Thank you so much @natesofrellis for tagging me for this meiker (m/f version) (f/f version)
tagging: @strangefable @clonesupport @confidentandgood @direwombat @roofgeese @funkypoacher @poetikat @schoute @purplehairsecretlair @perhapsrampancy and anyone else who'd like to give this a go
Kit and Jacob | Far Cry 5 - Is the puppy her own personal judge or is it Jake? Who can tell?
Sam and Siobhan | Uncharted - getting all cozy under the fairylights while waiting for Father Christmas to arrive.
Ava and Max | The Outer Worlds - Ava teaching her vicar about an old Earth holiday.
Ava and Lore | The Outer Worlds - Lore (@strangefable 's OC) ring in the new year with romance
The first set of ship in 5 minutes, for Lore and her two OTPs. <3
Lore and Max | The Outer Worlds | Ship: A Bartender and Her Vicar
Lore and Ava* | The Outer Worlds | Ship: A Doctor Walks Into A Bar**
tagging just the TOW crew for this one: @funkypoacher, @damejudyhench, @the-lastcall, @somethingclich8, @clonesupport, @gayafsatan, @jumpship90, @kourumi, @mediocre-life-span, @chilikecheese, @juniper-tree, @olivepip-writing, @toastedoats42, @kyber-infinitygems, @glass-hope, @galaxycunt, @incognito-insomniac, @porkwithbones, @the-laridian, and anyone I mistakenly missed <3
Footnotes:
*Ava belongs to the marvelous @socially-awkward-skeleton <3 <3 <3
**not their actual ship title; i just think i'm funny
We have 91 exciting stories looking for artists to claim them. In round one, you can claim three separate fics to make art for (just fill out the form three times with three unique user IDs if you want three stories). Stories are on a first come, first serve basis so hurry up and get a story while you can!
Updated List of Stories | Claim Form For Round Two
The Bone Season (Anniversary Edition) by Samantha Shannon **
Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon **
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet **
Bunny by Mona Awad**
The Bone Orchard by Sara A Mueller**
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten**
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia**
Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid
Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Half-Light by Frank Bidart
Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
Hell Bent (Ninth House) by Leigh Bardugo
All of Our Demise (All of Us Villains) by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
The Mask Falling (Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon
As usual, I organized the Classics roster by session (junior/senior I/senior II) because I find it easier to navigate than USAG’s method of listing everyone by home state. Juniors will be streaming on Flo, the first senior session will be streaming on Peacock (hopefully someone will take one for the team and share their stream for those like they did with American Classic), and then the second senior session will air on NBCSN.
Junior:
Charlotte Booth, Clermont, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics
Tagged by @funkypoacher @wretched-mischief @damejudyhench
Tagging: @roofgeese @clicheantagonist @purplehairsecretlair @adelaidedrubman @strangefable @confidentandgood @hoesephseed @natesofrellis @thomrainer and anyone else who'd like to give this picrew a go!
Alas, it is impossible to make the Seed boys with this one, so no Micah or Lilith. But I did manage both of Lore’s OTPs.
Lore and Max - Arguing as per usual. They’re always close to a fight, which usually turns amorous, because that’s just how they work.
Lore and Ava - @socially-awkward-skeleton‘s Ava and Lore have an AU where they fall in love and take over Halcyon as the badass girlbosses that they are, and I love them. <3
Round four of WIP Big Bang’s art claims are live! You can choose as many fics as you want this round, as it’s your last chance to grab any of the remaining fics for art. We have 46 stories up for grabs still!
UNCLAIMED FIC LIST | CLAIM FORM FOR ROUND 4
The Outer Worlds
#129
Title: Big Top Halcyon
Pairing/Characters Ava Mueller (female captain)/Maximillian DeSoto
Rating: Mature
Warnings/Tags: None
Summary Ava Mueller has always lived under the thumb or her parents, the family burden, she decides to run away and start her own life. Joining the circus troupe of Big Top Halcyon led by "The Chairman" Charles Rockwell. At first it seems like a dream come true, all too quickly she learns "freedom" comes at a cost.
“YOU WILL BE FOUND” NATIONAL COLLEGE ESSAY WRITING CHALLENGE 2021 | DEAR EVAN HANSEN
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
“You Will Be Found” National College Essay Writing Challenge 2021
In partnership with Gotham Writers Workshop and the Broadway Education Alliance, DEAR EVAN HANSEN invited 11th-grade and 12th-grade students across the country to write a college-application style essay that describes how they channeled “You Will Be Found” to ensure those around them were a little less alone over the last year, or, alternatively, a moment where they found comfort in connection.
WINNER:
Nearly 4,000 high school students across America wrote about impactful ways they stayed connected with others over the last year and we're delighted to announce Maxwell Silverman of Chicago, IL as the winner of the 2021 "You Will Be Found" National College Essay Writing Challenge and the $10,000 scholarship.
In June 2021, Maxwell graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago with plans to attend Boston Conservatory at Berklee, focusing on a degree in Musical Theatre.
FINALISTS:
Seth Gorelik, Bellmore, NY
Mira Kwon, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Cappella, Pittsburgh, PA
Semira Abdus-Salam, Rosedale, NY
Filgey Borgard, Brooklyn, NY
Lauren Escarcha, Orlando, FL
Kacey Feth, Union, MO
Paige Foltz, Stephens City, VA
Sarah George, Chesterfield, MO
Vincent Gerardi, Hauppauge, NY
Ariane Lee, Syosset, NY
Allison Lierz, Omaha, NE
Megan Luong, New York, NY
Kimberly Manyanga, Billerica, MA
Orla Grace McCoy, Raleigh, NC
Lucy Meola, New York, NY
Sunaya DasGupta Mueller, Palisades, NY
Liv Ollestad, Issaquah, WA
Liana O'Rourke, Downers Grove, IL
Isaiah Register, New York, NY
Sydney Schneider, Los Angeles CA
Ysanne Sterling, Centreville, VA
Madeline Wiest, Peoria, AZ
Samantha Williams, Providence, RI
Laura Yee, New York, NY
FINAL ROUND JUDGES:
Kelly Caldwell, Dean of Faculty, Gotham Writers' Workshop
Logan Culwell-Block, Director of PLAYBILLder Operations and Community Engagement, Playbill
Will Roland, Actor, Dear Evan Hansen Original Broadway Cast Member
Crystal Su, Program Manager, The Jed Foundation
Ekele Ukegbu, 2019 Jimmy Award Winner
READ MAXWELL’S FULL ESSAY:
Gram·pun·cle [geram-puhn-cuul] n. A gay man who formerly dated your grandmother only to later come to terms with his sexuality but still stay in the family to take care of your mother and aunt growing up.
Alan Palmer was my Grampuncle. When my cousins and I were younger, we couldn’t figure out what to call him. He was our grandpa in terms of age and raising our mothers, but he functioned more as the classic “fun gay uncle”, so we settled on a combination, Grampuncle. While we all had amazing relationships with Alan, mine was special. I have known Alan and his husband, Bill, since birth (making them the first ever gay couple I knew in my life).
Growing up and struggling with my sexuality, I was always able to look up to them to show me that true love really does have no boundaries. I will never forget, in 2015, standing inside the Michigan courthouse beside Alan as he and Bill exchanged vows and got married. They showed me, a young, insecure gay boy, that there was a place for me in the world and that I had a future to look forward to filled with love and joy.
Along with that joy, there eventually came some pain. Alan was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in the early spring of 2020. A week or so after the diagnosis, the world fell into a global pandemic. Those first few months were intense. I heard the horror stories from Alan of how scary it was going into the hospital for rounds of chemotherapy with people who had the Coronavirus sitting in the next wing over. Being constantly in and out of the hospital he was a risk to others, and the lung cancer made almost everyone else a risk to him. With the exception of his husband, he was fully alone.
Alan did not admit to his loneliness and pain. He did not want to feel like a burden, but after talking with Bill and hearing how Alan was truly feeling, my family began to make the hour and a half drive from Chicago to Michigan almost every other week to visit. We brought Alan a pop-up gazebo and some fancy sun hats to protect him (with the radiation he could not be in the sun for more than a few minutes at a time), and we would sit in the backyard just talking and laughing for hours until Alan’s body would give in to the exhaustion and he had to go inside.
As his birthday approached, I racked my brain thinking of something special to do for him. I thought back to a video I saw online toward the beginning of the pandemic and decided to make a “hug shield”. What better gift to give than a loved one’s embrace during the pandemic? Using a clear painter’s tarp, I cut arm holes and taped together closed arm sleeves. It took a good few hours, but I finally figured out a design that allowed for full protection on either side of the hug. On the day of his birthday, we packed up the car and headed to Michigan.
After talking and eating cake, it was time for the surprise. As we pulled the shield out and hung it from the gazebo, Alan did something I had only seen at the courthouse; he cried. I had the honor of the first hug, and as I slipped my arms into the sleeves Alan and I held each other and cried together. He pressed his forehead against mine through the plastic and in between sobs he said to me, “I am so proud of you.” I knew this was our final goodbye. When Alan died the next week, I knew he went in peace. He had felt my embrace through the shield of love.
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Bailey Andera, Thousand Oaks, CA
Arianna Arroyo, Brooklyn, NY
Alexis (Lexi) Berganio, Honolulu, HI
Avery Bielski, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Boemer, Villa Rica, GA
Isabelle Bulmahn, Imperial, MO
Jane Butera, Phoenixville, PA
Mia Cashin, Norwell, MA
Sean Choo, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Zuri Clarno, Columbus, OH
Lydia Corcoran, Apalachin, NY
Cody Coyle, Winter Park, FL
Anna Dai-Liu, San Diego, CA
Alexander Guerrero Diaz, Richmond, VA
Isabella Dufault, Irvine, CA
Edwin Ellis, Atlanta, GA
Laurel Emanuel, Raleigh, NC
Aubrey Fisher, Cobden, IL
Sunny Fong, Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Galatoire, Houston, TX
Zhao Gu Gammage, Wyncote, PA
Sarah Gomez, Anaheim, CA
Rachel Gray, Cleveland, OH
Jameson Huge, Chicago, IL
Sarah Grace Hutchinson, Alpharetta, GA
Catheryn Ibegbu, Dearborn, MI
Nicole Jo, Andover, MA
Kelsey Johnston, Prince George, VA
Gabrielle Kashorek, Avon, NY
Samantha Kern, Akron, NY
Nicole Kowalewski, Sykesville, MD
Anne Lee, Edison, NJ
Amelia Lin, Mukilteo, WA
Judianne Meredith, River Vale, NJ
Rabi Michael-Crushshon, Minneapolis, MN
Geneva Millikan, Maumelle, AR
Samantha Moy, Long Island, NY
Shaakirah Nazim-Harris, Amityville, NY
Eleanor Neal, Springfield, VA
Sofia Ochoa, Camarillo, CA
Basilia Oferbia, Brooklyn, NY
Annika Olson, Rathdrum, ID
Kaden Polt, Osmond, NE
Shreeyamsa Poudel, Federal Way, WA
Noah Robie, South Berwick, ME
Zainely A. Sandoval Martinez, Dorado, PR
Devyn Schoen, Eldred, PA
Yusra Shaikh, Edison, NJ
Gabrielle Shockley, Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Ava Sklar, Brooklyn, NY
Mia Sunday, Sammamish, WA
Christina Unkenholz, Smithtown, NY
Emilia Valencia, Portland, OR
Brianna Wallace, Fredericksburg, VA
Charles Wang, West Hartford, CT
Daniel Joseph Weispfenning, Ridgewood, NJ
Jennifer Wheeler, Reading, MA
Virginia Zanella, Collierville, TN
Alessandra Zepeda Ortiz, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Zhang, New York, NY
Daniel Zhang, Cortland, NY
The poem to be published began with the apocalyptic dreams brought upon me by tension between the US and North Korea. It began as a song for the third album, but its scale exceeded our current resources, so I finished it currently as three-part-and-epilogue epic. The only recurring nightmare I’ve had in my life has been of nuclear holocaust, which lead to becoming inevitably inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen.” I’ve been a fan of the graphic novel since I was 13, and one of the movies which I’ve been most excited to see in all my nerdy life (and I did hard time waiting for pictures like Avengers and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice -which is still a dumb fucking title-) has been the Zack Snyder adaptation. The only time I’ve been kicked out of a theater was with my dad because he snuck me in to see it and I was too young.
It is both exciting as a fan and profoundly terrifying as a person very much against being incinerated how relevant the book has become in recent times. The excellent TV sequel by Damon Lindelof concluded just three days before impeachment, and the also great and just as sacrilegious comic-book continuation “Doomsday Clock” by Geoff Johns (which I started presciently reading right around before the Mueller fiasco) had its twelfth and last issue published in eerie fashion just yesterday (December 18th, 2019 if you are reading this in the future or past, wink).
Other inspirations include “Oldboy” (for yucky reasons), CNN, Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White House,” Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” Lovecraft, “Akira,” Stephen Colbert & SNL, Gerard Way’s first volume of “Umbrella Academy,” Percy Bysshe Shelley & Horace Smith, Stephen King, and Humpty Dumpty.
Our take on the big O is a story about the King of the World, a deranged ruler who was not ousted, conquered the four corners unbridled, and came down eventually under the weight of his own hubris.
He also married his daughter and fathered mutant kids with her in the radioactive winter wasteland.
Yep…
I hope you find it funny; I hope you find it sad. This is for all Mexican people who have been hindered by The Donald.
god i am SO SORRY that a response for this ask took so long!! school has started for me so i neglected to check my tumblr account for around five days fhgksgdkadgakdh
1 — favorite season?
i was born in the springtime (plus my real name — which isn’t athena actually, although sometimes i wish it was!! — has a very spring meaning) so i feel as though i should answer with that, but honestly i think spring falls second place to winter (ironically) for me! this is mostly because i just very much like the aesthetic of waking up in the morning to see that it snowed over night + i adore the cheery and lively atmosphere and feeling all around at christmas time even though my family doesn’t really celebrate it!
3 — favorite nostalgia-inducing possession?
almost all of my childhood stuffed animals tbh!! i have a few of them out on my desk (or only two really) in my bedroom with the rest in separate plastic bins in the basement, and it makes me so sad every time i go down there and i see them all crammed into those bins because i recall the MUCH simpler times when i would have all of them out at once and actually played with them often fhgkdfdfhskffgakdgah. they’re in those containers for their own good because my parents’ house is the kind that’s naturally dusty so those two that i have out will inevitably get a little dirty at some point while the ones in the bins will remain clean and dust-free, but it REALLY does feel like a betrayal abandoning all of them down there.
19 — favorite poem?
that’s a very difficult one to say and i’m unfortunately going to have to give several answers (again) for this one, but some that i really like are (and in no particular order!) the orange by wendy cope, highlights and interstices by jack gilbert, sea fever by john masefield, on the 747 by malena morling, the opposites game by brendan constantine, what the dog perhaps hears by lisel mueller, the darkling thrush by thomas hardy, and the raincoat by ava limon. i couldn’t find great links for all of them, but a quick search into google should bring up images of the poems for you!! these are really just a few of the ones i like, there’s a incredible amount of fantastic poetry out there