hs_olympics | Bonus Round 6

Bonus Round 6

Recs

Hey, shippers! This is the last bonus round, which we’re all very sad about. So let’s talk about some of the awesome stuff created throughout the HSO!

Rules

Rec at least three fanworks from the main or bonus rounds! They do not have to be connected to each other in any way.

You may not recommend material created by members of your own team.

Each recommendation must include at least three full sentences about why it’s awesome. Please use the format specified below.

You may recommend as many sets as you like, so long as each set has at least three recs in it.

Title & Rec Format
If you are doing a fill, use this format in your title.

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

The content of the post should be in this format (extend as necessary):

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)

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BR4 recs, pt 1 (because gosh, I'm only up to page 7)

Rec 1: Untitled Vriska & Aradia art
Team: John<3Rose
Creator:

jelajade
Why I'm recommending it: The hovertext says "I'm fearless now, but it cost my soul," and that's exactly what this picture is of--dead Vriska and alive Aradia, surrounded by all their varied bad and good choices! Plus this art style could not be more adorable if it was painted in kittens. This is like the Blue's Clues guide to illustrative symbolism and I love it.

Rec 2: Untitled Terezi/Vriska fill
Team: Bro<3Grandpa
Creator:

apollosglare
Why I’m recommending it: This piece is in incredibly delicate balance, er, literally; Vriska leaning off the chair and Terezi leaning into it just enough that you can't tell if Vriska's being pushed, saved, or jumping. Perfect for a piece partially scored by The Cave. I also just love this Terezi's long face.

Rec 3: Untitled Jane fill
Team: Eridan♥Feferi♥Sollux♠Eridan
Creator:

mementomoryo
Why I’m recommending it: The soundtrack is a series of variously misleadingly cheery anime soundtrack pieces. Jane in full Victorian dress as Snow White flips the brightness of the soundtrack and capitalizes on the tragedy of, for example, Madoka. And it does so with gorgeous art!

Rec 4: Untitled Roxy piece
Team: Equius<3Gamzee
Creator:

brightgray
Why I'm recommending it: Okay, I'll admit I'm assuming the he in this is Equius due solely to the use of colors and pronouns. But the sense of void about the picture--the dark blue shading to black, the pixelation and vanishing of her scarf and the ice--is so good regardless. (The pixelation matches the soundtrack incredibly well, too.) The bulk of the scarf around her neck makes Roxy look tiny and determined. On a more technical note, I love the overlay technique used to paint the ice walls.

Rec 5: Untitled Aradia/Sollux piece
Team: Nepeta<3Terezi
Creator:

fraymotif
Why I'm recommending it: Using this soundtrack for Aradia and Sollux was inspired; it is exactly as fatalistic and sad and hopeful as them. Using close variants on their colors + green was even better; those are not colors that naturally go together, let's be real here, but the piece hangs together really well with a sort of sepia feeling to it. Aradia's AMAZING pants and Sollux's massive grin are serious bonuses.

Rec 6: Untitled Rose & Dave perv on their parents fic
Team: Dave<3Rose<3Terezi
Creator:

megaparsecs
Why I'm recommending it: UGH THREE SENTENCES FOR THIS IS SO HARD. I don't know why I can't just copy-paste "THIS IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE FIC FOR THIS PLAYLIST" three times, but here goes. 1) Dave's rambling bullshit is exactly correct. 2) "and technically Jade's half dog" made me splutter laughing. 2) THIS IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE FIC FOR THIS PLAYLIST.

Rec 7: Untitled Terezi<3Equius fill
Team: Team Karkat<3Nepeta
Creator:

slippy
Why I'm recommending it: I'm not sure how this fic got me shipping Terezi/Equius, which I can confidently state that no other power on God's Earth could do. It might have something to do with the use of the medics from Oglaf or it might have something to do with the idea that Terezi is, you know, a pushy mastermind. I think my favorite part though is the conceit--of course Equius smelling irrevocably and constantly like Equius would cause hilarious medical problems for Ms. Pyrope and of course she'd exploit the fuck out of that.

Rec 8: Untitled Dave<3<Gamzee fill
Team: Dirk<3Equius
Creator:

cypher
Why I'm recommending it: I love how fabulously uncool Dave is about his new hateboner. His running monologue sounding a hell of a lot more like Karkat's when freaked out by how much he's turned on is uh, extremely Dave Strider. I also love that this is convincingly balanced between sexy hate and actual, maybe-I-should-kill-this-dude hate.

Edited 2012-08-13 19:44 (UTC)

Thank you for reccing me! I must confess, I didn't intend for those to be the Oglaf medics, which would actually have been really cool. It was a case of 'argh, troll OCs, I need completely generic speech quirks!!'

Although now I want to put a bunch of non-human, non-alien characters in space and inflict trolls on them. Terezi will also miss the Howl's Moving Castle-type fire demon that does the mess hall cooking. She and Equius communicate with their friends off the radar by sending messages with Sandman nightmares that Gamzee has made friends with.

Bonus Round 6

Bonus Round 6

FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY