Roswell New Mexico Fandom Creators Appreciation Week

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Roswell New Mexico Creators Appreciation Week 2022

For the fourth year in a row, we have celebrated our creators during a whole week! This has been quite a rocky year, with the announcement of the series finale, but we hope our little week has helped you find some solace.

We would like to take a moment to thank everyone who’s participated sharing their favorite creations and creators. Thank you so much to everyone who keeps this fandom alive in any capacity. You guys rock!

Once again, we are only human and we’re sure that maybe some posts have been missing from the tags. In case your posts haven’t been reblogged to this account, please send us a message and we will make sure they are shared. Also, if this is the case, we are sorry for having missed them.

Sadly, since this has been the last season for RNM, we won't be holding the Roswell New Mexico Creators Appreciation Week next year. It’s been a pleasure running this event this year once again, and all the years before.

Thank you so much for your support and your participation!

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 6 - Fluff

nursery sharks by @christchex

Michael & Sanders, Gen, 10.3k

Baby Michael goes home with Sanders. The fluffiest fluff ever to fluff oh my god I love this entire ‘verse 🦈😍

Light a Candle by @adiwriting

Michael & ensemble, Gen, 7k

Michael spends Christmas with the Ortechos. Every single thing about this is delightful, I could roll around the soft found family feels forever 🕯️🥰

The Great New Mexico Fake-Off by @beautifulcheat and @ladynox

Maria/Michael/Alex, Gen, 54.1k

Cakes! Are a metaphor! For Michael’s love! Seriously this is so cute, and the companion piece showing other people’s reactions to secret baker Michael is priceless 🧁👌

[dr-lizortecho]

RNM Create (Day Six- Fluff)

these also function as writer recs! and I’m missing so many of my favs because there’s only so much room/time (so always feel free ask for recs guys)

Arturo Did You Know by BangPop91

Some Lizobel fluff (cause they deserve it truly)

(writer’s summary) Arturo spends Christmas with his girls. Isobel has thoughts while watching her wife and father-in-law.

turn a barren wilderness by @beautifulcheat

my favorite Deeth fic by far, it’s written with beautiful imagery and their characterization is perfect

(writer’s summary) A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cover from the tempest, As rivers of water in a dry place. As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isaiah 32:2)

You Remember the Sun, But it Set by Ithinkwehaveanemergency

so this is the very first Valevans fic I ever read, and trust me it started the shenanigans that is my writing because it was handled so well. Like Max’s amnesia making him come to terms with feelings? Liz/Jenna as a background couple? What more could I ask for?

(writer’s summary) Canon-inspired AU where Max doesn't quite recover his memories the way he does in the show, and as a result, Max gets to act on a long suppressed crush.

we may be lost but I’m with you and all is right by @thesquidkid

the characterization is flawless, and because of how good the series is I’m rec-ing the whole thing (You are the Superwoman to my Lois Lane), which is honestly just all perfect and full of fluff

(writer’s summary) They were lost.

Despite how hard Isobel tried to fake it, to convince Anatsa that she knew where they were going, they were lost. The truth was, Isobel had no idea where they were heading for the last 2 hours, at least.

All she had to do was admit the truth. Tell Anatsa that she was far from the adventurer she had sold herself as being.

A Milkshake and a Sweater Conundrum by @aflawedfashion

okay, so my favorite dynamic discussing my otp, it’s flawless, and just the idea of Max purposefully drinking a shake he doesn’t even like makes my heart so happy

(writer’s summary) Still processing having nearly lost Max, Isobel joins him at the Crashdown where she catches him drinking a mint milkshake while Liz is out of town.

[dr-lizortecho]

RNM Create 22 (Day Five- Dynamics)

Smudges by @maeglinthebold

Incase y’all haven’t noticed I’m completely normal about Kaliz, and this is one of their sweetest fics, all three of them are just living their dreams (writer’s summary) “Honey?” Prince Max called, opening the door to the dungeon.

Princes didn’t ordinarily look for their princesses in the dungeons, but Liz had a laboratory down here that she (and he) liked to keep away both from prying eyes and from furniture and tapestries she might damage.

“Down here, babe!” Liz called. She waved at him on the top of the stairs, lifting her clear-glass goggles on top of her head. She looked adorably disheveled, and she had obviously ruined another gown, which didn’t bother Max but was going to annoy the tailor very much. “You’ll want to see this!”

a gentleman’s guide to getting pegged by your girl by georgiehensley

this is all I could ask for from echo smut and it delivers

(writer’s summary) Liz pegs Max. That's it, that's the fic

Podling by conteweaver

okay, mpreg isn’t my thing, but this is like not mpreg so maybe give it a shot if it’s also not usually your thing? cause like the emotions

(writer’s summary) He was worried that whatever Jones had done to him is causing real damage. Eventually, he couldn’t ignore it anymore and he ran a test, just to see if he could see what was causing the pressure. He’d expected nothing, a phantom sensation caused by trauma, he’d feared a tumor. He didn’t know how to even read what he was seeing on the ultrasound screen in front of him

Can We Just Have Tonight? by @a1kitkat

so lost decade, unresolved feelings from highschool, I have a certain style of lost decade fic that appeals to me and this one hits all the marks, beautifully I might add

(writer’s summary) Alex gets caught in the rain, Max gives him a ride

In the Ambulance by @impalachick

would I be me if I let an event pass without valevans? but seriously this fic is beautiful and hot, and they’re both in character so much it hurts, but most importantly the ambulance scene guys

(writer’s summary) After Kyle chases Max down in the ambulance, he finds out that Max is suffering from a strange and sexual side effect. But Kyle is all too eager to help with Max's boner problem

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 5 - Dynamics (Part 3)

Part 3 - Liz, Kyle, & Max

Masquerade by @foramomentonly

Liz/Jones, Explicit, 2.1k

Yes, I am going to continue banging on about how much I love this fic 😛 It’s a Liz/Jones story, but underneath that it’s also very much Liz/Max - Liz is fucking Jones and thinking about Max, and the way he touches her, and the way he loves her, and the language is so gorgeous ugh I have so many feelings about it 😭

Also Liz is a complete badass 🤩

Cut to the Feeling by @myrmidryad

Max/Kyle, Explicit, 33.9k

Max’s bisexual awakening! Love that for him. Max questioning and experimenting and coming to grips with his feelings is beautifully handled, and in addition to the Max/Kyle dynamic (which is great), there are some fantastic pod squad scenes.

no grief or folly ventures by @haloud

Max/Liz, Teen, 1.5k

Post-s3 Max/Liz feels 🥺 Max and Liz communicate so much with touch; haloud really captures that here, and turns it into poetry.

love’s a game, wanna play? by @adiwriting

Max/Liz/Kyle, Explicit, 12.3k

Max has an unexpected reaction to Kyle examining him; Liz is on board. I love Max and Liz’s dynamic here, and how they bring Kyle into it. Oh, and it also happens to have fantastic smut 😏👌🔥

Is There Nothing I Can Do For the Both of You? by @maeglinthebold

Max/Liz/Kyle, Teen, 1.6k

Max heals Kyle, handprint and feels ensue. This is 100% what I wanted from the Max/Liz/Kyle handprints in s3 😛 Plus kissing! For science!

Kiss Me Like Your Ex Is in the Room by @haloud and @maeglinthebold

Max/Liz/Kyle, Explicit, 8.6k

All the handprint feels! 😍 Seriously, s3 was such a tease with the Max/Liz/Kyle handprint tethers, thank god for fic writers, you are out here doing the lord’s work 🙌❤️

Do you have enough love in your heart to go and get your hands dirty? by @jule1122

Max/Liz/Kyle, Mature, 1.4k

A conversation between Liz and Kyle about love and ethics - it’s so perfectly them, I love what they bring out in each other.

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 5 - Dynamics (Part 2)

Part 2 - Michael & Liz

The E-Word by @maeglinthebold

Michael & Liz, Teen, 1.6k

A hilarious look at Michael and Liz’s science bros shenanigans, with accusations made about Liz’s ethics that are even funnier/more accurate post-s4 😅

Bunker Confessionals by @soberqueerinthewild

Michael & Liz, Teen, 11.5k

A 5+1 series of conversations between Michael and Liz, post-s1. I especially love the way they take care of each other, and learn from each other ❤️

Hey genius (same kind of smart, same kind of dumb) by @arielana

Michael & Liz, Teen, 5k

Michael visits Liz in California, and they get drunk and talk about boys (and pull a heist!). A really sweet take on their friendship 🥰

what a wonderful animosity by @haloud

Michael & Liz, Gen, 1.5k

Michael and Liz, childhood archnemeses 😁 I love this peek into their history!

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 5 - Dynamics (Part 1)

This one was getting long, so I’ve split it into multiple posts…

Part 1 - Rosa & various

Oh, she’s sweet but a psycho by @maeglinthebold

Rosa & Maria, Isobel, Liz, Kyle, Dallas, and Arturo, Teen, 2.3k

MayGlenn wrote this as a prize for me so it is no surprise that I love it ❤️ A sweet look at Rosa and the relationships in her life, post-s3. I especially enjoy the sibling dynamics between Rosa, Liz, and Kyle!

Pancake Wars by @jule1122

Rosa & Liz & Arturo, Gen, 300

Rosa and Arturo’s pancake rivalry! Their bickering is so good 🥰

Reconnecting by @adiwriting

Rosa & Alex, Teen, 1.1k

Alex sees Rosa for the first time after she’s resurrected. I fucking adore the way adiwriting writes Rosa and Alex’s friendship (see also: Out of Ashes). I don’t know what to say about it other than that it’s perfect 🥺🥺🥺

In The Cards by @myrmidryad

Rosa & Maria & Isobel, Gen, 3.2k

Rosa and Maria teach Isobel how to slumber party 😍 I loved the dynamic between these three in s3, and this story really taps into that.

[dr-lizortecho]

RNM Create 22 (Day Four- AU)

(as always these double as writer rec’s, so check out their profiles <3)

The Great Divide by @angsty-nerd

(writers summary) What if the Evans walked into the group home a moment earlier and saw Max screaming and drawing on the walls? An AU high school era fic, in which Max was the one left behind instead of Michael.

Dealing with Dragons by @beautifulcheat and @ladynox

(writer’s summary) Once upon a time, in a cold grey castle lived a princess.

She wasn’t a particularly good princess. She abhorred courtly dances and constantly mixed up the dozens of courtiers and cousins, ambassadors and knights she was supposed to know. For sure, she was beautiful, kind and charming, and the court could do nothing but sing her praises out loud. But privately they whispered that she was too headstrong and sharp tongued. What could be expected from the daughter of a witch? Best to marry her off quickly to an obscure fourth or fifth son and forget she ever existed.

Thankfully, Maria never much cared for what fat, old courtiers thought of her. She was the daughter of the most powerful seer in five generations. And she had a destiny. One that wasn’t going to be fulfilled sitting prim and proper by the side of a dull prince whose wits were as soft as his hands.

Throw Myself to the Unknown by @tasyfa

(writer’s summary) Alex thinks he's borrowed it from his house guest and he's going to have to give it back. Kyle assumes Alex is wearing his own clothes around his own house.

They're both wrong. It's the handyman's hoodie.

[bydayornight]

AUs

I forgot it was @roswellnewmexicocreate week so I’ll just jump in now to spread some appreciation.

Dangerous by @maeglinthebold

A Maria x Michael werewolf au that I just love (hopefully it continues 😉). Their dynamic is so sweet and loving, and I’m a sucker for h/c, always.

And the Sun Rose Red by @michaels-blackhat

A Maria x Michael Kissing Kate Barlow / outlaw au that is just so, so good. Never thought I’d love such a sad ending, but it’s beautiful.

You're The Only Place I'd Ever Return To (And I Hope You're Not There When I Do) by @im-the-punk-who

A malex talk radio au that takes place during the lost decade. I mean, I just love the lost decade. I also love the way this story ends, full of infinite possibilities.

[periodedits]

Colin & Penelope BRIDGERTON : Season 2

[vakariaan]

3 Movies For Every Year I’ve Been Alive  (#Turning30) ↳ THE MIGHTY DUCKS (1992) dir. Stephen Herek

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

[hopeful-weirdo]

Wow I don’t understand math at all

[freinhardt56]

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

[fandomlockedfan]

I think my brain just stopped working

[authorgirl1111]

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

[what-even-is-thiss]

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

[bogleech]

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

[hexmaniacmareen]

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

[bogleech]

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Reblogging again for that last addition.

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 4 - AU

I Was Just an Only Child of the Universe (And Then I Found You) by @haloud and @maeglinthebold

Maria/Michael/Alex, Explicit, 117.9k (WIP)

This fandom is blessed with some fantastic Maria/Michael/Alex AU longfic 😍 First up, haloud and MayGlenn take our aliens and put them where they belong: in space! Featuring thoughtful and well-developed alien culture and biology, space pirates, an accidental grow op, tentacles, an egg baby, background Max/Liz/Kyle, Uncle Grandpa Arturo, and a great deal of both angst and fluff (and smut 😏). I get excited every time an update lands in my inbox!

Soon or Never by @myrmidryad

Maria/Michael/Alex, Explicit, 170.3k

Full disclosure, I haven’t finished this one yet, but what I have read I love. It’s a fusion with His Dark Materials, but you don’t need any familiarity with that canon at all - myrmidryad provides an intro to the world at the beginning, and then does an amazing job of bringing it to life and weaving the full cast of RNM characters into it. I am simultaneously looking forward to and dreading finishing it 🥺

The Truth is Right Here by @beautifulcheat and @ladynox

Maria/Michael/Alex, Mature, 308.4k (WIP)

I am also very behind on reading this one 😅 It’s an X-Files/White Collar fusion, but again no familiarity with those canons required - I’ve never seen X-Files and it’s not affecting my enjoyment at all. So far I’m especially loving the relationship between FBI agents Maria and Alex, as well as the casefic/paranormal investigation stories!

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 3 - Angst

I’m gonna make noise when I go down by @soberqueerinthewild

Maria/Rosa, Rosa/Isobel, teen, 2.5k

I keep trying to write something about this that isn’t just a long string of sobbing emojis, and failing 😂 A painfully perfect look at Rosa’s thoughts and feelings in the months/moments before her death.

open up my eager eyes (series) by @haloud​

Michael/Alex/Kyle, various ratings, 48.3k

There is top-notch angst in several of the stories in this series, in which Michael, Alex, and Kyle get together post-s1. the stumbling phase of the midnight waltz is a particular favourite - Alex and Kyle are both out of town, and Michael is left alone with his demons; a bookend to the weirdest of weeks explores Kyle’s feelings about his father post-Caulfield. haloud really knows how to twist the angsty knife 😛❤️​

hands (close my fist around something delicate) by @lambourngb​

Michael & Isobel, Teen, 2.7k

LOOK I could put basically L’s entire catalogue on this list 😂😍 she does like to torture Michael (and is so good at it!). This is a missing scene from 301 that is all Michael angst and sibling feels, and I love it. Painfully.

[primalmusic]

RNM Create 2022 Day 2 - Character

if you know where you stand than you know where you land and if you fall it won’t matter cuz you’ll know that you’re Right by @christchex

Rosa/Isobel, Teen, 10.4k

There are so many things I love about this story - the exploration of what Rosa and Isobel’s relationship might have been, Rosa getting to be messy and human and a teenage girl figuring shit out without getting killed for it, the way that music is woven through it - and the characterisation is perfect, I can hear the dialogue so clearly in Rosa and Isobel’s voices.

Future Starts Slow by @foramomentonly

Maria/Isobel, Explicit, 4.8k

This is a really sweet (and also hot 🔥 🔥 🔥 ) Maria/Isobel first time/getting together fic. Both the character voices are spot on, and I especially love how foramomentonly shows Isobel’s mix of confidence and insecurity, and the future that she’s trying to figure out how to build for herself.

it birthed you, it molds you, it tears you apart by @bean-me-up

Ensemble, Teen, 2.3k

This is a series of drabbles connected by the characters’ relationship to clothes - there are so many fantastic details here that paint such a clear picture of everyone during the Lost Decade with so few words.

[a1kitkat]

RNM Create 22 (Day Two - character)

I only have one fic to rec as it’s basically the only RNM fic that I’ve read more than 10 times (😂) is it because it’s kinky? Focuses primarily on Alex? Just a damn fucking fun fic to read? The answer to all of the above is yes.

I’ve Been High and I’ve Been Low by Malzysaur

Summary: Alex goes looking for the secrets Deep Sky is hiding. He stumbles upon something he was not prepared for.

My Thoughts: written for RNM After Dark in 2021, it’s a brilliant mix of kink and intrigue… plus the inclusion of Eduardo as a not-so-innocent bystander adds even more spice(?) to the deliciousness of this fic. Did I mention plant-like tentacles???

So maybe it’s not a brilliant character study of anyone from the series but damn it’s a good read of Alex having himself a good unforgettable time

[dr-lizortecho]

RNM Create 22 (Day Two- character)

Rosa Ortecho:

oh, she’s sweet but a psycho by @maeglinthebold

idk what to say, outside of it being a beautifully constructed nod to her character, she’s witty, snarky, and the fun loving girl we know and love, all while holding that softer side (especially when it comes to her siblings <3)

Two Bill by @daughterofelros

(writer’s summary) No one needs to know, or read anything into Rosa's new nickname for Max Evans. But if both of her siblings are going to insist on being in love with the man, she'll just have to support them.

Kyle Valenti:

do you have enough love in your heart to go and get your hands dirty? by @jule1122

(writers summary) Kyle knows Liz will do anything to save Max. Will he go as far as she will? (who doesn’t love Angsty kaliz???)

Out of My Head by @islndgurl777

(writers summary) It’s Saturday morning and Kyle’s been up since 5:30. He’d like to say he did it on purpose, because waking up early with the express intent of going on a run and completing other various errands on a Saturday morning is responsible. Adult-like. A totally normal thing that other late-twenty-somethings do on their weekends.

Waking up early because it’s been a shitty night of restless, anxiety-induced sleeplessness, so you might as well get up anyways, especially when that lack of sleep is caused by romantic problems? Not very responsible or adult-y. And he doesn’t think the specific romantic troubles he’s having are ones most other late-twenty-somethings have to deal with either