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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.
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28 Jun 2026
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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.
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- Part 2 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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10 Jun 2026
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The Second Rate Villain Will be the Best Big Brother Ever! by WandersUnderStarlight
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
02 Jul 2026
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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!
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30 May 2026
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Nor Is He Early by ObliqueVion
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
14 Dec 2025
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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 warSeries
- Part 1 of Nor is He Early and Adjacent Stories
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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?
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- Part 7 of TF fics