TFs: DARE TO BE STUPID

........okay, but @coldstars, because I'm shipping garbage and love to ship garbage, imagine that flavor of DJD Whirl facing down against autobot Rotorstorm on the battlefield, and oops you probably found the one person left in the universe who can genuinely rattle him OuO

 

Man, even with the jail beating (god, I typed airport at first, I am officially Too Tired), like, okay. Just imagine a reunion where Whirl is like 'I wanna be a decepticon' and Megatron is like 'hahaha fuck youuuuu', I'd love too see something that combines some nice decepticon philosophy, dances around the value they both place on art and artistic expression, pokes at Whirl's bitterness and anger while the pain is still nice and fresh (bonus points if he accidentally pushes the terminus button :3c ), and has one hell of an epic, ugly beatdown, until it's finally enough to satisfy Megatron's anger. Preferably a beatdown that's vicious enough that it makes the not-100%-hardened-yet Megatron uncomfortable. But after that, nobody who saw what happened is willing to question Whirl's dedication to the cause. I want people still confused and uncomfortable being around him, and not understanding him the same way as happens in canon, but from a whole nother direction.

Honestly... I'm getting kind of fired up about that new dynamic between Megatron and Whirl OuO I am always and forever a shipping magpie, and... hm. I kinda want to see if there's a way to write the thing. It would be SO COMPLICATED, but oh my god, there's so much potential!!

And seriously, as difficult as this would be to wrangle, I think they could have genuinely been good influences on each other, without derailing the entire course of the war. Not too-too good, because they've both been burned hard and undoing that sort of damage isn't easy even for professionals. But it would be a unique kind of emotional support that neither one of them really got in canonical history, and they have a surprisingly large space to bond in, despite that nice big piece of baggage. Megatron wouldn't be able to pin down Whirl and toy with him like he did with Starscream, and Whirl doesn't care about power grabs, and doesn't break in an entertaining way. Whirl can't intimidate Megatron physically or by force of peronality, and like Cyclonus, Megatron's a stable rock he can beat himself against without doing any actual damage until he finally tires himself out.

God, I don't need any more ships or did ideas right now, but I think I've talked myself into really shipping it ;u;

(plus imagine Tarn and Starscream doing jealous mating dances, pure comedy gold)

 

I'd also like to point out that Whirl is pressed right up against some Cyclonus, Cyclonus is probably getting some major sideboob action, and Whirl is smiling like a doofus.

CYWHIRL #CONFIRMED

 

Heyyyyyyyyyy, guys, I have an opinion question.

If, hypothetically, someone was in physical pain from emotions from reading mtmte revolution, and, hypothetically, looking to write some sweet, adorable porn for Crankcase and his boyfriend, what's the best way to go about it? Because it is a little difficult writing a shiny new alien species without an established genital configuration to work from, and it is a lot difficult writing porn with a character who doesn't have a name in actual english characters.

S0. Is it better to make up a name? Because *I* will find a name off-putting, story-breaking levels of silly unless someone else fandom-establishes one first, but maybe readers won't mind. But short of pulling a name from thin air, which feels like too much cheating, I'm left with calling him Foreva or calling him Sudivas (best alphabetical approximation of the characters used in his name). I find Foreva much more flow-y in a narrative sense and pleasing to the ear, but horribly silly as a concept.

(option 1.5 is writing from crankcase's pov but only referring to his boyfriend as 'he', which seems.... doable, but stilted)

Or. Is it better to use second person as my magic cheat code and write from the boyfriend's point of view and never assign a name at all? I have a harder time with the mechanics of the writing because of aforementioned lack of established genital configuration, so I have to worry about getting my audience grounded in new anatomy ideas, even though his own genitals should be boringly natural to him. An extra cheat code would be having him shift to cybertronian form, but that knocks my double xeno down to a single xeno and removes the bulk of the awesome weirdness, so I'd really prefer not to. Or, do I just write the boyfriend getting Crankcase off and adoring him without getting anything in return?

tl;dr, Should I make up a name for the dire wraith boyfriend or dodge the issue? And should I make up a genital configuration for him, or, again, dodge the issue? I'm leaning towards doing the double dodge, but a sanity check from people who aren't me would be awesome.

edit: there are only five explicit crankcase-having fics on ao3 and only two of those have him in a shippy role holy shit i really do need to fix this situation

 

I thhhhhhink... I can deal with Foreva as a name if I bounce into it the right way in the text (and I think I see a way, though I still don't want to hit that name hard at first, I don't want to break my own suspension of disbelief). And so I can have my cake and eat it too, I think there needs to be one fic that is tentative and slow and vanilla and crankcase-focused and sticks strictly to showing Crankcase a good time (foreva's pov) and one fic where things are more established that goes maximum tentacles and maximum body reconfiguration and the full xeno (crankcase's pov). Which means I need to come up with two voices for minor, minor characters, but hey! This ship is worth it. Crankcase is worth it, because he is precious and adorable and literally chose 'grumpybox' to be his online handle.

Also, I had rodimus/starscream open the other day and did nothing but pine for crankcase/bf, now I am trying to write crankcase/bf and am pining for marissa/thundercracker, and I am absolutely certain that no matter what I try to touch, my brain is going to instantly jump over to another fic Щ(ಠ益ಠЩ)

So on an unrelated side note, this is your friendly reminder that this is how Misfire defines the feeling of 'existence'

 

guys i am secretly full of ten million emotions about this ship

Spoiler: sfw and short but it's cheesy and i'm embarrassed about it? when was the last time THAT happened to me??

After Grumpybox’s— After Crankcase’s ship clears the atmosphere, you don’t spend long on the bridge. It’s been a long day. It’s been a weird day. Most of that is your fault, but— yeah. Now that you’ve had a chance to slow down and process everything that’s happened, you just. Once the rest of the crew is talking together, you slip out to find somewhere to sit. To readjust. You hadn’t really planned to still be around by end of today. Even if you’ve decided you don’t want to leave everything behind quite yet, you still don’t know what you’re going to do with yourself.

You don’t make it more than a few steps before Crankcase follows you out into the hallway. The moment you lock eyes with him, you freeze. And he freezes too, even though you’re the one who— He freezes too.

But he’s also the first one to move again, just one more short step towards you, half reaching out for a moment before he lets his hand drop. He says, “Everything okay?”

“Oh— Yes.” Mostly true. “I just needed some space.”

He shifts backwards. “I can go—”

You force yourself into motion and take a step forward. “You don’t need to leave.” One more step, and you’re close enough to reach out and touch him. “It’s fine if it’s you.” Entirely true.

 

Triple post combob!

But holy shit, guys. Arcee? In phase one? Canonical fangs

(also baby alex milne art! from 2008! his colorist went awful murky and it isn't quite as nice as his mtmte work, but these are still some nice lines)

Spoiler: lorge

I don't care if these fangs never showed up anywhere else, headcanon fucking accepted