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This August, join me for the 30 Days Writing Challenge, #Augustrope✨
In which we have a list of various tropes as the writing prompts. While these tropes are commonly used as recurring plot devices in fanfiction, you can also write your original story with them.
For 30 days (August 1st—August 30th, the 31st is the rest day), you can write anything with a different prompt for each day.
Any ship, fandom, characters, genres are welcome. Be it fanfiction or original fiction, just write it!
★★ 2026 Augustrope's Prompt List ★★
Day 1 — First Meeting
Day 2 — They Were Roommates
Day 3 — Beach Episode
Day 4 — Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
Day 5 — Domestic Fluff
Day 6 — Two People Love Triangle
Day 7 — 5 Times This + 1 Time That
Day 8 — Mistaken Identity
Day 9 — Coffeshop AU
Day 10 — Age Regression
Day 11 — Near Death Experience
Day 12 — Enemies-to-Lovers
Day 13 — POV Outsider
Day 14 — There's Only One Bed
Day 15 — Coda/Episode Tag
Day 16 — Relationship Reveal
Day 17 — Hallmark AU
Day 18 — Amnesia
Day 19 — Body Swap
Day 20 — Potion/Spell Goes Wrong
Day 21 — Everyone Knows But Them
Day 22 — Road Trips
Day 23 — Your-Fave-Movie AU
Day 24 — In Vino Veritas
Day 25 — Elevator Fic
Day 26 — Fake/Pretend Relationship
Day 27 — Mutual Pining
Day 28 — Meet The Family
Day 29 — Non-Human Character
Day 30 — Soulmate AU
🖇️ More info about Augustrope
Feel free to tag your work with #Augustrope (and/or #Augustrope2026) so that I can find them.
If you're on AO3, you can also add your work into the Augustrope Collection (Augustrope2026).
If you have any questions regarding the prompt, you can directly interact with this post 🫶🏻
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it's good enrichment for The Character(s) when one of their friends gets possessed and they have to find some way to bring them back. great friendgroup bonding activity. especially if they have to do some exorcism bullshit and it's traumatizing for everyone involved and there's collapsing and sobbing afterward. great thing for The Character(s) to do. highly recommend.
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Hi! I'm obsessed with "cut it out and restart" that I gotta say, I've been rereading it from the first chapter till the very latest one for possibly more than 5 times. It's one of my go-to read for dratchrod
Tho I have to wonder: because the one in the fic is the "happy end" copy of the LL gang, what happened to the "bad end" copy? How would roddy deal with the baby in his forge?
Love, a Buntel.
Aww I'm so happy to hear you have enjoyed it that much 🥺
The truth is I do know what happens to Rodi there but I might write a (much shorter) fic about it so for now I am keeping it to my self but some points to think about: the lost light is disbanded, megatron is either in prison for waiting trail or serving his sentence (or dead?? I think the comic never explicitly says but it's implied) however despite these additional hurdles the story i have in mind is not without hope :3c
One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.
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Looking for a co-conspirator for transformers fics!
What i need help with:
I need more technical help with filling out stories then generating new fic ideas (god knows i have plenty) so like story structure and flow, bouncing ideas off of, getting from point A to B, technical story assistance with enough familiarity with transformers to make plausible suggestions
I am not dedicated to a specific ship or anything but finding hot rod/rodimus and soundwave interesting characters would probably be needed since like 90% of my ideas are about one or the other
Series that would be helpful to have watched/read, to know where I am coming from in order of importance (not vital but helpful, i have watched more but these are the usual suspects) : g1 cartoon, idw mtmte/ll, tfp, rescue bots, rid 15, cyberverse
What I am NOT expecting: beta reader, writing things for me, that you read all my stuff, co author*
i return i can offer a similar service! I would offer beta reading but i am not great at grammar and can only catch the most obvious stuff
samples of my writing:
posted stuff: Ao3
story snippets: X X
future fic ideas: X X
if you like what you see and think we could work together let's chat :D
*i am not against being a co author but it's not a necessity or expectation
not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping
now that the end for 'cut it out and restart' is somewhere in sight (anywhere from 4 to 7ish chapters, i know what i want to cover just a matter of pacing and exact order) i am considering my goals for future fanfics, i have so many ideas so i need to learn to put them down better, i hope to get in to the habit of trying to write something at least once a week but we will see...
before i get any further and you wonder why the hell i am posting this; i guess i want feed back? which of the ideas excites you most? i am so waffley on what i want to do next a single person's enthusiasm may be what seals the deal for my next project.
I DO have a long fic idea for another dratchrod fic but i would need to re-read MTMTE to make it as convoluted as i hope to (it would be a total AU compered to the original plot that just borrows some large elements form the original to flesh out the story) so that's on the back burner
but in the mean time here is some ideas that i feel i would be able to finish if i put in the time (a lot of my other stuff is half baked or missing a major story arc to make it happen) i imagine whatever i settle on they would be interspersed with shorter fics if i can find the time to do it (￣▽￣)"
if you are a Hot Rod simp like me you will be in for a good time, if not; my condolences
Idea 1: Hot Rod is the younger of Optimus’ two protégés and generally considered the troublemaker of the two. With the Autobot Decepticon war now at full tilt Hot Rod is assigned a position of Captain aboard a fast patrol ship. Will this be the chance he had been hoping for to prove to Optimus that his mentor hadn’t wasted his time or will it be another failure in a long string of disappointments?
alternative summery of this fic would be: a series of unfortunate events. a lot of it deals with Hot Rod's daddy mentor issues, general self doubt, loneliness and learning about who he is, the ship would be g1 characterization of Ultra magnus/Hot Rod, not a slow burn but slow to happen due to when they finally meet in the story
idea 2: 8604 567ROD, Hot Rod to his friends, knows a Vehicon's lot in life is not an easy one so he never thought he would make it to the end of the war and never made any plans for it but now that it’s here what’s a cannon fodder trooper to do?
tfp AU i WILL make you care about vehicons or so help me! the ship would be a friends with benefits (? mostly idk it's complicated) arcee/hot rod and springer if i can wrangle him, decided to go the g1 fusion route instead of MTMTE as a treat ✨
Idea 3: By the time the rescue bots make it to griffin rock they are a reasonably solid team but how did they become one?
this would be a sort of slice of life for emergency rescue team that's learning to work together type of deal , it will give me a chance to use my fascination with industrial disasters 👍 no real ship but maybe hints of heatwave/chase
shorter fic ideas that might happen in between
idea 1: the direction the decepticons have been taking have left Hot Rod discontent, maybe the autobot side will be more to his taste.
(this is Hot Rod is a decepticon but switches sides story with a twist that will be revealed relatively early on, the main ship is g1 characterization of Ultra magnus/Hot Rod)
idea 2: another Hot Rod becomes a (field) medic during the war fic
this one would be episodic, i have at least 3 arcs that i would write as separate stories that are in the same AU no real ship for Hot Rod but some background stuff maybe, Ratchet is there, Drift will make an appearance if i make it that far
idea 3: the decepticons love competence and Soundwave is very competent.
the setting is a bit nebulous but it's basically somewhere near the start of the war Megatron and Starscream noticing Soundwave and his skills 👀 nothing happens romantically but there is tension and that it might lead to more is implied, could become episodic if i feel inspired
idea 4: Some time after the end of LL Drift's bounty hunter past unexpectedly caches up to him in a perhaps misguided attempt to keep his husband safe he embarks on a solo adventure to take care of things but there's one crucial point he forgot: Ratchet had been willing to cross the galaxy for him before they were even married and he sure as hell would do it again! But this time he is not alone.
self explanatory ;) Ratchet/Drift/Rodimus end game
feel free to leave feedback, questions, ask for clarifications and so on...
Looks like daddy issues hot rod is the next major work, I have an outline and everything (this is more then what i had when I started "cut it out and restart")
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when taking in a redeemed villain, it's important to give them lots of monologuing opportunities. a few will eventually settle out of that habit, but for the vast majority, it continues to be their most important social behavior, and even a major form of stress relief. it's also completely harmless, unlike some other behaviors that they may struggle to drop, so be sure to encourage them by presenting them with either large audiences (digital is ok — they love to be on screens), or potentially, a more intimate, one-on-one monologuing opportunity with a trusted confidant, depending on their prior villainous preferences. they may show signs of aggression during their monologue, but remember that it's just a performance — and if you play along in kind, your redeemed villain will develop a burning desire to protect you at any cost before you know it <3
