Atypical Artists Big Bang 2021

A big bang for any product of Atypical Artists! This includes The Bright Sessions and it's spin-offs, The AM Archives, Order and Chaos, and The College Tapes, as well as ARCS, Greenhouse, In Strange Woods, Life with LEO(h), Look Up, and Rebel Robin.! Mobile Links: FAQ | Schedule | Mods

[delilah-briarwood]

what’s a road if you’re not there to walk along?

Title card for @staystrange ‘s fic as part of @atypicalartistsbang

[Image ID: A black cloth with two gold wedding rings on it. To the right of the rings in a white and dark blue typewriter font reads ‘what’s a road if you’re not there to walk along?’ End ID]

[delilah-briarwood]

what’s a road if you’re not there to walk along?

A moodboard for @staystrange ‘s fic as part of @atypicalartistsbang

[Image ID: A nine image moodboard split into a 3x3 grid. Top Row, from left to right: the torso of a white man wearing a black coat with a black hoodie underneath, alongside a silver necklace, a drawing of two hands holding each other, a Nike sports bag on a white background. Middle Row, from left to right: a close up of a collection of books and a full cup of coffee on a brown wood desk, two silver rings resting against each other, a red chair with a maroon sports jersey and helmet resting on it. Bottom row, left to right: a stack of vinyl records, a pulse line, the back of a black denim jacket with ‘fuck’ written multiple times across it in white font. End ID]

[rebeccadeho]

Bryant vs United States, Decision, Communication No. 947/2027

I compiled a cast podfic of @bisexualoftheblade and @jewishmarkbryant‘s fic ‘Bryant vs United States, Decision, Communication No. 947/2027’ for @atypicalartistsbang! You can listen to Chapter 1 here

featuring the voices of: 

write_away as Twitter Hashtags Kathryn as ihaveatheory bisexualoftheblade_podfics as avoidprestige and Court Documents pandoradeloeste as News Articles, Dick Roman, lyreandaplayer2, and Sadie Greenwood podfics by maeve as Josh Mills Zigzaglurkswag as Mark Bryant fandoms-are-my-lifestyle as Shirley Tate and Caitlin Park SilenceKnight as Group Text Names and Oliver Ritz Anathema as Joan Bright andstillnotginger rebeccade as Samantha BarnesMary as Caleb Michaels caedogeist-rights as Ben Bernard and usetheforceluke jonsimswanna as Frankie Meeks Elselynn as Adam Hayes

[shelbsart]

[ID: Oliver Ritz and his sister, Emma, from the podcast the AM Archives. They are standing together, Emma's head resting on Oliver's shoulder. Their hands are pressed together. The wall behind them is coated in the light from a nearby window; the room is lighter on the left side, by Emma, than the right side, by Oliver. The light coming from the right is golden while the shadows from the left are darker. By Emma's shoulder is the artist's signature, SMc @shelbsart. END ID]

“It’s okay, Em. Spit it out.”

She sat up slowly. “Did you kill him? The guy in the scrubs?”

Oliver took off his glasses again and dug the heels of his hands into his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to watch Emma learn that her brother was a murderer.

Hello!! My second piece for @atypicalartistsbang! this was for @pandoradeloeste 's fic Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream. It was a lot of fun working with all of you!!

[pandoradeloeste]

Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream

Whoof I get to start posting the beast that I wrote for @atypicalartistsbang​! Massive thanks to my betas Sam, Janna, Dante, David, and Juno, to my artists Benny and Shelby, and to Theo for letting me borrow his OC Tobias.

Title: Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream

rating: T

Relationship: Mark Bryant/Oliver Ritz (not endgame)

Tags: telling the world about atypicals; longfic; adventures in legal paperwork; consequences for Joan; Tier 5 is its own warning; ACAB; even the atypical cops; #ownvoices but make it atypical; social media; this bad boy can fit so much trauma in it; just. SO much

Summary: Mark and Oliver had had plans to raise their son Tobias, keep co-hosting movie nights with too much Thai food, and eventually retire and spend their twilight years bothering Tobias and the next generation of Ritzes and Michaels-Hayeses. They were good plans, and they were obliterated when a whistleblower at the AM revealed the existence of atypicals and Tier 5 to the public. Suddenly Mark was a celebrity, “atypical” was a household word, and Oliver was on the run again, desperately trying to ignore the news and any mention of his ex-boyfriend. But as the revolution spread, even Oliver couldn’t avoid being drawn back in.

[pandoradeloeste]

Bumping this because IT’S FUCKING DONE!

(I know longfics are a gamble because writers are ambitious motherfuckers who sometimes bite off more than they can chew, and longfics get abandoned, but this one isn’t!)

This is the longest I’ve stuck with anything and I’m hella proud of it, and hella thankful for all my betas who have stuck with me and helped shape the world into something I’m excited to share.

[jonsimswannabe]

Spotify playlist for a TBS fic by @bisexualoftheblade and @jewishmarkbryant for @atypicalartistsbang !!

The fic can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36133558/chapters/90072895

[shelbsart]

[ID: two images. the first image on the left is a digital drawing done over a courtroom photo. It is of a woman, Ellie Wadsworth, wearing a prison jumpsuit with her hands handcuffed behind her. She is being led out of the courtroom by a police officer. The text on the drawing reads "I may have girlbossed a bit too close to the sun."

The second image is a photograph of an iguana. It is sitting on a branch. Drawn, as if the iguana were holding it, is a sign that reads "F*ck the AM". END ID]

My work for @atypicalartistsbang! I had the honor of working with @bisexualoftheblade and @jewishmarkbryant on their fantastic fic, Bryant v. United States, which you can read here. As always, this event was a blast, and I highly recommend you check out that fic as well as the rest of the event's works.

[jewishmarkbryant]

[image ID: a header banner depicting a wooden background implied to be a desk with papers on it. taking up most of the image is a white page with the united nations header logo, followed by bold text that says "bryant vs united states, decision, communication no. 947/2027. Laid over the right corner of the document is a brown envelope with the tab facing up. On the tab is a white sticker with the names bisexualoftheblade and jewishmarkbryant on them, with the postal address of the united nations new york branch. end ID]

Co-written with darling @bisexualoftheblade and beta'd by @pandoradeloeste, @fandoms-are-my-lifestyle, and @elledritchorror (who also made our title card!) Thanks so much for the incredible @atypicalartistsbang team who has organized this event!

Shirley Tate: Why are you bringing this issue to court? What exactly are you hoping for? Revenge? Money? [Bryant flashes the crowd a cheeky grin.]

Park: As your lawyer, I am asking you to think before you speak, Mark.

[Bryant’s face falls; he is serious again.]

Bryant: You’re right. I’m not the only victim of the AM. I’m not the only Atypical who has been hurt by their practices and their policies. I’m not the only person who has been hurt by the US government and their willingness to brush us under the rug. But maybe I can be one of the last.

Shirley Tate: You haven’t answered my question. What is it you want?

Bryant: Justice. For me, and for the future.

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Mark Bryant brings the US government to court for his mistreatment while held hostage by the Boston Atypical Monitor facility. The world reacts. A story told in texts, tweets, transcripts, and court documents.

Read the fic on Ao3!

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Mark Bryant/Oliver Ritz, Frankie Meeks/Caitlin Park, Adam Hayes/Caleb Michaels, Samantha Barnes/Mags Densmore, Joan Bright/Jackson Crawford

Additional Tags: Multimedia, Mutual Pining, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Politics, Canon-Typical Tier Five, Legal Drama

[elledritchorror]

[image ID: a landscape multi-material artwork. The background is a billowing rainbow of watercolours with a plain white border all the way around. Laid on top of that is a cutout of the hands from The Creation Of Adam. The right hand is in black and white with a balck outline and gold on the fingertips. The left hand is outlined in black and is otherwise completely covered in reflective gold paint. end ID]

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Here is the artwork I did for Addie's fic for the Atypical Artists Big Bang! I barely go here but holy damn do I love everything about Ari's writing and ideas and creativity. To the point where I actually painted something.

A midas AU needs gold to be sure, so I bought a new pen for this. And I got the gold all over me. I feel like I should be worried about that. Anyway, read below!

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BY THEIR OWN FOLLIES

by @pro-daydreamer on ao3

[pro-daydreamer]

by their own follies

[image ID: a horizontal banner image. There is a Caucasian hand taking up the right of the banner, the hand is palm up and has streaks of gold paint on the palm and fingers. The rest of the background is dark with blurry paintbrushes vaguely visible in the middle. At the top and bottom are line dividers in a yellow-gold colour. They are dotted lines with a circle and a dot in the middle, the circle and dot are the alchemical symbol for gold. In uneven block letters on the left side in the same yellow-gold colour are the words “by their own follies”. End ID]

by their own follies

Fandom: The Bright Sessions

Rating: Mature, Major Character Death

Pairings: Oliver Ritz/Mark Bryant, developing Oliver Ritz/Mark Bryant/Alex Chen

Written for @atypicalartistsbang with so much love to my betas @jewishmarkbryant, @fandoms-are-my-lifestyle, @zigzaglurkswag, and @pandoradeloeste! These guys have helped me so much and I cannot thank them enough, be sure to check out all their works for this bang too!

Art for this fic was made by @elledritchorror​ and @bisexualoftheblade​​! Elle’s gorgeous art is here and xe also made the title card that you see up above! Cait is currently ill but their work will be available soon when ae has recovered!

Thank you also to @pinkninja236​ for the incredible support and encouragement throughout this entire bang and to everyone who has helped me get this fic off the ground. I love you all and I’m so grateful.

The link to the fic is here! 

Summary: 

There are many fools who chase after gold, and for good reason. Gold is not the rarest metal, but it would be a lie to say it wasn’t one of the most beautiful. There is a quality to it, like captured sunlight, that draws people to it like moths to a flame. It’s not unthinkable that people would fight and bargain and bleed for such a substance.

Personally, Oliver considers gold to be rather boring. Chemically speaking, it’s relatively uninteresting, being one of the least reactive elements, occurring on its own in a simple, solid form. It’s pretty, yes, Oliver can’t deny that, but on the whole? Boring as fuck.

It’s not Oliver’s intention to give himself the golden touch, but when his experimentation with alchemy goes wrong, the effects of his mistake ripple out, leaving their marks on the people around him. Mark and Alex are trying their best to help fix things, but as matters spiral out of control, consequences begin to pile up.

Essentially: a mythological au where Oliver is in the vague role of Midas including many accidents, a kiss, and a tragedy.

[caedogeist-rights]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknPLGnTSGQ

My first piece for @pandoradeloeste‘s lovely fic Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream, part of the 2021 @atypicalartistsbang! featuring relationship troubles, copious twitter discussions, and a whole new civil rights revolution.

[pandoradeloeste]

Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream

Whoof I get to start posting the beast that I wrote for @atypicalartistsbang​! Massive thanks to my betas Sam, Janna, Dante, David, and Juno, to my artists Benny and Shelby, and to Theo for letting me borrow his OC Tobias.

Title: Your Enemy Whispers So You Have To Scream

rating: T

Relationship: Mark Bryant/Oliver Ritz (not endgame)

Tags: telling the world about atypicals; longfic; adventures in legal paperwork; consequences for Joan; Tier 5 is its own warning; ACAB; even the atypical cops; #ownvoices but make it atypical; social media; this bad boy can fit so much trauma in it; just. SO much

Summary: Mark and Oliver had had plans to raise their son Tobias, keep co-hosting movie nights with too much Thai food, and eventually retire and spend their twilight years bothering Tobias and the next generation of Ritzes and Michaels-Hayeses. They were good plans, and they were obliterated when a whistleblower at the AM revealed the existence of atypicals and Tier 5 to the public. Suddenly Mark was a celebrity, “atypical” was a household word, and Oliver was on the run again, desperately trying to ignore the news and any mention of his ex-boyfriend. But as the revolution spread, even Oliver couldn’t avoid being drawn back in.

[talking4the1]

Title: A Secret I Never Wanted To Tell

Author: Rebecca | @rebeccadeho

Where to read: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36054547/chapters/89881969

Who did the ID for me: lee | @notesofarichlycolorednight

[begin ID: a digital, colored drawing depicting, from left to right, Chloe and Sam, unpacking boxes in a room with blue walls. Chloe, in the background is standing in front of a ladder, inside a closet-like space, with her left hand pressed against the wall to brace herself. She is colored in shades of brown, with short brown hair, light brown skin, and is wearing a brown jacket over a dark brown shirt, and dark brown pants. She is looking over her shoulder at Sam, who is standing in front of an open box, unpacking it, in the foreground, cut off at the waist. Sam is colored in shades of pink, with long light pink hair, very light pink skin, and a darker pink sweater. There is a white speech bubble for Sam, which reads: Debatable, besides, I've been home for months and you just got back. There are several other unopened boxes beside Sam, and a dresser against the wall, with a pot of yellow flowers on top of it, in the background. In the bottom, left-hand corner is the artist's signature: Guess. end ID]

[talking4the1]

Title: In Stranger Woods

Author: David | @seandr3399

Where to read: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36054295/chapters/89881420

Who did the ID for me: lee | @notesofarichlycolorednight

[begin ID: a digital, colored comic, depicting Lexy and Brett. The comic is divided into three, equal panels. In the top left panel is Lexy, an Asian woman with short, black hair, wearing a grey sweater. She is holding her fisted left hand close to her chest and looking to her left. Her hair is blowing in the wind. The background is indistinct, colored with brown and green. In the top right panel is Brett, a white man with short brown hair and a blue-grey button-down. He's sitting at a soundboard, holding a mic, speaking into it. The background is also indistinct, colored with a red, orange, and yellow gradation. Separating the top two panels and the bottom one is a speech bubble that reads, in all caps: We know you didn't mean it. When that podcast was released. In the last panel, underneath the top two, is Lexy again. She's standing in a spotlight, with her arms pulled tightly around herself, looking scared. At the bottom is another speech bubble that reads, in all caps: Do you know how hard it is to live your life in a spotlight? In the top right corner is the artist's signature: Guess. end ID]

[pro-daydreamer]

wear your heart on your sleeve (right where it’s meant to be)

podfic of @zigzaglurkswag‘s fic ‘wear your heart on your sleeve (right where it’s meant to be)’ for @atypicalartistsbang!

Ziggy was an absolute dream to work with and the fic is here! Link to the podfic is here!

[thyfavouritegay]

wear my heart on your sleeve (right where it’s meant to be)

Lincoln’s eyes are wide, his pupils blown out and glassy. His voice is rough when he speaks.

“How do you do that?”

“Do what?” Emmet blinks, his own eyes are more than a little damp.

“Make me feel like this? Take something I was so worried about and make it into something beautiful? Be the most amazing human being I’ve ever known? Take your pick. I love you so much, Emmet.”

“You make it easy.” Emmet kisses his knuckles again before releasing his hand to wipe the dampness away from Lincoln’s cheeks. “You bring out the best in me every day, and I only ever want to do the same for you.”

Lincoln’s hand comes up to join Emmet’s and together they wipe the rest of the tears from his face. They both close their eyes, their breathing slow and steady in the quiet morning air.

I’m honoured to be able to work with @pro-daydreamer , @bisexualoftheblade, @fandoms-are-my-lifestyle all for this amazing fic, written by the talented @zigzaglurkswag (who I cannot apparently tag)! Check out the rest of the people who did this fic, check out the fic, and all the others from @atypicalartistsbang !!!

Image ID beneath the cut:

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[zigzaglurkswag]

wear my heart on your sleeve (right where it’s meant to be)

I have had the best time writing this delightful little fic for one of my absolute favorite podcasts, Look Up! I have been part of @atypicalartistsbang, and they helped build an excellent team to make this work as amazing as it could possibly be. My darling betas, @fandoms-are-my-lifestyle, @bisexualoftheblade, and @lymazhu​ supported me at every turn and every title change. My wonderful artists @pro-daydreamer​ and @thyfavouritegay​ have brought me great joy with a podfic and art created just for this piece.

The work can be found here:https://archiveofourown.org/works/36049504

Art is here:https://thyfavouritegay.tumblr.com/post/672108094233395200/wear-my-heart-on-your-sleeve-right-where-its

Podfic is here:https://archiveofourown.org/works/36104518

Summary:            

“I already got the best present, Emmet.” He’s positively beaming and Emmet laughs, “Oh yeah? I haven’t even given you your present yet, so how do you know you’ve got the best one already?” Emmet’s expression is a combination of smug and curious, and Lincoln can’t stop himself from leaning down to press a kiss to his boyfriend’s mouth before he shares his discovery.

“I know I got the best present, because my soulmark came in.”