I don't know why I keep making these posts since nobody knows what I'm talking about.

[stunt_muppet]

Possibly you all will become so confused that you'll have to watch TFA just to see what I'm on about.

So a couple of days ago when I started watching TFA I decided I wasn't going to ship anything, because they were robots and that's wrong and who ships in a kid show anyway, and that kind of thing leads to regrettable robot porn and awful human!TFs drawings that just turn the bots into whatever fashionable cheesecake the artist prefers.

Two days later I would not say no to Prowl/Bumblebee. Their rivalry and contrasting personalities and the fact that Bee blushes when Prowl pounces on him makes me confused - I'm not sure if I want to read fic about them as combative, wrestling sort-of-brothers or a ship with both brotherly love and rivalry.

Neither would I say no to a Ratchet/Arcee AU in which Arcee kept her memories and they're a hilarious old married couple who yell at all those damn whippersnappers with their thrusters and their jetpacks and their Allspark Keys and yet are still adorably affectionate to each other. It'd be just darling, don't even deny it. Because apparently it is not enough for me to ship grumpy old people,I have to ship grumpy old robots too. Why not.

So, you know, just in case you wanted to know what to get me for Christmas.

Yes, I know I could go out to the main fic comm and actually look for some of these things, but the main fic comm is large and scary and full of things I am not prepared to think about yet. Shipping is one thing, but I am just not mentally ready for robot porn.

The funny thing is I said the same thing about Doctor Who fic when I first got into it. Just wait, in three months I'll be drawing horrendously graphic Prowl/Bee and seeing nothing wrong with it, looking back with a chuckle at my quaint prudishness.

Also I may have written Prowl fic. It's gen. I dunno if I'll post it.

Comments

[happydalek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mostly have no idea what you're talking about, but I think it's awesome that you're so incredibly, openly fannish about something you just discovered a few days ago. That's ador(k)able and ilu for it.

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

You could watch and squee with me....there's only three seasons and they're all readily available on the Tube of You...*tempts*

I stumbled upon this show when I was desperately seeking something to distract me from final exams and all my miscellaneous lateness, and TF fandom, with its decades of continuity and obsessive devotion to cataloging every single detail, provides a rich vein of distraction. I think that's the key.

[demishock.livejournal.com]

I'm going backwards through my flist and I just posted on your TFA fic so this is kind of obvious, but I've watched TFA so feel free to squee with me about it if you'd like. :D I'm not really much of a shipper these days and I've been into the TF fandom since 2007 and still can't stomach the robot porn, but I can definitely see where you're coming from with Prowl/Bee and Ratchet/Arcee. :)

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

Hooray, I'm not completely alone in my fannishness! :D There's this weird disconnect with Transformers fandom; the fandom's huge, but from what I can tell it mostly consists of guys, and (just like there are no girls on the internet) there are no guys on LiveJournal (except for the ones who are) so the LJ side of fandom is a bit slower and smaller and quite different. It's been such a long time since I've dived into a new fandom that I'm really not sure what to do with it.

It's totally possible to write non-porny shipfic about robots, right? Of course it is. :D