And yeah, I am agreeing that the corn is weird. Thought you guys had maize instead, anyway?
Curiously, some of the rooms in TF2K5 did consider the effect of heat expansion on metal. Mostly just to say, 'Heat expansion broke this room.'
Hmm, I have to admit, all of this makes me think that Dreadmoon is underestimating the Autobots, but then, most of the Autobots that I like the most are the guys who are okay with blowing up inhabited planets and whatnot, and it's probably not those Autobots that Dreadmoon is thinking of. I think of Impactor, Repugnus, Rodimus Prime, Emirate Xaaron, et cetera, and he's thinking of, like... Bluestreak.
I'm not aware of maize being a particularly popular English crop, assuming it's grown here at all. But of course we have corn. We make bread [and everything else] from it.
Natural forces: Cybertron has them, they're just a bit different to how things work on Earth.
Pretty much, yes. He's thinking of the Autobots as a whole, especially the citizenry, not the elite soldiers.
Sweetcorn and corn-on-the-cob are types of corn, but there is also popping corn and feed corn and other kinds. Corn=maize. They're synonyms, but corn is more widely used.
Hmm. Those are all specific-type-corn to me. I always thought they were the same plant. Maize I only know of being mentioned as used in an odd cereal or two.
Interesting! To me "corn" is a big subset of "grain" which covers many wheat and wheat-like cereal crops.
So this is the backstory for Wayward's TV series thing, where Dreadmoon wakes up a zillion years in the future with Megatron 2.0 (3.0, with BW?) and saves Cybertron from the Quintessons? XD
I see what you were trying to do, but honestly Dreadmoon's not coming off all that much better here than in the weepy fics. Granted the War is proceeding not necessarily to our advantage, as Hirohito would have it, but leaving Cybertron in the hands of the Autobots to await Starscream's return in Arthurian slumber seems to me to show an undue confidence in Rodimus Prime's leadership. Surely part of the point of the Decepticons is to prevent the planet from falling to the Quintessons or Mechannibals or whoever, and abrogating that responsibility to the Autobots doesn't look good whatever the context.
Plus, you know, Starscream. Starscream is clever and persistent and very good at killing things, and as Dreadmoon has just learned, immortal, but 'reliable' is not a word that generally comes to mind to describe him. Any plan that's contingent on his triumphant return is a bad plan. Dreadmoon is a Monitor, for Primus' sake; surely he can think of something more constructive to do than recite the Cybertronian equivalent of the barrow-wight's poem from LoTR and let the Autobots imprison him.
It's totally in character for him, because honestly going by his record- at least, the public bits of it- he tends to let himself get carried by events instead of trying to direct them and he's got a tendency to sulk. And none of the Decepticons did themselves much credit in S3-4, so he's hardly unique in his lameness. But this portrait does not flatter him.
Hey, you didn't tell me that you'd posted this! You said you were going to but I never check back on things. And this is longer than the version you showed me ages ago! Or I've just forgotten bits of it. ( Like I mind there being more Kalis. )
I'd always hoped you'd finish this one, but you know how biased I am towards all things Kaaline. ;) Ah, well.
Showed you last night, I did too! I'd have showed you the cut version, without all the extracts at the end.
These things, they happen. Not sure what the commenter above was on about though - how does this have anything to do with TF:F? Might has well be connected to TF:P ;)
Didn't! You just said you had new stuff, and since you'd already waved Murder King at me, that meant the new stuff was Wrestlebook and Crisis. Wah. ;) And I'm pretty sure there's story bits in here I don't recognise, or only saw in another snippybit, like when he's talking about Cyclonus.
I know. My 'unfinished TF fics' folder has a hundred and eighty files in it. ( Some are draft variations, granted. Some are only a paragraph or two. ) As for your above commentator, I have no idea. Dreadmoon's last major solo ambition was 'become governor of Kalis' and after that all his big plans have been other people's and/or required allies. My plans for Dreadmoon were always to hit him over the head and stuff him in an Autobot stasis prison ( yes, having confidence in Rodimus' leadership - Dreadmoon wasn't in Kalis when the planetary jets were fired because he'd snuck off to Iacon to hammer out an enemy of my enemy is my friend team-up with the Autobots against Galvatron. Certainly with a bit of back-stabbing planned, but circumstances didn't let him get that far due to Exploding City. I'd have to find my notes. ) Whether he later wakes up attached to a wall or in a technorganic body is up to the continuity.
Verbose moping is totally in character. ( Talking about corn isn't, but I'd poked you about that the first time. ;) )
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Date: 2010-05-25 02:45 pm (UTC)And yeah, I am agreeing that the corn is weird. Thought you guys had maize instead, anyway?
Curiously, some of the rooms in TF2K5 did consider the effect of heat expansion on metal. Mostly just to say, 'Heat expansion broke this room.'
Hmm, I have to admit, all of this makes me think that Dreadmoon is underestimating the Autobots, but then, most of the Autobots that I like the most are the guys who are okay with blowing up inhabited planets and whatnot, and it's probably not those Autobots that Dreadmoon is thinking of. I think of Impactor, Repugnus, Rodimus Prime, Emirate Xaaron, et cetera, and he's thinking of, like... Bluestreak.
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Date: 2010-05-28 04:56 pm (UTC)I'm not aware of maize being a particularly popular English crop, assuming it's grown here at all. But of course we have corn. We make bread [and everything else] from it.
Natural forces: Cybertron has them, they're just a bit different to how things work on Earth.
Pretty much, yes. He's thinking of the Autobots as a whole, especially the citizenry, not the elite soldiers.
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Date: 2010-05-30 05:39 pm (UTC)...so I guess when you say corn, you actually mean wheat or barley?
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Date: 2010-05-31 05:32 pm (UTC)I don't know about the rest of Britain, but when I say corn I mean wheat and other grains of the same type [e.g. emmer], but not barley.
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Date: 2010-06-06 09:04 pm (UTC)We would never call wheat or emmer 'corn'.
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Date: 2010-06-07 10:53 am (UTC)Interesting! To me "corn" is a big subset of "grain" which covers many wheat and wheat-like cereal crops.
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Date: 2010-05-29 06:01 pm (UTC)I see what you were trying to do, but honestly Dreadmoon's not coming off all that much better here than in the weepy fics. Granted the War is proceeding not necessarily to our advantage, as Hirohito would have it, but leaving Cybertron in the hands of the Autobots to await Starscream's return in Arthurian slumber seems to me to show an undue confidence in Rodimus Prime's leadership. Surely part of the point of the Decepticons is to prevent the planet from falling to the Quintessons or Mechannibals or whoever, and abrogating that responsibility to the Autobots doesn't look good whatever the context.
Plus, you know, Starscream. Starscream is clever and persistent and very good at killing things, and as Dreadmoon has just learned, immortal, but 'reliable' is not a word that generally comes to mind to describe him. Any plan that's contingent on his triumphant return is a bad plan. Dreadmoon is a Monitor, for Primus' sake; surely he can think of something more constructive to do than recite the Cybertronian equivalent of the barrow-wight's poem from LoTR and let the Autobots imprison him.
It's totally in character for him, because honestly going by his record- at least, the public bits of it- he tends to let himself get carried by events instead of trying to direct them and he's got a tendency to sulk. And none of the Decepticons did themselves much credit in S3-4, so he's hardly unique in his lameness. But this portrait does not flatter him.
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Date: 2010-05-29 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 02:18 am (UTC)I'd always hoped you'd finish this one, but you know how biased I am towards all things Kaaline. ;) Ah, well.
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Date: 2010-06-01 01:00 pm (UTC)These things, they happen. Not sure what the commenter above was on about though - how does this have anything to do with TF:F? Might has well be connected to TF:P ;)
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Date: 2010-06-01 05:46 pm (UTC)I know. My 'unfinished TF fics' folder has a hundred and eighty files in it. ( Some are draft variations, granted. Some are only a paragraph or two. ) As for your above commentator, I have no idea. Dreadmoon's last major solo ambition was 'become governor of Kalis' and after that all his big plans have been other people's and/or required allies. My plans for Dreadmoon were always to hit him over the head and stuff him in an Autobot stasis prison ( yes, having confidence in Rodimus' leadership - Dreadmoon wasn't in Kalis when the planetary jets were fired because he'd snuck off to Iacon to hammer out an enemy of my enemy is my friend team-up with the Autobots against Galvatron. Certainly with a bit of back-stabbing planned, but circumstances didn't let him get that far due to Exploding City. I'd have to find my notes. ) Whether he later wakes up attached to a wall or in a technorganic body is up to the continuity.
Verbose moping is totally in character. ( Talking about corn isn't, but I'd poked you about that the first time. ;) )
Everything is TF:P! Or it should be! :D
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Date: 2010-06-07 10:55 am (UTC)Damn! And I thought sixteen was too many!
I have no idea what that dude up there is on about, no.
Doubly so in an introspective piece where he's basically rambling for the camera.
Even Bayverse?