The only ones I'm aware of are Coming To Terms (jazz/starscream at its core, but LOTS of other dynamics) and These Games We Play (jazz/soundwave, with lots of other dynamics) (i know they've been recced before, but i'm too lazy to look back and see if you've read them, sorry :P) But this is one of those areas where I haven't had the chance to dig as deeply as I've wanted, so I definitely don't have a good grasp of the lay of the land.
i am just going to state for the record for anyone who has not yet heard me scream about TGWP: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PLEEEEASE READ THIS FIC IT IS SO SO SO SO SO GOOD, it is so so so important 2 me, it is honest to god the best piece of fanfiction i have ever read, it is so engaging and satisfying and intriguing and hot and heartbreaking and it is so good, please read it, please forgive it its humble origins
^^agreed, I've never loved a piece of fanfic the way I've loved this story. I am looping "I Am Your Skin" at this very moment while I write. For anyone who is unaware, we even have our own special TGWP sandbox to play in because we yelled too much about this fanfic all over the main tf thread.
Although fairly big Dead Dove TGWP notice re: sex slavery being a major fucking plot element, even if the story itself is much heavier on the plot than the porn. There is porn tho. I usually just skim but it's there! And like... you can skim those scenes if dubcon is enough of a squick for you, since I don't... recall any major plot points introduced only in those scenes.
Ahhh, whoops, also this. I'm not calibrated for ff.net having such a limited tagging system compared to ao3. :P Yes, significant amounts of dub/noncon throughout, sexual slavery for all enslaved autobots, sometimes paired with other physical abuse. Soundwave is emphatically not in favor of rape, but he does other sketchy slave-having, boundary-pushing things. But Jazz holds his own, and he's very determinedly pulling things towards a partnership instead of a master/slave dynamic, and refuses to sacrifice his autonomy and sense of self in favor of security and happiness-in-slavery. So there may be hard nopes in there for any prospective readers, but all those sketchy elements are positives for me, haha. I... am 99% sure the plot isn't dependent on the sex scene content, you'll mostly just be missing out on character stuff, and it's easy to fill in those blanks from surrounding context.
I mean Soundwave does molest Jazz, I'd argue, even if I also don't think he realizes that's what he's doing. But yes, a big draw of the fanfic for me is the way the boundaries are tugged back and forth and the ways Jazz takes back power in an incredibly unequal relationship despite caring about Soundwave, because caring about Soundwave doesn't mean needing to tolerate an intolerable situation.
Here's the Plug 'n ' Play tag on Ao3, pretty much all of which are TF fics. I don't have any specific recs, but I see a bunch of names in there that are known for being very good writers: Caius, Merfilly, Kookaburra, anon_decepticon, ultharkitty, femme4jack, hellkitty, spacehussy, naboru, dracoqueen22, vericus, fractalserpentine and HopeofDawn. (and that's me going through the five least recent pages; there's probably more.) The 2000s were the heyday of plug'n'play, as far as I have been able to see. Edit: Incandescent also has sparkplay, and it's really fucking hot. *fans self*
BAM, and I have finally finished the thing. Crankcase and his alien boyfriend, nsfw Fingers crossed I can carry this momentum on through to brain ghost bumblebee and starscream, or wheeljack and starscream, or rodimus and starscream, can you see a pattern with my shipping habits here
....... I blame all of you for this Starscream's endless legs plus palm sized tailgate were worth the combined $120 I spent on them Bonus: because of starscream's plane nose butt, he can balance on one finger
I will personally try almost any dove, no matter how dead. I tend to read tags more like a list of offerings than warnings. Like a menu that tells you what's in the food. I still appreciate being able to see a menu, though. What if there's avocado and I haven't had time to brace myself? I'm not really sure where I was going with that. @mizushimo, those are some damn fine robots. (Does anybody else have Weird Al constantly stuck in their heads whenever they see this thread? That's not a complaint.)
@Verily I've got that song in my car so yeah, it instantly plays whenever I read the title. I'm with you, I don't like finding surprise dead dove in a fic, I get too many "shhhhhhhhh this is normal sweetie" vibes.
Starscream is a voyager class figure from a line in 2011. Tailgate is a third party creation, his real name is "Rear End", because why not
I see, I know they've made some toys based on MTMTE Tailgate while mixing in elements of other versions so I wasn't sure.
It's funny how many comic accurate figures are third party. I guess theit isn't enough demand for them for Hasbro to make a profit. Here's what Hasbro tailgate looks like The upside is he only costs 14 dollars instead of 60.
