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Hi, just curious if you're planning a minibang for tscosi gor 2022? I got hooked into this fandom pretty recently so of course I'd love a minibang ♡ No pressure at all, just asking. Thank you for organizing the 2021 one and facilitating so much content! All the best in the new year

Hi! Thank you for asking this, I’m sorry if it took me ages to get to because I rarely check this account, and you know how Tumblr is about notifications.

This answer is a hard maybe. For several reasons, though please do take this is an open casual discussion and nothing super serious.

I ran the 2021 minibang by myself, and while it was a lot of fun and I loved everything that came out of it, I ended up doing a LOT of pinch-hitting myself. It was fun at the time, but I simply don’t have as much time to dedicate to a bang this year, I’m really really busy with more important stuff. I’d need to have help.

Secondly, the TSCOSI fandom is kind of inconsistent in a weird way. I know it was really big around season one, or at least the history of fanart on tumblr and fic on ao3 suggests that, but now it has much fewer active fans. There’s a reason I made it a MINI-bang, but I’m not sure how much interest it would garner now because--

Thirdly, I haven’t been that into TSCOSI myself lately. do NOT get me wrong, I still love this show and fully plan to finish it. Eventually. But for several reasons, including my business and minor (minor, minor, i mean TINY) drama with other fans, I’ve stepped away for a while. It just kind of became exhausting t produce so much content for that much. I didn’t want to so it anymore.

In conclusion, I’m glad you’ve expressed interest in having another minibang! That means a lot to me, and I’m going to put this in the main tag so that anyone else who might be interested can see it and hopefully give feedback. I’ll feel it out from there, and maybe we can put something together when I have a break from the onslaught of tasks that is Life.

Thanks again,

Mod Edil

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[ID: photo of an embroidered pair of scissors on white fabric. The handles are black, and the metal parts are light gold. The scissors are open slightly, cutting through an embroidered black piece hair. End ID]

My piece of art for @whats-a-terrarium 's fic as a part of the 2021 @tscosi-minibang ! Check out their fic here: LINK

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Here's my art for @whats-a-terrarium 's fic on ao3, which you can find here as part of the @tscosi-minibang.

Holy SHIT guys, I LOVED this fic and I need you to read it, like, now. It has my heart.

[ID: a digital shaded Leinart of McCabe standing behind Park, cutting his hair with scissors. End ID]

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Iris street is the high street in the middling sized town of Rumour. The shopkeepers there are an eclectic bunch, ranging from an ex soldier who runs a gym to a reformed criminal who repairs cars. They all care about each other, though, so what’s a little weirdness between friends? They’ve all faced an enourmous threat together, and now they have to work on the greatest challenge of all - party planning.

My title card for @bluereadingdolphin’s fic A Place To Call Home, which you can read here. 

This piece and fic were made for @tscosi-minibang - if you’re interested in TSOCSI you should absolutely go check out some of the other awesome fics and art made for that event!

[ID: A photograph of a display of flower bouquets of various pink, purple, white, and green flowers in front of a glass window. Written above in gold Trajan font ar the words “A PLACE TO CALL HOME”. END ID]

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My art for @bluereadingdolphin 's as part of the @tscosi-minibang

A Place To Call Home

Read on ao3

[ID: a purple monochrome digital drawing showing arkady, violet, and Sana embracing. Arkady and violet are holding hands, while violet stands tucks into arkady's side. Smiling contents and showing a thumbs up. Sana has her hand thrown around arkady's waste and gestures broadly at the sky, grinning. Arkady smiles and looks down at Sana. End ID.]

[bluereadingdolphin]

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

Here’s the fic I wrote for the @tscosi-minibang!!

Summary:  Iris street is the high street in the middling sized town of Rumour. The shopkeepers there are an eclectic bunch, ranging from an ex soldier who runs a gym to a reformed criminal who repairs cars. They all care about each other, though, so what’s a little weirdness between friends? They’ve all faced an enourmous threat together, and now they have to work on the greatest challenge of all - party planning.

Pairings: Pretty much all canon pairings, but especially Violet/Arkady, Brian/Krejjh, Campbell/Sana and Park & McCabe Art: @drumkonwords

Betas: @iffeelscouldkill 

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[ID: we are looking in through the doorway of a compartment on a train at Violet and Arkady, as well as two women whose only visible parts are their hands on the tops of their bags. Arkady and Violet are sitting on the benches across from each other, smiling. Arkady is on the right, a south Asian woman with dark hair and brown skin, and is wearing a red skirt and a brown blouse. Violet is a Chinese woman with dark hair and tan skin in a purple shirt and a lighter purple shirt. There is a window between them showing the countryside]

I made this art for @iffeelscouldkill ‘s fic (here) for the @tscosi-minibang . It’s a really good fic! You should read it!

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ID: a picture of a tan train car door with the text “The Strange Case of the” in the window, “Iris Express” on a white band of metal below the window, and “enchantedsleeper” on a plate of metal in the center of the image. All of the text is in all caps, dark brown serif, except for “enchanted sleeper,” which is edited to look like it is embossed onto the metal plate. The door is very dirty. End ID

My art for @iffeelscouldkill​‘s fic The Strange Case of the Iris Express as a part of @tscosi-minibang​ ! I made this title card, and a podfic, link [here]

Be sure to check out the rest of the art made for this fic, and enjoy!

[bluereadingdolphin]

Here’s the art I did for @drumkonwords’ fic for the @tscosi-minibang!! You can read the fic here: https://href.li/?https://archiveofourown.org/works/31292648/chapters/77362745

[ID: A digital drawing of two people inside a storage cloest. On the left, Sana is hunched over and holding her hands to her stomach. There’s blood on her shirt and she looks in pain. On the right, Violet is leaning against the wall and looking stressed End ID]

[the-official-account]

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

Violet is used to blood. She's administered shots, taken samples, tended to Arkady. It makes her stomach turn over, but she can set the feeling aside for just long enough to get the job done.

There’s never, never been this much.

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Trying to put the crew of the Iris back on the map, Violet and Sana fall off the grid.

Here's the first part of the suspence fic I've written for the TSCOSI minibang! I tried practicing a lot of new things with this fic and I'm so happy with how they all came out.

Thank you to all my lovely team. Find more about them in the end note!

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My art for @unless-otherwise-stated 's TSCOSI fic

A Perfectly Normal Totally Typical Cafe

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[ID: a flat color digital sketch showing the inside of a Cafe with a coffee machine on fire. Krejjh stands closest to the fire, and looks afraid as they try to dump coffee on it, while Brian runs away with his hands up as if to retrieve something. Out the window, we see Worker McCabe taking notes about the goings on. End ID.]

[unless-otherwise-stated]

TSCOSI Mini-Bang Fic 3 Release

A Perfectly Normal Totally Typical Cafe

The Rumor Cafe is opening on Milky Way and the crew was not prepared. As they struggle with maintaining and running the cafe due to their unexpected influx of customers, they look to hire. Enter Violet Liu, she needs a job so she goes in for an interview with her extensive resume. Violet gets hired and starts working at The Rumor, but she soon finds that The Rumor and its staff may be hiding more than meets the eye.

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Written by:

Rayan - @unless-otherwise-stated

Beta read by:

Vi - @starshipviolet

Hec - @drumkonwords

Coming to AO3 soon!

Read Chapter One below the cut.

Chapter One

The Rumor Cafe had been open for an hour and the coffee machine was on fire. Krejjh was still serving coffee, the line in front of the counter stretched across the crowded store and out it. They juggled coffee cups between their four hands filling up cups and shuffling the order papers. Brian is huddled in the corner by the order receivers and trying to write down as many orders as he can. And though Brian is a linguist, studying languages isn’t going to do you much when fifty different people are telling you their orders, about five of which may have asked you a question. At this point, he was writing down as much as he could make out before frantically moving the order papers to the basket by Krejjh.

As soon as Krejjh had finished an order they would speedwalk over to the pickup counter and leave them for Arkady or Sana to deliver them to the customer. Sana was currently in a seemingly one-sided argument with a customer that kept insisting that “if this is a coffee shop why isn’t there a bowling alley?”

“Sir, I apologize for any disappointment, but we don’t have a bowling al—” Sana tried to reason with him, but he interrupted her.

“Okay, okay. Maybe the bowling alley was a stretch, but you at least have a giant python that grew legs giving out tango lessons.”

Sana was prepared to commit many crimes.

Arkady was left to wait the tables by herself, she would sprint to the counter, balancing as many drinks as she could safely carry on her tray and a few more. She would then blindly sprint out into the customer crowd shuffling the order papers, trying to figure out which drink goes where while dodging the mildly annoyed and confused customers.

All in all, despite their short-handedness and heightened probability of many accidents (and crimes), they were managing the flow of customers. That is, until the staff of the other coffee shop across the street, If Gnomes Ran, decided to pop in and check out the new (temporary) competition.

If Gnomes Ran was your classic ‘Large Corporation-Run “Local’’ Coffee Shop’. They worked under In Good Running (IGR for short), which also owned I Give Rup, I Gave Ryouallmymoneywhatelsedoyouwant, and I Got Radishes, a grocery store, clothing store and pharmaceutical respectively. The most important thing to know about them is that if you see them do anything morally wrong or illegal, no you didn’t.

It was in this rush that the employees of If Gnomes Ran entered the coffee store, skipping everyone else who was waiting in line to enter and orderly shuffling in through the door. Worker McCabe was left to hold the door open for all of them. What the staff of If Gnomes Ran didn’t see while scouting out the shop was Arkady sprinting right towards them carrying her tray filled to the brim with drinks and pastries. In fact, neither Arkady nor any of the recent visitors saw each other. And so, as Arkady was attempting to find table five she instead ran right into the entire group of visiting foreign employees.

The entire shop turned silent and turned to look at the group of sharply dressed If Gnomes Ran employees soaked and covered in many different kinds of coffee and pastries. A few of the customers didn’t notice and continued chatting for a few seconds before noticing the sudden silence and becoming quiet themselves.

The crackling of the coffee machine fire stood out against the shocked silence and it was only then that Brian realized that the coffee machine was on fire. He bolted over to Krejjh and motioned wildly at the coffee machine, completely silent as to not disturb whatever was currently happening. Krejjh was still frantically completing orders as Brian rushed over to the nearby fire extinguisher and put out the fire. There may have been a bit of foam in the orders Krejjh was making at the time.

Arkady looked up from the order papers she was still holding and stared blankly at the steadily glaring group of soaked If Gnomes Ran staff. Sana rushed over, steadily apologizing and rushing to hand them all towels, but the collective group simply turned and walked right back out of the door.

The coffee shop was silent and the closing door rang the bell and knocked slightly against its frame. Sana and Arkady were still stood right where they were as Krejjh continued pumping out orders and Brian tried to access the damage caused by the fire. Many of the customers were shuffling around silently trying to leave as to not get caught up in any issues with In Good Standing. One of the customers stubbornly waiting for their order coughed slightly, while not a loud cough by any means it stood out against the silence.

The cough seemed to bring Arkady back to the situation and she hurried over to the fallen mugs and pastries and began to clean up. Sana rested the towels she intended to give to the If Gnomes Ran staff on a nearby counter and knelt down beside Arkady to help. This broke the silence in the coffee shop and the chatter rose up from the customers once again. Brian abandoned his station taking orders to quickly deliver the orders steadily piling up on the counter. Krejjh had run out of space and was now attempting to precariously balance orders on top of each other.

The crew served the considerably reduced amount of customers left after the incident before beginning to close the shop early. Arkady and Sana returned the extra chairs and tables they’d brought out and straightened out the original tables and chairs. Brian and Krejjh were cleaning up the counters and general area around the coffee machines while discussing the dangers of fire and physics. After they’d restored The Rumor to its original, clean and orderly, state, they all sat around in the staff breakroom to discuss today’s events.

“So…” Sana began sitting at the head of the table, “That didn’t go as…planned, I suppose… but this is only the first day, and it was clearly an accident. The most we can do at this point is attempt to make amends with If Gnomes Ran and just continue with our plan.”

“This isn’t just any business we’re talking about here, Boss,” Arkady states simply from the other side of the rectangular table. “This is the IGR, everyone knows what they’re capable of.” The group sat silent around the table contemplating the possible repercussions from today’s incident, the only sound being the soft sounds of commotion from outside leaking in through the window.

“There’s nothing we can do about that. All we can hope is that whatever the IGR decides to do, it won’t interfere with our primary mission.” Sana says steadily, looking everyone in the eyes. “But something I think we can all agree on, if we’re going to continue this we’re going to need a few extra hands.”

“Not unless the IGR shuts us down,” Arkady mumbles under her breath.

“We could always put out a sign in the window and a few other flyers and ads, we just need to make sure we don’t…attract the wrong people,” Brian suggests.

“I could make the flyer!” Krejjh says enthusiastically, raising two of their hands.

“Arkady brings up a point,” Sana declares with a slight tone of finalization, “if business continues at these levels we’ll put out an ad for employment and we’ll see who applies.” She smiles at everyone and stands up from her chair, “until then, we’ll see how it goes.”

Everyone else follows suit and stands up from their chairs shuffling around and gathering their belongings preparing to head home. Arkady lingers by the table.

Brian waits by the door, arms covered in coats, sweaters and handbags. After a minute Krejjh walks up to him and takes their stuff from him.

“Bye!” They say as they follow Brian out the door. Brian manages to empty one of his hands and waves goodbye.

Arkady turns to Sana and asks, “do you need me to close up the shop?”

“Oh, no, you go ahead, I’ll close up myself,” Sana smiles. Arkady lingers for a second more before hesitantly leaving. Sana walks around turning off all the lights and watching the beams of noon sunlight sneak through the cracks in the window blinds. Although it had been a short one, it had been quite a day. She walked out the door and locked it behind her, strolling into the lunch crowd, and mentally preparing for a nap and an important phone call that she’d been expecting.

The next day a sign was put up in the window of The Rumor. Written in large, flowing letters in shiny dark purple ink, it sat in the window declaring to the street: NOW HIRING :), and below the main text in smaller printed letters in dark blue ink it added: apply at therumor.com/hiring. Many other signs and flyers were seen around the street and a few were spotted in further places in the city. It would be much harder for the If Gnomes Ran employees to ignore them than to acknowledge them. And so they did acknowledge them officially, in their company required daily logs.

More To Come Soon!

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We're delighted to show you the first fic in the TSCOSI minibang!

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Bang Extention Announcement

Hello to everyone who's been following this bang! After talking to our amazing contributors, we've decided a two week extention would be the best way for all of us to put out quality work. We're excited for posting! In the mean time, we'll continue putting together teaser posts from all of our teams who have something to share. Thank you for your continued enthusiasm.

The new start if posting is May 12th.

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TSCOSI Mini-Bang Fic 3

A Perfectly Normal, Totally Typical Cafe

The Rumor Cafe is opening on Milky Way and the crew was not prepared. As they struggle with maintaining and running the cafe due to their unexpected influx of customers, they look to hire. Enter Violet Liu, she needs a job so she goes in for an interview with her extensive resume. Violet gets hired and starts working at The Rumor, but she soon finds that The Rumor and its staff may be hiding more than meets the eye.

Art sneak-peek:

Quotes:

“Okay, okay. Maybe the bowling alley was a stretch, but you at least have a giant python that grew legs giving out tango lessons.”

Sana was prepared to commit many crimes.

In Good Running (IGR for short), which also owned I Give Rup, I Gave Ryouallmymoneywhatelsedoyouwant, and I Got Radishes

Coming April 27th 2021

Written by:

Rayan - @unless-otherwise-stated

Art by:

Olya - @self_substantialfuel

Hec - @drumkonwords (check out their TSCOSI art)

Beta read by:

Vi - @starshipviolet

Hec

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The first of our teaser posts!! I'm so incredibly excited.

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Signs up are now closed for the TSCOSI minibang! We're very excited to have gotten all of our participants!

Fear for the storm,

Fear for the storm

[tscosi-minibang]

Signs up are now closed for the TSCOSI minibang! We're very excited to have gotten all of our participants!

Fear for the storm,

Fear for the storm