Comments | aleph_abyssal: RLD Update soon. SOON.

aleph_abyssal

RLD Update soon. SOON.

Oct 10, 2011 00:15

If someone were to ask, "Are you updating your fanfic any time soon?", I would say, "Indeedy so, I have Chapter 10 of Red Letter Days on my HD ready fro a spell check and a post to FF.net RIGHT NOW ( Read more... )

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aleph_abyssal October 9 2011, 15:16:29 UTC

Yes! I remember very well ( ... )

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aleph_abyssal October 13 2011, 10:05:36 UTC

Yes, that's pretty close to how I saw him in DOTM, unfortunately.

I haven't read the comics, so the Movie-Prime might not be so one-dimensional, but I was annoyed by the way the Autobots were so eager to take military sides after their planet was destroyed by the same thing. I mean, when they drove into a "Standard Middle Eastern Miltary Den" they did it under the auspices of a a military enforcement. Yo, robot dudes, that human bullshit is none of your business.

Although I did find on the re-watch that they were hiding out in the Department of Human Services, which was an abandoned, disusedd building. LOL!

And Cybertron is their home, their Earth. And the Decepticons have Cybertronian babies, who are dying. I was annoyed, annoyed, annoyed byt the politics of the film, sigh. I had such hope!

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femme4jack October 9 2011, 16:19:43 UTC

This is fantastic news!!!! I can hardly wait. The World's Translated Thus is, imo, the pinnacle of what fanfiction can be, and so far, I'm loving Red Letter Days even more. TWTT was not just amazing fanfiction, but great literature without all of the limitations put on corporate published works. I will be waiting with great anticipation. Thanks for the update.

Hope everything is going great with your little one. I have young ones myself, and it was only when my youngest was around 4 that I started really having the time for hobby again.

ETA If you get a chance, read the DOTM Novelization. The ending is FAR superior to the movie (can't believe they changed it), and may give you a very different feel for Optimus at the end. I read it first, then saw the film and went WHAT?????? That isn't how it was supposed to end (and if you don't know or want me to tell you the changes, let me know) :)

aleph_abyssal October 13 2011, 11:29:43 UTC

Yes, a previous poster gave me a rundown. That may have been the original script too, but someone made the decision otherwise, le sigh.

mmouse15 October 9 2011, 19:08:10 UTC

I'm so impressed that with your little one, you're still able to do ANYTHING with writing. It's awe-inspiring.

I'm sorry work is kicking your aft; that sucks a lot of joy out of life and is not fun.

I'll look forward to the update!

singthemuse October 9 2011, 23:08:18 UTC

I'm WRITHING in excitement!! ^______^ I can't wait to read the next chapter! You have no idea how happy this makes me ( ... )

aleph_abyssal October 10 2011, 00:17:00 UTC

The comics are interesting because they're often based on the original script / story that the writers have come up with, before the Bayhem and studio budget compromising.

(The most obvious example I can think of is the 2007 movie comic, where the transformer "girl" was blonde and wore a blue dress - the comics clearly referenced that she was that way due to Alice In Wonderland. On the filmm only the blue dress remained...)

But in DOTM - oh my, the dialouge was sometimes painful: "It is I, Optimus Prime" indeed. I'm trying to think if there was any time that the Bayverse TF's passed the Robot Bechdel Test (Two Robots have a conversation about something other than humans).

singthemuse October 10 2011, 17:30:50 UTC

Oh that's cool! I didn't know that about the comics. And Lol, on "Bayhem". That's a pretty accurate term for it...sometimes I wonder if he takes the script/ideas the writer's bring to him, throws it in the air, randomly selects 4 pages from it and then directs loosely from those while filling in everything else with explosions and graphic robot carnage/gore. -_- 'Cause, you know, that's how you make movies "Awesome" (I kind of feel like he had very little respect for the franchise. Did you ever get that impression? Or do you think he's just like that anyway? Sometimes it really felt like he was just tying to keep himself amused in order to somehow get through movies he wasn't enjoying making ( ... )

aleph_abyssal October 13 2011, 07:45:36 UTC

Interesting... I feel G1 Optimus was a lot more straightforward in his execution. The moments where he DID pontificate were done unironically - there was no reaction from the other TFs that he might be talking out of his aft, so to speak.

In contrast to TF Animated, where the other characters all roll their eyes at his speech, cue post modern self-awareness yadda yadda. I also wonder if it is more of a cultural sign of the times too, folks (kids) these days are less likely to respond to bombast. (Unless they're Tea Party members, snerk.)

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mdnytryder October 10 2011, 01:24:10 UTC

Real life sucks, don't it?

Is the MC put away?

aleph_abyssal October 10 2011, 01:33:34 UTC

TEMPORARILY!!!!!

E asked me not to ride while I was pregnant, and we were moving house - so my little Virago was a casualty - sob! I see a guy riding her around towna sometimes. But I'm planning to get back on board once I finish having kids/nursing, which I remind E every weekend when the weather is nice...

mdnytryder October 10 2011, 01:47:19 UTC

Good.