Gladiators Of Kaon - Word Art Excerpt

Gladiators of Kaon - Word Art excerpt

I have way too much fun writing Soundwave. He's such an interesting character.

Anyhow, I tried a thing and I was deeply entertained by it, so like the toddler I am inside I'm shoving it onto my blog to show off

*waves screenshot around and chews on a crayon*

(text transcription below the cut, though the cool part I wanted to show off is just that they're formatted like his face screen display)

Soundwave: asked to deliver communications in readable format.

Communications: 

There’s a pause. A pause long enough you have to wait for the next series of words to appear, and you can’t tell if he’s just taking that long to prepare it or if he has some other reason to hang up--

His screen goes blank, then new text appears, utterly filling his screen as you raise your optic ridges, and start reading.

Holy scrap.

Your cooling fans kick up a few notches, probably loud enough to draw attention, but no-one comments as you cover your mouth with a hand, speechless.

Rumble: says Lightshow is as nice as she is pretty. Rumble: has promised not to cause seismic tremors when Lightshow is present, out of consideration for Lightshow’s sensitive circuitry. Soundwave: highly doubts but is hopeful. Frenzy: says Lightshow is the coolest mech he’s met outside 

of the arena. Frenzy: says Lightshow

should accept job posting.

Personal addendum:

Apology: Issued.

Symbiotes: very

exciteable and

assertive.

Swindle: says

“Be back soon,

Mom.”

Soundwave:

Thinks Swindle

Is teasing.

Mostly.

Star of the Show: Complete Posting!

Well, I went ahead and pulled the trigger. 506 pages of fanfiction, posted. This story is not beta read, but it has endured my loving painstaking combing of multiple editing passes.

ALL chapters of book one have now been posted :D Book two is on it's way~

I'm so sorry the tags suck so bad. I did go through and try to mark major triggers I felt might need a warning on individual chapters

Summary: in other words just a story snippet i thought was interesting because fuck me I cannot write summaries

“I don’t approve,” she said in a quiet voice. “But I’m… Happy, I think, for you. It’s not just the Energon, is it? You don’t gain anything out of this… whatever this is,” she said, gesturing to his chest as she let go of the cup, still talking in a low voice. Starscream was well aware of Clara shifting on his seat as she listened. His fingers tightened on the brass. “I gain everything,” he contradicted quietly. “You just cut your life expectancy to practically nothing,” she hissed, then blinked with surprise as Starscream smiled. “I just made sure the rest of my life is going to be filled with light.”

Poll: Which would you prefer?

This may or may not be because I am sitting on my hands debating whether or not to pull the trigger on releasing any or some or all of my four current Transformers fanfics.

I wanna post so baaaad

but I keep finding things to tweak and edit and I suppose I might just be editing these documents until the day I die, I'm okay with that

but frag when do I post them

like sometimes I go back ten chapters and insert a tiny lil' detail that now plugs in a much later story thing or ties up a loose end or enforces some concept that was always there but I forgot or just didn't manage to portray correctly the first time.

HAMMER (NAP)TIME

(if you don't want to see my personal posts, my tag for them is "Dat Rambles")

I'm not saying that I'm ridiculous and goofy enough i gave the very special hammer a very special storage place for while not in use

But it now has its home to stay and i figured out what to do with my tiny beaver pelt.

But i giggle like the dork i am because i realized it's also a symbolic pun and it's perfect.

The blade tucked there with it was a gift from a friend, it reminds me of fun stories and pleasant memories.

Some pictures of my tiny little old af forge below the cut.

i am so excited to (carefully) drag this thing outside and hammer some metal. I've got a modest pile of a range of scrap metal grades to practice with and some good steel knife blanks to pound out once I've found my rhythm

Eeeee

I am so stoked. Made sure to call my friend and thank him for helping make this possible.

That unassuming looking railroad tie is my anvil \o/ it makes the most lovely harmonic when you tap it. Just. Mmmmm. Music of the forge bby.

Maaaan that coal pile is dusty. Been a while since I've lit the coal.

I feel the hammer needs a name and so help me I'm struggling not to settle on "THIS HAMMER" help

HAMMER TIME

(if you don't want to see my personal posts, my tag for then is "Dat Rambles")

Okay

OKAY

So this is me shamelessly talking like a first grader who just got handed money to buy whatever the hecc they want in a candy store

This hammer

THIS. HAMMER. (Continued below cut)

Is the draw hammer i learned to forge my first blades with by my friend and mentor who has been teaching me his blacksmithing skills and i can't even tell you how much it feeds my silly little soul to now possess it.

Especially since i was unable to find one just like it; i am so excited to start my forge up in the nearer future. I have a lot to do yet tho set up my workshop and continue working on my body's physical condition so I'll be ABLE to do smithing

Anyhow

Yeah

I just wanted to squeal about this because it's kind of a huge life moment for me. Actually no not kind of, it just plain is. I'm very, very happy and excited and holy heck I've wanted this for so long and now i have everything i need to start my own blades and armor workshop space and AAAAAAAAAAAAAH

There was also something very sweet and get soothing; while I knew i would be getting the hanger this week, i managed to completely forget about i for several days after much eagerness ensuring the delivery would happen.

i found one of my Mjolnir necklaces the night prior, and then my mom came home telling her sorry of the week and showing pictures and telling me how their drive home was very blessed because they drive in the eye of a very, very big bad storm system most the way home and had a perfectly safe drive and even saw the coolest super low to Earth Rainbow. Then she plopped the hammer in my hands.

Anyhow yeah it felt like a very important piece of my life taking into place alongside other pieces and i just feel like I'm exactly where i want and need to be right now.

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