TFs: DARE TO BE STUPID

Ahhhh, thank you so much, everyone! I started that fic just wondering 'can I make this work?' But then by the end I was so emotionally invested. I'm going to nest on this ship and make them more content sometime soon, because the story was ending and I was like 'wait, I'm not done yet! :C' So I think that's a pretty clear sign that I need to write more for these dorks! :D

Hahaha, I wasn't trying to be coy, I was at choir, but this reaction made me crack up in the middle of practice! I didn't lock down specific words for the engraving, but that's basically what it's gotta be, just wrapped up in pretty poetry words. Something very possessive, where at first you're like *fans self* *swoons*. But then as time goes on and you get the creeping realization that you're not happy, that this isn't right, that you can't get away, it just starts making you sick to your stomach and you don't even want to remember it's there if you don't have to. And Starscream, being all proud the way he is, is absolutely not taking that to a medic to get it removed, because that doesn't only mean admitting it's there, it means showing someone else that it's there.

I'm not going to lie, Rodimus easing Starscream along into feeling less awful about that engraving is one of the things I'd really love to poke at, but the emotions I'd have to dig into are really ugly and messy, and I'd want to be absolutely sure I was getting it right.

also I really want to get rodimus and starscream to the point where they're like the steven vs amethyst fight, like 'see, I totally suck? look at how cool you are!' 'what are you even talking about, didn't you see how awesome you just were??? I'm the one who sucks!'

Spoilers, there's going to be a similar thing in the blurrscream fic, but with different context. There, it's going to be an old quote from one of Megatron's big ol' reform speeches, from when Starscream was super passionate about Megatron and the cause. It'll have the background same poisoned-relationship type things, but less... pain from the abuse, if that makes sense? When Blurr finds the engraving (probably not right on on his actual spike this time), Starscream's reaction is going to be more of an 'ugggghhhhhhhhh, right, THAT', instead of how it played out here. I dunno, I'm kind of in love with this as a thing, it might have to make its way into more fics, as appropriate like having that quote on his spark casing instead and megatron never even knew it was there heeheeheeeeeeee, I need it

Oh, trivia. Like 90% of this fic was written to one or two songs from the Trolls soundtrack. On loop. For hours on end. I have issues with music repetition. I don't know what this means, but there was at least one instance where I tried to write 'hair up' instead of 'head up'

 

Oh shoot, guys, I just had the best idea and need to write it down before I forget: Starscream/Rodimus sexting pesterlog fic

 

The people have spoken! I'll brainstorm framing/setting/what are words while I cross-stitch, and after I put that down, IT BEGINS

 

I wish bumblebee could have continued on in his nosy, friendly way instead of being railroaded into a leadership position. His strength really was the personal connections he made with the others, and he can lead well in the moment, but forcing him to try taking on the role of an authoritarian top-level leader made him ineffective, and it made him miserable.

 

Okay, real quick, I was looking at that Bumblebee panel again, and it occurred to me. Alt modes aside, imagine how ridiculous Cybertronian robo-stealth must look to humans, just purely on the basis of scale. Imagining Rodimus trying to sneak is ridiculous enough, never mind the big bots like Megatron or Ultra Magnus. But even for the spy sorts like Ravage, imagine him slinking down a street, like 'hahaha, SUPER-SNEAKY STEALTH POWERS', and the humans are like '..........am I hallucinating, or did everyone else see the car-sized robot cat just now???'

 

windblade is the three-breasted woman from total recall, pass it on

 

ps also I am buried deep in issue 33 because I am working SUPER hard to get this wheeljack/starscream palerom fic finished so I can fold in windblade and have them go on a series of sexyemotional adventures together, and it's really, really getting there