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Stardustjinn in ffnet and ao3, Fic tag: heron writes
Obsession : Star Wars, Transformers, Harry Potter
HP sideblog @littleheronreads
Randomness alert. Lost?
Tags are getting broken, and tumblr search doesn’t. Also I’ve written some prompt fics unrelated to any specific fandom. So here's a master post to keep track of all my writings for my own benefit.
Transformers Fanfic
1. Do You Like Bees? - (TFP) Bumblebee’s bold and stupid attempt at getting Ratchet to rest
2. Spark of Courage - (TFP?) An Autobot’s origin story (take a guess)
3. Our Last Sunset - (TFP?) Jazz and Orion Pax before the war (ongoing... I swear)
4. (2018 movie) Bumblebee and Charlie Watson fluff inspired by fanart (written before the 2018 movie came out)
5. Back to Life - (2018 movie) Bumblebee meets a stranger by the Well (Flash Fic Friday prompt: Touch of Faith)
6. Simulations, Possibilities, and Choices - Prowl goes to Jazz for help. pre-war (FFF prompt: Count the Ways)
7. Just a Little Risk - Yet another Prowl and Jazz pre-war fic. sort of related to above (FFF prompt Leap of Faith)
Star Wars Fanfic
1. Divided We Fall - Obi-Wan and Anakin in that one Deception arc aftermath
2. Stuck With Me - Ahsoka and Anakin fluff because they both need a hug
3. Droid Harassment - Obi-Wan gets harassed by droids
4. Observe, Analyze, Adapt - Snapshots from R2-D2′s memory files
5. Your Princess is in Another Closet - R2-D2 embarks on a quest to find the princess
6. To Save What We Love - Anakin broods at Naboo during the Deception arc
7. Learning Curve - Ahsoka fights Ventress and almost loses
8. Stroke of Luck - How the 104th started their nose art tradition
9. Runaway AU - Anakin runs away during TPM (prompt, short)
10. Obi-Wan and Anakin argue on whose fault it is...sorta (prompt, really short)
Other Random Prompt fics and stuff
1. Letter From an Old Friend - When you want to write a story but all you have are ~vibes~ (Flash Fic Friday prompt: Rise and Fall)
2. Silent Cry For Help (Flash Fic Friday prompt: Sound of Light)
3. Lone Walk in the Dark - First attempt at writing disability because inspiration comes at inconvenient times (Flash Fic Friday prompt: No battery life left)
4. Small Lights in the Dark - A telepath's last thoughts (part of original fic LiD) (Flash Fic Friday prompt: Pride before the fall)
5. Brought to You by the Letter A - For everyone who stalled finding out important news because of anxiety (Flash Fic Friday prompt: The Letter)
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characters who view themselves as tools/weapons first and people second... characters who martyr themselves for a cause because they think that's the only way they can be worth something... characters who push themselves past their breaking point again and again and again... characters for whom devotion and masochism are inseparable... characters whose self-sacrifice becomes self-annihilation...... what was my point again? i had a point. anyway.
Kaleidoscope Prequel jumped out to me 👀 What's this about?
Soooooooo... Kaleidoscope is actually just what I ended up calling the massive massive mess of headcanon notes of the Cybertron War timeline in Transformers, loosely based around the book Exodus. The initial idea was to follow Bumblebee through the war, as in, "the Cybertron war, as seen through Bumblebee’s kaleidoscope", but the colors and shapes keep changing until nothing makes sense anymore. The working title came from DJ Okawari's music Kaleidoscope.
I never released any of those notes as a fic as my writing skills are just not up for an epic like that. However, these notes are what I consult when writing Aligned/TFP fics and figuring out why a character, well mostly Bumblebee, is the way he is. Or if I need random throw away lines to vaguely reference about the Autobots life on Cybertron.
Now Kaleidoscope Prequel, is called that because it's a "Prequel" to the Kaleidoscope main storyline notes and actually follows Orion Pax before the war, up to the point where Megatron declares war. (So another retelling of Exodus) For this I have most major events outlined, even chapter titles set, even have the first chapter posted (under the final title "Our Last Sunset"), hoping that will make me focus. However it's been hibernating because I couldn't figure out the details of other minor plot points, continuity, character interactions, sprinkled with that thought that maybe I'm pouring too much headcanon into minor things nobody cares about.
Here's a short scene in that wip that I think you might find interesting, since it has Ratchet:
"We sentence you innocent." The Quintesson cackled.
Before the defendant even had the chance to let out a sigh of relief, the floor promptly opened below him, revealing a large pit full of Sharkticons in their primal forms.
The poor Cybertronian did not even have time to scream as he fell into the pit to be torn into pieces by dozens of snapping jaws.
Orion winced, though he managed not to look away. Quintesson trials against Cybertronians were probably the only trials where being pronounced guilty was preferable to innocent.
The footage finally ended with the Quintessons congratulating each other. Feeling vaguely disgusted and wondering if the footage was a genuine recording from the Invasion or just a vid, Orion logged the feed with 'Quintesson', 'Trial', and 'Scary Monsters'.
He paused, replaced the last tag with 'Sharkticon' before submitting.
The next file in the que was all text, which would thankfully take less time to curate. As Orion loaded the file up in his terminal to process it, a message flashed to alert him of an incoming call from Ratchet. Leaving the file to process on its own, Orion took the call.
"Ratchet? What can I do for you?"
Ratchet's voice was dry. "What you can do for me, Orion Pax, is fix up a time for that maintenance you missed so I don't have to worry about you dropping in while I am away from the clinic."
"Do you not have someone to cover for you?"
"You're not trying to avoid me, are you?"
If he had to curate Ratchet’s voice just now, Orion thought he would tag it as “Scary medic” and stand by his decision no matter what Alpha Trion said.
"Of course not, all I meant is that you need not worry."
"Well, you can help me stop worrying by setting up that appointment. Are you free this afternoon?"
Orion glanced at his desk. Judging by the number of datapads, he did not think he would be exactly free this afternoon, but that was the only time he could spare in a while.
Also, can't pass up asking about "Aligned - 8 BB, Ratchet, Raf" :)
I knew you'd be interested in this one XD, and I'm glad you took the bait because this is actually an old idea that I think I told you while we were working on the reverse bigbang -- regarding Bumblebee and his hologram generator.
Essentially, here Bumblebee gets his hologram generator fixed, and because of his inexperience at simulating humans and their hair, ends up scaring more than just humans through uncanny valley effect.
Whether Bumblebee's hologram being broken is the result of the aforementioned fic (and he somehow hid it from Ratchet until much later) or if he had it fixed and then broke it again depends on which option is funnier.
Beginning snippet below cut:
"Second one today. Bumblebee is a star," Raf said. He craned his neck around to grin at Bumblebee, who had been talking to Ratchet and Arcee about something.
Unfortunately, that meant Ratchet also heard it.
"What? What do you mean?" he asked sharply.
"Oh-- nothing. It's just that Bumblebee seems to get caught in these stuff more often."
Which, in his humble opinion, only made sense. Bumblebee and Arcee, being the smallest and possessing vehicles that would better blend in with civilians, were often the ones to go on missions in high-traffic areas. This particular story was submitted by a rookie patrol officer, who claimed to have approached what he thought was an empty car with illegal window tints, and nearly wet himself when the 'empty car' abruptly took off on its own.
Raf pointed this out, but Ratchet was having none of it. He glowered at the yellow scout, whose doorwings dropped.
"Arcee is never caught so carelessly," the medic scolded.
"Actually, Arcee was seen activating her hologram," Jack said. "There was a Creepypasta about her. They just never got the picture to prove it."
"Thanks, Jack. That was so necessary," Arcee replied dryly.
"I scrubbed that too," Raf said. When Ratchet didn't stop glaring, he continued, hoping to defend his friend. "Come on Ratchet, Bumblebee doesn't have a holographic disguise."
At that, Bumblebee's doorwings dropped even further as he made panicked motions at Raf to stop talking. Ratchet looked from Bumblebee to Raf, and then back, effectively freezing the scout. A question not privy to humans was asked and answered.
"What? What’d I say?"
"Didn't you know?" Arcee drawled, clearly enjoying herself as she sipped on a cube of energon like humans would sip on a tea. "Bumblebee actually does have a hologram emitter for the same reason as I do. He just never uses it."
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RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!
Tagged by @onewingedsparrow Thanks!!
I’m currently in the sloooooow process of migrating my fic notes from Evernote to other note apps. leading to wips being scattered across three different apps. This was actually the final push that brought a screeching end to my chronic, almost terminal case of indecision. My note app is a graveyard of dead wips, but these are the ones I have not completely given up on yet, ranked by how interested I am in continuing/finishing it:
JP Take My Hand AU
Mirage POV Fic
Kaleidoscope Prequel
Aligned - 8 BB, Ratchet, Raf
Spirited Away AU
Aligned - Bumblebee 7
Aligned - 4 (Tyger Pax)
Aligned - Deadlock AU
Post-TFP AU (notes only)
Cyberverse - BB, WB
TCW 4 - Obi-Wan, Anakin (Halloween Special)
SW AU3 - Obi-Wan on Tatooine Time Travel
Writing Wed - When the Dead Speak (SW)
RotS AU (probably will never finish, but the muse is there)
(ps. don’t ask about the numbering system because even idk anymore)
Too shy to tag, (also dunno if anyone of my old mutuals I've spoken to are still around). Anyone wants to do this, feel free to tag me and I'll toss an ask.
🍖 How to Build a Culture Without Just Inventing Spices and Necklaces
(a worldbuilding roast. with love.)
So. You’re building a fantasy world, and you’ve just invented:
→ Three types of ceremonial jewelry
→ A spice that tastes like cinnamon if it were bitter and cursed
→ A holiday where everyone wears gold and screams at dawn
Cute. But that’s not culture. That’s aesthetics.
And if your worldbuilding is all outfits, dances, and spice blends with vaguely mystical names, your story’s probably going to feel like a cosplay convention held inside a Pinterest board.
Here’s how to fix that—aka: how to build a real, functioning culture that shapes your story, not just its vibes.
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🔗 Culture Is Built on Power, Not Just Style
Ask yourself:
→ Who’s in charge, and why?
→ Who has land? Who doesn’t?
→ What’s considered taboo, sacred, or punishable by death?
Culture is shaped by who gets to make the rules and who gets crushed by them. That’s where things like religion, family structure, class divisions, gender roles, and social expectations actually come from.
Start there. Not at the embroidery.
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2.🪓 Culture Comes From Conflict
Did this society evolve peacefully? Was it colonized? Did it colonize? Was it rebuilt after a war? Is it still in one?
→ What was destroyed and mythologized?
→ What do the survivors still whisper about?
→ What do children get taught in school that’s… suspiciously sanitized?
No culture is neutral. Every tradition has a history, and that history should taste like blood, loss, or propaganda.
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3.🧠 Belief Systems > Customs Lists
Sure, rituals and holidays are cool. But what do people believe about:
→ Death?
→ Love?
→ Time?
→ The natural world?
→ Justice?
Example: A society that believes time is cyclical vs. one that sees time as linear will approach everything—from prison sentences to grief—completely differently.
You don’t need to invent 80 gods. You need to know what those gods mean to the people who pray to them.
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4.🫀 Culture Controls Behavior (Quietly)
Culture shows up in:
→ What people apologize for
→ What insults cut deepest
→ What people are embarrassed about
→ What’s praised publicly vs. what’s hidden privately
For instance:
→ A culture obsessed with stoicism won’t say “I love you.” They’ll say “Have you eaten?”
→ A culture built on legacy might prioritize ancestor veneration, archival writing, name inheritance.
This stuff? Way more immersive than giving everyone matching earrings.
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5. 🏠 Culture = Daily Life, Not Just Festivals
Sure, your MC might attend a funeral where people paint their faces blue. But what about:
→ Breakfast routines?
→ How people greet each other on the street?
→ Who cooks, and who eats first?
→ What’s considered “clean” or “proper”?
→ How is parenting handled? Divorce?
Culture is what happens between plot points. It should shape your character’s assumptions, language, fears, and habits—whether or not a festival is going on.
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6. 💬 Let Your Characters Disagree With Their Own Culture
A culture isn’t a monolith.
Even in deeply traditional societies, people:
→ Rebel
→ Question
→ Break rules
→ Misinterpret laws
→ Mock sacred things
→ Act hypocritically
→ Weaponize or resist what’s expected
Let your characters wrestle with the culture around them. That’s where realism (and tension) lives.
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7.🧼 Beware the “Pretty = Good” Trap
Worldbuilding gets boring fast when:
→ The protagonist’s homeland is beautiful and pure
→ The enemy’s culture is dark and “barbaric”
→ Every detail just reinforces who the reader should like
You can—and should—challenge the aesthetic hierarchy.
→ Let ugly things be beloved.
→ Let beautiful things be corrupt.
→ Let your MC romanticize their culture and then get disillusioned by it later.
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📍 TL;DR (but like, spicy):
→ Culture is not food and jewelry.
→ Culture is power, fear, memory, contradiction.
→ Stop inventing spices until you know who starved last winter.
→ Let your world feel lived in, not curated.
The best cultural worldbuilding doesn’t look like a list.
It feels like a system. A pressure. A presence your characters can’t escape—even if they try.
Now go. Build something real. (You can add spices later.)
—rin t.
// writing advice for worldbuilders with rage and range
// thewriteadviceforwriters
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2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'
“why do tfs do this human thing” well maybe because when they came in contact with organic alien species who could do it they were like ‘wow thats cool!’ they found a way to imitate that and it became a trend, much like it happened with having mouths in idw1 (iirc).
or maybe they have smth similar that’s being explained in “human terms” for clarity (or maybe the writer needed them to feel smth and didn’t feel like coming up with the “appropiate” robotic equivalent).
or maybe the writer wanted to make a joke with a specific wording and didn’t meant to cannonze the existence of X sense in the cybertronian population. and so on and so forth.
if its such a problem and you need an explanation super fucking bad then just pick your fave one and if there isn’t one just make one on the spot, its easy & fun.
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yo i’m sorry did this just say our whole solar system is MOVING?????????? THROUGH SPACE????????
the sun is stationary right???? someone please for the love of god tell me the sun is stationary??????? it’s tuesday afternoon i don’t have the mental capacity to learn that our entire fucking solar system is MOVING right now ????!?
I mean I hate to be the one to break this to you, but everything in space, including the sun, is moving through space. Very quickly, actually. The earth orbits the sun at 64,000 miles per hour, sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 500,000 miles per hour, and the Milky Way galaxy itself is moving through space at roughly 1.3 million miles per hour.
Well since it’s now tomorrow I might as well answer your question about where the Milky Way is going. Really, there’s two different answers, a short and a long answer. The first, and shorter explanation, is that the Milky Way is heading towards our nearest galactic neighbor, the andromeda galaxy, and the two galaxies will collide within the next couple billion years. The second and much longer answer is that the Milky Way is apart of what’s called a “cluster” of galaxies. Basically, all the galaxies that are near ours. And this cluster is part of an even bigger cluster, called a “supercluster”. Superclusters are some of the largest structures in the universe, they stretch for hundreds of millions of light years and encompass hundreds of thousands of different galaxies. Our galaxy is slowly orbiting the general center of what’s called the Virgo supercluster, guided along by the gravitational pull of the galaxies around us and the structure of the universe itself.
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the followring a bunch of links to a variety of tumblr blogs discussing things from fight scenes, types of romance, antagonists and how to flavour dialogue descriptors and how to build the voice and logic of your characters.
emotion chart
subplots
emotional writing tips
words other than said
character profile
body language
types of villains
elements of a fight scene
romance
action scenes
writers block
character flaws/buffs
rules for writers
Character's voice
sci-fi/dystopia/utopia genre post
virtue to vice spectrum
eldritch madness definition
dialogue options
expression descriptors
eldritch madness 2
trope, theme, archetype, motif and cliche
example of predestined outcome
a unique perspective on female representation in fiction
disguising a character's powerlevel with dialogue and physicality
I want to have all these links here and easily available for reading and re-reading if an when I need them rather than needing to relentlessly dig through all of my likes to find any of the relevant material I want to look over. I hope other's find them as accessible and as usable as I do.
