where the desert meets the ocean

YTD Word Count: 93,023

I've got a WIP list a mile long and I haven't made a ton of progress, but there's a good reason for how busy I've been — I got a promotion at work! This won't impact my writing time going forward, but it is good news.

Some actual writing-related stuff below:

Humanformers: 82,164 Chapters Complete: 6/7 Chapters Edited: 4/7

This is moving along and I'm getting excited about it. I have a lot less free time than I did when I started writing it, but I had most of a week off to work on it. I spent last weekend editing and rewriting a few load-bearing scenes and got a real heavy-duty push.

I'm a lot happier with it now than I was last month, where it felt soggy and directionless, but the only way to make something good is to put in the work. This is the first time I've written something this big, so figuring out how to edit it has been a slow and methodical process.

Humanformers Shorts/AUs: 53,848 (7 fics combined, in various stages of completion)

There's a lot going on here. I'll let you figure it out as I post them, haha. I was in the grips. Several of these are basically finished aside for some proofreading but won't make any sense at all until the core fic is posted.

Other misc:

just got reaaaally curious after reading your points of contact series for ... maybe the fifth time now? (awesome stuff. can't ever put down the cup when i start reading again) on if you've ever toyed with the idea of vortex interacting with the rest of the protectorbots

Probably not anytime soon! I write mostly IDW1 or IDW1 adjacent versions of the characters and I generally don't make a secret of not liking the way the Protectobots/Defensor were introduced in that continuity (which is to say, oddly and barely at all) compared to their G1 iteration. There's something to be explored there, but I always interpret First Aid's relationship with the other Protectobots in IDW1 as leaning far more into being colleagues than close team members/close friends.

I do have several of the Protectobots making a showing in my humanformers fic, but they don't interact with Vortex at all. I'd have to have a compelling plot reason to include them. Even my shipping tendencies are in the other direction -- First Aid with the Combaticons -- so as usual, I make no promises until something is done and ready to be posted.