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I'm going to try and keep up with my new fics on here as well as elsewhere... we'll see if that actually works out.

Doing It Right (3673 words) by Red Dragon
Fandom: Transformers Generation One
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Vortex & Original Cybertronian Character (Transformers)
Characters: Vortex (Transformers), Original Cybertronian Character(s), Kickback (Transformers)
Additional Tags: Interrogation, Scheming, Board Games
Summary: Vortex's job is interrogation. He may enjoy torture, but sometimes - when the problems are real, and the intel will actually matter to him - sometimes he has to cut the crap and actually get some information out of someone. And everyone except High Command knows torture doesn't actually work.

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i just wanted more interesting autobots because all the ones i like are coded as blue collar in some way for the most part or a blood knight and i have plenty of blood knight representation but not so many blue collar goodguys. tragic.

Notes: Raytheon is a USAmerican government contracted weapons manufacturer. DGP is my abbreviation for "devastating glorious purpose" which i use as shorthand for "maybe the scope of this thing that you are built to do and want to do is vainglorious, enormous, stupid and dangerous to those around you" and associated concepts. This all hails from this random thought collection re: class in Transformers and how I'd like to see it done.

brainstorming )
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I really wouldn't mind a return/turn to g1-style working-class Autobots and career-soldier Decepticons rather than having everything be IDW2005/Aligned/Bayverse/etc career-gov-track Autobots and working-class Decepticons instead.

Like, from a personal standpoint I don't like the politics of it much but also frankly it's just not that interesting. As much as I kind of hate "divine right to rule" as a mechanism personally and politically, it's a lot more interesting for Optimus Prime to be the like benefactor of a benevolent god from a rank not well suited for it raised to a position he was unexpected to do well from- like Rodimus Prime would be, later- than it is if he started out as someone picked and groomed for the role. It makes the Autobots more "everyman" type characters if they're all or almost all people who had a day job and stepped up to the fight after it was established that the Decepticons were bad news, and I think it'd re-inject some real menace into the Decepticons.

Like- I don't want everything to be Transformers Animated. I'm not overly attached to the world of Transformers Animated (not enough blood knight characters for me). But you cannot deny that the warframe-Decepticons vs janitor-Autobots setup makes for a much more compelling cast of "relatable" good guys than Coptimus Prime backstories and Elite Soldiers TM everywhere.

I genuinely think there's room for both kinds of stories in Transformers. I just want to see... more... where Megatron is allowed to be anything other than "goodguy uprising leader unfairly maligned by guvmint who subsequently Turns Evil because [waves hands] Bad".

(For better or worse, I liked where IDW2019 was going with the Ascenticons/Decepticons too, but even then I didn't feel like it had the kind of class split I'm talking about. Optimus and Megatron were both the same kind of leader. Whereas, like, in the G1 cartoon and TFA they did do a lot to like code a bunch of the Autobots as "lower class", and they sort of haven't done that in a while.)

this is serving the function of tags on tumblr because i don't have vocalized and sub-voc separations here but i want this to be mumbled additions and not up front with the Real Thinkythoughts )
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Crossposted from Tumblr here.

okay okay like so i am like. literally foaming at the mouth about motormaster all the time lately. for like the last two? weeks ? something like that.

anyway i love this fucking truck so much. he is awful and he sucks, and for some reason this is deeply endearing to me personally. I llove him. I have feelings for and about him. I am going to kill him to dead with my own two bare human hands and he can't stop me. because I love him.

anyway i am going to eat him like a fucking candy bar. i love him. he sucks.




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Kudos for this challenge goes to [personal profile] scissorsevered (by way of [personal profile] stardust_rifle in my case.) If you want to take part, just post a headcanon you have and tag it with “headcanonroulette”

Motormaster is legitimately actually functionally illiterate. No one has ever bothered to explain to him that if every time you read a paragraph your eyes somehow jump straight to the bottom and you can't process letters individually, something might be up, so he just figures everyone does this. He is convinced that Soundwave and the info-distributing parts of High Command are just trying to make him look stupid when they give him things to read when they could obviously just be a perfectly normal data download. He gets by alright because he just has Dead End read everything he's expected to read over and then gets a summary from him but at some point someone will have to eventually clue him in, because god knows he's not actually going to ask for help. 
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If you follow my ao3 you may have noticed that I posted something to the tune of 20+ fics today. and also if you were paying attention you may have noticed that I was also asking for prompts today and all the fics are short as hell. yes i did write these all today and then posted them as i went.

1. watch your step - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40885263
Wheeljack fucks up his knee trying to get the job done, but he's not going to let that stop him.
Warnings: Non-graphic injury

2. impotent threats - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40886244
you've got a murderous helicopter tied up in your bed. This can only end badly, but before that…
well, before that, you might as well enjoy yourself.
Second-person reader-on-Vortex "in media res" violent rape that's established to have been going on for a while and he's really mad about
it.
Warnings: Rape/Noncon, Non-Graphic Injury, Non-Consensual Bondage

3. way above me, find you there - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40886871
Onslaught thinks about Blast Off and whether or not they count as "friends".

4. same old story - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887144
Literally just Megatron and Optimus fighting, g1 grapple-on-the-ground style.
Warnings: violence.

5. I swear this time I'm getting back to good - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887330
Impactor decides to work with Carnivac. Double drabble, set around the end of Sins of the Wreckers.

6. Negotiate This - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887678
Megatron wants the Autobots to surrender. After all, he has their Prime.
Prowl knows better than to accept these ridiculous terms, though. No matter what Megatron does to his leader, he knows better than to think Optimus would ever be okay with th
em.
Warnings: NSFW, Rape/Noncon, Non-Graphic Violence, what may be the world's cruelest fade to black honestly

7. The Joy of Consumption - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887918
Tarantulas eats someone, like he wanted to do to Cheetor.
Warnings: NSFW, Graphic Injury, Cannibalism/Hard Vore, debatable noncon/rape depending on how sexual you want to read it

8. Stop Moving - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40888308
No one wants to do Vortex's tune-ups, but someone has to. Today that someone is Hook.
Warnings: NSFW, One-sided Attraction, Vortex being a sex pest in Hook's general direction

9. I told you to hold still - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40888824
TFW this fucker keeps coming into the medical wing because he's injured and will not stop trying to get you to jerk him off about it
Warnings: NSFW, Self-Inflicted Injury, One-sided Attraction, Vortex being a sex pest in Hook's general direction

10. Old Traditions and New Experiences - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40890102
it's take your not-quite-rehabilitated knife catboy to temple day in New Crystal City and Wing is going to make sure Drift participates. Projection train goes brr, I'm Jewish and I'm making the New Crystal City's religious practices feel like going to shul and you can't stop me.

11. Great. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40891410
Bumblebee gets shot with an experimental weapon. Time to figure out what it's done to him. G1-style silliness.

12. just another lab accident - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40892865
Wheeljack's blown half his torso off. How come he and Ratchet are so chill about all this?
Or: Ratchet and Wheeljack have an arrangement, much to the bafflement of some of the other Autobo
ts.
Warnings: NSFW, Graphic Injury

13. quick tour - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894308
Skullsmasher and Hun-Grr get along from the get-go.
Warnings: Non-Graphic Violence

14. deterrent - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894548
Some idiot's laid hands on First Aid and Buzzsaw and Vortex are here to show the entirety of the galaxy why that is a very bad, very fatal idea.
This one is set in @cleverthylacine's Voice of Stanix AU which I enjoy a lot! You can find it here. Deterrent has been officially canonized to VOS which I'm very excited about haha.
Warnings: Major Character Death, Non-Graphic Injury, implication doing heavy lifting

15. go on, Doctor, smile. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894959
Pharma needs Tarn to let him put a sabotaged part in his chest. How better than to play like he'd been beaten? And how better to pretend (ugh) that his pride had been beaten out of him (ugh, Primus) than to let the fucking asshole fuck him?
One of probably several attempts to kill Tarn before Pharma went fully scorched-earth and tried out killing all his patients in order to maybe get Tarn with a vir
us.
Warnings: NSFW, Noncon/Rape, Graphic Depictions of Violence, general emotional Bad

16. "I'm gonna die if- " - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40895442
Vortex is one good hard rub away from an orgasm and he needs it so bad, First Aid, please stop worrying about the near-fatal wound in his chest, please please please.
First Aid would really appreciate it if his fuckbuddy would have one iota more self-preservation and stopped begging him to jerk him off so First Aid could keep him from offlining on the spot and THEN jerk him off. Please.
Warnings: NSFW, graphic injury

17. you've got to be kidding - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40895661
Seriously, can't Megatron ever just stay dead?

18. Favorite - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896126
Shattered Glass - Impactor and Bulkhead are playing all sorts of games with each other.
Well, mostly just Impactor. Bulkhead is just having fun with the ga
me.
Warnings: NSFW, Noncon/Rape, general SG!Autobot crunchiness

19. stop going off into trouble. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896459
oneshot of Redshift and Astrotrain cuddling and talking after the events of Transmissions from Cybertron

20. Sharing Stuff (Sharing Snuff) - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896717
Vortex and Dead End share an interest. Vortex might as well help him get hooked up with some of the good shit. It's just so interesting to see from the outside.
Warnings: NSFW

21. Sit and Stay - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40897065
Hook knows how to deal with Vortex now. Followup to "Stop Moving" and "I told you to hold still", contains less of Vortex being a sex pest.
Warnings: soft NSFW, injuries

22. HURRY UP - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40897698
Vortex and Wheeljack both have an interest in some fairly extreme painplay. Except Vortex is essentially on parole, and he's worried that actually doing anything might reflect badly on him.
Wheeljack just kind of really wants to get this show on the fucking road immediately because come on, just fuck him already plea
se.
Warnings: NSFW

 

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Please refrain from discussing theology in this server. (5667 words) by Red Dragon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Slipstream (Transformers), Skywarp (Transformers), Original Cybertronian Character(s)
Additional Tags: Religion, Chatlogs, argument, Worldbuilding
Summary:

Welcome to the DecepticonGunShow Discord server, a social space for Decepticons! Please set your name and pronouns in the #droid-containment-channel and introduce yourself in #introductions :D We're all friends here.
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Wherein several OCs and a beleaguered moderation team discuss religion in their off time.



have some religion in the robots
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And No One Cared (637 words) by Red Dragon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Transformers: Prime
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Scraplets (Transformers), Extinction
Summary:

No one noticed it when it happened.



[lays face first in a pile of tears about dead bugs] come be sad about the california condor louse and also scraplets with me
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A Moderate View of the "Autobot" and "Decepticon" Factions (1457 words) by Red Dragon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Non-narrative, Essays, Cybertronian Politics (Transformers), Pre-Cybertronian Civil War, Functionism (Transformers)
Summary:

An in-character opinion article/essay by a self-described "moderate" discussing the Decepticon and Autobot ideologies, dated to (shortly) before the war but some time after the establishment of both sides.



Read an essay that I truly struggled to write. I am so not a bootlicker and I had to try SO hard to pull off the bootlicker voice