Universal Appeal

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• How to Say "Outrageous" and Mean It by becauseiamarobot

  Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Jem and the Holograms (Comics)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  12 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kimber Benton/Mary "Stormer" Phillips
  • Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor/Jem | Jerrica Benton
  • Tarn (Transformers)
  • Rodimus | Rodimus Prime
  • Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Swerve (Transformers)
  • The Holograms (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Tailgate (Transformers)
  • Drift (Transformers)
  • Original Seeker Character(s) (Transformers)
  • Rung (Transformers)
  • Megatron (Transformers)
  • Nautica (Transformers)
  • Rio Pacheco
  • D'Compose (Inhumanoids)
  • Whirl (Transformers)
  • Tarn being Tarn
  • The Empyrean Suite is a major part of this fic
  • as one might expect
  • It's Jem and the Holograms on the Lost Light. That's the fic
  • The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (IDW)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • I promise this one is gonna be more fun than the extended Tarn section at the start makes it seem
  • References To Basically Every IDW Comic of the Era
  • Self-Harm
  • (It's cybertronian self-harm but still)
  • Furmanisms
  • References to Eugenesis
  • Teleportation Mishaps
  • nobody gets hurt
  • Except Kimber's appendix

  Summary

  Rodimus can take solace in exactly one thing: it wasn't THEIR teleportation accident this time.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Universal Appeal

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,678

  Chapters:

  6/6

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  14

  Bookmarks:

  4

  Hits:

  354

• No Guns, No Swords (One Briefcase) by becauseiamarobot

  Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Jem and the Holograms (Comics)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  19 May 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor/Jem | Jerrica Benton
  • Kimber Benton/Mary "Stormer" Phillips
  • Shana Elmsford/Anthony Julian
  • Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor & Leah "Blaze" Dwyer
  • Sheila "Jetta" Burns/Roxanne "Roxy" Pellegrini
  • implied Jetta/Pizzazz's Mum
  • Vivien "Video" Montgomery
  • Thundercracker (Transformers)
  • Swerve (Transformers)
  • Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Drift | Deadlock
  • Bluestreak (Transformers)
  • Nautica (Transformers)
  • Chromedome (Transformers)
  • Rewind (Transformers)
  • Whirl (Transformers)
  • Eric Raymond (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Carmen "Raya" Alonso
  • Aja Leith
  • Buster the Dog (Transformers)
  • D'Compose (Inhumanoids)
  • James McCullen Destro XXIV
  • Starlight Girls (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Verity Carlo
  • Silica (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Shockwave (Transformers)
  • Ayana "Mayday" Jones
  • Ian Noble
  • Kup (Transformers)
  • More tags to be added
  • Naturally "Jem on the Lost Light" is followed by "What if we put Swerve in an Episode of Jem"
  • Time Travel
  • Furmanisms
  • References to Chaos Theory and Revolutionaries and Transformers vs. Visionaries and--
  • look it's set in the broader IDW universe I don't know what to tell you
  • there's little jokes and goofs about a LOT of contemporary books here

  Summary

  Okay, this time it was definitely Swerve's fault.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Universal Appeal

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  49,585

  Chapters:

  13/13

  Kudos:

  8

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  333

• Beneath Flags Black & Battered by becauseiamarobot

  Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Jem and the Holograms (Comics), Micronauts (Cartoon)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  01 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor/Jem | Jerrica Benton
  • Kimber Benton/Mary "Stormer" Phillips
  • Nightbeat & Siren (Transformers)
  • Craig "Rock 'n Roll" S. McConnel & Skywarp (Transformers)
  • Buster the Dog & Marissa Faireborn & Thundercracker
  • Optimus Prime & Shockwave
  • Original Characters
  • Rodimus | Rodimus Prime
  • Rung (Transformers)
  • Skids (Transformers)
  • Slipstream (Transformers)
  • Swerve (Transformers)
  • Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Prowl (Transformers)
  • Arcee (Transformers)
  • Megatron (Transformers)
  • Whirl (Transformers)
  • Kup (Transformers)
  • Ian Noble
  • Ayana "Mayday" Jones
  • Josie Beller
  • James McCullen Destro XXIV
  • Sovereign (Transformers)
  • The Misfits (Jem & the Holograms)
  • SO many original Lost Light crew members
  • Silica (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Death's Head
  • G.B. Blackrock
  • Flamewar (Transformers)
  • Shadow Striker (Transformers)
  • Kremzeek (Transformers)
  • Synergy (Jem and the Holograms)
  • Virulina (Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light)
  • Wheelie (Transformers)
  • Nautica (Transformers)
  • Giselle "Danse" Dvorak
  • Firstborn (Transformers)
  • Verity Carlo
  • Hunter O'Nion
  • Jimmy Pink
  • The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (IDW)
  • Furmanisms
  • Revolutionaries (IDW) - Freeform
  • Procurement Pals
  • Post-LL25 "everyone lives nobody dies but there are Still Lots Of Problems" AU at this point
  • Someone gives Jem a sword
  • OCs based on rejected Transformers toy designs
  • References to Interfacing but only as Cybertronian cursing
  • These 'Bots are sailors and they swear like it
  • Jem and Pizzazz have an extended cameo more than anything
  • the previous fics in this series were definitely more jem and less mtmte and this is roughly ninety percent Transformers
  • but it still follows on from the previous fics
  • Canon-Typical Unhinged Cobra Plots to Steal Earth's Moon
  • Implied/Referenced Sex
  • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
  • (Mostly Cybertronian circuit boosters)
  • As of Chapter 10: I think this counts as a "Fake Speed-Dating AU" now
  • References to Generation 2 of Transformers and specifically the Run-DMC rap jingles they recorded for it
  • This is a very Generation 2 fic actually

  Summary

  The Lost Light's Procurement and Logistics Team get all the dirty jobs.

  Series

  • Part 3 of Universal Appeal

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  69,723

  Chapters:

  15/15

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  7

  Hits:

  271