#Victory condition

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Megatron and Optimus get stuck in a cave

Author: @astolat

Note from submitter: this fic kind of rewired my brain? and I mean in more than just the ''it got me into transformers fandom'' sense it literally made me reevaluate my worldview (in a good way)

[scribesynnox]

I finished reading Victory Conditions by astolat on ao3 and I will never recover. That fic has fuckin’ rewired my brain. It has rocked my world view. It is a core memory now. I will never be the same.

[mourningstar113]

Excerpts from The Sacrifice of Violence by Astolat (absolutely NOT my writing) It’s written as Megatron’s perspective, in the continuity where he was a poet and wrote political polemics, including Towards Peace, his main manifesto.

Here, he writes for Optimus.

[cleverthylacine]

Oh I knew exactly what fic that was from the initial description.

I was always going to write a fix-it fic where Ravage left the Lost Light and went back to Sanctuary Station before Tarn could kill her.

It's because of THIS fic, however, that she decided to take over the Decepticon cause herself after Megatron's abandonment of his people.

She is the Stranger on the Way <3

If you like Voice of Stanix you should read this. It's G1 and VoS is heavily IDW-based, and VoS is past MegOp but not MegOp endgame, but @astolat is the reason I realised that Ravage being a poet (because she insisted) and rhetorician (because JRo wrote her that way) who was Megatron's equal meant she could do it.

It's SO GOOD.

I hate it when people defend fic by insisting that it is, or can be, better than published fiction. Fic can be very good, but it is a whole different genre, and really good fic never tries to be like published, or even publishable fiction.

Case in point, I recently read a story that absolutely floored me with the strength of its characterisation, dialogue, and sheer vision. It was a deliberate riff on the concept of Omelas, fitting a new narrative into the imagery of darkness and light, of solitary suffering under a joyful city. It engaged with the problem of evil and the difficulty of not only building a just society, but also ensuring it actually remained just in the face of serious pressure over time. It made me feel things I haven’t felt since I was eighteen and heavily overidentified with Alyosha Karamazov.

But I can’t share this brilliant gem of a story with anyone I know irl because it also has three scenes of Optimus Prime getting vigorously dicked in the dorsal access port, whatever that is.

[quailsprout]

starlight

[pinkinsect]

watching haikyuu after being in the blue lock pit for a while is so refreshing. like they're so normal

[mourningstar113]

And who knows, maybe I’m wrong about all this. Maybe there’s someone over there already And if we just get close enough They’ll come out to show us the rest of the way. If so, I’ll give this to you when we get there And watch you weep And I’ll pay my last debt with whatever I’ll feel then Equally impossible to imagine.

So I’ll make the bargain for us all And if there’s a way to that empire shining like an unsheathed blade with truth Buy it with all we have Though we won’t know if we’ll make it until we have.

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*rereads Victory Condtion*

*thinks about how IDW handled Megs & OP*

*lies down and dies*

[edennill-archived]

Unpopular opinion, but I don't think Frodo is a messianic figure. He's the Everyman.

A saintly, virtuous one who tries his very best, but still an Everyman.

[abirddogmoment]

I forgot to do a Week 4 Recap post this week but she's crushing it.

[e17omm]

So Frostpunk 2...

I've accidentally managed to make selling children legal.

[astolat]

a few hours in the dark when you did not yet love me

vc insp

[scribesynnox]

"body dysphoria to the next level" would you believe me if I told you that it took my friend explaining back to me what I'd written to realize I'd put my transgenderism in the giant robots. This surely has no effect on my idea that most mech pilots see rapid deterioration of mental state when forced to pilot too often, but that a select few, including Jazz, deteriorate rapidly when not allowed to pilot frequently. Or that he learns field repairs so he can keep them from taking his mech (his body) from him as often.

Ooooooooo, yes yes yes YES, that is some good shit right there, I LOVE IT. @keferon cuz this is part of the tf mecha universe.

Hehehehe, the program taking note that certain pilots are almost addicted to syncing up with their mechs, always clocking in more pilot practice time than anyone else, and getting worse if they don’t get their fix. They love these pilots because more mech time means better results. But they have to watch out because they get.. particular about their assigned mech, getting touchy about ANYONE performing modifications or check ups on their mech without their say so, trying to hold onto their mech even when told to leave it, acting like the mecha belongs to them. They need to be regularly reminded that the mecha suits do not belong to them, they belong to the program, and whatever the program wants done to the suits, the pilots must nod their head and agree.

Jazz learning mech repair for the explicit purpose of not having to give up his mech time for repairs, that is some good shit. Him learning not just for practical reasons, not just because the engineers and scientists around him shove that knowledge down his throat, but because he seeks out the knowledge himself because that's HIS mecha. It is him, it is his, and he can not trust these people to treat him- his mecha- the mecha right.

But at the same time, every pilot here has already sold their body and soul to the program. They may not have known completely what it was they were signing up for, but they got the gist after the training killed most of the candidates. There is no backing out, no escape. So what if the scientists and engineer monitor every aspect of their mech time, if they tinker and poke and prod at their- the mecha body?

But for these few people, who feel at home in their mechanical bodies, in this, at least, they want to keep this bit to themself. For as long as they can. As much as they can. Which isn't a lot in the "let's throw giant robots and humans at these aliens and see what sticks" program, but they try anyways.

[bandzboy]

it’s so insane how some of the ot6 fans are reacting to the news of seunghan coming back because i think for a while, they really thought they won. they thought he was gonna be another idol who was gonna get kicked out for doing normal human shit that for some reason, bothers them to the core. things he did PRE DEBUT were bothersome to this people.

but then, he came back. if it wasn’t for the members constantly supporting him behind the scenes and the fans who were constantly reminding sm that they cared about him and wanted him back then maybe this wouldn’t happen and it’s truly sad to think how these crazy fans who have no life almost controlled the narrative yet again.

i am glad seunghan was not another victim of this. it must have taken a lot of courage and self determination to continue despite being slandered by the media and the ot6 fans and also other kpop stans. all of this to say, that i hope another situation like this doesn’t happen again. it’s too normal in this industry to punish idols for being human but i hope this starts a shift in the right direction

[tj-crochets]

No crafting updates today, but I did bake a spiced pumpkin cake! And I made salted caramel sauce this weekend, so tomorrow I'll make the salted caramel frosting. My hip's doing better than it was yesterday, but now the muscles around my knee on that same side are rebelling, so still no iron or rotary cutter for me

[wickershells]

pissing me the fuck off honestly

[mc-critical]

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