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As part of my "Elspethdixon actually posts things" DW re-ignition project, I'm going to try and start posting recs semi-regularly. Because I may not be back into the swing of journaling or writing meta yet, but if there's one thing I've got plenty of after 17 years in fandom, it's a metric fuckton of fanfic bookmarked and/or saved to my ereader/tablet/harddrive.
Today's rec series: G1/IDW Transformers
(Largely Starscream centric, because I have a bias, and that bias is that I really like fighter planes)
"Excerpts from the Science Logs of the Planetary Exploration Team on X1342" by CasusFere. Gen.
"The Quintesson scientists find more than expected on a new planet." -- The Quintessons' discovery of Cybertron, told as traditional sci-fi/horror.
"Fractured Infinity" by Maunakea. Megatron/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Starscream, Prime/G1/Armada/IDW.
AKA "Starscream's adventures in interdimensional babysitting." Megatron's latest Weapon of the Week malfunctions, de-aging assorted 'Bots and 'Cons into sparklings. Then it malfunctions again, stranding G1!Starscream, his de-aged trine mates, and an equally de-aged Optimus Prime in a continuity far, far away. Thus begins a long and frustrating saga of universe-hopping, involving two Starscreams, two Skywarps, two Thundercrackers, far too many Megatrons, and a whole multiverse full of people who keep obstinately refusing to allow Starscream to abandon baby Optimus somewhere to die.
"Mission" by Spoon888. Megatron/Starscream, Skywarp/Thundercracker, warning for kid OC.
"Years after his treacherous Air Commander's disappearance, Megatron comes across a familiar looking sparkling with a familiarly bad attitude. The "I didn't know I was a dad" fic no one asked for." -- The Decepticons play Ransom of Red Chief with Starscream's bratty offspring, whom Megatron doesn't realize is also his bratty offspring. Megatron et al. are probably too nice in this, but I can shrug that off given that it's fluffy kidfic crack)
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" by herongale. Megatron/Starscream.
"Basically this story explores what it really means, what it really, really means, that Megatron's alt form is a gun. And why Megatron is the way he is. And why Starscream basically can't win against him, ever." -- The fic where Megatron has target fixation (also features a great scene where various autobots are watching Dukes of Hazard because they all have a crush on the General Lee). IMO, outside of Seeker-Sue with their special Seeker culture stuff, there aren't nearly enough stories exploring how and in what ways a Cybertronian's alt form influences their personality/instincts/programming.
Bibliotecaria's "Footnotes" series (Series link at AO3), especially "Swindle-Bolivia's Discount Emporium (and Petting Zoo)" (Swindle + Bobby Bolivia = a match made in buyer-beware heaven) and "Carol of the Decepticons" ("Baby Jesus won't make it out alive" - the Decepticons use human Christmas Eve radio hijinks as a smokescreen for their own attack. "Rudolph" the red-nosed Starscream and his seeker reindeer lead the assault on the Eastern Seaboard, and nobody on Teletran-1 figures out what "Santa and Sleigh are inbound" means until it's far, far too humiliatingly late.)
Today's rec series: G1/IDW Transformers
(Largely Starscream centric, because I have a bias, and that bias is that I really like fighter planes)
"Excerpts from the Science Logs of the Planetary Exploration Team on X1342" by CasusFere. Gen.
"The Quintesson scientists find more than expected on a new planet." -- The Quintessons' discovery of Cybertron, told as traditional sci-fi/horror.
"Fractured Infinity" by Maunakea. Megatron/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Starscream, Prime/G1/Armada/IDW.
AKA "Starscream's adventures in interdimensional babysitting." Megatron's latest Weapon of the Week malfunctions, de-aging assorted 'Bots and 'Cons into sparklings. Then it malfunctions again, stranding G1!Starscream, his de-aged trine mates, and an equally de-aged Optimus Prime in a continuity far, far away. Thus begins a long and frustrating saga of universe-hopping, involving two Starscreams, two Skywarps, two Thundercrackers, far too many Megatrons, and a whole multiverse full of people who keep obstinately refusing to allow Starscream to abandon baby Optimus somewhere to die.
"Mission" by Spoon888. Megatron/Starscream, Skywarp/Thundercracker, warning for kid OC.
"Years after his treacherous Air Commander's disappearance, Megatron comes across a familiar looking sparkling with a familiarly bad attitude. The "I didn't know I was a dad" fic no one asked for." -- The Decepticons play Ransom of Red Chief with Starscream's bratty offspring, whom Megatron doesn't realize is also his bratty offspring. Megatron et al. are probably too nice in this, but I can shrug that off given that it's fluffy kidfic crack)
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" by herongale. Megatron/Starscream.
"Basically this story explores what it really means, what it really, really means, that Megatron's alt form is a gun. And why Megatron is the way he is. And why Starscream basically can't win against him, ever." -- The fic where Megatron has target fixation (also features a great scene where various autobots are watching Dukes of Hazard because they all have a crush on the General Lee). IMO, outside of Seeker-Sue with their special Seeker culture stuff, there aren't nearly enough stories exploring how and in what ways a Cybertronian's alt form influences their personality/instincts/programming.
Bibliotecaria's "Footnotes" series (Series link at AO3), especially "Swindle-Bolivia's Discount Emporium (and Petting Zoo)" (Swindle + Bobby Bolivia = a match made in buyer-beware heaven) and "Carol of the Decepticons" ("Baby Jesus won't make it out alive" - the Decepticons use human Christmas Eve radio hijinks as a smokescreen for their own attack. "Rudolph" the red-nosed Starscream and his seeker reindeer lead the assault on the Eastern Seaboard, and nobody on Teletran-1 figures out what "Santa and Sleigh are inbound" means until it's far, far too humiliatingly late.)
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