#but he is dead

[transingthoseformers]

Back on this beloved OptiTarn TtSG AU now.

This is a major timeskip with lots of things in between but; eventually the Autobots with Tarn in co-command begin to be much more proactive about hunting Decepticons and what's more, looking to the stars. Optimus and he are firmly on each other's side and have settled into a formal relationship and romantic one at this point having done most of the four acts. 

Tarn has brought Optimus a new interest. The Colonies.

The SG!Decepticons are disturbed and horrified. They cannot let the Autobots destroy more worlds after what has been done to their own. Megatron has been incredibly guilty over the damages done by Tarn and listened to the stories told by Soundwave as a warning to not let himself fall. They all have nightmares about what Tarn, the Prime's Hunting Hound is his nickname now, did that day and continues to do.

Even formally sympathetic populations are falling under the "New Reforms" and an understandable exhaustion from war.

Starscream laughs that he almost could like Tarn for some of those laws they are implementing in his little takeover if it didn't come hand in hand for his philosophy of peace through tyranny and absolute control. 

Soundwave is worried about all of them.

Starscream has been quiet, their Voice not silenced but occasionally whispering with the loss of Thundercracker to one such hunt. He and Megatron have both been focusing on the other but not their own trauma which had made Soundwave sigh in fond worry. They'd propped each other up though and Starscream had accepted the young Nova Storm, newly alone herself, into his and Skywarp’s Trine. 

Skywarp is the worst concern. Flamewar for all her lashing out and screaming is voicing her feelings. Skywarp has gone quiet and distant and worrisomely focused on reading every report and studying and picture they get of Tarn.

Even worse are the rumors of the newborns disappearing from hotspots or newly onlined Cold Constructed specially chosen by the Prime and Tarn to form an elite squad. Soundwave suspects he knows exactly who they are and exactly who is missing that Tarn wants to find in the stars and in the places they search. 

He evacuated Forestock as soon as he made the connection to the small bot in between the Prime and Tarn in the official photos as "Kaon". He cannot let Tarn get a hold of more people, innocent people, to replay Tarn's own traumas on and mold them like he was.

Any Decepticon he knows Tarn had a special connection to is sent as far away and as securely hidden as Soundwave can make them. He only wishes his spy would leave as well or he could hide away Megatron, perhaps one of the biggest targets.

Soundwave though protects those he can and Lockdown is always willing to help smuggle high value targets off planets to what small havens Soundwave is forming. His goal is to keep escape routes and one day evacuation routes for their entire faction to flee, but he won't leave, none of them will, while there is still hope.

Something Tarn is helping the Prime surgically crush and the Waves blame themselves for entirely.

Soundwave is the one who realizes that something is going give when Shockwave, loud bright and so hopeful, proposes a weapon. They are all shocked and Megatron says, very quietly, "You are not a weapons designer." Shockwave says he is now and they are all concerned and reports come in and after hearing the casualties and atrocities Megatron with a heavy heart agrees they have to attack first and stop this escalation and destroy the space bridge no matter the cost.

He accepts the fusion cannon that Shockwave has presented him with and requests an upgrade.

Ohhh the poor sg Decepticons.

WaitNoNotTheColonies

Yeahhh they're terrified of him. He's capable of such horrific stuff.

Ohh... the cons are taking this hard

.mmnn fuck the kidnapping of well kids.

Good plan Soundwave good plan

And this is how the fusion cannon enters the picture, along with the plan to destroy the spacebridge

#maccadam #transformers #[walking through shards of glass] #opitarn au #sg Optimus prime #mtmte tarn #kaon #sg forestock #sg Megatron #sg soundwave #sg shockwave #sg starscream #sg skywarp #sg nova storm #sg Thundercracker #but he is dead #sg lockdown #Prime's hound indeed

[gaysonlyocean]

thats it im gonna call mervin marshall for emotional damage

GOOD LUCK HES DEAD IN THE TLOU AU ;PKIJUHGRDERFTGYHKO

#KJHGFDSDFGHJKLKJHGF #thank you #tmc tlou au #he is not included in the death count #cause his death isnt even mentioned #but he is dead

[changeling-rin]

(Hello Anon on Gramps potentially being Lore) Imagine if all the Links fail to defeat Demise then Gramps and the Hero's Shade step out and chalenge him. P.S. who would win Amped Demise of the HS and Gramps (My money is in the old dudes as the HS could tank while Gramps shoots him from afar.) P.S.S. Prime Lore and Mask (Probably HS) vs the other Links (minus Oni)

That would be epic, though probably not what I will actually be doing. It's fun to think about though!

P.S. still Amped-Up Demise, sorry. Regardless of how good the Hero's Shade and an even-more-experienced Lore would be, let's first remember that the Shade is dead and Lore is like... probably in his seventies somewhere. The first problem is that ghosts have a hard time touching things. The second problem is that people in their seventies are rarely up for a fight, much less a life-or-death combat war. And the third problem is that Demise is still actively packing the additional strength of thirteen more people, their magic reserves, their skills and life experiences, and their powers. Stack that with his own, already frightening powers, and his absolute willingness to kill something to get his way, and... yeah. Demise still wins.

P.P.S. To clarify we are still talking about Gramps Lore and the Hero's Shade here, yes? Versus the Chain, minus Oni. Well, it would be a closer fight, but the Chain would probably win eventually on the sheer basis of outnumbering by about ten to one. Plus, they've got Shadow. Kindly imagine a pissed-off Shadow. There will be carnage.

#Changeling Answers #DL Questions #Anonymous Replies #Hello Anon! #I love your enthusiasm for the Hero's Shade and I feel kinda sorry that I opted not to use him #but he IS dead #and that understandably causes some problems for when he wants to. like. pick up a stick or something. #also to clarify the TP gameplay we literally only interact with him inside a dream hallucination so like. make of that what you will

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[ciderbird]

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

#historians are out there beefing with ppl who died over 200 years ago. good for them #history #history memes #this isn’t really about anyone in particular #but I did read the most hilariously bitter takes on alexander I #not that it’s hard to poke fun at his vanity and indicisive nature but like. he was just a poor little meow meow #although I have some weird grudges against dead ppl as well *cough* Catherine II *cough*

[chloesimaginationthings]

Pomni and Gummigoo reunite in TADC!

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #tadc #tadc pomni #gummigoo #pomni #digital circus #the amazing digital circus #tadc spoilers #tadc fanart #I would like to formally apologize to Pomni #I actually don’t think Gummigoo is dead #especially with Ragatha mentioned Caine reuses NPCs #but I also don’t think it’s the same Gummigoo or he doesn’t remember her #so gonna be so sad if they do meet again and Gummigoo just doesn’t recognize Pomni #Been awhile since I’ve done angst but I saw this comic so clearly I HAD to draw it #sorry to TADC fans 🩵 #IDK if I’ll do mor stand alone TADC content but we’ll see 🙏🏾 #my poor little heart won’t be able to take it if this happens BAHA

[dystopiansocietystraw]

when i tell you i had an aneurysm

#rdr2 #red dead redemption community #red dead redemption 2 #spider georg #this is where he lives!!!!

[oaxleaf]

love myself a cockroach of a character. i look at them and go ”how is that fucker not dead? they should be dead. they should be dead ten times over. how are they not?” and 90% of the time the answer is a combo of sheer stubborness and homosexuality

#arthur lester #he’s about 15% scar tissue by now i can’t not include him #also: #izzy hands #i know he’s dead and buried now #but i haven’t watched ep 8 yet and anyways he still had like five fakeouts before that

[hansoeii]

this one's for you, edwin paine

#charles said he misses kissing so I did what had to be done #these two won't leave my brain #which is bad cos I REALLY need to focus on my final #but oh well #what can I do #dead boy detectives #DBD #dead boy detectives fanart #painland fanart #chedwin #chedwin fanart #my art #digital art #fanart #my fanart

[ato-dato]

One mans barber can be another mans nemesis.

#my red dead years are coming in handy now #btw #aziraphale was about to tell a story about how he was mugged at gunpoint #before he was so rudely interrupted #i kinda missed drawing cowboys idkkk #anyway #good omens #good omens comic #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #aziracrow #ineffable partners #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #crowley #anthony crowley #ineffable cowboys #cowboy au #cowboy Crowley #1880s fashion #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing #comic #fan comic

[chattematsu]

idc about stellaron hunters *keeps drawing them*

#honkai star rail #hsr #honkai star rail fanart #stellaron hunters #kafka hsr #kafka honkai star rail #firefly hsr #blade hsr #elio hsr #Blade looks pretty dead ig he would glad

[gvalesdraws]

scribble from my playthrough. there is definitely a statue of astarion somewhere in baldurs gate because we wouldn't survive without him

#like. he managed to win at least 4 difficult fights by himself by stealthing + attacking from the dark while everyone else was lying dead #art #my art #baldurs gate #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3 #bg fanart #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 astarion #astarion #baldurs gate shitpost

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

#flaco #tw animal death #tw animal sickness #better dead than fed is a horrific mindset #zoo animal welfare #screenshot feat the WCS's inability to remember to remove their editorial template from highly sensitive press releases round 2 #colored text #people who loved the ideal of him more than the reality of him #congrats #you killed this owl #I'm still so mad that people who wanted him to stay loose got all sorts of media attention for the elegies they wrote when he died

[parkore]

made a guy btw

#comes back from the dead a lil evil but he still has sm love in his heart so its okay #dnd #my art

[calypso-mbk]

I didn't believe it at first but after watching the show, Dead Boy Detectives was so obviously crafted to be catnip for the Tumblr girlies(gn), cause like. Homoerotic ghost detectives. Sassy psychics. Weird girls. Witches. A literal cat king. Sad twink that's actually a crow. Hot goth lesbian butchers. Slowburn ft. immortal beings. Gay confessions in hell. This show was crafted in a lab for us, and I LOVE IT. Go watch it if you haven't already.

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #charles rowland #crystal palace #niko sasaki #jenny the butcher #the cat king #monty #esther finch #i could write an essay on edwin he's just so PERFECT

[eternallovers65]

Ngl if I had a child with Poseidon, the God of the Seas, and had to pay swimming lessons for my son because he was scared of water, I'd be cursing Poseidon forever like you don't show up, don't pay child support and now you can't even help your actual ocean spawn to swin????

#like my girl sally a saint because you could see she wanted to tell him so bad he would be okay because hes poseidon son #dead beat dad indeed omd #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson #poseidon