#hats off to you

[avatar-wtf-weekend]

And that's a wrap!

A HUGE thank you to each and every one of you who either created or consumed the many fabulous submissions for this event. Altogether we had 16 written submissions (including several chapters responding to different prompt days) and eight art submissions, several of which included multiple pieces. What a showing for one little weekend! We also had content from across the original show, LOK, and several of the novels. Way to dig deep! We're loving all the rarepair appreciation across the ATLAverse and hope that you all carry forward your love for crack until next time.

As a reminder we'll do our best to reblog late submissions through the end of September. Be sure to check out our AO3 collection, too, which includes not only this year but over 30 fics from previous events.

Lots of love, The mod team

[phlurrii]

I borderline want to send you a screenshot of all the asks/comics/animatic that I'm referencing like

(If anyone wants to see it and be insane with me, I can probably post it and send a link to DMs)

^^^^^ they are my boneified theorist at this point, if you have thoughts, this creature of the void will sort them out. I would probably die of laughter if you had a digital board of everything as you try to connect it XD

[emilem]

Catherine Tate's line delivery here killed me I've missed Donna so much

[alexis-royce]

Someday I can’t wait to be the canon you use to hide away from fandom with

[ozzybutweirdthistime]

I think the artist animators in the Traffic SMP community took one look at the Crane Wives, thought "I can milk you for all you're worth", and boom, we've got awesome animations and animatics set to Crane Wives songs.

Seriously though,

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO GOOD AT ANIMATING IN THIS COMMUNITY ??

Also, the Crane Wives are amazing and I'm glad they're getting recognition.

[cy-blade]

[taylurking101]

Shonda Rhimes knows where to find the perfect white boy of the month.

Unless she has a factory where she churns out these men.

Ma'am, please give the address so I get one for myself, thank you.

[ren-doesthings]

that pure europhia you feel when someone recgonizes you somewhere else not by your user but just by the look of your artstyle

IN FUCKING ROBLOX FREE DRAW BAHAHAHAHAHA

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[allthecolorwecannotsee]

[umblrspectrum]

so like is it specifically planets the solver craves or can it get by with just eating dirt off the ground

[ghosted-jazz]

Happy 10th birthday Dashcon!! Get painted idiot

[eldritch-ace]

I too think he deserves a kwagatama

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why are you running?

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[xitsensunmoon]

My first ever comic con! And first cosplay too. Of course it's gonna be my boy :] Ramblings about the process are under the cut(Let me know if?? You would want me to elaborate with process images for any of the steps?)

The costume took me forever to make, as I've never done any machine sewing, sculpting, fabric dying or spray painting before but learning all of these was so fucking fun!! I never realised just how many different skills go into making a cosplay but it was so worth it!!!

Almost all of the clothes(except the hat) were purchased first as bases, but all of the detailing was added by me. All of the fabric used was originally just scraps that I was given for free so I needed to learn how to dye and dye all of the stars, they were originally white.

The sewing machine was its own beast that brought me tons of frustration from the lack of skill and knowledge (it was devastating to find out that 95% of fuck ups were my fault and not the machine's lmao). But as a result, a hat sewn from scratch, all of the fur trims, embroidery on the corset, stars and the collar(which is very hard to see on the pictures unfortunately) was all added manually. The stars and the stripes(on the back of the cape) were attached using heat-and-bond adhesive (I WISH I knew about such thing just when I started working on this. It would save me so much time and nerves.)

Then I found out about polymorph(mouldable plastic) and it has become the next thing I wanted to learn, to sculpt the claws and the fangs(yes, they're handmade jfksjs). The claws I then primed and painted in trillion coats because I wasn't satisfied with the colour of the spray paint. The fangs I moulded to my own teeth and then stained with tea to match the colour of my teeth :)c

As for makeup, I used Mehron Paradise water activated paints. At first I wanted to try to save money and bought myself Snazaroo instead, which unfortunately turned out to be a waste. Snazaroo didn't hold on my face for longer than 2 hours, cracking and peeling awfully. Mehron on the other hand survived 11 hours of me smiling, talking, emoting and such and didn't even crease at the smile lines(I'm actually shocked about that). It obviously works like any other makeup which means your skin texture and wrinkles won't go anywhere but Mehron's elasticity pleasantly surprised me. It did obviously smear from sweat and saliva(if you're eating and licking your lips) but if you don't touch the skin it just dries again, self setting. But if it's dry it's fully smear-proof. Highly recommend!

And last but not least, I've decided against painting my hands as it was very risky that I will stain everything I touch at the smallest hint of sweat. So instead I got myself gloves-tights(? Not sure how they're called but it's made from the same fabric as tights) and painted them with normal acrylic paint(did you know you could dye fabric with acrylic paint? I personally didn't), then heat set with an iron and voilà, they're reusable, my hands are not stained after an exhausting day and I don't stain everything I touch. It worked wonderfully which honestly was a surprise as I was really sceptical that acrylic paint will somehow stay in place.

I think this whole thing took me minimum of 6 months with big-big breaks for my school and life in general. But I'm really proud! This project taught me so many new skills and I couldn't have been happier about learning new knowledge, even if it sucked to fail in the meantime.

Everyone at the con was really nice and gave me a large confidence boost even tho it was my first time and I had no idea what I was doing. Taking photos with other people was really awkward/new for me as I hate cameras so I really had no idea how to pose/behave in front of one. But that's okay I think. This whole experience definitely made me want to do this again, so I think that will come with experience. Thank you for reading this far, hope you enjoyed this little summary :)

[apollos-boyfriend]

my favorite genre of gif is cubitos fucking beefing it

try and name something funnier than these. you literally can’t