#ballum art

[ballumville]

... because we saw so little of him and I miss him so much, I had to use my imagination with the little help of a friend called AI. Sorry but not sorry really...😊

[eastendies]

And Keanu Taylor severely regretted pissing off callum that day

[khedoods]

pinned <3

hello, my name is cal! (he/him)

i’m currently 17 years old and i’m pretty much just gonna use this blog to interact with the scorbus fandom and MAYBE post my art?

current interests

harry potter and the cursed child (scorbus), olivia rodrigo, wtfock (sobbe), eastenders (ballum), 9-1-1 (buddie)

about me:

i read tcc for the first time in 2017, and i haven’t been able to put it down since. fun fact! the book was originally given to my sister (she hated it) so i being an incredible brother, took it off her hands!

more: i started creating fanart in 2019, but i never really had the confidence to start posting until now. i was super active within the fandom about 3 or 4 years ago? (which feels insane to say now)

likes & reblogs appreciated🫶🏻

[mudbloodpotter05]

Fic Writer Asks!

I was tagged by @read-and-write- and happiness-of-the-pursuit

ao3 username: Muddbloodpotter05

Fandoms: I have only written for and published for two fandoms- EastEnders (British Soap), but I write for my Ben and Callum “Ballum”, specifically. They are my ride or die ship for that show. I also write for Red, White and Royal Blue.

(Though I did write for HP and crossed that over with Charmed way too many years ago, 😅)

Number of works: 11! (Four are for my EastEnders, Ballum ship and Seven are for RWRB, though one of those for rwrb is my catch-all for any drabbles or drabbles that exceeded the 100 word only requirement).

Work I spent the most time on: this one is a bit harder to answer…of my published stories, I would have to say it is between 3 stories. Two of them fall in my EE fandom for Ballum and those are Someone to Watch Over Me and Your Final Words. For RWRB it would have to be my Now and Then. All three of these took about the same amount of time (roughly two ish months) for each of these because I tend to agonize over my writing and wanting to make sure I frame it and get the flow how I want).

This is likely to end up changing due to the current story I am working on, which is tentatively titled “Time and Time Again” for RWRB.

Work I spent the least time on: besides any drabbles��it would be between two stories If Only for One Night, for EE and Ballum and then Lacrosse My Heart and Hope… - both of these stories just flew out of my brain and into a doc within a single day and then posted to ao3 a couple days later after my wonderful Beta went over them!

Longest fic: this would have to be Now and Then for RWRB. Again, this is likely to change as my new story is currently sitting a little over 8k and that is just chapter 1!

Shortest fic: my drabbles, definitely, though some exceed the 100 word maximum, so I will also list Is that my sweatshirt for RWRB. (It my newest story and contains smut and was inspired by some amazing art of Henry running while wearing one of Alex’s jersey’s.)

Most hits: Bump In the Night which clocks in at 5,540 hits!

Most Kudos: that would be Is that my sweatshirt and has 206 kudos! I love this for my one shot! (Again, mind the tags for Smut).

Total word count: 105,989 (published at this exact moment)

Favorite work of my own: oof, this question sort of hurts, 😅, but if I have to pick I would say any of those listed in the question about the ‘work I spent the most time on’. Those three have to be the ones I’m most proud of!

Fic you want to rewrite or expand on: it would probably have to be Now and Then, but only because I have ideas/thoughts that didn’t make it into the story.

Share a bit of a wip: this is from chapter 1 of my current multi-chapter story-

It’s old. Worn, but still seems to be in good condition. An antique. One of the drawers seems to be stuck, maybe locked. The last time he saw one that looked like this was on a trip to the Smithsonian in his Junior year. So yeah, a fucking antique it may be, but it was the only desk that Alex had found that sparked any sort of joy. (Thank you, Marie Kondo!)

That joy being: it was dirt fucking cheap and he was past being picky.

Well, not exactly. Or not only the price, exactly.

He didn’t know why, but when he looked at it…Alex felt wistful.

Maybe it was his lack of sleep. Maybe it was the air of history hanging about it. Maybe it was haunted! (Not that he believed in ghosts and crystals, voodoo and magic…that was all his sister, June) Or it could very well be the curry from the back of his fridge that he should’ve thrown away. Still, none of those were going to stop him from making this purchase.

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And I am tagging….. @orchidscript @historicallysam @everwitch-magiks and @ethel0123 , but only if you want and haven’t done it yet!

[moodyblueangel]

I'm sorry you went through all of that. Eastenders fandom is very toxic. I'll never forget how negative and dismissive people were of the rape storyline because they either didn't like Ben, thought Callum deserved the big story instead, or called it bad rep because Lewis should've been a fun gay man. Duncan Lindsay at Metro encouraged this as well. I couldn't find eastenders fandom fun after how people deliberately didn't praise an important story.

I really appreciate that. I am ok though, and it's about finding and recognising all the good when the bad tried to engulf. That's never easy, and never quick, but it is there and pulls you through.

I would describe the fandom as...I don't know. I know all fandoms have a portion who try and get noticed by making noise, picking things apart negatively and have egos that bring a sense of entitlement. But in a lot of fandoms I see, there is a bulk of people who drown out those negative Nellies. In the Ballum fandom it seemed to start like that, you had people who were having a really good time watching this storyline and relationship, and taking about it and predicting what may happen, and being funny and positive with it. Then you had this small group of people who found fault with everything, treated everything like it was real, who kicked off when their predictions didn't happen and complained constantly about the writers and production team. Somewhere along the way, it swapped around.

I've been an Eastenders fan for donkey's years, right since when I was young in the 90s when I'd watch the present day episodes and watch the ones from the 80s on UK Gold!😅 I am a Eastenders fan. I am a Ballum fan too. I may have opinions where I don't find certain characters compelling, or certain storylines the same, but I'm a fan of the show. So obviously I'm going to enjoy it more than I don't. I tease it, I mock it sometimes but that is always done with love and lightness and humour. If I'm talking about it, then it interests me. I don't really mention those things that don't. It's a telly show, not the news. It's fictional art, not facts and current affairs. It represents life, but it's not real.

The storyline with Lewis just encompassed everything that frustrates me about the fandom. Because it does represent important issues which real people can relate to. It does this through empathy with character. It doesn't show every weave and crease of the issue because it's not real life. It's a 30 minute early evening soap whose main purpose is to entertain. You can have important issue stories which aren't entertaining. EE have done a few. They've obviously been well researched and done with care, but haven't gripped me with their story arcs or character relatability. But this isn't what people are complaining about though. They are complaining as if this is real life, as if they are real people, and ignoring the fact that it is a story, and every story should be told. If you don't like it, turn it off.

[friedelio]

Nur wenig ist faul im Staate Dänemark

Dagebüll nach Husum-Ballum 55 Kilometer, 94 Meter Anstieg Gefahren am 08.05.2024 Erstaunlich gut ist es uns heute ergangen. Beim Abbau unseres Camps tritt mittlerweile eine Art Routine ein: Vom Aufstehen bis zur Abfahrt brauchen wir für Zeltabbau, Frühstück, Abwasch und Packen nunmehr nur etwa zwei Stunden! Die Nacht haben wir noch um die Wette gehustet und wir entschuldigen uns bei unserer…

[bridii]

wedding dance because we never got one x

[dannylarryson]

It's been two years since ee started the greatest dynamic that so many people adore. Their first kiss was revolutionary just like the 'I smell queer' moment and so many scenes that followed with our favourite boys.

This is a subtle charcoal art piece I did of that moment spend the day celebrating the boys with some ice cream even if its freezing where you are it's what callum would want. (you drink hot drinks in the summa why deprive yourself of ice cream)

❤️🥺🏳️‍🌈

[yougaythen]

He’s a soft baby

[callumsangel]

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

[botheredbuck]

Would love you to post some icons 💗 if you wouldn’t mind?

yanno what i was gonna do this a few days ago but my memory once again failed me, so here's a few ive made before!! feel free to use them if u like them!!

[ballumville]

Ballum Fantasies 2💕😋

'Fairy-tales can be true... they can happen to you.'����

Dear Fan-writers,

Could these Ballumverse AI images of Ben and Callum inspire you in anyways?

🙏🙏😊...

[eastendies]

saw an EastEnders TikTok edit and now I’m on a binging warpath and want to draw art again, the devil works hard but ballum mind goblins work harder

[softballum]

“i want to look after ben. i want to look after my family. cos nothing else matters, right?”

[lukasisnotmyname]

There was no Callum in the promotional pictures so i drew my own version.

[ticktockmrcopper]

hi so i drew callum!! it look me around 7 maybe 8 hours im kinda scared to post my art on here buttttttt yea i hope you like it, tell me what u think! <3 x hope youre all doing okay! :)