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.

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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.

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

[emphasisonthehomo]

for (This Time, This Time) Things’ll Work Out Just Fine

🏴‍☠️ 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?

(Fic in question)

Not really? This fic was surprisingly easy to write, I had a concept, I sat down and wrote it, and it was done relatively quickly. For me I don't think that the characters ever really "mutiny" so much as the story winds up going in a direction I don't expect? But this was not one of those times, I just went "I need to give that cis man gender dysphoria" and then I did.

[emphasisonthehomo]

for Crossover Appeal…

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

(Fic in question)

There is... so much backstory. Stuff that I thought about but couldn't get into in detail because there wasn't any time.

Buck and Taylor with a very fraught and ill-advised relationship while she's supposed to be researching his biography. That all goes tits up because she's the one who puts the pieces together about Daniel* (which is, in turn, how Buck finds out about his brother) and then Buck freaks out and doesn't want the project to go forward, tries to muzzle her by bringing up the NDA she signed (she can't publish anything about him without his permission, but what the fuck she's been working on this for years) and they have a bunch of screaming fights about what she's been promised re: the book deal vs. the fact that this book is no longer just about Buck but also airing out his parents' dirty laundry.

Buck threatens to ruin her career, Taylor threatens to ruin his reputation, and somehow they don't break up? It's not healthy by any means, but it putters on for another six months or so, before the other tensions in their relationship get to be Too Much. (Taylor doesn't like just being Buck's girlfriend, people talk about her like she wasn't already a well established writer before they started dating. Buck has... issues... to put things mildly.)

After they end things Taylor winds up publishing an "anonymous" book about EB who happens to be a young child actor from REDACTED, who went on to become a successful singer, and his relationship with investigative journalist TK. It's half an Evan Buckley biography, half a memoir about Taylor and her experience dating someone who is in the middle of the Entertainment Industrial Complex. It's a book about a relationship that doesn't work out, at the end of the day, and it tops the New York Times Bestseller List for a while.

It also leaves Buck in a sticky situation, because if he does sue Taylor, he has to 1. admit the book is about him (everyone already kinda knows, she wasn't subtle, she walked the line on purpose, she called his bluff) and then 2. drag his ex into what would no doubt be a very public, very expensive court case where all of the personal details of their relationship gets discussed in an open forum even more.

In the end Buck does not sue the bugeezus out of her, they do kind of make amends, but they're no longer friends or really on speaking terms. Sometimes he picks up another book she's written, reads it glumly, thinks about What Could Have Been, and wonders if she still thinks about him too. (She does.)

The Anonymous EB Book is a very contentious piece of literature for a lot of the #buckies, and there is constant arguing about whether or not it's allowed to be used as a source in wikipedia, fanwikis, etc. because it was never confirmed that it's about Evan Buckley. (It is obviously about Evan Buckley.) Some fans consider it required reading. Other fans think you're personally betraying Buck if you so much as look at the cover.

*Taylor does wind up including Daniel in the book (Buck didn't want him mentioned at all) but it's more as a footnote, just that EB had an older brother who died when he was very young that he never knew. She didn't have the heart go completely against Buck's wishes and tell the truth, which is that Buck found out about his brother when Taylor told him, and didn't believe her until she got her hands on a death certificate, and then he just looked down at the embossed paper with wide, wet eyes, and said 'oh' in a wobbly voice.

EDIT: I didn't even answer the first part of the question, I got so caught up thinking about The Back Story. I did really enjoy shoehorning in various metal references, those are fun details to me. Someone asked me at explain them at some point and I think I stopped at like Chapter 13? I should go back and finish the rest.

[sick-jan]

[emphasisonthehomo]

The fuckup at work has progressed to the point where my legal pad isn’t cutting the mustard, and I’ve started a spreadsheet.

[neshatriumphs]

Juneteenth is about Black people who were officially technically supposed to be freed from enslavement. Nobody else. Nothing else. It's not a POC day. It's not a "freedom for all" day. It's Black folk, Black culture, Black emancipation, SPECIFICALLY. Any other observation for Juneteenth is gentrification.

[neshatriumphs]

Your Juneteenth reminder that just because they made it a "national holiday," it's still not. It's for the celebration of Black Americans being freed from slavery, finally.

It's from Texas. We been welcoming other descendants of the enslaved. But we close the gate and draw the line with "everybody."

[neshatriumphs]

Bringing this back on Juneteenth because making Black observations a national holiday didn't and doesn't end racism and the nonblacks are more insufferable than they have been in my lifetime about Black American people and our things.

Happy Juneteenth to those whose lives would not be actively free without the day happening. See the rest of you tomorrow.

[queen-mihai]

It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

[queen-mihai]

Obligatory self reblog because Tumblr doesn't ever let anybody see my stuff unless I literally post it repeatedly

[queen-mihai]

I'd love if you'd reblog this and keep it moving, with love

[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.

•

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.

[websitevisitor]

please look at the name of this drink i saw at a boba place the other day

[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.

•

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.