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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Embittered and defiant, Megatron’s campaign to crush the corrupt Senate isolates him from his friends and his morals, his noble Ascenticon uprising descending into Decepticon violence, control wrested under the erratic leadership of his lover and second-in-command Starscream, apparently insane with grief and endlessly ambitious. The Functionists propose an even greater threat, condemning their ally Sentinel whose elevated social status hangs in the balance with those he loves impeding his success, yet he must succeed, he cannot afford failure, for he would lose everything he has worked for. Inexperienced Autobots unite under the shy and gentle Orion Pax, expecting to be heroes, yet their intervention prolongs the conflict and costs lives, ruining others. After millions of years of war, Megatron’s insane plot is discovered and drives a reconfigured Optimus Prime in a desperate bid to save his people, yet the Thirteenth Prime reincarnate condemns Cybertron to a slow demise. Politics and faith are put to the test as soldiers and civilians love and lose and loathe each other, all-knowing old mechs in positions of power deciding the war-torn future of their surviving heirs in prophecy, the Prime a mere puppet of fate.

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    05 Aug 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    A Tale of how SEA-53 became C-53

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    27 Jul 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    so here you are - not human, not even your own fucking person, built to suffer for someone else’s actions. eat your goddamn heart out, howard young.

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    11 Mar 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    After sparring in Heresy's grand cathedral, two broken soldiers bond over the ways in which they rebel against their programming.

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    06 Feb 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 81

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    It was actually a quiet night, walking through the ground control room, Ratchet hunched over his research as he always was, ever present but never really there ("He just needs a few more vorns to get over it," Arcee had said, "Grief takes time, and our lifespans give us a lot of that.")

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    13 Dec 2022