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[kraskrov]

more fanart of The Corsair and the Corsetteer series from @sorrowsfallallaround and @haethel. had fun making some drawings! (the writing -> art transfer was real tough tho lol)

[akannuoli-aatteet]

I have not listened to the Cub and the Caterpillar after the first and only time and I might be remembering a lot of stuff wrong but I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about the part, when Ongenagama's sister asked her why she'd chosen Mooti for her lover (since pretty much everyone assumed they were dating), Onganagama answered: "Mooti. Is a Friend."

Ongenagama's words have they stayed in my brain. Literally living rent free. The way she says 'friend' just fills my heart with sunlight and love.

The absence of the word 'just' in that sentence is so important to me and probably gave five years to my lifetime. I'm. So. Fucking. Sick Of HOW IN EVERY SHOW THEY UNDERVALUE THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP. BY SAYING "WE'RE JUST FRIENDS".

IM SO FUCKING SICK OF HEARING THAT PEOPLE ARE JUST FRIENDS.

That's stupid! You can be friends without the just. Friendship is not inherently a weaker love than romance. Friendships can be life changing and as or more significant than romantic relationships, yet still romance takes the higher value in media and life, cause I guess, friendships aren't as exciting as romantic relationships as a concept can be. I need more stories about friendship that don't take the bond for granted.

"Mooti. Is a FRIEND", she said, but not in the way where she would be hiding her true feelings of romantic love. She said it with absolute honesty with all her heart and she meant it with her whole soul. She knew that any partner she could have in the future, she would not have shared the same kind of experiences that she had with Mooti Qobaa.

I feel like in that moment, in that single, one-syllable word, Unati fucking succeeded to encapsulate their whole journey and everything they went through together, their deep love and understanding for each other.

Mooti, for the first time expressing disdain for the sun, and Ongenagama saying: "I'll offer some shade", while looming over the nocturnal and providing him a shadow. Ongenagama running with Mooti on her back as a cocoon during daytime. Her making progress on their journey while Mooti sleeps. So efficient.

They just get along so well. They just work together. She is hardly annoyed by his pessimistic yapping and Mooti is grateful for having someone like her and just. Protect him and be with him and experience life with him. They let each other be without any expectations of who they should be. Their dynamic just is so great cause its pretty much just Mooti being petty and making enemies, causing problems and generally being a dick while Ongenagama takes usually a backseat. Their comedic duo is just too beautiful.

The way when Mooti lost his arms after being a dick to the fish spirit and Ongenagama pleaded on her knees asking for forgiveness for herself but moreover for Mooti, like the noble fighter she is. And the spirit decided to grant Mooti fish flounders because of Ongenagamas humbleness. The fact that Mooti was supposed to be the more charismatic one but Ongenagama ended up doing a lot of the persuasive work.

AND!!!! The cutest cutest thing ever! Is the fact that when Mooti was granted his arms back, the first thing he did was hug Ongenagama. Right after he had gotten them, he rushed to celebrate with his Friend and finally had the chance to hug her and express, express his love for her. They love each other so much. They like each other so much. The fist thing he used his arms for was hugging his best friend.

THE FIRST THING HE DID AFTER GETTING ARMS WAS HUGGING HIS BEST FRIEND.

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH.

I just feel like Ongenagama and Mooti's relationship had so much unspoken mutual understanding and respect. They genuinely like and respect each other. They seek comfort in each other. They're totally different people but they understand and accommodate to each other. They chose to be with each other. They choose to be with each other.

It just feels like all of this and more were said in the word 'friend'. when Ongenagama said "Mooti. Is a friend." Like every experience they had had, that was hidden away to the outside viewer, showed itself a bit in the honesty of Ongenagama's tone and cadence. She said it with such meaning that her sister could've almost understood how much she meant by saying calling Mooti a friend. They've been so much through together.

Its like they invented a new meaning for this word, they made it feel so full of love, life, appreciation and understanding. Ongenagama and Mooti redefined friendship and the people they met who thought they were dating, couldn't understand the feeling they have for each other. People can love each other without any kind of romantic tension and attraction. they are underestimating Mooti's and Ongenagama's ability to love each other.

I feel like this post is not good. I might make edits later and so on. I cannot truly capture what I mean and what I feel.

Thank you, 3BH.♡

[sparrow-senator]

I love making characters with this dynamic lol

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[booknotesbyathina]

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[transingthoseformers]

I am now thinking so much about dynamic changes that could happen now. Pre-Megatron but Megatron having to deal with the aftermath when he gets on about the rogue mnemosurgeon in the locked medbay room. Which makes me think that setup ends differently with Drift returning more quickly (Pre-Megatron?).

So this is their last journey before they arrive for Dark Cybertron that builds in the background only to explode post-Tyrest with the Lost Light Ratchet leading going after Drift because Ratchet ran off. The Tyrest Incident accelerates it and leads to more explosions of tension.

Maybe even a cryptic comment from Pharma about Ratchet not noticing what had been done to him.

Other contenders for change:

Sunstreaker having nightmares and having memories of his brother, Ironhide, and Bob get fuzzy and is convinced someone broke into his berthroom. Something proven when Bob gets a chunk of the mech and becomes growling and protective and Sunstreaker does NOT take kindly to someone else messing with his brain after what has happened to him. He is extra furious because the image of what happened is blurred, and like in TCaTC, Chromedome isn't using traditional entry points. He is an early proponent of the cospiracy that something is happening.

Rodimus is only attacked once and has nightmares of Nyon, and reacts instinctively and burns Chromedome. It leads him to being in a bit of a negative loop.

Rung is atrempted, and it knocks memories loose instead, and now he is dreaming about four siblings and is strangely standing out.

Ambulon, interestingly, doesn't remember Pharma, who wasn't close to him but promoted and treated him mostly fairly and until the rather ridiculous last hour frame attempt was his best boss who recognized his skills and reacted accordingly. This ironically saves his life and leads to Pharma inspecting them and laughing because Ratchet didnt notice. He is a little gleeful as he sees this as proof. First Aid doesn't kill him so Pharma is in the brig and it takes everyone a long time to approach him and find out Pharma has mostly reverted to a newbuild because Ratchet was such an important part of his life the only memories left were Tarn and suffering so he only has vague memories of being born, learning, some of Delphi which are again fractured and unclear more a vague idea of patients and surgeries and knowing who Ambulon/First Aid is, and a boogeyman of Tarn and his voice and now being "safe" on the Lost Light. He doesn't remember the Red Rust because Ratchet was too tied to the resolution so itvwas deleted in an attempted defrag

Pharma basically thinks his life is birth -> training -> assignment to Delphi which conflats his early residency and Delphi memories so he doesn't know he was in charge and has concluded Ambulon was -> The DJD attacking (?) -> Tarn = Suffering -> a disease (?) -> being "rescued" (mixes Tyrest and his arrest) -> staying in the brig and a sharp pain

He assumes he is isolated due to a disease quarantine and is generally calm and friendly and eager to impress. His brain may have suppressed/deleted a bit more than intended defensively.

Exactlyyyy (does this mean Optimus doesn't drag a mnemosurgeon to somewhat threaten Megatron into fessing up memories "for evidence", or does this mean he drags in someone else?)

I feel like just the idea of having a rogue mnemosurgeon on the ship definitely freaks Megs out, especially considering how confined to the ship he is and how strict the conditions of his time there are. Honestly I'm surprised we don't get MORE angst regarding Megatron and Chromedome doing his mnemosurgery thing, PTSD is a bitch like that.

Ohhoh yes just imagine him stepping on the LL and one of the first people he meets is Deadlock Drift.

Yessss yess this is a far more extended process than the other Events, and Pharma totally gets to call that out (probably because those two probably did have good memories at some point, and well we know what happens to good memories here. But also because the personality changes)

Tyrest typically tends to not help situations yeeaaahhhh

Plus like in The Cop And The Cryptid, not using the traditional entry points has a chance of ~effects~ on the doctor as well as the victim patient.

dAMN RODDIE W, okay that makes perfect sense considering Rodimus's outlier ability and based on what I know of Rodimus... He's already hiding so much heavy shit under a smile and perky attitude.

Interesting result there on Rung, as Chromedome's attempt to shadowplay him actually leads to him remembering more rather than less (though from what I remember of Rung these new vague memories are liable to start fucking with him.)

Oh wow yes that's interesting because it also demonstrates how different Pharma was before shit started going sideways regarding the deal with Tarn and the t-cogs from only the thoroughly damned weren't enough. Super fucking interesting how this changes how Ratty, Aid, and Ambi INTERACT with Pharma and how their side of the Tyrest incident is affected.

So Pharma is basically starting from scratch, hmm. Took all of them but one person a long time to approach him, it seems. Chromedome's attacks are messy, and it's really showing with Pharma. He's rather confused, and I think this says a lot about what the situation on Delphi was like pre Red Rust too as again that was merely the straw that broke the camel's back as the noose that was his deal with Tarn grew tighter. And the fact that because he's missing some of the pieces so he's attaching the ones he does have to the wrong places? Yes. Exactly.

This is why shadowplay scares me so much. This had to have been such a left turn for the rest of the LL crew as far as Pharma is concerned and there will be so many consequences.

[bijesperfahey]

Kind of feeling like it’s time for my yearly Amnesty relisten....Kind of feeling like a combo The Cub and the Caterpillar & The Curse of the Spider Queen relisten

[ckret2]

Making my yearly pilgrimage to reread the Cop and the Cryptid (and other TF stories, your character works are just Top Tier!), I'm struck with the desire to try my hand translating. Would you be okay with me translating TCATC into Chinese? I'm not sure if I'll post it anywhere yet, but if that end up happening I'll definitely send a link your way.

Absolutely! Just include credit & send me a link if you post it! :)

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[kraskrov]

August Barbeaux from @sorrowsfallallaround and @haethel 's The Corsair and the Corsetteer series <3 i adore this man incredibly and had such a blast drawing him

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TCATC/TGATC Walking Tour

New HPANWO Voice article: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/tcatctgatc-walking-tour.html

[the-tengu]

The Crow and The Camellia has been updated!

Check out Bud: III here

Start from the beginning here

Alright, I know I said He's Screwed and Not In The Fun Way would be update first, but I got smacked in the face with inspiration for TCATC.

I also, uh, accidentally deleted the chapter I had saved for HSANITFW (wow that is an awful abbreviation, I'll have to think of something else) in a way which means I can't get it back so now I have to rewrite it. But don't worry! It is coming!

I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!

~Tengu

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Dakota Ritter 3/26/21

[homosociallyyours]

i’d love to hear about harry’s upbringing in the changer and the changed. what was high school and uni harry like? was she ever with women then, or was she always too afraid (not really the right word, sorry) about her family’s thoughts, finding out, etc.?

OK THIS ASK IS A MONTH OLD, I’M SO SORRY

I saw it and wanted to take time with it and then forgot to answer it and then...I worried it was too late as more time passed? But with the ask I just got today I decided to go back and answer this one too. I’ll put it behind a cut in case I ramble. 

Before I do, here’s a link to my BB fic, The Changer and the Changed. If you haven’t read it, I promise it’s worth it. (I know I’m biased but...it’s true). 

OK, so Harry kissed her best friend Carol when they were young-- around age 11 or so --as “practice.” It was Carol’s idea, Harry very much one of the girls who “just didn’t get it” when all her friends got excited about boys and kissing and dating. It was awkward and somehow both too wet and too dry at once, but it also made Harry feel a weird twist in her stomach almost like nervous butterflies, and when they pulled apart and Carol wrinkled her nose and said it wasn’t good Harry agreed quickly and tamped down anything that was starting to rise up. (Carol, incidentally, would marry right out of high school and have three kids and only kiss other women twice more, both times when she was very drunk and could say she didn’t remember it happening even though she very much did). 

High school Harry was a Good Girl. She read a lot and went along with how her mother wanted her to dress, and that made it easier for her to escape a lot of awkward dates that she didn’t really want to go on. She did end up on a few, though. It was easy enough to get out of a lot of physical stuff with boys, but she did do some kissing just to see what it was like. It always felt like she was watching a film of someone else kissing a boy when she would do it, though, and that was uncomfortable and strange, so she didn’t do much more than that. 

She had huge crushes on girls, but never acknowledged them as such. She was bookish and nerdy and always writing or reading, always ready to gush about her favorite poet or female writer, and when she found girls like her it was a lot like Anne Shirley meeting Diana Barry. Kindred spirits, bosom friends, etc. She didn’t think about the girls she loved sexually so much as deeply romantically, though. 

At least not until college. She didn’t meet her roommate Bobbi until her sophomore year, after having spent her first year at Bryn Mawr being the same quiet bookworm she had been in high school. Bobbi being assigned as her roommate that second year made all the difference. She was short, with a smart bob haircut and just a little makeup but not too much (when they met at least-- as they got older and she got deeper into feminism she stopped wearing makeup). She wore whatever she wanted, including going braless in spite of having pretty big boobs, and she figured out that Harry was gay before Harry did (in part because yes, Harry sometimes spaced out while looking at Bobbi’s bobbies, and honestly she couldn’t help but feel tenderness because that’s some BIG LESBIAN ENERGY). 

When Harry finally realized (midway through her junior year), Bobbi pulled her into a hug and said in her rather thick Long Island accent “it took ya long enough.” But Harry was scared to even tell Bobbi about her feelings. It was terrifying to her when she woke up from sex dreams about women or when she tried dating men and felt a disgusted when they’d move in to kiss her. But she knew she could trust Bobbi, and she wasn’t wrong. 

She tried to find out how to date women, but it scared her, frankly. Bobbi seemed to know who was a lesbian just by looking at them, but Harry felt like she couldn’t trust herself. And the last thing she wanted was to make another woman uncomfortable or put herself in a position where the wrong person might know about her sexuality. She did meet one woman who she very much wanted to kiss and who was gay, and she mooned after her for a full two weeks before approaching her at a party and asking if she might want to kiss. The woman’s refusal was gentle but still left a bruise on Harry’s heart, and she didn’t really take the same kind of risk again. 

What made her feel safe with Louis was the way that Louis seemed to meet every action that Harry took with her own. The difference was palpable. And the confidence that having her love returned gave her is what eventually helped Harry be able to embrace herself and stop questioning whether or not she could be okay as a lesbian. 

Hopefully you’re still around, nonny, and enjoy this insight into younger Harry. 

Thank you for such a wonderful ask

I’m sorry it took me so long to answer it. 

[transingthoseformers]

Came up with this

THE SERIAL KILLER!SG RUNG AU FOCUSING ALSO ON SG FROID IS A MURDER MYSTERY WITH FROID AS AN UNOFFICIAL ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE

SG Sunder and Froid (maybe Sceptre too?) being semi unofficial detectives to try and solve murders that they KNOW the authorities will let slide under the rug

Dunno if I should add more to their team or no

I'm tempted to suggest Sceptre plays a very minor role

Dunno how much I should change Sunder's personality because I'm tempted to characterize him more like him in TCATC or like some of the fics I read with SG Sunder

SG Froid is an absolute wet cat though

He's just a mostly obscure psychiatrist who's still rather fresh in his practice in a functionist world that finds it easier to practice mnemosurgery then get to the root of the actual problem

Wet cat man

This would be a pre-war or no war au I feel like the decepticons definitely should be around by this point though

WAIT THIS IS AN ALTERNATE WAY TO FROID AND SUNDER MEETING