thank you, both of you! and @Loq i am totally interested, if it's not too much trouble! (edit: forgot a quote)
If it's alt mod+tentacles, then yeh, it's part of Enfilade's Mend What is Broken that I linked earlier
Reading the new MTMTE. Spoiler: MTMTE 56 'Whatever I did, I know for a fact it was necessary, proportionate, and staggeringly far-sighted, and I'm confident that history will prove me [right.]' That's not how it works, Prowl.
Spoiler: Titans Return liveblog ...well, I have no idea what's going on in Windblade or exRiD, and that recap was useless. Screamer and Windblade continue to hate each other, OP has another metrotitan, and Megs... is several chapters in the past. Aight. Let's do this. [Homestuck voice] Who's this douchebag? (Seriously. I'm guessing one of the old Primes, but who? How? Despite my recent reread, my memory of the Primal line after Nova is shit.) Ravage </3 On the other hand, MOVIE NIGHT 8D Swerve trying to be friends with everyone <3 ...by way of narrative conservation, I'm assuming fuckface in the prologue was Sentinel. Even though I coulda sworn he was "natural causes", not "Decepticons". Whirl befriending Megs <3 I'm still rooting for nonbinary Cy. (And very happy with whoever wrote his dialogue there.) Swerve attempting to deescalate things before anyone gets too salty My darling <3 Soundwave! ...wait, what the shit's going on on Earth? OP has learnt to praise Buster Good ...Earth is one of the Thirteen colonies? Eeeeewww. I want more Alien Worldbuilding! [Goes back to Dramatis Transformae] Daaaamn. Talk about a reveal. Eyyyy more alien alt modes! (Seriously, what the fuck Sentinel, I see two main tank turrets, what looks like a battering ram, thrusters...) Spoiler: MTMTE 56 and again: who's this douchebag? ...disappeared? Rung? :o Oh, Red Alert. Sorry, bro, you're in the red-and-white stable and don't have conveniently color-coded antlers, it's gonna be hard for me to recognize you. Red's Trying :c (On a side note: eyyyy alt modes! Conveniently just after we were talking about how rarely we see them on MTMTE :P) Baaaabies :C they are all trying So Hard THANK YOU MAX (I live to see Prowl get the shit beaten out of him. Also "I'm not fighting a car" r00d) ...kick him again, max ...what. What. Prowl. Chromedome is neither your contact nor your friend and he probably changed his number for a reason. ...I know I said I live to see Prowl hurt, but come on. I like him marginally more than Sentinel >c ...to be fair, Sentinel's plan is kind of lackluster so far compared to Dark Cybertron. I liked my amoral mad scientist trashson better.
Contingency Procedures series- Ultra Magnus/Rodimus, sorting themselves out. Magnus has Issues. 40k words. Quality of Mercy series - MegOP. What if slave coding existed and a human organization got ahold of it? Mind the tags for nastiness. Set in Prime universe by the same author as TBSHTC. 100k words. House Divided - MegOp. Animated universe. There are differences between Decepticons and Autobots physiologically. Optimus has to learn them - from Megatron in prison - because the two Autobot fliers have Decepticon code. 120k words. (Turn of a Switch by the same author is also gr8 - IDW and Prime Orion Pax switch universes - I just happen to like this one slightly better.) I read too much fic but I can supply recs fast so there's that at least Edit: I was about to go to bed last night when I wrote this post and missed that you had read quality of mercy... Despite looking for it. My bad.
....wait shit I need to find the Swerve/Ultra Magnus arranged marriage one, it's great and I think I linked it here so lemme see if I can forumsearch it, gimme a few
if you're still looking for recs i have!! many!!! heartwrenching cdrw fic, tragically has not been updated since february but REALLY REALLY GOOD PLEASE read this hilarious jazzprowl/jazzwave fic, it's in progress but updates often and it's SO GREAT TFP/shattered glass genfic starring bumblebee and knock out, tragically unfinished but a really great read anyway literally anything by Galena or Owlix, but particularly this one, this one, and THIS ONE (that last one is whirl/ultra magnus and you wouldnt think that would work but GODDAMN IT WORKS) has anyone rec'd the disturbing seeker eggs one because in spite of my EUGHHHH EGGS!!! EUUUGH BIOLOGICAL ROBOT REPRODUCTION!!! EUGHH BABY ROBOTS hangup i love the shit out of that one edit: this one. listen i can explain also!! i am not making a strong case for my baby-hating ways by recommending this babies-ever-after futurefic but it's REALLY GOOD!!! megatron the angry warlord brought out of a coma only to realize that he is the only person who wants to fight anymore
DELICACY!!! Starscream/OP, not pitch, but I love it anyways. Warning for slavery, forced breeding, literal baby eating, lots of dark stuff, but it is SO GOOD!! It gives me ALL the parental feelings, omg. The early parts are so dark, and the later parts are so emotionally rich. Love love love love
The early days of the war. Spoiler: Lyrics Now we're going to play a game That's lots of lots of fun! I learned it from my auntie, Who learned it from my uncle. My uncle has a secret job In washington dc, Something fancy With the government, I hear he knows the president. First you line up in a row And count "eeny miney moe", There are guards And there are prisoners, And this is how it goes (key change!) 1,2,3 You are free, And the rest must come with me. Who are you, Are you a witch? No, you are a terrorist. If you think that you aren't You can tell us who you are, But if you are not on the list Then you are a terrorist. And the terrorists get tortured Even if no proof exists Because we can't take any risks! And the terrorists get ordered To get back in line So we can play the game a second time. If you're just a pacifist, or some kind of activist, Then you are a terrorist, Why it says so on the list! If you're a writer or artist, Or a leather fetishist, Then you are a terrorist 'cause it says so on the list! And the terrorists get tortured Whether or not they want to play, Because they're guilty anyway. And the terrorists get murdered Unless the terrorists insists he is not a terrorist. But we can't find you on the list, Are you a doctor or a priest? I'm a right-wing journalist. So you are a terrorist! If you're a fat capitalist Or a neo-nazi fascist, We can find you on the list And you're not a terrorist! Isn't this an easy game? Anyone can play it. People of all ages Genders, creeds, and races. Play it with a couple or a giant group, Entire continents can play, The rules don't change they stay the same But once the game is done And someone's won... There is a variation that is almost just as fun! 1,2,3 Come with me And the terrorists are free! If you lose and get left over Then you are a sympathizer. If you are a singer-songwriter Or a union-organizer Bet your bottom-dollar You will be a sympathizer! And the sympathizers must be punished Even worse than terrorists, As an example for the kids. Sympathizers must be banished. So to find out which is which we must refer back to the list. If you're a church administrator or a corporate stockholder Or a nuclear arms maker you are not a sympathizer. If you're not a sympathizer Be a terrorist, okay? You have to be one or the other Or we have no game to play!
When will IDW wise up and start making a few relationship based fanficcy comics for us to covet? Some of their best work featured a bunch of robots dicking around with nerf guns and watching stand up comedians on tv. Please save the Vehicons. I ran across some TFP promos tacked onto the credits of TFA (I think it was just existing footage redubbed into very short skits), and at one point they asked Starscream if they could adopt a puppy... They absolutely could overwhelm the handful of non-clones megs has on his ship if they all rose up, but it would probably go against whatever programming they come with. Traditionally, yes, but Japan has been heavily influenced by western ideas and culture. Also, that dragon doesn't look eastern at all, she'd probably associate it with the western version of the mythical beastie. pfff, you scared me there for a minute, I think I'm following ssenatorshockwave. *MEGATRON STUFF Spoiler: bad times noncon ideas Spock is right, There's so much potiential with a rapist Megatron (accidental or otherwise). He was brutal and calculating as the leader of the decepticons, it's not really a stretch to see him exerting his absolute authority in rapey ways. - Decepticon Megatron who comes to see sex as an expression of power/dominance rather then an act of intimacy - then struggles against those old habits as Autobot Megatron (especially if he ends up in a relationship with Rodimus- Hello powerful urge to Put Rodimus in his Place during a particularly heated argument). Or a Megs who has gone most of his life believing that arousal=consent, orgasm = retconned consent, or a myriad of other things he could have picked up as a youngster in the mines or as an angry revolutionary in the gladiator pits. The robots in general might be bad about that kind of thing, I know humans are even in our 'enlightened' age. Megs subconsiously trying to recreate his old fucked up relationships with some lucky chosen Lost Light crew member. There's just so much beyond ' hurr durr I need to make bad guy eviler'
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Discord flavor this time bc I'm not gonna try and be witty twice. thank u @winterykite for permission to post :P Spoiler: Titans Return IvyLB-Heute um 02:00 Uhr Okay okay titans return opens with a "previously on..." page thank primus god fucking dammit 'scream, name puns, really? ........ i hate it when I can't fuckin tell who has the narration boxes THIS IS NOW NARRATORS ANNONYMOUS AND EVERYONE IS ReQUIRED TO SAY "HELLO I AM [_]" BEFORE THEY START FUCKING NARRATING who the fuck are you narrator, and why are you a racist asshole? winterykite-Heute um 02:04 Uhr -snickering- he gets introduced in the other issue, i think you mixed up the reading order the one with prowl being a disaster and getting kicked by fort max is first IvyLB-Heute um 02:05 Uhr im p sure apples said titans return is chronologically before mtmte 56 so that's the way round I read it? winterykite-Heute um 02:05 Uhr "_" ... considering some things probably, considering others eeeh IvyLB-Heute um 02:06 Uhr what even is temporal consistency oh hey, ramondelli's art looks downright clean in comparison to normally I say normally. I mean compared to the two year old stuff I'm reading currently lmao winterykite-Heute um 02:07 Uhr hes improving! IvyLB-Heute um 02:08 Uhr he isn#t making megs as handsome as he should be but! Kudos dude! Now you have a picture of yours on my phone background AND got a heartfelt congrats on your art progress! I'm sure he cares about what some rando thinks :P also OUCH ravage/megs banter QuQ omfg they invited him to movie night i'm crey "you don't socialize much, do you, megs?" INDEED SWERVE "This is a documentary- a biased one" "HEY I MADE THIS" ilu guys though tbh idk why CD and RW thought it was a good idea to invite megs to this movie night specifically "Have we not learned to move beyond the binary" flails hands at cyclonus FLAILS MORE GENDER THING? GEN- GENDER THING? CY NONBINARY? winterykite-Heute um 02:14 Uhr wouldnt that be interesting cy and tg can be enby married gay together IvyLB-Heute um 02:15 Uhr yes also wow can people please stop shittalking Megs, especially when the early early stuff the decepticons did was pretty brutal but also still very understandable? "WHAT COULD I HAVE POSSIBLY GAINED FROM MUTILATING A DEAD WAR HERO?" "... nibble? :D" i fucking love this dynamic winterykite-Heute um 02:17 Uhr swerve is a blessing IvyLB-Heute um 02:18 Uhr ... what an interesting team up Arcee Optimus and Soundwave I mean Those aren't mechs I'd ever have thought would join forces (I'm really interested in seeing how they end up together ngl) "After everything you just did... you can't blame them" what did Optimus do omg like when arcee calls you out.... hooo boy .... a-autobot city? AGAIN? what the shit is even going on on that side of things? Galvatron is back? Alpha Trion is on earth? What? AT LEAST BUSTER AND BOB ARE THERE AND GOOD winterykite-Heute um 02:22 Uhr someone even worse got dug out IvyLB-Heute um 02:23 Uhr "And its thirteen colonies - including earth" now hold up a diddly-darn second (All Hail Optimus indeed. goddammit OP what are you even doing) winterykite-Heute um 02:24 Uhr bullshit is what hes doing IvyLB-Heute um 02:24 Uhr ......... that's megatron windblade DRIFT INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH annnnnd starscream i think? the glowy silhouettes Soundwave is hearing or whatever oh and Optimus' sillhouette and somethign that looks like soundwave's face I think? "foudn the lost colony of earth" ??????????????????? what's even going on omg Starscream and Windblade i feel like they are definitly kind of trine flirting without a third pointless trine winterykite-Heute um 02:27 Uhr snrk theyre so pitch and so romantic IvyLB-Heute um 02:28 Uhr "Something we can reclaim togetehr" wibbles at her seeing them as a unit what the shit- what why is there a city where kaon is supposed to lie in ruins? winterykite-Heute um 02:29 Uhr because someon put one there, duh cities dont just grow from the ground IvyLB-Heute um 02:30 Uhr wHAT THE SHIT IS THAT AND WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE OPTIMUS PRIME ON STEROIDS [cut small derail] IvyLB-Heute um 02:32 Uhr ALSO OKAY THAT'S SENTINEL? APPARENTLY? JESUS CHRIST DUDE GET A BETTER DESIGN HODGEPODGE-A-THON INDEED no but really why is he such a racist dickhead "you betrayed your raaaaaace" shut uuuuuuuuuup winterykite-Heute um 02:33 Uhr hes basically mitt romney IvyLB-Heute um 02:34 Uhr omg DON'T HURT STARSCREAM NO also omfg is he turning into a TRAIN that's kind of awesome WINDBLADE O THAT'S STUPID WINDBLADE WINDBLADE FFS oh thank primus she is okay "YOU LET THAT BUTCHER AT YOUR SPARKCHAMBER?" hey now starscream that's uncalled for, knockout is very attractive and that's at least as good as a recognizable medical degree winterykite-Heute um 02:38 Uhr asdfghjk he just jelly IvyLB-Heute um 02:39 Uhr OH NO AILERON D: OH NO IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO BUSTER THAT'S- NO THAT'S FORBIDDEN whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat loadbearer? must be loadbearer okay Spoiler: mtmte 56 IvyLB-Heute um 02:39 Uhr okay now onto mtmte 56 ..... wow red alert is very handsome in this omg max OMG THE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS HITS ME RIGHT IN THE FEELS oh nooooooo poor red D: Max is such a dork i cannot he is so gentle and likes his job so much and is so enthusiastic and excited it literally makes me smile all teary eyed how far he's cooooooooome also I love cerebros and what a good name for a brain surgeon :P winterykite-Heute um 02:49 Uhr cerebros is a darling theres something abt mechs with the visor+faceplate combo that just makes them adorable IvyLB-Heute um 02:50 Uhr ikr mHHH though I kinda do agree with Red here the implant is mh i dunno maybe if it was guaranteed that the implant would be removed immediately again PROWL WTF also HAHA he got kicked in the underside for crashing into max before he could finish his clever line :P "COME ON! Stand Up, I'm not fighting a car!" this line is so fucking ridiculous for some reason I just I'm laughing so hard CEREBROS LIL HANDS DARLING YOU AHVE A FACE PLATE THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO COVER YOUR MOUTH "Bear with me a second" oh my god stop posing liek that you grogeous disaster ... oh no he's really hot with the ruined face and missing optic QuQ ... did he did he forget about garrus 9 for a second there? prowl what happened to you winterykite-Heute um 02:55 Uhr he screwed over so many people he needs a bit of time to keep them all straight IvyLB-Heute um 02:56 Uhr (he seems manic. something is really really wrong. Like more than usual. Does he just. steadily spiral out of control after the constructicon mess? is that what happens?) "That's it. That's what it was. I probably thought you were dead!" this is making me really uncomfortable bc prowl from forty chapters ago was at least capable of calculating his way out of a conversation like this on his own omg i really love outrigger omg OKAY nice time frame nod we are OFFICIALLY a year from MTMTE 20 now! GOOD! IvyLB-Heute um 03:00 Uhr "Sixteen Subscribers!" baby JESUS CHRIST I JUST STARTED LIKING HIM DON'T HURT HIM YET WHO IS THAT oh fuck it's smol!Sentinel oh god bless Outrigger escaped though this titan master business is intriguing and terrifying "He killed 23 people and not all of them deserved it." PROWL (Seriously who is drawing this issue. Everyone looks so beautiful) .... prowl actually. looks lost as fuck. when he tries to figure out how to say "my ex changed his phone number and didn't tell me" without sounding bitter i don't want to feel bad for prowl but his profile is so pretty here who the heck is Pious Maximus is tehre a house maximus? i need to know jesus fucking christ RACIST AND PRUDE AND ABLEIST MY WHAT A GUY THIS SENTINEL winterykite-Heute um 03:11 Uhr hes like a pimple unsightly, annoying, painful, and you cant get rid of him or a wart IvyLB-Heute um 03:12 Uhr "Yes well. He shouldn't have refused his food." THIS IS TERRIBLE I LOVE IT rolls around in the terrifying awful torture stuff WHAT RED WHAT IS HE WHAAAAAAT AHHHHHHHHHHHH (also rest in pieces prowl) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
LIVEBLOG TIME (also @applechime thank you ten times over for uploading these for us!) Spoiler: MTMTE 56 I'm so happy to be getting more with Red Alert and Fort Max aaa Prowl?? Prowl oh my god don't look excited when you remember Garrus 9 you dweeb. Extreme Titaneering Challenge sounds like the worst reality TV show. Though if this does get disseminated, I wonder if that's going to affect the authority of the Tyrest Accord? Because I was under the impression that people hadn't been informed of what happened, only just... it happened. Yep. Who the fuck knows why, but it happened and then it didn't. holy fuck what Red Alert aaaaaaa (good on you baby for standing up for yourself, because distrusting Prowl for a huge variety of reasons is probably the safest thing to do at any point in time now) he tried Swerve I'm going to cry a lil (Did Chromedome change his frequency after DC. Pls tell me it was Chromedome that Prowl tried to contact. That would be so like him.) Ah, good old Primes advocating genocide and a return to the Old Order. It's funny how every Prime we've run into-- every old prime-- seems to use Starscream as their first point. Which is interesting, because objections to him as a person, fine, but a lot of the Old Order advocates seem really pissed that he was elected. Reinstating a theocratic monarchy (or dictatorship) over a democratic, if flawed, system is rarely a good thing. (Okay, that said: Old Cybertron had the Primes and the Senate. We have indications that there were certain 'noble houses' like the House of Ambus where shared alt-modes weren't actually required for members of that house. There aren't any real mentions of how we go from spark->protoform->fully formed mech with a place in society, or how birthplace and naming is decided. So with all that said-- was the Senate democratically elected? If not, should there be a democratically elected variation? The Council of Worlds is not actually under Starscream's purview, and the choice to have a Cybertron rep that wasn't him involved there was a good idea (though Rattrap probably wasn't) but given that the current population of Cybertron is one whole city, should there still be a democratically elected council to serve under the elected ruler? And, more importantly, what should the time spans on service be? I AM. FASCINATED BY THIS APPALLING MESS OF GOVERNMENT AND WANT TO FIX IT.) (I fucking love the emotion in the faces in this volume lemme tell you) RED ALERT WHAT Spoiler: titans return IT WOULD APPEAR I HAVE READ THESE OUT OF ORDER BUT whatevssss there's only two exhibits and that's really sad (who's statue did Roddy take that flower from? ten to one I say his) (THIS IS SO RUDE TO MEGS BUT I KINDA LOVE IT TBH) "autobot city" could you be MORE PRETENTIOUS OPTIMUS oh fuck off (though okay: "last and greatest of primes" in an issue with a prime about to go off his rocker, and a history of primes being powerhungry monsters: that's interesting. I'm sure the setup of 'oh well Sentinel was a FAKE PRIME' is trying to mitigate that but uh. OP is a fake Prime too. Modded after the fact for primacy, rather than being chosen. The fact that he had the true Matrix as opposed to the Senate's fakey-fake one doesn't change that he's got about as much right to it as Sentinel did.) WINDBLADE AND STARSCREAM WINDBLADE AND STARSCREAM AAAAAA oh my god oh my god oh my god please let healthy rivalry and saving each other out of spite continue to be a thing with Starscream and Windblade oh my god this is everything i want from them oh my god PLEASE THEY ARE SNIPING AT EACH OTHER AND STARSCREAM WAS FUSSING ABOUT HER LETTING KNOCK OUT AT HER SPARK CHAMBER AND AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HO SHIT (ramondelli's art is actually improving a fair amount, and it looks like he relying on certain filters a little less which is nice) edit: why did my spoiler tags break why am i so bad at forums
please i am SO GLAD that i can enable everyone's criminal ways. also quick question since i can only see the folders from my actual drive -- does the link give you guys permission to download the files? or just to view them
I can download them (though it does give the TOO BIG TO SCAN DOWNLOAD AT OWN RISK warning) without any problem.
I actually can't view more than the first "page" (that is, the cover) of each on mobile without downloading, make of that what you will .-.
oh good!! the viewer in google drive is uh. not very good so i just wanted to make sure you guys could download them (⋈•ᴗ•)
