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[cmdonovann]

another davedirk... this one was meant for the "lost and found" prompt for stridercest week but i have been hella busy, so it's late, my bad (>m<)

(it's meant to be right after the events of [S] Collide... well, after dirk gets his head put back on, i suppose. i imagine dave is having an "i thought i lost you" kind of moment here, but he's not eloquent enough to say anything coherent after something like that, so i think he's probably just saying stupid bullshit instead.)

[jacks-long-coat]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Thing (1982) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Dog Thing (The Thing) Additional Tags: Gore, Body Horror, Alien Psychology, POV The Thing, POV First Person, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes Summary:

[8m 17s] They know. By our smell, by our stillness; they know what we are. They know we are unlike them. What if, in that scene in the kennel, the Dog Thing was a little smarter about quickly incorporating the other dogs into itself? What if it put itself back into a dog shape quickly enough to hide, and the humans never realized it was a Thing at all? What if the creatures incorporated into the Thing are not lost, but rather, added to its collective self? [Written by cmdonovann.]

[broromantic]

I got, a bookbinding done of my favorite fanfiction of all time. Done by the wonderful @cmdonovann!!

IT'S SO, SO CUTE! IT EVEN HAS A PAGE KEEPER!!!

LOOK AT THE COVER SHEETS! THE DETAIL

THE WATERMARKS, PAGE MARKERS! SUCH NICE TOUCHES!

I'm sorry I'm shouting, I just, adore how much detail my commissionee(?) put into it.

Please go check out @cmdonovann for his bookbinding/fanbinding works!

[phthalology]

deep thanks to @cmdonovann for sending me not only a very large book about Quantum Break’s development but also for binding my QB fics! The cover and font and layout are so beautiful, and I’m going to be able to put this on the shelf next to my Writing What I Got Paid For forever. Perfect harmony. Fic binding has always fascinated me and I’ve never had my own work bound before!! The QB Bingo challenge was a lot of fun!!

[fujowebdev]

⚙️Shipping Our Cast🛠

Today we bring you a small treat!

Behold, a behind-the-scenes look at a topic sure to interest and entice: how did the FujoGuide team come up with such a shippable cast of characters?

If you're just joining us now and need to catch up on what #FujoGuide is all about, read our pitch (and back our project) at our Kickstarter page. (TL;DR: we’re making web development more accessible to fandom communities.)

As with most things in our Kickstarter, our character creation was a collaborative effort. We wanted our cast to embody tropes beloved by shippers, but also to prove to existing developers we know what we're talking about!

This was not an easy task. So, how did we accomplish it?

Follow the cut to find out!

At first, we didn't know which characters we needed! When our project lead @essential-randomness wrote the initial pitch, she jotted down a couple examples of how the characters MIGHT behave.

Why these characters? Well, she loves TypeScript, and Git wrote itself.

Character creation was a collective process and TV Tropes, our best friend. Which characters did the team like? What tropes did they embody? What were genre must-haves? What made them undeniably hot?

We watched classics like Ouran or Fruits Basket to get ready! Hetalia, even!

During this process, we got to teaching! Our lead @essential-randomness held some learning sessions for collaborators explaining modern web development technologies and their relationships.

You can see the resulting diagram here.

While we researched, we discussed possible topics and created more characters. We even have some yet-to-be-released work-in-progress hotties who unfortunately didn't make it into our first guide: [REDACTED] and [TOP SECRET], courtesy of @cmdonovann.

Eventually, we landed on Git(Hub) as a topic: widely applicable, complex enough, and yet self contained–the perfect test for our educational prowess!

And (we'll admit it) the words "tentacle catboy" were all the team needed to get really sold on the vision.

Documents were made and filled with technical details, references, and character tidbits we brainstormed together. Character designers worked closely with the rest of the team to tastefully include technical references, such as Git's branches, Terminal's cowsay, and CSS' owl.

Want to know more about these “masters at work”? Go follow them! @brokemycrown (Git & GitHub), @mappapapa (Terminal), @ymkse (HTML & CSS), and @sgt-spank (ARIA).

Throughout this process, our team wanted to balance creating just enough canon for people to latch on, while having "blank slates" characters open to wide reinterpretation.

Most of us come from transformative fandom, so what is canon if not just a sandbox for us all to play in?

But then how DO we make a cast of characters that people will love to ship while leaving the door open to interpretation? @playerprophet answered our cry for help with their amazing cast creation tool!

You can get it here on their Patreon!

Shoutout to all the amazing creators involved in developing our characters:

@enigmalea @elendraug @mizunotic @a-brilliant-loser @tempural (and more not on this platform!)

This concludes our tale of breathing life into our characters. We hope people will come to love them as much as we do.  The response to them already has blown us out of the water!

Check out all their character cards (and back us!) on Kickstarter.

Questions? Comments? Our team is always here for them 👀

[badshipshitblog]

strilondecest fic reclist :p

expressions of trust by cmdonovann (dirkdave, t, 4k) essential to my dirk characterization tbh. classic earth c roommates fic

stasis state by caeslin (dirkdave, t, 3k) postcanon dirk & dave stewing. great atmosphere

lockdown by strititty (dirkdave, m, 6k [wip]) post-pesterquest hangouts. very cute teen dirk & i love how depressed dave is lol. actually got me to watch dirk's PQ route!

handpuppets by 2x2verse (brodave, e, 2k) fisting. "handpuppets." need i say more?

constructive possession by propaganda (brodave, e, 10k) humanstuck au w insanely good ambiance & bro pov. bro & dave are haunted by grief for their third brother

spend half your life just covering up by hapaxlegomena (brodave, e, 10k) postgame, bro apologizes. really gets at how an abusive guardian will shape your whole concept of love/sex

find me at sea (and tell me why you never loved me) by blackestofmarkets (dirkdave, m, 23k) postcanon, dave finds dirk in europe. rlly good at evoking mood

hey dave do you ever think about laying my neck down in one of those deli counter meat slicers and going to town on it like a salami by problemsloth (dirkdave, e, 7k) i love corpsefucking. i also love banter

a slow boiling pot by ghostlyanarchist (alphacest, e, 5k) dave keeps passing out in dirk's bed. i love a pathetic alpha dave <3

temptations by forkidcest (alphacest, e, 6k) a demon possesses dave & lets on how he feels about his little bro

phase change by timeaxis (dirkdave, m, 15k) of the post-epilogues dave & rose upending narrative control genre

everything in its right place by laurasauras (dirkrosemary, e, 11k) rose & kanaya keep ult dirk in line. i am salivating

it could happen to you by innsmouth (roseroxy, m, 3k) family is a monster in the woods. great roxy pov

never good by 2x2verse (roseroxy, e, 7k) munchhausen by proxy recovery sex. makes me insane

everything you need by bumbly (dersepile, t, 20k) postcanon, rose building her polycule

a red space after victory by psythe (daverose, 6k) post-hs2, dave & rose talk it out. gah

sun doesn't rise in space by m0sc4 (daverosekan, t, 9k) stranded in a spaceship with corpses & an alien

didn't even close our eyes by signalbeam (daveroseroxy, e, 3k) roxy's dreamself appears on the meteor. great rose pov

it led us here by laurasauras (alpha daverose, e, 18k) hot old parents daverose!! very adorable strider family!! smart house hal!!!

light you up light you down by lionpyh (alpha daverose, g, 5k) the definitive alpha daverose fic. my fave of all time

[cyborgjack]

Another ficbind down! This one I put together at the request of a friend. It’s one of her favorite fics for a pairing that really took over her brain real estate for the past 3-4 years or so.

When she asked for Something So Dear by forthesanityof1, I checked and it’s over 180k words. My longest ficbind so far. I had to work up to this one—got a few bookbinding projects done and then tackled this.

The title page is really simple and uses a lovely ornament by @cmdonovann that I got through the Renegade Bindery server, which has been such a wealth of resources. I slapped together the chapter ornaments myself, trying to work out a balance of flower and tattoo design (because it’s the whole premise of the fic).

Sorted out that pesky recto-verso problem, thank goodness.

I also had some fun figuring out how to build out the text conversations in the fic. I’ve been typesetting a lot since February and have employed a different strategy each time to denote texting. There’s some chat fics I like but constructing the typesets for those will be a… much later project. Compiled social media history stories are really cool to see and I want to do them justice. This one has just a few minor pieces of text in chat format, so I played with typesetting that.

The edges look chewed up because I tried to shave the textblock down to make it pretty and even on the side, but I was using a box cutter and didn’t realize the blade wouldn’t cut the full girth of the signatures. I had to flip it and things went poorly. Another bookbinding lesson learned! I still really like this one, it turned out very pretty. My friend will be getting this once I ship it off—I haven’t sent her pictures of it and she isn’t on Tumblr anymore. I hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it and problem-solving all the pieces!

[the-meat-machine]

Title: hey dave do you ever think about laying my neck down in one of those deli counter meat slicers and going to town on it like a salami Rating: Explicit Pairing: Dave Strider/Dirk Strider Content warnings: Temporary snuff, decapitation, gore Words: 7047 Summary:

"Don't take this the wrong way," Dirk says, "but it kind of sounds like you want to cut my head off and fuck my neck-hole."

Written for @cmdonovann for the Stridercest Secret Santa exchange!

[rystonlentil]

2024 Podfic Roundup!

(2023 here; 2022 here; 2021 here)

Telepathic Self-Defense for Humans, by lurking_latinist Doctor Who Sixth Doctor & Ace McShane general 1m 35s

The Doctor crosses paths with a young woman who knows more about psychic defense than the average human.

gregarious; deliquescent., by Avonya The Murderbot Diaries DeltFall team teen and up 4m 56s

Jana, DeltFall’s fifth-lead, general xenobiologist, and not-comms officer, reflects.

Something Small and Pale, by dearfriendicanfly Revolutionary Girl Utena Anthy/Utena teen and up 10m 59s

Anthy did not die tonight. She ponders what this means, lying in Utena’s arms, talking about a future that is promised to neither of them.

self-contained kitchens of the heart., by yewlojee The Murderbot Diaries Murderbot & Dr. Ratthi general 16m 48s

Ratthi wakes up hungover. SecUnit does not talk to him about feelings.

bloodsport, by revolvers Black Sails Jack Rackham/Charles Vane explicit 19m 33s

Your quartermaster lives mostly in the corner of your eye, dogging your steps like a half-formed shadow. He would look foolish except that he doesn’t. It suits him perfectly, this way of being—at your side, a half-step behind, your eyes and your voice and your other hand. He’s never called you Captain seriously. Even in the beginning, some twist of his voice told you that he took it as a joke, and it made your blood boil with tempered rage, but he was a sharp rigger and a sharper quartermaster, and eventually he started calling you Charles, that same twist in his flighty sparrow-voice, and somehow that was alright, wasn’t it?

salvage, by revolvers Black Sails Anne Bonny/Jack Rackham explicit 7m 14s

There’s something fraught in this room with them, a crackling skin-deep tension that never quite goes away no matter how routine this becomes. They can’t seem to let go of it. It’s instinctive. Like holding your breath before plunging into seawater, or off a cliff, or into danger. They do this sometimes, he and Anne. He’ll be a woman, or wear women’s clothing, or both or either, and she’ll play a man. And then they fuck in some very creative ways about it; it’s all in good fun, for the most part, if he doesn’t dwell too long in his own head. Maybe this time will be the time he figures it all out, the queer and aching bruise inside the both of them that drives them to do the things they do.

Alone, by cmdonovann The Thing Dog Thing mature 8m 17s

They know. By our smell, by our stillness; they know what we are. They know we are unlike them. What if, in that scene in the kennel, the Dog Thing was a little smarter about quickly incorporating the other dogs into itself? What if it put itself back into a dog shape quickly enough to hide, and the humans never realized it was a Thing at all? What if the creatures incorporated into the Thing are not lost, but rather, added to its collective self?

on the corner of hope, fear, and desire, by prettydizzeed Stranger Things Max Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair teen and up 23m 13s

When Max tells him she wants to ask out El, at first Lucas thinks she's breaking up with him again. * 5 conversations Lucas has before his girlfriend starts dating someone else +1 he has after

Something Bigger Than The Sky, by Taliax Deltarune Spamton/Swatch teen and up 2hr 23m 18s

Swatch's purpose is to serve the Queen. Spamton's purpose is to make deals. By nature, any other passions between them are disposable. (Betrayal still hurts.)

On The Inside, Looking Out, by Rubber Chicken With A Keyboard (RCWAK) Homestuck Auto-Responder | Lil Hal teen and up 11m 57s

Hal boots up for the first time, and in true Strider fashion, immediately starts overthinking.

hey dave do you ever think about laying my neck down in one of those deli counter meat slicers and going to town on it like a salami, by the meat machine (problemsloth) Homestuck Dave Strider/Dirk Strider explicit 39m 38s

"So. Decapitation as a sexual activity."

a heart i couldn't silence, by SummerFrost The Witcher Ciri & Yennefer, Ciri & Geralt, Ciri & Jaskier, Ciri & Dara, Geralt/Yennefer, Geralt/Jaskier, Renfri/Yennefer teen and up 3hr 56m 51s

Yen eyes her sidelong. "You're pretty shy for a kid who, what—climbed out the window and tracked down a man she barely knew?" "Walked out the front door," Ciri mutters. "Grandpa was playing video games." AKA: When Geralt's goddaughter turns up outside the bar on karaoke night, Yennefer is the one who convinces him to let her stay.

[obviouslyinvisible]

you may be 8 years late to the quantum break party but CMDonovann and i are the freaks who hang around dancing forever after everyone else has gone home. by which i mean. welcome to the party. once you finish watching the playthrough you should join CMDonovann's discord server

!!! Oh that's so real though as someone who still likes making Oxenfree art when the first game came out 7 years ago lmao. Nothing wrong with enjoying a good game : ) , and yeh! I've got the link loaded up now so I'll be joining as soon as I've finished watching the playthrough probably to yell about the games endings and junctions and all sorts in general ♥️

[cupcake-souls-art]

My half of an art trade with my pal @cmdonovann of his oc August!

[cmdonovann]

hello. i have been thinking about... the prisoner junction. this will surprise no one. i am obsessed with it for completely normal reasons. definitely.

(anyway, its still plot week! tell me about your favorite parts of quantum break's story.........)

[strititty]

Do you have dirk/dave recs?

boy do i! here's a few

pleonasms by nuclearwinter - no-game au. a series of one-shots that at once strikes me as tender and hilarious. dirk helps dave out with his sexuality, among other things. ;)

phase change by actinide - 14k, post-epilogues but not hs2 compliant. it's got a lot of good metanarrative shit and is altogether a very interesting piece of work. it has a very good sequel in sublimination that i would also recommend, featuring so many of dirk's messy feelings and how they affect everyone else.

dungeons & striders by mortior - 31k, d&d au. dirk is a lich and dave is a paladin! it's extremely fun and if you like d&d or fantasy in general you will take deep pleasure in this.

find me at sea (and tell me why you never loved me) by blackestofmarkets - 23k. dirk's up and vanished and dave goes to find him. a long and thoughtful meditation on movement and searching, which i like very much.

imitation games by centaur - 2.6k, post-game. one-sided but also really interesting and thought-provoking? dirk's running scenarios, as he does.

disengage, calibrate by applejuice_motherfucker - 14k, no-game au. continuing the trend of the fic above, this is also one-sided dirkdave, but sometimes you need to take a sip of the ANGST, babes! there's so much yearning... it's so good. (i started writing a sequel to this. maybe eventually it will see the light of day)

trial run by jalules & is it enough? do you think it's too much? by cmdonovann - 3.9k & 5k, post-game. okay enough sad and/or longish fic let's finish off with some PORN!!! trial run is a good hypnosis fic and is it enough? is a sequel from another author that is very good!!! hypno on both sides. delicious.

[illusoryquixot]

I did a polished version of my Maid Dave art! :)

(Again, this is inspired by @cmdonovann Maid Bro art)

[fujowebdev]

After an intense 30-day campaign, The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development has officially raised $18,039. 🎉

We're immensely grateful for your trust and support, and look forward to the journey to come 💜

As we salute this feat, let's now cheer for those who made it happen.

✨Final Spotlight: The #FujoGuide Team ✨

You’ve already met many of our amazing contributors (if you need a refresher on our spotlights, find them at the end), but today we want to focus on those behind the scenes and highlight the incredible team that made our success possible.

While the hot men did a lot of heavy lifting in attracting (😘) people to our cause, a lot goes into successfully hitting ambitious goals like ours: planning, organization, research, marketing, and writing (omg so much writing).

It's impossible to accurately list everyone's contributions. This Kickstarter campaign, pulled off in only 2 months, is the collective work of an incredible team of people who came together with a mission: make programming accessible to fandom in the most hilarious way possible.

As project lead @essential-randomness found out, setting up a Kickstarter is a daunting task, even more than it seems to those who’ve never run one. Thankfully the @bobaboard community came together to her aid and managed to pull off the seemingly impossible.

Together with Slogbait, who did incredibly vital work, like setting up deadlines, budget, & rewards, a team of Kickstarter connoisseurs researched similar projects to understand what would go into making our campaign a success: the incredible @a-brilliant-loser & @elfwreck.

With data on our side, we started building. A fundamental part of this process was the research on expenses and manufacturers for the book and potential merch. Here, Candle provided us with his expertise in publishing and helped us understand the best options available.

At the same time, @tempural, @mizunotic helped us untangle the questions surrounding merchandise. What is popular with our audience? What are the best manufacturers around? What beautiful items can we afford to deliver to our amazing supporters?

Next, it was time for the practical setup: project lead @essential-randomness provided the first draft of our amazing campaign story, while @enigmalea and Heidi whipped it into the beautiful shape that will forever be immortalized on our Kickstarter page.

To decorate our riveting narrative, we needed graphics to match. As is April 1st tradition, project lead @essential-randomness got together with trusty pinch-hit designer CatBathingSun to create character cards and other campaign graphics, including the ones you saw on our socials.

But no Kickstarter campaign page is complete without captivating reward tiers. @a-brilliant-loser led this charge, coming up with our creative "GIT"-based naming and taking care of other copy needs. On the art side, @cmdonovann contributed the Boba-tans decorating our limited tiers.

Launching the campaign was a lot of work on its own. But that work, while important, could not have pushed us to these incredible heights without our incredible social media and marketing team, who worked tirelessly this whole month to reach and inspire old and new supporters.

While many people worked on this, we want to first shout out the amazing work of @owlpockets, who whipped our content calendar into shape, taught us social media strategy (and alt-texting), and helped us navigate the unknown waters of relentless promotion.

Then we have project lead @essential-randomness who spent an uncountable number of hours devising our marketing strategy and writing the threads that entertained you during this campaign.

As she herself writes, "May she now finally get to go back to coding, instead!"

But she could not have done it without collaborators like @elendraug, @enigmalea, and, again, @owlpockets, who painstakingly reviewed and improved her drafts and provided immense support throughout this extremely intense, exhilarating, month-long tour de force.

There are many other contributions-smaller, yes, but not less integral to our success. Like @thebiballerina, who first helped us wrap our heads around the inner workings of social media strategy, or @cmdonovann who kept our Discord updated on the week's happenings.

And then all the people who supported us with small (and big) bits here and there, like our very own Secret Final Boss, @thunder-the-ranger-wolf, Tovanish, @madgastronomer, Cante, Mantra, @PamuyaBlue, @playerprophet, @ignitiondork, @nianeyna, @codeargent and so many more.

Our artists, obviously, like our art director @brokemycrown; character designers @sgt-spank, @mappapapa, and @ymkse_art; illustrators @ikam177, Ererifan915, @kiwipon, @catter-bug, @admiralexclipse, and @tempural. Sensitivity readers, like @admiralexclipse and @angelfeast.

And then our project organizers, like our aforementioned anonymous contributor and @enigmalea who worked tirelessly on logistics and wrangling and showed up repeatedly to pick up all the dangling bits and pieces that a project this ambitious inevitably has.

Last but definitely not least, our project lead and director @essential-randomness who brought-and kept!-everyone together, oversaw and pitched in on every aspect of the project, designed our notepads (she's proud of them), and provided the initial investment that made this a reality.

And with this, our last spotlight comes to a close. We'd pitch the Kickstarter link here, but we're done with that for now. ;)

Thank you everyone for your incredible support. This campaign blew all of our expectations out of the water, and we'll forever treasure this experience.

We'll be back soon with more updates on the road from here. We're incredibly excited to get to work on delivering what we promised, and also pumped to get a small vacation break before we do :)

Find our previous spotlights here ⬇️

Spotlight on Localhost HQ

Spotlight on Browserland

Zine Demo

Backer Rewards

Thank you all, The FujoGuide Team

[sweetfirebird]

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