Comments | nightwind69: Yay for goopy Transformers stories! :D

nightwind69

Yay for goopy Transformers stories! :D

Dec 18, 2005 12:30

Well, I posted this on the Cell, so I figured I might as well post it here, too. Even though most of the people who read this journal and would be interested in this story also usually read the Cell... Whatever. :)

Anyway, here is a story that frostymook and I wrote. It's called "Inculpatus", and it's a Transformers fanfic, so those of you who aren't into ( Read more... )

redemption, writey things

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OT but relevant uguardian December 18 2005, 12:40:04 UTC

You know you've been spending too much time staring at programming code when you read text like this:

robots should be lovin' on each other

And instantly think nightwind69 forgot to terminate her string.

Re: OT but relevant uguardian December 20 2005, 18:26:12 UTC

OK, Nightwind's going to reveal her total lack of programming geekiness (Hey, Javascript is heinously tough for Nightwind, so there we go :) Way back in the Dark Ages I could do a passable job with Pascal, but that's about the limit of my programming talents. :) ), and say that I have no idea what you're talkin' 'bout, UGuard. :) Care to explain? Or would it just whoosh over my head at something approaching the speed of light? :)

Re: OT but relevant nightwind69 December 20 2005, 18:26:58 UTC

Duh. Forgot to log in. That was me, in case you couldn't tell. :)

ironbite December 18 2005, 14:04:21 UTC

Wow...4 years. And in upwards of 300 pages. Now that's an accomplisment.

raisedbymoogles December 18 2005, 20:02:38 UTC

*makes mental note to read after I get back home and have more time*

anonymous December 18 2005, 23:37:37 UTC

so begins you guys' magnum opus fanfic... :D

i can feel the depth of your tumultuous lives seeping into this story. the self-debates, the mannerisms, the simplest expressions of love are so tangible. the rest of this fic will be good. very, very good.

and frosty, if you're reading this, you've come SUCH a long way in writing. all that hard work has paid off. great job! :D

-'bomb.

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ravenclaw_devi December 20 2005, 05:10:41 UTC

And yes, you probably more than anybody will pick up on the parallels between Puff and Fire and Nighty and me.

Oh, I picked up on it, and I don't even know you as well as a person who's known you for longer would. ;) Guess that's why the story feels so "true" and alive.

nightwind69 December 20 2005, 18:32:38 UTC

Thanks 'Bomby. :) I'm glad the story worked well for you. :) And more than that, thank you, too, for telling Frosty that she's improved as a writer. I keep telling her that, but of course she won't believe me. *sigh* :) But I could tell just from working on this story that she's gotten so much better at it lately. The first half of it or so she wrote a couple of years ago, I think, and the rest she wrote just recently. What a difference between the two! But, like I said, she won't believe me. *sigh* She'll just insist that she can't write without my help. Which isn't true, even though she'll beat me with a pillow for saying that. :)

Oh, and on a different note, I owe you an email, dear, I know. I just keep forgetting to set some time aside to do it. At the very least, I'll reply this weekend, since I've got an extra day off for Christmas. :) Promise. Hope things are well. *hugs bunches*

blazingskies December 19 2005, 00:54:29 UTC

Wow, lovely fic, you can really feel the dpeth of emotion...

Which makes it sad, in a way, because you know what's coming..:(

Poor Screampuff *sigh*

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ravenclaw_devi December 20 2005, 00:46:02 UTC

That's why we ended it on such an upbeat, positive note because our intention is to accentuate the devastation that will occur shortly thereafter. Losing Skyfire damaged Starscream on many different levels and we wanted to set that up

Oh, I could tell. In fact - and that may just be a matter of personal perception, so please don't take offence - you were perhaps laying it on a bit too thick, IMHO. It felt a bit like (no offence) emotional manipulation to me - like you were laying it on thick with the characters' happiness and basically saying, "Look how happy they are, but we all know what will happen next, don't we? They don't know that the anvil will drop, but we know, don't we, audience?" It's - I'm not saying that having the characters perfectly, blissfully happy when we (but not they) know that disaster will strike next is a technique that doesn't work - I've seen it work. It's just that you were doing it a bit blatantly here, and it might have worked better if you'd done it a bit more subtly, if you catch my drift ( ... )

nightwind69 December 20 2005, 18:50:33 UTC

I think the "difficulty" with the issue might be because this story is meant to be very closely connected with "Redemption," if not an actual, attached prologue to the story. As such, it's meant to set up certain quirks in Starscream's basic personality that will be important later, and it's meant to set up why we believe Starscream acts the way he does subsequent to Skyfire's loss and during the course of the cartoon episodes (i.e. how he can shoot at, injure, curse at, attempt to murder, and just otherwise act like a complete, indifferent jerk to Skyfire...and yet still love him. :) ) In our view, Starscream's behavior is drastic because he didn't just lose a loved one, but the way he sees it, he lost the bright, happy future that he was "supposed" to have. And more. But that would give away "Redemption" stuff...and we certainly don't want to do that! ;)

So, anyway, as a prologue, this is meant to set up the foundation of Starscream's character as it pertains to his relationship with Skyfire and, perhaps, as it will pertain to his ( ... )

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