realizing that Megatron’s name is one massive pun in the original Cybertronian is giving me a midlife crisis.
people mistake his name for ‘Megaton’ repeatedly, which is a unit of explosive power. which is understandable…because Megatron says himself that the [tron] comes from the word for a type of bomb. he himself specifically doesn’t compare it to the subatomic particle, but to the bomb. they’re not tripping up on a single letter in Neocybex - they’re tripping up because they see the morpheme/glyph for [bomb] at the end of his name and retroactively go, ‘Ah yes, [bomb]. I must’ve just processed the name Megaton. Cool cool.’
when Megatron corrects the pronunciation, other people accept the correction and associate it with the -tron from electron(ic). but Megatron corrects that too. the [bomb] reference is key. his name is so close to ‘megaton,’ in meaning and in sound, which is why they have so much trouble with it.
([Mega[tron][tarn]] probably winds up being a tongue twister)
and all of this is irrelevant in the end, because Megatron is a miner. who works in a mine. and a mine…is a pun for a (land) mine.
he’s a mine explosion. those kill people, Megatron.
it’s like Whirl being a helicopter all over again.
also much as i hate to mention the solo movie when chewie introduced han to the wookie they found in the mines his first reaction was to pat hans head like you would when you meet a new dog
To further the analogy of Han is the Dog, According to various canon sources, a Standard Human in the Star Wars universe has a life expectancy of roughly 100-120 years. A Wookie has a life expectancy of around 400 years.
So, caring for Han for Han’s whole life is a commitment of less than a quarter of Chewie’s life. It’s like having a dog that lives to 20-22. A long term companion, but one you know you’re probably going to outlive.
MORE CONTEXT BECAUSE Y’ALL THINK HES JUST TRYING TO FIND AN EXCUSE TO TALK ABOUT REPUBLICANS AND “VICTIMIZING HIMSELF” AND THIS POST DOESNT EVEN NEED CONTEXT CUZ HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THIS WITH OR WITHOUT IT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE IS A GAY BLACK MAN WHOS A FURRY
Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?
Yup.
One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’
We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things
We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals
Meat safety is part of our training
Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice
We probably weren’t in the human hospital at the initial outbreak
that last point is the biggest thing. an outbreak is most likely to start at a hospital so chances are hospital staff will be infected early on
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