♡ Seven days of Webgott and seven days stuck in mud and sick (beautiful) looOoOOoove comes to a close. ♡
Thank you so much to everyone who put on their yaoi-colored glasses and celebrated a full week of Webgott with HiFL 2025! When they wrote EP 8, they probably did not anticipate the psychic damage they'd inflict on several generations of people with access to romance and the internet. Glad to be experiencing the terminal effects with everyone here and cannot thank you enough for RPF-ing hard.
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Not quite in time for @haguenauisforlovers Day 7, but my niche ode to both Webgott and the production design of TLP (via the medium of, uh, pop-up card) is finally complete! Lots of photos under the cut:
Inside the card (timelapse while the engineer tries to get everything to stand up straight at once), the collapsible miniature Haguenau, in the light of day:
And after moving the arrow on the front, the dead of night (reversible glow-in-the-dark moon can be stored in its handy pocket for optional historical accuracy):
and roll credits for webgott valentine's week! long-ish post but i don't think it can be anything but saur...
haguenau is for lovers was me deciding to shoot for the moon after 1) meg wondered out loud about a webgott week (after injecting webgott into my brain), 2) i zoomed in on lieb reading sunday comics, feverishly tore through the stars and stripes archive only to realize that easy was in haguenau during valentine's week 3) caoimhe said, "haguenau is for lovers" and it sticking into my brain permanently.
that is to say, i am so very lucky to be friends with people whose thoughts are so infectious and always brilliant. would like to take this time to thank the people who held my sweaty hand all throughout my first stab at organizing a fan event.
tierney @kbsd my beloved!! thank you for literally putting up with my anxiety through all this and for reading (and proofreading) walls of text on gdocs to make sure i still sounded sane. putting up with wips for queueing and scheduling posts when i'm asleep even if you've had a Long Day of Moving houses. i would literally be in the trenches without you. thank you for never doubting me and for genuinely matching my (control) freak.
meg @ww2yaoi head webgott babe (let's all acknowledge that) for the really kind messages. they helped me more than you'd know!! licherally hilf wouldnt even be alive if i hadn't seen you post theee Webgott Wednesday Locket way back last year, and if you hadn't written lippenstift, down in the valley, no ghost looms (tbh all ur webgott) and made me spiral into this for good.
caoimhe @randlemartin. this'll sound weird but just trust ok. thank you for writing both text posts and fic that compel me to no end. the germ of the idea wouldn't have grown into anything good without it being fattened by your thoughts and words!! haguenau is for lovers <3 ik it isn't webgott, but reading delichon while prepping for this over the holidays kept me going fr.
karina @markedfordead and julia @joe-fuckingtwice-toye. your tags and everything you made throughout the event made me wanna cryyyy. they were all so sweet and genuinely, when i'd be fidgeting over the event day ahead, seeing that you two took the time to make something so lovely nearly every single day literally pacified the gnawing self-doubt hahaha thank you i mean it so much.
to everyone who participated!! wrote fics and drabbles, made web weaves, beautiful art that made me want to chew my screen because of how beautiful they all are, thank you so much!!!!!!! to everyone who rb-ed and liked, made valentines, my heart feels a lot bigger thanks to all of you.
shoutout to my laptop, photoshop, my secondhand wacom tablet that's been roi-ed the fuck out since november, my two hands, and futura condensed (1940s print would be NOTHING without you). thank god none of them decided to give up on me during event prep and proper. (and to my bubs who had to literally listen to me scream and yap about this from beginning to end. you are a saint. idk how i got so lucky to be with someone who supports my being a fujo wife with dead ww2 vets)
really wanted to keep my modding this on the down low, largely cos idk!! i just wanted the focus to be on webgott and the event, but also bc i knew this whole thing couldn't have come together because of a singular person, or even moreso, a singular interpretation of the ship. so i felt the distance was necessary. though i am proud, in a small way (im allowing myself a lil' bit of it), of being able to create a bunch of things for a pair i've fallen in love with, and for a group of people who hold so much affection for them.
all that to say! im glad to have made things with love, and (tw: cheesy as fuck) im only really able to do that bc im surrounded by people who love so beautifully. thank you all from da bottom of mi heart. if u read up until here. thank you for that too. ♡
♡ happy webgott wednesday. haguenau will always be for lovers. ♡
sorry this is literally too many scrolls down lmfao
♡ Before hop on the army trucks and cue in Web's ending VO, here's a mixtape of all songs featured across web weaves, art, and fic you've created for Haguenau is for Lovers 2025! ♡
A much longer credits post coming up to officially close* Haguenau is for Lovers but you can never say thank you too many times. So! Thank you so much for making HiFL a place to scream about theee beloved toxic yaoi duo, Joe Liebgott and David Webster. It's been an honor fujo-ing out with all of you. ♡
*grace periods to people who have asked for extensions will be mentioned there as well ♡
Image source: Manipulated and edited the original album art for Emery Deutsch And His Orchestra (c. 1949).
David has a thing for Joe's hands. Joe has a thing for David's strength. It's supposed to be easy for them in Austria, on the back end of the war, except Joe can't get it up.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63212272
Rated Explicit. Written for the @haguenauisforlovers prompts hands + muscle + flush and the @badsexbingo square can't get it up.
David is standing idly by while Joe explores the huge kitchen of some Nazi fuck’s house in Austria. It's ridiculously opulent, with fancy black and white tile backsplash and deep green cabinets with gold accents. He and Joe have the whole place to themselves, and David is sure they will be alone for at least a couple of hours. It’s the middle of a warm, sticky day, and most of the guys have taken off for the lake.
Joe said he didn’t want to go swimming, though, so the pair of them started wandering around the neighborhood instead. The water called to David like a siren’s song, but Joe’s long fingers and clever mouth called to him more. The lake would still be there when Joe was done.
“Surprised Speirs hasn’t been here yet. You want any of this before he pilfers it?” Joe says as he pulls open drawers to scoff at the silver.
David shakes his head in the negative. He’s too busy spinning in a slow circle, taking in the way golden light is streaming in through the big bay windows on the west side of the kitchen. It seems so fucking unfair that this used to belong to someone who absolutely didn’t deserve it. At least Easy is here now, to keep the fascists from retaking any of their possessions. He kind of wants to blow it all up, just to make sure no one can come back.
But. Maybe it would be better to get some use out of it first.
tried my best to match the colors for each prompt day with what i had at home so they're not exact but they have a similar vibe ^__^ Thank you @haguenauisforlovers for arranging this event week it was so fun !!! <3333
Web and Joe are reunited in Haguenau but it doesn't go smoothly at first. But Haguenau is for lovers so, after a rough start, it ends with a wink, smiles and a helping hand.
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Faded version under the cut because... Just because.
if web had turned around, they could have had a romantic dinner
it lasts just a couple of seconds but this scene is so damn funny! u can see how web eats literally everything that is served to him, while joe sniffed the cracker TWICE and put it DOWN sir wat da hell just eat ur food
as a bonus, a disgruntled web cuz malarkey poured food on his pants
