#aftg reverse

[aftgficrec]

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to the organisers and participants of @aftgbigbang 2024

Congratulations everyone on another fantastic fest and I urge everyone to go check out the collection of amazing fanfiction on AO3.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/AFTGBigBang2024

There’s so much to celebrate in our talented fandom, including these yearly collaborations between writers and artists! Readers, below are links to this year’s and previous fandom Big Bangs and Reverse Big Bangs (where artists provide the story prompts). Enjoy! -A

AFTG Big Bang Collections:

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AFTG Reverse Big Bang Collections:

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[aftgreverse]

Sign-Ups For the Reverse Big Bang 2025 Close September 25th, 2024 at 11:59pm CDT.

ARTISTS ONLY

WRITERS ONLY

BETAS ONLY

[estavs]

My piece for the AFTG RBB 2023!!! @aftgreverse

This is for “You Called Me Home” by eechoox on AO3

[allforthegaymes]

Neil playing striker meaning his job on the court is to prevent the ball from getting towards Andrew in the first place.

Neil who tried to prevent Prost from happening to Andrew by going to the Nest, trying to keep anything bad far away from Andrew. But instead at the Nest he’s forced to play backliner, representing that hes attempt to keep Prost from happening to Andrew failed, the ball metaphorically landing in the net.

Nicky and Aaron who play backliners, the last line of defense to try and keep the ball from getting at Andrew. Coming in later than Neil’s position as a striker, relying on Neil first to keep the ball far away, but stepping into their roles as protectors when it strikes too close.

Backliners being the players to get most aggressive, fighting with other players to protect the goalie.

Aaron being the one who brings the racket down on Drake.

Neil is there first, at the metaphorical ball, but it slipped past him, and Aaron is the one whose there to scoop it up and ricochet it back towards the other end of the court.

THE MURDER CHARGE AT LEGAL COURT REPRESENTED BY THE RED CARD ON THE EXY COURT

[dykekarkat]

thinking about the first few times andreil kiss and it's neil closing his eyes and melting into it because he's found someone he can trust and lean on but andrew always keeps his open past the first few moments because he needs to prove to himself that neil is real and not just a pipedream.

[kevin-winfield]

Neil Josten & Seth Gordon - Mirror Image?

EC, Nora Sakavic// Blue Iris, Mary Oliver// The Moon in the Well, Sylwia Górak// Blessing, Mia Bergeron// The Illusion Of Calm, Derek Hare//Hydrangeas, Susan Ashworth// moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’, fatima aamer bilal//The Foxhole Court//Sunlight Breaking Through, Christopher Osborne// The Sirens, John Langstaff// Sydney Mortimer Laurence// ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’ fatima aamer bilal

[emry-stars-art]

I feel like I’ve accidentally abandoned you all here on tumblr recently 😭 I’m sorry please accept this as apology

It’s gonna be a print when my shop opens again in May ☺️

[ameboubou]

It’s hilarious to me that you don’t realize until your second read of aftg that the funniest line of all is andrew saying to neil “you’ll just learn to do what I say”. Like I can’t read that now and not laugh tbh

[kibalev]

"If Neil is the sun, Andrew is the world upon which he wants to rise upon everyday"

Here's my piece for the AFTG Reverse Big Bang 2024! @aftgreverse

I worked with the wonderful @yourneighborhoodneighbor, who wrote an incredibly beatiful fic which i made the art for!

You can find the link to the fic above or here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53270878/chapters/134809780

Go read it and give it all the love! <3<3<3

[jtl-fics]

Fluent Freshman - Part 07

PREVIOUS

The thing about Nicky knowing that FF knows Russian and therefore understands every single excruciatingly sweet, ear-reddingly spicy, or shockingly mundane thing that Andrew and Neil say to one another is that he is objectively the 3rd worst person to know this secret.

First place is, of course, Andrew Minyard the man who has now asked him about his family 3 times in the last week and a half. FF doesn’t really care if Andrew goes after the majority of his ‘family’ since it’s just his step brothers and step dad but Andrew might go after his Grandma too so he just says “We don’t talk” every time it comes up and deletes his entire chat history with his grandma that way Andrew won’t know how close they are. If that means that Andrew thinks that no one would look for him if he happened to disappear into a shallow grave FF doesn’t know. He’s already doomed so the least he can do is save his gran.

Second place is, of course, Captain Neil. Captain has mentioned quite a few times that a lot of people stay with friends or people they’re close with over Thanksgiving break. It’s meaner than Captain Neil usually would be off of the Court reminding FF that he has friends but none close enough who would want to spend a holiday with him. He plans to go see his Gran for Thanksgiving and she plans to feed him a truly ridiculous amount of food. It’s the same plan he’s had pretty much every year since he was 13.

Third place is Nicky Hemmick. Nicky is a very nice guy who got him a paperboy to hyperventilate into a couple times and would absolutely never intentionally OUT somebody and compromise their safety! Nicky’s talked with FF about some of his background so FF has full confidence that it’s never going to be something that Nicky intentionally outs to anyone. But there are two main reasons why Nicky is the third worst person to find out about this secret.

The first reason is that Nicky Hemmick just unabashedly loves gossip. FF has heard that with the graduation of the girls the previous year had gone Allison Reynolds who had multiple running bets on multiple teammates and a whole cache of gossip. Now Nicky has access to the ultimate accidental gossip magnet in the man who no one notices, who knows any language the Foxes speak and is too awkward to get up and leave when they start talking.

Nicky will never tell another soul his secret but he also HAS to know what Neil and Andrew are saying to one another and when Nicky lies to cover for him the charge is one free conversation translation.

He’s absolutely hooked on getting translations the since the first time he had asked what Andrew and Neil are hissing at one another one morning practice.

FF translated it awkwardly feeling like a creep and like he’s invading their privacy but Nicky had helped him eat the four slavic letter flashcards he had made up to help a friend study the language when Captain Neil and Andrew had come back early from a weekend alone in Columbia.

Nicky had even assured him afterwards that the ink was probably non-toxic and given him floss so he could get the flashcard wedged between his molars out.

So….

“Andrew’s mad that Captain Neil skipped breakfast because they’re working to make him eat something for every meal. Captain Neil’s mad because Andrew’s the one that kept him in bed so long that he didn’t have time to make anything.”

Nicky squeals in delight

The second reason, which is just compounded by the first, is the fact that Nicky had promised not to tell another Soul. However Nicky Hemmick, the romantic that he is, believes that he and his Fiancé Erik share one soul since they are soulmates. Therefore Nicky Hemmic had barely even registered FF’s tears of gratitude before he was calling Erik to tell him about FF.

The sheer number of close calls that have happened because Nicky HAS to tell Erik about something Andrew and Neil said to one another or something someone else is saying is the reason FF started getting ulcers.

Watching Nicky talk to Erik about him knowing Russian is like watching a member of the three stooges walk through a construction site blindfolded. FF nearly kills himself stopping Nicky from outing him numerous times and at the end Nicky’s smiling, unscathed and unaware of the sheer number of close calls he had sauntered through.

FF can’t wait to go home and bury his face in his grandma’s lap, stress eat two apple pies, and tell her about how he thinks he might just become an electrician or a plumber or an underwater welder because one of his language professors wants him to come and speak to a lower level class (a gen-ed with over a hundred people in it) about the usefulness of LATIN for all their majors since they can parse the meaning via root word and he had panicked and said ’Sure’.

***

The thing about being the only person on the team that knows that FF speaks Russian and is riddled with social anxiety is that it’s absolutely hilarious most of the time.

Every once in a while he has to step in to help the guy.

So sometimes he’ll eat flashcards. Sometimes he’ll distract his cousin with a salacious comment so FF can escape a dangerous conversation with his drunk friend. Sometimes he pushes FF to go talk to Abby about his tummy troubles. Sometimes he’ll hand over one of the brown paper bags he keeps in his backpack nowadays so FF can wheeze into it and sometimes he’ll assure his cousin that FF’s passing out after he offered to teach him how to use a knife was probably because of his stomach ulcers not because FF is terrified of Andrew stabbing him.

Nicky is the only member of the Foxes that FF regularly seeks out on his own to hang out with and Nicky just loves how hard Andrew and Neil are trying not to be jealous about it.

“I want to ask Smith if he wants to come spend Thanksgiving Break with us.” Andrew says out of the blue a week before the aforementioned break when it’s just Aaron, Neil, Nicky and himself in Nicky’s dorm room.

Nicky thinks about FF talking about going back to his hometown in Washington State and how he waxed poetic about spending Thanksgiving Break with his Grandma and how he was going to eat his weight in pie and Macaroni and Cheese.

“He’s planning on going and seeing his grandma. He won’t shut up about it.” Nicky says still glad that FF has a family member like his grandma.

Everyone else in the room look at him.

“He won’t shut up about it?” Aaron asks with an eyebrow raised. Aaron likes FF just fine and appreciates how FF has helped Katelyn start to grasp the fundamentals of the German language so quickly so she can understand what’s being said. “So what he said it twice?” He continues.

Nicky remembers FF’s ability for catastrophizing every conversation with the Foxes into one where it comes out that he speaks Russian and Andrew stabs him. As far as the other Foxes are concerned he’s a man of few words.

“He’s been talking about it all month. If I hear about his grandma’s apple pie recipe one more time I might demand he sneak a slice back for me through TSA.” Nicky loves stoking the flames, especially when the fire is harmless. He watches Aaron shrug and the skin around both Neil and Andrew’s mouths tightens. “You can ask him, the worst he can say is No.” Nicky shrugs.

Nicky is there when Andrew does ask him and he can see the prolonged internal scream of terror on the utterly blank face (or maybe he just imagines it.) and in a way Nicky is a little sad when FF shakes his head and says “No, I have plans with my Grandma.” In an utterly blank voice that means he has functionally blue-screened before turning and walking towards the nearest door so he can reboot in solitude.

“The offer stands if you change your mind.” Neil says and Nicky is impressed with the seemingly very casual thumbs up FF gives as he power walks away.

A little less than a week later Nicky finds Andrew next to FF and FF looking down at a cancelled flight notification after coming in from a truly monumental storm.

Andrew offers Thanksgiving in Columbia again.

Nicky tries to stop it from happening he can see that FF is a little lost in his disappointment over not being able to see his grandma and not thinking clearly but before he can snap him out of it.

“Sure.”

NEXT

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[ashestoashes7]

This could be his last farewell to Neil Josten, a single handprint left as proof he was more than a phantom. More than an echo of his father. More than his mother’s killer. More than the ceaseless, aching nothing.

There was a woman with rainbows in her hair sitting on the edge of the bridge. She was going to die.

———

Staying at the Foxhole Court, a supposed safe haven for magic users and non-magic users alike, would be the worst mistake Neil could possibly make. He wasn’t sure he would live long enough to regret it.

@aftg-paranormal

[aftgreverse]

AFTG Reverse Big Bang 2025 - Schedule

September 1st – September 25th: Sign-Ups open for Writers, Artists, and Betas

September 26th: Artists Prompt Forms Sent Out

September 29th: Artist Prompt Forms Due and Posted For Writers

October 2nd: Writer’s Choices Due

October 3rd: Matches Sent Out

October 24th: Check-In 1 Sent to Artists and Writers

October 27th: Check-In 1 Due

November 21st: Check-In 2 Sent to Artists and Writers

November 24th: Check-In 2 Due

December 26th: Check-In 3 Sent to Artists and Writers

December 29th: Check-In 3 Due

January 23rd: Check-In 4 and Posting Date Selections Sent to Artists and Writers

January 26th: Check-In 4 and Posting Date Selections Due

January 31st: Final Pieces Due

February 1st – February 28th: Posting

Beta Assignments will be posted within a few days after Check-In 3!

[robertdenirowap]

my contribution to @aftgreverse and my collab with notyouranswer on Archiveofourown

This fic is absolutely amazing!! I was so immersed in the world she wrote. I loved drawing this and thinking about them,,, <3

[thefluffiestbird]

Here are my paintings for the AFTG reverse big bang event!!

These are from @aquared46 ‘s amazing fic A Place Called Home

[codename-adler]

so when did Allison have her dyed-black hair phase ?

[noomyart]

My contribution to the All For The Game Reverse Big Bang!

Got to work together with AmericanCanada who wrote a wonderful fic - Please check it out!

heartbeats carved in flesh - By AmericanCanada