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[verladyweek]

VXLENTINE'S DAY 2024: Masterlist

Fanart

Hand Holding Comic Strip by @hoba-kirk

Fanfiction

What A Pair by @ladynamida

Rubble Wall (English) by @lmae98

Rubble Wall (Spanish) by @lmae98

Like the Poets Say by @sonderlativ

Waiting For Cupid by @unlucky-leek

Misc

Image Edit (CIEN AÑOS BY PEDRO INFANTE) by @lmae98

[ladynamida]

In honour of my fondest Verlady and for the VxLentines event hosted by @verladyweek...

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Just a little Valentine's treat for anyone who enjoys the ship!

In honour of today's theme "Bridging the Distance"...

Vergil and Lady discover there is distance between them... can they, and will they, bridge it?

[verladyweek]

DAY SEVEN: All things end, Dante. Even Verlady Week.

Verlady Nation, I am so happy to be a part of you and to have been a small part of this amazing event week. While the day is not quite over yet, it's getting late in my part of the world, and I want to take the opportunity to say a few things before we all give ourselves and each other a well-deserved pat on the back and say farewell to Verlady Week 2024.

First of all: Thank. You. To all of you. To each and everyone who left a like, shared a post, saw a post and forwarded it to their one (1) friend who they thought could maybe get a kick out of it. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out of their day to hop over to AO3 and leave a kudos or even a comment on one of the (so far) EIGHTEEN! (pardon my excitement, but that number necessitates all-caps) wonderfully intriguing short stories that have been created for this week - and I know that there are still some stories in the works that are not quite done editing yet. To put this number into perspective, there are - as of the moment of me writing this post - 131 stories in the Lady/Vergil tag on AO3. Which means that almost 14% of all VL stories on AO3 were created in the span of this event week.

Like. You guys. Are beasts. And I say that with awe and adoration.

Thank you to everyone who shared a song - I made a Spotify playlist out of the suggestions and will share it in the masterpost I will compile sometime in the next week.

Thank you for sharing your headcanons and your personal thoughts regarding the intricacies of how you view Verlady's dynamic.

Thank you for all the funny memes! For the photo manipulations! For the renders! Thank you for sharing how Verlady has influenced your real life in small ways, like tiny heart/cheeks on your fingernail.

And I know that was already a very long section of "first of all", but I just wanted to add one last thing:

Thank you so much for every single person who has started a project inspired by this event, regardless of whether you actually finished and shared it or not! All I ever hoped for, was that people would find ways to enjoy this ship and maybe even engage with each other, and I am so happy to say that you have literally made my whole week, I am completely blown away by all of your hard work and the love and support you show each other.

You can still share any works you have not finished yet, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, it doesn't matter, I got you. Just yell at me give me a ping and I'll reblog your post and add you to the masterlist!

If I have - for whatever reason - NOT reblogged a post you made for this event, please reach out to me! I am so sorry. I promise it was a genuine mistake on my part. I check the event tag regularly, but I might have missed a post or two by accident.

Now, second of all: some of you have already expressed that they would like to see this event return, and I absolutely 100% agree. Next Verlady Week will run from September 8th to September 14th 2025 - and if you happen to have the time or energy for a side hustle, there's always VXLENTINE'S DAY 2025 on February 14th.

Before I go into more detail about the latter, I want to talk about the former for just one more second: I will post a link to a Google form sometime next week, allowing you to anonymously suggest prompts that you'd like to explore or see others explore for Verlady Week 2025. I actually have this huge mountain of unused prompts leftover from brainstorming this year's event, but if any of you have any unfinished WIPs and you think that "oh well, maybe participating in next year's event is that final push of Motivation(TM) I need to finally finish this", then please, toss a fitting suggestion my way and I will do my best to include it. Or if there is any concept you've always wanted to explore with Vergil and Lady, just yell at me over on Google Forms, or in my DMs (@verladyweek or @kintsugicore) or just write a frenzied post here on Tumblr one morning, explaining in excruciating detail how you are haunted by visions of Vergil accidentally becoming a stripper and Lady running into him on her friend's bachelorette party and I will probably nod in agreement and mutter "I bet that is all just one of Dante's elaborate ploys to do the And Now Kiss(TM) with them" and add something like Striptease to the prompt sheet.

There will not be any prompt voting because VXLENTINE'S taught me that there are certain limitations to how well I can restructure my RL to allow me pockets of time to organize forms and polls and put together necessary graphics, etc. But as of now, I don't think voting is necessary. Verlady nation is tiny, and if any of you want to suggest any prompts (would love ideas for any misc. prompts, tbh!), I think it will be easy to fit at least one suggested prompt per person into next year's prompt sheet!

Now. VXLENTINE'S! I am so so sorry that I didn't manage to put together a poll or a prompt post yet. To simplify the process of choosing the next prompt, I have decided to show you the suggestions I received and explain which suggestion I chose to use and why.

Now, different first meeting is the one person who left empty-handed, but I have decided to carry that prompt over to Verlady Week 2025 instead (so, there's your first prompt, ha!)

VXLENTINE'S DAY 2025 will have the prompt "Sweet Surprise" because I felt it checked the most boxes for prompts suggested. It can be made to fit for a gift, but also for a blind date or first date or any of the other things person #2 suggested, really. Technically, depending on how you envision that Different First Meeting, it could probably work for that one, too.

I will make a proper announcement post for next year's VXLENTINE'S DAY when the dust has settled for a bit and we've all had time to read through everyone's wonderful contributions to Verlady Week and the stress we may have experienced the past few days no longer feels as draining. (And again, you were all so amazing! You did so well! You've put the D in Dedication.)

To close out this already very long post: Verlady Nation is probably among the tiniest little fringe existences in this fandom. It was so nice to be a little louder than we usually are. Thank you again, so much. I hope to see you again in February, and maybe September 2025!

Godspeed and keep on shipping!

[verladyweek]

VXLENTINE'S DAY 2024: Epilogue.

Thank you so so so much to everyone who created and shared and liked and reblogged and kudos’d and commented and spread the love for Vergil and Lady! I had such a blast reading your stories and seeing your art and interactions.

A masterlist of submitted fanworks will be available later today and will be kept up to date in case of late submissions up until March 14th.

An AO3 collection has been made which you are free and invited to join, but in no way required to be a part of if you’d rather not be featured there - I just think it is a very neat way to keep track of event related fanfiction :’) To join the collection, please edit your fanfiction and under "Associations" choose the collection "vxlentine" for your work to be added.

Suggestions for next year’s prompt can be submitted via inbox or by filling out the feedback form. You are free to suggest as many or as few prompts as you’d like until May 8th. Polling will start on May 15th and the chosen theme for VXLENTINE’S DAY 2025 will be announced on June 16th.

Thank you for making VXLENTINE'S DAY 2024 such a positive experience and fond memory to look back upon! It could not have been this awesome without you 💙

[verladyweek]

VXLENTINE'S DAY 2024: Bridging the Distance

A wonderful good day to you, Verlady nation! We are back with some information about the upcoming VXLENTINE'S DAY - a day to spread some love and share thoughts and fanworks that focus on Vergil and Lady.

What is VXLENTINE'S DAY?

VXLENTINE'S DAY is a celebration dedicated to the platonic, romantic or sexual relationship between Vergil and Lady from the Devil May Cry series. VXLENTINE'S DAY will start on February 14th, but late submissions to the tag #vxlentine will be shared by this blog until March 14th. All Verlady Week submission rules apply to fanworks shared during this celebration.

How can I participate?

There are lots of ways to participate in this year's VXLENTINE'S DAY celebration!

Create and share a fanwork based on this year's theme: Bridging the Distance.

Share a snippet or preview of a project you are working on - future contributions to Verlady Week are welcome and allowed to be shared!

Send a message to this blog and rec your favourite fanwork! All submissions will be compiled in a community's pick rec list - a virtual box of chocolates, if you will, of your favourite creations to easily share with others and hopefully delight your day as you maybe even discover new fanworks to shower in love! (Please include a link to the fanwork!)

Send in a short (up to 4 lines) love letter, note, quote or poem and receive a Valentine's graphic! (Submissions can be romantic, funny, sad, whatever comes to mind when you think of Vergil and Lady.)

Submission deadline for recs and Valentine's graphic texts is February 9th. Please post your creations and previews sometime between February 14th and March 14th and use the tag #vxlentine or feel free tag @verladyweek to make sure your post will be seen and shared by this blog!

All submissions can be sent in anonymously if you'd prefer not to be credited in the rec list and/or Valentine's graphics.

A fanwork, in the context of this celebration, includes anything and everything you can think of: fanart, fanfiction, AMVs, collages, moodboards, meta posts, headcanons, memes, and probably many more ways to express your love for Vergil and Lady that I cannot think of right now. If love is stored in it and you or someone else made it, then it is a fanwork.

[sonderlativ]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Happy VXLENTINE’S DAY Vergil & Lady nation! Have a short ficlet about Vergil being the most unreliable of narrators in the deepest of denials to be had, with a generous sprinkle of fluff.

[beenpole-archive]

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