Thank you for the birthday wishes! And I'm just glad to hear that all these ramblings are entertaining someone besides me. :D
This post is bringing out so much Optimus/Ironhide love and that makes me very happy. I didn't think that many other people shipped it, since the fic is kind of thin on the ground, but after the whole bit in "The Immobilizer" where Ironhide decides he's retiring and Optimus is all "But I'll miss you! :("? How could I not ship it after that. And then "Fire on the Mountain" happened and they spend about a solid minute holding hands or clinging to each other or somesuch. How is a show about giant robots shooting each other so consistently cute, I don't get it.
On that note, SOMEONE ELSE SHIPS TFA!OPTIMUS/BLACKARACHNIA, YOU HAVE JUST MADE MY DAY. *squeezes you* I have not managed to be very secret about my love for it because I, um, *cough* have kind of always had a thing for aggressive, toppish ladies and Blackarachnia does get up in Optimus' face and knock him around with some frequency, so it was sort of a foregone conclusion that I was going to be all over this pairing, but you throw in all the history between them and the distrust and hurt and hesitation and and and. Yeah. Kind of very fond of them.
The prompt for the springkink fic was "collar and leash/wicked queen", which presented two possibilities. The "proper" angst-fic would, I think, be set post-series finale, with Optimus (somehow) seeking out Blackarachnia on wherever it is she's supposed to have landed (I can't call it prehistoric Earth because that just makes no sense with the Animated timeline, and as such am choosing to just pretend it's on another planet and sleep easier at night). She feigns helpless in order to stir his sympathies but manages to turn the tables and collar him before they get back to his ship, refusing to go back and wondering why he bothered to come looking for her and...I don't really know where it's going to go from there, but I'm sure there will Conversations and Airing of Issues.
The flat-out porn idea is somewhat simpler, and would take place in between "Black Friday" and "Predacons Rising". Optimus would go on his own to "visit" Blackarachnia on the island, with the implication that they might have done this before and come to some sort of arrangement (thus explaining why she doesn't kill him). For one night, he serves her, obeys her, worships her, takes whatever punishment she feels like giving because he's convinced he deserves it, and because placing that much faith in her to not kill him is a kind of sideways way to make her trust him again. And she obliges, because forcing her old friend to touch and acknowledge the body that repulses her makes her feel less like a freak for a moment. Sexing ensues.
I kind of like that second idea better because it'd be a little easier for me to write - I know pretty much every topic I want to cover and point I want to make, and the actual "kink" part would be much more organic to the story; I wouldn't have to just stick it in at the end. But I'm worried it stretches the limits of in-characterness or story plausability to have Optimus and Blackarachnia come to such an arrangement, and I'm pretty sure fandom at large would look askance at Optimus being that subby, even if it was because of his Issues. So that's kind of up in the air.
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This post is bringing out so much Optimus/Ironhide love and that makes me very happy. I didn't think that many other people shipped it, since the fic is kind of thin on the ground, but after the whole bit in "The Immobilizer" where Ironhide decides he's retiring and Optimus is all "But I'll miss you! :("? How could I not ship it after that. And then "Fire on the Mountain" happened and they spend about a solid minute holding hands or clinging to each other or somesuch. How is a show about giant robots shooting each other so consistently cute, I don't get it.
On that note, SOMEONE ELSE SHIPS TFA!OPTIMUS/BLACKARACHNIA, YOU HAVE JUST MADE MY DAY. *squeezes you* I have not managed to be very secret about my love for it because I, um, *cough* have kind of always had a thing for aggressive, toppish ladies and Blackarachnia does get up in Optimus' face and knock him around with some frequency, so it was sort of a foregone conclusion that I was going to be all over this pairing, but you throw in all the history between them and the distrust and hurt and hesitation and and and. Yeah. Kind of very fond of them.
The prompt for the
The flat-out porn idea is somewhat simpler, and would take place in between "Black Friday" and "Predacons Rising". Optimus would go on his own to "visit" Blackarachnia on the island, with the implication that they might have done this before and come to some sort of arrangement (thus explaining why she doesn't kill him). For one night, he serves her, obeys her, worships her, takes whatever punishment she feels like giving because he's convinced he deserves it, and because placing that much faith in her to not kill him is a kind of sideways way to make her trust him again. And she obliges, because forcing her old friend to touch and acknowledge the body that repulses her makes her feel less like a freak for a moment. Sexing ensues.
I kind of like that second idea better because it'd be a little easier for me to write - I know pretty much every topic I want to cover and point I want to make, and the actual "kink" part would be much more organic to the story; I wouldn't have to just stick it in at the end. But I'm worried it stretches the limits of in-characterness or story plausability to have Optimus and Blackarachnia come to such an arrangement, and I'm pretty sure fandom at large would look askance at Optimus being that subby, even if it was because of his Issues. So that's kind of up in the air.
More long comments, hurrah.