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The best week of my life
Today my first novel, Before the Storm, was officially released in paperback.
*dance*
Also, I've decided to tell the story of how I had to leave the United States and ended up effectively trapped in the Middle East, but kept trying to escape to Canada. Check it out! (Warning : it gets pretty sad at times, and some chapters end on cliffhangers.) -
The Girl Who Powerglide Smacked Around
I thought "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" was hilariously corny when I first saw it - though it inspired the title of one of my fics. I didn't plan on watching it again, but then I found an equally funny video review of it. Best line : "Fanfic writers, you have your assignment. Don't let us down!"
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Gifts of the Magi
Author’s note : This is a slightly AU spin-off from Crash Course, the fic that anon_decepticon and I are writing together. Everything is the same except that the story takes place in winter, a few days before December 25th…
Gifts of the Magi
“You want to do what?” Breakdown said. He didn’t even try to repeat the words Wildrider had just used, because his ( Read more... ) -
Pet peeves in Stunticon characterization
1. Wildrider as a mini-Motormaster
They both have a lot of grey in their paintjobs and they’re both violently destructive, but Wildrider is sometimes portrayed as cruel and malicious as well. At that point, the only thing which distinguishes him from Motormaster is that he has an insane gleam in his optic, or he grins insanely, or giggles ( Read more... ) -
The best day for updates
I've never before read updates to three of my favorite stories in one day. How cool is that?
In the morning I was browsing the web while waiting for my first cup of tea to kick in, and there was the last chapter of anon_decepticon 's After Atlantis - a wonderful, warm and above all realistic conclusion to a complex series.
And right after I'd finished that, I ( Read more... ) -
Humanformer fics, part deux
2. Fleshling, by iratepirate and Taipan Kiryu
Method of humanization : Well of Transformation
Main character : Starscream (no one else humanized)
Summary : It’s tough to go from the Air Commander of the Decepticon Army to a despised “fleshling”, especially when you’re the only one of that kind in that base. The other Seekers see him as a ( Read more... ) -
Humanformer fics
Since anon_decepticon and I are writing such a story (Crash Course), I decided to make a list of other human!TFs fics I've read, and comment a little on them.
( here there be humans ) -
The Flame and the Flower, part 3
Rosemary Rogers’ Sweet Savage Love is another pivotal potboiler of that time, far racier than The Flame and the Flower but almost as flawed. What makes a real difference between the books, though, is that the heroine of Sweet Savage Love begins as a pampered sixteen-year-old, but by the end of the novel she can handle a gun, fight with a knife and ( Read more... )