#Voice of Stanix

[cleverthylacine]

Help me I need this - Ocular Max Shadowfang

Where can I find this? There are two on ebay but they're $700.

Even if I didn't have all the other Ocular Max Remix Ravage molds (three Ravages, Howlback and Glit) this is Blackcat.

In other words, for those of you who read my fic, this is the character formerly known as Agent Blackcat, the RavWaves' daughter, Viridian.

There is only one other figure of this character in existence and I do have it, but it's non-transforming and has only minimal articulation (you can move the head a little, the position of the body is fixed). It's much smaller than the other figures but that's fine because from her first appearance in A Few Small Repairs through the end of Designs and Persuasions, she is a sub-adult who has passed as a mini-con among the Autobots.

But I'm still working on Recovered Light and Year of the Cat right now (current politics messed with my plans, lmao, both in terms of IRL time and also in terms of in-universe plot) and by the end of YOTC she'll be bigger. And when we get to Quintessential, she'll be an adult. (Arguably, Viridian, Silverwing, Predaking, Soundblaster, Dedication and Catfish do a lot of the heavy lifting in Quintessential.) And this one is the same size as all the Ravages. Plus, you know, it moves. I need her so bad aaaargh! I was going to go to TFCon LA but I banged up my knee and my mom went into the hospital and my savings dropped in value and ... ugh, STUFF.

Any and all help in finding Viridian Shadowfang for sale at a reasonable price will be gratefully accepted.

[cleverthylacine]

There are only 15 minutes left of it where I live, but I hope everyone had a 

Happy Megatron Monday!

(also I thought @scholarlyhobbit​ would appreciate seeing Megatron in a danseur’s outfit)

Sorry I haven’t been around much but I have started working on Voice of Stanix again.  I have about half a chapter of Designs & Persuasions done that needs to go up at the same time as the next chapter of Winding Road :)

The Slagmaker Ballet will be returning to the Grand Imperial Theater of Tetrahex this winter.

[dontpetmeibite]

Have you ever felt disgusted with Megatron? Or any of your partners. Bad things happened in the War.

I think that in most relationships, even where people haven't committed any war crimes, there might be moments of disgust. (Also, war--any war--involves bad things.)

I was absolutely disgusted with Megatron when the Lost Light and its alternate counterpart came into the same space and the ship started disappearing around us, and he allowed us to be locked in a storeroom together, and we had the first real talk that we'd had since the end of the war.

I actually attacked him, you know, and he let me. I drew blood when I slapped his face, and all he did was take my wrist in his hand and hold it until I calmed down.

I've never felt more like a fraud in my entire life. See, Megatron and I used to argue a lot about things, but he was almost always able to convince me to go along with things that I wasn't really comfortable with, because the mech has charisma, and a way with words, and because we have known one another almost all of our lives. I used the arguments on him that he had always used on me--and also on Deadlock, except Deadlock snapped and I didn't. "Everyone wobbles." "This is just part of being a Decepticon." "You'll see what I meant on the other side of this." And so on.

But none of them worked when I used them on him.

And for him to turn to the Autobots for decency, when Soundwave had been standing there right next to him for four million years, and we had made it clear so many times that we didn't like the new versions of the infiltration protocols, and that we'd rather have administered the populations of our client worlds than obliterated them, and I'd even asked him once why, if it didn't matter what shape or size or form people were, it should matter what kinds of chemicals we were made of. We were community organisers back in Rodion. We never used violence then except as a last resort. I was never a freaking pacifist because I knew we were going to have to kill off most of the Senate just to fucking survive, let alone do any good, but I didn't use violence against people who had less power than I did except as needed for self-defence.

And because Megatron loved us, he didn't have us taken out and shot. But he did remove us from any and all decision making and authority over subject worlds. Soundwave was particularly upset about all of the time he had spent setting up class warfare on worlds so that we could drive people like the Senate out of power and arrange for badly needed revolutions...only for Megatron to decide after a few million years that after that, he'd send in Phase Sixers instead of a planetary governor.

So yeah. I was furious. Angry. Disgusted.

I can't tell you why I didn't stop loving him then. Why I never have, even though we are not together like that anymore. I will say that I was very relieved when I found out exactly how much damage Trepan did to him before Rung stopped him, and why, and that Sunder had pulled out all the staples and stitches and threads without touching him on the Lost Light. I won't say that it excuses everything or even anything he did that was wrong. But it was very enlightening to discover that the original plan of the Senate had been to break his mind and turn him loose only to have him destroy his own revolution, and that it had actually worked, except it had taken four million years and they all died at our hands not knowing that it had succeeded.

Megatron and I have always had a very tangled, enmeshed relationship and I wouldn't say it was ever a 'healthy' one--whatever the fuck that actually means. I've come to feel, especially after meeting the jackrod, that Terminus to some degree groomed Megatron, and that he passed some of that on down to me. I used to laugh about the fact that people would misread some of his old poetry and come to the conclusion that he was Parvilla's parent/mentor rather than her lover. (Parvilla was my pseudonym as a poet and also the name that he gave me as one of his muses.) But it's actually a little creepy, and we've both acknowledged that in recent years.

That said, he was one of the first people I ever met who cared how much I was being hurt back then. We are still amicae, but we are no longer sexually involved.

The worst moment in my relationship life, though, was with Soundwave, who is also the person I love and have loved the most. After Megatron's public and embarrassing abdication and betrayal of the cause and of his people, Soundwave (after a lot of goading from Galvatron) ordered me to go after Megatron, and find out if he was serious about this Autobot business, and kill him if that was the case. I was furious with Soundwave and angry that he wouldn't step up to the leadership himself when he's a better person in every way than Galvatron, and I was also really angry that he thought it was acceptable to set me on my amica. I knew it was a sort of test and a cruel one--because I hadn't fully recovered from cassettification, and I couldn't really properly refuse the order.

But I also knew he was out of his mind with grief at the time, mourning the illusion he'd had of who Megatron was, and the damage that Megatron had done to us together and separately, and to our relationship, and the way in which he'd manipulated us both to get us to cooperate with him. I knew that Megatron had hurt him deeply, and more importantly, I knew that there had been times when Megatron and I (together) had caused him a lot of pain; and on the Lost Light, it became apparent that between him and Megatron, he was the one who actually loved me the most.

Riptide asked me once whether I'd choose Soundwave over Megatron and I told him to stop trying to commit suicide-by-cat in the heat of the moment but later I told him that the choice I had made was to choose myself. I let both of them know that they couldn't manipulate me anymore and that I wouldn't put up with it from either of them.

Megatron pulled one last stunt that cost him the benefica part of 'amica benefica' after that. But shortly before I left the Lost Light, Soundwave rescinded the order, and while I had had all the cassette protocols overwritten by Ratchet, I also forgave him for giving it, because I understood the stress that he had been undergoing at the time, and because I knew he knew why it was wrong and regretted it.

I love Soundwave more than anyone and Megatron more than most, but I've been disgusted with things that they did. What matters to me is that they, too, became disgusted with those things. You know, we were all horrifically mistreated in our early youth. We knew what we knew. We knew the way we were being treated was wrong, but we had to figure out how and why on our own. At the time, every moral authority we were aware of was telling us that we were in the wrong because we refused to submit to our superiors in caste and obey the orders we were given. And Cybertronians committed genocides before the Decepticons did, and if you don't think the Autobots committed atrocities, I will be happy to introduce you to my sister, who survived Garrus-9, or to point out to you that the MTO programme was nothing we would ever have come up with on our own if we hadn't had to fight an enemy who was already using it. We were enslaved by the Quintessons, and the Iaconian culture which led the rebellion overtook and attempted to eradicate most other Cybertronian cultures, and out from the centre it spread, like a plague.

I don't believe there's a single living Cybertronian over the age of one hundred (years, not vorns or millennia) who has managed to avoid becoming complicit in some atrocity or other. But I also don't believe that executions solve problems. All execution does is make a few people (not all of them) who got harmed feel a little better emotionally, at the expense of the mental health of the person who is ordered to kill a helpless prisoner, and at the expense of every possible act of atonement or expiation that person could ever commit in an attempt to repair the universe. Revenge shouldn't be outsourced.

I've had a lot of conversations about imperialism and colonialism and conquest with people in recent years, especially Marissa Faireborn, and Charlie Watson. And I'm sorry that the evolution of our culture came at the cost of so many other peoples and worlds, but at some point you just have to stop what you're doing and do better. Letting yourself be stuck in a singularity till the heat death of the universe, or letting yourself be murdered in public, doesn't fix anything.

And in the end, Optimus Prime's solution to the problem of Earth was to try to become a coloniser himself, and Soundwave and I are proud that we helped Earth's inhabitants stop and resist and apply to the Council of Worlds on their own, with Sanctuary providing encouragement and assistance but not attempting to trespass their sovereignty.

I've rambled a lot. Thanks for your patience. I do that.

[kalahannikolai]

The design for Jazz in my AU, a dapper entertainer and warrior alike! He represents the true heroism and nobility that the decepticons should represent, and he often acts as the voice of reason and compassion. A heroic spark and friend to Soundwave, he admired Optimus for his own compassion even as he dislikes the Prime’s tendency to forget the small folk of Cybertron.

A unique take on Jazz, but he’s still got his musical goofiness and kindness we love him for. Haven’t decided yet if he’ll appear in Cyber Emblem, but if he does he’ll definitely be a knightly example that Faerghus would’ve strived to follow. But unlike the knights of Faerghus, Jazz’s code of honor is not so inflexible and he is too dedicated to doing what he feels is right to care about “church doctrines” or “noble authority”.

Lore of this Jazz below!

A youthful spark even fully matured, he's a rambunctious sort who was never quite fond of authority. Originally forged in Central City with the intent of being a mighty Elite Guard for Sentinel's Corps, he grew quickly sick of the regime in training camp and went AWOL. It was a long and arduous journey that Jazz embarked on, as he drifted across Cybertron like a vagabond. He crossed the fiery mountains to Centurion, then off to Hyperious and its mighty forges. There he met some mighty sparks that inspired him to travel even further, and Jazz found himself ascending the eastern arch over the energon sea.

He passed through Stanix, where he found many who suffered from Sentinel's iron fist. Guards beat and brutalized the weak and frightened the young. It was here he first intervened and fought for those who couldn't fight for themselves. It was then the gallant warrior began to make a name for himself, as he inspired the people of Stanix. From there, he traveled further up the arch and passed through Tyrest.

Here he began to find predacons locked into vehicular modes, and he recalled the predacons he's seen in Centurion. Where that city stood in defiance of Sentinel and let predacons stay bestial, in Tyrest were the edicts against the primal strictly enforced. It sickened Jazz to his core but he had to keep going, and he was horrified to see Torus Heights was no better. What should've been the proud monument to all predacons was a shadow of its former glory. The mighty Predaking asleep in stasis and his people oppressed, Jazz knew he couldn't help them and had to leave the predacons behind.

Finally, he came to the city he knew he was meant to be in. The minor city of Bitrex, a half-slum half-engineering center, it was an odd dichotomy of advancement and poverty. Young bots just freshly beyond their proto-stages alone on the streets. Aged bots struggling to make ends meet for their families. Here, Jazz knew he could make a change. Thus did he start, as he fended off Sentinel's brutal officers and encouraged the people to be brave.

Eventually, he would free Bitrex and bring joy and freedom to it once more, and the citizens honored his efforts. Jazz would soon find the time to pursue more cheerful ventures, as he discovered a talent and love for singing and dancing in the bars and pubs of Bitrex. His powerful voice possessed a tonal range that most cybertronians couldn't reach. He quickly became popular for singing just as much, if not more so, than for his martial prowess. Eventually, he would even one day meet and inspire a repressed bot who introduced himself as "Sounder".

Before long, the pair got along famously and became close friends, close enough that Soundwave would give his true name. Jazz would be proud of the day his friend quit his job, and rejoined him with a disguised face but a renewed sense of purpose. After Soundwave customized himself thoroughly, and met his small companions, he and Jazz made names for themselves as a duo from then on with their free reign. Even when his friend would one day meet the gladiator king of Kaon and join the rebellious faction dubbed the "Decepticons", Soundwave would beckon him to follow.

Hesitant at first to fight in a civil war, Jazz did so out of faith in his friend. But he refused to fight on the front, and Jazz was given clearance by Soundwave himself to remain in Bitrex. Thus did the city become a proud con city, Jazz its leader and guardian. There did cons send the weak, young, old, and injured, and Jazz proudly defended them. He would prove to be the noblest of them all in time...

[ka-wa-bunga]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This was supposed to come out YESTERDAY! Im glad I was able to get it done today though, can finally talk about his voice!

Ive thought a lot about what Diamond would sound like and I think I have a good idea

While singing I believe he'd sound EXACTLY like this!

When he's just talking though he'll sound a lot more raserved and quiet (unless he's with a group, which case he'd talk more firm and direct)

Before the great war he would have been seen as a monarch of theater, a paragon for lyrical arts. Diamond is such a fun character for me and I gotta stop favoring him over Airfrost and Stanix.

[daikougou]

Hello from Ankokuyousai!

Independent Esmeral blog by @cleverthylacine; information for potential friends and followers below the cut.

Mun: @cleverthylacine, she/they, extremely adult. Go to my personal blog for demographics.

Verse: This is primarily a Voice of Stanix Esmeral (in other words, Transformers Victory Esmeral but in an IDW AU). If you haven't read VoS, Esmeral is Megaempress' daughter, and she inherited her mother's throne shortly after Megatron's abdication and her mother's death. Lunaclover, Moonheart, Trickdiamond, and Flowspade are her personal guard and, together with Lyzack, her best friends.

She is pledged to Deathsaurus (@dragcnspark). (He is not a VoS Deathsaurus, but this is RP-land and we have fun here.)

She is secretly EmeraldWings, who is one of the primary administrators of the Big Conversation. Please note that in her universe you are not allowed to dox anyone on the Big Conversation, including yourself, so she will not admit it.

Rules: I'm not very fond of lots of rules, so the usual - no godmodding, and work things out with me before you attempt to have sexytimes or a fight with her. Mun does not interact with players under the age of 18.

I cut smut but can't make my RP partners do that so block "nsft" and "nsfw" if you don't want to see it.

Pertinent info: I don't tolerate TERFs, bigots of any kind, obnoxious people, and anti-shippers. (You are probably not an anti if you don't know what that means, so don't worry about it!)

I don't like people who think that if they object to the content of somebody else's writing or art, they are entitled to harass that person. Even if I personally think the content is disgusting myself, which has happened, I just hit the back button and think about kittens, and that's what you should do, too.

I do tag all my stuff with appropriate content labels when topics that people commonly find objectionable come up, even in conversations, and if you want to write with me I will generally agree to not bring up topics you don't want to write in our threads.

PS: I will not under any circumstances tag content involving fully sapient beastformers as 'bestiality', and if you ask me to do that, I will be creatively rude. I'll tag it with ship names so you can filter out ships you don't like, but I won't tag it like that.

Header art and icon are lineart from the Transformers Victory manga, coloured by my bff @sharkteethies.

[meetyoualltheway]

About Rosanna

Rosanna of Fractyl is a Cybertronian pop idol singer. She exists in the Kiss Players and TFA canons. She is also seen at a protest in the IDW 2005 comics with her purple sister, Flip Sides.

Flip Sides and Rosanna are cassetticons and they are the same model as Rewind and Eject, but with feminising modifications, such as a metal "skirt". Although all of Rosanna's toys have been sold with weapons, she doesn't seem to use them in canon. There is an implication in some canon materials that Rosanna (who is an Autobot) and Filp Sides (who is a Decepticon) may be the same person, but I don't play them that way.

I can play her from KP or TFA equally well. I know KP very well. I can also play the one in my Voice of Stanix fics. I do not mind playing KP verse as long as people aren't gross about it.

I don't have a lot of rules--they're all pretty obvious things, except one.

No god-modding or killing/maiming or NSFW happens to my characters without my explicit consent in direct messages.

Do not rush into relationships with my characters. It is OK to assume friendships that exist in canon but nothing further.

Don't assume that you know stuff about Rosanna that your character wouldn't canonically be in a position to know.

I do not care if male characters flirt with Rosanna, because dudes flirt with lesbians all the time. But as a player you should know that my Rosanna is a lesbian and your male characters have no chance of getting anywhere with her. She will not go out with them except as friends and she will never pop her panels for them. She is gay gay gay for girls girls girls.

No minors and especially no minors in my NSFW.

Rosanna canonically has exotic pets and in TFA she had a lot of them. I will joke about Carole Baskin coming after her because Carole Baskin is a joke, but I will block animal rights propaganda. My feelings about exotic pets are a) not exactly the same as Rosanna's b) not something I'm willing to fight about in an RP blog.

[cleverthylacine]

This is the Leverage video that made me realise @jamoche was not only right about Voice of Stanix Ravage and Soundwave being robot Parker and Hardison, but also that Jazz is their robot Spencer.

[cleverthylacine]

#though I should argue with you separately over M & structured verse forms

We don't actually disagree about this.

A sonnet is, however, not the sort of structured verse form that I think he'd write, even though I like to write them.

I'm not always very big on counting the syllables, because we're translating from Neocybex to English anyway, but the way that Megatron and Ravage argue in poetry in Voice of Stanix (the series title of which after all is a spoiler for the fact that she is the successor to the Voice of Tarn) is drawn from my heavy reading of Japanese court diaries and particularly Heian literature.

In the prequel which I need to finish eventually, they will actually do it in person, like Sei Shounagon and the courtiers did--but in Diamonds & Rust, of course, they did it on the Big Conversation, because he had posted the original poem she wrote there and then written a response to it, and she was Deeply Irritated. That was very extemporaneous and a bit sloppy (she was mad, and she is not structured when she is mad--and he knew she was mad). But someday I'll attempt one of their conversations from the Conclave days, and that will not be sloppy, even though her style does run to less structure than his.

Also, it might happen in Year of the Cat or in Quintessential. After all, she hasn't been in his physical presence since she left the Lost Light as of the current moment where we're dangling around between Recovered Light and Year of the Cat; but, at the end of Recovered Light, he will be on Sanctuary Station...and whatever happens with him and Minimus during RL, he will be Full of Emotions Either Way.

I have in fact written linking poetry in RP, sometimes even with other people playing Megatron to my Ravage. Also, my then-best friend Rachel, who I sadly haven't seen in years, and I used to irritate the shit out of people in the 1980s when we played the tabletop RPG Samurai, because we would actually write the poetry.

The thing is, writing rhyming poetry in Japanese is ridiculously easy (though not for me because I read at like a third grade level lol)--because there are only 5 vowel sounds a syllable other than nn can end in. Japanese rap is amazing to listen to and sounds much more structured to the Western ear than English language or AAL/AAVE rap because the rhymes are very rhymey, but they're cheating in a way, and once when I was very very drunk in the late 90s I was at a party my friend's boyfriend was DJing/MCing at and I somehow ended up rapping in Japanese with 6 guys who were probably just letting me have a turn at the mic out of sheer amusement, but I wish I could remember even five percent of what I said.

Because I was VERY drunk.

(Also, the best party I have ever been to was a Japanese hiphop party on a San Francisco ferry cruise in the middle of the night where there were like 10 people there who weren't native born Japanese immigrants or nisei, and...there were only two who weren't black, of which one was me. There was a really wild Japanese-language club scene her in the 90s, a zine and a group called Cooltempo and a bunch of parties at various clubs called the Orange party. I went and danced at Orange whenever I got the chance.)

Unpopular opinion but I like poems that rhyme

[ka-wa-bunga]

"The least you can do is smile, dear"

For someone who could silence entire auditoriums with his vocaliser, Diamond's voice always seemed to grate at his aduibles like a scraplet devouring rusted metal.

"My orders are to ensure you're never brought to harm again, not be your... arm candy"

He glanced down to find the singer glaring up at him, his prestine mask replaced with the ugly disdain across his features. Diamond hurridly replaced his mask the moment another camera was shoved into his face. Fortress Monolith rolled his optics.

"Smile any harder and your dermas going to split"

The grip on his arm tightened in warning and he couldnt help his mouth curling in a smirk.

Their Facebook relationship status would say "Our marriage was a mistake" and then have pictures of them shyly holding hands together. Smh

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH theze two are just my silly lil guys! Airfrost though doesnt know how she should feel about her mentor dating hisnbody guard. She will admit though, Monolith knows the best place to get energon sweets

I adore when a couple can be cute yet bicker, that push and pull is kinda what I was going for with their relastionship, Diamond could care less about this other mech in his life, and Monolith is just trying to do his job. (They love eachother though)

We got the whole found family now though! Next is going to be finishing up Stanix and his wayward trine, with a hint to his future (then deceased) Conjunx Endora. Stay tuned!

[cleverthylacine]

Watching My Daughter Climb Trees In The Oxygen Farm (Ravage's Poetry)

I am watching Viridian climbing a tree In the oxygen farm. Soon she will be too big For the stems of these great terrestrial trees (terrestrial trees in a space-bound terrarium where the climate won’t get any better but at least won’t get worse;  this is not sanctuary only for us and our own) And I will still be glad she survived.

When I was the age she is now There were stronger trees living on Cybertron But I didn’t dare run in those forests Or climb on those trees. There were hunters out there And they made a sport out of murdering people like us.

You can ask me again and again why she is alive And I am alive And billions of people whose worlds I once trod on are not. I will not have an answer that satisfies you. Not now, not once, not ever. I will not have an answer that satisfies me.

I did not climb trees in a world that invented atrocities Long before these trees we keep alive out here in space evolved. In the hope of undoing atrocities We invented a whole lot of new ones. Do I deserve to live?

How can I answer that? Life is not a prize for the deserving. It appears wherever it will Sometimes completely unwanted and scorned And it only wants to survive.

I can say that I regret the deaths of others And mean that I regret my part in them The world has never been fair or just And justice is something we usually find accidentally Too often we’re angry and focused on punishing those who oppressed us And somehow forget to restore the oppressed Or to recognise the oppressed in the faces of people who evolved somewhere else.

I don’t regret my own survival I can’t tell you I’m sorry I lived because someone else died.

I can only lie on my spark-mate’s chest as he frets about elephants Even when nobody’s shooting them The people who run their planet are killing it slowly. They're not so different from us after all.

I can only sit here and watch my daughter climb trees At an age when I couldn’t have dreamed of it And be glad that I, and she, and the trees are alive.

--Ravage Stanixa Sanctuary Station 2024

[esquivelle]

Raf thinks for a moment, then frowns. "Oh, shit. I forgot about Father's Day. My parents didn't make it through the war. I go see Abuela on Mother's Day if I can and if not I send her a present. If I'm not with her I hang out with Charlie or June, but...I don't have a substitute dad--" "Yeah you do," Jack says, coming out of the kitchen with a tub of vanilla icing he is eating all by itself with a spoon. Which is kinda gross, but whatever. "You got Soundwave. He hasn't filled out adoption papers, but--"

Raf glared at him. "I am not sending Soundwave a Father's Day card."

"One of his kids is having a party for him. You should go." Jack licks the spoon in a weird way, which Raf ignores.

"Father's Day is for...fathers. Not mentors in general. And there's Mother's Day, which is for mothers." Raf frowns. "If I had a kid, I would just be...a parent. There isn't a day for just that. Fathers are men. Mothers are women. I'm...me."

They shrug and look up at Jack. If Jack started this, he is in so. much. trouble. But Jack is very bad at looking innocent, which means there's no actual way to know, because he is going to look guilty whether he did it or not.

Raf glances at Air Raid. "Sorry," they say. "I had to go work on Mars for a couple of weeks. Did I forget to call? Charlie kept me so busy..."

@esquivelle

".... Do you want something? We saw what day it is. On the calendar." Silverbolt wants to know.

[cleverthylacine]

Playlists

So I not only have playlists for my fics, I have playlists for my characters and playlists for my ships.

Presented for your amusement:

MegaRav: Angst central, all about outgrowing someone and having to leave, realising that a relationship you thought was just fine is so not, realising that you need to let go of that girl and let her live her own damn life. A lot of Alanis. A lot of dudes singing about the sacrifice they made letting their younger girlfriend go. "I Found" by Amber Run, and Dermot Kennedy's "Giants" which is their whole Lost Light arc beginning with the conversation they had while locked in a closet.

RavWave: Mystical songs about soulmates, and cute songs about being young and in love, and songs about communism and changing the world. and angst but only for the times they're separated. Telepath and Bed Head by Manchester Orchestra, Dispatch because there's always Dispatch, some Grateful Dead and Radical Face that express the unbearable brightness of being Soundwave...triumphant songs--and when they take up with Jazz, pretty much every Leverage OT3 vid because when they're Parker and Hardison Jazz is their Eliot.

But then there's Ravage and Nautica.

Their playlist: hahahahahaha. Chappell Roan, Muna, Hope Tala.

Basically, it's Lesbians Behaving Badly.

[dontpetmeibite]

10 songs on shuffle

OK so: y'all should know that I have playlists all over the place and a computer that doesn't have all of my songs on it.

As a result, I had to pick a playlist. The playlist I'm currently using the most is the soundtrack for "Every Day is a Winding Road", which is the fic that follows the Lost Light characters in Voice of Stanix after the story bifurcates into an MTMTE-based and an ex-RID-based pair of arcs.

I mention this largely because this really isn't representative of my musical taste as a whole. For one thing, there is no country music on this list, even though there is some on that playlist. There is also no Ozaki, no Nagabuchi, no Southern All-Stars, no enka, and no rap (not even Dragon Ash). I listen to everything except industrial and post 90s metal.

But the songs are definitely perfect for the story, and it's only 10 out of 50+ songs on the playlist.

the empyrean suite - orchestral, by KazeRyve

every day is a winding road, by Sheryl Crow

backfire, by Aimee Mann

I may fall, from RWBY

starz, by Ben Kweller

i can't decide, by the Scissor Sisters

it's the end of the world as we know it, by REM

I may know the word, by Natalie Merchant (spoiler, it's Minimus not wanting to admit he's in love)

You're Gonna Go Far Kid - The Offspring (#1 getaway bop)

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

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tagging: anyone who wants to do it

[cleverthylacine]

Happy Birthday, @camp-mithril-lake!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Victory Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ravage & Esmeral (Transformers) Characters: Ravage (Transformers), Esmeral (Transformers), Miko Nakadai, Megaempress (Transformers) Additional Tags: Decepticon Culture (Transformers), Decepticon Politics, Female Friendship, Revolutionaries After The Revolution, Megaempress is a Title, Primax 1020.27 Iota, Absolutely Crushing The Bechdel Test Series: Part 13 of All Hail Ravage Summary:  Ravage and Esmeral have been friends online for vorns. They didn't expect their first meetings in person to be so awkward. But Megatron's rule casts a shadow over Ravage's assumption of the title Vox Destron, and Esmeral doesn't want to be exacly the same Megaempress her mother was.

[dontpetmeibite]

As long as we are mutuals or I've read/commented your stuff before, this applies to all my muses:

Ravage @dontpetmeibite (VoS AU, IDW, BW and SG plus PSLs) Soundwave @kytherion (VoS AU, IDW and SG plus PSLs) Jazz @theirfavouritestranger (VoS AU & IDW, no SG) Drift -or- Deadlock @i-am-drift-locked (VoS AU, IDW, and SG) Ratchet @there-had-to-be-a-better-way (VoS AU, IDW, and SG) Rosanna @meetyoualltheway (VoS AU, KP, TFA, and SG) Glit @doctor-glitterbomb (VoS AU, KP & City Rises, no SG yet) Howlback @cobalt-cougar (VoS AU, IDW, SG) Misfire (& pals) @our-missing-fire (primarily SG and/or VoS AU) Rafael Esquivel @esquivelle (VoS AU, TFP)

*(VoS is Voice of Stanix, the AU my fics are all set in. You don't need to have read it, my muses 'travel' outside of their own universe, but there are characters I have very strong headcanon for in terms of personal history and/or gender stuff.)

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