8 Bookmarks by shiningrobot

List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 84

    Tags
    Summary

    n.

    a psychological phenomenon where a complex shape or subject is stared at for so long that it seems to decompose into its constituting parts.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    45,897
    Chapters:
    30/30
    Comments:
    268
    Kudos:
    476
    Bookmarks:
    84
    Hits:
    10,243

    28 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.

    The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.

    So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…

    Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.

    Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    52,483
    Chapters:
    37/?
    Comments:
    1,272
    Kudos:
    641
    Bookmarks:
    136
    Hits:
    15,367

    10 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    He was just walking home from work and got deactivated in an accident. Now he's in his favorite novel as the protagonist's petty insecure brother. And he's supposed to die mid-story?! No way!

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    38,411
    Chapters:
    16/?
    Comments:
    618
    Kudos:
    849
    Bookmarks:
    140
    Hits:
    14,704

    30 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    A Prime is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to… give or take that one small paracausal nudge.

    Or, that time the Matrix got impatient and stole a truck...

    It's only going to get more and more hazardous to binge all of this:
    ✔️ Optimus Prime being iconically wholesome
    ✔️ Cybertron being an exotic mechanical wonderland
    ✔️ Mystery, adventure, and intrigue
    ✔️ Not so much a slow burn as a long fuse
    ❌ Civil war

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    368,628
    Chapters:
    140/200
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    10,816
    Kudos:
    4,464
    Bookmarks:
    968
    Hits:
    231,961

    11 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Peak peak peak

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Megatron had expected the treasure vaults beneath the Primal Basilica to be filled with pointless trinkets, hoarded energon, ill-gotten wealth stolen from Cybertron’s people— but a living mech?

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,615
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    36
    Kudos:
    767
    Bookmarks:
    189
    Hits:
    3,840

    05 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    👍

  6. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    Jazz and Prowl exchange a strange look, something that makes Megatron want to strangle them because he can’t decipher what it is. He pushes back the suspicion that they’ve caught onto his situation; it would be impossible for them to know. There is nothing different about Prime’s frame or processor from when Ratchet had scanned him during his forced berth rest. They cannot know about him.

    “If you need an extended leave, don’t refrain from requesting it,” Prowl says after a small pause. “That was quite a blow to the helm you took.”

    “A measly blow to the helm won’t deter me in the slightest,” Megatron snaps before he can think better. When he does think better, he reiterates to a wide-eyed Prowl, “that is, my helm is more than capable of taking a hit.”

    Jazz laughs at that. It sounds strained.

    “Sure,” he agrees, “yeah, sure. Hey, how many digits am I holding up?”
    .
    .
    .
    or; waking up in your arch nemesis' body is definitely high up on the list of Things That Will Royally Fuck Shit Up, right alongside not knowing how it happened, how to get back, and also how said arch nemesis ran their faction full of idiots through four million years of war.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    19,716
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    139
    Kudos:
    1,610
    Bookmarks:
    454
    Hits:
    12,385

    30 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    👍

  7. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “You’re dead. Are you an idiot? Go back to being dead.”

    “Huh,” Optimus Prime – who is very much not dead – looks at Megatron like he’s the one being unreasonable. As if Megatron is the one who’s supposed to be dead and who's supposed to stay dead instead of haunting him like some…like a–

    “Ghost,” Not Dead Prime says. “I think I’m a ghost.”
    .
    .
    or: Optimus Prime played hero too hard and died saving Cybertron, trusting Megatron to pick up the pieces of their struggling people and lead them all into the future. Megatron thinks it'd be Pits of a lot easier without said Idiot Prime walking through his walls and knocking shit off his desk and asking, "hey, being dead is boring, mind saving the world and bringing me back to life?"

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    50,493
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    64
    Kudos:
    480
    Bookmarks:
    165
    Hits:
    5,135

    05 Mar 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 62

    Tags
    Summary

    X dreams for thirty years.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,189
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    21
    Kudos:
    274
    Bookmarks:
    62
    Hits:
    2,942

    24 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Peak

Filters

Filter results:
Submit

Include

?
Include Ratings
Include Warnings
Include Categories
Include Fandoms
Include Characters
Include Relationships
Include Additional Tags
Include Bookmarker's Tags

Exclude

?
Exclude Ratings
Exclude Warnings
Exclude Categories
Exclude Fandoms
Exclude Characters
Exclude Relationships
Exclude Additional Tags
Exclude Bookmarker's Tags

More Options

Word count
Bookmark types
Submit

Clear Filters