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 (19)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Pulsar is "rescued", and Siphon puts Plan B into action.
Notes: OK, should I deny any responsibility for this one? ¬_¬

FYI, Pulsar and Forceps' home district has a name now. ;) "Deixar" - it's Catalan/Portuguese for "to leave, to abandon". I also considered "Rustig" (Dutch for "quiet", I think?) - I liked it because it has "rust" in it ;) - but it wasn't quite what I was after. Maybe Rustig can be the next town over?

Anyway, enough rattling! On with it.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Nineteen )

It's an audit day at work, it's lunchtime and we've already done all the work, and I'm bored. ERGO. MEME-TIEM.

( Half-afted Transformers meme )

I'm thinking of doing Jill's meme as well but depending on how you look at it, I either don't have many TECHNICALLY "on the go", or else I have a bazillion.

Title (chapter): Warped (18)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Siphon's prisoners get disobedient.

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Eighteen )

*ponderations* In my research (I was looking up the technicalities of a sandstorm) I realised Scirocco and Mistral* (both types of wind) would be good names for twin Seeker girls.

No reason for this, just wanted to make the observation. :)

* Yeah I KNOW I already have a Mistral, but she's a parallel-universe duplicate of Tsueih, so she doesn't really count.

Note to self: *five edits later trying to work out why her little text wasn't becoming little* "Span" tags work better when you spell "style" correctly. *headdesk*

Yeah, people on my FL have prolly seen this doodle of Lara in another pic before, but anyway.

At last I can has a NIGHTSUN! One of the very first of the rabble to show up in my brain (I think he and Spotweld appeared together), but it's taken me almost a year to get a headshot of him on paper. HE HAS HEADPHONESS. I wanted to give him the looks of a helicopter pilot, hence the visor and headphones and stuff. I'm not sure if he's going to have one of those little microphones that sits alongside the mouth - it'd only be for effect anyway, because, well, robot. Snazzy little police helicopter.

And finally! OMG I MANAGED TO HALF-DRAW HIM BEFORE HE RAN OFF AND HID AMONG THE NEURONS. Lucy (channelling Lily Allen? *razz!*) and (half of) Deuce, who's looking a little long-suffering and why-is-she-climbing-on-me, but that's natural for him. BLESS. (I know, he's got the same sort of pose as Nightsun, but I no care. I just wanted to TRY and grab him on paper.)

Work = Ungh. *flops*

Bus = Bigger ungh. Nearly died on the way to work (for serious! That driver was a fucking rallydriver, he nearly hurt someone properly and they were ON the bus. *KEELS HEEM*)

Lighter note!

( So appropriate for Lucy's current relationship (and I mean the proper one, not the scary-stalker-abduction-ship) :P  )(Lyriques)

Totally CAN'T IMAGINE what SHE might be thinking about... ¬_¬

Title (chapter): Warped (17)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Starscream makes his point - and Skyfire makes a point right back - Thundercracker makes a decision, and Skywarp is sent a present.
Notes: BWAAA. Urghhh so sloooow with the updates. It's always a bad thing when I start to work on the next stories in the sequence because I lose track of the 'published' (as in, uploaded) ones. Anyway! I hope this chapter reads all right; Starscream AND Skyfire were being very reticent about what they wanted to say to each other. :P

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Seventeen )

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 )

     This looked so much better in my brain. :P Lucy's badge.