Xavia

Fandom: Defying Gravity (1997)
Fic Title: The Exs
Fic Authors: pairatime
Type: digital cover
Media: MS Publisher
Art Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Griff/Pete, OCs
Art Warnings: none

Ahh, sorry I'm late! It's Small Fandom Bang time again, and this year I got pairatime's fic, which you can read here! I was interested in this idea of how jealousy distorts perception and went with a sort of fragmented approach with a palette that wouldn't be out-of-place in the 90s. Marcus is a stock photo by Tanya Volt and Andrew is Paul from The Object of My Affection, also about queer jealousy in the 90s.

( The Exs )

Title:  🆓🗣🗒
Fandom: Star Trek DS9
Language: 😀
Original Title: Free Advice
Author: colorcoded
Original Language: English
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Odo/Quark
Warnings: explicit, first time, body horror, cops
Summary: Set during the beginning part of The Ascent. Stuck on an 8-day shuttlecraft journey with only Odo for company? Quark is starting to crack. And so is Odo.

hey... so as part of WIP Big Bang, I claimed art for the sequel fic by Colorcoded, and it took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do, until I realized I really needed to immortalize this story in Emoji. I took my inspiration from Emoji Dick and from this iconic SPN post. I always forget it takes FOREVER to translate something, so I only managed to get this part done, which is essentially the Prologue, but I'm proud of it. Some things were pretty easy to transliterate/translate (I'll leave debates about whether Emoji are their own language to cunning linguists), but some things were surprisingly hard like random body parts or parts of a room. Also it is EXTREMELY frustrating that Emoji look so different across platforms and some don't even recognize certain ones, this was written in iOS but filtered through whatever set AO3 uses. Anywho, I learned way too much about Emoji for this, so here, enjoy my shitposting and the author's smut

CW: pregnancy, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, alcohol, fat-shaming, food

Starting out as a joke about Jeff’s softball team whose absence requires Audrey to join temporarily, by the end of s5 Brenda has become a pivotal person in Jeff and Audrey’s lives. She’s not the first openly queer recurring character but she is the longest lasting (not including leads). Brenda agrees to be Audrey and Jeff’s surrogate, which deploys queer reproductive technologies in service of heterosexuality and also serves to contrast her relationships with Audrey and Jeff’s. Brenda injects a queer sensibility into the show that frankly makes it more watchable as a queer fan. Welcome to my Brenda appreciation post.

 

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CW homophobia, biphobia, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, racism

As originally conceived, Rules was intended to be a show about heterosexuals doing straight people stuff. And while there are references to queerness in the first two seasons, there are few explicitly queer characters. Because the first two seasons were establishing the characters’ relationships to each other, their relationships to others outside their group weren’t really explored. But with s3, we start to see them interact more with the world around them, and given they live in NYC, their social context is a lot queerer than they might have expected. The queer characters in Rules are often props to showcase the characters’ tolerance for difference (or lack thereof) instead of complex subjects in their own right, but this does change somewhat as the show progresses, especially if you consider some of the mains to be queer.

 

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CW: heteronormativity, compulsory heterosexuality, sexism, reproduction and infertility

Rules of Engagement is a guilty pleasure of mine because it’s so problematic and also just so very straight. Its humour skews a lot more conservative than most of the other shows in this study and it’s definitely not as thematically dense either. Usually this is the kind of show my parents would have on in the background at home, it wasn’t necessarily something we would drop everything to watch. Like most non-soaps of the 2000s and earlier, Rules is designed to be watched in such a way that you can miss a week and not be totally lost, and in fact you aren’t expected to have seen every episode, certainly not right before the next one. Episodic appointment television, especially a laugh-track sitcom, works better with conservative themes because the story is expected to regress to the mean at the end of the episode, meaning character and audience growth have little expectation of permanence. The audience needs to be able to understand the relationships and storyworld at a glance, which rewards stories that conform to stereotypes and well-worn tropes and that maintain a status quo as long as possible. That lack of persistence of memory affects the type of fandom that emerges around traditional sitcoms compared to soaps or sci-fi; cult fandom tends to be less drawn to these types of shows because there’s little payoff for such systematic devotion. Thus, applying a cult fandom approach to watching this is tedious in some ways and illuminating in others. The main takeaway doing so for Rules has given me is this: the straights are Not Okay^TM.

 

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 CW: ableism, body horror, gaslighting, emotional and financial abuse, euthanasia, drugging, overdose, genocide

( Cookie Rights Are Disability Rights )

 

CW: racism, blackface, torture, incarceration, racialized violence, Nazis, body horror, sexual assault, ableism, euthanasia, death, white supremacism, self-harm

 

( Racial Politics of Audiencing )

 

CW: amatonormativity, surveillance, manipulation, compulsory heterosexuality, dissociation, kink

 

( All Real Love Is Queer )

 

CW: death, spirituality, toxicity, ableism, euthanasia, homophobia, bury your gays, unreality

 

( Queer Afterlives )

 

Title: Mr. Jumpy Legs: The Unauthorized Documentary
Type:gen, crack, crossover, mockumentary, academia
Word Count: ~10.1K
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Mr. Jumpy Legs, Tara, Michael, the Doorman, Janet, Eleanor, Original Human Characters, Original Frog Characters
Warnings: canon-typical (Sex House) torture, imprisonment, abuse, exploitation, atmosphere of sexual coercion (no coerced sex acts depicted), amatonormativity, cruelty to animals, non-consensual drug use, cults, mental illness; graphic depictions of animal death, animal experimentation
Summary: On a fateful trip to Earth, Michael Realman gifts the Doorman an actual, living frog. *campaign attack ad voice* But who is Mr. Jumpy Legs? Who indeed.

A/N: At last, I can post one of my favourite fics I've ever written! This was written for smallfandombang Round 12, and the fucking fabulous art by dejesss can be found here. (I'm begging you check it out it's such quality shitposting and I can't stop staring at it) Missed out on being the first Sex House fic on AO3 by six weeks, but I finally finished a fic for Small Fandom Bang!
LMAO almost forgot to link to the fic, does help.