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[peacewish]

"I feel like writing a human/bot threesome mixed with the state of cultural tolerance in southwestern America."

Well, someone must have said that out loud, because we got The NaturalistsThings have become a little quiet around here lately, and I wonder if we got tired of picking on the easy, wildly horrible fics. So I'm aiming for something a

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[anon_decepticon]

It is, as you said, better executed than the typical trainwreck normally spotlighted here, but it definitely has some major flaws - euphemism abuse, paper thin plot, questionable character motivation, and of course the crown jewel, an OFC speshul-snowflake Sue paired with not one, but two canon characters.

Like yourself and the other commenters, I was irritated by our charming OFC's preachy, hypocritical attitude, but what I found most annoying about her was her apparent telepathy. The author is clearly going for a tone of, ooooh, look at the alien robots, they're so very alien and mysterious! Except they're not, really - our intrepid Sue has no trouble at all understanding exactly what Hound and Mirage are thinking and feeling, even before they notice her and start communicating with her in English.

Let's examine that for a moment: Not only are these alien robots, they're alien robots she's never met before, yet she readily picks up on their emotions - Hound looks amused, Mirage looks angry - and then correctly interprets the subtext of those emotions - Hound is amused because he's teasing Mirage, Mirage is angry because he's embarrassed - and she knows all this how?

We're specifically told at one point that she's only met one other TF (Ratchet) prior to this encounter, yet somehow she's an expert at interpreting Cybertronian facial expressions and body language, can correctly assess degrees of tone and nuance within their alien speech, and can even recognize an alien orgasm when she sees one? Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Because cross-cultural misunderstandings happen all the time, but not to our beloved Alicia, who is totally tolerant and not at all judgemental of alien robots she wants to have sex with, because she's just that awesome. Is it any wonder Hound and Mirage fell for her within 10 minutes?