When Wise Mechs are Banished -- Smokescreen

[exactly_what]

Title: When Wise Mechs are Banished -- Smokescreen
Word Count: 644
Summary: Prequel to Where Wise Mechs Fear to Tread. How and why Smokescreen was sentenced to base 84G1-07MVE-VR5E.
Rating: T

Previous chapters: Prowl, Ratchet, Jazz, Wheeljack, Bumblebee, The Dinobots, The Aerialbots, Red Alert & Inferno, Mirage, Interlude - BOOM, Hound, Perceptor,

Comments

[gatekat]

*snicker* I love this verse. I'd love to see the rest of Smokey's introductions too. The psych in him would go nuts assigning disorders to the lot of them.

Wonder if he'd hit on Blue. Praxian, friendly, old enough (he is an adult now, right?) ... watch Prowl's wings twitch, and the twins loose it (they are with Blue in this one?)

[exactly_what]

Yeah. :D I've been thinking about writing an interlude where Smokescreen insists on psych evaluations for everyone on base. Cue madness and lost of Smokey having fun. ^.^

And Blue will be with the Twins soon... (Need to write that interlude too...) But that would be pretty fun... *grins evilly* definitely something to think about...

Thanks for commenting! And for the ideas! :D

[gatekat]

Glad you like the ideas.
By any chance do you post on Ao3? It's series option makes organizing a verse very easy for readers.

[exactly_what]

Yup. Got an account... A couple weeks ago, I think? And yeah. The tagging system is awesome on AO3. Better than LJ, I think, and DEFINITELY better than fanfiction.net.

[gatekat]

Very much agreed. I love the place. The only bad part of the tagging system is the same problem LJ has. Without standardization, you end up with a dozen ways to say the same thing.

What's your account there? I want to watch.

[exactly_what]

I'm Exactlywhat on AO3, too. :D

And yeah. They do have some standardization, but... There are, like, three Optimus Prime tags, and I never know if there's a difference between them or what... :-P

[gatekat]

As far as I've worked out, there isn't. I just make a point of using whatever one comes up when I type. I've only tried one thing that didn't have a tag for it yet. PnP interface. I'm pretty sure it's there, I'm just not entering the right term to bring it up. But it let me make my own tag for it, so at least it's tagged, even if the tag isn't link to much.

[exactly_what]

Yup. So far, everything I've needed has been up -- pretty much just character and pairing tags. But I do understand. I did one fic a couple days ago, and, though I did eventually find them, I had a difficult time getting the right tags. *shrugs* what can you do, though? Anything where authors can make their own tags is going to be like that, and anything where authors can't make their own tags is going to be like ff.net, so... One or the other. Personally, I prefer AO3 or LJ (if only LJ were easier to browse...).

[gatekat]

I definitely agree. The only way to make it 'better' is an Ao3 system with several obsessive people merging tags. They have it for some
Transformers (IDW Generation One)
The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
Go to the same place, but not much.
And even that will upset some folks.

[exactly_what]

Yeah... And that's the thing... Changing something will always upset somebody. So it's probably good we've got lots of places to post, with lots of different methods. Well, two or three, but that's usually enough... :)

[gatekat]

More than enough. Many more and you spend more time posting than creating.

[exactly_what]

Agreed. Already takes me forever to post on all three sites. Takes even longer when I have to do something like posting to another community as well. Speedwriting prompt fill take a while... Especially considering I like doing full sets. :-/