Stories for a winter's night

This is from a Fallout 4 piece I'm working on. It's set during the "House Divided" quest.

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So I crossed the finish line in NaNoWriMo, but I won't say that I won. I wrote 50,000 words, but I in no way wrote something. It's just various scenes written and rewritten and rewritten as I changed my mind about location, characters, themes. So, standard stuff.

In December I'm planning on poking at "Bleeding Daylight" to get that finished, and I'm going to keep fighting with "Being Human". Both have become chores, honestly, but I really do need to get them done. Or at least drafted out. I will admit that I am tempted to start posting "Bleeding Daylight" to get some feedback, but the fact is that posting early will in no way guarantee that I'll ever finish the thing.

... Maybe I need to find a beta ...

I'm trying to get back to something that resembles normalcy so back to keeping regular updates and attempting to get back to writing. So, lets get back into this:

1. Bleeding Daylight - This was to be my entry to the Robot Big Bang before life tried to eat me and resulted in my dropping out. It's a Wings Universe AU dealing with a Smokescreen/Swindle cross faction relationship, questions just how free the Decepticons are, and its just an all around epic love story. It's got Smokey/Swindle, Onslaught/Blast Off (and I'm trying to respectfully write demisexual Blast Off), Ratchet/Twins, and a deep Ratchet/Smokescreen friendship.

I'm currently reworking what I had already written to include the various subplots I had to drop for time and space. Once that's done I will finalize the ending, get it edited, and start with the posting. Now, since I don't want to compete with the Big Bang and I really want to be sure that things are edited well, I may not start posting this fic until the new year.

2. Being Human - This is my Humanized TF/MCU crossover. I've posted the first three chapters here and I'm currently working on the fourth. Combat is breaking out properly and the Autobots and Avengers will actually meet.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

3. You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know - This story has a long, long way to go. I've worked on some of Chapter 4. Smokescreen has been found out by Jazz and Mirage and he's promised to leave Ratchet alone. Unfortunately Ratchet's curiosity has been piqued and isn't going to give up on finding out who Cortano really is.

4. Survivor's Guilt - I've been picking at this one for ages. I noticed that there were a variety of fics out there dealing with both Blue and Prowl dealing with the fall of Praxis, but it's super rare for anything to be written about Smokescreen. So I started working on this idea. It's the anniversary of the city's destruction and Smokescreen is dealing with his survivor's guilt by getting overcharged on his own and Bluestreak decides he's having none of this. This isn't going to be part of the Medical Psychology series.

5. Who Counsels the Counsellor? - This is another one that I've been picking at. It's the Festival of the Five and Smokescreen is attacked by an unknown assailant. Then he's attacked again. And again. And no one knows who's doing it. I sort of got sidetracked on this one because I couldn't decide which Autobot was doing the attacking. Fact is, according to the fandom Smokey is the designated asshole, so I wasn't sure who to chose at the bad guy knowing that I'd be pissing readers off.

4. Untitled Heat fic - There have been a variety of fics out there dealing with sudden heats among the bots. It got me to thinking, what if someone went into heat and the only person there to help them is someone they loathe. It's become a rather difficult dub-con fic that will have to be dealt with very carefully. Smokescreen/Mirage. This one is part of the Medical Psychology series.

5. Red Tape sequel - After all of the issues with my parent and the hospital, I am planning on a medical system red tape fic and poor Ratchet having to deal with it.

6. Daughters of Liberty - This is my Fallout 4 walkthrough fic. The idea is that there are a number of people survive the vault and the protagonists are a pair of sisters - one a Marine lawyer and the other an Army engineer. It's pretty amorphous at the moment but it's slowly progressing. Basically I want to flesh out the story a little and play with the world.

So, there we go. Clearly I will not be finishing all of these this month, but I do plan on working on most of them. I may post some of the WIPs over here at some point. It may be silly but I find that if I post it somewhere where people can see it (they don't need to, but they could) then I'm less likely to go back and edit the bejesus out of it.

Title: Being Human - Chapter 2
Fandom: Transformers, MCU
Characters/pairing: Jazz, Mirage, Smokescreen, Bumblebee, Ensemble
Rating: T
Summary: The Autobots and the Decepticons have a tentative truce as they try to find their lost leaders. Their hope is to regain Cybertron. In reality they are about to stumble into something even larger than themselves.

(Link to chapter 1)
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~Two years after the Battle of New York~

Jazz sat low on his suspension as he looked over the dam and attached buildings. He was surrounded by a soporific heat that bead down from above and was reflected back by the light concrete of the parking garage roof. It was incredibly pleasant and he was so very tempted to take a nap right then and there.

“You do know that we have a mission, right?” Mirage said as he pulled up next to Jazz. He had chosen a high end convertible Audi as his alt-mode. It was more than a little flashy, but reasonable for this area of Arizona/Nevada. Still, it was an unusual choice for a mech who claimed he wanted nothing more than to disappear.

“Yeah, I know,” Jazz replied. “I’m just scouting out the scene.”

“You’re a click away from napping,” Mirage said with a chuckle as he brushed his field against his commander’s.

Jazz sat up and fluffed his armour as best as his Porsche alt-mode would allow.

“What can I say? I like this place. We spent way too long without a sun on Cybertron. I’d forgotten how good it feels before we landed here. And the weather here is a damn sight better than out east.”

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Link to Chapter 3

(x-posted to Pillowfort)

I have been busily working on my Camp NaNo project, an as yet untitled Transformers AU that takes place in the MCU. After 17 days I finally have something that I am happy enough with the post, so, in keeping with my "Post at least one thing a month" directive, here is the prologue of my as yet untitled piece. Comments are always welcome!

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