#h50 fandom fest

[theoriginofcarrots]

Back home to you

H50 Secret Santa

This is my Secret Santa gift to @cowandcalf

A little bird told me what you wanted as a gift: “love love love ;) & art with the two in love or great lyric. I love SEAL Steve”.

Steve was called to the reserves. Two weeks ago. He has been away (who knows where), doing exercises (he already has a six-pack but anyway…) and probably going on super dangerous secret missions without backup (better not to think about it). He hasn’t been able to call a lot (it sounds like a lousy excuse. Everybody knows the ARMY has an excellent and reliable communications network, thank you very much).

Danny has been in command of the H50, working hard with Chin and Kono to successfully solve 237 cases in 15 days (OMG! Hawaii is too much!). All has been completed in a competent and tasteful manner, professionally executed. No big explosions (just one or two; medium size), no bazookas (no, that thing wasn’t a bazooka; it was a portable flamethrower), no grenades (ok, Steve left another one in the Camaro’s driver side door pocket but that doesn’t count). All the paperwork is done and sent. On time! Danny is amazing and also very very tired right now. Exhausted. After a long 360-hours shift he just can drive himself home, go upstairs and take his clothes off (with the exception of his pineapple infested boxers, Grace’s gift for father’s day. Of course he loves the boxers very much. They are wonderful, perfect). Danny falls asleep in his bed (their bed) exactly in two and a half seconds.

Danny swears he will never wake up. But maybe he will because a certain navy seal in the reserves suddenly decides to come back home, his home (their home) in the middle of the night. He goes upstairs and takes his clothes off (with the exception of his camo boxers, Grace’s gift for father’s day. Of course he loves the boxers very much. They are wonderful, perfect). Steve gets into his bed (their bed) quietly.

I hope you like the gift! I mean the drawing; my writing skills are poor, I know. But I just wanted to tell a little story.

Many thanks to @goneahead for making this festive exchange possible. A big hug!

Charcoal pencils drawing on paper

Onnakarot on AO3

[gatorasmus]

The struggle of having a cat

[teruel-a-witch]

some more mixed media for Steve's birthday, Danny struggling against, then finally accepting that he finds Steve charming and handsome 😜

[mayberrycryptid]

more fanvid recs!!!! yay!!!!!🍰🥳🍰🥳🍰🥳

Hawaii 5-0 Video Rec- List..

I already did my 3 top fics, now I'm doing my top 10 fanvids...

Enjoy!

Super whumpy and Steve looks so HOT in this🔥

I love this one so much!! That's all I can say.

A more platonic mcdanno video it is so good and really shows their brotherhood

I love this song and it fits Danny so well. Watch it that's all I can say...

Love this song for Steve and as always apanparapenguin has the best editing skills ever.

Such a beautiful tribute to the team, the song is so perfect.

"I got some people they would die for me, we ride together their my family"

This song had been used for so many fan-edits across many fandoms and it always holds up.

"So darling, darling stand by me cause your all I need" ❤

PLEASE WATCH THIS!!

It is so funny and actually touches on a bunch of topics people have disscused in the fandom like Steve's "betrayal" by Danny with Rachel. And many many more

Such a cute little video, I believe it is set in a AU world but it is so sweet and well done.

[theoriginofcarrots]

"I WOKE UP AND IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANNO !!!

Happy Birthday Scott Caan

Charcoal pencil drawing on paper + a few digitally added effects

ALSO POSTED ON AO3 as onnakarot

[gatorasmus]

He just wanted some cake...

[mayberrycryptid]

thank you!!! these were sooooo much fun🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂

H50 Polls Master Post

In honor of Steve's birthday today and for our fandom fest 'H50 March 10' I created a series of fandom polls that I will post over the course of the day. Here's the overview:

Best season of Hawaii 5-0

Who makes the first move?

Best McDanno date?

Characters we should have seen more

Most disliked character

Are you a cat person or a dog person?

Best Steve Whump

Best Danny Whump

Steve's Buzz Cut

Favorite Ride

[teruel-a-witch]

idk why I never posted this one, so I guess, happy birthday, Steve, you get some courage, as a treat 😘

[cowandcalf]

I wrote this story for Steve's birthday four years ago. On March 10th we celebrated Steve's birthday as a fandom party that's why I share this with you.

[theoriginofcarrots]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE !!!

from your Danno

Happy Birthday Steve !

Navy Seals are part of the Navy and they are sailors too.

I have always liked the "old sailor look", the homoeroticism and iconic gay image (like Jean Paul Gaultier's Le Male perfume ads) and I think Steve'd make a great model. Steve's drawing is based on one of Le Male's most famous images.

Danny is trying to look sexy for Steve and a bit/a lot slutty too and his drawing is based on his most Showing the Package* to Steve moment -s1 ep 3, 'Malama Ka Aina', just before throwing a guy into a cage with some sharks.

*credit to @teruel-a-witch for finding a name for Danny's particular yoga pose.

Close-up of Danny:

Charcoal pencil drawings on paper + some digitally added effects

ALSO POSTED ON AO3 - ONNAKAROT

[mayberrycryptid]

🥳🍰🥳🍰🥳

Hawaii Five-0

[thekristen999]

20 Questions for fic Writers!

Thank you to @spotsandsocks for the tag and I see @pirrusstuff just got me while I finishing up with this. :)

How many works do you have on AO3?

Over 100

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,362,622 on Ao3

Another million on ff.net that not on Ao3.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

9-1-1/Buddie at the moment.

But in the past: ER, CSI, H50, SGA, Daredevil Huh. I see a pattern :-P

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Most are from older fandom:

Most kudos in 9-1-1/buddie : Alone In The Dark With You 888

Beneath the Trident 2k+ H50/McDanno

Reluctant Allies (Or the Time Frank Had to Bring Home the Devil) 1.1k Daredevil

Shadowboxing 1.1k Captain America & Daredevil

Navigating Domesticity 1k H50/McDanno

The Space Between Us 1k H50/McDanno

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Most of the time. There have been sporadic tines when I haven't but I try to be consistent. It can be a little harder to respond to comments on older fic, but I read and appreciate every one .

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmm. All my fc have happy endings. I feel like that's the big payoff. There are a few that end on happy notes after a ton of angst.

The Hoku was a very dark post apocalyptic fic. H50/McDanno

bro·ken Buddie/ 9-1-1 ends on healing, happy note, but it was a pretty big angst fest.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I have no idea :-P

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I used to get some pretty serious unwarranted critique in other fandoms, but not the current one.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do. Not a ton, but if the story calls for it, I follow the Muse.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

The Killing Game

A Daredevil, The Punisher, Jessica Jones crossover with The Predator.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

A few times.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Russian and Chinese.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

In the SGA fandom I had a wonderful co-writer everybetty on some pretty huge epics.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

I really do love Buddie. Followed by McDanno.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I don’t have any WIPs except the current one. I have an idea that I have outlined and have talked about in the past. My epic Sci-Fi of doom. But the Mafia AU which took me a long time to write and I don't have the motivation to write anything that will take me months again.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Immersing the reader in the scene. Writing detail in a concise matter. Research. Action scenes. Gritter topics that don’t get glossed over.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I have a mild form of dyslexia which means I write weird sentence structure and a ton of homophones that my amazing beta fixes :)

It also takes me a long time to write, but I'm also in my 40's and I'm don't have a lot of writing time. Which is also the reason it takes me a while to read longer stories.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Very, very sparingly and if only, it makes an impact in the scene.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

X-files

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

We Found Each Other (Over There)

my 9-1-1/ Buddie epic WWII AU. I feel like it's my best work.

Just tagging a few who might want to play: @mellaithwen @renecdote @homerforsure @eddiebabygirldiaz @andavs @spaceprincessem @wildlife4life

[cowandcalf]

Feeback Fest 2024: H50 Fic Recs

For International Fanworks Day, February 15 (for more information see this post by @transformativeworks)

Thank you, babe @stephmcx because of your great fic rec list I noticed this amazing Fic Rec Day! I'm not often on Tumblr anymore scrolling and discovering interesting things and I miss the interaction with other fandom folks. And here you are, posting a great fic rec list of the most epic OTP ever: Steve and Danny.

I have my McDanno 'go-to' fics I love dearly but for this list I put together a different number of McDanno stories from my bookmarks. I hope some of you haven't read them already. Maybe there's a chance you find an unknown great McDanno story. All of my recommanded stories always act like a large safety net of love I let myself fall into when I need those special, unique, and most magic McDanno vibes.

1.Blue Shorts and Gloves by WeirdoOfTheCentury - Summary: Danny... well Danny is Danny. Stella is a protective Sister and both Steve and herself wanna commit a crime when it comes to Danno. @shadowhunterdownworlderhybrid

2.Touch My World With Your Fingertips by kristen999 - Summary: Danny has plans for Steve when he returns home from his reserve drill.

3.More Than Words, Part One by Candy_A - Summary: The first chapter in a series based on the events that follow Danny's rescue from Colombia (Episode 5.17). In this installment, Danny returns to Hawaii and he and Steve begin to cope with the reality of Danny's ordeal there. (Nine parts belong to this outstanding series)

4.See You Tomorrow by bgharison - Summary: "When we were leaving the office, I said, ‘see you tomorrow’ to Chin and Kono, and they said, ‘yeah, see you tomorrow'. I said, ‘see you tomorrow’ to you, and you said, ‘goodnight’, And 'goodnight' sounded like 'goodbye', okay?""I wasn't saying goodbye," he said, finally. But he kept his eyes fixed on the water.

5.Why don't you try me? by azziria - Summary: Steve and Danny both want the same thing, they just don't know it yet.

6.Back To Back (They Faced Each Other) by harrycrewe - Summary: Danny didn’t even realize that Steve was a sentinel when they first met. That probably said a lot right there about what kind of a guide Danny was.

7.Like Death and Taxes by ariadnes_string - Summary: "One of these days," Steve growled, voice low and rough and filthy, "I'm gonna rip this thing off you and gag you with it." (That's my very first McDanno fanfic I read.)

8.Moments In The Skript by joannereads - Summary: Hello all! So, over the last few years I have dreamed of a few scenarios before, during and after the events of The Script. I wanted to add to it, but never found the time, so now I'm making a point of doing it. I'll add to this as and when I have time or the muse is singing. Some of the stories will be teen and up, some explicit. Hope you enjoy! (RPF)

9.Close To Me by joannereads - Summary: Danny Williams is 17. Steve McGarrett is 26. They all live in Hawaii. And their lives are about to get really, really messy. Because Steve? Steve's his brother's best friend.

10.Sock Monkey by Cattraine - Summary: He’s late; he’s running late when the call comes in. One minute he’s sitting at a traffic light on a perfect day on his way to work, bemoaning his lack of coffee and the next he’s screeching the Camaro’s tires towards the accident, heart pounding, keeping perfect time with the chant in his head. No, no, no. It can’t be.

[mayberrycryptid]

yaaasss!! all great episodes!!! and you're right, Scott really nailed it in that episode🎁🎁🎁

Three-Ten Challenge part 2

For the second part of the Three-Ten Challenge, I'm sharing my favorite episode in each season of Hawaii Five-0. Not my ten favorite episodes! The best episode of each season according to me.

(I actually love the whole show! The quality of the plot steadily goes down, but the late-seasons characters are so good that it's honestly difficult for me to choose a favorite era.)

Without further ado...

1x15 - Kai e'e

The first and last episodes of the season were strong contenders, but this one is my favorite. There's so much happening and it's so exciting! The tsunami warning, everybody scrambling to get safe, the whole mess with the asset forfeiture locker (the three most doomed words in H50) being stirred up... And the character interactions are great too: between Steve and Danny, of course, but I also like Kamekona being entrusted with Grace's care, and the little banter between Cath and Steve at the beginning. If you wanted to make someone want to watch H50, you could show them this episode.

2x23 - Ua Hala

This was a tie between the season premiere and the season finale. 2x23 wins it because of the number of things the episode touches on. We've got the investigation into Fryer's death (I absolutely love Fryer, btw), HPD blowing up, the Shelburne reveal, Danny's problems with Rachel beginning again over Grace's custody, info peppered in that Kono is still with Adam, Max getting shot, Steve and Danny taking the time to have a conversation, and the terrible dilemma Frank Delano forces on Chin at the end. All that in 45 minutes. The number of sets, actors, storylines, makeups, effects, actions scenes, is astonishing even for H50. It's the kind of episode where you can't take your eyes off the screen, and that quality and involvment tend to diminish as the show goes on. But the finale of season 2 rocks.

3x13 - Olelo HoʻOpaʻI Make

Season 3 is so good it was difficult to chose a favorite episode. This one wins by a tiny margin. I love the prison setting, it's a Chin-centric episode (and Daniel Dae Kim is perfect as usual), it has Sang Min (my favorite minor character), Kaleo is here (which strengthens the lore of the show, like, he didn't disappear, he's very much in Halawa), it's riveting! The character moments are the best parts: I love Chin fighting for his life, the writers have so much fun knocking him around. And Sang Min's redemption arc is in full swing, and it's very well written (I'm actually surprised the H50 writers didn't fumble that one).

4x22 - O ka Pili'Ohana ka 'Oi

It was so difficult to choose between this and 4x19 (the collapsed building episode)! But I chose this one because of Grover. Lou is one of my favorite characters, Chi McBride is one of the three best actors on this show in my opinion, and he shines throughout season 4. This is an amazing team episode, the interactions between the characters are great, Wo Fat has escaped prison for the last time... I love it. There was also the Chin-centric episode this season, but ah! Lou Grover!

5x04 - Ka No'eau

Season 5 may be my favorite season of H50, so it was very difficult to choose between 5x04, 5x19 and 5x20. A Danny episode, a Steve episode and a Lou episode. The first has great acting and is a turning point for Danny, the second is funny with a surprisingly dark twist, and the third is the start of an excellent storyline for Lou. And that's without even mentioning 5x07! In the end, I choose 5x04. It has Lee Tergesen, an actor I loved in Oz. The case of the week is good, the action is good, and there's still a lot of time dedicated to Danny. The team bands together to help him save his brother, and it's for nothing (a trope I love). Steve follows him into hell and doesn't stop him when he murders his brother's killer, no matter the consequences. It's a watershed moment and a fantastic episode of television.

6x25 - O Ke Ali'i Wale No Ka' U Make Make

I actually had trouble ranking season 6, I find it lukewarm overall. There is a handful of really good episodes, and of course this one ends up on top. I'm a McDanno person and this is a huge turn in their relationship. It's one of the fandom's favorite episodes, so I don't need to go into details about everything great in it. I'll just say that I love BAMF!Danny, and we get a good serving of it this episode.

7x18 - E Malama Pono

This season has some great episodes for McDanno, for the McGarrett-Williams family, and for Danny. 7x18 is the ultimate McDanno episode this season, with Steve's love confession, their discussion about their relationship being like a marriage, Danny's desire to retire, and the start of their restaurant project (a storyline I grew tired of later, but not yet). It's also a door-opener fanfiction-wise: we know for almost certain that Steve will get cancer later in his life because of the events of this episode, and some beautiful fics have been/can be written about that.

8x10 - I Ka Wa Ma Mua, I Ka Wa Ma Hope

Yay, we're entering the later Five-0 era! Tani and Junior are here!

This is one of the most beautiful episodes in the whole show. It's like the writers sat down and wrote a fanfic. I love that Danny's dream of a happy life is with the ohana and with Steve. The writers kept pairing Steve and Danny with girlfriends to maintain the heterosexual appearances, but they were honest with us this episode: Steve and Danny's idea of a happy life is with each other. We even know that they live together in this dream future, since Danny's imaginary granddaughter calls Steve's house to talk to him. I love seeing the team pour sweat and blood to save Danny's life. I like the setting, with the team being trapped. It's a great episode even for non-shippers.

9x03 - Mimiki ke kai, ahuwale ka papa leho

The heat wave! I love season 9, and this is a great episode! Very entertaining, with cool and funny character interactions. I love Tani and Junior together, they're the second-best duo of the whole show. And if Steve and Danny are together, I'm happy. You can really feel the heat, and the episode has one of the most gruesome deaths of the series, with a woman baking inside a broken-down elevator. The ending with the rain is truly a relief.

10x14 - I ho'olulu, ho'ohulei 'ia e ka makani

This episode, man.

Let's get an unpopular opinion out of the way: I don't like Eddie. It's just a dog, and I think too much time is dedicated to Eddie in the last seasons that could have been given to interesting characters and plots. So half of this episode is the team trying to cure a dog I don't care about, and it's boring.

The other half?

Scott Caan is pulling his guts out in this one acting-wise and it's stunning. Scott is, in my opinion, the best actor on the show, and this episode might be his best performance (2x15 is awesome too). I'm glad he had this story in which to shine for the last season. I was almost crying, which never happens. This was heart-wrenching, even more so since the guy responsible for the accident is never found after.

What an episode.

So there I go! I had a lot of fun putting this list together. Happy March 10!

[theoriginofcarrots]

Happy Birthday Danno!

Danny's office walls are decorated with pictures of the people he loves the most (he doesn’t know about Charlie yet so no pictures of him).

The beautiful frames were a lovely birthday gift from Grace last year. Her gifts are absolutely perfect. He proudly chose and hung the pictures up on his office walls to comfort and cheer him up when work is just too much.

He also got another elegant frame from Grace but this one is proudly displayed on his bedroom (the same bedroom he shares with a certain person he loves -and loves him back).

Danny really gets the best birthday presents.

Charcoal pencils drawing on paper + a few digital touches

ALSO POSTED ON AO3 - ONNAKAROT

-Happy birthday Scott-

[thekristen999]

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2020 - Day 3                        

Challenge #3 Pimp Your Favorite Communities, Fests or Challenges! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The one thing I miss about Live Journal was the ability to join communities. It was so much fun to read, post and interact on eppy discussions, meta, sharing resources and challenges. This is a LOT tougher on tumblr. If there is challenge that you see of a fic exchange, please RE-BLOG the post. It’s the only way to get word out to the most people. 

A handful of communities, links etc.

For my fellow fic writers who love to research all the things! I give you one of my favorite resources the  U.S. Navy SEAL Survival handbook PDF   Cough @sealie-seolh @missslothy

Need to find a H50 fic? Ask here. Must be a member of LJ to post. The H50 Fic Finder on Live Journal 

@h50bigbang​ The yearly H50 Big Bang Challenge Tumblr

@whumptober2019​   2019 Whumptober Promp List and links to fics from this year.

@daredevilexchange This blog aims to organize a couple exchanges a year, centered around the Netflix shows Daredevil, Defenders, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and The Punisher, and the related comics.

@librarychick94 A great tumblr for all things Stargate Atlantis and posts on challenges and fic exchanges.