Title (chapter): Warped (29)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Pretty much have one more chapter to go on this one. I hoped to get it finished before November, because my juggling two stories just isn't going to be pretty - at least, it wasn't last year. Oh well! Roll on NaNo. :P

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-Nine )

Title (chapter): Warped (28)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Lordy, I never thought I'd *cough*"celebrate"*cough* the first birthday of this thing. Ehhe. ¬_¬ Sorry this is taking soooo loooong, but I'm NEARLY done.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-Eight )

And now... for the on-call. BUUUUGH

Title (chapter): Warped (27)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Bah, sorry this one’s taking soooo looooong. -_- I am admittedly nearly finished, just having “motivation issues” and writer’s block (and distractionssss). Bah.

“Future Tense” (the third instalment) is kind of on hold, for now, as I’m planning my NaNoWriMo for this year; “Adverse Camber”. It is going to involve a couple of my OCs (Celerity, Slipstream and Firewire) but I won’t be uploading it here as I’m making it part of my own standalone series. A couple of canons get cameo roles, but they’re not actively named, as such. If anyone’s interested (ha), I’ll be uploading it to my LJ (see my profile for links, if you’re interested – “Aude Sapere #3”)

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-Seven )

Title (chapter): Warped (26)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Notes: I have no notes. Just hugs!

Edit: Oops typo. *fixes!*

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-six )

Title (chapter): Warped (25)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And finally, here we are in Amarna. And what's that you say? STILL no desert hugs? Aw, darn. Maybe next time!
Notes: I think little Seemy is going to have made himself a bit of an enemy-for-life, here. :shifty eyes:

Thank you all again for your reviews. :) Sorry it's got slow between updates, again - but I promise not to drop the ball! ;)

Sorry Ex. Still no desert hugs! I ran out of room. Next one, I promise! ;)

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-five )

Title (chapter): Warped (24)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And we're off to Egypt!
Notes: Thank you again to my reviewers. :) Sorry I'm making you wait so long between these things, I seem to end up doing about nine things at once these days and keep going off-track. :hrms: I did have a smidge more for this chapter (and I wanted to give TC some more airtime) but I found a good place to stop it. Hopefully that means it won't take so long to get the next chapter up.

Anyway. Hope this chapter is a bit better, even if it is another "talker". :shifty eyes:

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-four )

Title (chapter): Warped (23)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The arrival of the Secret Weapon.
Notes: ...I has a cold and my brain hurts. I apologise for any typos. You'll all be relieved to hear I'm getting close to the end for this one. ;) If you watch my LiveJournal you'll probably already know I do have ideas for a third story, titled "Future Tense", but I'm planning on leaving that one until after "NaNoWriMo" - trying to keep two stories on the go led to my miserable failure last year. ;)

...one of these days, I'll write something I'm happy with. And I won't read other people's things and get too dispirited to finish. Bah. -_- Oh well. On we go.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-three )

Giftarts. *gleee* *squish*

Warped - arts!
(lineart for the above)

And (unrelated) I think certain people should leave these in discrete places around the home for Warp to look at:
Caring for Baby!
(Thank you Gonard for breaking my brain *headdesk* ;)
And "Clearing baby's nose" looks wrong BOTH ways. O_o I'm sure those air-puffer things usually say "Do not squirt into orifices.")

Now to get back to work on the latest chapter.

Edit: OMFG I DIDN'T EVER LINK TO JILL'S FIIIIC *slaps self*
"Old Wounds"
A companion piece to "Unaccompanied Minors".
Go read, go go goooo.

Title (chapter): Warped (22)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which plans start to be made...
Notes: Annnnd we're back to semi-normal intervals between updates. Yay!

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-two )

Title (chapter): Warped (21)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which our Seekers quarrel, and Megatron finaly recognises futility when he sees it.
Notes: Huuuuurgh, did I have writer’s block bad with this one. :( And it's still pretty short. Oh well. I hope it all kinda makes sense... We’ll be getting back towards some actual action soon, I hope, not just lots of fluffy nothing.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-one )

Title (chapter): Warped (20)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Footloose doesn't get it, Skywarp gets drunk, and Thundercracker struggles with his conscience.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty )

Holy crap is it ever raining hard, and thundering reeeeally loudly, reaaally overhead. O_O Not sure I like the idea of doing a job requiring me to use a PC with all that going on...

( Nebula! (Art under cut) )

Aaaaand a rambley cross-post off my devART journal. I prefer my ElJay for stupid crap. *nods*

    SO! Okay, so this had a point to it when I started to write it, but when I read back over it I realised the point had gone walkies. So… go fig. Anyway. I’m not feeling ranty or angry or anything, just… thoughtful.

    Aaaanyway! I was taking a break from writing last night – “lol, don’t you mean the writing WAS the break among all the endless web-browsing?” – and came across a pic that made me think. I forget where it was, precisely, or who the characters were (I think they were OCs?), and it was well-drawn and kinda cute and everything, but… my brain went “…buh?” and just kinda twisted in on itself:
    Daddy transformer was putting a nappy/diaper onto his little girl transformer, and then in the second picture Mummy was breast-feeding it.
    OK, I know, Transformers are “ridiculously human robots” in the first place. They talk like people, socialise like people, fight like people, refuel like people… At what point can someone no longer suspend their disbelief? I mean, sure, I like the idea of “ridiculously human robots” – to a point! (I know, I know, “then why make them robots at all” some will cry – and that’s a can of worms I’d care not to open right now. :P But anyway!)

    I mean, in the first place – nappies. Robots… in nappies. Aside from the fact that FUCK that would be one huuuge nappy, this requires that the baby robot, well… poops, right? So by that token… so do the adults? It’s not new, no, I have staggered blindly across some terrifying badly-written rather-abusive “watersports” stories involving TFs – and yes I know Bumblebee peed (after a fashion) in the 2007 film (and THAT made me go wtf as well), but robots urinating? It just seems… no.

    So I guess it boils down to me just being my usual nitpicky self. :P Yeah, I can accept a machine loving a non-machine, but when they get to popping out babies? Not to recycle a point, but HOW IS BABBY FORMED?! Robot breast-feeding a baby robot? NAPPIES? I just… buh. Even machines with big huge pregnant abdomens make me go “…whuuuut?”

    All right. SO. The point was, where do you lot suspend your disbelief? Does "robot + biological + magic = babby" = OK? Orrr... does ANY idea of a similarity to biology (including just a coding-intermix) = RAAAGE?

    See, the point has run off. BAH. I’ll shut up. I need to go wrangle an over-energised Seeker back into his storyline.

Title (chapter): Warped (16)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Starscream crosses swords with Megatron, and Siphon finds new allies.
Notes: Dun-dun-dun... at last! And BOY is Deuce ever hard to write. :(

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Sixteen )

Title (chapter): Warped (15)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which we find out bathtime can be lethal.
Notes: FWAAAAAaaaaaaaa at laaaaaaast.

    Sorry (not!) for the lateness of this update. I have totally not been slacking off, or anything. :shifty eyes: There may be some typoes, because I have stared at this for so long I've gone a bit snowblind.

    Additionally! If you haven't yet seen it, please go send lovings towards JillDragon's ficbit:
    Unaccompanied Minors
    I plan on attempting to reference it somewhere in my own scrawlings, somewhere, because it says it better than I could have. ;)

Anyway! I shall shush and stop trying to distract you from my lateness...

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Fifteen )

Edit: Owwwwwww heelblisters.

Title (chapter): Warped (13)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Skywarp gets his wing repaired, and a certain red loudmouth swallows his pride enough to ask for help.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Thirteen )

I'm not normally superstitious but this is effing stupid. Now everything at home is afting well playing up. :( I got in from work and my fire alarm is making little "pip" noises and I don't know why - I was never given a manual for it, and it's mains-run so it can't be the battery. And... argh. *flail*

This is NOT what I wanted to come home to after a day of feeling blegh at work.

Update: It's the afting backup battery that's making it peep. *flails*

Update2: AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh *flails* I CAN'T GET THE AFTING BATTERY COVER OFF. *rages around*
"Pull out power plug from back of smoke alarm"???? HOOOOOWWWW? *tears up the manual she just downloaded off the intertubes because the previous owner of the flat didn't leave it behind*
"Gently tug connector to be sure it is attached properly" - if hanging my whole considerable fecking weight off the thing didn't remove it, what's "tugging gently" going to achieve?!

Update3: AT FREAKING LAST. Battery has been changed. I swear, I will cry if this hasn't worked, because my hands really hurt from clawing at the thing now. :(

Last update, I promise. The pips have stopped. ALLE-FREAKIN-LUJAH.

A/N: I should probably apologise for this last bit, as it’s only got my OCs in it, and stuff, but you know what? I’m not gonna. :) It’s all shamelessly self-indulgent and horrible and I had great fun being blatant and fangirly with it. So…

*neener!* ;P

( ‘‘Screaming Blue Murder’’, Epilogue )

A/N: And here it is! The last proper chapter. Status quo can now resume.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to those people who’ve reviewed and typo-spotted and stuff. :bows down: I don’t think I’d have got all the way to the end without you (and the evil side of me that took such morbid joy in scattering cliffhangers through the thing). :love: :hugs: :etc:
The completely OC-centric epilogue will be up pretty quick after this one (like, probably instantly) because it’s shamelessly self-indulgent and horrible, but for once I DON’T CARE, because I actually made it all the way to the end of a story for once! :dances about gleefully: Won’t make any difference to the story here if you skip over it. ;)

( ‘‘Screaming Blue Murder’’, Chapter 34 )

A/N: Once again, I have to say “well, this and the next chapter were going to be one single thing, but it got all monster silly long and I had to divide it”. But! you will be relieved to hear, the next chapter (34) is the last, aside from the epilogue, which is all fangirly and horrible, so you may want to skip it. So! I hope to get the last two bits up in the next couple of days, and the magnum opus is finished.

…And I can (finally) get some sleep. :snores: (:is joking:)

I apologise profusely for being a doofus and adding cast members that I'm having a real hard time thinking how to relate to the plot. I knew I shouldn't have dragged so many characters in, particularly canon ones, but my brain has already gone a’splode. :( Maybe I'll do better next time!

Kiiiinda foreshadowing here with the whole thing with Siphon. ¬_¬ And I should confess to being greatly entertained by writing bitchy Cali. :D She's turned from sweet inoffensive little analyst into The Uber-Cow.

...Okay, I'll be quiet and get on with the story, yes? ;) And if you couldn’t see THIS coming, well, I don’t think I could be much more blatant. :P

( ‘‘Screaming Blue Murder’’, Chapter 33 )

A/N: Once again, ff.net seems disinclined to notify my readers of the update, or me of any reviews. Bah!

...yes, the great lady can kick some serious aft when she feels so inclined. Bwahaha.

( ‘‘Screaming Blue Murder’’, Chapter 32 )