people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

my favorite thing about this post is that a handful of people have gone "oh wait! this is tangible proof that i don't need to be embarrassed about leaving a lot of comments!! i'll stop being so ashamed!" YES!! ao3 authors basically universally will die for people who comment spam. we love to see it and we do not find you weird or annoying At All.

think about it this way: we ourselves are weird enough to have spent several hours, days, or Months writing down this story. we are weird enough about the content to do that! why on Earth would we be mean and judgmental toward people who care enough to get excited about reading it?? we shared it Specifically For You To Get Excited About!

WE WILL WRITE FOR YOU WHEN YOU DO THIS, TOO.

TFP Springer/Kup/Inferno

Sport Rival Romance

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(238) After a Decepticon attempt to harness geothermal energy goes belly up, a flood of biblical proportions wracks planet Earth. This doesn't directly help the Decepticons much, but it does force the Autobots to scramble to help their human friends which splits their resources between military defence and aid.

The floods emphasise how fragile human infrastructure and supply lines are. In the panic, Raoul seems to have disappeared, and it's impossible for Tracks to trace his organic presence on a temperamental planet full of equally organic phenomena. Nobody else has the time or resources to help him find his friend, though, so in an act of desperation, Tracks takes to the floodwaters himself.

Rating: Teen

Continuity: War for Cybertron (cartoon)

Characters: Prowl, Barricade

Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, Pre-War, Police Brutality, Death, Dark

Summary: Core overrides enabled Praxian Enforcers to detonate a criminal's brain module. They were supposed to be used 'as a tool of last resort,' and only when all other options had failed.

Prowl had never used one, and he wanted to keep it that way.

Fandom Ask Game!

Some are specific to writers or artists, but I made sure to include questions for everyone!

Title: Diplomatic Relations

Rating: Mature (for suggestive themes)

Continuity: Transformers: One

Relationships: Sentinel Prime/Quintesson

Tags: Dubious Consent Fantasy, Tentacles, Tentacle Kink, not quite porn, Based on literally three seconds of the trailer

Summary: Sentinel Prime forced himself to stand up straight, and locked his knees as he waited for the Quintesson Prosecutor to glide down the ramp towards him. Surely this time would be different, yes?

Notes: Yes, this was 100% based solely on three seconds from the Transformers: One trailer. You know which three seconds I'm talking about.

I can't even tell you how much these comments made me cackle. 😂

(Yes, that fast: I had inspiration, a concrete idea, time, and energy all at the same time, so of course I took advantage of it. It happens so rarely, I knew I needed to jump on it.)

Rating: Teen

Relationships: Sideswipe & Sunstreaker

Characters: Human!Sideswipe, Jaeger!Sunstreaker, Human!Wheeljack, Human!Perceptor, Human!Ultra Magnus

Additional Tags: Canon/What Canon, Sentient Jaegers, Dubious Computer Science, Canon-Typical Violence, Ghost Drifting, AI Shenanigans, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Platonic Soulmates, Implied/Referenced Drug Use

Summary: They were called the “next step in jaeger technology:” fully autonomous jaegers that could grow and learn from their past experiences, able to adapt to any new challenge that the kaiju threw at them.

Specialist Sy Swipson had always had an interest in AI technology. So when he got the chance to work directly with one of the new jaegers, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on its systems. However, there seemed to be a bit more to the jaeger’s AI than first met the eye.

This is the Pacific Rim/Transformers mashup AU fic that I originally posted to Tumblr: all cleaned up and as polished as I’m gonna get it. It’ll update once a week, opposite Pulling Strings. 

I just rewatched Pacific Rim and got movie feels all over again.

I really do need to work on the sequel to this fic, huh?

it’s actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don’t give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it’s just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word “cock” and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there’s nothing much you can do about it

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Wreck-Gar/Springer/Drift

Cityslicker Working at the Anarchist Farm Co-op