#altraviolet

[cinderoo]

[veryradtransformersgal217]

made silly poorly made soundwave & rodimus worms out of paper towel and glue 😇

(Ignore the camera quality this cellular device has went through being dropped in the toilet and has multiple times slipped out of my hand and went full force against a glass sliding door)

the worm buds can't stay up correctly unless you angle them VEEERRYY specifically and don't move or even breathe on it soo they are basically eachothers support

when I was making the rodimus one I went through hell and back 🤕 because fun fact, rodimus was actually pretty smaller than the soundwave one but like during the process rodimus apparently had a growth spurt over-night

AND here's a funny thing; just a few seconds ago I realized soundwave only has 2 tentacles (I originally gave him three) so I ripped one of them off..🤧

but anyways here's the silly war killing goobers and their fake tree territory !!

edit: I just now remembered these were supposed to be caterpillars

@altraviolet

[patchthemedic]

stayed up Real late last night finish The Echo Garden. finally

I am not the same, I cried, its one of the best things i’ve ever read, i NEED to read it again, i cried again, oh to read it for he first time again. Altra has such a masterful way with words and detail that my heart raced with suspense. I- there’s no way i could’ve predicted the way certain threads were going to end up. Forget being gut punched, my heart… 🥹

Please, if you haven’t read it, read TEG!! There’s so much good art and fic linked in the chapters. I do hope AltraViolet keeps making TF fanfic in the future, but I’m also excited to see what sort of original work they make! I could gush forever about how much I love their detail in worldbuilding [both science and characterization], but I think I’d run out of space.

Much love to AltraViolet, i’ve been a fan for such a long time and i will continue to read your works again and again! ♥️♥️♥️

[pipermca]

hello I have a question not on the ask meme :D how do you figure out plots? plots are one of the hardest parts for me. interested in your method! also happy new years! cheers! thanks for being such a kind and awesome friend =D

Plots! Ask a hard question, why don't you! 😅

I'm a plot gardener. I usually let ideas marinate for a while before I start to write. While an idea is marinating, the idea will sometimes develop and grow into something that I want to write. That's when I actually start writing. (Whenever I start a fic I usually know where I want it to go. The destination may ultimately change as I write, but I always have SOME end in mind.)

Most of my ideas either start as a "what if" or as a single visual/vignette. A Thousand Years started off as a "what if" (what if one of the Lambros got thrown back in time and had to figure out how to get back to his brother?) I needed to figure out how that happened, how they'd get back, and how that would affected them. The plot grew out of that. Datastream started off with the image of two bots back-to-back, their heads wired together (just as seen in Myla Xan's amazing artwork!) Why would that be needed? What problem were they trying to solve? And so on.

Interestingly, Mind, Body, and Soul started off as a "what if" (what if the Datsun/Praxians weren't brothers like how everyone writes them, but were romantically involved in a trine?) Then, with that idea in mind, I started thinking about what the story might be there... And I was consumed with an image that served as the genesis for the whole entire 300k fic: Bluestreak, collapsed to his knees before an open door in an empty apartment, completely emotionally crushed. (We eventually saw that image at the very end of chapter 20.) The whole story eventually developed around those kernels.

Happy New Years to you, too! Thank YOU for being so amazing, and for letting me yell at you when I need to. 😄

[dirtydragonthoughts]

re: 'online persona ask'. you are the Bluestreak mutual x3

You are the second person to call me "the Bluestreak person" and I am absolutely chuffed about that. XD

[karanseraph]

There's a rabbithole here if you click through to the fic and then also click through to read the older field ballads fic.

Fig. 1

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"Nucleus Memory"

TF reverse minibang fic based on the amazing art & ideas of @synchros!!

Pre-war IDW Megatron in the mines...

Thank you so much, Sync! Be sure to check out the other minibangs on @tf-bigbang!

[sweet7simple]

Me: I'm going to write an Among Us crossover for the Lost Light crew where Rodimus gets banged silly by an alien!

*The plot involves dimensional travel and the antagonistic mimic makes itself taller than Rodimus. Also, it wears a full-faced visor because Imposters in Among Us wear visors. It has a weird thing about pressure.*

Me: All I have done is rewritten the Echo Garden.

[coremichael]

damn you @altraviolet for creating TEG and inventing mtmte rodimus/tfp soundwave and damn EVERYSINGLEONE of 🫵you in the transformers fandom for no real reason other than i hate these stupid alien cars taking over my life for the past (when did transformers one come out) days

[bittersweetblasphemy]

when you finally finish reading a story that absolutely slaps but you realize now you gotta find something else to do

[lupinsuniverse]

some fanart based on scenes and designs from this amazing fic 'The echo garden' by @altraviolet 🙏 🙏

[solardrink]

NOOOOO FUCKING WAY THE ECHO GARDEN UPDATED

[cinderoo]

the meaning of soundwave fanart for a tfp/tf idw crossover fanfic 'The Echo Garden', written by @altraviolet

[the-unaligned]

Ofc the first thing I post is Echo Garden fanart lmao

You can tell I was trying to figure out how to draw both Rodimus and Soundwave while working on this (I’ve never drawn TFP Soundwave and I haven’t draw Rodimus all that much)

This contains scenes from @altraviolet ‘s SoundRod fic “The Echo Garden”! If you haven’t read it I really recommend it, it’s one of my favorite fics

Close ups:

[bunclebee]

I forgot to upload this. This was inspired by AltraViolet's The Echo Garden. I hesitate to call it fanart of the fic, because it was more like "This fic has made me desperate to learn and practice drawing Soundwave so that I can draw proper fanart for it", and this is not the proper fic fanart that I have in mind. It will be drawn, though. Maybe in a few months.

[pipermca]

ask meme: 44 and 91 :D ✨

44. any writing advice you want to share?

Just get the words down. Like that ask from Neil Gaiman I reblogged earlier today, that's something I keep having to remind myself of. I have a tendency to go back and rewrite and rewrite and edit and rewrite the bits I've already written, instead of moving forward in the story.

Editing and polishing can happen after you've got the draft done. But if there's no draft, you have nothing to polish.

91. how has your writing style changed over the years?

I think I've definitely become more descriptive, almost to a fault. I also get lost in characters' heads, and sometimes have to pull myself out of them in order to get the story moving again.

On the one hand, it helps me understand their motivation better, and helps me "solve" character issues I might be having. On the other hand, it can grind the story to a halt.

Treading that line can be difficult for me.

[theflavorpurple]

"Rodimus lied... But so did I"

saw transformers one today and decided to finish this long ass overdue echo garden fanart so don't flame me it's been TOO long since i've drew rodimus and this is my first and last time drawing tfp soundwave ever.

i dont think you gues understand how this song has had me in a chokehold over the past year bc an amazing editor made a echo garden edit to them with this song- now its my personal anthem for them and everytime i read the fic i have it on repeat- i feel like the lyrics could go both ways with their emotionally unstable asses, this was mostly to focus on the fact rodimus is starting to feel something for soundwave he hasnt felt in a long time but hes in denial (at first).

ik im literally insane so thank you for listening to my ted talk :)

based on "The Echo Garden" by @altraviolet on ao3