Though it's funny, because Vision/Action/Order isn't a 1:1 on Omega/Beta/Alpha, though. The aggression of Actions is usually balled in with the authority of Orders for Alphas in a/b/o fic, but Delicacy takes the level-headed 'mind' aspect and shifts that up to Order rather than letting it be a Beta thing.
I spent my formative fandom years in homestuck! I've run into very little a/b/o, and the only one I remember much of is Laylah's captorcest fic, which adapts the a/b/o tropes to troll anatomy, so I wasn't in a good position to recognize the signs. One of my oldest friends visited this weekend, and despite knowing me for over a decade, she's only just found her first fandom home in the land of spideypool, where the a/b/o flows freely. I was EXTREMELY on board for all the things the fic tags and summary promised, but I'd never managed to connect the dots before this morning. (and I like the vision/action/order thing much much better than I've ever liked alpha/beta/omega. The trine dynamics hit me straight in the heart and it FEELS right as a relationship, and I loooove love love it to pieces, where pure a/b/o is something I'm super picky about, and I can't lose myself in it unless it's written just right)
I'm just... If things turn out like canon, and Rewind 2 and Tailgate are the only survivors on the alternate Lost Light, but Tailgate still has that connection so he keeps trying to reassure him that Chromedome's still ok, he's still out there, everything will be fine. It doesn't really work, of course, because Rewind doesn't really believe him, but it's something? And then Tailgate just gets really quiet about it all, and it's because the non-alternate crew has started disappearing.
ALSO I still think that Starscream's plan re: Windblade spying was. Pretty dumb. I mean, yeah let's have a pretty significant threat be spied on by someone who a) has no real inclination to be any more helpful or do more than she needs to b) has no experience spying and c) is already working full time on a pretty vital project. Good job.
HEY HEY HEY HEY CONSIDER: THIS. holy shit. brainstorm/whirl. this is...... revolutionary.... i can't believe this. this changes everything
OH HEY, I finally got my ass in gear and finished the brainstorm/nautica wip I've been sitting on for literal months. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going, I am sick to death of my attention span being such a fractured mess. On the other hand, part of why I am a fractured mess particularly today is that tomorrow I begin pleading my case for adhd meds! Hopefully tonight I will work on some/all of: OT3 tentacle shenanigans Dratchet top drop Nautica/Firestar thing
*low key delighted shrieking over how much I love nightbeat* Spoiler: mtmte 53 (also this heavily implies that she is tactile with him, a mech who's outright said that he doesn't connect well with other people) (also also, insert some quiet flailing over that knowing little half-smile on Rung's face in that top panel) But yes okay so Nightbeat is like the ultimate frustration of my life (literally and absolutely, no exaggeration here, folks :V ) because how the heck am I supposed to pull intense emotions in for him? He doesn't make it easy, and it makes me so sad, I want people to be overinvested in him the same way I am :(
T-T-T-TRIPLE POST COMBO But I finished the Firestar/Nautica (sfw) thing, and I'm very pleased with myself. I finally worked ladies, f/m and f/f into that silly ao3 document, even if it took me way way way too long toget them in there, and even if I don't have any f/f porn yet, this is a good step forward. (now that it seems my writing momentum is legit back, I can hopefully post in a more effective manner in the future, though the qu-qu-qu-quadruple post combo does tempt me :VVV No, I kid, I need to go to sleep so I can wake up in time to Do Shit in the morning.)
IDW Megatron song. Drift down into the new dark light Without any reservations You found my breaking point Congratulations Spend too much of my life Now trying to play fair Throw my better self overboard Shoot at him when he comes up for air Come unhinged Get revenge I don’t want to die in here I don’t want to die in here
I've never been more happy I'm distracting myself tonight by trying to drag my friend who's into a/b/o (but not transformers) down into robot hell by way of Delicacy. I've never dug a/b/o that much as its independent thing, but with the trine structure and the slight redistribution of power, I am all a-swoon over this thing and feel less guilty about maybe using a similar worldbuilding premise in future fics. It's all my favorite things in one place, and now mostly I am just upset that most a/b/o doesn't have the same quirks to grab me as hard as this story did.
Yeah the Trine structure makes it delicious (and so much fun when it's turned on its head). It's SUCH a good fic, but its got some really fucked up stuff out the gate so it's hard to rec to people. It plus The Last or what made me love Starscream when I first was dipping my toy into TF fandom. Also if anyone digs Prowl/Jazz and likes fic exploring power structures and the ideas of 'subordinate' mates (*cough*) I can rec The Military Lord and the Hero's Creation by gatekat, Starsheild (StarRise) and Subordinate, Not Slave by Fianna9, gatekat
entirely off-topic but I feel like you all will understand when I say I accidentally made myself sad about swerve again Protect Him (I am tired and slightly punchy, someone poke me in the mornign if this shouldn't be here)
yes yes I should go find the thing again when I can focus on reading, happy swerve is A Good and size difference si also A Good
