#bnfs

[fansplaining]

Episode 209: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 17

In the newest (17th!) installment of the “Ask Fansplaining Anything” series, Flourish and Elizabeth read a mix of responses to recent episodes and fresh queries. Topics discussed include communal versus solitary fandom, how the “BNF” role shifts when global fandoms rely on fan translations, asexuality and aromanticism in fic, their (EXTREMELY MIXED) experiences running surveys, and, importantly, AMC’s Interview with the Vampire.

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#fansplaining #fandom #platforms #asexual characters #ace fic #friendship #BNFs #lurking #communal fandom #interview with the vampire

[articulately-composed]

We all know that homestuck never leaves you. Once you’re in deep, it’s stuck in your brain forever like a parasite that needs you alive to replicate, so if you joined the fandom in 2012 or earlier, chances are you still do an occasional homestuck thing here or there.

So that leads to the weird and wild experience of people who were younger when they first joined the fandom (eg me) occasionally working on projects a decade later with people whose fanwork they really admired back in the day.

#homestuck #fan culture #homestuck voice acting #bnfs #it’s so funny in retrospect that I used to consider fandom bnfs on par with celebrities

[catgirl-catboy]

A lightbulb just went off in my head:

The amount of antis in a fandom has nothing to do with the darkness of the content itself.   What it does have something to do with?   The stances of the Big Name Fans.

#BNFs #Proship #fandom culture #anti anti #profic

[mrghostrat]

dust and light

i swear to somebody, the actual good omens parallels were a complete accident when i wrote this scene in BNF, where crowley is a writer in the agnes nutter fandom and aziraphale is his big bang partner. i've been on fire ever since i realised.

"The way you talked about the lighting in that last scene was just so striking— I really want to capture it somehow; find a way to paint the different layers of sunbeams and dust motes, just as you’ve written them.” Aziraphale’s grin caught himself quite off guard. “What are you planning?” Crowley shifted with an exaggerated, bashful shrug, but his grin remained steady on his face. “Not sure, just some kind of metaphor about the light and the warmth, probably. Maybe note some stark differences between the bookshop and a dusty room with no light, or a bright place with no dust. Each feeling equally inadequate compared to the shop, and that being… Er, I dunno, a reflection of their lives without one another in it, or something.”

#jesus christ how did this happen #i'm unokay #they're burrowed so deep in my head it's not even intentional anymore #good omens #gomens #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #bnf au #i mean this art has literally nothign to do with bnf au but #rat draws #rat writes #ineffable husbands

[vavoom-sorted-art]

Posessive Angel~

been reading @mrghostrat's fic Big Name Feelings and to celebrate Chapter 10 coming out, i had to illustrate a little scene from it! (it''s my favourite chapter so far!!!!!)

#bnf au #good omens #good omens fanart #kisses! #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #goodomens #aziracrow #art #good omens au #vavoomart

[trekanometry]

if anyone has ever implied even a little that bnfs don't exist anymore they are WRONG!!!!!!!

#bnf #bnfs #bay rambles

[transmutationisms]

this website’s “haha you just need to pick up a physical hobby/work a manual job and then you will be happy/healthy/normal” type posting is so baldly ableist in its presumptions about the value of specific bodies and bodily abilities it’s like genuinely startling to me every time i see it. channelling the workhouse and/or asylum but make it a discourse of individual empowerment

#sorry bnf's servers are down Again so i am posting

[darcydoesfuckall]

Discount Crowley from the BNF au (written by @mrghostrat - don't mind the tag btw, just making it easier for people to find you.)

Did this impromptu cosplay on a whim during a discord call (the Bilv discord writing room is fuckin great)

#good omens #crowley #cosplay #BNF #bnf au #big name feelings #this was stupid #thought I'd share

[castle-behind-the-rocks]

Chapter 10 of @mrghostrats Human AU fic BNF!! I mean everybody already melted but maybe re-read it an melt some more.

Aziraphale relaxed, which was a considerable accomplishment with the love of his life draped across him like a weighted throw blanket. Crowley didn’t seem to mind though, so he didn’t let himself either. A minute of sleepy silence drifted by them, before Crowley shifted imperceptibly against his chest and let out a small noise, not unlike an impatient cat. “That was nice,” he whined softly.

I'm using all the urge to fanart because !!!! this fic!!! to practise digital and I'm kinda maybe sorta getting into a direction i like.

Also spot my headcanon/easter egg! (not you evie, you already know)

#good omens #my art #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fanart #bnf au #aziracrow #gomens

[findafight]

Okay I kept thinking about this post and Steve being a BNF of Corroded Coffin message board of the internet of yore.

Alright so way back in the nineties Suzie hooks everyone up with the internet, yes? Yes. Eddie and Steve got together in '92 after some mutual pining and a few disastrous relationships that couldn't handle 1) Steve and Robin's general QPR clinginess 2) Eddie's intensity 3) the secrecy required if having multiple years of monster fighting and subsequent NDAs and the trauma associated therein. They're older and more settled and ready for an Adult Relationship.

Corroded Coffin is gaining traction and doing really well and the internet is still a brave new frontier, so Steve says to Eddie something like "I'm going to see if there's some message boards about you 🥰" and find them he sure does. So he makes accounts and posts under the username EddiesOnlyGroupie because he's hilarious and also the mods banned him from using EddieMunsonsHusband (he figured it was fine on the internet because nobody actually knew who he was but APPARENTLY NOT homophobia lives on in the digital age). He gets pretty well known in the Corroded Coffin fandom, most assuming he's a woman because he will go off on how hot Eddie looked at a gig. Like. Saying unhinged internet shit because 1) true and 2) he and Eddie think it's so funny. Everyone kinda believes the groupie thing too because of all the performance pics he's able to post and how he'll sometimes offer tidbits if knowledge about the band.

When they transition from chatrooms to livejournal etc he follows, with the same username. He's kind of a legend by the mid aughts. EOG is the acronym people use when discussing theories on his identity, and he's like "guys I'm literally his only groupie it's self explanatory. Guys why don't you believe me Eddie hasn't slept with anyone but me since 1992. We're basically married". He goes "it's not a mystery we literally are in love and Jeff and I go to Cubs games and cry when they inevitably lose together. Gareth is Godfather to my cats" (Eddie is still offended that he was not named Sassafras and Moonshine's godfather when Steve and Robin adopted them in '89). No one believes him.

Possibly because he still thirsts after Eddie and whenever someone posts a new Eddie pic those in the know wait for him to pop up with comments like "I want to bite his neck omg" "he has no ass but nobody is perfect I'll settle between his thighs anyway" and "literally a crime I am not married to him right now what the fuck" As twitter grows he swoops in to grab his handle, and follows a bunch of other CC fan accounts (some of them old friends, some of them new to the scene)(EOG 100% has his own fanlore page, which also has speculation on who he is and how he gets all the bts pics. It also doesn't believe when he says what it says on the tin. He's Eddie's only groupie.)

tumblr and tiktok come round and Steve is like. Openly horny on main. He's seen some shit go down on the internet but he's still commenting on Eddie fan edits that are title shit like "why am I attracted to this middle-aged white man" and "retro cc fancam" with things like "I'd let him lick the inside of my ear and only bring it up to tease him on special occasions" "his FINGERS" "back in '89 Jeff and Howie and Claire staged a mutany over this song because they were 'sick of Eddie only writing about biting bats' lmao" and "Jeff is my favourite member of cc"(just to stir the pot)

Eddie comes out in the 2010's and he's like "yeah I've been in a long term relationship with someone who is usually mostly a man kinda (gender is fucky) for the past twenty years, lol. His name's Steve. I love him a lot even if he mocks me online." and of course EOG comments "the mods of that old message board should have let me keep my original handle of EddieMunsonsHusband. When're you gonna make it reality, Munson? smh" and everyone is like Huh?? EOG is a MAN? And he's like yeah? Sometimes?? Not always?

(He 100% thinks this is him telling people he's Eddie's Steve. They don't get the message)

Anyways life goes on Steve continues to thirst under pictures of Eddie, he has his pronouns and name in his bio on twitter (Steve, he/him, she/her, Eddie Munson's first and only groupie 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ) and continues to post behind the scenes photos that shockingly few people question (she always says "because I'm his groupie" though. He and Eddie think this is VERY funny and also true. Robin groans. They've been making the same joke for two decades.) and people believe it because Eddie has interacted EOG sometimes, liking photos or videos, commenting sometimes. (Steve has a more professional realname account that he rarely uses but Eddie usually tags Steve there)

And THEN Internet user EddiesOnlyGroupie says he's taking a few weeks off for her honeymoon because "I'm finally marrying the man of my dreams!" And people are happy for him but also bummed because Eddie is also taking a two week hiatus but EOG promises wedding and honeymoon photos. (Face reveal! Sorta!)((he doesn't get why people are excited because he's pretty sure he's been in a lot of Eddie's recent pictures, but whatever)

Imagine the Internet's surprise when Eddie Munson posts a collection of pictures spanning '86 to his 2016 wedding of him and Steve, including one of Steve looking seriously at an old desktop computer, captioned "Steve starting his internet career" and tags EOG.

Steve qrt with "I told yall. I'm his only groupie, and they should've let me keep EddieMunsonsHusband even if they WERE homophobic. Because now it's TRUE"

Niche internet community drama chaos ensues.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #rockstar eddie munson #rockstar!eddie #cc bnf steve #stranger things #this is cleaned up from a version i word vomited in a discord group lol #also Sassafras and Moonshine are steve and Robin's rescue cats they got when they went to adopt one but then found out they were bonded #and stobin had already agreed that theyd eventually get two cats and call them sassafras and moonshine after Stone Soul Picnic #so when faced with platonic soulmate Cat Edition with the names they already wanted. it was a sign. #finda's rambles #finda writes stuff #genderqueer steve harrington

[idliketobeatree]

good omens tumblr AU but it's fast reblog + insane tags, eye hazard colors, hardcore physics, astronomy, film reviews, fashion inspo, shitposting and duck photos blogger crowley, and a meticulously organized, writes-corrections-and-cites-his-sources, poetry, light academia, simping for jane austen and c.o., pinned post, tracking user aziraphale. and they are mutuals (oh my god they are mutuals) is this anything

#good omens #good omens au #ineffable husbands #good omens human au #might do an edit later showing their blogs i think it would be fun #i blame bilvy's bnf for my human AU thoths #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable spouses #good omens shitpost #gomens #marcela talks #good omens tumblr au #ineffable tumblrinas

[fansplaining]

Episode 196: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 16

In yet another (the sixteenth!) installment of “Ask Fansplaining Anything,” Flourish and Elizabeth discuss a fresh batch of listener questions and comments. Topics include portmanteau ship names, permissive fanart attitudes amongst video game developers, fic self-promotion etiquette, and a pair of letters about big name fans, and what exactly that term means in fandom right now.

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#fandom #fansplaining #bnfs #fandom etiquette #ship names #fanart #copyright #fanfiction

[francislibrary]

favourite place to study

#dark academia #aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #academic #books #bookaddict #booknerd #aesthetic book #bookblr #book blog #Paris #bnf #english

[fuckyeahgoodomensfanfic]

Good Omens Fic Rec: Big Name Feelings

FANDOM AU! • Crowley is a BNF fic writer, and Aziraphale is a lurking artist who might be just a little parasocially in love with him. How they ever became friends is beyond him, but here they are: One month out from Prophet Con, and Crowley is asking him to be his boyfriend. Just for the weekend, of course.

Length: 103,997 words

AO3 Rating: Explicit / Spice Level 🔥🔥🔥

Best for: Safe in Public, Human AU, Slow Burn, Fake Relationship, Pick-me-up

Triggers: None

Read it here, fic by ghostrat

*Minor Spoilers* It's here! The finale of one of the most entertaining and immersive fanworks that I have ever experienced is finally upon us! I feel like most of you who follow me here are aware of this fanfic or have read it. However, for those who haven't or might come across this post later: I'm begging you to read this one. Buckle up; it's a long post today.

So, if you're not aware, this fanfic involves writer Crowley and fan artist Aziraphale. Crowley, being ace, seeks a boyfriend to shield him from unwanted attention during an upcoming convention. Aziraphale, smitten, agrees to be the fake boyfriend. This Arrangement is sure to work out exactly as planned!

Every one of the author's stories feels cinematic to me. The worlds are always so real and immersive, but this one, in particular, will have you feeling like you're actually watching the story unfold in real life. Some of that is achieved through embedded media like chats, artwork, and Tumblr posts, bringing a sense of reality to these conversations. The rest comes from really rich prose. You'll flow through it very easily, yet deeply.

The use of fandom and a convention as the backdrop for this fic was, to be honest, genius. I've seen attempts before, but none captured the spirit quite like this one. The fandom lore for The Nice and Accurate Prophecy (the in-universe fandom they're in) was rich enough for us to fully grasp the shape and feel of why they loved it so much, yet it never impedes the ongoing story. This story perfectly captured what it's like to be a fan: how friendships develop, how ideas and fan theories are freely discussed, the passion for a shared topic. The con, in particular, will fill anyone who has ever attended a fan convention with a strong dose of nostalgia and love. Oh, and having them in their 50s? Thank you! There is no age limit to fandom!

Having Aziraphale as the artist and Crowley the writer was not the most obvious choice, but it's one that worked amazingly well for the story! Crowley struggles with words and expressing his feelings in real life. However, in stories, he can build his own world and express whatever emotions are on his mind. Aziraphale, who does not wish to draw attention to himself in real life, expresses himself through his bold and beautiful artwork. His specialization in traditional, physical artwork is so fitting for him, though he's not unwilling to try new tech. There is a scene where they stumble upon some street art that Aziraphale had done. I teared up at that scene, and it's not even angsty! Just the casualness of it, how it's not Aziraphale but Crowley who boldly leads them to it, how Aziraphale doesn't sing his own praises. He's not self-deprecating, but he doesn't celebrate his work. He's still learning that he has value that's worth celebrating. At least now he has Crowley to teach him to be proud of himself.

They are both beautifully written characters. It's a real testament to the skill of the author to bring these characters into such a different reality and have them be unmistakably Aziraphale and Crowley. Sure, they're updated for the time and setting, but their souls are still the angel and demon we know and love. This setting is an amazing way to explore the different sides of their personalities. Crowley's asexuality, in particular, was one of the best depictions I've ever read. It brought a new level of understanding to me, and I'm sure many of you will feel a kinship with him. Really pay attention to what's being said here, there's some really deep and insightful passages that are worth analyzing. Like this moment, which may have been a subconscious thought, but again speaks to how deeply the author understands the characters.

This was such an amazing experience as a fan. I've never had a fic feel like this much of an event before. Every chapter drop was so exciting; I never knew what exactly to expect. And now, with the end being over 100k words?? Where did that word count come from! That's insane! I'm sad to leave this iteration, but I'm so excited for what's to come next. So please, if you haven't read this, give it a try. It's such a impressive work, so much time and effort was put into this and you can tell. It's not only a love letter to Good Omens, but one to fandom and fanspaces as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this journey

There are some explicit scenes towards the end, but they are all marked and skippable, so I'd say you're perfectly fine reading this in public.

Edit from after actually seeing the finale: no I’m not tearing up it’s just really dusty in this room. I’m being so normal rn 🥹🥹🥹

Read it here, fic by ghostrat

#good omens #good omens fanfiction #good omens fanfic #fanfic rec #aziracrow #good omens fic rec #aziraphale x crowley #Big Name Feelings #BNF #ghostrat #extra long #three flames #safe in public #human au #fandom au #artist au #writer au #slow burn #pretend relationship #fake relationship #friends to lovers #pick me up #BNFinale

[mrghostrat]

BNF Chapter 17 • September 1st • [ ☕️ ]

#bnf au #bnfinale #good omens #gomens #ineffable husbands #vaguely nsft #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #rat draws

[lilimonstera]

can't believe I almost forgot to post the embroidery I did to celebrate @mrghostrat's BNF finale!!!

BNF is an absolute masterpiece and this art in particular has had a choke-hold on me since the day chapter 5 came out

thank you bilv for all the love and work you put into BNF and everything else you do!

#BNF embroidery #chapter 5 my beloved #sorry i tried to give them faces and it just didnt work #so no faces for the boys