Double-Swap AU
If you are going ahead of Goldbug having "Animalistic quirks" than his previous pure Cybertronian ones, does it means he had a harder time controlling his organic side or does he like it? I can imagine being changed into a whole new being would be difficult to understand even if you like it especially if it leads to your mind having animalistic quirks or non-cybertronian behiavior.
Other than that, how does the team react (Im focusing on BulkHead and Wasp)
And I believe Sari is going to want a full story of a giant fluffy monster bee attacking full revenge on Wasp (making her probably understand why Bulkhead and him don't go along), but having the other teams reaction would be cool.
P.S. Does Elita feel sorry for Bulkhead and Wasp when she learns teh story from both sides and when is it reaveled that LongArm AKA ShockWave is the spy and how does GoldBug figure THAT out
Hmm, I'd say that he probably doesn't resist it as much, as Goldbug doesn't have as many hangups about it as Blackarachnia (though I don't think he's psychologically to the degree of say bw Inferno who is. Well. Inferno, and pretty damn fried.) But I think in the beginning he probably had a very rough adjustment period
I like to think the initial reaction is shock and fear because BIG FLUFFY AND UNHAPPY BEE, but when they realize he's Bumblebee I'm betting Wasp's fear probably increases but Bulkhead immediately goes into "wait he might listen to me" mode because he sees the opportunity to get Bee back, even if he's an insecticon now. After all he gave the dinobots a chance, I think the constructicons deserved another chance before they burnt that bridge, I think of all of them who'd want to accept Bee back it'd be Bulkhead.
Sad then that Goldbug preferred to be a decepticon and an enabled menace instead
Sari totally wants the story
I do feel like Elita would feel bad because it truly wasn't Wasp's fault, she's a smart mech and she can tell (once hearing both sides from Wasp and Bulkhead) that it was neither of them's fault. I don't think she'd immediately connect it to Longarm though, because nobody in universe expected that but Shockwave and Megatron themselves. That question makes us wonder if the lower ranking decepticons knew Shockwave was The™️ spy, if they knew he was a spy or somewhere else, or if Megatron and Shockwave played those cards tight to their chests and told no one for a long time. The last option makes sense to me, and would lead to even Goldbug being surprised.
I'm thinking when Shockwave appears on earth he'll learn (especially considering Shockwave only changed back to his purple when in front of everyone, and I doubt Longarm's colors were common as well as his stretch ability), but I can see that translating into Goldbug's mind as Wasp accusing him for nothing, or him just being so deep into revenge at this point that he'll make up reasons. Plus account for how Wasp used to be a bully, yeah. He's got reasons to prefer the decepticons over the autobots
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you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.
you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.
he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.
a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.
he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.
you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.
people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.
wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.
also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.
he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."
you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.
"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."
he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.
you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.
is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?
you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.
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nO because that's interesting
You'll see Dion x Ariel x Orion shipped quite an amount, but for some odd reason you don't really see UM shipped with Oplita
It makes sense, but it acts as if something changed between them during their respective rebuildings so that Mags got kicked out of the polycule. Which is both fair but also because it'd be interesting to see more OplitaMags
There's gotta be a reason for this, probably because you don't see g1 Ultra Magnus with Optimus that much while you definitely see Elita One with Optimus prime a lot. hmm. Interesting.
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