Multifandom works roundup, 5/31

But I’m A Cat Person
BICP #MaskMay (art meme | Timothy, Miranda, Bianca, Jany | worksafe)

Leif & Thorn
Late-night almost-kiss (sketch | Leif/Thorn | worksafe)
Leif & Thorn #MaskMay (art meme | Leif/Thorn, Violet, Rowan, Hyacinth, Tansy, Woman in Black | worksafe)
Tactical Dex (sketch | Dexie | worksafe)
Maimakteros National Skyport (art | landscape | worksafe)
Babying Leif (art | Leif, Valrún | worksafe)
Rainbow castle pearls (art | gem!vampire servants, including Valrún | worksafe)

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Fiery Zucest (art | Zuko/Azula | worksafe)

General/Miscellaneous
Blank #MaskMay meme (what it says on the tin)

This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Smash-cut to a too-real scene downtown, in the annotated Chapter 4.

This Week in Leif & Thorn:
Thorn is: Considering how many laws he’ll break & what dark magical deals he’ll enter to let his bf have non-compromised sex

Gonna be at work during the #Eurovision final…

…so I’m gonna post a bunch of Post-Semifinal Feelings now, and then go into Spoiler Avoidance Mode.

General stuff:

• Peacock has the US Eurovision streaming rights this year, which means I went from “never heard of it” to “signing up for an account” in the space of 1 google search. Bad sign for their advertising department, but a hat tip to their rights-buying department
• Shame the “subtitles” are just auto-generated English-language closed-captioning, no help for any of the non-English songs
• Real talk, I get a little teary every time it cuts to another little CGI house in the next country, with the signals bouncing house-to-house to draw lines that connect them all together
• Absolutely perfect way to celebrate the contest taking its first step out of lockdown, while honoring and being there for everyone (and I bet these were designed before they knew for sure that the whole show wouldn’t be remote)
• There are always a bunch of pride flags visible throughout the shows, but it looked like this year there was a particular emphasis of trans flags. I’m into it
• Are there always this many songs with “giant words in block letters flashed on the screens” as part of the staging? I’m not into that. Give us more show-don’t-tell in the visuals, please
• Four people sure did wear basically the same dress, huh? (It’s cool, it’s a good one, they sure could’ve done worse)

Remember that year I did a whole Eurovision-themed storyline and timed it to match up perfectly with “the contest not happening”

Song opinions:

• Favorite songs going to the final: Sweden’s “Voices“, Finland’s “Dark Side“
• Favorite songs that got robbed: Ireland’s “Maps” (I love that the presenters had to do some extra patter before they started — that set must’ve taken so much setup)
• Favorite staging/performance for songs I was meh on: Ukraine’s “Shum“, Greece’s “Last Dance“, Moldova’s “Sugar“, Bulgaria’s “Growing Up is Getting Old“, Latvia’s “The Moon is Rising“
• Staging/performances that got robbed for songs I was meh on: Australia’s “Technicolor“, Denmark’s “Øve os på hinanden“
• Songs that need to make out: Cyprus’s “El Diablo” and Norway’s “Fallen Angel“
• Wouldn’t be a real Eurovision without one of these: Iceland’s “10 Years” (The outfits! Those wind machines! The wobbling at the end when they do a fake freeze-frame!)

Personal favorite so far is Sweden, which probably means it won’t win, because my favorites never do. (Speaking of songs that got robbed: Waterline.) Only watched the semifinals, none of the songs from auto-qualified countries, so maybe one of those will turn out to be my new favorite? …and then not win either, lol.

Guess we’ll find out tomorrow night.

Works roundup (DuckTales, Sailor Moon, Madoka, and more)

Leif & Thorn
Young Dex (art | Dex/Hermosa | worksafe)
Knights in a bottle (wallpaper | Juniper, Birch, Violet, Rowan, Pascentia | worksafe)
Magical Vines, Magical Thorn (sketch | Thorn, Kale | worksafe)

DuckTales
Duck, duck, girlfriend (art | Webby/Lena | worksafe)

Madoka Magica/Sailor Moon
Meeting of the Minds (comic | Ail, En, QB | G)

Inspired by a conversation on @sailormoonsub comparing these two "neon-eyed aliens harvest energy from humans" strategies. pic.twitter.com/B1L4r21QXk

— Wear masks 😷 get your shots 💉 read comics ☄️ (@ErinPtah) April 28, 2021

Sanders Sides
Waltzing Remrom (sketch | Remus/Roman | worksafe)

Serenity Rose
Witches of Webcomics – Serenity Rose (art | Sera | worksafe)

General/Miscellaneous
Webcomic Woes 33 – one year into isolation (comic, G)

This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Annotated chapter 3 comes to a close, complete with Big Kyuubey Energy.

This Week in Leif & Thorn:
Thorn’s sexy dreams make a distracting lead-up to his next date.

Multifandom fic recs (Locked Tomb, Jeeves & Wooster, Murderbot)

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow | M | The Other Student
  Harrowhark Nonagesimus, foremost art student of her age, is both vexed and intrigued by her classmate’s pornographic webcomic.
  trope:writers,pairing:gideon_harrow,series:locked tomb,fic:one-shot,yuri

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow | G | ev’ry rose has its thorns
  Gideon was beginning to think that the possibility of finding true love by participating in some bizarre reality holo-show had been misrepresented to her. (bachelor AU, but not the one from HtN)
  series:locked tomb,pairing:gideon_harrow,yuri,fic:one-shot,trope:marriage

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow, ensemble | T | If you’re doing it right you’ll break their ribs
  But it wasn’t a Ninth House thing, except inasmuch as it was happening to the only two representatives of the noble and decrepit Ninth House on this quite literally godforsaken rock. Gideon knew Harrow had gone somewhere dangerous—knew that Harrow was back in the lab where they had only just completed a horrible trial—because she could see it, clear as day: an awful overlay on her vision of that terrible dangerous room and a pair of terrible dangerous hands drawing some kind of ward next to the plinth.
  kink:soulbond,fic:one-shot,series:locked tomb,pairing:gideon_harrow,yuri

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow, Crux, Silas, Colum | T | the enemy of my enemy
  Silas Octakiseron might be the only person that Gideon Nav hates more than she hates Harrowhark Nonagesimus. So when Harrow needs a scene partner to show him up, Gideon can hardly refuse, even if it means getting cozy with her two best nemeses: Harrow and iambic pentameter.
  pairing:gideon_harrow,series:locked tomb,fic:one-shot,yuri

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow, Isaac, Jeannemary, Abigail | T | Cartographies of Empty Space
  I also loved the conceit in Harrow the Ninth with the different AUs, and I definitely loved your letter asking for fic that goes all out on those AUs. I ended up going for four different scenarios, as well as throwing in various memes and trends from over the past decade or so (bath bombs, the rise in true crime podcasts, Eurovision with a side of kpop fancams, etc, ancient Egyptian coffins with weird unidentified liquid in them, iconic yelp reviews, etc etc.)
  fic:five times,series:locked tomb,pairing:gideon_harrow,yuri,trope:hurt-comfort,trope:eurovision

• The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon/Harrow, ensemble | T | How it didn’t happen
  “The Daughter of the Ninth House was blessed in this manner from her birth, as a symbol of her strength and power over the mysteries of necromancy,” Ortus interjected. Harrow glared at him.

  “Oh,” Coronabeth said, an expression of disgusting sympathy on her flawless face. “But then you would never have known who your soulmate was!”

  Harrow’s glare intensified. “My soulmate is bones.”
  pairing:gideon_harrow,series:locked tomb,trope:soulmates,yuri,fic:one-shot

• Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves/Bertie, Dahlia, Florence, Madeline, Honoria, Stiffy | M | Jeeves and the Ribald Romance
  Aunt Dahlia recruits Bertie and Jeeves to help enact a plan to save her floundering weekly women’s magazine, Milady’s Boudoir. Despite his reservations, Bertie agrees to help. But where will he find a writer willing and able to take on the project Aunt Dahlia has in mind?
  pairing:jeeves_wooster,series:jeeves & wooster,fic:chaptered,trope:writers

• Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves/Bertie | G | August Thirteenth
  Discovering that this is not the first August thirteenth that he’s lived through, that certainly was a head scratcher. Luckily Bertie has the stalwart presence of his man’s man, Jeeves.
  pairing:jeeves_wooster,series:jeeves & wooster,trope:timetravel,fic:one-shot

• Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves/Bertie, Madeline | G | Jeeves and the Sensitive Sight
  The return of a burgundy suit causes more turmoil than its original purchase; Bertie makes a disquieting personal discovery; Jeeves lays out mismatched socks; and Madeline takes up flower arrangement.
  pairing:jeeves_wooster,series:jeeves & wooster,trope:hurt-comfort,genfic,fic:one-shot

• Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves/Bertie, Bingo, doctor | Jeeves and His Master
  Bertie hasn’t been taking care of himself lately. Jeeves wishes he would, but dutifully attends his master nonetheless. [Horror. Mind the warnings.]
  series:jeeves & wooster,pairing:jeeves_wooster,fic:chaptered,trope:trauma

• The Murderbot Diaries | Seth, Iris, Lovecraftian Horror ART | T | Intentional Incursion
  The first thing they taught every experimental vessel captain was the reasons why they should never, ever use the experimental parts of the ships unless they absolutely had to do so. Seth knew exactly why that was. The list of reasons that the technology should have only been used as a last resort was a mile long.

  But the problem with a last-resort option was that sometimes you really did reach your last resort.

  OR

  Seth and Iris meet ART for the first time.
  series:murderbot diaries,genfic,fic:one-shot,trope:eldritch horror

• The Murderbot Diaries | ART, Murderbot, SecUnits | G | Congratulations, it’s a Unit (s)
  The BabySecUnits depicted in this fic are property of their creators, down on the discord server.
  I didn’t create any, just had to write about finding them.
  fic:one-shot,series:murderbot diaries,genfic,trope:kidfic

• The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, ComfortUnit, ART | T | i still freeze
  When I saw ComfortUnit again, I didn’t tear it limb from limb like I promised to the last time I saw it. I’m getting soft or something, whatever; mostly I didn’t want to make a scene in the shopping mall.
  fic:one-shot,series:murderbot diaries,genfic,trope:trauma,trope:hurt-comfort

• The Murderbot Diaries | ART/Murderbot | M | Closed Systems
  ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don’t understand, and aren’t capable of.

  Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
  Having real feelings about real things (like each other) and being expected to talk about them (with each other) is something very else.
  series:murderbot diaries,pairing:art_murderbot,fic:one-shot

• The Murderbot Diaries | Ratthi, Murderbot | T | Information Incomplete
  Biology: The study of life and living organisms. Ratthi is a biologist; it is his job to learn about these things – to study and to understand. The more he interacts with SecUnit, the more he realizes he has a lot of work to do in that regard.
  fic:one-shot,series:murderbot diaries,genfic,trope:hurt-comfort

Multifandom fic recs (Murderbot, Red Dwarf, What We Do in the Shadows, The Good Place)

• The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot/ART | T | Tension
  Murderbot’s shoulders are tense. ART suggests a massage. It goes over about as well as you’d expect.
  series:murderbot diaries,pairing:art_murderbot,fic:chaptered,trope:hurt-comfort

• The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, ART, actor | G | Full Disk Burn
  While touring the soundstage of one of its favorite serials, Murderbot saves a human from being jumped by thugs. But the human is more than he seems, and Murderbot finds itself entangled in a bigger mess than it had planned.
  fic:one-shot,genfic,series:murderbot diaries

• The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, survey team, ensemble | G | SecUnit Story
  A bunch of nice handmade toys really don’t belong in a daycare centre, especially one ruled by an evil flannel rabbit called Grey Chris. Their only chance to get out might be a battered SecUnit action figure who worked out how to sneak around mostly in order to watch youTube in the staffroom.
  crackfic,genfic,fic:chaptered,series:murderbot diaries

• The Murderbot Diaries | ART, Murderbot | T | Blending In
  ART thinks Murderbot needs to blend in with humans better while acting as an augmented security consultant. It offers a way to do so.
  series:murderbot diaries,fic:one-shot,genfic,pairing:art_murderbot

• The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, a snake | G | Stillness
  Murderbot is on a boring contract, when something unexpected makes contact with it.
  genfic,fic:one-shot,series:murderbot diaries

• Red Dwarf | Bob/Spare Head 3 | T | Yorkshire Plastic
  Bob and Spare Head 3 meet up to go on their first date.
  series:red dwarf,fic:bite-size,pairing:bob_3

• Red Dwarf | Kryten/Talkie Toaster, ensemble | T | A Toast to the Happy Couple
  The crew find out that Kryten is dating another appliance. But not just any appliance…
  series:red dwarf,fic:one-shot,pairing:kryten_talkie,kink:weird.sex,amazing

• Red Dwarf | Rimmer/Lister, Cat, Kryten | T | Extracts from A. J. Rimmer’s Brief Guide and Memoir to the Pregnancy of Dave Lister
  They say there are seven stages of grief.
  They also say there are three trimesters of pregnancy.
  Lister’s pregnancy, on the other hand, involved eleven separate stages, none of which can be succinctly summarized, but all of which I have endeavoured to. It is, after all, my duty to record the many humiliations I know he would rather I forget entirely.
  pairing:rimmer_lister,series:red dwarf,kink:mpreg,trope:kidfic,fic:chaptered

• Red Dwarf | Lister/Rimmer, Jim, Bexley | T | seeing stars
  sevensilvermagpies: “[the crew should] have more time with the babies THEY DESERVED BETTER”
  me: “u right they DID deserve more time with the kids”
  me:
  me: oh wait i can make that happen
  series:red dwarf,fic:one-shot,pairing:rimmer_lister,trope:kidfic

• Red Dwarf | Rimmer, Lister | T | Well, The Thing About A Man- Its Main Distinguishing Feature- Is It’s A Man. And The Thing About A Trans Man- The Reality Of A Trans Man, Your Basic Trans Man Fact- Is It’s A Man.
  In which Lister tells Rimmer a secret (that he didn’t know was secret)
  series:red dwarf,pairing:rimmer_lister,fic:one-shot,trope:genderplay

• What We Do in the Shadows | Laszlo, Nadja, Nandor, Colin, Guillermo, Elf on the Shelf | T | Fae Accompli
  When Guillermo tries to lighten the mood around the house for the holidays, things don’t go exactly as he’d planned. That might not be such a bad thing, however, and he tries to milk it for all that it’s worth.
  genfic,fic:one-shot,series:what we do in the shadows,trope:christmas

• What We Do in the Shadows | Guillermo, Nandor, crew | G | How Guillermo Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Camer
  Making a documentary film about their lives is a terrible idea, right up until it isn’t.
  series:what we do in the shadows,genfic,fic:one-shot,trope:outsider.pov

• What We Do in the Shadows | Nadja, Nandor, Laszlo, Guillermo, Colin, Jenna | T | Have Yourself a Merry Little Ecks-Mas
  The camera zooms in as Nadja sighs.

  “And then out of the blue, your grown up baby shows up on your doorstep, and you have to be there for them again. Whether you’re in the mood or not. I definitely was not.”
  trope:christmas,series:what we do in the shadows,fic:one-shot,genfic

• The Good Place | Tahani/Eleanor | G | Five Times Tahani and Eleanor Were Interrupted
  In one of the Season 2 failed reboots, Tahani attempts to connect with her soulmate, Eleanor, but something or someone keeps interrupting them.
  fic:five times,pairing:eleanor_tahani,yuri,series:the good place

• The Good Place | Michael, ensemble | T | No. 712
  This time, Michael has a foolproof plan.
  series:the good place,genfic,fic:one-shot