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Whatever you say ER Ken…

#bringing back some classics today #er Barbie #er Ken #artwork #illustration #the pitt #kingdon

Long shifts call for secret naps

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#bringing back this classic #new and improved #I actually did update it a lil #my kingdon art #kingdon #melangdon #my comics

I feel kingdon and reylo are different vintages of the same wine. I adore your work in both ships. What speaks to you about them?

I agree! I think it’s a little bit of a couple things. Like how they both “need each other more desperately than romantically” like they’re two sides of the same coin, the whole teacher/mentor vibe, and obviously the kind of forbidden nature of their relationships! I took a bit of a break from reylo recently but I feel it calling me back.

this is so silly but where do u go for reference photos for ur nsfw pieces… pinterest and google images have failed me

….porn lol

Tuesday — full version here

#illustration #my art #my kingdon art #nsfw kingdon art #kingdon fanart #kingdon #melangdon #days of the week panties

kayleigh-rae

following up on @fellowshipincynicism’s defense of AUs, everyone share your favorite kingdon AUs!!!

i’ll start with what was a game changer fic for me: the doctor by the incredible @manmahal

sawdustandstardust

Pas De Deux by @pansiesandposies

the sound of you by @craftclass

we radiate, in shades of gray by @langdonmels

on some pacific wind by @writeraquamarinara

same old someone that i knew by @kmsk8r

the only explanation I can find (aka 🐴🐣) by @peachypitt

city baby by @cvldbones

sugar rush by littlefoolswriting

ice cream verse by @lunarfuneral

stickwithme1

a losing game by gallopinginsanity (frank is a con artist au. fucking fantastic)

what god has joined together by @francislangdon (serious dead dove do NOT eat, but a masterclass of a fic taking so many elements of these characters and twisting them into something they truly could become. it's awful. it's so good.)

imgonnagetyouback by @kingdonagegap (ACTOR AU, AGE DIFFERENCE SO FUN.)

One Afternoon in America by @avocado-moon (slice of life politics au. i absolutely do not understand a gram of usamerican politics but this was fun for me to read and got me invested in this whole world)

Be My Casa Amor by Iforgottothinkoneup (love island au. based on that post that was on here. yes that one? IT'S A FIC NOW)

skye's social media nhl!frank and indie mel! au by @shedelulululu (she was a singer, he was a fuckboy nhl player. can i make it anymore obvious?)

emotional consonance by @stemelwithme (ADORABLE AND DEVASTASTING TEACHERS AU!)

Laughing Till Our Ribs Get Tough by @audreyxvoila (the recently revived audrey did a wonderful one shot of frank and mel as college best friends about to hook up and it's hot as fuck)

Here Comes The Sun by @slidewhistlebj (sharing this with the shame that i have not read this yet but with the utter faith and awe i have in blue and how he writes is always incredible.

audreyxvoila

Thank you for the mention! These are all phenomenal!!!

#Kingdon fic #my fic

New profile pic in case you get confused

#my art #self portrait #illustration

The King-Langdons

You believe, I believe too

That you are the river of light

Who I love, that I cling to

#I drew this one day because someone was being a hater about melpreg #so #fuck the haters #melpreg #my kingdon art #kingdon #melangdon #melfrank #they have a massive family and lots of babies and they love fucking raw

purplebutterflyglasses

chomping at the bit to post this gorgeous art that @audreyvoilax made for my fic update. (Shameless plug here) but yes… that is Mel in Frank’s penguins shirt NIPS OUT. 🥵

#My art #my kingdon art #mel king

Monday — full version here

#we’re back folks #days of the week panties #the days of the week panties series that gets your account nuked and makes you figure out how to upload images to ao3 #fuck #kingdon #kingdon fanart

This actually blows

#ughhhhhhhh rip to my 2k followers ill never see u again

Knee deep in the passenger seat

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#my art #nsfw kingdon art #my kingdon art #kingdon fanart #kingdon #melangdon #melfrank #ignore me #just reposting some of my old work for a while #kingdon car sex is very important to me

fellowshipincynicism

IN DEFENCE OF ALTERNATE UNIVERSE FANFICTION.

***disclaimer that this is not aimed at anyone in particular, this is something I noticed maybe a year ago and have been discussing in dms for a couple of months. ***

I have noticed over the past few months that there is a significant contingent of this fandom that have a fear of reading AUs for Kingdon, or they at least have a reluctance to interact with AU fics which I think is a real shame.

There is only so much that can be explored in the canon world with the guardrails set in place by the show. This can be circumvented in AU! Dynamics can be twisted and we can explore these characters in deeper, more tangible ways! AND IT’S FUN! At its core, an AU removes these barriers and puts up new ones. It requires so much skill on behalf of the author to create this new world but to also stay true to the ship we know and love, and I think a well crafted AU is one of the delights of fandom. This strict adherence to canon reads to me as a lack of imagination and curiosity about how unique Mel and Frank’s dynamic is and personally? I think that’s sad. Sorry! Canon is not the be all end all. To write fic is not to be proven right, and it's not solely to just continue canon. At its core the purpose is transformative.

I’ve also been thinking about the lack of AUs a lot recently because I think it’s also a factor in how a lot of people received s2 of the show. I have noticed some people saying they only read canon-compliant fic and have no interest in any AUs which IN MY OPINION (!!) skews their perspective on what canon actually is, and they’re unable to separate the idealised version of the ship from canon. So at several points in s2 people would say they were disappointed in certain Kingdon scenes because it wasn’t blatantly shippy holding hands heart eyes, whereas if they actually removed the characters and their dynamic from the context of the show they’d be able to understand how the interactions we did get were so fantastic for Kingdon. It becomes this vicious cycle of letting fic inform your view of canon characters and then getting mad when said characters are not like they were in fic. That’s not how it works I’m afraid!

A few months back I decided to do some digging: did you know that out of the top ONE HUNDRED Kingdon fics sorted by kudos, only ONE is a total AU. The fact that for a lot of writers their AU fics statistically fare 'worse' than canon compliant fics is damning for a lot of the Kingdon readership.

I maybe understand not being as interested in a specific kind of AU because it's not your type of fiction (historical/sci-fi/fantasy/paranormal etc.) but the way some people have said they outright refuse to read any AU at all when it’s SO broad a label is confusing to me personally I guess.

I'm obviously not saying canon fic should be thrown out of the window (and if that's what you've taken from this I worry for your reading comprehension), I think there's equal value in that too. We should be encouraging and uplifting all corners of the fandom, and I think publicly saying that you’re totally uninterested in a large swath of fic is harmful and not helpful to anyone. I shouldn’t have to feel like I need to literally defend the concept of AU fic! But that is the environment that has been brewing, so. There you go.

#Kingdon #WRITE THE AUS DO IT