Dunmurderin'

WIPweek Day 2: June 24, 2019: To read other entries, head over to wipweek

Bonus Question: What small fandom/rarepair would you love to see/create more fanworks for?:

Ok, this is one for GI Joe fandom (specifically the Real American Hero era of GI Joe): Wetsuit/Leatherneck needs more fic love. Wetsuit's a Navy SEAL, Leatherneck's a Marine and together (along with the rest of the Joes), they fight Cobra while arguing constantly about which service branch is better: Navy or Marines. Of course, they really are friends, when it gets down to it. And if they weren’t both men, they’d be an official couple like Scarlett and Duke or Flint and Lady Jaye.

Their canonical rivalry is pretty heavily FoeYay from their first appearance (hell, they're introduced bickering at each other about which one's the better soldier) and carries on throughout the series. Though for me the episode “The Rotten Egg"is what I point to as the closest thing to canonical evidence of them being a couple. There’s just something about the way Wetsuit frets about the fact that Leatherneck hasn’t called in for a couple days that screams “I am worried about my boo!” to me.

To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever done a Leatherneck/Wetsuit fic – or if they have, I’ve never found it. I’ve got a fic in mind that references the idea of them as a couple, but no ideas featuring the pair have come to mind. Yet.

Speaking of Scarlett – in the cartoons she was paired up with Duke, while in the comics she was paired up with Snake-Eyes. I wouldn’t mind seeing fics featuring them as a thruple or some other variation on a polyamorous relationship.

Title: Homework
Word Count: approximately 659 words.
Characters/Pairing: Kup, Pipes, implied Huffer/Pipes
Rating/Genre: PG/Gen, with slash references.
Author's note: Takes place before "Tokens", in roughly 1992-1993, shortly after Pipes and the others in Magnus's team arrive on Earth. Written for Book-Reading Pipes.


( Homework )

Title: Adolescence
Author: Dunmurderin
Character/Pairing: Tailgate/Pipes
Word count: 799 (approximately)
Rating/Warning: PG; slashy references -- very mild. Shameless ganking of Romantic Poetry for Fannish Purposes.
Disclaimer/Author's Note: I do not own Transformers; story takes place on Cybertron roughly 1 million years ago, shortly after "Infancy" and "Childhood" -- probably within about the first one to two hundred years' of Tailgate's creation.

The quoted poem here wasn't actually written by Scansion or me. It's a quote that was provided by beckyh2112 as a prompt for this piece and that I shamelessly filed the serial numbers from and credited to my made-up Cybertronian poet. I blame parallel evolution -- if it was good enough for Gene Roddenberry, it's good enough for me!

In actuality, the lines were originally written in 1821 by Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband of Mary Shelly, author of "Frankenstein") and is part of a larger work called "Epipsychidion". The quoted section appears near the bottom of the poem.

This story was written to give Tailgate a lighter moment than he's had up until now, poor little crazy guy.

Group/Theme: 7 Ages of Man

( Adolescence )

End-note: It figures, the two gen fics, both come in under 500 words, one under 400 words. The slash fic? Nearly hits 800. Oi.

Meta: Slash readers/writers and bisexuality -- found it via metafandom, pondering it for possible blathering later.

Dun.

This is what happens when you let a former English major read sites like metafandom and Fanfic Symposium. Those not interested in either discussions of slash, fanfic writing or pseudo-academic ramblings, skip this one.

( Why I Write Transformers Slash: )

Dun.