I keep promising entries and never delivering.
I am a terrible friend that way.
Anyway, I wanted to check in and say that I'll be gone for about five days starting on Thursday; my family and I will be on vacation and I'm still dithering on whether to take my computer. I feel like I should take it so I can do more job-searching and see if any of the companies I contacted call or contact me back.
On the other hand, I'd really like to go on vacation and not be available. So leaning towards not taking it, then. Anyway.
Good news is I think my Springkink fics might finally have finished kicking my ass and started letting me actually write them! Hooray! Right now I'm doing a bit more on the Optimus/Ironhide fic than the TFA!Optimus/Blackarachnia one; I've finally figured out on a rough plot, but I 'm having all these issues with what the prompt is actually requesting. And I still have to actually write the thing.
I still have the same basic idea I did before - that of the cartoon-G1 pre-war in which Ironhide and Optimus are captured, escape, and spend some time out in the wastelands on their own. But I got the idea of adding some extant relationship in there, or at least some previous romantic contact, but Optimus had kind of drifted away and become closed-off because of his duties as leader, at least from Ironhide. They didn't have the camaraderie they used to.
While they're wandering and trying to find their way back, Optimus is worried about his team and getting back before anyone gets hurt; Ironhide is trying to encourage him to have a little faith in his team - and maybe to enjoy the relief of responsibility that comes from only having to care for yourself. And with that comes a little reignition of their relationship.
The other idea I had is a little bit more fanon, and I'm not sure if it works. When I get to the actual sex scene I was playing with the idea that they can't have spark-sex, because the Matrix is now an intrinsic part of Optimus' spark and exposing someone else to that probably isn't a good idea. That would allow a convenient way to bring up the fact that Optimus is both his partner/friend and his commander, and the fact that Ironhide can't really know him the way he might want to.
Which brings up another problematic point - I wanted to maybe include a note about how Ironhide might want spark-sex as opposed to plug-in or contact play, whether it's more intimate or more personal than plugging in or something...I don't know, it was just a point I wanted to include in order to add a bit more complexity or sadness to it, but I'm not sure if it's too goopy or imposing a too-cliche "romance-novel" view on the characters. But surely people in real life must crave intimacy, right? It's not just something that people do in stories?
So. Hoping to at least have some time to work on that on vacation or on the drive down - even if I don't take my computer I'm going to be taking my notebook, and at least that way I won't have the internet to distract me.
A few more things: Do you like Psych? If you do, you might want to check this fic out. It's a WIP casefile, but it looks promising and gets the tone of the show quite well.
And second:
My thread is here.
THIS MEME IS ON A HORSE.
Have to pack tomorrow, but hopefully that won't take too too long. Bummed that I won't be able to do much swimming because of my incision, but - vacation!
Good night, flist, and see you later.
Anyway, I wanted to check in and say that I'll be gone for about five days starting on Thursday; my family and I will be on vacation and I'm still dithering on whether to take my computer. I feel like I should take it so I can do more job-searching and see if any of the companies I contacted call or contact me back.
On the other hand, I'd really like to go on vacation and not be available. So leaning towards not taking it, then. Anyway.
Good news is I think my Springkink fics might finally have finished kicking my ass and started letting me actually write them! Hooray! Right now I'm doing a bit more on the Optimus/Ironhide fic than the TFA!Optimus/Blackarachnia one; I've finally figured out on a rough plot, but I 'm having all these issues with what the prompt is actually requesting. And I still have to actually write the thing.
I still have the same basic idea I did before - that of the cartoon-G1 pre-war in which Ironhide and Optimus are captured, escape, and spend some time out in the wastelands on their own. But I got the idea of adding some extant relationship in there, or at least some previous romantic contact, but Optimus had kind of drifted away and become closed-off because of his duties as leader, at least from Ironhide. They didn't have the camaraderie they used to.
While they're wandering and trying to find their way back, Optimus is worried about his team and getting back before anyone gets hurt; Ironhide is trying to encourage him to have a little faith in his team - and maybe to enjoy the relief of responsibility that comes from only having to care for yourself. And with that comes a little reignition of their relationship.
The other idea I had is a little bit more fanon, and I'm not sure if it works. When I get to the actual sex scene I was playing with the idea that they can't have spark-sex, because the Matrix is now an intrinsic part of Optimus' spark and exposing someone else to that probably isn't a good idea. That would allow a convenient way to bring up the fact that Optimus is both his partner/friend and his commander, and the fact that Ironhide can't really know him the way he might want to.
Which brings up another problematic point - I wanted to maybe include a note about how Ironhide might want spark-sex as opposed to plug-in or contact play, whether it's more intimate or more personal than plugging in or something...I don't know, it was just a point I wanted to include in order to add a bit more complexity or sadness to it, but I'm not sure if it's too goopy or imposing a too-cliche "romance-novel" view on the characters. But surely people in real life must crave intimacy, right? It's not just something that people do in stories?
So. Hoping to at least have some time to work on that on vacation or on the drive down - even if I don't take my computer I'm going to be taking my notebook, and at least that way I won't have the internet to distract me.
A few more things: Do you like Psych? If you do, you might want to check this fic out. It's a WIP casefile, but it looks promising and gets the tone of the show quite well.
And second:
My thread is here.
THIS MEME IS ON A HORSE.
Have to pack tomorrow, but hopefully that won't take too too long. Bummed that I won't be able to do much swimming because of my incision, but - vacation!
Good night, flist, and see you later.