#but there's no way bumblebee doesn't end up like this kind of couple

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Bumblebee after they kiss in V9

[cherrychilli]

18+ Steve Harrington x F! reader, friends to lovers, skinny dipping, PIV sex, unprotected sex, semi public sex, pool sex WC:1.9K

A/N: Feeling very rusty so I'm attempting to dust the cobwebs off my brain and get back into the swing of things with a little bit of Steve filth.

This will they won't they thing was starting to get old.

The casual flirting between you and your neighbor had ramped up in the last month, but you knew him well enough to realize when he's pulling back on the reins, even if subtly.

Up until now you'd enjoyed the way Steve's gaze wandered over you and the playful banter that tended to edge towards suggestive. You'd even glimpsed the only semblance of 'King Steve' that'd remained ever since he turned his whole image inside out a few years ago — that slight, but thankfully tolerable air of playboy confidence you couldn't find in yourself to dislike despite how you made sure to roll your eyes whenever it appeared.

But things were starting to fizzle out now, you could feel it. This thing that had started to brew between you and Steve seemed to be following the trajectory of a bottle rocket — the chemistry you shared soared for a while but now the chances of things becoming serious appeared to be heading for a nosedive.

Your discerning eyes were too sharp, noticing the flickers of hesitation and trepidation that peeked through when he spoke with you now, less flirting as of late, more awkward floundering and not the adorable kind.

You don't know it yet but the reason was because all those fears he'd thought he'd long outrun had started to shadow him again, afraid of things panning out like they always had in his love life.

The Harrington charm drew the girls in like bumblebees to pollen, everything turning sticky sweet for a while but it always ended the same way — with Steve getting stung.

He's gotten in his head about it — every bad date, every lousy hook up, every ounce of self doubt he'd tried hard to swallow down regurgitating back up in his mind like bile. He'd even begun to second guess if you really wanted him the way he wanted you, scared of messing things up if he were to make a real move because he doesn't want to lose you. Not after all the years of liking you so much.

Oblivious to his internal turmoil, you only know that the waiting's been hell on you, feeling more than a little fed up of all the flirting that hadn't led to anything more than a spike in sexual tension and a bunch of almost kisses a couple of times you'd been alone with Steve.

Almost wasn't good enough.

You wanted to show him that you were serious about him — no more bullshit. You were determined to go after what you wanted, taking it upon yourself to make the first move, knowing it'll have to be something big if you were going to really convince him.

And you have the perfect thing in mind.

~

Given he was supposed to be the only one home at this hour, the sound of swashing water echoing from the pool deck comes off more alarming than anything else.

Ears trained in that direction, Steve quietly steps closer towards the noise, cautiously placing one foot in front of the other like he's walking a tightrope.

Was it robbers?

No, robbers only break in to take your shit, not take a dip, he shook his head, feeling stupid he'd even considered it at all.

Speed running a list of possibilities in his mind, a slight shiver ran through him as he quietly hoped it wasn't another skunk that had wandered too close to the edge again, nearly gagging at the memory of how the scared, drenched animal had rewarded him for saving its life a few months back.

Peering out of the entry way, he reckoned he would have guessed a hundred other things before he ever would have guessed what he saw outside. Dropping his keys and jaw, he finds you wading in his pool. Unbothered and very much unclothed.

"Um...you're in my pool", he states as he steps out, dumbfounded.

"And you're..."

He doesn't say it. He wont, afraid that if he did, whatever's happening might suddenly stop. Hell, it felt far too good to be true, half expecting to bolt upright in bed at any second to find it'd been a dream all along, a tent in his plaid pajama bottoms waiting to greet him.

"I am" you confirm, knowing exactly what he'd meant to say, smiling devilishly.

With the pool lights on, your lack of swimwear is obvious against the blue tiles although the rippling water surface obscures your body enough to prevent him from getting a clear look at you no matter how much he squints in an attempt to focus.

"You sure know how to keep a girl waiting, Harrington", you chide, moonlight making your wet skin glitter like topaz.

"Huh?", Steve shakes his head, the jolt crackling up the length of his spine feeling far too real to be part of a dream. This is happening. This is really fucking happening, thunders and echoes inside his head, the realization making his palms turn clammy — the first time since his teens that a girl's elicited that kind of bodily reaction out of him.

"Got tired of waiting for you to nut up and make a move", you wade closer to the edge of the pool with all the allure of a siren approaching shore, the tops of your breasts showing above the surface.

"I want you, Steve", you beckon to him sweetly. Sincerely. "Come join me. It's lonely in here", you finish with a little pout.

He's never undressed quicker in his entire life — all of those nerves and doubts ironed out of him with that one simple confirmation.

You watch as his belt is unbuckled in a flurry, shirt following as it's tossed off to the side. It occurs to you then to offer him a modicum of privacy because it feels like the right thing to do, placing your hands over your eyes until he submerges himself into the water with you. But not before you submit to another urge, sneaking one quick peek between your fingers, your cheeks growing hot when you glimpse his half hard length dangling between his legs.

Covering your eyes again, you wait for him to join you, growing giddy when you feel him enter the water and wade closer to you.

You're met with that hopelessly moony smile of his when he gently pries your hands away from your face. "You always leave your clothes behind when you trespass or is this a new thing for you?", he asks, pearly teeth peeking out as his smile widens into a grin.

You laugh back, a little surprised that you'd gone through with it yourself. "Gonna beef up security around here if I keep it up?", you joked lightly, earning a chuckle from your neighbor.

"Fuck no. I'll even take down the fence so you don't have to hop it next time", he grinned harder, deviously handsome in the moonlight.

Your toes brush his as you wade a little closer, a shiver running through you despite the warmth of the water you're chest deep in. "It was between this or surprising you in your car", you told him, sharing the plan you'd concocted the night before. "You know— trench coat, hide in the backseat. Pretty classy stuff but then I thought about it a little more and realized it sounded kinda sketchy", you made a face, scrunching up your nose. "Didn't want you to think you were getting carjacked or something", you huffed another laugh.

Steve pales a little, laughing along nervously, the corner of his mouth twitching.

"Hadn't even thought of that", he lied, glad he didn't rush out here swinging his bat like he would have had he not convinced himself otherwise about the robbers.

As the amusement tapers you focus your stare on the rise and fall of Steve's chest and the hair matted against it, pressing a hand there to feel his taught, wet skin.

There's a lull in your banter as his hands find your waist and your own starts to trail down, gliding over the plane of his soft stomach, fingers dipping underwater to skim the coarse trail of hair below his bellybutton.

Your touches are delicate for a start, fingers curling around Steve's erection as you feel him twitch in your palm, your thumb gently sweeping over the bump of a vein before trailing up to find his tip.

You meet his gaze when you glide the pad of your thumb over the head of his cock, smooth and from what you can tell, sensitive from the way his breath stutters and his length flexes in your hand.

The waiting comes to an end then.

Steve leans in as quickly as you do, lips meeting yours, the scent of chlorine strong on your bodies, his chest pressing against your breasts. It's a dizzying minute of his tongue hungrily brushing against yours before he pulls you up by the underside of your thighs, encouraging you to wrap your legs around his waist.

Your body reacts quickly, crossing your ankles behind his back. His shaft nudges your clit from this angle and it makes you whine into his mouth, all needy from being deprived this kind of intimacy because of how he'd held back all those weeks.

He pulls away from the kiss to look as you, cupping your cheek with his hand.

"I know baby, I know. Made you wait for it too long didn't I? Don't worry I'm going to give it to you now, okay?", he coos, one part reassuring one part cocky.

Your core aches with anticipation when he says it, desire heavy and burning in your belly.

"Steve wait", you cut him off before his lips can come down on yours again.

"Yeah?"

"Could you— could you do it rough? that's how I want it", you tell him, digging your nails into his biceps. You're in no mood for anything soft or slow. Not right now. Not after waiting this long.

"Whatever you want— I'll give you anything you want", he promises, leaning in to kiss you again.

It doesn't take long for the swashing to recommence, building up to a loud, choppy splashing. Your back will carry evidence of how he has you pressed against the side of the pool tomorrow, arms wrapped around his neck as his tip meets your entrance and he works it inside, his length rutting into your soft core, punching out a chorus of moans and whimpers wrapped around his name.

Before he's completely lost to the warm, wet tightness of your walls wrapping around him, Steve only prays that none of his other neighbors care enough to peek over because if they did, things were bound to get awkward at the next block party.

"Promise me you w-won't go cold on me again", you beg when he locates that spot inside you, the head of his cock dragging over it just right.

"I promise", he answers, unclenching his jaw to nip at your bottom lip. "Promise me you'll go out with me after this? be my girlfriend?"

It nearly sends you reeling, being asked the question you'd been waiting to hear for weeks now as he's literally inside you, making your orgasm approach faster.

Smiling hard, you're still letting out little uh's and ah's because he doesn't let up his pace, driving his cock into you, all hard and fast just like how you wanted.

You couldn't wait to keep making up for all that time you spent doing anything that wasn't this, gasping out your answer.

"I promise"

[department-of-landing-strategies]

Quick thoughts on two person ships that I've seen in the fics I like or read fics for in both HP and RWBY

Percy x Penelope: I like it it's cute. Ginny catching them snogging would probably have a greater impact on canon if Penny was someone the Weasleys had a vocal opinion of.

Percy x Audrey: It's cute in fanfic. In canon though, it suffers from the thing of canon Audrey is just a name.

Percy x Oliver: This fits into so many of my favourite tropes, it's kind of hilarious. I think this was my first Percy ship.

Percy x Marcus: Character I love shipped with a charater that absolutely would go to hell and back for the other is probably the quickest way to get me to ship two characters and Flintley isn't any different. This is my favourite Percy two person ship, hands down

Percy x Anyone in Harry's year or Ginny's year: Not getting into specific ships because this is the most common theme of Percy ships that I end up filtering out. Personally, I only see it happening post second wizarding war after both members have left Hogwarts, and I have to be in a really specific mood to read fics for these types of ships. However, depending on who Percy is shipped with, it can be cute

Penelope x Audrey: I love these two together in fanfic and I love the versatility. If you thought Perciver fit a lot of tropes, then this ship can fit more because again canon Audrey is just a name.

Penelope x Fred: I think my enjoyment of this ship heavily depends on how Fred is characterized. These two in a ship read to me as Bookworm x Prankster, and I'm really not a fan of that trope. It absolutely doesn't help that the twins are tied for my least favourite (I don't hate them but I like the other siblings better) of the book Wesley children.

Oliver x Marcus: I like the ship, and I think it's a good rivals to lovers ship. I'm pretty sure the only reason I've dropped a FlintWood fic is because I didn't vibe with the non-Flintwood ships in the fic

Ruby x Weiss: White Rose I think is partly as popular as it is because of the thing of pair off the spares. However, unlike a lot of couples I've seen with that thing, their canon interactions are pretty cute. On the other hand, their canon status of getting partnered during initiation does help their cause.

Ruby x Blake: I know I've said it for basically most of the other ships on the list but it's cute. I think I got into this ship with either a Team RWBY poly fic or a Beauty and the Beast retelling that used Ladybug

Ruby x Jaune: I like their friendship and I think a romantic relationship would be fine. I don't really ship it myself but I can see the appeal.

Weiss x Blake: I like it. However, I think it would be better in the later seasons rather than when they were in Beacon.

Weiss x Yang: Freezerburn, my beloved. I know with recent events, it's absolutely not going to be canon, but imma just vibe with their dynamic with fanfic

Weiss x Pyrrha: I think this is my favourite Weiss ship. There's a possibility of one-sided rivalry to lovers while in Beacon, and I think that's my favourite trope the ship could fall into

Weiss x Jaune: Personally prefer a friendship between the two but the volume 9 white knight moments were cute

Blake x Yang: It's cute. I'm glad they got made canon, and I want to see more cute canon moments between the two if the show does somehow get another volume. In the meantime, I will be chilling with fanfic.

Blake x Sun: Like Bumblebee, its cute. I also don't want to see discourse between it and Bumblebee.

Blake x Adam: The exception to my Blake ships that I've read are cute. The stuff I've read have sometimes had this as a past relationship for Blake and it should stay a past relationship.

Yang x Neo: Would be an interesting friendship post s3 but I don't feel comfortable shipping them romantically with recent canon events even with the Neo age discourse I've seen.

[zoomzooml]

Rewatched Bumblebee movie so Alert: random thoughts of sleep deprived person go--

Bumblebee has hella powerful legs. Not only when he uses them in fight, but also when he jumps.

I just love how Bumblebee uses his legs in combat, like hell yeah dude! They may catchin' those hands but they ain't catchin' those legs (they actually did couple of times but shhhh).

Fight sequences are muah. Love them, the best ones in Transformers movies I think. I'm not sure but I also think they were storyboarded/planned by animator so if it's truth it does explain things lol.

Bumblebee is smaller and weaker than the Decepticons he has come to fight, and he doesn't just use their weight or size against them, but all the time seems to be looking for an advantage in his surroundings. This is likely not very unique to him, but it clearly stands out when his opponents the moment they realized their advantage wanted to simply overpower Bee.

Also love how everyone is trying to use their alt-mode during combat.

They could have done more with the fact that G1 Bumblebee was said to like swimming, and Charlie was swimmer in the past (specifically was in school's dive team if I remember correctly). Like some kind of bonding scene? Whatever, it was just such an opportunity. (And I know we had this seconds-post-end-battle scene but it is not what I'm talking about at all if it makes sense???)

Shatter often folds her hands behind her back in a gesture that I personally associate with a business woman (also in base scene she and military man both hold hands that way when talking so yeah). I feel that this reinforces her image as the leader/representative of the duo when Dropkick maintains a looser posture. Just cool body language.

I didn't pay attention to this in the movie, but I was reminded of how someone noticed the Autobot symbol on Shockwave's arm. If that's true, they could make it cool to pull it up under Senator Shockwave's MTMTE-style backstory, or maybe some variation of the spy (before he was known as a Decepticon, especially a high-level one) in TFA style. As far as I know the entire thing was because of recycling model parts but still.

I don't like Bumblebee's camaro root-mode. Idk, he was all round and huggable almost the entire movie, even when he had jeep as alt-mode, and then he is all blocky :((. Maybe it's because even as jeep he still has his chest mostly flat and as camaro it moves so much forward. His Cybertronian root-mode also has chest moved forward a bit but it's a lot more aerodynamic (you know what I mean) so he still looks round. Like, he is huggable all the time and then his camaro-boob looks like it would cut you. Idk how to say it, hope you get what I'm trying to communicate anyway :')

I really like how Decepticons were casually showing off that they are Triplechangers. I understand why they were doing this from storytelling point of view but it's still funny from in-universe one. ("Look how cool and badass we are.") I'm probably turning it up but oh well.

Also this will be a bit off but I never liked the idea of hammer as Bumblebee's weapon. Like his thing almost always was being small, kinda fast and not very strong and boom. They give him one of the weapons that is most effective welded by someone big, strong who doesn't loose much fighting weapon that kinda slows them down a bit (I think hammer does but you can correct me lol) because damn, this thing is big, at least in his serwos.

Plus, still on the hammer's topic, actual war hammers had this spike on the one end of the head so you could actually pierce armor of your opponent or just your opponent but not this one. This one is just for smashing like your mom's meat mallet. Ok, I'm done with this saltyness lol

But really, hammer as weapon doesn't fit Bee at all. Or it's just me.

[amazing-lovers-fic-fest]

This is it, folks! The time has come!

IIIIIIIIt’s Proposal Previews time!!!

Thank you to everyone for sending them in so far! You guys have so many lovely proposals. 😍🥰

Artists, now it’s your turn to be in the spotlight! Read through and choose which work you would like to do art for. Keep in mind that you are allowed to choose more than one work! Or you can stick to one; whatever works for you!

Aaaaand here they all are! Starting with:

PROPOSAL NUMBER 1

Work(ing) Title: No Mistakes With You

Author: Seanagh (racingliners/racingwrites)

AO3 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

AO3 Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Sebastian Vettel/Lewis Hamilton

Important Characters: Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, mentions of both Lewis and Seb's families and various people from Aston Martin & Mercedes.

Additional Tags: Established relationship, Domestic Fluff

Summary:

Follow-up to my prompt fic “This Must Be a Mistake”, focusing on small snapshots of Lewis and Sebastian’s life together over the span of multiple years (Seb’s retirement in 2022, Seb attending his first race publicly as Lewis’ partner in 2023, Silverstone 2024) all building up to their wedding day.

PROPOSAL NUMBER 2

Work(ing) Title: and if i may just take your breath away

Author: Ars (espressosnotdepressos)

AO3 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

AO3 Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Seb/Lewis, Jenson/Nico, Kimi/Minttu

Important Characters: Main characters: Seb, Lewis. Important/notable side characters: Jenson, Nico, Britta, Antti

Additional Tags: Fashion Designer Lewis Hamilton, T4T (Seb/Lewis), Trans Man Sebastian Vettel, Nonbinary Lewis Hamilton, Girl Nico Rosberg, Weddings, Fake Relationship, Chronic Back Pain, Christmas, Christmas Parties, 2016 FIA Gala, based off 'sweater weather, Brake Testing, Misunderstandings, Britta Roeske is Probably Some Kind of God

Summary:

He sighed. “Anyways, there’s no point in trying to make me find a date anymore.”

“Oh? And why’s that?”

“Because I’m already seeing someone.” Wait, what?

“Wait, what?”

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In general, Sebastian likes to think of himself as a smart person. A reasonable person. A person who doesn't lie about having a partner just to get people off his back about his inability to keep a relationship. Lucky for him, a certain Armani fashion designer is here to help, and *not* because Seb owes them after rear ending them on purpose because he thought they were break checking him. Definitely not.

PROPOSAL NUMBER 3

Work(ing) Title: Bookmarks

Author: Tianvette (tianvette)

AO3 Rating: Mature

AO3 Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Sebastian Vettel/Mark Webber

Important Characters: Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Sébastien Buemi

Additional Tags: Bookshop AU, Non-Famous, Idiots to Lovers, 100% Pure Fluff, How to Annoy Your Way Into Someone's Heart, Minor Injury

Summary:

Mark has no idea what he’s doing. He’s never felt so far out of his depth in his entire life.

He slouches back downstairs, walks right out of the front door, and if he had somewhere else to go he’d just keep going and never come back. There’s not one good thing about this place.

He’s not sure where the cake comes from. One minute there’s nothing, and the next – like a strange kind of magic trick – there’s a delicious-looking chocolate muffin sitting right there beside him.

He lifts his head from his hands and stares around. There’s a cardboard cup of coffee, a wooden stirrer and a couple of sachets of sugar next to the cake, a napkin stuck underneath. Mark gently pulls it free and snorts to himself at the little note someone’s scribbled onto it: <em>Hello new neighbour. Come say hi when you’ve finished pulling your hair out.</em>

It’s signed with a lopsided little smiley face, what looks like a kid’s drawing of a bumblebee, and two initials: <em>J & S.</em>

He uncurls a little, stretches out his legs, takes a bite of the cake and groans out loud at the intensity of the flavour. <em>Yeah, okay,</em> he thinks, reaching for the coffee and adding the sugar. <em>One good thing.</em>

***

When Mark agrees to take over the refurbishment of his uncle's abandoned second-hand bookshop, he has no idea what he's doing. Feeling lost and overwhelmed, he's pleasantly surprised when the friendly owner of the coffee shop next door offers to help out. Unfortunately for Mark's blood pressure, that help comes in the form of the two recent graduates who live in the upstairs flat, one of whom is possibly the most chaotic little chatterbox Mark has ever met in his life.

What could possibly go wrong?

PROPOSAL NUMBER 4

Work(ing) Title: colours

Author: Sacha (sacharowan)

AO3 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

AO3 Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Sebastian Vettel/Mark Webber/Jenson Button/Charles Leclerc

Important Characters: Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Jenson Button, Charles Leclerc

Additional Tags: Alternative Universe - Soulmates, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Soulmates identified through touch leading to colour exposure, Angst with a Happy Ending, 2009 - 2024 Formula One Seasons, Charles Leclerc is a Formula 1 World Champion

Summary:

Everyone missed at least two colours from their life until they met their soulmate - their own and their soulmates. But Sebastian was missing four. One colour for each of his soulmates and one of his own. The first colour would come, he knew, when he met the first one, and little by little, his rainbow would become complete again.

Yellow and orange and red and blue. The colour of the sunset over the ocean, idyllic and peaceful, something that Seb has always wanted to see for himself. He can’t wait to see it properly.

It takes a long time (and a lot of struggle for each of them) but they find each other eventually. Two first and then three and then four comes quietly, slowly.

Together at last, finally.

PROPOSAL NUMBER 5

Work(ing) Title: The Ghost of Australia

Author: Cobb (ZoomGuanyu)

AO3 Rating: Explicit

AO3 Warnings: Major Character Death

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Charles Leclerc/Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen/Sebastian Vettel

Important Characters: Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Carlos Sainz jr.

Additional Tags: ghosts AU, air kissing, forbidden romance, ghost!Sebastian, hurt/comfort, bittersweet ending

Summary:

Charles has seen ghosts for as long as he can remember. Just when his life started looking good as a Ferrari driver alongside the legendary Kimi Raikkonen, his world is turned upside when he meets the ghost of a man he's always admired. Charles must deal with how to handle Sebastian's antics. As time goes on, the mystery of how Sebastian passed away and how to keep a relationship with a ghost burns ever brighter, searching for an answer that Charles has yet to solve.

And finally…

PROPOSAL NUMBER 6

Work(ing) Title: Hiding Evidence In Silent Trepidation

Author: Gemma (avidaheidia5)

AO3 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

AO3 Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fandom: Formula 1 RPF

Relationships: Sebastian Vettel/Jenson Button

Important Characters: Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Susie Wolff, Martin Brundle

Additional Tags: Heist AU, Police drama, Train Robbery, Breaking into a bank, Slapstick with a touch of realism, Injury detail, Violence, Crack fic

Summary:

In 2012, DCI Wolff receives an anonymous call one night reporting that two masked men in their 30’s and 20’s have hijacked a steam locomotive and are taking it en route to one of the largest banks in London, which holds billions of cash inside the vault. Teamed up with the inept Officer Brundle, they go on a widespread search for the mysterious masked men so they could catch them and arrest them before they run off with their precious goods, never to be seen or heard from again.

Sebson Heist AU.

And that’s all of them! Artists, get choosing!!!!! If you need help with anything, let us know on Discord or in the ask box box box!

Happy arting!!! 🎨💙

[herotome]

Lets say that the entire gang decides to get lit at karaoke! Who sings the most, who's the hypeman that doesnt really sing but still cheers everyone on, and who sings at MOST one (1!!!) song if forced to, but only a song everyone hates? Bonus: What would their go to songs be?

I've answered a couple of karaoke asks like

What if MC serenaded them a sweet (or raunchy) song

and I could swear there was another one... where Dart was singing "Toxic" by britney spears and did a mic drop?? But my memory is failing me... Maybe I'm making it up haha.

Uh anyway. Getting lit as a group! (With the caveat that Dart doesn't drink and Mia probably won't drink!)

Warden would gingerly be cheering everyone on, just kinda There and smiling but not wanting to participate much like most bosses at any employee gathering lol. He'd try to sing some inoffensively bland radio pop song but at the last minute Griffin will queue up an Aqua song and push MC to go do a duet. (Probably Bumblebee, much to Warden's mortification when he stammers through "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am.")

Griffin... if sufficiently drunk would be a mic hog, but Griffin usually has great self-control and wouldn't get schwasted without a significant reason lol -- so she'd just do a couple of songs and then focus on getting everyone involved and participating. He'll probably do Ricky Martin and Carly Rae Jepsen songs - and has those lyrics memorized.

Mia would be beet red embarrassed but does rise up to the challenge of singing a couple of songs. Probably Selena Gomez songs.

Dart would sing exactly one song and depending on his mood it is either a rock ballad or something very obnoxious specifically to spite someone (ie, Toxic by Britney Spears).

Jade would not! want! to sing! But would end up losing some kind of bet with Griffin and, thoroughyl wine drunk, would sing some sultry morose number like a Hozier song or Lana Del Ray's Young and Beautiful. A little ways into the song she'd start floating and by the end of the song she'd be nestled against the ceiling drunkenly trying to nap up there. The gang are gotta have to get at her with a sufficiently long stick...

Thank you for the ask!! This was a fun one :D

[fictional-love-is-my-life]

Kind of an emotional ask ❤️‍🩹, but can I get bayverse Bumblebee reaction headcanons that takes place after the events of the last knight movie, to his cybertronian s/o secretly leaving for a while and finding Sam and bringing him to Bumblebee as a surprise? The s/o had heard of how much Sam meant to Bumblebee and how they went through alot together, and after bee had done so much for his s/o they felt like they wanted to give something back because of how much they love him. It took a long time to track him down, but they eventually did. ( I know there have been lots of theories that came up over the years about what became of Sam after dark of the moon. I personally like the idea of him being alive, just him and his family being relocated by the military for protection/serveillance and not being targeted by the cemetery wind in the 4th movie and trf in the 5th. But the way the cemetery wind worked in the 4th movie proves that they weren't against killing people to get to the transformers. And seeing as how Sam is like the number one person to go to to find them I wouldn't rule out the theory that they killed him. I just really don't want that to be the case.) 🥲

I like your theory that he was put into witness protection and relocated. I don't want to think that Sam died. That would hurt poor Bee. Also this was really cute! Great idea.

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-After the war had ended he was happy and excited because they were going to finally be able to live in peace together. He wanted to rebuild Cybertron with his S/O, and it was going to be amazing. But when he tried to find them, they were no where.

-He tried to get in contact with them over comms but they didn't answer. Or they couldn't.

-He looked everywhere, he asked all the other Autobots and the humans if they had seen them. But ne one knew.

-He was so scared he had lost them that he started looking through the rubble trying to find them.

-Finally one of the humans came by and said he saw his S/O leaving the area and driving off.

-Bumblebee is relived they are alive. But he's confused and upset as to why they left. He's sad they didn't say anything to him. He thought they always told each other everything.

-He once more tries to get in contact with his S.O but can't reach them. He asks the other Autobots if they know why they left. But unfortunately they don't.

-Grumpily he goes off and tries to find them, but he has no idea where to start looking. After a couple days hew gives up and leaves them to whatever they went to do.

-He decides to stay with the other Autobots and they try to rebuild Cybertron. Everyday Bumblebee tries to contact his S/O and everyday he doesn't hear something the more worried he gets.

-After each day with no contact he gets more and more worried. After a few weeks he's terrified something bad happened to them. But he is also angry. He tried to distract himself by working on Cybertron but he can't focus. All he can think about is his S/O and where they could possibly be.

-One day his S/O reaches out to him. He's conflicted in what he feels. His first reaction is pure happiness and relief to hear their voice, knowing they are safe. Then he feels annoyed, why after this long?

-He meets them on Earth. They are waiting for him in their alt mode. He doesn't say anything, just crosses his arms frustrated and stands beside them. He waits for them to speak first.

-Then their door opens. and Sam steps out.

-Bee is floored. He's in utter shock and awe to see Sam standing in front of him. He lets out a squeal of excitement and bends down to meet Sam on his level. Sam laughs and pats Bee's helm.

-Bee has so many questions for Sam. He starts asking him so many questions, all about his life, about where he was, and why he was here.

"They brought me here." Sam pointed to Bee's S/O.

-Bee finally looked to his S/O. They had transformed and was watching the interaction. "I wanted to surprise you."

-Bee stood and embraced his S/O tightly. His anger had subsided. His S/O was safe, and they had brought him Sam. He couldn't stay mad at them for that.

"Just please, next time talk to me so I at least know you're alive." Bee begged.

"Of course my love, I'm sorry. I will let you know next time that I am safe."

-He hugs his S/O some more, saying thank you , saying how much he appreciates them.

-Then he turns his attention back to Sam. They talk and catch up on everything they missed when they were apart.

-Bee is so unbelievably happy to have two of the most important people in his life together at the same time.

-He will definitely be giving his S/O so much love and thanks for this.

[lifetimeshipper]

No End In Sight

Chapter 3

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Megatron walks onto the bridge and heads towards the monitors to answer the call from Optimus, "Optimus, to what do I owe this pleasure?" Megatron asked sarcastically.

"You know what. Starscream, and no doubt Soundwave, have captured one of my soldiers."

"The femme, yes. We have her in a prison quarter."

"I demand that she be released."

"You're in no place to be making demands. Besides, I have no intention of letting her go."

Optimus narrowed his optics as he glared at him. He figured that he wouldn't release her just like that, Megatron is always willing to take any opportunity to get the upper hand, but it was worth a shot. So the only choice he has is to bargain with the warlord but first, he needs to see how Arcee is doing. "Can I at least see her?"

Megatron just looked at Optimus for a moment as he debated on it. After a minute, he looks over to a couple of the Vehicons standing nearby, "Fetch the femme!"

The Vehicons nodded and then left.

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Arcee still hung limp, pain shooting through her entire body from the beating she got. I wonder what they're discussing out there. She keeps glancing at the door in expectation and slight dread, she knows that at any moment Megatron will return but she's not sure with what kind of news. 

After a few minutes, the door opens and two Vehicons walk in, "Lord Megatron requests your presence," one of the Vehicons told her. Arcee just sneered as they unchained her, and then they grabbed her by the arms and walked her out. No matter how hard Arcee tried to stay up and walk her knees were too weak and she kept stumbling. When the three reach the bridge the first thing Arcee sees is Optimus on the monitor. She then saw Ratchet, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee come into view.

Anger and sadness filled the four 'Bots when they saw her and saw all the dents and Energon stains all over her body, "Arcee!"

Arcee gives them a small smile as she tries to keep herself standing, "Hey, guys."

Optimus looks back at Megatron, "What do you want for her release?"

Megatron stayed silent and looked at him for a moment before speaking, "I want nothing."

"Nothing? There has to be something, you never want nothing."

"I think she would be of some use to me so I'm gonna keep her." He ends the transmission.

Optimus looks at the screen for a moment in shock. Did he hear that right? Surely he heard wrong. But he knows he heard right, "Did he really just say what I think he said?" Ratchet asked.

"Yes, he did," Optimus replied.

"Never thought I'd hear him say that," Bulkhead added.

"Neither did I," Optimus said as he turned to face them, "I don't want to see what he has in mind for her."

"Knowing Megatron it won't be pleasant," Ratchet added.

"No, it won't. We need to come up with a way to rescue her."

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Arcee looked at Megatron as he stood at the monitor, questions running through her processor as she wondered exactly what he had planned for her. She can feel dread pierce her spark once more when he turns to face her. "Let's get you fixed and cleaned up," he says as he walks past her. With shaky legs, Arcee follows him off the bridge with the two Vehicons walking beside her, she refused to let them hold her up while she was in front of her team, and she refuses to let them help her walk. 

They get to Med Bay and Megatron tells her to lay down on the berth, she reluctantly obliges since she feels like she's gonna fall at any moment. Once she's settled on the berth, Megatron turns to Knock Out and orders him to fix her up. Knock Out gives him a respectful bow then gets to work. Arcee can feel her spark pick up pace as she watches the medic to make sure he doesn't try anything.

While Knock Out works on Arcee, Megatron turns his attention to Starscream who is lying on a medical berth next to them, "Lesson learned, Starscream?"

"Yes... My lord... I won't ever cross you again," Starscream manages to reply between coughs and splutters.

"Good. Next time the punishment will be much worse. But you did do one good thing in taking the Autobot femme prisoner. Even though it was Soundwave who did it I'm sure you had a hand in it."

"Yes, my lord..."

Megatron just lets out a slight grunt as he turns his attention back to Knock Out and Arcee, "What exactly do you plan on doing with me?" Arcee asked him.

"Simple, you're gonna do my bidding."

"Never, I'll never do anything for you!" She responded with a scowl.

"We'll see about that." He turns to face Knock Out, "Knock Out, do we still have any chips?"

"Not sure, I'll have to check."

"Check once you finish fixing her up."

"Chip? What chip?" Arcee asked.

"We have a chip that can reprogram a bot's processor and make them do whatever Lord Megatron wants them to do," Knock Out explained to her. Her optics widened as fear set in, there was no way she was gonna allow that to happen. She needs to find a way to escape.

"Call me if you find a chip," Megatron says as he walks out of Med Bay.

"Yes, my liege."

Once Knock Out was done fixing the injuries, cleaning and buffing out her armor, he went to check and see if they had the chip. After a bit of searching, he did find one, he informed Megatron who came with Soundwave and they programmed the chip to make her follow him and do everything he ordered.

Arcee watched them get the chip ready as her spark started pulsing even faster than before. She wanted to escape before the chip was ready but Knock Out had her firmly strapped to the medical berth so she couldn't get up, she couldn't even move. She could only watch with panic as Knock Out walked over and injected some medicine into her which knocked her out.

~~~~~~~~~~

Back at Autobot base, the Autobots had just finished telling the kids what happened, "So, Megatron's not letting her go?" Jack asked with concern for his guardian and friend.

"No, he said he wants to use her," Optimus replies.

"For what?"

"Not sure."

"We're gonna get her back, right?"

"Better believe we will," Bulkhead replied.

"Yeah, we'll get her back, no sweat!" Miko says trying to cheer him up.

"Optimus, we have 'Con activity!" Ratchet announces.

"Open up a Ground Bridge to the location," Optimus says as he transforms. Bumblebee and Bulkhead transform as well while Ratchet opens up the Ground Bridge, "Autobots, let's roll out." The three drive into the Ground Bridge and it closes behind them.

When they come out on the other side they find themselves in a mine.:: Optimus, come in! :: Ratchet calls over the comm.

:: I'm here, Ratchet. What is it? ::

:: Be careful in them mines, it's reported to be very unstable. It says it was abandoned years ago because it was considered unsafe. Watch what you do, one wrong move can cause the whole mine to collapse in on you guys. ::

:: Affirmative, Ratchet. :: Optimus said before he hung up the comm, "Let's watch it while we're in here."

"Sure thing," Bulkhead said as he looked around. 

It didn't take too long for them to come across some Vehicons carefully digging out some Energon. The Autobots transformed their hands into blasters, "Watch your firing," Optimus said as he got ready to fight. Bulkhead and Bumblebee just nodded as they got ready to fight as well.

Upon hearing movement, the Vehicons looked and saw the 'Bots coming towards them and they started firing. The three fired back and started taking them out one by one. Just when they were getting the upper hand a Ground Bridge opened up and Megatron and Soundwave walked through, followed by Arcee. The 'Bots looked at her as Megatron told the Vehicons to step back and Arcee stepped forward. 

"Optimus, look at her optics, they're different," Bulkhead says as he watches her move towards them.

Optimus looked into her optics and saw that the bright blue and purple colors that were in her optics were gone. Her optics were darkened and it looked like there was nothing but a dark void. On her winglets were the Decepticon insignia where the Autobot insignia used to be. Optimus glared at Megatron, "What did you do to her!?"

"I made her follow me and obey my every command!"

"How? I know you did something because she wouldn't just follow you!"

"Are you sure, Optimus?" Optimus looked at him and then looked over at Arcee. "Take them down, Arcee!" Megatron ordered. Arcee walked closer to the 'Bots and brought out her blades, then stood before them and looked them over to calculate her attack.

The three watched her as they unwillingly prepared to defend themselves. They don't want to fight their teammate but see they have no choice. They looked at her as she stared them down with no feeling or sign of regret for what she was about to do.

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Chapter 1

Next Chapter

[semicharmedliving]

Who am I?

(I wrote this yesterday, 5/9/2024, while dealing with some interruptions so it’s unfinished. For some reason I still wanted to post though so here we are.)

I've never really known. I don't mean it to sound like the stereotypical “Millennial Lost Girl.” Even though I guess that's exactly what I am. Part of it is my generation, sure; of course I’m going to be shaped by 9/11 and The Great Recession and so on—just like other generations are shaped by The Great Depression, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, you get it. So yes, part of my aimlessness and anxiety are related to those things. Blah blah blah millennial nonsense.

Beyond that though, I just truly have no idea who I am... I was never part of a sports team growing up. I did things here and there—a couple years of guitar, gymnastics, dance, yoga, acting—you get the picture. I liked a lot of things, but nothing so much that I was interested in committing fully to. When my parents tried to force me to join the middle school basketball team (which is part of a whole other story), the coach said something during conditioning that stuck with me. It was something basically to the effect of, “ We have either practice or a game or both six days a week. The only reason it isn't seven is we're required by law to give you a break." Now, I already didn't want to join the team for other reasons, but even if I had wanted to that line would've ruined it. I still remember thinking to my 11 year old self, “Uhhh… This is *middle school* basketball. It’s not that serious.” So naturally I tanked tryouts by pretending to think they only lasted one day, not three. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I ever told my parents about that. Well guys, if you’re reading this, now you know.

I digress. I've never had a "look” of my own—I have zero idea how to put together an outfit to begin with, but I also like a lot of different styles (and let’s not even get started on finding clothes that fit well); my makeup skills are limited to mascara and sloppy eyeshadow; I am lucky in that I have a lovely shade of red hair, but it's thinning and always frizzy with baby hairs and doesn't like to cooperate. I end up wearing the same kind of combo of tank top/shorts/flipflops during warmer months and hoodie/sweater/leggings with either boots or sneakers. For a a while I had my extensions in and did things other than a messy bun (and these days it’s not a cute messy bun. Ever.) but the depression and then the big sick kicked in and well. I'm wearing a lot of hats these days.

And my friends. I am so blessed to have so many beautiful, supportive, funny, amazing friends—many of whom are more like family. Really I could go on and on forever about the truly fantastic people I'm surrounded by. And I am lucky enough to make friends wherever I go. None of that is lost on me so I don't mean this to sound ungrateful by any means ever. But like I'm also just a bit of an outsider in any friend group I’m in. Family too. I know that they love me, but I'm not as close to everyone as they they are to each other. It's changing a bit with everything going on; and since I’ve been able to join family Zoom more regularly. But it's still there in my head. I still sometimes feel like a bumblebee buzzing around, trying to bop my way into being fully accepted as part of the group. Again, I know that no one does this on purpose and I really am loved. Sometimes there’s just history and bonds and whatever else that you just can’t compete with.

There's work too. I know I'm a good bartender. And people like me as one. But why am I doing it? I went to college but I was a complete mess with zero clue who fell for a boy and never even thought about the future. So I dropped out. I could have been somebody. Like my cousins.

I've always just kind of felt l’m floating along in life. Just sort of hovering around, never really having a place in life. Just. Always slightly unsure. Slightly on the outside.

[mocacheezy]

Things that made watching Transformers (2007) easier and even enjoyable:

[note: B'verse gets the treatment that it gets by fandom for good reasons. There are tons of posts that dissect the bullshit of these movies far better than my second-language-english-non-american self could ever tackle, so I am not doing that, or plan on doing that. But if I decide that I'll get through every continuity of the franchise I will find a way to make it fun for myself. And so, this is my search for golden nuggets in these movies, because they did bring in new fans to the franchise and that's why we have other continuities that we might not have otherwise. Credit where it's due, and some positivity for those that did find B'verse at least amusing if nothing else. ]

🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪

Frenzy

Anytime Frenzy was on screen made me smile because his movements and personality were hilarious, he is just so expressive despite looking like someone super glued a bunch of knifes together. I wouldn't know it was Frenzy if I didn't go to the Wiki, but no matter that, he was funny and that's what matters.

The original Cybertronian robot modes

We don't see them for long, but the glimpses were glorious. Just look at Optimus

Gorgeous. What I wouldn't give to see the details up close. Maybe I'll go looking eventually, but this is just so nice.

We also get a "sexily rises from the pool" scene with Ironhide (probably unintentional and I am biased due to being a robofucker. In any case, very very nice and Cybertronians look so good as aliens)

"Excuse me, are you the Tooth Fairy?"

You see this kid?

This little girl was the only human I cared about in the movie until I saw just how badass Mikaela is, and how cool the military dude is. I don't like kids, but I would lay down my life for this girl.

This one scene just makes me think of what would happen if her parents showed up way earlier. Ironhide would be her guardian and it would be both adorable and hilarious because "Honey, you have to drive in a sentient alien that looks just like our car because the goverment men said so or there will be consequences and potential alien threats."

There are so many joke potentials there; the cultural barrier, the "I am the ine that is supposed to keep her safe" glaring contests, there is just so much shenanigans that could happen.

Also, tea party with the kid. Tea party with the kid.

Sam Witwicky actually reacts like an average human would when faced with the situations he finds himself in

Do I like Sam Witwicky? No, he is the kind of character that I would want to punch irl because of his personality and actions. He is disgusting. But watching him scamper and scream and stutter when faced with giant metal robot aliens that can squish him like a bug? Good, that was a beliavable reaction and I enjoyed it a great deal.

Megatron. Just, ✨Megatron✨

(the best screenshot of the few I could take while watching, no, I am not going back for a better one, he looks perfect like this)

I also laughted at how they kept him frozen like a popsicle. And not even well, like, they COULD'VE made an actual freezer and pop him in instead of using those couple of tubes just so he was displayed for all personell to gawk at. HE CRASHED IN THE ANTARCTIC!

The design looks so good, because it looks ALIEN and POINTY and AGH!!! The colors? There are no colors that would make him stand out, he looks like someone opened a cutlery drawer, mixed up what's inside, threw in some extra knifes for a good measure and then shook the whole thing until this guy materialized from the pile. It is both incredibly annoying and satisfying.

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Mr. Welker did an amazing job with his voice, I don't know what the directions were, but oh man it sure sent shivers down my spine. That is the kind of voice that spells "You are going to die" and I already have my coffin picked out.

EDIT: SO APPARENTLY! IT WAS NOT WELKER THAT VOICED MEGATRON.

It was Hugo Weaving, and yes the man did am amazing job, but I apologize a million times, I was CERTAIN that THE OG VA OF MEGATRON WOULD ALSO HAVE VOICED MEGATRON. LIKE, OKAY BAY, OKAY!

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LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF ICE! With how quick he came back fully online once Frenzy turned off the freeze liquid tubes, I bet he was half awake through the whole thing. Systems just below idling or something, in any case, AGENTS YOU ARE SO DUMB! WHO WAS GIVING SUBPAR FUNDING TO THEM, THEY BETTER BE FIRED!

I also was glad that Sam refused to call him by the name the sector asigned to him, despite Megatron being in stasis. And that he insisted they use the correct name. Good job Sam, acknowledge the threat by the actual name and show respect to a fellow sentient lifeform. Even though said lifeform is hellbent on destruction of the universe and your world.

ALSO, AND I CANNOT STRESS THE LAUGHTER AND AMUSEMENT HERE; the sheer DISRESPECT! They don't disassemble Megatron's corpse. No, these idiots, these absolute morons decide to dump him into the ocean, letting him sink to the lowest possible point (not sure if they did say it was the M' Trench or not), where there are proper freezing temperatures - good! You're learning, good job!! - just... In full. Full corpse. What's left of him. Just blup! Down with the fishies he goes!

I understand that they probably didn't know how to approach Optimus about it, but... At least behead the guy. He came back ONCE, who is to say he won't come back again?! Safety precautions my dears.

They also completely disregard what a giant extraterrestrial metal alien rusting away on the bottom of the ocean could do to the ecosystem at large. Like, I find this incredibly amusing, because this ISN'T something most folks think about when watching a movie but we have giant squids down there. We have so much weird things down there, the ocean isn't even fully explored AND YOU WANT TO CHUCK AN ALIEN CORPSE DOWN THERE?!

Now the real question: is he a looker? *looks at the pictures* hmmmm, depends on if you like knifes. Like, really like knifes. Like really, really REALLY want to get it on with a fine assembly of kitchen knifes that were exposed to the elements but somehow haven't rusted away completely.

I think he's neat.

Needs a good long powerwash though. Preferrably with something to help the whole "I was frozen for more than 50 years and sprang back to action as soon as I woke up" thing that happened.

My man needs to take a moment and get his bearings, like dude. Please. You can conquer the world after some energon and slow system boot-up period. The strain on the systems my dude, you ain't young.

Also love that this "death" was probably reused in TFP because lord golly, do we love our faves ending up under the sea. (Though Megan took a much bigger fall, Bayverse WAS PLOPPED INTO THE WATER LIKE A NEWLY ACQUIRED FISH I CAN'T YOU GUYS I CAN'T!)

In short: I love the comedy of american military giving such disrespect to an Alien Warlord. These guys are really sealing their fate.

I loved the way they got the Witwicky family to be important to the plot

The whole "selling my great great grandpa's glasses on e-bay" thing gives us a very good self insert/OC/rewrite/movie AU potential. Don't like Sam and his disgustingness? Find a way to write a cousin or some far off relative or hell, even just someone who buys the glasses off e-bay and go wild with it!

Archibald was also clearly an inspiration for Isaac Sumdac as far as I can tell, what with both of them using Megatron as a means of helping technology advance.

Only difference being one of them lived and actually talked to Megatron after he came back online and the other got driven to madness and death due to the amount of information beamed into his brain. Isaac also acquired a space baby daughter, so the guy is absolutely luckier of the two.

Mikaela being fucking competent and badass throughout the movie, and not being just fanservice eyecandy

I could do without the fanservice, but her personality? I loved it. I loved that she wasn't crawling to Sam and wasn't being "hard to get". Which is also why I was very displeased at the very sudden "oh yeah, romance! She returns his feelings after he took her for a ride and let her vent her frustrations!". The movie is 2 hours long and they could throw in some moments where these two connect?

Welp, it is an action movie, boy gets girl no matter what, can't complain about the staple in the genre.

However, Mikaela x Optimus? Now THAT is something I considered as soon as the two locked eyes and interacted. Like, even taking my shipping goggles off, these two could have a very interesting dynamic and Mikaela could be a very good protagonist. I wonder what the movie would be like with her as the lead and Sam being the fucking moron she has to drag along with her.

BUT ALSO! Can we talk about the horrible, excruciating fact that her and Bumblebee drove around with Bee's damaged legs dragging over asphalt all the time he was shooting at 'Cons? There were sparks flying! SHE WAS DRIVING BACKWARDS! She took command of the situation and did what she could because Bee still wanted TO FIGHT!

Also, they way she beat up Frenzy? Gorgeous, I want to slap Sam's non-existent balls off for not atleast saying "thanks". The dude would be sliced thinner than cabbage if she wasn't there.

The millitary man we are supposed to care about because his wife gave birth while he was on duty and we see his baby three times in the whole movie, actually being a pretty awesome and well-written character

Look, personally, I was a little confused at the reason why we were seeing his wife and baby interacting/the scene where she thinks her husband is dead. Mostly because I don't like kids, so scenes like that, when I don't even know who the character is, have no impact at all. Him having a baby isn't going to make me like the guy more, unless I know his character. Him being absent because he's on duty doesn't mean he'll be a good dad (though he looks like the kind of man that will try his best, and I like that in a man). So seeing his wife and kid at the start of the movie seemed pointless to me.

BUT! FOCUSING ON THE POSITIVES HERE!

Lennox is a good character and whenever he was on screen I was invested in what is going to happen to him. He's the kind of action movie lead that would have me invested, despite my meh interest in mainly gun fight oriented action movies.

Essentially, loved the guy, would love to see more of him while also being able to tell what's happening on screen. Also the comedy scenes he was in were usually funny.

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Okay so these are the things I like about the first movie! It was very long, had to watch it on 2,5x speed because it simultainously dragged while ALSO giving me too much information, but the moments like these and the way my imagination latched onto characters I liked made it watchable. It isn't a movie I'd use to introduce someone to the TF franchise, but it provided me with lots of material for my imagination to run wild.

[chokopoppo]

... actually you SHOULD write "The Thing" AU. Monsters in secluded, cut-off places, characters stuck in close quarters, nobody trusting anyone else... doesn't that sound like just the BEST time to put some schmucks you love dearly through?

OOPS I NEVER SAW THIS. My apologies for letting this ask LANGUISH in my askbox for... weeks? months?? years??? (Probably not years.) Anyway, let’s talk.

So if you take TFP from a cybertronian perspective, this is kind of the heat the autobots are dealing with. Also the decepticons, honestly. They’re these teams living in VERY close quarters on a hostile planet, with no connection to homeworld, no communication with any other persons from their own species except the hostile group trying to kill them... no way of knowing if there even IS anyone else out there, anywhere, in the galaxies. TFP is just lowkey post-apocalyptic and not that shy about it.

The only thing that’s actually missing is that intensive horror element of something being there AMONG them, in their midst, subsuming them into the collective one after the other... there’s one episode that plays around with like, generic zambo / plague anxiety for a halloween special, but The Thing is mostly frightening because of the disguise aspect, and the inability to leave the base; those things together creates that push-and-pull of tension.

My first time watching The Thing, I remember being struck by the way suspense is handled, because while it uses some of the basic building blocks of suspense-building in film, it gives you VERY little information, right to the very end.

Anyway, let’s talk about the autobots!

I’m not hugely concerned with how the Thing gets in, given that the autobot team is rife with hotheaded “punch first think later” types (read: literally everyone except Ratchet and Optimus and, very occasionally, Arcee) who could very easily find a mysterious spaceship half-hidden in an iceberg and just go “huh! weird! guess we should walk right in to check it out!” and then immediately bring it back to the base. Sweet kids, all of them, and none of them too bright.

That said, I think the kids are the first to notice Someone is acting wrong? And Optimus is the one who, after ONE person dies, declares a state of emergency and locks the whole base down. No humans allowed; no one comes in, no one goes out.

We’ve already seen how Bumblebee acts when he’s unable to go driving for, like, a COUPLE days, and I don’t think anyone else is handling being cooped up any better. With, ofc, the notable exception of professional homebody, Ratchet, who is remaining remarkably calm because everyone else is freaking out and someone needs to keep their head on their shoulders.

But locked in with team members, one of whom is hostile and whose hostility is contagious, things go sour fast.

I do very much want Arcee to find a limping, armed Ratchet sitting by a fire as their whole homebase burns, quietly taking her seat across the fire pit from him, saying “so. You’re still here.” only for him to say “yes, you are too.”, each of them pointing their guns at each other, waiting for the hostile environment to consume them, unsure if either of them are innocent and knowing it no longer really matters, that the whole base has gone rotten, that there is no going on... that this is where the Thing dies, for better or for worse...

Anyway I have way too many projects to ever write this myself but TF actually lends itself to The Thing-ing just by nature of them being aliens on an unknown planet lmao. If anyone WANTS this they’re welcome to it

[angry-fishy8]

A story that'll never be published

I remember that night. We talked till the sun came up and you kissed me. Not like I was wanting or the kind you were hoping, but I think that's when we finally learned that there was something. I don't think I wanted to admit it, and neither did you,  so we kind of just forgot about that night. I mean why would we? I was plain and you were Mr. Fourteen. I gave up on closing myself because you told me to open up. God, looking at it, we were so stupid. But I'm not saying that being angry. I'm saying that with a huge smile on my face." +

I don't remember when I fell asleep but I woke up around three. Tyler still wasn't there so it made me worried. Are you really that mad at me? I just wanted to sleep but my brain wouldn't shut off. +

I grabbed one of Tyler's hoodies and grabbed a blanket. I didn't have an exact place where I wanted to go, but I didn't want to be in the hotel right now. I know I could've just went to talk to Brooklynn, but she'd just tell me off. +

When I had gone outside, the crisp fall air hit my legs before anywhere else. I guess shorts were a mistake. +

While I was walking I was replaying everything that happened today. Why would Tyler be so mad just because he pushed me away? I mean I guess in hind sight what I said after didn't really help. +

"I promised I wouldn't hurt you and that wasn't enough!" +

"It was!" I yelled. +

"Are you sure? Because everyone thinks that I'm the one trying." +

"What am I supposed to do, I told you I didn't want to ruin our friendship! Here we are! And here you are getting ready to leave." I grab his coat and threw it at him. "Do it, like everyone else." +

"Kate, this is just you worrying." he said calmingly. +

"GO! I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" +

"Is that what you really want?" +

"You're gonna do it anyways! Might as well let me do it on my terms." I cried. "Because that's what you want right? To leave? It's obvious, you've wanted that for a while." I looked away while he stepped closer. "Leave." +

He stood there for a moment. +

"I really did love you." +

I could feel everything crumble. After a while of not responding, he left. And everything I had to offer did too. +

I sat down at the park where Mrs. K and us talked. I just sat staring at the stars waiting for something to happen. +

"Kate, sweetie, it's time for school." I heard my mom sit on the opposite side of my bed. "You've been here all weekend." +

I didn't pull the covers from my head but I'd been awake the entire night. +

"Bumblebee." I whispered. +

"Are you sure?" She put her hand on my leg rubbing it. "It's the last one for the semester." +

"Yes please." +

"I'll call the school and tell them you've been sick all weekend. You have your concert tonight though." She kissed my head. "Don't let this bring you down." +

Brooklynn: You left me alone all weekend and now? +

Kate: We broke up. +

She didn't reply. And I stayed awake just watching my wall. That was enough. +

There was a shooting star and that's what pulled me from my thoughts. I laughed. +

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8.8M 566K

Claire Olsen had a great crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him. But Zion had his eyes glued at the school's 'It girl' Maddie Jennings. Claire couldn't compete with Maddie who was every boy's dream girl in school. She hid her feelings for Zion and just satisfied admiring him from afar. But a series of events led Claire closer to Zion in Senior High and that made her feelings for him intensified- growing from infatuation to love. She tried to act normal and fought hard to hide her feelings when they were together. At some points, she avoided him, but the more barrier she put between them, the more he barged into her ordered life. Meet the other characters of the story: Izzy, Harry, London and the Petrakis Family - Eros, Jade and Emerald.

Equivocality

By RhukzJ

343 39

If you have the slighest chance to change something in your life you ought to grab that opportunity, even if it means dying. That's heroism.

It's called falling in love

By tammzzy

939 15

He smirked, leaned in closer not that I thaught it was possible. My heartrare picked up as he lowered his mouth to my ear. "you my love. you are lying to yourself. You know the truth about yourself but you wont admit to it" "You can't deny me nor yourself any longer my dear beacuse your feelings is just so strong it's so powerful it glows out of you on it's own. A blind guy could feel that accros the street- it's that strong." he said "In your dreams lover boy" I said hoping he doesn't see my nervousness. "I know you are" he smirked ----------_______--------- I was always the tomboy of the school. The guys saw me as one of the 'guys' and talked to me like I was one of the 'guys'. Then one fatefull holliday I got a oppertunity for two years to go to Italy and Paris for a modelling contrac. First of al let me tell you a little about myself .My parents had twelfe kids, all boys exept for me and each one of us has a twin and the fist letter of our name is the same. My parents died when I was 2 years old . I have three best friends and one of them is a boy, so just imagine twelfe protective boy's not wanting me to go to Paris and Italy. After A LOT of fighting they agreed to let me go. So here I am two years later infront of my brothers " huge house" as he likes to call it with probably more than a dozen boy's inside waiting for me to come home. "Oh The Joy". Note the sarcasm what will happen when the badboy of the school begins to have intrest in her? What happens when he's forst to move away to help his mother? Will he ever come back? Will he remember her? And what will happen if he comes back? Will they be just as close As before?

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By HeyItzMJ

3.6M 115K

"You're mine. And no one else's, got that?" Hunter asked looking down at me with a serious expression displayed on his face.

Silence is Golden

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13.7M 850K

Silent. Cold. Chiselled perfection. That is Rikkard Ambrose, the most powerful business mogul in Great Britain. Free-spirited. Fiery. Definitely NOT attracted to the aforementioned business mogul. That is Lilly Linton, his personal secretary and secret weapon. The two have been playing a cat and mouse game for months. So far, Lilly has been able to fight down and deny her attraction to Mr Ambrose. But what happens when suddenly, the dark secrets of his past begin to surface and they are forced to go on a perilous journey into the South-American jungle? A journey they can only survive if they band together? Book 3 in the Watty-Award-winning "Storm and Silence" series.

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77.2M 1.2M

***Published under Pop Fiction Books & Featured by Wattpad*** Emily Gonzalez's fiance, Sam, is handsome, has a good job and loves her-or at least that's what she thinks. But getting married has never felt right for her. What girl in her right mind would have nightmares about her wedding day anyway? Her fairy-tale love story suddenly ends when she catches Sam with another woman. Hurt and humiliated, Emily decides to cancel the wedding and jet off to England, hoping to start anew. Only days after her moving to England, she meets a guy, Scott. Emily can't stop thinking about him: his chocolaty eyes, his messy head of hair, and the way he makes her laugh. But there's a huge catch to this almost-perfect guy: he's the prince of England. For real. Is it possible to fall in love while the whole world is closely watching your romantic story unfold, or worse, waiting to see it fail? Or this will be the happily ever after Emily has been longing for? Highest-ranking: Romance #1 *Wattpad edition is my first draft. It has a gazillion mistakes and hasn't been edited. Sorry about that.*

Chasing Red

By isabelleronin

150M 4.8M

Chasing Red will be published in September and Always Red in November 2017! Available in ebook and paperback on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks and Google Play. Links on my profile :) * When cynical straight-A college student Veronica Strafford gets kicked out of her apartment, notorious basketball player Caleb Lockhart offers her a place to stay. Intensely drawn to her, Caleb wants something for the first time in his life and pursues her. But Veronica's painful past is catching up to her, and her heart might just be the one thing Caleb can't win. * I'm the last thing she wants in her life. She keeps expecting me to disappoint her, to leave, but I'm here to stay. She owns me. It's as simple as that. She was fire and I wanted her to burn me. Like a moth to a flame, I could not resist. She was broken. A puzzle that was missing a few pieces. Maybe I'd carve my own pieces to complete her. They said she was going to be my ruin. ...then let her ruin me. WARNING: This story contains mature scenes and features another couple. Enter at your own risk. Chasing Red. Copyright © 2014. All Rights Reserved.

"You weren't even that special." I whispered. +

"There'll be a day you can say you're okay and mean it." I sang. Secret for the mad by Dodie was the one thing that helped me when I was down. +

"I promise you, it'll all make sense again." +

"That's the song you want to sing for Senior Night?" Mrs. K asked. +

"Why not?" I laughed. +

"It just doesn't seem like you, I mean it fits your vocal tone beautifully, and the vibrato in your voice is lovely with it." +

"But?" +

"Sweetie." She patted my arm, "We can talk if you want." +

"I know." I fake smiled. "I think when I'm fully ready, you'll be the first person I'll talk to you. I promise." +

"Alright then, I'll remember that." she smiled. "How's college searching?" +

"I found a great culinary arts school." +

"Culinary Arts? Like your father?" +

"Through everything he put me through, our best memories are cooking." I played with my ring finger. "It's all I know." +

"And music sweetie." +

"Yeah, but I'll never be good enough for that," +

"I thought the same thing once. And here I am" +

I smiled. That was the best memory between us. I mean there are a million great memories, but the one on one moments are the best. +

"Kate?" I heard Tyler say. +

I covered up in the blanket more as he sat by me. +

"What are you doing here?" +

"I couldn't sleep." I said looking up at the stars. "Never seems to shut off when I want it to." +

"Same." He whispered. +

"I think I owe you an apology." +

"For?" +

"I'm not sure." +

"Then don't" he said sweetly. "Don't do that to yourself. If you said sorry for every time I did something wrong, then you'll never trust me." +

"But what did you do?" +

"What did you do?" +

"I let you leave and didn't talk it out with you." +

He laughed. "I didn't want you to feel obligated to. If you need space that's what I'm more than happy to give you." +

"Wait." +

"Yes that's why I left." he wrapped his hands around his legs. "What were you thinking about that couldn't make you sleep." +

I laughed. "Seeing Mrs. K today and talking about my fidget just made some unhappy memories pop up." +

"Like Alec?" +

"Yeah." He didn't respond so I pushed myself. "Is there anything you really want to know about my past?" +

He looked up at me but I didn't turn towards him. +

"Uhm no not really." +

"Come on, I won't lie." +

"Okay. Why do you play with your ring finger?" +

"Ahh the basics." I laughed, "I caught it when I first met Alec. He used to comment on how I would be a "beautiful bride". It was basically his way of trying to have me open up. Our friends would call him future husband and after a while we'd laugh about it. The first time he'd ever held my hand, he grabbed my hand and played with my ring finger." I started to rub it. "For Christmas, he bought me a little ring to put on it so I had something to play with. It was the first time he'd shown that he liked me. I always thought it was a game with him." +

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"So you didn't trust him when you first met him?" +

"No," I looked at the stars, "I didn't really like trusting guys." +

"Why?" +

"My dad." I grinned, "How cliché? The one guy who should give me unconditional love and make me think I'm really beautiful, actually made me think the opposite." +

"Did he ever-" +

"No, all emotional trauma. If I wore something tight fitting, he'd call me too fat. If I wore makeup it was too much. If I was asked out, he'd ask who'd ask me out. After a while I started to wear long sleeved shirts and pants every day. Even in the summer. Then my sophomore year, I didn't eat, and he'd tell me off. Asking why am I taking the easy way out. How is starving yourself to a certain image the easy way out? I had started to get so bad, I fainted in certain times. Basically anything he saw wrong with me, I saw wrong with myself times ten." +

"Oh." Was his only response. +

"Next question?" +

"Uhm, do you ever think you could fall in love again?" +

My heart stopped. "Sometimes I wonder that myself. But then I ask am I really capable of it?" +

"What do you mean?" +

"Like, I love seeing people in love. It's beautiful. Not just the honeymoon stage, but when you see a couple and know, yeah they fight, but they choose to give each other space, to think about if the fight was important or not. Then they pretend it didn't happen or they move passed it. It makes them stronger. It's like the strongest friendship, but more. I see that and I think, am I capable of that?" +

"And?" +

"I mean that's what we did." I didn't look at him but I saw from the corner of my eye that his mouth slightly opened. "I'm not saying I'm in love with you, but I'm also not saying I wouldn't be able to." +

"With me?" +

"With anyone." His jaw clenched. "The idea of opening up to someone scares me." I continued. "Think of it, if the men who are supposed to love you, support you, treat you with respect and dignity, if they chose to do the opposite, could you learn to love or even fathom the idea of it?" +

"I have." It was his turn. "My mom, we have a strange relationship, it's nothing like you and your dad, but it's close. She blamed me for my sister getting sick, when we first found out, and when I wanted to come and listen to what the doctors had to say, she'd just tell me no. She'd blame me for it." +

"I'm so sorry.." +

"Well after awhile I gave up on our relationship, how can you blame someone who had no iea what was going on?" +

"You can't." +

"But she did." his voice broke. "I think that's why I have such a strange relationship with girls, "Jennifers and Carries" they make it easy. Because I can shut it down. I can just refuse to get close to them, and they'll take a hint. Other than my sister, I've never had a strong connection with woman." +

"So you're scared." I said silently. "Of being hurt again. Of trying to jump and not knowing if that person is going to catch you or just leave." +

We didn't say anything for a while. But I took his hand. It wasn't in the romantic sense. I wanted him to know I'm willing to catch him if he was willing to do the same. Neither of us knew how to connect with someone of the opposite sex, and just grabbing his hand, it was the first step. +

"Together," I started. "I want us to take baby steps together." +

"In a romantic way?" +

I laughed, "No bozo, in a platonic way. Neither you nor I have any real sense on trust. you preach to me about dating but you've yet to notice we're in the same boat." I nudged him. "So why not take the same ride and see where we go." +

"As friends?" +

"As friends." +

"And if one day, one of us decides we want something more?" he squeezed my hand but he couldn't tell he was squeezing my heart too. +

"Then the other one has to be just as ready." I looked at him. "Deal?" +

"Is this your idea of asking me out in the future?" +

"No." I smiled noticing he was leaning in closer. "Because neither of us know if this'll work." +

"I have a pretty good idea that it will." He said inches from my face. Just before I could pull away he kissed me on the forehead. "When you're ready." He whispered. +

We sat there for a moment looking at each other and for a moment I could feel every negative thought drift away. He smiled and it made me smile just as wide. +

"There you are!" I heard a female voice squeal and I jumped away from him. "Tyler you forgot your key in my car." +

"Oh uhm thanks Lacey." He coughed. +

"Who's this?" we asked in unison. +

"Oh Lacey this is Kate the friend I told you about, Kate this is Lacey, I met her in a bar on my walk." +

And all the bad thoughts were back but they weren't about me. No they were about Lacey and Tyler. He looked at me and under the blankets squeezed my hand. +

"Pleasure meeting you Lacey." I smile letting go of Tyler's hand and getting up, "I guess you two should continue getting to know each other." +

"Are you his girlfriend?" The young blonde asked. +

"No." Tyler said before I could, "We're just friends." +

"Then why is she wearing a hoodie with your last name?" She pointed her hand at me. +

"Believe it or not friends share clothes." I laugh taking it off and handing it to her. "Believe me when I say, if he remembered your name after a while, you've got no threat from me. I'm just a friend." I strained. "Anyways, I need to pack, I've gotta get back to Pueblo tomorrow." +

Tyler stood up and grabbed my hand, "But we weren't supposed to go back till Monday." +

"Silly me, I forgot I put in a three day weekend." I smiled. "Again it was nice meeting you Lacey, you're in great hands with him." +

And I walked back to the hotel without my blanket, his hoodie, or a clear mind. +

"Stupid." I whispered to myself