#Cosmosgate

[technicallywrite]

Sometimes joining a small fandom is the start of an amazing journey.

Not quite two years ago, I got into a fairly niche ship— a couple of characters who had been on a few episodes of Doctor Who, and had (somewhat miraculously, for two women scientists) been given their own audio spinoff by Big Finish.

I am, of course, referring to Kate and Osgood of the new UNIT series.

They grabbed my imagination and spurred me to start writing fanfiction for the first time in my life.

A little story called “My Cosmos Is Yours”.

It was just supposed to be a one-shot, then as I wrote, it grew into a handful of chapters. When I posted them on AO3, the response from fellow shippers was so enthusiastic that it motivated me to develop the story further, so I started adapting the audio adventures, reworking the episodes into a more continuous narrative supporting the ship’s development.

Long story short (NOT), the darn thing has snowballed into an ongoing epic longfic (52 chapters and counting) with a cluster of short satellite stories and a four-chapter prequel, amounting to over 500,000 words so far.

This monster has accumulated a contingent of regular commenters, and a few other fic authors have written stories based on it— fanfic of fanfic, which is delightfully meta.

Along the way, I’ve met a whole bunch of really lovely fellow shippers; on AO3, on Twitter, on Tumblr and in the Osgays Discord, some of whom I’ve since met IRL at conventions. It’s been an incredibly fun, heartwarming and rewarding experience.

And today… Oh my goodness. Today I received the most extraordinary gift.

A gorgeous hand-bound edition made by @colourmestoked04 of the first eighteen chapters of my story, with illustrations by @kowarth and personal notes from the Osgays interspersed through the chapters.

I am stunned, speechless and most of all, impossibly grateful.

To everyone who ever encouraged me to write: thank you.

I can’t wait to write some more.

[kowarth]

Inktober catchup post! days 4-9 4: Exotic - Kate and 12 investigate a Skarosian flower 5: Binoculars - Warren Brown as Lt Sam Bishop, somewhere in Brazil 6: Trek- Cosmosgate illustration of Shindi, Osgood and Carter in the VR environment from the Cyber Reality arc. Voyager uniforms, obviously 7: Passport - 14 and the Psychis Paper 8: Hike - UNIT Assmebled / Cosmosgate hike to John Benton's pub 9: Sun - Power of River Song with Osgood and River in EVA suits at dawn

[willowandlily]

Assorted Doctor Who portraits

[technicallywrite]

Let’s play this again, I’m in the mood to write

for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

[technicallywrite]

I hope y’all are ready for some more Osgate fluff where Kate looks adoringly at Osgood because apparently that’s all I can write anymore.

[kowarth]

Inktober2024 Day20 Uncharted - Osgood and Kate edgnig toward a relationship.

[willowandlily]

Kate Stewart fanart

Also iykyk (small details for the eagle-eyed)

[technicallywrite]

Coming soon on My Cosmos Is Yours

Hold bb, look at bb, cherish bb

[technicallywrite]

Cosmosgate update — Ch. 52: Surprise

With Kate called back to the Tower, it's up to Osgood to hold down the fort, with a little help from Sam.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46435285/chapters/158328733

[kowarth]

@technicallywrite has done it again with a Chapter opening of "My Cosmos is Yours" that I had to illustrate like a compulsion.

Happy Chapter 49 to all those whose celebrate!

[willowandlily]

More cosmosgate art, this time for Chapter 1 :)

[technicallywrite]

Screwed in the most delicious way, actually, if you mean the current chapter in progress. Can we please make that happen immediately? I’m very, very keen.

you are personally and directly hit by a bus¹ and isekai-ed, via resurrection, into the body of the main character your most recent WIP

reblog and tell me: on a scale of 1–10, how screwed are you right now?

¹ this is, transparently, a plot device, so if you are about to tell me "joke's on you, I never leave my fifteenth floor apartment!" then you may rest assured it will have tremendous comedic value when the bus is launched into the sky and crashes through your apartment wall to flatten you anyway

[technicallywrite]

Cosmosgate update — Ch 49: It's just words

Osgood is looking forward to spending the weekend at Kate's, but an unexpected visitor or two may throw a spanner into the works.

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This one is quite a bit more angsty than we've had in a little while; makes up for the nauseating amount of fluff we've been having, I suppose.

CW: Casually homophobic and ableist attitudes, anxiety

Also, consider reading "Satellite 5: I don't think they're working right now" before this. https://archiveofourown.org/works/60405907

[kowarth]

Inspired by Technically Write, as so much of my recent has been. This time Chapter 41 of "My Cosmos is Yours" and that nightlight.

[willowandlily]

Went back to traditional for a little while. Got inspired by ‘My Cosmos is Yours’ Chapters 17 and 18! Started this and then went “how the fuck do you draw a dinosaur?”

(Also I am aware of how poor the quality is lol)

[technicallywrite]

It’s not a drabble and the smut is more erotica than filth, but fwiw I’ve got a chapter coming out for Thanksgiving that should be awkward enough to read with family around 😁

Okay fanfic writers, your mission, should you chose to accept it, is a filthy 100 word drabble, for any pairing, to be posted on Thursday, in time for American Thanksgiving.

Ready, set, write!