#MBTMS

[blehblarghblah]

Update:

Hey, it's been awhile since I updated y'all!

There was one ask I got a blue moon ago about Magic Between the Moon & Sky, and I will sadly report that I do not see myself updating that series for the foreseeable future. I didn't want to be one of those authors who make a 100 oneshot series then stop, but I am just not a fan of TDP at the moment so it's hard to really find the passion to write for a fandom I'm not in anymore.

I also know a good many of you are wondering about Loyalty & Light but I can confidently say that there is nothing solid yet. Another batch of twenty chapters is a lot for me and it will take a long while for it to get up and kicking. But I am still working at it. Don't be afraid to keep asking about it or to send asks! The comments I've been getting are a great inspiration!

Meanwhile, for The Most Undoing Thing, the final two chaps are coming! Regardless of season 2, this does not change the development of the fic at all. TMUT was always set in a post-season 1 only AU formula. I hoped to finish it before season 2, but alas, I did not. That said, I am immensely appreciative of the surge of love and attention toward TMUT. I guess a lot of people are aching for some Mama Jinx after Isha, huh? ( >ヮ<).

So when's TMUT coming out? Well here's a rundown:

Arcane/Legends of Runeterra, Mama Jinx AU, multi-chapter story (Title: "The Most Undoing Thing"). Chapter 19 sometime January.

The Owl House, Lealtad Noceda big sister/beta sister AU, multi-chapter story (Title: "Loyalty & Light"). Season 2, chap 21-41 in development!

The Owl House & The Ghost and Molly McGee crossover, crossover AU, multi-chapter story (Title: "The Light and Molly McGee"). Still in development!

Halloween fics: yeah I got delayed, so I'm gonna aim for 2025 Halloween now hopefully...

Once again, all is subject to change of course. Between uni, my newfound interest with D&D, and personal matters, it's hard to find time to write. But I still wanna write! I love writing fics and I miss posting 'em. Fall sem is done and I am hyped to write. As always, if you're interested in these fics, I have a few asks or posts about them that you can find via tags!

In other news, I will officially state that I am now ceasing use of FFN or Fanfiction.Net. This doesn't mean I'll delete my account and all stories up there, but for the future, I will not crosspost anymore fanfics on FFN. With all the issues it's had over the years, and a new wave of scam mail, I'm just tired of it. I'm sad too, because I'm aware of the recent traction I've been getting on there as well, but I'm afraid I'm just too tired of it.

So, I'm only using Ao3 from here on out. Sorry to all you FFN users, but I hope you can find the leniency to at least follow my stories on Ao3!

By the way, tags with “bleh update” keep track of all incoming fic posts! And check out my Fandom Masterlist to see what I’m into! Also Here’s all my Fanfics!

That’s all for now. Stay safe and take care all!

Until next post,

- Bleh

[lovesick-nagi]

♡ Term Coining: gbtg ♡

Gbtg, or Gender-back-to-Gender, is an acronym self-descriptor system.

Female-back-to-Female { fbtf }

Male-back-to-Male { mbtm }

Gbtg describes the experience of someone going through a gender transition/exploration, { social or medical }, but realizing they are more comfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth. Though the individual is not trans and does not claim the trans experience, they feel that the journey of their gender, even if it lead them to the same place they started, is important to their identity and who they came to be at the end of it.

This term may especially be used by intersex individuals who experimented with presenting as the opposite gender than what they were documented as but their assigned gender ended up being their chosen gender as well ♡

{ !! These terms are never to be used to put down or demonize trans people, fear monger regarding medical transition, or harm the trans community in any way !! }

[thefieryeclipse]

Moments Between the Madness - Chapter 9 ("The Tomb of Innocence")

"After a while it got easier to believe. To forget what I was doing until it just didn't matter anymore. But I don't want to forget. I don't want to be like him.” It was only when he turned his head and found the hero still watching him with that honest, earnest, undivided attention the way he always did, the way no one else ever had, that Sylar discovered why his secrets were spilling out of him of their own volition. Because Peter was listening to him. “Don't let me forget, Peter.”

This one's a pretty emotional chapter from start to finish - I hope all the feels make up for having to wait so long to read it! Enjoy <3

(tw: childhood abandonment, minor mention of self harm, romance)

Ao3:

FFN:

[magicalbuffalotransformerman]

don't mean to be a negative nancy here but i can;t,

fucking think

of anything i could possibly write about these stupid fucking robots.

it's j

ust.

i'm stuck in my fucking head here and i can't move

look this isn't meant to be some sort of cryptic post or whatever i just, fucking can't.

i am TRYING to write something

had three drafts. - post about rocketjumper getting injured - post about groundrumbler's sister coming to visit - post about bonecrusher wandering the antarctic

they are all gone. and i've been gone

for way too long for my own liking but like. ii ii i i i just can't fucking thINK OF ANYTH

[mbtm-ramblewriting]

hey btw rocketjumper's massive honkers aren't just for show

they're 8:2:1 ammo & batteries for her weapons systems, energon reservoirs, and for show

[blehblarghblah]

Me with my MBTMS Rayllum prompt weeks/months:

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink

[obeyfeline]

New #MBTM #HarrisTweed handmade pents… https://www.instagram.com/p/CaArhclpTpT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[blehblarghblah]

Hello, I recently read your Magic Between the Moon & Sky series, and I really like the college AU series. It's really wonderful. I want to know if there will be an opportunity to update in the future. If you don't mind, I would like to know why you Not a fan of TDP anymoreFinally, I wish you well. The novels you wrote really bring me great joy.

Ahh, it means a lot to know that you enjoyed my work! I really enjoyed writing Rayllum immensely and I loved to see that a lot of people liked it as much as I did (if not more, apparently 😅). The reason for why I dropped off TDP is kinda... strange to explain. My second oldest sister and I were big fans of the show, and as you can obviously tell from my blog, I was excited about it for a time!

But when Season 4 of The Dragon Prince was announced I was really excited about it! But at the time, my sister and I had others shows we were watching. I was also busy writing for The Most Undoing Thing at the time and didn't want to be too sidetracked with other fandoms. And then, as time went on, it kinda got away from us but we were shocked to hear that Season 5 was announced later in 2023 summer.

Now I know Season 2 and 3 had a similar time gap, for us, we were kinda worried about hearing such an immediate follow up when it felt like Season 4 just came out. Apprehensively, I looked at some reviews and such. I won't say that I haven't been influenced by what I heard, but I also know that there was good reviews and legitimate excitement too! I already read a small amount of the comic materials and books that came out in the break between Season 3 and 4, so I knew a lot of the changes to come.

And the time skip.

So, seeing a bit of a divide, my sister and I slowly just thought, "Well, we'll get around to it." But evidently, it just became something we kind of lost interest in. Season 3 was good, but there were some pacing things we weren't a fan of. For me, I enjoyed the heart of the story and the characters throughout. In the end, I was also aware of the rushed aspects of the narrative too at times.

All in all, I started to have less attachment to really wanting to watch or enjoy the media I was into, and just started focusing on MBTMS itself. Because I still liked Rayllum, and people still liked what I wrote. Though, it became an issue for me, because now I was essentially writing for a fandom I was losing interest in, which meant motivation was hard to muster.

I just felt like I was obligating myself to writing something I wasn't invested in, which made me worry that it would reflect in my writing. And the last thing I wanted, was to write something and put it out when I wasn't even happy with it. With that aside, time just kept moving on and suddenly there's 6 Seasons of this series, and I felt like it was just a lot.

The pacing of TDP has always been... strange. I understand that it's been separated into sagas as well. For MBTMS, I genuinely do wish to finish it someday. But the issue with most of MBTMS, is that it's largely set in an AU stories. And AU or not, I do my best to emulate the canon characters in their personalities and behaviours. So it's hard to do that when you haven't looked at canon material for so long nor if you're just not all too keen on getting back into it.

TL;DR: After putting it off for awhile, it got away from me and my interest slowly waned based on the overall pacing and output of the show. From the reviews and responses, I just felt less inclined to get back into it which affected my motivation to writing for MBTMS. I don't think I'll return to MBTMS, but I wish to someday.

Thanks for the ask, Anon. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm glad and pleased to know you enjoyed my stories for the time you shared with them.

Until next ask,

- Bleh

[k1ng0k]

Doodles

1. Eugene and Carlos from MBTM | 2. Mei from Monkie Kid

[thefieryeclipse]

Moments Between the Madness - Chapter 8 ("A Little Thing Like Danger")

“I'm a killer, Peter,” Sylar said softly, “it's all I am.” Watching him, Peter swept his drying hair behind his ear where most of it refused to stay put. “I used to think that. Now I'm not so sure.” Sylar struggled to hide how deafened he was by the lack of alarm bells in his skull ringing 'lie'.

The closer he gets to finally finding his father, the more Sylar can't help but wish he could take even longer to get there...

I know I promised this chapter a while ago, and here it is, the longest one so far to thank you for your patience between updates! X) I look forward to sharing these events of the story with you and hope you think it was worth the wait!

Happy reading <3

Ao3:

FFN:

[magicalbuffalotransformerman]

[Rage.]

[Rage drives many a thing - many wrong, but a good many right as well.]

[In this case... rage leads to mutual destruction.]

[Walking amongst the newly-wrecked No Bot's Land, one ['07!] Optimus Prime looks around at the destruction in despair and victory. On one hand, he finally defeated the Decepticons, once and for all. On the other, a rare few Autobots remain - him among them. His actions have led to this monument of death emerging from the deepest darkest depths of his nightmares.]

[Optimus finds a severed head, the base of the neck scorched by a gunshot. A rocket trooper. Thrown to the afterlife as soon as he was into the war. He keeps the head in a pocket.]

[Then... he hears a roaring engine, faintly in the distance. A disturbing scream of metal, seemingly running on vengeance, a stark contrast to the quiet fury of the flames and creaking metal around Optimus.]

[The engine only grows louder. Optimus unsheathes an armblade, expecting trouble in some sort.]

[Trouble comes flying at Optimus, in the form of someone he'd thought he'd destroyed the willpower of back when he fired a nuke down south. A Decepticon, no doubt, fuelled by pure hatred. Hatred for the Autobots. Hatred for Optimus Prime. Hatred in its most vile, sadistic form.]

[Bonecrusher.]

[Optimus parries the oncoming beast into a wrecked building, but it only rebounds off of the wall, back at him. Optimus once again parries it into a car.]

[The beast sits up, unsheathing a sword of its own. Optimus can feel the presence of the sword, stained with Energon from countless victims. Autobot, Decepticon, it didn't matter to the blade. It was simply hungry.]

[The cannibal wielding it was starved of vengeance for too long.]

Optimus: ...So. You're here to kill me off, permanently. But are you going to savor it?

[It only growls at him, intending to shove the sword deep into Optimus' bones. He only barely has the reaction time to parry it away at the last second, forgetting about the claw on the back of the beast, of which bites deep into his upper back and pinning him to the ground.]

[Optimus writhes against the ground. He cannot get his arms far back enough to attack Bonecrusher.]

Bonecrusher: they say that you're the good guys. what 'good guy' lies to their soldiers - to the civilians they claim to protect - by performing whatever monstrosity the day called for next?

Optimus: S-so... you do speak! [He attempts to laugh, to mock Bonecrusher, but the beast simply responds by stomping on his head.]

Bonecrusher: you ruined countless lives. so many cybertronians, meatbags, and more fell to your blade and your war machine. you ruined relationships, purely for the purpose of victory. the other optimi aren't like you, prime. you let your trauma and ptsd turn you into a sadistic killer. a blood knight for the sole purpose of brutally annihilating your enemies.

Optimus: Who are you t-to speak of people being monsters? Hmm?

Bonecrusher: i do not intend to seem a hypocrite. i only seek to have you feel the suffering you enacted upon your own race. upon my team... my gang.

Optimus: Ohh... is this about the nuclear strike?

[bonecrusher only responds with pinning optimus to the floor with his sword, instead of his claw.]

Bonecrusher: you do not deserve a warrior's death. you deserve a slow, torturous demise only worthy of you.

[a beat.]

Bonecrusher: i bet you taste terrible when undercooked.

Optimus: ...What?

[bonecrusher walks over to the wrecked building optimus parried him into. he sees that only one pillar carries the weight of the building, and that its center of mass hangs over optimus. with vigor, he topples the pillar, rolls over to optimus, yanks his sword out, and runs out of the way of the collapsing building.]

[of course, optimus was crushed and - to bonecrusher's plan - burned alive. bonecrusher waits in the meantime.]

[a voice in bonecrusher's head speaks to him.]

?: you know, you could've fought him one on one.

BC: i don't care.

[another pipes up.]

??: so you... want us to watch you eat a cooked corpse?

BC: exactly. i got hungry from the rage.

?: ...yeah, okay. that tracks with what we've seen of you earlier. that one body though... yech.

BC: don't judge me. you're the ones constantly asking for blood. it's only fair that i grab something for myself along the way.

[bonecrusher sits upon the pile of concrete, listening to optimus' screams and arguing with the voices in his head.]

[mbtm-ramblewriting]

i wanna do a quick little. multi-paragraph thing on an idea i had regarding bonecrusher's origins. like. entirely ripping him away from the original from 2007 and making him something a little more interesting than 'ooh me hate everything' - though keeping it simple is cool, too.

idk. here's an attempt

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[ BC-77 was never the most well-oiled cog in the machine. Brash, crude, and just a little bit sadistic, he wasn't the easiest miner to work with either. He made for an efficient cargo hauler, and if the situation called for it he made for an applicable fighter. He had some alright strategies. ]

[ A few days before the Incursion that saw Sentinel Prime brought down and torn in two by the self-proclaimed Megatron, he was found and detained by Airachnid and brought to an unknown location. She informed him that he was brought into custody under suspicions of 'insider knowledge regarding Sentinel Prime'. ]

[ As a result of his false imprisonment, he was unable to see the self-proclaimed Prime's end at the hands of a vengeful miner-turned-tyrant. He was made to barely function off of a diet of discarded Cybertronian parts, chained in a damp and dark cage. For some odd reason, his spider-like captor had made the harrowing meals... tolarable... for him, forced him to develop a taste for the flesh of his fellow mech. Even seasoned most of them. ]

[ This regime lasted for years. BC-77 was the sole witness to Airachnid's development from a calculative, all-seeing and loyal security detail into a cold, cunning and sadistic huntress. Even as she changed for the worse, she still kept him around, kept him alive. For what continued reason, he was never told why. ]

[ His eventual freeing had entirely escaped his databanks, but all he knows now is that he was granted a Transformation Cog and left in the Sea of Rust, a clueless and dissheveled ex-miner left to fend for himself. It... was not pretty. ]

[ The coming centuries saw BC-77 - his name not yet provided to him - subsisting off of a new diet. A much more stomach-churning diet - that of Insecticons. His newfound form was hard to get used to... he had been hunched over for so long that his T-cog had kept it - morphed his chassis around his posture. That had left him... hateful. ]

[ BC-77's survival ended when just a few short years before the War for Cybertron, a bucketheaded tyrant located him during one of his disgusting meals. The warlord introduced himself as Megatron. He was perturbed that the hunchbacked mech before him had not been granted a proper name. He offered an option. ]

[ "How about... Bonecrusher?" ] [ It would do. ]

[ The Decepticon Cause, to the newly-dubbed Bonecrusher, had seemed like a load of beryllium bologna. A fallacy to think of when all hope seems lost. He hadn't known hope for a while, and even then, he was reluctant to join. He hated his new coworkers, his new boss, the new food supplements, the fighting, the Energon that got in his joints when he attacked Autobots... ]

[ He hated himself. In some sense, he still does. ]

[ The War for Cybertron had passed. Time, as it always does, passes. During the events of Transformers Prime, Bonecrusher was not seen. After a few short days of attempted off-screen communications, Megatron had entirely abandoned the idea of relocating the rogue hunchback and left him to his life - whatever he may be doing, is of no concern to the tyrant.]

[ The time passed anyway. ]

[ Some time before 2007, Megatron had been granted a report from one of his lowly minions. 'We found the hunchback!', it sputtered at him. Pushing it aside, Megatron left his terrible abode to track down Bonecrusher of his own volition. ]

[ The meetup was... poor, to say the least. After almost getting his aft beat - by a cannibalistic hunchback, no less - Megatron finally managed to negotiate a truce between he and Bonecrusher. 'Spare me your hate... and go hunt down the mech that'd made you who you are!' ]

[ He didn't buy it. He never did. He hated negotiations, hated Megatron for forgetting about him, hated Megatron's arrogance and despicably scrap-eating grin. But... he hated heroes more. Heroes never did anything for him, the miner that'd disappeared off the face of Cybertron for Primus knows how long. He didn't care who Optimus Prime really was... just that he was a hero. ]

[ 'Bonecrusher rolling' was all he said. He didn't care for English. He was told where this Optimus mech was, and he rolled to intercept. He made sure to make a name for himself by tackling a bus of meatbags, to build his legacy of mercilessness in case they thought the big hunchback bot was any good. ]

[ He tacked the red'n'blue Autobot off of the bridge, got punched in the jaw, and the rest was a blur. He wasn't co-ordinated past that point, and before he knew it, he was eating a superheated sword to the face and killed. ]

[ His lifeless husk was left alone. Sector Seven, Cemetery Wind, hell, not even Lockdown bothered to locate his remains... ]

[ ...but one lowly mech did. The mech that'd later beccme one of his most trusted compatriots, the mech that'd later teach him what it means to let go of his hate. Bunkerbuster. ]

[ And as they say, the rest is history. ]

[ even if it was written terribly by an inexperienced moron. ]

[kestrapingree]

Hello, everyone.

Amidst all the craziness that's been happening nonstop in the world, I have some good news. Her Wild Wolf is now available on Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, as well as Amazon.

Book link: books2read.com/HerWildWolf

I'll be back with more good news later. Like free books/new free chapters, that sort of stuff.

Hang in there, friends.

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[blehblarghblah]

Magic Between the Moon & Sky: Rayllum Oneshot Series - A 5 Year Anniversary

Today marks the five year anniversary of MBTMS’ release. (Technically it’s tomorrow for Ao3, but FFN I posted there first). A oneshot collection that is yet to be finished, I know, but one that I treasure deeply. I may have fallen out of my love for TDP in certain elements, but the writing and what I started with in regards to Rayllum was something else.

I don’t mean to be all, “I was there when it was written” but I joined this fandom in its season one days, when it was REAL small here on Tumblr. Which meant smaller ship circles too. I’m glad to have witnessed the fandom blossom and grow, and by that extension, Rayllum itself too.

I know many of my readers probably assume I won’t be returning to MBTMS, but you’re kinda wrong. I swear I’m not one of those 100 oneshot fics that stop halfway (no fault to them of course, sometimes passion runs out)! I legitimately have more than a dozen oneshots planned out. But, I’m also biding my time. I’ve learned with fic writing, that writing what I love is just as crucial as being passionate about it. I'm not currently into TDP but I still enjoy the oneshot concepts i thought up for my fics, so I'll probably only work from those.

I mean, I can probably just grind out the last oneshots and meet the 100 quota, but they wouldn’t be good. Or maybe, they would be to some of you, but they wouldn’t be something I could be proud of. Least of all, I wouldn’t have fun writing it. So yeah, I do believe I know my limits and the extent of my creativity.

But the main reason at the end of the day, as to why I won’t drop this fic, is because it has quite literally spawned some of my best writing. “Loyalty & Light”, “The Most Undoing Thing”, my Taang oneshots, “Legends of Avatar: The Untold Story”, they’ve all had great prose that I’m proud of. Some not so much, but that’s growth.

“Magic Between the Moon & Sky” houses many different styles and concepts I could never explore with most of my fandoms. I’ve written a modern college AU grounded in the slowest of burns, I’ve written childhood AUs diving into the naivety and hilariousness of a kid's mind, and I’ve written an emotionally powerful (as readers have said) Soulmate AU even though I don’t like Soulmate AUs. And I have many more mind, but I’ve also managed to explore the canon and interpret my own ideas from before we learned anything of the lore.

Some were at the requests of fans, others were because I wanted to try and get my feet wet. Much like Callum and Rayla themselves, this fic was a great avenue for me to explore my abilities as a writer and try new things. And in the end, I’m proud of that. And I cannot wait to see what I do next.

Thank you all, for an amazing five years of patience and love. Again, no idea when I'll return to this fic but I'll get around to it.

Until next post,

- Bleh

[fitafter40]

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