I just wanted a poll for who had the silliest name... they really do have silly names. Those Cybertronians.

Then it got out of hand.

( The Ultimate Poll of Ultimate Destiny )

Hold onto your shorts; it's time to bitch about voice acting.

( Cut for insomnia and screaming stars. )

I’ve had pieces of this one on my computer for a while (in a much more irreverent form), but blame Dwimordene coming up with the idea of “protocols” regarding gender identity for this one finally coming to completion.

I was listening to a lot of Garth Brooks when I wrote this. Make of that what you will.

“To Canada old John was bound ( Read more... )

It looks like there's another laugh at the Internets-weirdy thread on Something Awful ( Read more... )

You know, franchise wise, I really do love that your Soundwaves and your Perceptors and your Blasters and your Omega Supremes exist to sort of offer a different skill set and alternate mode to contrast the normal shoot-em-up Transformer majority. That said, and as much as I love G1 Perceptor and his yay!Science!Pacifism (and for those not familiar ( Read more... )

Despite ultimately a very large disparity between Cybertronian intelligence and that of a human, there are some aspects in which Cybertronians are deficient in comparison to a human. One of these aspects as, we would know it, is what humans refer to as ( imagination. )

When I started naming things, especially the Greek-based names Cybertronian, I also wrote down their roots in case I wanted to remember them. Now, on the eve of being done with Naturalized (thank God) I figure I'll go ahead and post it. Hopefully it'll help any other writer-type-folks in finding fun and interesting ways to name characters and ( Read more... )

From Superherohype...

"We knew from early on that the writers strike could get ugly, and this has got to bring a little sanity to the situation," Bay said. "I can't do the movie without my writers, but I have been prepping. I'm not in the guild, but I've been writing every day. This strike (is) insane, and a director's responsibility is to the 50 ( Read more... )

I feel like I've got a lot of essay-type expounding, the likes of which I haven't done since college. In the meantime, here's some more meta:

- Race and fandom, particularly pertaining to Transformers: I posted a query regarding race and fandom in fanthropology way back in September (posted here for archive reasons). Would like to say that my views have ( Read more... )

Due to the threat of vignettes, much much notes, fanart, essays and other such things, I decided to create journal to accompany my fanfiction.net page, which is not conducive to such things.  Feel free to add and I shall add back ( Read more... )