#razzek

He's the Judas goat if anything. The animal trained to lead sheep into the kill line while being spared itself right up until they need goat meat.

i did NOT know this was a thing??? holy shit you're SO RIGHT

damn now i wanna write about Judas and Simon. Orthodoxy v. Gnostic Judas takes too cus...

hi Razz!

haha Toaster xD umm ok

a kiss to distract...

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When your conjunx calls you to the cafeteria with no context, you go.

Blaster strode in and spotted his favorite shade of purple by the serving counter. There was his beautiful, wonderful, intelligent, kind, and, right now, very mysterious Nautica, smiling sweetly. Before her was the usual afternoon spread of healthy energon cube snacks. Behind those bowls and plates was Toaster, brandishing a very long spoon.

"Uh... hey," said Blaster. He stood just close enough to acknowledge Nautica, but not so close as to attract the attention of-

"Blaster!!" Toaster smacked his spoon on the counter. "Tell her she can't have any candy!! It's not the right night for it!!"

"Uh," said Blaster.

Nautica winked at him. It was the only warning he got before she picked him up and smacked him down onto the counter. Bowls and plates flew into the air. Cubes rained down. Blaster caught a flash of minibot white - Tailgate running past - before Nautica jumped on him.

"AHH!" Toaster flung the spoon aside. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"

"Wha-" Blaster knew there had to be a good reason for this, but he was struggling to disengage his combat protocols. Fortunately, Nautica leaned down and kissed him.

Really really hard. Really really intimately.

Toaster shrieked as Nautica kissed him more passionately than she had on their ceremony night. Blaster's lines burned from the chaos of going from disengage combat to engage facing protocols. Cubes were still falling around them when she finally sat up.

Another flash of white.

Toaster's shrieks in the background.

"Buh. Whu??" went Blaster, as Nautica slid off his frame.

"Ohhhhhh... soorrrrrrryyyyyyyyy Toasterrrrrrrr," Nautica said. She half-heartedly gathered some cubes and put them in a bowl.

"BANNED! BANNED FROM ALL TREATS!! YOU WILL BE ON THE CHORE CYCLE FOR THIS!!" Toaster leapt from one side of the counter to the other. He picked up a bowl and beat Blaster on the helm.

"Hey! Ow! I got nothing to do with this!" Blaster fended Toaster off with an arm.

Nautica pulled him from the counter and took his hand. "Run," she whispered. "Tailgate got the goods."

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Hmm... in Angel Breaker, Mirage is a mafia guy and Skywarp is literally royalty, but I know you've already read that one xD I don't have anything where Skywarp is religiously sacred.

hi razz!

ok, horribly, the first thought is an automatic WITH EYES WIDE OPEN to the tune of that song that goes WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN by Creed. not condoning that, just saying, it's what happened in my brain xD

hmm ok... Eyes Wide usually means surprise, like big ol' shock, which- OH MY GOD SHOCKWAVE. he's the Transformer with like, a head, but it's just got an eye in it. haha. so he kinda fails the title (plural eyes) but that was a funny side tangent. here he is:

Ok sorry, I will try to focus. Eyes Wide... hm... that seems like a really good phrase to give to a story with a double meaning. Like... hmm. Like there's the literal interpretation, where a character could be beholding something and widening their eyes in shock or horror. But there could also be deeper or alternate meaning, where the eyes are the window to the soul or something, and something is happening to them as their eyes widen. Or maybe a horror entity gets inside them when they open their eyes. And then once they're infiltrated, their eyes stay wide open forever as they send the horror entity on to the next host with the power of creepy, unblinking staring. Maybe some kind of sci fi hand wavey light virus that TF oculars transmit. Inventing a horrific science light virus is actually something Shockwave would do (he's like chaotic evil for science, lol), so I'd say the fic would be something like that. Maybe it all stems from jealousy cuz he has only one eye and most others have two. Or maybe one eyed mechs are immune. Hehe

Thanks for the ask!

3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?

The foreshadowing and details that somehow manage to get in there xD That tiny thing in ch 3 your brain says "put in there" and then in chapter 43 you find out why :)

Hi Razz! Thanks for the ask :D

One reference that will always make you laugh... hmm... ok there's a book reviewer channel, Cari Can Read, and in one of her review series she does a smash cut away to this monk picture, with a sound clip of Snoop Dogg going "Dada dada da" (from The Next Episode):

I think it's from her review of Cassie Claire's Mortal Instruments. Bahahaha. Not sure that counts as a classical internet reference, but it's on the internet!

What makes me click away from a fic? As in, I've already screened the tags to make sure there's nothing I don't like? Hmm. If the spelling, grammar, or formatting are very poor, or if the first few paragraphs indicate a beginner. To be very clear here- everyone has to start somewhere. I absolutely want beginners to post their work. But I personally don't have the patience for wading through a lot of errors; my brain literally will not suspend its disbelief and enjoy the story. It will start editing. And I am not reading a fic to do work xD

eyyy hi Razz! Thanks for asking- I know you've always enjoyed that fic :D

It's been a long time haha, I'll see what I can remember. let's do bullet-esque points for brain ease

• this was a big bang fic, where writers put out their pitches and then artists picked what they wanted. I was a little nervous no one would want my idea: a genfic action adventure with rarely used side characters on an AU Cybertron. lucky for me, Yam picked my fic and drew some really cute art for it! I did the flats for the pics for them, as they were busy, but they did all the lines and rendering :) what an adorable style!

• the main characters are Jackpot and Shadow Striker... but not the Shadow Striker everyone knows. it's a curious thing that's happened several times now, but I'll write about a character or a dynamic and then they'll show up in canon. in this case, shortly after either writing or posting this story, Shadow Striker became a thing in Cyberverse. the Shadow Striker in this fic, though, was directly inspired by her Universe incarnation

Her frame's construction, her weapon and skills, and the whole side story about her sister were all from her canon fiction.

Jackpot's wiki says he's lucky

and I think having luck as a superpower is really cool, so I made Jackpot an outlier of sorts, where he escapes big and small dangerous events, but they come at a price- he loses energon every time, and his spark chamber is damaged.

• I had the idea for a long time, but I remember seeing IDW2 artist Anna Malkova talk on twitter one time about how she always wanted to do a "journey to the center of the world" story. I always hoped Anna would see my fic xD I doubt she has, or would want to now, though. but, I think about that every once in a while

• the goals for the fic were to do: kinda enemies to kinda friends, world building with underground tunnels whose composition changes with depth, some mafia-esque shenanigans, some body horror shenanigans, using characters I was unfamiliar with (but making them sympathetic to the reader in some capacity)... lots of goals

• the light runners steal rare biolight fluid, idk exactly how I thought of it, but I have always thought biolights were so pretty and delightfully TF-y. it seemed like something that would fit into a stratified society- rare thing = rich people want it to flaunt their wealth

• Mirage and Skywarp make appearances in the beginning under their stage names from Face The Past, Mesmer and Vorp. because I love them, haha

I definitely have more things I could say... brain is pretty scattered right now. I'm literally in the corner ignoring my family right now. It's pretty great lol, but I'll stop here.

hey Razz!

✍️ What’s your ideal writing setup?

Me at my desktop, late at night, no sound anywhere. The room is cool/cold. Blankets and decaf tea. =D

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?