The book is "Exodus - The Official History of the War for Cybertron" by Alex Irvine and I guess I never had reason before to be so forceful ^.^" Usually I can find something positive about any book, but not with that one; but you could try the free chapters on Amazon and see what your own opinion is.

*cough* To be fair, AO3 was booming well on its own even without the Avengers movie; as soon as I get over there again, I subscribe to you to keep tabs on you ;)

They don't eliminate tags, as far as I know, but they "wrangle" tags; there are articles on that, if you're interested.

Hm, I don't know about a specific prompt, but I guess, considering the mind-control theme, it's easier to come up with roughly the same idea...