you know what's really embarrassing..... i have the number of comments on the TGWP LJ thread memorized at any given time so that when i check it i can immediately tell if there has been any kind of update........ (i check it... at least once a day....) anyway YES PLEASE liveblog liveblog liveblog
First Aid is... being less mistreated than he could be??? EDIT: Like, on a scale of Jazz to Chromia, he's only slightly worse off than Jazz.
some of the decepticons (DETA, decepticons for the ethical treatment of autobots) get a big ol shiny reward
um! i like shockwave, cyclonus, cyclonus' emotional issues, WHIRL, skids, chromedome, rodimus, grimlock+scavengers, and rung a lot! cyclonus+tailgate needs to fucking happen already, i was rooting for skids+nautica in some capacity, chromedome+rewind. not many ships yet, gonna give myself some time to process things and figure out how the fuck to draw robots b4 i get hardcore shippy. stuff that's stuck w/ me: 'remember me as i was,' chromedome erasing past partners, the thing w/ the scavengers learning what Unsavory Dude Whose Name I Have Forgotten really does/wants w/ grimlock, skids learning abt his past, what got done to getaway, whirl and cyclonus' 'dude plz tell me u've stopped skirting around it and have finally tied the robot knot w/ tailgate' convo
@taxonomicAtrocity This thread has gotten me to ship Cyclonus/Whirl/Tailgate even tho I know it's not going to happen. But Whirl being a bro in general is great. I thiiink there's a side story where Whirl decides to Fix Trailblazer and it's hilarious?
Spotlight Trailcutter? :D I LOVE THAT STORY (I double extra love it now that I've spotted the star Rodimus left in Trailcutter's hand after he died)
OK I JUST HAD TO DROP BY TO YELL A LITTLE Spoiler: TGWP So im in the car, coming back from a funeral, reading a little tgwp. Then.. just... WHY ARE YOU KEEPING HIM AWAY FROM HIS FELLOW TRAMA VICTIMS SOUNDWAVE YOU JERK everything was going so nicely, they were watching moves abd suddenly JAZZ IS CHAINED TO SOME DESK SOMEWHERE FRANTIXALLY TRYING TO GET TO HIS FRIENDS BECAUSE FUCKING BLUESTREAK AND PERCY ARE LIVING IN HELl. Hes so desperate, my heart was breaking. And then, AND THEN $FFFFFFFFFFFFF I CAN ONLY SCREAM INTERNALLY BECAUSR IM IN THE CAR WITH A BUNCH OF ELDERLY FAMILY MEMBERS... soundwave S oun dwav Fuck You tried You tried. I dunno why you tried. Look, this guys pov has had almost zero empathy and sympathy, whatever hes got is buried so deap he can only justify kindneas as the best logical solutiobs Hes determind Ffdfduck ok Soundwave, fuck, you have such a huge vleeding heart aHOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE. He picked them up and held them, tried to nurse them back to health like they were sick stray cats. I HAD TO STOP HALF WAY THROUG FRENZIES EXPLANATION to tell you all how utterly fucking tragic this all is. it makes sense why soubdwave wanted him now. I get it. HE SEES HIMSELF IN JAZZ, trying to protect the guys who have it worse, but powerless to really help them. Soundwave holding the autobot cassettecons like they arebabandoned kittens every night, trying to desperately to replace their dead carrier. For weeks, months, NO WONDER HE NEVER WENT OUTSIDE. he was acting so much like weird robo christian grey, in control, all logic. NOOOOOOOOOOO BOTH HE AND JAZZ ARE DESPERATE WOUNDED BIRDS, HOBBLING IN CIRCLES CAUSE THEIR FUCKING WING IS BROKEN. Fffffffffffffffff AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *deep breath* Just bury me, im dead. Ive been killed by all these tragic wohbly robots Tl;dr - a bad happened :/. I felt emotions Apology for typos, im on my phone.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I KNOW, RIGHT? And that is the moment where I fell in desperate, adoring, no-going-back love with Soundwave's character. I love him so much, oh my god. Seriously, let me know at any point if you want me to talk forever about carriers and cassettes, and I will talk forever about carriers and cassettes
Spoiler: screaming about tgwp It would have been so easy to have soundwave treat them like children. Its a little like that, but very much not at the same time. Even though soundwave is very much in charge, he respects their needs and wants. Despite having so much control over them, he treats them like capable adults. I'll definitely look you up if i want to talk more, i think its fascinating, but im only on chapter 8 or 9 Taking weird and unusal power dynamics and just turning it into a parent/child relationship is my pet peeve (ugly unwanted troll annoys the crap out of me for this reason). I thought that he would slowly learn how to feel emotions as the story went on, and that would be fine., But it turns out that he's desperately fucking tramatized and coping badly.