#we're on almost 57k

[grounded-parasocial]

Acts of Service 🫶❤️🫶

YR-Anniversary Love Language Fic Rec List

@books-books-smolderinglooks suggested Love Languages as a theme to celebrate for the YR season 3 anniversary! So I am celebrating with fic rec lists!

Acts of Service - because sometimes with these boys actions speak louder than words!

Hungry @earlgrey-lateatnight (E - 6K)

Obviously @grapehyasynth (M -124K)

Not if its you @prince-simon (T -59K)

Flu & Kisses (M -2K) and Feverish Love (T -4K) (TRSU series) by rainboze00

Favours @earlgrey-lateatnight (E- 3K)

Almost Is Never Enough @in-amor-veritas (E- 211K)

A helping hand, or two @enjoythesilentworld (M, 1.5K)

One Word From You @dreamyelectronicmusic (M, WIP -22K)

Where We Left Off @gulliblelemon (T -84K)

Felt Like a Sin by wilmonlibrarian (E, 6K)

Vegan butter, two slices of Gouda @skibasyndrome (G -1.5K)

Simon Erikkson is Not Sick (G -1.3K) and Someone to Care (T -3K) @gulliblelemon

The Umbrella Universe @gulliblelemon (T -38K)

Anywhere with you @gulliblelemon (M -57K)

The most beautiful boy by lovelysarcastic (T -87K)

just it for a minute @enjoythesilentworld (T -53K)

Campfire Hearts @simons-purplehoodie (T -17K)

To hold (in return) (N/R -3K) and To hold on longer (N/R -3K) @saynomorefic

for the tree’s sake @enjoythesilentworld (M -48K)

Yours to Keep Series by fitz_y (mixed rating - 186K)

Your hold on me by etvie (E -8K)

I used to call you my best friend way back before you were my everything (now I'm sucking your neck) @grapehyasynth (M -4K)

Share Your Address @iwouldnevergetintofanfic (E -69K)

Met You at The Right Time @iwouldnevergetintofanfic (M -45K)

God jul, Simon @stretchoutfics (E -19K)

lovers & friends @vvachillessongvv (T -1.2K)

You and me, meant to be by makeamends (M -20K)

i hate accidents except when we went from friends to this by cloudymilk (E -59K)

The way we love series @embracedthevoid @omar-rudeberg (E -83K)

Wrapped up in napkins @piebingo (G -1K)

these, our bodies, possessed by light @alltoowille (E -83K)

I just keep on dreaming (but it's cool cause we're just friends) @sunshine-rudberg (T -66K)

*wow this got long! But it is in no way an exhaustive list so do the community thing and add your rec picks!!

💜 Happy S3 Anniversary and Happy Reading!

(love language- gifts list & words of affirmation list)

[gulliblelemon]

gulliblelemon’s hurt/comfort fics

(You can also find lists here: all, angsty, pining, fluffy)

Please Try Again Later (canon-div, T, 32k) - angst, hurt/comfort What would have happened if Simon was around when Wille got the call about Erik7

What Would I Do Without You? (AU series, T, 37k) - fluff, angst, hurt/comfort How things might have gone differently if Wille and Felice were already best friends before Hillerska. Starts with some (very) fluffy one shots, gets angstier.

Where We Left Off (AU, T, 84k) - angst, pining, hurt/comfort Simon meets Wilhelm by accident in the wake of Erik's sudden death. This story follows their lives through the years, and through more of their accidental and on-purpose meetings.

I'll Wash, You Dry (post-canon, T, 1.1k) - hurt/comfort Simon and Sara have a moment to talk about forgiveness and the future.

Anywhere With You (AU, M, 57k) - fluff, angst, hurt/comfort When Simon lands a singing job on a luxury cruise liner, he expects to work for a few months and head back home. What he doesn't expect is to fall in love.

Simon Eriksson Is Not Sick (post-canon, G, 1.3k) - fluff, hurt/comfort Simon Eriksson is not sick. Except he is. Luckily he has the best boyfriend in the world.

Trick or Treat Drabbles (post-canon, G, 1.4k) - fluff, hurt/comfort A series of 14 drabbles written about the first autumn post-canon. Almost completely fluffy.

YR Drabble Week Collection (mix, T, 1k) - fluff, hurt/comfort A series of 10 drabbles. Some AU, some during canon, some post-canon, some canon-divergence.

And I Need You Now Tonight (AU, T, 30k) - angst, hurt/comfort Simon and Wille have... an arrangement. But then something happens that throws their delicate agreement out of the window, and they're left having to figure out what they are to each other. Enemies? Indifferent colleges? Friends? Or... something else?

Ally Wherever You Land (canon-div, M, 47k) - (light) fluff, (light) angst, pining, (light) hurt/comfort The initiation scandal breaks before Wilhelm is enrolled at Hillerska. Erik finds himself having to win the public's approval and recruits Wilhelm's help, along with a Hillerska student who might raise Erik's profile within the LGBTQ+ community: Simon Eriksson.

Make It Better (post-canon, 2.3k) - hurt/comfort Wille and Simon's son has a virus and a high fever and it's fallen to Wille to care for him.

Yours If You'll Have Me (canon-div, T, 9.4k) - (light) angst, fluff, hurt/comfort At Ludvig's funeral, Wille has a realisation about his best friend Simon. After an ill-thought-out kiss, he panics that their friendship is over. But luckily neither of them are willing to give up on each other that easily.

Your Words Next To Mine (AU, M, 43k) - angst, fluff, pining, hurt/comfort Aspiring author Simon Eriksson meets an anonymous stranger online who helps him to find the joy in writing again. Together, they start to write Simon's childhood fantasy novel: an epic tale of bravery, found family and two boys falling in love against all the odds. Sometimes, if we're lucky, life imitates art.

Where the Bilberries Grow (AU, M, 77k) - angst, pining, hurt/comfort Simon and Wille meet when they are 9 years old. They strike up an unlikely friendship despite only being able to see each other for a few weeks every summer.

10daysto1k Short fics (mix of canon and AU, G or T, <1k each) - mostly fluff, some angst, some hurt/comfort, some pining A collection of 10 fics, each 100 words longer. Not in a series.

[teamfreewill2pointo]

I'm sorry, but could you break down the maths of cons for me?

I did a rough count of seat numbers and came up with 700.

I read elsewhere that J2 got the same for a convention as their salary, which was rumoured to be 175k.

I also read that actors kept the autograph and photo money.

There are a fair few actors at a convention, who need to be paid and have their travel.

There doesn't seem to be enough money in it.

Would you mind breaking down the revenue streams and who gets what?

also, is it me or are the venues getting smaller. I only see these on YouTube and the older stages seem much bigger.

Thank you....and merry Christmas.

J2 have a base fee of 300k each, which means they don't show up unless guaranteed that amount by the con organizers.

They get that money through a percentage of ticket sales, photo ops, autos, and m&gs.

The number of tickets sold depends on the con. Some sell a lot more than others. I don't know the percentages they get, but I know it's more for ops/autos/m&gs than tickets.

When guestimating their photo fees, let's say it's 50% (it's way higher) at almost $200 a pop for their solos and selling 300, that's at least $100x300=30k just for their solos. They used to sell out every con. Now that they are appearing on both Saturday and Sunday, CE will sell more photo ops if they have the time to fit it into the schedule. So not selling out at recent cons doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't selling 300. It could mean that they are selling 300, but there's an extra 50 available because J2 have the time to do it now.

I don't know the current numbers for the various ops, although I am very curious. If you go to the op table to buy more ops, you can peep the current number of tickets sold, but only if ops are still available to be sold. You can also sit in the theater and see how many numbers are called for each group. I know that J2 is the biggest money maker and usually goes over 300 sold if they have the time in the schedule.

If they sell 20 m&g seats at $500 each, that's 10k. I dunno the percentage they keep, but probably over 50% and they split the J2.

The autos are usually rolled into gold. I have no idea how many of those sell when sold individually.

In addition to the assigned seats with numbers, there are also GA seats. These seats are not assigned and there's no way to know online how many are sold unless you have access to Creation's data. If you go there in person, you can count them.

If I recall correctly (I haven't been to a con in months, and I wasn't counting the seats when I was there), the GA setup was equivalent to or greater than the other sections combined. Now, this doesn't mean that every seat was filled, but based on the cons that I've attended, I estimate that they sell at least half GA for every assigned seat. It also varied from con to con, with some cons having more GA sections.

For NJ con, there's over $325k in gold, $57k in silver, $47k for copper and $35k for preferred single day sold so far. That's $464k not including GA. GA weekend is $249. Fri is $70, Sat $80, and Sunday $100. There's a lot more people on Sundays and I don't know what percentage of people in the theater on Sunday only bought tickets for that day.

If your estimate of 700 seats is correct and we say GA was half that and everyone in GA bought Sunday only tickets, we're looking at 35k for GA, but that's a huge underestimate.

There's also the auction for VIP and the cast gets a cut of that.

I know they were concerned about Burbank and worried that they would lose money on it. It's interesting that they dropped the gold so much for SFcon.

300k/con is a really high price and the reason that you typically don't see both Js at conventions outside the US.

[nettlestingsoup]

am i likely to meet my target of completing the red thread au by the end of march? no. is it still remarkably close to being finished given the state it was in in december? yes.