It's my birthday and the third anniversary of being in fandom, so I bring you: essay! On writing!

Warning: Cas is being meta again.

So I went on an extended disorganized babbling spree about how jerks are jerks but they're jerks for a reason a while back, which I cut off because it was way too long already and just getting longer. This is the ( Read more... )

I freely admit that almost all my favorite characters are jerks. Vortex is a sadist, Red Alert is high-strung and paranoid, Slingshot could be pictured under "jerk" in the dictionary, Blitzwing is so much of an asshole that even the other Decepticons avoid him, and Motormaster- I don't think I need to explain Motormaster ( Read more... )

Okie... Cas is bored, and thus is getting verbose. :P Time to dig out a soapbox and start blabbing!

The subject of the moment: Red Alert. G1, not Armada. He's twitchy, he's paranoid, he's a complete workaholic, and he's difficult to keep in character.

( Long post got very long. )