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https://archiveofourown.org/works/76813231/chapters/201062836

DUDE

ok firstly happy new years !!! i hope you know the moment i saw this ask i had to go and read this fic immediately. i didn't even notice the fireworks outside because i was too locked in like AAUAUAH the blasterprowl agenda is spreading <3

i just want you to know that i am in love with your writing style and how you write blaster and prowl... like. the story you wrote for them feels so true to their characters. i need time to gather my thoughts and stew in it but trust i will be leaving a long 5-star review in your comments :]

anyway back to blasterprowl - your story for them was beautiful. it's a slow, gradual change for them, built on communication and nuance - something that both of them value a great deal. they misunderstand each other and they actively oppose each other at points, but their wavelengths eventually find a common point that give them a chance to know each other. their love being crafted through language unironically left me speechless in the best way. i was screaming into my hands

i may have also gone apeshit and did a couple of doodles based off of your fic... there will probably be more in the future. this fic rearranged my neurons and i will be thinking about it for the foreseeable future

i am horrible at drawing cars i hope i did him justice HDSKLGHDS

on a similar note, the fact you included your thesis on transformers communications in this is AMAZING!! the details with chirolinguistics, dialects, and internal and external radio was an absolute delight to read. if it's something you ever post in full online, i would love to read it :3

We're a fully remote office but about half the 14-person staff lives in the same city, still I love when I get to spend even a little time in-person with my coworkers. One of them was trying to organize a little happy hour going away party for me, but timing wasn't working out and it kinda fell by the wayside.

Anyway, we get in the restaurant and walk out back to the patio and I see another coworker who wasn't with us at a table and I'm like omg what a coincidence, Bridget is here at the same time we are!

Then I register the other people at the table and here's the entire staff yelling "Surprise!" And I'm just fucking gobsmacked at my little troublemaker of a mentor who put this together and the fact that everyone somehow kept it a secret!!! I literally saw the most gossipy person on staff for a work sesh on Tuesday and she didn't say a peep! The orchestration! Incredible! I should've expected nothing less from a bunch of librarians.

I was getting quite teary at lunch but tonight I'm just full sobbing about how much I love my coworkers. They're truly some of the most wonderful people I've ever met. They got me some extremely heartfelt gifts and had such wonderful words to say, I'm just really gonna miss them. These folks who hired little 23 year old me and now five years later it really does feel like I'm flying the nest in a way I really wasn't expecting.