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The first fic of many lovingly dedicated to Transformers One!!!
You can read this one shot here on ao3 <3
If I So Happen to Fall
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Cover reveal! Generation Mechs: Transformers Fan Culture In The 90s, the first release from Empurata Books, is out next month — and this is what it looks like.
496 pages, hardback, embossed cover, spot-varnished dust jacket, and 3 x 12-page glossy inserts featuring hi-res photos of over 60 staggeringly rare Transformers fanzines and curios. PLUS a Postscript by Jack Lawrence and an Afterword by Nick Roche.
Copies will be available at @tfnationltd on 9th and 10th August, and again later in the year via mail order. It’s a limited edition, so keep an eye out for derails of how to order.
Bonus: in the last pics you’ll see the finished version of the “Liars…” book.
Thanks to Adam Roberts and Bunker Creative for art direction and design, and to the 50+ people who agreed to be interviewed (and in some cases let me borrow their fanzines)
I’ll post on here again with info on how to order later in the year
SO...I kind of mentioned it a while back but now I am asking more seriously.
Would anyone be interested in a SunnynSides Appreciation Week? Timeline for me would have it during January or February (June is kind of busy with stuff even if the month of the Gemini WOULD be fitting...) So if you're interested, let me know with this handy dandy poll below.
Summary: What do you do when rifts open up to another dimension? A) Tell a responsible authority figure (wrong answer) B) Throw gifts (no zombies or scraplets please) across said tears in reality C) Use it to change history and take over Cybertron (wait…what?) D) Become besties and save the world (or at least have fun trying)
Author: @mariequitecontrary
Note from submitter: Giggled my way through this entire fic. 10/10
I feel famous
Generation Mechs - a favour
Sorry for being AWOL for a while:
Gen Mechs, my new book about the earliest days of Transformers fan culture, is going to print in a few weeks. It’s all new content. Part critique, part reference guide, part oral history
I’ve interviewed over 50 creators, industry execs and fans (especially fanzine editors) and dug up very rare new info about the early days (83 to 99). I’m really happy with how it’s turned out.
I’ll be selling and signing copies at @tfnationltd, and then later in the year I’m going to make it available to order, as I’ve done with the MTMTE notebooks
Normally, I do a small run of notebooks for the cons then wait until I’ve taken people’s orders before doing a second print run. That way, I know exactly what the global demand is and I don’t over-order
I’m doing things differently with Gen Mechs. It’s a large format, 500 page hardback book with glossy inserts, a dust jacket and an embossed spine. It’ll be expensive to produce. The cost-per-book is greater the smaller the print run, to a more pronounced extent than the notebooks
For this reason, I’m only going to do a single print run. Gen Mechs will therefore be a limited edition (I *may* do a softback second printing in a few years, depending on demand). Thing is… I’ve no idea how many copies to get printed. And this is where you come in
I’m not inviting pre-orders/payment, but I’d appreciate it if those of you who intend to buy a copy would let me know by liking this post. I say “intend to buy”, but there’s no obligation. If you change your mind, fine. I just need a rough idea of demand
I’m still waiting on final costs (which will of course be determined in large part by the size of the print run), but I think I’ll be selling each copy for around £40 (plus shipping). I’ll be signing them and sending them out in bespoke packaging
So if you think you’ll be ordering a copy or picking one up at TFNation, please like the first post. “RTs” (or tumblr equivalent) to maximise the sample size are also appreciated.
I’ve posted a similar message on BlueSky, Insta, Facebook and Tumblr — **please do not Like more than one**. Thanks x
if u dont acknowledge the fanfics u read, the writer won’t think anyone is actually taking the time to read their stuff, which makes our effort feel wasted and our passions feel worthless
Tell. The. Fanfic. Writers. How. You. Feel.
I will always reblog this. It’s important.
YES because I DO giggle and smile and blush every time I get a comment
And I DO leave a comment under a fox telling the author how their fanfic made me giggle, smile, blush and/or cry
It’s canon that he was a party boy before the war
So I thought it’d be fun to draw him having fun for a change
I think, after 4 million years of war, the effect it had on Ratchet hurts the most. So much joy and life was crushed within him.
Guys Thunderfire is actually peak trust me 🤧 let them have this please please please please… this is kinda a gift for wife 😛 but also for me as a treat.. not much Thunderfire out there so you gotta make it yourself! Thundercracker tell me what it’s like to meet an actual angel from heaven…
All I need are 50 sales total to get these first three designs made, and if they go well I may be able to make more characters in the future! Gotta move fast to get these made and shipped within the 3 month low tariff window so this preorder is gonna be quick!
Odds of Survival ~ How To Not Establish First Contact by Mecha Pilot Jazz ~ Mecha Universe
Friends in Every Universe ~ Joy so powerful it gives a former hitman an identity crisis ~ Mecha Universe
Sunny Side Screw-Up ~ How to fake being Human when you're three stories tall and made of metal ~ Mecha Universe
Too Deep, Too Shallow ~ Two idiots survive the apocalypse through the incredible power of sprinting and swimming ~ Apocalyptic Ponyo
One Shots and Misc. ~ Take a peak ~
Have been reading Dratchrod fics, got disappointed, drew dratchrod
