Hello Gifter!
im very sorry for the delay posting this - if you’ve already got a strong idea or have started writing by the time you see this please feel free to ignore this! I’m sure I’ll love whatever you write :) but if you’re still on the lookout for inspiration I hope these few prompts help!

Request 1
Jin ling/Lan Sizhui/ Lan Jingyi
Possible prompts:
- Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi help Jin Ling deal with suddenly becoming Sectmaster / sorting out his feelings about his uncle / generally destress
- Jingyi and Jin Ling compete over who can spoil Sizhui the most
- fairy has puppies

Request 2

Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan
- Jiang Yanli during the sunshot campaign, learning to manage logistics, keeping everyone alive in between battles
- AU where Jiang Yanli survives, and notices and acts to counter Jin Guangyao’s actions through acts of badass kindness

request 3

Luo Binghe/ Shen Qingqiu
- LBH takes SQQ on a research trip through hell (monster safari!)
- demons take SQQ hostage. SQQ deals with them decisively. LBH finds it super hot
- SQQ really craves a beef burger (or any other kind of food you wouldn’t find in ancient China) LBH goes on a Quest to make it for him


Request 4

Hua Cheng / Xie Lian

- XL’s clothes are ruined. HC seizes this opportunity to clothe him in the very finest silks until their mended (HC.... I’ve played myself)
- ghost city gossip outsider POV
- XL investigates HC’s artistic talents further
- HC really really wants to spoil XL. XL is very bad at being spoiled, but he does his best

hellkitty posted a really interesting question about femmes, and how different fans interpret them. It got me thinking about my headcanon on Cybertronian reproduction and history more generally and I started to write it down. It, er, got very long. In fact it's a history of Cybertronian society from the Quintesson revolt to the Civil War from a reproductive perspective. oops. 

If anyone's interested I'd really love to hear what your head canon is for these issues!


I have multiple head canons. This is the one with no sexual reproduction.


The Quintessons established the basic Cybertronian frame, based on consumer preference, which was produced in factories. The main division was between the labourers and the soldiers who also had little chance to intermingle culturally before the revolt, with the result that Cybetron never quite managed to loose that fault line from their culture.

After the revolution one of the first things the former slaves did was seize the means of their own self reproduction. There was a huge desire to reject anything Quintesson which resulted in a lot of experimentation and a proliferation of new frame types and operating systems. A lot of infrastructure had been destroyed in the war as well so there was practical as well as ideological reasons for why the next several generations were hand crafted.

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Soooo... I've started playing with my tumblrs again. Which I mostly use for bookmarking pretty art of pretty robots so when I'm jonesing for a hit of, say, Perceptor, I can just hit the relevant tag and stare dreamily.

I have, er. Seven Tumblrs. Eight, counting my personal one. Its my need to sort things into categories showing.... If pretty pictures of giant robots are of interest to anyone my tumblrs are


happyclanging.tumblr.com - Transformers ships. Mostly (but not entirely) non-explicit, and also a lot of stuff that could be gen friendship just as easily, or more probably, and also stuff like Soundwave and his cassettes where its more about the relationship than the ship but I stamped on my fingers before I could make another tumblr XD Mostly art exploring the relationships between transformers whether romantic or not.

girlscanberobots.tumblr.com - All Femmes, all continuities, all the time.

mytransformers.tumblr.com - art with (mostly) lone Transformers. I try to focus on pics that show them doing something (i feel!) is relevant to the character. This is a very indulgent tumblr.

sexyseekers.tumblr.com - sort of a combination of happyclanging and mytransformers focusing on robots with wings!

tellingtransformers.tumblr.com - art that doesn't fit into any of the above but which somehow FEELS iconic? (Really scientic classifcation going on here)

gettingsquishy.tumblr.com - humanised transformers

crossoverkisses.tumblr.com - a tumblr not focused on transformers! Nope, this one is crossover arts and vids.




Anyone else on tumblr? My personal one is at katharoskate.tumblr.com if you want to say hi..

Hey all! If you don't remember who I am that's fine XD. Been a long, long radio silence...

I'm currently in Cambodia - via Russia, China, Hong Kong, China again, Vietnam... When I stared this trip I decided I was going to leave my netbook at home and try and get by with just my ipod touch. Which has been great - I LOVE my ipod touch - for passive reading but not so convenient for typing. Anyway I'm in Cambodia - I extended my visa so I could stay and volunteer at this local organisation, mostly writing apps to try and get them funding - and I broke and bought myself a cheap netbook. It's probably shaved a couple of weeks of the end of my trip but at the moment it's so SO worth it - I have a KEYBOARD! And a hard drive! All my photos are backed up and obsessively organised and everytime I've got good internet connection I'm downloading a shit ton of stuff.

All caught up on Doctor Who now. Transformers Prime currently downloading!! Soon I can stop avoiding spoilers, yesssssssssssssss.

I'm rolling in consumerist glee over this (so tiny! so YELLOW!) yet also feeling. awkward. Tiny cheap netbook is more expensive to the people who live here than an apple laptop is at home. Mac Book might be a months wages. Here tiny netbook costs two months of a good salary, and when I say good I mean a hella a lot more than most people in this country earns...

*deep breath*

So! New netbook! Going to try and get back into the habit of talking to people again. Which would be nice. And squeeing about silly happy fandom stuff. That would also be nice!

Just finished marathoning TFA. Oh so wonderful! So adorable, silly, happy family with awesome hilarious but still edging scary cons. (proper reaction post to come.)

But somehow the fic I immediately HAD to write was this one. Because I find a lot of the Autobot Elite Guard deeply creepy.

Cadet Optimus is ordered to report to the Science Division.

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In Estonia! actually in a hostel in Rallinn, waiting for my hair to dry before I venture out into the subzero temperatures.

Um, don't think I've actually mentioned this but I'm actually intending to travel the world? Or at least the bits between russia and Australia. Well see how it goes but I'm determined to get as far as japan at least! was difficult leaving yesterday. Hopefully today will be good!

I've got Justice League, Transformers, and Outnumbered on my iPod and a ton of fanfiction on my kindle so my comfort blanket is prepared! I've also got a blog at whatkatedidnext.com which doesn't have much yet but that will change!

Sooooo I've discovered a new toy today. Tumblrs.

They are just so, so perfect for bookmarking and reccing fanart. (Thank you beckerbell! I'm blaming you!)

*cough* Okay, I've already got two of em.

first: 

girlscanberobots @ tumblr All Femmes all the time! Mostly got a load of Elita on there at the mo.

second

 happyclanging @ tumblrShipping recs XD. ...And since I ship everyone with everyone in this fandom every possible combination will probably get covered. Only a couple of pics actually include clanking. It's gone more cute moments and cool interpretations of the relationships then smexing, and I lot of it could be considered gen. MIx of pairings, but mostly SkyfirexStarscream so far!


Ahhhhhhh and there's so many more arts I want to rec! Should I make one more catch all tumblr for the rest, or a million tiny niche ones as  the obsessive compulsive in my soul wants me too?

Anyone else on tumblr?

Thank God for 80s power ballads. This would be so much more emotionally traumatic otherwise.

Although Prowl's internals exploding out of his mouth will never not be traumatic thank you. Did the makers like being cruel to small children?

Soooo...

I don't really go in for the full blown mech preg, or for true sexual diamorphism between mechs and femmes BUT.

The way my brain is thinking it would go would be: Mech and Femme get charged and clanky with each other. New spark is formed. Femme frame is optimised for receving and nurturing that new spark until it is stable. (extra power to spark chamber/secondary slave chamber etc.)

MEANWHILE the mech's frame is optimised for building the sparkling's frame. Because they're typically bigger and bulkier so they've got more internal space to accomodate a temporary mini factory. And then when when the spark is stable/ the new frame is advanced enough to support it, the newspark is transferred to the mech, who carries the sparkling to term.

...maybe if the new spark splits, and there isn't the capacity to build a frame externally, the couple would have to rope a second mech in to build the second frame?

This isn't really going anywhere. Just ramblings. And mental images of crochety Ironhide and glowing Optimus, and Elita and Chromia rubbing aching joints while humans look on in bemusement.

(And Chromia investigating human rumours that spicy food and sex can induce labour, while Ironhide bellows that he's not going to go into labour, he's just going to shift some plating around when the sparkling reaches viability, and slaggit, Chromia, she doesn't need an excuse to frag him...

I may be over tired.

Just defaulted on Yuletide :( Feel really, really bad. I've never done that before! But leaving work took up a lot more time than I expected... I've got an idea based on the prompt that I really, really like but I just haven't been able to write any of it. Will try to write it as a treat now there's more time...

It was the nicest way to leave a job ever. The organisation is one that's fallen victim to the public sector cuts, so everyone will be leaving in March. My contract has come naturally to an end and (surprise surprise) there's no funding left - but I know they value me and they've extended it in the past.

Everyone has been so, so lovely and I've had such an amazing time there over the past two years. Really happy, yet also really choked up! Cried a bit. I've been dashing around with an address book, thrusting it into people's faces with a crazed look in my eyes demanding contact details. I'm determined to keep in touch with everyone!

Also it was the Christmas party today, which made it I think the best day to leave on. We had a Christmas buffet at which everyone ate too much and then we sat around chatting and reminicsing for ages. For some reason this involved a very long discussion of Nivea and who does and does not use it. It was very popular among the men!

So yeah. Sad but happy and a little overwhelmed by how nice everyone has been, and all the nice things they've said. It everyone wasn't so wonderful I wouldn't be so sad. I kept getting sniffly and hugging people.

Tired now.