i think was originally like $32 so an absolute steal if you ask me

they’re so fucking cute! so fucking cool! if you look closely you can see steeljaw in cassette mode in blaster’s chest, and the far left button actually “ejects” him if i press on it (it actually just opens the compartment but still cool as fuck)!!! really easy to transform compared to most figures, a little stiff but still really really cool and i think they’re now one of my favorite figures to have in my mini collection

not for any particular reason but honestly i just wish he was in more media. especially with sides, bc you can’t have one twin without the other. it doesn’t make sense

like i get he’s been phased out mostly because hasbro doesn’t want people getting confused over him and bumblebee but there’s plenty of ways to get around that like

1) make bb a beetle again instead of a sports car. i get they’re cooler and “boys like them better” but personally i would love for bb to no longer be a camaro no matter how iconic it is (i still call every yellow camaro i see “bumblebee” so)

2) make bb a more muted yellow and have ss be a vibrant, almost gaudy yellow. his name is literally SUNSTREAKER and he’s a vain pain in the ass, so it wouldn’t be that hard to differentiate the two

3) dial up the gaudiness of sunstreaker’s car mode and make him bigger than bb in root form. sunny is a lamborghini, and if they keep bb as a camaro then just emphasize the difference between their personalities with their designs themselves and show that ss really cares about his appearance while bee doesn’t. it shouldn’t be that hard

4) take bumblebee out of the thing entirely. now i love baby bumble as much as the next person, don’t get me wrong, but if there’s THAT much concern from the toy company abt being able to differentiate between the two, then swap bb out for awhile. let him rest, he’s been in literally everything since the ‘07 movie decided to make him the main

allison didn’t piss me off until she deliberately decided to hunt down erica and boyd literally just to torture them and then attacking isaac in the final fight, as i genuinely don’t blame her for being so easily manipulated by her grandfather. she was obviously grieving, and gerard took advantage of that by making her feel powerful and strong, as we saw in the first season was what convinced kate to let her in on everything. allison wanted to feel safe, to feel powerful, and because of how much allison was like kate gerard wormed his way into her head to use her

other than that, she didn’t piss me off like the rest of her family did. like genuinely, why did these people get off so much on threatening to kill and hurt literal teenagers? derek i get for the most part, even though they all brushed over the fact kate literally burned his family alive and sexually abused him and they acted as if she was wrongfully killed and her killer wasn’t already dead, but seriously??? where do they get off acting like this? gerard and victoria literally infiltrated the school just to threaten scott and keep him and allison apart, which was an insane way to do so. and yeah, chris goes on and on about the code but if he truly cared that much about it, he wouldn’t have treated scott the way he did and not used his critical thinking skills when thinking about the kate and derek situation

also they like took over derek’s family home that kate burnt to the ground??? wtf was up with that? was it to make sure they could catch him if he was stupid enough to keep hanging around there? because if not that was really really fucked up of them considering the fact that kate burnt his family alive in that house

jackson and lydia were honestly the most tragic part about this season (not including my beloved boy isaac but we all know he takes the cake when it comes to traumatic shit like that) and i felt so bad for the two of them throughout it all. jackson was an absolute dickwad at times because that was obviously his coping/defense mechanism for everything and i hated the way he treated lydia but i felt for him the whole time. he always had her in his corner but because she was clueless the whole time and being haunted by peter’s psychotic ass trying to return from the grave he had basically no one vouching for him. the scene where he overheard scott, stiles and allison talking about him was so heartbreaking, and it made me love him and scott so much as characters because of it