#ask liliy

Depends on the fanfic. LOL.

But on a more serious note, I think Peri admires Dale's good qualities: He's dedicated, clever, hard working, and inventive. It's mainly a matter of keeping those qualities from turning into his downfalls: greed and overworking.

Hello! It's been a while since I wrote that one! It was honestly one of my favorites.

Nii did making Sanzo young to reset him, in a sense. He wanted to influence Sanzo as a child (as Kouryuu) so he could better win him over as an adult. He wanted the Devotion that Sanzo gave to his master to him.

As for the ending, sorry! I wrote a little gag ending for that fic to lighten the mood, but it wasn't meant to be a happy story.

I think that’s always going to depend on the adult you’re talking with and your own comfort levels. I mean, you’re talking with someone who’s almost forty right now. XD

In most cases, if you’re just talking about fandom things--it’s not going to matter how old the person is. Gushing about your favorite characters, fanfics, art, or story plots isn’t going to change much no matter what your age. I have fun fandom conversations with people ten years older than me and ten years younger.

The age gap shows up once in a while (like when personal topics come up, like spouses and kids and whatever), but it’s no different than when I’m talking with people older or younger than me in real life.

When it comes to discussing more mature topics in shipping, that’ll be a personal call. Most reasonable adults are more than happy to set boundaries about what topics are okay to discuss and what aren’t, and then respect them--no matter what your age. Just because someone is older (or you’re both the same age) doesn't mean that they are okay with mature topics.

Last of all, trust your gut. If a conversation is making you uncomfortable, there’s probably a reason. 

On a side note, I do think that a lot of modern fandom culture has warped some people’s senses of interacting with those older or younger than you. It’s very common in the real world to be around people much older and younger than you in many situations. Your coworkers, your friends, your friends’ friends, your friend’s parents, activities you join, classes--there’s a wide range of people with different life experiences.

Example: I’m in a local, hobby orchestra and most of the people in it are twice or three times my age--making me the young one around others with more life experience. But for one concert, we had some high school students getting extra credit for some class or another, so I shared a music stand with a bright and fun teen. We talked music and safe subjects, with a bit of “In my day we didn’t have snapchat” thrown in for fun (and I in turn get the “In my day we didn’t have mobile phone” conversations from the older members lol).

The end point: It’s your call. If you found a super cool older person in fandom to chat with and interact who doesn’t pressure you, that’s great! Have some fun!

Just remember that regular internet safety rules apply to all: Don’t give out too much identifying personal information, if you do choose to meet make sure it’s in a public place and people know where you are and who you’re with, keep topics in your comfort zone, feel free to drop out of conversations that make you uncomfortable.

I will always find robots and cars attractive. Sentient ones even more so. Lol.

Uh, but the more serious answer is I have no idea what’s been going on with Transformers since I stopped reading MTMTE (There was a lot of stuff I enjoyed in that comic, but how they changed Rodimus’ character just...it was too much. I got too far and it ruined the entire comic for me.). I’m just totally out of the loop to whatever the current cartoons/comics/games are at the moment.

I think I stopped by the TF toy aisle the other day and didn’t recognize anything and went “Ah, yes. I’m behind.”

I still feel fondly for the shows I have seen, though. I’m always a fan of G1 and I liked the first couple of Seasons of Prime. Animated is always a classic. I certainly don’t mind seeing Transformers stuff on my dash at all.

Everything permitted on AO3 is legal, and tagged like 90% of the time--and in this specific case, it’s required to be (albeit “Chose not to warn” may be the tag in question).

They have an awesome “Exclude” section in their search now to help you avoid anything you don’t want to see.

The problem with blanket bans of content is it will always end up hurting more people than it helps.

Sentinel Prime can kiss Unicron's Rusting Aft.

Sentinel Prime x Unicron is an interesting OTP. XD I’ll give it that. Lol.

You see, I’m torn about this ask because the War itself is my favorite part of Transformers. Lol. I tend to be most invested in storylines where the Autobots and Decepticons are ripping each other apart.

That’s what makes crossfaction ships exciting in the first place. XD Lol.

Who needs peace!? XD