let's pump it up!!

Nathan (he/they)/23/Very Gay Stan the three L's: Lesbians, Love, Victor, and LOONA AO3: ThatOneGaySlytherin

[that0negayslytherin]

A moodboard I put together for my (now finished!) Love, Victor fanfic: Good Things Fall Apart

This is essentially my take on season 2, and it has a good balance of angst and fluff with a major arc involving the reconciliation of spirituality and sexuality, so if that’s your jam check it out!!

[Other major elements include: Benji indoctrinating Victor with Lorde’s musical catalogue, gays at the beach, more discussion of cryptids than initially planned, and SO much found family loveliness.]

[velvetys]

[ouyangzizhensdad]

There’s a post going around with the sentiment of like ‘you can tell when a gay character is written by a gay person bc the stereotypes are the right ones” and people keep adding what the ‘right’ gay stereotypes are with things like ‘always getting iced coffee’ or ‘having enamel pins’ and honestly….

[ouyangzizhensdad]

Honestly, on a more serious note, the number of times in the past few years someone who was assumed to be straight wrote a gay storyline and loads of people kept talking about how they wrote their gay characters in a straight way because they were straight only for the author to end up publicly coming out due to all the pressure should probably lead at least some people to reevaluate whether their ‘straightdar for authors based on how they write gay people’ is truly always accurate lmao.

[knitmeapony]

#ok listen to me: this is not about whether you personally like iced coffee and enamel pins or not#it’s about how the queer movement has been co-opted by middle-class teenagers and turned from a political cause into an aesthetic#it’s about how a community that’s historally about radically accepting those Othered and marginalised now asks people to assimilate#to their standards of queerness at the risk of being outed#it’s about how status symbols of class and disposable income (which iced coffee and enamel pins ultimately are)#are used to gauge your performance of your queerness

[roach-works]

i genuinely don’t mean to hate on teenagers here, but just point out that on platforms that foster conflict-driven engagement, teenagers engage in a fuckton of conflict-driven engagement, and it’s largely due to the life stage they’re in. teenagers are just as smart as adults, but they’re in a life stage where they’re still trying to figure out who they are and what that means.

they readily use gatekeeping, stereotypes, cliques, and ingroup-outgroup discrimination to try to come to terms with the big confusing and contradictory mess of being a human among other humans, because they just showed up and started asking these questions like a year or two ago, not a decade, and they actually need to be using some broad assumptions because they don’t yet have enough experience on their own. they’re engaged in a process of refining what the world has already told them, like we all are. but they just started. so everything is really big, really important, and really infuriating to them in a way that people who have thirty years experience instead of three will have probably forgotten about.

thinking something is simple and easy because you don’t know enough yet to see how the situation is infinitely complex is also a normal part of being new at something. it happens to adults less and less because we stop being new at most things, but it does still happen.

however, it does mean that having teenagers drive these inexperienced and conflict-driven conversations on what it means to have a queer identity doesn’t yield very good results. it means that these conversations keep turning into gatekeeping exercises based on oversimplification and cliche.

i don’t think the solution is invalidating teenagers and freezing them out of the discussions they have every right to be participating in, though! i think the solution is just for experienced adults to keep speaking up for complexity, nuance, and acceptance of diversity, and reminding kids that the world is a really complicated place, and that that is a really good thing.

[totalsellout]

LOOΠΔ x Avatar The Last Airbender

[nvellas]

love, victor season 2 but it’s text memes [part one]

[ao3feed-venji]

by ThatOneGaySlytherin

Benji Campbell has been able to read minds his whole life. He always knows exactly what to say and do to make the people around him happy (even if he doesn’t always follow through). It isn’t until he meets Victor Salazar that he realizes the merit of acting from his gut, of speaking from his heart, of trusting his own instincts for once.

Words: 5058, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Love Victor (TV 2020)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Benjamin “Benji” Campbell, Victor Salazar, Lucy (Love Victor), Felix Weston, Derek (Love Victor)

Relationships: Benjamin “Benji” Campbell/Victor Salazar

Additional Tags: Mind Reading, Canon Divergence, Fluff, with like a sprinkle of angst because that’s who I am, Season 1

[lovevictorficfests]

hey! since season 2 has come out, we’ve decided to do a little rebrand! while we love venji, other ships are completely welcome and encouraged. happy writing!

[ao3feed-venji]

by ThatOneGaySlytherin

Victor rings the doorbell. He’ll make this choice. He always will.

Words: 980, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Love Victor (TV 2020)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Victor Salazar, Benjamin “Benji” Campbell

Relationships: Benjamin “Benji” Campbell/Victor Salazar

Additional Tags: fuck cliffhangers, Fluff, Redemption

[that0negayslytherin]

Hi nat <3

hello anon who must be 1 of like maybe 2 people ily <3

[ao3feed-venji]

by ThatOneGaySlytherin

Benji still can’t drive at night. Victor is worried for Benji. During a rainy ride through the back roads, Benji finally decides it’s time to talk about it.

Words: 4357, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Good Things Fall Apart

Fandoms: Love Victor (TV 2020)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Victor Salazar, Benjamin “Benji” Campbell

Relationships: Benjamin “Benji” Campbell/Victor Salazar

Additional Tags: Character Study, Fluff, Angst, Songfic, References to Addiction, References to Car Crashes, Introspection, this fic sponsored by carly rae jepsen, Benji is prob dealing with some PTSD, Car Cuddling, its all just very wholesome and a little bit angsty

[that0negayslytherin]

Fingers Crossed {a GTFA oneshot}

"Benji still can’t drive at night. Victor is worried for Benji. During a rainy ride through the back roads, Benji finally decides it's time to talk about it."

hi y'all, i know i rarely post here anymore ;-; just wanted you all to be aware (especially those who are fans of good things fall apart) that i've written another oneshot that takes place in the same universe, just a few months after the end of the main story!

excerpt;

“Hold on. Do you know where we are right now?”

Victor purses his lips. “So, not exactly, but—“

Benji bursts into a fit of giggles. “How could you possibly get lost back here? There’s, like, three roads.”

“But they all look exactly the same, and so do all the trees,” Victor says, pouting. “We’ll be fine.”

“Oh, I’m not worried. You’re just hopeless with directions. But adorable.”

{link to fic}

[that0negayslytherin]

HELLO LV STANS, to celebrate reaching a follower milestone over on my twitter, im doing a little fanfic giveaway!!

if you want to enter, all you have to do is follow me on twitter and retweet this entry post. there's also more information and specifics in the thread beneath about the fics, what i will/won't write, etc. and feel free to dm me with any questions!! :D

i'll be drawing 5 winners via random generator, and the giveaway runs until june 12th so be sure to enter while there's still time <3

[that0negayslytherin]

HELLO LV STANS, to celebrate reaching a follower milestone over on my twitter, im doing a little fanfic giveaway!!

if you want to enter, all you have to do is follow me on twitter and retweet this entry post. there's also more information and specifics in the thread beneath about the fics, what i will/won't write, etc. and feel free to dm me with any questions!! :D

i'll be drawing 5 winners via random generator, and the giveaway runs until june 12th so be sure to enter while there's still time <3

[photophoros]

soft fuzzy man like in that one song by that one guy 

[lovevictorficfests]

Venji Fic Fests: Summer Vacation 2021

Was anybody else shocked and offended when they read this and found out season 2 would be SKIPPING OVER Venji's first summer together???

This fic fest will be dedicated to writing about Victor and Benji enjoying the summer together, with a special focus on what might have happened during the summer between victor coming out and starting his junior year!!

Guidelines

Length: Since our submission window is much wider, this time length is completely up to you! anything from 200 word oneshots to 100k, multi-chapter epics are fair game.

Theme: As mentioned, we want to specifically focus on the missing months of summer that season 2 will apparently be skipping over, but any kind of summery theme also works perfectly! think beach days, ice cream dates, romantic road trips, etc <3

Ship: As always, Venji is our top priority, but any ship in the LV universe is acceptable!

Submissions: Be sure to submit your fic to this collection on AO3 to be sure it shows up with all of the other summer vacation fics! If you post about it on Tumblr, feel free to send us the post in a DM and we'll be sure to reblog it here.

Deadline: The collection opens on the release date of season 2, June 11, and will be open until at least August 11!

And if you’re looking for other LV fic writers, come join our Discord server!!

[joshuasmullet]

lucas wants you to all know that he’s VERY sad right now! (keep running s9e3)

[henryscavills]

Was this an Envy-related dream?  — Brie Larson in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World