Bonus Round 6

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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

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


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


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


4. 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.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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):
<b>Rec 1:</b> (title) <b>Team:</b> (the team the creator belongs to) <b>Creator:</b> <b>Why I’m recommending it:</b> (please be as specific and descriptive as possible!) <b>Rec 2:</b> (Title) <b>Team:</b> (the team the creator belongs to) <b>Creator:</b> <b>Why I’m recommending it:</b> (please be as specific and descriptive as possible!) <b>Rec 3:</b> (Title) <b>Team:</b> (the team the creator belongs to) <b>Creator:</b> <b>Why I’m recommending it:</b> (please be as specific and descriptive as possible!)

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)

If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!

Comments

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

[nextian]

Excellent Use of Theme (Coincidentally None Of These End Remotely Well For Any Of The Characters)

Spoilers for all these fics.

Rec 1: I Can Barely Sleep In This Casino
Team: John/Rose
Creator: Round 1 entry
Why I'm recommending it: The flash animation was really well done for something so short--way to work within the limitations. But I love that they took gambling and got past the trappings or even the first metaphorical use of gambling (take a chance!) and actually got into what happens when two people start taking chances with each other's emotions and secrets and then, of course, LIVES. Also this was fucking heartbreaking and it destroyed me, etc.

Rec 2: The Princess, the Prince and the Beekeeper
Team: Eridan♥Feferi♥Sollux♠Eridan
Creator: Round 2 entry
Why I'm recommending it: This has been recced already (on this page!!) but I'm singling it out not just for its art, which is superb, or its writing, which is satisfyingly unreal, but the way it is genuinely monstrous. Not only is Feferi a horrible tentacle beast who devours the guilty, but she's a horrible tentacle beast in a way that's almost canon-compliant. I am probably most impressed by the fact that this remains convincingly red towards both Eridan and Sollux.

Rec 3: Never or Later
Team: Bro<3Grandpa
Creator: Round 3 entry
Why I'm recommending it: This is a GREAT use of the splitscreen format, both contrasting two very different stories and telling a single time-loopy one. Taking the "same relationship from two points of view" idea and making it so that the observer changes not just the emotional content of that relationship, but also the progress and facts of that relationship was very smart. Also Jade and Dave are just cute as the dickens in the pictures.

Rec 4: Gather Up Its Harm And Gods
Team: Rose<3Roxy
Creator: Collab round entry
Why I'm recommending it: Again this wins because the whole thing is about aberration, from the aberrations between various attempts at this dreambubble, from the vivid wrongness in all the pictures (look at Roxy's shadow in the first one!!) to the overarching Very Very Wrongness of the premise. My favorite use of aberration is probably the way small things change to get through to Roxy, the stuff she ignores on the way to the plot-- the "no lamb," and then she gets handed a lamb anyway, that kind of thing. Team Rose<3Roxy has owned at conveying the potential desperate fucked-up wrongness of the pairing throughout the Olympics and this is one more excellent example of that.

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

[blackberries]

Yo, thank you so much for reccing Rose<3Roxy's collab piece! I'm not going to lie, that really tickled my ego coming from you. I'm super proud of my team and especially their efforts on this fic. The HSO has really made us all feel like the little ship that could.