A Tragedy With Tits

Aron. They/Them. Queer. 18+ (Icon by pluralityofaxes)

[emphasisonthehomo]

Crossover Appeal Masterlist

9-1-1

Rating: E

Pairing: Bucktommy

Chapters 19/19

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.

NOW COMPLETE

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.

[lindleland]

there is so much to unpack in this clip

[lindleland]

[emphasisonthehomo]

Thirsty Thursday!

I was tagged by @ambernotember today and... possibly some other people previously, I have not kept track, sorry.

No pressure tagging @corporatebanana, @geddyqueer, @sad-girl-hours23, @setmeatopthepyre, @trombonechurchill, @wee-fuckin-woo and anyone else that would like to hop on!

Sad Dag Hours under the cut.

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They do wind up crammed next to each other in the van. Tommy by one window, Dag in the middle, and Lars on the other side. Between the gear and everyone else’s luggage, only Tommy’s suitcase can fit shoved into the back, so Tommy just puts a his backpack in his lap. It’s a worn purple, the color varied and partially sun bleached, with a few patches sewn to the front. One is a Phorid fly patch that’s old enough Tommy had to have gotten it from one of their first times playing in North America. Dag tries not to stare at it. It feels impossible, that Tommy was at a Phorid show so long ago, and Dag didn’t notice him then.

“Smack me if I drool on you,” Tommy says.

Dag nods in response, so he doesn’t do something stupid and admit that he wants to know what Tommy’s spit tastes like.

“Fucked up the flight was delayed,” Jan says, climbing into the driver’s seat and peering back at them.

“Yeah,” Tommy’s eyes are already barely open. “Airport’s not the worst place to sleep though.”

“What’s worse?” Jan asks curiously.

“Under a bridge,” Tommy says dryly, with a smile thin enough that Dag can’t tell if he’s joking or not.

The van lurches into life and Dag’s stomach lurches with it. This is physically the closest to Tommy that Dag’s ever been. He’s got eyes, he knows Tommy’s a big guy, tall and muscular. But it’s one thing to see it, and another altogether to feel the bulk of Tommy right next to him. Dag can see the flex of Tommy’s bicep in his peripheral vision, as Tommy pulls a rumpled hoodie out of his backpack and balls it up into a makeshift pillow.

It’s not like Dag is small or anything. He’s shorter than Tommy sure, and he doesn’t lift or whatever else it is that Tommy must do at the gym, but Dag’s still a grown man. Tommy’s just—just big. Thick. Dag’s mouth feels dry. He focuses at looking through the front windshield, instead of the way that Tommy’s in shorts, the fabric stretched across the breadth of his thighs as he sits.

[pluralityofaxes]

Crossover Appeal brainrot going strong (and so is my insomnia), here's a borealis album cover.

Cassette version & some meta under the cut!

Downfall Records is a real extreme metal record label from Gothenburg, I've borrowed them for the occasion.

Song titles except collapse aren't fic-canon, though I tried to stick to the theme and aesthetics. Given that the album deals heavily with Dag's loss, the idea was to chronicle a collapse and subsequent rebuilding, hopefully in a way that's clear even with just song titles.

Rotting wasp nest is based on yellowjackets nests, but also on the artwork of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

New Phorid logo designed especially to fit on the damn album art, if anyone wants to use it hit me up for a .png!

( @emphasisonthehomo thanks for the accidental 2-hour bug-themed wiki rabbithole. i learned many disgusting things)

[emphasisonthehomo]

Okay I'm gonna try and write something horny for Thirsty Thursday.

[anthonyhurd]

Tell Me I’m Pretty - 18x24” acrylic on canvas. Sold.

[disarmd]

Fic Ask Game: pick a story and a question…

❓No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this [line/dialogue/moment from the story]?

🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

🍆 What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was the hottest? Are they the same?

🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

🧭 What was the key choice or decision you had to make for this story? If you had chosen differently, what would the story have turned into?

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

🫂How would the story have changed if you wrote it for [this pairing] instead?

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc.

📋What was your main goal for the story and/or writing experience? Do you think that you achieved it?

🎤 Do you think the story was written in your typical voice? Why or why not?

👉👈What two stories have you written that are most similar? Why?

👈👉What two stories have you written that are most different? Why?

🤍Asker’s choice: ask whatever you’d like!

[emphasisonthehomo]

Finally got sleeves for my Avatar trading cards and I have separated the duplicates so that the next time I am at a concert I can give one to whomever I inevitably end up chatting with while I stand around for several hours.

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[emphasisonthehomo]

Today was a fucking mess. Anyways be proud of me, I got Hawai'ian food instead of getting shitfaced like I really wanted.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

[emphasisonthehomo]

Having a coworker who is seemingly incapable of doing a relatively easy (if tedious) task that I was able to navigate no problem is doing wonders for my ego but☝️also ruining my life because I have to fix whatever the fuck is going on right now.

[emphasisonthehomo]

You know it’s bad when I’m considering going back to school, when school almost killed me the first time around lmaooo.

[emphasisonthehomo]

And look living in the dorms sucks but it is cheaper than renting.

Imagine you’re 19 and your roommate is me, 32 and burnt out, going ham on the campus dining plan.

[emphasisonthehomo]

You know it’s bad when I’m considering going back to school, when school almost killed me the first time around lmaooo.

[emphasisonthehomo]

Apparently the [REDACTED] program in Cedar City is better than the one locally but also… Utah. 🤢

[emphasisonthehomo]

Restaurants that don’t post prices on their online menus… kill yourself.