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[naomiknight-17]

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[cleverthylacine]

for @siadea (and anyone else who is interested)

A first draftish thing about the Convoys, who will eventually get their entry in the VOS concordance. (but it won’t centre so much on Jazz and Orion) @sharkteethies @bitegore @siadea and so on

So VOS/AHR was originally intended to be an IDW1 AU, but the thing is that I was 20 in 1984, and as i got deeper into trying to fix the things that made me ragequit IDW1 (mostly, Ravage’s senseless refrigeration and death, but a few other things besides) I kept running into things that I just couldn’t swallow.

For instance, I think Glit being at Grindcore is brilliant. It explains a lot of things--like how Megatron managed to not kill him and not lose face with the bloody butcher side of his infrastructure, and why he has such a horrible drinking problem by the time he meets Rosanna, to name a few.

But I can’t deal with Lugnut being in Deathsaurus’ crew, because that requires Lugnut to have turned against Megatron, and anyone who is really familiar with who Lugnut is knows that even Megatron turning Autobot wouldn’t turn Lugnut against him, although it might put Lugnut in a psych ward.

Once I accepted that my fic was going to be largely IDW-based Canon Soup, though, a lot of things started needing explanations.

As y’all know I liked a lot of the Japanese canon including some of the questionable bits. There are a half zillion characters in Japanese canon named [X] Convoy, and the original OP was just Convoy.

Additionally, I am one of those spooky “my characters talk to me” people who will give you the stinkeye if you demand that I look at things through a Doylist lens.

So this is all stuff I got out of writing Jazz, and specifically writing Jazz trying to answer Starscream’s message and Jazz trying to make friends with Viridian after he understood she used to be Blackcat and didn’t realise she was a sparkling rather than a small adult.

In VOS canon, Functionism and a fair number of other social problems came from Iacon’s dominance over all the other Cybertronian polities following the defeat of the Quints. The religious hierarchy of the Primacy and the corruption of the Senate resulted in Iaconian domination of the planet.

The Convoys are descended from the residents of one of the citystates that was lost to the Quintessons (although for the most part, the existence of the Quints has been scrubbed from official archives). They believe that staying in one place is a Bad Idea and since they are nearly all motor vehicle alts, mostly cars and trucks, with a few emergency vehiclles, family/tribal groups (Convoys) of them travel the roads of Cybertron together in caravans.  They don’t all travel together because that would allow them to be picked off; they live in a nomadic sort of diaspora.

The Functionists particularly didn’t like this, so they were in the habit of breaking down these groups when they stayed too long in one place or started hanging around hot spots and taking in new members.

After they took out the adults the young were sent to residential education centres.

And that is why there are so many people named Convoy who are trucks.

Jazz was an entertainer, not a heavy labourer, so he was never a truck; he was always a flashy car.  But he and Orion both came from a Convoy that was crushed by Functionists, and Orion spent the rest of his mentorship years with dockworkers in Iacon before being drafted into law enforcement; Jazz, who was a little older, got away from them and became a travelling musician, moving through several coastal cities before the war.  Having never lived in Iacon or Kaon or Rodion, after he joined the Revolution, he chose to follow Orion when Megatron and Orion, as he put it, “lost their damn minds”.

While in the beginning of the war he would have made an excellent Decepticon and it is kind of odd that nearly all of the people from the Convoys who joined a side picked the Autobots, Jazz would probably have got himself killed pretty quickly once Megs went off the rails, so that is probably why we still have him.

[blackkatmagic]

Is your latest story with Padme going to join the queue of fics? I really love it, and I appreciate your posting the queue as well.

Right. Well. Last time I started adding fics I got overwhelmed, which is why the rotation got slimmed down, so at this moment I will not be adding the Padme fic. When I finish something else, I’ll consider it, but until then please have some patience. 

[theotherwesley]

siadea replied to your post “there is a giant, harmless, yet distressingly clumsy flying insect in...”

Wait, the size of a tennis ball?????????????

the bugge himself is just medium size, but with all his Leggy and pipecleaner frondly bits extended he takes up a truly alarming amount of square footage 8| 

[iztarshi]

siadea replied to your post “My Murderbot Musical”

Oh, beautiful! I feel like I would adore these songs too. Multistaging to represent MB's multitasking is GREAT.

:D I feel like I’d enjoy these songs too, but the only thought I have on how they’d actually sound is that they should take inspiration from TV soundtracks.

[asukaskerian]

siadea replied to your post: … dilemma of the day, fisting or no fisting. it is...

Go where the story takes you, is my advice. If the characters are into it, it’ll work out.

that’s the issue, it’s less “i’m into that” and more “i’d like to avoid knocking you up but you won’t calm tf down without it”. ABO anatomy fun, yeee >:/ so idk if

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... ok adi just came back and somehow the whole thing fixed itself. the Miracle of Moirallegiance! <>

[blackkatmagic]

Hello! I have a question that will absolutely not result in anything considered 'fanart' in any way. What is your preferred Moon Knight look? Specifically, the one in Labyrinths...

How can I resist answering, with a temptation like that?? It’s pretty much anything with the black undersuit, honestly. The black suit/white armor/oversized cloak look is just. The best.

[blackkatmagic]

siadea replied to your post “i just can't stop thinking about how kit put his hand right where...”

I LOVE the Forcey people seeing Khonshu! ...can they HEAR him?! Kit didn't actually listen to Khonshu talk about Marc fondling his heart, did he?

That is the worst way to put it oh my god, I just spat coffee all over the table. But for the record, no, Kit did not hear him. Not yet, at least.