Cammie | 23 | Canada | Bisexual | She/her | a shitty art blog. Current fandoms: BNHA, Marvel, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, Ace Attorney, Our Flag Means Death
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
The funniest thing about the basketball scene was buck genuinely had nothing to be jealous about. The whole time Eddie was like “omg you wanna play basketball with ME? really? 🥹 hehe come and get me 😝come get the ball 🏀 I love you buck 🥰 I love playing basketball with my bestest friend in the world 🤗” and then buck broke his fucking ankle
Hey, don't cry. 5 Della Van Hise fics in PDF form, saved by the WayBack, all available for download ♡
DVH notoriously had her fics pulled from AO3 and she never uploaded them again. Outside of purchasing the zines she wrote for and created—and given her 14 confirmed pseuds, good luck tracking down everything—finding the odd scan of a zine online or the occasional working archived link from her AO3 is not easy.
(All of these works are linked on Fanlore on the fic's individual pages, but as it always goes with Fanlore, organization is not the best and DVH's main page links to an older version of her site before she offered these stories for free; this is to just get the awareness out and ramble on my blog about it, tiny though it is. As my friend put it went I sent these to her, "This is like Christmas in May!")
For those of us who can't afford to drop $40+ on a zine (average cost; we've all seen higher), lack the space for keeping old zines, or are afraid of opening the door of Buying All The Zines, may this find you well ♡
Front and back cover artwork from Hise's zine Styx and Stones.
Left image by Marilyn Cole, served as the inspiration for the fic Styx and Stones; Right image by Jackie Zoost
On Wings of Ice (1987)
"Stranded on a frozen planet when their shuttlecraft is sabotaged, Kirk and Spock share love as they wait for death." [More on Fanlore]; originally published in KSX #1
My 2 cents: I cried with this one and it was worth it. There's phrasing in this one that has me rending my garments.
Collaboration (1987)
"When Kirk points out that their relationship may have become complacent, he and Spock put their heads together to see what can be done to breathe life back into the bedroom. But of course, nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems… A twisted little K/S tale." [More on Fanlore]; originally published in Styx and Stones
My 2 cents: One part fic, one part meta about K/S and why fans create (yes, really! She pulled it off beautifully), all fluffy feelings.
Styx and Stones (1987)
"Spock awakens in a new land after dying and waits for Jim, who is in a coma following a shuttle crash." [More on Fanlore]; originally published in Styx and Stones
My 2 cents: I wish I knew what it was like to read this before On Wings of Ice. I'm not saying this was bad or boring - far from it! Hise used a lot of poetic creativity in her depictions - but my brain kept thinking back to On Wings of Ice and that does this story a disservice.
Someone to Watch Over Thee (1988)
"Spock, Kirk, and an ambassador are given aphrodisiacs by the leader of a hedonistic society and itʼs up to the security men to make sure they get who and what they need." [More on Fanlore]; originally published in Naked Times #18
CW: rape/noncon elements (your mileage my vary on this, however, I'm noting it out of an abundance of caution)
My 2 cents: it's Aliens Made Them Do It but told from the perspective of a Redshirt.
The Gol Letters (1988)
"Apart, Kirk and Spock each write letters to each other, each believing that the other will never read them." [More on Fanlore]; originally published in Naked Times #18
My 2 cents: I personally felt like a pumpkin with its innards scooped out but then became a ball of fluff. Heed that as you will.
More about DVH:
She's both a pillar of the fandom for her prolific work as the publisher and editor for the Pon Farr Press (and its many zines) and for her many works of poetry and fanfic, be they short stories, novellas, or novels. In the professional realm, Hise is perhaps best known for the (in)famous Killing Time. (Really, read the link for (in)famous. DVH certainly got screwed over by that contract, although highlight the text here and she's banking on the reputation of it, lol. DVH, I can never hate you. And peep the other link too for a surprise ♡)
She passed away on March 3, 2021 and is survived by her partner Natasha Solten. (Her AO3 for anyone who wants that directly. The bulk of her Star Trek fics are locked to registered users-only.)
i think with the buddie divorce we are not paying nearly enough attention to the fact that maddie went down the stairs with her throat slashed open after being drugged and slammed amber with a fucking hammer with a very considerable amount of force to save her husband. all that while pregnant. AND she AND her baby survived. maddie buckley han the woman you are
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