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Klaine Advent 2018 Fanvid Challenge Masterpost

I set myself the challenge of creating 24 fanvids in 24 days, the music of which was chosen by searching the daily prompt word in my iTunes library (or iTunes for those really challenging ones...)

And, lo and behold, I actually met my little challenge without missing a day. Here is a list of each of my creations:

Day 1 (Athlete): Kurt and Blaine | Take Me Over. Song: ‘Chances’ by Athlete.

Day 2 (Bury): Kurt and Blaine | Rise Above. Song: ‘Bury It’ by Chvrches feat. Hayley Williams.

Day 3 (Camera): Kurt and Blaine | Stars Go Off. Song: ‘I Turn My Camera On’ by Spoon.

Day 4 (Deputy): Kurt and Blaine | Need You By My Side. Song: ‘By My Side’ by Zach Deputy.

Day 5 (Exclude): Kurt and Blaine | Such A Joy. Song: ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey’ by The Beatles

Day 6 (Feed): Kurt and Blaine | Caught Up In Moments Entirely of Yours. Song: ‘Feeding Line’ by Boy & Bear.

Day 7 (Gradual): Kurt and Blaine | We’re All Here. Song: ‘We’re All In This Together (Graduation Mix)’ by the Cast of High School Musical.

Day 8 (House): Kurt and Blaine | Live From My Balcony. Song: ‘House of Dreams’ by Bliss n Eso.

Day 9 (Incident): Kurt and Blaine | The One I Want To See Again. Song: ‘The Incident’ by Burning Hotels.

Day 10 (Joke): Kurt and Blaine | You’re The Cutest Thing. Song: ‘The Joker’ by Steve Miller Band.

Day 11 (Kidnap): Kurt and Blaine | When Your Colours Run. Song: ‘We Are The Kids’ by WALK THE MOON.

Day 12 (Language): Kurt and Blaine | Hear What You Body Says. Song: ‘Body Language’ by Róisín Murphy.

Day 13 (Momentum): Kurt and Blaine | Many Stories to Tell. Song: ‘Momentum’ by Radio Haze.

Day 14 (Negligence): Kurt and Blaine | Love’s A Process. Song: ‘The First Step’ by Clearly From Negligence.

Day 15 (Orange): Kurt and Blaine | Wham Bam Alakazam. Song: ‘Orange Coloured Sky’ by Natalie Cole.

Day 16 (Pledge): Kurt and Blaine | Only You Get The Rest Of Me. Song: ‘Promise’ by Lukas Graham.

Day 17 (Quality): Kurt and Blaine | It’s Not How Much You Got. Song: ‘Quality Over Quantity’ by Brandon Wattz.

Day 18 (Realism): Kurt and Blaine | Feeling The World Go Round. Song: ‘I Really Want It’ by A Great Big World.

Day 19 (Stay): Kurt and Blaine | Stay Just A Little Bit Longer (Dirty Dancing AU). Song: ‘Stay’ by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs

Day 20 (Transaction): Kurt and Blaine | Need You. Song: ‘Transatlanticism’ by Death Cab for Cutie.

Day 21 (Understand): Kurt and Blaine | Undenying Love. Song: ‘Sweet Understanding Love’ by The Four Tops.

Day 22 (Vegetarian): Kurt and Blaine | Feed Your Soul. Song: ‘Vegetable’ by The Basco Bros. feat. Tra Washington.

Day 23 (Wire): Kurt and Blaine | i’ll Stay The Course. Song: ‘Walking the Wire’ by Imagine Dragons.

Day 24 (Yoke): Kurt and Blaine | Your Wild Heart. Song: ‘I’m Ready to Move On/ Wild Heart Reprise’ by Bleachers feat. Yoko Ono.

A huge thank you to @slayediest and all in the @klaineadvent team who helped organise and run this month long appreciation of our favourite guys, which encouraged all sorts of wonderful responses. This was the first time I really participated as a creator, and I loved every moment (though maybe not those exact moments after some of the prompts were released and all I could was ‘wtf am I going to do with that?’). I love knowing how strong and loyal our fandom remains, and I look forward to seeing the work that will continue to come from this advent in the months to come.

“ You’ve gone with the thick rims

big look with the lip rings n’ things

wake me when the bell rings

I’m gonna be sleep ‘cause you live in my daydreams”

So! Long overdue art of my first proper fallout oc, Buggsy. This started out just as a doodle of his jacket bc it’s pretty, uh, distinctive, but it blossomed into this sketchy mess. Dunno, I’m happy with it! Backstory under the cut. @trashofthewasteland

Born in the Mojave to a raider named Roach and captured wastelander he never knew the name of, Buggsy was brought into the world out of malice and chem-induced frenzy. His mother didn’t survive long after his birth, and upon seeing the pale, freckled child that he had somehow reared, Roach treated him with nothing less than typical raider brutality. He was beaten and abused by his dad’s crew often, mostly because they didn’t see why they should let him bring a kid along if he was just going to cause problems and suck up resources. Out of some shred of paternal instinct, Roach was determined to find a use for the child. On several occasions, he used Buggsy to bait travelers and caravans off the road where they could hit them easier; other times, he would run chems and booze for his father’s gang, able to get into places like Freeside without drawing too much attention. 

Buggsy ended up successfully running away when he was twelve, and fled to the sanctuary of the outskirts of an NCR camp. The soldiers there had a strange relationship with the little squatter, occasionally bringing him in for baths and food, other times paying him small sums to collect scrap from the ruins in the area. It was about four years before he was able to muster enough junk and scrap to set out on the roads, trailing other caravans distantly, selling what little he could find and jury-rig. He began calling himself a trader of sorts, and eventually got pretty good at it; his charisma grew and his eye for goods and prices sharpened, polishing off his social skills with the help of one NCR recruits who taught him to read. About a year goes by, buying and selling, before he’s saved up enough to buy a pack brahmin and names it Crackers.

He loved that brahmin like it was family. Around this time he’s about 17. He joins up with a scavver and treasure hunter for a few months, traveling around, doing odd jobs. They split up because of mobility issues with Crackers and the obvious risk of traveling with a loaded trade brahmin. Now on his own, a few months later, he’s witness to the massacre at Nipton from a distance. Seeing the brutality that the Legion is capable of wracked him psychologically. A small Legion detachment got wind of him and pursued him into a derelict Wattz Electronics building infested with Feral Ghouls. Giving up the chase due to the obvious risk and likelihood of Buggsy’s death, the Legion forgot about him. Now stuck in a maze of a building with little to no light sources and even less ammunition, he had no choice but to hole up there for two days, avoiding threats. He routinely set mines with what little supplies he had, considering he’d had to abandon Crackers in the chase, an even that he still hasn’t necessarily forgiven himself fully for. 

After many close encounters and little sleep, he was able to shack himself in conjoining office and workshop behind the storefront. He gathered whatever materials that weren’t falling apart and studied, gathered tech and info. Among the spoils of his unfortunate encounter were several beginner’s guides to text-based coding, electronics repair and a plethora of other copied information he was able to glean from a hacked terminal. Able to escape and get back on the road, he hid in the wilderness for a few months, reading and practicing his new-found knowledge. He taught himself how to upkeep and deal with energy weapons, travelling wherever he could find a workbench and tools to collect. He learned to understand them as circuits and flow of electrons rather than dangerous objects, as tools rather than weapons. 

 In addition to his new fascination with energy weapons, he eventually met a former Great Khan, bitter in his old age about the success of a group that had apparently mistreated him during his “active years”. The old timer took him in and taught him a few tips on how to create his own chems, and how to deal with already-existing ones, calling these learning sessions “Anarchy’s Chemistry Lessons”. The events at Nipton changed Buggsy somehow, retaining the new information and equations with surprising efficiency. Frequent trips back to Freeside helped hone his supply, and forced him to travel light. He wasn’t a merchant anymore, he was a Chem-peddler, travelling in and out of rotting medical facilities and labs to gather ingredients to distill into the various intoxicants of the wasteland. Among his own personal brand of chems, he has successfully synthesized & distributed; ‘Nightstalker’: A violent mix of Cat Eye & Psycho, perfect for night-owls and particularly, NCR night patrols.  ‘Sledgehammer’/’Jack-knife’: Part Med-X and part Ant Nectar, good for bodyguards and hand-to-hand fighters for pushing their body past normal it’s limits. ‘Dragon’/’D-sticks’: Powdered Xander Root and cooked-down glowing fungus, sold usually in one or three dose cones made from pre-war dollars.  ‘Baby Blue’: By far one of the most complicated drugs to synthesize, amounts of crushed Broc Flower/Hubflower are dissolved in measured portions of antifreeze and engine coolant before boiling off the excess and stoppered in Nuka-Cola bottles with an inhaling mouthpiece. The name comes from the blue-green granules that fill the bottom of the bottle. The bottle is shaken, creating numbing fumes that are inhaled through the mouthpiece. Effects include minor visual disturbances, nausea, fatigue, numbness, and intense, unpredictable euphoria.

https://soundcloud.com/dj100wattz/sets/wattz-watch-week-2-1-17-2-7-17

Kurt and Blaine | It’s Not How Much You Got

Created for the 2018 @klaineadvent Daily prompt 17: Quantity

I am setting myself the challenge of creating 24 fanvids, in 24 days, the music of which will be decided by searching the daily prompt word in my iTunes library.

Today’s effort comes to you courtesy of ‘Quality Over Quantity’ by Brandon Wattz. (Seriously, some of these words have seriously challenged me. And, oh my, this song is cheesy af, and when you listen to the whole thing, kind of gross- no, it will not be remaining in my iTunes library after this. BUT, what I have mined from it goes out to all of us Klainers. Because even though we were never given enough of our two favourite boys, what we got was pretty damn good.)

Previous fills: Athlete  Bury  Camera  Deputy  Exclude  Feed  Gradual  House  Incident  Joke Kidnap Language  Momentum  Negligence  Orange  Pledge

https://soundcloud.com/dj100wattz/sets/wattz-watch-week-2-8-17-2-14