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.
I was tagged by @corporatebanana and probably maybe some other people, I'm sorry. I'm so bad at keeping tracking.
No pressure tagging @geddyqueer, @sad-girl-hours23, @setmeatopthepyre, @trombonechurchill, and @wee-fuckin-woo!
Here's some Popstar II, sequel to Crossover Appeal. This chunk does contain spoilers under the cut.
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“So, Eddie and I have been friends for a while,” Evan’s not looking at Tommy.
“Yeah?” Tommy asks, resisting the urge to tack 'duh' on the end, because Evan seems nervous.
“And we’re like—we talk about sex a lot,” Evan says.
“Okay,” Tommy says slowly, putting the pieces together. “What? You’ve talked about sex with me?”
It’s not that weird, honestly. If Tommy hadn’t signed the NDA he’d probably be talking about sex with Evan more too. Jan has asked twice if Evan’s dick is just as big as it looks in those nudes that got leaked a few years ago, and Tommy keeps refusing to confirm or deny.
“Yes,” Evan hesitates and then says in a rush. “And I made a comment about how I much I like sucking dick. So uh. Sorry.”
Tommy stares at him, mystified.
“You’re sorry for sucking my dick?”
“No,” Evan looks taken aback and a little insulted. “But I said that and then Eddie was like ‘So Tommy does have a dick?’ about it.”
Ah. Goddammit. Figures. Everyone’s always fucking curious about what’s in his pants.
“If he keeps asking tell him to talk to me about it,” Tommy grumbles. “I’ll just tell him it’s not his business.”
“That’s what I said!” Evan’s face is starting to get red, “It’s not even really my business. I said I wouldn’t talk about it.”
“It is kind of your business,” Tommy points out, confused. “It’s been in your mouth.”
That isn’t actually Tommy’s metric for whether or not he’s willing to talk about his dick with people. The real metric is whether or not Tommy’s willing to entertain any stupid questions, and usually the answer is a firm ‘fuck no’. But Tommy’s also willing to admit to himself that he’s more than happy to entertain a lot with Evan.
“Well yeah but—” Evan’s face gets redder. “That doesn’t mean I can like, ask invasive questions about your bottom surgery.”
“I don’t mind if you ask, I mind if other people ask, ” Tommy explains.
To his surprise, Evan shakes his head rapidly.
“No, no. You’re not under any obligation to educate me,” Evan says firmly. “Google is free.”
Tommy snorts, thinks about the handful of hours he spent over a decade ago, walking Dag through an article on metoidioplasty. That was a little different, mostly because Dag’s English didn’t extend to medical terminology, and Tommy’s Swedish certainly wasn’t up to translate, but they’d managed to fumble through it.
“You took notes during a presentation on diversity, didn’t you?” Tommy asks with fond amusement.
Re: the last post, it’s like when you watch someone get genuinely furious to the point of tears at the idea that someone without a home might dare to have a pet.
Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency
No one did anything about the fuckup even though I gave them over a week’s heads up that it was an Issue, and now the emails from corporate are rolling in. So I’ve decided it’s not my problem anymore.