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CarnivalConflict on AO3 | Writer | He/They Currently writing in: School Bus Graveyard (If We Remained United: The Long Road to New York)

[carnivalconflict]

If We Remained United: The Long Road to New York

“You know,” Logan said dryly, breaking the silence in their cramped getaway car. “We really should have just gotten take-out from the Waffle Home instead.”

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

Link to AO3

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

Link

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A little disclaimer when the site tells you that the zine is flagged suspicious—The zine is not a scam. The account where it was uploaded was made very recently at the same time as the zine has been uploaded, which raises an eyebrow from the site.

You can still download the zine if you click ">I understand the risks, let me download"

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Snowing Red Skies is here!

Snowing Red Skies is a Christmas-themed fanzine for the Webtoon: School Bus Graveyard. Put together by 8 wonderful people spanning across 200+ pages worth of content!

This fanzine is not affiliated with the creator of School Bus Graveyard or the webtoon itself.

Best of all, Snowing Red Skies is now available for free over at itch.io!

[lavendertortoise12]

quick question: is the school bus graveyard fandom still alive or?

[carnivalconflict]

There’s still a lot going on. On Christmas, @sbg-christmas-zine will be released!

[carnivalconflict]

Chapter Ten: Close Encounters

The thrumming ring of the blasts lingered in the air before being drowned out by another burst. The sound of gunfire was the only thing in Ben’s world.

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

Link

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Contributors Applications

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Contributor Applications

(Please pardon odd phrasings as your host cannot construct sentences properly LOL)

Sign up if you wish to be a contributor in the zine!

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If you have any questions, feel free to drop an ask here at this blog or at the contributor applications!

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ONE WEEK LEFT!

[crayfee]

OKAY this is NOT confirmation of a Christmas release HOWEVER this is the latest on where Red is at with season 3 (Nic, @nicluigi, the official discord mod, said this). Again, i repeat, its NOT CONFIRMATION OF A CHRISTMAS RELEASE!!! Just a wish of Reds/an aim.

(Also, let's not rush Red yall!!! Let her cook in her own time!!!)

@a13xandri4 @lululuzzz08

[carnivalconflict]

Also important to note that “finish” does not mean “release.”

On a project as big as this, you don’t pull the trigger on a finished product immediately after crossing the finish line. It’s a process.

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SBG Christmas Special Zine

Howdy! Welcome to the SBG Christmas Special Zine, arranged by yours truly, @arthur-side :)

This zine is not officially affiliated with Red, and is purely made for fun!

Do you want to see your favorite characters have fun? Celebrate Christmas? Feel the joy and whimsy away from the trauma they all endured in the Webtoon? This is your sign! Our theme will be, of course, Christmas, meaning fluff is definitely here! Maybe with a pinch of angst if you're at it.

Ask questions, be confused, and create. Please remember; have fun while you're at it!

If you want more information, you can go and ask this blog directly. I don't bite. :)

We are currently in our Interest Check status! Meaning we are still weighing over how many contributors there will be who wants to be in the zine.

SBG Christmas special interest check

Arthur still does not know what they are doing. Have an interest check.

[carnivalconflict]

I think I’m going to be participating in this; A three-part story after season 2, about each of the three pairs of kids as they each celebrate a late Christmas (After all, Christmas and New Year’s happened while they were captured in the facility).

[carnivalconflict]

Chapter Nine: The Landing Problem

Under a yellow moon, their plane floated in a void of dark pink above plump clouds of deep purple. In those depths lay flickers of blue lighting.

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

(LINK TO AO3)

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

Link

[chxriiex]

Happy birthday Red|| Birthday drawing for Red

[mysticshadows13]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[carnivalconflict]

Mike Banner’s perspective is great. The powerlessness of the parents trapped in the realm is such a unique thing to explore.

[spiritsbgdoodles]

Oh.

The wound the gang sustain in the phantom realm are "phantom pains" Since they're technical missing their entire (other) body when they're in the over world.

Did everyone else not think of that either? Or am I just slow lol

[carnivalconflict]

Wait how did I not think of this?!?

[livingponcho]

Maybe a hot take but I’m really glad that Taylor and Tyler are going to be separated for a Good chunk of season three. I think that’s the best way to develop their characters apart from each other so we actually get to know taylor as Taylor and Tyler as Tyler instead of Taylor AND Tyler. Because yes, they are very different as characters, but still a huge part of it is that they’re extremely codependent on each other, and I don’t think their character growth could’ve gone as far as it has the potential to if they didn’t have something that challenged us like them being separated for a season.

I can’t wait until we get at the end where they finally reunite, and they become different people because this is probably the first time they aren’t being influenced by each other. I mean reminder, they dressed in the exact same outfits for most of their life. I would love to see what their style looks like separate from each other, or how they would act without the other one there. 

[carnivalconflict]

Huge fan of both siblings becoming unhinged in season 3.

Tyler is obvious, because he’s going to be surviving with only Aiden by his side. His ass is not a calming influence. The two of them are going to be so violent it’ll be hilarious.

But Taylor will also be bad because the frustration and powerlessness in captivity will get to her. Logan and Tay will have so much sass and venom for their captors.

[starlacedletters]

i just finished an amazing fanfic by @carnivalconflict! i am now feeling like i want to die. i need more chapters i beg of you. amazing work and i love where you’re going with this!

[carnivalconflict]

Chapter Eight: Wingover, Hangover

Aiden grinned. “So, when you say ‘the future’ all nervous, are you already making wedding plans, or…” The wine glass was thrown vaguely in his direction.

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

(LINK TO AO3)

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

Link

[tapwater-made-everyone-gay]

Short SBG theory (Ashlyn’s control over the rift/phantom dimension)

I’m not really sure if this has been talked about before (it probably has) but I only really noticed it when reading with my mom. This could also very well connect to that one “the phantom dimension is alive” theory I saw recently.

So, we know that during Ashlyn’s birth, it happened right outside a rundown building, and we also know that Ashlyn isn’t necessarily needed to pull someone in as others not around her have been pulled in some time in the past without her energy present. We also know that her parents encountered a phantom right after her birth. But rifts don’t take their time pulling people in, it happens immediately upon entering, which is why Mike’s call went out. What if her parents were already in the phantom dimension when Emma was giving birth, meaning Ashlyn was quite literally born in the phantom dimension, and that’s why she has such an intense connection to it?

More importantly, they only exited the dimension AFTER Ashlyn started crying, and her ears were bleeding. I feel like it’s very likely that the phantom dimension (alive or not) heard Ashlyn, realized that she wasn’t supposed to be there (because she’s an anomaly being born into the world), and sent her back. But she’s still now connected to the phantom dimension, and her dimension knows it too. Ashlyn is quite literally an anomaly in both dimensions, and neither know if she should stay or go. That’s why when she was pulled in herself, she got placed in limbo. Because neither dimension wants her, and with the others getting pulled in with her as well, the dimensions couldn’t decide with them either.

I’m not sure how she’d get out considering she’s permanently connected to both places, but I think her becoming even more “phantom” is why things are getting stranger (like her pain causing more people to get pulled in even without a rift being present).

ALSO WHERE ARE THOSE FACILITY WORKERS THAT GOT PULLED IN??? DID THEY DIE IMMEDIATELY OR WHAT??

Hear me out on this, I swear I’m not going crazy reading this series over and over

[carnivalconflict]

I suspect that the facility workers got pulled into the realm the same way the parents/grandparents/Lily were. They just didn’t survive on the other side and got turned into phantoms when they died.

What makes Ashlyn unique is that she can make the process happen slowly, in a way that creates the “seven hour” phenomenon; the kids are only in the realm during the seven hour “instant” phase of the 31 hour phantom day, whereas the parents/infected are in the realm constantly, putting them into a coma.

But Ashlyn is the only way to make people live in both worlds simultaneously.

[carnivalconflict]

Chapter Seven: Midday Secrets

This isn’t just a crush, Aiden decided, looking at her again. I need someone to talk to about this.

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

(LINK TO AO3)

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

Link