Fandom: Oh, Hugo, Where Have HuGone Vol. 2: Trademark Edition

Y'all, I have seen actual legal arguments about trademark violations from actual attorneys (though not IP attorneys) that weren't written and cited as well as synecdochic's post, goddamn.

they really should have known the one thing we know is how to bring receipts aka Trademark Law Lies and the Dudes Who Perpetuate Them.

Fandom: Yuletide

ETA: Between 2005 and 2018, I've written 69 stories for Yuletide. Oh yeah.

Yuletide's revving up for 2019 (yuletide_admin), and I'm eager to hear if you'll be participating and, if so, what fandoms you're considering. I'm thinking:

Touchstone series by Andrea K. Höst: Portal sci-fi first person diary about an Australian teen who ends up walking through a portal onto a different planet which has been abandoned by its people due to monsters. When she's finally rescued from that planet, she ends up on a second planet crowded with people who fled the first planet and surrounded by fantastic technology and an ongoing war against the monsters. It's iddy and tropey and absolutely wonderful. Main trilogy, Gratuitous Epilogue all about romances and children (no, really, that's the title of the book), and a fourth novel from a different character's POV.

United States of Asgard series by Tessa Gratton: Norse gods are real and living among humanity. World building is interesting, though I have complaints about how indigenous peoples are treated, but the characters are my favorite part. Excellent human characters, and Fenris Wolf also appears as a teen girl named Glory. She is truly glorious.

Kisses & Curses: Mobile game about witches and romances and trying to save the world. Wonderful bisexual main character, great romance options, and one of the more satisfying stories I've experienced in a mobile game.

Confident - Demi Lovato: The music video, not the song itself, because I will never, ever, ever get enough of those women fighting each other and banding together and all the ways that world building can go.

Pushing Daisies: Adorable and charming murder mystery tv show ended far too soon with a protagonist who can bring things back to life and a cast of characters I adore. I'm really craving warm, sweet, chosen family case fic shenanigans, but if that's the only thing I want, period, I won't request it because that's not fair to a potential author. I want to give multiple prompts, any one of which I would be delighted to receive.

Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Specifically focuses on Corrie Swanson (a teen in one of my favorite books who grows up to become an FBI agent) and Nora Kelly (a smart, brash anthropologist). Conveniently, a book about those two specifically just came out, which delighted me and made me want more stories about them.

Hobbs & Shaw: This would need an evidence post to separate it from the main Fast and the Furious series, which is ineligible, and I'm not sure such an argument would be all that successful since Luke and Deckard both appear in multiple Fast and Furious movies, but I am dying for Hattie Shaw and Samantha Hobbs fic, among a ton of other ideas.

Fandom: Oh, Hugo, Where Have HuGone Vol. 3: Fanwork Edition

ETA: kore linked this in the comments here, but I wanted to make sure people saw it: the HugoWank2k19 AO3 collection.

ETA 2: dhampyresa made a Hugo Heist RPG (a reskin on Honey Heist). I have zero idea of what Honey Heist is (yet, I'll be looking it up), but this is fantastic.

I didn't actually plan to talk so much today, but I'm waiting on a thing to finish running, so I'm here and I have a couple more things to link to that came out of this whole Hugo debacle. Both links came via dine, so thanks!

and now we grease our trophy sweete by ruinsplume

My name is fen
and wen i win
an award at
a convenshin

i close my eyes
and count to three
and wait for men
to ’splain to me



The rest of it is as delightful as this part.

Stanley Cup — What it Means by Anonymous

“I believe,” the spokesperson said carefully, “that that may have been a joke.”

“Joking,” the PR person replied frostily, “about the Stanley Cup harms its reputation. We don’t want Oviraptors fans making a mockery of it.”


Considering this was the year we won our first Stanley Cup (#letsgoblues), I am even more delighted by this.