I need someone new to yell about robot things with.

[yvannairie]

Who wants to hear about some dumb gay robots doing dumb gay robot stuff?

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[yvannairie]

I'm still on my Transformers: Prime kick, trying to work out the logistics of my next fic (a couple of old soldiers stuck in a romantic comedy scenario where their adopted daughter drags them out on a date) and a lot of the auxiliary stuff is turning into headcanons and one-off instances from their past I might pepper in among the flirting, and there is just. So much. Almost too much. My brain can't focus on the thing I wanna write.

[shadaras]

If it helps, that premise sounds adorable, and like a story that's going to be a lot of fun -- once you wrangle it into happening.

[yvannairie]

It's gonna be so much fun! There's gonna be flirting cuddling while at the theater and suggestive comments from onlookers and the whole date starts with the More Functional Party dragging his disaster sort-of-boyfriend out for "clothes-shopping" (i.e. getting him washed, waxed and polished to a mirror shine) before realising that oh, oh no, I forgot how hot you are, and that scene of the two of them just being like ":D" ":D" is gonna be great fun to write.

I feel like the outline works really well, the bigger problem is... character. Perspective. Thing, where my chosen POV character feels really hard to nail and make sound believeble while also keeping him oblivious enough that he gets to have a satisfying arc of accepting that this is his life, now, over the course of the story :') I don't know how to write brilliant but stubborn ramblers despite being one myself.

[shadaras]

Aw, that's great!

Ooh, yeah. :/ That's a challenging POV to write from. I don't know if I have any advice? Other than just kinda being like... well, there's always editing? After you get the bones of the story down? And, like, is it so much that he's oblivious, or just that he can't accept that this is true? 'cause self-defeating stubbornness sticking to an old truth is different from genuinely not noticing that his life has become this, y'know?

[yvannairie]

Yeah, that's the problem I'm having (aside from his voice being. Hard to nail down, in general), he... sort of knows he's being ridiculous about it -- he's getting exactly what he wants, he's been stressing out about the "state" of their relationships much more than the other character, so he doesn't know how to feel about getting almost exactly what he wanted. It's like the potential that the other person never actually moved on scares him more than the idea that there's just nothing between them anymore.

I really just need to sit down and get all of this out.

[shadaras]

Yeah, it sounds like you have a fairly good concept of what's going on, and then it just turns into needing to make words happen, which is... harder...

[yvannairie]

You know, I was thinking I might write something shorter in his perspective, but I also don't really know what and... how.

[shadaras]

You'd said you had some ideas for little vignettes from the past -- maybe write one of those in full or something?

[yvannairie]

hmmm yesss. I also have one semi-abandoned thing that is just.................. like, massively indulgent and cute, but he's so exhausted and out of it in it I'm not sure how representative it is x'D

(I might write it anyway just because it's cute and indulgent and I want to fucking slap myself for how sugary and gross it is)

[shadaras]

do ittttt :D

self-indulgence is fun to write! especially if you aren't solid on any other ideas right now.