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[autisticandroids]

For the shipping meme, I ship you with davidfosterwallaceandgromit

@davidfosterwallaceandgromit GIRL HELP WE GOT ANOTHER ONE

[mimsyaf]

So @obstinatecondolement and I mind-melded and wrote a couple things au sujet de Johnny Lawrence and insecurity around m/m sexual inexperience. (Let’s be real, this is all just a continuation of the DISCOURSE™️ around whether or not Johnny Lawrence can fuck. Dido voice: I will go down with this ship...)

Anyway, they wrote a beautiful and intimate fic: Must Not Lose To Fear

And I spun up this piece of ridiculousness: Bisexuality Awareness Week

Would love you to take a peek! Collaboration is the most fun. ❤️

[mizzy2k]

Fandom For Australia / Fandom Trumps Hate: The Magicians.

So there’s two fandom-content auctions running right now, @fandomforoz and @fandomtrumpshate 

I was going to just link my two offering pages, but because they’re both for the same fandom -- The Magicians -- and there’s only six auctions for that fandom running between the two events, I thought I’d just compile them into this one post so that Fillorians and Brakebillians can find them more easily!

Please do check the linked offerings pages for further details on what the contributor is offering!! :) This is a great time to get something in your favourite fandom created for you, while donating to some really worthy charities. There are contact details on each contributor’s page if you want to ask for something really specific before bidding, and links to find examples of each contributor’s previous work.

Fandom for Australia

obstinatecondolement is offering a fanvideo for the Magicians HERE

Mizzy is offering fanfiction (The Magicians, Book or TV; Quentin/Eliot (romantic or friendship) HERE

facethestrange is offering fan art (The Magicians (TV), any characters or relationships except Plover, Reynard and the relationship between Alice and her parents; also excluding anything where Quentin is dead, unless it's a very obvious fix-it) HERE

Fandom Trumps Hate

Machtaholic is offering fanfiction (The Magicians; Season 4 ending non-compliant, peaches and plums forever; would also write for Suits and Shadowhunters) HERE

Mizzy is also offering fanfiction HERE 

Facethestrange is also offering fan art HERE

[cosmic-llin]

For the vidding ask meme: 10, 12, 13, 20 :D

10. A song you would love to edit with but didn’t do it yet?

I’d love to vid something to Run, by Delta Rae, but I haven’t figured out what yet. Often I’ll have a song in the back of my head for years and I won’t vid it until the right fandom comes along. I wanted to make a Michael Burnham vid to it after S1 of Disco, but the idea didn’t quite come together. I’m sure I’ll get there someday!

12. Do you prefer songs with lyrics or instrumental music?

Lyrics, for sure. A lot of the fun of vidding for me is matching lyrics to visuals, and they definitely give more of a structure to hang the message of the vid on, which makes it easier. That said, when I’ve vidded music without lyrics I’ve found it really fun and interesting and I’ve found ways to create structure without lyrics, so I guess it’s not so much a preference as a... tendency? Which is probably influenced by the fact that most popular music of the sort that gets used for vids has lyrics.

13. Do you cut the song you use for a fan video or do you edit it fully?

I kind of do whichever makes sense on a vid-by-vid basis. Some ideas can’t sustain the length of an entire song, sometimes the lyrics of one of the verses don’t fit the idea, sometimes you literally don’t have enough footage and it’s better to a have a tight, well-cut vid than trying to stretch the footage to fit a longer song. The latter happens a lot if you’re vidding a rarepair (or any pairing that doesn’t have much on-screen interaction.) I’ve also been known to occasionally add in an extra chorus to a short song to extend the vid. (BTW if anyone reading this ever wants help cutting a song down, LMK! I’ve had a fair amount of practice at this point!)

20.One of your videos you think is “underrated”?

Ooh, I don’t know! I don’t think any of my vids are underrated per se, so much as like, only appreciated by a niche audience because of the specificity of the subject matter? I’m now sorting my YouTube by popularity and a lot of the lowest ones are, say, things that were made for a specific person who really enjoyed it, so I don’t really mind if they never reach much of a wider audience? That said, I’d love if Wish Me Happy Go Lucky (Victoria Wood tribute), Stand By Me (Sisko family) and Sway (Athena from ABC’s Huge) had a few more hits - I think they’re among some of my best vids and they’re all in the bottom ten hits-wise.

[tincanspaceship]

My submission for the @trek-rarepair-swap- @obstinatecondolement requested B’Elanna/K’Ehleyr so here it is, just in time for pride month!

i did my best to re-create the ugly space fashions/colours okay

[dangercupcakemurdericing]

santoniosstark replied to your photoset “The makeup class went pretty okay, other than the fact that they...”

yellow looks great on you!

thanks, it’s one of my favorite colors. <3

tenzin replied to your photoset “The makeup class went pretty okay, other than the fact that they...”

that color ;_;

I love this dress, so much.

humxo replied to your photoset “The makeup class went pretty okay, other than the fact that they...”

ohhhh my goodness you are so cute

Awww. Thanks.

obstinatecondolement replied to your photoset “The makeup class went pretty okay, other than the fact that they...”

These are great pictures of you. I love your smile <3

Thank you! 

[translightyagami]

Came for the Quantum Leap, stayed for the you

holy shit dude i was literally abt to send the same exact message to you what the fuck

[amorremanet]

“rec your own fics” meme

Tagged by @obstinatecondolement — Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

Confession: I’m torn on which fics to rec because most of the ones I actually like best are “problematic” in at least five ways each and/or will probably trigger somebody, and my impulse is to go, “I pick the tall, smart, good-looking one and plead the Fifth.” But anyway, I’m in a, “Fuck it” sort of mood and working on a different recs list that I just have to suck it up and go, “Fuck it” about, so here we are, yup. I have hit, “Fuck it.”

Please, for the love of god, heed the tags and warnings on all these fics.

When It All Comes Down To Dust (Doctor Who, Mature, Tenth Doctor/Face of Boe!Jack Harkness; it’s rated M but there is sexual content in it, also it’s a tentacle fic that runs on angsty bullshit character study).

I am more proud of this fic than I have any right to be, entirely because somebody once told me, “Oh shut up, you did not write tentacle porn. This is too pretty, you wrote tentacle erotica.” That’s still one of the best compliments that I’ve ever gotten on anything.

consider your best friend’s mouth (Teen Wolf, Teen, Scott/Stiles — second-person Scott POV hurt/comfort prose-poem bullshit).

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re riffing on, “You Are Jeff” for the umpteen millionth time in the name of angsty Skittles friends-to-lovers make-out sessions for the same reason that I always write Scott as autistic: because fuck you, that’s why.

tell me we both matter, don’t we (Teen Wolf, Explicit, Derek/Scott; look, this is angsty character study bullshit cosplaying as smut).

Also: Derek is 25 in this fic and Scott is 17. They were having sex when Scott was 16 because Derek went, “Well, he kissed me fist” and didn’t think he needed to ask. This is treated as a Not Good thing in the fic, period.

I could just title this fic, “Derek and Scott make bad life choices and really should not be sleeping together, but they’re werewolf disasters and they have sex anyway” because that is literally all that happens. Also, Derek realizes he was wrong about, “Well, Scott kissed me first, so I am absolved of all responsibility for my bullshit choices” (but only because he goes, “Oh shit, I might be enabling Scott’s self-destructive tendencies,” not because he recognizes any other reasons why he was wrong).

But boys spring infernal (Voltron: Legendary Defender, Mature — all of the emotional hurt/comfort, so much angst, it’s another, “I like making fictional characters deal with mental health issues bc it makes it easier to deal with mine” sorta fic, wrapped up in a punk/college/hot mess AU).

This is the tall, smart, good-looking one, mostly because of how it reminded me that holy shit, writing fanfic used to be fun? And wow jeez, it can be fun again.

Anyway: Bi!Keith is (almost) 24, autistic, periodically the source of his advisor’s (Kolivan’s) worst headaches because he’s such a mess and so bad at letting people help him, and really fed up with the punk band rehearsing in the garage under his shitty apartment right before midterms when he wants to be asleep.

Gay!Shiro is a 27-year-old recovering addict with long hair, PTSD, panic attacks, a stuffed black lion, and a serious fanboy streak for George Michael. He and Keith didn’t expect to see each other ever again after some Bad Shit and a supposed disappearing act that went down almost five years ago, but guess who’s the lead singer of the band that’s been keeping Keith awake.

Also, Kuron is Shiro’s twin and we’re calling him Ryou because of GoLion. Bi!Lance is 23 as of July, ADHD as shit, well-meaning but overprotective in his self-appointed capacity as Shiro’s emotional guardian, and pining over Bi!Hunk, who doesn’t notice (because you could hand Hunk a cornucopia of hints, wrapped up in pretty box that has his name on it, and he would go hand the box to Shiro because duh, everybody knows that he’s The Pretty One).

A punk cover of “Genie In A Bottle” is involved, nobody is straight or neurotypical, and I may be in a contest with myself to see how many canon characters I can work into things in some capacity. (For example: Slav is Ryou’s best friend/roommate. I imagine him looking like, “What if Danny Pudi cosplayed as L Lawliet from Death Note.”)

Rain (Teen Wolf, General, Danny/Jackson) — Literally the only fic you don’t have to heed warnings for, because it’s G-rated. Welcome to the AU wherein merman!Jackson grooms cecaelia!Danny’s tentacles, because somebody once told me that it was impossible and I couldn’t write a G-rated tentacle fic, and so I did.

And I tag: @lostemotion @lesbiancleophas @derekslaura @sleepy-skittles @irresistible-revolution @morethanslightly​ @machidielontheway​ and @morphenomenalbabe​ — but no pressure if any of you don’t want to do it. And anyone else who wants to do the thing can just say that I tagged them. Blame me, it’s totally fair ♡