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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)
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!
FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY
Rec 1: Untitled Jade & Rose fill
Team: John<3Rose
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: I almost prompted this exact soundtrack, and when I was piecing it together I was thinking, oh, sexy femme fatale Rose/Kanaya. This is completely different from that and completely perfect all the same--Jade the upright bassist in a jazz band is of course obvious but brilliant. So is Rose's Dinah Washington hand.
Rec 2: please don't put your face into your hands (we could be friends)
Team: Autoresponder<3Roxy
Creator:
Why I'm recommending this: Yes, yes, yes, YES, THIS IS WHY I SHIP THEM PALE. Omg. The narration is lyrical and light, and Roxy is charming and a little desperate, and Dirk is not that charming and a little desperate, and it's great. You should read this if you like good, convincing narratives of human palemance because this is proof they are delightful!
Rec 3: Untitled alpha OT4 fill
Team: Team Autoresponder<3Roxy
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: Well, as my icon and subject line handily show, I am pretty fucking into the Alpha OT4, because they are the most delightful goobers. Damn if this fic doesn't make this case as well as any of our entries. Roxy's problem solving is perfect (tipsyGnostalgic [TG] opened memo on board LETS ALL KISS). (pls refer to memo board title.) (for. FCUKS. SAKE!!!!!!!)
Rec 3: Untitled Aradia/Sollux fill
Team: Terezi<3<Vriska
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: Most trivially, Sollux looking like one of the Gorillaz works extremely well. But I love the way they're very slightly ghostly and starlit--the choice of a chalk effect was great for that. The composition is unusual and striking.
Rec 4: Untitled Eridan/Feferi fill
Team: John<3Karkat
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: The red-and-green lighting in the first pic is killer, and makes the black & white in the second that much more dramatic. The selection of lyrics is ideal. But I'm really reccing this because holy shit, yes, Eridan with apparent angel wings, ushering in the end.
Rec 5: Untitled Aradia triptych
Team: Dave<3Rose<3Terezi
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: In comments
Rec 6: Untitled Jake & Jane fill
Team: Aradia<3Sollux
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: This is as fucked up as you'd expect from the mix, and delightfully so. Jake and Jane just look so stoked to be potentially shooting each other. I would award this "best use of transparent blood spatter in BR4".
Rec 7: Untitled Vriska/Tavros fill
Team: Eridan<3Feferi<3Sollux<3<Eridan
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: Look, we both know that when mementomoryo gets all massive symbolic painting, an angel gets its wings. But WHO KNEW that a literal reading of "This Tornado Loves You" could be this gorgeous? Or that a tiny Tavros in the bottom-left corner of the painting could make me laugh so hard and feel so terrible about it?
Rec 8: Untitled Feferi/Vriska fill
Team: Equius<3Gamzee
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: This has gotten retroactively really tragic, but at the time of posting it was just incredibly sweet. It's very playlist appropriate--the intersecting curves of the composition evokes the waltzy piano mood of the pieces, for one thing! I love the very convincing idea that Feferi would still be trying to go fetch her murder friends even in the face of both of their untimely deaths.
Rec 9: Untitled Rose/Vriska fill
Team: Terezi<3<Vriska
Creator:
Why I'm recommending it: ...And part two of the "people rescue dead Vriska" series. This playlist is way more intense and more vicious, and the fill is likewise. Rose looks smug, successful Light player and all, and Vriska looks pissed at needing a rescue, which is super in character for both of them. Also I love these rich colors.
Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY
It makes me so unreasonably happy when people say my art reminds them of old school shoujo manga;; /A\ I really appreciate it!
Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY