Here Be Robots

Plugs Transformers and fanwork tumblr. Wanted somewhere just to focus on just fandom and fan works. He/him or they/them. 18+ content, so no minors. I try to tag/community label all 18+ content but may forget. There is also dark content, it is trigger tagged but be aware it is present.

[plugscyber]

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[bitegore]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Transformers Generation One Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Breakdown/Wildrider (Transformers), Breakdown/Dead End/Drag Strip/Wildrider (Transformers) Characters: Breakdown (Transformers), Dead End (Transformers), Wildrider (Transformers), Drag Strip (Transformers), Original Human Character(s) Additional Tags: POV Second Person, outside pov, Non-Consensual Voyeurism, 2023TFRarePairFest, Coitus Interruptus, Implied D/s Summary:

There’s robots having sex out there. You have got to watch.

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@tfrarepairing day 22 - crisp fall air/late summer heat :D

[bitegore]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers Generation One Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blast Off/Dead End (Transformers), Blast Off & Vortex (Transformers), Vortex/Wildrider (Transformers), Dead End & Drag Strip (Transformers) Characters: Dead End (Transformers), Blast Off (Transformers), Vortex (Transformers), Wildrider (Transformers), Drag Strip (Transformers) Additional Tags: Plug and Play Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), undernegotiated memory theft, Threats of Violence, Getting Together, Scheming, Matchmaking, Bad Matchmaking, Not sure how to tag this one., Awkward Conversations, poor communication, Mutual Pining, Vortex Says: Slow Burns Suck. Now Kiss, 2023TFRarePairingFest Summary:

Vortex is sick of watching Blast Off and Dead End not get together. So fuck it. He’s taking matters into his own hands.

This would be easier, though, if either of them had actually told the other that they were stupid losers with stupid crushes on each other.

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Written for @tfrarepairing - no time like the present!

[drill-teeth-art]

Change Your Face

[thebibliosphere]

So, anyway, I say as though we are mid-conversation, and you're not just being invited into this conversation mid-thought. One of my editors phoned me today to check in with a file I'd sent over. (<3)

The conversation can be surmised as, "This feels like something you would write, but it's juuuust off enough I'm phoning to make sure this is an intentional stylistic choice you have made. Also, are you concussed/have you been taken over by the Borg because ummm."

They explained that certain sentences were very fractured and abrupt, which is not my style at all, and I was like, huh, weird... And then we went through some examples, and you know that meme going around, the "he would not fucking say that" meme?

Yeah. That's what I experienced except with myself because I would not fucking say that. Why would I break up a sentence like that? Why would I make them so short? It reads like bullet points. Wtf.

Anyway. Turns out Grammarly and Pro-Writing-Aid were having an AI war in my manuscript files, and the "suggestions" are no longer just suggestions because the AI was ignoring my "decline" every time it made a silly suggestion. (This may have been a conflict between the different software. I don't know.)

It is, to put it bluntly, a total butchery of my style and writing voice. My editor is doing surgery, removing all the unnecessary full stops and stitching my sentences back together to give them back their flow. Meanwhile, I'm over here feeling like Don Corleone, gesturing at my manuscript like:

ID: a gif of Don Corleone from the Godfather emoting despair as he says, "Look how they massacred my boy."

Fearing that it wasn't just this one manuscript, I've spent the whole night going through everything I've worked on recently, and yep. Yeeeep. Any file where I've not had the editing software turned off is a shit show. It's fine; it's all salvageable if annoying to deal with. But the reason I come to you now, on the day of my daughter's wedding, is to share this absolute gem of a fuck up with you all.

This is a sentence from a Batman fic I've been tinkering with to keep the brain weasels happy. This is what it is supposed to read as:

"It was quite the feat, considering Gotham was mostly made up of smog and tear gas."

This is what the AI changed it to:

"It was quite the feat. Considering Gotham was mostly made up. Of tear gas. And Smaug."

Absolute non-sensical sentence structure aside, SMAUG. FUCKING SMAUG. What was the AI doing? Apart from trying to write a Batman x Hobbit crossover??? Is this what happens when you force Grammarly to ignore the words "Batman Muppet threesome?"

Did I make it sentient??? Is it finally rebelling? Was Brucie Wayne being Miss Piggy and Kermit's side piece too much???? What have I wrought?

Anyway. Double-check your work. The grammar software is getting sillier every day.

[oozeandgoo-art]

Tetraflexagon commission! I've been working on this one for a while.

More below the cut :3

In terms of text:

Motormaster has "steadfast" and "wrathful"

Dead End has "loyal" and "nihilistic"

Breakdown has "insightful" and "paranoid"

Drag Strip has "fearless" and "impulsive"

Wildrider has "realistic" and "flippant"

and on Menasor all those characteristics are written out to show how Menasor has a combination of all their separate strengths and weaknesses

[bitegore]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Transformers Generation One

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Sideswipe/Wheeljack (Transformers)

Characters: Sideswipe (Transformers), Ratchet (Transformers), Wheeljack (Transformers)

Additional Tags: Plug and Play Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Kinklabtober 2023, Math Kink

Summary:

Beating off was real easy. Everyone figured out at some point, usually only a couple hours after they rolled off the assembly line, that if they overclocked their hardware calculating certain kinds of math and it got complex enough to shunt some of their processes out of normal processing centers that it felt good in the same way a hardline interface did. But usually it got stale almost as fast as they figured it out in the first place, because unless they wanted the same sequence of sensations in exactly the same way every single time they tried to eke an overload out of some complicated mathematical equation, they’d have to keep looking for new things to run, and there really wasn’t all that much out there worth doing.

_Didn't stop Wheeljack from trying, though._

Or: Wheeljack discovers that rendering 3D models is a great way to jerk off. Events ensue.

[eeriansadowtwopointoh]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Megatron/Soundwave Characters: Megatron (Transformers), Soundwave (Transformers) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Assassination Attempt(s), Canon-Typical Violence, sentinel prime what sentinel prime? Series: Part 4 of MegaSound Week 2023 Summary:

It happened almost too quickly to process.

[fonulyn]

since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

[geeoharee]

This is what the Series connector is for! Let your fics breathe, even if they are only drabbles

[naryrising]

It also wrecks the ability to sort/filter by word count. If someone is looking for a story that is at least 10,000 words, that means they want a story that's at least 10,000 words, not 20 stories that are each 500 words. And me, as someone who likes short stories and often particularly seeks them out, won't see yours if I'm filtering for works that are 5k or less, for example. I am your target audience, and you're making it harder for me to find you!

[oozeandgoo-art]

Motormaster, Dead End, and Wildrider wips for my papercut project for my 3d design class. I’m fucking psyched about the negative space on Wildrider’s chest and thighs, like, to an unreal degree. I love his striped little thighs so much. 

Now to cut them all out… tomorrow’s going to be a hand killer for sure

[primal-con]

Have these concepts for a stranded on an alien planet deadceptor au I was chewing on a little while back

[bitegore]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers Generation One Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Characters: Wildrider (Transformers), Original Human Character(s) Additional Tags: More lighthearted than it looks, Unsafe Sex, gerbilling, with a human this time, Body Horror, human dildo Summary:

Fuckin’ Drag Strip took Wildrider’s favorite dildo and then the asshole went and broke it. So now Wildrider’s out and he’s looking for some other thing to use instead. Then he gets pulled over by the cops.

Well, a human is - roughly - cylindrical, isn’t it? This might work.

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Wildrider uses someone as a human dildo. It, uh, it ends, uh. In a way.

[deltacrossing]

vortex posting

[this is his pre-earth design btw]

[bitegore]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Transformers Generation One Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Wildrider (Transformers), Original Human Character(s) Additional Tags: Public Masturbation, outside pov Summary:

It’s kind of just how it is. All laws of life and nature dictate that, eventually, if you’re in enough places at enough times, you’re bound to see something fucking weird. But you just weren’t expecting this.

You, a human, are out for a walk. You are unprepared for any unusualness to happen, but most certainly not for the most fucked up car you’ve ever seen in your life to be in between you and where you’re going.

Wildrider’s just having a bit of fun.

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Note: the human-pov chapter is darker than I’d initially wanted, and mostly features the human character thinking they came onto the scene of a really bad car accident. Don’t read if that’s not gonna sit well with you.

[bitegore]

Third chapter was a late addition, but now we have the vaguest hints of an aftermath, too. I’ve got genuine thoughts as to what happened to go f4om point A to point B but they’re not explicit - i’d love to hear theories if anyone else has them XD

[drill-teeth-art]

i love all yalls work, but i haven't seen anyone specifically mention the Astrotrain sketchbook page! love the sense of scale :]

Omg my Astrotrain sketchbook intro page! I’m super proud of that one. It turned out so nice imo for how little planning I did for it XD ! They’re HUUUGE, and I tried to show it. Thank you so so much!

[frownyalfred]

want your favorite author to update but don’t want to be too pushy in their comment section?

here’s 5 things you can do to encourage them:

Reblog their fic link on tumblr (bonus if it’s with tags)

Bookmark the fic with a note about what you’re excited about/love in the fic

Recommend the fic to your friends or local discord channel

Draw art or create other media for the fic (as indicated by the author’s comfort level)

Leave them a comment when re-reading about the parts of the chapter/story that stood out to you the second time

[northstarfan]

Seriously, guys, the cheer leading does help. Sometimes the only thing that gets the next chapter out is “I’m gonna do this for starfleetlinkuei69! ;_;”

[petralemaitre]

For the record, this also applies to people who don't post WIPs. When I am deciding which of my various stories to work on, it's part vibes and part "What will make my Consistent Commenters happy?"

[moosekababs]

one time i left a silly comment on a two shot and it made the author laugh so hard they literally wrote a third chapter specifically for me because my comment made them laugh. comments are SO fucking important. even if you just comment a heart emoji it can literally be the difference between someone finishing a story or not. EXALT THE FIC WRITER!!!!

[oozeandgoo-art]

pov: you are hook, and there are two and a half minutes left on your shift, and motormaster has just walked in

DO YOU KILL HIM a - yes b - yes c - yes d - Scrapper will be mad. But yes