#tfbb writing

[ring-rong-rang-rung]

It's time for posting this year's project for 2024's @tf-bigbang, or rather, the 2024 Transformers Reverse Minibang!

I had the honor of working with the talented Mouse (@welcometothesewers) to bring their artwork to life so I could write this story. Thank you for letting me join you on this journey!

You can find their art here!

I also want to thank @legendtrainer for the help beta-reading this fic. One day, I'll learn how to properly use an em-dash, I promise!

Now, onwards to the fic!

RATING: General Audiences WARNINGS: No Archive Warnings Apply RELATIONSHIP(S): Jetfire | Skyfire & Wheeljack, Jetfire | Skyfire & Starscream, Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream, Ratchet/Wheeljack SUMMARY: "Maybe you need to talk to someone about what Starscream used to be like, and not get it thrown back in your face that he isn't like that anymore." "Yes, and that will magically fix everything. Absolutely won't get me any unhappy looks from all the others or anything of that nature," Jetfire groans. "I'm fine, Wheeljack, really." The Wheeljack he remembers would have likely dropped it there, knowing he was lying but willing to wait for him to work it out on his own, or come talk to him in his own time. But this Wheeljack doesn't drop it quite so easily. "I didn't say you had to talk about it with the others. Just me. I'm probably the only other Autobot that understands what Starscream used to be like, and doesn't just have memories of him in the here and now." To Jetfire, it's only been a few years since he was lost in the snow and ice of an exoplanet study mission gone wrong. But to Wheeljack, it's been four million. And sometimes, old mechs need to reminisce about the friends, or rather friend, that they lost along the way.

[windydrawallday]

After three days of facing the same blank new doc, I discovered that the art block extended even to my writing so HAHAHA ay welp

[sphnyspinspin]

OMG! YES! Thx for the tag buddy ol’ pal @novafire-is-thinking

Rules are rules so: WIP names please and thank you. Asks about said WIPs are absolutely appreciated. Maybe a couple of words to set the scene if you know what I mean. A somewhat vague but telling description of your work. Even if you’re nowhere close to finishing it, or you haven’t even started on it and you only have a name and an idea, I want to hear it regardless. Literally anything counts! From art sketches to writing and maybe some small headcannons or stories you have.

Oh god, my notes are so disorganized. But hey, I’ll work with what I got. If you guys ask any questions I will happily answer them, just not right away, cause I can be surprisingly busy sometimes.

Storytelling Stuff:

Recruit Vigilantes(RBA)

Recruiting Rescue Interns(RBA)

Wedge’s Family Reunion(RBA)

Wedge Speaks City(RBA)

How To Parent A Whirl(RBA)

Hotshot In The Middle(RBA)

Hoist Goes Green(RBA)

A Medix Of Many Talents(RBA)

Brushfire’s Outback(RBA)

Scorch Knows No Bounds(RBA)

Prince Of The Academy(RBA)

Rescue Animated(RB/RBA/TFA)

Lost and Found(RBA/LL/MTMTE)

Wit-Wicky’s New Recruit(RBA/TFE)

Night at the Mall(TFBB/RBA)

Lost Bots of Lost Light(TFBB/LL/MTMTE)

Art Stuff:

Thorns & Thrones DTIYS

Represent Zine Page

Baby Bots

Hotshot and his bros

Transformer-sona

Meet The Artist

Extra Random Stuff:

Lost Bots of Lost Light duo headcannons

Fairyformers

RBA in other continuities(TFA/TFE/LL/MTMTE/TFBB) incorrect quotes and one shots

Stories of other creators’ AUs and OCs

Check this out! @geluatekurama @fishbugg @sonia-aquamarineson @jessenitrogen-blog @thegirlwhoflies26 @shapeshiftingcloud @autistic-fool-with-ideas

[dramamelon]

Dethalbum IV.

GUH!

This is some tasty, tasty listening.

Can't wait to watch Army of the Doomstar. Ordered the blu-ray, so it'll be here tomorrow. Don't know if I'll dive right in or wait until the weekend, since I'm working long shifts the next three days. (Meaning 10-11 hours each. Oof. I'm ready for these hardcore training shifts to be over. *lol*) Mmm... need to finish TFBB fic, though, and there's still lots of work left to do on it. 😬 We'll see how I can work the writing around watching, I suppose.

Looks like there's a Dethklok show in Atlanta on the 3rd, too. HOWEVER, I cannot justify ~$200 just for a single ticket. 😩 It would be an overnight stay, too, considering it's a 2.5-3 hour drive one way. UGH. Oh well. I'll live without the live show, I guess.

[perictione]

C: Do you still think love is a kind of processor glitch?

Look it’s Chapter 3! I’m so excited for people to read this one. 

[ring-rong-rang-rung]

It's time for posting in 2023's @tf-bigbang! Despite my fears at several points that I really had bit off more than I could chew this year, it's finished. It's the longest single piece of writing I've ever completed.

I was delighted to work with @lush-specimen as an artist, and @satellitesoundwave as a beta reader! Thank you both so much for everything you did to help this fic get off the ground successfully. I can't thank you enough here, so I'm thanking you in the AO3 notes as well.

Now, without giving away everything here on Tumblr (although it's all properly tagged on AO3), here's the basics.

RATING: Mature WARNINGS: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings MAIN PAIRING: HotLock (Hot Rod/Deadlock) ADDITIONAL TAGS: Decepticon AU, Decepticon Hot Rod, Mafia princess Hot Rod and long suffering bodyguard Deadlock SUMMARY: Hot Rod has grown up in this war knowing his place in the broader conflict. He's the son of Megatron, and heir to the Decepticon Cause. But something lurks in his past, desperate to catch up with him after his first battle. Following an attempted abduction, Megatron decides the best option is to send Hot Rod into hiding. Hot Rod is less than thrilled, as is the mech selected for this assignment. Hot Rod and Deadlock will have to learn to work together and coexist for their own survival, while the Autobots try to find Hot Rod to reveal secrets that some hope will never be unburied. Part One of Prodigal

Chapters 1-4 are up now. Chapters 5-7 will be up on September 23rd, and chapters 8-12 will be up on the 24th.

[windydrawallday]

If you receive this, you make somebody happy! Go on anon and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. If you get one back, even better!

☕️ I come from the forum and e-mail era, and I was known as the chain-breaker among my peers so I won't follow the rules, BUT I'll do something better: I'll leave words for everyone that needs them to grab, like a plate of fresh free cookies.

Even if it doesn't feel like it, life is really too short. And gets even shorter the more you live it. And it will teach you to use your time wisely, whatever breadcrumb of time it's handled: from hours to mere minutes and seconds.

Each one is valuable because, from a few of those seconds, you could find yourself creating the most satisfying thing in the world that's probably not your best, but you know what? You did it. That thing right there was once a construct of your mind, only visible and believable to you, and now is out there!

For everyone to see, experience, and believe it like you do. To save it in their minds and hearts. And isn't that, the point of writing, of making art?

Isn't it enough to know someone keeps it in their memory, and attaches it in that little vulnerable corner of their self? And even inspired them... to try doing the same.

And when you are gone from this world and time keeps running without us present, that's what will be left. Our creations. So: keep creating. Keep leaving little parts of your mind out there.

Because it is worth the time you spend. It is worth all those laughs, all those cries of catharsis, all those moments of enlightenment.

It's worth the effort. And you are worth taking space and making the difference.

Even if you think that difference is small. But for someone else, it will be their whole world.

[dramamelon]

All my writing energy has fallen into working on my TFBB fic. Unfortunately, it has been accompanied by an uptick of less energy overall because work has gotten far too hectic, especially for a part time job. 😑 Have no fear, though. Those half-finished event fics will be completed. (I really hate having the Polyship Week fic sitting in limbo at its current spot, too. Oof.)

[perictione]

Kyaaaa Chapter 2 of Ethics and Employee Management is here. @coppernickels made art for one of these scenes and you can see it at the end of the chapter!