America’s Sweetheart and Grammy nominated pop star Evan Buckley finds himself in need of an emergency drummer less than a week before his World Tour. Luckily for him, several of his crew know just the guy: technical death drummer Tommy Kinard.
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Extras
By Me:
B-Sides
Alt POVs and other snippets requested on tumblr.
General popstar!au tag
If you go back far enough you will be able to see all 10 months of me blabbing about the fic on tumblr before I started posting.
CONTAINS SPOILERS
Phorid
Graphic for my beloved fake technical death metal band.
❤️ By Others:
BVCK METAL
Metal playlist by the lovely @setmeatopthepyre! Complete w/ many notes about why which song was chosen.
Phorid Logo
The logo for Tommy's metal band! Also made by @setmeatopthepyre.
Title Header
Title header used for Chapter 2! By the also lovely @trombonechurchill.
Tommy Fanart
Absolutely incredible art of Tommy in his Phorid merch by the wonderful @pluralityofaxes!
Dag Fanart
More phenomenal art from @pluralityofaxes, this time of my favorite dead son Dag Ahlström.
collapse Playlist
A wonderful playlist by @geddyqueer about some musical stuff re: Phorid, specifically for their song collapse.
Tommy Fanart
Amazing fanart of Tommy playing the drums by @chimneyz!
Birgit Fanart
Very cute Birgit fanart by @peppermintquartz!
borealis Album Cover
A fantastic Phorid album/cassette cover by @pluralityofaxes!
Tommy Fanart
Another spectacular Tommy by @pluralityofaxes!
Buck Fanart
Beautiful stickerbook Buck by @pluralityofaxes!
Speculative Stuff
Thrilled to announce that people are interested in playing in the Popstar!au sandbox. None of these are 'canon' to the universe. Some are fanworks about my OCs.
pickup sticks
A drabble by @corporatebanana about Dag/Tommy.
Dag/Tommy
Ficlet?Snippet? By @pluralityofaxes also about Dag/Tommy.
Polyphorid
A lovely Phorid gifset/edit by @tommykinard!
Meet Phorid
Another lovely gifset/edit by @tommykinard!
Side Fic
A snippet by @peppermintquartz of Chimney and Hen talking about Buck and Tommy.
Is there a specific character you think I write well?
Well, I think you write Dag really well 😄😄😄 seriously though, I adore him 🥺
I would say you write Tommy really well. Am I able to articulate why? perhaps not, but your Tommy always has a really rich inner world that feels real (which is not to say your other characters do not)
Write an alternate blurb for one of my fics
Oh god...I can't even write blurbs for my own fics 😭😭😭 I don't think I can do this one, sorry 🫣🫣🫣
Do you have any headcanons about any of my characters?
this is going under a cut because it's nsfw
hmmmm....okay I know Buck experienced some serious gender dysphoria in (This Time, This Time) Things’ll Work Out Just Fine and probably appreciates his dick more than ever after getting it back, but...
I think he would try to find a very very temporary spell (i'm talking like...an hour or two max) to have a pussy so Tommy can make him squirt again 🫣🫣🫣
The New York Rangers have acquired Pavel Dorofeyev from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for the 26th overall pick (2026), the 92nd overall pick (2026), and a 2028 1st-round pick.
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
Our language is so right about so many animals. One of my favorites is the word for wolf: Waawoono (Wah-wu-no). That is absolutely the noise that wolves make lmao
(This Time, This Time) Things’ll Work Out Just Fine
9-1-1
Rating: E
Pairing: Bucktommy
“The good news is, no matter what happened, it’s temporary,” Tommy explains.
“Are you sure?” Evan asks, leaning forward on the couch. “Because it—it feels really real, and really final, and—”
His voice wobbles again.
“—and my dick is gone.”
OR
Buck accidentally transitions. Kinda. Gender, like magic, is complicated.
I've finally finished it. I gave that cis man gender dysphoria.