FLUFF FLUFF FLUFF, oh, how I love me some fluff! 😍 I cannot say enough good things about fluff. Basically it just makes me so happy, and we have some wonderful fluff in our fandom’s creations.
The list is long, so a message to you all: I love your fluff—thank you for brightening my day with it, especially for those of you who write and create endless amounts of it! I thank you!
Day 4: @roswellnewmexicocreate — fluff
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this sudden burst of sunlight by @unbreakablejemmasimmons
Alex isn’t exactly the easiest patient when he’s sick. Somehow, Michael doesn’t care.
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of rings and things by @saadiestuff
Michael thinks he's out of time. But it turns out their new story is just beginning.
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With Rudolph Watching by @litwitlady
Mistletoe makes a helpful appearance. The boys get a little carried away.
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songbirds and sun showers by @litwitlady
Michael surprises Alex with breakfast. Alex has a surprise of his own.
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What deserves to find you will never be lost by @alexmaanes
Malex week day 4 - FREE DAY: 5 times Alex and Michael weren't in a relationship and 1 time they were.
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what could be better than holding you close to me like this? By @spaceskam
Alex sneaks out for cuddles.
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Pictures of You by @prouvaireafterdark
Now that they're finally together, Michael wants more pictures with Alex.
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I won't let nobody hurt you by @manesalex
Michael and Alex get a dog.
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with music in my dreams and you here next to me by @manesalex
Michael and Alex’s daughter is learning to play the guitar.
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Of cute beagles and decidedly cuter owners by @bellakitse
Michael, Rosa, Kyle, and Jenna just moved into a new place that doesn't allow pets, luckily across the street is the cutest beagle ever. Rosa is ready to plan a dog-nap, Michael suggests writing a note to the owner instead. All Rosa wants is to play with Buffy, while all Michael wants is Buffy's owner.
Wonderful fics mentioned above! ^^ So check them out if you are a lover of fluff in fics!
And of course, ALL of the fluffy beautiful art by @greentealycheejelly 💕
he’s got a smart mouth but a good heart - Michael Guerin
It’s Day 2, celebrating characters, and much to my own surprise, at the end of season 2, Michael Guerin decided to move into my brain and take up residence. Obviously I still love Alex Manes (He lives first and foremost in my brain since 1x08), but there was something about how Michael buried his own pain about his mother to help everyone in season two that rang pretty true to my own life right now. I didn’t always like what he was doing in season 2 but I understood it.
Anyway, when I find a story that celebrates how complicated he is, I cheer and rejoice- so here’s a few of the stories that I have gone back to again and again.
Truck stop knives and other assessors of childhood @angsty-aliens (13,200) I can’t lie, I love a good trope story, and I especially love a good sci-fi trope story, so this story hits all of my buttons. It takes our two science nerds, Liz and Michael, mucking around, and accidentally creating a version of Michael- but not just any version, but the child who hitchhiked to Fosters ranch, completely over humans and desperate to find his family. The kid who was feral from neglect and abuse... he was the cutest thing and the most mortifying thing that ever happened to Michael to be displayed and shown. This story takes the de-aged trope and turns it on its head, and oh yeah, there’s a sweet backdrop to Michael and Alex getting together.
Implicit Memories of You by @ninswhimsy (3464) - So this is an amnesia story canon-divergent story set after 2x11 basically, where they use the mind erasing drug on Michael. I know, I’m reccing this about Michael characterization, but it’s so solidly him after all the memories are stripped away and he’s acting on instincts, locked in a room to torture Alex with before death. There’s so much going on in so few words, something that Nin is a master at, especially the ephemeral remembrances of his mother that Michael has- oof right in the feels.
Maybe this time (he’ll stay) by @hannah-writes (7700) This is a sequel to one of my favorite stories I recced last year, dealing in alternative timelines where in one world, Michael is lost and alone and has pushed Alex away, and in another world where Alex came home from Iraq in a flagged draped coffin. It answers the question, what about Mikey? Where’s his happy ending? The confirmation of the multiverse means there’s an Alex out there who needs him- and through trial and error, Michael finds him. The world building in both stories is top notch, because for every action, there’s a reaction and reason shaping Michael.
Constant as the northern star by celzmccelz (53,000) - don’t know the tumblr here - This is an Mpreg, and it starts solidly after 1x13 and goes AU from there. But what if in the 100 mile drive home from Caulfield, Michael and Alex share a grief-induced moment of insanity where they fall back into their oldest language- sex for comfort, and then Michael does everything he does in the finale, including turning toward Maria, what if there was a souvenir? Despite the trope of mpreg, this is just how I see Michael, deeply in love with Alex but unable to trust that Alex feels the same depth in return. The friendships in here are also top-notch, from Kyle being a baby-doctor, to Isobel having her own Max-related spiral unable to let go of her brother only to refocus on Michael, to Liz fucking off with Rosa for the first half of the story because she’s caught up in her own grief (which turned out to be canon!). And there’s a whole plot here! With Jesse Manes being the worst.
Leave the light on by @sabrinachill (36,900) - Confession time- I love fake dating as a trope, I know, shocked right? But I especially love it with RNM because Malex are exes by 1x03. Mattie nailed the dynamic of pining and the assumption of unrequited love so well in this story. Although the POV switches here a bit between chapters, (and Alex is fabulous) what I really really loved was how she wrote Michael, in love but convinced that he’s messed up too much for Alex. Aware of his faults but not in a sullen way, but an acknowledgment that he was in a bad place and Alex hasn’t always been the best remedy him in the past. It was a very mature take on the “give me another chance” trope in Malex reunion stories, where both sides had a share of blame. The plot was suspenseful and tight (how do people do that???) with a climax that honestly shocked me! I really enjoyed rereading it while I prepped my rec-sets, and I won’t be surprised if this story isn’t mentioned by everyone doing ‘Creators Week’. It’s worthy of all the love.
Temporary wounds by @prouvaireafterdark (7800) - How many times can I rec this story? Hopefully you’re not bored by my adoration of this Lynne. So even though it’s set post-season 1 with the assumption that Michael/Maria will fizzle out while Alex/Forrest date- it’s actually perfectly set for season 3 (an author who is psychic??). As a rule, I hate jealousy as a trope, but this story has the only type of jealousy I want to see on screen- where Michael wonders what was missing inside of him that Alex didn’t want to be public during their long affair (even with the acknowledgment that Alex was too scared before)- like that type of sad pining is my catnip!
The first who ever did by nostalijinks (33,000) post season 1, but really it also stands pretty well after season 2. There was an interview during season 1 I think that talked about how all Michael really wanted was to be a hero to Alex (the way he stepped in front of Jesse as a kid) but he thinks he failed at it since Alex enlisted. That failure soured him in ways but he never stops trying, for Alex. This is a really well done 5 times plus 1 story, with an overreaching arc of reconciliation between Alex and Michael, starting as teenagers, then as adults while Michael is with Maria, then as friends, real friends, trying to support Alex as Alex dates. The whole emotional journey of maturity that Michael takes here is so well done, where there’s no real villains in the friend group. I just love it. I wish the author had written 100 more like this one, but as a standalone work it’s epic.
The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger by @iwontbeyourmedicine (25,000) Ly has a very large body of work, that you could spend days paging through on AO3 or tumblr, but this one hits two of my kinks hard- the amnesia story line and true love conquers all. So three fandoms ago I was huge into Steve/Bucky, that iconic moment in Cap 2 where Bucky breaks through the brainwashing has never left me. This story takes my love for that moment, and makes it Malex. Alex gets programmed by his family and set loose on his friends, on the aliens and it’s a shitshow bloodbath since he’s really fucking good at kicking ass. Michael is caught between keeping everyone safe and trying not to hurt Alex, and the tension is just top-notch. I love how it’s not an immediate fix either, the way they circle each other in the aftermath, wanting to come home, but home would be a totally new step for both of them. Just chef’s kiss good at joining action, angst, and romance together.
Into the palm of your hand by @haloud (5900) hal is a treasured friend, so I am admitting some bias here, but we both enjoy talking about how wonderful and sad Michael is and how desperately we enjoy poking at that softness and then wrapping him up with love again... so this story was written pre-shamegate (and if you know what that means, I’m sorry) but it matches my head canon of what the history of hiding does to someone. The internalization of believing maybe there’s a reason behind the hiding that has nothing to do with homophobic townies. Alex has an ex boyfriend come to town, and he doesn’t tell Michael. And omg the journey hal takes us on with Michael’s spiral and Brave Little Toaster act was so wonderful and painful and real. The communication between these two was top notch as they worked through a road bump from the past, and let’s face it, once we get our malex back, these things are going to happen, and it will either tear them apart or bring them closer together- I prefer to believe it will be closer together.
There is beauty in a failure by @jule1122 (2400) There’s been a few Greg and Michael stories to pop up on my radar after 2x10, and this one was one of my favorites. This is a Greg who pulls no punches in exposing his brother’s past to Michael, but also gives Michael the space to work through what he wants. It’s an AU from 2x12, that allowed Michael to break up with Maria for basically the same reasons that Maria used on him in 2x13. The way Michael is able to what he wants and communicate it Alex in the end- so good! We can only hope to see something similar in season 3.
I don’t know what to think (but I think of supernovas) by @queersirius (3900) This story is a delight from start to finish- I mean frustrated cursing turns the console on into a hologram who then takes the most pleasing form to Michael’s eyes? SIGN ME UP for those shenanigans. I fucking loved how Isobel saw it first too. And then the comedy of Alex discovering it? And what happens afterwards? Oh it’s so delicious. Now of course, full disclosure, this light-hearted romp through the feels also inspired me to think up a much much sadder version of Michael building an AI for companionship considering how isolated he ended up being at the end of Season 2 and we all know Michael needs friends, badly.
Innuendo by the Roswell anon (6000) written for @bisexualalienblast the roswell anon is my favorite treasure in this fandom, I could pretty much list all of their stories as examples of some very fine Michael Guerin characterization. This one was one of my favorite post-season 1 fix-it fics though, because it has some of the most real 28-30 year old guy dialogue I’ve come across- from the crude jokes, to the sharply self-deprecating observations- this is Alex and Michael stripped down, all edges but what’s left is fatigue and love. The resolution at the end, where Alex observes that yes, Michael has tried the last 10 years but this is their first chance to try together- to pull in the same direction? It just lays me flat on the ground with how true that is to canon.
Whenever You Want to Begin, Begin by @foramomentonly (3200) - this is a sequel, and the first story is dynamite- don’t get me wrong- but it moves from the hopeful side of an ending to legit Happily-Ever-After here, and I devoured every word. First of all, having Michael turn to photography as a way of self-improvement is fucking genius. Photographers are always at the center of every happy event, but never the focus, and that screams Michael to me, the way he lives on the outskirts of the 9-5 job and literal outskirts of town in his trailer. The other thing is photographers are revealed by their work, and that’s also something I head-canon with Michael just in the mundane- he’s good with his hands, he wants to leave a car better than he found. Anyway, this story is gorgeously written, moves a bit like a really good bottle of wine- heavy but soft, as you watch Michael become Alex’s friend, and even more importantly, Alex becomes Michael’s friend. Fantastic- I’ve read it about four times now since it was published.
I LOOOOVE AUs! Love to write them, love to read them. Here are some of my faves.
Shadow Work
By @myrmidryad (AO3 author page)
This, to me, is one of the ultimate RNM fandom AUs. I’d recommend it to everyone. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since it was posted - I was recovering from mastitis last Halloween, and was LIVING for the nightly updates of this fic. It’s impeccable - an awesomely spooky plot in which Alex is a shade, Michael is the ex who is back in his life, and there’s a mystery afoot involving the aliens. Alex, Alex - he’s written SO well in this, and there are some of the best passages regarding physical intimacy in the entire fandom. It’s heartbreaking in parts, too - there’s a moment where Alex asks Michael to clear the forces that have been “pushing” him, only to discover it changes nothing - it’s been his own psyche for the entire scene. Marvelous. I reread it during the pandemic and still just absolutely love it.
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
By @jule1122 (AO3 author page)
One of my favorite, favorite tropes is secret marriage, and this is such a gut wrenching fic that hinges on the idea that Michael and Alex are secretly married, and this fact isn’t revealed until years later when Alex is injured. The characterizations here are superb, ALL of them, with so many heartbreaking details. I cried, for real, at the end.
Satellite’s Gone by the Anonymous Roswell Author
The Roswell Anon has written so many great stories, but this is one of my absolute favorites. Michael leaves the planet but is still able to communicate, for a time. But all is not as it seems. So perfectly written, and so memorable, to me.
I can hold you now by @andrea-lyn
AO3 Author page
One of my favorites by a great author. I have reread this a number of times, and one of my favorite details is the visual of Michael crashing Alex’s wedding.
Too Busy being yours by @auselysium
AO3 author page
A fake dating AU! Poor Alex is pretty much pushed WELL past his breaking point just by Michael regaling his commanding officer’s family with his true feelings for Alex, which of course Alex takes as over dramatic lies, setting up a great roadside confrontation.
Not in this world or the next by @hannah-writes
AO3 author page
Tears, tears, tears raining down for Mikey Evans, the parallel universe doppelgänger of our Michael Guerin who switches places, only to find that his love, Alex Manes, is ALIVE in this reality. Th is story is SO GOOD. I remember cheering every time there was an update, ha.
Here I am fallen by @ninswhimsy
AO3 Author Page
Ohhhhh man. I have raved and raved about this one, and I’m prepared to do it again. Michael saves Alex here, body and soul. It’s a Crusades AU that is just so lovely, cutting through Alex’s religious shame with Michael’s earnest desire to love him in every way. Gorgeously written.
Everywhere on earth you go by @leescoresbies
AO3 Author page
This is a standout AU, in my opinion. Alex is a folk singer who fled Roswell after high school. Against his better judgment, he plays a show in New Mexico, and who do you think he runs into? This is perfectly written, with such vivid, descriptions and characterizations. The post-coital fight is one of the most memorable passages I’ve ever read in the RNM fandom.
And the sun rose red and Fleetwood Mac ain’t got nothin on us by @christchex
AO3 author page
Two great and VERY different AUs. The first is a beautifully written Western featuring Miluca. The second is a cleverly structured story about high school rumors and the impact they have on Michael and Alex.
let me count the ways, you can’t fight the hurricane, put me to work by @queersirius
AO3 Author page
Millie writes SUCH good AUs!!! There’s a Pacific Rim AU, an AU set in an office (with one of the hottest, smuttiest scenes in the fandom), and a high school AU featuring the most perfect teenage Alex that has 100% inspired my writing of him. Can’t go wrong with any of these.
Freaky Friday by @iwontbeyourmedicine
AO3 author page
I have a soft spot for this one because it was my inspiration for the fic exchange back in January. This one has such a great premise - what if Alex, Liz, and Maria were the aliens? It’s angsty and great.
Where they hang the lights by @leescoresbies
AO3 author page
My favorite space-set fic in the fandom. The antigravity scene is so beautiful, and it’s got a great plot. Love this one.
To Trust Love @laughsalot3412
AO3 Author Page
This is getting mentioned tomorrow in angst, too, FYI. Oof, the plot of this - the aliens are in Caulfield. Alex is a guard. This fic could have gone so wrong in so many ways, but the subject matter was so sensitively handled, and Alex is so so good and trying so hard. One of my favorite stories in the whole fandom for sure. As this was posting live, I must have reread each chapter like eight times, ha.
my love is a life taker by @jocarthage
AO3 Author page
Trust me, this is getting its own separate post as soon as I get a chance to finish it! But it is also one of my tippity top favorite AUs. On its surface, it’s a time travel AU (so well done), but it is also SO much more than that
After breaking up with his boyfriend Forrest, Alex goes to find home in a familiar face.
One of my favorite Malex things is them being each other’s home and Jess does an amazing job of showing that they will always be that for each other, no matter how much of the world they see. This is a lovely little getting back together fic and it shows them having grown so much.
Untouched by @prouvaireafterdark
Intellectually, Michael knows this is a bad idea.
Not the worst he’s ever had, but it’s definitely up there.
Michael considers throwing his phone out the window of his Airstream to save him from himself, but he’s hard enough to pound nails and if his recent sexual experiments have taught him anything it’s that there’s only one person who can help him right now.
Before he can talk himself out of it, he sends a text.
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After months of not being able to orgasm no matter what (or who) he does, Michael finally caves and booty calls Alex.
I love smut fics and this is one of the hottest ones I’ve ever read. I love the way Lynne captures the Malex dynamic, with both tons of heat and love. While I will read and enjoy tons of different interpretations of them in smut, hers is probably the closest to how I see Maledx and her smutty fics are always a gift.
leave the light on by @sabrinachill
“Explain it to me again — why do we need to pretend to be married?”
It’s a question Michael knew was coming, but not one he has a good answer for. Not yet. Maybe not ever.
He cuts his eyes away from the road to steal a glance at the passenger’s seat for the seventeenth time in the past hour; the view is the same as always. Alex, frowning so deeply his entire face is drooping downward, his dark hair dancing in the wind that whips through the windows as he stares at the simple silver band circling his ring finger.
Its twin sits on Michael’s hand.
I love Mattie’s fics and this one definitely showcased her skills. She took a prompt list and wrote an entire 30 chapter fic, posting a chapter per day. I am in awe of the focus and dedication that took. And she always writes beautifully and captures Michael and Alex’s ridiculous love for each other.
last year’s wishes are this year’s apologies by @lambourngb
Alex thinks he knows what he’s getting into when he bars law enforcement from searching the Airstream while he waits for Michael. What’s worse than pretending to be in love with someone that you’re actually in love with- only trapping yourself together with your ex, all while your ex is talking about moving on-- with your best friend. Cool, cool, cool.
Fake dating is one of my favorite tropes and this one was so wonderfully filled with the slow burn that is inherent in that trope. I love the idea, taking where s1 left us and giving us an s2 fake dating AU. And, of course, I love all the focus on Alex and how he’s dealing with all of this while being super-Alex.
Malex proposal art by @djchika
Deej’s work is always adorable and this is one of my favorites. I love how Kyle is included in it and the sweetness of Michael’s proposal. Kyle’s delight in the second frame is the cherry on top of an excellent piece of art.
The Road to You by @mansikkaomenabanaani
Michael’s relief at tracking down Alex when he leaves town without warning is short-lived when he realizes he can’t persuade him to come home. He won’t go back to Roswell without him; what choice does he have but to follow Alex wherever he might go? In a road trip that takes them halfway across the country, can Michael and Alex find their way back to one another as well as whatever it is that Alex is searching for?
I can’t believe this is a Choose Your Own Adventure fic and the author deserves props for managing to figure out how to write fic like that alone. But they also manage to build and add to Michael and Alex’s backstory while slowly and masterfully guiding them back together.
I meant to have a post for every day this week to recognize all the amazing creators in this fandom, but unfortunately life is really getting in the way of me doing that right now. Instead, here’s a list of some of the works and writers that have really stuck with me this last year 💜
last year’s wishes are this year’s apologies by @lambourngb - I think everyone knows about this masterpiece already, but it deserves another shoutout because holy shit is this fic good. Fake/Pretend Relationship is one of my top tropes and it is executed brilliantly in this. Even beyond that though, the plot is interesting and engaging, the dynamic between Michael and Alex works so well, and the happy epilogue at the end feels so earned. All around an amazing fic and I can’t wait to see what she writes next!
Resentment series by @manesalex - I don’t want to get into the discourse on this, but 2x06 hit me, and a lot of others, really hard. I felt lost and angry and disgusted and I just really needed to read something where the ambiguously consensual events of that episode had real consequences, and boy did Molly deliver. I loved seeing Alex getting away from Roswell and watching him and Michael find their way back to each other, the right way this time, with all their ups and downs (because progress isn’t linear!). Molly really treated this story with the sensitivity and authenticity that it deserves and if you’re in the market for a read that is highly 2x06-critical and has a focus on Alex, I highly recommend it.
this time i’ll do things the way you wanted by @spaceskam - I love everything Alyssa writes so it’s really hard to pick just one fic to highlight, but I’m gonna try to anyway. I have a soft spot for teen Malex sweetness and this one’s got it in spades--just maybe not in the way you think. After Alex loses a decade’s worth of memories, he thinks he and Michael are still kind of together and I’m just obsessed with the casual intimacy they share because of that. It’s just so so so good and if you haven’t read this you definitely should!
leave the light on by @sabrinachill - again, Fake/Pretend Relationship is my jam, and this is suuuuch a fun take on that premise, basically blending that concept with a mission/case fic where Michael and Alex attend a couples retreat as a cover for looking into Project Shepherd-related things. Mattie has woven this story together with a combination of angst, sexual tension, and mutual pining so intense you’ll feel it in your chest as you read, and I just enjoyed it all so, so much.
Nail in My Coffin by @foramomentonly - It’s no secret that I love smut and I just love the way it’s written in this fashion design au. The smut is hot as hell, but soft too, with an emphasis on communication that is so important with a D/s dynamic like theirs. If you’re looking for fics where Alex is a Dom who takes care of what’s his, I highly recommend this one. Also, love those moments of Kylex friendship we get here and there in this fic, haha.
not in this world (or the next) by @hannah-writes - I literally cannot talk or think about this fic for more than like a minute without wanting to cry, so I’ll keep this short: this is a beautiful, heart-wrenching fic where Michael gets swapped with an alternate universe version of himself named Mikey Evans, who had every opportunity Michael didn’t, but has spent years grieving Alex’s loss. It’s a masterpiece that will leave you a total wreck, but there’s also an excellent sequel that will give you (and Mikey) the closure and happy ending you’ll need and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
This is probably going to be my second longest post for @roswellnewmexicocreate! But AUs have a special place in my heart and I want to celebrate them all
built this house on memories by @villanellve was one of the first few fics I read in this fandom. This author has the best ways of making stories come alive, without ever sacrificing the characters and their personalities.
Go Catch a Falling Star by @andrea-lyn look we all know andrea is an amazing AU writer, but this fic from her is a double whammy of sweetness - A Stardust AU and malex being their sweet selves. A++++++
Let Your Warm Hands Break Right Through by @dancinbutterfly is an incredible au angst-with-a-happy-ending ride that everyone needs to read.
The Alien Job by @daffietjuh A LEVERAGE AU. FEATURING ALIENS!
Hey Brother by @caitlesshea ok I love caitles already a LOT, so y’know read everything she has written. BUT this one is my favoritest because it combines Freaky Friday with awkward Max around malex plots. Just so so so good.
where they hang the lights by @leescoresbies A Firefly AU. I mean...do I even need to say more? The author has a way of world building that makes the characters jump off the words, and honestly the end is so satisfying
not in this world (or the next) by @hannah-writes if you haven’t had the privilege of meeting Mikey Evans and you aren’t in his fan club, what even are you doing? This story has my whole heart, as does Mikey.
touch me (just try it) by @spaceskam ok yes this fic is for me, but please understand the entire fic series is a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. Alyssa has written almost 400 fics for this fandom all by herself (!!!!!!!!), but this fic stands out for the brilliant way she wrote the malex tension.
touching you I start to bloom by @manesalex this fandom doesn’t have enough arranged marriage fics, but Molly has written one of the best ones. It’s sweet and hot and so so so lovely.
God called in sick today by @winged-fool is a bone chillingly awesome serial killer au that I often think about. It is so well written you won’t forget it for a long long time.
moving forward by @laniew1 y’all know I’m lanie’s biggest fan, and if you haven’t read any of her AUs, you are definitely missing out. This fic holds a very special place in my heart for the way it introduces the alien parents and the soulmate trope comes alive under lanie’s words!
not broken but beautiful & map on your skin by @bestillmyslashyheart are two very different but equally wonderful takes on the soulmate trope! I cannot recommend them enough!
Also this is a shout-out to the fandom’s AU queen @beamirang who gave us many wonderful, romantic, funny, and tragic AUs ❤
Every day we find new fics, new moodboards, new gifsets, new videos, new manips, new everything that celebrates the existence of our favorite characters. Time has come to share with the rest of the world your love for that particular creation you can't stop gushing about! Let’s celebrate the outstanding, creative people this fandom has gifted us with! We are just immensely lucky to have them all, so why don’t we show them our appreciation for all of their work this year as well?
Each day will have a prompt. Do you think there's a creationg that can fit said prompt? Please share a link with all of us and tag the creator! We also ask of you that you share a link to their ao3 profile in case the have one. Go crazy and tell us why it deserves all the love in the world. Share it with everyone so we all can leave some love!
Day 1: August 31, 2020
Dynamics: Whether it is family or friendship or something romantic, we all love a good dynamic! Share some creation you love that focuses on that particular relationship you enjoy, canon or not!
Day 2: September 1, 2020
Character: We have a great ensemble of characters in this show! They all have their own development and their own depths. We would love to see those creations you love that focus on one of them. Let us know why that particular creation is a masterpiece!
Day 3: September 2, 2020
Alternate Universe (AU): Canon is a minefield, but from time to time we all love to enjoy our characters and ships in different universes. Do you have some creation in mind that takes the characters out of the world we all know and makes them live a different life? Share it with us!
Day 4: September 3, 2020
Fluff: Why don't we flood fandom with creations that are so sweet they give us all cavities? Give us all the works you love that focus on fluff so sweet that your face hurts from all that smiling!
Day 5: September 4, 2020
Angst: Canon provides so much pain on a daily basis, and some creators enjoy ripping our hearts with their works. Today's the day when we all celebrate creators who love breaking us. Share those works with all of us!
Day 6: September 5, 2020
Series/Multipart/WiP: There are so many creations that are part of a series, or have different interconnected parts. Whether it's a series of gifsets or a fic that spans out through several chapters or art that's part of a larger series. Tell us about your favorite series in this fandom! Sky's the limit!
Day 7: September 6, 2020
Cheerleaders: For six days, creators have been reveling in all the love, so now it's the moment to give some of that love back. Tell us about those people who have helped you through your creative process, whether it's your beta or that particular person who's reblogged everything you've posted or commented on everything you've shared, or that person who's been holding your hand all the time while you worked hard on your creation. We want to know everything about them! We want to get to know those wonderful people who are helping you as a creator. You guys are an essential part of this fandom!
Please tag each post with “rnmcreate2020″ in the first 5 tags so we can find it and share it with others. Fans of any and all characters or ships are welcome and encouraged to participate.
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a second, slightly more personal post for today. time to put some lovely people on blast.
my malex channel buddies @usbournejez and @frenziedblaze, for keeping me positive and yearning for that soft content. for the people who continue to make me feel welcome and safe @insidious-intent @andrea-lyn @manesalex @booksmartstreetstupid @alexmanes
to new friends and old @christchex @passiveaggressivegummybear @lesbiancristinayang @youaremyworldlois @winged-fool
and to some truly amazing mutuals who continue to inspire me with their work, and make me cry when they reblog my stuff @lambourngb @caitlesshea @el-gilliath @aewriting @ninswhimsy @prouvaireafterdark @myrmidryad @jocarthage @fairymonk @sabrinachill @foramomentonly @tasyfa @lsobelevans @vlamito
