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Wed, Jan 7th, 2026
I’ve never had greater desire to write than today. Because I’ve gotten a new ~~pass More~~ bottle of ink that can supply for a brand-new (never have been used) fountain pen gifted to me well over six years ago when I was still in China. It was a gift from Stone and because of his presence/physical during the break and my unintentional action of opening my drawer, I was able to find this fountain pen [unused] and be industrious enough to buy a bottle of ink for it. And here I’m. If the OCR works properly on any of the AI chatbots I use, this will be ~~an~~ original version of a transcript that will be seen on thoughts.evanzuo.com.
Anyhow, I’m currently doing nothing besides writing this. After a conversation about Transformers yesterday w/ my friend Kartick over the phone, I looked into the franchise again and it sparked ~~they~~ inspired me to write something. As of right now I’ve a barebone, just-started, Hemingway-esque narrative and a complete lore / chronology in my Notes app, detailing the life and journey of Starscream from his birth to becoming a
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functionalist senator of Vos, then a Megatron loyalist, then a traitor of Decepticons by aligning w/ Optimus’ “Autobots” squad on Earth, then the consul of Cybertron in the crack-down and Pax Romana equivalent of the Milky Way, then the cycle repeats and we see him escaping the doomed galaxy, retreating to the corner of the universe to ~~stay~~ guide and inform a newly-born life form that is a hivemind about oneness vs. individuality. And I’m not sure if and when I should write such a story, not knowing if there would be any audience for it. It’s too political, just like the 2005 IDW continuity. And most Transformers fans prefer action, not whatever I’m trying to write about ~~the~~ neo-functionalism, constructed cold, or warlords. Anyways, the first act of my story is in Google Docs, Scrivener and Obsidian. Much of my research (my clue board) is also in my browser. I might want to put it in a temporary archive to which I know not when to unarchive and resume it. It’s titled ~~the~~ The Stars Stop Screaming.