shadowscast

Hello world!

I know I haven't posted in ages. I'm enjoying hanging out on Discord chatting fannishly about The Umbrella Academy on pretty much a daily basis, which is fun, but a very different kind of mode of interaction than what we do here. Conversations there are in real-time; they're fleeting and ephemeral (everything is archived but scrolling up is a pain in the ass, so it's generally not tempting to back-read very far).

Anyway, I do have some news! I've now completed my third TUA fanfic (although it's not all up on AO3 yet; I'm posting a chapter a week and I still have two chapters to go).

And I ended up commissioning a fan artist who I knew through the Discord server to make artwork to accompany one of the chapters! This is something that I'd never done or even thought of doing before. It occurred to me a) because I knew they were taking commissions and trying to save up for a new iPad, b) because I loved their art style, c) because I knew they were reading the story, and d) because there was a particular moment in the story when one of the characters took a selfie, and it was supposed to be very cute, and quite a few people commenting on that chapter mentioned the selfie, and I suddenly thought "Hey I wonder if that could actually work as an image?" So I presented the idea to Squish, the artist, and she said that it was feasible, and here we are!

The process itself was even fun; she sent me sketches while the art was in progress so I could give feedback, and it was so cool to see the image taking shape.

Anyway, the art is behind the cut if you're curious.

( The image is moderately nsfw, just so you know! )

And if you're curious about the story, here's the info and link!

Title: Roll For Damage
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz
Summary:

Dave is new in town, and looking for a way to make friends. His coworker, Vanya, invites him to join the Dungeons & Dragons game she runs for her siblings.

She warns Dave that her family can be a bit much, but nothing could have prepared Dave for the experience of meeting her brother Klaus.

(Dave might be falling in love with a manic raccoon nightmare boy.)

(This is a no-powers AU in which Dave somehow exists as a 29-year-old person in 2019.)

So hey! A short little bit of speculation under the cut; spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season one (specifically S1 E9).

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Now that I've finished writing my own first Umbrella Academy fic, I'm interested in diving in and reading other authors' takes on the universe.

Do any of you out there happen to have any recommendations for fics in that universe that you've read and enjoyed? (Post-season one is fine; I know that most of the currently-existing fics will have been written before season two came out!)

If you do, please leave them in the comments!

Behind the cut: links to a couple of Umbrella Academy fanvids I just watched and enjoyed!

( Spoilers for Umbrella Academy Season 2 )

I've just started posting that Umbrella Academy fic that I mentioned, over at AO3.

If you're interested in checking it out, here's the link:
No Future Is Perfect, But This One's Pretty Good
Warning: spoilers for Season 2.

(For more warnings, tags, plot summary etc, you can look at AO3. I won't post any of that here for the moment, since it's all potentially S2-spoilery.)

I posted chapter one, and then went to eat dinner. By the time I got back to my computer, the work already had more kudos than my entire beloved epic Once A Thief series that I wrote over the past couple of years. And that right there is the difference between writing in a tiny dead fandom versus a big, live one. Gosh.

Anyway, I've posted up to chapter 4 now (which was how many chapters it took for me to get the main couple together, both conscious, in the same room), and I'm going to leave it there overnight. The whole thing is written, but I want to spread out my own joyful feeling of posting something new over at least a day or two. This might be a little hypocritical of me, since I'm one of those people who will tick the "complete works only" box when searching AO3—but then I guess it's fine, since the people who tick that box won't see the fic until it's all up there, and presumably the people who don't tick that box enjoy reading works a little at a time!