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rockmiyabideusexmachina · 3 years

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2021 Megaman Summer Fanart Contest Rules Thread *CLOSED*

Time to beat the summer heat once again! Summer contests have been a bit more sporadic than Valentine's contests, but this will technically the 10th one that I've held over the years. (I’m rushing this before work, so forgive me for any typos or things that need better clarification. Just let me know, if I need to fix or clarify something)

Two categories, in which you are allowed to submit one entry for each category, if you would like. If you place in one category, you will be automatically disqualified from the other, for reasons of fairness, and to give other people a chance to win a prize.

Both of these themes lean more to creativity and design, so once again, I will not be splitting it up into the usual talent and humor categories. Even though humor is not a basis for either theme, feel free to still have fun and make us laugh with your entry, if you want to!

CATEGORY 1: A cool summer DiVE

Last summer, we were treated to the magnificence that is watermelon Chill Penguin in Rockman X DiVE. It was so...strange and different...that we all had a good laugh, but were also left craving more. The swimsuit outfits just focused on a few ladies, and left the guys out, to a little uproar from the fanbase. So, let's take things into our own hands.

For this category, I'd like you to create a new Rockman X DiVE summer-themed character(s) and special weapon. It can be a playable character, boss, etc., however you'd like to tackle it.

Create your finest pink flamingo Overdrive Ostriches, Lemonade Aqua Man's, speedo Axl's, and Avalanche Yeti multi-color sno cone sprayer-toting bikini Hope Stelar's for me! Because it's the only way I'll ever have playable Akane...*ahem*

Content Requirements: * Megaman character(s) of your choice redesigned into a summer-themed Rockman X DiVE design/skin * Along with the summer character, create a new summer-themed weapon design, for us to waste thousands of EM in the capsule, but never pull due to the low rates...

CATEGORY 2: Ride the Big Wave

Ken Suther is getting ready to hang ten, but he needs a cool new Megaman-themed board to ride the big wave this summer! So he's holding a surfboard design contest at his Big Wave shop, with the winner getting displayed in the battle card store.

For this category, I'd like you to create a Megaman-themed surfboard design for your favorite characters to hit the beach with. On top of art with the board design, put it into use, and draw your favorite character(s) riding the waves on that board.

Content Requirements:

* A creative surfboard design that contains something Megaman-related into the design * Put that new board into use, drawing a scene with your favorite character(s) hitting the water, in some sort of surfing-themed art

PRIZES:

Covid has not been fully defeated across the globe, and I learned the hard way in March that postal prices are still insanely expensive to ship, especially overseas. So the main prizes for winners will still be cash this summer, sent via Paypal. Hopefully next year I can bring back physical prizes.

The winners in each category will receive the following:

1st Place: $100 USD 2nd Place: $75 USD 3rd Place: $50 USD

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

When you submit, I would prefer you to include the following information in this format, along with your entry:

• (Your name/preferred alias) – As much as I usually know who you are, there’s always someone new or somebody who has a different preference from what their email name says.

• (Category this entry is for) – You can either say 1 or 2, or DiVE/Wave

Only submit your own work, as usual. Any character, major or minor, from any series is allowed. OCs are allowed, as long as your art contains at least one canon Megaman character.

As always, participants are allowed to submit from all over the world.

Paypal is still the preferred method for cash prize payouts. Please have a valid account to receive your winnings.

Youngin's, get your parents permission before entering.

Entries do not need to be colored, but it is preferred. The more effort put into things as always, the better chance you have!

Entries can either be e-mailed to me at rock2125[at]hotmail[dot]com, or you can just PM/note me a link to your pic.

DO NOT post your pics in this journal, your dA galleries, Twitter, tumblr blogs, other sites, etc. until the contest is over. This is the fairest way for competitive reasons. I prefer to keep them all secret until the deadline has passed.

I'll edit a confirmed entry list in this thread when I receive them. So you won't be in the dark about whether or not I've received your entry.

DEADLINE:

The deadline for this contest will be

Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 by 11:59PM, global end of day.

This gives you close to 3 months to finish your entry!

MISCELLANEOUS INFO:

As usual, If you don't plan to enter, but would like to help me judge, please let me know through DM or mention so here. Never hurts to have extra opinions on all the entries.

Bug me with questions if you have any. Please join in, and good luck to everyone who enters!

Confirmed Entries:

Cat. 1 - @aw-colorcat, @firemanshug, Ryan Vogler, RockmanHQ, @digitallyfanged, Mattasaurs, Vincent Nolan, Algaae, @annvolans, @subzeroiceskater,

Cat. 2 - AbilityField, @aw-colorcat, NightopianFoxGirl, @stephodell, ColeManX, Moogy, @mosketches, @subzeroiceskater,

#Rockman #Megaman #Mega Man #Rock Miyabi's 2021 Megaman Summer Fanart Contest #Fanart Contest

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bobbersb-fandomfun · 3 years

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Fanworks Masterpost

So, now that I’ve been dipping my toes into creating myself, and I have a few things I’ve got in the pipeline to come, I decided to start up a masterpost! Here is links you’ll find to my work, most can straight up be found on my AO3, but not always.

** fic has explicit rating.

Firefly Fandom: Fan Art:

Wash/Zoë:

Moodboard

Teen Wolf Fandom:

Fanfiction

Sterek:

a little less by the book a little more hands on

that one time a speed trap turned into a thirst trap **

turn and face the strange **

it takes two to tango **

Sterek Kinktober Masterpost ** Kinks listed inside

Drag Charm - Stiles centric

What's Cookin' Good Lookin' ** All Human, Social Media to all the boys i've loved before - fanfiction by me, fanart by @go-catch-a-chickn

Thiam:

There is no separation between the fallen and the stars Teen Wolf/All American crossover

How do I say I love you? - OTL Valentine’s Event.

It started with a NYE kiss - Teen Wolf Fic Fest work ** Thiam Kinktober Masterpost ** Kinks listed inside Theo & Liam - Holiday Fic, Netflix show Dash & Lily Thiam’d Just one more, always just one more chance... - 5 + 1

Morey:

Strange things are afoot at the circle K

Surprise Drabble w/ Moodboard

Road Trip Drabble w/ Moodboard

Other Pairings:

Family Isn't Always Blood - Isett - Isaac Lahey/Brett Talbot

Your Hurt Is In My Heart - Isett - Isaac Lahey/Brett Talbot

It's not what you look at, it's what you see - Nolec - Nolan/Alec

the place between asleep and awake - Nett - Nolan/Brett **

Stiles Stilinski's Guide to Mistletoe for Idiot Werewolves - Steo

Fan Art:

Theo Raeken Moodboards:

Demiromantic, Demisexual & Non-binary

Liam Dunbar Moodboards:

Hufflepuff Moodboard

Thiam:

(Art) you only feel one emotion at a time Art inspired by the fic you only feel one emotion at a time by likelightninginabottle

Moodboards for It started with a NYE kiss Six in Total. Aesthetic Moodboards for Theo & Liam Eight in Total

Sterek:

Banners for Alphas of a Feather , made for fanfiction for FandomTrumpsHate

Morey:

Surprise Moodboard & Drabble

Road Trip Moodboard & Drabble

Strange things are afoot at the circle K fic inspired art

Nett:

the place between asleep and awake, Moodboard 1 & 2

Steo:

Paranormal Games: Ouija Board - Steo Spooktober Moodboard Ghost Stories - Steo Spooktober Moodboard Stiles Stilinski's Guide to Mistletoe for Idiot Werewolves

Other Pairings:

Family Isn’t Always Blood - Isett - Isaac Lahey/Brett Talbot, fic inspired art.

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flosculatory · 5 years

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Inception 30 Day Challenge 2019: a chance for you to squeal about Inception for a whole month.

Create or reblog* a post, whether it be a photoset, original art, gifs, written word, or any other media using these 30 items as prompts. Feel free to participate in as many or as few of them as you want! Copy the prompt into the body of the post somewhere and tag your posts as #inception #inceptiversary and #inception 30 day challenge. Your posts will be shared on the inceptiversary blog for everyone to appreciate!

(*note: only posts you create will show up on the tumblr tag page to be found by the inceptiversary blog, so keep that in mind!)

Day 01: Your favourite character.

Day 02: Your favourite quote.

Day 03: Your favourite scene.

Day 04: Your favourite score.

Day 05: Your favourite movie setting (in either dream or reality).

Day 06: Your totem.

Day 07: What would your role on a dreamsharing team be, and why? (Extractor, Point Man, Architect, Forger, Chemist, Shade, Tourist.)

Day 08: Your post-Inception headcanons.

Day 09: The best date Cobb and Mal ever went on.

Day 10: Yusuf’s favourite chemical.

Day 11: Describe Saito as a child.

Day 12: Arthur’s go-to workout song.

Day 13: Robert Fischer’s favourite movie.

Day 14: Ariadne’s dream travel destination.

Day 15: Eames’ favourite artist.

Day 16: Take a picture/draw/sing/whatever Inception related.

Day 17: If you got to spend a day with an Inception character, who would you choose and what would you do?

Day 18: What is the best (or most interesting) dream you’ve ever had?

Day 19: Who would you incept, and with what idea?

Day 20: A pairing you ship.

Day 21: A fic rec!

Day 22: A fanart rec! (note: please do not repost art from tumblr artists! just reblog it and add @inceptiversary so we can see it.)

Day 23: Another type of rec! (podfic, fanvid, edit, blog, whatever!)

Day 24: Your ideal crossover between Inception and another piece of media. For example, other characters existing in the Inception universe, or vice versa.

Day 25: If Inception were a musical, what song would you want to be in it? Who would be singing it to whom?

Day 26: What type of animal would each character be?

Day 27: If you made a candy bar based off of Inception, what would it include?

Day 28: A letter/tribute to your favourite character.

Day 29: A letter to Christopher Nolan or your favourite Inception actor.

Day 30: A letter to fandom.

#inception #inceptiversary #inception 30 day challenge #long post

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darkpoisonouslove · 5 years

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N, P, S and X for the ask game :D?

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

I’m gonna do this for the OUAT fandom since I’m most active there

1. I’d love to see more comments on fics since I know how important that is for keeping the writer behind the story motivated. Now, I write myself and tbh my OUAT fics get a lot less reviews than the fics I write for some of my other fandoms. And it’s not just me. A lot of other writers (granted, not only in the OUAT fandom since that’s more of a universal problem across all the fandoms) are discouraged by the few comments and reblogs they get. Even reblogging the fic and screaming in the tags makes a writer’s day, believe me. And if you don’t want the fanfic on your blog for whatever reason, tumblr has the option of replies. That way you can still let the writer know you enjoyed their fic while keeping it off your blog. Boom, everyone’s happy and everyone gets more fics. Honestly, you don’t have to write novels in the comments. Just a short “I love it” can make a difference for the writer so I’d like to implore everyone who's reading this to take the extra 10 seconds to drop a comment to the fanfic writer whose fic you enjoyed. It costs you so little while it has the power to make someone happy for years in the future.

2. On that note, I’d like to see more engagement in the fandom as a whole. Now that the show is over, we run the risk of falling apart as a fandom. I don’t think the chances of that are very high but they’re still there. And that scares me to death because OUAT means so much to me (it has been so for almost 4 years now) and now that it’s over, the fandom is the only thing I have left. I don’t necessarily feel like there’s been a significant change in the interactions inside the fandom, but I think it would do everyone some good if we were more engaged with each other’s works. I know it’s hard to keep up with everything that’s going on and I’m far from demanding it from anyone. No, what I mean with this is that we as a community can offer more by barely changing anything about the way we engage with fandom content. It doesn’t take a lot. A comment on a fic you liked, a reblog on that gorgeous piece of art you just saw, a passing thought in addition to a headcanon you read - stuff like that. Small gestures of support can make the difference. And you don’t have to spread yourself thin over the activity of the entire fandom. Just be a little more engaged in the circles you’re in.

3. I’d like to see more consideration. It’s totally okay to fawn over some fanfic or fanart and it’s natural to want the creator to make more of it, but you should be careful with your requests. It’s common courtesy to first check if the creator is willing to make more of it before you start begging them to do so. Every creator likes to see that there’s interest in their works, but it’s a little overwhelming when someone demands more from you on a project that you don’t really feel like continuing. This might be a personal thing, but I feel a bit guilt-tripped when someone is pleading with me to do something that they desperately need of me. Especially when I’ve already stated my opinion on the matter. There are ways to encourage creators to make more content without coming off as demanding. Please, master those ways. (I’m sorry if this is too ranty; it’s just something that’s been bothering me in the last few weeks).

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

This got way too serious even for my own liking so let’s brighten the mood a little with a happy AU. A Curious Archer Animal AU which also draws from Beauty and the Beast to be exact.

Alice is a nymph who sees a man with a bow and arrow who’s trying to hit a little fox. She blasts him with her magic and knocks him out, just barely saving the fox from a deadly shot. It still gets wounded though and Alice takes it in her care. She brings it to the cottage where she lives to nurse it back to health but there’s something extraordinary about the fox. Alice uses her magic and figures out what the problem is. The fox is actually a girl and via her magic Alice finds out that her name is Robin and she was turned into a fox by Alice’s own mother - Gothel. Robin came across Mother Nature and got herself cursed because of her insufferable attitude. She’s not being any more pleasant when in Alice’s company. She breaks things around the cottage and scares other animals away. She even hunts a little bunny even though Alice has already taken care of her dinner. However, Alice’s relentless gentleness and her caring attitude start rubbing off on Robin and she changes over time. Meanwhile, Alice is looking for a way to turn Robin back into a human but finds nothing other than dead end after dead end. Finally, when she’s tired from the lack of progress, she goes to confront her mother and ask her to turn Robin back into a human. Gothel warns her to get rid of the fox and forget about it. Otherwise, she’ll take her powers away. Alice doesn’t back down, though, which results into her powers being sealed away by Gothel. She loses consciousness from the spell and falls to the ground, dropping Robin in the process. The fox worriedly licks Alice’s cheek, trying to wake her up, when a rainbow glow radiates from both of them. Robin is turned back into a human and Alice wakes up with all of her powers back since True Love’s kiss broke the curses put on both of them. Alice uses her powers to turn Gothel into a willow to make sure that she won’t harm anyone anymore since Robin was far from the only one who got cursed by Gothel. Alice takes the position of the leader of the nymphs and the new Mother Nature and she and Robin live happily together in the woods.

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

I’ve mentioned this before but I think it’s worth mentioning again because I just love it so much and I know you love Zelena and I’m in such a Zelena mood today (I just made a video about her).

I headcanon that Zelena took self-defense classes after she lost her magic and that’s why she was able to defeat Jack/Hansel so easily. I think it makes sense for her to have considered other ways of self-defense since her magic was gone and she wasn’t a fully redeemed villain when it happened so there certainly were people who wanted to get back at her for something. And without magic she’d be defenseless against any possible new villain (and lbr it’s Storybrooke; there’s always a new villain). She wanted to be able to protect both Robin and herself since she didn’t want Robin to grow up the way she had - without a mother. Robin had already lost her father and Zelena wouldn’t allow her to lose her mother too. So she learned how to defend herself even without her magic.

X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEM

Regina Mills (OUAT)

Zelena Mills (OUAT)

Robin Mills (OUAT)

Ruby Lucas (OUAT)

Kathryn Nolan (OUAT)

Loki (MCU)

Gamora (and Nebula) (MCU)

Phil Coulson (MCU & Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Griffin (Winx Club)

Shego (Kim Possible)

Pretty much all of these can defend themselves but, heck, I love them to death and would defend them regardless.

Wow, this got so long, but it was funny and challenging, and I liked answering the questions.

#ask #intothewickedwood #once upon a time #ouat #curious archer #alice jones #robin mills #gothel #au #zelena

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moonlight-shadxw · 28 days

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Do you see the vision???

Idk i like the "you'll never

Know if I'm a dumbass or

A genius or a genius playing

A dumbass or the other way

Around" kind of guy

And ofc he's being pathetic in

Front of double M ( montague and midas )

#Midas #midas fanart #Midas art #Fortnite #Fortnite fanart #Montague #Montague fanart #Montague fortnite #Nolan chance #Nolan chance fanart #Nolan chance fortnite

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kmomof4 · 5 years

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So do you know what today is? Or tomorrow rather? For me, I mean... Tomorrow for me, today for her...if that makes any sense at all...

It’s @artistic-writer birthday!!!!!!

🎶Happy birthday to youuuuu, happy birthday to youuuuu!!! Happy birthday dear Salem, happy birthday to youuuuuuu!!!!🎶

Pink and puppies... what could be better? I’ll tell you what’s better!!! Celebrating what a wonderful person, friend, and writer you are!!!! So that’s what I’m doing! Happy birthday my love! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you are!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaand now, for your gift!!! Salem is so near and dear to my heart! It has been a privilege and blessing getting to know you over the last... about what, 15mos? Somewhere thereabouts. Anyhoo, I first met Salem through her art for @totheendoftheworldortime Swan-Jones Trio. She is an INCREDIBLE artist and our fandom is truly blessed to have her! Here is the link to all her fanart that she’s made. She’s never made any art that I haven’t loved!!! My personal favorites are probably the SJT art, the Marvel Men of OUAT, her art for The Legend of Captain Killian Jones by @hollyethecurious, Between Heaven and Hell by @alexandralyman and Alii Dimidium Lunam. Now moving on to her fics! Salem is one of the sweetest and kindest people in this fandom! Even when she tortures me with her fics! And THEN she cackles with @hollyethecurious about my conniptions and comes up with even more ways to kill me! But she deserves all the good things for her birthday and every day and I can’t wait to someday meet her in person and squeeze her to death! But then she couldn’t write and art anymore... nevermind... And now for my very favorite fics that she’s written! These are in no particular order.

Talk Irish to Me

Modern AU. Emma has often wondered why Killian and his entire family have Irish names, despite his sultry British accent. As it turns out, Killian not only has an Irish heritage that he is extremely proud of, but he also speaks the ancient Gaelic tongue rather well.

Love Finds a Way. Jurassic World AU WIP

Emma Swan is the Head of Operations for David Nolan’s exotic adventure park, Jurassic World. She has a son, Henry, and is loved and respected by her colleagues. Her life was perfect until a new dinosaur the park created, Indominus Rex, decided to escape. Oh, and her one night stand, Killian Jones - he’s there to help contain the asset. Just to complicate things even more.

The Paradox of Light. I’ve only read this once, and I’ll only read it once, but I just have no words for the pain and beauty of this fic...

Imagine having one person, one constant, one love in your life that holds your head when you go under the surface. They will be there forever, holding your hand through everything life can throw at the pair of you, but what happens when a crack forms? What happens when it grows into something neither of you can control? What happens when the one person who was there to guide you becomes an obstacle and rather than hold you up, they pull you down? How do you find your way out of the darkness without your light?

Between Now and Nether

On their way to a Nolan Charity Gala, tragedy befalls Emma and Killian who is given just seven days to set things right. Can he make Emma believe and escape the Nether before he is lost forever?

Alii Dimidium Lunam. Her fic for the @cssns last year.

Mongrel Killian Jones, packless and alone, finds Emma by chance in a bar, but she neglects to mention she is running away from her pack responsibilities...responsibilities that her strict father and alpha, David Nolan, expects of his only child and heir to the Misthaven pack. None of which include falling in love with a mongrel. Loosely based Lady and the Tramp AU.

The Perfect Proposal

Killian Jones has an image of the perfect proposal in his head, the one way he will surely win over the woman he wants to give his heart to for the rest of his life. But will taking Emma on a five day break to the romantic, Austrian mountains help him find the courage and perfection he so desires?

Her ABO fics co-written with @doodlelolly0910 including

Give/Take

When Killian goes away on business and his rut appears early, Emma's little pick me up causes a little heat between them, prompting her to find her Alpha and sate both their needs.

and

Something More. Written for Hollye’s birthday last week. After some really hot and apparently needed together time, Emma and Killian discover Something More between them!

So that’s it! Again, Salem is an absolutely fantastic author and artist and she deserves all the love for everything she brings to this fandom with her delightful presence and her creations! I love you to the moon and back again my dear and I hope you have a wonderful day!

#happy birthday #to salem #its artistic-writers birthday!!!#happy birthday @artistic-writer #fandom birthday #fic rec list #cs fic recs #and art rec

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artistic-writer · 6 years

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Alii Dimidium Lunam (The Other Half of the Moon) - CS Werewolf AU - CSSNS Fic

Title: Alii Dimidium Lunam (The Other Half of the Moon) by @artistic-writer artwork by @cocohook38 [FULL RESOLUTION]

Summary: Mongrel Killian Jones, packless and alone, finds Emma by chance in a bar, but she neglects to mention she is running away from her pack responsibilities...responsibilities that her strict father and alpha, David Nolan, expects of his only child and heir to the Misthaven pack. None of which include falling in love with a mongrel. Loosely based Lady and the Tramp AU.

Rating: E (overall rating) for explicit sexual content, language and themes throughout. Trigger warnings will follow and be added as they are needed to avoid spoilers.

Word Count: 4172

Also on AO3 - Updates Sundays with Mid-week illustrations (time permitting)

A/N: Welcome to my contribution for the @cssns ! This is a multi chapter fic that has been in the planning for a long time. Massive thanks to my wonderful betas, @kmomof4 to whom this fic is also gifted and @hookedonapirate who i am sure, thanks to me, hates tenses lol (i am a dick and missed Hannah off the original post!) . Without your constant encouragement, I would have probably given up on this fic already. Thank you to my crew, @hollyethecurious @resident-of-storybrooke @courtorderedcake and special thanks to @killian-whump @killianmesmalls and @sherlockianwhovian for how they helped later on. The BIGGEST thank you to @cocohook38 who, after I had finished fangirling over the fact she was my artist, has gone out of her way to make some of the most amazing fanart for this fic - I am amazed and so humbled! She even let me watch ;) And to @flipperbrain who drew THIS piece of art for this fic in December, before it was even written!

Taglist: @cssns @resident-of-storybrooke @hollyethecurious @kmomof4 @winterbaby89 @courtorderedcake @initiala @cocohook38 @branlovesouat @teamhook @snidgetsafan @sherlockianwhovian @shireness-says @wingedlioness @lenfaz @therooksshiningknight

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Set back far from the road, along a pothole ridden dirt track, was Misthaven. It was a grand house, single story with an eclectic mixture of modern and older architecture that set the house apart from anywhere else. In the summertime, the surrounding grass would make way for meadow flowers that sprang up from the ground and enveloped the whole estate in a blanket of blue and white. Surrounding the main lawns was the woodland that came with the house, trees as tall as the sky and as dark as night for as far as the eye could see.

There was an old grandfather clock in the hall to the house, standing steadfast against the wall and standing the test of time. It had been passed through no less than seven generation of Nolan men, and Emma had always remembered that her grandfather used to tell her stories when she was a child, always including the warm, wooden furniture as if it were some magical piece of history. In reality, Emma knew it was nothing more than a clock, ticking away the seconds of her life, its bulk a symbol of her defiance.

Emma Nolan was an only child, born pure of blood and whelped in a one-pup litter. Her parents, David Nolan and his wife Mary Margaret were pureblood too, the product of generations of breeding that created stronger, faster offspring who had so far been successful in maintaining a stronghold over the werewolf community. That was, until the death of the fairest pack leader Misthaven had ever known threw his twin sons into a power hungry struggle for dominance.

Pack law stated that once an alpha was defeated in battle, his title and everything associated with his prestige would pass onto his victor. As archaic as it sounded, it was upheld, and losing a challenge for superiority was an alpha’s worst nightmare. Not only would they have to give up their power and influence over the community they oversaw, but they would also have to give up their home, loyal followers and would have to leave the place they called home forever. They would be exiled with the mongrels, shunned by their own, losing all breeding privileges and destined to slowly watch their family names die out as outcasts.

But when an alpha dies simply of natural causes, it falls on his eldest pureblood child to take up the mantle. If they are a female, they must be married, or the pack will nominate a high ranking pack member to enter into an arranged marriage with her; the idea of strength and unity was one that so often could not be shaken. If they are male, they are free to lead as alpha, choosing their own path and mate in good time. But when David’s father died, he left not one but two pureblood progeny.

David and James were twins, whelped as pups at exactly the same time, sharing an embryotic sack and leaving their mother at exactly the same moment in time. This meant that by rights, both had a claim on Misthaven, and even though David was the far superior wolf, leaner, stronger and far more level-headed than his brother ever would be, James was blinded by the greed of power, and challenged David to a fight for the position of alpha. It was a fight that he lost in no less than two minutes, his fate sealed as a mongrel in exile thereafter and the hatred for his brother growing more and more each day.

Despite his years of exile, David was fair to his brother and only sibling, offering James the chance to start his own pack in another state. That was the only way he could gain power, and even though it was never the title he was ultimately entitled to, James took the offer. He was to stay away from Misthaven and anything to do with David’s pack at all times, ensuring that their paths never crossed unless he was summoned for political reasons or in the greater interests of wolf kind.

There were few instances that meant David would ever call upon his brother, but as family, it was expected of him to attend the wedding of his only niece, and so James had answered his brother’s summons and set out for Misthaven. It had been nearly thirty years since he had last set foot onto the sacred turf of his childhood home, and as he stepped from the expensive black SUV, James surveyed the property with a mixture of pride and distaste.

“This place could have been so much more,” he huffed, dismissively brushing some fluff from the shoulder of his suit jacket, “if I had taken place as the alpha.”

The sound of a car door slammed behind him and James turned to see his right-hand man standing beside the driver’s side door.

Walsh pulled the dark sunglasses from his face and folded them between his fingers, quickly tucking them into the pocket of his jacket. There was less sun here than in their home state, the sombre atmosphere surrounding the entire state setting cold and damp into his bones. “Is this it?” he asked with a frown.

“Yeah,” James agreed with a slow nod. “This is Misthaven.”

Walsh twisted his features into a grimace as he tried to think of the words to describe his boss’s childhood home, which was also the home of their greatest opposition. “It’s…big,” he managed weakly, shrugging. “Why are we here again?” he asked dumbly.

“My niece is to be married,” James barked, slightly annoyed. “Pack law...blah blah…”

“Ah,” Walsh sounded with a sigh. It made him nervous just setting foot onto the pea-sized gravel driveway of the man who had banished his boss three decades ago, let alone meeting to discuss the conditions of them attending the wedding.

“And we have to show our good intentions,” James said with a smirk. “So when we crush David and his family, they will never see it coming.”

As if he had heard them, David appeared on the expansive front porch, exiting the huge double doorway and stepping forward into the overcast light of day. He stood with his hands in his pockets - a conscious effort to seem neutral, James thought; his features and demeanor having changed little since they had last crossed paths. James looked upon his brother with a narrowed gaze, sizing him up. David was noticeably larger than he had remembered, his brother’s broad shoulders much wider than his own and his biceps bulging against the material of his shirt. His face was unchanged, maybe a little more leathery and with a few more fading scars, and his hair was dusted with silver that was more prominent around his ears.

“Is that him?” Walsh asked softly, stepping closer to James so David could not hear his words. James smiled, reflecting that of his brother, who had clearly heard the exchange with his heightened hearing and had moved to fold his arms over his chest in a display of dominance.

James nodded, keeping eye contact with his twin as David’s daughter and the bride to be stepped from behind her father. Emma was as imposing in presence as her father, identical in her posture and stern bravado that spoke volumes of the woman she had become. James had not seen her for over twenty years, since the last council meeting, and she was a far cry from the small, skinny, blonde-haired girl who he’d once met.

“Is that her?” Walsh stared at Emma, shuffling his weight uncomfortably on the stones beneath his boots. He was dumbfounded by her beauty, his jaw dropping open and his tongue almost lolling out of his mouth like a cartoon mutt. A slip of wind whipped at her long, golden tresses and tossed it backward over her shoulder as she gazed at them with a murderous look in her eyes. Walsh tilted his head back, sticking his nose into the air and inhaling hard, his eyes fluttering closed as he gulped down her scent on a gust of wind that had carried her fragrance down the driveway.

“Down boy,” James warned, buttoning his suit jacket at the front and tugging at the white cuffs of his shirt which poked from his sleeves. It had not escaped his attention that David’s jaw had clenched at Walsh’s display. “Lest you upset the alpha,” he bit out darkly as he struggled to say the words with anything but hatred.

“Yes sir,” Walsh said flatly, falling in line behind James as he made his way up towards the house.

“James,” David greeted awkwardly. He extended a stiff arm to his brother who, after so long, had become more of a stranger with darkness in his heart. James took his offered hand, shaking it with a firm grip.

“This is Walsh, my number two.” James let his hand slip from David’s and motioned towards the man beside him.

David took in the shorter man, letting his eyes roam over his weirdly wide shoulders, pin-like neck and pointed nose. He had an instant hatred for his floppy brown hair that made him look like the outcast stray he was, and when Walsh offered him his hand, David squeezed maybe a little tighter than he should have. “Nice to meet you,” David lied, pinching Walsh’s hand even firmer between his when the man’s gaze wandered towards Emma at his side.

“And this must be Emma,” James sighed with a tiny bit of pride. “It’s been a long time.” He smiled at her warmly, but Emma didn’t uncross her arms to greet him like he expected.

Emma looked away from her uncle, noticing a raised patch of skin on Walsh’s throat. “Where did you get the scar?” she enquired, motioning towards his scar with a nod of her head.

“Now, Emma,” David warned with a tight-lipped smile. “Be nice.”

Emma shrugged. “Just asking,” she huffed, quirking her eyebrow and turning away from the men, stalking back into the house.

“She’s feisty,” James noted with a grin. “I’m sure she gets that from you, brother.”

David laughed a stifled snort through his nose. Pack law dictated that alphas were not permitted to interact with the mates of other alphas, so James had never met the tenacious woman he called his wife. “You have never met her mother.”

James laughed with him, but the whole atmosphere on the porch was a little tense. There was nothing but animosity between the brothers and there was a layer of tension that hung thick in the air and made everyone around them uncomfortable.

“Does she know?” James asked quickly, lowering his voice.

David shook his head and plunged his hands back into his pockets. “Not yet,” he admitted.

James’ face lit up a little at the possibility of a crack forming between the bonds of the Nolan pack. If Emma didn’t know she was to be married, and this would be the first she would hear of it, then this meeting just might be the highlight of his year. “Shall we?” he prompted gently and David turned sideways, motioning him into the house with an extended hand. James followed his direction with a nod of thanks and walked through the huge oak doorway into the darkened reception area of the house.

Walsh moved to follow his boss, but David stepped between him and the doorway, pressing his huge hand to Walsh’s chest and digging his fingers into the planes on his torso. Walsh stopped dead, his feet bumping into David, who did not move a single inch from the impact. Walsh looked up, real fear in his eyes, the prick of heat and the beads of sweat soaking the shirt underneath his jacket.

“Where did you get the scar?” David whispered darkly, echoing his daughter’s words of intrigue, only his tone was more demanding. His eyes flickered over Walsh’s face and down to the scar, the white, lumpy skin long since healed, but clearly a bite wound.

“A mongrel,” Walsh gulped.

David raised an eyebrow, almost impressed. “Did you kill it?”

“No, it got away.” Walsh swallowed hard again, panic setting into his bones. “I’m sorry.”

The code by which werewolves lived their lives was very clear. It was a structured set of rules that every pureblood followed in order to survive, regardless of conflict between packs; the greater good was always the end game. Mongrels were half breeds, hybrids between werewolf and humans, who belonged with no pack and generally lived a life outside of pack culture. They were more like humans who didn’t fit in, and unless they posed a threat to werewolf society, either by threatening to expose them to humans or attacking purebloods, they were left to their own miserable existence.

Mongrels could never breed with a pureblood, destined to procreate with only humans, which would always result in a human child. They would be the last of their line, their werewolf genetics dying out in the child, who would show no signs of ever being supernatural. They may be more successful in their lives, having a slight edge over their competition, but this only ever really manifested itself in sports and other competitive professions.

No mongrel had ever, in the entire stretch of time surrounding werewolf lore and traditions, been permitted to marry into a pack. And for the good of werewolf kind everywhere, they never would.

David moved his hand from Walsh’s chest and slid it around the back of his neck, his long fingers gripping at the sinew there and pulling Walsh’s head beside his. David’s thumb brushed over the scar on his throat and he purposefully dug it into the raised flesh until Walsh winced uncomfortably, the leer at Emma not having gone unnoticed. “It’s okay,” he said, his voice low and dark, his dominance over all werewolves clear by the tone of his voice. “Next time it won’t.”

David gave Walsh’s face a playful slap, his face erupting into a wide, boyish smile that many a werewolf had made the mistake of misreading as kindness. Walsh knew better and just shook his head in response, breezing past David with his head held low when he motioned him through the door before he followed behind.

James was in the lounge with Emma but they stood on opposite sides of the huge, square room. Walsh joined James immediately, straightening his jacket as he did so and offering his boss a sheepish glare when James noticed his sudden nervous nature. They had all been joined by Graham, David’s beta, who had been orphaned as a pup and sent to live with David and Mary Margaret because no one in his Irish pack wanted him around.

Graham’s father was American and had found love with his mother, much to the disgust of her very traditional Irish pack. Like many pack marriages, they were arranged by the alphas for the unification of packs, and they had been wed to try and mend a long and very time consuming rift. It also helped that Mary Margaret’s cousin was his father and her marriage to David had solidified his integrity. However, not long after Graham turned nine, his parents were killed by hunters when they had unexpectedly strayed onto farmland as wolves, and the pack saw it fit to ship Graham off to America to rid their pack of his ‘filthy foreign blood’.

It hadn’t mattered one bit to David about his beta’s lineage. He was pureblood, with a heart of gold and a fiery temper fuelled by his hatred for his old pack, who could get the job done when he needed him too. He had been at his side since Graham’s early human teens when David had supported him through his puberty and first change as if he were his own son.

Werewolves had two birthdays. One, known as their human day, along with many other human qualities was the day they were physically born. Even as purebloods, they had to blend into society so as not to arouse suspicion, and used their birthday to indicate their ages as if they were human. The other, known as their wolf day, was to celebrate the day they first turned, which normally coincided with human puberty and usually occurred at the human age of ten. And now, as Emma approached her eighteenth wolf year, she was to be married to Graham to secure both of their places as pack betas.

Only, Emma didn’t know yet. And neither did Graham.

“Thank you for coming,” David said more formally as he followed Walsh into the room. The crackle of the fire as logs popped in the flames was the only sound, other than David’s voice, as everyone kept quiet for the alpha. He stalked towards the fireplace, joining Graham and Emma on that side of the room, a clear divide between the packs evident. “Graham is my beta,” David introduced him finally, slapping his shoulder with pride. “Graham, this is my brother James and his beta, Walsh.”

Graham looked between the two men as he leaned on the mantelpiece and nodded. “Pleasure,” Graham grunted coldly, the scent of both of the wolves before him causing him nothing but offense. They smelled dirty, like mongrels, and he was a little irritated that the whole purpose of this whole meeting was to announce a wedding. The only logical reason for them to be present was so that Emma would be wed to Walsh, and the idea made his skin crawl.

“You know pack law,” James said casually as he walked around his side of the room, taking in the dated decor of Misthaven and turning up his nose at what his brother had let it become. “I have to be here,” he shrugged.

“Indeed,” David agreed and took a breath. James was right, and because twins were rare in the werewolf world, this had never happened in their lifetime, but in the event of an arranged marriage, both of the rightful heirs to Misthaven had to be present at the announcement. It was old and archaic, but it was how things had always been. They both had to agree to the union, even if one of the twins were the leader of another pack. And James couldn’t care less who Emma married, as his main reason for agreeing to this meeting was to use the time to run reconnaissance of Misthaven and the Nolans.

He had bigger plans for them.

“Emma,” David whispered softly, shaking Emma from her daydream and making her look away from the mesmerizing flicker of the log fire. “Do you know why we are here?”

“It’s got to be big,” she surmised. “Why else would they be here?” The feud between David and James had been long standing and even though it had begun before she was even born, Emma and most of the Misthaven pack knew about it. There were very few times David would ever invite his brother back to Misthaven, even Emma knew that.

James smirked to himself, running a finger over his lips to hide the twitch of a smile. “She’s a smart one too,” James noted, more to himself than anyone else.

“Wanna see what else I can do?” Emma growled, taking a step towards her uncle with fire in her veins. Graham took a step a second before her, blocking her path and giving her a blue-eyed stare.

“Watch it, Barbie,” Walsh spat, stepping between her and his alpha.

“Hey!” David’s voice boomed around the room. “Enough.” Emma shrunk back, shaking off Graham’s grip and turning away from them to stare back into the fire.

“With all due respect,” Graham said softly, leaning into David’s ear, his thick accent wrapping around the words as they left his mouth. Even after all of his time in America, Graham had never lost his Irish tones. “We should get this announcement out of the way before Emma…”

David cut him off with a raised hand and a nod of understanding. “Emma, do you know why you are here for this meeting?” David asked his daughter slowly, never taking his eyes from James as he skulked around in the shadows of the room.

“Protection?” Emma scoffed and David smiled. Emma was a formidable fighter, just like her mother, and she had honed her skills with hours and hours of practice fights as she had grown. Sometimes he would fight her, and sometimes he would pit her against Graham, but she nearly always won, even if she did suspect he’d always let her.

“Not quite,” David told her, giving her hand a squeeze as he walked past her. “As you know, you are coming up to your eighteenth wolf year, and that means a suitable mate has been chosen for you to secure your place as beta of a pack.”

Emma screwed up her face and her gaze darted towards Walsh. His monkey-like grin angered her even more, and she wondered how fast she could make it across the room and rip the primate’s throat out.

“Dad, I’ve told you, I’m not ready to get married,” Emma softened her tone in the hopes of appealing to her father, rather than the alpha who lived every pack law to the letter.

“And I’ve told you, that is not for you to decide,” David’s tone changed instantly, and a flush of adrenaline washed over Emma at her father’s sudden uncharacteristic aggression. She looked at Graham, her long time friend and surrogate brother who could have helped her out of any other situation, but all he could do in this instance was give her a sad shake of his head and look at the floor.

“Oh, this should be fun,” Walsh giggled, bouncing on the balls of his feet. Like an imp, he craved chaos, as did most of James’ pack, and for a terrifying second, Emma thought he may have been her chosen mate. But the next words out of her father’s mouth left her cold, shaken to the point of almost throwing up and confused.

“You are to marry Graham,” David announced to the room.

“Graham?” Emma screeched in disgust.

“Me?” Graham squeaked at the same time, both of them looking at each other in confusion.

“I have thought about this for many months,” David continued, ignoring their apparent protests about the other. “There are no suitable candidates from other packs, and our relationship with most of our rivals is currently very strong, so this seemed like a good option.”

“A good option?” Emma almost screamed at him as she took an unconscious step from Graham. “This isn’t a good option.”

“Hey,” Graham frowned, offended.

“No offense,” Emma added as if reading his mind.

“None taken,” Graham scowled, absolutely vexed.

“Graham is a strong wolf and a good man,” David told her firmly. “He would make a fine husband.”

“Yeah, if he weren’t like my brother!” Emma laughed nervously as she ran a shaking palm over her forehead. It felt clammy, but she wasn’t sure if it were due to the shock or the anger.

“Sir, if I may?” Graham asked, but David shook his head and gave him a dark stare that warned Graham about overstepping the mark.

“You may not,” David said coldly, turning from Graham when he was satisfied that his beta knew his place. “And as for you,” David growled in Emma’s direction, “you will marry Graham. Pack law dictates you will marry whomever your alpha sees fit, and I am your alpha…”

“How could I forget?” Emma snapped, interrupting him, but instantly regretting it. His daughter or not, this wasn’t her father she was talking to right now, and Emma could be punished severely for her insubordination.

“This isn’t a discussion, Emma,” David snarled gruffly, moving to stand in front of Graham by the fire. Graham looked up at his alpha sheepishly when he extended his hand to him - the unspoken seal of any contract offered by the alpha.

“Don’t,” Emma begged him, shaking her head from side to side as the sting of tears began to prick at her eyelids. “Graham, please.”

David looked into Graham’s eyes, his hand frozen between them, and a muscle in his jaw twitched. Graham was trapped, like a rabbit on a hunt, between a rock and a hard place. David was his alpha and he had sworn his loyalty to him and his family, which included carrying out any task or bidding his alpha saw fit. Only, this wasn’t just a run of the mill contract he was asking him to fulfill. This would make his alpha very happy, but it would rip the heart of the woman he had come to love as a sister in two.

With a heavy heart, Graham accepted David’s proposal and shook his hand, the sound of Emma’s wails filling his ears as she ran from the room, slammed the huge, wooden doors shut behind her and ran from Misthaven.

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Arthur is ready, are you?

We are less than one week away from the start of Inceptiversary 2017!!!!!!!

We’ve got a little more info for you on what’s going on during the festivities, including start dates and handy links for where to find more info.

Your #1 place for all Inception related info is @inceptiversary. Here you’ll find reblogs of all the info posts, so chances are you’ll find what you’re looking for with a little scrolling. Make sure to tag all your own posts with #inceptiversary so the blog picks them up!

#2 is the Inceptiversary social calendar. If you notice anything missing from the calendar, please message @teacuphuman09 and it will be added asap!

#3 Watch parties will be held in the Inception slack. Don’t have an invite? Send an ask to @guiltypuknowme and she’ll hook you up. Check @inceptiversarysocial for the movie poll and have your say in what we watch! These parties are also a great way to get to know your fellow Inceptionites, but don’t worry if you’re not up to being super social, you can still join and lurk. We love our lurkers here, too!

#4 You can’t have an Inception Watch Party without Watch Party Bingo! The prizes this year are seriously sweet, so make sure to check back for more info!

#5 The Inception Fandom Auction is in honour of @anartificialaspidistra, who passed away earlier this year. Molly was a beautiful person and a great friend, and if you want to donate something, or bid, you can message @corinnetags or go to http://inception-auction.dreamwidth.org/ for more info.

#6 The Inception 30 Day Challenge is a great way to connect with your love for the Inception fandom! Write a love letter to your favourite character! Unearth the rarest of your rare pairs! Count how many times Eames touches his lips throughout the film! Every day is a new and fun challenge!

#7 @inceptionkitties has some great events planned this year, including the crossover challenge with @00kitties that we’re totally going to win. I’m just sayin’, our fandom has the best kitties. Hands down.

#8 Get ready to lengthen your to-read lists and be introduced to the best that this fandom has to offer! Learn things you never knew about the movie and gorge on all the meta and fanworks! The Fanworks Roundup starts on July 1st, so dream bigger and be prepared!

#9 Inception Reversebang is the beautiful marriage of fanart and fanfic, brought together for one hell of a challenge! Sign-ups for this will open in the second half of the month, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for all the great art and be inspired!

#10 Psst, hey you. Yeah, you. You like tropes? How ‘bout kinks? Well then do I have the event for you! Trope/Kink Bingo is a fun and creative way to write that fic you always wanted to write, or challenge yourself with something you never thought you could. Pick a line, four corners, or join the blackout club! Bingo fics are open to all pairings and ships, and tend to get a lot of kudos and comments, and this year there are rumours of matching t-shirts in the works!

#11 If you’re going to get a bingo card you should also sign up for the Inception Comment Contest! In an attempt to encourage appreciative comments on fics, and fandom love all around, @teacuphuman09 (that’s me!) is running a contest that could see you, the reader/viewer, winning a fanwork from one of your favourite authors or artists! For authors/artists, this is a great way to give back and thank all those consumers of fandom who took the time to give you some love and put a smile on your face. Also, who feed your addiction, because as we all know, comments are like crack and our works live and die by them! The best part is that you can sign up as a commenter AND and a creator! Double bonus! Commenters sign up HERE, and Authors/Artists sign up HERE. Sign-ups are only open until June 30th, so hurry! If you can’t remember if you’ve signed up, check out this spreadsheet!

#12 And if you’re going to join the Comment Contest, you really should head over to @inceptionpositivity and leave an anonymous note for that author whose fic just made you squee/cry/laugh/squirm in public. We all know you read fanfic at your desk, Deborah! You’re not fooling anyone.

#13 @aelastwriter (Arthur and Eames Last Drabble Writer Standing) is a quick, competitive drabble contest that has the lovely side effect of flooding us with excellent, short fics that YOU get to vote on! And this year, there will once again be a non-elimination round! Win-win! Warning: these drabbles are addictive and may leave you yearning to leave copious kudos and comments for the authors. This, of course, is strongly encouraged.

#14 The Fanfic Group Discussion over at @dreamin-reader are always insightful, in-depth, and sometimes even filthy ;-) They’re an excellent way to explore our fandom and the characters and stories that drive it forward. So drop by and have a chat about some of your favourite fics!

#15 The Inception Friending Meme is your one-stop shop for who’s who in our fandom! See who lives in your area, or who shares a hobby with you. The goal is to bring us together and build lasting relationships, because the fandom that knows each other is a fandom that grows each other. (Insert emoji of Alex Hart with hand on heart, fedora on head, and foot in mouth)

#16 The Inception Quiz has a manpain’s worth of great prizes, just waiting to be won! Sign up and test your knowledge of Inception, because maybe you don’t know everything you think you know. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s all been a dream. More info to come!

#17 Quick! What your favourite rare pair? Saito/Nash? Yusuf/Mal? Dom/Ari’s scarf? Whatever it is, you’ll find it in the Rare Pair Fest! More info to come!

#18 Speaking of coming...you know what happens on Wednesdays, right? On Wednesdays we share fics. Feel-good fics. Fics that get you over the hump that is the middle of the week and help you glide into Friday. Because on Friday, we’ll be in our bunks with the fics that we can’t forget. The ones that linger because they were just so hot you had to go back and read them again! Check out @inceptionficrx for Wednesday Hump Days and Bunk Fic Fridays for a sure-fire way to keep your week humming! All ships are welcome!

#19 The glorious month of July will also deliver unto us the newest masterpiece by Chris Nolan, Dunkirk. Tom Hardy! Cillian Murphy! Mark Rylance! Planes! Boats! Dead infantry! Heroic measures! We all know how it’s going to end, but it looks like it’s going to be a great journey! @guiltypuknowme is organizing a chat in the Inception slack to discuss the movie following its release, so come join the fun and talk about why Tom Hardy always has to wear a freaking mask over his pretty mug!

#20 Ever wanted to know more about the glorious French language? The romance, the curl of the tongue, the really complicated conjugations? @malteparle will have a French word of the day every day in July to keep you warm and content. Tu n'as pas peur de rêver plus grand, ma chérie.

#21 The time has come, people. Time to crush the 007 fandom in the Inception/007 Crossover Round Robin Challenge, just like we did last year! Be on alert and check your mentions because it’s going to be a wild ride to victory, once again!

#22 Looking for something specific? Then look no further than @a-forger-and-a-point-man’s excellent Inception Blog Masterlist! It has everything you’ll need to navigate the Inception fandom!

#23 In need of a little Inception fanwork, but not up to the task yourself? Visit on of the wonderful blogs that are accepting prompts during Inceptiversary!

-@fridatwin

-@brookebond

If you’re taking prompts and I’ve missed you, please let me know and I’ll add you to the list!

#24 Don’t forget about the Theme Weeks!

July 1-7 Meet Cute: First meetings, coffeeshop AU’s, all those fics that make you squirm with excitement because you know how good it’s going to be for your ship!

July 8-14 Adventure: Canon compliant, heist fics, any fic where the characters are dream criminals.

July 15-21 Hurt AND/OR Comfort: All the pain, all the solace, or a little of both!

July 22-28 Crossovers: Your favourite fics that incorporate our heroes into other story lines, or bring other universes into Inception.

July 29-August 4 Mystical Realism/AUs: Bring us your weird, your slimy, your shameful! Anything goes, as long as it has elements of the unusual!

As I mentioned above, we have some truly great prizes again this year! Fics, artwork, crafts, jewelry, podfic’ing! The list goes on and on! If you’d like to offer a prize, please contact @justgot1 so she can put you down as a benevolent donor! The more we have, the more we can give away!

Five days to go, so rest up, get ready, and dream big!

#Inceptiversary

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