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[newkissmater]

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Learning to Look Back Beta Reading!!!

Hello, all! I am opening up beta reading for my novelette Learning to Look Back!

Outside of time observing humanity and protecting the health of the timeline, Ranjana is fascinated with humanity. Despite messing up time in another point of her existence, Ranjana is assigned to enter the timeline to confront Dr. Tiffany Isaac, a scientist attempting to create a time machine, to stop her from inadvertently causing a disease in the time stream. Together, Ranjana and Dr. Isaac must confront each other, and their own pasts.

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[ilovebitchingandmoaning]

the lawnmower gang

[merlinfromberlin]

Yay!! Questions!!!

Oh my god, I'm so excited for the chapters of Numb Little bug!!

Okay, I have a question: Approximate age (in human terms) would Bee be if she hadn't had her shell upgraded at Primus's suggestion?

Yay! Happy to hear that. I'm very excited, too. :D

Ratchet gets to crash out a little, actually. He deserves it a lot. Bee's really putting him through the wringer in that chapter.

A bit complicated, actually, but I've been thinking about that recently, too. So, bear with me:

If you put Bee in a human body PURELY based on their chronological age, they'd be a toddler. Like, they're roughly 1/5 of the way to being a Cybertronian adult and being 1/5 of the way to 18 is somewhere between 3 and 4 years old.

That's not really accurate to their mental age, though. They skipped a few years of development during that scene where they first spoke with Optimus and Ratchet where the feeling in their spark made sure that they were mentally mature enough to understand what's going on and keep track of it. I think that I would put them at roughly 7 at the end of that scene. So, theoretically they should be somewhere around 10 or 11 in the present day.

Then again, maybe that's too simplistic, too. I think that, for a lot of things, they kinda slide up and down in maturity levels depending on their current situation. With a REALLY wide margin.

So, maybe no younger than 7, but no older than 11 either fits the description. Or, honestly, way too young, also always fits the bill.

[shy-girl04]

Lovie Simone

dear little b,

I love to see you sat there

pregnant with promise

& nobody’s business:

be bodacious if you feel like it,

be camouflaged, if not.

some might say you should be louder, bolder, tall.

uppercase & camera-ready. but little b, you’re weary,

aren’t you, of being counted in the wrong kinds of ways.

besides, haven’t you been capital forever? haven’t you

been asterisked for far too long? no longer,

or not since, or not enough, some might think

& let them think it, but as for me, little b

I’ll be blunt now:

I like the way you lay low

the way you stay low

& keep shooting.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

[martiancount1877]

He didn't choose the Chive Life

[its-all-gonna-be-worth-it]

"When you feel it, you'll know."

[ddwcaph-game]

I just realized something about Roselyna and Little B...

I know Rosie can be too childish sometimes (especially since I aged her up to 12 when she still mostly has her 8-9 yo personality), but when Little B or kids younger than her are around, she tends to dial it back quite a bit. She loves playing with little kids, but she knows when to be stern (or manipulative) when they're being naughty or too playful so they don't get hurt.

So I rewrote the scene where Little B steals some candy from Rosie, and now she channels a bit of her "inner Ma'am Bianes" to make Little B give the candies back. Yaya Connie then jokingly asks Tito Mariano if she can borrow Rosie for a bit since she's clearly better at getting Little B to behave.

Rosie wants to be a teacher and have lots of siblings/a big family, so I think it makes sense that side of her shows up whenever she's not the youngest in the group (except JM because he's much more mature than her). I guess she's more afraid with the concept of growing up, than the responsibilities it entails (she loves being babied, but she's not fussy with doing chores at all).