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that's probably the shortest interval of time i've ever gone between hitting le tumblr post limit and hitting post limit again
(less than four hours)

however it is now 3:32 AM so i probably ought to go to sleep. bluargh

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i have so many wips that are just me attempting to give rex some semblance of closure and retribution that i can't finish because he himself has decided that's not allowed

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i need to do things other than "write weird robot stories" (like: rest my arm. sign up for next sem classes. etc) but i just want to Robots.

in my defense, what am i supposed to do, not make the robots warped reflections of one another that horrify and distress each and every one as they realize the face they're looking into is something they could've been, had they only just been remotely different, and then are forced to confront their own flaws through the medium of the other?

more talking about reflections (bad) trope

Also, like, I love when both characters look at each other and go "you're me, but the evil version" and utterly refuse to confront the fact that they are, like, also bad. like when you get tarn and prowl face to face and they both go "wow, that's the evil version of me"

babes ur both evil <3

but like it really does tell you so much about a character? like if you take, like, i don't fucking know. swerve and misfire, whose differences are small but fundamental; if you compare them they're both going to go "huh. weird. you're like the better/nicer version of me" for reasons that are fairly understandable but not the full picture and likewise for prowl and tarn but in reverse. misfire and swerve will be friends; prowl and tarn will try to kill each other. but i feel like the more "normal" version of actually exploring the trope is like... let's see... hm. Hm. I'm having trouble coming up with an appropriate comparison. Maybe .idk fuck it im going with Swindle and Starscream. One of the two of them might decide they're "worse" than the other and the other might decide they're "better", like meeting your evil twin or something; but that's not how i like to play. i like when characters are bad at introspection and always feel either justified or unjustified in some way and then make up reasons to explain it, rather than the other way round.