#ratc

[anexcellentshot]

LET’S GO ZAUN SUMPRATS! I mean… NEW JERSEY DEVILS. LET’S GO DEVILS

(or how I started watching hockey because of a caitvi hockey AU)

[stop-punching-my-wife]

LET'S GO THUMPRATS! CLAP! CLAP! CLAPCLAPCLAP!

@thehomelybadger I made these. Hope you like them <3

Run at the Cup on AO3

[garchankdefender]

Can anyone guess what I've been reading lately?

It's so messy (line-work will be the death of me 😭) but I need there to be more hockey AU art in the world

(especially because Vi has a mullet?? THE definitive hockey hairstyle... and the gloves are like the Atlas gauntlets I mean COME ON)

[klee-0]

Posting this here for @bugcatcherwill because his ao3 fic Rage Against The Calamity has had me obsessed for like a few years now-

Sledge is probably one if my favourites but they're all so good I can't choose hshejshd

Im gonna do the others later too

[thehomelybadger]

how long did ratc take you to plan & write? i see you published it over a year or so on ao3 but i’m curious about the planning & drafts too. ratc reignited my love for fics & inspired me to write as well but i’m spending foreevverrr in the planning stage and actually writing is so tedious (perfectionist) & i wonder if i’ll ever get to the point of writing something as detailed and fleshed out as ratc especially w other commitments like uni

follow up question, is there a particular book, series or piece of media that majorly inspires your writing?

fantastic question.

one of the big things folks ask me when they approach me about RATC is how i kept track of it and how long it took to plan. The answer to both is basically a month or so - from posting chapter 1 to chapter 33 took exactly a year (I planned it that way!) with a few months off when a relationship ended and I lost my job (that was UNPLANNED).

RATC became the beast that it is by answering questions I kept asking myself. I didn't set out with the answers already in hand - I kind of discovered them along the way. I'd ask things like 'what do I want to express with claggor?' and i'd answer 'well, a dude with depression who everyone thinks is dumb but is incredibly emotionally intelligent'. that leads to the question 'ok, what does that look like on the sumprats?' and the answer was as an assistant captain, and showing all the things that displayed how an emotionally intelligent guy would be really valuable to a team situation.

it's a trick i learned from professional tabletop DMs - worldbuilding is essentially asking yourself questions and being honest with the answers. that coupled with the fact that I knew the ending sequence - I wanted the Sumprats to come back from down five goals in the final game, the 'won't back down' crowd singing sequence, and Cait wearing Vi's journey - meant that I could basically lay out breadcrumbs that would pay off down the line. when the fic began to expand past my initial 9 chapter expectation (queue mocking laughter) I kept myself focused by completing what i called mini arcs - Caitlyn finding herself in the team and Vi protecting her with Claggor is act 1, Ahri coming back and them starting a romantic relationship is act 2, etc. etc. etc.

so, to say that I started off planning it isn't accurate. what's more accurate is that I decided on my endpoint and discovered all the little places the story could go along the way. it worked for me, and my adhd, and it worked for me because i loved writing it and wanted to keep revisiting the world.

as for the tedium of writing - one of the keys for me is that i really wanted it done, and had fun doing it. if it had ever been tedious for me i don't think i would've been able to power through, so it kept being fun for me.

regarding the series/books I read: I read a ton of romance novels because life is hard and i want to read warmth, but stephen king, dennis lehanne, and nora roberts (lol what a trio) have all been big influences on the way i characterize folks. my favourite TV show of all time is The Wire, but I love Chernobyl and the first season of True Detective and the Godfather trilogy - the media i tend to really cherish is media that makes me think, or makes me shut my brain off. it's weird that way.

i am so sorry for the ramble, and thank you so much for the question.

[randomrambler22]

Random doodle page featuring @amber-dragonfly's Rezek in the top corner. They are currently writing an amazing fic for Legend of Zelda: BOTW and it is amazing. If your are interested in chaos, OCs, gay, angst, and a whole lot of plot, then I suggest that you give it a read. It is easily one of the best fics that I have ever read. It is on AO3 and is called Rage Against The Calamity for anyone interested.

[amber-dragonfly]

Is this Zayl-core

I think it is :)

[runephoenix6769]

Hello! I wad told we could ask you about other sumprat shirts. I'd be interested in having a jersey shirt with Vi's number

Sure. Vi and Caitlyn's are here,

[jesshq]

I forgot to post these on my tumblr but these were gifts to the author of one of my fav Zelda fanfics: rage against the calamity by @bugcatcherwill

The first one: was a drawing of their monster ocs Ashen and Kehwees playing with some chuchu and keese for a celebration drawing of getting to 100 chapters

And the second one is of their OC Sahpira when it gave up its robe sleeves as a small thought I had of how it looked like after it lost them

[amber-dragonfly]

LMAOOOOOOO

Rezek occasionally thinking of what happened to the Wizzrobe it fought and freed in the Yiga Hideout, hoping it's finding its way in the world. Especially after the success with the Wizzrobe trio it hopes Ire will find the same love in living.

Completely oblivious to the fact that Ire's just being an angsty little edge-gremlin somewhere and won't stop screaming "THIS IS YOUR FAULT REZEK YOU RUINED ME I HATE YOU AND WILL RIP YOU APART WITH MY BARE HANDS"

God when their paths collide again,,,

for you and your warped reflection

[klee-0]

Rezek serves cunt any time of the day and night so I decided to draw one of my favourite scenes with it included

(Full panel below the cut)

@amber-dragonfly

[thehomelybadger]

Got into pwhl because of ratc. Tiktok kept showing me carly jackson edits so now i can't stop fancasting her as vi even though she's a goalie.

You're so fucking real for this, anon. Carly Jackson does give Vi coded

[guabie]

RAAAAHHHHHHH I ABSOLUTELY LOVE RUN AT THE CUP THIS FANART IS AMAZING 😭🙏

More Caitvi Hockey AU ?

Yes.

Previous

The fic Run at the cup by @thehomelybadger don't want to let me go yet :(

(There will be at least 5 more post ;))

So enjoy a fanart of their famous rivalry before they joined the Sumprats :)

Also, thanks a lot to @runephoenix6769 who created the Lone stars' jersey and emblem, go check out what she did for the rest oh the teams on her account !

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38670828

[amber-dragonfly]

When I showed a family member RATC they ended up reading it past 3am several nights in a row despite knowing nothing about the Zelda franchise other than Link and Zelda (no one's immune to the blorbo brainrot ehehehehehe)

But what really got me was when she said "The whole time I was WAITING for you to bring Frifer back through some magic McGuffin, but you never did and I got sad over its death all over again..."

And.........yea that sure sums it up LMAO

It's about the denial and bargaining nearly everyone goes through reading RATC. It's about seeing the most wonderful character, the desperately needed light in a dark world, undergo the most unfair of circumstances and telling yourself "Surely, this isn't the end? Surely, such a perfect character won't stay dead forever? Surely, there's some magical perfect combination of actions the characters can do to bring it back?"

At that point, Rezek's cycle of grief becomes out own. Frifer's absence becomes so loud that you can almost hear its voice where there would be silence. The old wounds open up and we're forced to reconcile with the finality of its death all over again. We experience Frifer's last glance at Rezek, as its body disintegrated, over and over and over.

And it never gets any easier...

[doctorhypetrain]

Everything I learn about Poulin and Stacey’s relationship makes me even fkn gayer. How is their life literally more beautiful and yet more cliche than any fanfic Ive ever read? They are amazing hockey players and I’m a die hard fan for the Victoire now but like… them as people? Their story?

This shit has me in a chokehold.

[youn9racha]

wtf….