Molly Encrypted

Fell down a fanfic rabbit hole that led me to the realisation that a human Bugs Bunny would probably just look like Hawkeye Pierce.

I've been watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory out of a combination of nostalgia and it-happens-to-be-on, and this show would be so good if it was good.

Happy birthday to Star Trek, as it happens I have a very obvious reason I'm glad that universe exists; without it, at the very least, one of my novels would have a very different title. Even without that connection, however, this universe has given me a lot of joy. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!

I bring a kind of 'the relationship dynamic between Christine Daae and the Phantom is actually more tragic and compelling if it's NOT romantic' vibe to the function that Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't really like.

Remember when BBC Sherlock was a weird outlier people laughed at because it had ridiculously short seasons with overly long hiatuses in between? Who exactly decided that all live action series should be like that?

Has there ever been a *bad* version of Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat or does it just fuck by default?

Something that is giving me absurd amounts of dopamine right now is assigning Disney 'I Want' songs to my wretched little Fallen London/Mask Of The Rose OC. She is a Lovecraft narrator firmly convinced she's in a sweeping fairytale romance-slash-adventure and making all her decisions accordingly.

The only thing worse than writing short stories in Fallen London is writing them in real life.

New cryptid: the kids in the Childrensalon ads on YouTube. They're like the benevolent version of Black Eyed Kids to me. Too neat. Too placid. Not hostile or dangerous, but *uncanny*.

If your Phantom of the Opera adaptation doesn't acknowledge that one of the book's major characters is an Iranian immigrant you are weak and will not survive the winter.

The real horror of rulespasta isn't the things the rules exist to protect you from, or the consequences of breaking them. It's the looming spectre of industry deregulation insisting that the rules aren't necessary.

Ah, Springwatch: the time of year when I have to keep it straight in my head that the house martin and pine marten are two completely separate and unrelated types of creature.

Wishbone was so based for giving Erik & Christine a happy ending that *isn't* 'actually she was in love with him the whole time' but instead 'they agree to stay friends even after everything; just because she's marrying someone else doesn't mean he'll lose her companionship forever'.

"Two replies. At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within my obscure Bluesky post?" "Yes." "May I see them?" "No."

It's always 'did Christine betray Erik by not staying with him?' and never 'did Erik betray Christine first by hijacking the memory of her dad and pretending to be an angel sent to be her friend and mentor whilst spying on her, killing her coworkers, and trying to threaten her into marrying him?'

The problem with Phantom of the Opera adaptations is that everyone wants the Christine-Erik dynamic to be some kind of sexy forbidden romance when really it's just a goth version of that one Lilo & Stitch meme.

Would making a dig at Timothée Chalamet in my Phantom of the Opera modern AU be funny or has the moment passed

There's something very funny about hearing Optimus referred to as the Last of the Primes, because all I can think of is Rodimus and Primal standing off to the side like 'and what are we, chopped liver?'

I feel like if GunnTech were a real show and not an edgy YA reimagining of a cute preschool cartoon the Lunakko/Lunalette shipping discourse would be a nightmare.

Transformers is an isekai because a character (Megatron) goes to another world (Earth) after being hit by a truck (Optimus).

I am convinced that the Liegian Darts are a Norse Mythology reference and I will not be told otherwise.

People don't talk about the fact that Temperance 'Bones' Brennan's great-niece is canonically a werewolf enough.

Does anyone else ever mourn for the bomb-ass fembots we could have had on shelves if we'd spent forty years iterating on Prototype Arcee instead of ten years iterating on Thrilling 30?

New conspiracy theory: the reason YouTube has started showing adverts telling you to watch YouTube on your TV is because the TV app has twice as many ads. Source: sweet Primus there are so many ads on the YouTube TV app.

She can do it with a broken heart but can she do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke?

"We can't give Arcee any vehicle parts on her legs or arms because she needs to be ✨feminine✨" - overdone, gross, skill issue "We're giving Arcee a meteor hammer and too many jutting edges on her limbs would interfere with her moves" - inspired, visually interesting, tell me more

...is Longtooth the Autobot Pretender technically a selkie?

I think it's really quite odd that the Rescue Bots lineup doesn't have a lifeboat 'former. Their home base has a coastline!

Why does my dog have opinions about the Kennedy assassination

Concept: MegaRod but specifically in the Worf/Ezri way.

If I had a nickel for every time a new Transformers continuity cast Perceptor in a role that would have made more sense for Moonracer I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

On a scale of G1 Skystar to IDW1 Simpatico how's your lab partnership working out

This is Princess. She and her human work hard every day collecting trash at an apartment building. It is an often thankless job, but one kind resident thought the pair should know how much they are appreciated, and that Princess should get a uniform too. 13/10 for all (TT: oliviaolp)

Getting into Transformers via Warhammer means that part of you will always misread Fulcrum as Fulgrim and you're just going to have to be okay with that.

Whomst the fuck is Shawn Hatosy and why is he in my Transformers shipping tags.

Today I learned that the Autobot Brawn has a weird half-human child out there somewhere, and I kind of wish I hadn't.