by Mayumi-H | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Back in October, Ness of NESSMADETHIS (Bats in the Belfry Art) reached out asking if I would be interested in writing a Transformers Christmas story. She had drawn Soundwave taking the alt-form of the leg lamp from the movie “A Christmas Story” and wanted to create a larger story around that. Something feel-good and light for these hard times. I loved the image, and I loved the idea. I got to work right away on a quick draft.
Ness and I liked the idea of Soundwave learning about Christmas, kind of like Dr. Seuss’s Grinch, from traveling around Earth and observing different human traditions. I did some quick research on winter holiday mainstays, like exchanging gifts and singing carols. I wrote up a first draft that got the point across, but then I had a thought. If Soundwave was going to learn about the power of Christmas like the Grinch did, maybe I should write the story in verse! That additional creative tick added a whole new dimension to the project for me.
Even though the verse version made the text about 3x as long as it would have been otherwise, Ness agreed to run with it. And run she has! Every picture/page is a delight, and I’m excited to share the finished product as a small book when the illustrations are complete.
If you would like to follow along as Ness posts each image, you can do so via Ness’s Instagram. Better yet, become a member of Ness’s Ko-Fi to get first-run access to these illustrations and so much more!
If you’d like a hard copy of the story when it’s all put together, drop me a line at Mayumi@bonusparts.com so we can discuss details.
by Mayumi-H | Sep 16, 2023 | Other Stories, Short Stories
This is a (quite old) Transformers fic I wrote, based on the characters from the Generation 1 cartoon/movie and one of the Transformers Choose Your Own Adventure books from my childhood. I was a hardcore Transformers fangirl back in the 80s, and I *loved* writing stories about them. Actually, most of the stories were simply scenes. But this one, which I wrote maybe 20 years after my love affair with the Autobots and Decepticons had waned, has something closer to a beginning, middle, and end. Why did I write it so many years later? I don’t know. I think it was around the time of the first Michael Bay film, and that movie made me so angry, because in my mind Bay had butchered my beloved ‘bots for the sake of some stupid dick jokes. (I still think this.) I guess I wrote it as a love letter to the bots I wanted to see again.
Transformers have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, thanks to comics and films. I haven’t really followed them since the 80s, though I still hold in my heart lots of love for the versions I remember. My mind has forgotten a lot of lore, and I definitely had character relationships in my head that never panned out in any canon version. Plus, everything after “The Return of Optimus Prime” is pretty much anathema to me. But that’s the great thing about fanfic, right? That we can take what we like, expand on it, build something we want, and forget the rest.
If you like this story, consider dropping me a line at Mayumi@bonusparts.com? I always like to hear what readers think. Now, on to the past…
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“Things Left Unsaid”
It was a time of peace between the Autobots and Decepticons. An uneasy peace, to be sure, and one many among the free and civilized citizens of the galaxy believed to be folly. But the Decepticons had suffered an undeniable defeat in the Battle of Farflung Sparks, sending Galvatron – less half his primary cortex – and many of his heavier hitters to face extensive physical and, in some cases, personality repairs under the watchful gazes of Perceptor and Sky Lynx on Cybertron. Cyclonus, assuming leadership of the Decepticons, had agreed to the terms of the truce brokered by Optimus Prime, renewed to life and leadership, and everyone trusted in Optimus. (more…)
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