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Title: To Do as We Wish
Fandom:
The Transformers (Generation One)
Character/Pair:
Jazz/Prowl, Tarantulas, Ratchet
Words: 7,523
Rating:
G
Summary:
Prowl dreamed all his life of swimming to the surface of the Mithril Sea and seeing the sky, the land, and all all manner of strange things. But one thing he did not expect to see was a prince.
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Written for [community profile] trope_bingo Round 12 and [community profile] whatif_au 's March 2019 challenge: Fairy Tale AU.

Title: At the Narrow Window
Prompt: AU: Fairy Tale/Myth
Fandom: Transformers – All Media Types , Transformers Generation One
Character/Pair: Megatron/Soundwave, Soundwave & Knock Out, Shockwave, Laserbeak, Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy
Words: 3,716
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: The sorcerer visited every day and, because there were no doors in the tower, he had Soundwave draw him up through a window with the young mech’s long data cables. Knock Out would call out “Soundwave, send down your data cables and pull me up!” and Soundwave would do so. Then, when Knock Out was ready to leave, Soundwave would lower him down the same way.

A Transformers/Rapunzel fusion.
Warnings: None

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Written for [community profile] trope_bingo Round 12 and [community profile] whatif_au 's March 2019 challenge: Fairy Tale AU.

Title: The Haughty Seeker
Prompt: AU: Fairy Tale/Myth
Fandom: Transformers – All Media Types , Transformers Generation One
Character/Pair: Megatron/Starscream
Words: 3023
Rating: General
Summary: Starscream’s creator gives him away to the first random mech to walk through the door. It was supposed to teach Starscream humility.

It didn’t quite work out that way.

Loosely based on King Thrushbeard, specifically the Haughty Princess (Ireland) variant.
Mind the word ‘loosely’ there.
Warnings: None


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Day 10

Create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Have a Cinderella AU in which Jazz is a fairy god-parent.
 
Title: Cinders, or, The Sparkling Silver Hubcap
Continuity: Transformers - All Media Types
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Bluestreak/Mirage, Pharma & Starscream & Sunstorm, Jazz
Summary: When Bluestreak had finished all his work, he was let go to the corner by the kitchen forge and sit down among cinders and ashes and so Pharma and his step-siblings called him Cinders.

A retelling of Cinderella, with Transformers.
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Day 8

In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is easier than previous years in a way because I've actually written stuff this past year!

First a few series:

The Adventures of Student!Jazz and Wizard!Prowl
Prowl/Jazz
Exactly what it says on the tin. :) Jazz is a performing arts student and Prowl is the wizard who comes out of the wilderness to fill his life with strange, wonderful, and terrifying things.

Assassin AU
Prowl/Jazz
In which Prowl is a legendarily ethical assassin, forensic accountant Jazz is his target, and nothing happens the way Jazz expects it to.

Principátus
Prowl & Jazz, Prowl & Bluestreak, Bluestreak/Hound/Trailbreaker
Prowl expected only a night of silence and dust when he accepted his friends' and sibling's dare to spend the night in a haunted house, claiming there is no such thing as ghosts.
 
Prowl didn't encounter a ghost, but...he didn't disprove the supernatural either.

Some fics written for writing challenges. I'm terrible at naming things so the titles are usually just the prompt that inspired them:
From AU Yeah August 2018, which also spawned the Assassin AU:
 
Webcloak
Megatron/Starscream
Once upon a time lived Pharma, a mech of Vos who had three creations: Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Starscream. The old mech wanted to learn which of his creations loved him best.
 
A fairy tale AU based on Cap o'Rushes

Royalty
Prowl shoved Orion’s sword into his hands. “Put that on and follow me. Don’t subspace it.” He opened a hidden panel on the wall next to Orion’s bed and pulled a lever. A section of wall pulled back and slid aside, revealing one of the secret passages that honeycombed the fortified building. “I’ll explain once we’re outside,” Prowl whispered. “Stay quiet. No comms. Soundwave is with them.”

And the follow-up to Royalty:
Mythology
“With this declaration of war by the Decepticons,” Halogen, Earl of Blaster City and Lord of the Badlands began, in his deliberate, calm manner, “we have no choice but to unite Cybertron under a single banner.”
“We must locate the Matrix of Leadership.”
 
Not sure how much of an AU this counts as, since Orion Pax/Optimus Prime canonically does journey into the underworld in search of wisdom, but.

Vigilante
After the destruction of Praxus the only survivor, former Enforcer and S.W.A.T. sniper Bluestreak made it his mission to kill as many Decepticons as possible. Using stealth and skill, he managed to keep his identity hidden until a lucky memory-capture revealed his identity to Autobot Command. Now Jazz, head of Autobot Spec Ops and the mech who taught Bluestreak stealth, is tracking him down, determined to bring his rogue friend in from the cold – whether Bluestreak agrees to it or not.

From October Writing Challenge 2018, which also spawned Student!Jazz and Wizard!Prowl and Principátus:

Distrust
Prowl didn't trust his emotions.

Hospital
First Aid, all alone in an abandoned hospital, after the end of the war.

Temptation
One of the first things Jazz’s mentor, Half-step, had told him on the day they came home to Polyhex from Jazz’s sparking was ‘never go in the attic.’

These two are in the same universe (vampire AU) but they can stand alone 
Senses
Prowl/Jazz
Jazz whistled in awe, staring down at Prowl. Prowl stared right back, still crouched, but unnaturally still. “Damn, look at those optics. He’s feral, alright.”


Hunger
Prowl/Jazz
Even in stasis, four million years is a long time to go without fuel.
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11. Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

No, but I've helped a friend plot out a few fairy-tale adaptations, and I've enjoyed adaptations others have done. A favorite is Of leaves of Gold and Petals Red by Ithilwen of Himring, a LoTR-style adaptation of Tam Lin. This one also goes back to the question about OCs, in that it features one used to good purpose.
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Well, that was a rough few weeks there. I was laid off and there was some bad news in the family. OTOH, I'm now unemployed and living in a city where there isn't much work-wise so at least I've got plenty of time to read? (And marathon things on Netflix, play video games: I am looking for work, it just doesn't take much time out of the day. *sigh*)

Anyway:

What I Just FInished Reading: Swordspoint again, as promised. The Priveledge of the Sword, which I enjoyed just as much, once I skimmed through to find Richard's name ("Wait, he's not - he has to be!). I wasn't sure about Katherine at first, but I liked her much better after she decided to, pretty immediately, show some grit and adapt to everything Alec was throwing at her. Possibly unfairly, I was expecting scenes of hysterics and flouncing first. But no, her development from silly girl to determined young woman is steady and believable. So then I read it again.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne Valente. This is the sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, which I picked up in a drug store a few years ago when the 'ship of her own making' bit serendipitously caught my eye. (I have a liking for women in the STEM fields.) I want to tell you about them both, because they're both fantastic, but at the same time I don't want to risk spoiling anything because part of the charm is discovering as the protagonist, September, does exactly what is going on and how to fix it. It's about consequences, responsibility, and growing up and at no point does it feel preachy.

What I'm Currently Reading: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Everyone's been telling me to read this and I'm so glad I finally got round to it! It's just magnificent, everything: the worldbuilding, the characterization, the language, the plot. All of it. I particularly like the worldbuilding. We are told about the world around them in a way that feels natural, not like an infodump - even though it sometimes is an infodump, as when things are being explained to child!Locke - because it makes sense in the setting. I almost don't want to finish it because then it will be done, even though I can just read it over again.

What I'm Reading Next: What an excellent question. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is next on the pile, but that doesn't mean anything. I guess I'll just find out when I get there.
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Day 7

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Trope: Pretty much anything that falls under the umbrella of Cosmic Horror Story. Anything by Lovecraft is an example and if you really want a mindscrew, go for Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow. For me this trope works better in print, because in visual medium there's too much of a tendency to show instead of hint and cosmic horror is always worse when you have to use your imagination.

Cliché: Love at First Sight, although I prefer it when people fall for each other but we still see them have to work at it to maintain the relationship. You know, like in real life. I even like it if the relationship doesn't last - hey, just because you don't end up with the person doesn't mean you didn't love them. It just means it didn't work out. Enchanted has a good treatment of this: it's not impossible but you should get to know the person you've just fallen for before committing to them for your entire future.

Kink: Long hair. Mmm. Especially on men. Examples would be Lord of the Rings, of course, and A Brother's Price which, taking place in a gender-flipped world, has long hair as a masculine trait and short as a feminine one. I also have a voice kink, although that one's a little harder to pin down and define. Some voices should do it for me and don't, some are unexpected.

Motif: Pretty much any fairy tale motif, especially if they involve dragons and/or female characters who win through by being clever. One of the first books I ever had headcanon for was The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch; I liked to pretend that at the end of the book Elizabeth managed to rescue another princess and they went off and had adventures together. Another favorite is All-Kinds-of-Fur, also known as Donkeyskin, Catskin, Cap O' Rushes and more. All-Kinds-of-Fur is beautifully put together as a comic by Erstwhile and is available here. (Seriously, check out Erstwhile, they do gorgeous work.)

Theme: Works that deal with the balance between good and evil. There's a lot of these, especially in fantasy. Eve Forward's Villains by Necessity is downstairs in my 'to-read' pile and it looks to have an interesting treatment: the good guys have won over, screwing up the balance and from there it does what it says on the tin. On the opposite side of the spectrum, I also like works that don't have a great overarching stop-the-world-from-ending theme but deal more with people and their development. I'm going to rec The Goblin Emperor for this because it's an amazing book and deserves all the love. In fact, that link will take you to an online excerpt of the first four chapters and I would be happy to see people come back and comment 'dammit, now I have to read the rest of it!' :)

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