#(Sherlock Holmes Investigation Team. SHIT. the detective agency)

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On Winter Temporary Fandom (WTF) Combat, russian Dirk Gently fans and abscence

(top left: IDEAS, right: time left for another deadline, bottom: Team WTF Dirk Gently 2017)

So this is what my life was since February, I think. I fell into fandom black hole and survived. I’ve seen the things you wouldn’t believe! And, yeah, we fucking solved it all. The battle ends today. Am I free?…

So WTF Combat is this sort of Big Bang-multifandom-fest-thing in russian internet community, takes time every year (there is bigger version of it at summer), lots of talented people are envolved. I take part in this almost every year, but my gosh, I can’t tell how huge this was with our little crazy Dirk Gently team this time. We were truly amazing. People talk about us and start watching show because of us! And the amount of content we produced? Oh. My. God. You’ve probably even read about some of our ideas now and there, here on tumblr fanbase. And we were unique. Okay, so on WTF there is this structure of levels - representation of your fandom, small texts, big texts, Teen and Mature art, “special quest”, etc. Well, it’s all doesn’t need to be connected, except we are Dirk Gently fandom, OF COURSE ALL OUR LEVELS AND WORKS WITHIN THEM ARE CONNECTED. We had actual case inside them all! And all pieces are mixed up, so readers need to connect them! But it would take too long to explain in full detail.

And since it’s all sadly in russian and hardly will ever be translated, I’ll try to just pinpoint my favourite bits of this combat.

There was obligatory crossover with Sherlock BBC, in wich Dirk is another lost secret Holmes brother (and his real name is Rosencrantz, I shit you not)

Translation of The Obligatory Beach Episode™ by princessparadoxical (hello). It was lovely, btw, everyone like it.

Crossover thingy about how little Amanda and comic!Dirk have met.

AMAZING cracky fic about Todd and Dirk going back in 2009 and meet young Dirk whos working as actual fortune teller at the back of some London bar (and hates it with all his heart).

Obligatory Doctor Who crossover, in wich it turns out Dirk and Todd were the ones who broke TARDIS and destroyed the universe at the end of series 5 (not intensionally). The Doctor was pissed (that was mine fic actually).

Obligatory Hitchhiker’s Guide crossover.

The whole series of drabbles about Dirk and Todd investigating disappearances of many cats in others fandom universes.

THAT ONE RIDGELY/CIA HAPPILY LIVING COMMUNE THING. First it was 4000 words text! Then it was WIP about Dirks and agent R first kiss! (with mystery squad and CIA making bets on who’s gonna kiss who, not so really secretly). And then there was this Valentine’s day bonus about Dirk working as Ridgely’s kissogram! Do you realise that this is the whole separate universe about this all now existing? That we invented absolutely new character to ship Dirk with and we now love him like the show's ones??

Translation of The series bible for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Landis. It was a Big Deal.

Fic about Bart killing million Wilsons in all parallel universes.

Selfcest fic about Dirk and Svlad (here: dark version of Dirk from another dimension). WE LOVE SVLAD, he’s like part of a family now to us. Or the dark side of our chat group (with R as a good side of our chat group).

Yet another great 17000-ish words fic about case with the old living soul-eating vampire hotel and disappeared ghosts! Amazing portraing of Dirk and Todd friendship, spooky supernatural shenanigans, interesting explanation of Todd’s pararibulitis, lots of detective’s BLOOD.

Translation of  Boring BORING sex by inkyfishes

Very touching fic dedicated to birthday of Douglas Adams (with our gang coming into our reality through Max’s laptop as through a portal, scaring him almost to death, and then visiting Adams’s grave).

A gigantic fic where it’s all finally come together and mystery squad stop actual Apocalypse and collapsing of all dimensions. There is several alternative Dirks (from 2010 show, book, Svlad). There is a fucktone of crossovers with EVERYTHING. It’s glorious and terrifying.

You do realise that it’s only small part of all.

As to me - I have really outdone myself. I intented to do just a couple of Teen rated arts, but actually I have

made them! A LotR AU one (will post it eventually) and moodboard to fortune teller Dirk fic I mentioned earlier.

Wrote this Dorctor Who crossover, it was rather neat.

Wrote most of Ridgely/CIA stuff

Wrote big chunk with nsfw stuff for our big cracky collective fic wich is litteraly Aliens Made Them Do It trope at it’s finest.

Wrote 10k fic about Dirk and Vogel (well, Rowdys), with hint of Dirk/Martin? With M raiting (for strong language and violence)?? When it was intended to be small and Teen? I’m actually really proud.

Made nsfw Faranda art!!

Wrote reviews on M-rated works of others teams, never done this before.

Haven’t found time to write down my epic CIA!Dirk AU, eh. Now I’m feel mostly exhausted but pleased. We really made every fan of Dirk Gently proud, even they don’t know it yet.

I’m gonna sleep for a whole week straight and then will start posting some of arts from this insanity of Fandom Combat. Thank you all.