Well...
that adds a layer of intimidation.
And self-intimidation is the bane of creatives.
It likely doesn't help that I'd been a long time away from writing any sort of fiction until my surgical convalescence in 2021. Since then I've been trying to make up for things, mostly little Star Wars set pieces (my first new work was a long-promised bio of an acquaintance's' vintage Walrus Man action figure (who became known as "Colonel Frontbum" owing to
this piece he did)), but when I saw the state of Transformers fan-made media and how little had been done to prevent the washing away of it....
I mean, the piece is an artifact of the time when it seemed that almost every fangirl (and there weren't many, back then) wanted to make a companion for Dinobot -- a mech who didn't seem to be really requiring it, but he does fit an archetype. And this particular story, well, kind of dashes things -- although with an aim of setting the Serious Growth of a character who might otherwise be out-of-place in the Beast Wars. (The plan, as much as anything was knowable to me, was that she would come back -- but
after "Code of Hero". Then the events of "Feral Scream" would lead her to the Transmetal Plot Driver, and.... well, I'm getting ahead of myself. But then this was all 25 years ago, so perhaps I'm not?)
Anyway, it's not as though I'm shying away from criticism -- I myself think that things end perhaps a little bit too pat -- but I figured giving this now-vintage story a proper home was a good idea before I try anything related to, say, the all-too-brief IDW 2021 Beast Wars, or other such things as may inspire me. And test the waters in other fora before I start looking to AO3.
Anyway. Perhaps I should just
put the link up, and see what other Allsparkers think, if anything.
