#charybdiic

[soundwavereporting]

🌀☔️ !

WIP Ask Game

🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven't written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing...

Definitely going to publish this at some point, but I have an outlined fic involving the massive cultural discrepancies about Autobot and Decepticon badges re: Cosmos retiring (because he doesn't want to get forcibly recalled to Autobot city).

☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

Just for you!!

Deadceptor meet cute on Cybertron. it'd go along the lines of:

dead end and perceptor (+ chromia?) have to work together to stop SOMETHING or do SOMETHING. lower stakes than the quintessons obviously

either by inaction or ditching, dead end betrays perceptor (+ chromia?) because he's Like That

it's essentially a long explanation for why perceptor greets him Like That in canon

In my head it's about 10k but what I wrote rn is more than I've done with the idea in like 4 years lmao

[spiderscribe]

Let's go with 10 and 16 for violence! Go hogwild

Looking at the length of my answers, I think I might've went toooo wild but I'm not going back to condense them so enjoy(?) <3

10. worst part of fanon

Hmmmm does m/echpr/eg count as part of tf fanon? I haven't read that part in mtmte but I feel like I read a post somewhere that jro made it canon??? Either way, I'm making it count bc I can’t think of anything else rn. This is admittedly influenced by my own personal preference since I dislike pregnancy fics even in non-robot fandoms, but in tf especially I just…really don't like it. There's a lot of other neat and creative ways ppl have come up with to explain how sparklings are created, and idk falling back on a very biological method of reproduction and adapting it for mechanical robots is kinda boring and weird for me. I think I'd be a little more okay with it if it wasn’t so widespread in fanfics :') but. oh well. I’m happy so many other fans enjoy the concept but it's not for me.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

"I don't like soulmate AUs," say I, a person whose most popular fic ever written was a soulmate AU

Lmao ok maybe that's too general. I don't like the soulmates trope when the characters involved are portrayed as victims suffering from hardships in most aspects of their lives but then everything is fixed when they meet their soulmate. Or when they insist they don't want to meet their soulmate, but then they do end up meeting, and their reaction is essentially "wow I didn’t realize how incomplete my life was before I met you!"

It doesn’t feel realistic. It feels too easy. This can probably be traced back to my preference for messy, complicated relationships (the more they act like divorced exes, the better :3), where the characters have to actively work for their happiness and not have it gifted to them because of some cosmic force. A few soulmate fics take the "us being soulmates doesn't fix anything" angle, but it's rare and uhhhh sometimes it's not done to my specific tastes bc it still emphasizes the whole "we’re soulmates so everything will magically work out eventually!" message. 

tldr: I don’t hate the soulmates trope, I’m just very, very picky with how it’s executed.

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[mandersie]

Holy moly

[anniflamma]

I’ll give you this cursed thing before going on my trip.

[postapocalyptic-cryptic]

for the book title: sphere by michael crichton!

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

See the thing is I WANT to like Crichton. He should be right up my alley. But something about his writing just rubs me the wrong way.

[gigizetz]

TW: Thalassophobia I think?

Charybdis

commission for @dead-and-redblog

[epicthemusicalstuff]

My Thoughts On The Vengeance Saga!

I’m Not Sorry For Loving You: I feel we pretty much had the full song before hand? So it’s not too much new? But the vocals were so pretty!! Definitely the most grounded song in the saga!

Dangerous: First of all- the little Full Speed Ahead? With the 600 men bit? That had me so emotional already- the fact that there was no response when he said ‘with one goal in mind’ and there was a silence where they normally would have said ‘make it back alive to our homeland’. THEN HERMES IS BACK! WITH THE WINIONS???? AND THEY HAVE THE BAG AGAIN FOR HIM??? I went crazy over that- did they get Aeolus’ help? Did the winions go rogue and since they liked Odysseus they trapped it themselves??? Anyways. RUTHLESSNESS MENTION.

Charybdis: I love the overall vibe of this song! Again- very much like the snippets we heard- but that doesn’t make it less awesome! (I will also say I loved durning the animatic when he started getting all blurred with his speed). HE SAW ITHACA AND IT WAS SO TOUCHING THEN HE DIDNT GET TO GET THERE YET!!!

Get In The Water: I LOVE THE OPENING INSTRUMENTAL PART. CHILLS. I was screaming- I still am screaming as I relisten to it! POLITES, EURYLOCHUS, AND ANYICLEA JUMPSCARE! One of the songs that I feel so much better about listening to this morning, with just the music and none of the chaos of last night or the stream.

Six Hundred Strike: Okay- lots of thoughts on this one folks- the Six Hundred Men being chanted part? Amazing- does that count as when I said the vocals of his crew would be back? HE WILL GET BACK TO HIS SON. AND HE WILL GET BACK TO HIS WIFE. He avenged his comrades!!!!

Speaking from a position of just listening to the song instead of the provided visuals- I visualize something different happening. Like in terms of the wind bag, I like the idea it is used to blow away the layers of Poseidons water shell- to leave just him in the middle. And then the 600 Strike bit- perhaps the ghosts of all his crew appear and each get their own strike at Poseidon, with Odysseus dealing the last one before Poseidon starts singing again?

YOU IDIOT got me. THE ODYSSEUS’ WENT ABSOLUTELY FERAL? STABBING POSEIDON??? LIKE WHAT? I WAS SCREAMING- the raw vocals were amazing too-

NEXT TO MY WIFE

[omiomi-koki]

Basically the vengeance saga

[scrambledd3ggss]

One thing that’s absolutely absurd to me is that, after tonight, there’ll only be one saga left until all of Epic is out

like that’s insane to me! I feel like the the Troy saga just came out! It’s really bittersweet 🥲

[dragons-and-cake123]

[soundwavereporting]

Dead End, w/ 15 and 16?

character asks!

15. Worst thing they’ve ever done

I think the canon 'ditching to go universe-hopping with Megatron' is up there but I think it would also be pretty tasty if like, he had something to do with why the other Stunticons aren't around; outside of strictly survivor's guilt, it'd be an interesting parallel to the Resistance Squad and could throw new light on why he's so determined to not mesh with the Cyberverse Rod Squad.

tbf, I'm not saying I headcanon that he straight up killed them, but maybe that his action (or inaction) might have been a contributing factor.

16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves

He gets attached and invested in things so much much easier than he'd like to admit...I could easily see him saying something like 'yeah I like you, I guess. Don't make me say that again.' to Perceptor, when they've been living together for a year.

[jaybee2000]

What most people are celebrating on July 4th

🇺🇸🎆🌭🍔🇺🇸🎇

Or

🇬🇧🗳️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What I’m celebrating

⛈️🎧🏛️🏺⛈️

[gallopinggallifreyans]

The Odyssey except it’s set in the Great Lakes

[mascotdang]

This is actually what I imagined Ody when listening to Charybdis

I want him, just, for even a second, to have some moments that he could return to his old self.

After such a long and hard time, cant blame those tears when they burst out.

Also, thank you for all your support during my lazy times:D (Im trying my best to get used to Krita, gonna make animatic there lol)

[lemonpoet]

Rough Thumbnailing for Charybdis (still working on that animatic!)