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I-been-working-on-this-case-for-76-hours-straight-Batman: *sigh* what did you do

(Phone rings at 2am)

Dick: (Tired, just woken up) Hello?

King Shark: Bird boy! HELP ME! I did a thing and now the Bat is upset with me!

Dick: How did you even get my number?

King Shark: Come on, I need help here! This is an emergency!

Dick: What’s going on?

King Shark: He’s being sadistic and cruel!

Dick: Batman is? How? Is he mad?

King Shark: No! He’s all “disappointed” in me now!

Dick: ...

King Shark: What do I do? This has never happened to me before! How do I fix this?

Dick: Look, it's 2 in the morning. I'm tired. I have an early day tomorrow. Unless you have some coffee for me, I'm not nearly awake to have this conversation. (Hangs up and goes back to sleep) 

(Thirty minutes later, his doorbell rings)

Dick: (Tired, answers door)

King Shark: (Holding coffee)

Dick: (Eyes coffee)

Dick: (Eyes King Shark)

Dick: (Reconsiders life choices)

incoming wall of text but HEY LOOK IT’S THAT KICKSTARTER I MEAN TO RUN IN FEBRUARY BUT THIS ENTIRE YEAR HAS BEEN A RIDE HAHAHA *cough*

HERE’S THE LINK TO THE KICKSTARTER PAGE 

-but! in case you don’t want to be bothered going there for the pitch here’s the gist: I made a fairytale story, and lots of people wanted it to be a book, so we’re gonna try to make it into a book! There’s also lots of really nice rewards like seriously they’re really shiny and I love them?? You can read the entire story here for free to see if you like it! As a taster it contains but is not limited to-

Pretty Pastel Pink City

Princess Who can Kick your Ass and Will

Adorable Silent Movie Comedian-type Jester Nerd

MUTUAL. PINING. and rhymes. lots of rhymes. also a baby dragon.

If that’s not enough for you THERE IS ALSO LIKE A WHOLE PLOT WHERE SNEAKY SNOBBY HIGH-UPS IN THE CASTLE TRY TO LIKE, MURDER THE JESTER AND IT GETS KIND OF INTENSE NGL like make up your own mind about it by going to read it. Go on. Read my dorky love story it’s completely free and will take like 10 minutes tops and like maybe you’ll??? Enjoy it? It’s effectively an AU of the two characters from this animation I made a while back, which oh hey look you can watch that for free too at the bottom of this post.

I have also made a lot of Fan Comics on here which you might recognise, and I make The Property of Hate! The only stretch goal is to REPRINT VOLUME ONE AND TWO of TPoH which is currently completely sold out, so if you like any of the stuff I’ve done I’d be HUGELY grateful if you could support this project and/or share it with people! Thank you! :D

they put the mask on my face and the nurse said ‘no jesus treatment today’

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beam

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express friendliness

express tenderness

look amused

look delighted

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touch

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rub

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wheeze

catch one’s breath

fight for breath

frowned

glare

glower

grimace

pout

gloom

lower

sulk

cloud up

do a slow burn

give a dirty look

give the evil eye

knit brows

look black

look daggers

look stern

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development

evolution

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migration

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progress

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i felt like there wasn’t enough polyam trio art memes so i decided to make my own <3 self indulgence be damned

❤️💛💙

beans: remastered

context:

deadlock: >:D

ratchet: :///T

A Halloween themed TFA sticker sheet I made for my Etsy shop!! I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. 👻🎃

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

Just in case a non-cybertronian stumbles across my journal I thought it would be best to write down a few definitions.

-Gluph

Time

Klick- second

Breem- about a minute

Joor- about an hour, more or less

Orn- 'day', thirty-five hours

Deca-orn- 'week', ten orns

Mega-orn- 'month', three deca-orns, thirty orns

Cycle- 'year', ten mega-orns

Deca-cycle- 'decade', ten cycles

Mega-cycle- thirty cycles

Vorn- 83 years

Basic Anatomy

Frame-body

Helm- head

Chassis- chest and/or torso

Servo-hand

Ped- foot

Intake- mouth

Derma- lips

Denta- teeth

Glossa- tongue

Optics- eyes

Audios- ears

Vents- 'lungs', works more like fish gills, taking air in the intake and pushing it out through the vents

Aft- rear end

Armor- interchangeable protective outer layer

Proto-form- functionally skin

Endo-frame- functionally skeleton

Bio-ligjts- lights that naturally cover cybertronian frames

Doorwings/Sensory Panels- A trait exclusively on Praxians and those of mixed Praxian heritage *helps with 'seeing' in the dark

Chevron- same from above,,except the chevron is on the helm

Wings- exclusively on Vosinites, they can fly.

Strut- functionally cybertronian muscles

Support- functionally bones

Spark- heart and/or soul

Processor- brain/ mind

Fuel-line- functionally veins

Tank- functionally gut

EXTRAS*

Interface- not sexual, but is alot of times as a slang word for it. An interface is just a connection.

To purge and/or Purging- vomiting

Overcharged- drunk and/or high

Rotary pack- a mod that mech with a copter alt-mode have

Rootmode- bipedal

Altmode- vehicle

Social Titles

Mecha- person

Femme- 'female'

Mech- 'male'

Femmeling- young 'female'

Mechling- young 'male'

New-spark- unborn child

Newling- newborn

Sparkling- Baby to Toddler

Youngling- Child to Preteen

New-build- Teenager to young adult

Caste/Class- what rank a mecha holds

Frame-type- race ex. Polyhexan, Praxian, Kaonite, ect.

Frame-model- wether mech or femme

Alt-type- what you turn into

Monoformer- has no alt-mode, how all cybertronians used to be

Triple-changer- has two alt-modes plus root mode

Outlier- has special ability; superpowers

Enforcer- cop

Family Titles

Sire- the mecha who sires offspring

Carrier- the mecha who carries offspring

Creator- Parent

Creation- offspring

Spark-sibling- related brother or sister

Bond-sibling- unrelated mecha that forged a sibling bond

Amica Endura- long-term best friend

Conjunx Endura- un-bonded mate

Bond/Spark-mate- Bonded mate, this bond is unbreakable unto death, it is torture to outlive a Spark-mate and rarely happens

Spark-twins- or Spark split twins, spark splits at birth creating two newsparks that share a single spark. Impossible for spark-twins to outlive each other.

Slang and Cuss Words

Pleasurebot- prostitute

Buy-a-mech- slang for prostitute

Empty- Homeless bot, usually starving enough to revert to base instincts

Grounder- slang for any non-avian mecha

Kanny- racial slur for Kaonites

Preda- demeaning nickname for Teraxians (beast modes)

Poly or Hexi- Racial slur for Polyhexans

Praxi- Racial slur for Praxians

Con- slang for Decepticons

Bot- slang for Autobot

Drone- equal to calling someone sparkless

Tower-trash- a slur used by low caste mecha in reference to high caste mecha

Gutter-mech- racial slur to any lower caste mecha

Pit-spawn- equivalent to 'demon-spawn' or 'spawn of the devil'

Malfunction- equivalent to idiot or moron

Frag- relatable to the human word F***

Slag- relatable to the human word D** and Sh**

Scrap- relatable to the human word crap and/or Sh**

Glitch- rhymes with...

Spawn of a Glitch- see above

Probably more...

Rank and Caste System

Prime- leader of all of Cybertron

Prime's Consort- mated with the Prime, same power, more or less

Lord Protector- head of Primal Vanguard

Senate- board of Primes lackeys advisors

Primal Vanguard- the Prime's Elite guard, has the same power the Elite class do

Elite- Richest and most powerful next to the Senate and Prime

High Noble- Rich and Famous, has enough money to blow it

Low Noble- Moderately rich or famous, worries about money more

Middle Class- Makes enough to support self and put money away to save

Low Class- Makes only enough to support self

Working Class- just getting by

Classless- making no legal money

Energon

High-grade- highly distilled and very potent, will get you over-charged. Expensive

Mid-grade- military/survival ration

Low-grade/Processed- directly from a mecha's fuel lines

Medical-grade- full of minerals and additives,bitter

Engex-Moonshine and Beer

as proved by the fact that when you say explorer, you think of a bunch of white guys walking the world and discovering it ~exotic wonders~ even though Zheng He travelled through Asia, to the Middle East, and even East Africa. But you’d likely never heard of him before.

Same reason you never heard of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveller who, as early as the 10th century, went to the Volga area for diplomatic reasons. He wrote about it, much as Marco Polo would do later for his own travels, and is one of our sources on what viking were like (and by all accounts, he wrote about them more accurately than western scholars of the same period did)

Oh, or Ibn Battuta who travelled throughout Africa long before europeans did, and even went to Europe himself.

And that’s just some example of Muslim medieval travel writers

I made a post the other day (link) on how John Boyega deserved better, but I don’t think people are aware of just how dirty he was done actually playing Finn in Star Wars. As the first Black protagonist in a franchise that has been dominated by white characters, this meant a lot to many people. There was a reason you saw pictures like this:

You see, when people talk about represenation in Star Wars, for some reason-

They usually leave off John Boyega’s Finn unless they’re just half handily throwing him in there, but this character meant something to a lot of people. It still does. 

I want to make this clear, these movies while being enjoyed by generations of fans, myself included who had been introduced to Star Wars as a youngling by my pops, are for kids. Not because they’re dumb, not because they’re childish, but because kids are supposed to see themselves in these characters and have a story that can stick with them for years.

We’ve heard for years how much Rey meant to little girls, but what could Black kids, Black people look to? A character that somehow even transcended race to the point that it didn’t matter if you were Black or not? Well, that’s where Finn came in:

Let’s just jump into it, the sequel trilogy ended divisively. We had a handful people fighting over what the story should be, who should be related to who, and who should end up with who, but if there has been one shining example of the most original and heartfelt character in a trilogy that if we’re being honest, ended up just copying and pasting aspects of the original trilogy into its story, it was John Boyega’s Finn.

Rey became a Luke stand-in

Kylo a diet Vader/Anakin 

And for some reason the universe just wanted Poe to be like Han

Yet Finn was something we’ve never seen before in the films. A stormtrooper with a heart who chose to betray his masters because he didn’t want to become a senseless murder. 

And I can label criticism against The Force Awakens where it deserves, but at the end of the day people walked away from that at least having a hero to look to in both Rey and Finn. Everyone had some to look to.

Then we get The Last Jedi and I’m not gonna spend too much time on that movie. If you loved it, good for you, but it 100% sidelined Finn, erased his arc from TFA, and as a film, took away people had in The Force Awakens by re-contextualizing that story as “Finn just being selfish” when it was anything but that.

Even John Boyega had disagreed with it:

But things didn’t get better after The Last Jedi, if anything, things got worse with how bad Finn was treated:

The EU, which is basically comics, books, etc, went out of its way to erase Finn’s status as one of the best Cadets and even an important character in Star Wars by taking every chance they had to either sideline him by leaving him out of books, comics, promotional material, making him small in promotional material or just disrespected him around every turn.

And then, just when both John Boyega and fans of the character Finn, a good deal of the people of color, had hope that the Rise of Skywalker would finally deliver and do right by this hero many looked it, it all went to hell with multiple re-writes, re-shoots, and people behind the scenes fighting tooth and nail.

Now, if you interested to actually know what went wrong on a deeper level with Finn’s role in The Rise of Skywalker and the trilogy, I made this video actually deep diving into that mess: 

But even then, I don’t think people realize just how much this character getting done as bad as he did hurt others. 

We have people in one breath saying “Black Lives Matter” then in the other breath cursing John Boyega’s name for believing that he was done dirty, cursing the very idea of his character being important in Star Wars because either they didn’t want to see a Black man as a protagonist in the story or they didn’t want him getting in the way of how they felt the story should be.

And the horrible part is, a good deal of Finn’s treatment was brought on because of this fandom’s reaction to the character. That’s not to say Lucasfilm didn’t encourage this behavior, they 100% did, but no one fought against it.

Every attempt at Where Is Finn always faded away with a whisper. 

Any talks of how John Boyega or Finn Deserved Better would always get brushed aside. 

You mention Kelly Marie Tran deserving better and everyone agrees. You mention Rose needing more Screen time and everyone agrees. 

You say Oscar Isaac fought against Disney and everyone praises him and says Poe deserved better.

And of course, Daisy Ridley’s Rey will always be in the conversation of deserving better.

And YES, these actors did deserve better, their characters deserved better, all of them did. Driver, Gleeson, Christie, Hamil, Fisher, Williams, Ackie, all of them!

But when the conversation comes to John Boyega’s Finn, it always dies there.

I don’t know if anyone still cares. I don’t. But, even if I’m the only one that actually does still care about John Boyega’s Finn and how he deserved better, I’ll keep saying it every chance I get

Because as much as people don’t think so, how we treat ficitonal Black Characters and the Black actors who portral effects how people see Black people IRL.

Because as much as people don’t think so, how we treat fictional Black Characters and the Black actors who portray affects how people see Black people IRL.

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