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making a poll so I stop see-sawing back and forth on the decision: now that (Re)Experience is fully written, would you rather
a) each chapter is published as soon as it's edited, on no particular schedule, or
b) I hold off on posting until everything is edited and then put them up at consistent intervals, say once a week/fortnight?
Post chapters...
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Run?
as is probably to be expected in a story with horror elements, there were quite a few hits for this one! i did cheat just a little and went with the plural form to grab one of the more interesting options
from a flashback in chapter 6:
Chromedome’s visor flushed, turning honeyed gold with embarrassment at having stuck his foot in his mouth. Outside the world was still being torn apart by bombing runs and gunfire, but that felt like it didn’t matter as much as Rewind laughed, and Chromedome looked so relieved and he chuckled too, and Rewind thought, I’m glad he's here.
director’s commentary on (re)experience?
i was hoping someone would ask about (Re)Experience :) been working on finishing the final chapter (nine! the just-a-bit-of-fun character study turned into nine chapters!) these last few weeks and so have it on my mind near constantly.
commentary for this one is for the flashback in chapter 3. whole section's a bit long to quote so here’s the opening to jog the memory
– Minimus had surprised exactly no one when he’d volunteered to be the one to take inventory of the supplies they’d need to get off the Necroworld and reclaim the Lost Light from the mutineers. Rewind had found him cataloguing how much energon they could transport, to calculate precisely how long it would last them under strict rationing.
There are some conversations that will never be easy to start, no matter what direction you come at them from. Rewind opted to begin with what was most important.
“Are you alright?”
Minimus didn't look up from the cubes. “Hm? Fine, though I would be better if we had the proper medical logs rather than just Ratchet and Velocity's estimates for the crew’s energon consumption rates and fuel efficiency. Underestimating even one person's needs could leave us starving light years away from any supply outposts."
"That... sounds awful," Rewind said. "But I meant, um, about after what happened. With Dominus."
general context to help me explain why this particular bit jumped out at me to talk about: the whole reason for (Re)Experience existing is that the backstory we see for Rewind in MTMTE/LL gave me this strong feeling that he must have gone through some pretty drastic growth between then and now. V1 Rewind quoting “every shape serves a purpose” before he sacrifices himself to stop Overlord read to me (in retrospect with what we later learn about that slogan) like he must have internalised at least some functionist rhetoric, and we know what life must have been like for him as a disposable. but Rewind doesn’t act like someone who’s still viewing the world through a functionist lens, and he doesn’t act like he thinks of himself as disposable and never expects others to treat him like one.
that’s really interesting to me, because it makes the Rewind we see in the comic feel like the end-point of a character arc we never witness but can sort of sense in the drastic difference between how you would expect him to be based on his backstory and how he actually is. originally i wanted to write something that explored what that pre-canon character growth might have been like in a more straightforward way, but i know i don’t have the stamina to write the 100k character study fic it would need. instead, the importance Rewind puts on experiences making people who they are gave me an idea for another approach; what if a plot device cut Rewind off from his memories and put him back in the headspace of who he was in that very different part of his life, and i could explore what he might have once been like and how that differs from who he became, via the reactions of the people that know Rewind as he is now? and thus (Re)Experience came into existence
back to the flashback in chapter 3. i think this might have been the first concept i had for a moment to have Rewind re-experience? ever since the Dying of the Light arc revealed that Rewind’s other husband also made a habit of hiding stuff from him i’ve wanted to get into his head about it
funnily enough i actually wasn’t… that invested in Minimus before writing this? it took a while (plus some great fan meta) for him to grab my interest. but even though i wasn’t too huge on him at the time, i couldn’t deny that he was by far the most interesting person for Rewind to be talking to about Dominus. the personal investment of being his brother provided some great creative opportunities, and while i’m 100% a proponent of picking which characters to include in your fic based on how much you personally like them (see: Whirl turning up, Rodimus being given a key role), i just couldn’t pass Minimus’ narrative potential by. and then i got to thinking about how interesting it is to have someone who was actually there, when Rewind started working for Dominus. besides the broad overview, we don’t know a lot about what Rewind’s employment by Dominus was like. it’s possible that he was recognised as a fully fledged person and treated as such from the get go, but it’s also possible that the Ambus brothers had internalised the (at the time widespread) view that disposables were incapable of true sapience and were more objects-to-be-used than people, and it took time for them to fully reassess and reject that idea. for (Re)Ex i went with the latter, partly bc Chromedome saying befriending Rewind is what made Dominus realise how marginalised disposables were makes it seem more likely of the two, and partly bc of how it makes Rewind’s relationship with Dominus both more tangled and dynamic imo
and then while writing this flashback, i sort of slowly realised that i actually find this bit of backstory really interesting when applied to Minimus. as someone who can be very rule-oriented, i could see him as having incorporated functionist viewpoints into his perspective early in his life, and then interrogating and putting conscious effort into unlearning them later on. it’s this potential point of character development which isn’t actually in the canon iirc, but pretty readily suggested by what is there, just like what Rewind has going on. and i am an absolute sucker for parallels and mirroring, so after i noticed that Minimus’ role in (Re)Experience just absolutely ballooned. originally he was only going to be in this flashback, but then when i wanted to change up the status quo and introduce an outsider to the situation who is a safe ally for Rewind to trust, i thought about this similarity and it made Minimus the obvious option (and no spoilers for chapters i haven’t posted yet, but then i got invested in Rewind & Minimus being friends and just kept. adding Minimus into scenes he wasn’t supposed to be in. would you believe i actually solved the massive plot issue with (Re)Experience's climax i’ve been grappling with for years by doing this. i was like ‘but what if they didn’t get split up and Minimus was here for this?’ and it all just sorted itself out. turns out i can solve any problem with this fic by just adding more of this dude lmao)
Just poppin in to say I loveeeeeed (Re)experience. Saw someone rec it in an ask game and gave it a shot. Finished 4 chapters in one sitting. Kudos!
ahhh thank you!! you might be happy to hear then that i’m actually not too far away from updating it ^-^ i just want to get the remaining chapters drafted before i post again (a year between chapters is. perhaps too much of a cliffhanger whoops) and i just finished the draft of chapter seven today, which only leaves the draft for chapter eight to go (ง •_•)ง
(Re)Experience - Chapter 4 - IDW 1, Rewind/Chromedome
Title: (Re)Experience 04
Continuity: IDW 1
Characters: Rewind, Chromedome, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Lost Light Ensemble
Romantic Relationships: Rewind/Chromedome
Platonic Relationships: Rewind & Minimus Ambus
Rating: Teen
Tags: Mystery, Weaponized Identity Theft, (Very) Temporary Amnesia, Rewind-centric, Plot Heavy Character Study, Explorations of personal identity and self-worth, In Medias Res, Canon Typical Body Horror, Happy Ending
Summary: Responding to an unusual distress signal, a team of Lost Lighters set out to investigate an abandoned Decepticon base and get locked in with a forgotten weapon from a long since ended war. When their plan to deactivate the weapon goes awry it leaves Rewind temporarily without his memories, and now he has to race to remember who he is and how to shut this weapon down before they all fall victim to a fate worse than death.
Chapter 4 is now up, read it at ao3
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Title: (Re)Experience - Chapter 3
Continuity: IDW 1
Characters: Rewind, Chromedome, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Lost Light Ensemble
Romantic Relationships: Rewind/Chromedome
Platonic Relationships: Rewind & Minimus Ambus
Rating: Teen
Tags: Mystery, Weaponized Identity Theft, (Very) Temporary Amnesia, Rewind-centric, Plot Heavy Character Study, Explorations of personal identity and self-worth, In Medias Res, Canon Typical Body Horror, Happy Ending
Summary: Responding to an unusual distress signal, a team of Lost Lighters set out to investigate an abandoned Decepticon base and get locked in with a forgotten weapon from a long since ended war. When their plan to deactivate the weapon goes awry it leaves Rewind temporarily without his memories, and now he has to race to remember who he is and how to shut this weapon down before they all fall victim to a fate worse than death.
Chapter 3 is now up, read it at ao3!
Title: (Re)Experience - Chapter 2
Continuity: IDW 1
Characters: Rewind, Chromedome, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Lost Light Ensemble
Romantic Relationships: Rewind/Chromedome
Platonic Relationships: Rewind & Minimus Ambus
Rating: Teen
Tags: Mystery, Weaponized Identity Theft, (Very) Temporary Amnesia, Rewind-centric, Plot Heavy Character Study, Explorations of personal identity and self-worth, In Medias Res, Canon Typical Body Horror, Happy Ending
Summary: Responding to an unusual distress signal, a team of Lost Lighters set out to investigate an abandoned Decepticon base and get locked in with a forgotten weapon from a long since ended war. When their plan to deactivate the weapon goes awry it leaves Rewind temporarily without his memories, and now he has to race to remember who he is and how to shut this weapon down before they all fall victim to a fate worse than death.
Notes: My fic for the @tfbigbang
Chapter 2 is up!
