I Want Them To Make Out Passionately And Go On Steampunky, Pulpy, Swashbuckling Escapades

I want them to make out passionately and go on steampunky, pulpy, swashbuckling escapades

I which I could stop caring what other people think and be confident in my opinion and just take the chip off my shoulder

But I fear I’m just gotta get trampled, kicked, beaten and spat on again

It feels like it’s better to be a pile of broken glass that broke from fragility than toughen up because it feels like you’re toughening up into a punching bag for everyone to abuse

Tragedy was meant to humble us and have compassion for the unfortunate

Not make us feel like holier-than-thou martyrs and prophets while putting down everyone else as peon reprobates

Liking tragic things doesn’t magically make you morally and intellectually superior to others, nor do you get to shove everyone who disagree with you into approved alternatives because you think that’s the end-all-be-all.

If you gotta get nasty, passive aggressive, and condescending to those who didn’t like it and judge, shame, and gaslight them, that says more about you as a person than it does about those who disagree with you.

And it makes people skeptical of your reasoning for liking tragedy.

Thanks to @zimgrizz I can’t help but feel Alice and P are just passionate lovers in private

Sure Alice is more low key compared her affectionate steampunk cyborg boyfriend in public, but as Alice and P/Carlo or who I call “Pietro” gain a better understanding of love, P absolutely starts leaving hickeys on Alice’s neck

And of course Lorenzini has to be a dick and teases about it when he notices said hickeys on Alice’s neck

TF One Worldbuilding Bits That Make Me Lose My Mind

The constant "Transforming" of the very planet itself, and the Cybertronians' culture somewhat revolving around having to work with their topography constantly changing and moving.

The premise that the energon of Cybertron does not flow if the "true ruler" is not present.

"He who so findeth this Matrix of Leadership is rightwise king, born of Cybertron..." Optimus is literally King Arthur, and Alpha Trion is Merlin

What little we see of the "Organic" aspect of the planet- the "Deer," the grass, the moss, the evidence that not all of Cybertron is just shiny metal.

The evidence of the ruined buildings up on the surface, indicating that life up on the surface and solid, permanent structures were once possible and they're not doomed to live underground.

The fact that the buildings of Iacon seem almost like upside-down skyscrapers hanging from the ceiling, which indicates either they were built this way, like stalactites of a cave, or perhaps were topside at one time and then the planet folded the entire city into its underground to hide it from danger.

Roads and tracks that form in front of the transports and fade out behind them rather than being present all the time so the air is open for flight-capable bots, which seem to be in abundance.

The height difference between the cog-less bots and those with cogs- it's like Sentinel trapped them in prepubescence and wouldn't let them get their high-school growth spurts.

The Art-Deco inspired designs of Iacon