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jaya string of fate au
ive mentioned string of fate au a few times here. ive finally put it together into a post. okay so the reason why ive taken so long to transfer this is bc ITS FROM JULY OF LAST YEAR. i wasnt sure if i should lightly edit it or rewrite it. because it started out as me complaining about rebooted and then me fucking craving fanfiction and hurt (i do this 24/7) and then it morphed into this au that also doubled as character/relationship analysis and me fixing rebooted with my bare fucking hands in the context of this au
anyways. jaya string of fate au with emphasis on the heartbreak of s3. half of this was written half a year ago. man i was so mad about s3 back then lol
been thinking about s3 again. whats even more frustrating about the bad het drama. is that they didnt even give jay and nya a proper break up. granted their get together wasnt on screen either BUT IF YOURE GONNA OH SO RUDELY TEAR THEM APART LIJE THAT. THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS DO IT WITH MORE FUCKING PURPOSE. THE WRITERS JUST PITCHED A WRENCH INTO THE WORKS AT BULLET SPEED JUST BECAUSE! JUST BECAUSE THEY WANTED DRAMA. BUT FOR WHAT!!!!!!!!! MAKES ME FUCKING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL IT DID IS DO JAY DIRTY AND NYAS CHARACTER DIRTY
nyas fucking integrity spit on. you didnt have to make her be like that. it just really fucking made her look BAD. god i wont say jay was a perfect boyfriend but he didnt deserve THAT.
anyways. i want a canon compliant jaya breakup fic set in s3 (present jem speaking: I STILL WANT THIS BY THE WAY.) im so certain nobody has written this. i think heartbreak could be a form of whump if you make it hurt enough.
well. technically. it would be more emotional hurt fic rather than whump. but im a guy who has his definitions twisted. this is whump to me. also im a guy who thinks unromantic things as romantic but also loves love thats void of romance above anything else. i can do both. anyways.
i want jay to feel absolutely crushing heartbreak. i want jay to be hurt. i want him to feel it in his chest. unfairness— rending, jealousy— twisting, want— squeezing. all he yearns for is to be with nya. because he loves her. but apparently... nya doesnt feel the same way. and it hurts
i want to consume heartbreak. i think itll be crunchy on the outside but soft and squishy on the inside. absolute chewable pleasure. lightly salty and bittersweet. i also wanna squeeze jays heart like a stress ball and maybe cause arrhythmia. scratch it a little (a lot). jay is my emotional and physical fucking chew toy
and so to make heartbreak a bit more whumpy tho... i thought up of red string of fate au...
in this version of this concept, the red string of fate is something that needs to be tied by the pair together. and the feelings behind it is what gives the string color. but sometimes if a love is fated to be, the red of the string is instantly, intensely vibrant, almost glowing
but you dont know who your soulmate is until you actually get together and tie the knot. it is not preexisting, the string does not connect people together for them to find each other before they even know the other exists. it only exists when two people make the decision to bind each other to themselves. most people dont find their soulmate but because its so often the case ppl are content with someone who isnt bc you dont need to find love in your soulmate alone, love is abundant in other places. but that isnt to say the red string of fate isnt romanticized in society tho. anyways. nya likes jay and their string is a pleasant warm red thats a little pink. its typical color for those who arent soulmates but its ok
jay is a little smitten in a slightly overbearing way tho. i think they are a couple who are a little bit mismatched in terms of showing affection. and also nya is very independent type so jays chivalrous tendencies grates on her a little but she lets it slide bc to her, jays positives outweigh his negs. hes cute and funny and they both can geek out and bond over tech stuff. thats a part of the fun.
but then the match maker thing happens and nya doesnt immediately start considering cole as a romantic interest. but she does start... considering things tho. why cole could be her match. and if he really is her soulmate. why isnt jay her perfect match? its less nya becoming interested in someone else and more nya examining herself to think about what she actually wants for herself and what she wants in a person and if jay really isnt the right guy for her in the end. she doesnt know if cole would actually give her what she wants more than jay does. but she does grow more aware of the mismatch between her and jay
but before anything could be done about her doubts and dismiss it all and just carry on with their relationship, jay finds out in the trailer and is devastated. and intensely jealous of cole.. because hes been a bit insecure about his and nyas relationship for a while now also. he jumps the gun too quick before nya could reassure him so then that Fight happens and things get messy and ugly really fast. jay makes himself look really bad in front of nya which unfortunately reinforces her doubts in jay and she thinks. maybe they shouldnt be together after all.
and so one night nya talks to jay alone. she explains herself. how shes been feeling about them. how she wants to focus on herself. and that hes too much for her and hes stifling her and she thinks it would be better if they cut things off and go back to being friends. and then she cuts the string that binds them together before jay could even object. it stings for nya but for jay it feels like his heart was sliced in two. literally. he feels a sharp pain that makes him clutch his chest. for nya, she had more time to process the severance. because she was sorta falling out of love for a while. her side of the string has become desaturated and dull. which is why she doesnt hurt as much
she doesnt realize how much jay truly loves her and how much it would hurt him when the string was cut. so when jay falls to his knees, tears falling, she just turns and walks away because she thinks its just from the heartbreak. she knew she was breaking jays heart
she doesnt realize how much hes literally hurting, how she left his heart bleeding. she knew but she didnt know. its most painful experience jay has ever felt in his life. a searing ache. theres a sudden painful void instead where there once was nyas love. its loss that was much too abrupt
heartbreak cant kill a person but it can leave them wounded. and with an abrupt disconnection like that, its why jay hung onto those feelings for nya for months after even tho he never acted on them. his half of the string refused to wither away and he didnt want to discard it either. how could he when he still loved nya. but he couldnt do anything about it though. nya made up her mind. and jay knew her well enough that she would probably hate him more if he chased after her. and so... he kept his feelings close to his chest and his sad, loose thread wrapped around his finger tight all the way until skybound...
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okay. now present day jem speaking. that was the end of original story i had written on twitter... its meant to be a missing scene (inbetween seasons) fic + au. canon compliant except for the fact its set in this au. so skybound more or less carries out the same way. except minor details being changed...
such as nadakhan approaching jay. he tells him he cannot fix or create strings of fate. but he can give him other means of winning nyas heart...
although this isnt a part of the “fic” i do imagine at the end of their divorce era.... nya who had casted away her old string, remakes her string to tie to the end of jays (and her) old one where she cut in. the thing is making strings of fate is something anyone can do regardless of being fated to be or not. what the string of fate is in this au is more of an oath... an intention to be together to the end of time. the two people are choosing to bind their fate to each other. nya, who had felt stifled in a relationship and decided she didnt need to be in one back all the months ago, realized something in skybound.... the string of fate isnt a contract or a shackle. not like how she thought... its a sentiment of how much you care about somebody to want to be connected forever. till death do us part. and jay very sincerely wanted that. he wanted to be with nya forever. and nya realizes... despite all his flaws, she really cares about him. she does want to be with him forever. she wants to be together with everyone, all her friends, her family forever. i think she doesnt know the nature of her feelings for jay. they are a bit conflicted and shes not sure how to sort out her desires from her feelings. but i think she decides to give jay a second chance of sorts. when they tie the loose ends the color on nyas side is an ambiguous grey barely tinging pink
she tells jay she doesnt want to just get back together. she wants them to start over. and jay isnt sure what that means. and by the color of the string hes not sure if it means theyre dating again either. its a very ambiguous ground theyre standing on. but... jay takes the fact that nya retied their string to mean something. that nya isnt rejecting him anymore. that she cares. that he means something to her. it gives jay hope. his feelings for her havent changed... but he decides that to just be. and take things slow. hes happy even if hes confused by what nya wants. hes connected to her again.... and that means so much to jay
i think that their relationship from the end of skybound and onward is a bit more slowburn. well its a weird sorta slowburn. because theyre together but not really. its about them figuring their relationship out. and also nya falling back in love for reals. i love navigation of ambiguous relationships. i think for a while for nya the term “girlfriend”/“boyfriend” is more loaded than the term “soulmate”. thats how fucking weird their relationship got. whats not ambiguous is that nya does love him. she wouldnt have retied their string if she didnt. whats ambiguous is the nature of that love.... its not quite platonic but shes hesitant to call it romantic. whatever. they have time to figure it out
okay. that turned out so much more aro than i was intending. but i do like leaving it like that tho. feelings are difficult to navigate arent they sometimes? how they figure it out is up to whoever. love is love. they are more than “just” friends. but romance itself is a difficult and different beast than love. but jay and nya.... they meet halfway somehow. even if it takes a bit of work
ALSO. LOOK AT THIS ART BY DAN @rotten-dan he drew it for me several months ago when i first finished this au’s original thread which ended at the breakup skdjgthulkd. HEARTBREAK!!!!!!!!!!! YEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you again dan for drawing this for me
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also. heres some bonus supplemental worldbuilding that doesnt pertain to story stuff but fleshes out how i picture the world in this au to work. most of this was written to answer dans questions about this au lol... not necessary to read unless if youre interested in my take of string of fate concept lol. or unless youre interested in the bit about bruiseshipping in this au at the very end
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the string is often attached to the ring finger. so its a very romantic gesture when couples tie it together to each others fingers. like putting wedding rings on each other but its more of a cute fluffy thing rather than binding. not ceremony but its a Thing. its the same level of formality as asking someone out. and string is like. supernatural. its not completely physical but its definitely exists and can be touched. but not as if a literal string is tied to them if you know what i mean? like if the pair are far apart then the strings middle isnt visible but the ends that are tied floats towards the direction of their partner. the string is like. metaphysical. its a perceivable, somewhat tangible representation of love
but if desired the string can be cut if the parties want to separate. but it usually hurts. like a lot of breakups do.
okay so. the thing is with like. almost all soulmate aus. is that they know about their soulmate. or that the evidence of who it is is instantly visible. and like..... that sorta kills part of the fun? of falling in love?
so what if they dont know until they decide to try each other out first. thats the like. the thought behind the set up for this
like. theres sometimes the occasional dumbass whos going off constantly try to find their soulmate but ultimately a soulmate isnt someone you can simply Search for and find. so those kind of people end up being pricks who never will find a soulmate in their life because they dont want to work things out with ppl who arent their soulmate. the pursuit of a soulmate will usually end in disappointment
but sometimes. for the people who do find their soulmate. its because they gravitated to each other in the first place.
like they fell in love with each other naturally. they liked the person for who they are. and so they decided to get together because they enjoy the other person so much. so when they realize they are meant to be they laugh like oh of course! they were meant to be. theyre like the hallmark movie couple of couples and the few of the very lucky ones
not being soulmates doesnt mean you can only fall in love with your soulmate tho. you can fall in love with anyone. regardless of whether theyre your soulmate or not. and even if theyre not. why does that fucking matter? the important thing isnt that they arent meant to be, but that they love each other anyways. isnt that more romantic? fuck fate the one i love is you
usually nonsoulmate relationship take more work. because the instant perfect chemisty of fated couples isnt there. buuuut. isnt that how love is like in reality? love is work sometimes. love is sometimes hard. but love is also worth it. so making the decision to work for it is more easy the more youre in love. not always the case. but in the healthy couples its usually the case
previously that the feeling behind the thread gives it its color. so. the string can end up being a different color if the feelings felt arent romantic love. most people dont know this though bc ppl who usually tie it are couples. and also it takes both of them to tie the string. every single relationship has a theoretical string color. its just most people who actually want the string are couples usually couples. and so for example, most aros dont ever even think of trying to tie it with someone bc they dont want that kinda bind. but if a curious aro wants to try it out bc they are questioning about their best friend if the two of them agree just to see. their string could actually be a different color than red. because the feelings behind it are platonic
its also entirely possible for a string to be entirely black between enemies hfhjskl. but however those kind of pair would usually NEVER tie the string together bc you know hbghsk. enemies. but if they were. it would be that color. but maybe some insane enemies who are obsessed with each other would do it tho. you know fated enemies and such
..... i have thoughts about bruiseshipping in this au also. theyre best friends, they can bind each other if they wanted to. they have the mutual sentiment required to. but due to the culture surrounding the red string of fate specifically, they never think to. even if they did consider it once they didnt ever bring it up bc awkward!!!!!! the string of fate is the symbol of love. couples treat it a bit frivolously but it is a loaded thing. the string of fate is conversely isnt strictly about love but its just often the case when you want to connect the souls of two people for eternity its usually because of love. theoretically i think their string color would actually oscillate between black and their standard representative color (maybe ill go with light blue lol....) depending on if theyre fighting or not. because it would be funny if it did. also. i think they might try it only after jay and nya retie their string of fate. because then they see its an option to tie strings of fate nonromantically. so theyre like... hey.... do you wanna like... just see? and thats that. two besties bound. jay has two strings of fate now
hysterically it would be funny if all the ninjas did it to each other. it would be a mess. but a colorful one. you know those ship charts where ppl draw lines for their otps and notps. its like that but its not shipping its just relationships and also every single person is connected to every single other person. not saying it has to happen in this au its just that the image of it is so fucking funny to me i had to say it. it would be useful tho if they wanted to find each other wherever they are. practical
maybe they should do that. idk
anyways. thats the end of my au. the post is longer than my og thread of it hjhklkjlkghjf. anyways. thats my weird subversion of string of fate au for jaya. writing the endgame jaya part tonight made think again. damn. im so fucking aro. i think the way i write romance always turn out not so romantic because of it. but also. THIS IS PEAK ROMANCE. SUBVERT BORING ROMANCE TROPES INTO SOMETHING LESS AMATANORMATIVE AND MORE INTERESTING FOR YOUR ENRICHMENT. I RECOMMEND IT. ITS MORE FUN. thats my biased aro ass speaking tho. but for reals. subvert tropes. find out what makes something truly romantic. anyways thanks for reading all of this. i am very fond of this au..... especially for the breakup scene lol...............
#my concepts#jaya#jem.txt#ninjago talk#its shorter than hanahaki au at least#also this is THE MOST aro take on string of fate possible#there might be typos it is 5:30am#ninjago
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who: roberta katz, feat. amira rouhani when: wednesday, september 18th, morning where: Public Defender’s office / Katz Garage warnings: no triggers just long & sad. also not proof read, so my bad for any typos.
Bobbi finished dropping the twins off at school, when she finally took a moment to check her work phone, it was approaching 8:30 when she noticed an email. She hadn’t had any alerts on this phone since she was suspended, and this one made her stomach sink down to her feet. She was alone, yet still she steeled herself up like someone might know how her anxiety pooled and swirled in her mind just through her actions. She knew this email, and she knew people who got this email. ‘Dear Miss Katz, please arrive before 9:30am for a meeting with Mister Roberts we’d like to discuss...’ She didn’t need to read the rest. Instead she drove herself to Julian’s who had already left for work, changed into work appropriate clothes, fixed her hair and put on a full face.
If she was going out, she wasn’t going to go out looking as awful as she felt. There was absolutely no way anyone got to see her that way in that building, well, other than Amira of course. God she couldn’t even focus on Amira or she’d cry. They fought together, for each other, with each other... Bobbi wasn’t sure what’d happen to them after this. She didn’t wanna lose her, but she felt maybe she was already slipping away.
No, this was one of those things Raf told her she might do. There was no reason for Amira to leave her, nothing was wrong with them, take a moment and refocus. Breathe, and regroup no one was going anywhere, the world wasn’t falling to pieces, she was okay... Well at least for now.
With traffic she got there on time, but only by the skin of her teeth. Some of her coworkers eyes landed on her with sympathetic smiles, and some even asked how she was doing... A few hugged her tight with unshed tears of her own and it took everything in her to paint on casual smile and tell then she was fine. Whatever the outcome, even if they all knew the outcome, she’d be fine, she had to be fine. Taking a seat in George’s office her spine was straight, eyes emotionless, but there was a 5 star smile on her face. They exchanged pleasantries, Bobbi even made a point to ask about his kids, but it didn’t stop the thing they both knew was coming.
While we thank you, Miss Katz, for your years of service, and your tireless work we do unfortunately have to let you go. If you could please collect your things, and personal belongings...
Bobbi tuned the rest out because her body was reacting before her mind could catch up. Her heart was in her throat, and her brain felt like static. She didn’t think it would be this bad, she prepared herself for this moment, she knew it was coming, but in the end it still hurt. She had contingencies in place, she knew she’d be better off in the garage, she wouldn’t have to worry about her image, and she was her own boss there would be no worrying about deadlines and court dates... But she would miss it. She felt like she was being punched in the stomach repeatedly as she collected her things, and then stopped by Amira’s office.
She knocked lightly on the door frame and the other woman looked up at her and it took single bit of strength for Bobbi not immediately burst into tears. She handed Amira the papers she promised to let her look over, Amira took them carefully and after asking Bobbi how she was.. Bobbi lied, of course she lied, but in the same vein, Amira saw right through her. She got Bobbi out of the building before the submissive burst into tears, finally letting it all catch up and hit her right in the center of her chest. Amira offered to drive her back to the garage, and Bobbi accepted she needed some time, and Amira was the right person to be with while this was happening.
They had lunch, they talked about more than all this, but it was still there in the back of Bobbi’s mind that all of this... Hurt. It felt like she was slowly drowning, like her lungs were filling to the brim and she couldn’t breath but she did her best to swallow that back and give this lunch the attention it deserved. Would this be the last one they had? No. She breathed, like Julian showed her countless times, and again as Raf said, refocus. They were fine, everyone was fine. As she was dropped off at the garage with her truck, Amira called an Uber and headed back to work, and Bobbi felt broken and alone.She stared at the looming project in front of her, and wondered how someone so small and broken could figure out all this... Maybe she wouldn’t, maybe she’d fail, but she had to try. A piece of her spirit broke as she looked at the building in front of her, but she had to figure out how to pick up all these small pieces before 4 o’clock. She still had a life to live, and things to get done, she had to dry her eyes and figure out what’s next.
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In these strange times when everything is connected, it’s too easy to feel lonely and detached. Yes, everybody is just one message away, but there is always something in the way — deadlines to meet, Slack messages to reply, or urgent PRs to review. Connections need time and space to grow, just like learning, and conferences are a great way to find that time and that space.
In fact, with SmashingConfs, we’ve always been trying to create such friendly and inclusive spaces. Places where like-minded folks could build lasting friendships, learn new skills and share their insights. These things often happen unexpectedly: when you run into an old friend, or spark a random conversation around a coffee machine. Well, in a physical world, that is.
Online is different. We often think that it’s a bad thing, but it doesn’t have to be. For SmashingConf Live, our new online conference, we don’t want to replicate in-person experiences online. Instead, we’ve designed an entirely new conference experience, focusing around interactive live sessions and discussion zones where you actively shape what happens next, and learn along the way. Jump to speakers & topics.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
What’s SmashingConf Live Like?
With SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), we aim to bring all the valuable bits and pieces of a conference to your fingertips. That means practical, hands-on sessions on front-end & UX, easy access to speakers and a friendly, approachable community.
We know that staying in front of the screen for a long time is difficult, so instead of two full days, we break the entire conference into two half days, with enough time for a short break, friendly chats, coffee refills and checking in with your family. Plus enough time to double-check the slides and video recordings at your own time and pace.
SmashingConf has always been a single-track experience, and SmashingConf Live is no exception. However, during the breaks you can jump between plenty of activities in discussion zones. You might meet old and new friends there, and we’ve also invited experts to run short sessions and answer your questions. So if you spot somebody familiar, that might not be a coincidence!
That’s just a start though. In interactive, live sessions you take the driver’s seat, shaping the direction of the sessions as they are happening. You bring up topics and challenges that you’d love to address, and we’ll promote them on stage, so experts (and the entire community) can answer them either live or in the Q&A afterwards.
Not enough? You can also wander between rooms with mystery guests, drop by a front-end & UX job board, crack design & coding challenges, and ask for a live audit of your site or app. We provide live captioning in English as well. That’s SmashingConf Live.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
What Do You Get From It?
So what is SmashingConf Live in a nutshell?
A friendly online conference. Focused on practical insights in front-end & UX. June 9–10, two half-days, each 4.5h long. Check the timing.
A diverse, kind global community. We embrace our code of conduct.
Interactive, live sessions. You take a driver’s seat and shape sessions with speakers, live.
Single-track with discussion zones (details). Attend mini-sessions with experts during breaks.
Easy access to experts. Ask your questions during the Q&A and in discussion zones.
All video recordings and slides. Rewatch a session if you missed it.
Collaborative note-taking (details). For everyone to put together notes in a single place.
Live site/app audits and challenges. Ask experts for a live audit of your project.
Online workshops before & after the event (details). Accessibility, performance, front-end and UX.
Live captioning. You can always turn on subtitles to follow along.
Get early-birds-tickets! Save $50 off the regular price. Only 100 tickets are available.
Approachable, Friendly Speakers
With every session, we want you to take away insights that you can apply to your work immediately. That’s why all sessions are designed to be highly practical — be it techniques to improve your workflow, craft a better front-end, or architecting a better design system.
We invite speakers who have stories to tell and insights to share — and can make you feel a part of the performance, too.
First confirmed speakers and topics are:
We’re happy to welcome our truly smashing hosts Cassidy Williams and Phil Hawksworth to MC the conference. And you’ll find Rachel Andrew, Paul Boag, Monica Dinculescu, Martin Splitt along with dozens of other experts in discussion zones. More speakers and guests will be announced soon!
All speakers are friendly and approachable, so please don’t hesitate to bring up topics or issues that are most relevant to you. Speakers will also be available in breakout rooms, so you can always ask questions before and after their sessions.
Discussion Zones With Experts
Apart from speakers, we’ve also invited well-respected experts to join the discussion zones with Q&A and short workshops. That’s your opportunity to ask pretty much anything, with speakers sharing their screen and answering your questions in detail.
In each discussion zone, we’ll have changing topics and moderators for each day, exploring obscure techniques, strategies, tooling and whatever questions and challenges you bring up!
Timings Around The World
San Francisco, USA 8AM–2PM
New York, USA 11AM–4PM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12PM–5PM
London, UK 4PM–9PM
Antwerp, Belgium 5PM–10PM
Kyiv, Ukraine 6PM–11PM
Mumbai, India 8:30PM–1:30AM
Sydney, Australia 11PM–5AM
Collaborative Note-Taking
Many attendees take notes of the main takeaways from each session. Yet sometimes these notes miss important URLs or key details. With collaborative Google docs, attendees can take notes, thoughts, resources, tips and questions together, while also documenting answers or adding relevant details to the doc.
You might not be able to take all notes on time, but no worries: the community is here to support you, with a collaborative Google Doc.
It’s magical to see people correcting each other’s typos and helping in those docs, or sometimes even resolving discussion within a matter of minutes if somebody spotted an error or a wrong URL. As a result, by the end of the session, you’ll have a comprehensive report of all insights from the session that you can bring back to your team right away.
Chat and Connect In Slack
Building connections matters, and while a conference is often a great place to kindle conversations, they can easily fade away just a few days after the event. We’ll use a Slack channel for you to connect before, during and after the conference. So you can jump between rooms being sure that you stay in touch with your friends. Won’t be that easy to get lost after all!
Meet a truly global audience to get together and learn from each other. We invite all opinions, and happy to discuss them on stage as well.
Meet Tobi, Our Conference DJ
Of course the conference is all about learning and connecting, but a friendly and fun experience is a part of every SmashingConf, too. So you are likely to notice our conference DJ Tobi Baldower playing in the breaks. Tobi always pours his soul and heart into creating a truly memorable experience for everyone, so please drop by and say hello!
Our SmashingConf resident, DJ Tobi — truly smashing since… forever!
Find All The Cats!
Are you ready for a lil’ riddle? We’ll hide a few cats in different rooms at different times, so try your luck to spot all of them! Expect a scavenger hunt and a quiz trivia show!
Also, we’ll be working on challenges and group projects together. If that’s not a great chance to meet attendees, learn along the way and win some prizes, what is?
Let’s see if you can find all the cats, shall we?
Community Matters
With SmashingConf Live, we aim for a warm, authentic family atmosphere. We are very, very excited, ad we want to take on this journey with you, and see what a truly smashing conference experience could be like!
We’d be happy to stumble upon you when mingling between or during the sessions! And perhaps meet old and new friends from all over the world in one place — that’s something not every in-person conference can achieve. We’re still working on the final bits and pieces, and we’ll have some exciting updates coming your way soon
Stay smashing, meow and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!
Meet SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), a friendly online conference right at your fingertips.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
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The cat is out! Meet SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), our very first online conference. With interactive live sessions, practical insights, accessible speakers, collaborative notes and friendly fireplace chats with like-minded folks. Jump to quick summary.
In these strange times when everything is connected, it’s too easy to feel lonely and detached. Yes, everybody is just one message away, but there is always something in the way — deadlines to meet, Slack messages to reply, or urgent PRs to review. Connections need time and space to grow, just like learning, and conferences are a great way to find that time and that space.
In fact, with SmashingConfs, we’ve always been trying to create such friendly and inclusive spaces. Places where like-minded folks could build lasting friendships, learn new skills and share their insights. These things often happen unexpectedly: when you run into an old friend, or spark a random conversation around a coffee machine. Well, in a physical world, that is.
Online is different. We often think that it’s a bad thing, but it doesn’t have to be. For SmashingConf Live, our new online conference, we don’t want to replicate in-person experiences online. Instead, we’ve designed an entirely new conference experience, focusing around interactive live sessions and discussion zones where you actively shape what happens next, and learn along the way. Jump to speakers & topics.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
What’s SmashingConf Live Like?
With SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), we aim to bring all the valuable bits and pieces of a conference to your fingertips. That means practical, hands-on sessions on front-end & UX, easy access to speakers and a friendly, approachable community.
We know that staying in front of the screen for a long time is difficult, so instead of two full days, we break the entire conference into two half days, with enough time for a short break, friendly chats, coffee refills and checking in with your family. Plus enough time to double-check the slides and video recordings at your own time and pace.
SmashingConf has always been a single-track experience, and SmashingConf Live is no exception. However, during the breaks you can jump between plenty of activities in discussion zones. You might meet old and new friends there, and we’ve also invited experts to run short sessions and answer your questions. So if you spot somebody familiar, that might not be a coincidence!
That’s just a start though. In interactive, live sessions you take the driver’s seat, shaping the direction of the sessions as they are happening. You bring up topics and challenges that you’d love to address, and we’ll promote them on stage, so experts (and the entire community) can answer them either live or in the Q&A afterwards.
Not enough? You can also wander between rooms with mystery guests, drop by a front-end & UX job board, crack design & coding challenges, and ask for a live audit of your site or app. We provide live captioning in English as well. That’s SmashingConf Live.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
What Do You Get From It?
So what is SmashingConf Live in a nutshell?
A friendly online conference. Focused on practical insights in front-end & UX. June 9–10, two half-days, each 4.5h long. Check the timing.
A diverse, kind global community. We embrace our code of conduct.
Interactive, live sessions. You take a driver’s seat and shape sessions with speakers, live.
Single-track with discussion zones (details). Attend mini-sessions with experts during breaks.
Easy access to experts. Ask your questions during the Q&A and in discussion zones.
All video recordings and slides. Rewatch a session if you missed it.
Collaborative note-taking (details). For everyone to put together notes in a single place.
Live site/app audits and challenges. Ask experts for a live audit of your project.
Online workshops before & after the event (details). Accessibility, performance, front-end and UX.
Live captioning. You can always turn on subtitles to follow along.
Get early-birds-tickets! Save $50 off the regular price. Only 100 tickets are available.
Approachable, Friendly Speakers
With every session, we want you to take away insights that you can apply to your work immediately. That’s why all sessions are designed to be highly practical — be it techniques to improve your workflow, craft a better front-end, or architecting a better design system.
We invite speakers who have stories to tell and insights to share — and can make you feel a part of the performance, too.
First confirmed speakers and topics are:
We’re happy to welcome our truly smashing hosts Cassidy Williams and Phil Hawksworth to MC the conference. And you’ll find Rachel Andrew, Paul Boag, Monica Dinculescu, Martin Splitt along with dozens of other experts in discussion zones. More speakers and guests will be announced soon!
All speakers are friendly and approachable, so please don’t hesitate to bring up topics or issues that are most relevant to you. Speakers will also be available in breakout rooms, so you can always ask questions before and after their sessions.
Discussion Zones With Experts
Apart from speakers, we’ve also invited well-respected experts to join the discussion zones with Q&A and short workshops. That’s your opportunity to ask pretty much anything, with speakers sharing their screen and answering your questions in detail.
In each discussion zone, we’ll have changing topics and moderators for each day, exploring obscure techniques, strategies, tooling and whatever questions and challenges you bring up!
Timings Around The World
San Francisco, USA 8AM–2PM
New York, USA 11AM–4PM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12PM–5PM
London, UK 4PM–9PM
Antwerp, Belgium 5PM–10PM
Kyiv, Ukraine 6PM–11PM
Mumbai, India 8:30PM–1:30AM
Sydney, Australia 11PM–5AM
Collaborative Note-Taking
Many attendees take notes of the main takeaways from each session. Yet sometimes these notes miss important URLs or key details. With collaborative Google docs, attendees can take notes, thoughts, resources, tips and questions together, while also documenting answers or adding relevant details to the doc.
You might not be able to take all notes on time, but no worries: the community is here to support you, with a collaborative Google Doc.
It’s magical to see people correcting each other’s typos and helping in those docs, or sometimes even resolving discussion within a matter of minutes if somebody spotted an error or a wrong URL. As a result, by the end of the session, you’ll have a comprehensive report of all insights from the session that you can bring back to your team right away.
Chat and Connect In Slack
Building connections matters, and while a conference is often a great place to kindle conversations, they can easily fade away just a few days after the event. We’ll use a Slack channel for you to connect before, during and after the conference. So you can jump between rooms being sure that you stay in touch with your friends. Won’t be that easy to get lost after all!
Meet a truly global audience to get together and learn from each other. We invite all opinions, and happy to discuss them on stage as well.
Meet Tobi, Our Conference DJ
Of course the conference is all about learning and connecting, but a friendly and fun experience is a part of every SmashingConf, too. So you are likely to notice our conference DJ Tobi Baldower playing in the breaks. Tobi always pours his soul and heart into creating a truly memorable experience for everyone, so please drop by and say hello!
Our SmashingConf resident, DJ Tobi — truly smashing since… forever!
Find All The Cats!
Are you ready for a lil’ riddle? We’ll hide a few cats in different rooms at different times, so try your luck to spot all of them! Expect a scavenger hunt and a quiz trivia show!
Also, we’ll be working on challenges and group projects together. If that’s not a great chance to meet attendees, learn along the way and win some prizes, what is?
Let’s see if you can find all the cats, shall we?
Community Matters
With SmashingConf Live, we aim for a warm, authentic family atmosphere. We are very, very excited, ad we want to take on this journey with you, and see what a truly smashing conference experience could be like!
We’d be happy to stumble upon you when mingling between or during the sessions! And perhaps meet old and new friends from all over the world in one place — that’s something not every in-person conference can achieve. We’re still working on the final bits and pieces, and we’ll have some exciting updates coming your way soon
Stay smashing, meow and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!
Meet SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), a friendly online conference right at your fingertips.
Conf + Workshop
$ 425.00 $ 675.00 Conference + Workshop
Conference ticket and an online workshop of your choice (extra 5 × 2.5h sessions).
Conf Only
$ 175.00 $ 225.00
Only Conference
Two half-days, with interactive live sessions and discussions with experts. Only 100 early-birds.
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So, my apologies about the teaser from before. I know that it is cruel to you who check this page every day to tell you it’s up and running again, then to post nothing. If you need that daily Hamm/Nam fix, find me on Instagram. I don’t know how, just do it.
So. Long story. Aren’t they all? If ‘Nam is involved there needs so much processing time and so much backsplaining (kids do say that these days, don’t they?) that every little quip seems to be a bit ‘extra’ (now, I’m sure the kids are saying that one). As mentioned, my return this time is like a birthday, so you might see this story as one of rebirth. You may recall the first beginning, where I detailed the steps of how I ended up being the freshest prince of a town called Thu Dau Mot (Binh Duong province, FYI). Well, this one is like that, but in a new location that is so twist-turned upside down it’s like the twiglight zone. If last time I was the prince, this time I’m the annoying neighbour moving in, trying to be like the cool family next door. This little urkel doesn’t have a phone the size of his head, and any random Vietnamese bells this time will not save me, only piss me off. (If this makes no sense, at least I am absolutely sure this resonates with all today’s cool kids).
Let’s discuss why this time I am not the cool new kid on the block (okay, I promise to stop). So, Binh Duong, where I moved to last time, was more or less your Surrey or Abbotsford or Airdrie or Ottawa of Vietnam. As in: boring, sheltered, sketch and dirty. But maybe more sheltered and less going on than these places. When I showed up, there were few English schools, and even fewer Westerners. The welcoming party was out of this world. If your appreciation as a foreigner in a town like TDM/BD is measured by the stares you get and the random ‘hellos’ you receive from people driving by on your bike, I was off the scale. At least once a week I was approached with a phone number of a Vietnamese woman, offered a teaching job (how did they know I wasn’t a French speaker – or did this even matter?), or invited to chug a beer or two. Binh Duong had me on its throne, and I was a good ruler: unwittingly volunteering as a special guest at competing language schools, accepting offers for a coffee date here and there, and obliging to a beer on occasion, even if it was 10 am. After time, however, it was time to move on. The abdication had to occur. I did feel I had left it in good hands though.
Then I returned. Binh Duong, you have changed my friend. What has become of you? Multiple English centres – in the same building – owned by yet another language centre, foreigners running amok, a 7D coffee shop. 7 freakin’ D! I didn’t know such a think was possible. Well, in today’s Binh Duong it is. True, upon returning to the local watering hole, I did receive casually warm welcomes, but I do think there is a bit of returnee-fatigue. “Oh, did you hear XYZ is back?”. “Really? I guess you can take Binh Duong out of the man, but you can’t take the man out of Binh Duong.” (Yes, that was an actual conversation. I swear.) To be fair, when I did venture away from the main areas, there was still some sketch, and still some excitement from my presence. I got a great response from a group of old ladies when I sat down at a table next to them. No phone numbers though. Still, Binh Duong isn’t the place where I’d like to stay. Nor was it the place where I had intended to.
My whole plan in returning this time was to go to a little place called Assspen. Ooops. Typo. To go to a town called Da Nang. Remember Abbotsford and Surrey? Where do people from these places go for some fun and relaxation, particularly in the summer? The most beautiful place in BC: Kelowna. Where do people from Ontario go? A hop away to the sun: Florida. Where do people from Alberta go? Well, there’s nowhere nice in Alberta, so also Kelowna. Imagine the difference between a polluted, humid, congested, boring summer day in Abbotsford/small town Ontario. Now, imagine all you could do in a sun-drenched Kelowna/Florida. This is the relationship between Binh Duong and Da Nang. With its sun, sand, mountains, culture, golf, and seafood, it’s the draw of many a poor man, and you know I’m one.
The reason that I am not a prince here, then, is tied into that. Every expatted out expat in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, or small-town Vietnam feels like they have done their time, and they deserve something a little bit nicer, a little bit fresher, a little bit less cockroachy, and a little bit more up-and-coming. That place is Da Nang. So, they pack up their Lonely Planets, their teaching materials, and their Vietnamese girlfriends, and they head to the central coast. As a result, cost of living is higher, wages are lower, hours of work are trickier, and foreigners in some places don’t even get a ‘hello’! What’s worse, I have yet to be even offered a job just walking on the street: so much for paradise! Yet somehow the Da Nang dream has lured me just the same.
Yes, this is where I have been reborn as a Vietnamese dweller, this time not as a prince, but as a regular old expat, with his overconfident knowledge about Vietnam and the Vietnamese psyche, his suitcase of teaching gadgets, and his Vietnamese girlfriend/life organizer (current location: Binh Duong). That said, I do believe this time I know what to expect, and I am better off for it. In fact, every hour of every day, something comes back to me that I remember from before. “Oh yes, being awoken by construction at 6:30am? Normal.” “Oh yes, struggling to find the right temperature on your AC, between shivering and 120% death humidity? Not easy”. “Oh yeah, ants can somehow smell a single grain of sugar from across the house, and oh yeah, they bring a trail of themselves 12 metres long.” “Oh yeah, that noise. And that one, and that one, and that one.” These things are not new to me, but distant memories being reborn. The hope is, this time, it doesn’t all drive me nuts. It’s all part of starting this time out as a dweller, and not a foreigner, and the paradisaical nature of Da Nang is going to help me.
So, with all that said, sit back, enjoy, and watch as I struggle to fit in as Vietnamian as well as a newly minted Da Nangite.
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