I wasn't wanting to kill people... I was waiting for someone to kill me.

weirdo who is fun to draw

FUYS PELASSEEE IS THERE ANY CONTINUTY WHERE STARSCREAM IS COMPETENT BUT ONLY FALLS SHORT BC OF HIS NERVES/MEGATRON IS JUST BETTER BY A BIT?? AS MUCH AS I LOVE STUPID FLYING RAT MAN I NEEEEEDDDDD TO SEE HIM WIN AT SOME POINT PELASSEE EVEN IF ITS JUST A LITTLE BIT I NEED HIN TO ABSOLUTELY KILL IT BECAUSE LOGCIALLY SPEAKING WHY THDH ELL IS HE SECOND IN COMMAND IF HE SUCKS AT HIS JOB?!(!2@;

UP! and idts LMAO

falls to my knees and wails to the sky

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooOoOoOooO

like even in tfp she kinda girlboss but like one s3 rolls around and dreadwing and megatron did the thing if you know what im talking about he kinda just an ass kissing joke now like UUGGHTOSOVKVKE

This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.

Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.

It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.

As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.

As a librarian, I would also add that even more important than doing your research is understanding how to evaluate and check SOURCES. What terrifies me about the modern age is that many people consider watching YouTube or reading social media posts to be “research.” To them it is as good as reading peer-reviewed articles from trusted journals and publications. In reality, never trust someone who says they have done the research for you, especially if they are dodgy about listing sources by name. Fact-check everything, including the source of a fact. Never believe anything you hear on the internet unless it can be independently verified. Resources like Snopes and NewsGuard can help you check the veracity of reports and media sources. Other free options, like a library card, can give you access to hundreds of databases and trusted peer-reviewed journals if you ever want to fact-check something manually. Either way: there is no shortage of options out there for how to do your own homework. Laziness is no excuse for ignorance.