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love-quinn · 12 days ago

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— THE BAND AND I

summary — after moving across the country to go live with your aunt and participate in panic, you’re wary of the boy who works at the diner she owns. he’s wary of you too

pairing — dodge mason x fem!reader

track six— “the band and i” by maisie peters

warnings — this isn't a band au the title is deceiving, reader's dad's awful, dodge's dad is dead, this takes place in the summer before season 1

word count — 2.5k

note — mike faist pls come home our kids miss you. i love dodge mason so much but i would NEVER ask for panic to be renewed i don't love him that much. this isn't a band au that's just the song title also i forget if dodge's mom like. owns dot's so, i changed that if it's something that needed to be changed also idk if wary was the right word to use but i wrote the description like a month before the fic and then retroactively changed my mind

Summer in Carp felt endless some days. It was indescribable, the golden glow over the fields, the sound of steady rain on the roof of your aunt’s home, the low but constant buzz of the metal fan in your bedroom. It felt even more endless working the afternoon shift at Dot’s.

Your apron folded over your waist, sweat collected in your elbow, hair kept up in a claw clip. He’d watch you from behind the bar, dish towel slung over his shoulder, condensation from the soda glasses he’d slide across the bartop at the customers on his hands, only half looking at them. His eyes wandered back to you, a plastic bucket wedged to your hip as you used your free hand to collect the stray dishes from the tables, moving through the diner.

Dodge had been working at your aunt’s diner for longer than you had, but not by much. He didn’t come off like it. He was quiet, sure, slightly withdrawn, but not an outsider.

He’d kept a close eye on you when you’d started, your Aunt Dorothy leaving him in charge of showing you around the diner. Then, once you were trained, he kept an even closer eye on you.

“You from Austin?” He’d asked you the first night you closed together. You’d nodded.

“How’d you know?” You’d been drying up glasses and handing them to him to be put away. There was a collection kept on the shelf right by the bar for ease of access, but most of them were kept in the upper cabinet to prevent overcrowding.

He’d shrugged noncommittally, like he wasn’t sure.

“Guess us city folk all look the same to you guys,” you’d tried to tease him. One side of his mouth quirked up.

He’d given you a brief, watered down version of his history: he’d moved to town a couple of weeks ago, Dorothy had hired his mom to manage the diner now that she was getting too old. His mom did more of the admin stuff while Dodge worked the front.

You noted he hadn’t mentioned Panic.

He probably thought you didn’t know about Panic. It was a tightly kept secret, something you’d only found out through internet sleuthing. You’d seen a post online from someone saying they’d played a game a few years ago in their town that had netted someone ten grand. Knowing Dorothy lived in the town had been a stroke of luck. It hadn’t been hard to convince your mom to let you go stay with her for your last year of high school. She’d almost suggested it herself.

It made sense why he didn’t mention it. The more people playing, the more people to beat. And the way he looked at you made it clear – he didn’t want to have to beat you.

You’d enrolled in school, as had he, and neither of you were looking forward to being the new kid. You both saw the whisperings of the older kids – the freshly graduated seniors – and you knew what they meant. The game had started.

You weren’t allowed to play, weren’t allowed to watch. Shouldn’t even know it existed. So you kept an eye out, when there were signs, but didn’t dig too deep. Instead, busying yourself with earning as much money through Dot’s as you could before going into your senior year.

He’d watch you during your shifts together. You’d shoot him gooey smiles, ripping off pages of the tiny pocket notebook you keep in the front of your apron and flattening them against the bar. You’d keep your hand pressed palm down until he’d come over, prying your fingers from the page. He’d take them and shove them in his back pocket like the words on them didn’t matter, only that they’d come from you. He’d read them after the closing shift was done, back pressed against the foot of his bed, the moon high and bright in the clear sky and illuminating the pages. Drawings and little comments, jokes he didn’t get.

The first time he’d kissed you it had been a sweltering afternoon and he’d ached with the want to be close to you. You’d both had the day off and he’d taken you down to the creek, letting you sit on the edge with your feet in the water. He was sitting in the shallow water, stripped down to his boxers and charitably ignoring the flush in your cheeks from it.

Occasionally he’d reach out and grab your foot, and you’d splash him back. He’d warned you to wear a bathing suit but apparently hadn’t bothered to bring his own. You had a paperback in one hand, letting the morning sun wash over you and giving him the perfect position to stare at you.

Legs stretched out in front of you, one swaying back and forth through the water slowly, one of his shirts draped over your shoulders, open and unbuttoned. He reached for your foot more suddenly than any of the other times had been, and you jumped. You giggled and tried to get out of his grip but instead he leaned down and pressed a kiss to your shin.

You softened, stilling in your movements as he leaned forward. Putting your book down, you leaned back on your hands. Dodge used your thighs to steady him, ignoring the hitch in your breath as he rose to his knees.

“H-hey there, cowboy,” your breath stuttered.

Dodge looked up at you, face just below yours. “Hi, pretty.” Dodge had never intended to get here. They’d moved to Carp and he had a mission – to win Panic and get revenge for Dayna. When the owner of the diner had told him her niece was coming to work with him, he’d been kinda grateful he’d at least get more days off. He just hadn’t expected you to look so fucking pretty, one side of his shirt slipping off and hanging by your elbow.

“You’ve got pretty eyes,” you said lightly, shifting your weight so you could lift up one of your arms, brushing a strand of his damp hair back. “Didn’t notice the brown ‘till now.” Sickeningly blue, so inviting it felt like cliff jumping, fading into a warm brown that took up half his right eye. Despite the static that crackled in the air between the two of you, when it came down to it you and Dodge were friends. You were, by sheer nature of your solitude, his best friend in town. He’d spent countless afternoons up in your room, listening to the rickets of the metal fan on your desk. You’d lay on your stomach, one arm hanging off your bed to come rest on top of his head, scratching his scalp. And he’d talk, really talk. Tell you about his sister, about his mom, eventually even, about his dad. The summer rose and soared like the morning sun. Every day, more and more information about you, pulling it out like a thread. Like the bucket of a well. “Got a bit of a staring problem, though.”

“Not my fault,” he hummed. His hands moved up, brushing the outside of your thighs like he was testing to see if you’d flinch. You didn’t. “Wanna remember you,” he said simply. Your hand trickles down his face, following a droplet of water to his temple and eventually resting the flat of your thumb under his eye. He leaned into your touch like he hadn’t realised how much he needed it. “How you look now, like this.”

You didn’t say anything, instead trailing your feather light touch down to his jaw. You looked down at him, soft and curious, his face hot under the pads of your fingers, warmed by the sun. You gave him a slow, dizzy smile and then he was kissing you. Not hard or messy, but like it meant something. It had been in the back of his mind all summer, Panic, the whispers, the secrets, the consequences. All he had to focus on was the way you tasted, like strawberries and saltwater, and how your fingers curled into his hair like you’d thought about this too.

The days blurred together, falling into an ease like a muscle memory. Kisses pressed to your collarbone, late night closes and early mornings where he’d come to pick you up. Dorothy didn’t say anything, not even when you very innocently insisted you just needed a ride to work. She knew when a boy showed up smelling of your shampoo and stealing bites of your cereal that things were beyond question.

Your mom called sometimes, wanting to check up on you, make sure you were settling in okay. One night you’d been on the phone, laying in bed with his hand on your stomach, kissing your palm absent-mindedly, one of your books in his hand. “Yes, mom,” you said, exhaustion and affection seeping through, “She’s taking very good care of me. I’m sure you’ve been talking to her.”

Dodge was half-listening as you hummed along to your mother’s words.

“Of course I miss you,” you moved your palm away from Dodge’s restless mouth, instead coming to scratch at his scalp. He, fidgety and too close to you to think of anything other than the scent of your skin, turned his lips to your stomach. Not intending to start or finish anything, just placing slow, open-mouthed kisses where your shirt folded up, sitting above your belly-button. “Yeah, I guess I am. Yes, mom, I’m making friends. Yeah.” Dodge squeezes the part of your arm closest to his hand. “No, I am.” Dodge dropped the book along with his pretenses, rolling over so his nose is pressed to your abdomen fully. “Yeah, mom.” You had a hand on the back of his neck. “Okay, sure.” You patted him gently twice and he pulled back.

Not much, but enough. “Yeah, okay,” you were still talking to your mom. “Love you too.” You said your goodbyes and hung up, putting your phone on your nightstand. “Busybody.”

Dodge kissed your stomach again, shifting his weight to look up at your face. “I wasn’t listening,” he said. “Just happened to be in close proximity.”

You smoothed down his hair and he caught your wrist with his lips. “Touchy,” you tsked. “Close? Is that what you call this? You’re acting like you want to wear my skin.”

Dodge shuffled so he wasn’t lying on you anymore, instead on his knees beside you, hunched over so you were still as close as he could physically be to you. He leaned down to kiss you, hand travelling back under your shirt, pinned between your back and your bedsheets. He didn’t really have intentions, just kissing to kiss you.

When he pulled back, he kissed the corner of your mouth and then laid down beside you, hand still at your back. The cicadas were screaming outside your window. The fan hummed.

The hours bled together like the bleached edges of a polaroid until eventually he had to head home. He’d leaned in to kiss you one last time when you’d grabbed his hand. “My dad…” you started. Dodge froze. He’d told you about how his dad had died, and you’d reacted like someone who’d suffered loss and knew exactly what not to say. But you hadn’t offered information in return. “We found out he had another family… while he was with my mom.” You took a deep breath in. “Before he was with my mom. We were the ‘another’ one.”

You weren’t looking at him, and he didn’t ask you to. Instead, you let him hold your hand. “My mom found out and just…” you shook your head. “She lost it, started screaming, threw all his stuff out. Told him to never come back they- they lived in Arizona. He said fine, took his shit and went back to his wife and kids. My mom’s job, her boss was friends with him, so the news that she’d kicked him out was enough for us to go from a dual income household to having no money. That’s why I’m here.” Your eyes met his.

Dodge, kneeling at the side of your bed with you sitting off the edge, squeezing your hand. “Knew you weren’t just a bored city kid.”

You let out a breathy laugh, letting your head fall so your forehead was on his. “You thought I just came here to steal your shirts?”

He kissed the underside of your chin, trying to reach you wherever he could. “You look pretty in them,” he said. “Hmm? My pretty girl?” He felt like there should’ve been a better, more poetic way to describe you but fuck, he couldn’t think when he saw you.

“That’s not just something I offer up, by the way,” you said, though you were pretty sure it was obvious. “So do with that information what you will.”

Dodge knew you were downplaying it, not wanting to talk about it. So instead, he changed the subject. “There’s…” he probably should’ve told you earlier. “There’s this game.”

“I know,” you stopped him.

His breath hitched. “Are you…?”

“Yeah.”

He sighed like that had been the answer he was afraid of. He wasn’t going to stop you, how could he ask that after what you’d told him? And sure, part of it was selfish, he didn’t want you as competition. But Panic was dangerous, people got hurt. The summer earlier, one boy had broken his wrist. He didn’t want you involved in that stuff. He supposed he shouldn’t have kissed you then, so it was a nonissue by that point.

“If I had half a brain I’d be trying harder to stay away from you,” he said quietly.

You kissed him quickly. “Good thing I’m not after a guy with half a brain.”

Dodge stayed later than he probably should have that night, not that his mom would get angry. He left you that night with a note tucked into your nightstand drawer and so many kisses that you’d been breathless by the end. Get rid of your fan, please, baby. It’s so loud. You’d found it the next morning while looking for your lip balm, leaving it tucked away while you went to open. There was a heart next to the Y.

You weren’t displeased to see Dodge waiting for you out the front of Dot’s when you got there, but you were surprised. He greeted you by tugging your hair and kissing your forehead and moving through the dining room to fix the chairs. Someone not surprised was Dorothy, who didn’t spare him a second glance.

The summer was dying down, Dot’s was getting quieter, and Dodge was still staring at you from behind the bar. He’d kiss you hello by the walk-in and kiss you goodbye in your twin bed. You didn’t get rid of the fan, instead taping the note to it. The fan rattled more with the addition of the paper, but you liked watching it flutter.

#dodge mason x reader #dodge mason #panic (2021)#mike faist #mike faist x reader #dodge mason fic

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in1-nutshell · 1 year ago

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For TFE Silver Aid

I think earthspark Megatron should also get a techno-organic wife, for the sole reason I want to see the Malto children try and fail to play matchmaker.

Children playing matchmaker, what can go wrong?

Silver Aid will still go by 'Buddy' until her memory returns.

Also trying a new writing format! If you don't like it please let me know!

Hope you enjoy!

Maltos/ Terrans playing matchmaker with Silver Aid and Megatron

SFW, Platonic, Hinted romance, Cybertronain (techno organic)

TFE

Buddy had been helping Bumblebee with the Terrans training when Megatron and Optimus came by.

They had an important meet up with Dot that day.

Only, problem was that they had arrived a couple hours early and Dot wouldn’t arrive back at the house until then.

The Terrans insisted that the pair stay and wait for their mother.

They ended up relenting and stayed.

All according to the Maltos plan.

Unbeknownst to the bots, the Terrans had been planning for weeks on ways to set the mood for Buddy and Megatron.

The plan was ready, now it was time to get the two alone.

In the lab… Twitch and Nightshade stand in front of the group. Twitch: “Okay, listen up! Operation: Love Spider is ready.” Nightshade turns on a projector. Nightshade: “Phase 1 will involve Twitch distracting Bumblebee, Optimus, and Dad from our plan.” They click to the next slide. Nightshade: “While she leads them away from the barn, Team 1 will go in.” Thrash and Hashtag high five. Hashtag: “We got the speakers and the cutouts ready!” Thrash: “And the perfect music picked out.” Nightshade nods before clicking the net slide. Nightshade: “In the case Team 1 is not successful, Team 2 will engage. Team 2 are you ready?” Robbie and Mo nod holding a pair of lists. Robbie: “We have all of their fun facts right here.” Nightshade: “And if that fails, Jawbreaker and I will come in.” Jawbreaker holds up the rope in his servos. Jawbreaker: “Is this enough?” Twitch looks over. Twitch: “…Maybe a bit more wouldn’t hurt.”

As soon as Twitch managed to get Bumblebee, Optimus and Alex out of the barn area, Team 1 came into the field.

While Hashtag set up the speakers and cutouts, Thrash was in charge of getting Megatron and Buddy.

Megatron was easy enough to find.

He was just standing by the house looking at some birds.

Megatron found it a bit endearing how Thrash came up to him, grabbing him by the servo, claiming that he needed to see something.

Thrash found Buddy fiddling around with some of her webs on the way back and got her to join in.

The three of them arrive to where Hashtag was at. Megatron: “What do you need to show us?” Buddy: “Is there something wrong?” Thrash: “Nope! We just found this cool dance online and we wanna teach you it!” The pair’s optics widened a bit in surprise. Buddy: “Dance?” Megatron: “Umm…” Hashtag: “And we’ve got cutouts so you can follow along in case you lose track.” Nor Buddy or Megatron had a chance to say anything before the loud music began playing. Hashtag holds Thrash by the waist while he puts his servos on her shoulders. Thrash: “Do this first.” Buddy stands in front of Megatron. Megatron notices the height difference. Megatron: “I’m sorry children. This dance seems to work better with same sized pairs. Perhaps there is another one you can show us later.” Hashtag: “Megs—” Megatron turned and walked back to his spot. Buddy sighed a bit before turning to the Terrans. Buddy: “He is a bit right on that. Our heights are a bit… different, but if there’s another dance you want to show—” Thrash: “It’s okay Buddy, really.” Buddy smiles at them before going back to the barn. Hashtag goes to her comm. Hashtag: “Team 1 is down. Go for Team 2.” Thrash: “Good luck guys!”

Robbie and Mo were up now.

For the past weeks the siblings had been making a list of all the things they thought the bots would find interesting about each other.

Hopefully there would be some spark and get them to talk to each other.

Mo went to Megatron while Robbie went to Buddy.

With Megatron… Mo: “Hi Megatron!” Megatron looks down and then sits down. Megatron: “Mo, what brings you here?” Mo just climbs on his pede. Or at least tries to before Megatron picks her up and places her on his servo. Mo: “I just found out some fun facts about Buddy!” Megatron raises an optic and hums. Mo: “Yeah! Did you know she gets migraines?’ Megatron: “Yes, I am familiar with that.” Mo: “Oh… well did you know that one of her favorite colors is silver?” Megatron: “Yes, she mentioned it one time during a meeting.” Mo: “…”

With Buddy… Robbie finds Buddy in her spider alt mode on the ceiling of the barn. Robbie: “Hey Buddy!” Buddy looks down and slowly goes down from a strand of her web before transforming in front of him. Buddy: “Hey Robbie. You need something kiddo?” Robbie: “Nah, but I just found out some cool facts about Megatron!” Buddy nods. Robbie: “Did you know that he used to have a double fusion canon?” Buddy: “Oh yeah, I saw it in one of the comics Alex lend me one time.” Robbie: “Well, I bet you didn’t know about his signature move—” Buddy: “The Turbo Twister, right? Kinda sounds like a ride from a fair than an attack move honestly.” Robbie: “…”

Apparently, the pair had already known everything on the siblings list.

Now it was time for Team 3.

It was supposed to be a full proof plan.

There was no way no spark would come out from this!

Jawbreaker was in charge of tying some rope alongside some trees.

Nightshade made sure everything was at perfect height for tripping.

The plan was for Megatron or Buddy to trip and have the other one catch them.

And with perfect timing the music from the speakers would play.

Nightshade had just managed to get the pair close to the line when disaster struck.

Jawbreaker and Nightshade watching the pair walking to the trap. Jawbreaker: “I almost feel bad for this. What if they get hurt?” Nightshade: “They will be fine Jawbreaker. Nothing—” “THEIR COMING BACK!” The two jump suddenly hearing their sister’s voice in the coms. Nightshade: “Twitch? What do you mean—” Twitch: “I tried stopping them but their almost to the house!” The two Terrans watch as Optimus Prime came into view… right in front of the trap! Optimus: “Buddy, I have—WOAH!” The Prime had tripped over the rope. Buddy being the closest ran to him, just barely catching him in her arms. Her arms tightly wounded around his waist while his arms were thrown over her shoulders. She looked at him with worry. Buddy: “You okay Prime?” Optimus nods. Optimus: “Yes… and you’re holding me.” Buddy: “Well, of course—” Optimus: “No, you’re carrying me, I mean.” Buddy looks down and does notice that his pedes were slightly off the ground. Buddy: “Oh!” Buddy gently puts him down before stepping back giving them both space. Optimus: “I didn’t know you had such strength, Buddy.” Buddy chuckles a bit embarrassed. Buddy: “I didn’t either, but I’m glad it came in handy!” Meanwhile Megatron was glaring at the scene in front of him and the Terrans in the background were groaning and kicking rocks out of frustration. Welp, back to the drawing board.

The Terrans when Buddy catches the wrong bot

#transformers x reader #maccadam #bot buddy #tfe x reader #tfe x platonic reader #silver aid

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kesbeacon · 10 months ago

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Reading your sock post, I realized you might just be the person to ask a question that a friend posted on FB: a knitting worldbuilding question!

In A Tale of Two Cities, Madame DeFarge knits the names of targets for the guillotine into her work. What was her coding scheme? The friend speculated that Dickens had met Charles Babbage at some point and was doing something with binary. After poking around a bit on the internet, I decided Dickens made it up, not knowing anything about knitting.

I did find schemes for encoding messages in two dimensions, possibly using colors. But such a scheme seems unlikely to encompass 26 letters and 5 accents in a way that can quickly encode a name (since there was a fair bit of volume to keep up with at the time).

What do you think? Is there a plausible scheme today? And would such a scheme have a chance of being available at the close of the 18th century?

So, I'm not an expert on this either! But I'll give it a go.

The first thing I remembered was that this has been done, albeit long after Dickens' day. I have seen videos and posts in which people talk about knitting as spycraft during the world wars. The challenge I then had was 'is this all just a giant game of internet telephone?'

And, my friend, this led me down a rabbit hole. I’ll get to your question in a bit, I just need to go on a detour about checking your sources. Because most of what I could find online was from sites with names like ilikeknitting500 dot com or girlbosshistory dot net (not real examples), all with the same vague story – in Belgium, the resistance would have people sitting by trainyards knitting, and they would drop a stitch for one kind of train, and purl for another, and so on and so forth. As a result, the government banned exporting knitting patterns! But they can’t even agree on what world war it was or which government banned it.

So where does this claim come from?

It took me a little while to find real articles with sources. What I eventually came away with was an Atlas Obscura article that has citations. One citation was a book I can't access by someone who, while I can't find any evidence she's a historian herself, has been endorsed by at least a couple. The link did give me an excerpt about a woman who would use her knitting to cover for tapping information about troop movements in code to her children below, who would write it instead of doing their schoolwork. In a similar vein, I could find information on people who used knitting to hide their spy work, as in the case of Phyllis Latour.

The other relevant citation was to a journal article in a (student-run, admittedly, but in some fields this isn't abnormal) peer-reviewed Open Access journal by an Jacqueline Witkowski, who is now an Associate Professor of Art, even if she wasn't then. This was the best of the bunch, because this cited a BBC Radio 4 program on the history of MI6. I thought this was going to be the end of the road for me, but then I realised you don’t need a TV licence to listen to the radio and that I do have a BBC account, so I logged in and listened to it and – bingo.

Alan Judd, a writer and ‘former soldier and diplomat’ according to Wikipedia, is the biographer of Mansfield Cumming, the original head of MI6, and he tells us about Belgian professionals recruiting little old ladies to go sit by train stations and knit, with the dropped and purled stitches. (He mentions nothing about banning sending knitting patterns.) Crucially, this is definitely during the First World War. I can’t access the book (and certainly can’t be bothered), but I would call this reasonably credible – it’s not as good as something from an actual archive, and I don’t automatically trust the BBC, but this radio series seems serious and also has the involvement of Actual MI6. So I think this is about as good as I’m going to get in a single evening.

We still don’t have the other half of the claim, the censorship. Witkowski says, “This [...] led to the Office of Censorship’s ban on posted knitting patterns in the Second World War, in case they contained coded messages.” There is a citation. But the citation is a Telegraph column by people involved in QI. QI, or Quite Interesting, is a British comedy panel show that I would place in the ‘edutainment’ category – it is an endless source of weird little facts, some of which are even true. Wikipedia has a section on mistakes and fact correction, and I can tell you from having watched the programme that it is usually correct on a surface level, but if you know anything about the relevant topic you’ll immediately start going ‘well, it’s actually more complicated than that…’

The QI column says, “During the Second World War the Office of Censorship banned people from posting knitting patterns abroad in case they contained coded messages,” and gives no sources. On historyhub.history.gov, someone has asked if there are any primary sources for this claim. Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RA) replies that ‘some articles specify that this was a practice by the British government, whereas others attribute it to the United States,’ and gives the asker links to the records of the American Office of Censorship, and where they can learn more about British censorship. There are no more replies. I would hazard a guess that QI meant the Americans; UK censorship was handled by the Ministry of Information, which is common knowledge here and not something they would fuck up.

I originally was going to wash my hands of it, but then I thought… just one primary source? Just try? So I looked at a US government printout of their censorship regulations from 1943. No mention of knitting patterns, but all printed matter is banned for export to Europe, which would presumably encompass commercial knitting patterns by default.

So that’s that tangent, I wrote, thinking this was over. Because Charles Dickens died in 1870 and published ToTC in 1859, long before ANY of this happened! Also, Madame DeFarge’s code is far more sophisticated than any of this stuff. So let’s get back on track.

Your friend is not the only person to have speculated on the Babbage connection – Paul Curzon of Queen Mary University London also raises the possibility that Dickens was thinking of Babbage and Lovelace’s work –

Wait. Is that… I thought I’d escaped my tangent! But Curzon has dragged me back in! He adds an interesting note at the end of the article, though he doesn’t cite it - “In the Second World War, the United States censors held on to a letter that contained a knitting pattern so they could knit the jumper in case it did contain a message. Ultimately they banned people from posting knitting patterns overseas at all (along with playing chess by post) in case people were hiding messages in them.” I wish he’d cited it, but this is at least a real academic – a little more credible than QI! I hoped that this would be the source of the QI claim, but unfortunately I think it post-dates the QI article – it’s hard to tell. But QI could easily have got hold of that censorship decision.

YANKS SELF BACK WITH THE BIG HOOK.

Dickens was, in short, probably making an almost science-fictional prediction. He moved in the Babbage/Lovelace circle and would have known about their work. What Curzon does not say is that this is also the age of Morse code, which came into use in the 1840s, and the beginning of Boolean algebra! It’s easy to imagine him taking these ideas, along with any knitting knowledge he may have had, and coming up with the concept. Madame DeFarge is ahead of her time, but not too far ahead of Dickens's.

Now, I’m not a Dickens scholar, but I happen to be friends with someone who is and is also a knitter. So I’ve asked her if he might’ve known diddly squat about knitting, and we’ll see what she says.

…

How might it have worked? Well, knitting is versatile. You can, for instance, knit Doom. But Doom is already binary, because we have established systems of binary coding. DeFarge does not, and it wouldn’t be intuitive to convert these into names, especially before Boolean algebra. She might’ve had a Morse code-like framework. Morse code isn’t actually binary – it’s sort of trinary, because you need to space the letters. This isn’t necessarily a problem; you can use a yarnover (followed by knitting/purling two together, obv) to separate the letters, with, say, knit being dot and purl being dash. If you’re experienced, you might be able to read it as fabric, but it would be easiest to read it back in reverse as you unravel it.

Knitting this would likely be pretty quick. She can’t be using actual Morse code for the very simple reason that she pre-dates Mr Morse, and I also don’t know how actual Morse code handles French diacritics, but it took me, a person who has never done this before and doesn't understand Morse and had to make some modifications on the fly, about quarter of an hour to knit the Morse code alphabet (minus Z bc I reached the end of a row and got bored). It would be easier if you were using colours; you could have one colour for dot, one for dash, and use purl stitches to mark the ends of words. I cba to do that right now though.

In summary, clearly Madame DeFarge is an extremely adept code-maker of a kind that is… easier to have in fiction than in real life. She's ahead of her time and in some ways ahead of twentieth-century spycraft, but not implausibly ahead of Dickens's. And I’m a fucking nerd.

And @ the internet at large, generalised-you should check your fucking sources.

#history #knitting #dickens #apologies to dickens scholars lmao #code

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katherynefromphilly · 6 months ago

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20 Questions for Fic Authors

Because @tansyuduri asked… ;)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

640,000

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Merlin, now — in the past, also Spider-Man, Star Wars and Star Trek

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. And like the cycle of the year, we begin again, 2. Our destinies our own, 3. The word you’re looking for is consort, 4. Ever onward, through magic, through love, 5. Sweet dreams of mistletoe.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes. Um. I mean. Eventually, yes. My inbox is, er, a little full right now. Sorry about that, lovely people!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I feel like maybe ‘the return of magic (on dragon’s wings)’ has the angstiest ending, because we’re sending Merlin off to wait for Arthur 1,500 years and Gwen off to rule the kingdom alone. Until she and Leon hook up I mean. ;)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Wait and see.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Of course. It’s rare but it does happen. I am a huge believer in “no anonymous comments” and “delete comment” and “block user”. I lived through the early internet and had to deal with the trolls and flamewars. If I can block that stuff now, I will.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I’ve written everything from explicit to gen. The story dictates the sex. Our destinies was the smuttiest of the Merlin series, because it depicted the beginning of a relationship between two sexually active adults, and typically people go at it like horny little rabbits in that honeymoon phase.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Just once, a Bounty Hunters / The Fall crossover, posted as anonymous. And yes, that one is the craziest. But the characters were nuts to begin with so. You know.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Probably? I think anyone who has a highly rated fic probably has it published somewhere. I do look sometimes — including made-up Brittonic phrases in a story is an excellent way to find things online — but haven’t seen it yet. I’m sure it’ll happen though.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, and I would like to send my huge thanks to all the people who have, or who are currently, translating We Begin Again. What a huge effort!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

The kids call it “spirk” these days, which still makes me think of bodily fluids. To me it will always be K/S (pronounced by fandom grammas as “kay-ess”)

15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

There’s a WIP sequel to “Just a Face on a Train” that’s called “One Night Out” that I really doubt I’ll ever finish. You never know though.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Writing in character, I think. I’ve always written that way. I think it’s just how my brain is wired. Like… I want to see more of canon. So that’s what I write.

17. What are your writing weaknesses.

SPEED. *laughing through tears*

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Are we talking about writing dialogue in another language? Or writing foreign language in a story? I doubt I’ll ever be good enough at foreign languages to do that first thing. But writing foreign language within your English language story… I did that in We Begin Again, and tried to keep the sentences short enough, with English replies, so that the contest was clear. And then put translations at the end of the story for the linguistic nerds. ;)

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Battlestar Galactica (the original version)

20. Favorite fics you’ve written?

I’ll always have a soft spot for “Just a Face on a Train”, the story that Tobey Maguire and Spider-man 2 prompted me not only to write, but to post online. That was the first story I shared beyond a couple of friends. And the reception I got on ff dot net was so supportive that it brought me to where i am. Also, obviously, I have a huge soft spot for We Begin Again, because that one brought me further into fandom, and enabled me to get to know so many people, and talented creators, and real life friends. :)

Tagging @bluesimplicity73 and @lenetaylor and anyone else who wants to participate!

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I was tagged by @dangerously-human like a month ago I'm so sorry for a fanfic writer tag game, and I finally remembered that I never actually did it!! I'm so bad at these things

1. How did you get into writing fanfiction? I was like 13 I think and I had become a rabid fan of the 2012 TMNT series, and I filled a brightly colored notebook with self-insert TMNT fanfic. 😂 What's funny is that at this time, I didn't even know that the concept of fanfiction existed, and that it was something other people wrote as well. Because I had very little online presence at the time (thank God), so I had no exposure to fanfiction in general. I just thought, "Okay I know this is totally crazy but what I put myself in this story and I was a teenage mutant ninja black panther and Leo was in love with me." I was truly a revolutionary. I didn't discover the massive presence of fanfiction online until about three years later I think, and that was when I started reading Gravity Falls and Miraculous Ladybug fanfics on fanfiction dot net.

2. How many fandoms have you written in? Good question. I haven't published everything for every fandom that I've written in, so some of these just exist in a locked vault inside my brain or in a long abandoned OpenOffice document. Or in a brightly colored houndstooth-patterned notebook. TMNT, Star Wars, Gravity Falls, How To Train Your Dragon, Carmen Sandiego, Stranger Things, Detroit: Become Human, Lockwood & Co., Legends of Avantris, Red Dead Redemption. I feel like there's probably more than that but I can't remember. The ones in green are the ones that I have actually published fic for, though a lot of the older ones have been deleted.

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction? This is difficult because I haven't been writing fanfiction consistently for very many years at all, but I started writing fanfic like 10 years ago. Somewhat consistently? Like two years. 😂

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction? Very much depends on where I'm at in life and what media I'm currently fixated on, but for a while I've been writing way more than I've been reading. I go through phases of both.

5. What is one way you've improved as a writer? I think my pacing is a lot better than it used to be. I think I've gotten better at rereading what I've written and recognizing where the pacing is off. I often don't have an easy time of fixing it yet, because it's such an odd and abstract concept to nail down, but you can see it when it's wrong. Something I've tried to be very intentional about of late.

6. What's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project? The legal repercussions of assaulting a police officer in Michigan. That was for the Detroit: Become Human fic. 😂

7. What's your favorite type of comment to receive on your work? I LOVE when people pick up on my foreshadowing and start theorizing on various story elements that I haven't revealed yet. That basically only happens with And I Would Stay A While Longer because it's the only one of my fics with a significant amount of intrigue, but it makes me so happy seeing those comments. I love knowing that I've foreshadowed something effectively.

8. What's the most fringe trope/topic you write about? Hmmmmmm . . . is it fringe to write fanfic for a dnd campaign? That's probably the closest thing I have to fringe honestly. And as for fringe tropes, I'm not really sure that my fanfics feature many. My original work, on the other hand . . .

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write? Stories with large casts, where I have to keep track of a lot of characters. That's exhausting. I don't like it. 😂 I like my stories very intimate. My writing is very character-focused rather than plot-focused, and I like to reserve that focus to as few characters as possible. One of my original works only features two characters throughout the entire story and that's it.

10. What is the easiest type? Intimate, fluffy oneshots. Emotional fulfillment fics. Unsurprisingly.

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? Back in the day I started out with OpenOffice, then I jumped to Google Docs, then I jumped to Microsoft Word, and that's where I'm at right now. I own Scrivener and I very much want to use it but it intimidates me and I am so bad at learning new software/word processors. 😭

12. What is something that you've been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day? The rest of AIWS 🤣 No but seriously, funny story, I had plans for YEARS to write my own version of Haymitch's Games from The Hunger Games because Haymitch is my favorite character and I was desperate for more of his story, so I compiled a whole document of everything we learned about the 50th Quarter Quell and Haymitch and his family/friends, and that document sat untouched for so long because I was too intimidated to try to write the story . . . and then of course the news came out that Suzanne Collins herself is writing it. And I couldn't be happier. 😂

13. What made you choose your username? My AO3 username is Fox_Autumn. I nicknamed myself after Fox Mulder, and I needed another word to stick on the end of that to make it a valid username. I love autumn, and I thought it sounded pretty so there ya have it.

These were super duper fun!! Thank you so much for the tag!! :DDD 💙💙💙

Tagging with absolutely no pressure: @womaninwinter @nomolosk @argentumcor @krash-8 @celestial-citrus

#LOOK AT THAT I ACTUALLY MANAGED TO TAG THE CORRECT NUMBER OF PEOPLE FOR ONCE #though on that note if i have tagged you and you are not a fanfic writer i apologize #i am very good at misremembering which of my mutuals are writers and which are not #writing

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kotaka-kun · 7 months ago

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Fanfiction Author Interview Game

Thank you for the tag, @missiemoosie, this was such a fun way to reflect on my work!!

How many works do you have on AO3?

284

What's your total AO3 word count?

395,574

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes:

thank you for the food - ATLA | rated T | 2,378 words | Zuko/Sokka

Simple Happiness - ATLA | rated M | 3,126 words | Zuko/Sokka

Bucky has a belly kink, but Steve doesn’t mind in the least - Captain America, MCU | rated E | 1,739 words | Steve/Bucky

Surprise - Captain America, MCU | rated M | 2,597 words | Steve/Bucky

New Colors - One Piece | rated G | 1,881 words | Zoro/Sanji

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Always! If I don’t respond the moment I get the email notification, I usually get to it the next time I’m on AO3 to upload a new fic... I do make it a point to reply after I’ve hit post though, because it’s like a reward to get to respond. Sometimes with the really sweet and/or lengthy comments that make me smile or feel really proud of what I’ve written, I’ll literally hold off on replying so I can experience the high again, right after I’ve posted a new fic.

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Probably overboard -- I wrote it based on my first impression of the ending of the LOTR trilogy, where I took Frodo’s leaving for Valinor as a metaphor for suicide.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

I don’t know that I can pick a single fic for this. I generally write happy endings, because that’s what I like to read, so there’s just too many to choose from.

Do you write crossovers?

Hell yeah, I do! Crackfic crossovers are my favorite kind of self-indulgent fic to write. I’ve also written crossovers in the sense that I take blorbos from one series and put them in the setting or roles from another series, but then I wonder if that isn’t just an AU...

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I don’t think so...?

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I definitely write more smut than I post, that’s for sure. I think it’s generally all omegaverse, praise kink, breeding/pregnancy kink, light d/s... that sort of thing :)

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope! At least, not that I’m aware of, haha

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, New Colors was given a Chinese translation!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I’ve co-written with my friend that I’ve affectionately dubbed beta-san ever since we got into writing fic back in high school. Few fics have been finished and cleaned up enough to be posted though.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

I think I’ll forever consider ZoSan (Zoro/Sanji) to be my OTP... I haven’t read or written anything about them in a long time, but they’ll always hold a special place in my heart for being my gateway to online fandom and shipping communities.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

Bit of a deep cut for this one, but I’d have to say Zoro’s Promise. I started it so long ago that it’s still only on FF dot net. I do think about it often though, I won’t lie.

What are your writing strengths?

I’m easily inspired, I use the intensity of my emotions as fuel, I find myself often wanting to write, I make time to write whenever I can -- on the commute to and from work, in bed, on a walk, etc.

What are your writing weaknesses?

My brain only wants to write certain scenes of a fic, and has no interest in filling the gaps. I have a tendency to tell instead of show. I use too many commas. I don’t write consistently enough to make it a habit. I focus on the numbers social media has trained me to perceive as validation, instead of just being able to feel satisfaction from writing what I want to. And perhaps worst of all, I still care so much of what other people think of me, of my writing -- so much so that I overthink and overanalyze my words as I’m writing, forcing my brain to edit while I write, which is entirely counterproductive and also not what I’m here to do.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

As someone who speaks a language that too many people have Google Translated and then slapped into their fic for the vibes... hard pass.

I don’t think I’ve ever written full lines of dialogue in another language. The worst I’ve done would probably be using nicknames, pet names, or endearments from canon, but honestly looking back, even that feels like I was pushing it. Unless it’s a fantasy language like Sindarin or Khuzdul or whatever else, I really feel like there’s no reason to be doing it.

As a reader, it’s distracting at best when I can’t read it, because it takes me out of the moment and forces me to scroll down to the author’s notes to understand what it says -- or even just Google Translate it myself -- and at worst, I can read it, and it gives me a painful amount of secondhand embarrassment from how awkward and wrong it is.

Just put the sentence in italics, imply that it was spoken in another language, and be done with it.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

My writing is at the mercy of my hyperfixations, so I don’t think I’ve not written for a fandom or ship that I wanted to yet...

What's your favorite fic you've written?

I honestly don’t think I have a favorite. I’ve written so many fics at this point, and across so many fandoms, that I simply cannot choose one over the rest.

Tagging: @lauralot89 @perplexedhedgehog @wheel-of-fish @backlitmademoiselle @flora-gray @from-aldebaran @intothemertensverse @textsfromthefifthbasement and anyone else that wants to use this as an opportunity to do some reflecting on your works!!

#kotaka talks #tag game #fanfic #I HAD TO EDIT THIS POST TWICE BC TUMBLR KEPT MAKING THE 284 LINE BIG BUT INSISTED THAT THE FONT WAS REGULAR???????#BUT IT WOULD GO BACK TO NORMAL WHEN IT WAS LETTERS INSTEAD OF NUMBERS?????????#goddamnit tumblr stop stressing me outtt

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For the Writers Truth & Dare owo: 🍓 🛼 🔪 🥐 ☁️

Thank you!! :D

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

I'm not really sure how I got started originally with writing fanfic (probably just wanted to write new adventures of blorbos for myself), but I got into fanfic reading/posting in middle school when I discovered forums and fanfiction dot net

🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis

This isn't an active one sadly but I thought it could be fun to explain the boueibu alt s2 ending au of my dreams through emojis

🪓🚀🚂🎭💗☄️

6 emojis because the rocket & the train should be considered a single emoji. It's very important.

🔪 ⇢ what’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

I feel like it's been a while since I really dived into anything too weird. Should probably fix that.

A while back I was researching shipping company startups for the purposes of a modern au though. It's not that relevant to the plot (maybe), just the worldbuilding

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

Do songs count? I vote the Numa Numa song :D

It just always makes me smile!

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

I was a dumb middle schooler and I'd feel weird changing it now orz

the other online name I use though is the name of my favorite song from one of my favorite video games haha

#Thank you :D #the full lore for my username is when i was in middle school I came up with this very extensive story idea #and one of the characters in the story (who started off as a minor backstory character before taking over the entire premise lol)#had the title 'fortune maiden' cause I thought it sounded cool so i just made that my username when i made my ff account #i'm well aware that it is significantly less cool when you are no longer 13 #but i feel like i'm stuck with it ^^''

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