#megadrift

[sleepyeule]

Deja vu 🥺

[valve3nthusiast]

Drift and Megatron fucking for old times sake, but they cant stop old man bitching about the mediocre sex they were having when Deadlock was a decepticon and falling out of Megatrons favor

It's just constant sniping like "oh, you remembered how to put your mouth on my valve?" "I didn't see the point of wasting the effort when you were as reactive as a dead organic" etc, etc

They have a hard, angry frag and then are vaguely bitter afterward about how good it was

[heliopauseentertainments]

Fanfic self rec check! ✨ If you get this message, self-recommend a fic of yours you're really proud of (and maybe send this message to a fic writer you love if you want)!

Hello, Anon!

Sorry for the delay, but for whatever reason your ask disappeared on the desktop version and was glitching out on the mobile version. I finally tricked Tumblr into cooperating by saving this as a draft.

I'm going to pick Fraternize, one of my older MegaDrift Week submissions. I was still working on Deadlock/Drift's voice back then.

It's a short-ish one shot leveraging Deadlock's misplaced Decepticon fervor and the huddling for warmth trope for some silly fluff. I quite liked writing it and it's one of my favorite pieces from that ship week. I recommend it if you want a quick fluff fix or want to try out a rarepair.

It's rated "teen" for language, but otherwise no real warnings.

[shardofsun]

ship bingo: any tf ship. i don't know tf ships

Megadrift bc I’m actually insane about pre-war/early war era Megadrift that either never became anything or broke up when Drift defected. I have multiple Megadrift character study fanfics in my drafts. I basically never talk about it but all of my Megadrift headcanons (platonic or romantic) play a big role in how I interpret the characters

[quetzalpapalotl]

So if you were gonna write MegaDrift how would you do it?

Sorry, you really threw me a curveball here, coming up with megadrift that would please not only me but also you it's kinda hard. So have my half assed ideas.

Generally wartime ships with IDW1 Megatron are hard without him feeling like a different character to me, because uh... well, he deliberately keeps himself from connecting with people, it's a whole deal. If he were having intimate relationships that gave his life meaning, he wouldn't have turned out the way he did yeah. I'll spare you the whole essay. He has people he likes, sure, like Ravage, but it's always with this sense of distance, of being seeing as a leader first, his closest relationship beig Soundwave and that's some weird toxic validation loop.

Megatron lives to fight, he won't admit he lives to fight, he leads a cult of personality where everyone either worships him or wants to take his place. He maintains control via maintaining his imagine (the lie he tells himself) and tempting people with the promise of power and then keeping them in line with power plays and beating them (this also feeds his own worldview back into him). This isn't someone who has a healthy understanding of intimacy and consent.

So outside of the 3 main ships I have for him that are its own weird thing, if Warlord!Megatron was being intimate, he wasn't having proper relationships, certainly nothing tender. It's more power plays, feeding his own ego or just straight up using sex as a disciplinary measure (hey, Impactor parallel). And while I could put Deadlock into this, is something for which I could use basically any Decepticon, there is no particular reason to be Deadlock (there may be no reason to be Deadlock), and he doesn't have the characteristics that someone like Starscream has that would make this more interesting.

So I give up on wartime. Let's do something with the Lost Light, and this is an idea that came up in your server, but I think I'd would be super fun if Megatron and Drift had like a mutually parasocial relationship and are now very bitter over that.

Like, Deadlock idealized Megatron on some level, that's how he gets you to join the death and murder cult, and Megatron invited him personally. Then he realizes Megatron isn't really delivering and bails. This really pisses Megatron because he liked Deadlock as someone who festered the sort of anger Megatron himself has and was good at murder.

Then Drift gets even more pissed that Megatron ditched the Decepticons wholesale to go on a roadtrip (he's right tho), and Megatron is like "you ditched the Decepticons first!" (this is in a scenario before his full character development, so he's still very petty). And there's just this increasing miasma of resentment between two people that want to be better and can't quite figure it out and practically everyone in the ship hates them and they remind each other of the way they used to be, but also of the hopes they used to have. They could try to relate to each other, but they won't.

Rodimus gets tired of this and tries to force them to get along by scheduling these Lost Light command bonding exercises because hey, it's better for the crew if they know how to work together!! They have to go because Rodimus is trying to be a good captain. Poor Minimus DOES NOT want to be here, but he's the only one who actually does the activities properly. At some point Rodimus may just shove them into a closet to see if they can fuck their issues out.

But also, something I'd like to see exlored (and that would require Megatron to have his character development) is that Drift has always felt empty, he tries to cover who he is with all these different facades he keeps dropping. And then comes Megatron who also used to put on a facade and was far better at lying to himself than Drift ever was, but when Megatron tries to find himself he eventually just does it, he can never be who he was but he regained some of that person, Megatron can be at peace with the fact that he will never be at peace with himself. And it's so unfair, it's so unfair that it comes so easy to Megatron when Drift has struggled for far longer. When it was Megatron who encouraged Drift's worst traits. And it doesn't help that Megatron's whole deal is accepting that he enjoy's violence for violence's sake, when for Drift violence has always been about survival.

Sorry, I kinda failed at this. But have that.

[killyourrdarlingss]

Megarod megadrift Dratchet magnusop fic I've never read time to explode into 1000 pieces

[weapon-up-wallflower]

I do wonder how this is going to compare, because unlike Two Cents I have a much better sketch of the plot going in

Downsides to writing a Two Cents prequel: I’d have to follow up on having a really good title for the first one, and also it’d be extremely niche interest because the cast would be 90% Dead Enders I’ve made up to flesh out the world

Upsides to writing a Two Cents prequel: Gasket’s alive!

[decepti-geek]

something thats been making me very happy recently is listening to the Six soundtrack and reimagining it as some kind of musical semi-diegetic 'trial of Megatron' type thing (I think mainly because he has more people within his own faction who get like, overtly mad at him than Optimus does?) kind of with a similar vibe to Chicago in general? Beyond just the Cell Block Tango comparison. Like, the idea of there being a literal court proceeding going on with everyone in attendance but then simultaneously you have non-diegetic musical setpieces.

And some of the casting feels pretty obvious like, Starscream wouldn't be anyone other than Boleyn let's be honest ("I wouldn't be such a bitch if you could get it up" just makes me think of that one fuckin "Megatron has fallen" megastar post. every time). Soundwave would be Aragon especially given how earthspark is doing things atm and also because I mean, Soundwave-Starscream rivalry is a classic. Also this means Soundwave gets to be the Beyonce expy and he deserves nice things. I picked Optimus and Drift for the middle two and realised they feel weirdly interchangeable? Like, Drift/Deadlock being idealised as what inspired IDW Megs to envision the Decepticons, compared with Jane Seymour being the idealised wife (also the 'soon I'll have to go' section referring to his feelings around leaving the 'cons rather than literally dying), and then Optimus as Cleves being the least tethered to him/'queen of the castle' thing makes sense given. yknow. the creation of the Autobots. But right now I sort of like it the other way around, because then you get the 'deception' of Cleves being Deadlock's actual betrayal (plus Drift is fuckin loaded, and Cleves is the other one who has the most (sincere) religious references besides Aragon) and meanwhile the idea of Optimus having this whole thing about being Megatron's first/great love before everything went to shit TFP-style, and still genuinely kind of wishing they could have had an actual happy relationship whilst everyone else mostly just hates Megs now is pretty funny and also is a very Optimus sort of thing I think. (And besides which Optimus does literally die like all the time).

Meanwhile I have Tarn as Catherine Howard (potentially with Shockwave filling both roles of Mannox and Dereham just pre/post empurata) and Minimus as Catherine Parr (the sense of obligation starting with how Mims/Magnus is asked to supply the defence role in the actual canon trial) and I keep thinking about those two in particular for some reason.

[avoidghost]

How often do you think Cybertronians are chomping at each other on the battlefield? 🤔

[cerebrocentric-bullet]

Deadlock wielding Megatron in gun form was something that we never saw in canon but I'm here to cover that niche ✨

@megadriftweek Day 2 Prompt: Gunshots

[dramamelon]

A collection of ficlets written for MegaDrift Week 2021! OF WARS LOST AND WON Collection Summary: The relationship between Megatron and Drift has always been something more inscrutable than not, even to themselves. Prompt 7: Regrets/Closure Pairings: Megatron/Drift Characters: Drift | Deadlock, background Megatron Rating: Mature Tags: Ficlet Collection, Minimal Editing, Mild Language, Smoldering, Villains Gone Soft in Their Old Age, Canon-typical Violence, Blood and Gore Chapter Summary: Deadlock is sent away. @megadriftweek Week finished! 🥳 A joyous time was had! (And much remains with catching up on the reading backlog I've accumulated! 😂)

[artfandroid]

I'm a sucker for rare ships, can't help it.

Fraternize

For MegaDrift Week 2021

Prompt Day 3: Shelter / Vulnerable

Continuity: IDW1 Rating: Teen Relationship: Megatron/Drift  | Deadlock Characters: Megatron, Drift | Deadlock Warnings: Idolization (Deadlock is a little too loyal) Summary: In which Deadlock follows Megatron to a cave to take shelter from a blizzard. Crossposting: In a reblog

Fic under cut.

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[prowl-autism-extraordinaire]

okay but honestly tell me a hotter combo than mtmte megs and drift. ill wait

[outlier-roddy]

Gonna throw a curve-ball fo the ship meme: megadrift?

WELL NOW

I..... H u h

This one rlly did have me thinking lmao

[primeadv]

today’s doodles

megadrift

young!ratch dratchet

ratchet being sof

[prowlscreamevangelist]

an incomplete list of things that i WILL riot over if they aren’t resolved/addressed/explored before the reboot:

simpatico (right now they both think they were abandoned by the other and i CANNOT accept that never being resolved)

cygate (i don’t believe that was actually tailgate in LL16)

the rodimus/drift/ratchet triangle (i don’t even care which way it’s resolved as long as it is)(okay that’s a filthy lie i care a lot)

starscream and megatron (i fear that the annual is as much of a resolution as we’re going to get but I NEED ANSWERS)

let! drift! talk! to! megatron! (this has been completely unexplored and i’m sure it won’t be because i don’t think megs is coming back but i am dying there’s so much potential with those interactions)

i need so much more new institute content, they can find a way to fit that in, right? right???? :( (at least tell me if prowl ran it)