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Music -don't read this-you'll be sorry.

Journal Entry: Sun May 11, 2008, 5:39 AM
Hem...Now then. My pal Koontah has inflicted this on you all. You can flame her at her DA site which is [link] or if you really want to read some great fanfic and see some cool stuff you can flame the complete body of work at Torq's Cafe... [link]

Now then...her question was did I know any songs I applied to Maelstrom. The answer is: Every song I like applies to Maelstrom. If it doesn't apply I pretty much don't like it. I could tell you this is because I have a two hours round trip commute and I brainstorm while driving, but in all honesty this little problem precedes my need to drive 100 miles a day.

So, Koontah, here be the can of worms you have opened. See them wriggle and stick together in a slimy gummy clot? Kinda like Jabez skin.... Here is a VERY short list of songs I apply to my story specifically or TF's in general. You will notice I am all over the place with musical style...which is because my tastes are specific to a plot line and not a type of music. Yes, I am obsessed, and yes I know this is very sad.

Maelstrom 1 - "Too Much Time on my Hands" by Styx
M2 - "head like a hole" NIN <---angst...you'll see NIN a lot.
M3 - "Come Talk to Me" Peter Gabriel
Cpt 10 - "the becoming" NIN
Tunnels - "terrible lie" NIN, and "kinda i want to" also NIN. "kinda i want to" is really supposed to apply to sex, but in my twisted brain I make it into the evil things Rodimus would like to do to Vector Sigma.

Marissa + Magnus...before she admits it to herself - "I won't say (I'm in love)" from the Hercules Soundtrack. OK...see...we've gone from NIN to show tunes. Sue me if I gave you whiplash. I don't care...that whole scene where she's singing and denying it are dead on and I laugh my ass off over that song.

Lancer's possession "Cry Little Sister" Theme from Lost Boys...off the soundtrack. Also "Cat People (Putting out Fire") by David Bowie. The hook line from that one is "I'm putting out fire with gasoline"...applies to either Lancer or Rodi (or both) depending on my mood. You can also use "Closer" NIN nicely on their relationship...esp at the beginning. "Follow you home" by Nickleback sorta works too.... I need therapy. On the lighter side "In Your Eyes" Peter Gabriel, "Behind the Wheel" and "Dangerous" - Depeche Mode. "All Night Long" and "A Strange Kind of Love" by Peter Murphy (Yes I know no one has heard of him but he purrs when he sings and it does bad things to me.)

Hey wake up! I warned you not to read this!

Sorta overall songs "Crazy" by Seal, "Nothing" and "Walking in my shoes" - Depeche Mode "The Hand that Feeds" NIN... chorus:
"Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?"
Works nicely as my guys fight to free themselves from their only divinity - Vector Sigma.

Op and Elita - "Sanctuary" Kingdom Hearts. <-- Yes I know! Don't hit me!

Op and Rodi in the scenes I'm working on now "How to Save a Life" by "The Fray".

Ok...that's enough, although there are millions more, but I haven't had my coffee yet and this is all I can think of right now.

You can point and laugh now.

I am still gleefully taking insights in Soundwave and Op as a squishy if anyone want to take a peek at previous journal and help me out. BTW...DA rocks. I have tons of help from this place and nearly none from others I have asked at. Hugs to all. <---I should probably change this message but I am a teacher and repeating myself is my life.
  • Mood: Thanks
  • Listening to: Nothing- it is quiet for a change right now.
  • Watching: My brains leaking out of my ears.
  • Playing: Tetris
  • Eating: Stouffers Macaroni and Chesse...at 8 am.
  • Drinking: COFFEE!COFFEE!COFFEE!COFFEE!

Devious Information

  • Current Age: Old enough to know better...Ok..38
  • Current Residence: Florida
  • Interests: Art, masks, nature, old keys, Transformers, books, wildlife
  • Favourite movie: Transformers...but I can't decide which one.
  • Favourite band or musician: NIN, Nickleback, DM,
  • Favourite artist: Van Gogh - I gets crazy
  • Favourite poet or writer: Stephen King, T. Arens
  • Favourite style or digital art: Anything that doesn't insult my intelligence.
  • Operating System: Windows...but I miss my Mac
  • Wallpaper of choice: Nasa photo of Saturn backlit by the sun
  • Favourite game: Splinter Cel
  • Favourite cartoon character: Rodimus Prime
  • Personal Quote: No expectations.
  • Tools of the Trade: Anything...I'll make art out of paper clips it I have to.

Devious Comments

~victortky:iconvictortky: 2 days 3 hours ago
welocme.

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*illmatar:iconillmatar: 2 days 3 hours ago
Thanks!

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~victortky:iconvictortky: 2 days 5 hours ago
Thanks for the fav on my dragon and phoenix.

I am impressed by your transformer artwork.

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"Freedom is the right of Humanity"- Master Commander Comwealth

THE F.S.O.F. TEAMS ARE ON STANDBY FOR ANY SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC.

INFILTRATION PHASE INITIATED...

Please visit me: [link]
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 3 days 8 hours ago
:-) Enjoy your country life. No matter how fast they make things three will always be a need for faster and faster.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
*vermilionbird:iconvermilionbird: 3 days 8 hours ago
Hubby said I need to go to the library and download. They have a faster service. I have (hangs head in shame) 44k server speed. Living in the countery is nice, but they don't upgrade to the current century very often.

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Hurt heals, chicks dig scars, and the glory is forever. KKJ
~Torritron:iconTorritron: 3 days 10 hours ago
poor, poor kids. even new fans such as myself are heartbroken. i guess the moral of this story is to never kill off too many characters at once :tears:
i cant wait to read Maelstrom! =D

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"Megatron. The mobilized human escapes."
~Soundwave


"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry"
~Gary Larson

:nerd: :ninja: :boogie: :salute:
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 3 days 10 hours ago
You're welcome. I love crows and ravens!

Everything I've done so far for Maelstrom is on dA. Please say thanks to the man for me. :-)

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
*vermilionbird:iconvermilionbird: 3 days 18 hours ago
Hey Lady, Thanks for another :+fave:.

Is the enitre Maelstrom series on DA? I showed a couple to hubby and he said "Ooo, download it."

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Hurt heals, chicks dig scars, and the glory is forever. KKJ
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 4 days 5 hours ago
Heh. Oh I doubt you'll be scared off, but I also doubt this silly fic is worth the wait. Well...we will both look forward to your 18th and then we'll see what you think.

REally - Hasbro had no idea. Up till TF's 'toons weren't all that character oriented. I was at the first Botcon they attended and believe me the Reps were shocked at the ...err...passion...of the fans there. When the Movie came out they got gobs of furious mail from parents with hysterical kids and were completely taken off guard. they had no clue these characters meant anything to any one ...not really.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~Torritron:iconTorritron: 4 days 8 hours ago
i think your story will be great-dont try to scare me off! :shakefist:
new toys!?!?!? thats so dumb. they could have kept everyone alive, and still sold new toys. now im even more pissed. im counting all the character they killed off. let me think, prowl, ratchet, brawn...

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"Megatron. The mobilized human escapes."
~Soundwave


"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry"
~Gary Larson

:nerd: :ninja: :boogie: :salute:
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 4 days 8 hours ago
Oh...The rebirth was Season 4 actually...all 3 episodes of it. While Carnage in C minor is by far the worst episode ever IMHO, I actually loved season 3 and most of the story is based off those characters. Carnage by the way was written and produced by a completely seperate animation house that obviously didn't come through. None of the other shows were done there thank goodness! As for why they killed everyone...simple...to sell new toys. They had no idea the uproar it would bring. Hasbro had NO clue the reaction they would get. The episodes bringing Op back were started almost immediately after the Movie aired.

Look at it this way...TF: The Movie took 3 years to make. That means it was started right around the same time Season one first aired...they were planning to kill Op off BEFORE half the kids in America even met him. I still like the season 3 guys though, so I just have Op and Rodimus team up. They need to with the stuff I throw at them.

See? You might be disappointed when you get there. It's really not all that good.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~Torritron:iconTorritron: 4 days 9 hours ago
ooh yes! i want to read it so bad, but waiting is a must right now. i hated season 3 too. some episodes were okay, but other were just so STUPID! like the one Carnage in C Minor C. what the fuck is that?!?! nothing to do with transformers. probly just something the writers made up in a desperate attempt to keep the series going :steaming:

i noticed how the first two seasons were about autobot vs decepticon, trying to get energy and trying to take it away. it was all downhill after the unicron affair in my opinion. they killed major characters, left out major ones from the earlier seasons, like soundwave, bumblebee, the twins. it was all futuristic, with space adventures, aliens, gamblers, more aliens, no megatron OR prime, they just had to get rid of them both didnt they? in season three, jazz was in the first and last epidode only, and no speaking! but i think that was b/c scatman crothers died that year, but still, i missed him.

talking about how bad season 3 was is pissing me off sooooo much right now, i feel like breaking down and crying, they ruined it for me......
but thank you, i look forward to reading your story :hug:

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"Megatron. The mobilized human escapes."
~Soundwave


"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry"
~Gary Larson

:nerd: :ninja: :boogie: :salute:
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 4 days 9 hours ago
:-) Well...in a nutshell it is about the Gen 1 characters after season three ended. I didn't include "The Rebirth" episodes because 1. I started writing before it aired and 2. I hated it with a searing passion. It is also my twisted way of answering every plot hole imaginable. Like why TF's and humans look so much alike. Why Megs never just blasted Starscream (and no...I didn't think they were secretly in love. I love my husband but if he deliberately messed up everything I did we wouldn't be married long.) Why any war lasted as long as this... and a million more. but it is M rated because I wasn't writing for a kid's show - I was writing for myself, and what I thought was reasonable levels of violence when you pit squishies against robots. Does that help?

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~Torritron:iconTorritron: 4 days 10 hours ago
so what is Maelstrom about?
:shrug:

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"Megatron. The mobilized human escapes."
~Soundwave


"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry"
~Gary Larson

:nerd: :ninja: :boogie: :salute:
*illmatar:iconillmatar: 5 days 8 hours ago
You're welcome!

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~Koontah:iconKoontah: 5 days 8 hours ago
:bounce: thank you, thankyou, thank you! ^-^:hug:

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"The future is built on dreams . . . "
--Optimus Prime
"There are approximately 516 types of weapons available on the planet. But against you, I only need my wits."
--Koontah
~Koontah:iconKoontah: 5 days 8 hours ago Mood: Love
;) Thanks for faving "Dremthal" . . .even the creepy pics like attention

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"The future is built on dreams . . . "
--Optimus Prime
"There are approximately 516 types of weapons available on the planet. But against you, I only need my wits."
--Koontah
*illmatar:iconillmatar: May 10, 2008, 4:07:24 AM
I hug thee back Hon...but I don't send these on. I guess that means I am anti-social.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~Torritron:iconTorritron: May 10, 2008, 1:18:54 AM
YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!!
Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)

RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away!

Send This To All Your Friends, And Me If I Am 1.
If You Get 7 Back You Are Loved!

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~maddog78:iconmaddog78: May 7, 2008, 4:32:57 PM
I think the later but after that a little truth. No Respect..

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"I want to write to misbehave..to satiate my crave"
-Kylie Minogue (Cosmic)
*illmatar:iconillmatar: May 7, 2008, 2:16:42 PM
Heheh..truth....or maybe just some good old fashioned upstaging and humiliation.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~maddog78:iconmaddog78: May 7, 2008, 3:07:06 AM
Yeah but he will probably not be the nicest about it a few whacks in the back of the head to make sure the brains are functioning as he educates.

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"I want to write to misbehave..to satiate my crave"
-Kylie Minogue (Cosmic)
*illmatar:iconillmatar: May 7, 2008, 2:32:17 AM
True....but he is evil enough to maybe decide to educate them.

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Transformers Fanzine Maelstrom - No expectations.
~maddog78:iconmaddog78: May 6, 2008, 6:56:46 PM
He would enjoy being the underestimated Prime, I could see him laughing his ass off at the discussion board thinking they really do not know me now do they those poor bastards!

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"I want to write to misbehave..to satiate my crave"
-Kylie Minogue (Cosmic)