Violet

[altraviolet]

Hi, I'm AltraViolet. The SW/Rodimus banner sketch was drawn by @themanlylobster. You can find me here as well:

✅ AltraViolet on AO3

✅ altraviolet on bluesky

🤷‍♀️ AltraViolet on pillowfort account public but unused

❌ AltraViolet00 on twitter account locked & rarely checked

I like robots, rarepairs, horror, worldbuilding... all the good stuff.

⚠️ In general, my content is neither tailored/suited for, nor intended for minors.

⚠️ Not open to beta unless I know you very well.

💜 I am friendly but I am also very tired. Please be nice to me.

📖 Posts!

Writing Advice:

Writing Advice & Resources

What Writing Program Do I Use?

How do you write a character's voice? (I want to expand on this in the future!)

A couple literary lols and why they Don't Work (examples of what not to do and how to fix them)

Sentence variation & details, comparing/contrasting 2 novels

How to Self Edit like a Developmental Editor (youtube video rec)

Show and Tell: A Useful Guide

Editing Advice: Looking at a badly written Published Novel

Mountain scenery descriptions: comparing that badly written Published Novel with a well written one

Writing Encouragement ❤️

Stylesheet! (keeping details consistent as you write a long story)

The Heroine's Journey

Nice Prose Examples - The Lathe of Heaven

Picking POV Characters for Scenes

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - a dissection of sea marshmallows looking at purposefully badly written prose

Worldbuilding Advice

Motivation and Planning [Planning refers back to the above post "What Writing Program Do I Use?"]

Video recs for various aspects of writing (editing, character motivations, storytelling, etc)

keeping readers engaged- quick tips

dialog flow: an exercise

Echo Garden Related:

👉👉Can I tag you in TEG art/animations/ficbindings/etc I've made?👈👈 💎💎Yes! Absolutely! I would love to see it and I will link to it from the fic.💎💎 Exception: no minors. TEG is 🔞 and for an adult audience.

Am I a Real Writer?

Where did the idea for Echo Garden come from? / Why MTMTE Rodimus/TFP Soundwave?

Why did you make TFP Soundwave so tall on the Lost Light?

Did you ship Sound/Rod before or after Cyberverse?

Earliest Screenshottable Proof for MTMTE Rodimus/TFP SW (Jan 2017)

Tracking How Rodimus Feels About Soundwave, notes from nikkimna

What would happen if SW went back to his home dimension and interacted with his Megatron?

[teiahnex]

A cheeky Spywarp sketch teehee

[altraviolet]

Axiom Nexus- finale!

LINK 👉 Chapter 15 - path 👈

The green checkmark!! It's complete!!

Thanks so much for reading!!!!!

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The full crew!!!!! This picture went through a few edits as I wrote the fic, but overall, this was always the goal. It was very encouraging to look at it when I was feeling like AGH while writing!! I love how standoffish and powerful pathfinderART looks, hehe.

[altraviolet]

Axiom Nexus- finale!

LINK 👉 Chapter 15 - path 👈

The green checkmark!! It's complete!!

Thanks so much for reading!!!!!

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The full crew!!!!! This picture went through a few edits as I wrote the fic, but overall, this was always the goal. It was very encouraging to look at it when I was feeling like AGH while writing!! I love how standoffish and powerful pathfinderART looks, hehe.

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

[altraviolet]

"Be wary."

Be wary

Be wary

Be ar

Bear

[skystarweek]

Hello everyone! We are extremely excited to announce that we are back with SkyStar Week 2026! This year's dates will be between Monday 29th June to Sunday 5th July! We invite as many of you to participate and have fun devising whatever you can for these two starstruck planes!

Our list of prompts for this year is:

Day 1 (Monday 29th) - Mirror / Mask  Day 2 (Tuesday 30th) - Experiment / Misunderstanding Day 3 (Wednesday 1st) - Gift / Weapon Day 4 (Thursday 2nd) - Jealous / Trapped Day 5 (Friday 3rd) - Royalty / Imposter Day 6 (Saturday 4th) - Fireworks / Compass Day 7 (Sunday 5th) - Date / Apology

However, they are not strict guidelines and you don't have to follow them. These are simply there to give people ideas for fanworks! At the end of the day the main rule is to have fun! We'll be keeping you notified with more updates as we get closer to the date! For now happy SkyStar!

Our FAQ can be found here. / Find us on Bluesky as well!

[skystarweek]

We're about a month away from SkyStar Week! Hope you're all having fun and we're looking forward to seeing all of the ideas you'll be devising!

[bunclebee]

HAIYAAAAAA HUGS BE UPON YE!!!! 💙💜💙💜◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜💙💜💙💜

struck by desperate urge to draw spywarp hugs

[rosieberry]

^q^

[altraviolet]

1984 bookmarks!

Today TEG reached 1984 public bookmarks! A very special number for TF fans :) I've been checking on the number every once in a while. When it hit 1900 bookmarks, I would think of the number as a year. "Oh, 1916, it's WW1." "Ah, 1965, the 60s!!" etc etc

Thank you, as always, for reading!

(for any curious, there are 3710 total bookmarks, meaning that there are 1726 private bookmarks! 👀)

[tenowls]

“SecUnit—” Arada started at the same time as Ratthi said, “I don’t think—” ART interrupted, SecUnit’s earlier statement that I “lie a lot” was untrue. I obviously cannot reveal information against the interests of my crew unless circumstances warrant. Arada nodded. “Right. We understand. I think SecUnit is looking out for our interests—”

i’ve been wanting to draw this scene since i first read ne and finally got around to it HSDJKS

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.

putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Im going go get into the sea and stay there

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

okay come forward which of you reposted this to reddit lmao I SEE YOU

[altraviolet]

comment I just got:

I'm sure everyone who follows me already knows this, but just in case you don't:

AO3 DOES NOT HAVE AN APP

AO3 only works on browser. any "AO3 apps" with ads are stealing stories and making money offa them, and any apps without ads might be doing stuff to your devices

Here is AO3's statement where they say "a standalone app just isn't possible at this point." (Yes that article is from 2015. Yes, it is still relevant for all the reasons they list.) (if someone has a more recent article, lmk)

tl;dr want AO3? browser only 👏

good news follow up: the commenter didn't know that AO3 doesn't have an app, so I sent them an invite, and they have already set up their new AO3 account and are good to go 🎉

[altraviolet]

Axiom Nexus

New Chapter!

link: Chapter 13: my city my city my city

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Enjoy!

[altraviolet]

What's this? Chapter 14 so soon?!

Indeed!

👉Click here for Ch 14: Decisions👈

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Enjoy!

[altraviolet]

Axiom Nexus

New Chapter!

link: Chapter 13: my city my city my city

🌃👀

Enjoy!

[altraviolet]

What's this? Chapter 14 so soon?!

Indeed!

👉Click here for Ch 14: Decisions👈

🤖❓

Enjoy!

[altraviolet]

Axiom Nexus

New Chapter!

link: Chapter 13: my city my city my city

🌃👀

Enjoy!

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically