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 JOHN<3ROSE

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Rec 1: Speak Easy
Team: Team Karkat<3Nepeta
Creator: Round 1 Team Entry
Why I’m recommending it: What expert composition? And rich colours?? And soft lighting??? My mouth practically fell open when I first clicked it open. I LOVE how you keep catching little details in this the longer you look at it - the lovely decorations in Nepeta's hair, on her horns, and hanging from her ears, the cards arrayed under Karkat's elbow, the way she leans on him just so, radiating quiet confidence in her matesprit... /happy sigh. Also brilliant is the way the colours shift from cool to warm to cool again as the viewer's eye moves from one of them to the other.

Rec 2: Betting On You
Team: Team Karkat<3Terezi
Creator: Round 1 Team Entry
Why I’m recommending it: WAY to remind me why this has been one of my very favourite ships throughout my entire time as a Homestuck thus far, Team KK<3TZ!! I was overjoyed that this fic actually reveals what it WAS that their "little moment" during SGRUB was! Terezi's voice here is wonderful: she's giddy and wicked and derisive and more than a little mean... only to realize she's been treating a matter of Karkat's personal safety with MUCH too a light a touch after all. The author also drives home what a caring and trusting person Karkat is at his core, for all his surface roughness. If the deal hadn't been sealed for me already... I would have been sold upon reading the last line, which reminds me of that ONE conversation between them in canon in which Terezi told him that she thought everyone already DID believe in Karkat as their leader. This fic shows that so does she, through and through.

Rec 3: They Gambled Past Starfall
Team: Team John<3Vriska
Creator: Round 1 Team Entry
Why I’m recommending it: I believe this fic will remain one of my favourite Homestuck fanworks of all time. (...and it is the fanwork that finally got me shipping John<3Vriska in earnest after a long period of simply being vaguely ambivalent-to-positive on it!) Their voices are PERFECT, particularly Vriska in all her tragic, wild, destructive glee and pain, and the end left me stunned and in tears. I can't give away TOO much for fear of spoiling it for anybody who hasn't had the harrowing pleasure of reading this, but I remember audibly gasping at the passage that so explicitly and surreally refers to their eventual destinies in SBURB. Author of his fic: PLEASE have much more writing squirreled away and planned for the future, because you really, really ought to be published.

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

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Thank you so much for the third rec *-* I really hope my writing won't disappoint in the future!