#mini-meta

In the majority of the continuities, any reason Megatron had for starting a million years civil war is lost pretty quickly, and he only ends up caring about power and being feared, even if he tells himself otherwise

You literally CANNOT ignore that when making an analysis, that he started accepting a shit ton of war crimes and shut up about idw autobots, that's like. the only or the most popular continuity where the autobots committed crimes and like. EVEN THEN they pale in comparison with the Decepticon's

And you can't ignore that in the strong majority of continuities where Optimus and Megatron were fighting for the same cause that Optimus is the one that manages to make things better to Cybertron and it's people by working on the inside - something that Megatron does not want to do

Which I think ends up being the crux of the problem with people's interpretations and analysis - the fact that if they DID go further, they would have to acknowledge that Megatron failed (and that in most continuities any excuse of fighting for a cause is just that - an excuse, and most times to hide the fact that Megatron is greedy for power) and that Optimus managed to do what their cause wanted - a better and fairer place and that it would have been easier and with a LOT less problems had Megatron not started the war in the first place simply by working on the inside and getting support and actual power to change things

And that's fine... In fact, I tell people if my taste don't align then you know what to avoid as well. Besides I haven't seen it, so it could be awful (and not in the fun way). But I *think* I know where she's coming from, 🧐or at least how I see it and it's right up my alley. It could be terrible, but even that I can see taking a wide swing in way I like. .....I like the exploitation vibes and I'm prepared for yall to act like some normal range nasty is just unbelievable pearl-clutching/confusing stuff just like yall did for Saltburn, because these are the times we live in. 🙄 That said. Good or bad... this is *absolutely* needed. Some of yall are some squares too concerned by the "correctness" to enjoy book inaccurate horny trash! (affectionate). Anyway, I like the retro pulp exploitation vibe this poster is giving:

I agree! Because that’s what Kakeru needs to understand people, and it sets him up to build other relationships as well. 

Kakeru is kind of self-centered, so he needs people in his life who will tell him when they’re pissed because that’s his cue to start looking at things from a different angle. We see this with Komaki and Yuki, but also Machi. 

Komaki gets upset that Kakeru lashed out at Tohru, Yuki got upset when Kakeru started making assumptions, and Machi gets upset when Kakeru asks if it’s his fault when she trashes the student council room. 

Honestly, it’s a difficult question, because it’s not like we really know all that much about Brainwashing. We know how it works in general (people being affected after responding verbally and doing what Shinsou tells them to as long as it doesn’t require actively thinking/accessing knowledge or memories they have to do it), but not much about how a person affected feels. There’s only two accounts we really get of how it may work.

The first is, of course, Izuku.

He’s under Shinsou’s Brainwashing here, but he’s very obviously thinking clearly. He’s aware of what’s going on and is trying and failing to control his body, although he notes that ‘his head is fuzzy’. However, considering the involvment of OfA’s vestiges shortly thereafter, this seems to be an exception to the rule. Every other person affected didn’t remember what happened during the time they were brainwashed. Izuku does.

The other account we have for certain is Ojirou.

He says after he ‘snapped out of it’, he was ‘suddenly aware of what was happening’. This implies that unlike Izuku, he hasn’t been aware before. He was basically knocked out and his body was a puppet. And that’s how it seems to work in all cases except for Izuku’s, who had the nightmarish version of being aware, but not in control of his body.

Since that is how I interpret the Quirk to work with the current, available information (I don’t seem to recall anything more specific on the subject being given in the joint training arc), this is how I will be portraying this Quirk in any fics I write in which Shinsou might be present. For ‘Trial by Fire’ specifically, I suppose it could be used on Katsuki to forcibly calm him down, since it would immitate him ‘passing out from panic’ without the actual passing out. Question is, how will Shinsou use it on a boy who can’t verbally respond to him? Because thus far?

In the scene with Dean and Pamela she reads his mind in the pause between “How come you always have a boyfriend?” and “How come you always want what you can’t have?”. The first line, “How come you always have a boyfriend” is, in fact, begging for her to say in the long pause “How come you don’t?”. That’s what you’d say, even just for symmetry of dialogue, let alone b/c if you’re ribbing your buddy that’s precisely what you’d say, especially if he was either very straight or very gay. But if you’re a good friend, you wouldn’t say it to someone who hasn’t recognized their sexuality yet. 

Instead, she stares at him and then asks “How come you always want what you can’t have?”, associating it very strongly with the “boyfriend” question and the significant empty space of throwing it back at him. And, yeah, that’s interesting phrasing based on what we know of Pamela and her likeliness to have boyfriends instead of lovers: “Who’s Jesse?” “Well, it wasn’t forever.” So introducing the idea and term “boyfriend” is super deliberate, associating it with what Dean wants but [thinks] he can’t have even more so.

And, finally, using the follow-up dialogue to confirm that it’s not about her (so no room for misinterpretation) and that she knows because she’s psychic. She sees through Dean (just as she saw through Cas when she looked at his true form and went blind) and what she sees is a glimpse of what he wants but can’t have...and it’s not her.